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The Dark Space Train Station
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Craig’s List? I really love it. I find so many good deals there but you have to be patient and quick. Patient to wait for the good deals and quick to act on them when they come. One way I’ve gotten quicker is with an Craigslist app. It’s faster than the RSS feeds and notifies me when items fitting my keywords are posted. Which came in handy Sunday when I responded to a post for wooden trains.
KidKraft Glow in the dark Space Train Station allows Corbin to ride the rails… into the final frontier! This wooden train set with a Sci-Fi twist includes 100 colorful pieces with dozens of pieces that glow in the dark, including vehicles, buildings, furniture, rockets, aliens and the UFO. Long, winding track takes space travelers from one end of the galaxy to the other. With this exciting space-themed train set, Corbin gets to explore deep space and go on wild adventures without even leaving the house.
We’ll be saving this one for Corbin’s birthday in December but I think he’ll really get a kick out of it. One, he’s expressed more interest in “rockets” and “robots” lately and two, the playboard is foldable which means we can set it up on the floor giving him more layout space when friends come over or if he wants to play somewhere other than the train table. Combine this set with the deal I got a few months back and Corbin has a pretty respectable train collection. Unfortunately we still don’t have enough Switch & Cross Track pieces to give us true flexibility but I keep my eye on craigslist, so there is still hope.
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I am looking for one of these ,if anyone has one they would Like to sell. Boycelindsay@rocketmail.com
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Because this will always crack me up.
(Gabe, Daria, and Claudia, Fall, 2019)
Posted by Lisa at 9:21 AM
Unless You Become As Little Children...
You're Going to Miss a Lot of Funny Stuff
Our two resident families (Michelle and Cathy's) came over last night after Chloe's baptism so we could have a little celebration of the great event. In heaven they were singing in joy before the Heavenly Throne for a new soul made perfect before God; on earth the closest we could come was dinner and dessert in the company of some of Chloe's greatest earthly admirers. Toward that end, I was standing at the stove dropping dumplings into a big pot o' chicken soup, when I heard our little Ella (Michelle and Ben's three year old) giggling and snickering -- at this:
Never underestimate a child's point of view, my friends.
It's a good guarantee that you won't take yourself too seriously.
The world is here. Not on CNN.
Posted by Lisa at 10:02 AM
Added January 14th, 2021
The first child of our seventh child, third daughter, Catherine, and her husband Louis. Our newest grandbaby, we now have more grandchildren than children; Chloe is number eleven, and she is just simply precious. Baptism this afternoon! Welcome to the world, Chloe! Can't wait to welcome you into God's family later!
Sepia Saturday: "U" is for Uniforms
Doesn't everyone love a man in uniform? For most red-blooded Americans, there's a visceral response of admiration and respect for the military bearing and spit-spot gear and regalia -- especially in full dress! A man in uniform implies a certain commitment and command, and for some of us that proof of virtuous masculinity, unapologetically displayed in public, is a beautiful thing. We can at least hope that the man lives up to the uniform! But if the symbolic factor doesn't appeal to some, I think most would have to admit at least an aesthetic appreciation. It's all in a range of perspectives that has probably varied over the centuries and from place to place, but I do think that just for pure grandness and attention to detail in a world that is stubbornly casual, a man or woman in uniform garners respect -- even if it's grudging.
My Uncle John, early '50s?
Our family photo album is peppered with several generations of military men in several
branches of the armed forces. You can't miss them! They jump right out at you, our men in blue -- and khaki -- and olive drab -- and camo. They make su proud. And like almost nothing else, a military career implies stories -- history, general and personal. Most military folks participated, in one way or another, in world-shaping events. If the pure handsomeness of a military mugshot doesn't stop you in your tracks, curiosity ought to. I know almost nothing, for instance, about my Uncle John's military career, but coming across his photo, I can't help but wonder! He was so handsome! But where was he stationed? What was his specialty? How long was he in the Army? Knowing his basic bio, I'm thinking he was active in late WWII or maybe the Korean War, and doing a quick research on the patch on his arm, it looks like he was 101st airborne (correct me if I'm wrong, please!) If he was a pilot, though, I never knew about it. I know the basics and the outcome of that conflict; I wish I knew our family's part in it, too!
My grandfather, mid '40s?
My grandfather (Uncle John and my mother's Dad) was a Coastie. The famous family history is that he won a medal of honor, saving the lives of sailors trapped below deck when their ship was blown up by the Nazis in New York harbor during WWII. How cool is that? And how many Americans know that even happened, right? For morale purposes most of these attacks so close to home were kept quiet at the time, but not all. In less than seven months during 1942, 233
US ships, including merchant ships and tankers, were sunk off of US shores and in the Gulf of Mexico, most in American waters in the Atlantic. As recently as 2019, the US Department of Environmental Conservation was working to extract the remaining oil from a British Tanker (The Coimbra) from its wreck at the bottom of New York Harbor. Over 2 million gallons of oil were lost, and 36 men died in the German U boat
attack. The explosion rocked nearby buildings and the resulting wall of flame was visible for miles -- so this is one German attack that the government couldn't hide from the people! At any rate, the lesson here: don't ever get too comfortable, thinking the enemy cannot approach our shores. My grandfather could have told you something about that!
It looks to me that, in the picture above, my grandfather's wearing the now-defunct "dungarees" that were worn for work in the Coast Guard and Navy up until the 1990s. His cover (the word for a military hat) looks like he was an officer, doesn't it? But I have no idea what his rank was when he left the Coast Guard. (I need to see if my Mom remembers!)
My Dad, with his Dad, right around 1950
My Dad, now, was a Navy man, and we have many photos of him in his officer's uniform, especially his service khakis, but it's the shots of him as a young enlisted in his bell bottoms and iconic sailor hat that tickle me. And he always looked so handsome in his Navy dress blues. The biggest tale he had to tell, as a communications officer (CWO4), was the quick round trip he made aboard ship on the way to the Bay of Pigs during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962. If you know your history, you know it was a pretty hair-raising deployment that turned into a big sigh of relief -- and it was the closest my Dad ever came to being in conflict during his long military career -- except, of course, when at home with us seven kids.
Officer Dress Blues
I think this commemorates when he
made Chief Warrant Officer.
Enlisted Dress Blues
Dad aboard an aircraft carrier he served
aboard in the mid '50s.
All brushed and polished and at their very best in their enlisted Dress blues.
My Dad with his buddies meeting Pope Pius XII in the mid-fifties.
(I've shared this one before, but I just love it, so have to pull it out again.)
Cpt. Paul Davis, USMC
with my favorite accoutrement,
our granddaughter, Lilly
The next generation of military men photos to be found in our family album feature our son, Paul, formerly (if you can say that) a United States Marine Captain. I grew up a Navy brat, but I'm not shy about admitting (especially since the Navy and the USMC are connected at the hip) that the Marine Corps dress blues are, to me, the most impressive of all military uniforms. I'm Paul's mom and I've had to stop myself from instinctively saluting when I've seen him in his dress blues. It's a stunning uniform in its simplicity and dignity! There's so much history and attention to detail in this sharp uniform, too, that you can't help but appreciate once you know a little about it. Here are just a few details:
* The gold buttons worn on the dress blue coat feature one of the earliest Marine Corps emblems -- the eagle and anchor with an arc of 13 stars -- and have been a part of the uniform since 1804, making them the oldest military insignia in continued use.
* In 1868, the current emblem of the Marine Corps -- the eagle, globe, and anchor -- was adopted. The eagle represents our proud Nation, of course, the globe represents its worldwide presence, the anchor connects the Corp to its naval heritage and its ability to access any coastline in the world.
* The saber that is a mandatory feature of the dress blues, is the oldest weapon still in use by the U.S.
military, and the Corps has two that may be worn as part of the dress blues. Of these two, one is the Mameluke-hilted sword, that honors Lt .Presley O'Bannon, who in 1805 marched 600 miles across the North African desert to capture the Barbary Coast town of Derna, where the American flag was hoisted for the first time over foreign soil. This is the battle mentioned in the marines' Hymn: ...to the shores of Tripoli."
* It's also a part of Marine lore that the blue of the uniforms connects them to their Naval roots, and the red trim is in recognition of the Marines who served aboard the Bonhomme Richard, the famous Revolutionary War ship commissioned by the French and captained by John Paul Jones. The red stripe on the seam of each trouser leg honors the Marines who fell in the Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican War of 1847.
* The "quatrefoil," the ornate, cross-shaped braid on top of the Marine cover, allowed them to be distinguished from the enemy by their own sharpshooters high up in the ship's riggings. The standing collar is the remnant of the original high collar made of leather worn to repel swords strikes to the neck -- thus, the origin of the term Leathernecks.
(More on USMC uniforms here! Quick info on Navy uniforms here! Army here! Airforce here! Coast Guard here! -- and Space Force!)
No doubt whatsoever, there is equal history and interest regarding the uniforms of the other branches of service, and I've barely breached the tip of the iceberg regarding the several types of service uniforms for different tasks and levels of formality in each branch, not to mention the differences in military women's uniforms (which would be a fascinating thing to research!). To avoid writing a book, though, I narrowed the conversation by chiefly referring to the uniforms I personally know and love because they stand so tall in my mental photo album. It's a fascinating topic, regardless! God bless all our family Veterans, living and who have gone to their reward. And our respect to all Military personnel and all Veterans of all services always.
Now, for the most fun a history buff can have on the internet, run over to Sepia Saturday to find Untold Riches of the letter U in history this week!
I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose
A Ribbon at a time –
The Steeples swam in Amethyst –
The news, like Squirrels, ran –
The Hills untied their Bonnets –
The Bobolinks – begun –
Then I said softly to myself –
‘That must have been the Sun!’
-- Emily Dickinson
Claudia, Cecilia. Her Mother, Michelle, was our first little girl after four boys -- and she was our first sunshine. (Because if you call boys "sunshine," you might get decked.) So, here's Claudia, one of 13 rays of sunshine, one of nine granddaughters -- as of tomorrow... Stay tuned.
When You're Working on a Project
...and people are looking over your shoulder.
No Pressure.
Those Moments
When you try to impress the girls...
And it doesn't work.
* William with his youngest niece (to date), Dominic and Monica's youngest, Clara Bernadette.
Labels: Grandbabies
Filed under: Poems that you read twice. Or three times.
The Convert
BY G. K. CHESTERTON
After one moment when I bowed my head
And the whole world turned over and came upright,
And I came out where the old road shone white.
I walked the ways and heard what all men said,
Forests of tongues, like autumn leaves unshed,
Being not unlovable but strange and light;
Old riddles and new creeds, not in despite
But softly, as men smile about the dead
The sages have a hundred maps to give
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree,
They rattle reason out through many a sieve
That stores the sand and lets the gold go free:
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.
*Second time understanding "Lazarus," right?
Now try a third time, understanding the title of the poem...
Simple Woman Monday
What I'm seeing... A sunny day finally! Every day for the past week has been foggy, cloudy, drizzly, and gray. Bleh. Nice to see blue sky today!
What I'm hearing... The house is perfectly quiet right now, except for Dawsey snoring on my knee here --- and Dan's desk chair occasionally rolling on the wood floor in the library. I just finished listening to a Catholic Family Podcast about Rock and Roll. Our son Kevin's venture, you can find these on YouTube (at least for the time being -- I think he's phasing out of that platform and moving over to Podbean). Really good stuff, though, and I don't say that just because he's my son. Good, informative stuff and great to listen to while I go around doing my chores. Conversations about some of the most practical points of interest of our day, interviewing priests and topic experts from all walks of life. He's just getting it started, so do please run over and give him some support! You can find him here.
What I'm wearing... Grey middy skirt; striped olive green, mustard yellow, and rust orange knit shirt; grey sweater.
What I'm thinking... Goodness gracious. I don't know what to think these days! The international rumor mill is whirling like crazy! Remember the windmill in the old cartoon, caught in the gale of a storm, flying and flying around -- until, with a violent last swing and crash, it just *busts* -- and then the wind blows out, the storm fades away, the sun comes out -- the bats go back to roost and the birds begin to refeather their nests. (I had to go find it, now that I'm thinking about that old cartoon; Here it is if you want to watch it, too!) Anyway. Things seem kind of bleak right now, I'm thinking, but rumor mill is bound to bust and the sun will come back out. Maybe not the way we expect or when we expect it, but it will.
What I'm learning... Duolingo. Deutsch. Bet you can guess why. Also pondering getting a ham radio license...
What I'm hoping... That I can get my roots "touched up" at our neighborhood salon this week -- and not have to deal with mask wearing. (Ptooey) Last time my girl was definitely in the masks-are-ludicrous camp, but if it endangers her license now that Iowa laws have changed, she might have to insist, regardless of her personal beliefs. In which case (sigh), I may have to suck it up for her sake... But I don't like it one bit.
What I'm working on... Getting my house back in order after the busy Christmas/New Year's extravaganzas! It's amazing how organization disintegrates when everyone's busy partying and playing and eating and half the people, even when they clean up, don't know where things go. (sigh) It's all worth it, though. And I'm used to chaos.
What I'm planning... I have a statue hospital full of projects I hope to get working on this week -- as well as the pedestal that we're renovating for the new statue of Our Lady of Lourdes that I got for Christmas. And the boys finished the first step (the flat black first coat of paint) on the faux-tin ceiling panels that will go over the "bar" area in the pub. I get to do the next step (the copper color). At some point I will do this. Probably not this week.
Quote I'm pondering... "Half an hour's meditation a day is essential -- except when you're busy. Then a full hour is needed.' - St. Francis DeSales
A picture thought for today...
Our Revelers, a few seconds into 2021
Taking the photo: Michelle, and, L-R: Grandpa Davis, Nicole, our grandson Gavin, and Paul, with Gabe right behind Nicole; Monica and Dominic, with Monica's sister, Philomena right behind them; Louis and Cathy, with goofy William leaning in; Dan behind Ben, with Daria, Ella, and Claudia -- Yes, they stayed up until midnight! Where am I? Konked out. I like to bring in the new year rested, personally, myself. (Yeah. I know. But I'm not a "party pooper." I'm more a "party avoider" -- or at least a "late night party avoider." I like sleep.)
Celebrating the Liturgical Year: January at a Glance
One of the habits of our decades of homeschooling that I most miss is our morning reading time. (Popularly known around here as "togeth...
