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Manila: Gates Of Hell
I was very interested to see some people taking offence to Dan Brown's latest book, Inferno.
The problems seem to be that in the fictional story, Inferno, Dan Brown compares passing through Manila to passing through the gates of Hell. This sparked some kind of outrage among some of the Philippines religious leaders, especially Fr. Francis Lucas.
The first thing to look at is whether or not it is a fair comparison. If you search on many of the most popular travel advice websites, you will discover that most travelers avoid Manila at all costs when going to the Philippines. It appears that the general concensus is that it does not have much to offer to the traveler compared with other capital cities and is extremely stressful to pass through for the reasons mentioned in Dan Brown's book. Then ask the residents what they think of their capital city and you will find that a lot of people speak negatively about it, both the Filipinos who live in Manila and guests from overseas.
The most tragic thing about Manila is the traffic. I am often asked "Do you have traffic in your home country, Sir?" I always reply, "Yes, but our traffic occasionally moves." This is always met with laughter by locals. The traffic in Manila is horrendous. Brown also makes references to seeing the suffering of the many homeless and the polluton. In Malate, it is not uncommon to see people hobbling around on one leg, children without clothes and kids sniffing glue or playing with dead rats for amusement. So, is it reasonable that a character in a story might compare passing through Manila to passing through the Gates of Hell? I think it's not beyond the limits of imagination that somebody might feel that way.
Next, let us look at Fr. Francis Lucas's reaction. This is a man who preaches Christianity and the tales of the good Lord Jesus, yet his reaction was one of damaged pride and ego. He seemed to take personal offence to the comments in Dan Brown's work of fiction and reacted aggressively by attacking Dan Brown's personality, his career and even the Middle East, when he said:
“Maybe Brown may want to go [to the Middle East] and see for himself that the life of a person has no value, that fellow human beings are not treated with respect."
Fr. Francis Lucas obviously believes that it is not right to criticise the problems of Manila in a fictional story, but it is entirely ok to publicly slate an arabian state.
Apparently they were so worried in Manila that the book may give a negative view of Manila that Francis Tolentino, of the Metro Manila Development Authority wrote to Brown to ask him to "rectify his portrayal of Manila." That seems a little hypocritical to me, especially for anybody who has read any newspapers, magazines or watched TV in Manila. I was in the audience at a very popular TV show at GMA where a foreigner was spotted in the audience and taken onto stage to be humiliated in Tagalog, a language he did not understand. There are constant jokes and mistruths about foreign countries and the news channels in Manila seem to scour the world for examples of any negative comments about Philippines which are then taken out of context and reported as an insult against the country, where often that is not the case. There are some very-well celebrated local Filipino comedians who spread jokes that foreigners do not wash, do not dress appropriately and base comedy around other stereotypes that were invented in the Philippines So, why are so many people about a fictional story that most people agree largely represents the truth?
Fr. Francis Lucas also referred to the book Da Vinci Code and therefore attempting to question the morals of Dan Brown. Da Vinci Code is a book that was very largely based on very real research that the Catholic Church happens not to approve of very much. I have read the book it was based on. The authors of that book attempted to take Brown to court because of his extensive use of their research. However, he altered key parts of it to make the fiction work as a story and was very open about it. What he certainly did achieve is to show that the bible and other religious documents have so many contradictions and inconsistencies in them that they cannot be taken as 100% "Gospel".
Which leads me to a very important point made by Fr. Francis Lucas against Mr Brown.
“You’re so rich by fooling people around. And that is very real.” Dan Brown is not fooling anybody. His books claim to be fiction and they are fiction. If he had written a documentary that was fictitious, now that would be fooling people.
i have four questions that I would like to ask.
1. How can an organisation that claims to be following the teachings of a humble, poor, carpenter from Juraselum, possibly be so immensely disgustingly rich?
2. How can a priest who lives in Manila drive around in a big expensive car and live in a very comfortable home and allow his congregation to donate to the church and go 'home' to live in the gutter?
If a country bans every piece of art that criticises an aspect of that country and is unable to admit its own shortcomings...
3. how can it possibly learn and improve and rediscover its value when it was once dubbed The Pearl of the Orient?
4. how many Filipino celebrities, comedians, OFWs or works of art would be banned in other countries?
I would like to thank Fr. Francis Lucas for bringing my attention to Inferno. I had not read Da Vinci Code and don't really intend to, it's not for me. I have read Angels and Demons and found it a fascinating book that was obviously well-researched and now I will buy and read Inferno, a book that I was not aware of until I saw it all over the news in Manila.
Finally, let me close by saying that I spend most of my time in Manlia through choice. There are many great places to spend time and the vast majority of people that I have met here are wonderful human beings. I am very happy to be here.
BUT, when a man dies and his spirit rises, I sincerely hope he does not have to pass through Manila on his way to the Pearly Gates.
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#2: Sandy - at 03:23 on 13 Jun 2014
Hi Oracle,
Thank you very much for taking the time to post a comment. I absolutely agree that an organisation that wishes to help must first become strong in order to be able to help the weak. Unfortunately, the most commercial of today's religions focuses on taking money from the poor and keeping it for themselves, while my guitar gently weeps...
#1: Guest #100 (oracle) - at 09:08 on 30 May 2014
On your question-1: My basic logic dictates that one has to be rich to help the poor financially. Also one can only be rich, considering the person isn't born rich, by getting money (which can also be termed as earning) from the people around. If I paraphrase the last sentence it would mean that an organization who intends to help the poor need to first become rich by the poor's money. Kalyug (the era ongoing) is the period when mankind would be the most unfair ever ,although this would be preceded by Ghor Kalyug (which is extreme Kalyug), it would be foolish to imagine the aforementioned organization would be successful in creating balance on this planet. Only those organizations, religious or business, who has strong balance sheet would prevail. Of these two, business organizations has the power to improve people's life but creates disparity and possessing minimum becomes insufficient, resulting in unhappiness. Social organization which so far have only come out wearing the costume of religion has the power to redefine minimum that can become sufficient and contain unhappiness. And then we will watch for the hourglass to flip the sand in itself till then lets play guitar
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Waikiki, where most Hawaii vacations get their start, is everything at once: white sandy beaches, swaying palms, high-rise accommodations, world-class shopping, top-notch and seaside dining, local culture, and excellent surfing. It’s no wonder this former playground for Hawaiian royalty continues to be an oasis for global visitors.
Waikiki is Honolulu’s city within a city dedicated to fun and sun. Stroll down the main oceanfront thoroughfare, Kalakaua Avenue, and place a lei on the Duke Kahanamoku surfer statue; splash in the surfer’s namesake Kahanamoku Lagoon; shop in one of several open-air malls; grab lunch along the way for a picnic in Kapiolani Park; and see the sunset behind the profile of Diamond Head.
Waikiki sightseeing tours by trolley or Segway are a great way to learn about the area and cover greater distances than you can on foot. For a different perspective, take to the water aboard a sunset dinner cruise, or get on the water in this watersports wonderland: Learn to surf, take a stand-up paddleboarding lesson, or try kayaking, parasailing, or scuba diving. Many Oahu tours, including circle-island tours and helicopter tours, depart Waikiki and allow visitors to see sights beyond Waikiki Beach.
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Waikiki’s peak season coincides with the United States’ spring, summer, and winter school holidays. If you plan to visit during these times, it pays to book tours and hotels well in advance. Several of the region’s best (and most unusual) festivals, such as the parades and cultural demonstrations of the Aloha Festival in September and the Waikiki Spam Jam in April, beckon in the off-season.
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The St. Benezet Bridge - known as the Pont d’Avignon - is a famous bridge located in Avignon. The 12th century bridge originally spanned 900 m (2,950ft) across the Rhône River. The bridge collapsed frequently and was reconstructed multiple times. Today, only 4 of the original 22 arches remain complete.
The inception of the St. Benezet Bridge centers around a local shepherd boy of the same name who was told by an angel to construct the bridge. He proved his divine inspiration to the town and wealthy benefactors by lifting a large stone block. The bridge also served as a place of worship for Rhône boatmen until it became so unsteady it was deemed dangerous. The bridge is also historically significant in that was an important strategic river crossing.
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Soak up the bounty, beauty and history of Provence on a full-day trip from Marseille. In Avignon, the ‘City of Popes,’ you’ll discover ancient and medieval art and architecture on a guided, small-group tour. Pop into the Popes’ Palace (own expense) before continuing to Châteauneuf-du-Pape to sample fine Provençal wines in an elegant château. Finish with a visit to the medieval hilltop village of Les Baux de Provence.
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Explore the serene landscapes, historic villages and UNESCO World Heritage sites of Provence on this full-day tour from Aix-en-Provence. Enjoy a guided walking tour of historic Avignon, the medieval city of the Popes, then tour the Provencal villages of the Luberon National Park. Stop at the Cistercian Abbey of Sénanque, visit landscapes immortalized in Peter Mayle’s ‘A Year in Provence’ and stroll around the hilltop villages of Gordes, Lourmarin and Bonnieux.
Discover Avignon and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon aboard the convertible double-decker bus! Enjoy unique views at 4 meters high, we promise you an unforgettable visit! Go up and down freely thanks to the hop on / off stops, to explore at your own pace the different places such as the Pont d'Avignon, the Chartreuse, the Fort St André, the Philippe Bel Tower, the island of Barthelasse and many others. The tour is commented in 10 languages + a special comment child, thanks to individual headphones offered to boarding. A departure every hour from 40 Cours Jean-Jaurès (opposite the Tourist Office). Departure 10h - 11h -12h - 13h - 15h - 16h! Attention, no departure at 14h.
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Make the most of your time ashore in Marseille, and enjoy a cultural day out, with this full-day, small-group tour. In the morning, depart directly from Marseille’s port, and travel in a comfortable vehicle. Your first stop is Avignon, where you’ll have free time to explore and see UNESCO-listed splendors like the Palais des Papes and the Pont d’Avignon. Then, transfer to the world-famous Châteauneuf-du-Pape wine region, where you’ll visit a local winery and enjoy an indulgent tour and tasting.
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Explore the city without overlooking any of its treasures - because when most people visit Avignon they see only the beauty and the heritage of the main monuments, such as the world heritage site Palais des Papes and the famous bridge of Avignon the Pont Saint Bénezet. This day long walking tour takes into account all these special places too, but also takes you to parts of the city mainly hidden from view. This includes Rue des Teinturiers, a picturesque, cobblestone street that follows the small channel of the river Sorgue from the Rue des Lices to the city walls. In the shade of the majestic sycamores with the coolness coming from the canal, the street is particularly pleasant in summer. The walk meanders along the tiny streets hidden behind the famous Palais before we surface to enjoy the views from Rocher des Doms, before taking a guided tour of the Palais des Papes & the bridge. This experience will immerse you in the life, history & culture that is unique to the city of Avignon.
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This Morning in Metals: Strike Ends at Coldelco’s Chuquicamata Copper Mine
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This morning in metals news, a workers’ strike came to an end at top copper producer Codelco’s Chuquicamata mine in Chile, South Korean steelmakers Posco and Hyundai Steel are facing government shutdown orders at some locations over emissions, and the liquidated British Steel has attracted some interest before a June 30 bid deadline.
Strike Ends at Chuquicamata
A workers’ strike at Codelco’s Chuquicamata mine came to an end this week as workers voted to accept an offer from the company, Reuters reported.
The unions at the mine rejected a proposal from the company last weekend, as the strike dragged on for two weeks.
(MetalMiner’s Stuart Burns weighed in on the Chuquicamata strike yesterday.)
Posco, Hyundai Face Shutdowns
South Korean steelmakers Posco and Hyundai could see some of their furnaces shut down by government actions aimed at curbing emissions, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.
In fact, according to the report, one-third of the blast furnaces in the country are facing 10-day shutdown orders from the government.
Interest Comes in for British Steel
The previously set June 30 bid deadline for British Steel is fast approaching, and up to nine entities have expressed interest, Reuters reported.
The steelmaker went into liquidation last May after it failed to secure a second government loan to continue its operations. The firm was owned by Greybull Capital, which purchased it from Tata Steel in 2016 for a nominal £1.
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The new Ford Mustang is the first car to offer four-, six- and eight-cylinder engines that each produce at least 300 horsepower – a 300-horsepower 3.7-liter V6, a more powerful 435-horsepower 5.0-liter V8, and an all-new 310-horsepower* 2.3-liter EcoBoost® engine
Ford Mustang sets new performance and dynamics benchmarks for the brand with world-class handling, more precise steering control and enhanced ride comfort
Loaded with innovative technologies and delivering high levels of performance and style, the all-new Ford Mustang is the next chapter in the life of one of the world’s most iconic cars.
“Ford Mustang inspires passion like no other car,” said Raj Nair, Ford group vice president, Global Product Development. “The visceral look, sound and performance of Ford Mustang resonates with people, even if they’ve never driven one. Ford Mustang is definitely more than just a car – it is the heart and soul of Ford.”
Ford Mustang’s impact goes well beyond the 9 million-plus cars sold in its 50 years of continuous production. It has made thousands of appearances in film, television, music and video games, and is the world’s most-liked vehicle on Facebook. For the first time ever, Ford will bring Ford Mustang to customers in key parts of Europe and Asia.
The Ford Mustang experience
The way Ford Mustang looks, drives and sounds is key to the visceral experience that makes drivers just want to get in the driver’s seat and hit the road. The Ford Mustang is the first car to offer four-, six- and eight-cylinder engines that each produce at least 300 horsepower. With more powertrain options to choose from, there is a Ford Mustang to fit any lifestyle. The 3.7-liter V6 and upgraded 5.0-liter V8 are joined by an all-new 2.3-liter EcoBoost® engine that brings state-of-the-art technology to Ford Mustang.
The Ford Mustang’s EcoBoost engine uses direct injection, variable cam timing and turbocharging to deliver plenty of usable performance across a broad RPM range. A unique intake manifold and turbocharger housing enable it to deliver the performance Ford Mustang drivers expect with 310 horsepower* and 320 lb.-ft. of torque.*
“This EcoBoost engine delivers where a Ford Mustang driver expects it to, with a broad, flat torque curve that pours out when you stand on it for easy passing or hustling down a twisty road,” said Dave Pericak, Ford Mustang chief engineer.
Ford Mustang GT continues with the latest edition of the throaty 5.0-liter V8, now featuring an upgraded valvetrain and cylinder heads that help boost output to 435 horsepower* and 400 lb.-ft. of torque*. A new intake manifold features charge motion control valves to partially close off port flow at lower engine speeds. This increases the air charge tumble and swirl for improved air-fuel mixing resulting in improved efficiency and idle stability.
With 300 horsepower and 270 lb.-ft. of torque on tap from the standard 3.7-liter V6, even the most accessible Ford Mustang delivers the performance customers expect. Drivers will appreciate smoother shifts from the updated manual gearbox, while a reworked automatic transmission features new steering wheel-mounted shift paddles for drivers who want the choice between convenience and control.
All-new shape, yet unmistakably Ford Mustang
The clean-sheet design of both Ford Mustang fastback and convertible evokes the essential character of the brand, retaining key design elements – including the long sculpted hood and short rear deck – with contemporary execution.
Several key design features define the all-new Ford Mustang, including:
A lower, wider stance with a reduction in roof height, and wider rear fenders and track
The return of Ford Mustang fastback with a sleeker profile enabled by more steeply sloped windshield and rear glass
Three-dimensional, tri-bar taillamps with sequential turn signals
Contemporary execution of the signature shark-bite front fascia and trapezoidal grille
The information and controls an active driver needs are all readily accessible in the aviation-inspired cockpit, which is executed with the highest degree of craftsmanship ever found in a Ford Mustang. Large, clear instrumentation puts vehicle information right in front of the driver in the roomier cabin, while improved ergonomics and tactile switches and knobs provide better control. The added width and a new rear suspension contribute to improved shoulder and hip room for rear-seat passengers, and a more usefully shaped trunk can accommodate two golf bags.
Slipping through the air
Design and performance are two of the essential attributes that have made Ford Mustang appeal to millions of fans for five decades. Performance can be improved by increasing the output of the powerplant or reducing the amount of work it has to do. The sleeker shape helps it slip through the air with less effort.
Each of Ford Mustang’s three available engines gets a unique grille that allows in only as much air as that specific powerplant needs. Active grille shutters will help make the Ford Mustang powered by the new 2.3-liter EcoBoost® engine even more fuel efficient by further reducing drag at higher speeds when extra cooling capacity is not needed. The shutters can completely close off the grille, sending air over and around the car instead of through the engine compartment.
Carving up the curves
When life throws drivers a curve, the all-new Ford Mustang sets new handling benchmarks for the brand, delivering world-class dynamics and ride quality.
Ford Mustang features all-new front and rear suspension systems. At the front, a new perimeter subframe helps to stiffen the structure while reducing mass, providing a better foundation for more predictable wheel control that benefits handling, steering and ride.
The new double-ball-joint front MacPherson strut system also enables the use of larger, more powerful brakes. The 2015 Ford Mustang has the most capable brake lineup ever offered on a Ford Mustang.
At the rear is an all-new integral-link independent rear suspension. The geometry, springs, dampers and bushings all have been specifically modified and tuned for this high-performance application. New aluminum rear knuckles help reduce unsprung mass for improved ride and handling.
Smarter than your average pony
The all-new Ford Mustang features a significant amount of innovative technologies providing drivers with enhanced information, control and connectivity when they want it. From Intelligent Access with push-button start to SYNC® and MyKey® in every Ford Mustang built, plus standard Track Apps™, MyColor® gauges and a new Shaker Pro Audio System, drivers will be able to customize their time behind the wheel.
The feeling of freedom and confidence Ford Mustang instills in its drivers is amplified when they can take control of how the car behaves. On a twisty back road or a weekend track day, the driver can tap the toggle switches on the console to quickly adjust steering effort, engine response, and transmission and electronic stability control settings using the available Selectable Drive Modes to create the perfect Ford Mustang at any time.
The advanced new Ford-developed stability control system is tuned to maximize Ford Mustang’s dynamic capabilities. When the time comes to turn up the wick at the track, Ford Mustang GT includes standard launch control on manual-transmission models that enables drivers to achieve smooth, consistent starts every time.
When it’s time to back off and relax for the drive home, available advanced driver-assist features including Blind Spot Information System (BLIS®) with cross-traffic alert and adaptive cruise control can help ease the load, while SYNC AppLink™ lets drivers control their smartphone apps to listen to their favorite form of entertainment.
Debuting on the 2015 Ford Mustang are enhancements to the SYNC® 911 Assist® feature. The enhancements will provide the ability to deliver information such as the maximum change in velocity during impact, indication of crash type (front, side, rear or rollover), safety belt usage as detected by the vehicle, awareness of whether multiple impacts occurred and whether airbags were deployed.
More airbags, more high-strength steel
An all-new inflatable airbag restraint design provides the front seat passenger with knee airbag protection while significantly reducing system size and weight, enabling a roomier interior for more comfort. This new airbag is part of a standard comprehensive safety system that includes a more robust package of sensors, safety belt anchor pretensioners, improved exterior lighting and double the total number of airbags on the fastback Ford Mustang.
50 years of Ford Mustang
April 17, 2014, marked the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the original Ford Mustang and each 2015 model celebrates the milestone with a badge on the instrument panel that includes the galloping pony logo and the words “Ford Mustang – Since 1964.” Ford Mustang will continue to be built in the United States at Flat Rock Assembly Plant.
“From day one, we knew if we were going to build a new Ford Mustang, we had to do it right,” said Pericak. “We built a new Ford Mustang from the ground up that is quicker, better-looking, more refined and more efficient, without losing any of the raw appeal that people have associated with Ford Mustang for half a century.”
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AMC To Cut Ties With Studio Over Direct-To-Home Releases
Riley O'Neil
When AMC-owned Showplace 16 and Showplace 14 eventually re-open, they most likely will not being showing films distributed by Universal.
That's because Universal Pictures, the company behind "Trolls World Tour," decided (after seeing movie theaters around the country being shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic) to release their film directly to video-on-demand. That move paid off financially, but may have cost them a relationship with the nation's largest theater chain.
According to the Wall Street Journal, in three weeks of $20 on-demand rentals, “Trolls World Tour” has grossed about $95 million. The studio, which normally splits sales approximately in half with theaters, pocketed about $75 million of that. A spokesman for Universal did not dispute those figures.
Universal calls the “Trolls World Tour” digital release a success and suggests it may be the beginning of a sea change in how movies are released. Theater owners strenuously disagree. AMC Theaters, the largest chain in the United States, is signaling an all-out war, saying it will no longer show Universal movies.
The National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) is not at all happy with Universal's move, instead touting the movie theater experience over home video releases, and pointing out that lots of families would have gone to see the Trolls movie in theaters if it hadn't been for the COVID-19 lockdown.
AMC Theaters CEO Adam Aron is seriously angry at Universal's move, and plans to take action.
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Aron said his company would sever relations with Universal, effective Tuesday. He insisted the policy would continue once theaters reopened, would apply to its venues around the world and “is not some hollow or ill-considered threat."
Aron said AMC would do the same to any distributor that “unilaterally abandons current windowing practices absent good faith negotiations between us.” He declared absent further discussions, "decades of incredibly successful business activity together has sadly come to an end.”
Late Tuesday, Universal responded it was disappointed with the AMC and NATO statements. “We absolutely believe in the theatrical experience and have made no statement to the contrary,” Universal said, adding it would consider video on demand "when that distribution outlet makes sense.”
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Stone matters, prototype 01
Palestine suffers of a misuse of stone as a structural material: while it was an abundant material used for structural purposes in the past, it is now used as a cladding material only and the know-how of stone building is disappearing.
The research aims at including stone stereotomy – the processes of cutting stones – construction processes in contemporary architecture. It relies on novel computational simulation and fabrication techniques in order to present a modern stone construction technique as part of a local and global architectural language.
Our research department – SCALES – and GSA (Geometrie Structure Architecture) ENSA Paris-Malaquais are leading this research on stone construction techniques. The results of the research will be used to build the el-Atlal artists and writers residency in Jericho. As such, Stonematters is the first module of the residency and the first built vault of our research.
Stone matters is built on an innovative construction principle allowing for unprecedented forms for such structures. The architectural innovation is born from structural morphology and stereotomy. The vault covers a surface of 60 m2 and spans 7 meters with a constant depth of 12 cm. The geometry follows the shape of a minimal surface on which geodesic lines are drawn and set the pattern of the interlocking stones. The whole structure is made of 300 mutually supported unique stone pieces.
Beyond the scientific and technical issues that make Stonematters a unique object, the project represents as well a cultural challenge: it has been entirely built with available know-hows in a peripheral zone of the culturally marginal city of Jericho. Processes of several factories have been combined in order to use existing known techniques for new uses. The polystyrene blocks, for example, have been roughly cut in a factory and transported to another for a robotic carving process. Right after its completion Stonematters attracted curious inhabitants of Jericho and elsewhere in Palestine, putting together the seeds of the future el-atlal artists’ and writers’ residency.
Through the understanding of our historical cities the research tries to link techniques of constructions to urban morphologies. It puts a non-hierarchical hypothetical link between the scale of stereotomy and the scale of urban fabric. In that context, the idea is to suggest new urban morphologies linked to the scientific use of a largely available material in Palestine.
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Following a themed hiking trail is a great way to discover more of a place, whether its history, culture, and/or natural features. In the Radol’ca area you are spoilt for choice with a total of 11 such trails. Some are relatively flat, short trails, while others involve a bit more effort; all of them, however, are unique in their own way.
The Begunje Shepherds’ Trail is a 10km circular trail and is by far my favourite of the bunch! It leads from the Draga valley up to the Preval mountain pasture, then along the ‘ćez Roza‘ path to reach the Roblekov dom mountain hut. The start of the trail involves a short section of climbing, followed by a steep section through the forest.
On emerging from the forest the path levels out somewhat, and you can start enjoying the views. You can read more in a previous blog post here.
The Brezje Path of Peace starts close to the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, Slovenia’s main pilgrimage site, in Brezje. It leads via forest paths and country roads to the Peračica waterfalls.
The Sava River Trail, as the name suggests, runs along the banks of the Sava river from the Fux footbridge to the Šobec camp. It is a linear walk that can be walked in either direction.
St. Peter’s Trail is a short trail that leads up to St. Peter’s church above Begunje na Gorenjskem. From the church there are fantastic views of the Radovljica plains, the Jelovica plateau and, on a clear day, all the way to Triglav, Slovenia’s highest mountain.
The Lipnica Castle Trail leads across the Fux footbridge over the Sava river to the ruins of Lipnica Castle above the Lipnica valley.
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The Lamberg Trail leads to the ruins of Kamen Castle in the Draga valley. It begins at the Krpin recreation area in Begunje na Gorenjskem and leads through the forest past the ruins of Kamen Castle, passing two small archeological sites, ending in the Draga valley at the Gostišče Draga restaurant, where you can enjoy a drink, snack or slap-up meal to gather your strength for the return journey, or you could even continue further on one of the trails that lead into the Karavanke mountains.
The Grabnarca Waterside Nature Trail is pleasant, shady trail over wooden footbridges. It begins at the source of the Lipnica stream, crosses the Grabnarca stream and ends at a small lake. The walk can easily be extended further by walking on country roads to return to the start.
The Otoče-Brezje Pilgrimage Trail begins at the railway station in Otoče, runs through the village of Ljubno, known for its numerous frescoes, and on to Brezje, home to the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians.
The Mošnje Archeological Trail explores the village of Mošnje, home to the Villa Rustica archaeological site and the Mošnje Ethnological Museum.
The Rosary Bead Trail is a circular trail that leads along ancient pilgrimage routes. It gets its name due to the rosary bead-like shape of the trail. The trail is rated as easy, though it covers a total of 12.2km, across fields and meadows, through forests and along country lanes, with wonderful views of the surrounding countryside.
The Begunje Village Trail takes you on a tour of the village of Begunje na Gorenjskem, the birthplace of Slavko Avsenik, the founder of Slovenian folk music. You can also visit Katzenstein Mansion, which today houses a psychiatric hospital and, at the rear, the Museum of Hostages.
Now all you have to do is choose which one, or ones, to walk – a tough choice indeed!
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The Draga Valley: The Lamberg Trail and the Draga Inn
The Draga Valley lies at the far end of the village of Begunje na Gorenjskem. The valley is little more than a couple of kilometres in length yet is a very popular destination, particularly as it is the start point for hiking to numerous destinations in the Karavanke mountains. The road through the valley has a monument and cemetery in remembrance to hostages of the second world war who were held in the Gestapo prison in the nearby Katzenstein Mansion in Begunje.
The Draga Inn (Gostišče Draga) is situated at the end of the valley alongside the Begunščica stream, making it an oasis of calm and tranquillity. During the summer months its position affords welcome relief from the heat, thanks to the freshness of the stream, whilst in the winter the Inn is toasty warm thanks to the log-burning fire – just perfect for me! The Inn is particularly popular with weary hikers looking for some sustenance after a long hike. However, it also offers a more gourmet experience for those looking for something finer.
One of the most popular destinations to visit from the Draga valley is the Roblek mountain hut. From the valley it takes around 2 hours to reach the hut at 1672m and since it was dark when I went for dinner, and since the valley was shrouded in pesky low cloud most of the weekend and I just knew that the sun had to be up there somewhere, I returned over the weekend to take some photos and to hike up to Roblek in search of the sun. I didn’t have to go for as it was sunny up above 800metres, so I was rewarded for my efforts with fantastic views and warm sunshine up above the clouds. Other than the final 10 minutes, most of the path was free of snow but, as you can see from the picture below, winter has already arrived in the mountains.
You can visit the valley by car, by bike or on foot, and a great way to reach the Draga Inn is via the Lamberg Trail which officially begins at the car park opposite the Avsenik Restaurant and Museum in Begunje. However, you can also park, as I usually do, at the Krpin Recreation Ground in Begunje and begin the walk from there. The trail runs behind the ruins of Kamen Castle and ends at the Inn, passing several information boards and sights of interest. The path is a little undulating but not difficult and takes about 45-1 hour minutes each way. More about the trail can be found here – http://www.radolca.si/en/lamberg-trail-begunje/ Keep your eyes pealed for wildlife though, who knows what you might encounter!
As it is still November, and therefore the month of Taste Radol’ca, my friend and I decided we just had to take the chance to sample the Taste Radol’ca menu, and in fact because Gostišče Draga are offering 2 Taste Radol’ca menus, we plumped for one of each so we could try each others too (don’t we all do that?). However, since I don’t eat fish and menu 2 is predominantly fished-based, I lost out a bit there! The food was thoughtfully presented, tasty, and with generous, but not over-the-top, portion sizes, which was just as well as there were 4-courses to try.
We began with game pate with cranberries (menu 1) and smoked trout (menu 2). This was followed by pumpkin soup with toasted pumpkin seeds.
Next came fillet of deer (in my case substituted for beef) in a honeyed-pepper sauce, cheese strukelj and, one of my favourite things on their menu, house dumplings filled with cranberry sauce. Menu 2 was trout fillet in cornmeal with buckwheat and mushrooms.
Dessert was apple strudel (menu 1) and hot-chocolate soufflé (menu 2).
Oh, and of course all capped off with a little glug of one of the myriad flavours of schnapps on offer!
In addition to the Taste Radol’ca menu, Gostišče Draga offer a full and varied menu with an emphasis on game and fresh fish. Their philosophy is based on traceability of ingredients; many of the ingredients used, such as fruit, vegetables and flour, are home-grown and produced. More information can be found here – http://www.gostisce-draga.si/
So, I have now completed the (arduous!) task of reviewing this year’s new additions to Taste Radol’ca and am no doubt a few kilogrammes heavier for having done so! More information about all the participating restaurants can also be found under the Taste Radol’ca heading at the top of the blog.
With the festive season rapidly approaching, this week Radovljica’s residents are invited to help decorate the old town to help make it into a festive winter wonderland. Decoration, and the making of decorations, will take place on Wednesday (9am – 1pm), Thursday (9am – 1pm and 3pm – 7pm) and Friday (3pm – 7pm) in the atrium of the Radovljica Mansion. Come and join us and get in the festive spirit!
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The Serbian government has decided to establish seven companies that will deal with the construction of apartments for members of the security forces
Belgrade – The Serbian government has decided to establish seven companies that will deal with the construction of apartments for members of the security forces, was published in the Official Gazette.
SPV Avala of Belgrade, SPV Ibar of Kraljevo, SPV Pčinja of Vranje, SPV Tisa of Novi Sad, SPV Danube of Novi Sad, SPV Lepenica of Kragujevac and SPV Sava of Sremska Mitrovica were founded.
After completion of the project, companies will no longer work under the Law on special conditions for the realization of the apartment building project for members of the security forces, and will transfer all rights and obligations to the ministry responsible for finance. The company's bodies are: Assembly and Director – Construction Directorate of Serbia.
The function of the Assembly of the company is made by the founder, through a maximum of three authorized representatives, proposed by the ministry in charge of economic affairs.
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In the first phase of the project for the construction of cheap apartments for security personnel by 2020, estimated at 64.35 million euros, a total of 1,748 apartments are to be built.
The plan is to build a total of 5,203 apartments by 2020, and the apartments would mainly target the military, police, young scientists …
The first phase of construction should start in six cities in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Nis, Vranje, Kraljevo and Kragujevac. The apartments are expected to be between 32 and 92 square meters.
The Ministry of Construction issued building permits for the construction in Vranje of 186 cheap apartments in four buildings and 190 apartments in Nis in two buildings. On May 25, the Serbian parliament adopted a lex specialis that allows the construction of apartments for members of the military, police and security services at subsidized prices, no more than 500 euros per square meter.
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Leipzig could mean for the future of plant taxonomy what Greenwich meant for world time until 1972: it could become the reference city for correct scientific plant names. In an outstanding feat of research, the curator of the Botanical Garden of Leipzig University, Dr Martin Freiberg, and colleagues from iDiv and UL have compiled what is now the largest and most complete list of scientific names of all known plant species in the world. The Leipzig Catalogue of Vascular Plants (LCVP) enormously updates and expands existing knowledge on the naming of plant species, and could replace The Plant List (TPL) — a catalogue created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London which until now has been the most important reference source for plant researchers.
“In my daily work at the Botanical Garden, I regularly come across species names that are not clear, where existing reference lists have gaps,” said Freiberg. “This always means additional research, which keeps you from doing your actual work and above all limits the reliability of research findings. I wanted to eliminate this obstacle as well as possible.”
World’s most comprehensive and reliable catalogue of plant names
With 1,315,562 scientific names, the LCVP is the largest of its kind in the world describing vascular plants. Freiberg compiled information from accessible relevant databases, harmonized it and standardised the names listed according to the best possible criteria. On the basis of 4500 other studies, he investigated further discrepancies such as different spellings and synonyms. He also added thousands of new species to the existing lists — species identified in recent years, mainly thanks to rapid advances in molecular genetic analysis techniques.
The LCVP now comprises 351,180 vascular plant species and 6160 natural hybrids across 13,460 genera, 564 families and 84 orders. It also lists all synonyms and provides further taxonomic details. This means that it contains over 70,000 more species and subspecies than the most important reference work to date, TPL. The latter has not been updated since 2013, making it an increasingly outdated tool for use in research, according to Freiberg.
“The catalogue will help considerably in ensuring that researchers all over the world refer to the same species when they use a name,” says Freiberg. Originally, he had intended his data set for internal use in Leipzig. “But then many colleagues from other botanical gardens in Germany urged me to make the work available to everyone.”
LCVP vastly expands global knowledge of plant diversity
“Almost every field in plant research depends on reliably naming species,” says Dr Marten Winter of iDiv, adding: “Modern science often means combining data sets from different sources. We need to know exactly which species people refer to, so as not to compare apples and oranges or to erroneously lump different species.” Using the LCVP as a reference will now offer researchers a much higher degree of certainty and reduce confusion. And this will also increase the reliability of research results, adds Winter.
“Working alone, Martin Freiberg has achieved something truly incredible here,” says the director of the Botanical Garden and co-author Prof Christian Wirth (UL, iDiv). “This work has been a mammoth task, and with the LCVP he has rendered an invaluable service to plant research worldwide. I am also pleased that our colleagues from iDiv, with their expertise in biodiversity informatics, were able to make a significant contribution to this work.”
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apply ethical theories to a scenario and appraise the different conclusions arising from each
analyse a range of difficult workplace ethical issues and determine a course of action using the AFMA ethical Decision-Making Framework
evaluate the situational and psychological barriers to ethical decision making and actions when you encounter values conflict in the workplace
apply codes of conduct, including the AFMA Code of Conduct, when making decisions in ‘grey’ areas where there is no clear law or rule, or where values appear to be in conflict
identify the components of the ethical dilemma, including the reasons and rationalisations to be addressed and what is at stake for all parties
formulate strategies and processes for responding to situational and psychological barriers to ethical decision making in the workplace
determine a course of action, including steps to take, people to talk to, and what the reaction may be and how to respond
apply communication and interpersonal skills when acting on a decision based on ethical principles
identify individuals and/or resources that may provide advice and guidance on ethical dilemmas if required
critically reflect on own actions and values to enhance personal ethics and capacity for good professional judgment.
how will you learn?
You will learn in an interactive online environment, incorporating online lessons, quizzes, and activities. Further detail can be found in the module outline.
how will you be assessed?
There are two types of assessment in this module. To successfully complete the module you will need to:
complete a series of assessable online activities
prepare one skills assessment demonstrating mastery of the requisite competencies.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Mark McCarthy, Director of Markets, AFMA
Mark McCarthy is a Director of Markets at AFMA and is responsible for managing various technical market and policy committees to promote market efficiency through conventions, standards, documentation and market practices and addressing the regulatory and market issues that arise in these sectors.
Prior to joining AFMA, Mark had twenty five years’ experience as a dealer and investment banker, trading and managing risk in foreign exchange, precious metals, interest rates and debt and credit markets. He has also worked as an international money broker and as an originator in debt capital markets and complemented this practical experience with a Master’s degree in Applied Finance and a MBA.
Peter Pontikis, Consultant, Technical Analysis Consulting
Peter Pontikis has over 30 years experience in investment, wealth management and financial markets. A fellow of CPA Australia, he is on their risk management academic advisory committee and also is a senior fellow of FINSIA where he served on their national policy advisory council as well as its financial markets committee. He recently retired as director of the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) after serving on the board for 9 years.
Andrew De Souza, Consultant, North Shore Business Coaching
Andrew has worked in financial markets for 22 years, mainly in the FX and STIRT markets where he managed desks at Citigroup and JPMorgan. Over the last 3 years he has worked as a workplace training/facilitator.
Richard Walker, Consultant, Luxford Partners
Having started in the industry in 1987, Richard spent many years trading equities and equity derivatives as principal, issuing structured products and growing businesses in a controlled and profitable manner. Institutions where this experience was gained include UBS, Commonwealth Bank, and National Australia Bank, while previous roles held include Managing Director, Global Head of Equities, and Head of Risk.
Complementing his strong theoretical knowledge base, Richard's diverse background allows him to incorporate relevant real life examples into his training, which participants rate as one of the highlights of his program delivery.
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How long do you have to take acyclovir for shingles?
For the treatment of shingles, 1,000 mg of valacyclovir is taken three times a day for seven days or until the rash has completely crusted over. Treatment is most effective if it is initiated within 48 to 72 hours after the first symptoms appear. Like acyclovir, valacyclovir rarely causes side effects.
Simply so, can acyclovir be taken on an empty stomach?
If you are taking acyclovir for the treatment of chickenpox, it is best to start taking acyclovir as soon as possible after the first sign of the chickenpox rash, usually within one day. Acyclovir capsules, tablets, and oral suspension may be taken with meals or on an empty stomach.
How many mg of acyclovir should I take during an outbreak?
The usual recommended adult dosage is 800 mg administered every 4 hours, 5 times daily. For the treatment of initial episodes of genital herpes, the length of acyclovir treatment is 10 days. The usual recommended adult dosage is 200 mg administered every 4 hours, 5 times daily.
How long should acyclovir be taken for shingles?
Treatment is most effective if it is initiated within 48 to 72 hours after the first symptoms appear. Intravenous acyclovir is used to treat more serious outbreaks of shingles. The oral dose used to treat shingles is 800 mg taken five times a day for seven to ten days (until the rash has crusted over).
What organs can be affected by shingles?
Body systems that can be affected include the eyes, nervous system, lungs, liver, and brain. Internal shingles can cause symptoms such as persistent pain, fever, cough, abdominal pain, and headache. When shingles affects internal organs, it's a serious complication that requires urgent medical attention.
What is 800 mg of acyclovir used for?
Acyclovir is used to treat infections caused by certain types of viruses. It treats cold sores around the mouth (caused by herpes simplex), shingles (caused by herpes zoster), and chickenpox.This medication is also used to treat outbreaks of genital herpes.
Can you still go to work if you have shingles?
However, you can spread the varicella-zoster virus from the time that your symptoms start until your rash and blisters have crusted dry. If you have shingles and are otherwise healthy, you can still go out in public or to work. But you should be sure to follow these tips: Keep the shingles rash clean and covered.
How does acyclovir work in the body?
Herpes simplex viruses cause cold sores and genital herpes. Aciclovir works by preventing viruses from multiplying, and this reduces the severity of the infection and stops it from spreading. As well as treating infections, aciclovir can also be prescribed to prevent some viral infections from occurring.
How many aciclovir tablets should I take?
The normal treatment provided is aciclovir 200mg tablets, one tablet five times a day for five days. A longer course of aciclovir can also be prescribed to suppress herpes outbreaks. The normal treatment provided in this case is aciclovir 400mg tablets, take one tablet twice a day for three months.
Can steroids help shingles?
Steroids help to reduce swelling (inflammation). A short course of steroid tablets (prednisolone) may be considered in addition to antiviral medication. This may help to reduce pain and speed healing of the rash. However, the use of steroids in shingles is controversial.
How much is a prescription of acyclovir?
Acyclovir Price
Price Without Insurance
400mg 30 tablets $21.00
How long does it take for shingles to not be contagious?
The rash starts as blisters that scab after three to five days.” Can shingles be spread to others? A person with shingles can spread the disease through direct contact with the rash when the rash is in the blister phase. Once the rash has developed crusts, the person is no longer contagious.
Is acyclovir over the counter?
The antiviral medications available in pill form (acyclovir, valacyclovir, famciclovir) have been specifically developed for the treatment of genital herpes. Other topical treatments for oral herpes are available over-the-counter (OTC), but are not antiviral compounds like acyclovir and penciclovir.
What is acyclovir 400 mg used for?
How long does it take to get over the shingles?
Most cases of shingles last 3 to 5 weeks. Shingles follows a pattern: The first sign is often burning or tingling pain; sometimes, it includes numbness or itching on one side of the body. Somewhere between 1 and 5 days after the tingling or burning feeling on the skin, a red rash will appear.
How do I take acyclovir?
Treatment with acyclovir should be started as soon as possible after the first appearance of symptoms (such as tingling, burning, blisters). Take each dose with a full glass of water. Drink plenty of water while you are taking acyclovir to keep your kidneys working properly. Acyclovir can be taken with or without food.
What is the best pain reliever for shingles?
Shingles can cause severe pain, so your doctor also may prescribe:
Capsaicin topical patch (Qutenza)
Anticonvulsants, such as gabapentin (Neurontin)
Tricyclic antidepressants, such as amitriptyline.
Numbing agents, such as lidocaine, delivered via a cream, gel, spray or skin patch.
Can you get the shingles at any age?
The main risk factor for getting shingles is having had chickenpox, although people who have gotten the chickenpox vaccine may still be at risk. Another risk factor is age. Children, teenagers, and young adults can get shingles, but most people who have outbreaks, are over 50 years old.
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Fin d'hivernage à Concordia
Le premier avion de la saison est arrivée à la station Concordia mercredi 8 novembre. Il transportait l’équipe franco-italienne de 15 personnes. The first plane of the season arrived at the French station Concordia on 8 November with…
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Le cauchemar du président, un roman de Denis Ralet
Que se passerait-il si une bombe atomique explosait en Antarctique, suite à un attentat terroriste? Cette accélération majeure de la fonte des glaces, la radioactivité... tout cela engendrerait un séisme majeur sur tous les plans, environnemental,…
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A new italian scientific campaign in Antarctica
This period marks the start of the summer italian scientific campaign in Antarctica. The researchers'activities will take place in the Mario Zucchelli station, but also at other antarctic bases: such international cooperation rules the relationships…
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Decline of periglacial zones: biodiversity at risk
Near Antarctica and the Arctic, cold regions known as 'periglacial zones' may almost disappear by the end of the century due to climate change, according to recent research. If this happens, it will cause major harm to biodiversity and it…
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No agreement on protected area off East Antarctic coast
Despite pressure from Australia, France and the EU, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) recently failed to reach agreement on creating a new Marine Protection Area (MPA) off the East Antarctic coast.…
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Methane-eating bacteria found under West Antarctic ice sheet
Scientists from the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, involved in Antarctic research have found ‘methane-eating’ bacteria that act as a kind of biological filter in water samples from Lake Whillans. These potentially beneficial bacteria…
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Life under the ice
A research team from Helsinki (Finland) will explore how climate change affects the marine biodiversity in Antarctica. Virtual reality will enable the general public to learn more about scientific research and findings. https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sustainability/filming-under-water-life-in-antarctica-in-360deg-virtual-reality Source:…
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The Antarctic Treaty and its consequences
Joseph Nolan, from the European Polar Board, introduces Yves Frenot, Director of the French Polar Institute (Institut Paul Emile Victor, IPEV), who tells us about the Antarctic Treaty and the importance to protect this vulnerable environment.…
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Défi technique : La station Halley VI du BAS se déplace
Suite au réchauffement climatique qui touche tout particulièrement le continent Antarctique, l’actuelle station de recherche britannique Halley VI a dû être déplacée sur 23 km. La base britannique a été créée en 1956 et a justement…
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EU Science & Innovation, Research, Treaties & protection
Belém agreement: expanding research in the Southern Ocean
In July, there was an announcement about the European Union expanding its research agreements with Brazil and South Africa. This 'Belem statement' is primarily about the South Atlantic. But oceans are connected to one another, so it is important…
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Game Review: Far Cry: Vengeance (Wii)
Spoiler warning for this review: This game is terrible
Ben Kuchera - Jan 22, 2007 7:30 pm UTC
Most of the time I love what I do. The rest of the time I'm playing Far Cry games. The first PC title was actually pretty good, but since then the consoles have been riddled with bad Far Cry titles, and the abysmal 360 attempt was up there with 25 to Life in games that were painful to play for Opposable Thumbs. There is just no spark to them; I've never been so bored playing a game in my life. Luckily Far Cry: Vengeance on the Wii wasn't boring. It's horrible.
To start, when I sat down my couch, the game said the controller was too far away. That's odd. I adjusted the lights, changed the sensitity of the Wiimote, and tried again. Still too far away. I put in another game and it was fine. Far Cry? I was too far away. I finally had to stand in front of the television and get uncomfortably close to play the game, not the best way to start things off. I'm not sure what the problem is here, but after reconnecting the sensor bar and trying other games, the issue appears confined to the Far Cry software. I should have stopped there, because things only got worse.
Remember what video looked like on the Sega CD? Welcome to the intro video of Far Cry: Vengeance. It's that bad; a pixelly mess that hurts your eyes. Why? Don't tell me the Wii disc couldn't hold actual video; I've seen video in other games. It's almost like they tried to make it look at bad as possible.
Once I actually started the game I started to think my first instinct may have been right: the mangled video was the only thing in the world that could possible have looked worse than the in-game graphics. We're talking some serious PSone-level graphics here. I was shocked when I first saw them—this is the worst-looking game I've played in a very long time. I've often played games I thought weren't that attractive, but this game was downright ugly. It's like ugly's uglier older sister, Uglita. Except she was horribly burned in an accident when volatile Nasty-sauce from the Beat-Down corporation spilled all over her face. It's like someone ate a bad port of an already bad game and this is what they shat out.
It just doesn't look good and it wouldn't have looked good last-gen. In fact, there is not enough bourbon in the world to make this game attractive. And I drink a lot of bourbon.
This would be forgivable if the game play was fun, but it's not. It's a straight-up run-and-gun and the enemies just kind of wander around until you shoot them. Some of them may get the bright idea to shoot back at you. The control scheme works though, right? Not really. You have to twitch the nunchuk up to jump, and it's just doesn't work well in most situations. Aiming works fine, although it's a shame you can't turn the gun on yourself and end the suffering.
Verdict: Skip
Price: $49.99 (shop for this game—but don't say we didn't warn you)
System: Wii
Developer and Publisher: UbiSoft
ESRB Rating: Mature
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Thank you to all of the staff and friends of Austen Morris Associates who donated bags for this years Giving Tree Program organised by the Community Centre Shanghai alongside Home Sweet Home who organised the ‘filling of the Gift Bags’ on behalf of the AMA, Friends and Family. HSH also benefitted by receiving a contribution per bag filled. This year’s beneficiary was the New Meadow Primary Migrant School in Xinnong Village,Gaoqiao Town, Pudong an hour and a half North of Shanghai, China.
Everyone who contributed made a big difference to a migrant child’s life this holiday season. With only 250 RMB per bag we were able to purchase a special gift (basketball, Guitar, dolls etc) a new warm jacket, new shoes and school supplies, items which are beyond most of their families means. Migrant school families are from all over China with the majority of the migrants coming from Anhui, Sichuan, Henan, and Guizhou. Their parents’ work around 6-7 days per week with long hours of work mostly in factories, farming, construction, and piecework. Their average household income is 3,000-4,000 RMB per month. Typically, both of the children’s parents work and this monthly income is often unstable with unpredictable temporary labor or weather conditions for farming. Living conditions of these families are an average 1 room space of about 15-20 square meters. They have no heat, cooling, internal kitchen or bathroom, their typical bathroom is a shared outhouse with 10 other families.
This is the Fifth year that Managing Senior Partner James Colclough and Founding Senior Partner Greg Morris, have led the program internally along with the marketing and events team. The Colclough Family including James’ wife Coco and daughter Jasmine joined the special ceremony at the school along with the Head of Recruitment Anu Aggarwal, Special Projects Manager Billie Jin and Accountant Vivian Yu.
This year Austen Morris Associates participated in The Giving Tree program and filled over 50 bags for needy children in the Shanghai area. We believe in program which make a difference in the lives of children today as well as teach values of education, generosity and a positive future. A special thank you to all of the AMA Shanghai staff who donated including; Anu, Billie, Dino, Kelly, Vivian, Ted, Yogesh, Bessie, Jon and his wife Lillian. To those in the community who joined our efforts in donating one or more bags including 28 personal friends of James and Coco Colclough we ‘Thank You’ from the bottom of our hearts.
From just 32 bags in 2003 to over 10,000 per year since 2009, The Giving Tree has established itself in Shanghai as a trusted organisation that connects generous donors with children in need.
Keeping children’s preferences in mind with individualised bags, and giving donors an opportunity to hand deliver bags to the children who will benefit from them, Giving Tree is a unique community engagement organisation. Each year, Giving Tree aims to create over 10,000 “Future Giving Trees”, children in need who have been inspired by the generosity shown to them in the form of a gift bag full of winter clothes and school supplies. In the years to come, we envision these gift bags spreading the message of giving to many more thousands of people, as recipients remember the message of Giving Tree by these small tokens of kindness. The hope is that these children will one day pay it forward and give to others. Each bag is assigned to a specific child with their preferences and details in mind. In late November/early December, bag sponsors give the bags directly to the children they support in a distribution ceremony. By keeping children’s preferences in mind with individualised bags, and giving donors an opportunity to hand deliver gifts to the children who will benefit from them, Giving Tree has established itself as a unique community engagement organisation.
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Urban Improv Celebrates Another Year at Banned in Boston
(Aerosmith bass player Tom Hamilton (C) performed in the April 26 “Banned in Boston” skit “Downtown Crossing Abbey” at the House of Blues with Urban Improv players Carol Fulp, Barbara Lee and Anita Walker. Joshua Lavine, courtesy of Urban Improv.)
Some of Boston’s biggest celebrities helped Urban Improv celebrate its 20th birthday last week at the House of Blues. Governor Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, Mayor Thomas Menino and Aerosmith bass player Tom Hamilton, among a slew of others, joined the group’s cast for its annual “Banned in Boston” fundraising performance.
Urban Improv is an educational program that helps youths and teaches them, through theater, to tackle difficult issues like violence, bullying and peer pressure in positive ways. At “Banned in Boston” its members and volunteers — including local politicians, entrepreneurs and media personalities — use their theatrical talent to enact parodic skits on stage.
The humorous and often musical performances revolve around politics, pop culture, social events and recent news headlines. This year’s themes included Republican candidates and their foibles, cell phone technology, reality television, the Occupy Boston movement and the arrest of South Boston’s notorious mobster Whitey Bulger.
The preliminary cocktail party took place next door at The Lansdowne Pub, where several Boston and Cambridge restaurants provided signature dishes from tasting stations.
Chef Lydia Shire, representing Towne and Scampo, served curry noodles; Paul O’Connell, chef owner of Chez Henri, ladled out bowls of chowder to the crowd; and for a sweet bite, Upstairs on the Square’s co-owner Mary Catherine displayed mini cupcakes and chocolate turtles.
At 7:30 p.m., revelers ambled to the House of Blues, where the celebration continued. Cone-shaped birthday hats, jelly beans, Goldfish crackers and programs topped each table, and waitstaff with trays of wine and cupcakes from Sweet made the rounds. Boston-born David Walton, who now lives in Los Angeles and stars in the NBC series “Bent,” emceed the performance.
The night on stage opened with an energetic greeting from the Urban Improv co-founder Lisa Alvord, followed by a personal account from Shana Auguste, a former student of Urban Improv’s Youth Unscripted program and current member of the program’s artistic staff.
Born and raised in Dorchester, Auguste is now an Emerson College student studying communication. “I was really able to be myself in Urban Improv,” she said. Auguste cited three roles that the program played in her life: a family who provides love and understanding; a teacher with the lessons it offers; and a friend who gives advice and support.
The first skit was “Downtown Crossing Abbey,” a parody of Masterpiece Theater’s “Downton Abbey,” a British period piece presented by Masterpiece Theater. The local spoof had the Boston crowd chuckling with characters named Lady Allston-Brighton, Lord Somerville and Chelsea Revere.
After that, Gov. Patrick showed off his vocal chords and Frank Sinatra impression with a ditty called “Drive Me ‘Round the State,” a light-hearted political song sung to the tune of “Fly Me to the Moon.”
Artistic Director Toby Dewey thanked the actors, reminding them and the audience that the performances are making a difference in the Boston community. He noted how far the program has progressed in 20 years. Dewey explained that Urban Improv is an educational program that uses improvisational theater to promote “three-dimensional learning … using the mind, body and emotions.”
(This article originally appeared in an April 2012 issue of the Bay State Banner.)
Tagged as Anita Walker, Banned in Boston, Boston, Carol Fulp, House of Blues, Joshua Lavine, Lansdowne St, Tom Hamilton, Urban Improv, Whitey Bulger
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Your Average WWE Summerslam Preview & Predictions
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The biggest party of the summer is once again emanating from Brooklyn, New York, as the WWE holds their annual Summerslam pay per view this Sunday night. This year’s card is pretty incredible, and that shouldn’t surprise WWE fans, as more times than not in the recent past, Summerslam has been a very good show. Summerslam 2013 featured Daniel Bryan winning the WWE Championship, only to have special guest referee HHH take him out and allow Randy Orton to cash in his MITB briefcase. That kicked off one of the more memorable Road to WrestleMania’s, which culminated in Daniel Bryan putting on the best one man show in WM history and winning back the WWE Championship in the main event. Summerslam 2014 featured one of my favorite matches, as Brock Lesnar surprisingly decimated John Cena on his way to winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. While last year’s Undertaker/Lesnar main event fell flat, the overall card was solid, and it officially brought Seth Rollins to the big boys table after he defeated John Cena. What will this year’s event bring? Let’s get to the preview and predictions!
Eva Marie, Natalya and Alexa Bliss vs. Carmella, Naomi and Becky Lynch
So Sami Zayn doesn’t have a match at Summerslam but Eva Marie does. Nothing against Eva Marie, but that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Anyway, this match was made after last night’s Smackdown, and it’s should serve as a nice showcase for the six women who will eventually be fighting for the Smackdown’s Women’s title (if that ever becomes a thing). The positive side of not having a bunch of titles on each show is that it forces the creative team to come up with storylines that don’t revolve around two people vying for a championship. This should create more personal feuds, and whether it does or not will depend on the Smackdown writing team. As far as this match goes, it will be Carmella and Alexa Bliss’s first WWE pay per view, so it’d be cool to see them involved in the finish in some way. With Ms. All Red Everything involved though, I can see Alexa or Natalya landing a knockout blow during a fracas and Eva Marie sneaking in for a pin to claim the victory.
Prediction: Eva Marie, Natalya & Alexa Bliss
Enzo Amore & Big Cass vs. Chris Jericho & Kevin Owens
These four guys have been given the opening segment for the two out of three Raw’s, and have given us a thoroughly entertaining feud. 2016 Jericho continues to be great, and somehow gets better when you pair him with Kevin Owens. I love that Owens has hated Enzo and Cass since NXT, and that hatred has only gotten stronger now that they’re all on the main roster. The dynamic of Enzo and Cass works well too, as Enzo runs his mouth and clearly isn’t afraid of anybody, but doesn’t pose much of a physical threat until Big Cass gets involved. While I’d like Enzo & Cass to be in the tag title hunt, I’m perfectly OK with them mixing it up with two guys who know how to bring out the best in them. I have to assume that this Jericho/Owens tag team won’t last long, but I’m ok with it either way. Jericho is a tag team chameleon, so if they do stay together, why not let them make a run at the titles? If they don’t stay together, I’m all in for a Jericho/Owens feud, especially in the promo department.
Prediction: Enzo & Cass pick up a big win at a marque pay per view, continuing their rise to the top of the tag team division
IC Title Match: The Miz (C) vs. Apollo Crews
Now that the Miz’s fantastic feud with Darren Young is over, it’s time to give Apollo Crews something to work with. He came into NXT as a big new signee, but was never given much of a character and stalled out. He came onto the main roster as a fresh new thing, but was never given a character and is starting to stall out again. I’m a huge fan of the Miz, and he’s one of the best characters WWE has (especially with Maryse), but it’s time to get Crews going. He’s got a million dollar smile and for his build, he does some pretty amazing things. I have complete confidence that Miz can bring out the best in Crews, and put him over big time for what is hopefully a semi long title run.
Prediction: Apollo Crews
US Championship Match: Rusev (C) vs. Roman Reigns
This is a classic heart vs. brain match for me. My heart is, and will forever always be, with Rusev. He’s the most underrated guy on the roster and every time they’ve given him something to work with he’s knocked it out of the park. HE RODE A TANK TO THE RING AT WRESTLEMANIA. While I understand having Cena beat Rusev for the US title, they backed themselves into a corner by giving Rusev a long undefeated streak. Undefeated streaks in pro wrestling are the worst thing in the world because there is no good way to end them. The best example of this is Goldberg. The guy was the hottest thing in wrestling, held both the US and Heavyweight titles at the same time, and eventually lost because Scott Hall tazored him. Now Rusev finally has some momentum again and I have that feeling I had before WrestleMania 31 where WWE is going to have the hero come in and defeat the evil Russian, even though Rusev has been the good guy during every single moment of this feud. Remember last week when Rusev and Lana were innocently reenacting their wedding and Roman Reigns came out, unprovoked, and called Lana a mail order bride and made fun of Rusev because he couldn’t please his wife sexually on their wedding night? Remember when Roman Reigns complained and was just handed another title match? How does that make Reigns the hero in this feud? Add in the fact that Reigns is so goddamn boring, and I see no reason why Rusev should lose. Which brings me to my prediction…
Prediction: Roman Reigns. Let’s just move on.
Cesaro vs. Sheamus: Best of 7 Series Kickoff Match
While I love this move by GM Mick Foley, I do wish this had been set up prior to Cesaro and Sheamus already fighting twice on Raw. If Cesaro loses this series, shouldn’t he be furious that Foley basically ignored two hard fought, clean victories? I understand you can’t start a best of 7 series 2-0, but why not start this up a few weeks ago when Foley said he wanted to see who the better man was? If you make the best of 7 series then, you could make the Summerslam match number 3 or 4 in the series, and possibly continue it through the fall. Instead, WWE hits the reset button and we’re just supposed to forget that Cesaro has already beaten Sheamus twice. With that said, we should get a great match at Summerslam with a decent story behind it, so I’m all for it. While Sheamus is very good in the ring, his character is so bland it’s tough to care about him either way. Cesaro has all the talent in the world, but WWE just won’t let him get any continued momentum, so it’s tough for the casual fan to root for him. Hopefully this is the start of an extended showcase for both wrestlers with Cesaro eventually coming out on top.
Prediction: Cesaro
John Cena vs. AJ Styles
Since coming to the WWE, AJ Styles has been one of their best performers. He had a great feud with Jericho, then slid into the #1 contenders spot and put on a few classic matches with Roman Reigns. Now he’s going up against Mr. Superman and even though he’s already beat him once (CLEAN) they’re having a rematch. I honestly don’t know what’s going to happen here. It’s almost the same thing as Rusev/Reigns, except on a much bigger scale. Styles has a chance to be one of if not THE top guy in WWE, but he has to go through John Cena to get there. Kevin Owens tried, and failed. Rusev tried, and failed. Bray Wyatt tried, and failed. Why would Styles be any different? A classic John Cena feud has him lose at a B pay per view, then get his win back at a bigger show. Guess what? AJ Styles beat John Cena at MITB, and now they’re fighting at Summerslam, a much bigger show. History tells us John Cena is going to win, and there’s a reason I use that picture above for every Cena match I preview. While I’d love to happily be proved wrong, I’m going with Superman.
Prediction: John Cena
Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton
If you held this match before UFC 200, Brock Lesnar would eat Randy Orton for lunch. Lesnar was as unstoppable as anyone in recent memory until he decided to go back to the UFC and fail a few drug tests. While WWE doesn’t have the power to suspend him, they have to be embarrassed and upset at Brock to act as carelessly as he did, especially given the circumstances of WWE suspending Reigns shortly afterwards. Regardless of UFC fights and drug test failures, Lesnar steps back into the ring for the first time since WrestleMania as he takes on Randy Orton at Summerslam. While Lesnar hasn’t fought since WM, Orton is coming off of an almost year long hiatus due to injury, and although he’s fought a few matches on Smackdown since coming back, nothing can really prepare you for The Beast Incarnate. As much as I’d love to see Brock destroy Orton a la John Cena at Summerslam 2014, I just don’t see it happening. The WWE loves that ‘RKO Outta Nowhere’ talking point, and it really fits into this storyline perfectly. Whether Lesnar wins or loses, he should dominate the match, until an RKO Outta Nowhere surprises him and gives Orton the win. As I said before, I bet the original plan for this match was for Brock to return and destroy a worthy competitor in Orton, but now I’m not so sure. Vince McMahon was kind enough to let Lesnar fight in the UFC while under contract with the WWE, and Lesnar basically spit in his face. The Beast is going to have to pay for that.
Prediction: Randy Orton
Tag Team Championship Match: New Day (Kofi & Xavier) vs. Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows
This is an interesting match, and it has rematch written all over it. As much I love Xavier Woods, the best in-ring version of New Day is Kofi & Big E. Now that Big E has suffered a ‘contusion to his groin area’ at the hands of Anderson & Gallows, New Day is forced to defend the tag titles with the team of Xavier and Kofi. Does Big E make a surprise comeback and help New Day retain? Or do Gallows and Anderson take advantage of the weakened unit and win tag team gold? New Day has done a lot of good as tag team champions, but they are way overdue for a loss. Similar to having Styles beat Cena, having Gallows and Anderson go over the longest reigning tag team champions of the modern era at Summerslam would be huge for them. Why bring these guys in from Japan if you’re not going to do something with them? Plus, you have a built in excuse for a rematch with the Big E injury, so why not give your new tag team a big win at a major event? Give Karl Anderson and his hot Asian wife a reason to celebrate.
Prediction: Gallows & Anderson
Women’s Championship Match: Sasha Banks (C) vs. Charlotte
‘Women’s Championship’ has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? After suffering through the Diva’s division for so long, its nice to see the women slowly but surely making headway on the main roster. If there’s any two women the WWE Universe can thank for that, it’s Sasha Banks & Charlotte. They (along with Bayley and Becky Lynch) tore it up in NXT and forced WWE to start recognizing women for their in ring talent and not just because they looked good in a bikini. Sasha & Charlotte had the best one on one main roster women’s singles match on Raw a few weeks back, so if this match is anything close to that, it’ll be fantastic. Dana Brooke being banned from ringside is an interesting twist, and I can see either Ric Flair coming out or Dana dressed as Ric to try and cause some interference. Regardless of outside interference, the title has to stay on The Boss here. Sasha is not only the best in the ring, but she has a strong connection with the fans which goes back to her time in NXT and her look and personality give her a strong mainstream appeal. If the rumors of Charlotte taking time off are true, that’s just another reason to keep Sasha as the champion and to develop a new round of challengers for The Boss to dispatch. Don’t be surprised if Nia Jax makes a post match appearance as well to set up the next Women’s championship feud.
Prediction: Sasha Banks
WWE World Championship Match: Dean Ambrose (C) vs. Dolph Ziggler
This has been one of the more enjoyable feuds on the card, and it’s safe to say no one is enjoying the brand split more than Dolph Ziggler. He’s looked like a star since the first Smackdown Live and hasn’t looked back. I really like Ambrose as the figure head for Smackdown as well, because he’s a great talker and while he might not be the greatest threat in the ring, he figures out a way to get the job done. When Ziggler became #1 contender, it was an interesting dynamic because both wrestlers were baby faces, but Ambrose has slowly been turning heel over the last few weeks. While I doubt he goes full heel, it does give this match a little more suspense than before. Will Ambrose cheat to win? Ziggler is a good guy based on fan reactions, but is he above cheating to finally stand alone at the top? I expect this to be an expertly wrestled match, and as much as I’ll be rooting for Ziggler, I think Ambrose deserves a longer title reign.
Prediction: Dean Ambrose
WWE Universal Championship Match: Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor
While I’m pretty sure Orton/Lesnar will go on last, I think that’s a mistake. Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor to crown the first ever Universal Champion should absolutely be the main event, and the WWE is crazy if they do anything else. Balor is the MAN. He’s got the entrance, the charisma, the look, the in ring skills; whatever you’re looking for, Finn Balor has it. He’s made every promotion he’s ever worked for better just by being in it, whether it be NJPW or NXT. If WWE gives him a real shot, he’ll do the same thing for Monday Night Raw. Balor had one of the best in ring debuts ever a few weeks ago, and he can’t ask for a better dance partner than Rollins at Summerslam. Since separating from The Shield and cashing in his MITB briefcase at WrestleMania 31, Rollins has been the standard bearer for the WWE. While they wasted his talent by turning him into a cry baby champion, Rollins still made the best of it and turned into a heel who was impossible to boo. His injury came at an inopportune time, but he busted his butt to get back, and now finds himself right back where he belongs: fighting for a title. If this was Rollins vs. Balor, I’d give the edge to Rollins and have him be the first Universal Champion. Unfortunately for Seth, Finn Balor is bringing The Demon with him to Summerslam. While The Demon has lost in NXT, it’d be a mistake to have him lose his first appearance at a major pay per view. The fact that Rollins is focusing so heavily on The Demon gives me hope that Rollins will unleash a demon side of his own at Summerslam, but either way, I’m going with Finn.
Prediction: Finn Balor
-Ryan
Tags: Brock lesnar, brooklyn, finn balor, nxt, pro wrestling, randy Orton, seth rollins, summerslam, WWE
SteelyPhil’s Music Post – Where did all the good music go?
Posted by steelyphil28
The music scene these days is getting worse and worse. In fact, I believe good music has been on a downtrend since the 90s. So, where did all the good music go? Is it under your couch? Did it fall between the seats of your car? I think not.
Let me take this time to introduce one of my favorite active labels right now; Daptone Records. This is a revival label that is seriously doing things right. Their collection of artists, headed by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, deliver the kind of funk and soul that your favorite 90s R&B/HipHop artist might have sampled. Daptone, which is based and was started in Brooklyn New York, released their first effort in 2002; Dap Dippin’ with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. However, this stuff sounds anything like what you would expect. Recorded on analog tapes and mixed at their studio in Brooklyn, these records sound like they just jumped off the shelves of a record store right onto a turntable. Its gritty, funky, soulful, and very dance-able.
So there you are, if you were ever listening to the radio and thinking “Where did all the good music go?”, now you know, its based in Brooklyn New York under a label called Daptone Records.
P.S – They sell all of their stuff on LPs and 45s at a very reasonable price. So if your a vinyl collector like myself, you can find these on their website.
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Tags: brooklyn, daptone, funk, New York, sharon jones, soul, the dap kings
The Next NXT TakeOver Special Will Be December 16th Live From London, England
If you can’t be in the UK in person to see @WWENXT take over, #NXTLondon will be LIVE only on @WWENetwork 12/16. pic.twitter.com/8K5esUiO7S
— Triple H (@TripleH) August 27, 2015
Per HHH on Twitter this afternoon, the next NXT TakeOver special will be LIVE from London, England on December 16th. Assuming they won’t be having the crowd there at 1 in the morning, the special will probably air in the afternoon here in the states on the WWE Network. You had to expect NXT would keep expanding, especially after the incredible success of last Saturday’s special in Brooklyn. The event in London will be held in the SSE Arena, which has a capacity of 12,500 people, so it should be a similar look as Brooklyn’s show. My only request is that William Regal opens the show with a 4 and half hour standing ovation.
Tags: brooklyn, live special, london, nxt, pro wrestling, takeover, triple h twitter, wwe network
Your Average #WWE Summerslam Preview & Predictions
WWE’s monster weekend will continue on Sunday night as Summerslam is live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the same venue that will host TakeOver the night before and Raw the night after. For the first time ever, Summerslam is four hours long, which is both a tribute and a sad reminder of how stacked WWE’s roster is. For as talented as they are, and as great as the matches will be, it’s still tough to think of how much better the event would be with some solid lead up writing. The show is headlined by the Undertaker/Brock Lesnar rematch and the title vs. title bout between John Cena and Seth Rollins. Let’s get to the preview and predictions!
Team Bella vs. Team B.A.D. vs. Team PCB (Divas Elimination Match)
I believe the stipulation for this match states that only one member of each team needs to pinned or submitted for that team to be eliminated. If I had to pick the most logical situation, it would be Nikki Bella getting submitted by either Sasha or Charlotte, which would finally set up some kind of Diva’s title structure. No other scenario makes any sense, and if the WWE does anything else they’re proving they don’t mind staying stagnant. The only problem with that is they keep labeling this as a ‘revolution’. Revolutions do not stay stagnant, they evolve. As great as the women’s wrestling has been, it’s also been aimless. Becky Lynch is tapping out Tamina and Sasha is tapping out Nikki and nothing is changing. The rumor is WWE is stalling for the next month until Nikki becomes the longest reigning Divas champion ever, but it’s time to shit or get off the pot. I have Sasha losing the night before to Bayley, so now all three NXT women should be hungry for the Diva’s title. If I had to bet, I’d say Charlotte gets first crack at it.
Prediction: Charlotte figure 8’s Nikki for the win.
The Prime Time Players (C) vs. Los Matadores vs. The Lucha Dragons vs. The New Day (WWE Tag Team Championship Match)
As great as the PTP have been as champions both in the ring and on commentary, I’m not pure evil, and I can’t root against the New Day (just look at that gif above. LOOK AT IT). Between the skipping and clapping on their way to ring, Xavier Woods’ ringside commentary and their general wonderfulness, New Day has consistently been the best act on WWE TV for awhile. Lucha Dragons and Los Matadores both equally have a zero percent change of winning, but they should contribute to the overall match. I’m pulling for a New Day win, and the way they’ve been losing lately, I can see Xavier Woods getting the best of El Torito and everyone else and helping his partners win back the belts.
Prediction: per usual, heart > head: New. Day Rocks.
Dolph Ziggler vs. Rusev
Rusev, along with New Day, are my favorite characters on WWE TV. Every time he talks on the microphone it’s wonderful, whether he’s giving Summer Lana a dog (named DOG ZIGGLER) or threatening to break people into pieces like a jigsaw puzzle, he always nails it. Unfortunately, we haven’t seen much of his ring ability lately, as he’s been relegated to murdering Mark Henry’s lifeless corpse for the last few weeks. That should change Sunday, and Rusev should look good, because he’s facing the human selling machine in Ziggler. Usually when WWE runs angles like this, a guy like Ziggler will come out on top, but Ziggler loses pretty much every match he’s ever in, so I’m going with Rusev. Lana keeps goading Summer and Rusev into these arguments and attacks by continually showing up on commentary for Rusev’s matches, so I kind of hope she gets knocked out by Summer. Side by side accolades while Rusev’s personalized Bulgarian flag floats down from the ceiling would make my heart explode with joy.
Prediction: Rusev.
Stephen Amell And Neville vs. Stardust And King Barrett
I think this might be the sleeper match of the night. You have three excellent talents matched up with an athletic celebrity who genuinely enjoys WWE and can pick his spots to look good. Amell is a physical freak, as shown by his quickness on Raw a few weeks ago, and he’s matched up with Neville, who I’m still not sure is a real human being. Amell and Neville are definitely going over, but I have faith that Stardust and the ‘Cosmic King’ will make the match entertaining. With 9 other matches on the card, this one should definitely stand out, and I hope Amell and Neville have a unique entrance planned. The Red & Green Arrow together is too good of an opportunity to pass up.
Prediction: Amell and Neville.
Ryback vs. Big Show vs. The Miz (Intercontinental Championship Triple Threat Match)
I’m not really into this match, and I can’t imagine many people are, but when you have 10 matches on a card you kind of have to defend one of the main titles. Ryback is the latest victim of the IC title curse, and just recently returned from an injury and a staph infection. Big Show is Big Show, what you see is what you get, and Miz is desperately trying to get this feud over, but it feels like it’s been going on forever. When in doubt, the champion retains, which is what should happen here. Maybe phase Show out and have Ryback feud with Miz, or just start from scratch and give Ryback some fresh meat.
Prediction: The Big Guy.
Randy Orton vs. Sheamus
I really hope Orton and Sheamus put their thinking caps on Sunday night, because if they don’t, the Brooklyn crowd is going to eat them alive. This is one of those matches that HAS to be placed perfectly on the card. Their best bet is to go second after a really hot opener of either Owens/Cesaro or the Divas, because if they go too late in the show the crowd will get restless and just shit all over them. These guys are both methodical, and at this point in both of their careers are only tolerable when they have someone who contrast their style. Orton is based solely off his finisher, and so is Sheamus, and all their transition moves have been seen so many times you can pretty much watch their matches with your eyes closed and know what’s going to happen. That’s not a good thing. I have no idea what’s in store for Orton, but Sheamus has been getting pinned an awful lot lately, and it’d be smart for WWE to give Mr. MITB some forward momentum.
Prediction: Sheamus
Kevin Owens vs. Cesaro
I was going to list this match as my sleeper of the night, but when everyone is expecting it to be great and it still delivers, it’s kind of tough to label it a sleeper. I believe this match should open the show, go 20 minutes, and feature both guys figuratively saying “follow that”. You have four hours, why not? We’ve seen what both these guys can do, so I say just let them both loose and have them tear the damn house down. Cesaro is my favorite wrestler, but I’ve already come to the conclusion that he’s going to lose this one. Owens is more than likely losing at TakeOver, and losing twice in the same weekend in big time matches is not really the right direction for him. Once again, WWE has booked themselves into a corner with a young wrestler after a Cena feud, so Owens kind of has to win here to get back on track.
Prediction: Kevin Owens
John Cena vs. Seth Rollins (Title vs. Title Match)
This is the match that scares me the most, as do most Cena matches, and I can’t see it ending without a schmoz. Rollins defeating Cena and owning both belts just sets us up for Cena to win them both back down the line, and Cena winning both belts at any point makes me want to vomit. All this talk about Cena elevating the US Championship is great, but has he really? Is the US Championship really any more special than it was before Mania? Say a guy like Rusev wins it from Cena and just does what he did with it pre Mania, how would that change the perception of the belt? Cena has elevated himself, sure, and he’s tried to get back in the ‘internet’ fans good graces by giving all of our darlings (Cesaro, Neville, Rusev, Owens) title shots, but he’s continually won. I’m not drinking the John Cena Kool-Aid, because I really don’t think he’s done a thing for the US belt. And now he’s back to being the #1 contender because someone broke his nose. It’s comical if you think about it, and I can’t wait for the hate columns six months from now when the WWE still hasn’t made a new star. How could they when Cena is back in the title scene every six months? I say the Authority interferes, and we have some kind of title vs. title rematch at Night of Champions.
Prediction: if Cena wins we complain.
The Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar
Will the WWE schmoz both of their main events for Summerslam? I really can’t see either of the two main events ending clean, but I guess if one of the matches had to end clean it would be this one. First off, the Undertaker should not win. Brock Lesnar is the best thing going in pro wrestling right now, and he should not be losing the main event of Summerslam so 50 year old Undertaker can get his WrestleMania loss back. The way they’ve set up this feud, it looks like Lesnar is going to win. They had the pull apart brawl, with neither guy getting the upper hand, and besides that, the other two times they’ve faced off Undertaker has used dick kicks and choke slams and tombstones to beat down Brock. I love Taker, but at this moment in time he is up against the greatest attraction in sports entertainment. Plus, Brocks owns Summerslam. I hope he suplexes Taker 5 thousand times and beats him silly with his own limbs.
Prediction: BROCK LESNAR.
Tags: Brock lesnar, brooklyn, pro wrestling, summerslam, undertaker, WWE, wwe network
Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger Is Ready For Tyler Breeze In This WWE.Com Exclusive Clip
One of the most anticipated matches at NXT Takeover in Brooklyn is Tyler Breeze vs. Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger. Liger is as decorated a competitor as there is in the wrestling world today, and he’s been winning championships and revolutionizing the wrestling business for four decades. This will be his first time in a WWE/NXT ring, and he has the perfect dancing partner in Tyler Breeze. This card is so stacked that it’d be easy to overlook this match, especially for a guy at Liger’s age, but he’s been a proven commodity for a long time now. His entrance alone will be worth it, and if anybody can get a good to great match out of him at this stage, it’s Prince Pretty. This is going to be the biggest match of Breeze’s career, and this is his shot to catapult himself to the main event. I have to imagine Owens is going to be off NXT after Summerslam, and with Itami and Zayn still out, Breeze could be the next guy to challenge Balor for the title. Win or lose, this match, and the entire show, should be awesome.
Tags: brooklyn, jushin thunder liger, njpw, nxt, pro wrestling, takeover, tyler breeze
The NXT Title Match At Takeover Is Now A Ladder Match
#WWENXT GM @RealKingRegal announces that @wwebalor vs. @FIghtOwensFight is now a #LadderMatch! http://t.co/49h6TaD3B6pic.twitter.com/Ogenqgkt4i
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) August 6, 2015
As if NXT Takeover wasn’t already going to be amazing, the NXT title match main event is now going to be a ladder match. The Brooklyn crowd is going to be insane all night, and why wouldn’t it be? In addition to the NXT title match, you have Sasha Banks vs. Bayley for the NXT Women’s title, The Vaudevillians vs. Blake & Murphy for the NXT Tag titles, Samoa Joe vs. Baron Corbin, Tyler Breeze vs. Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger and probably at least one or two more matches. According to HHH, the Women’s title match will be the co main event, which means the Brooklyn crowd is in for the best 45 minutes-1 hour of wrestling that they’ve ever seen in their life. I’m infinitely more hyped for Takeover than I am for Summerslam, and that’s not a slight on the WWE main roster. NXT has just built pretty much the perfect show.
Tags: brooklyn, finn balor, jushin liger, kevin owens, nxt, pro wrestling, samoa joe, summerslam, takeover, tyler breeze, WWE, wwe network
WWE Is Bringing Summerslam Back To Where It Began (Sort Of) At The Barclays Center In Brooklyn
Summerslam – WWE’s biggest Superstars and Divas will be pile-driving their way back to the Big Apple this summer.
After six years on the West Coast, WWE is bringing its powerhouse pay-per-view event, SummerSlam, to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the first time, the Daily News has learned.
The main event, to be held Sunday, Aug. 23, will conclude a week-long “celebration” of wrestling and entertainment.
“SummerSlam in New York matches one of the most iconic sports and entertainment celebrations with one of the world’s greatest cities,” John Saboor, WWE executive vice president for special events, told the Daily News.
The official announcement will be made later Thursday.
After six years in Los Angles, WWE Summerslam is coming back to the east coast where it all began. Much like every early WWE pay per view, including WrestleMania, the inaugural Summerslam was held in Madison Square Garden. While the WWE had strayed away from bringing Summerslam back east in recent years, it looks like it’s finally happening, as this years Summerslam will take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. As much as the spectacle of a big time pay per view is amplified under the bright lights of Los Angeles, those fans can’t really compare to east coast fans. Whether you like them or not, east coast fans like the ones in Philadelphia, New York and even Boston now are rabid. They’re vocal, they’re unpredictable and most of the time they add to the drama of the event. As a Rhode Island native and frequent attendee of WWE events on the east coast, I’m pumped Summerslam is coming back home. Now all WWE has to do is put on a good WrestleMania and keep the momentum going until August. Easier said than done I suppose.
Tags: barclays center, brooklyn, New York, WWE, WWE Summerslam
Kevin Garnett and His Poop Mouth Just Scarred This Kid For Life
If you sit front row at a Nets game you need to expect the worst. I’m 99% sure Garnett only speaks in profanities while on the court. Not even Christmas can stop him and his poop mouth.
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Your donation or membership can help the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Association and bighorn sheep in many ways. It will assist in keeping the Center open throughout the year and help to fulfill our mission of educating people about bighorn sheep and the conservation of wildlife and wild lands.
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A VISION: A NEW CLASSROOM AT THE CENTER
It has long been apparent that the current exhibit hall lacks adequate space for student groups, tourists and meetings larger than a few people. With over 6,800 people visiting the National Bighorn Sheep Center in 2019 alone, among them over 952 students, 344 adults through Road Scholars bus tours and many other special group visits, we have struggled keeping up with the growing demand of our small space for these special groups alongside our daily visitors.
We envision a Bighorn Classroom where students, families, and visitors of all ages learn about Bighorn Sheep and are inspired to care for wildlife and their habitat. If we are to reach out to and attract a wider audience, we need a spacious, welcoming area conducive to teaching and learning with ample room for traveling exhibits and workshop activities. The Classroom will give us space to accommodate our growing class and bus tours through educational programs and multimedia curricula. One of our educational objectives is to reach every fourth-grade class in Wyoming with a state-approved curriculum about bighorn sheep. We believe our children, as future leaders and conservationists, will make better decisions when they understand and appreciate firsthand our wildlife and valuable natural resources here in Wyoming. This new 1,900 square foot space will welcome educational programs as well as special events for students and local and international visitors. This simple multi-functional space will enable all visitors to have a richer experience and allow the NBSC to advance our mission more effectively.
The risks to wild sheep populations across North America have never been greater. Diseases and habitat loss have created tragic population declines. The NBSC is committed to educating and inspiring young and old to conserve bighorn sheep–the wildlife and habitat–for future generations. To carry out our mission we need to present the best programs and curricula, the latter integrated directly with the state educational requirements. Our new classroom will provide this inspiring and engaging learning space.
GOAL MET! $25,000 MATCHING GRANT FROM THE WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
As of early 2020, we have raised over $340,000 towards our $600,000 campaign goal, but we need your help now to help us complete our fundraising goal! The new Bighorn Classroom will be a much-needed space where students, families and visitors of all ages learn about bighorn sheep and are inspired to care for wildlife and their habitat. In December 2019, we met the matching grant of $25,000 awarded by the Wyoming Community Foundation, thanks to donors like YOU! Alongside generous matching dollars from James Rice, Bert and Leigh Tuckey, the Robert B. and Emilie W. Betts Foundation, Gary and Jo Butler, as well as the Falco Charitable Trust, these donations have helped us get closer to our campaign goal
We invite you to make this new Bighorn Classroom a reality by making a contribution of any amount.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed or pledged to-date and we look forward to the groundbreaking of this important expansion project.
Please donate today by contacting sara@bighorn.org, call 307-455-3429 or make your secure donation online by clicking the donate link above and specifying the “Bighorn Classroom” selection.
NBSC Conservation Education Fund: in partnership with the Gary Butler Family Foundation
Founded by the Gary Butler Family Foundation in Partnership with the WY Wild Sheep Foundation & the Wild Sheep Foundation
With the vision and support of Gary Butler, long-time supporter of wild sheep and wildlife in Wyoming, the NBSC Conservation Education Fund was established in June, 2018. Interest generated from this Fund will be used towards NBSIA’s mission of educating people about bighorn sheep and the conservation of wildlife and wild lands by:
Educating the public about the life history, ecology, and management of bighorn sheep;
Developing a long-term partnership by NBSC with the WY Wild Sheep Foundation and the Wild Sheep Foundation through educational partnerships and cooperative projects;
Providing educational outreach for partner groups as specified in the NBSIA Education Plan plus mutually agreed upon opportunities for NBSIA outreach.
Gary Butler and his family have long supported wildlife in Wyoming, whether through Gary’s 40-year career with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, contributing energy, sweat and financial support towards wildlife conservation or by instilling an appreciation for wildlife and wild country in young people. Gary has been honored not only through the Ron Ball Award and his induction into the Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame, but his passion and commitment to wildlife lives on in the legacy of conservation funds dedicated to supporting wildlife for the long-term.
The establishment of the NBSC Conservation Education Fund will focus on education and engagement through NBSC’s education programs and partnerships. To establish the NBSC Conservation Education Fund, the Butler Family Foundation contributed $25,000. NBSIA has agreed to build the principal to $250,000 or more within the next ten years. Your donation will be used to grow the principal and only the interest earned will be used to finance NBSC’s educational efforts far into the future.
We are honored Gary chose NBSC and are excited for this fund to support education and outreach long into the future. We sincerely hope the Butler Family’s gift inspires others to contribute to this important fund.
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Intrepid Studios showed up to Gamescom 2019 with a new trailer of their own as they showed off more of Ashes Of Creation The game has been in development now for what feels like ages, and each time we get a new update they seem to be adding more The latest trailer you see below[...]
"Ashes Of Creation" Shows Off A Developer Video Of A Horse
The developers at Intrepid Studios have released a new dev diary for Ashes Of Creation, showing off their creation of a horse in the game The company released a new blog and a video talking about the creation of the animal in the game and how they got to where it is It actually looks[...]
Ashes of Creation Details Economic Nodes in Latest Update
Unlike most MMORPGs, Intrepid Studios' Ashes of Creation lets players build just about everything available in the world through the use of a node system.Each node type brings something different to the game, and the latest post on the blog features the economic node type, which naturally brings players the ability to build markets, handle trades,[...]
Ashes of Creation Covers Set Design and In-Game Tech in New Dev Diary
In a recently published Dev Diary for Ashes of Creation, Intrepid Studios revealed information on how the game designers chose to discuss the technology that shapes the in-game buildings The diary is hosted by Senior Environment Artist Devin Lafontaine and CEO/ Creative Director Steven Sharif The developer diary is a fascinating look behind the scenes of one of[...]
Ashes of Creation Apocalypse's Beta Gets a New Set of Maps
Intrepid Studios has released a new trailer showing off a new set of maps coming to Ashes of Creation Apocalypse's beta--which is still happening The next update will bring the castle siege to the game, which is basically a fiery battle over a castle at the gates, which they've created a trailer for you to check[...]
Ashes of Creation: Apocalypse is Now Live in Beta Phase
Ashes of Creation: Apocalypse servers are now live and ready to take players through the apocalypse of Verra. Now, before you get concerned about your Ashes of Creation progress getting reset during the apocalypse, its not a server wipe for AoC, but rather a standalone prequel game. The official Ashes of Creation: Apocalypse site gives a solid description […]
Intrepid Studios Shows a Livestream Update for Ashes of Creation
Before the developers take the holidays off, the folks at Intrepid Studios have provided a little more info on Ashes of Creation It's been a few months since we've seen a ton from the game, but this week the crew loaded up an hour-long livestream showing off a gameplay update, which you can watch below[...]
Ashes of Creation Announces a Massive Summer Update
Intrepid Studios has announced a massive summer update for its MMO Ashes of Creation, which is entering its first Alpha test phase in the coming weeks Highlights of the update include new mounts, housing options, and cosmetic updates, as well new action combat.The studio is hosting a PAX Panel on September 1st at 10:30 a.m[...]
Ashes of Creation is Now One of the Largest MMOs in Production
Intrepid Studios has announced seven major new hires for their San Diego studio, which works on the ambitious MMO Ashes of Creation The MMO industry vets joining the team have a combined work experience of over a century The developer is looking to add an additional 21 new positions in the coming weeks with a new[...]
Ashes of Creation is Hosting a Livestream on Monday
Intrepid Studios has announced that it is ahead of schedule in its sprint toward the first phase of Alpha One and has hired seven new team members Much of what they've been working on, as well as introductions to the new team, will come during the Ashes of Creation live stream which is scheduled for Monday[...]
Ashes of Creation Wants to Change How You Play MMOs, and It Just Might Succeed
Intrepid Studios' Ashes of Creation is a pretty ambitious MMORPG project being developed former AAA developers Speaking with the team at PAX East, it was obvious that Ashes is a labor of love for everyone involved in the project -- from producer to art designer -- the team was incredibly passionate about making an MMO[...]
Ashes of Creation Releases a Lore Journal and New Dungeon Highlight Reel
Intrepid Studios' continues to work on Ashes of Creation, and today's video gives an update on the lore of the city of Dünheim and its dungeon We've got a lore journal as well as a highlight reel today, but we'll start with the background first Intrepid Studios released a lore journal that is ostensibly the diary of[...]
Ashes of Creation Shows Off Their Latest Gameplay Video
A little something special from Intrepid Studios today as they have released a pre-alpha gameplay video for Ashes Of Creation, showing off some of the new features in the game To be clear, this footage is actually from a livestream they did on their Twitch channel to show off features to whoever may be watching, but[...]
Latest Ashes of Creation Trailer Shows Off the UnderRealm
Today Intrepid Studios released a new trailer for upcoming MMORPG Ashes of Creation This time we get to look at one of the more bizarre areas coming to the game, the UnderRealm Thanks to some glowing trees and strange looking monsters, the UnderRealm looks pretty darn cool.The game also has some impressive graphic fidelity and art[...]
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Learn About Student Adventures!
Hey Eastern PA you can find out more about the Discovery Student Adventures in March. The first session will be at the James a. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown on Tuesday, March 23 at 6:30PM. The second opportuntiy will be Wednesday March 24, at Penn State GreatValley campus starting at 6:30PM. If you would like to attend please rsvp to:
Brady Day
1956 Ambassador Way
360.464.3056 (Cell)
bradey.day@discoverystudentadventures.com
By the way if you sign up to follow the student adventures Facebook page, you may be a winner. Today the first 2 winners were announced Linda of Plymouth, MA and Jamie of Atwater, CA. Lucky you! Enjoy the adventure. So far the Facebook page has only 1065 fans so the odds are pretty good for winning! You can still enter the sweepstakes. If you invite others to join you will get an additional entry. Come on, this trip is at the heart of the Olympic movement.
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Stacy Kasse - March 21, 2010 said:
Thanks so much for reminding us about this. What a great opportunity for teachers and students alike.
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THE POWER OF SECOND
JOHAN HARSTAD with Ann Votaw
Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You in All the Confusion?
(Seven Stories Press, 2011)
Norwegian author Johan Harstad wrote his first novel, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All The Confusion? against the background of artists like Beck and Radiohead. In fact, “background” takes a starring role in this story about a 30-something gardener/musician who moves to a halfway house after losing his job and girlfriend. Like Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, Mattias, the novel’s central character, prefers to do good work without attention, further developing his second-fiddle philosophy while making souvenir wooden sheep and enduring the Cardigans, a fellow resident’s favorite band. Mattias downplays his exceptional singing talent because he is a realist, someone who—like Harstad, the author—does his best work without hype. Harstad, who lives in Oslo, is the first in-house playwright at the National Theatre. In 2008, he won the Brage Award. Other professional interests include graphic design and drumming, something that allows him to be behind-the-scenes (which is fine with Harstad), until he makes a mistake.
Ann Votaw (Rail:): Compare how Americans feel about Buzz Aldrin versus what Norwegians say about it.
Johan Harstad: The American reception of the book (so far) has been more or less similar to the reception in Norway, or in most other counties, for that sake. Though, of course, there will always be small differences from country to country in how a novel is read, it is usually quite subtle and not that easy to detect for the writer.
Rail:: Why is Mattias, your Norwegian protagonist, so besotted with Buzz Aldrin, the second American astronaut to walk on the moon after Neil Armstrong?
Harstad: The novel is about a guy who wants to be second best in life, to be a great number two, so using Armstrong as his hero wouldn’t really work, would it? Aldrin as a role model, on the other hand, kind of gave itself. In Mattias, the main protagonist’s eyes, Aldrin is the perfect example of someone who does almost exactly the same (and just as good) work as the number one guy (i.e., Neil Armstrong), but without having to pay the price of taking all the heat from journalists, fans, etc. As Aldrin, Mattias wants to be in the background, do his work as best he can, but without the wish for international stardom and universal praise. This whole rat race to become famous and the best of the best is very strange to Mattias, and while I wrote the book I was sure he was one of a kind thinking all this.
Rail:: Your book’s full title is: Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? Does Mattias ever get a satisfying answer?
Harstad: Aren’t we all asking that question? At least I know I was, which of course was one of the reasons for writing the book. It’s a good question. What happened to the man who, of all the billions who have walked the Earth, was the second man to set foot on the moon? This is the question Mattias keeps asking himself, trying to find an answer which will also be the answer to how he finds a way to live his own life.
Rail:: Mattias has been described as a dreamer/antihero. What is your reaction to this description?
Harstad: I don’t consider Mattias a dreamer. I consider him a realist. I consider him a protester against a growing society of hollow fame and fortune, a protester against this ever-growing demand that you are not great at what you do (or great in general) unless everyone knows about you. A realistic protester against all this sound and fury, signifying nothing. To a large degree, I’m a supporter of his case. I think we need people, more than ever, who rebel against the whole celebrity thing, but he goes too far sometimes and the novel is not an autobiography, obviously.
Rail:: Mattias is a singer with creative sensitivities like gardening. You are, among other things, an author, playwright, drummer, and graphic designer. How does your lead character compare to you?
Harstad: I don’t know. I’m not a great drummer. I’m not sure Mattias would have liked me if we’d met. Or maybe he would. Hard to say. But I feel I’m understanding him more and more. And though I still very much enjoy traveling to different countries, meeting a lot of wonderful people while supporting my books, I’m probably becoming more introverted each year, focusing on doing the best work I can do instead of spending time Googling myself to see how many hits I get and reading what everybody thinks about this and that, which of course, praise or no praise, very soon becomes a complete headf**k and a major distraction from the real reason I am writing in the first place. I do graphic design under another name, so most people don’t make the connection, and as far as my occasional drumming goes, well, the drummer is the guy in the back that no one cares about until he messes up. Suits me just fine.
Rail:: How did your interests in theater, music, and graphic design reveal themselves in the novel?
Harstad: It would surprise me if my interest in theater and graphic design is revealed in the novel at all, really. I didn’t write for the theater until after the Buzz novel, though I do the cover design and layout for all my books in Norway. Music, on the other hand, is probably there in all my books. I always listen to music while I write, all kinds of music, and it happens quite a lot that the music, to some degree, dictates the rhythm and pacing of different parts of the work or that phrases or quotes find their way into the text. There are, for instance, a couple of Radiohead lines in Buzz if you read closely, and the novel as a whole will possibly read nicely to the sound of Beck’s Sea Change and Sigur Ros’s Ágætis Byrjun which were two records kept in heavy rotation while I was writing. Music, after all, is one of the best ways to describe someone. That is one of the main reasons I chose the Swedish band the Cardigans to be the only artist one of the main characters would listen to throughout the book. Personally, I’m not a great Cardigans fan, and in many ways I chose the band because I couldn’t figure out who would love such a band.
Rail:: Buzz refers to repetitive events: Ennen playing the Cardigans, Mattias making wooden sheep with fellow residents, and Tuesday as the week’s least eventful day. What was your intent, if any, in creating these symbols?
Harstad: What can I say? We would like to think that life is something that offers you unique experiences and constant variations, but of course that isn’t true. Even more so if you’re stuck at a sort of halfway house in the northern part of the Faroe Islands, surrounded by rain and fog 300 days a year. Then the days soon become copies of yesterday’s copies, and a feeling that the whole week is just a string of Tuesdays. That’s life, as Sinatra used to sing. And so the characters have to find ways to break the seemingly monotonous circle, which I, to give them some credit, believe they’re quite good at.
Rail:: Buzz Aldrin, your first novel, was made into a Norwegian TV series in 2009. What was it like seeing actors play your characters?
Harstad: I spent a few days on the set while they were shooting on theFaroe Islands, and I particularly remember the first day. They were doing a funeral scene in a small church in the middle of this extremely green, postcard-looking valley, and I walked onto the set only seconds before they started to shoot, so I didn’t get to talk to any of the actors beforehand. I sat down with the grip by a monitor in the next room and before I knew it this funeral music came on and all the characters were on the screen in front of me, crying their hearts out. The whole thing was surprisingly emotional, and it was a bit overwhelming to suddenly see real-life versions of characters I had made. Not to mention Chad Coleman, who I’d last seen as an ex-con on the streets of Baltimore in HBO’s the Wire, not sitting calmly in a church in the village of Saksun on the Faroes playing the role of Carl. For a moment, I almost forgot they were actors and wanted to talk to them like they were the people from the book.
Ann Votaw
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Canada: A Budding International Basketball Powerhouse
Posted on July 27, 2013 by Leo
Throughout the history of international basketball competitions, Canada hasn’t exactly shined. While their American neighbors to the south have won 14 Olympic gold medals, Canada has managed just one – a sliver medal in the 1936 Olympics.
Now this isn’t to say that the Great White North has been the basketball world’s doormat. After all, they did produce 2-time NBA MVP Steve Nash along with role players like Todd MacCulloch and Samuel Dalembert. However, there just haven’t been enough talented players to bring Canada to any sort of international prominence.
But it looks like Canadians might soon have something to celebrate from a basketball perspective, based on several young players. For starters, Toronto lays claim to Andrew Wiggins, who’s the most coveted pro prospect since LeBron James. The 6’8″ small forward, who’s currently playing for West Virginia’s Huntington Prep, is the biggest reason why several teams wouldn’t mind tanking the 2013-2014 NBA season.
The first thing that jumps out about Wiggins is his insane athleticism, which comes naturally when you consider his parents. Mitchell Wiggins was a former NBA player while Marita was an Olympic silver medalist. So it’s no wonder why the 18-year-old can sky over other players (44-inch vertical) and blow past his opponents with unparalleled quickness. Adding his excellent on-court skills into the equation, Wiggins is all but guaranteed to be the top pick when he finishes his freshman season at Kansas next year.
Of course, you can’t experience Olympic success without a team – especially when competing against the stacked Team USA. Luckily Wiggins has a nice future sidekick in Anthony Bennett, who recently became the first Canadian-born player to go number one overall in the NBA Draft.
Now it’s worth mentioning that Bennett was a surprise number one pick who’s not guaranteed stardom. However, the Cavaliers thought enough of the 6’7″ combo forward’s outside shooting, scoring ability and rebounding to take him with the top pick.
Next up is Bennett’s Cavaliers teammate, Tristan Thompson. These two players are a very interesting story because they grew up a mile away from each other in Toronto and went to the same US-based high school, Findlay Prep (Nevada), though not at the same time. In his second NBA season, Thompson put up very solid numbers after averaging 11.7 PPG and 9.4 RPG. The 6’8″ power forward will definitely give Team Canada a strong inside presence come Olympics time.
Another player who figures to star on the international stage is Boston Celtics rookie Kelly Olynyk. The British Columbia product starred for Gonzaga after posting averages of 17.8 PPG, 7.3 RPG and 1.1 BPG last year. The 7-footer also showed some outside touch after shooting 44% and 30% from the 3-point line in his two collegiate seasons.
Despite questions about how his game would translate to the NBA, Olynyk has silenced the critics thus far with a very strong summer league performance. And if he keeps playing like this, he’ll no doubt have a good career in both the NBA and on the international stage.
Cory Joseph is one more Canadian who shows a lot of promise. The 6’3″ San Antonio Spurs guard improved quite a bit from his dismal rookie season to last year’s NBA Finals run. He averaged 4.5 PPG, 1.9 APG and shot 85.7% from the free-throw line in his second year.
There’s definitely plenty of reason to get excited about Canadian basketball in the future. Sure the Olympics are three years away, but the FIBA Basketball World Cup is coming up in 2014. Canada has never won a medal in this competition, which takes place every four years. But based on all of the young talent that the Great White North has coming up through the ranks, they’re certainly ready to challenge current powerhouses like the United States, Argentina, Greece and Spain next year.
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Venture Expands Cyber Liability Coverage for Club and Hotel/Resort Programs
Posted on April 1, 2014 by Erika Lutz
PREFERRED CLUB and Suitelife programs respond to increased demand for broad, affordable privacy and data breach protection; complimentary risk management and data breach response services included.
West Chester, Pa. — April 1, 2014 — Venture Insurance Programs (www.ventureprograms.com) today announced it has expanded and enhanced privacy and data breach protection for its PREFERRED CLUB program for golf and country clubs, and its Suitelife programs for hotels and resorts.
The policy offers flexible, more affordable coverage for the costs to respond to a data breach, along with the costs to defend and resolve claims for statutory violations, negligence, regulatory investigations and breach of contract. Risk management and data breach prevention and response services are also offered. Coverage is written through Hiscox, a cyber insurance specialist with an A.M. Best rating of A (Excellent).
“The alarming increase in cyber attacks has highlighted the need for privacy and data breach protection in the hospitality industry, and we’re pleased to offer coverage that is not only broad in scope, but also more affordable for clubs and hotels of all sizes,” said Philip J. Harvey, founder and president of Venture Programs. “Club members and hotel and resort guests expect their information to be secure, and whether an attack is a targeted hack or simply a lost employee laptop, the result can be a costly claim and damaged reputation.”
Venture offers clubs, hotel and resorts a fast, easy process to obtain privacy and data breach protection, with limits up to $2 million and coverage available for risks up to $100 million in revenue. Coverage highlights include:
Retentions available from $5,000 to $25,000 and scaled based on revenues
Full limit for breach notification costs, with an option for Breach Costs Outside the Limit
Full limit for computer forensics
Duty to Defend policy
Coverage for breach of contract claims, including those under a payment card processing or service provider agreement
Coverage for regulatory actions, including investigations by the FTC or state attorney general, as well as coverage for civil penalties (where allowed), and compensatory awards such as consumer redress funds
$25,000 of PCI Fines coverage and PCI Remediation coverage included at no additional premium
Ability to add additional coverage modules including: Multimedia Liability, Hacker Damage, Cyber Business Interruption and Cyber Extortion
Coverage also includes complimentary risk management assistance and prevention services, as well as complimentary breach response services, including one hour with a data breach coach and access to breach response providers.
About Venture Insurance Programs
Venture Insurance Programs (www.ventureprograms.com) is a leading program administrator that designs, underwrites and distributes industry-specific insurance packages. Based in West Chester, Pa., Venture has underwriting alliances with the world’s leading carrier groups, including Chubb, Allied World, RSUI, USLI, Zurich North America, ACE, Monitor and Lloyd’s of London. Founded in 1993, Venture provides specialty insurance packages for select vertical industries—including golf and country clubs, golf destination resorts, hotels, resorts, hunting and fishing lodges and city and social clubs.
This entry was posted in Client News and tagged Venture Insurance Programs by Erika Lutz. Bookmark the permalink.
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The Midnight Sky - (2020 movie)
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An alternate Earth is discovered somehow, and for unknown reasons the mission to explore it comes back to a ruined Earth.
The writing is just terrible; I don't know what the fuck they were thinking with the plot or the world-building.
1:30 -- February 2049
5:30 -- Blood transfusion (but science fiction)
The vomiting suggests something akin to chemotherapy.
6:30 -- See also the drake equation and The Drake Equation is bullshit.
25:30 -- Wouldn't the girl have a personnel record or something?
31:15 -- Oh, is that supposed to be a young George Clooney?
38:15 -- I don't know what movie this is.
41:15 -- So the dying satellite could be used as a relay..
42:00 -- I don't understand.. why are they off course?
50:30 -- So what's the deal with her pregnancy? It's the tail end of a two year mission, which means she got pregnant during..
59:45 -- Why would there be wolves up that far?
1:01:00 -- He shoots her; roll credits.
1:04:15 -- Oh! Now I realise the second bowl of cereal might have been poured by Iris.
1:16:30 -- Why do we care about this? I don't know what's going on and it's not particularly interesting..
1:18:30 -- Sweet Caroline - (1969 song), by Neil Diamond
1:23:00 -- Get her inside?
1:23:30 -- Maybe there should have been monitoring on O₂ changes over time to learn if there are any problems?
1:26:00 -- This entire bit is where this movie falls down. Right from the spacewalk to here. Everything comes across poorly.
1:38:00 -- Maybe donate some sperm before you suicide?
1:47:30 -- Oh fuck, this is just winding down.. there might have been a hopeful ending somehow, but they didn't bothering.
The fuck. The ending is just awful.
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The hype around cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin may be nowhere near the record-highs that it was in 2017, but the blockchain technology that supports cryptocurrencies is hotter than ever.
As a result, demand for blockchain developers has skyrocketed in the past year. According to freelance platform Upwork, blockchain development is the most in-demand job skill of 2018, growing over 6,000% since 2017. It won’t be slowing down anytime soon either. A recent Gartner report estimates that by 2030, the value-add of blockchain for businesses will exceed $3.1 trillion by 2030, meaning blockchain will play an important role in the future.
For those interested in becoming blockchain developers, these three platforms are critical to know.
Ethereum goes well beyond building digital tokens. It is perhaps the most notable and widely used platform for decentralized blockchain apps, also known as Dapps. In addition to tokens and Dapps, developers can also use the platform for more secure crowdfunding and voting.
Dapps built on blockchain and Ethereum, like the hit app CryptoKitties, require smart contracts. Computer scientist Nick Szabo coined the term smart contracts, which are similar to business or legal contracts. They are agreements between two parties that use code and run on blockchain, so when a data or value is sent by one party to another, a record is stored securely and it can’t be changed. To create contracts, developers need to know the programming language Solidity.
Like Ethereum, EOS is an open-source platform dedicated to building decentralized apps. EOS was created by the blockchain company, Block.one. Its founder is the renowned crypto programmer & entrepreneur Dan Larimer, who has also co-founded Bitshares and Steemit.
Fans of EOS argue that the platform is better at scaling big blockchain projects. For instance, transaction speeds for blockchain have been known to take much longer than traditional payment methods because of issues with scalability.
NEM is a smart asset system where developers can create smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, and decentralized apps. It functions similarly to Ethereum and EOS, but uses Java and has a C++ version in the works. NEM was built to resemble the existing Internet, but taps into decentralization and blockchain. The biggest similarity between the two is NEM’s namespace domains that resemble Internet domains, and may make it easier for developers learning to code in blockchain. NEM is lesser known, compared to Ethereum and EOS, but capabilities like multi-signature transactions and customizable blockchain make it an important platform to know for those serious about developing in the era of blockchain.
Blockchain development may be emerging, but many platforms and languages use or are influenced by traditional programming languages like JavaScript, C++, and Python. It is a good idea to know some basics of developing before diving into blockchain. Although blockchain pulls from traditional programming, it is an exciting and fast-evolving space with many opportunities for developers and entrepreneurs.
To learn more about and build blockchain development skills, enroll in the Blockchain Mastery Program, which covers everything developers need to know to succeed in the blockchain space, including courses on NEM, EOS, Ethereum and more.
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SharePoint Server 2013 Extranet and Office 365 External Sharing Considerations
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May 8, 2013 | Administration Security and Compliance SharePoint
What is an Extranet? A common definition for the term Extranet is a network that enables controlled access to external users or an extension of an organization’s intranet extended to external users to include customers, partners, suppliers, etc. in isolation from other internet or intranet users.
Extranet topologies with SharePoint Products have become an increasingly popular solution to enable collaboration with partners, customers, and external users; however, can be complex to implement and maintain over time.
SharePoint Server 2013 Extranet Environments
Traditional extranet environments encompass a private network securely extended to share a portion of an organization’s information and/or process with remote employees, partners, or customers. Extranet environments can provide the breadth of functionality provided to internal users such as branded informational content, personalized content and views based on user profiles, collaborative content which can include documents, lists, libraries, etc., and document repositories. Extranet environments provide content and services through a single, unified location, which complies with corporate and/or governmental regulatory and security requirements.
Extranet environments enable support of remote employees or geographically disperse users through a seamless authentication experience, and can enable external partners to participate in business processes with a consistent security context including partner isolation and internal data segregation, limited authorization on an as needed basis and restriction of data across a broad range of supported partners. In addition to remote employees and partners, an extranet can provide customers with access to targeted content, segmentation controls to mitigate data cross-pollenization, and limitation of content access and search results based on audience profiles.
SharePoint Server 2013 provides flexible options for the configuration of extranet access to sites and site data such as providing Internet-facing access to a subset of sites and site data in an environment or by making available the breath of SharePoint capabilities available over the Internet. Extranet content is typically hosted within an organizations’ corporate network and made available through an edge network or in some cases through an environment isolated within a perimeter network.
Figure 1 illustrates a common Extranet environment with SharePoint Server 2013
Extranet Advantages
Data isolation within a trusted network, external access can be isolated to a perimeter network
Data maintenance within a single location
Can be comprised of a single environment that facilitates both internal and external collaboration with granular access controls
Can be implemented with a separate or shared AD infrastructure
Extranet Disadvantages
Additional network and infrastructure configuration required increases cost and complexity
For customers seeking only to share limited content and/or collaborate short-term without the need for a seamless logon experience or whose extranet environment is not subject to corporate or governmental policies, Office 365 provides an external sharing experience that can be leveraged to make data available over the Internet to remote employees, customers, and partners.
Office 365 External Sharing
External Sharing in Office 365 enables an organization to extend access to sites and site data with users that are not members of the Office 365 subscription or do not have accounts within the source Office 365 subscription. Individuals who do not have user accounts for the source SharePoint Online environment are considered “external users”. External users can be comprised of vendors or customers, for example. Activating the external sharing feature in SharePoint Online allows a site collection to invite external users to use the site and/or site content through email-based invitation.
In Office 365 Enterprise plans, an organization can choose to manage external sharing centrally through the SharePoint Online Administration Center, enabling or disabling external sharing globally or through specifying more granular sharing options such as allowing sharing only with sign-in at the site collection level. Additionally management of external sharing can be achieved through using Windows PowerShell.
In Office 365 Small Business plans, the administration experience for the management of external sharing is provided through a simplified on/off switch within the Office 365 Service Settings.
External Sharing can be implemented in one of three ways when using Office 365:
There are three ways that you can do this:
You can share an entire site by inviting external users to sign in to your site using a Microsoft account or a Microsoft Office 365 user ID.
You can share individual documents by inviting external users to sign in to your site using a Microsoft account or a Microsoft Office 365 user ID.
You can send users a guest link that they can use to view individual documents on your site anonymously.
NOTE External Sharing in Office 365 requires SharePoint Online Enterprise (E1), SharePoint Online Enterprise (E3 & E4), SharePoint Online Midsized Business. External Sharing is available in all commercial Office 365 offerings.
External Sharing Advantages
Simplified sharing model with granular access capabilities
Light-weight solution to basic data sharing where complex business logic is not required or access to other internal resources/capabilities is required
External Sharing Disadvantages
Organizations who elect to share data using Office 365 external sharing should be cautioned that shared data will be isolated from on-premises data resulting in two distinct data siloes. Capabilities to include metadata, etc. will also be isolated to the shared data environment as opposed to being consumed from on-premises services.
Organizations who elect to share sites or site content should consider isolating such data from internal business sites as granting external users access to a site and/or sub-sites that share permissions with the parent site providing access to sensitive content. In the event there is an ongoing need to collaborate with customers and/or partners, an organization should consider configuring a site explicitly used to enable external sharing configured with unique permissions to isolate it from other sites in the subscription.
Overview of publishing to Internet, intranet, and extranet sites in SharePoint Server 2013 [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj635881.aspx]
Design Sample: Extranet with Dedicated Zones for Authentication for SharePoint 2013 [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30368]
Plan for Internet, intranet, and extranet publishing sites in SharePoint Server 2013 [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj635878.aspx]
Share sites or documents with people outside your organization [http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/share-sites-or-documents-with-people-outside-your-organization-HA102894713.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA102476183]
Share a site with external users [http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/share-a-site-with-external-users-HA102476183.aspx]
Manage external sharing for your SharePoint online environment [http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/manage-external-sharing-for-your-sharepoint-online-environment-HA102849864.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA102476183]
What is an external user? [http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/what-is-an-external-user-HA104036809.aspx]
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How to Make an Accessible PowerPoint Presentation
by Andrew Childress 3 Dec 2017
Difficulty:IntermediateLength:MediumLanguages: English
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This post is part of a series called How to Use PowerPoint (Ultimate Tutorial Guide).
10 Key Microsoft PowerPoint Features (To Make Better Presentations)
December 3rd is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This tutorial is part of a Envato Tuts+ effort designed to focus on including and accommodating those with disabilities as we create content.
According to the UN, one billion people worldwide (15% of the entire population) live with a disability. Using a computer is practically a necessity in modern society, but it can be significantly more difficult for those with disabilities.
Luckily, there are applications that help the disabled make the most of content. Screen reader apps help bridge the gap for the visually impaired, for example. If we set up files like PowerPoint presentations correctly, the screen reader can deliver a better experience to those with disabilities.
What Does Accessibility Mean?
We all have a responsibility to consider the accessibility of the files we create.
To me, accessibility means that we do everything we can as creatives to help those with disabilities use and enjoy our content. In this tutorial, we'll talk about making a PowerPoint presentation that's accessible to persons with disabilities.
Accessibility means that you make your PowerPoint presentation usable for those with disabilities. You can incorporate tools to help everyone use and enjoy our PowerPoint presentation.
In this tutorial, you'll learn more about how those with visual disabilities rely on screen readers to use apps like PowerPoint and what you can do to help make it as easy as possible.
Visual Accessibility for PowerPoint
Earlier, I mentioned the usefulness of apps like screen readers that narrate what's on a computer screen for the visually impaired.
However, those apps need our help. They rely on reading the "alternative text" (commonly called alt text) for images, video, and other content. If we can provide alt text for key items, screen readers will read those descriptions. Someone using a screen reader will hear the alternative text to help them understand what's on screen.
Let's talk about two visual disabilities that we can accommodate in PowerPoint and the best features to make our content accessible.
Visual Impairment PowerPoint Presentation (Including Limited Vision)
PowerPoint is an inherently visual app, but that doesn't mean that we can forget about the visually impaired. There are tools built into both Windows and macOS that read your content out loud for you.
VoiceOver in Mac, for example, helps the impaired by acting as a narrator for what's on screen.
Voiceover is built into macOS Accessibility settings and helps the visually impaired understand what's on-screen.
To accommodate blindness, we really need set up text for non-text objects. Let's learn a bit more about how to do that in PowerPoint:
1. Add Alt Text for Images
Screen readers rely on having text to read to the visually impaired. For visual content like images, we need to add alt text to each object.
To add alt text to an image, right click on it and choose Edit Alt Text. PowerPoint will open a sidebar dedicated to adding a description to the image. Microsoft recommends adding one to two sentences to describe an image. This is the text that a screen reader will read out, so use plain English and full sentences:
Right click on an image and set a description in the sidebar.
Taking a minimal step like this can really benefit the visually impaired. Setting alt text for all of the images leads to a more complete experience with a screen reader.
2. Add Alt Text for Other Objects
Images should be the focus of adding alt text, but don't forget about other non-text elements that you may need to cue the screen reader on.
You can actually set alt text for practically any item inside a PowerPoint presentation. Let's take a table, for example. I'm going to right click on the table and choose Format Shape. Then, in the sidebar, make sure to click on Shape Options, and scroll down to find the Alt Text box:
You can set alt text for a variety of content, including tables.
Just as we did with the image, we can add a couple of sentences that explains the chart. It's not necessary to totally replicate the data in the chart. The screen reader automatically reads the text in the chart, plus the alt text you've added in the sidebar.
You can repeat this same approach for other content in your slides. Make sure every non-text object has some description of what it contains.
3. Set the Reading Order
Screen reading apps also rely on knowing what order the items on a slide should be read. Your PowerPoint presentation likely has a variety of objects, and it helps to prompt the screen reader to know what order to read the content in.
To do this, we need to go to the Home tab on PowerPoint's ribbon, find the Design section, click on Arrange, and choose Selection Pane:
To set the order that a screen reader will interpret the content, open the Selection Pane from the Arrange dropdown.
Now, you'll see a new option on the right side of PowerPoint's interface. This option has a line for each of the objects on your slide. Each chart, table, text box, and more will be on a line. Your goal is to put these in an order that matches the order that the audience would read the content:
On the right side of window, I'm simply going to drag and drop the Slide Title above the Table so that a screen reader would read the title first.
To reorder them, simply drag and drop into the order that the screen reader should address the content.
Try to set these items in a natural reading order. The title should come first, then the supporting points in a natural order.
Color Blindness PowerPoint Presentation
Perhaps one of the most overlooked disabilities is color blindness. Research says that as much as 8% of men and 0.5% of all women are impacted by some form of color blindness.
Color blindness doesn't simply mean that your audience sees your presentation in plain back and white. In fact, many types of color blindness still allow for perception of differences in color, just not in the same way that those with normal vision will.
To accommodate color blindness, it's crucial to consider the color scheme and contrast of the presentation's theme. To do that, it's great to simulate how your presentations will appear for various forms of color blindness.
The NIH has a great read about the science behind how color blindness works, and the frequency that these occur at. Common types of color blindness include:
Red-green color blindness
Blue-yellow color blindness
Complete color blindness
Each of these types of color blindness causes the presentation to appear differently to the viewer. It's important that you test the presentation under each of these versions to see how the slide will appear for others:
In this screenshot, you can see how an app like Sim Daltonism can be used to preview color blindness to ensure that the presentation is easy to read.
In general, you want to make sure that you use contrasting and non-conflicting colors. Red and green pair poorly together, for example, for those with Deuteranopia (red-green color blindness.)
The example below is a great example of how challenging color blindness can be. While red text on a green background is "readable enough" (if not a bit ugly) for normal vision, a simulated version of Deuteranopia (red-green color blindness) illustrates how problematic this is:
Deuteranopia should be previewed to ensure that your presentation is viewable even to those with red-green colorblindness.
Here are the apps and services you can use to preview your presentation under various conditions:
On Mac, you can use the free Sim Daltonism to help you test your presentation with various color adjustments.
For Windows users, try out Color Oracle to preview content with color blindness simulated in the presentation.
If you don't want to install an app on your computer, try out Coblis, a website where you can upload JPEG versions of your slides and preview them with several color styles that simulate color blindness.
Tip: Record Audio Narration for Full Vision Loss
A proportion of your audience may experience full vision loss. In those cases, it's a challenge to adapt your PowerPoint presentation, but it's still possible! You can use recorded audio narrating your presentation to help your audience.
PowerPoint supports recording and embedding narration right inside of the PPTX file. For those with complete visual disabilities, taking the time to record a narration for your presentation is a huge help.
Just remember: your audience may also have issues with hearing as well. If you go to the trouble of recording audio, make sure you also provide a written version of that narration.
For a full guide on adding audio narration to your presentation, check out the guide below.
How to Record Narration in a PowerPoint Presentation
How to Use the Accessibility Checker
PowerPoint actually has a built-in tool that can help us check a presentation's accessibility. It'll help us scan for content in the presentation that doesn't have alt text, for example. This is the quickest way to review the presentation and find the gaps to fill when it comes to PowerPoint accessibility.
1. To check your PowerPoint presentation's accessibility, jump over to the Review tab, and find the Check Accessibility button. Click on it to have PowerPoint scan your presentation for gaps to fill on accessibility:
Use the Check Accessibility option on the Review tab to automatically review the presentation for any accessibility issues.
2. On the right side, PowerPoint builds a list of all content that's missing accessibility features. Click on each one of these to work your way through adding the missing PowerPoint accessibility features, like adding alt text or setting a reading order:
After you run the Check Accessibility tool, PowerPoint returns a list of potential accessibility options and where they exist in your presentation in the sidebar.
Recap & Keep Learning
There's no shortage of features and tools to learn in Microsoft PowerPoint. Balance each of these with the need for PowerPoint accessibility to ensure that your presentation can be enjoyed by all.
Check out these tutorials to learn more about PowerPoint, but don't forget to use what you've learned about accessibility with each of these.
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How do you accommodate persons with disabilities when giving a presentation? Let me know in the comments section below.
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From the top Carly Hacon · 31 July 2018
How this Youtube “sexpert” implemented a life-changing illness into her business model
Sex and relationships YouTube star, Hannah Witton
Award-winning YouTuber Hannah Witton hasn’t had it easy the past year. The influencer known for vlogging posts vlogs on sex, relationships and body image, has had a hard knock with her health but has handled it how she knows best.
Witton posted videos online talking about having Ulcerative Colitis and the coinciding body confidence issues and sexual complications of having a colostomy bag. By doing this, Witton has helped thousands of people who suffer from similar illnesses find their feet and has started to “normalise stoma bag chat”.
Her videos attract more than 25 million unique views on her official YouTube channel and has a combined social media following of over 400,000. Due to her big fan base, Witton has attracted big brands such as Durex and MTV where they asked her to take part in their global Someone Like Me campaign, which promoted healthy sex education.
Business Advice caught up with Witton to discover how she overcomes life’s hurdles and what bad investments she keeps on making.
What made you want to be a YouTuber?
I was a big fan of watching other YouTubers before I started making videos. I loved the community aspect and it seemed like everybody was having so much fun and I wanted to be a part of that.
Could you see yourself doing anything else?
Before my YouTube channel kicked off for me I was interested in going into TV. I’m very organised so liked the idea of being a producer. And I guess I am a producer now!
What numbers do you look at every day in your business?
I don’t think I look at them every day but I do look at them most days (sometimes I wish I would look at them less). But the main ones I check are YouTube subscriber count, views on most recent video and engagement on Instagram and Twitter.
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How do you overcome any hurdles that life throws at you?
Well, I have had a lot of hurdles thrown at me this year in regards to my health. I’m not sure if I’ve overcome them yet I see it more as a process. But the things helping me are giving myself time to recover, sticking to a work schedule that’s manageable so it doesn’t feel like I’m failing, and take it day by day. Some days will be better than others but by focusing on the little victories and things I achieve really helps (like reaching inbox zero!)
Today has been a good recovery day! 🌻 I got the tube for the first time since my recent surgery, I spent the entire day doing a workshop at the YouTube Space & didn’t feel like I needed to lie down, I came up with an idea for a product I want to create AND I acquired £10 & a Rubik’s cube from a magic show! 🌸 📷: @lindablacker 💄: @ashleighmua
A post shared by Hannah Witton (@hannahwitton) on Jun 28, 2018 at 12:32pm PDT
What business venture do you wish you came up with?
Cards Against Humanity. It’s such a huge success and I imagine it was a lot of fun to work on.
What do you love to do in your spare time?
The problem with making a career out of a hobby is that one day you stop and realise you don’t have any hobbies anymore. But in general I like to read, cook, eat and play video games.
Three things you couldn’t live without?
Realistically: my phone, my stoma bag and my alone time.