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Home in Winter
Who I am:
Big me in an elevator in Paris. Summer, 2018
Tucked into the rolling hills of Western Iowa, The Heartland, United States
Specs: Joyful Catholic. Happy Wife. Blessed Mom to ten on earth, one playing in God's garden. Thrilled grandmother to a quickly growing tribe of grandchildren! Retired Homeschooler of 25+ years, writer, and amateur painter. Working out God's will for me in the second half of my life.
The whole kit and kaboodle at the family reunion during the week of Fr. Philip's ordination, May 20018. All children, grandchildren, Dan's parents, my Mom, my sisters and one of my brothers.
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For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway. ~ St. Theresa of Avila
He who can reach a child's heart...
CAN REACH THE WORLD'S HEART ~ Rudyard Kipling
"Marriage...
...has less beauty but more safety than the single life; it is full of sorrows and full of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love ~ and those burdens are delightful." ~ 16th c. bishop
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O Mary, Conceived Without Sin,
Pray for us who have recourse to thee!
Prayer to St Valentine
for our children's choice of spouse
Heavenly Father, we ask You to guide our children in the choice of spouse. Don't let them be carried away by false charms or be fascinated by mere outward glamour, but guide their minds to look beneath and beyond all external attractiveness for the deeper things which alone are worth while.
Especially let the choice be of one who is a fervent Catholic, true in thought and word and deed to those ideals which are Yours, especially the value of their purity.
Dear Father of us all, give Your guiding help to our children, who are Your children, too. We will be letting them go soon, but please don't ever let our children go from you. Amen
St. Valentine, patron of romantic love, pray for us!
The most important work that you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. ~ HB Lee
O, St. Joseph...
...whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the Throne of God, I place in thee all my interests and desires. O, St. Joseph, do assist me by thy powerful intercession and obtain for me from thy Divine Son all spiritual blessings; so that having engaged here below thy Heavenly power I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of Fathers. O, St. Joseph, I never weary contemplating thee and Jesus asleep in thy arms. I dare not approach while He reposes near thy heart. Press Him in my name, and kiss His fine Head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath. St. Joseph, patron of departing souls, pray for us. Amen.
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Dear Little Flower of Lisieux, how wonderful was the short life you led. Though cloistered, you went far and wide through fervent prayers and great sufferings. You obtained from God untold helps and graces for his evangelists. Help all missionaries in their work and teach all of us to spread the true Faith in our own neighborhoods and family circles. Amen.
Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas
Student's Prayer: Grant me, I beseech Thee, most merciful God, prudently to study, rightly to understand, and perfectly to fulfill that which is pleasing to Thee, in the praise and glory of Thy Name. Amen.* * * * * * Prayer to Know God's Will: Grant me grace, O merciful God, to desire ardently all that is pleasing to Thee, to examine it prudently, to acknowledge it truthfully, and to accomplish it perfectly for the praise and glory of Thy name. Amen.
Memorare of St. Anne
Remember, O holy mother, St. Anne, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided, for thou art a most merciful mother and aid all who are in distress. Inspired with this confidence, I take refuge with thee and beseech thee, by thy great perogative of being the mother of the Queen of Heaven and the Grandmother of the Saviour of the world, come to my aid with thy powerful intercession, and obtain from thine Immaculate Daughter this favor. In honor of the nine months during which thou didst bear the ever-blessed Virgin in thy womb and brought her forth without stain of original sin, I now pray nine Hail Marys, which I offer thee through my Guardian Angel. Amen.
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Atomistry » Chromium » Compounds » Chromic Hydroxide
Chromic Hydroxide »
Chromic Hydroxide, Cr2O3
Chromic Hydroxide, Cr2O3.Aq., is obtained by precipitation of a solution of a chromic salt by means of potassium hydroxide; if excess is used, the precipitate dissolves, forming a green solution from which the hydroxide is again precipitated on keeping or boiling. Such precipitate retains alkali which cannot be removed by repeated washing with hot water; it is usual, therefore, to employ ammonium hydroxide as the precipitating agent. Even in this case, excess of ammonia dissolves chromic hydroxide, yielding a reddish-violet solution: methyl-amine behaves similarly, but di- and tri-methylamine at once precipitate chromic hydroxide completely. When freshly formed, the precipitate appears to be a well-defined chemical compound, the solubility product of which, according to Bjerrum, is 4.2×10-16 at 0° C. and 54×10-16 at 17° C. in 0.0001 molar units. According to Weiser, however, the precipitate obtained by the addition of alkali to solutions of chromic salts does not contain any definite hydrate. In the cold, the freshly formed precipitate readily dissolves in acids, but becomes insoluble on keeping or heating; between these two extremes of solubility an indefinite number of hydrous oxides exists. By precipitating at temperatures ranging from 0° C. to 225° C., products have been obtained varying in colour from greyish blue to bright green. Since most of the chromic salts exist in two distinct modifications, the violet and the green, it has long been assumed that there must be two isomeric chromic hydroxides corresponding to these two series of salts. Such isomerides have not, however, been isolated. The properties of chromic hydroxide vary considerably with age, especially as regards solubility in acids and alkalies, and the "ageing" is accelerated if the precipitate is allowed to remain under alkaline solution; the rate appears to increase with hydroxyl-ion concentration and also with increase of temperature, and the change in properties appears to be due to change in the size of the particles.
Chromium hydroxide is not precipitated by ammonia in presence of tartaric acid or glycerol, probably owing to complex formation in the case of the former, but with glycerol a colloidal solution appears to be formed.
An alkaline solution of chromic hydroxide dissolves various metallic oxides. If the hydroxide is precipitated in the presence of other salts, for example, of magnesium, calcium, zinc, or lead, the hydroxides of these metals are also carried down; it has been observed that magnesium hydroxide is thus adsorbed far more readily by violet than by green chromic hydroxide.
Hydrated chromium sesquioxide is an amorphous, green, very hygroscopic powder, which on heating in the air first forms the "dioxide," and finally the green anhydrous sesquioxide. Whereas the hepta- and tetra-hydrates, Cr2O3.7H2O and Cr2O3.4H2O (the former being converted into the latter in vacuo), are soluble in dilute acids, the monohydrate, Cr2O3.H2O, is insoluble.
Colloidal Chromium Hydroxide
The hydrosol is obtained as a deep green solution by the peptisation of the hydroxide by means of chromic chloride, or by a solution of copper oxide in ammonia. As already stated, the freshly precipitated hydroxide forms an apparently clear green solution with excess of an alkali hydroxide. That the chromic hydroxide is peptised and not dissolved is shown by the fact that it can be completely filtered out by means of a collodion filter, leaving a colourless filtrate. The colloidal solution is stable while hot, but slowly yields a gel on keeping at ordinary temperatures.
When potassium hydroxide is added to solutions containing ferric chloride and chromium sulphate in varying proportions, the iron is not precipitated so long as the chromium is present in excess. This is due to the protective action of the colloidal chromic hydroxide, the latter being adsorbed by the ferric hydroxide which is thereby prevented from coagulating. If the iron is in excess, it is precipitated, bringing down the adsorbed chromium with it.
Both positively and negatively charged colloids have been prepared. The former results when the hydrated oxide is peptised with chromic chloride, or may be formed by hydrolysis of the chloride or nitrate; the latter is prepared by peptising the hydrous oxide with sodium or potassium hydroxide, or by adding sodium hydroxide to chromium nitrate solution in presence of arsenious acid and then dialysing.
Chromic oxide jellies may be formed by adding sodium or potassium hydroxide or ammonia to a solution of chromic sulphate or chloride containing sodium acetate; or by adding sodium or potassium hydroxide, but not ammonia, to a solution of chrome alum. The jelly is violet if prepared by the addition of ammonia or of a slight excess of the alkali metal hydroxide; if the latter is added in larger quantity the jelly is green. The jellies dissolve in hydrochloric acid, but re-form on neutralising the solution if sufficient sodium acetate is present.
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Seamanship and Leadership
Finding New Ways to Fight, Pt. 2
January 29, 2018 Guest Author 1 Comment
How the Mad Foxes of Patrol Squadron FIVE are harnessing their most powerful resource – their people – in an effort to cut inefficiencies and improve productivity.
By Kenneth Flannery and Jared Wilhelm
The U.S. Military Academy’s Modern War Institute recently published a thorough primer by ML Cavanaugh on what it means to drive innovation in the military.1 The most important take away was the difference between the buzzword, “innovation,” and the people who actually do the dirty work of driving positive change within the force called, “defense entrepreneurs.” This series focuses on an operational U.S. Navy maritime patrol squadron full of defense entrepreneurs, and how their unit is taking the “innovation imperative” from on high and translating it to the deckplate level. Part 1 focused on the “Why? Who? And How?”; Part 2 reveals observed institutional barriers and challenges.
Deckplate Challenges
It often seems that the tasks most worth doing are the most difficult to achieve. Since beginning our innovation experiment, the squadron has been met with a variety of challenges to the implementation of our vision. Some of these obstacles are specific to the unique nature of the military, while others are more specific to the nature of large bureaucracies. Many challenges come from external sources that are largely outside of our control, while other challenges are self-inflicted.
One of our biggest hurdles has been thawing the “frozen middle.” This concept refers to the middle management contingent within the squadron that may be less eager to adopt new ways of doing things. Perhaps the most frustrating part about the “frozen middle” is that the very people who would benefit from embracing these changes are often the ones standing in the way. It is understandable and expected when organizations are resistant to an innovation developed outside of their ranks. All organizations have budgets to balance and bosses to answer to such that outside entities may be only a blip on their radar. For example, attempting to highlight the importance of one squadron in one community in one service of the Department of Defense can be understandably futile. More vexing are the people inside of one’s organization who seem to actively resist change at every opportunity. Frustrating as it may be, recruiting the members of the “frozen middle” is paramount for success. Buy-in from all organizational levels is required for original ideas to reach critical mass and become self-sustaining. Without support from the most resistant group, a new process will inevitably wither and die, even if it enjoys support from the top and bottom of an organization.
When VP-5 implemented the Innovation Department, the “frozen middle” quickly became apparent. The chief’s mess and the O-4 department heads, always looking out for undue risk to the Commanding Officer, were particularly averse to change. These groups bring a wealth of experience to the squadron and are absolutely crucial to the success or failure of our unit. However, that same hard-fought experience can sometimes saddle people with preconceived notions about “the way things are done” and other such attitudes which can stifle a creative environment.
Stopping new innovations from being implemented is often the path of least resistance for the frozen middle. VP-5 discovered that those who are averse to change will attempt to use their position of power as a roadblock. Often, it seems the frozen middle’s apprehension is rooted in a reluctance to put forth the effort necessary to change. Many of our innovations are designed to reduce the time and energy required to complete a task. However, at the onset, hard work is required to overcome the existing institutional inertia. Many times someone will cite comfortable catch-all words, such as “OPSEC,” or some unnamed instruction in an attempt to avoid putting up the innovation capital required for real change. However, it was the defense entrepreneur’s job to push past that initial roadblock. If a genuine concern exists, we may have to alter tack and reevaluate, but concerns raised about innovation must be the result of concrete analysis as opposed to institutional inertia.
We were not always successful in overcoming these barriers. On more than one occasion the squadron had projects come to a full stop due to an inability to get through to the frozen middle. One project in particular was a fairly lofty goal of adding the maintenance program OOMA (Optimized Organizational Maintenance Activity) on to our PEMA (Portable Electronic Maintenance Aid) laptops.
Under the current system, writing a MAF (Maintenance Action Form) requires access to the OOMA program which is hosted on the Naval Aviation Logistics Command Management Information System (NALCOMIS). In turn, maintainers and aircrew alike are limited to writing MAFs at computers or laptops with hardwired connections to NMCI. This means writing MAFs during preflight or post-flight requires a trip to the hangar, eating up valuable time. This is a burdensome and antiquated system, which results in poorly written MAFs and decreased MAF participation at large.
Requiring NMCI access for writing MAFs also presents a problem when departing on or returning from deployment. There is often a period of several days before NMCI connectivity is established which means MAFs must be handwritten. Once NMCI connection is established these MAFs are retroactively input into OOMA, requiring a significant number of man hours.
Implementing OOMA on our PEMA laptops would be a simple way to streamline the maintenance action documentation process. PEMA laptops would be present on the aircraft, decreasing travel time and putting the feedback solution at the source of the problem. Optimizing this process would increase discrepancy documentation and create more detailed MAFs, facilitating faster resolutions to problems. Ultimately, OOMA on our PEMA laptops could eliminate some of the administrative and physical challenges that lead to wasted man hours and late takeoffs.
This project was led by a 2nd and 3rd Class Petty Officer with assistance from the Innovation Department. These intrepid innovators worked diligently in conjunction with the offices of Program Management Acquisition-290, SPAWAR, and the PEMA Fleet Support Team, but were ultimately told this project was not currently feasible. Part of the reason given had to do with the speed at which NAVAIR moves, which was colorfully described as a “turtle in a sea of peanut butter.” This is a common refrain we have heard time and again, and one that begs the question, “are these extended timelines actually necessary, or have we become so accustomed to them that they are now an accepted norm?”
Another instance where we ran into trouble was with a much smaller project. This time we were seeking permission to insert a Bluetooth USB device into an NMCI computer in order to display a rotating informational PowerPoint on a TV in the maintenance spaces. One of these TVs already existed in the squadron’s duty office, and we wanted to place one downstairs to address a maintenance concern about sometimes being left out of the loop.
We already knew Bluetooth devices were prohibited in NMCI computers so we reached out to the Information Assurance office for guidance about how to request a waiver, or if a waiver process even existed. In return, we received a curt e-mail informing us that USB devices were not allowed in NMCI computers, which was stated in the NMCI USB policy and also on the IA form everyone signs to gain access to NMCI computers. We responded to clarify, that indeed we already knew about the prohibition, but were asking if it possible to change the instruction. Ten months later we have yet to hear a response.
Innovation Breakthroughs
These experiences taught us that we needed a new way of approaching things that relied less on external forces and instead emphasized our own ability to create. One way VP-5 chose to thaw the “frozen middle” has been to outpace their skepticism. That is to say, rather than waiting for approval to pursue a particular initiative, we would simply go ahead and continue to work on a project until directed otherwise. The squadron would always inform the appropriate authorities and members of the chain of command, but we didn’t seek their explicit approval. When asking permission to do something, the answer was often “no,” even though there was rarely any substantiating reason for that “no.” Instead of asking, we started informing the Chain of Command of our projects and ideas. By doing this it seemed that we flipped the easy answer from “no” to “yes.” Employing this “Full Speed Ahead” tactic yielded many successes, including the creation of a new qualification program and incentivizing sailors to become innovators.