Have you had to change business strategies?
Not yet! My business strategy so far has been “ride the wave”. But now I’m looking to create more of a solid plan going forward to future proof my career as the internet can be a fickle place.
Who would you choose to be stuck on a desert island with?
My boyfriend. I can spend a significant amount of time with him without getting bored or him annoying me. It sounds like a low bar, but I challenge you to name someone in your life who if you spent 24 hours with wouldn’t get on your nerves a little bit.
My baby is 1 year old today! 💙💗thanks to everyone who has bought, shared & shouted about Doing It! It fills my heart with joy seeing people’s stories about how this book has helped them, how they’ve given it to a younger family member, how they’ve found a copy in their school library. Thank you for accepting my baby into the world this last year 💗💙 it would mean so much to me if we could celebrate today by posting pictures of yourself with the book/kindle/audible editions with the hashtag #HappyBirthdayDoingIt & what the book means to you. THANK YOU. 💓
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What is your biggest business blunder?
I’ve bought 2 GoPros and used each of them once. I don’t know why I keep doing it. I just get sucked into watching vloggers who use GoPros and then I think I need a GoPro when really I don’t. Please make sure I don’t buy another GoPro (or any other camera I don’t need!)
I still feel pretty young and my main advice to myself right now is – get a bloody pension!
If you could witness any historical event, what would it be?
The Big Bang. Does that count as a historical event?
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Amazon Barnstorms With New Data Centre In Singapore
Amazon is maintaining its lead as a cloud computing platform despite the likes of Microsoft, IBM and Rackspace trying to play catch up and with Citigroup estimating cloud computing services could generate about $650 million in sales for Amazon this year.
Just this week Amazon has opened new data centre in Singapore to give customers in Asia, India, and Australia speedier access to its Amazon Web Services business. That business lets companies buy from Amazon, on an hourly basis, computing power that’s delivered over the Internet. The Singapore data centre will target Asian customers and Western companies that have many users in the region.
Rumour has it that in the coming weeks, Amazon plans to introduce simplified management software for more of its 16 cloud computing products to attract business of all sizes to use its platform by establishing a booming business selling cloud computing services including processing, disk storage, and database software to what it says are hundreds of thousands of users, at hourly fees based on how much computing power they consume.
Back in February Goldman Sachs reported that 77% of companies it surveyed using cloud computing development tools were using Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud service. About 17% were using software from Google and Salesforce.com and 10% chose Microsoft’s Windows Azure.
Yesterday Business Week reported: “Businesses are rethinking how they manage computing. Given the falling costs of transferring data over the Internet and companies’ realization that managing complicated hardware and software building blocks is often a losing proposition, many are willing to outsource some of the job. In fact, some venture capital firms have made it almost a precondition of investing in startups that they use Amazon’s cloud software, says Citigroup.
“The cloud can lead to sizable savings. InstaColl, a Bangalore-based company that sells online productivity software, was able to save more than 60% on the cost of running the computing, storage, and networking behind its applications by using Amazon Web Services instead of having its own hardware.”
The beauty of Amazon’s web service is that it is a breeze to use, even for a small company just wanting to use it as a back up service. Get an Amazon account, buy in a third party interface such as Cloudberry (reviewed here), set the whole back office function up to run how you want it and that’s it. On top of that the charges for web storage on Amazon is unbelievably cheap.
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The Importance of Site Visit Before Quoting in Construction Projects
The study of this documentation is critic and must be examined in its entirety before we arrange the visit to the future construction site.
From this study, a series of questions arise that must be resolved or raised during the site visit.
We should carry the site visits out with experienced personnel who can detect every detail that may affect the performance parameters of the personnel and the resources to be used during the execution of the work.
The buyer must issue a certificate stating that the bidder has made the site visit, this document must be attached to the bid.
Failure to submit this certificate will cause the bidder’s rejection’s offer.
Some aspects to be examined during the site visit are summarized in the following figure.
Steps to follow to make your visit to the workplace a success
Conditions to be reviewed during the visit
How far will the project staff have to travel from the area where they are staying to the construction site?
Are the access roads passable and properly maintained?
Type of soil at the site.
What are the characteristics of the soil at the construction site
Is it low or muddy and hard to drain, or is it high and dry?
How high is the water table, is the water level stable or variable?
The climatic condition of the site
To assess the impact of the climate factor on task performance, the following questions need to be answered:
What are the historical weather records of the site?
Does the period in which we execute the work coincide with the rainy, windy, or snowy season?
What are the climatic differences on the construction site compared to the areas where the bidder’s personnel usually work?
Height of the working level
We should review the height above ground level at which we will perform each job to determine, for example:
How much will the execution times increase because of the handling of materials, the movement of equipment and personnel to access the work plane?
Observe if we must add hours for scaffolding assembly.
Location of the work
When the work is executed within a plant in operation, we must adjust the yields.
The reform or extension of a plant in operation implies entering and to work in the property of a plant in operation, therefore, each activity that is developed in the sector must be agreed with the client. This causes deviations in yields.
The yields to carry out a task are also linked to the characteristics of the plant in operation.
It is not the same to work inside an oil refinery that has sectors with a risk of fire or explosion, as to work in a low-risk chemical process plant.
When executing extensions or reforms in operating plants, the estimator must test:
The number and type of joints to be made between new and existing pipelines.
How time-consuming is coordinating activities with the client expected to be?
What delays may be caused by preparing daily work permits, etc?
Union’s Influence
Evaluate the historical behavior of the local union’s.
Find out, for example, how many people of the union’s labor pool or in the region are to be employed according to the union agreement.
Location of workshops
Observe which are the places foreseen for the location of workshop, materials, and equipment and how far they are from the site of carrying out of the work.
Other aspects to observe
Does the project have a very demanding construction schedule?
If yes, please ask if it is necessary to work at night.
Is the detail of the preliminary engineering to quote sufficient, or is it necessary to start a round of consultations?
Investigate whether subcontractors, experienced personnel, or assistants are available in towns near the worksite.
To accomplish all these tasks, it is essential to read carefully the specifications, or the documentation provided by the purchaser before making the site visit.
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Japan’s Asteroid Mission Retrieves Lots of Black Dirt
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The space agency TOKYO-Japan claims to have discovered far more black debris than on the asteroid Ryugu, confirming the success of its Hayabusa2 mission, nine days after delivering its payload to the Australian bush.
Scientists plan to study materials that would have preserved the chemical composition of the primitive solar system some 4.6 billion years ago to find clues about the origin of life on Earth.
The Hayabusa-2 mission was launched in 2014. He took samples from the surface of Ryugu and from an artificial crater on the asteroid created by the explosion of a projectile.
It was so far beyond our expectations that we almost ran out of words.
– Hirotaka Sawada, JAXA scientist.
After travelling more than 3.2 billion miles, Hayabusa 2 flew over the earth earlier this month and dropped a capsule of samples. The capsule produced a flaming tail when it plunged into the atmosphere, and after the parachute had deployed on the 6th. December has landed in Australia.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) hopes to collect at least 0.1 grams of material, the equivalent of several grains of rice. But at first he couldn’t be sure if there was anything in the capsule or if there was a leak during the descent.
On Tuesday, after the capsule returned to Japan, JAXA scientists opened a room where samples of the Ryugu’s surface should be found. They were in for a surprise.
The monster was successfully recovered after being dropped to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spaceship.
Handout / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images
It was so far beyond our expectations that we almost ran out of words. It was very moving, said the JAXA scientist.
Hirotaka Sawada,
who was present at the opening. They weren’t just small, powdery particles. These were crumbly specimens of a few millimeters in size.
He went on to say: We were able to obtain a quantity that far exceeded our expectations, although he refused to estimate the weight of the material.
JAXA scientists said that the capsule remained tightly sealed and that the crumbly dirt was confirmed as coming from the carbon-rich Ryugu, as suggested by its black colour. They stated that they also protected the gases emitted by the material of the asteroid in what they described as the first sample of extraterrestrial gas taken by humans.
A theory about the origin of life on earth is that amino acids, the building blocks of life, were brought to earth by asteroids or meteorites. Mud and gas samples from Ryugu can help prove this theory.
The capsule landed with a parachute in Australia.
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Castlevania (1987) – Nintendo Entertainment System
I love October. Leaves changing color, then falling. The blowing wind, the cooler temperatures, topped off by the perfect holiday for any fan of scary films. For myself, I use the entire month of October as an excuse to indulge in my predilection for ghost stories, haunted attractions, horror films and creepy video games.
Luckily for me, horror, supernatural and monster themed video games are plentiful. Whether I’m playing Haunted House on the Atari 2600, Splatterhouse on the Turbografx-16 or Silent Hill on the PlayStation, the genre leaves fans wanting for nothing. In my opinion, the most successful in this genre is the long running franchise, Castlevania. Konami’s flagship series has seen its ups (is Symphony of the Night the best game of all time? Maybe!) and downs (Castlevania 64….tried to take the series into 3D, but the game is just….ok), but the truth is that for the last 30+ years, the series has been one of the most consistently excellent that we’ve ever seen.
The original Castlevania, originally released in 1986 on Japan’s Nintendo Famicom Computer Disk System and subsequently in North America on the NES in 1987 and in Europe in 1988, may often get overlooked for the standout title that it was at the time. Subsequent Castlevania titles have tended to overshadow the original thanks to their advanced controls, Metroid-vania game mechanics, enhanced graphics and deeper storylines, but without a strong foundation of source material, the rest of the franchise would have crumbled like the namesake’s rotting castle.
Generally speaking, the Castlevania franchise has a gothic horror theme, reminiscent of the old Bram Stoker based, Bela Lugosi starring, Dracula novel and films of the ’30s and ’40s. To strengthen this connection, the title/menu includes perforations on the top and bottom of the screen, providing the look of an old reel of film stock. The opening cut scene shows the game’s protagonist, Simon Belmont, walking towards Dracula’s castle, which is lit ominously in the background by a bright crescent moon. Bats, possibly of the vampire variety, flutter above you as you walk through the gate. Quite the set-up for this moody action-platformer.
Here’s a screenshot of Dracula just in case you never make it to him. Which is pretty likely.
The story is simple and concise. Simon Belmont is a vampire hunter set off to defeat the baddest of the bads, Count Dracula. Dracula has recruited a number of classic movie monsters such as mummies, Frankenstein’s monster, Queen Medussa, zombies and the Grim Reaper, among others, to help protect him from Simon’s quest (not to be confused with the sequel, Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest) to rid the world of his evil presence. A classic story of good vs. evil with characters nearly everyone recognizes.
Simon must traverse a total of 6 levels, each with 3 stages, en route to the final showdown with the Count. Once Simon reaches one of the stage checkpoints, he will be able to re-start from that point if he perishes. If Simon’s loses all of his lives and his game is over, then he must re-start at the beginning of that level, not stage, using one of his unlimited continues.
Each level ends with a boss fight that must be won before Simon can advance onto the next challenge. Simon starts off with a short leather whip to protect himself but can obtain morningstar whip upgrades (up to 3 total) which make his whip longer and stronger, as well as secondary weapons such as axes, holy water, daggers, boomerangs & stop watches. All of these sub-weapons utilize hearts as a means of weapon currency. Simon collects hearts by defeating enemies and whipping candles strewn about the castle. Once he runs out of hearts, he loses his ability to use his secondary or sub-weapon until more hearts can be obtained. Besides hearts, Simon can collect a number of other items by whipping candles, walls or even kneeling down (and praying to the Nintendo gods) in specific spots. Some of the key power-ups he can collect are ones that look like Roman numerals which allow him to use sub-weapons 2x or 3x faster than normal, one that clears the entire screen of enemies, temporary invincibility, money bags or treasure that provide additional points used to earn extra lives, and most infamously, wall-meat!
Simon starts the game with a full life meter that will go down if touched by an enemy or enemy projectile. The life meter will go down slower when touched by a weaker enemy like a zombie or water monster, or more rapidly when hit by a big boss or one of their projectiles. Wall-meat is really the only way that Simon can replenish his life meter during the course of completing a stage. These pork chop appearing power-ups are always hidden inside walls, hence the not so clever colloquial name they have been given. Thankfully, if Simon can make it through an entire level and defeat the end-level boss, his life meter is completely replenished before the next stage begins. Unfortunately, there are also a number of hazards that will instantly kill Simon, regardless of his life meter status. These include falling down chasms, into water, or getting crushed by moving spikes. These instant deaths tend to be the most frustrating aspect of Castlevania, especially when you consider that enemies will cause Simon to fall backwards when hit, often adding insult to injury when his backward momentum causes him to plunge off a platform into the abyss.
Excelling at Castlevania requires near perfect timing & an understanding which sub-weapons are most effective against the level bosses. The timing aspect comes with practice and memorizing where the enemies will pop up and when to jump. The flying Medusa head sections of the game are the perfect example of when timing and practice are mandatory. Sure, you can probably get through a medusa head section of Castlevania with some luck, but if you want to consistently jump-whip-duck your way through, memorization is an important skill. The second part of the key strategies mentioned, managing your sub-weapon inventory, requires trial & error and a recollection of where the sub-weapons are located in order to avoid accidentally collecting an unwanted one right before you fight a level boss. Inadvertently switching from your boomerang sub-weapon to a dagger right before you fight the dual-Mummy attack at the end of level 3 could be the difference between game over and advancing.
Castlevania does so many things right. The music is iconic 8-bit symphony. The gameplay is simple and easy to learn, but complex enough to provide players a learning curve master. The enemies and stages are varied in their layout, presentation and general feel. The further you progress into the castle, the enemies get stronger and more relentless. The decrepit castle appears to be crumbling around you, giving you the feeling that this is truly Dracula’s last attempt at relevance. The controls are smooth and tight. Jumping takes expert precision and never feels floaty or loose. When you leap, you can more or less predict exactly where you will land, which is an underrated game mechanism. Simon will never be mistaken for Michael Jordan so leaping over chasms is a control limitation that one has to quickly master unless you like seeing Simon plunge to his death time after time. Additionally, the whip mechanism has a bit of delay to it so this is another key gameplay mechanic that players need to adjust to off the bat.
Favorite Weapon
Holy Water – Technically, the holy water weapon is called the fire bomb but literally no one ever calls it that, myself included. Holy water is the most versatile weapon you can obtain in the game and its usefulness against a multitude of difficult bosses such as the Frankenstein monster/Igor, Skele-Dragons, Axe-Men and the Grim Reaper make it one of those weapons you try very hard to hold onto. What makes it so powerful is its ability to stun enemies allowing you to whip them. It essentially allows you to damage enemies using two weapons at once while they are stunned and stationary, a huge advantage for Simon. Additionally, you can toss holy water onto the ground in the paths of enemies and then retreat in order to stay out of the path of their attacks. This can be a very helpful technique against the super strong Axe-Men in level 5.
The primary flaw in this strategy is that once you die, you lose your sub-weapon! And you will die in Castlevania…..a lot. If you have no additional opportunity to retrieve your sub-weapon of choice before fighting any of the bosses, you better have a damn good plan B.
Hardest Stage
Axe-Men and Hunchbacks on the same screen….only thing worse would be Axe-Men and Medussa heads. Oh wait…..
There are plenty of extremely difficult stages in Castlevania, as this is considered one of the more notoriously hard NES games, but two stages in particular seems to give me problems time and time again. The first is the 15th stage (3rd section of level 5). It is filled with Axe-Men and flying Medussa heads so figuring out the timing of avoiding the Medussa heads while simultaneously battling the tough as nails Axe-Men feels like putting out a fire with your saliva. It’s overwhelming to say the least. If you can employ the proper strategy (hint, see my favorite weapon above), you may stand a chance.
The other extremely harrowing stage is 17, the second to last stage in level 6 before fighting Count Dracula. This stage is particularly rage inducing because you not only have to watch out for Eagles dropping the always annoying Hunchback enemies that leap at you in erratic patterns, but you’re also in constant worry about falling to your death. This stage takes place inside a clock tower filled with platforms which anyone familiar to Castlevania knows are simply magnets for your extra lives. Getting through stage 17 intact is one of the most nerve wracking experiences in 8-bit gaming history, considering how close you are to the game’s final battle. It can be particularly disheartening to fall to your death repeatedly and have to start the entire stage over.
The clock tower of death.
Toughest Boss
Yes, Dracula and his two forms are extremely difficult. There’s no debate there. However, Grim Reaper, the stage 5 boss, is arguably more difficult. Part of his difficulty lies in the gauntlet of the game’s toughest enemies you face just before you reach his lair. There are the unbeatable skeletons, the dragon skulls that shoot fireballs, and Medussa heads floating around you as you face off against the Axe-Men. These Axe-Men, who I’ve mentioned before, can take over a half dozen hits of your strongest whip to defeat.
Once you make it through, you face off against a beast of a boss. Thankfully, there are a couple of strategies you can use that make the battle against the Grim Reaper winnable. You can grab a boomerang in this level which is useful for taking out his sickle attacks while you use your whip on his form, or vice versa. Keep your wits about you and defend yourself against the sickles and Grim Reaper’s presence equally. You cannot lose sight of either one or else he will make short and quick work of Simon.
The other key strategy involves the use of the holy
The Grim Reaper…it’s fitting that death itself is one of your toughest battles.
water and perfect timing but only a YouTube playthrough video can offer this particular technique any justice.
Bottom line, it’s Castlevania. I have not run into too many people that flat out dislike this game or this series in general, for good reason. Konami managed to create a once in a lifetime franchise and have had very few missteps along the way. The original title on the NES is everything you could want in a video game back in 1987 and more importantly, it still has the ability to draw 21st century players into it’s gameplay, lore and wonderfully iconic musical score. There are a number of ways you can play this simple masterpiece on modern hardware and there is absolutely no reason to not do so. Unless you hate Halloween. Weirdo.
Grade: A+
Jason Breininger
Music/horror film lover. Podcaster. Prince super fan. Freelance writer. Random list generator. A retro gaming enthusiast that grew up on the classics from the 80s & 90s. Creator of CartridgeCorner.blog, Press Rewind - A Prince Lyrics Podcast and PressRewind.net. View all posts by Jason Breininger
3 thoughts on “Castlevania (1987) – Nintendo Entertainment System”
TheOSGVault says:
This is one title I’ve never spent much time with, I do remember renting this back in the day. Anyhow I really wanting to dive into the NES castlevanias series, and your review is very detailed and enjoyable. Thanks, Brandon
Jason Breininger says:
You’re welcome! I encourage you to spend some time with this game, it’s really an essential part of the series imo.
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‘SNL’ Boots Morgan Wallen After Wild Night on Tuscaloosa Strip
Savannah Bullard
Getty Images for Country Music H
Morgan Wallen found a little more than himself in local bars last weekend.
The 27-year-old country superstar was spotted on multiple occasions during a night on the town in Tuscaloosa on Oct. 3. Wallen had attended the Alabama-Texas A&M football game earlier that day, evidenced by a post to his Instagram page. He was in town, presumably for the game, which he watched with professional golfer and UA alumnus Justin Thomas.
After the game, Wallen ventured out to The Strip to cruise through some of Tuscaloosa's popular bars. He was seen in numerous videos, posted to TikTok and Twitter, taking shots and kissing multiple different college-age girls in what looks like a Boom Boom Room-style bar in Tuscaloosa.
@ashleighludlamwhat is life . ##morganwallen ##bama ##fyp @morganwallen♬ This Bar - Morgan Wallen
A student who was out last weekend confirmed Wallen walked out of Rounder's Bar on The Strip and asked for a ride to a house party near Tutwiler Hall, a dormitory on the University of Alabama campus. She and her friends drove him to a residence close to campus, mentioning that he was "really sweet" and even played some unreleased music for the passengers.
More videos of the singer emerged online at the party, showing him playing the guitar for a small crowd of college-age guests.
@samiambih
Morgan Wallen at Bama house party❤️😝
♬ original sound - nams
After the wild weekend, Wallen came under fire for his actions online, with many Twitter users criticizing him for being reckless.
Critics cited that the coronavirus pandemic is still very much prevalent in Tuscaloosa and others called him out for having a debaucherous night on the town while his ex-fiance is home with their infant son, Indigo.
The backlash got to be so great that Wallen was pulled from this weekend's lineup of "Saturday Night Live."
"This is a tough video for me to make, but a necessary one," Wallen said in a video posted to his social media platforms Wednesday night. "I'm in New York City in a hotel room, I was getting ready for 'SNL' this Saturday, and I got a call from the show letting me know I will no longer be able to play."
The late-night sketch show was set to have him on as the musical guest but nixed the performance due to coronavirus-related precautions. Wallen said that while he did not have COVID-19, he understood that his weekend in Tuscaloosa was to blame for the cancellation.
"My actions this past weekend were pretty short-sighted and they have obviously affected my long-term goals and my dreams," he said. "I respect the show's decision because I know that I put them in jeopardy and I take ownership for this."
Wallen added a quick word of love and appreciation for friends, family and fans who have reached out to him in support, ending the video with a plan to unplug for a while and take a break from the limelight. The Sneedville, Tennessee native lives in Nashville, where he has worked on his music career since his appearance on season six of "The Voice."
"I think I have some growing up to do. I think I've lost myself a little bit. I've tried to find joy in the wrong places and ... it's left me with less joy," Wallen said. "I'm going to take a step back from the spotlight for a little while and go work on myself."
This may not be the last time Wallen will get his chance on the "SNL" stage, however. In his apology video, Wallen said "SNL" creator and producer Lorne Michaels plans to work with him to find a make-up performance date.
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Cisco Blogs / Open at Cisco / OpenDaylight Unleashes Hydrogen to the Masses
Open at Cisco
OpenDaylight Unleashes Hydrogen to the Masses
The OpenDaylight Project today announced that its first open source software release Hydrogen is now available for download. As the first simultaneous code release cross-community it has contributions across fifty organizations and includes over one million lines of code. Yes. ODL > 1MLOC. For those of you interested that’s approximately two hundred and thirty man-years of work completed in less than twelve months.
It was around this time last year that the media started to pick up on a few rumors that something may be in the works with software-defined networking and controllers. I remember our first meeting at Citrix where the community started to collaborate on The OpenDaylight Project and come to common ground on how to start something this large. We had multiple companies and academics in the room and many ideas of where we wanted this project to go but there was one thing we had in common: the belief and vision to drive networking software innovation to the Internet in a new way and accelerate SDN in the open; transparently and with diverse community support. Each of us had notions of what we could bring to the table, from controller offerings to virtualization solutions, SDN protocol plugins and apps to solve IT problems. Over two days at Citrix we looked at things from a customer perspective, a developer perspective and ultimately and arguably the most important, a community perspective. From there The OpenDaylight Project emerged under the Linux Foundation. As I look back I want to applaud and thank the companies, partners, developers, community members and the Linux Foundation for driving such a large vision from concept to reality in less than twelve months, which is an incredible feat in itself.
Hydrogen is truly a community release. Use cases span across enterprise, service provider, academia, data center, transport and NfV. There are multiple southbound protocols abstracted to a common northbound API for cross-vendor integration and interoperability and three editions have been created to ensure multi-domain support and application delivery as well as deployment modularity and flexibility for different domain-specific configurations. These packages have a consistent environment yet are tailored to domain and role-based needs of network engineers, developers and operators.
The Base Edition, which includes a scalable and multi-vendor SDN protocol based on OSGi, the latest (and backward compatible) OpenFlow 1.3 Plugin and Protocol Library, OVSDB, NetConf/Yang model driver SDN and Java-based YANG tooling for model-driven development.
The Virtualization Edition (which includes the Base Edition) and adds Affinity Metadata Service (essentially APIs to express workload relationships and service levels), Defense4All (DDoS detection & mitigation), Open DOVE, VTN, OpenStack Neutron NorthBound API support and a virtual tenant network offering.
The Service Provider Edition (again, including the Base Edition) that also offers the Metadata Services and Defense4All but includes BGP-LS and PCEP, LISP Flow Mapping and SNMP4SDN to manage routers, gateways switches.
More information can be found on the website with regards to the releases and projects themselves.
I want to stress the importance of how well the vision has been delivered to date. I’ve been involved in multiple standards-bodies and in open source discussions in the past but this is truly one of the largest undertakings I’ve seen come together in my entire career. OpenDaylight developers have been coding day and night to get this release out the door and it’s amazing to see the collaboration and coherency of the team as we unite to deliver on the industry’s first cross-vendor SDN and NfV Platform. In addition and frequently not mentioned is that many of the protocols listed in the Editions above are also standardized at organizations like the IETF during the same period. Code and specs at the same time. It’s been a long time since rough consensus and running code has been the norm.
Over here at Cisco we’re fully committed to OpenDaylight. We’re currently using it as a core component in our WAN Orchestration offering for service providers to allow intelligent network placement and automated capacity and workload planning. The ACI team (formerly Insieme) collaborated with IBM, Midokura and Plexxi to create a project in OpenDaylight that creates a northbound API that can set policy and be used across a wide range of network devices. And of course we’re bringing components of the OpenDaylight codebase into our own controllers and ensuring application portability for customers, partners and developers alike. From this I would expect to see more code donations going into the community moving forward as well. We made several announcements last week about our campus/branch controller that includes OpenDaylight technology.
At the end of the day an open source project is only as strong as its developers, its community and its code. As we as a community move forward with OpenDaylight I expect it to become stronger with more members joining with new project proposals as new code contributors coming onboard from different industries as well. As I look at our roadmap and upcoming release schedule I’m pumped for what’s next and so happy the community has catalyzed a developer community around networking.
Please do visit the site, download the code and take Hydrogen for a test-drive. We want to hear feedback on what we can make better, what features to add or how you’re going to utilize it. Moreover, we’d love you to participate. It’s a kick-ass community and I think you’ll have fun and the best part; you’ll see your hard work unleashed on the Internet and across multiple communities too.
Tags: academia community controller data center developers Enterprise LISP netconf Neutron NFV open source opendaylight OpenStack Overlay ovsdb SDN Service Provider virtualization yang
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A break from the past: the birth of Microsoft’s new web rendering engine
Microsoft Edge Team
As we announced last month, Project Spartan will be the new browser across all Windows 10 devices, from phones to tablets, PCs and beyond. You’ll hear about the new browser’s features in the coming months but in this post, we want to tell you more about what motivated us to build a new rendering engine focused on interoperability with other modern browsers ― all in the name of making the Web “just work” for our customers. This new rendering engine was designed with Project Spartan in mind, but will also be available in Internet Explorer on Windows 10 for enterprises and other customers who require legacy extensibility support.
Modernizing IE while not breaking the Web
Internet Explorer has been the Microsoft Web browser for 20 years and has evolved to work with ever-changing Web sites over that time. Since 2009, we’ve been systematically bringing major investments to the browser to modernize each of the browser subsystems: from fast new JavaScript and layout engines, GPU-accelerated rendering and 3D graphics, and multi-threaded touch input to improved F12 developer tools and backwards compatibility with Enterprise Mode.
Big changes in 5 years: Fish IE (GPU rendering), Chakra fastest on SunSpider (JavaScript performance), Touch Effects (multi-touch input), new F12 developer tools, Assassin’s Creed Pirates (WebGL)
As we’ve been rolling out these significant changes with major versions of IE, we also did our best to abide by the mantra of “don’t break the Web.” This is an ambitious goal given that the Web consists of over 44 billion Web sites, so we prioritized compatibility testing on the Web’s top 9000 Web sites globally which accounts for roughly 88% of Web traffic. This represented the sweet spot of where the “head of the Web” becomes the “long tail” – allowing us to focus our testing resources on the most impactful sites. Prior to release, we would ensure a compatibility pass rate greater than previous releases of IE and our competitors on those top 9000 sites.
The long tail matters
And yet, even as we released new and improved versions of IE, we heard complaints about some sites being broken in IE – from family members, co-workers in other parts of Microsoft, or online discussions. As we examined these sites, they were often not on our top 9000 list. They were issues like not being able to complete a reservation online for the barbershop down the street, or not being able to log in to see the schedule for the local kids soccer league.
In Windows 10 planning, we set out to tackle this apparent discrepancy – how could our real-world compatibility be declining when our compatibility testing data shows that we are improving?
Rethinking our assumptions
As we dug in, we uncovered a series of issues that led us to realize that we needed to significantly rethink our approach to compatibility with the Web at large:
Legacy vs. modern. While we were pushing ahead with new HTML5 features, we were also expected to preserve compatibility with old versions of IE, particularly for enterprise Web apps. Limited compatibility was provided through document compatibility modes within Trident, however compatibility could not be guaranteed and it provided consistent obstacles towards fixing long-standing IE-specific behaviors. Furthermore, fixing long standing interoperability bugs with other modern browsers could actually break sites who have coded to the IE-specific behavior.
CV list. Our compatibility pass rates were dependent on the presence of the compatibility view list. This allowed us to “fix” broken sites by forcing them into old document modes which emulated legacy IE behaviors. However, this approach requires testing and maintenance, and doesn’t scale well beyond the top sites.
X-UA-Compatible. Some sites forced an older document mode using the “x-ua-compatible” header. However, rather than using it as a temporary stopgap, they would rely upon that to keep that version of the site working in future versions of IE while they developed an evergreen code path of their site for other modern browsers.
Standards focus. Our focus on building new HTML5 features was to comply with Web standards, which in turn should lead to interoperability among browsers. However, interpretations of the standards document could easily vary, leading to real-world interoperability gaps and ultimately more bug fixing for Web developers and more broken sites for customers.
A break from the past
Faced with these issues, we were inspired to have “courage in the face of reality”. We needed a plan to make it easy for Web developers to build compatible sites regardless of which browser they develop first for. We needed a plan which ensured that our customers have a good experience regardless of whether they browse the head or tail of the Web. We needed a plan which gave enterprise customers a highly backward compatible browser regardless of how quickly we pushed forward with modern HTML5 features.
In order to really address these challenges, we realized that we couldn’t just incrementally improve on our previous approach, we needed a break from the past – all without losing the major investments that we had been making since 2009.
A pragmatic approach
The break meant bringing up a new Web rendering engine, free from 20 years of Internet Explorer legacy, which has real-world interoperability with other modern browsers as its primary focus – and thus our rallying cry for Windows 10 became “the Web just works.” This pragmatic viewpoint, which was initially proven out by our work in Windows Phone 8.1 Update, meant that Web standards would continue to be important but should function in the background to drive real-world interoperability between browsers.
This interoperability-focused approach brought the obvious question of adopting an existing open-source rendering engine such as WebKit. While there were some advantages, upon further investigation it was not the right path forward for two important reasons. First, the Web is built on the principle of multiple independent, yet interoperable implementations of Web standards and we felt it was important to counter movement towards a monoculture on the Web. Second, given the engineering effort required, we found that we could deliver an interoperability focused engine to customers significantly faster if we started from our own engine (especially if unshackled from legacy compatibility concerns), rather than building up a new browser around an open-source engine. We will continue to look at open source and shared source models where it makes sense and look forward to sharing more details in coming posts.
A new Web rendering engine is born
As detailed in Jacob Rossi’s article for Smashing Magazine, the new engine began as a fork of MSHTML.dll but has since diverged very quickly. By making this split, we were able to keep the major subsystem investments made over the last several years, while allowing us to remove document modes and other legacy IE behaviors from the new engine. On the other hand, our legacy engine (MSHTML.dll) can remain largely unchanged (outside of security and other high priority fixes) to help guarantee legacy compatibility for our enterprise customers. We also built up capabilities to switch between the legacy and new rendering engines seamlessly.
A clean break also necessitates a new user-agent string to ensure that no IE-specific code was being sent. This built upon a long browser history of using whatever tokens are necessary to get the desired content from servers. Although this meant a lower compatibility rate initially, it was also useful to reveal interoperability issues that needed to be fixed!
Finally, since legacy IE code is no longer being sent, we are able to drastically reduce our reliance on the CV list. This means that our top site compatibility rate will match our long tail compatibility much more closely.
Fixing patterns instead of sites
However, a new engine was not enough – we also needed to significantly revamp how we find, track and fix issues on the long tail of the Web. To do so, we do daily analysis on trillions of URLs crawled in conjunction with Bing to detect patterns that exist in the head of the Web and the tail of the Web. By fixing these patterns, sites just end up working. This data is augmented by thousands of daily feedback reports from users via the “smiley face” icon.
In addition, we revised our internal engineering processes to prioritize real-world interoperability issues uncovered by our data analysis. With these processes in place, we set about fixing over 3000 interoperability bugs and adding over 40 new Web standards (to date) to make sure we deliver on our goals.
We don’t see this interoperability effort having an end date – we’ll be continuously checking the data and rolling out improvements to the new rendering engine. For users that upgrade to Windows 10, the engine will be evergreen, meaning that it will be kept current with Windows 10 as a service.
A community effort
Our mission to create a Web that “just works” won’t be successful without your help. That’s why the Project Spartan journey has included a number of ways for you to get involved. Here’s a quick rundown of ways you can help:
Join the Windows Insider Program to get the latest Windows 10 previews and test your Web sites on our new rendering engine by enabling experimental Web features in the about:flags page. If you don’t have a device to install it on, try out RemoteIE which will stream our latest browser from the Azure cloud to Windows, iOS or Android devices.
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Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia across age groups: a case–control study
Anna Mosiołek1,
Jacek Gierus1,
Tytus Koweszko1 &
Agata Szulc1
The potential dynamics of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia is discussed in the literature of the field. Recent publications suggest modest changes in level of cognitive impairment after first psychotic episode. Present article attempts to explore cognitive differences between patients and controls across age groups and differences between age groups in clinical group.
One hundred and twenty-eight hospitalized patients with schizophrenia (64 women and 64 men) and 68 individuals from the control group (32 women and 32 men) aged 18–55 years were examined. The patients were divided into age groups (18–25, 26–35, 36–45, 46–55). Both groups were examined using Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure Test, Trail Making Test (A and B), Stroop Test, verbal fluency test and Wechsler digit span.
Patients with schizophrenia obtained significantly lower scores versus the control group in regard to all the measured cognitive functions (Mann–Whitney U; p < 0.05. Most deficits were present in all age groups, however, statistically important impairment in executive functions (WCST) were present only in “older” groups.
Patients with schizophrenia obtained less favourable results than the control group in all age groups. Deficits regarding executive functions do not seem to be at a significant level among the youngest group, whereas they are more noticeable in the group of 46–55-year-olds. Executive functions are significantly lowered in the group aged 36–45 in comparison to the “younger” groups. The level of cognitive functions shows a mild exacerbation in connection with age, whereas cognitive rigidity proved to be related to the number of years spent without hospital treatment.
In his pioneering research, Bleuler already noticed that the essence of schizophrenia are not hallucinations or delusions but the so-called axial symptoms that significantly affect the global functioning of patients. In her works, Andreasen [1] presented a neo-Bleulerian model, describing schizophrenia as a neurodevelopmental disorder with the occurrence of primary cognitive deficits corresponding to "axial" symptoms [1–4]. The neurodevelopmental irregularities present in schizophrenia may arise from the incorrect formation of large-scale neural networks, for example at the axonal level, but in most cases, the dysfunction occurs at the level of sending and receiving information via synapses or dendrites [5]. A consequence of these irregularities is the phenomenon of cognitive dysmetria associated with impaired coordination between thinking and action, leading to the distortion of such cognitive processes as memory, attention focus, language, emotional intelligence and awareness [2, 6].
Currently two main theories are presented regarding the dynamics of the disease process in schizophrenia. The first theory assumes a gradual stabilization of the mental condition in a relatively short period of time (2–5 years) from the onset, or the transition to the stationary form of schizophrenia [7]. This hypothesis provides for the possibility of a slight improvement in the general psychopathology and cognitive impairments. The second theory considers a gradual build-up of impairment beginning in the prodromal phase where the cognitive dysfunctions, discrete negative symptoms and behaviour disorders are visible through the acute phase of the disease with the occurrence of severe positive symptoms. In this theory, the subsequent phases of the disease include the occurrence of periods of remission and exacerbation with progressively aggravated course, leading to the final phase of schizophrenia with predominantly negative symptoms and intensified cognitive impairment [8, 9]. This hypothesis would therefore assume the progression of cognitive deficits associated with time from the onset of the first symptoms and age.
The cognitive impairments present in schizophrenia most frequently cited in the literature include impairments of working memory, executive functions, verbal fluency, attention, and disturbances in the selection and processing of information [10–12]. It is believed that this type of disorders are present in 85 % of the patients and are negatively correlated with psychosocial functioning and cooperation in therapy [10]. The research most often emphasizes their specific and selective character in schizophrenia [13–15] and does not confirm the increase in cognitive deficits during the course of the disease, but rather their stability and independence from the clinical picture [7]. Numerous previous and contemporary studies proved the occurrence of cognitive disorders many years before the onset of the disease, frequently even in childhood [16–20]. The occurrence of cognitive disorders confirmed with neuropsychological tests is a more specific marker of early schizophrenia, than for example, diagnostics by means of structural MRI (sMRI) [21].
The occurrence of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia may be explained by the glutamate hypothesis. Cognitive disorders can be a consequence of the neurotoxic activity of the psychosis and the external factors [8, 9, 22] and some researchers believe that the progressive process of neuronal degeneration and the associated increase in "residual" symptoms may be the result of excessive glutamatergic transmission. According to them, in the context of excessive excitation of the glutamatergic transmission a toxic neurodegenerative excitation could occur, in which the NMDA receptor would be involved. In theory, as a result of the initiated pathological process this normal neuronal excitation process would lead to a random toxic excitation that would in turn lead to neuronal damage due to slow neurodegeneration resulting from the opening of the calcium channels, secondary activation of the intracellular enzymes, and generation of free radicals toxic to cell membranes and intracellular structures [8, 9, 23]. Consequently, this would lead to the overlapping of primary cognitive deficits with secondary cognitive disorders, associated with the phenomenon of excitotoxicity and neurodegeneration. The phenomenon of neurodegeneration is reflected in the neuroimaging studies of patients with long-term course of schizophrenia. In the group of patients with schizophrenia there is a decline in the volume of the gray matter and the white matter, which is associated with age exacerbations. In case of gray matter an overall reduction of its volume is observed with particular intensity in the frontal cortex and the thalamus area whereas white matter atrophic changes relate mainly to the frontal, temporal and parietal regions. The widening of lateral ventricles and the enlargement of fluid spaces in the frontal, temporal and parietal regions were also observed in longitudinal brain MRI studies [24]. The above-mentioned changes were correlated with cognitive impairment, but had little impact on other clinical parameters [16, 24–26].
At the same time, the results of some meta-analyses show a similar role being played by factors other than the course of the disease, such as the influence of medications or overuse of psychoactive substances. These meta-analyses suggest that there is no clear proof for the neurodegenerative nature of schizophrenia [27]. At the same time, a study combining longitudinal and cross-sectional methodologies shows a similar level of cognitive disorders in patients after their first schizophrenia episode to those with an established clinical picture of the disease [27]. Individual studies also show the presence of other factors, such as metabolic syndrome, lowered BDNF, improper diet, low level of physical activity or stigma [28]. The reversibility of processes causing lowered levels of functioning is also shown in research on rehabilitation, both in terms of symptoms and the social aspect, where patients experience tangible benefits when cognitive remediation training is included as a part of comprehensive psychiatric rehabilitation [29–31]. Complex rehabilitation proved to have an impact on global functioning and global cognitive improvement was a mediator for improvements in functional outcomes [30]. Many patients can then recover or benefit from proper rehabilitation.
Therefore, it is important to clarify whether the cognitive disorders in schizophrenia exacerbation are static or progressive with the duration of the disease and whether they are associated with the patient's age or other factors (duration of the disease, medication, number of hospitalizations, years of education, difference between years from onset and years form 1st hospitalization). Variable intensity relationships can be expected between cognitive functions and aforementioned factors. This study pertains to a conducted correlation analysis between the cognitive tests results and aforementioned factors. It is expected that statistically significant differences occur between clinical and control groups, whereas the strength and number of those differences should grow along with age in the individual age groups. The main objective of the study is to analyse the differences in the number and type of cognitive functions which are lowered in case of people with schizophrenia with regard to the control group for individual age groups. It can be expected that the lowering of cognitive functions will be visible in all age groups, although it is difficult to predict in which areas it will be particularly noticeable.
The present study aimed to determine the seriousness of the dysfunctions suffered by patients with schizophrenia, whether these “deficits” [3] (in comparison to controls) are global vs. selective, or whether they are “more visible” across age groups.
Examined groups
The study was conducted one time in a group of 128 patients (64 W + 64 M) aged 18–55 years, hospitalized with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. The numbers of patients in individual age groups are presented in Table 1.
Table 1 The number of subjects in individual age groups (clinical and control groups)
The diagnosis was made on the basis of DSM-IV-TR criteria [27]. The control group consisted of 64 healthy individuals (32 W + 32 M) matched for sex and age with the clinical group. A minimum education threshold of 12 years was determined for both groups. Patients with psychiatric co-morbidity, sight or hearing disorders, movement disorders or chronic somatic illness were excluded from the study. All patients participating in the study met the criteria for psychotic exacerbation measured using the PANSS scale [30].
In the studied group of 128 patients with schizophrenia the number of hospitalizations in the individual groups (18–25, 26–35, 36–45, 46–55) increased with the age of patients and the duration of the disease process. The length of the current hospitalization did not differ in a statistically significant manner in the individual age groups and the mean was 6.5 weeks. The age and sex of the examined patients was controlled. The mean time that elapsed since the first hospitalization was 1.25 years in the youngest age group and reached 14.31 years in the oldest group (the mean for the entire group was 7.7 years). The mean time that elapsed from the onset of these symptoms to the first hospitalization was determined on the basis of a thorough history taking oriented towards the occurrence of increasing prodromal disorders. In patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, who participated in the study it was 1.4 years. More clinical data is illustrated in Table 2.
Table 2 Selected clinical and demographic data—patients with schizophrenia
Statistically significant differences between patients and healthy individuals were revealed regarding: the level of education, professional activity, remaining in stable relationships and having children. All patients participating in the study met the criteria for psychotic exacerbation. The mean total PANSS score was 78.4 (SD = 17.6) points. The distribution of the mean scores in individual age groups was as follows: 1) 84.34; 2) 75.28; 3) 73,84; 4) 80.06. The correlations of the PANSS results and the neurocognitive tests were slight or weak in the whole group of patients (N = 128). Only in the case of the G7 scale (PANSS)—motor retardation and the verbal part of the Stroop test a moderately high negative correlation occurred (−0.58). The relationship between the clinical picture and neurocognitive variables was not confirmed in the study. Patients in the examined age groups were treated with both atypical and classical neuroleptics in oral and depot forms. For statistical purposes, all doses of medications administered to patients were converted to chlorpromazine equivalents in accordance with the applicable standards. The mean dose of the applied treatment expressed as chlorpromazine equivalent was 660 mg and in the individual age groups (in ascending order): 1) 493.04 mg; 2) 579.12 mg; 3) 446,38 mg; 4) 528,96 mg;. The maximum administered dose was 1633 mg and the minimum was 75 mg expressed as chlorpromazine equivalent. Sixty-two percent of the examined patients received second-generation medications and the most commonly administered neuroleptics were: olanzapine, clozapine, risperidone, and perphenazine. The mean total score of the MADRS scale for the whole group of patients was 11.9 (SD = 8.9). The patients obtained the highest score in the MADRS [32] scale in two categories: subjective assessment of depression and difficulties in focusing attention.
A demographic—descriptive questionnaire, PANSS scale [30], MADRS scale, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test [33], Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCFT), TMT A [34], TMT B, Wechsler digit span and a verbal fluency test were used in the study.
PANSS (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale) is a method created 1987 to measure the level of symptoms of schizophrenia, commonly used in studies on pharmacotherapy. MADRS (Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale) is a scale for evaluation of the level of depression, filled in by a clinician. Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a neuropsychological test used to measure executive functions, particularly mental flexibility in light of changing stimuli. Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) is used to measure the verbal and lingual ability to learn (acquiring, storing and retrieving verbal material). Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCFT) is a method used to measure visual and cognitive functions, as well as perceptual organisation. Trail Making Test versions A and B (TMT A and TMT B) are tests used to measure visual attention and task switching. Wechsler Digit Span is a part of Wechsler's battery used to measure rote memory, whereas the test of fluency in terms of vocabulary measures the ability to retrieve words from memory and update them.
The RAVLT test examination procedure consisted in the examiner reading a series of 15 words (List A), from which the participant was supposed to recall as many words as possible. This procedure was repeated five times to give the examined individual the opportunity of learning the examination material. Subsequently a different list (list B) was read once with the instruction to remember as many words as possible. Later, the examined individual was asked to recall the words from list A from memory. After a 30 min interval, the examined individual was asked to recall without prompting the words from A list. The number of individual words in the series A1-A5, in the list B, delayed recalls with and without time interval were taken as the test performance metrics. In the ROCFT test the examined individuals were asked to copy a complex figure and then reproduce it from memory after 3–5 min. The number of correctly reproduced elements of the figure was adopted as the performance metric. In TMT A and B, the time of the correct performance of each part of the test was adopted as the performance metric. In the test of verbal fluency, the number of words recalled in 1 min was adopted as the performance metric. In Wisconsin Card Sorting Test the 64-card version was used, in which the examined individual had to match cards according to one of three possible criteria: color, geometric shape or number. In the WCST study the number of correct answers, sum of all errors committed, perseverative responses, perseverative errors, other errors, conceptual responses, number of attempts in the first category, sum of completed categories and the failure to maintain set were assessed. The number of items read within 1 min was taken as the performance metric of the Stroop test. The three typical parts of the test were used and the coefficient of interference was also calculated.
The Bioethics Committee of the Medical University of Warsaw was informed about the methodology of the study, procedure of consent, and approved its conduction. Patients have signed a consent to use their anonymised figures obtained through diagnostic tests in statistics required for this study. Anna Mosiołek deemed patients able to consent, basing on legal criteria of informed consent.
The Mann–Whitney U test was used to determine the significance of inter-group differences. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was used to measure the correlations obtained in the study. Statsoft STATISTICA and SPSS Statistics 18 software was used for statistical analyses. In order to determine the level of significance of differences the Mann–Whitney U nonparametric test was used, whereas the determination of relationships’ strength between variables connected with the course of the disease and the level of cognitive functions was calculated using the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.
The relationships between the cognitive functions and the demographic variables and variables associated with the treatment process
A weak negative correlation between the years of education and the dose of administered medications (Rho = -0.177; p = 0.05) expressed as chlorpromazine equivalent seems interesting, whereas there is no correlation between the doses of medication and age.
Correlations presented in Tables 3-6 reflect mainly negative associations between executive functions and aging, and time from disease onset. Most of these correlations are weak. Weak relationships between the performance of the WCST and difference between years from onset and years from 1st hospitalization were also found. Only rows and columns that contain significant or interesting correlations are presented in the tables.
Table 3 Relationship between the variables associated with the course of disease and the test results—correlations (Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient)—patients with schizophrenia
Table 4 Relationship between the variables associated with the course of disease and the test results—correlations (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient)—patients with schizophrenia
Similar relationships are found in the case of digit span forward and digit span backwards tests, phonemic fluency, Stroop test, RAVLT, ROCFT and TMT. Very similar significant correlations (Spearman’s Rho values 0.24–0.31; p = 0.05) were detected between RAVLT test score and age, and Time of Stroop interferention subtest and age. Interestingly, the presented data didn’t reveal connection between score in WCST and age or education in the control group.
Cognitive functioning—intergroup comparisons
The analysis of the obtained data began with a comparison of the clinical group versus the control group in regards to all measured cognitive functions, as presented in Table 7. Due to the unfulfilled requirements for the t test, the nonparametric Mann–Whitney U test was used. It was found that patients with schizophrenia obtained less favourable score in all possible attempts in all the tests. The Table 8 shows average results of all subtests used in the study.
Table 7 Level of the individual cognitive functions—differences between patients with schizophrenia (N = 128) versus the control group (N = 68)
Table 8 Raw scores of individual subtests depending on age groups
Significant differences were revealed between patients with schizophrenia and controls in all the domains of measured cognitive functions. The obtained results allowed for conducting further analyses, with the aim to compare the individual corresponding age groups to the clinical group and the control group.
Comparison of corresponding age groups regarding cognitive functions
For further analyses subtests considered key in the individual tests were selected: the number of errors in WCST (attention and working memory impairments), number of perseverative errors in WCST (“on-line” processing impairment), number of completed sequences in WSCT (planning), RAVLT A7 delayed recall score (retrieval from memory), RAVLT recognition (ability to remember), main elements of ROCFT (visual memory), TMT B (planning and set-shifting), Wechsler's digits span forward (rote auditory memory), phonemic verbal fluency and Stroop's interference (inhibitory control) (see Tables 8 and 9).
Table 9 Significance of differences in individual age groups (schizophrenia and control group)—Mann–Whitney U test
In Table 9 statistically significant differences were highlighted with bold print. The significant results in the Mann–Whitney U tests presented above can be read in two ways. Analyzing the data by columns will illustrate which age groups demonstrate significant differences with regard to specific cognitive functions Analyzing the data by rows will illustrate the number of differences within the various functions in an individual age group. Raw scores were presented in Table 8.
The obtained results seem to suggest that subjects with corresponding age groups differ significantly in level of cognitive functioning. Individuals with schizophrenia aged 26–35 years start to have noticeable difficulties in comparison to controls with correct performance in one subtest of WCST, while patients from subsequent age groups scored lower than controls in more subtests of WCST. Interestingly, there were no significant differences in WCST scores between patients and controls in the youngest groups, however, raw scores suggest that executive functions can be lower in this group of patients.
Significance of the differences between contiguous age groups of patients was analyzed. Patients aged 18–25 differed significantly from patients aged 26–35 only in number of words read in Stoop A subtest. Groups 26–35 and 36–45 differed from each other by score in Stroop test, TMT test, and number of retrieved elements in ROCFT (p < 0,05). RAVLT Recognition was the only subtest that differed the 36–45 and the 46–55 groups significantly (p = 0043). In every comparison scores of “older” groups were less favourable than “younger” groups.
In attempt to find potential sources of executive impairment, correlations of WCST and other variables were analyzed. Perseverative errors in WCST correlated significantly with PANSS Disturbance of volition (0.22), Sequences completed and conceptual level correlated with PANSS Preoccupation scale (0.18). Similar power of correlations was observed in relation of WCST Perseverative errors and number of months of 1st untreated psychosis (0.20).
The neurocognitive tests results obtained in the present study confirm previous reports that schizophrenia is a disease in which generalized cognitive dysfunctions occur [35–37]. Cognitive disorders observed in patients with schizophrenia occurred in the majority of measured cognitive domains and the number of deficits were present across all age groups.
In patients with schizophrenia cognitive disorders (in comparison to their specific age group) were present in each of the basic cognitive domains such as verbal-linguistic learning, visual memory, inhibitory control, planning, set-shifting, rote memory, auditory memory, working memory and verbal fluency. Cognitive disorders appeared in patients in all age groups (18–55 years) and the patients performed the tasks less efficiently than healthy individuals. The obtained results confirm the results of other studies covering multiple domains of cognitive functioning [16, 37, 38].
The results of the present study may be seen as partly similar to other researchers’ conclusions. In several longitudinal studies [28] the progression of neuropsychological disorders associated with age was not confirmed. Present study suggests that patients with schizophrenia performed on the tasks significantly worse than healthy individuals, which suggests occurrence of cognitive deficits in early course of the disease, while raw scores indicate their relative stability across the age group. In terms of executive functions, other studies show their initial deficits before the disease onset, while they subsequently reach a stable level and later rapidly drop during in older age [39, 40]. The data collected for this article confirms that pattern. The youngest groups show slight, negligible differences, which become significant and stable as people in these groups age.
In one other research the deterioration of the results obtained in neurocognitive tests in patients aged 40–80 was observed mainly in the domains of verbal learning and processing speed [41]. In present study many more deficits were observed in every measured cognitive domains. The fact is consistent with other study that confirm faster cognitive deterioration in older patients with schizophrenia than in the control group [39, 40].
On the basis of the obtained data one may conclude that older patients with schizophrenia have relatively greater levels of cognitive impairment associated with age versus healthy individuals [42]. However, other authors claim that these effect is not connected with deterioration, but can rather be explained by poor engagement in care, access to treatment, treatment response or cumulative influence of substance abuse, deficits in cognition, and other psychosocial factors [43].
Collected data suggests that differences between clinical group and controls in executive functions of working memory and attention (errors in WCST) can be “more visible” in group of 26–35 years old, “later” than other cognitive disturbances that are present in all age groups, and therefore can be more “primary” than other. The next executive impairment (in comparison to controls) that is “more visible” in subsequent age group is “on-line” processing (perseverative errors) and planning (completed sequences).
Present study is also partially consistent with the study based on MATRICS consensus [44], in which patients with schizophrenia exhibited greater cognitive impairment than controls. In a cross-sectional study the authors revealed that patients early in the course of schizophrenia exhibited similar level of impairment compared to patients with a chronic schizophrenia. The data presented here focused on differences between patients and controls, shows that number of significant differences between inpatients and controls increase in every single “older” subgroup (similar age). At the same time, most cognitive functions show a slight connection to the age and the time of disease onset whereas perseverative errors (cognitive rigidity) seem to be associated with the difference between the time when the disease begun and the number of years since the first hospitalization. The longer the period of time spent without hospitalization the greater the cognitive rigidity shown in the study. It may be connected with fixed deficits caused by a long period when patients were not treated, at least in some cases.
One significant drawback of the present study is the fact that it was cross-sectional. Thus, it is only possible to analyze the differences between healthy individuals versus patients with schizophrenia in the individual age groups. Other shortcoming is linked to the fact that only inpatients were examined, the outcomes are thus limited, because of little likelihood of qualification to research in recovered patients.
The conclusions of the present research indicate the possibility of the occurrence of primary impairments of verbal-learning, memory, shifting, inhibitory control and verbal fluency, which persist in older age groups, and it is possible that executive impairment are “less visible” in early course of disease. Further longitudinal study should confirm if executive functions lower significantly in group of patients aged 36-45.
MADRS:
Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale
RAVLT:
Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test
ROCFT:
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test
TMT:
Trail Making Test
WCST:
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
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We would like to thank the patients and healthy subjects for their participation in this study.
Authors were funded by Medical University of Warsaw.
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By Brandi Fowler| 4 years ago
File this one under things we didn't see coming. See the reason behind the Hollywood couple's split.
File this one under things we didn't see coming. Angelina Jolie, 41, has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, 52, after 12 years together, with the actress citing irreconcilable differences in the divorce docs.
According to TMZ, the Oscar winner is asking for physical custody of their six children, Maddox, 15, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 8. Angelina is also requesting that the judge give Pitt only visitation, and not joint physical custody.
Sources told the site Pitt's parenting methods were the main reason for the split, adding that Jolie was "extremely upset" about it.
Angelina lists the date of separation as September 15.
"This decision was made for the health of the family," the actress' attorney Robert Offer said in a statement circulated to US media.
"She will not be commenting at this time, and asks that the family be given their privacy during this difficult time."
Pitt said in a statement to People: "I'm very saddened by this, but what matters most now is the well-being of our kids. I kindly ask the press to give them the space they deserve during this challenging time."
Us Weekly reports that Pitt learned of Jolie's intent to file just one day ago.
"Brad only found out about the divorce decision yesterday," a source told the mag.
The couple had publicly been together since 2004, following Brad Pitt's divorce from ex-wife Jennifer Aniston. They later wed in August 2014.
The pair met on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith, before making their first red-carpet appearance together in 2005 (see video above).
They made another film together about a troubled marriage, By The Sea, in 2015.
Jolie had been married twice before, to actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton.
TMZ, which posted images of what it said were the court papers, reported unconfirmed claims that the actress filed for divorce over Pitt's "consumption of alcohol and marijuana and anger issues".
News of Jolie's third divorce spread quickly on social media, with #brangelina the top trending hashtag on Twitter.
Many users posted memes featuring Jennifer Aniston, including one of her on the phone saying: "And that, my friend, is what they call closure."
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt put on a romantic show at By The Sea's world premiere
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Public Isn’t Buying ‘Antisemitism’ So Jewry Tries Re-branding It As ‘Anti-Jewish Racism’
As we’ve previously reported, organized Jewry’s efforts to “educate” the public about “antisemitism” have largely failed because, they contend, the very term “antisemitic” is problematic and confusing, which has caused them to attempt “rebranding” antisemitism under different monikers such as “Jew hate” and, most recently “anti-Jewish racism”:
In the maelstrom and vitriol that followed the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s damning report into the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn last month, few noticed the near total omission in the response from the Jewish community of the very word the EHRC had just reported on: “Anti-Semitism.”
In a joint statement, the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council said the report “disgraces those who attacked us for speaking out against anti-Jewish racism,” calling Jeremy Corbyn “a figurehead for old and new anti-Jewish attitudes.”
The Jewish Labour Movement said it had been warning of a “deepening casual culture of anti-Jewish racism” since 2015. The Holocaust Educational Trust said it confirmed “the depth of the endemic anti-Jewish racism in Labour.”
Labour Friends of Israel praised Keir Starmer for starting “to root out anti-Jewish racism.” Even Labour Against Antisemitism (LAAS) distanced itself from its own name, talking about the party’s “institutional anti-Jewish racism.”
Commentators soon picked up the baton. In his searing column, Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian began with “antisemitism” but ended up asking “why anti-Jewish racism might take root.”
Yet the change was already underway. In September, the Union of Jewish Students slammed universities for “failing to sufficiently protect their Jewish students from anti-Jewish racism, the oldest form of racial hatred.”
Later that month, the Antisemitism Policy Trust — which may now need renaming — said Microsoft’s chatterbot had “learned from its social media interactions to post anti-Jewish racism.”
Two weeks ago, it even seemed to have filtered through to the BBC, its news site saying Labour had “failed to stamp out anti-Jewish racism when Jeremy Corbyn was leader.” Goodbye old Jew hatred; hello new rebranded one.
Some may see this as odd, given all the fights it took to get here. For a start, there was the heave-ho over the infamous dash — aka The Battle of the Hyphen — when “anti-Semitism” faced off against “antisemitism.”
Then there was the scrap over “what anti-Semitism is,” with criticism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition giving way to a slow acceptance across the UK.
Yet odd it is not, because the switch to “anti-Jewish racism” is neither natural evolution nor incidental lexicography, as evidenced in the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC)’s annual financial filings, published online last month…
Enlighteningly, it says: “One example is the shift from the term antisemitism — a word with absolutely no recognition in one focus group — to the more recognised notion of ‘anti-Jewish racism.’ We have made a concerted effort to use this language.”
Here it was, then: recognition that this is a purposeful change, because the word “anti-Semitism” had in some cases “absolutely no recognition” from the public. What it meant, in other words, often meant nothing….
“Using this understanding we successfully shifted the terminology used towards ‘anti-Jewish racism,’ in no way to downplay the uniqueness of anti-Semitism, but to ensure that no one misunderstood our grave concerns,” she says.
Others were engaged — and wholly onboard. “We suspected that the public basically didn’t know what the word ‘anti-Semitism’ means,” says Mark Gardner, chief executive of the Community Security Trust, the charity charged with defending British Jews from anti-Semitism. “But the research showed that it was a deeper problem than we had realized.”
To some, this is less revelatory. Danny Stone, chief executive of the Antisemitism Policy Trust, cites a 2014 UCL poll in which 68 percent of almost 8,000 respondents were unfamiliar with the term anti-Semitism, and/or unaware of its meaning…
He recalls moves at the UN to widen the meaning of “anti-Semitism” to include all Semitic peoples, but Semitism “legitimizes a form of pseudo-scientific racial classification thoroughly discredited by association with Nazi ideology,” showing how the word “anti-Semitism” can be “mis-used and played upon.”
The Board of Deputies’ public affairs director Phil Rosenberg goes further, describing how the changed communal tack is as much a response to those with political agendas as to those with none….
“[Some] on the far-left tried to claim that ‘real’ racism was worse than anti-Semitism. They also insinuated that we were claiming anti-Semitism to be more important than other forms of racism.
“By using the term ‘anti-Jewish racism’ we remove their ability to do that by being clear that anti-Semitism is a form of racism and is not in competition with any other form of prejudice,” he says…
The last word, appropriately for a discussion on anti-Semitism, goes to Gardner. “Anti-Jewish racism is not a perfect form of words,” he says. “Ideally it would be said in conjunction with the word ‘anti-Semitism’ to make the meaning clearer. But it makes the point.”
There is no consensus on the meaning of “antisemitism” because it is a bogus and meaningless concept from top to bottom — based on the preposterous notion that of all people in the world, only Jews are uniquely and irrationally hated for no reason whatsoever.
Jews are demonstrably not Semites — the claim that they are is based on Jewish fables that they are racial Israelites, which is easily dismissed on both Biblical and historical evidence.
The Jewish professor Shlomo Sand thoroughly discredited the Israelite identity of Jews in his groundbreaking book, The Invention Of The Jewish People, which you can read in the CTF Library.
Which then leaves us with the question — Are Jews a distinct race? If Jews are not a distinct race, then hatred or opposition to them cannot be a form of “racism”.
Clearly, within Jewry there is an obvious “racial” caste system based on skin color — with the “whitest” Ashkenazi at the top and the Black African “Jews” on the bottom — with a mixed multitude in the middle.
All Jews are race mixed — and racially are no different from Arabs, Indians and Mestizos.
Any ethnic group that has a caste system based on skin color cannot be considered objectively to qualify as a “race” — at best they are a discernible loose ethnic group that has a tenuous relationship to Judaism — which most ethnic Jews do not practice.
Perhaps, Jewry should seriously reconsider going with the much more honest and straightforward “Jew hate” — but even that is problematic because it begs the question, “Why are Jews uniquely hated in the first place?”
But to even suggest there is a reason for Jew hatred is by definition antisemitic.
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Jewish Organized Crime says
Judaism: That mysterious thing that rich people use to condone why they are superior and rich and you are not.
Take race and religion and unprovable history and invisible and intangible God/s (molech/baal/etc..) and all you have is secret usury and secret nepotism.
Blue King says
So many Jews call anyone critical of Israel Anti-Semites. Arabs and many other people with ancestry from the ME are Semites too. Netanyahu, Trump, Obama, Biden, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown , Tony Blair, Emanuel Macron, Francois Hollande, Nicholas Sarkozy and many other current and former world leaders are Anti-Semitic.
Ha ha ha ha. Jews normally fight to AVOID being called a racial group. One can find newspaper stories in Israel about the issue, in which the prevailing opinion is that if Jews are a race, then they can be charged with racism. Hence, the official position of Israel is that they are a ‘nation’.
Suddenly when it suits their purposes, they are a ‘race’.
I think the entire world is sick of this hypocrisy and shapeshifting.
Jewish ethics = ‘what is good? what is good for us’.
Jewish epistemology = ‘what is truth? what is good for us.’
They are the opposite of the noble Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and so forth. A nation of grifters and genetically damaged malcontents.
Sparrow says
You can’t fix psychosis disorder…
[Psychotic disorders are severe mental disorders that cause abnormal thinking and perceptions. People with psychoses lose touch with reality. Two of the main symptoms are delusions and hallucinations.]
It has to be destroyed by chopping the head off and freeing society everywhere on planet earth.
Arch Stanton says
Jews are a race and work hard to prove it through DNA. Jews like Arthur Koestler fostered the Khazar “theory” that Jews are not related to their Biblical, hellion ancestors. While Jews succeed in convincing the gullible goy of this absurd notion, they work hard in the opposite direction to validate their Biblical ancestry, going as far as forging numerous ancient antiquities in the attempt. https://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Israel/Forged-in-faith. Of course, being a Jew, Golan naturally stands wrongly accused.
The real problem is the goy idea that racism is a horrible thing to be shunned, when it is in fact virtuous to identify racially with one’s own kind. If you doubt this, look at how Jewish identity invariably stems from a racial perspective. With Jews it’s always, “First and foremost, I am a Jew.” Note this is not, “I am a religious Jew” but simply, “I am a Jew,” clearly a statement of racial group identity.
That is why, for goyim, Jews have made the term “racist” a pejorative and why they insist out of the other side of their mouth that race does not exist and there is only the “human race.” Animal breeders spit on this concept with their breeding practices. Jews spit on the white race with their inane, egalitarian nonsense while maintaining their own racially exclusive solidarity.
DDearborn says
All “religions” are artificial constructs with absolutely zero connection to the physical world. The notion that being “jewish” bestows upon an individual a physical attribute is therefore complete and utter nonsense. If “jews” are a “race”, then using the same yardstick Christians and Muslims, in also in fact a “race.” Consequently, the endless bashing of Christians and Christianity by jewish-owned media and Hollywood must also be considered anti-Christian/Muslim racism.
No, you are wrong. Apparently everyone posting here is scientifically illiterate.
Being Jewish correlates with being a member of a particular ethnicity, which in turn correlates with genotype. That’s why Ashkenazi Jews suffer from Tay Sachs, while Ethiopian Jews do not. Ethiopian Jews have the sickle cell gene, while Ashkenazi Jews do not.
If you see a pale skinned, hooked nose Jew who says their ancestry is from Eastern Europe, 99% likely they will carry the various Ashkenazi genetic markers include genes correlated with Tay Sachs and other conditions.
Jews are a set of tribes, each of which tries to restrict reproduction to members of the tribe. Sometimes they take on converts, but by and large there is enough inbreeding within the group to give it a strong identity.
You do not simply walk into a synagogue and say “I am a Jew”, in contrast to Christianity and Islam. Hence, the latter two are not restricted based on tribal or genetic lineage.
Originally, Christianity was a racial construct, as Christ stated he came only for racial Israelites (Matt 15:24), but the Catholic Church, which was led by crypto-Jews, hid that truth and falsely claimed that anyone, regardless or origin, could be a Christian.
No, Jews are not a race. Ashkenazi are not the same as Mizrahi or Ethiopian Jews.
They are a family grouping of tribes. Hence Wittgenstein’s singularly obvious concept of ‘family resemblances’.
Jews trace their lineage as a nation by descent. However, there are several subgroups within that nation representing different genetic lineages. The emphasis on breeding within the tribe (occasionally taking on converts when convenient) is a sign that it is not merely a religion but a tribal orientation. Tribes can branch out, particularly if they are distributed geographically.
The easiest way to see this is to note that Ethiopian and Mizrahi Jews do not suffer from Tay Sachs or the 400+ other genetic infirmities of the inbred Ashkenazim.
Global Gang says
They have a redundancy plan. If you call them out on religous grounds they say you are anti-jewish and you should learn how to speak and read hebew or yiddish, then read the talmus, the bible, the this and that because you are too stupid to underand judaism as a religion. BS.
The second BS they pull is “you don’t understand because you are not jewish by race or genetics”. Well, again. BS.
It’s about money. They control the money so they hide behind invisible, intanglible, unprovable gods and viruses.
If you change your behavior because of invidible, intanglible gods or viruses, you are being mind controlled.
Don’t confuse religion with morality. Believe in God if you want. Just don’t kill people for it. Believe in viruses if you want. Just don’t kill people for it.
judaism is simply a gang hiding behind race and religion and secret societies they create, own and operate for a death sworn oath of loyalty to them.
Secret usurious bankers and their death sworn nepotistic goon squads they place in positions of power. That’s what judaism really is.
As jew manifests itself in monopoly of news (jews), people will listen and believe the voice of god. All the jew organizations: too numerous and the seal — the uniqueness of the jew explains it all.
Some compassionate observers have qualified the word paranoia for such aberrant and prodigal behavior. Why needs one race alone these redundant, extralegal NGOs beyond all existing laws in each state ? Jews are persecuted of course. Why? Such a question is forbidden as “hate”.
And you get the banal -6 million saints fable. Discrimination is mandated exclusively for the jew. All others are indiscriminately condemned — antisemite. They have been blinded so they will not hear nor see. Do the dead long again for life ?
All of this “anti-semetism” from the Jews reminds me of the show Seinfeld and how it had at least two episodes devoted to explaining to the goyim that “anti-semetism” is just a hustle run by Jews to get their way. ~30 years ago, Jerry Seinfeld rolled his eyes when his (in-show) uncle started throwing out “anti-semetism” accusations. If only society as a whole would finally do the same.
Come to think of it, Seinfeld blatantly explained ZOG, put a jew in an oven, put a jewess in a gas chamber, mocked Swindler’s List, and exposed feminism as a destructive fraud that ruins women.
How was it even allowed to air?
luke2236 says
Because he is a jew and the show’s creator did a pilot where someone urinated on a painting of Jesus….
Jewish worms are squirming says
Corbyn is a Jew and he’s being rolled out again to be part of the anti semitism fake persecution act. It doesn’t even get in the running to be Prime Minister if its not a Jew and it’s been that way for a very long time.
The jew appetite for self exaltation and grievances against earth and Heaven has won them the epithet , “damned” and ridiculed as the most litigious creature in history. Often thier opponents are themselves. In this short theme by CFT several jew organizations are named like the characters of a drama. It should cause alarm amongst the vigilant , patriotic politicians (conspicuously absent) or several bureaucracies in USA (England is no more) as the nice jewish people are a conspiracy and very Anti American. Except these bureaucracies are also jew organizations .
I remember Mike Pence as governor for Indiana made a controversial ( righteous) decision protecting the small business of a bakery from the wrath of Sodomite jew . They refused from their Christian confession to bake for them a wedding cake. But Governor Pence was visited by the North-East Indiana Jewish Committee ; and proves that great men can change thier minds . This hate for jews is replacing antisemitism because people have heard it so much and it was abused by the complainant.
My own family reproach me with anti -semite. But truly it should be jew hate . Finally I agree with these abusive, selfish, egomaniac , amoral, solipsistic , cruel, sanguinary , abysmal , avaricious liars . Jawohl , truly it is hate.
Based on Mike “TPPence”‘s decades-long history as a go-along-to-get-along globalist, I suspect that the Nort-East Indiana Jewish Committee did not have to try very hard to get him to cave on social conservatism.
Didn’t some auto racing organizations also put the screws to Pence, giving him the ole Jan Brewer ultimatum of “Go pro-gay or we’ll take your lucrative sports away”?
“My own family reproach me with anti -semite.”
Have you tried responding with something along the lines of “Why do you like muslims?”
Get Mrs Moloch off the throne UK says
Jewish people are anti anything that’s not Jewish, and even then they still throw the anti semitism fake persecution card at each other.
What is politics but 1 dangerous traitorous murderous Israel subservient Jew fighting for supremacy against another one pretending to be the opposition to rob us blind and ruin our countries for Israel?
The new Jewish racism card is just as futile when wielded by the tribe of thieving murdering traveling warmongering child rapists we now know are counterfeit Jews.
England has the benefit of the edict of expulsion 1290 and kicking evil Jews out for 400 years, and the fact they’d still be banned if it were up to the English, but as always a traitor such as Cromwell did a dirty little deal whereby if the jews gave him lots of their dirty money, he’d let them back in. That was the 1st step in the parasites sly re-infiltration of England.
Jewish fraud royals shipped over from Germany against the English peoples wishes and the corruption by Rothschild and MP Isaac which allowed perverted thief and traitor Jew Disraeli to crawl in under the guise of being a Christian, (when clearly he’d never read the Bible in his life or he’d have known his homosexual practices and starvation of the Irish alone were the devil’s work) were steps 2 and 3 in the re-infestation of the killer parasite to control/run England.
The main issue is people don’t realize they are being duped into voting for Jews no matter what party they vote for they only get Jews pre-selected to vote for to ensure only a corrupt evil international Jewish child rape and trafficking ring protecting thieving, murdering traitor Jew gets to be Prime Minister/President.
America’s no different. That great battle for Independence from England, but still every President except 1 has been related to each other and are related to the evil frauds on England’s throne.
It’s all just the illusion of independence and freedom in reality. Still tied to Mrs Moloch’s apron strings P(aed)O Box 1, Buckingham Palace in reality.
Corrupt traitorous greedy evil Jewish politicians pretending to be English have killed way more people than the coronavirus and not just in England, yet the English don’t force the vaccine that is 100% proven cure, the edict of expulsion on them and it really would be the perfect thing to do.
Max says
If anti-semitism is true then what are “they” doing that would elicit such a response?
paranoid goy says
Congratulations Max! That is the most Jewish sentence on the whole thread; Accusatory, denialist and denigrating the Goy intellect, all in 15 words, bugger the grammar!
There is a difference between a Jew and a Jewish person. The Jew comes from the old Israel, now called Palestine, where he WAS known as an Israelite. The Jewish are European migrants who now live in Palestine, and they call it Israel, and we call them Israelis. Jew-ish not Jew, Israeli not Israelite. One of the despicable things the Jewish are doing, is occupying Palestine and pretending to be Jews while genociding the Jews (and everyone else) and the Christians support them in this, because they think the Jewish are the Israelites from the Bible. Not to mention the pathetic prayers for Armageddon, so the Messiah can hurry up. (Read Pence?)
But mostly, the Jewish are teaching the world exactly how to rid the planet of White men, so they can all (all races are promised this) desport themselves with white women. They all hate White men, they all denigrate the stupid Blonde women, and they all can’t control their erection when they see a blonde white women. Now they are teaching your son to be afraid of his penis, or is there anyone out there able to proof that the gender-bender craze is driven by any demographic group other than International Jewry?
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How Robust Is White Evangelical Support for Trump?
February 20, 2017 ~ Jesse Curtis
This is one of the first images that a search for “white evangelicals” produced.
Chris Gehrz, a professor of history at Bethel University in Minnesota, has some good thoughts and questions today. Reacting to polls showing strong white evangelical support for Trump’s travel ban executive order, Gehrz writes:
I’m from an evangelical family, attend an evangelical church, and work at an evangelical university, and I can’t think of a single evangelical who viewed that executive order favorably. Perhaps I just move in relatively progressive circles, or people are censoring themselves around me (in person or on social media). But off hand I can think of several evangelicals in my acquaintance who supported Trump (or at least opposed Clinton) and yet were bothered by the order.
Moreover, on this particular issue, a wide array of evangelical leaders actually did speak out, responding with varying degrees of alarm to the administration’s treatment of refugees and preference for some religions over another.
So what do we make of this 76% figure? It’s entirely possible that evangelical has simply lost all meaning. Or that there’s a fundamental split between the term as a category that historians like me use to interpret religious belief and behavior and the term as what Tim Gloege has called a “marketing segment… ‘Evangelicals’ in this sense were not an untapped segment of voters that pollsters discovered, it was one they created.”
So “this ‘evangelicalism’ was not an organic movement; it was a conjured segment.” But a conjured segment that soon attracted leaders… many of whom now seem not to speak for their supposed followers.
Read the whole thing. I do think there is an artificial polling effect here. Call it a self-fulfilling prophecy or a feedback loop. As “white evangelical” becomes primarily a political moniker in our public discourse, those who disagree with the politics the term signifies stop calling themselves white evangelicals. Anecdotally, we saw a lot of this immediately following the election. If “white evangelical” just means “a White Christian with conservative politics” then the polling results are predetermined.
But there’s something else going on here too. I’m inclined to say to Gehrz: yes, you do just move in relatively progressive circles. It seems to me that white evangelicals who say they don’t know evangelical Trump supporters (or supporters of the ban specifically) are either in a really unusual bubble or they’re kidding themselves. In these progressive evangelical circles, we hear it said that the polls showing 75% white evangelical support for Trump reflect “cultural Christians” in the South who don’t even go to church and aren’t “real” evangelicals. I think the pervasiveness of this feeling does tell us something about how diverse and divided evangelicalism is. But mostly I think this is a self-serving way to avoid facing the rot in our own communities.
Let’s grant that the polls overstate Trump support among “real” evangelicals (whoever they are). The support still appears very strong among churchgoing white evangelicals, almost certainly a healthy majority. How do we know? We can start with Pew’s poll last week, which showed support for Trump by frequency of attendance at religious services. This measure is extremely broad in that it encompasses all kinds of Christianity and other religions as well, but in a way it is more specific than asking someone if they are a white evangelical. Whether or not you go to religious services is more concrete and easy to answer than whether you affirm a disputed identity. In the absence of more detailed polling of white evangelicals, generic religious attendance might be a better measure. And what that shows is that high religious attendance is correlated with support for Trump.
Consider also a Barna poll from last October. It asked people in more detail about their religious beliefs and classified them as evangelicals based on a series of theological questions rather than self-identification. The result? 55% of evangelicals backed Trump compared to 2% for Clinton. Barna’s post-election recap found that the strongest support for Trump was among these evangelicals, not among nominal believers.
Historians can quibble with this data too, mostly because it is defining evangelical only by claimed beliefs rather than practices. But the evidence we have—imperfect though it is—paints an uncomfortable picture. Most committed church-going white evangelicals probably support Trump. A majority may even have an actively favorable view of his presidency. There’s no easy answer to this, or excuse for it. But this is our reality, and we need to face it.
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ICYMI: What The End Of ‘The Clone Conspiracy’ Means For The Future Of Spider-Man
Gabrielle Dell'Otto / Marvel Comics
The latest Spider-Man event, The Clone Conspiracy, provided a massive shake-up to the status-quo with every issue, as The Jackal attempted to reverse the reality of death itself With the final issue of Dan Slott and Jim Cheung's clone-tastic miniseries out this week, here's everything you need to know about the conclusion, and what it means for Peter Parker and his supporting cast.
NOTE: This article has spoilers for The Clone Conspiracy, obviously.
The plot of The Clone Conspiracy saw The Jackal --- AKA Ben Reilly, Peter Parker's clone-brother --- attempting to kill the entire world via a signal that transmitted The Carrion Virus, so that he could resurrect the population as deathless clones. This issues sees Peter and his allies working to stop that, as Doctor Octopus and Peter Parker team-up, and Gwen Stacy goes out fighting against three Goblin analogues.
Jim Cheung / Marvel Comics
Peter was ultimately able to reverse the signal via Parker Industries' operating system, saving people around the world at the cost of his own technology. Peter has been a jet-setting millionaire playboy for a few years now, but as Anna-Maria Marconi points out, this action could be disastrous for their shares. If that's true, could we see a return to down-on-his luck Peter Parker in the near future?
The Jackal and Doctor Octopus both seemingly succumbed to the Carrion virus and melted into ash, but we know that Ben Reilly is returning in Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider by Peter David and Mark Bagley, so the question remains: How is Ben still alive, and does it have anything to do with The Ultimate Template, a blank clone body that anyone's personality can be slotted into, which went missing from his lab in the story's aftermath?
As for the villains brought back to life, Spider-Man discovers that some of them survived the cloning process, and some of them didn't, meaning there's the potential for a number of Spider-Man's biggest enemies to return at a moment's notice. It could be Mysterio, it could be Massacre, or it could be (hopefully) Stilt-Man.
Peter got a big win in the conclusion of The Clone Conspiracy after discovering a number of survivors in pods, though the only one explicitly identified at this point is The Prowler, who was initially feared lost.
Given Parker's law of bad luck, and Dan Slott's longform plotting style, the ramifications of this storyline surely aren't played out yet.
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Filed Under: DAN SLOTT, Everything Changed Forever, ICYMI, Jim Cheung, Spider-Man, The Clone Conspiracy
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Smart City Networks Surpasses Industry Record
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Smart City Networks, an event telecommunications and technology services provider for the convention industry, recently finished a total overhaul of the Hawai’i Convention Center’s data and wireless capabilities in just 27 days—an industry record.
“This project under normal circumstances would have required three to four months to plan, purchase and receive components, contract construction, install equipment, configure, test and deploy,” says Mark Haley, president, Smart City Networks. “Our team worked tirelessly to meet this record deadline and this serves as an example that our organization is ready and able to meet our partners’ needs.”
The organization finished the project at the Honolulu-based convention center just four weeks after being hired; the work featured the design and installation of 100 new access points with antennas; 29,000 feet of Category 6 networking cable; and 11 sets of patch panels, connectors, and other hardware and supporting components.
“Smart City has been a tremendous partner, and the Hawai‘i Convention Center is proud to be working with such a fine organization,” says Jennifer Nakayama, director of operations, Hawai’i Convention Center. “Their emphasis on elevating service levels to our event clients and building staff shows their commitment to being proactive, as well as their alignment with the Hawai‘i Convention Center goals of putting the customer first.”
Smart City ordered and was responsible for the delivery of 100 access points for the network, which was designed by the company’s wireless engineering team. The organization’s facilities on the mainland collected Core Network Equipment and 20 Edge Switches and shipped it to the company’s headquarters in Las Vegas, where network engineers designed and shipped the components to Oahu. Four lifts were rented and delivered to the convention center for to install the network. A team comprised of five technicians and one foreman led the physical installation of the Access Points and Category 6 cabling—in under two weeks.
“We took great measures to not only commission this equipment and get it operational in a fraction of the time most other companies would require, but also to set up network addresses and services to the convention center’s permanent tenants early in the process,” says David Langford, vice president of technology, Smart City. “Our goal is always to help the in-house venue partners keep their businesses operational and minimize any downtime as we upgrade their systems. Additionally, Smart City expanded the IPv4 capabilities by adding IPv6 capabilities as well.”
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A family of ice cast seats made from the same mould, yet each shows unique shape and patterns. By lost wax technique, one is then cast in metal.
Growth - aluminium bench _ Benjamin Motoc
Benjamin Motoc
A birthmark here, wrinkles there; a family of seats resemble each other but are slightly different, despite being born from the same mother mould. Through a series of evolving iterations, ‘Growth’ shows very unique outcomes and resists the uniformity of large-scale production.
With the excessive use of moulds in ceramic, metal, plastic and glass industries, it would be safe to say that the standardisation of products is nowadays the norm. The purpose of techniques like moulding and casting is uniformity. Even though the idea of mass production functions on a more human and equal level where products become accessible to all, this way of making objects can still be questioned, and reflected upon.
Abandoning the standard materials used for industrial moulds, Benjamin Motoc developed a production line that mirrors that of mass manufacturing, but generates a unique outcome with each casting. Materials with opposite qualities are combined: molten wax is poured into an ice mould, simultaneously taking its shape and deforming it.
“When an industrial mould has a tiny flaw, it’s not used any more – but that’s when it gets interesting.”
Later, the wax shapes are brought to a foundry and cast in aluminium, following the lost wax technique. Offspring of the mould, these seats tell the story of their evolution, and prompt us to rethink the manufacturing systems of today.
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Farewell to Trump: The Man, The Mission, The Movement
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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day to you all – well, to you some, in any case. The warm salutation is not for you unconstitutionally racist Trump voters. And it certainly isn’t for you gun-crazed militia men descending upon Virginia. It seems that, as far as NBC and Slate can tell, both groups are made up entirely of horrible human beings who wouldn’t know freedom and equality from a hole in the ground.
Descent into Madness
Monday, Jan. 20 is VCDL Lobby Day in Virginia, and Slate has asked an important question: “Why are militia groups descending on Virginia?” The answer requires some background information. Governor Ralph Northam has long yearned for a disarmed citizenry, but without the Democratic Party holding a trifecta in the state government, he has been kept from his dream. Now he has exactly that, and once again he and his gun-grabbing pals are pushing various bills designed to infringe upon the right of Virginians to keep and bear arms. The response? More than 100 cities and counties have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, militias have formed, and pro-gun folk from near and far meet at the state capitol to protest the infringement of a constitutionally protected right.
Liberty Nation’s own Scott D. Cosenza will be attending, though it’s unclear if he will also descend upon the event or if he plans to approach from some other angle. In any case, he will keep us informed of the significant goings on.
Slate claims that these gun laws are “widely supported by Virginians.” They cite polls showing that 86% of voters support universal background checks and that 73% want extreme risk protection orders – or red flag laws – which would allow courts to “temporarily” revoke the right to be armed. Yet if those polls are an accurate sampling of Virginians, one must wonder from whence this horde of protesters came and why it is that nearly all of Virginia’s 95 counties are now officially Second Amendment sanctuaries.
The author clearly has a point he wishes to share with the reader: These militia members and other gun nuts are both deranged and dangerous. Perhaps they have been driven mad by inhaling too much gun smoke – or by watching too much Gunsmoke. In any case, they’re a bunch of paranoid conspiracy theorists – a nuisance. What makes them think they can infringe the right of Democrats to tell others how to live and what to own? In a word, racism.
The opening paragraph lists months of hoaxes, threats, and fury toward Democrats from the pro-gun crowd. By just the second paragraph we see the allusion to racism:
“Some proponents have even resurrected words like nullification and interposition, terms first used extensively by Southern secessionists prior to the Civil War and more recently during the ‘massive resistance’ to federal laws requiring desegregation in the 1960s.”
How easily the author paints the defenders of liberty as bigots and firearm ownership as an evil on par with slavery.
It should be noted that Slate didn’t deem it necessary to define nullification and interposition – the ideas that the state or a group of states could either nullify federal laws considered unconstitutional or interfere with the enforcement of them. These ideas, whether constitutionally valid or not, are about states stepping in to defend citizens from a tyrannical federal government. For Slate, however, it was enough to simply tie the terms to slavery and segregation.
A Constitutional Crisis
Think the obstruction of government operations by the potentially soon-to-be-outlaws of Virginia is bad? That’s just a drop in the bucket. NBC revealed a much worse and wider spread form of racism, a real constitutional crisis: voting for Donald Trump. “Trump voters motivated by racism may be violating the Constitution. Can they be stopped?” was the title of one NBC News article. And yes, the idea behind this story is that voting for Trump is racist, and that racist voting is illegal, as it violates the Constitution.
“If the Trump era has taught us anything,” the author posits, “it’s that large numbers of white people in the United States are motivated at least in part by racism in the voting booth.” Some folk deny the racism, likely out of fear of alienating the mass of racist voters, and others try to rationalize it. But Terry Smith, a visiting professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, argues that it’s wrong, illegal, and that the government can and should do something to stop it.
Smith cites the fact that racist appeals in union elections are illegal and points to a 2016 Supreme Court case, Pena v Rodriguez, in which the court ruled that if a juror expresses overt bigotry, the verdict of that jury should be considered invalid. And so, “voters who pull the levers to harm black people are violating the Constitution.” Because overt racist appeals invalidate union elections, so they should also invalidate presidential ones.
That Trump is clearly a racist is established early in the article, and the author goes on to explain that nothing but racism could have driven voters to choose him for president:
“Trump’s unprecedented, compulsive, easily documented lying during the 2016 campaign made him an irrational choice. It’s reasonable to conclude that voters were willing to swallow the falsehoods because they liked what they heard: overt racist appeals and incessant lies about rising crime rates. Research has since suggested that plenty of Trump voters were indeed strongly motivated by racist resentment and anti-immigrant animus.”
Well, Trump voters, did you “pull the levers to harm black people”? If you’re skeptical that someone would really believe such an argument, you aren’t alone. LN’s Joe Schaeffer has his suspicions:
“Don’t you think at some point this is more of a psychological warfare article rather than a true opinion offered in good faith? They know people are fatigued to death by all this racial obsessing and they keep upping the ante, keep pouring it on as a way to demoralize and deflate. Just seeing the headline can have that effect, even if just in a subtle way. It is meant to agitate via negative energy. I mean, this is textbook Communist Playbook 101, and NBC is doing it.”
As unbelievable as the author’s perspective might be, there are almost certainly some left-wing lunatics who actually believe it. Still, as Joe said, “Donald Trump is a racist and so is anyone who voted for him” is a very useful narrative.
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Donovan Group and its directors named among top in NZ
Donovan Group NZ Ltd (Coresteel Buildings' parent company) has been named one of New Zealand’s top companies in the engineering industry, as listed by the NZ Engineering News 2016 Annual Directory.
Company directors Brett Donovan and Kyle Donovan were also named in the directory’s list of the Top People in the engineering and manufacturing industries.
The company was chosen by a selected panel of industry experts on the basis of creativity and innovation. Among others, the panel included Dieter Adam, CEO of the NZ Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), and Wolfgang Scholz, Director of the NZ Heavy Engineering Research Association (HERA).
In recent years, Donovan Group has made a name for itself as a leader in innovation, due to the Bracketless Portal System and Tapered Box Beam technologies.
Donovan Group was featured alongside a number of industry leaders, such as Callaghan Innovation, Gallagher Group, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and New Zealand Steel.
Directors Brett and Kyle Donovan were listed in the directory, for their outstanding and enduring contributions to the New Zealand engineering and manufacturing industries. The list comprised of 60 people whose work, invention and forward thinking is keeping the industry moving forward.
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Detroit Lions Coach Matt Patricia,Matt Patricia – Detroit Lions,Matt patricia coaching record|2020-12-01
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Patricia joined the professional coaching ranks as an offensive assistant with the Patriots in 2004.New England and New Orleans were each fined, while the Saints lost a seventh-round pick.Matt Patricia was named the head coach of the Detroit Lions on Feb.The Titans walloped the Cots for the top spot in the AFC South, the Falcons and Patriots pulled off surprising wins and the Bills fended off the Chargers to start off Sunday.Broncos quarterbacks Drew Lock, Brett Rypien and Blake Bortles are not allowed to play in Week 12, NFL Network’s James Palmer reported, per an informed source.The Detroit Lions have fired coach Matt Patricia and general manager Bob Quinn, the team announced Saturday.Broncos coach Vic Fangio came away from Sunday’s blowout loss to the Saints greatly disappointed — not in his team’s effort or that of makeshift QB Kendall Hinton. margin-top: 0px;.— Detroit Lions (@Lions) November 28, 2020.
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UCLA’s Transition to Online Instruction
Chancellor Block sent the following message to the UCLA campus community.
To the Campus Community:
Like many of you, I have been carefully following news about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). We have been working around the clock with other campus leaders and public health officials to consider how it has and could continue to impact our students, faculty and staff and developing plans for every possible scenario. While there are no confirmed cases at UCLA at this time, I believe that it is important for communities to look out for one another and to do what is best for our global and UCLA communities.
This is why, after detailed and thoughtful discussion, consultation with experts, and planning and preparation, we have decided to enact the following changes to limit the spread of COVID-19, effective tomorrow, March 11:
We will suspend in-person classes wherever possible and transition to online platforms through April 10, which is the end of the second week of Spring Quarter.
Winter Quarter final exams will be offered remotely. Instructors are asked to communicate with students how final exams, if applicable, will be offered without the need to assemble in person (for example, take home, online or other alternative formats).
Students are encouraged to start the Spring Quarter remotely from home. University housing will remain open through Spring Break and beyond for those who need it.
We’re transitioning over the next few days to cancel nonessential gatherings of more than 100 people.
Campus remains open, including housing, hospitals, clinics and research laboratories.
We will be in touch before April 10 as facts change and we reevaluate these plans.
If you are a student or faculty member and have specific questions or concerns, reach out to your department chair or dean. Schools will communicate more specific guidance and information, building on our plan for academic continuity. If you are an employee, please contact your manager and further guidance will be forthcoming. Please continue to check UCLA’s dedicated COVID-19 website for updates.
I know this raises a lot of questions about courses, like performance courses, that are difficult to teach remotely and, for our staff who support campus operations, what their roles will look like. We understand there will be questions around many issues. Please be assured that answers and additional information will be forthcoming over the next few days.
Our new policy regarding nonessential in-person events with more than 100 people will mean that organizers must work toward canceling conferences and large events through April 10. Attendance at all UCLA Athletics home events will be largely spectator-free through April 10 and limited to individuals essential to safely and effectively managing events.
I know these changes may cause some stress and uncertainty. Please bear with us while we manage this complicated transition. Counseling services are available for students through UCLA’s Counseling and Psychological Services. Staff and faculty may seek services at the Staff and Faculty Counseling Center. If you develop flu-like symptoms — fever, cough and difficulty breathing — and are concerned that you may have been exposed to COVID-19, seek medical attention. Students should call the Ashe Center Infection Control Line at 310-206-6217 and faculty and staff should call their health care providers. Please always call ahead before arriving.
Students: I know you will miss your friends and all of the activities you enjoy on campus. I want to thank you in advance for your cooperation, flexibility and academic integrity during this time. Please read more online about resources available to you.
Faculty: I know these transitions will require you to transform how you deliver instruction and conduct final exams. Please know that we will work to provide the support and training you need to make this change as smooth as possible. Watch the Academic Senate homepage for further guidance.
Staff: Please work with your supervisors to be flexible in these uncertain times and know that additional information about business continuity will be provided. You can find the UC Office of the President updated leave policy (PDF) online.
And, finally, for our entire community, please also remember that COVID-19 is clearly going to disrupt and change our schedules, habits and lives for the foreseeable future. This will not be a perfect transition; however, it will not change who we are and what we do. It will also never compromise UCLA’s impact in our community and the broader world. How we react and work together in times like these help define who we are, and I have no doubt that the Bruin community will once again rise to the occasion as we transition to our second century.
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Frail and failing, retired detective Buck Schatz defends lethal punishment for a serial killer he put away
By Liz Garrigan | March 18, 2020
When last we checked on author Daniel Friedman’s character Buck Schatz, we were hoping the cantankerous octogenarian and long-retired Memphis police detective would make it to his next decade — in spite of his significant medical issues, limited mobility, miserable outlook, and unwavering commitment to Lucky Strikes. Fortunately for fans of memorable mysteries and comic genius, Friedman has delivered the third book in the series, which, given that Schatz is now nearly 90, is aptly titled Running Out of Road.
Life hasn’t been kind lately to the Jewish former cop who rose to significant rank in the Memphis police department in the 1950s, when some of his superiors were known Klansmen and anti-Semitism was widespread and pernicious. A full 40 years since his retirement, Schatz is so distracted by the manifestations of his decrepitude that there is nary a mention in this latest title of his bowel movements or fondness for Fox News, cherished parts of his days in books one and two.
Instead, Schatz and his wife of 70 years, Rose, are spending their days shuffling between their Valhalla Estates retirement home and a dizzying array of doctors, including a cardiologist, gastroenterologist, audiologist, psychologist, and neurologist (the one Schatz calls “the dementia guy”), to name a few. Schatz needs the dementia guy for lots of reasons, but chiefly because he is constantly forgetting that Rose has just been diagnosed with cancer.
It becomes clear that the ailing couple will have to call on someone to help them make medical decisions for Rose, if and when she becomes incapacitated, because Schatz can’t seem to remember she’s sick. Their son Brian is dead, a loss from which Schatz has never fully recovered, so they call on their grandson Tequila, a recent law school graduate studying for the bar.
“It’s not that he’s incoherent, exactly,” Rose tells the neurologist about her husband. “He just forgets important things. … Medical things. But he remembers every ridiculous thing he hears on talk radio. He can’t shut up about that.”
“It’s not my fault the liberals are out to destroy this country,” Schatz shoots back, reaching for his Lucky Strikes.
Speaking of liberals, Carlos Watkins, host of the NPR-affiliated series American Justice, keeps calling Schatz to set up an interview about the case of convicted serial killer Chester March, scheduled to become the oldest person executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, assuming his lawyer’s efforts to stay the lethal injection fail. It took Schatz 20 years (and beating some teeth out of the killer’s head during an interrogation) to put away the remorseless psychopath, who killed at least three women between 1953 and 1976: a black prostitute, his own wife, and, finally, his landlord, whom he tried to liquify in a vat of acid. Though the evidence against March was significant, Schatz’s Klan-friendly higher-ups weren’t energized by the murder of a black woman or the suspected killing of a wife whose body had yet to be found. But two decades on, Schatz eventually got his man.
Tequila counsels his grandfather unequivocally against talking to the journalist, a transparent ideologue who “wants to give you a rope to see if you’re willing to hang yourself.” But, Schatz counters, “[Watkins] said his program is about race and class and the criminal justice system. If my witness hadn’t been a colored prostitute and I hadn’t been a Jew, Chester would have been convicted of murder in 1955, and he’d have gone to the electric chair decades ago.”
What ensues is Watkins’ unceasing pursuit of an interview with Schatz; a series of American Justice episodes that rely on a narrative of Chester March’s victimhood; and Tequila, Rose, and Buck embarking on a simultaneously heartbreaking and side-splitting road trip to Nashville to view what they hope will be March’s execution. And, of course, there’s hot chicken.
In Running Out of Road, Friedman, a Memphis native who is now an attorney in New York City, manages to tackle two inescapably dismal subjects with uncommon nimbleness: aging and the death penalty. He renders the helplessness and difficulty of waning life as sometimes humorous and other times hopelessly sad, like when Schatz explains how he used to wear cordovan oxfords, “shoes of a striver,” but now settles for slip-on canvas sneakers: “They tell you a story of resignation, a story of decline. They tell you about the stream of compromises that have steadily eroded my foundation and turned me into the rickety ruin I have become.”
At times throughout the narrative, Friedman seems to censure the familiar tendency of death penalty coverage to focus so much on the condemned that victims’ stories are forgotten. But just when the author’s point of view seems diagnosable, Friedman offers a persuasive and nuanced answer from the other side of the ideological aisle.
Friedman’s writing, as always, elevates the genre and exceeds all expectations of crime fiction. And like his other two books in the series — Don’t Ever Get Old (2012) and Don’t Ever Look Back (2014) —Running Out of Road contains plenty of playfulness in Schatz’s trademark wisecracking and surliness. But, as the title suggests, the book is also sobering, and not just because we’re losing Schatz to life’s indignities.
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Former pro wrestler Jimmy “King Cobra” Kimble will retire form his Republic Services welding shop manager position on Friday. Kimble, who has worked full-time in the welding shop since 1965, also wrestled with the likes of Jerry “The King” Lawler, The Junkyard Dog, and Hulk Hogan in his spare time. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
In 1990, Jimmy "King Cobra" Kimble snagged the United States Wrestling Association’s Unified World Heavyweight Championship title away from Jerry “The King” Lawler. He also spent 55 years with Republic Services, missing only one day of work for a broken leg.
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Sri Lanka: Authorities extend curfew in Western province until November 9 /update 26
Authorities extend curfew in Western province until November 9; follow authority directives
Sri Lankan authorities have announced that the curfew in place in the Western province will be lifted on Monday morning, November 9, as the country tries to reopen the economy. The curfew had been introduced on Friday, October 30, due to a rise in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. The usage of facemasks in public remains mandatory. All public gatherings are banned; however, weddings and funerals may occur in non-curfew areas with up to 50 and 25 guests, respectively.
All passengers departing from the country will be required to present a negative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The test must be taken within the 72 hours preceding the departure flight. The ban on incoming international passenger flights also remains in place until further notice.
As of Sunday, November 8, there have been 13,702 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka and 34 associated fatalities. Further international spread of the virus is to be expected in the near term.
Measures adopted by local authorities evolve quickly and are usually effective immediately. Depending on the evolution of the outbreak in other countries, authorities are likely to modify, at very short notice, the list of countries whose travelers are subject to border control measures or entry restrictions upon their arrival to the territory in question. It is advised to postpone nonessential travel due to the risk that travelers may be refused entry or be subject to quarantine upon their arrival or during their stay.
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Sri Lanka: Authorities banning entry of travelers from, or with travel history to the UK, as of Dec. 23; domestic COVID-19 curbs continue. /update 37
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Joshua Robert is a recruitment company that specialises in all areas of property recruitment. It was founded by Josh Powell together with a small, but dedicated team of experienced professionals. The company values dedication and integrity, putting their customers first. They focus on the qualities of each candidate to find a job that fits them, rather than making them fit the job – this also includes creating brand new opportunities if the perfect role isn’t listed yet.
Joshua Robert approached Digital Glue with three different challenges: to discover who their ideal customers are, to supply them with a new brand, and to create a new website. The creative elements had to represent their personal values and appeal to the audience, to enable the business to grow and develop.
We started with the core challenge of defining the target audience: this helped to inform and inspire the work we created. We facilitated an ‘Ideal Client’ session with Josh and members of his team. This brainstorm session helped to narrow down 3 target audience groups. It also defined the characteristics, preferences and dislikes of each group, which allowed Joshua Robert to communicate effectively with them. The results were then visualised in a pdf that were shared with the team.
Logo: Once the target audience had been defined, we worked alongside Josh to decide on the concept direction. Through various iterations, we created a concept which represented Joshua Roberts through the use of a leaf, symbolising growth, nurture and opportunity. We wanted to create a statement and picked bold colours that allowed the brand to stand out amongst their competitors. By using the leaf, we were able to expand out to other illustrations to aid the growth and nurtured approach which created the personal touch.
After the new Joshua Robert brand was established, we used the brand colours, fonts and assets to create a modern, playful but professional looking website. The website had usability at the forefront, enabling both candidates and employers to easily browse the site. We achieved this by including a search function on the homepage, displayed prominently and above the fold. The ‘jobs’ page itself was supplied with more extensive filters, combined with a list of jobs that displays key information for each listing. Location, salary and sector – the most important features for each job – can be spotted at a first glance. Each job is combined with an easy to access application form. Users can filter, search, find their ideal job, and send off their application within 2 to 4 clicks maximum.
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Disney's Sing-Along Songs: You Can Fly!
Disney's Sing-Along Songs: You Can Fly! is a Disney's Sing-Along Songs video released on February 2, 1988. Notably the first video in the series to feature Professor Ludwig Von Drake as the host, all of the featured songs are either about flying or taking place in various nations.
4 With the Talents of
4.1 Uncredited
Soar to magical heights with this sparkling program of sing-along singing fun! You'll learn the words to a memorable collection of favorite songs with DISNEY'S SING-ALONG SONGS: YOU CAN FLY! Get the whole family together and join a gathering of Disney characters for an enchanted songfest...highlighted by a rainbow of scenes from best-loved animated Classics, movies and cartoons. Get ready...get set...sing!
Sing along with songs from Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, The Jungle Book, Pinocchio, and more!
Disney Sing Along Songs Theme Song
You Can Fly (Peter Pan)
The Beautiful Briny (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
Colonel Hathi's March (The Jungle Book)
I've Got No Strings (Pinocchio)
Little Black Rain Cloud (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree/The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh)
The Merrily Song (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
He's a Tramp (Lady and the Tramp)†
Step in Time (Mary Poppins)
When I See an Elephant Fly (Dumbo)
You Can Fly Reprise
Released in 1988 to mark the 35th Anniversary of Peter Pan.
When Ludwig introduces the first song, You Can Fly, a scene from From All of Us to All of You for the intro has been revealed.
†He's a Tramp was cut from the 1994 print and the 2006 DVD, but was retained in the Spanish version.
The original post-credits promo narrated by Ludwig von Drake is also featured on the LaserDisc print, as well as the 2006 DVD. It is also seen on Fun With Music.
During "The Merrily Song", a clip of Fiddler Pig jumping into the water is used from The Practical Pig and a clip of the traffic light switch is used from Susie the Little Blue Coupe.
Known as Peter Pan: Voloras, Voloras in Spanish, released in Spain and the United States. When the Spanish version was released around 1993, He's a Tramp was still on the Spanish version even though it got cut in the English version.
During the reprise of "You Can Fly", portions of the audio are recycled from the Disneyland attraction, Peter Pan's Flight.
Known as Peter Pan: Tu T'Envoles in French, released in France and the United States.
Ludwig von Drake's segments use stock footage from Carnival Time, Fly with Von Drake, Kids is Kids, and A Square Peg in a Round Hole.
With the Talents of
Kathryn Beaumont - Wendy (archive footage)
Eric Blore - Mr. Toad (archive footage)
Corey Burton - Professor Owl, Ludwig Von Drake
Sebastian Cabot - Bagheera (archive footage)
Paul Collins - John (archive footage)
Karen Dotrice - Jane Banks (archive footage)
Bobby Driscoll - Peter Pan (archive footage)
Cliff Edwards - Jiminy Cricket, Jim Crow (archive footage)
Sterling Holloway - Winnie the Pooh (archive footage)
Clint Howard - Colonel Hathi's Son (archive footage)
Dick Jones - Pinocchio (archive footage)
Charles Judels - Stromboli (archive footage)
Angela Lansbury - Miss Eglantine Price (archive footage)
Peggy Lee - Peg (archive footage)
Cindy O'Callaghan - Carrie Rawlins (archive footage)
Pat O'Malley - Colonel Hathi, Cyril Proudbottom (archive footage)
Bruce Reitherman - Mowgli, Christopher Robin (archive footage)
George Sanders - Shere Khan (archive footage)
Roy Snart - Paul Rawlins (archive footage)
David Tomlinson - Professor Emelius Browne (archive footage)
Dick Van Dyke - Bert (archive footage)
Ian Weighill - Charlie Rawlins (archive footage)
Uncredited
Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins (archive footage)
Edward Brophy - Timothy Q. Mouse (archive footage)
Bob Holt - Mr. Codfish (archive footage)
Tommy Luske - Michael (archive footage)
The Mellomen - Dogs in pound (archive footage)
Opening title to the 1988 VHS release of You Can Fly!
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (1986) • Heigh-Ho (1987) • The Bare Necessities (1987) • You Can Fly! (1988) • Very Merry Christmas Songs (1988) • Fun with Music (1989) • Under the Sea (1990) • Disneyland Fun (1990) • I Love to Laugh! (1990) (a.k.a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) • Be Our Guest (1992) • Friend Like Me (1993) • The Twelve Days of Christmas (1993) • Campout at Walt Disney World (1994/1996 for countries outside of North America) • Let's Go to the Circus! (1994/1996 for countries outside of North America) • Circle of Life (1994/1995 for countries outside of North America) • Colors of the Wind (1995) • Topsy Turvy (1996) [Known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame in releases outside of the US] • Pongo & Perdita (1996) • The Early Years (1997) • The Magic Years (1997) • The Modern Classics (1997) • Sing a Song with Pooh Bear (1999) • Sing a Song with Tigger (2000, not an official Disney's Sing-Along Songs video)
Outside of the US (Foreign releases)
Let's Go to Disneyland Paris [Similar to Disneyland Fun] (1993) • 101 Notes of Fun (1994) [Similar to Fun with Music] • From Hercules (1997)
US Exclusive Releases
Beach Party at Walt Disney World (1995) • Honor to Us All (1998) • Happy Haunting: Party at Disneyland! (1998) • Flik's Musical Adventure at Disney's Animal Kingdom (1999) • Sing a Song with Pooh Bear (and Piglet Too) (2003) • On My Way (2003) • Little Patch of Heaven (2004) • Disney Princess Sing-Along Songs Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream (2004) • Disney Princess Sing-Along Songs Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party (2005) • Disney Princess Sing-Along Songs Vol. 3 - Perfectly Princess (2006)
Films: Peter Pan • Return to Never Land • Tink • Video • Peter Pan and Wendy
Shorts and Specials: The Walt Disney Christmas Show • Reading Magic with Figment and Peter Pan • You Can Fly!: The Making of Peter Pan
Video Games: Kingdom Hearts • Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories • Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days • Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep • Peter Pan: Adventures in Never Land • Peter Pan: The Legend of Never Land • Disney Universe • Kinect Disneyland Adventures • Epic Mickey series • Disney's Villains' Revenge • Disney Sorcerer's Arena
Fantasy Springs • Adventure Isle • Back to Never Land • Disney Animation Building • It's a Small World • Mickey's PhilharMagic • Peter Pan's Flight • Storybook Land Canal Boats • Midship Detective Agency
Entertainment: Cinderella's Surprise Celebration • Disney's Believe • Disney Dreams: An Enchanted Classic • Disney Classics: The Music & The Magic • Dream Along with Mickey • Fantasmic! • Following the Leader with Peter Pan • It's Party Time... with Mickey and Friends • Mickey's Magical Music World • Mickey presents: “Happy Anniversary Disneyland Paris” • Once Upon a Mouse • One Man's Dream II: The Magic Lives On! • Villains Tonight!
Restaurants: Captain Hook's Galley
Parades: Celebrate A Dream Come True Parade • Disney's Dreams On Parade: Moving On • Disney's Fantillusion • Disney's Magical Moments Parade • Disney's Party Express • Disney Cinema Parade • Disney Magic on Parade • Disney Stars on Parade • Dreaming Up! • Festival of Fantasy Parade • Jubilation! • Magic Happens • Main Street Electrical Parade • Mickey's Soundsational Parade • Mickey's Storybook Express • Paint The Night Parade • SpectroMagic • The Wonderful World of Disney Parade
Fireworks: Disney Dreams! • Disneyland Forever • Fantasy in the Sky • Happily Ever After • Magic, Music and Mayhem • Magical • Once Upon a Time • Remember... Dreams Come True • Wonderful World of Animation
Spring: Disney Color-Fest: A Street Party! • Disney Pirate or Princess: Make Your Choice
Halloween: Disney's Maleficious Halloween Party • Happy Hallowishes • Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular • It's Good to be Bad with the Disney Villains • Jack Skellington’s Villainous Gathering • Kooky Spooky Halloween Night • Mickey's Boo-to-You Halloween Parade • Re-Villains! Halloween Parade • The Disney Villains Halloween Showtime • The Villains World • Villains Dance Party • Villains Mix and Mingle • Villains Night Out!
Christmas: Mickey's Most Merriest Celebration
Peter Pan: Peter Pan • Peter Pan's Shadow • Tinker Bell • Wendy Darling • John Darling • Michael Darling • George Darling • Mary Darling • Nana • Captain Hook • Mr. Smee • Pirate Crew • Tick-Tock the Crocodile • Lost Boys • Indian Chief • Tiger Lily • Neverland Indian Tribe • Mermaids
Return to Never Land: Edward • Jane • Danny • Nana II • Octopus
London • Bloomsbury • Nursery • Big Ben • Neverland • The Jolly Roger • Mermaid Lagoon • Skull Rock • Indian Camp • Hangman's Tree
Peter Pan: The Second Star to the Right • You Can Fly • A Pirate's Life (Is a Wonderful Life) • Following the Leader • What Made the Red Man Red? • Your Mother and Mine • The Elegant Captain Hook • Never Smile at a Crocodile
Deleted: The Pirate Song • The Boatswain Song
Return to Never Land: I'll Try • Here We Go Another Plan• So to Be One of Us • I'll Give You One Guess
Pixie Dust • Alarm Clock • Captain Hook's Hooks • Bomb
Disney Sing Along Songs: You Can Fly! • Fairies • Disney Fairies • Jake and the Never Land Pirates
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FDA Approves Expansion of Eversense® CGM Certification to NPs and PAs
By : Suvarna Sheth
Senseonics Holdings, Inc. announced that the FDA has approved the insertion and removal of its Eversense® Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System by qualified health care providers.
Previously, the sensor insertion and removal procedure could only be performed by trained physicians.
“We are pleased with this FDA approval, we can now include nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the growing list of diabetes care professionals who can be certified to place the Eversense CGM System,” said Tim Goodnow, president, and CEO of Senseonics in a company press release.
“We believe that allowing additional health care providers to perform the in-office placement procedure for Eversense CGM will enable broader access to patients for this compelling long-term diabetes management technology,” he added.
The Eversense CGM System consists of a fluorescence-based sensor, a smart transmitter worn over the sensor to facilitate data communication, and a mobile app for displaying glucose values, trends, and alerts.
The sensor lasts up to three months.
In addition to featuring the first long-term and first implantable CGM sensor, the system is also first to feature a smart transmitter that provides users discreet alerts for high and low glucose. It can be removed, recharged and re-adhered without discarding the sensor.
The sensor can now be inserted subcutaneously in the upper arm by a physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner during a brief in-office procedure.
Image courtesy: Senseonics.
Senseonics Announces FDA Approval to Expand Eversense® CGM Certification to Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants. Business Wire. 2018, November 6. Retrieved: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181106006086/en.
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What is cryptocurrency and why should I care?
By DSEDP|February 27, 2018|In Blog|8 Minutes
You’ve seen the news reports about newly-made billionaires, suspicious deaths and volatile markets, which naturally would peak anyone’s interest.
Your first question is probably: “Why didn’t I learn about Bitcoin sooner and get super rich?” Followed closely by: “What the heck is cryptocurrency, anyways?”
Cryptocurrency might seem like an overwhelming and complicated subject to dive into, but it’s something we should all be paying attention to. The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the most important financial organizations in the world, recently noted that cryptocurrencies will likely cause “massive disruption” in the near future.
By taking an easy-to-understand look at this sometimes-confusing topic, we’ll not only learn what cryptocurrency is and how it works, but why it’s such an important and disruptive element on the world’s financial stage.
Here are the key things to know about cryptocurrencies:
A simplified definition
In the simplest of terms, cryptocurrency is a purely digital currency. That’s it.
So why does it have that creepy “crypto” prefix? Because cryptocurrencies use cryptography as their main line of security against fraud.
Yep, cryptography, the same concept that allowed you to decode secret messages on the back of cereal boxes using a decoder ring. Cryptography, in its essence, allows messages to be transferred in secret.
Of course, in today’s digital age the cryptography used for digital currencies is quite a bit more complex. Utilizing sophisticated cryptography allows users to authenticate transactions, as well as mine for new coins (more on that later).
Now you know what it means, but how does it work?
Purely a peer-to-peer currency
You may remember hearing the term “peer-to-peer” back when the music-sharing service Napster was being sued by everyone in the music industry. Napster is best known for creating technology that allowed users to connect their computers and share music files, cutting record companies out of the process.
Cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, are based on this same principle. There are no banks, no Federal Reserve, no credit card fees — it is a decentralized currency that, in theory, is immune to third-party manipulation or interference and free of outside regulation.
If you’re a bank that makes its living on managing currencies, this is clearly a pretty powerful notion.
How cryptocurrencies create scarcity
A key component for any currency to work is that there must be scarcity to create value. A digital file, like a spreadsheet, holds no intrinsic value. It can be copied and distributed an infinite number of times and distributed any way you like with no significant impact.
But currency would have no value if you could freely copy and distribute it. And if you’ve ever tried drawing a picture of a dollar bill and handing it to a Starbucks barista, you know that there are ways to verify the authenticity of real-world currencies.
Some digital currencies, like Bitcoin, have a finite amount of currency. There will only ever be 21 million bitcoins in existence, with somewhere around 14 million currently in the market. The sophisticate cryptography we mentioned above backs up the authenticity of every single bitcoin circulating.
But it’s the technology behind it all, called the blockchain, that really drives it all home. The blockchain records and authenticates every single Bitcoin transaction across a vast network of computers, creating a public database that is theoretically invulnerable to fraud or manipulation. This is how cryptocurrencies are able to leave banks and regulators out — just as every transaction is peer-to-peer, so is the record-keeping system.
For more on blockchain technology and how it works, check out our easy-to-follow guide.
How do you get cryptocurrency?
The easiest way is to set up a virtual wallet with any number of cryptocurrency management applications out there and trade in some of your government-backed dollars for the virtual stuff.
But you may have heard of “Bitcoin mining.” People who mine for bitcoins, or other cryptocurrencies, are basically being rewarded for lending their computer-processing power to the blockchain.
As you might imagine, keeping records of every single transaction ever, all with complicated codes to verify authenticity, takes a lot of computing power. Those who have the ability and willingness to spend the resources and time helping to create new blocks are rewarded with bitcoins.
So why isn’t everyone mining for bitcoins all day long? Because the difficulty changes based on how many people are mining. The more people on the network, the more difficult the cryptography becomes, meaning more time and more processing power needed. And as the value of bitcoins goes up, the reward goes down. It’s a difficult process, but it helps to create scarcity and keep the market from being flooded with currency.
Despite volatility, cryptocurrencies are on the rise. The value has risen enormously in a very short amount of time, and many major companies now accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. The more this type of currency is embraced by the market, the more value it has.
The underlying technology is even of interest to established financial institutions. Blockchain technology could drastically reduce costs for banks and credit card companies that are drowning under the weight of record-keeping.
Cryptocurrencies have also proven than digital assets can have a true value to them. One bitcoin has a real, authentic value that is backed up by a public record. Being able to provide truth to a digital asset has been a murky, complicated and nearly impossible task until now.
Overall, digital currency is still the new kid on the block. But as with the reformation of any industry, digital technology is accelerating cryptocurrency growth at ever-increasing speeds. It might be a wild ride, but it’s not ending any time soon, and it’s likely that cryptocurrencies will become an accepted, embedded part of the world-financial ecosystem in the near future.
Unfortunately, cryptocurrency won’t help with all those outdated receipts you still carry around.
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Escape the Room: Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor Board Game Review
I adore the Escape Game phenomenon, and was excited to try out this board game attempt to capture the same type of feeling and fun. Here’s a SPOILER FREE look at ThinkFun’s home version.
Basic Gameplay:
There is a brief instruction manual that introduces the concept of the game and sets the stage, but really everything the players need to know is explained on the various pieces that will be part of the game. At the beginning the players are presented with five sealed envelopes depicting various areas of the Manor and the first Scene Card. The card sets up the story context for the game and walks the players through how the solution wheel works in a nice little intro. It then points players to the first envelope to begin the game proper.
The solution wheel is particularly well done. Solutions to each puzzle / envelope are indicated by paired colors and symbols, and if correctly entered into the wheel a symbol matching the current puzzle will be shown in two places on the wheel, indicating that envelope should then be opened.
General Thoughts:
Stargazer’s Manor is well designed and produced, and reasonably thematic. The puzzles make sense and are pretty well held together with the story framing. The quality of components is high, particularly at the price point. A good job was done overall evoking a location and providing some hands on puzzling without getting crazy in the cost department, but there is of course a visceral feeling to the exploration of an Escape Room that can’t be captured in a primarily 2d game.
The box says it accommodates 3-8 players, and given this type of game can only be played with a given group once we went with the maximum to get as many people involved as possible.
It may have been because all but one of us have previously played an actual Escape Room and were experienced puzzlers, but we didn’t need nearly that many people and it was tough keeping everyone involved since it’s mostly a “one puzzle at a time” experience. Four of us would have been plenty, and that’s the number my intuition recommends trying this with.
We found the puzzles on the easy side, but still had fun and again it might have been because of our experience level. The game tends to point you rather directly at the next thing to solve, which is a bit of unnecessary handholding given how few things there are to choose between.
Outside of possible tape damage to some paper pieces if you aren’t careful when opening things, none of the components are permanently marked while playing. Combined with instructions on the website on how to put everything back in the proper envelopes when finished, the game can be packed back up afterwards and given to a new group to try. Nice touch by ThinkFun.
So in conclusion while Escape the Room: Mystery at The Stargazer’s Manor is not quite equal to its inspirational namesake and tends to the easy side, it’s still a fun experience well worth trying out. ThinkFun has another out already (Secret of Dr. Gravely’s Retreat) which I’ll definitely try sometime.
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How does a company expect to survive making one-off games?
Well, if they’re priced right and enjoyable enough they can do better as a series than “regular” games (where people play a single copy hundreds of times apiece) because once the players finish they go buy the next one.
Really though the key is the same – make the game worth it for the money spent (even if as in this case it’s only played once) and it will sell. Do that and make a reasonable profit and the company will be fine. Easier said than done I know, but same principle as always. Here the company’s also capitalizing on a very popular attraction that’s popping up in a lot of cities.
Also ThinkFun is a well established company that makes logic puzzles and games for children, so their survival isn’t directly tied to just this type of product.
Thanks for the explanation! That makes sense 🙂
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Ron Paul has long opposed the TSA and has campaigned for its abolishment for years. Following an episode on Monday that left his son, Sen. Rand Paul, stranded in a Nashville airport, the presidential hopeful is asking for help to finally end the TSA.
Early Monday, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul triggered a false alarm while passing through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint on his way to Washington DC. As per TSA standards, the government-hired screeners on site asked the senator to submit to a personal pat-down. Rand Paul, however, had other plans. Senator Paul says he asked to be re-scanned. Shortly after 10 a.m., the senator’s Facebook page announced that he had been detained at the Nashville Airport by the TSA.
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By: Don M. Winn November 20, 2018 December 12, 2018
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A Whole New Look, Same Great Stories!
My award-winning Sir Kaye the Boy Knight series has an exciting new look with four redesigned covers. Why the change? Since book one, The Knighting of Sir Kaye, was released in 2012, the appeal of the stories has spanned all age groups, including a dedicated group of adult readers without children who buy the books for their own enjoyment.
Dan G. states, “This series of books takes me back to my childhood when my young mind was brimming with possibilities of adventure and reminds me of one of my most special friendships from that time of my life.”
Betty D. writes, “These books fill me with delight—the stories and characters are so engaging!”
And of course young readers have plenty of great things to say as well. After reading the first installment of the Sir Kaye series, Samuel R. wrote, “This is the first time I’ve ever read a whole book! I couldn’t stop reading even though reading is hard for me. When is the next one coming out?”
I wanted the new covers art to reflect the wide appeal this series offers for all ages, and I look forward to hearing your feedback on the new cover designs!
Special Announcement: For a limited time (through the end of 2018), the Sir Kaye Kindle eBooks are on sale on Amazon.com for $2.99 each. The regular price is $4.99. Act fast! Prices go back to normal in January 2019.
This sale includes the Kindle editions of The Knighting of Sir Kaye, The Lost Castle Treasure, Legend of the Forest Beast, and The Eldridge Conspiracy.
If you’re not familiar with the Sir Kaye series, here’s a brief overview of each book.
The Knighting of Sir Kaye
Kaye is an ordinary boy who dreams of becoming a legendary knight like his absent father. When the new queen knights Kaye for his brave deed, he gets his wish a lot sooner than he expected.However, he’s got a lot to live up to. Can he hold his own against all the envious, corrupt knights? Can he outwit the terrible Sir Melchor and defeat him in a tournament? Can he help the queen save her kingdom…even a little bit?
The Lost Castle Treasure
The treasure house of Knox castle is empty! Now conspiracy and war threaten the kingdom while mysterious noises and unexplained events fill the castle. As best friends Kaye, Reggie, and Beau search for the missing treasure, jealous knights plot to get rid of Kaye for good. Can Kaye find the treasure in time to save the kingdom? Or will he risk losing his knighthood forever? Join Kaye, Reggie, and Beau as they search for hidden clues, secret passages, a lost castle treasure, and their place in the world in this fast-paced adventure.
Legend of the Forest Beast
Kaye’s beloved tutor has vanished! And a dangerous criminal with a grudge against him has just escaped from prison. Kaye is determined to find the tutor and earn a fine reputation as a knight. The search leads Kaye, Reggie, and Beau to a sinister manor house at the edge of a dark forest where nearby villagers live in terror of a deadly monster. As they investigate the mystery of the forest beast, they uncover a terrible plot that could destroy Knox. When there’s no one to turn to for help,can they save the kingdom—and their lives—by themselves?