One hard won success for VP-5 was the development of the “P-8A Enlisted Engine Turns Program.” This program, long established in the P-3 community, allows a select number of enlisted maintenance personnel the opportunity to earn their “Enlisted Turn Operator” qualification. This qualification allows each operator to perform a variety of low-power engine operations for maintenance evolutions. Prior to the development of this program, these low-power turns required at least one pilot. This placed an unnecessary burden on the pilot cadre, which became particularly apparent when operating on detachment where extra pilots are few and far between.
To establish this program, VP-5 adopted a draft version of an Enlisted Turn Operator instruction from VP-30, the P-8A Fleet Replacement Squadron, and made it an official squadron instruction. The program now boasts an official curriculum consisting of written personnel qualification standards, simulator events, and aircraft events. To date, VP-5 has created four Enlisted Turn Operators, two of which had the distinction of being the first two P-8A Enlisted Turn Operators in the fleet. Throughout the process of establishing this program, the defense entrepreneurs clearly communicated their intentions up through the chain of command, and illustrated how they were mitigating the risk in this endeavor. The innovators gave the VP-5 chain of command the opportunity, but never a reason, to say “no.”
Another success for the VP-5 Innovation Department was incentivizing innovation. The Innovation Department first began to coalesce when the squadron was forward deployed to the 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility. Throughout the six-month deployment the innovation movement seemed to be gaining steady momentum, and it was during this very early time that some of our most successful endeavors were developed. At the close of deployment in the spring of 2017, VP-5 shifted back stateside and continued to build this foundation. The Innovation Department was formally enshrined in a new instruction, detailing organizational roles and responsibilities, and we had regular innovation meetings with respectable showings. Unfortunately, interest and participation in the Innovation Department from the junior enlisted and junior officer ranks began to wane. At one meeting, attendance was limited to the box of doughnuts that had been brought for the no-show participants. This was a low point for the defense entrepreneurs. The lull in participation could have been due to a variety of factors, such as the return of family responsibilities, outside hobbies, and perhaps even an element of boredom. As time went on the new innovation initiative began to lose its luster.
Some of this can be expected in any organization trying to introduce a new culture, but some may be due to the career timing structure of the military. Sailors in VP-5 spend between two and five years in the squadron. Officers find themselves on the left side of that spectrum, while enlisted personnel are normally toward the right. To a newly minted lieutenant junior-grade or petty officer, a three to five year tour may seem daunting, but it can be a relatively short stay when all of the various qualifications and certifications that sailors must achieve during their time in the squadron are considered. Therefore, there may be little incentive for a sailor to invest their time and energy on an innovation that may not come to fruition before their tour is over. The temptation to accept the status quo to appease an immediate superior is too attractive for many. Although there will be those who naturally appear to think outside the box and resist the status quo, it is the responsibility of leadership to properly incentivize innovation.
VP-5 incentivized innovation by rewarding sailors who have contributed to innovation projects with awards and 96-hour liberty passes. While these may seem like superficial benefits, giving a sailor free time and recognition are the most immediate impact that a commanding officer can have on their subordinate’s life. It is necessary that more significant items, like promotions and advancements, are influenced at least in part by what a sailor has done to push the U.S. Navy into the 21st century.
Continuing the Fight
The concept of innovation is obviously not unique to the military. It is preached in boardrooms throughout the country as a way to cut costs, increase productivity, and generally rise above the competition. The companies that fail to adapt to changing environments often find themselves out of business. This same principle applies to the profession of arms. However, if we ever find ourselves “out of business” the opportunity to start over may not exist. Rarely are we afforded second chances to get it right. The time to find better ways to adapt and overcome is now.
Lieutenant Ken Flannery is a P-8A Poseidon Instructor Tactical Coordinator at Patrol Squadron FIVE (VP-5). He may be contacted at kenneth.flannery@navy.mil.
Lieutenant Commander Jared Wilhelm is the Operations Officer at Unmanned Patrol Squadron One Nine (VUP-19), a P-3C Orion Instructor Pilot, and a 2014 Department of Defense Olmsted Scholar. He may be contacted at jaredwilhelm@gmail.com.
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[1] https://mwi.usma.edu/wear-pink-underwear-like-churchill-nine-principles-defense-entrepreneurship/
Featured Image: OAK HARBOR, Wash. (Oct. 21, 2016) Lt. Cmdr. Matt Olson, Patrol Squadron 30, right, talks Michael Watkins, a reporter with Whidbey News-Times and retired Navy Chief, through flight procedures in a P-8 simulator during a media availability on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island’s Ault Field. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class John Hetherington/Released)
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Current Operations, Seamanship and Leadership
September 20, 2017 Guest Author Leave a comment
By Kenneth Flannery with Jared Wilhelm
The U.S. Military Academy’s Modern War Institute recently published a thorough primer by ML Cavanaugh on what it means to drive innovation in the military. The most important takeaway was the large difference between the simple buzzword “innovation,” and the people who actually do the dirty work of driving positive change – oft-cited as “innovation”– within the force: “defense entrepreneurs.” This series focuses on an operational U.S. Navy Maritime Patrol Squadron that is full of defense entrepreneurs, and how their unit is taking the “innovation imperative” from on high and translating it to the deckplate level. Part 1 focuses on the “Why? Who? And How?”; Part 2 reveals observed institutional barriers, challenges, and a how-to that other units could use to adapt the model to their own units.
The Innovation Imperative
Today, the U.S. Navy remains the most powerful seafaring force the world has ever known, but there is nothing destined about that position. To maintain this superior posture, we must find leverage that allows us to maintain an edge over our adversaries. One of our most powerful levers in the past has been our economy. We were once able to maintain supremacy simply by outspending our rivals on research, development and sheer production. While the United States still has the largest military budget of any nation, that budget is increasingly stretched to counter threats in a dizzying array of locales to include the South China Sea, Arabian Gulf, or even an increasingly vulnerable Arctic. Additionally, the rest of the world is catching up economically. Some assessments indicate that China will have the largest economy in the world by 2030 and they are already producing their own domestically-built aircraft carriers. It isn’t just China on our economic heels; by 2050 the United States could have slid to third place behind India as well. Finally, our adversaries’ continual embrace of technological theft and espionage involving some of our most expensive proprietary platforms has shrunk the technological gap that the U.S. enjoyed for multiple decades. These realities make it clear that the U.S. must find a new way to counter opponents besides technological advantage.
Much like the Obama administration’s “Pivot to Asia,” the Department of Defense is experiencing what some might call a “Pivot to Innovation.” Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s “Defense Innovation Initiative” and “Third Offset Strategy” both signal a reinvigorated focus on maintaining and advancing our military superiority over both unconventional actors and near-peer competitors alike.
In alignment with Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson’s intent, VP-5 is investing time and manpower in the idea that that new counterweight will be the innovative ideas of our Sailors. Just as nuclear weapons and advancements like stealth and Global Positioning Systems kept the U.S. military on top during the conflicts of the Cold War and Post-Cold War eras, it will be our ability to rapidly assess challenges and implement solutions that will guarantee our security in the future. This will require a reimagining of how we currently operate and how we are organized. Our squadron believes the key to this revolution lies with its junior enlisted and junior officer ranks.
Tapping the Innovative Ideas of the Everyday “Doers”
VP-5 is taking a multi-pronged approach to molding an innovation-friendly climate to best tap the ideas of those accomplishing the mission on a daily basis. Patrol Squadron FIVE (VP-5) is currently experimenting with a dedicated Innovation Department in our command structure, but this isn’t the first time that the squadron has embraced change to maintain the technological and fighting advantage over adversaries. The unit is based at the U.S. Navy’s Master Anti-submarine Warfare facility at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, FL, where we became the second squadron Fleet-wide to transition from the P-3C Orion to the P-8A Poseidon aircraft. This successful transition was based on new training and simulation technologies, but also on a rich history that spans from our founding in 1937 to involvement in World War II, Kennedy’s blockade of Cuba during the Cold War, the Balkan Conflict, and our recent involvement in the Middle East. Throughout this time, we have used no less than five different types of Maritime Patrol Aircraft.
The VP-5 Mad Foxes. Courtesy Ken Flannery
Just as the transition in 1948 from the PBY-5A to the PV-2 brought new tools to the squadron’s warfighting capabilities, today we are augmenting the new technologies of the P-8A with a change to our organizational structure and business practices. A traditional operational naval aviation command administers a standard set of departments including Operations, Training, Safety/NATOPS (Standardization), and Maintenance. By implementing a new Innovation Department led by a warfare-qualified pilot or Naval Flight Officer lieutenant (O-3), VP-5 seeks to elevate the innovation construct to a position alongside the traditional departments required for squadron mission accomplishment. In addition to the lieutenant department head, the Innovation group is staffed by an additional lieutenant and a Senior Chief. Its mission statement reads:
“Lead Naval Aviation in accomplishing our mission by sustaining a culture based on process improvement and disruptive thinking. The force that knows the desired outcome, measures progress in real time, and adapts processes to overcome barriers has a sustainable advantage over adversaries who tolerate their deficiencies. Similarly, the force that can innovate transforms the battlespace to their advantage.”
The establishment of the Innovation Department sends a strong signal to the department heads and the senior enlisted that innovation is a priority, but it may not necessarily trickle down to the average junior enlisted Sailor that VP-5 is a different type of squadron. To ensure the culture reaches everyone, we have implemented large “Innovation Whiteboards” throughout the squadron and encourage all members to post ideas and suggestions. Sailors can see what others have posted and leave reactions of their own. Similar to the “CO’s Sticky Note Board” on the USS Benfold (DDG 65), the ideas written on the whiteboards are then compiled for further action by the Innovation Department.
Whether an idea has been generated via a whiteboard or suggested by means of a more traditional route, the next step in the process is to create a “Swarm Cell.” Swarm Cells are small groups of people that aim to rapidly implement solutions to the problem being addressed. These groups follow a predetermined set of procedures that begin with specifying the desired output. Starting with a clear description of the end result discourages the Cell from veering off course or diluting their product with superfluous features that do little to help the original problem. The Swarm Cells then move to address the actual problem or process for which they were created, all the while making sure that their efforts lead them toward the desired output. Next, the Cells measure their progress to decide if the desired output has been achieved. From there, the members of the group can choose to share their knowledge or revisit their solutions if they have determined that they have not met their output goals.
These Swarm Cells are not on an innovation island. The squadron strives to provide support and guidance for those working to realize their ideas and provides each Swarm Cell with an Innovation Accelerator. This Accelerator may be an official member of the Innovation Department, but is not necessarily so. If the Swarm Cell is like the train conductor, deciding the destination and exactly how fast to get there, the Innovation Accelerator is the train track, allowing room for minor deviations, but keeping the train on course to its final goal. Accelerators need not be intimately involved with the minutiae of their Swarm Cells, and as such may be facilitating two or three different Cells concurrently. By asking simple questions the Accelerator can refocus the team:
1. Has the Cell outlined a clearly defined output?
2. Is the Cell working to achieve that vision, or have they allowed distractions to creep in?
3. Are they continually measuring their progress along the way?
Again, in VP-5 innovation belongs to everyone. Sailors of all ranks and pedigrees are encouraged and expected to turn a critical eye to established procedures in an effort to push our squadron into the twenty-first century. However, change for the sake of change is not one of our objectives. To guard against this, the product or design is subjected to an internal Shark Tank once each Swarm Cell is sufficiently satisfied with their work. These Shark Tank events are open to all hands and are designed to prod for weak spots in the proposal and introduce the idea to the whole team. The Swarm Cell’s program or improvement is critiqued from every angle to determine its overall benefit and structural integrity. These sessions are designed to be thorough in order to weed out underdeveloped initiatives or those that may not provide a quantifiable benefit. If a program passes muster, it continues in whatever form is appropriate, whether that is a new or revised squadron instruction or perhaps a meeting further up the chain of command.
Meaningful Results
Our modest foray into innovation has already begun to bear fruit. One of the most promising results of the innovation process has been the development of a dedicated command smartphone application called Quarterdeck. What started as a search for a better way to communicate has blossomed into a robust “app” which boasts capability far beyond that which was initially envisioned. Currently available on the Droid and Apple App stores, the application meets or exceeds DoD information assurance requirements and includes features like flight schedule postings and peer-to-peer instant messaging, among many others. Thanks to motivated junior officers who attended the 2016 Aviation Mission Support Tactical Advancements for the Next Generation (TANG) at Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) in Silicon Valley, the Adobe Company is now conducting market research, has shown interest in acquiring the hosting rights for the app, and is currently developing a professional version based on the VP-5 prototype.
The application developed by the Mad Foxes’ Innovation Department. (Courtesy Ken Flannery)
Another of our most promising innovation programs appeared to be headed toward realization before being dismissed due to concerns about running afoul of the Program Management Aviation (PMA) office. The plan was to implement an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) to replace the existing system of paper flight publications. This innovation would use tablet computers and digital flight publication subscriptions to save each squadron approximately $17,000 annually. PMA is currently developing a parallel program, but the estimated fleet delivery date was still at least a year away at the time our project was initiated. Our program would be able to deliver tablets within months. Every detail of the program had been meticulously researched, and drew heavily upon long established, similar programs used by the airlines.
The EFB program was widely supported among VP-5 junior officers, Fleet Replacement Squadron instructors, our own CO and XO, reserve unit squadrons manned by commercial airline pilots, and even had the interest of Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Group (CPRG). Unfortunately, information security concerns rooted in a risk averse culture combined with the lack of official approval from higher authorities halted the project prior to purchase. Even though our organic EFB proposal was not accepted, our efforts to address the issue sparked broader interest and pressured PMA to move up its timeline. It is a testament to the power of this innovation process that it could conceive and develop a product that rivaled a parallel effort of the standard acquisition pipeline and a regular program office. Tablets are now forecast to be delivered to the fleet by the end of this year.