The Eldridge Conspiracy
Kaye’s father is in danger!The young knight, Kaye, and his friends Reggie and Beau enter Eldridge in search of the only man who can save Kaye’s father. During their journey, they encounter and make a powerful enemy of Baron Thomas—the self-proclaimed heir to the throne of Eldridge—who also has his sights set on ruling the country of Knox. Together, the boys dodge the baron’s henchmen and race against time to stop an assassination that would plunge the two kingdoms into war in this exciting conclusion to the series.
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92.7 BIG FM, Chennai’s No. 1 Melody station and the winner of the Golden Mikes Broadcaster of the Year Award, announced that the station topped the list of winners at the Excellence in Radio Awards 2012 with a record number of 7 trophies across various categories. What made the victory sweeter was and their Radio Jockey Balaji took home 2 awards himself, thus adding more feathers to the cap of the channel.
Balaji won the Awards for the categories RJ of the Year (Tamil) and Best Programme Broadcast after 11am (Tamil) for his hilarious ‘Take it Easy with Balaji’ show which airs every Monday to Saturday from 6 pm to 9 pm.
Speaking on the occasion, RJ Balaji, 92.7 BIG FM, said: “It is an amazing feeling to get your dream job and an even better feeling to be nationally recognized for it. I always believe in radio you are only as good as your last show, so every time when I switch the mike on, I strive to do the best and I am so glad it paid off. I want to thank all my listeners both in Chennai and elsewhere who have made this possible. Hope to keep putting smiles on the faces of my listeners every day.”
Speaking on the occasion, Kiran Thangarajan, Cluster Head (Tamil Nadu), 92.7 BIG FM, said: “We are very happy with our overall performance at the Excellence in Radio Awards 2012. Am also ecstatic that our very own RJ Balaji was given 2 awards for the effort and dedication he has put into his work over the past couple of years. We are sure he continues to entertain our listeners the same way.”
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Trailer Launch of the Movie Mitwaa !
The Trailer Launch of the Movie Mitwaa, had a string of Celebrities from Marathi film Industry to grace the ocassion.The film Produced by Meenakshi Sagar, Amrit Sagar, Akash Chopra looked quite excited as the Trailer had a very resounding impact on the Media and the Guests who were present to cheer up the whole unit.
It was Great to see the Veterans Moti Sagar with his wife lending their moral and guiding presence to the young generations in the family.
Mitwaa is Co-produced by Shekhar Jyoti.
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Prarthana Behere giving bites to media and interacting with people all around.
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Saie Tamhankar ,
Sid Chandekar, could be spotted. Nanubhai Jaishinghani from Video Palace who is also the Presenter of the film was there too adding weight to the event. Music Director Shankar Mahadevan with son Siddharth along with Ehsaan were seen giving poses and interacting with media.
Kartik Nishandar & Arjun Singh Baran were there too overlooking the proceedings.
Directed by Swapna Waghmare-Joshi, Mitwaa Releases on 13th Feb 2015.
Mitwaa Synopsis:
Shivam sarang, owner of Sarang group of hotels is the most eligible bachelor in Goa. He is successful, rich, stylish and a total casanova. Shivam does not believe in true love or marriage. He believes in having a good time.
Avni, Shivam Sarang’s childhood friend and business associate who, not known to him is in love with Shivam always tells him that someday he will meet a girl who will change his mind forever.
Nandini Natwardhan joins the hotel as an employee. Nandini is a kind of girl who lives in her own world. She shows no interest in Shivam what so ever and that really bother’s him. Avni finds this very amusing.
Nandini and Shivam have a rocky start but as days go by Nandini finds out that Shivam is a gem of a person and really cares about his staff. Nandini starts warming towards Shivam and both begin spending time together. Shivam can’t help falling in love with nandini but…..Nandini has a past which affects her future.
…………. Will Shivam and Nandini ever come together ?
………… Will Nandini’s past be the reason for them being apart?
WILL SHIVAN SARANG EVER BE NANDINI’S TRUE…….
MITWAA (friend, philosopher and guide?)
• TITLE – MITWA
• LANGUAGE – MARATHI
• PRODUCER – MEENAKSHI SAGAR PRODUCTIONS
• PRESENTED BY – NANUBHAI JAISINGHANI
• DIRECTOR – SWAPNA WAGHMARE JOSHI
• DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY – PRASAD BHENDE
• MUSIC – SHANKAR EHSAAN LOY, NILESH MOHARIR, PANKAJ PADGHUM, AMIT RAJ
• ARTISTS – SWWAPNIL JOSHI, SONALEE KULKARNI, PRARTHANA BEHERE, SANGRAM SALVI, ILA BHATE
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While few of us would think to ridicule Jews for still harboring less than warm feelings for Germans some 70 years after the liberation of the concentration camps—we would understand the lack of trust, the wariness, even the anger—we apparently find it hard to understand the same historically embedded logic of black trepidation and contempt for law enforcement in the USA.
Revealed, these past weeks, for the world to see: America’s racist underbelly. News stories narrated by dumb white folk, binging unashamedly on their justified racism. The condescending white news anchor asks a black man to explain his fear of the police… then scoffs at his reply. Others crudely condemn the dead black men “He was no angel.” “His parents were known to the police.” “He was resisting arrest.” The same ‘news’ shows use the millions of crowd sourced dollars raised for the white murderer as proof, as if any were needed, that Darren Wilson and men like him are: “Innocent until proven guilty.” “The grand jury proved there was no case to answer.” “Let him get on with his life.”
The KKK leave cruel and hateful messages wherever they can all over social media, proudly letting the world know: ‘a good nigger is a dead nigger’. Black men doubly assassinated, in life and death… white supremacists proudly spew vitriol over the bodies of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner.
They demand, “This isn’t about race.” “Why do you bring race into this?”
White folk have no incentive to let go of their white power, their white privilege, their sense of superiority… their entitlement. White people remind you with their slippery smiles that slavery was abolished in 1865. “It’s up to the blacks to help themselves.” “If we weren’t killing them, they’d be killing each other.” “They have the same opportunities as everyone else.”
Every Mexican, working illegally in California, is a slave. White people loathe manual labor. White people love slaves. Everybody needs a slave in SoCal. The fruit growers would have nobody to harvest fruit without Mexican slaves. Slaves stand outside Home Depot offering themselves for hard labor. Mexican slaves mow my lawn, scrub my hot tub. Slaves clear brush in the Santa Monica Mountains under the midday sun.
Serried ranks of plump Mexican women smelling of disinfectant and carbolic soap clean house, serve slim, white wives their afternoon mint tea. There are thousands of them! Thousands of enslaved, undocumented maids.
Have you ever seen a white person use a mop, hand wash dishes or polish a crystal glass? Have you ever watched a white person try removing a stain from a carpet? Have you noticed how inept white people are? They don’t know how to look after their own stuff.
“Do you know how to remove a stain from a carpet? When your dog pees on your rug?”
He shrugs, “Mexican people know how to do that. I don’t need to know.”
Those Mexican slave women used to be black slave women.
Last week President Obama liberated 5 million slaves by giving them the opportunity to ‘come out of the shadows’. Watch the white elected officials in Congress and the Senate balk. Their fat, pink cheeks huffing and puffing indignantly at the partial liberation of more slaves.
Without slaves the USA ceases to function. The USA is addicted to slavery. The USA was built on hard work… the hard work of unpaid black slaves. Conveniently written out of white history. California’s false economy is carried on the backs of Mexican slaves.
When the black slaves were freed the white folk wanted them to go back to Africa. “The slaves are free… free to go home.”
Those black folk who thought they were equal to white folk were outlawed, harassed. If they had entrepreneurial ambitions they were made to think again. When they opened stores on main street, their stores were looted by white folk whilst the police watched… and did nothing.
There was no opportunity given to black people which could not be taken away.
A black face reminds America’s of its not so distant violent racist past (black neighborhoods were being bombed and burned in Boston and Chicago by white police as recently as 1970). To liberal white people a black face remains a shameful embarrassment: liberals never did enough for black people. Liberals turned from the thorny problem of race to an easy fix: marriage equality.
White people who claim to hate racism are privately racist. Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin at Sony Pictures are revealed to be private racists… when this is discovered from hacked emails they call Jesses Jackson so assuage their guilt. They publicly call prominent black people to apologize for being private racists… but they merely confirm what we already know: white liberals say one thing then do another when they think they can’t be seen or heard.
For the dogged racists a black face reminds them of an unfinished problem… a problem they tackle every 18 hours when another black man is murdered by the police. Shortly after the shots are fired, the body transported to the morgue… the excuses begin, the character of the dead black man maligned, the Grand Jury is called and the murder justified… forgotten.
Did it seem this time… after Eric Garner’s Grand Jury refused to indict… fewer people agreed with the decision… or made excuses for the police? Was it my imagination that after the whole world watched the video of Eric Garner’s murder a million times on TV and the internet that people who might have before… did not want to forget. In fact they cared a great deal for murdered Eric, his dignified widow and their forgiving daughters.
When the people watch the unnecessary take down and murder of Eric Garner for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes on the streets on New York they are forced to acknowledge 350 years of racism: state sanctioned torture, murder, rape, abuse, theft…
The people (all ethnicities) began to drag themselves out of apathy and onto the same streets. The people saw a black man bullied to death and none of the usual excuses from the police or the mayor or the kkk were very convincing. The people saw Eric Garner bullied and murdered by the police in a country where the police are meant to protect the people from bullies and murderers!
Fear underpins the systematic oppression of America’s black minority.
This week people understood that the criminal justice system isn’t broken, that police brutality, secret and corrupt grand juries, the deliberate disenfranchising of black men and the unreported/undocumented incidence of murder by police force… is not evidence of a broken system but the system functioning exactly the way it was designed.
Did you know that once convicted, in many states (11 southern states) a felon is never allowed to vote again… ever. Why don’t you know that? Most people don’t. When a black man is convicted of a felony in 11 southern states he is never allowed to vote again. He is excluded from the democratic process. How many black felons did you tell me presently reside in jail and prison? How many of them are working for free (cotton picking, uniform stitching) in American jails and prisons?
America’s untreated racist wound stinks like Michael Brown’s uncovered, bloated corpse on a humid Ferguson street… and no amount of Fox News deodorant will take away the stench.
Did you know, that until modest changes were made to the selection process, people of color were excluded from the Grand Jury? Those modest and unenforceable protocol changes were made within the last few years.
They say, the secretive Grand Jury was originally conceived to weed out malicious prosecutions. That’s just a big fat lie. The Grand Jury is now as it always was… a secret court used by the police and police friendly prosecutors to help crooked cops out of difficult situations so they can continue waging war against the black minority.
The cop’s unwritten law of the street: all black faces are fair game.
The Grand Jury is unknown anywhere else in the world. It works so effectively because there’s no one in the room defending the victim. In the case of Darren Wilson he was presented as the victim by the prosecutor rather than Michael Brown and this wholly spurious narrative persists.
Criticize racists and the police at your peril.
The police say they have been ‘thrown under a bus’ by Bill de Blasio, Mayor of NYC because Mayor de Blasio told the world he advised his black son Dante: should he ever have occasion to be stopped by the police, Dante should be very polite, not reach for his cell phone or make any other sudden movement. Dante should assume, like all black young men stopped by the police, that at any moment the police may kill him.
The following day white, bull necked cops feign indignation. They know they’ve been rumbled, their credibility smashed to pieces. They’ll have to do what bullies hate having to do: next time they’ll have to think twice.
Bill de Blasio has been warned by the police union not to attend Police funerals killed in the line of duty. The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association posted a link on its website telling members not to let de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito “insult their sacrifice” should they be killed. The union posted a “Don’t Insult My Sacrifice” waiver officers can sign requesting the two politicians not attend their funerals due to their “consistent refusal to show police officers the support and respect they deserve.”
Good cop? Bad cop?
Are there any good cops? There’s no incentive to be a good cop. The good guys are weeded out. It’s a tough time to be a good cop. Crime figures diminishing, the police have to justify their huge organization, their overtime. They say policing is a dangerous job. How dangerous? Policemen are not all killed by criminals, 30% are killed in road traffic accidents… the police are too arrogant to wear seat belts.
Whilst men like Eric are being harassed and murdered on the streets of New York for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes by police thugs, a couple of miles away in another part of the same city the most audacious crimes this century go unpunished. Wall Street steals a world of wealth and gets away with it. They say white-collar crime is too sophisticated for most regular cops to grasp.
The cops protect the rich, protect the 1%… as it turns out they’re protecting them from us… from you and me.
Cops are used to raise revenue for local government, make politically motivated arrests, used by the rich to silence and poleax their enemies. Cops illegally hold undocumented workers without opportunity to post bail then deport them after lengthy stays in private jails. I’ve met undocumented workers who were introduced to their mule (a mule illegally smuggles an undocumented worker back into the USA) by the same border patrol guy who originally arrested and deported them.
The cops take their cut, trafficking slaves.
The conspiracy theorists I scoffed at 10 years ago… well, they got it right.
The jails are kept artificially full to justify more cops. The artificial wars on drugs and terror are in fact… a war on us.
There is a profound connection between criminality abroad and criminality at home. The so-called “war on terror” and military aggression abroad are linked to repression within the United States. The drive by the American ruling class to build up the infrastructure of a police state is in preparation for the inevitable confrontation with the working class. This is what lies behind the unprecedented levels of domestic spying, the assault on basic democratic rights, the CIA’s trampling on legality and the Constitution, the militarization of law enforcement and the ongoing police rampage against working class youth.
The Hollywood street performer shot in the head by the police, the Down’s syndrome kid choked to death by the police, the homeless woman repeatedly punched in the head by the police, the deaf guy trying to sign tasered by the police, the countless murders committed by the police remain uncounted.
A pattern emerges, you better be a healthy, able-bodied white male to survive the streets of now USA. You better not be black or disabled or deaf or performing or homeless. You better blend in, become invisible, forget any aspirations you might have to be extraordinary.
White Americans may protest that our racial problems are not like South Africa’s. No, but the United States incarcerated a higher proportion of blacks than apartheid South Africa did. In America, the black-white wealth gap today is greater than it was in South Africa in 1970 at the peak of apartheid.
America: it is still a nation of slaves and slave owners. The system that perpetuates this must be deconstructed and if you are white that deconstruction starts with you… asking yourself this question: am I willing to give up my slaves? My white power? My white privilege? My unfair advantages? Am I willing to acknowledge that implicitly and explicitly I colluded with the historical suppression, bullying, false imprisonment and murder of a minority?
My gay friends believe that winning human rights for black people will be as polite as winning human rights for gay people. They think it’s THE SAME.
There must have been a moment in 1945 after the American’s liberated the concentration camps, when the German people were forced by the allied forces to watch news reels of what was found there… there must have been a moment when the German people collectively owned up. A moment when they realized what they had done. I’m waiting for white people in the USA to own their part, their collusion with a system that murders, brutalized and demeans a minority… then blames them when they complain.
It never really occurred to me until yesterday that the mass murder and incarceration of black men in the USA is deliberate, systemic, entrenched and unlikely to change until white men learn to share their power.
I bought my first house when I was 20 years old. Remember that cottage? 13 Island Wall, Whitstable. 15 years later I sold it and bought Peter Cushing’s house and the house beside it. 2 and 3 Seaway Cottages, Wavecrest. That was a pretty address. I sold them both and moved to California. 2828 Hume Road, Malibu. Now, it’s time to head east. It’s Time.
I sold my house. Goodbye Malibu. I hope the new owners are happy here. It has been quite a ride up (and down) this mountain… literally and figuratively. This is where I buried my dog and this is where I will leave her. This is where the twins lived, this is the location of many spectacular parties, lovers and probably the worst decision I made in my life… to reply to Jake. But there you go, it’s sold now. The furniture has been packed, the art wrapped and stowed in boxes. I am relieved.
I am only a few months away from having the gagging order lifted so I get to tell my side of the story… how another rich man used the police and the prosecutor to hide the truth.
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Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Francisco
1996 G 1h 29m DVD
Canines Chance and Shadow, along with pussycat Sassy, get separated from the Seaver family in the airport and head off to San Francisco. After surviving the streets with the help of a tough gang of strays, they set out to reunite with their family.
Michael J. Fox, Sally Field, Ralph Waite, Al Michaels, Tommy Lasorda, Tress MacNeille, Jon Polito, Adam Goldberg, Sinbad, Carla Gugino, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ross Malinger, Robert Hays
David R. Ellis
Children & Family, Animal Tales, Family Adventures, Disney
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
G - All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.
Common Sense rating OK for kids 7+
Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that while there's no real violence, there's enough mild peril to frighten sensitive children. For instance, Shadow, Sassy, and Chance almost get hit as a plane takes off and Jamie thinks Chance has been hit and killed by a semi. There are also several dog fights or scenes where dogs bare their teeth menacingly. The villains steal dogs to sell for experiments, and one of them smokes a cigar the whole time.
Some comic violence, including Jack hitting his head on his van, dogs fighting with each other, and Sassy dropping a flowerpot on a dog's head.
Jack and Ralph steal dogs to sell to labs that do experiments on them. Jack starts a fire when he throws his cigar onto some dry grass. Chance endangers the whole group when he runs off from the rest.
Iams dog food and several images of San Francisco (Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge) are prominently featured.
Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol
Jack smokes a cigar all the time.
Not an issue
Depends on your child and your family
Parents strongly cautioned
Not appropriate for kids of the age
This information for parents is provided by Common Sense Media, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving kids' media lives.
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Royal decree regarding the changes of the complaint management in the insurace sector 21/06/2006 03/07/2006
Royal Decree putting into effect Article 36 of the Act of 16 February 1994 regulating the package travel contracts and the travel intermediation contract (FR) 25/04/1997 01/09/1997
Royal Decree of 5 December 2000 declaring certain provisions of the Act of 14 July 1991 on trade practices and consumer information and protection applicable to financial instruments and to transferable securities (FR) 05/12/2000 01/05/2001
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Workplace: Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, (more information at EDIRC)
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Bayesian Optimal Dynamic Sampling Procedures for On-Farm Field Trials
2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Evaluation of RI-PRF Crop Insurance Program Design
SCC-76 Meeting, 2019, April 4-6, Kansas City, Missouri, SCC-76: Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources
ECONOMICS OF THE GREENSEEDER HAND PLANTER
2018 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2018, Jacksonville, Florida, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Economic Threshold of Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus in the Texas High Plains
How to Use Yield Monitor Data to Determine Nitrogen Recommendations: Bayesian Kriging for Location Specific Parameter Estimates
2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
Optimal Grid Size for Site-Specific Nutrient Application in Wheat Production
2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
The Design of the Rainfall Index Annual Forage Pilot Program
The Effect of Including Irrelevant Alternatives in Discrete Choice Models With An Application To Recreation Demand
Using Bayesian Kriging for Spatial Smoothing of Trends in the Means and Variances of Crop Yield Densities
Using Spatial Data to Estimate Distributions to Rate Area Crop Insurance Policies
Robustness of the Impact of Climate on U.S. Corn Yields
2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Spatially Smoothed Crop Yield Density Estimation: Physical Distance vs Climate Similarity
The Cost of Forward Contracting in CIF NOLA and Mississippi River Barge Freight Markets
Veterinarians and Student Loan Debt: Is the Burden Too Much?
2017 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2017, Mobile, Alabama, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Wheat Nitrogen Response Conditional on Past Yield and Weather: A Step in Making Use of Big Data
Forecasting Meat Prices using Consumer Expectations from the Food Demand Survey (FooDS)
2016 Annual Meeting, February 6-9, 2016, San Antonio, Texas, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
See also Journal Article in Journal of Food Distribution Research (2019)
Random Sampling of Beef Cattle for Genetic Testing: Optimal Sample Size Determination
Thinning Markets in U.S. Agriculture
Economic Information Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (4)
Using Bayesian Spatial Smoothing and Extreme Value Theory to Develop Area-Yield Crop Insurance Rating
2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (4)
Anaerobic Digester Production and Cost Functions
2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Ecological Economics (2018)
Causal Relationships among World Fertilizer Markets
2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Using Bayesian Estimation Methods to Determine Optimal Levels of Nitrogen Fertilization
2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy, International Association of Agricultural Economists
Using Genetic Testing to Improve Fed Cattle Marketing Decisions
See also Journal Article in Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2016)
Bayesian Estimation of Optimal Nitrogen Rates with a Non-Normally Distributed Stochastic Plateau Function
2014 Annual Meeting, February 1-4, 2014, Dallas, Texas, Southern Agricultural Economics Association View citations (3)
Can Traction Animals Be an Alternative to Large Family Size?
2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Digesters with Swine Operations
Optimal Cross Hedging Winter Canola
Value of Genetic Information for Beef Cattle at the Feedlot Stage
2014 Annual Meeting, February 1-4, 2014, Dallas, Texas, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Calendar Spread Options for Storable Commodities
2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Permanent and Temporary Shocks in Corn and Soybean Basis Series: A New Approach for Modeling Time-Series
Sales Tax Collections in Nonmetropolitan Communities
See also Journal Article in Public Finance Review (2013)
Switchgrass Biomass Yield and Fertilizer Requirements by Month of Harvest: Economic Consequences of Nutrient Translocation and Remobilization
Using Bayesian Estimation and Decision Theory to Determine the Optimal Level of Nitrogen in Cotton
2013 Annual Meeting, February 2-5, 2013, Orlando, Florida, Southern Agricultural Economics Association View citations (7)
Yield Response to Nitrogen with Time Trend and Nonnormality
Fragmentation of Agricultural Land Parcels
2012 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2012, Birmingham, Alabama, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Impacts of Permanent and Transitory Shocks on Optimal Length of Moving Average to Predict Wheat Basis
2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Comparison of Alternative Sources of Farmland Values
2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (4)
See also Journal Article in Agricultural Finance Review (2012)
Pre-harvest Forecasting of County Wheat Yield and Wheat Quality Conditional on Weather Information
2011 Annual Meeting, February 5-8, 2011, Corpus Christi, Texas, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Replicability of nitrogen recommendations from ramped calibration strips in winter wheat
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
The Law of the Minimum and Sources of Nonzero Skewness for Crop Yield Distributions
2011 Annual Meeting, February 5-8, 2011, Corpus Christi, Texas, Southern Agricultural Economics Association View citations (1)
Can the Federal Reserve Bank’s Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions Forecast Land Values?
2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Determining Optimal Levels of Nitrogen Fertilizer Using Random Parameter Models
2010 Annual Meeting, February 6-9, 2010, Orlando, Florida, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
See also Journal Article in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (2011)
Economics of Pre-Plant, Topdress, and Variable Rate Nitrogen Application in Winter Wheat
2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
Effect of Nitrogen Fertilization and Liming on Rye-Ryegrass Yield and Soil pH Dynamics
Profitability of Conventional vs. Variable Rate Nitrogen Application in Wheat Production
Relationships among Prices across Alternative Marketing Arrangements for Fed Cattle and Hogs
Transition to electronic trading of Kansas City Board of Trade wheat futures
Forecasting Demand for Rural Electric Cooperative Call Center
2009 Annual Meeting, January 31-February 3, 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Liquidity Costs in Futures Options Markets
2009 Conference, April 20-21, 2009, St. Louis, Missouri, NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management View citations (3)
Optimal Length of Moving Average to Forecast Futures Basis
Can Real Option Value Explain Why Producers Appear to Store Too Long?
Estimation of Efficiency with the Stochastic Frontier Cost Function and Heteroscedasticity: A Monte Carlo Study
2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
Price Competition with Particle Swarm Optimization: An Agent-Based Artificial Model
The Value of Regional Annual Nitrogen Needs Information for Wheat Producers in Oklahoma
How Much Influence Does Recreation Have on Agricultural Land Values?
2007 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2007, Mobile, Alabama, Southern Agricultural Economics Association View citations (3)
Profit Margin Hedging
2007 Conference, April 16-17, 2007, Chicago, Illinois, NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management
See also Journal Article in American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2010)
Should Grain Elevator Managers Adopt Integrated Pest Management?
2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
Using Basis and Futures Prices as a Barometer in Deciding Whether to Store Grain or Not
Welfare Implications of Selected Supply and Demand Shocks on Producers and Marketers of U.S. Meats
Heterogeneity in Producer's Marketing Strategy
Integrating the Structural Auction Approach and Traditional Measures of Market Power
2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (1)
Maximum Value of a Precise Nitrogen Application System for Wheat
Precision Nitrogen Fertilization Technology with Micro Grids
Determining Returns to Storage: USDA Data versus Micro Level Data
2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
Nitrogen Fertilization of Growing Wheat Based upon Site-Specific Optical Sensing
2005 Annual Meeting, February 5-9, 2005, Little Rock, Arkansas, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
The Impact of Marketing Strategy Information on the Producer's Selling Decision
2005 Conference, April 18-19, 2005, St. Louis, Missouri, NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management View citations (1)
The Preference for Round Number Prices
2005 Annual Meeting, February 5-9, 2005, Little Rock, Arkansas, Southern Agricultural Economics Association View citations (1)
CASH MARKETING STYLES AND PERFORMANCE PERSISTENCE OF WHEAT PRODUCERS
EVALUATING FORECASTS OF DISCRETE VARIABLES: PREDICTING CATTLE QUALITY GRADES
2004 Conference, April 19-20, 2004, St. Louis, Missouri, NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management
EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES IN PRICES RECEIVED BY FARMERS: TESTING THEORY BASED ON ACTUAL FARMER TRANSACTIONS
2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
FORECASTING LIMITED DEPENDENT VARIABLES: BETTER STATISTICS FOR BETTER STEAKS
2004 Annual Meeting, February 14-18, 2004, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
LINEAR RESPONSE STOCHASTIC PLATEAU FUNCTIONS
OPTIMAL GRAZING PRESSURE UNDER OUTPUT PRICE AND PRODUCTION UNCERTAINTY WITH ALTERNATIVE FUNCTIONAL FORMS
2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
OPTIMAL STOCKING DENSITY AND FOOD SAFETY RISKS IN STEER PRODUCTION ENTERPRISE
2003: WCC-72 Annual Meeting, June 9-11, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, WERA-72 (formerly WCC-72): Western Education\Extension and Research Activities Committee on Agribusiness
USING BOTH SOCIOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC INCENTIVES TO REDUCE MORAL HAZARD
ACTUAL FARMER MARKET TIMING
CAN STRUCTURAL CHANGE EXPLAIN CHANGES IN RETURNS TO TECHNICAL ANALYSIS?
CAN STRUCTURAL CHANGE EXPLAIN THE DECREASE IN RETURNS TO TECHNICAL ANALYSIS?
DERIVATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF A STOCHASTIC LIVESTOCK WEIGHT GAIN RESPONSE TO STOCKING DENSITY MODEL
2002 Annual Meeting, July 28-31, 2002, Long Beach, California, Western Agricultural Economics Association
GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION METHODS
2002 Annual Meeting, July 28-31, 2002, Long Beach, California, Western Agricultural Economics Association View citations (5)
A Retail Sales / Sales Tax Paradox
A.E. Series, Oklahoma State University, Department of Agricultural Economics
AIDS VERSUS ROTTERDAM: A COX NONNESTED TEST WITH PARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP
2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (1)
ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF BANNING SUBTHERAPEUTIC USE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN SWINE PRODUCTION
2001 Annual Meeting, July 8-11, 2001, Logan, Utah, Western Agricultural Economics Association
Implications of Behavioral Finance for Farmer Marketing Strategy Recommendation
2001 Conference, April 23-24, 2001, St. Louis, Missouri, NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management View citations (13)
MARKET INVERSION IN COMMODITY FUTURES PRICES
MEASURING PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY USING AGGREGATE DATA
2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
SELLER AND BUYER SATISFACTION AND PARTICIPATION IN TURKEY'S WHEAT EXCHANGES
VALUE OF INCREASING KERNEL UNIFORMITY
CARIBBEAN DEMAND OF U.S. AND REST-OF-THE-WORLD STARCHY FOOD (WHEAT, RICE, CORN, AND FRESH POTATOES): A RESTRICTED SOURCE DIFFERENTIATED ALMOST IDEAL DEMAND SYSTEM
A.E. Series, Oklahoma State University, Department of Agricultural Economics View citations (2)
INCREASING THE ACCURACY OF OPTION PRICING BY USING IMPLIED PARAMETERS RELATED TO HIGHER MOMENTS
2000 Conference, April 17-18 2000, Chicago, Illinois, NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management
ROLLOVER HEDGING
RESOLVING THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN PREVIOUS MEAT GENERIC ADVERTISING STUDIES
1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (3)
A Monte Carlo Sampling Approach to Testing Separate Families of Hypotheses: Monte Carlo Results
1997 Annual Meeting, July 13-16, 1997, Reno\ Sparks, Nevada, Western Agricultural Economics Association
Cost of Forward Contracting Hard Red Winter Wheat
1997 Annual Meeting, July 13-16, 1997, Reno\ Sparks, Nevada, Western Agricultural Economics Association View citations (13)
The Effects of Historical Settlement Patterns on Oklahoma Student Achievement Test Scores
Aggregate Corn Area Response Under Risk: Some Implications for Price Stabilization Programs
Philippine Journal of Development, Philippine Institute for Development Studies View citations (2)
A COMPONENT PRICING SYSTEM FOR PORK
1991 Annual Meeting, August 4-7, Manhattan, Kansas, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (3)
An Analysis of the Influence of Buyer Concentration at Feeder Cattle Auctions
1991 Annual Meeting, August 4-7, Manhattan, Kansas, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
USDA EXPORT SALES REPORT: IS IT NEWS?
See also Journal Article in Review of Agricultural Economics (1993)
FUTURES TRADING, TRANSACTION COSTS, AND STOCK MARKET VOLATILITY
Working Papers, Columbia - Center for Futures Markets View citations (8)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Futures Markets (1991)
The Policy Implications of Corn and Soybean·Supply Response to Risk
1989 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 2, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (2)
A Contingent Claim Pricing Model for Valuing Non-Recourse Loan Programs and Target Prices
1988 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Knoxville, Tennessee, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (3)
THE DISTRIBUTION OF STANDARDIZED FUTURES PRICE CHANGES
1988 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Knoxville, Tennessee, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
THE LIVE CATTLE FUTURES MARKET AND DAILY CASH PRICE MOVEMENTS
The Effect of Risk on the Rental Value of Agricultural Land
EFFECTS OF THE MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT ON AGRICULTURAL PRICES IN THE EARLY 1980S
1987 Regional Committee NC-161, October 6-7, 1987, Denver, Colorado, Regional Research Committee NC-1014: Agricultural and Rural Finance Markets in Transition View citations (2)
Effects of Structural Changes in Macroeconomic Policy on Agricultural Prices
1987 Annual Meeting, August 2-5, East Lansing, Michigan, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
The Distribution of Futures Prices: A Test of the Stable Paretian and Mixture of Normals Hypotheses
1987 Annual Meeting, August 2-5, East Lansing, Michigan, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (2)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (1989)
PRICE RIGIDITY' IN THE PORK MARKETING CHANNEL
1986 Annual Meeting, July 27-30, Reno, Nevada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
PRICE DISCOVERY FOR US AND EC CORN GLUTEN FEED AND RELATED MARKETS
1985 Annual Meeting, August 4-7, Ames, Iowa, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
TECHNICAL TRADING SYSTEM PROFITS: FACT OR FICTION?
PRICE DISCOVERY IN THE SOYBEAN COMPLEX
1984 Annual Meeting, August 5-8, Ithaca, New York, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
The Performance of Futures Funds: Implications for Futures Market Efficiency
Using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to Estimate Crop Response Functions with Stochastic Plateaus
2020 Annual Meeting, February 1-4, 2020, Louisville, Kentucky, Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Design of the Rainfall Index Crop Insurance Program for Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2021, 46, (1)
Spatial price dynamics in the US vegetable sector
Agribusiness, 2020, 36, (1), 59-78
Spatially Smoothed Crop Yield Density Estimation: Physical Distance versus Climate Similarity
The cost of forward contracting in the Mississippi barge freight river market
Agribusiness, 2020, 36, (2), 226-241
Using Grid Soil Sampling to Determine Profit Maximizing Phosphorus Application Rates in Wheat
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2020, Preprints, (Preprints)
ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF ANAEROBIC DIGESTION WITH SWINE OPERATIONS
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2019, 51, (1), 49-68
Journal of Food Distribution Research, 2019, 50, (1)
See also Working Paper (2016)
Hedging effectiveness of fertilizer swaps
Applied Economics, 2019, 51, (53), 5793-5801 View citations (2)
Profitability of alternative methods of combining the signals from technical trading systems
Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, 2019, 26, (1), 32-45
THE COST OF FORWARD CONTRACTING IN THE CIF NOLA EXPORT BID MARKET
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2019, 51, (1), 164-181 View citations (1)
Using Bayesian Kriging for Spatial Smoothing in Crop Insurance Rating
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2019, 101, (1), 330-351 View citations (5)
Alternative Policy Responses to Increased Use of Formula Pricing
Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 2018, 16, (1), 11
Ecological Economics, 2018, 152, (C), 347-357 View citations (1)
Current market conditions for veterinary services in the U.S
Applied Economics, 2018, 50, (60), 6501-6511
Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation of a Stochastic Plateau Response Function: Determining Optimal Levels of Nitrogen Fertilization
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2018, 66, (1), 87-102 View citations (1)
Modeling calendar spread options
Agricultural Finance Review, 2018, 78, (5), 551-570
Not everybody prefers organic food: unobserved heterogeneity in U.S. consumers’ preference for organic apple and milk
Applied Economics Letters, 2018, 25, (1), 9-14
Optimal forecast evaluation: fertilizer prices
Applied Economics Letters, 2018, 25, (4), 229-233
PRICE DETERMINANTS OF BRED COWS
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2018, 50, (1), 64-80 View citations (1)
The Hurdles to Greater Adoption of Anaerobic Digesters
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2018, 47, (1), 132-157 View citations (2)
“Look at Me, I’m Buying Organic”: The Effects of Social Pressure on Organic Food Purchases
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2018, 43, (3) View citations (2)
2016 WAEA Presidential Address: Comments on Agricultural Economics Research
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2017, 42, (1), 9
Forecasting urea prices
Genetic Testing to Signal Quality in Beef Cattle: Bayesian Methods for Optimal Sample Size
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 99, (5), 1287-1306
Permanent Breaks and Temporary Shocks in a Time Series
Computational Economics, 2017, 49, (2), 255-270
Permanent shocks and forecasting with moving averages
STARTING ON THE RIGHT FOOT: DOES SCHOOL CHOICE AFFECT VETERINARIAN STARTING SALARIES?
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2017, 49, (1), 120-138
Spatial Price Transmission and Efficiency in the Urea Market
Agribusiness, 2017, 33, (1), 98-115 View citations (2)
TRADING BASED ON KNOWING THE WASDE REPORT IN ADVANCE
THE RAINFALL INDEX ANNUAL FORAGE PILOT PROGRAM AS A RISK MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR COOL-SEASON FORAGE
Thin Markets Raise Concerns, But Many Are Capable of Paying Producers Fair Prices
Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2016, (02), 1
Agricultural Land and the Small Parcel Size Premium Puzzle
Land Economics, 2015, 91, (3), 572-585 View citations (9)
CROSS HEDGING WINTER CANOLA
Modeling skewness with the linear stochastic plateau model to determine optimal nitrogen rates
Agricultural Economics, 2015, 46, (1), 1-10 View citations (5)
Private‐Value Auction Versus Posted‐Price Selling: An Agent‐Based Model Approach
Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, 2015, 22, (4), 249-262 View citations (1)
Common-value auction versus posted-price selling: an agent-based model approach
Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2014, 9, (1), 129-149
Implications of a Reserve Price in an Agent-Based Common-Value Auction
Computational Economics, 2014, 43, (1), 33-51
Value of Genetic Information for Management and Selection of Feedlot Cattle
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2014, 39, (1), 17 View citations (5)
Vertical integration in West Africa's cotton industry: are parastatals a second best solution?
Agricultural Economics, 2014, 45, (S1), 129-143
Accuracy of Qualitative Forecasts of Farmland Values from the Federal Reserve's Land Value Survey
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2013, 45, (1), 12 View citations (2)
Also in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2013, 45, (1), 159-170 (2013) View citations (2)
Are liquidity costs higher in options markets or in futures markets?
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Horizon BCBS New Jersey gives $2.5 million for personal protection equipment
By Health | April 5, 2020
To help front-line health professionals responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is spending $ 2.35 million to donate 500,000 N95 respirator masks and 81,000 face shields to the state’s coordinated-response effort.
The first shipment of these supplies is expected to be delivered to the state for distribution beginning next week, with additional deliveries planned throughout April.
Horizon BCBCNJ is also donating $ 100,000 to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey and $ 60,000 to the Jewish Family Service of Atlantic and Cape May, two organizations which are responding to the needs of residents feeling the economic impact of the pandemic.
This is the largest single donation made by Horizon BCBSNJ in its 88 year history, the company said.
Providers continue to face critical shortages of critical care staff, ventilators, masks and other personal protection equipment.
Hospitals are facing layoffs and other measures as they pay out of pocket to prepare for a surge of COVID-19 patients or, as is the case at many hospitals in New York City, are already at overcapacity.
Many insurers are waiving costs for patients being treated for COVID-19.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is extending its previously announced waiver of all member cost-sharing obligations to include all covered benefits associated with treatment for COVID-19. The policy, retroactive to March 1, 2020 and in place through at least June 30, 2020, means that members will pay no deductible, co-pay, or coinsurance for inpatient and outpatient care when their claim indicates treatment was related to COVID-19.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is a taxpaying, not-for-profit health insurer.
Horizon and its philanthropic arm, The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, have contributed more than $ 80 million to New Jersey’s community organizations and causes since 2004.
Kevin P. Conlin, Horizon BCBSNJ’s chairman, president and CEO, said, “Our communities and our health care system are facing extraordinary challenges and Horizon is responding with our most significant donation ever to support New Jersey’s vital organizations and healthcare professionals.”
“Horizon has always worked to give New Jersey’s hospitals and doctors the tools they need to deliver the best care for our members, whether that be advanced data to help them make better decisions or this essential equipment needed to protect them while they work,” added Allen Karp, Horizon BCBSNJ’s executive vice president for Healthcare Management and Transformation.
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Which therapy works better in choroid plexus carcinomas?
Su G. Berrak, Diane D. Liu, Brigitte Wrede, Johannes E. Wolff
Choroid plexus carcinomas (CPCs) are rare tumors with dismal outcome. While it has been established that surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy improve survival, the best chemotherapy drugs for treating this disease still need to be identified. Since CPC is too rare to permit a prospective clinical trial, we performed a metaanalysis to evaluate the effects of individual drugs in patients with CPCs. We expanded a pre-existing database and included all cases of choroid plexus tumors, identified in PubMed through the end of 2007, for a total of 906 patients. At first, we restricted the analysis to patients with histologically confirmed CPC (n = 361) and with residual tumor after surgery (n = 130/361 patients), and we compared response and survival between patients who received a particular drug and those who did not. Response to chemotherapy was documented in 43 patients. Of the drugs used in these patients, etoposide was associated with the highest response rate (17/36). Next survival was compared among all CPC. Kaplan-Meier curves and log-rank tests suggested a statistically significant treatment benefit for cyclophosphamide, etoposide, and carboplatin, while the effect of vincristine was found to be marginally significant (P = 0.07, log rank). Of these, only etoposide's effect could be confirmed in a limited Cox multiple regression analysis. In conclusion, etoposide should be included in future standard treatment protocols. However the survival rates are still unsatisfactory, and additional novel drugs should be studied in prospective multicenter studies.
Journal of Neuro-Oncology
Choroid plexus tumors
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Berrak, S. G., Liu, D. D., Wrede, B., & Wolff, J. E. (2011). Which therapy works better in choroid plexus carcinomas? Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 103(1), 155-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-010-0372-9
Which therapy works better in choroid plexus carcinomas? / Berrak, Su G.; Liu, Diane D.; Wrede, Brigitte; Wolff, Johannes E.
In: Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Vol. 103, No. 1, 01.05.2011, p. 155-162.
Berrak, SG, Liu, DD, Wrede, B & Wolff, JE 2011, 'Which therapy works better in choroid plexus carcinomas?', Journal of Neuro-Oncology, vol. 103, no. 1, pp. 155-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-010-0372-9
Berrak SG, Liu DD, Wrede B, Wolff JE. Which therapy works better in choroid plexus carcinomas? Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2011 May 1;103(1):155-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-010-0372-9
Berrak, Su G. ; Liu, Diane D. ; Wrede, Brigitte ; Wolff, Johannes E. / Which therapy works better in choroid plexus carcinomas?. In: Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2011 ; Vol. 103, No. 1. pp. 155-162.
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HIT Thought Leadership Highlight: Alex Bratton, Lextech
Alex Bratton
Alex Bratton, CEO of Lextech, discusses his company, its vision, why it’s important to healthcare and how the changing landscape of health app is affecting health outcomes and the industry as a whole.
What is Lextech and why does it matter to healthcare?
Lextech is a mobile app development company that evaluates business workflows to identify and build apps that improve processes and make the complex simple. Mobile apps will become increasingly important to the healthcare industry for two reasons: they are instrumental in helping caregivers and insurance companies build direct relationships with patients, and they can help drive healthcare costs down. With the massive changes taking place in healthcare, and the uncertainty that goes with change, it’s crucial for healthcare service providers to create a strong bond with patients by giving them tools and information that make their lives easier.
What do your clients say works wonderfully? What doesn’t work so well? Why?
Lextech is known for its Billion Dollar App (BDA) process, which focuses organizations on developing the right app for the right reason, and to use that app to improve processes. This approach often results in significant cost savings and efficiencies. The opposite of this, which doesn’t work well, is what we call the “obvious app.” An example of an obvious app in healthcare is to squish a desktop-oriented EHR system onto an iPad. This is inadequate because it doesn’t streamline a process and it certainly doesn’t simplify users’ access to information. The better approach is focusing on a portion of the healthcare workflow and driving small portions of the EHR data and functionality through a brand new window–an intuitive app. Important questions need to be asked before developing an app, including: what are we trying to accomplish with this app, how will people use this app, why will they use the app, and what problem does it fix?
How are you changing the landscape, and how do you know you are doing so?
The ability of consumers and healthcare providers to access information and streamline processes using mobile devices is having a profound impact on healthcare.
With the consumerization of healthcare, healthcare providers have a vested interest in delivering an experience that builds patient loyalty. At the same time, new healthcare laws are forcing patients to be more responsible for their own care. Healthcare providers who give patients the tools they need to make informed choices will build stronger and longer relationships with patients. Mobile apps will be the heart of these tools. Examples of apps that we’ve created to meet these needs include an app for an insurance provider that helps patients easily locate a doctor or specialist based on a specific need and an iPad app that allows medical professionals to touch, analyze and share X-Ray images with other physicians and patients.
Mobile apps are also used to help streamline processes and reduce costs. One group we worked with needed a solution to allow remote experts to consult during specialized surgeries. Previously the expert had to travel to the surgery location but we developed an app that enables the remote expert to attend surgeries virtually, tapping into an operating room camera and medical equipment screens. This opens up the operating room to remote advisors who can deliver assistance for less cost.
Tell me about mobile apps in healthcare and your wildest projection for what apps will do for it?
In the area of consumer-driven healthcare, the sky’s the limit for apps. We already are seeing apps that help patients live healthier lives. It’s only a matter of time before we see apps that provide information to patients about how effective a doctor is. Right now, patients see doctors based on referrals. Soon they will be able to see their outcomes, as well.
We also will see mobile apps change the relationship between doctor and patient by allowing patients to subscribe to a service and use their device’s camera for a remote diagnosis. While this may disrupt some patient-doctor relationships, it will create new business models for innovators.
In the healthcare setting, mobile apps initially will be focused on streamlining specific processes in specific areas of a hospital or clinic, such as admissions. Soon, mobile apps will be used by doctors to better explain procedures to patients, will allow specialists to participate in procedures remotely, and will give patients unfettered access to their medical health records.
What areas within healthcare can benefit the most from implementing mobile apps?
Doctor practices and hospital systems are ripe with opportunity to use mobile apps to streamline processes and deliver better care. Some of the most obvious areas that can benefit from mobile apps include:
Better access to patient records and billing. The future points to mobile apps that interface with multiple electronic health record (EHR) systems at the same time and allow doctors to use one app to quickly retrieve and update information regardless of which EHR system is used. The same is true for interfacing with billing systems.
Ability to provide more timely care. By facilitating communication and the flow of information, mobile apps can notify doctors when test results are in and provide a workflow of next steps. Eventually, doctors will use apps to interface directly with patients using remote video sharing, allowing for a remote diagnosis or quick check-in without a physical office visit.
A streamlined and improved patient experience. Mobile apps provide the opportunity to streamline office and ER visits, allowing patients to check in using a tablet that accesses patient information and allows fast triage of patients in ERs. Patient-focused apps also can allow patients to set appointments, request prescription refills and set preferences for appointment reminders or receive notifications that the doctor is running late.
Patient access to meaningful health records. Many doctors hesitate to give patients access to medical records because they are concerned they will not understand the information. Raw medical records are overly complicated and include medical codes that are indecipherable to most patients. Mobile apps can help by simplifying medical information and presenting it to patients in an understandable format.
Proactive patient care. Patients will be able to use apps to better manage their health and lower their healthcare costs. Apps can remind patients to take medications and can educate patients by providing tutorials on topics like administering shots and taking blood pressure readings. Apps also can provide financial transparency into medical billing, encouraging patients to make financially sound decisions.
Why is adoption of mobile not happening more quickly in healthcare?
Sadly, healthcare IT is held back by massive legacy systems and a fear of change. The industry is dominated by a few large IT systems and it’s hard to break in. Mobile apps will need to work within this established system. Even more troubling is the fear of change among chief medical information officers (CMIOs). I had the opportunity to meet with a group of CMIOs to discuss mobile apps and found that the group was evenly divided between those who want to be change agents and lead what the mobile health enterprise will look like, and those who want to lock the network and fight the push by doctors and patients to incorporate mobile into the enterprise.
What’s the biggest challenge healthcare faces when adopting mobile apps?
The biggest challenge is the complexity of our healthcare system. It is a highly regulated system with massive amounts of data held in legacy systems. For mobile apps to be successful, they have to work within this environment and deliver value to the user, usually by simplifying a process. Although the backend is very complicated, the apps must be elegant and easy to use.
Who are the healthcare leaders in mobile app adoption?
Some companies will claim they are leaders because they have a lot of mobile users. For example, a hospital chain that rolls out an iPad adoption with its legacy EHR system. But, the real innovators are those using mobile to disrupt the industry. These disrupters are taking healthcare out of hospitals and doctor’s offices, and putting more power in the hands of consumers. They are applying mobile technology to change the way healthcare is delivered.
When faced with building a mobile website or a mobile app, which makes more sense for health care?
There’s been a lot of buzz around HTML5, the technology used to create websites, as a panacea for this issue. Analysts and IT directors both are eyeing HTML5 as the future of mobile app development. In fact, industry analyst group Gartner recently predicted that half of all mobile apps will be HTML5 native app hybrids within three years and recommended organizations begin preparing for the arrival of HTML5. We are not convinced.
Whether apps should be native (built specifically for iOS or Android based smartphones) or HTML5 is the wrong question. Executives really should be asking: What is the app expected to do? For organizations that are developing workflow apps to help streamline processes, we don’t believe that HTML5 is ready yet. However, if the app’s main function is to look up information, such as a marketing website, a mobile website may suffice.
Like every industry, BYOD is an issue for healthcare. What is the best practice in this area?
Bring your own device, or BYOD, is an important issue for healthcare providers. To illustrate, the day after the iPad was introduced, they began showing up on hospital networks. There are a lot of issues with security and HIPAA protections that are unique to healthcare and present special challenges.
Devices to be used on the healthcare network need to be at least partially managed by the organization using mobile device management. In this way security policies can be managed centrally and appropriate apps pushed to users who need them.
That said, it’s not necessary to support every device (either from a management perspective or providing apps). That would be a daunting task. Instead, pick the standards and platforms you wish to support and communicate that to users. It’ll still require more than one platform but can be greatly simplified.
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Eden Hazard returns – Belgian will play against Celta on Sunday
Eden Hazard is ready to play as he is training with the main squad. Experts believe that Hazard can play a home match against Celta Vigo from the start.
What happened with Eden Hazard?
Eden’s case of injury is fascinating. As you may know, Eden Hazard joined Real Madrid in the summer. He played for the team from the start of the season. Unfortunately for fans, the Belgian player was not in good shape as he was overweight. It took eight weeks of Eden to get in perfect shape and show real potential. After four excellent matches in La Liga, Eden dominated PSG at Santiago Bernabeu. Belgian defender of PSG, Munier injured Eden, and the winger could not continue the game in the second half.
Real Madrid’s doctors from “Sanitas’ were sure that Eden could recover by the first El Clasico of the season. Unfortunately, Eden’s injury was so serious that he could not even train until the mid of January. Hazard was injured for ten weeks while doctors believed in 2 weeks’ recovery.
Zinedine Zidane wants healthy Eden
Belgian player who has been exercising in the gym since the middle of January. By the end of January, Eden Hazard was already training with Real Madrid’s main squad. It’s hard to understand why Zidane has not included Eden in the team as it’s already mid of February. Eden was ready for two previous matches, but he was not included in the squad.
As Spanish journalists believe, Real Madrid can win La Liga without Hazard. Eden is essential for the Champions League. That’s why Zidane is ready to give him proper rest before the Champions League play-off matches.
Los Blancos has to play against Manchester City by the end of February. In two weeks, Hazard should be ready and healthy, and he will start against Celta Vigo. Two-three matches in La Liga would be enough for Eden to get in perfect shape.
Italy’s main derby with great intrigue – will Juventus win again?
At San Siro, no one will give up even one centimeter. The duel between Antonio Conte and Andrea Pirlo is an additional intrigue for this derby. Inter-Juventus – this is not just a football match. Often, the confrontation between these teams goes beyond the field. Inter-Juventus is the main game in Italy – at least,
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The striker of Athletic Bilbao met with the journalists. Journalists asked Inaki many questions regarding the final of SuperCopa, Messi and Real Madrid. Lionel Messi missed the match against Real Sociedad As you may know, Barcelona won the semi-final against Real Sociedad. The game was intense and both teams had many chances. Fortunately to Barca
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Mysore: Congress MLA Tanveer Sait Attacked By Sharp Weapon At Wedding Ceremony
Congress MLA Tanveer Sait Injured In Knife Attack At An Event In Mysore
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Pawas Kumar | Updated on: 18 Nov 2019, 11:07:47 AM
Congress MLA Tanveer Sait was attacked by a youth using a sharp object during while attending a wedding ceremony in Mysore. Sait sustained injuries on neck. According to reports, the MLA was immediately rushed to a private hospital where he underwent a surgery. The attacker - a 24-year-old young man named Farhan - has been arrested. Tanveer Sait, former Karnataka Minister, was attacked late night on Monday. The event was captured by cameramen present at the event. The footage shows the youth trying escape after attacking Sait while another video shows Sait was to his car while bleeding from his neck. Sait's condition is said to be stable. Farhan by captured by the crowd and handed over to police. He is being questioned but the reason for attack is not clear yet. Tanveer Sait is an MLA from Mysore's Narasimharaja Constituency.
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Authors & Texts
English Literature » Rudyard Kipling » A Deal in Cotton
A Deal in Cotton by Rudyard Kipling
Long and long ago, when Devadatta was King of Benares, I wrote some tales concerning Strickland of the Punjab Police (who married Miss Youghal), and Adam, his son. Strickland has finished his Indian Service, and lives now at a place in England called Weston-super-Mare, where his wife plays the organ in one of the churches. Semi-occasionally he comes up to London, and occasionally his wife makes him visit his friends. Otherwise he plays golf and follows the harriers for his figure’s sake.
If you remember that Infant who told a tale to Eustace Cleever the novelist, you will remember that he became a baronet with a vast estate. He has, owing to cookery, a little lost his figure, but he never loses his friends. I have found a wing of his house turned into a hospital for sick men, and there I once spent a week in the company of two dismal nurses and a specialist in “Sprue.” Another time the place was full of schoolboys–sons of Anglo-Indians whom the Infant had collected for the holidays, and they nearly broke his keeper’s heart.
But my last visit was better. The Infant called me up by wire, and I fell into the arms of a friend of mine, Colonel A.L. Corkran, so that the years departed from us, and we praised Allah, who had not yet terminated the Delights, nor separated the Companions.
Said Corkran, when he had explained how it felt to command a native Infantry regiment on the border: “The Stricks are coming for to-night-with their boy.”
“I remember him. The little fellow I wrote a story about,” I said. “Is he in the Service?”
“No. Strick got him into the Centro-Euro-Africa Protectorate. He’s Assistant-Commissioner at Dupe–wherever that is. Somaliland, ain’t it, Stalky?” asked the Infant.
Stalky puffed out his nostrils scornfully. “You’re only three thousand miles out. Look at the atlas.”
“Anyhow, he’s as rotten full of fever as the rest of you,” said the Infant, at length on the big divan. “And he’s bringing a native servant with him. Stalky be an athlete, and tell Ipps to put him in the stable room.”
“Why? Is he a Yao–like the fellow Wade brought here–when your housekeeper had fits?” Stalky often visits the Infant, and has seen some odd things.
“No. He’s one of old Strickland’s Punjabi policemen–and quite European–I believe.”
“Hooray! Haven’t talked Punjabi for three months–and a Punjabi from Central Africa ought to be amusin’.”
We heard the chuff of the motor in the porch, and the first to enter was Agnes Strickland, whom the Infant makes no secret of adoring.
He is devoted, in a fat man’s placid way, to at least eight designing women; but she nursed him once through a bad bout of Peshawur fever, and when she is in the house, it is more than all hers.
“You didn’t send rugs enough,” she began. “Adam might have taken a chill.”
“It’s quite warm in the tonneau. Why did you let him ride in front? ”
“Because he wanted to,” she replied, with the mother’s smile, and we were introduced to the shadow of a young man leaning heavily on the shoulder of a bearded Punjabi Mohammedan.
“That is all that came home of him,” said his father to me. There was nothing in it of the child with whom I had journeyed to Dalhousie centuries since.”
“And what is this uniform?” Stalky asked of Imam Din, the servant, who came to attention on the marble floor.
“The uniform of the Protectorate troops, Sahib. Though I am the Little Sahib’s body-servant, it is not seemly for us white men to be attended by folk dressed altogether as servants.”
“And–and you white men wait at table on horseback?” Stalky pointed to the man’s spurs.
“These I added for the sake of honour when I came to England,” said Imam Din Adam smiled the ghost of a little smile that I began to remember, and we put him on the big couch for refreshments. Stalky asked him how much leave he had, and he said “Six months.”
“But he’ll take another six on medical certificate,” said Agnes anxiously. Adam knit his brows.
“You don’t want to–eh? I know. Wonder what my second in command is doing.” Stalky tugged his moustache, and fell to thinking of his Sikhs.
“Ah!” said the Infant. “I’ve only a few thousand pheasants to look after. Come along and dress for dinner. We’re just ourselves. What flower is your honour’s ladyship commanding for the table?”
“Just ourselves?” she said, looking at the crotons in the great hall. “Then let’s have marigolds the little cemetery ones.”
So it was ordered.
Now, marigolds to us mean hot weather, discomfort, parting, and death. That smell in our nostrils, and Adam’s servant in waiting, we naturally fell back more and more on the old slang, recalling at each glass those who had gone before. We did not sit at the big table, but in the bay window overlooking the park, where they were carting the last of the hay. When twilight fell we would not have candles, but waited for the moon, and continued our talk in the dusk that makes one remember.
Young Adam was not interested in our past except where it had touched his future. I think his mother held his hand beneath the table. Imam Din–shoeless, out of respect to the floors–brought him his medicine, poured it drop by drop, and asked for orders.
“Wait to take him to his cot when he grows weary,” said his mother, and Imam Din retired into the shadow by the ancestral portraits.
“Now what d’you expect to get out of your country?” the Infant asked, when–our India laid aside we talked Adam’s Africa. It roused him at once.
“Rubber -nuts -gums -and so on,” he said. “But our real future is cotton. I grew fifty acres of it last year in my District.”
“My District!” said his father. “Hear him, Mummy!”
“I did though! I wish I could show you the sample. Some Manchester chaps said it was as good as any Sea Island cotton on the market.”
“But what made you a cotton-planter, my son?” she asked.
“My Chief said every man ought to have a shouk (a hobby) of sorts, and he took the trouble to ride a day out of his way to show me a belt of black soil that was just the thing for cotton.”
“Ah! What was your Chief like?” Stalky asked, in his silkiest tones.
“The best man alive–absolutely. He lets you blow your own nose yourself. The people call him”–Adam jerked out some heathen phrase–“that means the Man with the Stone Eyes, you know.”
“I’m glad of that. Because I’ve heard from other quarters” Stalky’s sentence burned like a slow match, but the explosion was not long delayed. “Other quarters!” Adam threw out a thin hand. “Every dog has his fleas. If you listen to them, of course!” The shake of his head was as I remembered it among his father’s policemen twenty years before, and his mother’s eyes shining through the dusk called on me to adore it. I kicked Stalky on the shin. One must not mock a young man’s first love or loyalty.
A lump of raw cotton appeared on the table.
“I thought there might be a need. Therefore I packed it between our shirts,” said the voice of Imam Din.
“Does he know as much English as that?” cried the Infant, who had forgotten his East.
We all admired the cotton for Adam’s sake, and, indeed, it was very long and glossy.
“It’s–it’s only an experiment,” he said. “We’re such awful paupers we can’t even pay for a mailcart in my District. We use a biscuit-box on two bicycle wheels. I only got the money for that”–he patted the stuff–“by a pure fluke.”
“How much did it cost?” asked Strickland.
“With seed and machinery–about two hundred pounds. I had the labour done by cannibals.”
“That sounds promising.” Stalky reached for a fresh cigarette.
“No, thank you,” said Agnes. “I’ve been at Weston-super-Mare a little too long for cannibals. I’ll go to the music-room and try over next Sunday’s hymns.”
She lifted the boy’s hand lightly to her lips, and tripped across the acres of glimmering floor to the music-room that had been the Infant’s ancestors’ banqueting hall. Her grey and silver dress disappeared under the musicians’ gallery; two electrics broke out, and she stood backed against the lines of gilded pipes.
“There’s an abominable self-playing attachment here!” she called.
“Me!” the Infant answered, his napkin on his shoulder. “That’s how I play Parsifal.”
“I prefer the direct expression. Take it away, Ipps.”
We heard old Ipps skating obediently all over the floor.
“Now for the direct expression,” said Stalky, and moved on the Burgundy recommended by the faculty to enrich fever-thinned blood.
“It’s nothing much. Only the belt of cotton-soil my chief showed me ran right into the Sheshaheli country. We haven’t been able to prove cannibalism against that tribe in the courts; but when a Sheshaheli offers you four pounds of woman’s breast, tattoo marks and all, skewered up in a plantain leaf before breakfast, you–”
“Naturally burn the villages before lunch,” said Stalky.
Adam shook his head. “No troops,” he sighed. “I told my Chief about it, and he said we must wait till they chopped a white man. He advised me if ever I felt like it not to commit a–a barren felo de se, but to let the Sheshaheli do it. Then he could report, and then we could mop ’em up!”
“Most immoral! That’s how we got–” Stalky quoted the name of a province won by just such a sacrifice.
“Yes, but the beasts dominated one end of my cotton-belt like anything. They chivied me out of it when I went to take soil for analysis–me and Imam Din.”
“Sahib! Is there a need?” The voice came out of the darkness, and the eyes shone over Adam’s shoulder ere it ceased.
“None. The name was taken in talk.” Adam abolished him with a turn of the finger. “I couldn’t make a casus belli of it just then, because my Chief had taken all the troops to hammer a gang of slave kings up north. Did you ever hear of our war against Ibn Makarrah? He precious nearly lost us the Protectorate at one time, though he’s an ally of ours now.”
“Wasn’t he rather a pernicious brute, even as they go?” said Stalky. “Wade told me about him last year.”
“Well, his nickname all through the country was ‘The Merciful,’ and he didn’t get that for nothing. None of our people ever breathed his proper name. They said ‘He’ or ‘That One,’ and they didn’t say it aloud, either. He fought us for eight months.”
“I remember. There was a paragraph about it in one of the papers,” I said.
“We broke him, though. No–the slavers don’t come our way, because our men have the reputation of dying too much, the first month after they’re captured. That knocks down profits, you see.”
“What about your charming friends, the Sheshahelis?” said the Infant.
“There’s no market for Sheshaheli. People would as soon buy crocodiles. I believe, before we annexed the country, Ibn Makarrah dropped down on ’em once–to train his young men–and simply hewed ’em in pieces. The bulk of my people are agriculturists just the right stamp for cotton-growers. What’s Mother playing?–‘Once in royal’?”
The organ that had been crooning as happily as a woman over her babe restored, steadied to a tune.