Other achievements include a redesign of the Petty Officer Indoctrination course, a Command Volunteer Service Day suggested, planned, and led by an E-3, and an “Aircrew Olympics” which pitted two combat aircrews against each other in a variety of mission-related tasks. These ideas were all generated and executed from within the junior enlisted ranks.
We do not intend to suggest that a smartphone application or volunteer service holds the key to dismantling Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear program or China’s grip on the South China Sea. What we are trying to do is develop a framework in which creative solutions can be cultivated. Not every idea is going to be a grand slam, but before you can hit a grand slam you have to get people on base. The most important point we’ve learned is that the ideas are out there, we can cultivate them, and we’ve so far proven that we have “defense entrepreneurs” that can see these innovative ideas through from the white boards to implementation.
Formalizing an innovation process within a squadron is a new way of doing things and this new approach has been met with a variety of challenges. From stubborn, bureaucratic restrictions to “innovation stagnation,” the innovation construct at VP-5 has faced hurdles along the way and been forced to adapt. In the next installment of this series, we will explore some of these obstacles and describe the ways in which the Innovation Department has evolved as a result.
Lieutenant Commander Jared Wilhelm is the Operations Officer at Unmanned Patrol Squadron One Nine (VUP-19), a P-3C Orion Instructor Pilot and a 2014 Department of Defense Olmsted Scholar. Hey may be contacted at jaredwilhelm@gmail.com.
Featured Image: A P-8 assigned to VP-5 (U.S. Navy photo)
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An Information Dominance Carrier for Distributed War at Sea
August 30, 2017 Dmitry Filipoff Leave a comment
Future Capital Ship Topic Week
“These three forces – the forces at play in the maritime system, the force of the information system, and the force of technology entering the environment – and the interplay between them have profound implications for the United States Navy.”- A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority.1
A capital ship’s capabilities has always revealed what is most decisive in naval warfare. In the next high-end fight, what will be most decisive is the ability to secure decision superiority in a contested information environment fraught with uncertainty and change. The understanding of how information will be contested and employed in future war remains in flux. The value of information in guiding fleet tactics and force structure is already being realized by China in unconventional ways. But what will emerge from an understanding of the future threat environment is that capital ships, especially aircraft carriers, can take the lead in contesting the electromagnetic domain itself.
China’s Presence and Information Advantage
“U.S. Navy Warship 62, this is Chinese Navy Warship 575. Copy that, I will be staying along with you for the following days. Over.” Chinese frigate to USS Chancellorsville in the South China Sea.2
China is winning the battle of presence in Asiatic waters. According to the Commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Scott Swift, the level of presence the U.S. Navy will reach this year in the South China Sea is on track for 900 ship days,3 and that figure is higher than usual due to an uptick in strike groups operating in the region. The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) now shadows every U.S. warship that transits the South China Sea,4 FONOPs or otherwise, meaning the PLAN has likely surpassed the U.S. Navy in how much forward presence it maintains in key waters in Asia.
However, the PLA Navy is just the tip of the iceberg. China’s robust standing naval presence is augmented by coast guard units and potentially hundreds of paramilitary fishermen (maritime militia) and commercial vessels. China frequently leverages these forces for escalation, such as how the number of Chinese ships around the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands’ contiguous zone surged to about 230 ships less than a month after The Hague ruled against China’s South China Sea claims.5 In recent years there has been a consistent presence of about 70-90 Chinese ships around disputed East China Sea waters, up from virtually nothing a decade earlier.6
Japanese Coast Guard data on the numbers of Chinese vessels that entered the contiguous zone or intruded into territorial seas surrounding the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Note the spike in activity in August 2016 and the virtually nonexistent level of presence prior to 2009 (Click to expand).7 (Japanese Coast Guard)
These paramilitary forces will readily provide escalation and wartime advantages for China, especially in the area of information. These units will likely exploit the protection rights of non-combatants to secretly contribute intelligence to China’s military in a theater of active hostilities. This will pose difficult legal, diplomatic, and military dilemmas and test the limits of rules of engagement. Fears over paramilitary units will exacerbate suspicions of thousands of civilian vessels and add new layers of complexity to the operating environment. Widely dispersed paramilitary units could provide early warning and conduct battle damage assessment without incurring the risk of emitting the unique signatures of military-grade equipment. Regardless of the fact that the majority of USN and PLAN assets reside outside forward areas during peacetime, this robust paramilitary presence would provide China with some sense of informational continuity in the transition between war and peace. It is an information-focused distributed fleet on the cheap.
The rise of China’s maritime might is causing a significant shift in the operating environment the U.S. Navy considered itself the lone master of for three-quarters of a century. This displacement is jeopardizing the credibility of U.S. security guarantees in the region and allowing China to more confidently intimidate its neighbors. It is also a direct challenge to the U.S. Navy’s core missions of upholding the fundamental principle of freedom of navigation and offering avenues of access for American power. The level of U.S. Navy forward presence will only grow more inferior as China continues its large-scale and comprehensive maritime buildup. America’s grip on maritime superiority in Asia is weakening, and the U.S. Navy must undergo a major transformation to stay on top.
Establishing a Vision of Networked War at Sea
“DO NOT – REPEAT NOT – BELIEVE WE SHOULD SEEK NIGHT ENGAGEMENT. POSSIBLE ADVANTAGES OF RADAR MORE THAN OFFSET BY DIFFICULTIES OF COMMUNICATIONS AND LACK OF TRAINING IN FLEET TACTICS AT NIGHT.”-Admiral Willis Lee responds to Admiral Raymond Spruance’s query on whether to attempt a night engagement on June 17, 1944, two days before the Battle of the Philippine Sea.8
A transformation is already underway as navies around the world seek to conceptualize what warfighting at sea will entail in the information age. A common vision must be founded on a basic understanding of how various aspects of war have been evolved or outright revolutionized by modern technology. Technology has turned the electromagnetic spectrum into the centrally contested domain that critical warfighting functions depend on across the entire breadth of their execution.
Networks are not only tools but battlefields. Winning in the electromagnetic domain will determine whether critical intelligence is transferred, instructions are conveyed, and if the complex process of accurately targeting modern weapons is completed. Electronic warfare, cyber warfare, and ISR will largely be directed at understanding, confusing, and then deconstructing the system of systems that forms the adversary’s battle network. The fundamental trust that operators place in their equipment and each other will be a prime target. Degrading this trust could cripple a force out of proportion to actual losses.
A key element of the U.S. Navy’s effort to adapt to this new environment will be widely distributing its combat power to gain sea control rather than closely aggregating units together as has been common practice for generations. Up until recently, fleet combat required physically concentrating forces for concentrating their firepower. Distribution reflects how the technology behind network-centric warfare has made it feasible to disaggregate ships yet still aggregate their capabilities. Distribution better postures a fleet for electromagnetic maneuver by deconflicting the electronic warfare capabilities of friendly units and forcing an adversary to spend more time localizing contacts across a large expanse of ocean.9 But managing the networked functions of a distributed fleet is a hard enough challenge that will grow even more difficult when the electromagnetic domain is contested in wartime.
Command and control grows more strenuous with greater distribution. U.S. and allied assets will already be dispersed throughout the battlespace in some manner at the onset of sudden war, and will have to be quickly maneuvered into some viable operational structure. The task of organizing a dispersed naval force across a large theater as hostilities break out will be critical not just for success but for survival against a near-peer opponent.
This challenge reveals how gaining momentary surprise at the onset of full-scale networked war at sea can reap strategically disabling blows. Even brief victories against networks will quickly translate into the sudden and decisive destruction that has always characterized war at sea. This grim possibility will be all the more important to guard against when the Navy is asked to project power against adversaries that will enjoy the benefits of operating close to home, such as land-based anti-ship capabilities that enjoy inherently steep logistical and survivability advantages over naval forces.
CSBA graphic from 2010 on China’s principal PLA air-defense units and anti-ship ballistic missile sites. (CSBA)10
Distribution enhances survivability by attacking left of the kill chain, the complex process of targeting modern weapons. By making the adversary’s information gathering and decision-making processes the focus, distributed warfighting emphasizes deception. Deception and distribution will exacerbate the severe challenge of processing the copious amounts of information gathered by powerful, modern sensors. For example, a P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft can generate up to 900 gigabytes of data in a single mission.11 Overstimulating sensors can fray nerves and induce an adversary to make decisions to their own detriment, such as radiating active sensors which can compromise stealth, unknowingly maneuvering into firing envelopes, and even firing salvos of hard-to-replenish missiles at ghost contacts.
Gathering intelligence on the wide variety of unique signatures and capabilities that compose an adversary’s electronic order of battle will be pivotal in facilitating wartime adaptation. Threat libraries will be rapidly updated as adversaries reveal the true extent of their electronic capabilities. This intelligence will be fed into a fast-firing cycle of iterative adaptation where superior electronic capabilities will be fielded via something as quick as a software update.
Operators will strive to understand the implications of a variety of actions and inaction amidst a constant struggle for electromagnetic context. Ships will carefully regulate emissions to avoid detection, yet emissions are paradoxically important for delivering effects, managing command and control (C2), and updating situational awareness. Employing a powerful emitter such as a SPY radar can pose a liability, and ships that feel compelled to radiate and communicate for the sake of enabling their own defense can compromise friendly units and become more susceptible to follow-on attack.
An analogy for surviving modern naval combat can then be drawn from Dr. Stephen Biddle’s description of the revolution in land warfare that transpired in the early twentieth century:
“…the complexity of the earth’s surface offers enough cover and concealment to substantially shield land forces from the increasing potential lethality of modern weaponry. However, to operate a mass military of potentially millions of soldiers in a way that can exploit the natural complexity of the earth’s surface for cover and concealment means accepting tremendous complexity in tactics and operational art. Relative to, for example, Napoleonic tactics where armies could be lined up in shoulder-to-shoulder linear formations and simply marched towards an objective, if you’re going to use the complexity of the earth’s surface to provide cover in ways those massed shoulder-to-shoulder formations couldn’t do, then you’re going to have to break down those massed formations into small handfuls of soldiers few enough in number that they can fit into the folds in the earth that create what militaries ironically call dead ground, where dead ground is of course where you can live…”12
The mass, attrition-based Napoleonic formations of today are the capital ship-centered strike groups, and the “small handfuls of soldiers” are a networked fleet’s dispersed surface action groups. The protective “folds in the earth” are the various nuances of the electromagnetic domain that is being contested and manipulated. Making sense of these nuances within the spectrum in order to recognize opportunities to deliver effects will define the competition.
The wartime implications of the latest technologies are often not fully understood before they are fielded, but having a common vision of future war at sea serves as a necessary foundation for training, equipping, and operating a navy. The extent to which such a vision is being jointly established and acted upon in a coordinated manner by the various communities within the U.S. Navy is unclear.
The surface Navy is in the early stages of operationalizing its distributed lethality concept that envisions numerous surface action groups operating offensively to achieve a cumulative sea control effect. This stands in stark contrast to the strike group constructs that have been the focus of surface ships for generations, where combatants specialized in escorting capital ships in mainly defensive roles. A new distributed operating concept for surface combatants should be facilitating a Navy-wide appraisal of what this means for all other communities and how the Navy interfaces with the joint force more broadly.
To the Navy’s credit, Naval Warfare Development Command recently convened stakeholders from across the naval enterprise to contribute to the development of a forthcoming Distributed Maritime Operations concept (DMO) that could serve as a focal point for force development.13 Where there is room for improvement is in articulating what role capital ships, especially aircraft carriers, will play in a distributed fleet.
Aviation-Centric Information Dominance CONOPS for the Distributed Fleet
“At sea better scouting – more than maneuver, as much as weapon range, and oftentimes as much as anything else – has determined who would attack not merely effectively, but who would attack decisively first.” CAPT Wayne P. Hughes, Jr. (ret.)14
The idea of a distributed fleet aggregating its capabilities through networking is not itself new.15 What is novel is the confidence in the ability of the scouting and communication enterprise to provide the information needed to effectively use high-tech weapons at ranges that were once considered extreme. But confidence is not capability, as evidenced by the decision to pull the anti-ship Tomahawk missile from the Navy’s inventory due to a lack of such confidence in the 1990s.16 Now within a decade an anti-ship Tomahawk will be back in the fleet, featuring a 1,000 nm range and offering a widely distributed sea control capability alongside other forthcoming networked missiles.17 The question is whether the Navy will be able to scout and communicate well enough to employ these weapons at range, especially when distributing the fleet compounds the information-related challenges of operating within a contested electromagnetic domain.
As warships spread out to confound an adversary’s situational awareness and offer options to deliver fires, capital ships will make scouting, secure information transfer, and deception their primary missions. The natural advantages aviation enjoys in electromagnetic and physical maneuver will make the aircraft carrier central in conducting these critical missions. By taking the lead in contesting the spectrum, the capital ship will animate the networked fleet by securing decision superiority.
Aviation’s Key Advantage
Electronic action is still bound by physical limitations. Aviation can act as the connective tissue of an ocean-going battle network because altitude has a corresponding effect on detection and communication capability via a superior ability to peer over the horizon compared to a ship. This extra dimension of maneuver introduces more flexibility for managing the risks of sensing and communicating, making aircraft the scouting and information transfer asset of choice.
A high-flying aircraft with a powerful radar can sense surface contacts further out than surface contacts could sense one another over the horizon. An aircraft can emit or transmit, drop to lower altitude, and then relocate faster than a ship to mitigate risk and get information to where it needs to be. Aircraft can use their speed to maximize the use of line-of-sight communications whose considerable bandwidth and jam-resistant advantages will prove indispensable in a contested information environment.
These physical properties will allow aircraft to facilitate fleet connectivity by forming sensing and communication pathways through maneuver. Commanders will have a flexible means to augment the scope and focus of information that is being collected and shared throughout the force. Airborne sensor fusion will help commanders prioritize information flows to meet rapidly emerging needs. These characteristics hold significant tactical and operational implications for the distributed fleet.
Engage-on-Remote, In-Flight Retargeting, and Command and Control
The technology that makes distributed operations possible will be for naught if an evolution in tactical thought does not accompany it. A primary challenge of distributed warfighting will be delivering the information needed to employ the engage-on-remote and retargeting capabilities that are the hallmark of a distributed fleet’s combat potential.
Retargeting and engage-on-remote make weapons more reliable and fleets more flexible. The engagement process is transformed from a linear kill chain into an expansive kill web. Networked units can leverage capabilities from across the force to meet individual needs. Platforms will be able to fire without emitting, improving survivability. Salvos can build density as missiles from across the distributed fleet are aggregated.
But engage-on-remote and the long range of potential exchanges means that sailors will have to get used to firing weapons with incomplete information. The passage of time and the dynamic nature of the contested spectrum means that the information that precipitated an engagement will often not suffice to complete it. Retargeting will prove decisive by allowing new information to be fed into a live engagement. It will help keep firepower discriminate, resilient, and long-range while mitigating the risks of operating with less information.
Retargeting and engage-on-remote will dictate a fleet formation because a distributed force is not formless, but rather than an extended strike group of sorts. The ability to leverage engage-on-remote and retargeting capabilities from across the force will be a function of fleet connectivity and weapons range. The distance between platforms and payloads will affect the timeliness of information transfer, and weapons range will dictate the maximum extent to which forces can disperse from one another yet still combine their fires effectively.
An animation of a hypothetical scenario demonstrating the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC). (JHU APL)18
The wide-ranging tactical flexibility that can be gleaned from retargeting and engage-on-remote is directly correlated with the ability to transfer information. Ideally any sensor or communicator will support any shooter or payload, but passing information between them all will be difficult when that information is contested and loses relevance with time. The ability to fire and contribute information without radiating organic sensors opens up numerous tactical options, but using this capability will mean the man on the scene will have to rely on a man not on the scene. Therefore these capabilities combine to fundamentally change the perception of time, timing, and opportunity for a fleet.
This will aggravate the challenge of precisely conveying commander’s intent and delegating the appropriate level of initiative to networked forces. Much of the public writing on distributed lethality has argued for delegating authority to the man on the scene, but that man will be just one more node in a network. They may not fully realize the tactical possibilities at hand compared to someone with better situational awareness and a broader view of how the fleet’s combat power is distributed. The organic sensors of ships cannot be trusted to independently target payloads that need to travel hundreds of miles through a contested information environment, especially when ships operate under EMCON. Launching a salvo will be a momentous decision as a large amount of a ship’s or surface action group’s magazine could be depleted in a single exchange, requiring confidence in information and the larger operational situation.
Aviators will become the tactical controllers of warship-based capabilities in a distributed fleet because their maneuver advantage translates into a superior ability to facilitate broad situational awareness, sensor fusion, and fleet connectivity. They will have more context and ability to make decisions, execute quick workarounds, and gather additional information versus warships that are tightly controlling their emissions while proximate to the adversary. Aviation-based network nodes can shift schemes of maneuver to help commanders balance the need for information up the chain of command with the need for initiative down the chain of command.
The fact that only aircraft can realistically trail and intercept missiles in real time means they can provide more inputs to facilitate retargeting, and could close with inbound enemy salvos to target their datalinks. Aviators (with automated decision aids) will manage information flows between sensors and communications to make numerous inputs into the engagement process as it is transpiring. Because corrupt information will be commonplace in the next high-end fight, and because autonomous machines cannot be entrusted with life-or-death decisions, humans must own this process. In-flight retargeting is a weapon’s insurance policy, and aviation can be its guarantor.
In this particular sensor-to-shooter construct, aircraft become the primary sensors and communicators because they can facilitate fleet connectivity through maneuver, and ships become the primary shooters. Since firing without emitting makes units less susceptible to detection, warships will become more survivable. This is preferable because aircraft are more numerous and replaceable than ships. But employing a dynamic ship-to-aircraft information interface will involve a steep learning curve. Speaking on the challenges of making the Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA) capability a reality, then-Captain Jim Kilby remarked that it involves “a level of coordination we’ve never had to execute before and a level of integration between aircrews and ship crews.”19
Aviation will also facilitate C2 by helping commanders with early-warning, battle damage assessment, and keeping tabs on one’s own forces. Having more time to react to threats will be key in crafting a tailored response from various tools that each have their own electromagnetic implications, rather than making commanders feel compelled to go all out to defend against the possibility of imminent destruction. Learning the status of dueling enemy and friendly ships can be risky, but when a ship under EMCON explodes in the ocean, does it make a sound?
Lastly, an aviation-centric C2 scheme will build upon the natural advantages of undersea forces. Submarines will be able to penetrate further into the battlespace than surface ships, improving their chances of discovering high-quality information about the adversary. Securely getting that information back to the fleet via aviation-based network nodes will make the risk worth it, and engage-on-remote and retargeting can impose a daunting tactical problem by forcing adversaries to localize a submarine that is firing missiles or deploying decoys at range.
Deception and Softkill Countermeasures
One of distributed lethality’s maxims is “If it floats it fights” but if it floats it should also deceive. Deception will enhance survivability, gather intelligence on the enemy’s electronic order of battle, and facilitate strikes. Superior deception earns decision superiority.
Deception-enabling capabilities can be distributed throughout the fleet by fielding a greater variety and quantity of decoys. These can include long-range decoy missiles that mimic the profiles of aerial platforms and conduct offensive electronic warfare, as well as shorter-range launched decoys and floatable payloads that can take on ships’ signatures. These systems often weigh less and take up less space than hardkill systems, making them easier to distribute en masse. For example, the ADM-160 Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) missile is about half the length and a tenth of the weight of a Tomahawk cruise missile, and has a 500-mile range.20 Such a decoy missile could enable an advanced fleet-wide deception capability by being fitted into launch cells, box launchers, and wing pylons.
Two Miniature Air Launch Decoys sit side-by-side in the munitions storage area on Barksdale Air Force Base, La., March 21, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Micaiah Anthony)
Aviation can enhance fleet deception by flexibly deploying, retargeting, and transporting a large variety of decoys on demand. The extent to which the platforms themselves are actively at the forefront of deception should be minimized. Operators should strive to delegate as much deception as possible to decoys and unmanned platforms that can take on the risks of raising a higher electromagnetic profile. Deception plans involving decoy saturation would allow for momentary opportunities to break EMCON and gather information as an adversary reacts to the deception. Decoy missiles could act as penetration aids to improve the lethality of salvos and help aircraft scout risky areas. Aircraft can manage decoy missile datalinks in-flight to maximize their usefulness.
Lastly, softkill countermeasures can have far more favorable cost-exchange ratios against missiles compared to hardkill measures, allowing a distributed fleet to conserve munitions and improve survivability. Aviation assets could maneuver on short notice to deploy softkill payloads along the axis of an inbound salvo to dilute it at a distance from the intended target. These comparatively small and lightweight payloads would allow a capital ship, via an interoperable aviation platform, to flexibly deploy defensive countermeasures over a large area and replenish other ships’ decoy and softkill inventories on demand. This capability will be critical because a distributed fleet will often struggle to mass defensive firepower in a timely manner.
Wartime Adaptation and Augmentation
Capital ships themselves still possess unique advantages in information age warfare. Capital ships will play a key role in facilitating frontline wartime adaptation because they will field the largest afloat concentration of intelligence, cryptologic, and cyber expertise in the battlespace.21 As information is continuously gathered and transferred by aviation across the distributed fleet, capital ship-based expertise will lead the effort to process that information to discover vulnerabilities and devise fixes and exploits. Capital ships will in turn use their superior reach back capabilities to act as a conduit between the forward-most warfighter and national-level assets that can aid adaptation, such as Navy and DoD threat libraries.
Aviation can take those exploits and fixes back to the distributed fleet and the enemy from the capital ship. This will be especially poignant for sustaining a deception advantage, where both sides will place priority on unmasking the other’s means of deceiving. Fresh updates based on the latest intelligence could be patched into modular decoy payloads at the capital ship, and then aviation can transport these enhanced decoys back out to the fleet via a platform that is interoperable with capital ships and surface combatants.
V-280 concept. (Bell Helicopter Image)
Such a ubiquitous and modular aerial platform will allow the capital ship to compliment warship needs in a variety of ways. Aside from aiding various warfare- and information-related missions, having an aerial platform that can land on almost anything will open up options for augmenting logistics and personnel on the fly. It will also enhance capital ship survivability by allowing the surface force to take on some of the burden of sustaining aviation assets.
Unmanned systems can play a role by conducting a variety of the missions described, whether information transfer, sensing, or deploying decoys and softkill countermeasures. Because of their relatively small size and weight, the sensors and payloads required to conduct these missions can be fielded by unmanned systems in the nearer-term compared to heavier offensive weaponry. Additionally, automation alone will improve communications security because more automation means fewer operator inputs are needed. Because robotics has shrunken platform size, future capital ships will be able to easily host small undersea, amphibious, and surface unmanned systems to extend their reach into more domains than before.
“The competition is on, and pace dominates. In an exponential competition, the winner takes all. We must shake off any vestiges of comfort or complacency that our previous advantages may have afforded us, and move out to build a larger, more distributed, and more capable battle fleet that can execute our mission.” The Future Navy.22
Wayne Hughes offers an important caveat to all of this, that “tactical complexity is a peacetime disease” and that “the temptation to equate complex tools with complex tactics will be almost irresistible.”23 As with what happened in WWII and elsewhere, the Navy and the U.S. military writ large will run the risk of employing tactics and technologies that are not yet fully inculcated into the force if war breaks out. Given the current pace of change, that risk may never go away.
What should be clear, at least for now, is that there is still a place for capital ships in high-end warfighting. The distributed fleet of tomorrow can become real if capital ships dedicate themselves toward prosecuting the most important and elusive target of all: information.
1. A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority, Version 1.0, U.S. Department of the Navy, January 2016. http://www.navy.mil/cno/docs/cno_stg.pdf
2. Helene Cooper, “Patrolling Disputes Waters, U.S. and China Jockey for Dominance”, The New York Times, March 30, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/world/asia/south-china-sea-us-navy.html
3. Andrew Galbraith, “U.S. Commander says ships on course for more days in South China Sea”, Reuters, June 15, 2017. http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-usa-defense-idUKKBN1961GT
4. Anders Corr, “Chinese Warships Shadowing U.S. Navy: ‘New Normal’ In South China Sea”, Forbes, July 3, 2017. https://www.forbes.com/sites/anderscorr/2017/07/03/chinese-warships-shadowing-u-s-navy-new-normal-in-south-china-sea/#709a12186029
5. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, “Protest Against the Intrusion of Chinese Coast Guard into Japanese territorial waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands”, August 6, 2016. http://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press4e_001227.html
6. Lyle J. Morris, “The New ‘Normal’ in the East China Sea”, RAND, February 27, 2017. https://www.rand.org/blog/2017/02/the-new-normal-in-the-east-china-sea.html
7. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, “Trends in Chinese Government and Other Vessels in the Waters Surrounding the Senkaku Islands, and Japan’s Response – Records of Intrusions of Chinese Government and Other Vessels into Japan’s Territorial Sea”, August 3, 2017. http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/page23e_000021.html
8. James D. Hornfischer, The Fleet at Flood Tide, pg. 171, Bantam Books, New York, 2016.
9. Jim Loerch, “Empowering Electronic Warfare to Save Carrier Strike Groups”, Signal, September 2016. https://www.afcea.org/content/?q=Article-empowering-electronic-warfare-save-carrier-strike-groups
10. Jan van Tol, Mark Gunzinger, Andrew F. Krepinevich, and Jim Thomas, “AirSea Battle: A Point of Departure Operational Concept”, pg. 65, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 2010. http://csbaonline.org/research/publications/airsea-battle-concept/publication
11. Michael Glynn, “Information Management and the Future of Naval Aviation” Center for International Maritime Security, September 19, 2015. http://cimsec.org/information-management-and-the-future-of-naval-aviation/18870
12. Mina Pollmann and Matt Merighi, “Sea Control 130 – Stephen Biddle on Future Warfare in the Western Pacific”, Center for International Maritime Security, March 22, 2017. http://cimsec.org/sea-control-130-stephen-biddle-future-warfare-western-pacific/31485
13. Naval Warfare Development Command Public Affairs, Advanced Warfighting Summit Focus On Enabling Distributed Maneuver, Naval Warfare Development Command, May 19, 2017. https://www.nwdc.navy.mil/PressRelease/10.aspx
14. Wayne P. Hughes, Jr., Fleet Tactics: Theory and Practice, pg. 173, Naval Institute Press, 1986.
15. Hughes, pg. 196.
16. Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen, “Naval Weapon of Choice”, Naval History Magazine, U.S. Naval Institute, February 2016, Volume 30, number 1. https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2016-02/naval-weapon-choice
17. Sam LaGrone, “WEST: U.S. Navy Anti-Ship Tomahawk Set for Surface Ships, Subs Starting in 2021, U.S. Naval Institute News, February 18, 2016. https://news.usni.org/2016/02/18/west-u-s-navy-anti-ship-tomahawk-set-for-surface-ships-subs-starting-in-2021
18. Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, “Air and Missile Defense: More than Two Decades of Sensor Integration Efforts at APL.” http://www.jhuapl.edu/ourwork/airdefense/CECvideo.asp
19. Sam LaGrone, “The Next Act for Aegis”, U.S. Naval Institute News, May 7, 2014. https://news.usni.org/2014/05/07/next-act-aegis
20. Raytheon, “MALD Decoy.” http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/mald/
21. John Gordon et al. Leveraging America’s Aircraft Carrier Capabilities, pg. 15, RAND National Research Defense Institute, 2006. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2006/RAND_MG448.pdf
22. The Future Navy, U.S. Department of the Navy, May 17, 2017. http://www.navy.mil/navydata/people/cno/Richardson/Resource/TheFutureNavy.pdf
Featured Image: SOUTH PACIFIC (June 29, 2017) Ships assigned to Carrier Strike Group 5 sail in formation during a coordinated live-fire gunnery exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathan Burke/Released)
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Publication Release: The Future of Naval Aviation
August 25, 2016 Guest Author Leave a comment
In August of 2015 CIMSEC published a Call for Articles soliciting analysis on the future of naval aviation. The following month, contributors responded with submissions that assessed the impact unmanned aviation will have on threat environments, the evolution of the carrier air wing, and other topics related to naval aviation. This compendium consists of the articles that featured during the topic week.