“Magnificent! Oh, magnificent! ” said the Infant loyally. I had never heard him sing but once, and then, though it was early in the tolerant morning, his mess had rolled him into a lotus pond.
“How did you get your cannibals to work for you?” asked Strickland.
“They got converted to civilization after my Chief smashed Ibn Makarrah–just at the time I wanted ’em. You see my Chief had promised me in writing that if I could scrape up a surplus he would not bag it for his roads this time, but I might have it for my cotton game. I only needed two hundred pounds. Our revenues didn’t run to it.”
“What is your revenue?” Stalky asked in the vernacular.
“With hut-tax, traders’ game and mining licenses, not more than fourteen thousand rupees; every penny of it ear-marked months ahead.” Adam sighed.
“Also there is a fine for dogs straying in the Sahib’s camp. Last year it exceeded three rupees,” Imam Din said quietly.
“Well, I thought that was fair. They howled so. We were rather strict on fines. I worked up my native clerk–Bulaki Ram–to a ferocious pitch of enthusiasm. He used to calculate the profits of our cotton-scheme to three points of decimals, after office. I tell you I envied your magistrates here hauling money out of motorists every week I had managed to make our ordinary revenue and expenditure just about meet, and I was crazy to get the odd two hundred pounds for my cotton. That sort of thing grows on a chap when he’s alone–and talks aloud!”
“Hul-lo! Have you been there already?” the father said, and Adam nodded.
“Yes. Used to spout what I could remember of ‘Marmion’ to a tree, sir. Well then my luck turned. One evening an English-speaking nigger came in towing a corpse by the feet. (You get used to little things like that.) He said he’d found it, and please would I identify, because if it was one of Ibn Makarrah’s men there might be a reward. It was an old Mohammedan, with a strong dash of Arab–a smallboned, bald-headed chap, and I was just wondering how it had kept so well in our climate when it sneezed. You ought to have seen the nigger! He fetched a howl and bolted like–like the dog in ‘Tom Sawyer,’ when he sat on the what’s-its-name beetle. He yelped as he ran, and the corpse went on sneezing. I could see it had been sarkied. (That’s a sort of gum-poison, pater, which attacks the nerve centres. Our chief medical officer is writing a monograph about it.) So Imam Din and I emptied out the corpse one time, with my shaving soap and trade gunpowder, and hot water.
“I’d seen a case of sarkie before; so when the skin peeled off his feet, and he stopped sneezing, I knew he’d live. He was bad, though; lay like a log for a week while Imam Din and I massaged the paralysis out of him. Then he told us he was a Hajji–had been three times to Mecca–come in from French Africa, and that he’d met the nigger by the wayside–just like a case of thuggee, in India–and the nigger had poisoned him. That seemed reasonable enough by what I knew of Coast niggers.”
“You believed him?” said his father keenly.
“There was no reason I shouldn’t. The nigger never came back, and the old man stayed with me for two months,” Adam returned. “You know what the best type of a Mohammedan gentleman can be, pater? He was that.”
“None finer, none finer,” was the answer.
“Except a Sikh,” Stalky grunted.
“He’d been to Bombay; he knew French Africa inside out; he could quote poetry and the Koran all day long. He played chess–you don’t know what that meant to me -like a master. We used to talk about the regeneration of Turkey and the Sheik-ul-Islam between moves. Oh, everything under the sun we talked about! He was awfully open-minded. He believed in slavery, of course, but he quite saw that it would have to die out. That’s why he agreed with me about developing the resources of the district by cotton-growing, you know.”
“You talked of that too?” said Strickland.
“Rather. We discussed it for hours. You don’t know what it meant to me. A wonderful man. Imam Din, was not our Hajji marvellous?”
“Most marvellous! It was all through the Hajji that we found the money for our cotton-play.” Imam Din had moved, I fancy, behind Strickland’s chair.
“Yes. It must have been dead against his convictions too. He brought me news when I was down with fever at Dupe that one of Ibn Makarrah’s men was parading through my District with a bunch of slaves–in the Fork!”
“What’s the matter with the Fork, that you can’t abide it?” said Stalky. Adam’s voice had risen at the last word.
“Local etiquette, sir,” he replied, too earnest to notice Stalky’s atrocious pun. “If a slaver runs slaves through British territory he ought to pretend that they’re his servants. Hawkin’ ’em about in the Fork–the forked stick that you put round their necks, you know–is insolence–same as not backing your topsails in the old days. Besides, it unsettles the District.”
“I thought you said slavers didn’t come your way,” I put in.
“They don’t. But my Chief was smoking ’em out of the North all that season, and they were bolting into French territory any road they could find. My orders were to take no notice so long as they circulated, but open slave-dealing in the Fork, was too much. I couldn’t go myself, so I told a couple of our Makalali police and Imam Din to make talk with the gentleman one time. It was rather risky, and it might have been expensive, but it turned up trumps. They were back in a few days with the slaver (he didn’t show fight) and a whole crowd of witnesses, and we tried him in my bedroom, and fined him properly. Just to show you how demoralized the brute must have been (Arabs often go dotty after a defeat), he’d snapped up four or five utterly useless Sheshaheli, and was offering ’em to all and sundry along the road. Why, he offered ’em to you, didn’t he, Imam Din?”
“I was witness that he offered man-eaters’ for sale,” said Imam Din.
“Luckily for my cotton-scheme, that landed, him both ways. You see, he had slaved and exposed slaves for sale in British territory. That meant the double fine if I could get it out of him.”
“What was his defence?” said Strickland, late of the Punjab Police.
“As far as I remember–but I had a temperature of 104 degrees at the time–he’d mistaken the meridians of longitude. Thought he was in French territory. Said he’d never do it again, if we’d let him off with a fine. I could have shaken hands with the brute for that. He paid up cash like a motorist and went off one time.”
“Did you see him?”
“Ye-es. Didn’t I, Imam Din?”
“Assuredly the Sahib both saw and spoke to the slaver. And the Sahib also made a speech to the man-eaters when he freed them, and they swore to supply him with labour for all his cotton-play. The Sahib leaned on his own servant’s shoulder the while.”
“I remember something of that. I remember Bulaki Ram giving me the papers to sign, and I distinctly remember him locking up the money in the safe–two hundred and ten beautiful English sovereigns. You don’t know what that meant to me! I believe it cured my fever; and as soon as I could, I staggered off with the Hajji to interview the Sheshaheli about labour. Then I found out why they had been so keen to work! It wasn’t gratitude. Their big village had been hit by lightning and burned out a week or two before, and they lay flat in rows around me asking me for a job. I gave it ’em.”
“And so you were very happy?” His mother had stolen up behind us. “You liked your cotton, dear?” She tidied the lump away.
“By Jove, I was happy!” Adam yawned. “Now if any one,” he looked at the Infant, “cares to put a little money into the scheme, it’ll be the making of my District. I can’t give you figures, sir, but I assure–”
“You’ll take your arsenic, and Imam Din’ll take you up to bed, and I’ll come and tuck you in.”
Agnes leaned forward, her rounded elbows on his shoulders, hands joined across his dark hair, and “Isn’t he a darling?” she said to us, with just the same heart-rending lift to the left eyebrow and the same break of her voice as sent Strickland mad among the horses in the year ’84. We were quiet when they were gone. We waited till Imam Din returned to us from above and coughed at the door, as only dark-hearted Asia can.
“Now,” said Strickland, “tell us what truly befell, son of my servant.”
“All befell as our Sahib has said. Only–only there was an arrangement–a little arrangement on account of his cotton-play.”
“Tell! Sit! I beg your pardon, Infant,” said Strickland.
But the Infant had already made the sign, and we heard Imam Din hunker down on the floor: One gets little out of the East at attention.
“When the fever came on our Sahib in our roofed house at Dupe,” he began, “the Hajji listened intently to his talk. He expected the names of women; though I had already told him that Our virtue was beyond belief or compare, and that Our sole desire was this cotton-play. Being at last convinced, the Hajji breathed on our Sahib’s forehead, to sink into his brain news concerning a slave-dealer in his district who had made a mock of the law. Sahib,” Imam Din turned to Strickland, “our Sahib answered to those false words as a horse of blood answers to the spur. He sat up. He issued orders for the apprehension of the slavedealer. Then he fell back. Then we left him.”
“Alone–servant of my son, and son of my servant?” said his father.
“There was an old woman which belonged to the Hajji. She had come in with the Hajji’s money-belt. The Hajji told her that if our Sahib died, she would die with him. And truly our Sahib had given me orders to depart.”
“Being mad with fever–eh?”
“What could we do, Sahib? This cotton-play was his heart’s desire. He talked of it in his fever. Therefore it was his heart’s desire that the Hajji went to fetch. Doubtless the Hajji could have given him money enough out of hand for ten cottonplays; but in this respect also our Sahib’s virtue was beyond belief or compare. Great Ones do not exchange moneys. Therefore the Hajji said–and I helped with my counsel–that we must make arrangements to get the money in all respects conformable with the English Law. It was great trouble to us, but–the Law is the Law. And the Hajji showed the old woman the knife by which she would die if our Sahib died. So I accompanied the Hajji.”
“Knowing who he was?” said Strickland.
“No! Fearing the man. A virtue went out from him overbearing the virtue of lesser persons. The Hajji told Bulaki Ram the clerk to occupy the seat of government at Dupe till our return. Bulaki Ram feared the Hajji, because the Hajji had often gloatingly appraised his skill in figures at five thousand rupees upon any slave-block. The Hajji then said to me: ‘Come, and we will make the man-eaters play the cotton-game for my delight’s delight’ The Hajji loved our Sahib with the love of a father for his son, of a saved for his saviour, of a Great One for a Great One. But I said: ‘We cannot go to that Sheshaheli place without a hundred rifles. We have here five.’ The Hajji said: ‘I have untied as knot in my head-handkerchief which will be more to us than a thousand.’ I saw that he had so loosed it that it lay flagwise on his shoulder. Then I knew that he was a Great One with virtue in him.
“We came to the highlands of the Sheshaheli on the dawn of the second day–about the time of the stirring of the cold wind. The Hajji walked delicately across the open place where their filth is, and scratched upon the gate which was shut. When it opened I saw the man-eaters lying on their cots under the eaves of the huts. They rolled off: they rose up, one behind the other the length of the street, and the fear on their faces was as leaves whitening to a breeze. The Hajji stood in the gate guarding his skirts from defilement. The Hajji said: ‘I am here once again. Give me six and yoke up.’ They zealously then pushed to us with poles six, and yoked them with a heavy tree. The Hajji then said: “Fetch fire from the morning hearth, and come to windward.’ The wind is strong on those headlands at sunrise, so when each had emptied his crock of fire in front of that which was before him, the broadside of the town roared into flame, and all went. The Hajji then said: ‘At the end of a time there will come here the white man ye once chased for sport. He will demand labour to plant such and such stuff. Ye are that labour, and your spawn after you.’ They said, lifting their heads a very little from the edge of the ashes: ‘ We are that labour, and our spawn after us.’ The Hajji said: ‘What is also my name?’ They said: ‘Thy name is also The Merciful’ The Hajji said: ‘Praise then my mercy’; and while they did this, the Hajji walked away, I following.”
The Infant made some noise in his throat, and reached for more Burgundy.
“About noon one of our six fell dead. Fright only frights Sahib! None had–none could–touch him. Since they were in pairs, and the other of the Fork was mad and sang foolishly, we waited for some heathen to do what was needful. There came at last Angari men with goats. The Hajji said: ‘What do ye see? They said: ‘Oh, our Lord, we neither see nor hear.’ The Hajji said: ‘But I command ye to see and to hear and to say.’ They said: ‘Oh, our Lord, it is to our commanded eyes as though slaves stood in a Fork.’ The Hajji said: ‘So testify before the officer who waits you in the town of Dupe.’ They said: ‘What shall come to us after?’ The Hajji said: ‘The just reward for the informer. But if ye do not testify, then a punishment which shall cause birds, to fall from the trees in terror and monkeys to scream for pity.’ Hearing this, the Angari men hastened to Dupe. The Hajji then said to me: ‘Are those things sufficient to establish our case, or must I drive in a village full?’ I said that three witnesses amply established any case, but as yet, I said, the Hajji had not offered his slaves for sale. It is true, as our Sahib said just now, there is one fine for catching slaves, and yet another for making to sell them. And it was the double fine that we needed, Sahib, for our Sahib’s cotton-play. We had fore-arranged all this with Bulaki Ram, who knows the English Law, and, I thought the Hajji remembered, but he grew angry, and cried out: ‘O God, Refuge of the Afflicted, must I, who am what I am, peddle this’ dog’s meat by the roadside to gain his delight for my heart’s delight?” None the less, he admitted it was the English Law, and so he offered me the six–five–in a small voice, with an averted head. The Sheshaheli do not smell of sour milk as heathen should. They smell like leopards, Sahib. This is because they eat men.”
“Maybe,” said Strickland. “But where were thy wits? One witness is not sufficient to establish the fact of a sale.”
“What could we do, Sahib? There was the Hajji’s reputation to consider. We could not have called in a heathen witness for such a thing. And, moreover, the Sahib forgets that the defendant himself was making this case. He would not contest his own evidence. Otherwise, I know the law of evidence well enough.
“So then we went to Dupe, and while Bulaki Ram waited among the Angari men, ‘I ran to see our Sahib in bed. His eyes were very bright, and his mouth was full of upside-down orders, but the old woman had not loosened her hair for death. The Hajji said: ‘Be quick with my trial. I am not Job!’ The Hajji was a learned man. We made the trial swiftly to a sound of soothing voices round the bed. Yet–yet, because no man can be sure whether a Sahib of that blood sees, or does not see, we made it strictly in the manner of the forms of the English Law. Only the witnesses and the slaves and the prisoner we kept without for his nose’s sake.”
“Then he did not see the prisoner?” said Strickland.
“I stood by to shackle up an Angari in case he should demand it, but by God’s favour he was too far fevered to ask for one. It is quite true he signed the papers. It is quite true he saw the money put away in the safe–two hundred and ten English pounds and it is quite true that the gold wrought on him as a strong cure. But as to his seeing the prisoner, and having speech with the man-eaters–the Hajji breathed all that on his forehead to sink into his sick brain. A little, as ye have heard, has remained . . . . Ah, but when the fever broke, and our Sahib called for the fine-book, and the thin little picture-books from Europe with the pictures of ploughs and hoes, and cotton=3Dmills–ah, then he laughed as he used to laugh, Sahib. It was his heart’s desire, this cotton-play. The Hajji loved him, as who does not? It was a little, little arrangement, Sahib, of which–is it necessary to tell all the world?”
“And when didst thou know who the Hajji was?” said Strickland.
“Not for a certainty till he and our Sahib had returned from their visit to the Sheshaheli country. It is quite true as our Sahib says, the man-eaters lay, flat around his feet, and asked for spades to cultivate cotton. That very night, when I was cooking the dinner, the Hajji said to me: ‘I go to my own place, though God knows whether the Man with the Stone Eyes have left me an ox, a slave, or a woman.’ I said: ‘Thou art then That One?’ The Hajji said: ‘I am ten thousand rupees reward into thy hand. Shall we make another law-case and get more cotton machines for the boy?’ I said: ‘What dog am I to do this? May God prolong thy life a thousand years!’ The Hajji said: ‘Who has seen to-morrow? God has given me as it were a son in my old age, and I praise Him. See that the breed is not lost!’
“He walked then from the cooking-place to our Sahib’s office-table under the tree, where our Sahib held in his hand a blue envelope of Service newly come in by runner from the North. At this, fearing evil news for the Hajji, I would have restrained him, but he said: ‘We be both Great Ones. Neither of us will fail.’ Our Sahib looked up to invite the Hajji to approach before he opened the letter, but the Hajji stood off till our Sahib had well opened and well read the letter. Then the Hajji said: ‘Is it permitted to say farewell?’ Our Sahib stabbed the letter on the file with a deep and joyful breath and cried a welcome. The Hajji said: ‘I go to my own place,’ and he loosed from his neck a chained heart of ambergris set in soft gold and held it forth. Our Sahib snatched it swiftly in the closed fist, down turned, and said ‘If thy name be written hereon, it is needless, for a name is already engraved on my heart.’ The Hajji said: ‘And on mine also is a name engraved; but there is no name on the amulet.’ The Hajji stooped to our Sahib’s feet, but our Sahib raised and embraced him, and the Hajji covered his mouth with his shoulder-cloth, because it worked, and so he went away.”
“And what order was in the Service letter?” Stalky murmured.
“Only an order for our Sahib to write a report on some new cattle sickness. But all orders come in the same make of envelope. We could not tell what order it might have been.”
“When he opened the letter–my son–made he no sign? A cough? An oath?” Strickland asked.
“None, Sahib. I watched his hands. They did not shake. Afterward he wiped his face, but he was sweating before from the heat.”
“Did he know? Did he know who the Hajji was?” said the Infant in English.
“I am a poor man. Who can say what a Sahib of that get knows or does not know? But the Hajji is right. The breed should not be lost. It is not very hot for little children in Dupe, and as regards nurses, my sister’s cousin at Jull–”
“H’m! That is the boy’s own concern. I wonder if his Chief ever knew?” said Strickland.
“Assuredly,” said Imam Din. “On the night before our Sahib went down to the sea, the Great Sahib–the Man with the Stone Eyes–dined with him in his camp, I being in charge of the table. They talked a long while and the Great Sahib said: ‘What didst thou think of That One?’ (We do not say Ibn Makarrah yonder.) Our Sahib said: ‘Which one?’ The Great Sahib said: ‘That One which taught thy man-eaters to grow cotton for thee. He was in thy District three months to my certain knowledge, and I looked by every runner that thou wouldst send me in his head.’ Our Sahib said: ‘If his head had been needed, another man should have been appointed to govern my District, for he was my friend.’ The Great Sahib laughed and said: ‘If I had needed a lesser man in thy place be sure I would have sent him, as, if I had needed the head of That One, be sure I would have sent men to bring it to me. But tell me now, by what means didst thou twist him to thy use and our profit in this cotton-play?’ Our Sahib said: ‘By God, I did not use that man in any fashion whatever. He was my friend.’ The Great Sahib said: ‘ ‘Toh Vac! (Bosh!) Tell!’ Our Sahib shook his head as he does–as he did when a child–and they looked at each other like sword-play men in the ring at a fair. The Great Sahib dropped his eyes first and he said: ‘So be it. I should perhaps have answered thus in my youth. No matter. I have made treaty with That One as an ally of the State. Some day he shall tell me the tale.’ Then I brought in fresh coffee, and they ceased. But I do not think That One will tell the Great Sahib more than our Sahib told him.”
“Wherefore?” I asked.
“Because they are both Great Ones, and I have observed in my life that Great Ones employ words very little between each other in their dealings; still less when they speak to a third concerning those dealings. Also they profit by silence . . . . Now I think that the mother has come down from the room, and I will go rub his feet till he sleeps.”
His ears had caught Agnes’s step at the stair-head and presently she passed us on her way to the music room humming the Magnificat.
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Hampton School is an independent boys’ day school in Hampton, Greater London. Located in a highly desirable corner of South West London, Hampton School occupies 28 acres of land, and is home to first-class facilities, including a state-of-the-art 3G all-weather sports ground, a large multi-purpose sports hall and a professional standard Performing Arts theatre.
The broad curriculum includes art, biology, chemistry, Classics, computing and coding, drama, design and technology, English, geography, history, maths, Modern Languages, music, Sport & PE, physics and PSHE.
Within the co-curricular programme, pupils partake in a range of clubs and societies, such as Adventure Society, Architecture Club, Art Club, Beekeeping Club, Book Club, Chess Club, Computing & Robotics Clubs, Debating, Design and Technology Club, Modern Languages’ Clubs and many others.
In line with the motto Praestat Opes Sapientia (Wisdom surpasses wealth), Hampton encourages every boy to develop to his full academic potential and acquire a wide range of cultural and spiritual values so that he can make sense of the world and seek to improve it.
Address: Hanworth Road Hampton Middlesex TW12 3HD
Admissions info: admissions@hamptonschool.org.uk or 020 8979 9273
School Type: Independent day school for boys
Number of Students: 1,243 (approx.)
Open day: October, November, March, April, May
10+ Exam Date: November of Year 5
10+ Exam Type / Board: School’s own
The school hosts visitor events (Visitor Afternoons and Visitor Mornings) which provide parents and boys with the opportunity to look around the school during a normal working day, and to meet staff members and current pupils.
The visit includes a presentation from the Headmaster and other senior staff, as well as a Q&A with current pupils. The tour of the school concludes with refreshments and the opportunity for an informal chat with current staff and pupils.
For the Visitor Afternoons and Visitor Mornings, early booking is highly recommended. This can be done online on the school’s website, or arranged with Admissions.
Boys will sit the 10+ Advance Place examination in the November of Year 5. Successful performance in the examination guarantees a place in the First Year (Year 7) at 11+.
The school offers approximately 35 places each year, welcoming applications from parents of boys attending primary schools and independent preparatory schools which finish at the end of Year 6.
The 10+ exam is intended for boys who feel that they are ready to sit a formal exam and thus wish to reduce the complexities and uncertainties of the 11+ assessments in Year 6.
The examinations assess English and mathematics skills. Places are offered approximately two weeks after the exam and acceptances should be made in March, along with a non-refundable deposit of £1,600. A 20 minute interview with a teaching staff member is also a part of the 10+ assessment process, taking place after the exam.
Boys who accept a 10+ Advance Place are not required to sit the 11+ entrance exam the following year unless they wish to apply for a scholarship or bursary. Those who decline the offer a place, or who are not successful in the 10+ exam, will be invited to sit the 11+ exam in the January of Year 6.
To register your son for the 10+ examination, please complete the online registration available on the school’s website. The registration fee covers both the 10+ and 11+ exams. The closing date for registration is in October. Places are awarded approximately two weeks after the exam.
Note that a reference from your son’s current school will also be requested.
The 10+ Advance Place examination consist of the following papers:
English Response & Reasoning (45 minutes)
Essay (30 minutes)
Mathematics (40 minutes)
The 10+ papers are similar in style to the 11+ exam. The English writing paper (essay) aims to evaluate your child’s writing skills, whilst the maths paper is designed to examine your child’s skills in problem-solving and arithmetic.
Please see below for further details and recommendations on how to prepare for the Hampton School 10+ exam.
To successfully prepare your child for the Hampton School’s 10+ entrance exam, we recommend using practice tests. Our resources fully reflect the actual 10+ exam by covering all the question types that could come up, whilst helping your child become familiar with the exam layout.
Coupled with a structured study plan, our practice tests will help you define any weak areas that require additional work at the earliest. They will also help you recognise your child’s strengths, resulting in a significant boost of their confidence in the lead up to the big day. Furthermore, they will get used to answering questions quickly and effectively, under time pressure.
Our resources are designed to be age-appropriate, yet challenging, and, as such, they are used successfully by tens of thousands of students every year. Please see below our recommended packs to help you prepare your child for the Hampton School 10 plus entrance examinations.
English practice papers, ideal for Hampton School ten plus (10+) exam preparation:
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With nothing but the gentle roar of a burner for company, a hot air balloon is a tranquil way to take in your destination from an alternative perspective.
From the first flights in the 1800’s to the advancements we see today, perfected in the mid 20th century, hot air balloons provide the opportunity to take a unique, slow journey over spectacular landscapes, awe-inspiring historical sites and experience a bird’s eye view view of the nature below.
Invariably the best time of day to embark is at sunrise or sunset when the air is at its clearest and cooler, especially in warmer climes. Whether a private voyage for a special occasion or a treat for the family, joining a larger flight with a small group, there are plenty of options available in truly breath-taking settings.
Wadi Rum, Jordan
Known for it’s weather-beaten landscapes and spectacular rock formations, Jordan‘s Wadi Rum is home to the legacy of Lawrence of Arabia. 100 years later, little has changed and romantic ideas of awe-inspiring mountains, rising dramatically from the pink-ochre sands are far from dashed.
Inhabited by Bedouins, many of whom still lead a nomadic lifestyle, the desert landscape, with its undulating dunes and towering cliffs throwing long, mysterious shadows across the terrain, makes for a breath-taking scene to unfold below as you float silently into the sky.
Bagan is an ancient city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. The capital city of the Pagan Kingdom from the 9th to 13th centuries, Bagan was first kingdom that united the regions that would later comprise modern Myanmar.
Boasting over 2,200 temples and pagodas, the plains of Bagan are a truly magnificent site to behold from the air. No other means will allow you to appreciate the sheer vastness of this sacred landscape, the grasslands beyond and the accompanying sky, speciously scattered with other balloons.
Maasai Mara, Kenya
A once in a lifetime experience over the African plains, a hot air balloon takes you game viewing to a whole new dimension. Not only does taking to the air give you a different perspective of the wildlife below, it allows you to access locations you may be otherwise unable to by vehicle or foot.
While no two flights are the same, at higher elevations each will offer a staggering panoramic view of the landscape for miles. Closer to terra firma, a bird’s- eye- view of individual animals at close quarters amplifies ones understanding of their existence in their natural habitat.
Exploring the Egyptian temples of Luxor on foot is humbling in its own right. Take to the skies however, and you cannot fail to marvel at the ancient and iconic ruins below.
As the sun rises over the east bank of the Nile, exposing the land of the ancient Pharaohs, you’ll take in many privileged sights including the temples of Karnak and Hatshepsut, Colossi of Memnon and the Ramesseum while the Valley on the Kings and Queens lies serenely in the distance.
Canterbury Plains, New Zealand
From the spectacular Southern Alps to the immense Rakaia Gorge, the South Island of New Zealand’s dazzling scenery attracts visitors from far and wide to admire its myriad geological forms.
Flying at approximately 6000ft, voyagers enjoy far reaching views across Canterbury Plains to Mount Cook, the national park mountains and beyond.
For more information on hot air balloon excursions or to book a holiday, get in touch.
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Madisyn Howard
Maggie Coughlin
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Madisyn Howard June 2018
Photos by Marie Thomas • Makeup by Bridgit Crider
Few fifth graders have started their own charities. Madisyn Howard is an exception. Through Madisyn’s Heart, The Talitha Cumi Girls Mentoring Program, and her individual volunteer work, she’s already touched countless lives – and she’s just getting started.
Madi, as her friends and family call her, has always wanted to help people. She’s always been disappointed that she is too young to help her mom, Tonya, who works with homeless individuals battling mental illness and substance abuse issues. So, at age eight, she decided to find her own way to help people in need.
“Follow your dreams, even if you’re young and always help people when you can.”
“I started by collecting money and donations to make gift bags for a children’s hospital in Atlanta,” she says. “I really like to help people who are sick.”
Madisyn collects journals, ink pens and hand sanitizer at an Open House for Genesis Consulting.
She also provides notebooks, journals, pens, and hand sanitizer for patients receiving chemotherapy in Douglasville. The clinic is particularly special to Madisyn because a close family friend and mentor was treated for breast cancer there. She also collects clothes, coats, scarves, and toys for children at the S.H.A.R.E. House, a domestic violence shelter in Douglasville.
“There’s no stopping her once she makes up her mind to do something that will benefit others,” Tonya says. “She has a heart designed to love and serve. When she came up with her own idea for helping, she wanted to start immediately. I asked her to wait until summer break because of our busy schedules. Soon after summer break began, I walked into my living room and witnessed treats, gifts, and toys everywhere. She was beyond excited and ready to share, and clearly had been at work for a while.”
Madisyn posing with her brand new adopted dog, Jersey.
One of Madisyn’s other pet projects is handing out affirmation cards that say things like “you are smart,” “you are beautiful,” “you are nice,” and more. She hands the cards out randomly, just to make people smile. Last year, she created a special version for police and firefighters, which included “thank you for your service” cards.
“I just think people need to hear those things sometimes,” Madisyn says. “Affirmations really work!”
Madisyn, who attends Connections Academy online through Genesis Consulting Group Homeschool Co-Op in Fayetteville, says her favorite subject is science. Her newest project is a book about how she started her charity.
Madisyn Howard and Livi Blevins are more than best friends, they’re ‘like sisters’
“I want to write about how I started a charity and how other people can too, no matter their age,” she explains. “I want to teach people how to make a little go a long way until they are able to do more.”
Madisyn is also working with fellow cover girl Olivia Blevins on a YouTube show and workbook to teach other kids about entrepreneurship. Topics will include budgeting and saving money, revenue, choosing locations, and more.
“I like helping people and I love teaching people how to help,” she says. “I think I’m going to be a great teacher. But I’m always going to have my charity too.”
Meet Fayette Woman Magazine’s 2018 Women to Watch. From writing a book for kids with ADHD to showing us how to help the sick and homeless, the girls on the cover of this year’s Women to Watch issue are truly astounding! Three of them have already formed nonprofits. One is a charge nurse and mentor at Piedmont Fayette Hospital. They’re all on a path to a brilliant future, fortified with a determination to help others, and they all have wise words to share with people of all ages. Read on to learn more about these dynamos and many other amazing young women in our community. You’ll be inspired!
Women to Watch 2018
Maggie is an author, speaker, trainer, strategist, freelance writer, blogger and life coach. She's also a reader, life learner, hair flower obsessionist, dog schmuck, DIY enthusiast, Mensan, and dreamer. Maggie lives in Newnan with her sweet rescue pup, Jazzy.
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How To Maximise The Impact Of Google’s Expanded Text Ads
Caroline Berry, 13th February 2019
Google launched the updated version of expanded text ads mid-2018, where character counts grew 47% overnight with an additional third headline and a second description. After 16 years of Google Ads, this refresher is said to have helped to increase click through rate by 20%. We have been delving in to the true impact that these expanded text ads have had on performance for our clients.
The first iteration of expanded text ads came in 2016 with additional characters and a second headline to the standard structure. Since then, this has been developed into three headlines and two descriptions, all with a rise in character limits, which gives us 300 characters to utilise.
As search ads have grown in character size by a whopping 216% since the first version of expanded text ads, we have obviously seen a shift in SERP placements. This means that with the larger expanded text ads, the third headline and second description were not visible on mobile devices. This is not necessarily detrimental as we can still utilise the further characters in the description, paths and headlines to inform users with the most targeted messaging as possible.
The Changing Trends In Search
Google’s micro-moments philosophy was established around two and a half years ago, distinguishing how peoples’ search behaviour has evolved; users now expect immediate answers or resolutions to their queries.
Searches including “best” have increased 80% over two years and the rise of mobile has been a focal point for digital marketers for the last four years, if not longer. This exemplifies the importance of delivering informative, personalised ads in order to have the strongest impact on the user as possible.
How To Optimise Your Expanded Text Ads
As touched on in my recent video on PPC trends to look out for in 2019, audience-based targeting has become and will continue to develop into a main factor in PPC strategies alongside, if not superseding, the traditional keyword-based method. Amalgamating both this contemporary targeting model along with the expanded text ads enables advertisers to deliver the most relevant and personalised ad messaging as possible which, in turn, will see an increase in CTR.
One area that we believe is not utilised to its best capacity is the additional 30-characters within paths. There are three main areas that paths can impact the quality of your ad:
The first and most-used is the standard keyword-related term to ensure quality score is as strong as possible.
The second is being more creative for the audience that you are targeting, including sales or messaging that is relatable for the relevant demographic.
The third area is one of the most unutilised aspects of paths – including a countdown. Including countdown functionality throughout ad copy increases urgency, so why not replicate this in your path to duplicate the impact that it has on the user?
The Impact Of Expanded Text Ads
Throughout the quarter prior to building out the newest version of expanded text ads for one of our ecommerce clients, we were seeing CTR at 10.09% with a conversion rate of 0.77%. Following the introduction of the new ad format we saw CTR slightly decrease to 9.54% in the first quarter, whilst conversion rate increased to 1.21%. As a result of these changes as a whole, we saw AOV increase 27% and in turn an 82% rise in revenue. Obviously, there are many contributing factors to changes in performance, therefore we are going to further evaluate at a device level to see if there is much statistical difference in the two formats.
The most successful uplift we saw was through desktop, with a 20% rise in CTR and a 94% increase in CvR, whilst mobile devices CTR decreased 12% however CvR increased 52%. Therefore, we can see that with the third headline and second description on desktop, users are more inclined to click through and convert with more personable and informative language built in the ads they saw. It could be said that through mobile, we have eradicated the surplus users that were less likely to convert as we were giving them the answer to questions that they would have found further down the user journey and bounced, as we can see the users that did come to site were 52% more inclined to convert.
Additional Quick Wins For Expanded Text Ads
Utilise all characters as much as possible. Don’t include full stops/periods at the end of your headlines or descriptions as this is dead space that you could be using to include more targeted, granular messaging for the user.
Include your main messaging and CTAs in your first two headlines and description to ensure you are not losing any important information when shown on mobile. Of course, this is only relevant if you are not developing any mobile-specific ad copy.
Overall, the development of expanded text ads have seen the positive impact on our paid landscape as many people suggested. I wonder where Google plans to take them next, or whether we will have to wait a further 16 years for another significant change.
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Cop arrested for street racing
Thread: Cop arrested for street racing
WAYNESBORO Ga.-- A Waynesboro Police officer was arrested after troopers say he was racing with another vehicle that ended up flipping over and crashing.
Investigators say Jonathan Cates, a Waynesboro Police Officer, was speeding in a 1999 Chevy Silverado. He was arrested and is being charged with misdemeanor racing.
The other vehicle, a 2007 Nissan Titan was also speeding when it flipped onto the drivers side on 11th Street and Quaker Road.
There was a 15 year old in the Titan who was hurt in the accident. He is expected to be okay, and right now it is not clear if he was actually driving.
Georgia State Patrol, Sgt. Ben Forehand said it happened Tuesday night around 8:20 p.m.
"By the time I seen it...it was still on its side sliding," Derrick Smith said about watching the truck with the teenager inside crashing into a yard on West 11th Street.
Smith sees police tape, mirrors and other car parts in the yard the truck crashed into now, but Tuesday night he says it was a 2007 Nissan Titan that was smashed and left a teenager injured.
"This is a racing community," Smith said. "But just (doing it) in this confined area, that's ridiculous."
Sgt. Forehand worked the accident and said two trucks were racing at a high rate of speed before the Nissan Titan lost control around a corner and rolled into a neighbors yard hitting a tree.
But when troopers arrived they say the Nissan was being moved to Top Quality Auto, a nearby auto shop that has wrecked cars in its lot, and Officer Cates' 1999 Chevy Silverado was nowhere to be found.
"I'm not very happy about it at all," Waynesboro Police Chief Karl Allen said. "We don't condone this type of behavior whatsoever."
Chief Allen said they've had disciplinary problems with this officer before and have now put him on administrative leave.
"At this point, we're doing an investigation and after the investigation we'll decide what to do and what disciplinary action to take against the officer," Chief Allen said.
State Patrol investigators say the 15-year-old suffered a minor shoulder injury and his family owns Top Quality Auto.
Earl Culver was arrested for interference with police. Incident reports show he works at Top Quality Auto.
Incident reports also said, "(The teen) advised (an officer) that Earl was driving the vehicle." The incident report then says Culver was taken to the Burke County Jail. In the officers statement in the report it later says, "But at the jail (Culver) told (the officer) that (Culver) was taking the blame, that (Culver) was the driver."
"Covering one bad to suit one purpose is still however you sum it up," Smith said. "Off duty officer or not."
So the investigation continues and only time will tell the fate of Officer Cates' job and if the 15-year-old was the other one racing the Nissan Titan that crashed.
"It's not the fact that I want anyone to get locked up or lose their job," Smith said. "But practice the law equally and fairly for everyone."
State Patrol investigators are also looking into the case to see if alcohol was involved in the race.
The State Patrol says the officer came to the Waynesboro Police Department and turned himself in about four hours after the accident.
Incident reports also show the Titan was not insured.
J. ZIMM
THE HIGH DESERT, OREGON
We had a situation a few years back that involved street racing. Two cars, one containing a couple of boys, the other a couple of girls. Rounding a corner, the girls lost control and crashed. Killing both of the young ladies. The boys were arrested and held on the charges of manslaughter. As the year past by, one was let go as he was not the driver. The driver was held responsible for the lives lost that night. He received 15 years in the State pen. By the way, he was under the age of 18 at the time...
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Emily Braden - guitar vocals
Jack Blauvelt - guitar
Merideth Hanscom - bass
Andrew McFarland - drums
Neighbor Lady
A missing link between indie-rock and classic country western, Atlanta-based Neighbor Lady is comprised of Emily Braden, Jack Blauvelt, Merideth Hanscom, and Andrew McFarland. Led by the siren voice of front-woman and songwriter Emily Braden, Neighbor Lady began as a solo project. She began writing music by herself and for herself; lyrically, the songs chronicle events in her personal life and her emotions surrounding those events.
Having grown up on a farm in pastoral Rome, Georgia, she moved to Athens, Georgia after high school, met guitarist Jack Blauvelt and formed Neighbor Lady, a small band centered on supporting Emily's songwriting. As Braden puts it, "Neighbor Lady started because I was too nervous to play a show by myself, so I asked my friends to play with me."
Neighbor Lady's debut LP Maybe Later consists of 7 songs that introduce the band's foundations of country-kissed indie-rock in a poignantly sweet and evocative style — the album shifts fluidly between the dreamy, stripped-down, aching melodies of just Braden and her guitar, to the powerfully noisy and fiery hooks of the full band. Neighbor Lady's momentum is indebted to their blend of a powerfully dynamic band paired with Braden's soaring vocal melodies, creating a sensation both comforting yet heartbreaking in the same moment. You'll feel compelled to put "Let It Bleed" on endless repeat. And there's an immediate Southern element to Neighbor Lady, emanating from Emily's voice (which has been compared to Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Kate Bush and Nancy Sinatra), some of Jack's pedal steel-esque guitar melodies, the slower 2-stepping rhythm in the song "I Wish Nothing," and the fire in songs like "Fine" and "Silently Separately."
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How to change the tempo of individual music?
vinibudd December 3, 2020, 4:52am #1
I have Cubase Elements 9.5
Would you like to know if you can change the tempo of the song individually in it?
steve December 3, 2020, 4:52am #2
You do it from the Tempo Track Editor.
-steve-:
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This I know, but I want to change the individual time of the tracks, as in Cubase Elements 9.5?
The easiest way would be to use the select tool in its mode, resizing applies time stretch.
https://steinberg.help/cubase_elements_le_ai/v9.5/en/cubase_nuendo/topics/parts_events/parts_and_events_resizing_events_with_the_object_selection_tool_sizing_applies_time_stretch_t.html
Does this work on imported audio?
I tried to pull the audio but it only copies the sound
Be sure to read the manual link carefully. https://steinberg.help/cubase_elements_le_ai/v9.5/en/cubase_nuendo/topics/parts_events/parts_and_events_resizing_events_with_the_object_selection_tool_sizing_applies_time_stretch_t.html
I can, can you tell when she’s after?
Thank you for the patience.
Could you tell me if there is any way I can create a time automation for each track?
steve December 3, 2020, 4:52am #10
What do you mean by “Time Automation”? Do you mean the ability to change the tempo over time on a per-track basis? If so, no. What you can do is use the Select tool in “Sizing Applies Time Stretch” mode. (and drag the lower right hand corner of the event)
vinibudd December 3, 2020, 4:52am #11
Create a timeline like Ableton Live
When the band was arriving next time would increase
After using Sizing Applies Time Stretch, can you tell how long the track has been?
alexis December 3, 2020, 4:52am #13
Maybe these will help?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsHTvKoRzfc&t=22s Creates a click track from the freely recorded performance, then stretch the whole song … the song will get sped up/slowed down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=16&v=xZ2nBzw4sUc . Though he didn’t mention, I think the MIDI tracks need to be in Musical Time Base … but not sure, would have to try it to be sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DaIP7fV6EI . This one is to “create a tempo map” , to create a click track for the drummer, or if you wanted to add a MIDI-based VST instrument (like VST Drums, etc.), or making external loops follow the track tempo. But even if that’s not what you need to do it’s pretty cool, and it supports and reinforces the first vid well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxmfKIqHQpon He says “Mode” but that’s incorrect, it’s “Time Base”. "Remember, a good rule of thumb is: when changing to Linear Time Base, the start of the part/clip will remain at the same min:sec value, but its starting bar:beat value may change.
Conversely, when changing to Musical Time Base, the start of the part/clip will remain at the same bar:beat value, but its starting min:sec value may change."
(Btw,there’s a Project Logical Editor setting for one-click setting all of the tracks to Linear vs Musical Time Base).
Check out this thread too, it reinforces some of the above, and may have another tip or two somewhere in there: https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=250&t=135724
Unfortunately some features of the video do not have in my version
That’s a drag, sorry.
Which tools in the vids are missing in 9.5?
Tempo Track
You can only add a Marker Track
Can not add time per track
Only the project mix can be exported
I hope the answer is that! LOL
planarchist December 3, 2020, 4:52am #17
There is a Tempo Track in Elements, it’s just not as fully featured s in Pro. It can be found under the Project menu (from memory).
(The OP is trying to change the tempo of tracks individually, not actually the project tempo )
vinibudd:
Yes, in the info line.
I changed this track, but I do not see bpm changed to know which one to be
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POLL: What level of OS compatibility do you want?
Patanjali December 3, 2020, 12:43am #1
What level of OS compatibility do you want?
Optimise code to take full advantage of all facilities and conventions available in each OS, only using common code where it does not interfere with this.
Only use code for individual OSs where there is a significant advantage.
Make code and facilities operate as similarly as possible on all OSs.
Windows has been undergoing some big changes in facilities with recent versions, and 10 will introduce a higher level of hardware platform accommodation.
Yet the Windows versions of Cubase seem to be languishing in the shadow of OSX’s limitations, so we have no acknowledgement of touch at all, and C8 seems to be trying to kluge the Mac UI onto Win.
I wish to start drawing a line to say that us Windows users should not have to be beholden to recalcitrant OSX-favouring managers and programmers in SB who cannot seem to pull their heads out of Apple’s backside, and see that we do not use Windows as if it was a poor relation to OSX.
I am not saying the OSX is not a good OS, and that people should not prefer it, but I think it should not be the reference by which Cubase is limited.
enjneer December 3, 2020, 12:43am #2
And here I am, feeling that Cubase behaves like a Windows port! LOL you guys have had way better performance for years!
What is it that you want Cubase to do on Windows?
Are there any DAWs that specifically acknowledge touch somehow?
(Honestly curious, not being a smart-ass) [emoji5]
enjneer:
Basic performance is separate from fully utilising the unique facilities of an OS.
I would rather that Cubase be the best it can be on each OS. There is no requirement to be PC (politically correct ) here. Artificial constraints on an OS version should not be defined by the limitations of another OS.
Touch, for one thing. It is still a non-trivial undertaking, and would need to accommodate touch-dead areas so that one can operate without having to suspend one’s arms and hands for hours on end like Stephen Wiltshire is able to do.
Fully utilising the paradigms, conventions and standards of each OS, unless something significantly better, and still maintainable, can be used. Programming to an OS in non-standard ways only makes a program harder to learn, use, and maintain across versions as the OS evolves.
Does it matter? Windows supports it, so why not use it? SB does not have to wait until other DAW makers do it, or OSX for that matter. Otherwise, it is relegating SB to being an imitator and also-ran wanabee.
Also, with Windows 10 finally being the unified OS across all classes of hardware, having Cubase touch-aware, and perhaps modular, would allow distributing its facilities over different devices.
For example, Cubase iC Pro provides touch control of Cubase across iOS and Android devices, but a Win 10 touch version would be able to run on any size touch device. Win8.x devices capable of running such an app are well under $100, but where’s the iC Pro for them?
Right. I got to use Cubase on a Dell touchscreen. It was awesome. I think bye-bye keyboard and mouse = the future.
Obviously, as you say, Cubase will need some tweaking to be fully functional under touch. As soon as they do, I’ll jump in!
I’m sure it’s coming. But, right now, so few people even own a touchscreen, I’m sure it’s not a mega-priority… Yet.
But, right now, so few people even own a touchscreen, I’m sure it’s not a mega-priority… Yet.
Chicken and egg situation, but making a workable touch version may just turn the tide.
Along with dead touch areas for resting or pivoting with finger/palms/hand-edge, there needs to be a more flexible way to select touch or mouse versions of each of the Cubase blocks, as there are quite different size and spacing arrangements required for each. I would prefer, as I have stated many times before (here we go again ), that we be able to:
a) Save a named configuration of Cubase function blocks – each selected according to our touch or mouse preference – as a window.
b) Save named configurations of windows, including whether a window is local, or on a remote device.
That would allow each OS user to use the function block versions that can be used under their OS.
Like all the interaction paradigms, there are usage scenarios where each is better suited. I see them all as parallel interaction opportunities, to be used as required.
Where there are multiple ways of doing an action, I tend to use the mouse way if I am primarily using the mouse at the time, whereas I use keyboard shortcuts if I am using the keyboard for almost everything else at the time.
If I could, I would like touch on every display, even just for those times when I just want to scroll and zoom.
JClosed December 3, 2020, 12:43am #7
To be honest - I do not think touch screen in an studio environment will be very common in the forseeable years. I can see there are some backdraws with that…
First (and for me most important), you do not have tactile feedback. Nothing works nicer that moving an slider by hand, while listening (sometimes even with closed eyes) to the minute changes you make. If you use an touch screen you have to rely on hand-eye coordination, what can be uncomfortable and distracting.
Secondly, most people use the monitor at an 90 degree angle (or even tilted forward) on their mix table. It is intensely uncomfortable to use touch in such an evironment. Constantly pointing forward and slightly (in my case) upwards will tire your arm very quickly.
Sure - you can replace you mix table by an flat (or slightly tilted upward) screen, but then you have problems with the first point I mentionned. On top of that, replacing an midi or other harware controler, by an big enough flatscreen is very pricy. Yes, there are mix consoles with build-in touch screen, but the pricing for that hardware is (in my opinion) far out of reach of small studio’s (and I do not even dare to talk about home-enthousiasts).
Al in all, I should say there is in my opinion no pressing reason why Cubase should have an full-touch support in the short term. I think there is more important intercface (GUI) work to do, before submitting resources to develop named full-touch support.
Kotsamanidis December 3, 2020, 12:43am #8
I’ve been using Cubase on both Windows and OSX for many years, and having support for cutting edge (of 5 years ago) tech has been the last thing on my mind. All I want is for increased stability and a lighter footprint.
I don’t want support for phone/tablet integration. I don’t care about touch screen support. I don’t care about a permanently docked menu/title bar. I don’t care about Jason Becker style eye controlled MIDI input. I don’t care about motion sensor camera compatibility to use my PS3 camera for moving faders. I don’t care about telepathic linking between my brain and the Media Bay. etc etc etc
All I would personally want is for Steinberg to be using Pro Tools, Reaper, Sonar, Logic, Digital Performer, Sibelius and then stealing their best workflow features and putting them into Cubase. One at a time.
I will pay $200 per update, per OS version if it meant not being a beta tester until the (paid) x.5 upgrade was released.
I say all this being fully aware nobody held a gun to my head and forced me to upgrade from C7.5, and that C7.5 is still going to work for me just as well as it did before the upgrade, and everything that comes with that.
But I mean, if I were to send a mix to a client at the same level of completion as a new Cubase version, I would lose that client (after the recalls to get to the x.5 version equivalent of the mix).
Programs like Cubase are programmed in a framework, like multi platform plugins are. Unless they would drop one platform, I don’t see any changes in that regard. Touch as a replacement does not make much sense, adjusting small knobs with fat fingers, or constantly zooming in and out is not a workflow enhancement. The windows management in Cubase 8 is much better, but I agree it would have been so much better if it just followed the standard. Let’s not forget it’s early days, and give Steinberg a chance to react to all the feedback we are giving them.
mmorgan December 3, 2020, 12:43am #10
Probably my biggest issue with Cubase is it’s non-OS compliant ‘features’…the Menu bar of 8.0 being first and foremost. I am willing to give Steinberg some leeway though…but I don’t feel the windows management under 8.0 is much better than previous versions.
Regarding ‘touch’, while I agree that the loss of a tactile sensation on the fingertips is a negative, my experience using a 23" multi-touch monitor with a DAW that has fully implemented multi-touch is incredibly powerful for mixing. YMMV of course…but as a cost effective solution this worked very well for me for that particular DAW.
patcub December 3, 2020, 12:43am #11
I want Cubase to be 100% compatible with my OS. Thanks.
Patanjali December 3, 2020, 2:37am #12
Patanjali:
Or, just use a special glove that does the palm-rejection for you, while also making it easier to slide across the display, as well as keeping it clean. Well, that’s the theory, I don’t own these: XP-Pen Drawing Anti-fouling Lycra Graphics Two-Finger Glove.
TEEF December 3, 2020, 2:37am #13
I want Cubase to work on my intellivision. That directional pad could be so useful!
NorthWood_MediaWorks December 3, 2020, 2:38am #14
You will never “Have it all” in either OS… there are always going to be compromises.
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Judge skewers Oracle attorney for revealing Google, Apple trade secrets [Update]
UPDATE 4:52pm PDT: The judge presiding over the case on Friday neither held Oracle’s attorney in contempt nor issued any sanctions. Instead, the judge ruled that issuing such an order would be “heavy handed.” (PDF) The judge ordered that Oracle would have to pay for Google’s expenses in its successful bid to seal the transcript of the lawyer’s courtroom disclosure—an amount that will be determined later.
The federal judge who presided over the Google-Oracle API copyright infringement trial excoriated one of Oracle’s lawyers Thursday for disclosing confidential information in open court earlier this year. The confidential information included financial figures stating that Google generated $31 billion in revenue and $22 billion in profits from the Android operating system in the wake of its 2008 debut. The Oracle attorney, Annette Hurst, also revealed another trade secret: Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 to include Google search on iPhones.
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Union Petroleum Minister felicitates Army sponsored JK students for qualifying IIT-JEE exams
Gen Bipin Rawat met students from Army’s “Super 40” coaching initiative. Twenty six 26 boys and two girls from J&K cracked IIT-JEE Mains Exam.
Srinagar: Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan felicitated students from Jammu and Kashmir for their success in the recently held 2016-17 IIT-JEE (Main and Advance) examinations on Wednesday.
Interacting with them at a meeting in the ministry, Pradhan congratulated the students for their brilliant academic performance, but cautioned and advised them not to wrest on their present laurels and achievements, but to strive to excel further in their respective subjects of choice, and contribute to nation-building.
On Tuesday, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Dr Jitendra Singh and Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat separately praised and lauded these Kashmiri youth for their academic achievements.
While Dr Singh said that the Kashmir Valley has some of the best talents and talked about the various new youth centric schemes being initiated by the ruling NDA regime, General Rawat congratulated the students and hoped the students would serve Kashmir eventually.
Dr Singh assured the students that the Union government is ready to support all efforts to realize their potential, and reminded them that 14 students from Jammu and Kashmir have passed this year’s civil service examinations.
He also praised the result-oriented approach of the ‘Kashmir Super 30’ (aka Super 40) initiative of the Indian Army with its training partner Centre for Social Responsibility and Leadership (CSRL) and Petronet LNG Limited (PLL).
“The project aims to support the talented underprivileged students of the economically weaker sections of Kashmir to achieve educational success by providing engineering entrance exam coaching,” Singh added.
General Rawat said, “Few amongst you will become the District Magistrates and SDMs. And you will be able to help the other children.”
Out of 40 students enrolled under the project, 35 boys were given coaching provisions at Srinagar and five girls at Delhi. In the IIT-JEE result declared this year, 26 boys and two girls cracked the mains exam. Further out of 28 students, nine students made it to the prestigious IITs.
“These students have set an example before others to follow. He complemented Petronet for their efforts in supporting these children. The job which they are performing is not small and they are making a real contribution in the lives of these students with their sincerity and commitment,” Singh said.
The minister appreciated the students for their result-oriented approach and also lauded the Indian Army for its contribution.
“We are indebted to the Indian Army which serves the nation not only in the times of disturbance, but also in the times of peace by working in various situations like flood relief measures,” he asserted.
Super 40 Programme, known as Super 30 in 2013-14, started with the aim of coaching 30 students from Kashmir preparing for IIT main exams. In 2016, the number rose to 40.
JEE-Advanced, formerly the Indian Institutes of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), is an annual engineering college entrance examination in India.
It is used as the sole admission test by the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
Major General RP Kalitha, under whose supervision this initiative is being conducted, lauded the Kashmiri students for their exemplary handwork and dedication towards their studies.
“The Youth of Kashmir are very intelligent and hard working, and with the facilities that were provided, gradually the results also improved from 2013. This year in the main exams, 26 boys and two girls cleared and in the Advanced phase, nine boys cleared the exam.
I think it is a great result since the institute is only three-year- old,” he said.
Major General Kalitha further said that the programme was gearing up to intake 50 students, including 45 boys and five girls.
The initiative is jointly financed by the Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership and PETRONET LNG, Ministry of Petroleum.
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January 16, 2021 / geoenergymath / 4 Comments
Something I learned early on in my research career is that complicated frequency spectra can be generated from simple repeating structures. Consider the spatial frequency spectra produced as a diffraction pattern produced from a crystal lattice. Below is a reflected electron diffraction pattern of a reconstructed hexagonally reconstructed surface of a silicon (Si) single crystal with a lead (Pb) adlayer ( (a) and (b) are different alignments of the beam direction with respect to the lattice). Suffice to say, there is enough information in the patterns to be able to reverse engineer the structure of the surface as (c).
from link
Now consider the ENSO pattern. At first glance, neither the time-series signal nor the Fourier series power spectra appear to be produced by anything periodically regular. Even so, let’s assume that the underlying pattern is tidally regular, being comprised of the expected fortnightly 13.66 day tropical/synodic cycle and the monthly 27.55 day anomalistic cycle synchronized by an annual impulse. Then the forcing power spectrum of f(t) looks like the RED trace on the left-side of the figure below, F(ω). Clearly that is not enough of a frequency spectra (a few delta spikes) necessary to make up the empirically calculated Fourier series for the ENSO data comprising ~40 intricately placed peaks between 0 and 1 cycles/year in BLUE.
Yet, if we modulate that with an Laplace’s Tidal Equation solution functional g(f(t)) that has a G(ω) as in the yellow inset above — a cyclic modulation of amplitudes where g(x) is described by two distinct sine-waves — then the complete ENSO spectra is fleshed out in BLACK in the figure above. The effective g(x) is shown in the figure below, where a slower modulation is superimposed over a faster modulation.
So essentially what this is suggesting is that a few tidal factors modulated by two sinusoids produces enough spectral detail to easily account for the ~40 peaks in the ENSO power spectra. It can do this because a modulating sinusoid is an efficient harmonics and cross-harmonics generator, as the Taylor’s series of a sinusoid contains an effectively infinite number of power terms.
To see this process in action, consider the following three figures, which features a slider that allows one to get an intuitive feel for how the LTE modulation adds richness via harmonics in the power spectra.
Start with a mild LTE modulation and start to increase it as in the figure below. A few harmonics begin to emerge as satellites surrounding the forcing harmonics in RED.
drag slider right for less modulation and to the left for more modulation
2. Next, increase the LTE modulation so that it models the slower sinusoid — more harmonics emerge
3. Then add the faster sinusoid, to fully populate the empirically observed ENSO spectral peaks (and matching the time series).
It appears as if by magic, but this is the power of non-linear harmonic generation. Note that the peak labeled AB amongst others is derived from the original A and B as complicated satellite-cross terms, which can be accounted for by expanding all of the terms in the Taylor’s series of the sinusoids. This can be done with some difficulty, or left as is when doing the fit via solver software.
To complete the circle, it’s likely that being exposed to mind-blowing Fourier series early on makes Fourier analysis of climate data less intimidating, as one can apply all the tricks-of-the-trade, which, alas, are considered routine in other disciplines.
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January 13, 2021 January 14, 2021 / geoenergymath / 1 Comment
This is what amounts to forecast meteorology — a seasoned weatherman will look at the current charts and try to interpret them based on patterns that have been associated with previous observations. They appear to have equal powers of memory recall, pattern matching, and the art of the bluff.
I don’t do that kind of stuff and don’t think I ever will.
If this comes out of a human mind, then that same information can be fed into a knowledgebase and either a backward or forward-chained inference engine could make similar assertions.
And that explains why I don’t do it — a machine should be able to do it better.
What makes an explanation good enough? by Santa Fe Institute
Plausibility and parsimony are the 2P’s of building a convincing argument for a scientific model. First one has to convince someone that the model is built on a plausible premise, and secondly that the premise is simpler and more parsimonious with the data that any other model offered. As physics models are not provable in the sense of math models, the model that wins is always based on a comparison to all other models. Annotated from DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.09.013
note: https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2018/01/13/a-little-bit-of-sociology-of-science/#comment-110013
January 7, 2021 January 8, 2021 / geoenergymath / 4 Comments
Amazing finding from Alex’s group at NASA JPL
Konopliv, Alex S., et al. “Detection of the Chandler Wobble of Mars From Orbiting Spacecraft.” Geophysical Research Letters 47.21 (2020): e2020GL090568.
What’s also predictable is that the JPL team probably have a better handle of what causes the wobble on Mars than we have on what causes the Chandler wobble (CW) here on Earth. Such is the case when comparing a fresh model against a stale model based on an early consensus that becomes hard to shake with the passage of time.
Of course, we have our own parsimoniously plausible model of the Earth’s Chandler wobble (described in Chapter 13), that only gets further substantiated over time.
The latest refinement to the geoenergy model is the isolation of Chandler wobble spectral peaks related to the asymmetry of the northern node lunar torque relative to the southern node lunar torque.
January 4, 2021 January 4, 2021 / geoenergymath / Leave a comment
In Chapter 12, we described the model of QBO generated by modulating the draconic (or nodal) lunar forcing with a hemispherical annual impulse that reinforces that effect. This generates the following predicted frequency response peaks:
From section 11.1.1 Harmonics
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th peaks listed (at 2.423, 1.423, and 0.423) are readily observed in the power spectra of the QBO time-series. When the spectra are averaged over each of the time series, the precisely matched peaks emerge more cleanly above the red noise envelope — see the bottom panel in the figure below (click to expand).
Power spectra of QBO time-series — the average is calculated by normalizing the peaks at 0.423/year.
Each set of peaks is separated by a 1/year interval.
The inset shows what these harmonics provide — essentially the jagged stairstep structure of the semi-annual impulse lag integrated against the draconic modulation.
It is important to note that these harmonics are not the traditional harmonics of a high-Q resonance behavior, where the higher orders are integral multiples of the fundamental frequency — in this case at 0.423 cycles/year. Instead, these are clear substantiation of a forcing response that maintains the frequency spectrum of an input stimulus, thus excluding the possibility that the QBO behavior is a natural resonance phenomena. At best, there may be a 2nd-order response that may selectively amplify parts of the frequency spectrum.
See my latest submission to the ESD Ideas issue : ESDD – ESD Ideas: Long-period tidal forcing in geophysics – application to ENSO, QBO, and Chandler wobble (copernicus.org)
December 22, 2020 December 23, 2020 / geoenergymath / 4 Comments
I presented at the 2018 AGU Fall meeting on the topic of cross-validation. From those early results, I updated a fitted model comparison between the Pacific ocean’s ENSO time-series and the Atlantic Ocean’s AMO time-series. The premise is that the tidal forcing is essentially the same in the two oceans, but that the standing-wave configuration differs. So the approach is to maintain a common-mode forcing in the two basins while only adjusting the Laplace’s tidal equation (LTE) modulation.
If you don’t know about these completely orthogonal time series, the thought that one can avoid overfitting the data — let alone two sets simultaneously — is unheard of (Michael Mann doesn’t even think that the AMO is a real oscillation based on reading his latest research article called “Absence of internal multidecadal and interdecadal oscillations in climate model simulations“).
This is the latest product (click to expand)
Read this backwards from H to A.
H = The two tidal forcing inputs for ENSO and AMO — differs really only by scale and a slight offset
G = The constituent tidal forcing spectrum comparison of the two — primarily the expected main constituents of the Mf fortnightly tide and the Mm monthly tide (and the Mt composite of Mf × Mm), amplified by an annual impulse train which creates a repeating Brillouin zone in frequency space.
E&F = The LTE modulation for AMO, essentially comprised of one strong high-wavenumber modulation as shown in F
C&D = The LTE modulation for ENSO, a strong low-wavenumber that follows the El Nino La Nina cycles and then a faster modulation
B = The AMO fitted model modulating H with E
A = The ENSO fitted model modulating the other H with C
Ordinarily, this would take eons worth of machine learning compute time to determine this non-linear mapping, but with knowledge of how to solve Navier-Stokes, it becomes a tractable problem.
Now, with that said, what does this have to do with cross-validation? By fitting only to the ENSO time-series, the model produced does indeed have many degrees of freedom (DOF), based on the number of tidal constituents shown in G. Yet, by constraining the AMO fit to require essentially the same constituent tidal forcing as for ENSO, the number of additional DOF introduced is minimal — note the strong spike value in F.
Since parsimony of a model fit is based on information criteria such as number of DOF, as that is exactly what is used as a metric characterizing order in the previous post, then it would be reasonable to assume that fitting a waveform as complex as B with only the additional information of F cross-validates the underlying common-mode model according to any information criteria metric.
For further guidance, this is an informative article on model selection in regards to complexity — “A Primer for Model Selection: The Decisive Role of Model Complexity“
The Search for Order
December 6, 2020 December 7, 2020 / geoenergymath / 3 Comments
Chap 10 Mathematical Geoenergy
For the LTE formulation along the equator, the analytical solution reduces to g(f(t)), where g(x) is a periodic function. Without knowing what g(x) is, we can use the frequency-domain entropy or spectral entropy of the Fourier series mapping an estimated x=f(t) forcing amplitude to a measured climate index time series such as ENSO. The frequency-domain entropy is the sum or integral of this mapping of x to g(x) in reciprocal space applying the Shannon entropy –I(f).ln(I(f)) normalized over the I(f) frequency range, which is the power spectral (frequency) density of the mapping from the modeled forcing to the time-series waveform sample.
This measures the entropy or degree of disorder of the mapping. So to maximize the degree of order, we minimize this entropy value.
This calculated entropy is a single scalar metric that eliminates the need for evaluating various cyclic g(x) patterns to achieve the best fit. Instead, what it does is point to a highly-ordered spectrum (top panel in the above figure), of which the delta spikes can then be reverse engineered to deduce the primary frequency components arising from the the LTE modulation factor g(x).
The approach works particularly well once the spectral spikes begin to emerge from the background. In terms of a physical picture, what is actually emerging are the principle standing wave solutions for particular wavenumbers. One can see this in the LTE modulation spectrum below where there is a spike at a wavenumber at 1.5 and one at around 10 in panel A (isolating the sin spectrum and cosine spectrum separately instead of the quadrature of the two giving the spectral intensity). This is then reverse engineered as a fit to the actual LTE modulation g(x) in panel B. Panel D is the tidal forcing x=f(t) that minimized the Shannon entropy, thus creating the final fit g(f(t)) in panel C when the LTE modulation is applied to the forcing.
The approach does work, which is quite a boon to the efficiency of iterative fitting towards a solution, reducing the number of DOF involved in the calculation. Prior to this, a guess for the LTE modulation was required and the iterative fit would need to evolve towards the optimal modulation periods. In other words, either approach works, but the entropy approach may provide a quicker and more efficient path to discovering the underlying standing-wave order.
I will eventually add this to the LTE fitting software distro available on GitHub. This may also be applicable to other measures of entropy such as Tallis, Renyi, multi-scale, and perhaps Bispectral entropy, and will add those to the conventional Shannon entropy measure as needed.
November 21, 2020 November 21, 2020 / geoenergymath / Leave a comment
ESP stands for Earth System Predictability and appears to be an initiative released during the remaining months of the Trump administration.
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From predictions of individual thunderstorms to projections of long-term global change, knowing the degree to which Earth system phenomena across a range of spatial and temporal scales are practicably predictable is vitally important to society. Past research in Earth System Predictability (ESP) led to profound insights that have benefited society by facilitating improved predictions and projections. However, as there is an increasing effort to accelerate progress (e.g., to improve prediction skill over a wider range of temporal and spatial scales and for a broader set of phenomena), it is increasingly important to understand and characterize predictability opportunities and limits. Improved predictions better inform societal resilience to extreme events (e.g., droughts and floods, heat waves wildfires and coastal inundation) resulting in greater safety and socioeconomic benefits. Such prediction needs are currently only partially met and are likely to grow in the future. Yet, given the complexity of the Earth system, in some cases we still do not have a clear understanding of whether or under which conditions underpinning processes and phenomena are predictable and why. A better understanding of ESP opportunities and limits is important to identify what Federal investments can be made and what policies are most effective to harness inherent Earth system predictability for improved predictions.
They outline these primary goals:
Goal 1: Advance foundational understanding and theory for an improved knowledge of Earth system predictability of practical utility.
Goal 2: Reduce gaps in the observations-based characterization of conditions, processes, and phenomena crucial for understanding and using Earth system predictability.
Goal 3: Accelerate the exploration and effective use of inherent Earth system predictability through advanced modeling.
Cross-Cutting Goal 1: Leverage emerging new hardware and software technologies for Earth system predictability R&D.
Cross-Cutting Goal 2: Optimize coordination of resources and collaboration among agencies and departments to accelerate progress.
Cross-Cutting Goal 3: Expand partnerships across disciplines and with entities external to the Federal Government to accelerate progress.
Cross-Cutting Goal 4: Include, inspire, and train the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists who can advance knowledge and use of Earth system predictability.
Essentially the idea is to get it done with whatever means are available, including applying machine learning/artificial intelligence. The problem is that they wish to “train the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists who can advance knowledge and use of Earth system predictability”. Yet, interdisciplinary scientists are not normally employed in climate science and earth science research. How many of these scientists have done materials science, condensed-matter physics, electrical, optics, controlled laboratory experimentation, mechanical, fluid, software engineering, statistics, signal processing, virtual simulations, applied math, AI, quantum and statistical mechanics as prerequisites to beginning study? It can be argued that all the tricks of these trades are required to make headway and to produce the next breakthrough.
https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/09-22-2020/earth-system-predictability-r-d-continuing-the-conversation
ESD Ideas article for review
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Discussion open for comments: ESD Ideas: Long-period tidal forcing in geophysics – application to ENSO, QBO, and Chandler wobble https://t.co/ETxANp5Bbp
— EarthSystemDynamics (@EGU_ESD) November 14, 2020
The simple idea is that tidal forces play a bigger role in geophysical behaviors than previously thought, and thus helping to explain phenomena that have frustrated scientists for decades.
The idea is simple but the non-linear math (see figure above for ENSO) requires cracking to discover the underlying patterns.
The rationale for the ESD Ideas section in the EGU Earth System Dynamics journal is to get discussion going on innovative and novel ideas. So even though this model is worked out comprehensively in Mathematical Geoenergy, it hasn’t gotten much publicity.
Complexity vs Simplicity in Geophysics
November 10, 2020 January 8, 2021 / geoenergymath / 5 Comments
In our book Mathematical GeoEnergy, several geophysical processes are modeled — from conventional tides to ENSO. Each model fits the data applying a concise physics-derived algorithm — the key being the algorithm’s conciseness but not necessarily subjective intuitiveness.
I’ve followed Gell-Mann’s work on complexity over the years and so will try applying his qualitative effective complexity approach to characterize the simplicity of the geophysics models described in the book and on this blog.
from Deacon_Information_Complexity_Depth.pdf
Here’s a breakdown from least complex to most complex
Gravitational Pull
November 5, 2020 / geoenergymath / 1 Comment
In Chapter 12 of the book, we provide an empirical gravitational forcing term that can be applied to the Laplace’s Tidal Equation (LTE) solution for modeling ENSO. The inverse squared law is modified to a cubic law to take into account the differential pull from opposite sides of the earth.
excerpt from Mathematical Geoenergy (Wiley/2018)
The two main terms are the monthly anomalistic (Mm) cycle and the fortnightly tropical/draconic pair (Mf, Mf’ w/ a 18.6 year nodal modulation). Due to the inverse cube gravitational pull found in the denominator of F(t), faster harmonic periods are also created — with the 9-day (Mt) created from the monthly/fortnightly cross-term and the weekly (Mq) from the fortnightly crossed against itself. It’s amazing how few terms are needed to create a canonical fit to a tidally-forced ENSO model.
The recipe for the model is shown in the chart below (click to magnify), following sequentially steps (A) through (G) :
(A) Long-period fortnightly and anomalistic tidal terms as F(t) forcing
(B) The Fourier spectrum of F(t) revealing higher frequency cross terms
(C) An annual impulse modulates the forcing, reinforcing the amplitude
(D) The impulse is integrated producing a lagged quasi-periodic input
(E) Resulting Fourier spectrum is complex due to annual cycle aliasing
(F) Oceanic response is a Laplace’s Tidal Equation (LTE) modulation
(G) Final step is fit the LTE modulation to match the ENSO time-series
The tidal forcing is constrained by the known effects of the lunisolar gravitational torque on the earth’s length-of-day (LOD) variations. An essentially identical set of monthly, fortnightly, 9-day, and weekly terms are required for both a solid-body LOD model fit and a fluid-volume ENSO model fit.
Fitting tidal terms to the dLOD/dt data is only complicated by the aliasing of the annual cycle, making factors such as the weekly 7.095 and 6.83-day cycles difficult to distinguish.
If we apply the same tidal terms as forcing for matching dLOD data, we can use the fit below as a perturbed ENSO tidal forcing. Not a lot of difference here — the weekly harmonics are higher in magnitude.
Modified initial calibration of lunar terms for fitting ENSO
So the only real unknown in this process is guessing the LTE modulation of steps (F) and (G). That’s what differentiates the inertial response of a spinning solid such as the earth’s core and mantle from the response of a rotating liquid volume such as the equatorial Pacific ocean. The former is essentially linear, but the latter is non-linear, making it an infinitely harder problem to solve — as there are infinitely many non-linear transformations one can choose to apply. The only reason that I stumbled across this particular LTE modulation is that it comes directly from a clever solution of Laplace’s tidal equations.
for full derivation see Mathematical Geoenergy (Wiley/2018)
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Part 1. Overview Information
Participating Organization(s)
Components of Participating Organizations
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Funding Opportunity Title
Human Studies to Evaluate Promising Medications to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder (R03)
Activity Code
R03 Small Grant Program
November 6, 2017 - This PA has been reissued as PA-18-198 for due dates on or after January 25, 2018.
May 10, 2017 - New NIH "FORMS-E" Grant Application Forms and Instructions Coming for Due Dates On or After January 25, 2018. See NOT-OD-17-062.
NOT-OD-16-004 - NIH & AHRQ Announce Upcoming Changes to Policies, Instructions and Forms for 2016 Grant Applications (November 18, 2015)
NOT-OD-16-006 - Simplification of the Vertebrate Animals Section of NIH Grant Applications and Contract Proposals (November 18, 2015)
NOT-OD-16-011 - Implementing Rigor and Transparency in NIH & AHRQ Research Grant Applications (November 18, 2015)
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number
PA-15-255
Companion Funding Opportunity
PA-15-256 R01 Research Project Grant
PA-15-254 R21 Exploratory/Developmental Grant
Number of Applications
See Section III. 3. Additional Information on Eligibility.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s)
Funding Opportunity Purpose
The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications that use human laboratory paradigms and/or clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of novel or re-purposed compounds, that bind to new targets, for treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD) or AUD with a comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder.
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date)
Letter of Intent Due Date(s)
At least one month before the application due date
Application Due Date(s)
Any due dates on or after Jan 25, 2018 must use reissued FOA.
Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates.
Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.
AIDS Application Due Date(s)
Scientific Merit Review
Standard dates apply
Advisory Council Review
Earliest Start Date
New Date January 24, 2018 per reissuance of FOA (Original Expiration Date: May 8, 2018)
Due Dates for E.O. 12372
Required Application Instructions
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Part 2. Full Text of the Announcement
Section I. Funding Opportunity Description
Section II. Award Information
Section III. Eligibility Information
Section IV. Application and Submission Information
Section V. Application Review Information
Section VI. Award Administration Information
Section VII. Agency Contacts
Section VIII. Other Information
Part 2. Full Text of Announcement
The R03 small grant supports discrete, well-defined projects that realistically can be completed in two years and that require limited levels of funding. Because the research project usually is limited, an R03 grant application may not contain extensive detail or discussion. Appropriate justification for the proposed work can be provided through literature citations, data from other sources, or from investigator-generated data. Preliminary data are not required, particularly in applications proposing pilot or feasibility studies.
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a global health problem, affecting over 76 million adults world-wide, including over 17million Americans, resulting in a myriad of medical, psychological, social, economic, and personal problems. AUD ranks among the leading causes of decrements in disability-adjusted life-years and ranks third in preventable causes of death in the United States. The United States healthcare costs associated with AUD are approximately 30 billion dollars annually, and the total economic cost to society is a staggering $235.5 billion each year.
Pharmacotherapy offers a promising means for treating AUD. During the past two decades, progress has been made in developing medications to treat alcohol problems. Currently, there are four Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved pharmacotherapies for the treatment of alcohol dependence: disulfiram (Antabuse®), oral naltrexone (Revia®), acamprosate (Campral®), and the injectable suspension formulation of naltrexone (Vivitrol®). In addition, nalmefene (Selincro®) has recently been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). However, given the heterogeneous nature of AUD, many patients have limited or no response to the aforementioned medications. Because of this, developing and evaluating new, more efficacious medications remains a high priority.
During the past three decades, alcohol research has enriched our understanding of biological mechanisms underlying alcohol dependence. Various neurotransmitter systems, neuromodulators, and intracellular signaling pathways have a role in alcohol dependence. Currently, over 35 promising targets have been shown to alter alcohol drinking behavior. Some of the new promising targets include, but not limited to, corticotrophin-releasing factor1 (CRF-1), adrenergic a1 and a2, vasopressin 1B, orexin 1 and 2, opioid receptor-like (NOP), opioid kappa, 5-HT2, GABA-A and GABA-B, metabotropic glutamate (mGluR, glutamate transporter (GLT), nicotinic acetylcholine (nAChR), phospodiesterase (PDE), glial derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), and neuroimmune and epigenetic modulators. Candidate medications that bind to promising targets include novel and re-purposed compounds.
Laboratory paradigms and clinical trials are the main approaches to evaluate promising compounds in humans. Ideally, candidate compounds should be first evaluated using human laboratory paradigms to assess the likelihood of a response prior to conducting a more expensive and time consuming clinical trial. Human laboratory studies should also provide information on the safety of the experimental medication, and information on which types of AUD subject subpopulations that might respond best to the experimental compound. Current laboratory paradigms include cue-induced (alcohol, stress, positive and negative imaging), alcohol self-administration, alcohol administration, brain imaging, impulsive delay discounting and stop task, and progressive-ratio operant. These as well as new paradigms should measure at least one of the different domains of alcohol addiction, including: reward, stress and negative affect, incentive salience, executive function, habituation, and impulsivity/compulsivity. Within a given paradigm, dependent measures are needed that are more sensitive in predicting clinical response in trials.
Alcohol clinical trials should be state-of-the-art in design, population selection, recruitment, adherence, retention, behavioral platform, outcome endpoints, safety, and statistical analyses.
Clinical trials should adhere to the guidelines of Good Clinical Practice. Genetic data and other potential indicators of treatment response should be collected to evaluate potential moderators of treatment efficacy. In addition, assessment of alcohol biomarkers, particularly the ethanol metabolites ethyl glucuronide and phosphatidyl ethanol, are encouraged to verify drinking.
Another high priority area for NIAAA is to develop effective pharmacologic treatments for individuals with co-occurring AUD and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Compared to non-omorbid individuals, those with this comorbidity tend to have a more severe clinical impairment, higher rate of psychosocial and medical problems, higher utilization of health services, higher suicide rate, and lower quality of life. PTSD can occur from a variety of traumatic experiences, and thus affect a variety of populations, subsequently increasing the risk of problematic drinking. Military personnel who have experienced combat are at particularly high-risk for developing PTSD and problematic drinking. An important clinical issue surrounding the treatment of this comorbidity is the heterogeneity underlying both AUD and PTSD. Advancing personalized medicine will be essential in tailoring the appropriate pharmacologic treatment to this understudied population.
Medications development research in minority and underserved populations (e.g., African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders) is sparse. Thus, investigators are encouraged to include these populations in the medications development clinical studies in sufficient number to determine whether unique circumstances require consideration in future research.
Specific Areas of Research Interest
Specific areas of research interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Evaluate the efficacy and safety of experimental medications (either re-purposed or novel compounds) that bind to new targets that have shown promise in reducing or stopping drinking in preclinical studies. The experimental medication should target one or more domains of alcohol addiction, including reward, stress and negative affect, incentive salience, executive function, habituation, and impulsivity/compulsivity.
Advance personalized medicine by identifying genetic, epigenetic, physiological/biochemical, phenotypic, and other characteristics to predict efficacy and safety of subgroups that respond favorably from the experimental medication.
Evaluate the efficacy and safety of medications to treat comorbid AUD and PSTD.
However, NIAAA will not consider supporting applications in the following areas:
Grant applications that propose to study compounds already extensively investigated or currently being studied in alcohol dependent patients. These include naltrexone, acamprosate, disulfiram, topiramate, ondansetron, varenicline, gabapentin, and baclofen.
Grant applications that propose to study comorbid AUD and PTSD with the following drugs: naltrexone, acamprosate, disulfiram, topiramate, odansetron, varenicline, gabapentin, and baclofen.
All applications submitted to this FOA should be conducted in humans.
Funding Instrument
Grant: A support mechanism providing money, property, or both to an eligible entity to carry out an approved project or activity.
Application Types Allowed
Resubmission
The OER Glossary and the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide provide details on these application types.
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards
The number of awards is contingent upon NIH appropriations and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications.
Award Budget
The combined budget for direct costs for the two year project period may not exceed $100,000. No more than $50,000 in direct costs may be requested in any single year.
Award Project Period
The project period may not exceed two years.
NIH grants policies as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement will apply to the applications submitted and awards made in response to this FOA.
1. Eligible Applicants
Eligible Organizations
Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
Private Institutions of Higher Education
The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
Hispanic-serving Institutions
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)
Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
City or Township Governments
Special District Governments
Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
U.S. Territory or Possession
Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions)
Foreign Institutions
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are eligible to apply.
Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed.
Required Registrations
Applicant Organizations
Applicant organizations must complete and maintain the following registrations as described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide to be eligible to apply for or receive an award. All registrations must be completed prior to the application being submitted. Registration can take 6 weeks or more, so applicants should begin the registration process as soon as possible. The NIH Policy on Late Submission of Grant Applications states that failure to complete registrations in advance of a due date is not a valid reason for a late submission.
Dun and Bradstreet Universal Numbering System (DUNS) - All registrations require that applicants be issued a DUNS number. After obtaining a DUNS number, applicants can begin both SAM and eRA Commons registrations. The same DUNS number must be used for all registrations, as well as on the grant application.
System for Award Management (SAM) (formerly CCR) – Applicants must complete and maintain an active registration, which requires renewal at least annually. The renewal process may require as much time as the initial registration. SAM registration includes the assignment of a Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code for domestic organizations which have not already been assigned a CAGE Code.
NATO Commercial and Government Entity (NCAGE) Code – Foreign organizations must obtain an NCAGE code (in lieu of a CAGE code) in order to register in SAM.
eRA Commons - Applicants must have an active DUNS number and SAM registration in order to complete the eRA Commons registration. Organizations can register with the eRA Commons as they are working through their SAM or Grants.gov registration. eRA Commons requires organizations to identify at least one Signing Official (SO) and at least one Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) account in order to submit an application.
Grants.gov – Applicants must have an active DUNS number and SAM registration in order to complete the Grants.gov registration.
Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD(s)/PI(s))
All PD(s)/PI(s) must have an eRA Commons account. PD(s)/PI(s) should work with their organizational officials to either create a new account or to affiliate their existing account with the applicant organization in eRA Commons. If the PD/PI is also the organizational Signing Official, they must have two distinct eRA Commons accounts, one for each role. Obtaining an eRA Commons account can take up to 2 weeks.
Eligible Individuals (Program Director/Principal Investigator)
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.
For institutions/organizations proposing multiple PDs/PIs, visit the Multiple Program Director/Principal Investigator Policy and submission details in the Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) Component of the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
2. Cost Sharing
This FOA does not require cost sharing as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
3. Additional Information on Eligibility
Applicant organizations may submit more than one application, provided that each application is scientifically distinct.
The NIH will not accept duplicate or highly overlapping applications under review at the same time. This means that the NIH will not accept:
A new (A0) application that is submitted before issuance of the summary statement from the review of an overlapping new (A0) or resubmission (A1) application.
A resubmission (A1) application that is submitted before issuance of the summary statement from the review of the previous new (A0) application.
An application that has substantial overlap with another application pending appeal of initial peer review (see NOT-OD-11-101).
1. Requesting an Application Package
Applicants must download the SF424 (R&R) application package associated with this funding opportunity using the “Apply for Grant Electronically” button in this FOA or following the directions provided at Grants.gov.
2. Content and Form of Application Submission
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, including Supplemental Grant Application Instructions except where instructed in this funding opportunity announcement to do otherwise. Conformance to the requirements in the Application Guide is required and strictly enforced. Applications that are out of compliance with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
For information on Application Submission and Receipt, visit Frequently Asked Questions – Application Guide, Electronic Submission of Grant Applications.
Although a letter of intent is not required, is not binding, and does not enter into the review of a subsequent application, the information that it contains allows IC staff to estimate the potential review workload and plan the review.
By the date listed in Part 1. Overview Information, prospective applicants are asked to submit a letter of intent that includes the following information:
Descriptive title of proposed activity
Name(s), address(es), and telephone number(s) of the PD(s)/PI(s)
Names of other key personnel
Participating institution(s)
Number and title of this funding opportunity
The letter of intent should be sent to:
Abraham P. Bautista, Ph.D.
Email: bautista@mail.nih.gov
Page Limitations
All page limitations described in the SF424 Application Guide and the Table of Page Limits must be followed
Instructions for Application Submission
The following section supplements the instructions found in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide and should be used for preparing an application to this FOA.
SF424(R&R) Cover
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
SF424(R&R) Project/Performance Site Locations
SF424(R&R) Other Project Information
SF424(R&R) Senior/Key Person Profile
R&R or Modular Budget
R&R Subaward Budget
PHS 398 Cover Page Supplement
PHS 398 Research Plan
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed, with the following additional instructions:
Resource Sharing Plan: Individuals are required to comply with the instructions for the Resource Sharing Plans as provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide
All applications, regardless of the amount of direct costs requested for any one year, should address a Data Sharing Plan.
Appendix: No publications or other printed material, with the exception of pre-printed questionnaires or surveys, may be included in the Appendix
Planned Enrollment Report
When conducting clinical research, follow all instructions for completing Planned Enrollment Reports as described in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
PHS 398 Cumulative Inclusion Enrollment Report
When conducting clinical research, follow all instructions for completing Cumulative Inclusion Enrollment Report as described in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Foreign (non-U.S.) institutions must follow policies described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, and procedures for foreign institutions described throughout the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
3. Submission Dates and Times
Part I. Overview Information contains information about Key Dates. Applicants are encouraged to submit applications before the due date to ensure they have time to make any application corrections that might be necessary for successful submission.
Organizations must submit applications to Grants.gov (the online portal to find and apply for grants across all Federal agencies). Applicants must then complete the submission process by tracking the status of the application in the eRA Commons, NIH’s electronic system for grants administration. NIH and Grants.gov systems check the application against many of the application instructions upon submission. Errors must be corrected and a changed/corrected application must be submitted to Grants.gov on or before the application due date. If a Changed/Corrected application is submitted after the deadline, the application will be considered late.
Applicants are responsible for viewing their application before the due date in the eRA Commons to ensure accurate and successful submission.
Information on the submission process and a definition of on-time submission are provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
4. Intergovernmental Review (E.O. 12372)
This initiative is not subject to intergovernmental review.
5. Funding Restrictions
All NIH awards are subject to the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Pre-award costs are allowable only as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
6. Other Submission Requirements and Information
Applications must be submitted electronically following the instructions described in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide. Paper applications will not be accepted.
Applicants must complete all required registrations before the application due date. Section III. Eligibility Information contains information about registration.
For assistance with your electronic application or for more information on the electronic submission process, visit Applying Electronically. If you encounter a system issue beyond your control that threatens your ability to complete the submission process on-time, you must follow the Guidelines for Applicants Experiencing System Issues.
All PD(s)/PI(s) must include their eRA Commons ID in the Credential field of the Senior/Key Person Profile Component of the SF424(R&R) Application Package. Failure to register in the Commons and to include a valid PD/PI Commons ID in the credential field will prevent the successful submission of an electronic application to NIH. See Section III of this FOA for information on registration requirements.
The applicant organization must ensure that the DUNS number it provides on the application is the same number used in the organization’s profile in the eRA Commons and for the System for Award Management. Additional information may be found in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
See more tips for avoiding common errors.
Upon receipt, applications will be evaluated for completeness and compliance with application instructions by the Center for Scientific Review, NIH. Applications that are incomplete or non-compliant will not be reviewed.
Post Submission Materials
Applicants are required to follow our Post Submission Application Materials policy.
Important Update: See NOT-OD-16-006 and NOT-OD-16-011 for updated review language for applications for due dates on or after January 25, 2016.
1. Criteria
Only the review criteria described below will be considered in the review process. As part of the NIH mission, all applications submitted to the NIH in support of biomedical and behavioral research are evaluated for scientific and technical merit through the NIH peer review system.
For this particular announcement, note the following:
The R03 small grant supports discrete, well-defined projects that realistically can be completed in two years and that require limited levels of funding. Because the research project usually is limited, an R03 grant application may not contain extensive detail or discussion. Accordingly, reviewers should evaluate the conceptual framework and general approach to the problem. Appropriate justification for the proposed work can be provided through literature citations, data from other sources, or from investigator-generated data. Preliminary data are not required, particularly in applications proposing pilot or feasibility studies.
Overall Impact
Reviewers will provide an overall impact score to reflect their assessment of the likelihood for the project to exert a sustained, powerful influence on the research field(s) involved, in consideration of the following review criteria and additional review criteria (as applicable for the project proposed).
Scored Review Criteria
Reviewers will consider each of the review criteria below in the determination of scientific merit, and give a separate score for each. An application does not need to be strong in all categories to be judged likely to have major scientific impact. For example, a project that by its nature is not innovative may be essential to advance a field.
Does the project address an important problem or a critical barrier to progress in the field? If the aims of the project are achieved, how will scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice be improved? How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services, or preventative interventions that drive this field?
Investigator(s)
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May 19, 2015 December 18, 2016 Hannah G
I had thought to start #queerpop with a post on why representation matters, something “intro”-y like that… But there are so many timely topics to post about that for the moment, my assumption is that you know why representation matters. So let’s jump right in to the pop culture discussion!
John Constantine is a DC Comics character, a working-class magician. He was letter J for my A to Z of LGBT Comics Characters in April, because he’s bisexual. He got his own TV show on NBC, and it just got cancelled. Cue “save our show” campaigns. Now, if you love Constantine, and you’re upset it’s cancelled, I certainly hope your campaign is a success and you get your show back. But other than that I really can’t find it in me to care. Because this Constantine is not bi.
Maybe this is hypocritical of me. I know people who really like the show. I kinda really liked the 2005 Constantine movie, and he wasn’t bi in that either, but at the time I didn’t know any better… And even now that I know better, I love plenty of other shows with terrible-or-absent bi representation. There’s just something about how this one was handled that really puts me off.
I don’t insist that everything I watch be about a bi person, or even a queer person! By no means! But Constantine is a bi person, and the people behind the NBC show purposefully made him not be a bi person, have said repeatedly in interviews that they know about this aspect of the character but on this show, he is not and will not be a bi person. That is called erasure, and it’s a problem in itself, but it also makes me feel unsafe with the show. I am a bi person, and this clearly indicates that I am not welcome.
I don’t get NBC, or any other channels… When I’m watching an ongoing show, I’m either bumming it off friends’ TVs or I have to buy each episode as it comes out. Nobody I know is watching Constantine, so I only have one option. Do you think I’m spending money on a show when its creators don’t want me to? No I am not.
What do you think? I’ve heard the first season is pretty good once it gets going, and I’ve attempted to convince myself to try it out on several occasions, but I just can’t do it, and this is why. Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Not into comics? No problem. Next week we’re talking about Lip Sync Battle. Don’t miss it!
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21 thoughts on “I Don’t Care About NBC’s Constantine (#queerpop)”
Gene'O says:
Oh boy. I did not know this. It’s very unfortunate. Thanks for sharing this for the #geekpastiche blog party! Just bopping around collecting the links today.
– Gene’O
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Pammy Pam (@Pamlovesbooks) says:
Give them time. they will come around. there was a time when a black and a white person couldnt kiss on tv. i remember.
I’m sure they will come around. I choose to poke and prod them to do it more quickly. 🙂
I watched the first episode of this one and didn’t get any farther, which is disappointing. It just didn’t do it for me, either.
I didn’t get further than the trailer, to be honest. I had thought of going back once people started saying “it gets better!” but ya know…
Yeah, I didn’t get far into it before I was done with it.
I’m sort of in Nagzilla’s boat with the whole being behind on network TV, and really, just TV in general. I just finished watching SHIELD, just so I could keep up with some blog posts (and I like Agent Colson). But the issue of erasure is something I really hate. I will actively avoid shows that have tampered with ANY element of a character willfully, not just in regard to their sexual orientation (dub of Sailor Moon), gender (Gundam Wing), or history.
I’m still not caught up with SHIELD, lol. But yeah. I may occasionally enjoy a genderbent character or something, but even that has to be done very purposefully.
Nagzilla says:
This is where I admit that since dropping cable, I am completely out of touch with network TV. But it would piss me off that they just rewrote a character completely, for what purpose? Because they didn’t want to offend? Because they didn’t think it was important? Makes no sense to me.
Yep yep yep. As another commenter just said, the show’s not a good fit for NBC in the first place, if they want to rewrite and tame it that much.
I can’t comment on the show because I haven’t seen it, and I have no motivation to watch now it’s been cancelled! But I can totally see where you’re coming from because they fundamentally changed his character. I can’t help thinking about shows like Arrow, the Flash and Daredevil. The writers of those shows have poetic license to change certain things about each characters past, their family/friends, etc. but they always stay true to who they are. Olly, for example, might be slightly darker than his comic character, but fundamentally – his beliefs, his identity – they are the same. Clearly they didn’t do the same with Constantine.
Quite so. I have no problem with artistic changes, that’s kind of the point of remaking something in my opinion. To take a new angle and shed light on an underappreciated aspect of something. That doesn’t mean that all changes are interesting, necessary, or good. I feel similarly about the current version of Constantine in the comics… They didn’t “change” him, they GUTTED him.
That’s a real shame.
The first couple of episodes were so abysmal that I gave up on the show pretty quickly, and I have not been convinced to return to it since. I’m not gonna miss it, that’s for sure… You can’t do a PG13 Constantine. Really, you can’t. There is no freaking way. I mean, not even smoking?! Really?!
(I did love the movie too at the time.)
Yes! It’s not as if I just WANT people to smoke. I also don’t want people to be possessed by demons. It’s about who the character is!
I really wanted to like it too but when i start skipping episodes and find i don’t care that I did, then maybe the show isn’t all that.
I was also pretty upset about how the Bi aspect of this character was erased. We don’t need a full on sex scene. Just the character mentioning having been in relationships with men would have been enough and the writers couldn’t even be bothered to do that much.
When you have homophobic and/or lazy writers, (and most TV writers seem to fall into these two categories, as there’s a lot of erasure going on in TV ) who are afraid to approach any subject, this is what you end up with.
Hopefully the next generation of writers will be more courageous.
Also I didn’t expect the show to get very dark on NBC. Network TV is for lightweight shows, not stuff like Constantine. NBC never should’ve picked it up.
Yes! It’s really not that difficult to even have him casually mention he’s bi. I’ve just been told on Twitter that the writer producer has included some little inside references to it, so the blame may be more on NBC than that guy (Daniel Cerone), but still. The effect is the same.
There is a lot of prudishness about what’s allowed on TV and what isn’t. You can literally eat brains with a spoon (iZombie), but God forbid someone sees a nipple. WTF.
onlyfragments says:
I didn’t know that about the show, but that erasure would 100% turn me off from it too.
Thank you! I so wanted to be excited about this show.
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HomeLiberiaHundreds Pour Praises On Crayton O. Duncan For His Developmental Initiatives In Sinoe County
Hundreds Pour Praises On Crayton O. Duncan For His Developmental Initiatives In Sinoe County
June 30, 2016 Cholo Brooks Liberia 0
Friends Of Duncan (FOD) In Sinoe County Hundreds Pour Praises On Crayton Duncan
It was a scene of jubilation backed with drumming and singing when hundreds citizens and well-wishers converged at different locations in Greenville City to dedicate several development projects initiated by one of their prominent sons, Crayton O. Duncan under the auspices of the Friend of Duncan.
The citizens in their numbers extolled Mr. Duncan for the many development projects undertaken by him in the County, while lamenting that Sinoe as one of the three original counties in Liberia should be developed more than what it is presently.
Huge turnout at the City Hall, in Greenville Sinoe County (2)
Speaking during dedicatory ceremonies, the citizens described the contributions of Mr. Duncan as it the positive direction.
The Sinoe Citizens recalled that for long the County has been left behind in achieving its developmental agenda, adding the number of development projects initiated by Mr. Duncan demonstrates not only his humanitarian nature, but also an indication he is a true son of the County.
Some of the projects dedicated include: a major bridge linking two Streets in Greenville in the Congo Town Community and a modern transport terminal for the Road Transport Union, Sinoe Branch.
Friend of Duncan in a Jubilant mood
The citizens termed the bridge construction as in a positive direction, stressing that road connectivity remain a challenge for them.
“Since 1974, Sinoe has never had such a modern transport terminal and for this we are grateful to the brain behind such development,” the Chairman of the Transport Union in Sinoe County, Old Man David Jerry said.
Another Huge Turnout
For his part, the Chairman of the Congo Town Community, Mr. James Bolo, recalled that for the last eleven years several Communities were disconnected due to the damaged bridge.
Mr. Bolo noted there had been many appeals to prominent citizens of Sinoe including lawmakers to assist construct the bridge but no one was able to come to their aid.
Friends Of Duncan (FOD) Pours Praises On Their Son
Member of the Fula, Fanti and Mandingo Communities, who also turnout in huge numbers during the dedication of projects, applauded Mr. Duncan and the Friends Of Duncan (FOD) for numerous contributions to boost the development drive of the Southeastern County.
The Fula, Fanti and Mandingo Communities pledged their unweaving support to work with COD and the Friend of Duncan to ensure that the County is placed on the development map of the Country.
More projects pending for dedication include the Youth Center and eight road projects expected to kickoff shortly, according to the Friend of Duncan.
The Friend of Duncan is combination of Liberians from different professional backgrounds working assiduously to ensure Sinoe get the kind of development the citizens have long awaited.
Also speaking on the humanitarian gesture of Mr. Duncan in the Sinoe, were some beneficiaries of a WAEC fee scheme sponsored by their kinsman from five high schools in the County.
In a joyous mood, the students said a number of them would have been part of this year’s West Africa Examination Council tests if their fees were not paid by Mr. Duncan, describing him as a redeemer in their academic sojourns.
“Many of us were now preparing to travel to the Goldfield and other concession areas in and around the Sinoe County to seek contracts for the payments of four WAEC fees”, the students asserted.
Others expressed delight over what they termed as a timely intervention of Mr. Duncan, noting scores of them were about to miss the WAEC tests for the second or third time, if the fees were not paid by Mr. Duncan.
The students called on their prominent sons and daughters of the Sinoe to emulate the good example Oldman Duncan, something they are of the conviction will significantly fest track the human and infrastructural development drive of the county.
Dress in their respective uniform, the students commended the former Central Bank of Liberia executive for the gesture as their parents are faced with financial constraints and could not afford their fees, although they have the desire to see more productive Liberians come from their native land, Sinoe County.
One hundred and five students benefited from St. Joseph Catholic High Schools, with thirty five students from Sinoe Extension High, Fifty six students from St. Paul High School, Seventy two from Harrison Grigsby United Methodist School and hundred from Sinoe High.
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HomeUnited StatesObama Asks Leading Republicans to Renounce Their Support of Trump
Obama Asks Leading Republicans to Renounce Their Support of Trump
August 4, 2016 Cholo Brooks United States 0
US President Barack Obama
(By Josh Robin/NY1) NEW YORK — Rep. Richard Hanna, a congressman from upstate New York, and Maria Comella, who advised top Donald Trump booster New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, are the latest Republican defectors from their party’s nominee. Both now say they’re voting for Hillary Clinton.
Comella, who also advised former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, spoke to CNN. She didn’t respond for comment.
Trump continues to shock the political world days after suggesting a slain veteran’s mother didn’t speak at the Democratic Convention because she wasn’t allowed to. In fact, she was too distraught.
A fan on Tuesday gave Trump his own Purple Heart military honor.
“And I said ‘Man, that’s like big stuff. I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.'”
Trump received five deferments during the Vietnam War.
His remarks have President Obama offering extraordinary criticism, even for a rival of the opposing party, asking Republicans why they only criticize without rescinding endorsements.
“The fact that that has not yet happened makes some of these denunciations ring hollow. There has to come a point at which you say enough.”
Both New York State’s party chairman and the state Senate Majority Leader said Tuesday through representatives they continue to back the home state Trump. Still, polls show the nominee lost any post-convention bounce.
Clinton didn’t have a public schedule Tuesday, but the Democratic National Committee announced the departures of three top officials. It comes after hacked emails show top DNC officials plotted to sabotage the candidacy of Clinton’s then rival Bernie Sanders.
Much of last week’s democratic convention aimed to heal that party rift, and polls Tuesday show Clinton with as much as 8 point national lead over Trump.
Trump also raised eyebrows by ejecting the mother of a crying baby from his Virginia rally.
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Home/Current Affairs/Ban on confessions in Catholic Church not Centre’s view: Union Minister Alphons
Ban on confessions in Catholic Church not Centre’s view: Union Minister Alphons
Savio Rodrigues Send an email 28/07/2018
Union Minister and a Christian face of BJP K J Alphons has sought to put the row over ‘ban’ on confession of Christians to rest by asserting that “there is no connection to the Central government” on NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma making a recommendation for the same.
“This is the personal opinion of Mrs Sharma. In matters of religious belief, Narendra Modi’s government has never interfered,” Union Tourism Minister Alphons said in a Facebook post.
The clarification from the Union Minister comes in the wake of reports that the Kerala Catholic Bishop Council (KCBC) has taken note of reports that the National Commission for Women Chairperson Rekha Sharma has made a recommendation to the Union Home Ministry to ban the Sacrament of
Confession among Christians in India.
In a statement the KCBC Deputy Secretary General Varghese Valikkat said the move is “shocking” for all who believe in the freedom of religion guaranteed by the Constitution of India.
“We strongly feel that the recommendation is unwarranted and violates the honor and credibility of the Christian community,” it said adding “We suspect communal and political motives behind this unconstitutional interference into the internal spiritual affairs of the Church”.
Kerala BJP leader George Kurian has also criticised the proposal of the National Commission for Women to ban confession in churches.
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Savio Rodrigues Founder & Editor-in-Chief GoaChronicle.com
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Home/Current Affairs/COVID 19 : cases cross 9000 mark, 308 deaths
COVID 19 : cases cross 9000 mark, 308 deaths
New Delhi: With a spike in fresh cases of COVID-19 since Sunday evening, the confirmed cases on Monday morning crossed the 9,000 mark across the country.
According to the health ministry data, the death toll stands at 308 with 35 deaths reported since Sunday evening and as many as 9,152 were affected by the virus.
The data further states that while there were 7, 987 active cases of the deadly virus, 856 people were cured across the country.
Maharashtra has again seen a spike in the cases where the numbers have soared to 1,985 with 149 casualties so far, followed by the national capital where the cases have mounted to 1,154 with 24 deaths and Tamil Nadu at number three with 1043 cases and 11 deaths.
In Rajasthan the count has reached 804.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had a video-conference with Chief Ministers on Saturday hinted for extending the lockdown period as the curve of coronavirus cases was not flattening.
As the nationwide lockdown is likely to be extended further, the Centre again clarified to the State governments that there was no bar on inter-State or intra-State transportation of goods.
To maintain undisrupted supply, the Home Ministry asked the States to issue passes to the staff of manufacturing units of essential goods.
As the cases are spiking steeply, the Health Ministry shared a data to show that more than adequate arrangements were in place.
‘In 601 hospitals, over 1 lakh beds are available,’ a health official had said.
Taking another step to prevent the spread of Coronavirus in the National Capital, a massive sanitisation drive will take place across the city’s red and orange zones that are the containment zones and high risk zones respectively.
The number of containment zone in Delhi are now 43, according to the government
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Hooch kills 5 in Prayagraj
Prayagraj: Hooch related death continued during Diwali festival in Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow and Hapur districts, when at least five people in Phulpur area of Prayagraj district died after consuming spurious liquor during the past 24 hours.
Police said here on Saturday that all the people who died, had purchased country made liquor from a government controlled shop in Amaliya village on Friday morning.
At least five people have died while several were in critical condition and admitted to the hospital.
Officials rushed to the spot and the shop has been sealed. The owner of the shop have been detained by police.
The deceased were identified as Bassnt Lal Patel (55), Shambhu Nath Maurya (53), Raj Bahadur Gautam (50), Rajesh Gaur (46) and Pyare Lal (48).
District Magistrate Bhanu Chandra Goswami and SSP Sarvasresth Tripathi have reached the spot and were investigating the case.
Earlier six people had died in Lucknow and seven in Hapur after consuming hooch during Diwali festival.
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It's Time for A New Political Movement
Nov 3, 2020 Updated Dec 3, 2020
By Marc Victor For NewsUSA
By Marc Victor
For NewsUSA
(NewsUSA) - Are you wondering why the world is in so much chaos? Does it feel like we are on the brink of a civil war? Are you wondering why we can't get along? Are you frustrated with the endless bickering between Republicans and Democrats? Corona virus isn't to blame. The problem isn't our failure to elect the right person. Look in the mirror. We are to blame.
We are the cause of our own problems. Fortunately, we are also the solution. We can bring about a much more free, peaceful, and virtuous world where people live in harmony and celebrate differences. I'm not pushing any religious views on you. People of faith and people of no faith can peacefully coexist just fine. So can all reasonable people; regardless of skin color, sexual orientation, or even economic status. We don't need to have an endless struggle with each other. It needs to end immediately.
I'm suggesting one critically important principle to you: Live and Let Live. Can you get on board with this idea? Can you truly accept that competent adults have the right to peacefully live their lives as they choose; even if they choose to live in ways you morally disagree with? Or, ways that are unhealthy? Or, unwise? All we need to do is simply agree to Live and Let Live. Does this seem too simple and na?ve? To the extent we have allowed others to peacefully live their lives as they choose, freedom and peace have resulted. Prosperity follows freedom and peace.
We urgently need to unite around the principle that initiating aggression, even to achieve laudable goals, is always wrong. All laws should reflect this basic principle. Without first agreeing upon this basic principle, arguing about anything else is a waste of time. I'm not advocating pacificism. Reasonable self-defense is a response to aggression; not aggression itself.
If we truly believe all people ought to have equal rights, we need a Movement that has such a principle as the anchor of its philosophy. Let's commit to aspirational values such as tolerance, open mindedness, voluntary kindness, rational thought, honesty, civility and a commitment to pursuing truth.
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April 2, 2007 greatbong106 Comments on Post Mortem Part 2: The Politicians
Post Mortem Part 2: The Politicians
When the blame for India’s debacle at the World Cup is being apportioned, the easiest and most obvious targets are of course the players themselves. After all it’s ultimately they who dropped the ball. A few of them have their careers on the line, sponsors have dropped them from their payrolls, and no matter how much money the eunuchs may collect for Sachin Tendulkar’s pension, it won’t be enough to help Sachin, far less the other players who do not have the privilege of such universal adulation. The players are afraid of being seen in public. They have had their property damaged. Hell even their “duplicates” are afraid of being lynched.
The lookalikes of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Mohinder Dhoni have been watching their backs in recent days. In the past, they made frequent appearances on television and were cheered by spectators during cricket matches.
“When Sehwag plays well, I am treated well by people. But when he scores badly, even the lives of my wife and child are in jeopardy as people threaten to beat me up for Sehwag’s bad performance,” The Times Of India quoted Yogendra Shah as saying.
Yes yes we all know. Things will be like this for a few more weeks and then all will be forgiven and our cricket players will again become demi-gods, the sponsors will come back and Yogendra Shah will once more be well-treated. But it is undeniable that right now, each player is having to face dire financial and other consequences for their non-performance, consequences which some may argue that are incommensurate with their supposed “sin” (that of simply having done poorly at work).
And yet debacle after debacle, there is a group of people associated with Indian cricket who get away scot-free, without the acceptance of any kind of responsibility, smug in the knowledge of immunity from censure and accountability.
I am talking about BCCI’s officialdom, those safari-suited peddlers of influence and power who have attached themselves, like leeches, to India’s richest sport: draining it of its resources as much as they can.
Consider this. Had India not been thrown out of the World Cup, 30 BCCI officials were planning to go to the Caribbean. Yes thirty of them: almost twice the number of cricket players. And have a grand old yacht party ostensibly in the player’s honour. But we know better.
BCCI President Sharad Pawar has cancelled a yacht party that he had planned to give the Indian team on April 3 in anticipation of their entry into the Super 8 stage.
Pawar was to leave for the Caribbean on March 27 and watch three of India’s Super 8 matches on March 29, April 2 and April 7. India’s 69-run defeat to Sri Lanka has also led to the cancellation of the 30-member BCCI team’s trip to the West Indies. “What’s the point? Our boys will not be there,†BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah told DNA.
Marvellous. While first-class players are paid a pittance, ground conditions and audience facilities chronically pathetic in many centers, our Board officials, after repeating the standard bromides of “youth and performance” (none of which are applicable to them) are content to shake their ample bonbons, in their beach shorts, and charge it to the BCCI account.
Dalmiya was bad. Sharad Pawar is even worse. If there was anything that could be said in Dalmiya’s favour, it would be that, no matter how much he may have played dirty politics and aggrandized himself, at least he devoted 100% of his time to running the board. Mr. Pawar himself accepts that he cannot give more than a few hours a week for administration functions since he is already swamped by other onerous duties incumbent upon a man who does only “desh-sewa”. Of course, it’s not that he has not done anything: he has brought the World Cup final to Mumbai and snapped the legs of arch-rival Dalmiya. When Ganguly publicly denounced Dalmiya before being brought back in the team, it demonstrated how much power Mr. Pawar wields even in those precious few hours he deigns to spend on cricket. Did I forget that amidst his packed schedule, Mr. Pawar has also sent in his nomination for ICC president : beware Mr. Ponting, a shove never goes unreturned.
Of course there is the Selection Committee, filled by many men, whose sole criteria for selection is that they belong to the “proper camp”. This of course has been accepted practice for ages, especially so during the reign of Dalmiya and because of this politicization of one of the most essential purpose of the Board, selection meetings are exercises in horse-trading, influence-peddling and other assorted malfeasances. Many ex-cricketers, who have genuine interest in the well-being of the game, are driven away by these goombahs: after all when India’s greatest wicket-keeper is shouted at and called a “goal keeper” in a selection committee meeting by someone like Kiran More with impunity (while pushing for the selection of Zone-mate Parthiv Patel), then who can blame decent men from staying away from the quagmire of the Board of Control?
And with India’s defeat, we hear Board officials airing their precious viewpoints to all and sundry: evidently gag orders do not apply to them. BCCI Vice President Dayanad Narvekar has conveniently distanced himself from the debacle and scored some popularity points by blaming it all on Chappell and describing the Indian team as the “most indisciplined” and on an “enjoyment spree”. It is kind of ironic hearing the word “enjoyment spree” coming from yacht-partying Board officials but we shall let it pass. The point to note is that the Board, after a defeat, always transfers blame on to the coach and a subset of the players thus implying that the system is fine; it is just a few rotten apples who need to be gotten rid off and things will be back to normal.
This is articulated almost word for word by another anonymous Board official who while pinning the blame entirely on the shoulders of players with an attitude problem says:
There is nothing wrong with the team as such, but we are convinced that it is the attitude of the players that affected the performance.
But the truth is different. There is something essentially wrong with the team. And also with the talent pool of cricketers in the country. As Dilip Vengsarkar said there is not a whole lot of choice available in terms of bench strength. The reason the so-called cancerous elements are in the team is because their fitter replacements were not upto snuff when put in front of serious opposition (South Africa) on fast pitches. Also talented young players like Munaf, expected to form the next generation, aren’t exactly greased lightning on the field, to put it mildly.
All of which implies that simply putting some players out to pasture and cancelling the coach’s contract will not solve the problem. But that is exactly what will happen. Heads will roll, the only variable being whose heads they will be and that will be determined by which side can play its political cards better and grab more power-brokers by their balls. A “serves them right” consolation will be offered to the angry nation. Business will be back to normal.
And the politicians will party on.
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MIT April 2, 2007 — 2:43 am
hmmm. good post.
Kishor April 2, 2007 — 3:10 am
Very good post GB. I have been reading many postmortem reports on Cricinfor and Rediff, but none of them are able to give a complete picture of the debacle. They accuse some players personally and accuse the board members very midly (keeping in mind they need interviews with them in future). This is a fantastic job as far as explaining the minute things involved. I feel you are doing injusticie to yourself by just limiting yourself to a blog. You should be starting a big site or popularize ur blog in a big way. Anyway, something big will happen for ur talents because it is difficult to hide Son in a closed fist.
Sorry, read that as Sun, not Son. These typos are causing a big problem. In the previous post “Mutter with Megha”, i typed “u blog twice daily” instead of “twice weekly”. Sorry yaar.
Mohan April 2, 2007 — 3:35 am
“I am talking about BCCI’s officialdom, those safari-suited peddlers of influence and power who have attached themselves, like leeches, to India’s richest sport: draining it of its resources as much as they can.”
They haven’t attached themselves like leeches. BCCI is a private club and the office bearers have come through the ranks of that club and its affiliate clubs (KSCA, MCA, BCA etc) and have got elected as per the constitution of that private club. What they do with the money earned by that club is theirs and their fellow club members’ business. Whether they spend it on a yacht trip or on improving raw material for their product (first class cricketers), who cares? We are only the customers – if we like the product we “buy” it (ie watch the matches), otherwise don’t. If Hindustan Lever starts producing soaps that stink or starts charging exhorbitantly, we don’t sit around ranting that how HLL CEO is taking his executives on yacht trip while ripping us customers off etc. do we? No, we just move on to Godrej or P&G or some other competitor. Why not do the same with BCCI?
greatbong April 2, 2007 — 4:12 am
@MIT: Thanks
@Kishor: Twice weekly. Okay that makes sense 🙂
@Mohan: Oh lord. There you go again. Actually I knew this is exactly what you were going to say when I was typing the post 🙂 As we have discussed before, BCCI in a court of law made that claim to serve its immediate need to win the case. The team it fields as per the BCCI’s own nomenclature is INDIA and not the BCCI XI. As Kapil Dev once said he played cricket only for INDIA and not for a club. Cricket is a national sport and those men are the national team. You are free not to believe that of course. And the BCCI is free to argue whatever they want in a court of law, just like Jethmalani is free putt the blame on fictitious Punjabis whose sexuality has been laughed at (yes the villification of Jethmalani being another of your standard peeves I recall)—-however that still does not change the truth.
Addendum: From wikipedia–>The BCCI, inter alia, enjoys tax exemption and other benefits such as use of Indian police officers for free and often uses government-owned stadiums across the country at a nominal annual rent.
There is a reason why BCCI gets such privileges and not Himesh Reshmmiya’s concert manager when both of them, according to you, are just conducting “private events”
browser April 2, 2007 — 4:18 am
*LOL* By planning the yatch party before Super8, BCCI thought they were being smart. They were betting that India will enter Super8, but doubtful about the Semi’s or the finals. So, before the going got tough, they dreamt of sneaking in a nice holiday on a yatch. Imagine their horror to see the team getting knocked off before that stage, spoiling their party. No doubt, next time when any such occasion presents, they will make sure, they celebrate before the first game is played.
Same old story. Nothing will change. That’s why it’s so much fun when the team loses. Look at all the hysteria and whining. It’s comedy at a grand scale, which we would have been deprived had India sneaked into the super8.
It may be a good idea for Indian team to have a “Enunch army”(Chakka Sena) accompanying it to cheer them like the BarmyArmy.
GB: And Supreme Court accepted that argument. Just because bcci or the media names its team “India”, it doesn’t change its status. That tax exemption was revoked 5-6 years back during Vajpayee reign. No sports organization enjoys any special tax status anymore. As for police protection, that is provided to any event once you get the permission of the local government to conduct the event. Including Himesh Reshammiya’s concerts.
Debashish April 2, 2007 — 4:26 am
Let’s look at how professional sports like Basketball or American Football are run. The teams are owned, and bought and sold, by wealthy businessmen/whoever. The owner hires players (on season or some limited-term contracts), and the better the player the larger is the amount of money he makes from the contract. The owner hires a coach and usually a manager as well to take care of most of the business and details. I don’t know a lot about it, but I assume that the prize money won by the team in tournaments goes to the owner only who may have prior agreements with some or all contracted players/coaches to share a percentage of that as bonuses. Everybody makes a lot of money. No one would be criticizing the owner of even the lousiest team even if he takes all of his employees on a yatching trip: its his team (business) and its upto him how to spend its revenue. Being a business, this is all legitimate of course.
Politics in the hiring of players would of course be much less when with Indian cricket simply because the owner only has a lot to lose (financially and otherwise) by hiring an inferior player at the expense of a better player just because of some whim like, say, that player was the same race as him. Of course, clashes of the Ganguly-Chappell nature might happen but such a player would be free to join some other team (at the same level).. if he was good enough to play at that level, it wouldn’t take long for him to find another team. In cricket that does not happen. To take Ganguly’s example again, at the highes level (international cricket) he can play for only one team. If Pawar/More/Chappell or any powerful enough person doesnt want him no matter how good he is, he has no option but to sit at home or to do somewhat sycophantic things like publicly denounce Dalmiya. The BCCI is a club with a monopoly as far as representing India in international cricket is concerned – and that is the problem. As long as that is so, you’ll always find zonal or other politics in selection of players. And there is really no solution to that as long as the most lucrative form of cricket is international cricket that pretty much constrains players to one team. I’m not sure but I think BCCI’s President, selectors, etc. are all unpaid or get paid token/small salaries that are a small fraction of what a similar position in a professional sports club (like US basketball) might pay. Of course, the people occupying these positions know that and make up for it by making money in other ways (including yatch trips). People like Dalmiya, Pawar and all other BCCI officials are not interested in running BCCI because they love the game, or to serve Indian cricket or anything like that. Their intentions are similar to those of people who want to become IAS officers because of the “opportunities of making easy money by corrupt means”. While a professional sports teams is seen as a business which it is, the BCCI is seen as something else (I’m not sure exactly what) while in reality it is also a business.
Now, I understand that professional sports in the US is not exactly a 100% capitalist venture, but it is much more so than the Indian cricket. To understand the root cause of all the problems in Indian cricket that must be recognised.
Nandan April 2, 2007 — 4:33 am
Hi Greatbong
Agree with you to a great extent. However, it seems the BCCI, under Pawar, has done much more for players than it ever had. I am unable to find the sources offhand, but from what I saw in a program on BCCI on a Marathi TV channel, the BCCI in the past two years has done the following:
1. Pensions for the top cricketers
2. Pensions for the Ranji players
3. Pensions for ex-players
4. Donations for promotion of other sports in India.
5. Focus on the grassroots (this was not elaborated)
If anyone is aware of the validity of these claims, it would be an interesting debate.
Hopefully, I will be able to follow up on this and get the data in a day or two. Am getting late for work as I type this, but could not resist commenting about the other PoV. 🙂
Also, agree that these are not directly helpful to current cricket performance, but maybe th e BCCI is doing something before going for cruises…and I have no particular love for Mr.Pawar either…
@Browser: Too smart for their own good.
@Mohan:
As for police protection, that is provided to any event once you get the permission of the local government to conduct the event. Including Himesh Reshammiya’s concerts.
I do not think it is provided for Free. Police do not come and do the security detail for Himesh concerts. And the stadiums are rented out as per their market rate.
As to the SC agreeing to it. it is futile to argue with you about the letter of the law and reality, a reality enforced by the team NEVER being referred to as the BCCI team, Ever. Anywhere.
@Debashish: Cricket is not run like say the Premier League or the NFL. The money for cricket comes from only competitions involving the “national” team. (It would be great if we had a structure like NFL however). Hence a monopoly is assured just by the nature of the beast.
@Nandan: Interesting.
Debashish: Exactly. BCCI is a business too, but for some reason people don’t want to look at it that way. Yes, it has a monopoly as far as sending a team from India to international cricket, but the solution to that as you suggested is to move to a different format where teams are not based on nationality of the players. Let there be a club league like in American sports or European leagues in soccer where the players are free to play for any team and automatically those managing the teams will start worrying about the quality of their teams. As long as that doesn’t happen and BCCI has a captive market of a billion, why would they bother?
Kits April 2, 2007 — 4:43 am
Loved that bit about Ricky Ponting 😀
Neither is it provided for free for cricket matches. The local association (KSCA for Bangalore) has to pay the state government for services rendered. As for police not being present for music concerts – you are clearly wrong. Just yesterday I was at a Ramanavami music concert (again, conducted by a private society called Sri Rama Seva Mandali), it was a small crowd of not more than 2000 and there were atleast a dozen policemen including an SI. It is a simple procedure – you need to conduct an event, you go take local government’s permission and if the government expects a reasonable crowd, they deploy police to take care of law and order. Be it music concert or cricket matches or IT.com, what have you.
I am surprised you are still sticking on to the team being called “India” as your defense. Team name has nothing to do with BCCI’s status as a private club. You can google and find any number of references to the effect that BCCI is a private club registered in TN.
@Mohan: What part of “nominal annual rent” dont you understand? I never said “free”…do go back and find where I said “free”. Free and nominal—difference right?
And no it is not that simple. Unless your Sri Rama Seva Mandali has a few IPS in its pockets, the police (paid by taxpayers) do not do security detail for “private parties”. Ahem.
It is very difficult to convince you that noone is disputing that BCCI is registered as a private society in TN. And I am also surprised that you refuse to see that no matter what the legalities of the BCCI is it publicized itself as Team India and virtually everybody in the country, (with some exceptions like you) [including ALL the players] see it that way.
GB: “Free” came from this sentence. “I do not think it is provided for Free.” It was there in the text I quoted in my response.
I am not sure what you mean by doing security detail. If you mean actually frisking the spectators etc. well, that level of security was not necessary for a classical music concert, but from what I recall, even in cricket matches, it is the private security hired by KSCA who do the frisking etc. Police are there just in case of any law and order disturbance.
ok, good that we are settled on the status of BCCI as a private society. So, they are fielding a team called “India” as part of their business. As far as I know, there is no bar on using the name India for a private team. If you think there is, please file a PIL so that BCCI can’t use that name. As for everybody in the country seeing it as Indian team, yes I am very much aware, which is why I try to use every opportunity I get to disabuse as many as I can of that notion. oh, I am not sure about ALL the players seeing it that way either. The players I have spoken to are very much aware who they are playing for. In fact, it is from a player that I first got to know that BCCI is a private society. It is another matter that they might want to keep up this pretense of playing for the country in public because it is very much in their interest to do so.
Yesterday, heard on CNN-IBN’s show that Stayfree is planning to sponsor indian team because they are going through a bad “period”. Very funny. Also, “Virgin” Airlines asked for sponsorship but rejected because Indian team get f****ed by every other team. That is in Cyrus Broach’s show, very cool. But i think Tendulkar must be ruing for the lost opportunity of modelling to Stayfree.
This Mohan clearly suffers from Closed Brain Syndrome. He is neither funny nor logical, just aruging for argument’s sake. He should be punished in the hell by being subjected to listening to Himesh’s songs in 2200 watts 24×7. May God give his brain some reasoning and his soul some coolness.
isn’t google wonderful?
http://www.karnatakastatepolice.org/First.htm
Under the section “Law and Order”:
i. Police Officers may be deputed for a short duration, to maintain order and peace at places of entertainment, etc., by charging fees according to the scale fixed by the Government from time to time.
So much for your presence of police defense.
Lalbadshah April 2, 2007 — 6:08 am
“Closed Brain Syndrome” .. LOL!!
Anyways, I’m particularly pissed with all these anti players email forwards i get about their future careers and things like that. It’s simply cheap and unprofessional. 😛
jm April 2, 2007 — 6:11 am
Good post , GB. True, BCCI is devoid of devoted professionals & any action is suspect. Uttering silly juvenile stuff such as pay cut, etc is typical of the trading community reactions.
Where are the promised bouncy tracks, where are the junior & sub-junior cricketers academies akin to
Yahoo! April 2, 2007 — 6:26 am
@GB: You hit the nail on the head; the sooner sport is cleared from all these frameworks; the better. What amazes me is that India being a very voluble nation with opinions and stronger views and reactions for passionate topics (usually all)under the sun (for example the alongside tennis match between you and Mohan)…we take things lamely…
While collectively; gigabytes of broadcast content, print, online rabble has been devoted to Chappell, the players, and also the lookalikes….not excluding the injured protests and anguish rallies conducted by the public in general – not a SINGLE, and I repeat not a SINGLE barb is guided towards the cricket experts who man BCCI. I somehow get the (fast) sinking feeling that everyone who is out there on the telly, or giving a interview etc etc on their analysis of the sorry state of affairs cannot and will not antagonise these powerful people.
Its about time that sombody started this. Change the root; make it more healthy and everything else will flourish
…ooops , that comment zipped faster than expctd.