Ben Ho Wan Beng
Jon Paris
Tim Walton
Greg Smith
Michael Glynn
Peter Mairno
Wick Hobson
Matthew Hipple
Matthew Merighi
What’s the Buzz? Ship-Based Unmanned Aviation and its Influence on Littoral Navies in Combat Operations by Ben Ho Wan Beng
Parallax and Bullseye Buoys: The Future of Naval Aviation by LT Jon Paris
The Evolution of the Modern Carrier Air Wing by Timothy A. Walton
Trusting Autonomous Systems: It’s More than Just Technology by CDR Greg Smith
Information Management and the Future of Naval Aviation by Michael Glynn
Aiding India’s Next Generation Aircraft Carrier: A Review by Peter Marino
Naval Aviation Week: The Conclusion by Wick Hobson
Be sure to browse other compendiums in the publications tab, and feel free send compendium ideas to Publications@cimsec.org.
Featured Image: A Major from the USMC, serving with 801 NAS, landed on the flight deck of HMS Illustrious, as part of Exercise Neptune Warrior. (Billy Bunting/UK MOD)
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Cirrugator-Demo
www.cirrugator.com
Web application for boat tracking, race analysis, and routing
This page demonstrates mainly the routing feature of Cirrugator. It is only an excerpt from the full Cirrugator site, showing the most recent data available. In addition it offers some guidance to better understand these complex options and graphs, including the use of historic data (recommended for a first look) rather than most recent data. For even more details and your own in-depth analysis go directly to Cirrugator's home at www.cirrugator.com.
Click the 'Show Guidance' link to read an explanation of what you see on the graph and how to interpret it, click the link again to hide the text.
Datapoints are mouse-sensitive: rest the mouse pointer over them to get details. Some also respond to clicks.
For a first look you may choose the historic data with interpretation instead of the most recent data (the startup default). You may use these links to switch back and forth at any time.
Best Routing for Cirrus Show Guidance
This chart shows the track of Cirrus from Start (green ball) as a red line, whereby the big, round, red dots represent Cirrus' positions as reported during the roll calls. From the last known postion a red line with red diamonds begins which ends at the Finish (yellow ball). This diamond line is the projected best route for Cirrus given the weather situation and Cirrus' performance in dependance of wind speed and wind angle (also known as "her polars"). There may be additional diamond lines in other colors, which are the 2nd, 3rd,... best choices for sailing. There may also be square dots in red and other colors. For an explanation look at the historic data with interpretation examples.
The black lines, sometimes shaped like half-circles but mostly quite irregular, are the "isochrones". These are lines connecting all the locations which Cirrus could reach within 1, 2, 3,... days (the thin black lines are fractions of a day) beginning at the point where the routing starts. In the ideal case the best route crosses these isochrones where their separation is widest, i.e. the distance crossed is greatest. But not always! Cirrugator can figure out wether an early sacrifice will be rewarded later, and vice-versa.
The thin red arrows represent the true wind speed and true wind direction; the longer the arrow the higher the wind speed. This is the wind which Cirrus would experience if she were sailing the best route at the forecasted speed, as this wind is calculated from the true wind field determined from the grib files. It is called "moving grib" in Cirrugator parlance.
The bottom graph shows boatspeed, and true/apparent wind speed/direction along the projected best route. Look for situations where the apparent wind angle (blue round dots) reaches deep angles marked by the (light-)blue bands at the bottom and top ends of the graph. This is the famous DDW - Dead Down Wind - situation, which is not only difficult and dangerous to drive, but also NOT the fastest course. Cirrugator can be configured to avoid such bad courses for most of the times, avoiding the tendency for "sailing on the edge".
GRIB Ref. Date (UTC):
Time to go (red route):
15.00 days
Last position at:
2010-06-18 2100 HST
ETA (red route):
GRIB Weather Show Guidance
This graph shows wind arrows overlaid on a chart, whereby the arrow direction gives the wind direction and the length the wind speed. The information is transferred in computer files, called GRIB (Gridded Binary) files for the technology on how to condens information into these files. The data result from huge global weather calculation programs run by the US Weather Service, of which we take the portion relevant to us. The data are calculated at a specific time (GRIB Reference Date), and are valid for a specific time (GRIB Valid Date).
We obtain these files by sending an email request to a server (from Sailmail, or directly from NOAA), and the server responds by returning an email to us with the requested grib file attached. The file is then decoded by Cirrugator and used in the routing calculation. We use a forecast range of up to 10 days, i.e. we get one file with a single Valid Date chart for each of 10 consecutive days. Although, as is well known, the forecast quality of the later days leaves a bit to be desired, this is still the best information available.
Find more details on the Cirrugator Help site.
File: gfs20100724080500868.grb
GRIB Valid Date (UTC):
2010-07-24 0000 ( + 0 d)
Weather Fax Show Guidance
These are the 'Pacific Surface Analysis' and '48-hour Surface Forecast' weather faxes, which are sent out by the US National Weather Service with an update every 6h and 12h, resp.. They are key sources of weather information, complementing the grib files shown above.
They are indeed sent as a fax by shortwave radio, with the typical chirping noise of a fax machine coming from the loudspeaker. We record it via the sound-input of a computer. They are also available on the internet but due to the size of the files, and our VERY slow internet connection both via radio and satellite phone (remember the days of 1200 baud modems? We wish we were as fast as that!), we prefer the standard fax and use the internet for the grib files.
To download these files yourself find the correct NOAA's marine weather pages and look for the heading SURFACE CHARTS. There you have the analysis (you want Part 1) and forecasts. And a whole lot more under the other headings...
When you compare weather faxes and grib charts, pay attention to the dates: we may not always be able to print matching dates!
Left: Pacific Surface Analysis (File: PYBA90.gif)
Get the most recent one from http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/PYBA90.gif
Bottom: 48-Hour Surface Forecast (File: PWBI10.gif)
Get the most recent one from http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/PWBI10.gif
Corrected Time and PCR rating Show Guidance
The left-side graph is straightforward, showing the DTG (Distance To Go) versus the elapsed time: Pick any boat and extend its line from the upper left end to where it crosses the bottom axis, and you know when it will probably arrive at the finish line. You can do the same with the other boats and see who arrives when. But it tells you nothing about the performance of a boat against expectations and against the fleet after PCR corrections.
This is where the right-side graph comes in, which is quite powerful and simple - albeit a bit confusing on first look. Different from the left graph, its bottom axis shows the corrected time. The correction of the finish time by using the pcr-rating simply says that if a boat were going at its expected speed, the corrected finish time would be exactly zero. If all boats were going exactly at their PCR speeds, then a single vertical line would extend from the top to the bottom at corrected time t=0.0. Deviations to the right means a boat is going slower, to the left it is going faster than expected. So you can judge how well a boat is doing given what it is supposed to be able to do. Since now only the deviations of the boats against their expectations are plotted, the lines are spread over the full width of the graph, making it somewhat less crowded and providing a ranking in addition.
Ranking Show Guidance
See how a particular boat performs over time and trades places with the other boats. This is most easily seen for the reference boat (thick red line with round red dots).
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Fluid London Goes Walkabout
Recently, the nice people at Walkabout offered four members of the Fluid team the opportunity to hang out at their Temple Walkabout venue for the evening, entirely on the house (I told you they were nice). It would have been highly unprofessional to turn down such a cordial invitation and so myself (Christian), Arthur, Laura and Claire dutifully accepted the offer. Here is what the four of us thought about our evening:
Christian Rose-Day:
Last time I was here, I was thrown out. I say thrown out, I mean I was told that my crossed-eyed swaying in the centre of the dancefloor was cause to politely suggest that I should probably go home to bed. Perhaps my weak grip on the pint of Fosters I was spilling was a giveaway.
Regardless, that epoch has long since been buried in the rubble of time and I am now ticking a different box when filling out the ‘age’ section of any form or questionnaire. I’m also wiser (hopefully) and less inclined towards raucous behaviour prompted by a rampant lager binge. No, it’s all ales and ciders for me now. Hence, I was sceptical about what an oldie like myself could possibly get out of a visit to Walkabout, despite the kind offer extended to us.
Well, three pear Kopparberg ciders and a rooftop full of good British sunshine later and I was convinced that I had misjudged my former conceptions of Walkabout. My first ever taste of kangaroo also had a part to play in this assumption, being that it was a leaner, more compact competitor to a beef burger, although the burger buns and fries were woeful in comparison to the meat. The view across the coach car park that is Embankment and out over the River Thames must also get a mention here because there aren’t many land-based venues on the north bank that can beat it. Well done Temple Walkabout, and well done the Temple Walkabout table staff stationed up on the roof terrace. Their manners are as alacritous as that of a kids’ show host.
It was only when the sun dipped and we went inside [weird exit policy which means roof-dwelling punters who need the loo must walk around to the front door to enter] that I began to feel a tad old. It was a Monday night and Temple Walkabout was rammed full of youngsters from every corner of the globe dancing to what is probably played on Radio 1 (certainly not Radio 6 Music). I think I was the only person there who wasn’t asked for ID. The theme for the night was allegedly Spanish/Brazilian but none of us recalled any salsa music. Perhaps the Spanish/Brazilian element was down the customers, who were clearly from climate more clement than ours.
Laura Collins:
“....where beer does flow and men (and women!) chunder...”
The eve of my 23rd birthday was spent in Walkabout. The day I turned 23 was spent mainly in the bathroom. For one night only, I had embraced not only the Australian attitude to having a good time but rather a lot of their shots as well. Needless to say, the thought of setting foot in a Walkabout again sent a few shudders through me and brought back a few nauseating memories.
For that very reason, I am proud of my recent actions. I had a refined night at Temple Walkabout. On a regular Monday in July (a few too many years on from my 23rd birthday) I hadn’t envisaged spending my night in Walkabout but after hearing this particular venue had a roof terrace, I was game. After all, sitting outside in the rare English sunshine meant I didn’t have to go near any shots or dance on any tables. And am I glad I dislodged any preconceptions out of my mind. My night in Walkabout was a pleasant surprise. Not only did I learn that it’s not all sticky floors, pints of snake bite and far too many drunken companions, I also tasted a bit of Australian culture – well, the national animal anyway. That’s right, I tucked into a kangaroo salad. Admittedly, visions of me in Australia zoo stroking the joeys did come flooding back, especially when the waitress reminded me that kangaroos were on the Australian currency, but I thought I would embrace the moment anyway – that’s what I did last time after all. The kangaroo was bloody ace (in my best Australian accent) and the service that came with it was top notch. Plus, on the roof terrace I could listen to the sound of the birds and the River Thames rather than the familiar cries of Kylie Minogue and Men at Work ....who “come from the land down under”.
Arthur Browne:
Temple Walkabout is certainly jiving on a Monday night - it would appear those £1.50 drink deals are a winner in central London. There was something very pleasant about a few lazy drinks up on the terrace overlooking the river, followed by a descent into a lively space with a vast bar and a healthy mix of drinkers and dancers. What won my stomach over might surprise you. It was neither the Aussie beverages nor the Kangeroo burger - nope, try the most generous slice of chocolate cake seen in many a moon plus two dollops of ice cream. It might have made me feel like I deserved to walk home but it was without doubt a dessert to do the word 'decadent' justice.
Claire Williams:
I must be getting old.
It used to be that Friday was the night to go out. I’d never miss a Friday night in town. I’d get together with the girls – we’d dress, paint our faces and fog the bathroom out with hairspray, deodorant and all manners of toxic ozone destroying sprays – and we’d stagger out (already half-cut, having drunk cheap wine straight from the bottle like the classy girls we are), ready to paint the town bright red.
Then, out of nowhere, Fridays were out (pubs and bars mysteriously empty, save for the resident drunks in the corner who were delighted for our company), and Saturdays were in. No one told us, and like people turning up at the wrong place for the party we continued going out on Friday, dismayed by the lack of people (“has everyone moved? Is Shoreditch no longer cool?”), until by chance we stumbled into the busiest pub on the way back from our ‘Gym Saturdays’ – and didn’t leave until 4 in the morning. (Just as Friday nights out became a thing of the past, so therefore did ‘Gym Saturdays’. And thank God. I’ve never liked the gym.)
And then, with no rhyme or reason, Thursday became the new Friday. Rolling in still drunk Friday morning became acceptable behaviour, and many a grumble was shared over pints of water and soluble aspirin.
So it is – Thursday is the night to go out. I’m used to that. I’ve changed my routine and it makes my week longer. I’m happy. So what is this – I venture out on a Monday night (oh Monday, a night contentedly dedicated to Eastenders and a tub of ice-cream) to meet some Fluid people for a bit of a (quiet, reserved) knees up at the Temple Walkabout venue. And lo and behold, the place is jam packed! Is Monday the new night out?! Do I have to change my routine – yet again?!
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Cilla Black Pole Dancing With Dale Winton?
By Anna Parkin
Soho’s chicest gay club, The Shadow Lounge, celebrated its 9th birthday last week with a glittering party for members and VIPs. I felt honoured to be attending the exclusive event as The Shadow Lounge is known for having a strict door policy and, well, being a lady, I wouldn’t be much use to any amorous revellers looking for love.
It was fairly quiet when my guest and I arrived so we managed to blag ourselves a cosy candlelit alcove complete with faux floral decoration. We were in prime position for ogling the handful of merrymakers on the largish dancefloor as they strutted to Ibiza remixes of Kylie, Cheryl Cole and Lady Gaga.
The press release had promised a host of stars would be attending, and I’d been hoping to see famous fag hag Cilla Black pole dancing with a luminous Dale Winton. Instead I got a who’s-who of reality television. Not that I’m complaining, I think I made up about 70% of the viewing figures for Paris Hilton’s Best British Friend.
As we sipped on warm white wine, our alcove got cordoned off with a rope, making us feel like real stars, or at least previous X Factor finalists. We invited the superb comedian Stephen K. Amos (pictured with me here) into our booth for a chuckle, and Australian heartthrob Daniel O’Connor (pictured above) came for a chat to tell us about making the move from soap opera Neighbours to London’s Gymbox where he now works. The scantily-clad waiter kept coming back to remind us we would have to move should a celeb arrive. With a sigh, I got my bag together just as BB9 stud Rex Newmark made his way through the doors.
By this point The Shadow Lounge was brimming with handsome males, generally well-dressed and in their twenties or thirties, although there were a few glamorous women too. The entertainment was in full swing, as the hunky Shadow Lounge dancers took to the stage leaving little to the imagination in their tight gold hotpants. There was gyrating, poking, caressing, licking and even kissing, although not much dancing, during their raunchy performance, which left most of the audience either blushing, laughing or lusting.
After their ‘cheeky’ performance, the dancers descended on the crowd to woo their adoring public. The pop hits kept playing and the cocktails carried on flowing until three in the morning as celebrities and civilians joined forces on the dancefloor, showing those so-called dancers how it’s really done. Roll on next year when The Shadow Lounge hits double figures… Cilla and Dale don’t know what they missed.
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Sherlock Is On The Wine
By Rebecca Brett
‘We’ve got a brand new wine list, would you like to come and try the new additions?’ is not a line that I hear that often but when someone did say it I, of course, politely declined. Yeah right, I was there faster than you can say Sauvignon Blanc.
I could even take a +1, so my boyfriend (and fellow wine-lover) and I plodded off to the Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes Hotel with deerstalker and magnifying glass in hand. I was expecting the hotel, which is – of course situated on Baker Street - to have hordes of tourists milling about and taking pictures in the hotel but it was in fact the opposite. The place was a haven from the busy road outside.
We arrived with lots of other wine lovers (or journalists, if you will) to sample the menu. We sat in groups of five, with the bottles of wine just in my sights and only the extremely lovely and very knowledgeable Giles Jenkinson in the way of me grabbing a straw and trying them all by myself. He was there from a company called Matthew Clark – a drinks supplier who supply the Park Plaza chain and who won the International Wine Challenge Awards’ ‘Wine Educator of the Year’ 2009.
So we weren’t just going to get stuck in to the wines. We were going to be educated about them first. Wow, there’s a lot to learn. Grapes, tannins, oak barrels, grape skins, reserves, vineyards, hints and noses… the list goes on. Erm, when can we drink the wine please?
Whoop, here goes – eight wines, three white, four reds and one dessert wine. The first, Cloudy Bay, was already a firm favourite between the two of us so it was good to drink it away from home and with a delicious seared king scallop, pea puree and crispy pancetta. Beats the Doritos we usually tuck in to while drinking the New Zealand white.
Of the other two wines, my favourite was the Klein Zalze Chenin Blanc from Stellenbosch, South Africa. There was a red from the same region too. Things got a little hazy after the third glass but if my memory serves me well then I think it was a Pinot Noir, which went deliciously with the roast duck canapé.
This is the thing with wine tasting. I start off being thoroughly interested in every minor detail about the grape, where it came from, who made it, how they made it and then with each glass the interest dwindles. What’s that? Use the spittoon? That’s like tasting a delicious chocolate cake and then spitting it out. Sacrilege.
So with the whites done, I was looking forward to the roses, I’m not a huge fan of the pink stuff but I’ve been to wine tastings before vowing to go straight to the shop and buy the ones we had sampled. But we didn’t try them on the night which I thought was a bit of a shame. So it was on to the reds, I mentioned the Pinot Noir but there was also a Chablis and a Chateau Neuf Du Pape but the best of the bunch (haha) was the Robert Mondavi Napa Cabernet Sauvignon served with a delicious morsel of rib eye steak. Wines like those just increase my wanting of heading to California to bathe in grapes and sunshine.
To wash down a dessert of tarte tatin was the dessert wine, a French Domaine du Seuil Cerons. Dessert wines confuse me somewhat, hardly anyone drinks them and if I’m having a cheese plate I much prefer a ruby port to wash the brie down with. Mixing sweet apples with a sweet wine shouldn’t work but it did.
In fact, it was bloody delicious so when Giles informed us we could stay around afterwards and finish off the wines I went straight for the smallest bottle (unlike me) of the sweet stuff.
With all wines tasted, all bottles emptied and all samples of the menu from the AA Rosette award-winning Sherlock’s Bar and Grill (pictured above) eaten, we staggered off on to the busy Baker Street to go home. One wine tasting: done. One tipsy boyfriend: done. One wishing that the wine tasting included a stay at the four-star boutique hotel: done.
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Bond Always Had Good Gadgets
By Anastasia Hancock
24 London: the name says it all. 24 London were the team behind the launch of new Soho nightclub, Bond. Half past six on a very sunny weekday evening, and I stepped off busy London streets awash with post-work tipplers and the early evening commuters into the depths of a nightclub in full swing, complete with DJ, cocktails, and a crowd that looked like it had spent the majority of the day spraying on the fake tan and carefully selecting an outfit that would see then through a hard night’s clubbing. So this is what they mean by ‘24 hour London’.
A couple of delicious cocktails later, all made with the signature Cîroc vodka (interestingly this brand distinguishes itself from your everyday vodka because it’s derived from French grapes), and I could almost believe I had somehow stumbled into a continuum, and it was in fact the early hours of the next morning. Until I went to the ladies, that is, and had to pass by the adjoining coffee shop, bright sunlight beaming through the open doors.
The event was to showcase Bond’s new ‘cutting edge technology’, which featured interactive technology designed to give the ‘wow factor’ to any night out. This involved interactive tabletops allowing punters to send over a ‘virtual’ drink to anyone they took a shine to (I’d prefer an actual drink myself, but perhaps the romance of the gesture is lost on me), while staff take pictures of happy clubbers to upload onto the walls of the club itself. Impressive stuff, if vaguely reminiscent of the waiter-less Asian restaurants dotted around the capital which boast similar computerized dining tables which allow you to order food yourself.
The walls really came into their own, though, during a demonstration of what happens when some flush clubber orders a whole bottle of Cîroc vodka. The watching crowd parted as a suitably leggy waitress walked through the crowd bearing aloft the bottle, just as a low budget son et lumière display lit up the club with images of the brand. Subtle it was not.
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Supermarket + Farmers’ Market = Union Market
When I was younger I used to revel in going to the supermarket with Mum for the weekly shop. It was a chore which my two elder sister’s abhorred, so while they were reading Bunty, kissing/throwing stones at boys or playing Cluedo, I went off with Mum to Tesco – where I buy my best clothes.
Back in the day, all meals were planned for the week and they’d be a huge shopping list that the sisters used to add to… but I was the one who was there, “Oh did you want bourbon cream biscuits… I got custard creams instead.” We’d spend an hour and a half snaking our way up and down the aisles until the trolley was full of treats to fill the fridge, freezer and dry store.
Who does that anymore? Who has time for a weekly shop? Who goes to a supermarket and buys a trolley load for the week. I know that if I did it everything would be gone the next day and I’d have a burning hole in my pocket.
These days, I shop on a daily basis. Not because I am a fat porker but because who knows what I’ll want for dinner on Tuesday let alone tonight. Food shopping still excites me, just like when I was a nipper. Perhaps that’s why I do it every day. My favourite place to food shop is Borough Market; the smells, the freshness, the variety and best of all the way you can try before you buy. Can’t do that at a supermarket, or can you?
Enter Union Market. Bringing the best of both foodie worlds together, supermarket and farmers’ market colliding to make the ultimate in the food-shopping arena.
My friend and I went to the opening of Union Market in Fulham Broadway on a quiet Wednesday night. I was expecting some kind of tented area with farmers selling their wares. How I was wrong. Union Market is where TGI Friday’s used to be, just next to Fulham Broadway tube station. Do you remember the dark and dingy box with ‘crazy’ staff racing around in red and white striped shirts? It’s gone. It’s all gone and in is place is something that you have to see to believe. Low ceilings are gone. Cramped tables are gone. Cocktail bar… it’s gone.
In it’s place is a bright, airy space with high ceilings, nay, windowed ceilings that date back to 1905 – Why Mr TGI would ever cover up the beautiful glass atrium is a myth to me. In place of tables and chairs are food stalls. Fresh charcuterie, a temperature controlled cheese room with fromage from the delectable Neal’s Yard, a bakery, a chocolatier, a colourful fruit and vegetable stall, an antipasti deli, a winery and more… all under one roof.
Imagine the delight on my face when I realised that this was no tent, this was a foodie heaven. Everything we could see before us we could sample. Olive? Don’t mind if I do. Parma ham? Yes please. Fresh baked bread? Go on then. Gin and Tonic? Oh if I must.
Ok so in reality you probably won’t be able to charge in to Union Market demanding free gin, which is amazing by the way (oh, hello Miss Smug) but you should try it via buying a bottle of the stuff, the delightful London-made Sipsmiths Dru Gin.
We made our way around the huge 5000 square foot hall (yep, I measured it) visiting every counter probably more than twice but I wouldn’t like to keep count. And I can safely assure you that after great trials and tribulations that the food here is top notch and the variety of foods I ate you can buy here is phenomenal.
From just-made quiches and sandwiches for lunch to huge hunks of meat and all the veggie trimmings for dinner, and because the store opens at 7am for coffee and bakery goods, you can even go for breakfast. There are even take-out foods for if you are on the go, not the greasy sausage roll or limp chicken wing you get at Asda but the likes of stuffed aubergines, chicken thighs stuffed with orange and rosemary or fishcakes rolled in breadcrumbs. I’ll take them all please.
But it wasn’t just the food that impressed us, the people who worked there were incredible. The chocolate provider was no Thornton’s pro; Damian Allsop is a chocolate God whose previous experience includes working as executive pastry chef at Gordon Ramsay’s The Aubergine and Giorgio Locatelli’s Locanda Locatelli. And you could say his chocolate is healthy, that’s what I told myself anyway- while I was shoving barrel-loads in to my mouth, because Allsop uses water (yep good old H20) instead of cream to make his delicious bites of heaven.
As I said before, the cheese comes direct from Neal’s Yard. Now I don’t know who Neal is but he’s sure done a good job of training up the guys who work behind the counter. We got talking to Rachel – a student who applied for the job as cheesemonger without having any real interest in cheese. After a half day course and some extra training here and there she is now the proud owner of cheese knowledge like nothing I have known before. She could tell us how it is made, why they have the texture/flavour/smell they do, where they were made, she probably even knew the cow’s name that made it but we didn’t press her for the information. Daisy, I imagine.
So they know their stuff, they’ve got the right stuff and it will make you stuffed. As we were walking in, the guy on the olive counter joked that they weigh you when you go in and again when you leave, charging you for the extra weight you have added. Thankfully they didn’t. Hello over-the-overdraft – oh how I’ve missed you.
We were told that there is also a state of the art kitchen that will be providing freshly prepared food at the very centre of the store. Although it was so busy for the opening that the throngs of people were probably standing in the spot where the likes of weekend brunches, cream teas, full English breakfasts, light lunches or a glass of wine would be served.
It’s too bad, I’ll have to go back and see what the place looks like on a normal day. I don’t mind, I have to shop every day after all.
With Union Market, shopping just ain’t what it used to be. I’m just looking forward to the next opening and hoping it’s somewhere closer to home. Balham Union Market please.
Mastering the art of dim sum with Angela Malik
Last week I had the pleasure of a hot and sweaty tube ride to Acton. I didn’t realise how far west it actually is, nor did I realise what a quaint little high street it has.
It seems as though things in Acton, home of the first ever Waitrose, are a-changing. Nestled between a quirky pub with hordes of punters outside and a trendy artesian bakery is the Angela Malik school and shop.
Peeping in through the window, what at first looks like a traditional English tea shop selling cakes and picnic sets turns out to be a mix up of the aforementioned with flavours of the eastern world. Then tucked away at the back is a kitchen, ready for beginners or people wanting to learn more about conventional Asian cookery.
And this is where I fitted in, being an absolute novice when it comes to the world of creating dim sum, I was there to meet Angela and cook up a storm in the kitchen. Either that, or make the kitchen look like a storm had hit it.
Angela Malik, an alumni of Leiths, and with valuable experience at Bibendum and Vong, is the lady behind the school. Asian food and teaching people about Asian food is what she is passionate about, so after making her mark as a chartered accountant, she realised that the daily grind of a 9-5 wasn’t for her and in 2005 shut the numbers shop up and started working towards the shop of her dreams. Looks like dreams come true.
After a wander around the little shop checking out the mix of cordials, chutneys, jams, breads, cheese and crackers with the Asian influence of poppadoms,
Indian pesto herbs, spices, noodles and fish sauce, it was time to start cooking.
The initial part of the lesson was a little tedious, talking about the different taste sensations on the tongue… salt, sweet etc. Hmmm, I think I did that at primary school. But it all makes sense when Angela tries to include all of these taste sensations with every mouthful when she cooks. Something that I took for granted before the class started.
Pinafore on and we’re ready to start cooking, all the ingredients are set out in front of us for the first lesson of steamed spiced pork and water chestnut siu mai dumplings. Sounds hard. Is not.
Using a bamboo steamer, something that I’ve had at home for years but never used for fear of setting it on fire, Angela went through firstly mixing together all the ingredients for the fillings then stuffing a small amount in to wonton wrappers then putting in to the steamer over hot water for ten minutes until cooked through. In the words of the meerkat from the adverts – ‘simples.’
Next up, stuffed Gyoza dumplings. The same principal goes with the mixing but we learnt different techniques for sealing the dumplings in gyoza skins then cooking them by frying and then steaming. This does involve throwing water on to hot fat, which should come with a burns warning, but the result is just as delicious as the previous ones.
I’m used to eating at the likes of Yauatcha, Dim T and Ping Pong and what I usually eat at this venues was right in front of me. And I made them! I couldn’t believe how simple it was to make dim sum. OK, so we had a chef extraordinaire there to help us but the thought of going home to recreate the little mouthfuls of deliciousness doesn’t seem so daunting now.
Bamboo basket, here I come.
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Chap Advice: 3 Surefire Ways To Snare A Hottie
By Christian Rose-Day.
So, in honour of our new Hot Girl Top 10 Bars, Clubs, Pubs & Restaurants, here are three supplementary ideas to help a young chap in the pursuit of London’s finest fillies.
(1) Does a ratio of 70:30 women to men sound enticing enough? Then you need to get yourself down to one of the fun Blitz Parties that happen at Shoreditch Studios every month or so (pictured above and right). Every single lady there is not just hot, but vintage hot. Perfect rolled hair, pencil lined calves, thick red lipstick and more polka dots than you could shake a stick at. Plus, you get to wear a whole tub of Brylcreem and sport a genuine moustache. Guaranteed good times, and you don’t need to be a mathematicians or statisticians to realise that this is a no-brainer in the numbers game.
(2) Wheeler's of St James's, the Italian restaurant masterminded by celebrity chef Marco Pierre White and hotelier Sir Rocco Forte, has recently opened its bar to non-diners. Nothing too sexy about that, you might assume. That is until you find out that an actual real life model agency hosts drinks here every other Wednesday, attended by actual real life models. See you Wednesday then!