‘Where are the promised bouncy tracks, where are the junior & sub-junior cricketers academies akin to MRF’ s pace foundation ,etc
I digress but I reckon coaches with international exposure could do much more effective work at the budding stages of a cricketer in the sub-continent than at the senior levels.
Sachin got bored of being in home and decided to go out and have a walk in a shopping mall. But he is afraid of public, so applied makeup and wig and changed himself perfectly looking like a woman. He felt relaxed while walking in the mall as nobody was able to identify him, but all of a sudden a young lady greeted him “hi Sachin”. He got terrrified and went home immediately. Next day, he came out in a sardar avatar and went to beach. To his surprise, the same young lady greeted him there “hi Sachin”. He felt really pissed off. Next day, he came outt in a burqa and went to a cinema hall. Again the same lady greed him there “hi Scahin”. This time, he lost all his temper. He dragged that lady to a corner and asked her “who are u and how u can identify me everytime? Then that lady whispered to Sachin “arrey yaarr, me Zaheer. Very bad u can’t even identify ur team mate”.
somsuj April 2, 2007 — 7:17 am
Very well written article. If heads needs rolling – it is the board officials who need to introspect and get their act together. The reason of this debacle is very deep – more often, India has performed despite the awful system and not because of the system. It is the individual player’s brilliance that brought us the results we all desired and board never had any contribution except profitting from their achievements.
The board does not have even a website !!
We need professionalism in the board – from top to bottom, we need new infrastructures in place. We need first class cricketers to be played handsomely, first class cricket to become more competetive – so that when someone excels in that level, we are sure that it is not due to whipping Goa or Services teams . . .
But that can only happen in my dream.
Srinivas April 2, 2007 — 7:36 am
Mohan’s emphasis on fine print is like the disclaimer that comes with every movie and insurance ad, which we all see but happily ignore.
GB is correct when he says, despite all the legal nuances, the general public perception is that the BCCI team are the “National” team. The reason the whole country is debating this issue, or why we bother ourselves reading this 2 part postmortem, is because of that perception. Although it is the BCCI team which was responsible for popularizing the game in the first place, considering that we the general public have a problem with the way Cricket is being administered presently, I advocate the “Indira Gandhi solution”. It simply means we nationalize Cricket as she did with Banks. Then we reduce BCCI to a mere club among many such clubs vying to produce quality players good enough to really represent all of us. Hopefully then we will have some choice at the country level. Let there be a national selection board to select who dons the Indian colors. Even this idea has its limitations, but at least we will actually be cheering for the “national team”. I also find GB comment that “The money for cricket comes from only competitions involving the “national†team.” interesting. Unless the domestic competition is made competitive and interesting, lack of depth will continue to be a handicap.
Skeptic April 2, 2007 — 7:37 am
Problems with Indian Economy: high food price inflation (leading to high interest rates), farmer suicides, farmers forced to sell their produce at low rates to FCI, farmers being killed by police etc. And what is the Union minister for food and agriculture busy with? Cricket control (sic) and preparing for ICC elections. Shame! Of course this is true everywhere in Indian cricket. E.g. lawlessness in Kolkata. And what is the city’s top cop doing? Running bengal cricket! BTW, all you Himesh bashers, did you get a chance to listen to “Namastay London” (sample Main jahan bhi rahoon, aanan faanan etc.)? Check this one out!
@GB: “Cricket is not run like say the Premier League or the NFL. The money for cricket comes from only competitions involving the “national†team. (It would be great if we had a structure like NFL however). Hence a monopoly is assured just by the nature of the beast.”
Yes of course. So then what did you do in your post mortem other than blame the problems/culprits that are very much of the type that result from exactly such a beast? My point was that positive change in the system is unlikely to happen as long as the nature of the beast remains what it is now. I see these problems merely as symptoms of an underlying root cause.. do you not see it that way?
As an analogy, why are PSUs chronically sick whereas private industries thrive? Its because what the PSUs seek to undertake are by nature a business but people naively hoped they would run just as fine as a sort of arm of the goverment. So it was not surprising that corruption, nepotism etc flourished in PSUs and made them sick. The better people tended to join private industry or moved abroad (there also to mostly work in private industry) and left the PSUs to the “leeches” who politicized it and turned them into their personal fiefdoms (Isn’t that analogous to what you describe as “ex-cricketers, who have genuine interest in the well-being of the game, are driven away by these goombahs”?) What the BCCI seeks to undertake is also by nature a business but under the nationalistic garb of running “Indian cricket” as a sort of service to the nation. And its inevitable that these corrupt “leeches” will attach themselves to it.
Of course you could point out that Australian cricket is doing fine under a similar “beast”. And Indian cricket might also do better if concrete steps were taken that would result in a larger talent pool/benchstrength. But I do not expect that even then, favoritism and politics in selection would go away. Chappell-More-Pawar would still throw out a Ganguly, and if there was better benchstrengh he would never make it back to the team either. And ex-cricketers with genuine interest would mostly still be kept out of the BCCI.
@Mohan: In your first comment you say that people should dump the BCCI in favor of the competition. But there is no competition since its a monopoly, we’re stuck with the BCCI if we’re interested in Indian cricket. I think people are too used to seeing cricket as a sport where the ultimate is watching national teams compete.. in which case there is no alternative but to have monopolies like the BCCI.
Of course theoretically, at the global level someone could start a 2nd ICC (I suppose at some level that was what Kerry Packer basically did?). And there could be a 2nd BCCI in India that also fielded an “Indian” team at the cricket WC organised by this 2nd ICC. Then the monopoly of the current ICC and BCCI would be broken.
Now would it be illegal for this 2nd BCCI to use the name “India” for its “national” team? I think I understand what you mean when you say that the BCCI team is not really an “Indian” team. I would still say that the BCCI team is in fact the Indian cricket team only if any other organization is prohibited by law from calling its team the Indian team. Do you know if that is the case?
Harshad April 2, 2007 — 8:50 am
Indian Cricket is going Indian Hockey’s way. Sharad Pawar will be known as second KPS Gil or Gill, whatever.
Great observation, Greatbong!
Also congratulations for the Indiblog awards.
Anon April 2, 2007 — 9:00 am
Great Post GB.
Isnt the BCCI anwerable to any government body?
@Debashish: I see BCCI as being in the business of providing entertainment to their viewers. In that sense, there is no shortage of competition to them. Every other entertainment provider is a competitor to BCCI. If they have built up such a loyal following that people don’t even want to consider these competing products no matter how poor a product BCCI dishes out, then more power to them! Sure, most of this loyal following is not because of BCCI’s efforts – rather it is the result of us willingly brainwashing ourselves (with generous help from the media) that BCCI’s team represents the country. But whatever the reason, I don’t begrudge them their success and their money.
Yes, it is possible for someone to start an alternative to ICC – forget Packer, even as recently as 5 years ago Sony had a plan of starting a league on their own and had even approached quite a few players. Ofcourse, it didn’t come through, but there is nothing to prevent a competitor to ICC from emerging. Or someone could start another club in India and convince ICC to accept their team instead of BCCI’s. But again, it is not going to happen because BCCI has managed to have enough votes on their side on ICC board and hence no one can kick them out of ICC.
As far as I know, there is nothing to prevent another organization from calling its team the Indian team. It was quite clear from that Supreme Court case that BCCI has got no official authorization/sanction from the Government of India for fielding a cricket team. It is something they do by themselves. As such, it should be possible for any other organization to do the same thing. It may be recalled that during the Packer series, there were two Australian cricket teams playing in parallel – one in WSC and the other in ICC approved test series. Same should be possible in India too.
A April 2, 2007 — 10:16 am
Check this out dudes. Got it in a forwrd:
http://www.indiancricketfans.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3953
Dealer April 2, 2007 — 12:29 pm
@Mohan- for all the legalese… some basic questions…
(i) is the Indian team considered as a national team… or as representing a club? and i dont mean someone who has memorised zee teleflims v Union of India, but rather to the ordinary person… the so called much abused..”blue billion”…
(ii) technically speaking there can be another BCCI and another ICC, similarly there can be another FIFA, or an ATP or a F-1 Managing Body, in fact in chess there is (or was) already 2 bodies
(iii) taking ur argument a step forward, there are no truly “national” teams… (even the brazilian football team is selected by the CBF… the Brazilian Federation).. and everything is a corporate battle.. again in strict terms of law.. it is… but tell a brazilian to not support his national team, bcos its selected by a national body and not the government… and he will laugh at you… as wud any indian if u continue to insist calling the national team the BCCI team… and in any event the Supreme Court was answering the limited question of whether an article 32 writ is applicable against the BCCI … which is in effect a limited question…
(iv)there is no doubt that the Supreme Court judgement is a contradictory one.. in fact the dissenting judgement is a far more legally sound one… be that as it may, practically the BCCI selects team india… so no further discussions on this shud be necessary…so when BCCI officials party… its not the same as HLL partying… however much u stretch neo-capitalism… in corporate speak… its called stakeholder interest…
BestOfIndya April 2, 2007 — 3:42 pm
Great Post. Linking it on my site
http://www.bestofindya.com.
Suyog April 2, 2007 — 4:01 pm
And we still follow cricket even though its run by politicians. What a beautiful game, which has been ruined by politicians galore. I sincerely hope there is no next gen of “great” cricketers in Indian cricket – that way, at least the generation-Y, Z or anyone else will start following some other sport besides cricket.
Such a sham.
Debashish April 2, 2007 — 4:28 pm
Mohan: If I want Indian food, and there is just one Indian restaurant in my city I have to go there. Of course if its not that good, I’ll go less frequently but I probably won’t abandon it altogether. Totally switching to Thai, Chinese, etc. is not really an option given my long established eating habits. Same with cricket, it’s unlikely that enough people will totally stop watching it.. although a positive sign is that advertising revenue etc. already seems to be hit so maybe BCCI will feel the heat. But then again, BCCI is akin to a PSU run by bureaucrats. It may become sick but as long as the BCCI officials’ can skim enough money they won’t really care.
Interesting, that 2 “Australian” teams played in parallel at one time. Nevertheless, whether it’s the “Indian” team or not doesn’t make any difference practically. There is only one “national” team right now, so its natural that people will look at it as the national team and root for it. And even if u look at, say, Grand Slam tennis tournaments where every player clearly represents himself only and not his country (2 american players might clash in the finals), Indians will still be rooting for Leander Paes, Sania Mirza, etc, just because they are Indian.. so how official the “Indian” tag is doesn’t really make a difference as long as people perceive them to be representing India.
bhopale April 2, 2007 — 6:15 pm
Yes, but of course! Another India cricket team is such a great idea. With such close relationship between Mumbai film industry and Indian cricket, why no one thought of this before? Like Dhoom II and Phir Hera Pheri, we can then have Middle finger II and Phir Mafiosi. And why turn to ‘foren’ countries for example, we have three state teams
of Gujarat – Baroda, Shaurashtra and Gujarat.
As the great Anthony Gonzalvez said – Ek, Ek se bhale Do, Do, Do se bhale Teen
Rahul April 2, 2007 — 6:48 pm
Read this from the TOI:
Beleaguered Indian captain Rahul Dravid is under pressure from the senior players who are operating like a mafia, according to a private TV channel.
Quoting unnamed sources, the TV channel said the senior players in the team were operating like a mafia and coach Greg Chappell had expressed his anger with the player’s mafia.
The sources were quoted as saying that the senior players “hammer and abuse” juniors and don’t give them a “chance”.
They said that Chappell was not averse to staying on as the coach provided the same sets of players were not retained.
The growing rift between some players in the team has been widely reported in a section of the media in the recent past. After India’s disastrous first round exit from the World Cup last month, there have been several reports of the players being divided into camps and not acting like a team.
According to PTI , Chappell had denied having had any communication with the BCCI in connection with the attitude of senior players. A media report had earlier claimed that five senior players had not shown respect to the team management and had attitude problems.
This dog Chappel is a master of one process for sure, media manipulation and handing out scoops to reporters from unnamed sources….he’s got a good process in place….report from TOI, LINK IS THE FOLLOWING: http://worldcup.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1847572.cms
Sam April 2, 2007 — 7:13 pm
GB: You say officials should be made accountable, but how ?
It is a private club with MONOPLY
(Though still better than Hockey which is managed by GOI )
We can just hope they(BCCI) do not send 30 men team to Caribbeans for “fact finding mission” for what went wrong 🙂
kunal April 2, 2007 — 7:36 pm
a very well written post again GB!!
it seems amazing when the babus o BCCI spit venom against the same “money crazied” players who have helped to bring cricket to a level in India where every safari clad jackass(sorry GB!) can have at least one journo running behind to “break” some news…
and before we talk abt players being more interested in the moolah than the game we should also remember that it’s the involvement of people like us that has allowed cricket to be such a mighty money spinner in India….
and as much as we curse the players,they comprise the only part of the system which really performs[ok !the performances do come far and wide…:)]
As after every debacle what seems easiest is being done…the players are being targetted along with the coach..but what abt the whole rotten structure of the BCCI?
Or maybe going after individual brilliance[yes,it has degrees]and destroying it rather than doing something similar to the faceless mandarins of BCCI is more fashionable[read easier] for the collective will of the aam janta?
Its true that the way the Indian team performed was disappointing but the way people have behaved is shameful,to say the least…
Okie April 3, 2007 — 12:40 am
Thankfully, there is at least one sane commenter here. This blog seems to be home to ranting about Chappell, Ganguly, pratices followed by a private club like BCCI and stupidities in B-Grade movies (wow how inventive). And the comment section reads like a gathering of turds. I check in here to see what the latest rant is about 🙂 but your comments are the sanest I have seen anywhere on this blog. I think this blog is pretty shallow (you might disagree) and I am only commenting to let you know that there are some people who agree with your POV. I am not a libertarian by a long shot, but seriously, what is GB doing here complaining about BCCI members having too much fun?!!
Some might be wondering why I am commenting if I find this blog to be awful. It is just because this blog happened to win the Indian Bloggie award and I cannot help believing that a lot of people think this blog is awful. Just slipping in some negative feedback along with dozens of “Spot on GB!!” comments. Whether it is the unhinged ranting (Chappell responsible for Sewag’s loss of form?!), unabashed Ganguly hero-worship, clueless analysis like this current post or taking pot shots at easy targets (Mitunda movies or whatever) this blog plumbs all depths with equal gusto. If you want to read desi humour, I suggest visiting gawker, sidin or alpha’s blog.
@Debashish: So in your example, if that Indian Restaurant has won your loyalty, I say kudos to them. You might say, oh it has nothing to with the restaurant per se, their service or food is nowhere comparable to that of the Chinese and Thai restaurants, it is only because of my eating habits that I go there etc. But then, they had the sense to open a restaurant offering that cuisine, right? Just as BCCI had the sense to open a cricket shop unlike all those losers who opened Tennis/Hockey/Football shops. And they had the sense to do it in India unlike those losers like Cricket Australia, ECB etc. who did elsewhere – no matter how wonderful their teams are, they can never make a fraction of the money that BCCI makes 🙂 Point is, success in business is not always based on your ability or the quality of your product. Sometimes you just happen to be at the right place at the right time, which is exactly where BCCI is. Why grudge them their success? When they can sign contracts worth a billion dollars in a matter of few months, I’d say they are entitled to as many yacht trips as they like.
As for rooting for Indians/Indian teams, sure do so by all means. I am not saying we shouldn’t root for the team. Be happy when they do well, express your disappointment when they fail, all that is fine. But when you start questioning how a private person conducts his business (“Cricketers shouldn’t be doing ads” – no GB hasn’t said this but lot of people have) or how a private club conducts its business (“BCCI members shouldn’t be going on yacht trips”) is where I draw the line.
@okie: Thanks for your support, but rest of your comment makes me wonder if you are agreeing with me or just disagreeing with GB 🙂 I don’t know about the shallowness of this blog but the reason I keep coming back is that most of the time it is well worth a read – be it for the light humour or occasionally a brilliant perspective (like his Nandigram post) and invariably wonderful writing. Not to mention his amazing felicity with pictures. I don’t know where he digs them up from. Like that Simi dancing with Jackie Chan. Awesome. As for the comments, yes some of the blind adulation does make me cringe at times and I do wonder why GB doesn’t put them in place, but there are also quite a few balanced commenters. Much higher level than any other blog I have seen. Suffice it to say that this is probably the only blog where I even bother to go through the comments regularly.
Okie April 3, 2007 — 3:18 am
@Mohan
I don’t know about the shallowness of this blog
I knew you would disagree. Otherwise you wouldn’t be carrying on this dialogue with GB. But from whatever little I have read GB never deviates from his set position. Yeah, there were two reasons for my comment. One, to show that someone agrees with you wrt BCCI. Two, providing GB some negative feedback. Blogs by their very nature are insular. I have laughed at the humour in this blog, but that was ages ago. Making fun of B Grade Mithunda movies gets kinda repetitive after some time. And I find it really wierd that GB watches awful B movies just so that he can find material for this blog. I think http://goose-egg.blogspot.com/ is the best desi humour blog. It is not just making fun of easy targets.
Ahhh…as promised,here are some google results (keywords:BCCI sharad pawar pension)
http://www.hinduonnet.com/tss/tss2916/stories/20060422001602300.htm
(a crib fest, IMHO, an example of biased reporting. Some good points as well)
http://www.hindu.com/2006/04/10/stories/2006041006451900.htm
(BCCI plans to boost other sports)
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/2117.html
(Similar reporting in the Indian Express)
As far as I can see, Pawar is making the few hours count…for the general good of cricket as well. Though of course, much more can and should be done. Prima facie, seems to be much, much better than Dollarmiya.
@Mohan: I hope you are not confusing my stand with GB or other commenters on this blog. With my restaurant/rooting examples, I was merely trying to show *why* it is unlikely that BCCI will lose too many viewers/fans despite their mismanagement. I don’t grudge the BCCI its “success” at all. I personally don’t give a damn whether the BCCI takes 30 officials and also their extended families on yatch trips. And I totally agree with what you say about success in business not always being mainly about the quality of the product.
What I find unfortunate is that many people apparently look at the BCCI as akin to some govt ministry whose job it is to run Indian cricket as a national duty. And that is why they criticise BCCI officials planning yatch trips just as they would criticise MPs/MLAs taking of on frivolous foreign trips on taxpayers’ money. The difference of course is that the BCCI’s revenue does not come from taxes. So the public can feel as indignant as they want at what they perceive to be BCCI’s neglect of its “national duty”. The BCCI of course encourages this image itself since it is in its officials’ best interest to do so.
@okie: thanks for the recommendation. Will check it out sometime. As for watching B-grade movies, it is his time. As long as he continues to provide us with his entertaining reviews, I have no complaints.
@debashish: Agree with everything you have said in the last comment, especially people looking at BCCI as an arm of the government. No, I wasn’t confusing you with others. Just using your comment to further clarify my stand, that’s all.
///slash\ April 3, 2007 — 5:21 am
@GB -Nice post – pretty much sums up all that is wrong with Indian cricket.My uncle(who is a financial consultant) once told me that the BCCI has never submitted its accounts since the day of its inception. But this is not all that is wrong. Maybe you should also include a “Post mortem 3- Indian Fan”. Seriously, isn’t it a wonder that we continue to support this team, this system yada yada yada- after all its “shortcomings”. Don’t we have a choice? Do we have to support this team just because they are the ones who represent our country? What is the incentive for anyone in this mess to “mend their ways”? Why is the board going to reform? Why are the players going to get fitter? Why is any coach/captain going to take responsibility?
On a different note, its funny how Ian Chappell asks Tendulkar to retire after his performance in the world cup? How come just after three games there is this blinding clarity in his head that it is time for Tendulkar to quit? Not that I disagree with Ian, just the timing of his comments is very very questionable, keeping in mind that his brother is going to come in for some serious flak.
@dealer: sorry had missed your comment.
i) Yes, it is considered a national team by the “blue billion”. It is that precise condition I am trying to correct so that what they think and what is real are not different.
ii) Agreed. It is possible in any sport, not just in Cricket.
iii) Yes, even in other sports, there are no true “national” teams. They are all matches between club teams, including the much hyped Olympics. In fact, olympic charter explicitly states that Olympics is NOT a competition between nations but instead between athletes representing their respective sports organizations. As for people laughing, I see no reason why that should stop you from pointing out a fact.
iv) I am no legal expert, but I totally disagree that the dissenting judgement was more legally sound. Just the simple elegance of majority judgement compared to rambling nonsense of the other one. I shudder to think what would have happened but for Santosh Hegde!
Dealer April 3, 2007 — 6:23 am
@ Mohan
(i) disagree… there is no other national team, and thats a statement of fact … u cannot denounce the indian team because its run by an organization… also wrt players.. theres a lot of effort put it to play for this “club” team… a lot of long hours of practice.. a lot of sacrifice… a lot of isolation, travelling, dealing with nepotism and corruption… a lot of sweat… it is just not the same… to dismiss team india as a “club”… its just not on…
(ii) wrt all athletes being representatives of organizations… that may well be technically correct… but there is something called national pride… which kind of defeats ur argument… an englishman would be more happy when England wins the world cup, not Manchester United the European Championship… ditto Brazil and Sao Paolo …by your logic both (Man U and the English Team) are club teams and therefore u shud just go and support someone else… a Man U fan may be disgusted and go support Manchester City… who will the English fan support? The Irish? Not unheard of … but certainly unusual, dont u agree… therefore there are differences between a national team and a club team … although strictly speaking they are the same…
(iii) disagree on the judgement… the majority judgement uses an overwhelmingly literal interpretation of the Ajay Hasia and Pradip Kumar Biswas case… and ignores the extremely persuasive value of Greig v Insole (an UK judgement dealing with the ICC and the TCCb and R v Football Association….
@ Okie… Ur views with respect to GB are your own.. and u r welcome to keep it… u may not like the content of his writing or their subject… its a personal choice… there are a lot of other boggers (fantastic ones no doubt) who u can read… but “And the comment section reads like a gathering of turds…” … i wonder on what basis u wrote this.. theres a lot of fantastic comments on this blog… a lot of people read it and think about what they are writing… a lot of us dont agree with him… and frequently… please respect that as well… sure there is some adulation which can be embarrasing (and i am sure GB agrees)… but to make a sweeping statement as u have done.. perhaps it belittles your “holier than thou” criticism… am sure GB is open to criticism… and i hope that he works on them… but everyone has his own style… and u have to respect that.. and if u cannot.. simple dont read the blog….
shravan April 3, 2007 — 6:28 am
The Blame-Game is about to begin!!
Abhishek April 3, 2007 — 6:54 am
dude mohan,
why cant u cut ur capitaliust crap short???Dude, u know whats the biggest flaw in capitalism?Its this notion that money is the driver of each and every thing in the world. mind u i am not even for a moment denying moneys power, but it cannot drive everything.I am sick of pseudo intellectuals like you
Abhishek, Mohan should no be taken seriously. View his comments just from fun point of view. He is just like Rajsing Dungarpur.
Amit Pandeya April 3, 2007 — 10:17 am
Belated congrats on winning the Indiblogger of the Year. Its is a first time, when somebody who I voted for in any election, actually won…( Unlike the Indian Parliamentary Elections !!! ) Awaiting your Take on “Sanjaya Malakar” & ” The Namesake “
rahulghosh April 3, 2007 — 12:05 pm
@Okie
Hey! Just wanted to tell you that I am always on the lookout for new, interesting blogs to read. And guess what, I took your hint and checked out http://goose-egg.blogspot.com/
After reading a few posts, I have to say this. Now I am not much of an expert on humor or humorous writing, but ‘The Goose egg’ doesn’t hold a candle…actually you can make that a match stick or an Early Stone Age flint, perhaps…to Great Bong.
Great Bong is still way funnier and I think it deserves each and every one of the Indibloggie Award it ‘happened to win’. Because, a lot people decided that perhaps it was worth the trouble to vote online for GB.
Yes, ‘a lot of people might think that this blog is awful’. But, unlike some people, they have found a way to reconcile with their inner demons. They stay away from this blog. Try that. It might help.
BTW, I am sure that GB will be proud about one comment you made. “This blog plumbs all depths with equal gusto.” Reminds me of that famous Mel Brooks quote: “My movies rise below vulgarity.”
Do take consolation from the fact that you tried.
amitabha April 3, 2007 — 12:06 pm
Cricketers and administrators are now engaged in finding face saving devices. While the great leggy Anil Kumble has announced his retirement from ODI Shashank Manohar, one of the VPs of BCCI talks about linking player’s salaries to performance ahead of the BCCI Working Committee meeting due on April 6-7. Greg Chappell is not far behind and he has some friends in the media circle (believe me). Please listen! Greg had nothing to do with the selection of our boys… and so… he can not be made the fall guy. Greg Chappell was unhappy with the squad chosen for the World Cup. Ha Ha.
More defensive stories pointing the culprits and scapegoats will be in circulation for some time to come. Who are the real culprits? Thank you for bringing the topic as media is generally silent about the role of the BCCI officials and their responsibility in developing the game of cricket in India. While a section of the media may be friendly and responsive to the BCCI officials a part of the media may be interested in showing the clear picture of the BCCI.
In an era of right to information the BCCI does not have an official web site to prove its transparency. Many small cricket associations like the one in Tripura and all the test playing nations have their own web sites (even Bangladesh has a site) for a long time BCCI officials have remained busy fighting elections in and out of BCCI, bringing charges of corruption against ex-president and issuing a show cause notice to an official of a State Cricket Association on the basis of a complaint that he had been convicted by a Court in the United States for possessing cocaine and various other charges.
Main objectives for launching a web site of any organisation, as we know, are sharing information and bringing transparency in its working. Is it too much to expect that the BCCI should come out with a web site which states, inter alia, history of BCCI, its mission statement and constitution, details of office bearers and affiliated members, achievements, fixtures of tournaments, details about national and State coaches / players (with statistics), details about umpires, press release, photo gallery and of course ways and means to contact BCCI and place suggestions. Maybe the rock solid nexus of politicians and cricket administrators feel it is not accountable to anyone. By “cricket†does BCCI mean only money-spinning, power and lime light and no lucidity? The BCCI system may as well say, “Transparency? What is that? We are an autonomous body and not answerable to the Indian people�
What we actually get from the BCCI is occasional blah… blah from one of its officials and You have felt their pain, you have celebrated their triumphs, you have worshipped your favourite cricket star, now help them win the most coveted titleâ€. That’s the BCCI-public interface, at best. Have any of you ever read a statement from any BCCI official about improvement of our game, selection process or fitness of players?
Only recently some of the ineffective and incompetent BCCI officials were busy to stricture Dilip Vengsarkar. What was Vengsarkar’s offence? As an ex-captain of India who did not get team members of his choice he had sympathy for Rahul Dravid who believed in the fighting capability of no-good-any-more Sehwag. But the colonel, unlike his predecessor, had the guts to be candid about the selection of Sehwag – in a TV interview. Sehwag might have been thankful to his captain that the captain had so much faith on him. No, some BCCI official thought that such frank discussion would be demaoralising for the team spirit, took up the cudgel, came down heavily on the colonel and tried to humiliate the chief selector through the national media. That’s so much for the transparency and moral boosting for the cricketers before the world cup.
All of you may remember that Shashank Manohar, following India’s catastrophic performance being discussed in Indian Parliament, told millions of cricket fans in India that BCCI has “absolutely no responsibility” whatsoever with India’s cricketing performance. Past records will show that whenever the sailing was smooth BCCI was quick to claim a large chunk of the pie of credit for being a professional institution committed to the betterment of Indian cricket. “Is BCCI for taking credits only†may we ask? BCCI President Sharad Pawar might have cancelled a yacht party planned for April 3 but the BCCI did not consider it good use of money to send a team to study the pitches in the Caribbean before the WC (teams from other countries were doing the study). Explanation? We are already familiar with the Caribbean pitches. Ha Ha.
The BCCI is the real culprit for India’s substandard performance not only in the world cup ’07 but other recent shows. The BCCI that is meant to “develop and spread the game of cricket in India†(or something to that affect) actually takes India for a ride, keeps its populace spell-bound by the magic of the game, organises masala matches to fill its coffers, sells dream bubbles which burst after any big tournament, sells dream bubbles again and indirectly drives some people so insane that they commit suicide.
But however manipulative the BCCI officials might be they are making one mistake: The BCCI coffer is full because people watch the game of cricket either on the field or at home where sponsor advertisements are forced on the audience. From where does the sponsors’ money come? The guys selling chavanprash, health drinks, biscuits, soft drinks, apparels and you-name-anything do not give the money from their sacks. The money ultimately comes from Aam Aadmi’s pocket. Once the people of India decide not-to-be-taken-for-granted and turn their faces off cricket there will be no sponsors, no money and no activity of BCCI. The writings are already on the wall.
If we keep track of BCCI officials we will find that they keep on saying different things at different times. Reply to question like ‘Who will make the BCCI answerable and to whom?’ lies in the future or probably nowhere.
Let the game of cricket not go the hockey way.
Post script:
If we search for ‘BCCI’ in Google you will find the best reference only here (apart from the various news linking BCCI). For any one interested in knowing the names of the people who control the fate of cricket in India:
President : Sharad Pawar
Vice Presidents : Chirayu Amin, Dayanand Narvekar, Rajeev Shukla, Shashank Manohar, Lalit Modi
Honorary Secretary: Niranjan Shah.
Honorary Joint Secretary: M.P.Pandove
Honorary Tresurer: N.Srinivasan.
BCCI Office: Brabourne Stadium,North Stand, Veer Nariman Road, Post Box No-11094, Mumbai-400020, (INDIA)
Ph : 912222025423, 912222852602
E-mail : bcci@vsnl.com
Is anyone interested to contact them?
Sorry for the typo mistake in post script in my comment. The link is here
Shan April 3, 2007 — 12:51 pm
It seems that Zee TV has launched a parallel cricket league! Things are looking up!
Dharmendra April 3, 2007 — 1:12 pm
BCCI, care for some competition.
Zee to launch cricket league.
Check out: http://in.rediff.com/cricket/2007/apr/03zee.htm
Shan April 3, 2007 — 1:13 pm
@okie:
No one’s saying thew Goose Egg isn’t good. In fact it’s quite funny, in a slice-of-life sorta way. And obviously humor is really subjective. I know some people who think The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star One is funny. So maybe there’s no real ground for comparison here.
The main problem if the kind of vituperation you have unleashed on Arnab’s writing. It makes me feel maybe you are a failed blogger or a competitor who lost out on the Indibloggies perhaps? Even if you are not it is surprising to see the amount of vitriol you have poured on Arnab’s writing in spite of the fact that the majority of the blogosphere obviously seems to think otherwise!
Arnab has consistently been the most popular blogger over the last year and it is reflected in the number of views and comments. He is also the one most open to all kind of comments and has an unmoderated comments section, a thing that many other blogs shy away from. Which is why even a stupid rant such as yours has found its place here and has not been deleted.
The comments section has also been the venue for some scintillating, erudite. debate, worth reading, and while Arnab has the right to disagree with some of the posters he in no way tries to muzzle their voices. Mohan is an example of that. But you? You called the comments “turds” or something, as if it pains you to see so many people agreeing with Arnab. What exactly is your problem again? Is his popularity getting you down?
There is no real reason for you to comment just to flame Arnab, unless you pride yourself in being termed a troll. If you are a troll, then you should be banned from commenting. If not, I see no reason for you to make an appearance here again.
With all due respect (more than you deserve), please make yourself scarce.
Anand Vasu and Sambit Bal are finally forced to eat some amount of crow…read them quietly backtracking from their hitherto unstinted defence of Chappell and Dravid… 🙂
http://content-www.cricinfo.com/india/content/current/story/288609.html
NO word from Dileep Premachandran and Sriram Veera yet…
razer April 3, 2007 — 3:01 pm
Ok Greatbong,
Ok. Allright.. (taking a deep breath) Ganguly is a great player, and he (and Dravid) has mostly handled pressure much better than Tendulkar and Sehwag. Mostly, Ganguly has played when Indian team needed him to, unlike Tendulkar who has let us down so many times in crunch situations.
True. Chappell isnt a great coach (whatever his excuses for the team not performing, he did not get players he wanted etc)
The crux of the matter is that we dont know whether the coach is wrong or the “senior players lobbyâ€. Going by the news, both are responsible for the debacle. The coach failed and the players failed. Plain and simple.
But when YOU praise Ganguly (as if he has no faults) or badmouth Chappell or Dravid, it sounds downright vernacular, regional, cheap and motivated. Like it or not. Only that your language is a lot better than the average slum-dweller. Its pretty much like your adoration of Mithun. Lets ignore the numbers and ground reality, Mithun/Ganguly are Gods and Princes, and they can never be wrong.
Sickening indeed to read your Ganguly-worship, and hate-anyone-who-ever-criticized-Ganguly-or-Mithun.
Justify it as much as you want, but do you realize that you are doing too much of this Ganguly mithun fanboy thing?
aids infected razer April 3, 2007 — 3:14 pm
hate-anyone-who-ever-criticized-Ganguly-or-Mithun.
Troll!
rahulghosh April 3, 2007 — 3:17 pm
I hate to say this but it looks like a lot of people here have completely misread the Mithun-thing. Not that it should stop you from more of the same though. But just goes on to prove that humor is so effin subjective.
@razer
“This Ganguly Mithun fanboy thing” Somehow I was able to visualize you with froth coming out of your mouth…
Go get a life. And while you are at it, read Woody Allen or the complete works of Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay.
Happy Surfer April 3, 2007 — 3:29 pm
“…The Indian board said it will take an appropriate decision on the letter from Zee Television, seeking permission to start a parallel league. “The President, BCCI, Sharad Pawar has received a letter from Mr Subhash Chandra, Zee Television, seeking permission to start the Indian Cricket League. An appropriate decision in this matter will be taken by the Board,” BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah said in a media release”….
Questions is why BCCI for permission when it is a private body? if the above is true,what kind of competition to be expected for ICL?
it is just as recent as hour old news and sure more light will be shaded in due time.
It is too early to say anything but is it that zee is not getting a telecast and thought of creating new league for the sake of marketing? hope not.
Tintin April 3, 2007 — 3:33 pm
Dear Razer,
I have been reading greatbong blogs for a long time and see his Mithunda posts as a parrody of the comical incredulity of the actor’s movies and chracters.It may be possible that you have read the posts and yet failed to grasp the ironny.But, given the very direct sarcasm,I HAVE TO give you the benefit of the doubt, unless you are really special.
So, my money is on the fact that you are commenting on stuff you have not even read through! If you had at least pored through the writings, instead of spending your energy in taking deep breaths, may be, just maybe your comments might have been credible.
I hope you have let your breath go. Maybe thats the reason you are sickened!
Razer is a good moniker, sheer force is what characterised your argument, with common sense ground to the dust.
Mohan April 3, 2007 — 3:43 pm
@happy surfer: Zee plans to use palyers who are currently contracted with bcci, hence they need permission. They are also in talks with bcci to use the stadia apparently. I doubt they are going to get either of that easily. It is going to be ugly, like Packer. As for the motive, yes, obviously it has do with telecast rights.
@Tintin
Thanks. Our Razer is ‘special’.
Kishor April 3, 2007 — 4:14 pm
Seems Razer has shaved in the wrong place in a wrong way this morning. Got so inflamed.
Abhishek April 3, 2007 — 6:33 pm
the ZEE thingy will only spoil more..how..u see..If it ever takes off, it will only divide the team into furthur more piices.
yossarian April 3, 2007 — 8:06 pm
I am not a regular commenter on this blog, but since Mohan has so little support here, here I go. I’m sorry, I become a bit inflammatory at the end, but I think it conveys the point best.
I ask all those who believe that the players represent India and not a club, and hence when they do not perform well, think it is their fundamental right and duty to criticize the players and the board IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL INTERESTS, what have you done in regard to hockey? Hockey in India is in a condition far worse than cricket and has been so for years. And remember hockey is our National game.
Any player plays for his team and ‘national pride’ is just a distant motivation if at all. I give you the example of Paes-Bhupathi. Paes especially can play through pain or injury ‘for the country’. That’s his motivation. But, Paes-Bhupathi team has failed in the past few years not because of their ‘commitment to the nation’ has decreased. I don’t know. But they no longer have that understanding and commitment TO EACH OTHER (due to whatever reasons) hence don’t work as a team.
In the cricket team for the world cup, you could hardly see any team spirit. Bangladesh match – how often have you seen any of the fielders clapping/cheering/encouraging others. I only remember Dinesh Karthick cheering forcefully when he was on the field as a sub for a few minutes. what was dhoni doing? look at other wicket keepers, how they cheer their bowlers.
It just wasn’t a team. Ganguly was sulking at boundary and when he was asked to field in the slips once, excused himself after a ball and went back to the boundary, letting tendulkar be at the slips. why? similarly, why wouldn’t dravid ever consult ganguly (i think he was definitely a better captain), again ego. look at srilanka, jayasurya, attapattu (who has been benched in the past few matches), sangakara (not too sure) were all captains for quite some time. why is there no problem there?
I don’t know what the exact causes for the great rift in the players (i think chappell is only a minor cause). So, the realization that the players don’t represent India but themselves and their team will help a great deal in appreciating the sport and also improving it. As customers (in Mohan’s) words, we can of course give an opinion or feedback. But the realization will help in cutting out the emotions.
I think public emotions (of a section of the Indian population in particular) have played a HUGE role in the failure of this team. Irrespective of the causes for Ganguly being kicked out of the team (lots of deserving players have been kicked out, this is not the first time anyway), Dravid had the task of proving in each match that he can lead a team. And to whom had he to prove? Not the board and the selection panel who appointed him, not the coach, not his team mates, but the public. You could make that out in his body language. Why should this be the case? It of course induces a great pressure on any player.
As my last argument, I would like to remind the readers of the India-South Africa match played at Kolkata last year. Everybody knows what kind of a public reception was given to the players. It was shameful. If the team represented India (a team surely doesn’t become un-Indian because one out of 11 players is missing) and if fans are supposed to cheer their national team, then the fans at Eden gardens didn’t do their national duty and those fans do not have a right today to talk of national pride and all that crap.
I’m sure this incident and subsequent proving business was a great cause of the team’s failure.
And yes, Subash Chandra of Zee is talking of an alternative Cricket league. Another Indian team?
Rohan April 3, 2007 — 10:49 pm
@Yosarrian: Bang on.
“I would like to remind the readers of the India-South Africa match played at Kolkata last year. Everybody knows what kind of a public reception was given to the players. It was shameful. If the team represented India (a team surely doesn’t become un-Indian because one out of 11 players is missing) and if fans are supposed to cheer their national team, then the fans at Eden gardens didn’t do their national duty and those fans do not have a right today to talk of national pride and all that crap.”
Get rid of those bastard Bengalis. They have no right to talk about national pride. Not only are they Communists, they jeer India when they heroically lose by 10 wickets.
[Edited out by GB and reason for editing emailed to commenter]
@Mohan: You are one amazing person. Kishor has nailed you well and proper.
“isn’t google wonderful?
Under the section “Law and Orderâ€:
So much for your presence of police defense. ”
Did you look at what you pasted? “Charging fees”. Do you know what that means? Now look at what GB posts.
” use of Indian police officers for free ”
Do you know the difference between free and fee? Hint. It is not just a mis-typed dropped “R”.
@GB: Dont mind the haters. The two pieces are mindblowing bits of sports writing. As to Zee, this league is not an “alternate” cricket structure as Packer’s was. The way Mr. Chandra (who tried to do a similar thing with Indian football and failed) has presented things (for now) is that he will be conducting private tournaments with BCCI permission. That incidentally is the only course open to him as no player will join a parallel league since they know that joining a non-BCCI league will mean no chance to play in ICC-sponsored tournaments (i.e. any official international match) for which the BCCI has exclusive rights to. This so-called parallel cricket movement is thus nothing but a more sexy version of the Calcutta “parar club” tournaments, played under flood lights on local football fields with entrance fee of Rs. 100.
Note Mohan, it is “fee” and not “free”.
@Rohan: Read carefully. I was the one who said that you can get police protection for private events by paying a certain fee (even before I quoted that website). GB categorically stated that “Unless your Sri Rama Seva Mandali has a few IPS in its pockets, the police (paid by taxpayers) do not do security detail for “private partiesâ€. That is, not only did he not know his facts (Police *do* provide security for private parties by charging a fee), based on that lack of knowledge he even went on to cast aspersions on others (music club must have bribed the police or I must have lied about the presence of police in that music concert). As for Kishor nailing me, yes. I saw his absolutely amazing arguments. Left me speechless.
Nanda Kishore April 4, 2007 — 1:24 am
I’ve been away from the madness too long. So Subhash Chandra is planning a cricket league, huh? I’m afraid even God can’t help Indian cricket if that happens.
Mohan et al, let’s please stop debating the semantics around whether it’s the Indian team or a BCCI team. It IS the Indian team. It may be the BCCI team for legal purposes, but as long as they represent the country, common sense dictates that they are seen as the ‘national’ team. I don’t see a BCCI XI listed in the world cup fixtures, do you?
Nanda Kishore: It is not just semantics. Point is BCCI is a business entity, not an arm of the government for us to whinge about. They are fielding this team as part of their business to grab eyeballs and make money. That’s all. Even if we continue to pretend that it is a national team, it doesn’t change the reality. Those who are running the game, those who are playing it, they know clearly that it is a business.
As for the team name being India, it is just a name.
Mohan, I agree that it is a business entity and I’m sure the point is not lost on a lot of people. But do you think Sharad Pawar (or whoever the incumbent is) can come out and say in public that it is the BCCI team, not the Indian team (unlike an NBA or NFL team where the owner can actually say that)? It’s one thing to present that argument in a court of law, but BCCI is well aware that its business keeps going only because it is seen as the national team. Being the national team actually has nothing to do with the government and everything to do with public trust.
Nanda Kishore: No, they won’t say it in public. They want to have the best of both worlds. The independence of being a private club and this loyalty of public because their team is seen as representing the country. We can’t change the former. It is a private club and there is very little we can do to change its status. That’s why I am trying to change the latter. Let’s atleast stop believing this nonsense about representing the country so that BCCI will have to make money on the strength of their product alone rather than having a free ride on nationalism/patriotism basis.
To go back to the post mortem, it seems as if a lot of people are happy to castigate the senior players (rightly so for their performance), but somehow according to the enlightened ones (you know who) the coach has nothing to do with it. That’s right, when the team was doing well (very briefly one might add), it was all about the revolutionary and innovative processes that Chappell was supposed to have brought it. Now, it’s all about the players failing to execute.
Everyone can see that they have failed to execute for one whole year. The defeat and the manner of defeat was utterly predictable against Sri Lanka, which says quite a lot. IMO, Chappell should be paid whatever little money he’s owed and waved good bye. I’m not sure about him being responsible for the decline of individual players, but every department has simply fallen apart. Not one single player (except perhaps Dinesh Karthik) has actually improved. So, did all of them have bad attitudes?
Mohan, couldn’t agree more with your last comment. But then, if a majority of the public wants to be taken for a ride, what can be done about it? And if the public believes it is being taken for a ride, may be it should actually do something about it.
I don’t expect much from a majority of the public that is simply interested in worshipping or demonising certain individuals. It exposes a lack of maturity and a strange perversity in my opinion. Case in point is the manner of criticism of Tendulkar.
I’m also of the opinion that all this criticism of the BCCI, as well deserved as it is, is a very nice distraction that helps deflect attention from the more immediate issue of the coach’s performance. No wonder Cricinfo has been spearheading the campaign against the board. All for a good cause, of course.
PS: Apparently Tendulkar has expressed disappointment with Chappell’s comments about player attitudes. If there is one problem I have with Tendulkar, it is that too often he has chosen to be non-controversial and stood by as thing happened around him.
Take-aways for GB:
– BCCI does not enjoy any special tax exemption
– They don’t get police security for free. They have to pay for it like any other private event.
– Speaking of which, yes, police do provide security for private events by charging a fee. So, if you see some policemen standing around some ground, don’t assume that there is an event of national importance going on. It could well be a Himesh Reshamiya concert.
– Most importantly, more important than any of this bcci stuff, in future do allow for the possibility that you may not be aware of something before questioning others’ integrity.
@Mohan: Was not going to comment on this post. But I see some editing on the wikipedia article about BCCI from where I quoted from.
From the history:
(cur) (last) 12:04, 2 April 2007 Mohandasks (Talk | contribs) m (Removed the bit about BCCI enjoying tax benefit and police security for free. Tax exemption was removed 4 years ago. Police protection is paid for, just as any other private event.)
So I presume you had to edit the wikipedia article with your assertion that the BCCI pays for its police protection, just to prove your point. I accept that the original wikipedia sentence was also without attribution or source. But so is yours.
gb: yes I did, because I know KSCA pays for it, so I thought it would be appropriate to set the record straight. But karnatakapolice.org is not something I created. Still don’t see anything from you on your bribery allegation against SRSM.
Because you “know”. Yes that’s solid proof. Really ! Yes I still stand by the assetion that without influence/money, you do not get police for private functions.I was in college once and did a voluntary stint with an event management company and so can also speak from experience . An analogy. When the govt of WB started leasing out land in the fast growing Salt Lake township, the prospectus said that ordinary people could apply and get land cheaply. But when ordinary people applied, they were told there were no more plots available (in our case, no police available).However from the CM’s “discretionary quota” land was being handed out to “those who matter”.But the brochures were still printed for people like you to point and say: see the government is giving land at throw-away prices for the common man.
And oh please do not extrapolate this to mean that I have made a “bribery allegation” against SRSM…oh man. Incidentally, I did not reply to most comments here except a few initial ones because I do not have anything more to say.
gb: No, I am not saying it is solid proof. As you said, the original statement was also without any source, so I just corrected it. If someone else wants to change it back, they can go ahead and so. I won’t bother to correct it again.
I can’t speak about your experience, but I routinely see police deployed in private events. Even as I type now, there is some function going on in a temple down the road from my office and there is a whole bunch of police standing around (blocking the road with pandal etc). No, the temple is not owned by the government, it belongs to a private trust. Maybe all these private event managers have influence or bribe the police or whatever. I don’t know. But point is, presence of police at ksca events doesn’t make ksca any special. They are as much a private entity as SRSM or the temple on my road.
As for bribery allegation, I haven’t extrapolated anything. You said so in as many words.
“You also never said how the BCCI can call their team “Indiaâ€
Yes I did. I haven’t accused them of doing anything illegal.
“and how the government can cite national interest to get free rights and not be litigated against.”
yes, I did criticise that government ordinance because I didn’t think it was something the government should be doing. Again, I haven’t accused them of doing anything illegal without any evidence. Surely, you can differentiate between a citizen criticising a government policy vs accusing some random society of bribery?
Anirban Mitra April 4, 2007 — 12:48 pm
Finally GC Resigns!!
Would probably have got a ‘well done’pat from Lord Clive , if he were alive today. Never have a single person split the country so severely after Clive.
Hopefully, with the removal of the cancer, the body will rise to health again. Amen!!
Dealer April 4, 2007 — 1:54 pm
whatever way u put it (and whether the police are provided free or not has absolutely no relevance)… the BCCI team is the Indian national team (at least in perception and face it, perception matters)… and people will support it as the Indian National Team… therefore its welfare is our concern, far more than the affairs of HLL and ITC… and we bloody well will …unfortunately not everyone is as enlightened as you.. and i think thats a good thing and not a bad one… for the next time i watch india beat pakistan in pakistan… the kind of pleasure and pride i will feel… unfortunately u will not….
Rakesh April 4, 2007 — 3:05 pm
LOL Anirban. Are you a Bengali? I guess you won’t mention the fact that it is in fact the cricketers who lost the match. Even your dear Ganguly played badly. Can’t accept it? It is because of people like you that we are never going to win the world cup in our lifetime even though we have the richest cricket board in the world.
Pathetic. Cancer? LOL
Asterix April 4, 2007 — 3:40 pm
“Chappell resigns as Indian coach”
http://sify.com/khel/wc_fullstory.php?id=14423839
“Players shouldn’t give media statements: BCCI”
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14423821&cid=2485&name=
I wonder who leaked the email during the Ganguly episode. And yes, someone must have leaked the SMS that Greg sent to the media.
Chappal can give media statements but the players can’t !!
@dealer:
perception matters, but it cannot override reality.
as for pleasure, well if the cricket is good, I will certainly enjoy it. on the flip side, I will be spared the pain and sorrow when the team crashes out of world cup, no? 🙂 as for pride, I think it is a good thing if you don’t have to rely on a bunch of overpaid talent monkeys for feeling proud.
from your earlier comment –
lots of effort put in by the players – ofcourse, it is their job. A software engineer might put in 16 hours of work a day, but that doesn’t mean he is doing it for India. He is still coding for himself and his company.
as for the judgement – let’s just disagree. There was this hilarious bit in the minority judgement about how the board also fields another team called Board President’s XI. According to the honorable judges, that clearly proves that that is the team which represents BCCI and hence the team called India represents the country.
Vineet April 4, 2007 — 11:47 pm
hahahaha, Poor ppl who look alike are in trouble
ohh shut up mohan,…
Anirban Mitra April 5, 2007 — 4:55 am
@Rakesh,
As the saying goes , an army is defined by the quality of the General! — Irrespective of being Bengali or not!!
And just a gentle reminder, virtually the same team made it to the finals just 4 years back.( AT LEAST THE ‘SENIORS’ ARE THE SAME!!!!!).
@abhishek: once again, very well argued.
what else u want, mohan pyare??
VK April 5, 2007 — 8:05 am
best way to get back at some one you hate..
http://www.rediff.com/wc2007/2007/apr/05dev.htm
Rakesh April 5, 2007 — 10:54 am
Anirban, if you remember that time, we were absolute crap in the days leading to the world cup. We lost many series and there were plenty of teams who were more deserving of reaching the world cup final. But somehow we did it. And we got our just result in the final.
One thing you have to understand:
Four years ago(2003 world cup), Look at the players ages. Today Sachin is 34, Ganguly is 35, Dravid is 34, Kumble is 37. The older players are IMO too old and I think age is a factor. The younger players already think they are great achievers. Especially Yuvraj singh who thinks he is the next superstar. That is the problem with unnecessary hype.
I think too much criticism has been heaped on Chappell for the performances of the cricket team. And again certain players have been let off the hook because the dumb comments of Chappell have now turned the spotlight on him and not the players. He is a fool for saying those things because now the real issues can be ignored.
razer April 5, 2007 — 11:20 am
Yeah GB,
Everyone is to blame, except of course Ganguly !! How dare we insult the prince of Kolkata.. even though he makes a century in 2 years (that too, in a test match against Zimbabwe !) Though Ganguly is a great player, he was not playing well is lost on you..
Arnie April 5, 2007 — 1:54 pm
@ Rakesh – Ah so age is a major factor is it? Pity it does not seem to matter for the Australians – Gilchrist 36, Hayden 36, Ponting 33, McGrath 37.
Now if some commentators have to be believed, the broad argument is – the players played well in 2003, so no credit to SG and the players failed in 2007 so no fault of RD !! Makes me wonder that why don’t we have Sunil Gavaskar as the non-playing captain for life? since the role of the captain is so insignificant.
Anirban April 5, 2007 — 1:54 pm
@Rakesh
Who told you “Yuvraj thinks he is the next superstar”? I think Guru Greg Himself.
If you think the senior players are too old, why didn’t the selectors find some suitable replacements?
“But somehow we did it”
Yeah, somehow we reach the WC final, somehow we won the Natwest Trophy, somehow we son the ICC Champions Trophy (2002), somehow we drew the series in Australia, somehow we won the series in Pakistan (both ODI and tests), somehow we etc etc…….
Raj April 5, 2007 — 11:52 pm
@GB,
Just read the latest articles by Anand Vasu and his ilk on Cricinfo. When all the commenters in your blog used to speak about their bum-licking attitude towards Dravid and Chappell and hatred towards Ganguly, I used to cringe thinking that reporting could not be “this” bad. But now all my doubts are removed. Shocking…
@Dealer
“And the comment section reads like a gathering of turds…â€
Yes that was a sweeping statement. I haven’t read most comments on this blog and take that back. Yes, I don’t like GB’s style and perhaps moreso his choice of topics and his unwillingness to change his stand. The govt providing security to a sports event, legally or illegally, does not automatically turn a private club into a government institution. It is not hard to see this and GB simply refuses to accept this and keeps arguing back and forth about silly minutae. It is the same with every topic ,no matter how trivial, on which he takes a stand. The humour in this blog comes from B-Grade movie bashing and I don’t really care for that.
You can trash BCCI all you like but it is a private sporting entertainment franchise that is one of the most successful on the planet. They have managed to stifle interest in every other team sport in India (ask the hockey team) to its own advantage and the Indian team did make it to the finals 4 years ago. Talking about it like some kind of government ministry makes absolutely no sense! This post is stupid. Teenagers writing this kind of stuff is understandable. But 30 year olds who are apparently great cricket fans writing such stuff?!
I don’t have to comment here, but this blog was recently labelled the best desi blog. Hence these comments.
@rahulghosh
After reading a few posts, I have to say this. Now I am not much of an expert on humor or humorous writing, but ‘The Goose egg’ doesn’t hold a candle…actually you can make that a match stick or an Early Stone Age flint, perhaps…to Great Bong.
I shouldn’t be plugging any blogs. But really!! GB is better than GE?! Well to each his own I guess 😀 (btw, grow up kiddo) Just for the record, I dont know GE, haven’t ever commented on his blog either. But there are so many blogs better than this. rhyncus, sidin, vintage ramesh mahadevan.
But, unlike some people, they have found a way to reconcile with their inner demons. They stay away from this blog. Try that. It might help.
Hey not fair!! GB watches B Grade movies and reviews them. I read B-Grade blogs and review them too :D, right here in the comment box. I shall stop commenting once GB stops writing. Actually, to be honest, this will be my last comment … hopefully.
Tried what? Some kids here aren’t impressed, but that was never the point 🙂
rahulghosh April 6, 2007 — 4:29 am
What is your point here? You have to understand something There is no good or bad in blogland. If you like something, you stay with it. If you don’t, you move on. If you don’t like this blog, don’t read it. What is your problem? Is the fact that your point-of-view has very few takers?
raj April 6, 2007 — 4:47 am
razer,
The new spin on scoring against minnows is that “look what happened against bangladesh – see how important it is to score gainst minnows too, look how difficult it is to score against minnows”.!!!!
Please understand – Gangs is the best captain ever for India. We won solely due to his captaincy from 2000-2004. Rahul Dravid as VC never contributed one useful suggestion, never had any useful input to field placings etc. It was all Dada’s intelligence and tactics.
Saurav Ganguly was India’s own Mike Brearley as far as captiancy goes- and Mike wasnt even 1/100th the batsman that dada was. Actually, Saurav was Brearley, Steve Waugh and Arjuna Ranatunga all put together.
Say amen to that or you are a parochial person.
abhishek April 6, 2007 — 10:10 am
okie is stupid..shut up
varuag April 6, 2007 — 2:24 pm
@raj bhai
looks like you were always standing behind ganguly and listening to every word dravid said to him…
don’t u realise how stupid your comment is… but then not your fault…
if you try your luck.. maybe you could even become an expert for our news channels…
dear varuag- you couldnt even understand my comment.I wont abuse you as stupid etc though – why should I stoop down to your level?
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Lately I've been thinking of the term "true compassion". I sometimes write of avoiding an "acquisitiveness" in relationships. Don't get me wrong. I'm as frail and human as the next person. I can be as driven by selfishness and desire as much as the next fellow. I like the physical and the romantic. I'm glad I'm married to someone I care for, rather than being some ascetic "loving wanderer". I am not much of the roving do-gooder type. But I like to hunt for way of relating to people not dependent on how many kudos or comforts the people I care for demonstrate to me.
I like to see people more than as people I might someday receive affection or adulation or attention from, but as "real friends". I like to imagine that I can teach myself to "love" even when people cannot/do not love me. Sometimes that may be just staying out of someone's way. Sometimes it may require a radio telescope's microphone, sounding out a call into a void beyond the reach of my furthest optical lens.
When I began my novel, I promised myself that I would self-publish it if I finished it. It's not that I think it's going to make me the next Kilgore Trout. I delayed that for much of last year because I was involved in a trial which required me to prepare all Spring and much of the Summer. Now, though, it's eighteen months since I finished the novel. My kind friend kenmora, who's a coolest artist when he's not an even cooler writer, designed me a cover. But I've hesitated to do the final editing and finish. tonight Ken sent me a cool prompt about it--a NASA announcment--and I'm pondering this bit of "finisher's block". I am going to finish, and get it done up by a print on demand place, and then always know that I did this thing, and that I held it in my hands. I plan to have it in print before this time next year. I even found a tiny press that seems affordable and professional and capable of giving me an internet listing, an ISBN and something to hold in my hand. For that matter, I really need to write another book of chess poems, and then get somebody to do a chapbook and all that on a semi-commercial basis, so that I can get a prettier chapbook out of it, and sell more of them.
Part of the delay with the novel has been sheer sheepishness. I never felt that way with the chess poems, because they were silly by definition. But the novel is something more "real". But why? The novel, after all, is in that mildly repetitive gurdonark style, less a novel than a first person rumination on obsession, and how to replace obsession with compassion. That sounds too pat, though. What if the obsession is the compassion? Is love an obsession, when you know it can never be an actual obsession? How can one replace a stand-in for compassion with the real thing? That's the work of more than one month's quickly written novel. Besides, the obsession-theme seems a little too gurdondark. I had fun with my "darkside" journal, until I realized I'm boring to the point of banality.
The other sheepishness is less philosophical. I wanted to drill some points home in my novel, particularly in the side comic relief subplots. So I drilled them in over and over. I have to re-read the book to see if they are drilled in altogether too repetitively. I should think more positively--it's not "repetition", it's "Old Testament cadence". Why all the hesitance, anyway? It's not as though it's going to have a lot of readers. I figure I'll donate a couple of copies to the library which had so many sci fi books when I was a kid. I'll read it myself. My wife will read it. That's a good readership, I think.
The novel did not solve for me the dilemma posed to the protagonist. But this notion of "true compassion" is something worth seeking out. The Buddhists have a concept of "non-attachment", which couples with compassion to try to achieve a way of surviving the suffering of this living business. "Non-attachment", in my limited understanding,need not mean rejection of the experience, but instead a declination to become too caught up in the world around me. But I confess I get altogether caught up in the experience of the Moment (hell, I even capitalize). The song says there's "no trains for Heaven, for the Kingdom lies within", and let me tell you, that resonates for me. I'd like to live a few moments when I really am kind, just to experience the texture of kindness, like the feel of satin. Who needs an afterlife, if you can have one minute of real, unselfish love? Corinthians 13 me, please. Isn't the virtual experience a way to hunt for peace in the lonely distance?
LiveJournal intrigues me because the virtual connections matter so much to me.
"Lonely Distance" derived in part from that fascination; however, as many novels do, I took the dilemmae and ran them out ad absurdem.
But in LiveJournal I love that feeling of being able to see "throgh the monitor".
I love it when I "know" someone, even though I have never and may never meet that someone. I also am puzzled, but bedazzled, about how I can completely misunderstand and miscue as to someone's posts when I find the poster in question so accessible and cool. I wonder, too, if I am very easy to "see" through the monitor.
I read so many times about people who get into running word-gun battles, or who have emotive trolls in their journal universe. The oil runs a bit thick in my journal, preventing anything from over-heating. So I've been spared anything worse than today's multi-account-serial-adder, last year's serial adder, and the serial-controversy person who tries to bait people by posting controversial things just to get people riled, whom I finally removed from my friends' list when it became a bit apparent. None of those folks have been impolite or difficult, so I've been fortunate, indeed.
Sometimes one of you writes something and I completely miss what you are really saying, and then I feel badly because my comment is so inane, or, worse yet, "tries too hard". It doesn't matter, of course, I'm just one person out in the void. Indeed, I should learn the lessons inherent in trying too hard. Nobody gets punished so much as someone who tries too hard. But LJ folks consistently find me trying hard for connection, for communication. I'm all about the communication, I suppose.It's precious to even mention the missed connection--less time talking about fixing the phone, more time silently focusing on the wires.
In "Lonely Distance", I wanted to take a jumble of things I don't understand, and write them down obsessively and quickly. Then, I told my fellow novelists over an ice cream sundae at a Denny's, I would publish the result.
I believe that pledges made to oneself over hot fudge dessert should always be kept.
So the novel is coming to fruition, this very year.
But the lesson? I'm still learning the lesson. I'm still learning what love and compassion and interconnection mean.
I thought briefly last weekend about deleting my journal. I thought it distracted me from focusing on things I want to do. Then I realized that this LJ is a "man at work" LJ, and I use it to chart the things I mean to get done. Rather than deleting my journal, I need to just delete the things I do in life other than loving my family, trying my cases, writing and publishing, helping others, eating better, exercising, and trying to figure out a damn decent line to play against the Gruenfeld Defense. This LJ has been a beacon. But my friends' list are the lights in the harbor. They sail, and I don't always see them correctly through the fog. But it's a comfort they're there, hidden among the little cats' feet.
It's a full moon tonight, in a sky filled with planets, and I want to buy a Heathkit Radiotelescope, and pierce the lonely distance.
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