(3) A good mate of mine passed this little tip onto me after successfully completing it himself. It’s crafty, but it works, allegedly. You need to get yourself along to one of the larger, more established gay nights at places like Shadow Lounge, Heaven, or Fire, preferably with one or two of your gay mates. You need to make sure you go on a night which welcomes girls (or faghags, for want of a better word) because they will have their guard down and you’ll find it really easy to chat with them. They will then see you as a ‘challenge’ to be converted and if you play the hetero-curious cards right, c’est voila!
Images courtesy of professional photographer, Julian Dodd.
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Farringdon’s New Lounge Bar
By Leo Owen
“No matter where you are in London it takes at least half an hour to get anywhere,” a rule I recall being informed of when I first moved to the city and one that was proved incorrect for the first time this evening. Entering the postcode for Eastside Inn into Google Maps I am pleasantly surprised when I realise it's a mere 15 minute walk from my current abode and a direct one at that.
Virtually arriving as the celebrations kick off, I am amazed by how busy the venue is already. To the right of the main restaurant is the entrance to this new, more intimate, light and airy lounge bar – a long thin room heavy on the wood, mirrors and soft lighting all clad out in mulberry and black. Naturally gravitating to the bar, little sis and I begin with the house speciality cocktail, the Amelie. Unfortunately, there's only one “mixologist” (strangely reminiscent of a more adept Manuel), so the wait for drinks is noticeable, but then this is the launch night and he has his work cut out. I'm certain it wont be like this every night. Occupying myself, surveying the room, I am amused by the unnaturally high number of suited men clutching pretty coloured cocktails in martini glasses, some looking a tad self-conscious.
Never one blessed for my ability to sip a drink, my Bacardi, strawberry, cucumber, honey and Prosecco concoction has slyly slipped itself down my throat within minutes and I'm eager for the next. These things are delish! Upping the stakes seems like a good game plan, so to save hassling the chap behind the bar too often, we order two drinks each. A Butterfly Martini, Smokey Rose, Goa and Jungle Fever are among the deceptively strong culprits that later leave me wishing I'd stuck to one drinks order at a time; The arrival of a monstrously huge bottle of Rose, which is making the rounds, makes decisions about what to sip next even more tempting.
There are a few tasty but scarce canapés circling the room, and we sample soft goats cheese and rabbit on French toast, shredded pork croquettes, vegetable spring rolls and spinach cheese pockets. I begin to wish I could eat more of them as I sink lower into my comfortable window seat.
Eastside Inn’s new addition is aptly categorised a “lounge bar” (background music quietly discernible over the natter of chatter). As the minutes pass, I’ve certainly become a lounger and am pleased to stumble, grinning, into the cool air and begin the uncharacteristically brief journey home towards my bed.
Spain V The Netherlands, The Final: The Ultimate World Cup Pub (bar & restaurant) Crawl
By Anthony Lord
So it's over and done with for another four years. And apologies to all those loyal readers out there for only getting the final blog up a couple of days after the final match, but these last 30 days have taken their toll. It's taken me over a day and a half to recover from one of the best sporting experiences of my life.
It's apt that I get to blog about the final of the 2010 World Cup for the Fluid World Cup Pub Crawl seeing that I was the one who kicked off the binge in what seems ages ago, but it was only 11 June. Since then many great venues have been visited, hundreds of pints supped, and many a South African themed snack munched on in the name of 'research'.
As a South African, that opening game for me was a biggie, but alas the The Horatia didn't deliver. In contrast, The Walkabout at Temple was pumping for the final. The story starts three weeks back when my housemate and me ventured out on a Sunday to watch Brazil's final group game. We'd heard the The Walkabout at Temple was popular with Brazilians, and the rumours were right. ‘Twas a good night. That night we met a couple of lovely Spanish ladies, and we partied Brazilian style together. But they reckoned the Spanish can party better. We were sceptical, so agreed to meet up for the Spain's next game. And boy were they right.
Fast forward to the day of the final, and a promise made that if Spain got to the final, we'd watch with our Spanish beauties, wherever they wanted to watch. And guess what, they chose The Walkabout at Temple. We got there after 5.30pm and there was already a queue. But admittedly that's where the party started. The Spaniards in London were up for this, chanting Matadors, vuvuzelas, and even the passing cars hooting.
It was packed in the main bar, so we went to the smaller, second bar. Nice and cool for this heat wave, no waiting at the bar, easy access to the toilets, and to be honest, sure there wasn't the atmosphere as there was in the main bar, but the actual game wasn't much to talk about so where we were was perfect.
When Spain scored, and when the match ended, mayhem erupted. We rushed to the main bar singing songs I didn't understand; I just wanted to join in. After the trophy was handed over we went outside to continue the party. Embankment had come to a standstill; cars struggled to get down the road.
We decided to go have a look at Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly, and I'm glad we did. Both were heaving with jubilant Spanish. Swimming in fountains and climbing up statues, might as well have been in Madrid.
All in all, a great way to end a great tournament. It was also fitting to end Fluid London’s Ultimate World Cup Pub Crawl in what is probably the best venue to watch sport in London. You are always guaranteed enjoying whatever game you are watching with fans from the countries involved. And that is what London is all about.
Bring on Fluid Brazil!
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Camden’s New Roof Terrace
Words by Greg Hall. Images by Julian Dodd
If Al Gore were to jump off the tube at Mornington Crescent looking for a good time
in his glad rags, it would probably warm the cockles of his heart to know he can schmooze on the recycled roof terrace at KOKO, one of London’s prime hotspots.
In fact, Mr. Gore would find the launch of the Lounge Bar’s outdoor area to be a convenient truth if he fancies some fresh air to go with his drink. As a general idea; the creation of the patio area makes some welcome room from the crowded, dimly lit, yet lavish lounge. However the environmental twist has made this move much more benevolent. The use of regenerated rubber tiling (made from car and truck tyres) has without doubt never been placed in such a funky setting. I’m also sure that it had never been adorned with such a diverse display of flamboyant footwear as it was the other Friday night.
KOKO doesn’t stand alone in having eco-aware policies. Numerous venues in London are following this fashion. Some more progressively than others; Surya has its own solar and wind turbine system and is literally powered by the dancing feet of clubbers. The phrase ‘dance till you drop’ has never had such monumental ramifications.
But getting back to KOKO; in what has become a splendid British summer, this inaugural al fresco event held at altitude was tinged with opulent imagery as a balmy night drew in over the capital. The born again balcony gleamed under the memorable KOKO sign, as the prominent haze of purple lighting shimmered on the wondrous white walls, bouncing down on us rooftop revellers while we overlooked the ever constant ebb and flow of the lumbering urban landscape. So yeah, it was a pretty decent place to have a beer.
On an aesthetically understated, sleek veranda, the atmospherics were average. However, things livened up in the adjacent Lounge Bar as the handball hoopla and penalty shootout drama of the World Cup Quarter final between Ghana and Uruguay broke out like an intense rash.
Passers by would have heard the groans of oohs and ahhs in harmonious unison from the top of KOKO as Africa’s popular Black Stars were blighted by the Gods of football. Their spot kick demise to the South Americans was a process of elimination that we English are too well accustomed.
It may not have been as riveting as the gig nights that KOKO is well known for, but it’s hard not to have fun in this luxurious labyrinth. I think a shout out has to go out to my friend Luke’s tattoos. Emblazoned across his forearms in decadent Roman lettering and numerals are his name and date of birth, and no he doesn’t have amnesia. They always seem to attract attention from randoms. I have dubbed these beauties; ‘The ICE BREAKERS’. At KOKO, just like on many night outs, they encouraged banter filled small talk which always tends to be fruitful. On this occasion the fruits bared were shots on the house and an invite to a private party upstairs. All in all this typifies the sort of enjoyment one can have in KOKO, as it attracts a laidback, upbeat youthful crowd.
We should all coco that the environment is a pressing prevalent issue. KOKO certainly knows it, though the primary aim for them is to provide an entertaining evening out.
Platform Cider Tasting
Pacing outside WHSmith in London Bridge Station, I can't help but feel the irony of the text message I sent some 40 minutes earlier, warning my now very late date, that I myself was running a few minutes over. I'm starting to worry I'll miss the highlight of the start of a busy evening but thankfully Kirsty arrives and we rush, just making the beginning of the presentation and cider tasting.
As a huge cider fan and a bit of a self-confessed “cider snob” (I hear mistaken cries of “Surely that doesn't exist!?”), I almost pulverised my mousepad hitting “send” in response to the press release. Luckily for me, farmer Barney Butterfield produces a mouth-watering range of ciders and co-owns Platform where some of these gems are served up. Proud of recently being awarded best Scrumpy at the CAMRA awards (Campaign For Real Ale), Barney is keen to explain the cider-making process and some of its history, in order to dispel some of the myths surrounding one of the oldest, most natural tipples.
Ushered upstairs into a room with a farmhouse feel, we circle Barney, sitting in small groups around tables with swilling vats, glasses and water. An impressive wine rack holder takes up most of the back wall but it's the bottles on the table behind Barney that most interest me.
Our first taste is of the Devon Scrumpy, fermented in modern conditions using the most expensive way of pressing apples, this is a clean simple milky honey-coloured cider. Vastly preferable to the average carbonated shite found in most pubs, the Scrumpy may be 0.5% stronger but isn't a patch on the Old Kirton.
Barney warns us that, being straw-pressed, it might not be to everyone’s taste and he's not wrong to put out the disclaimers as it's certainly an acquired taste. Having done the rounds at CAMRA festivals, the artificial toxic colour reminiscent of an orange Panda Pop doesn't perturb me and the sharp acidic initial taste with a stomach-rotting vinegar bite that inexplicably turns to sweetness is bizarrely satisfying. It seems both my companion and I are the 1:10 people Barney normally finds appreciative of this strange beverage – perhaps a clue to the source of our friendship.
Suitably wooed, Barney pulls out the perception-challenger, the Vintage “2 Year Strong Cider”. Fermented in old rum barrels with smells reminiscent of Whisky and the Caribbean, at 8% it's smoother than the previous offering and more of a treat cider, served in a screw top wine bottle.
The final two ciders are more familiar fare for the stereotypical dirty white cider drinker but only in that they are fizzy. Shaky Bridge is a filtered Scrumpy sweetened with sugar that smells and tastes like pure apple juice or Appletiser, while Redvers Buller is a 6% blend of the straw-pressed and Vintage, smelling of Refreshers and aiming to please less adventurous cider drinkers.
Barney recounts sampling 130 ciders when judging at the 11 County Cider Show and we're suddenly worried; our empty stomachs are no match for his potentially lethal produce and as much as I want more, I need food – luckily, downstairs an array of food especially devised to complement the drinks awaits.
Leaving the farm, we enter a trendy chilled-out zone, our speedy entry somehow concealed; Zero 7 perfectly harmonisers with plush but simple décor, combining a luxurious long wooden bar, comfy chairs, a kitsch frieze, giant disco ball and inventive light shades – old bird cages covered in mesh jersey fabric. Being a fashion enthusiast, Kirsty is particularly taken with the lights, recalling modelling for Henry Moore's family some years earlier at Kew Gardens wearing a similar material, in order to appear mummy-like.
A chatty vegan hands out delicious cocktail sausages stuffed with mash, mini cheeseburgers and pork and apple sandwiches. Approving of Kirsty's distaste for meat, she swings the bubble and squeak, sun-dried tomato crackers, fried courgettes and frozen apple crush our way and we're soon supping on cider again. Clearly proud of his produce, and rightly so, Barney introduces himself and an animated discussion begins about how cider is defined and the need for reclassification.
By the end of the evening Barney knows more about worldwide cider availabilities and I finally understand why the producers of mainstream ciders liked Strongbow, Magners and Bulmers push for their tasteless ciders to be served chilled. Leaving Platform for the next item on our ambitious agenda, having tasted Barney's cider range, I almost wish I'd been born a West Country worker with half my salary paid in cider.
For more information, check out www.sandfordorchards.co.uk.
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Spain V Germany: The Ultimate World Cup Pub (bar & restaurant) Crawl
By Cat McGovern
I’ve often walked past Bistro K, power walking my way to Hummingbird Bakery and Snog at South Kensington. I’ve always been intensely intrigued but never actually ventured in, until now. Fortunately tonight I’m watching the football here, so I can see what really goes on within. Tables sit on the terrace and overlook the busy Old Brompton Road with a huge white parasol protecting customers from the elements. Pushing open the glass doors, we enter into a sleek and surprisingly very big venue with beautiful front windows that make it easy to people-watch whilst eating.
We go to our table, which is right in front of the 50-inch plasma screen, and order some wine. I try to pronounce it and fail, so instead feebly point at it on the menu and hope for the best. The boyfriend scoffs, “Well, it’s Gewürztraminer obviously.”
“Riiiight. OK, yes, that please.”
It’s quite an unusual wine, hectic in flavour and aroma. Lychee, kiwi and honey scented, almost like a dessert wine, it really is an interesting tipple.
When the bread is placed on our table, I let the boyfriend chomp it because everyone knows that if you eat bread on an empty stomach, you fill up too quickly. I watch him take delight in every morsel. I’m jealous, so I cave, and take some myself. You know a place is going to be good when the bread is spectacular. Whoops, just got through three bits, better slow down.
Our starters arrive just in time before I’m given the chance to eat all the bread. I’ve gone with crab salad, whereas the boyfriend has a cucumber gazpacho. Both are very professionally presented and I dig in eagerly. The salad is light with a tang of acidity in the dressing. The smooth avocado mousse blends excellently with the crab. The juxtaposition of the delicate flaked crab with the crunchy vegetables is sublime. I peer over at the gazpacho longingly. The boyfriend takes pity on me and offers me a bit. Essentially it’s a cucumber soup with ribbons of cucumber and a horseradish cream; a perfect summer dish.
3 minutes into the match and there’s a pitch invader. ‘Wa-hay!’ shouts the boyfriend.
The mains are presented to us without much time to breathe: organic poached salmon and stuffed chicken breast. The salmon tastes so pure, it’s quite simply the best salmon I have ever had. Already great on its own, the addition of the hollandaise really brings the fish alive. Their accompaniments, crushed potatoes served in a brass pot, are amazing. The chives, butter, and sea salt make for a great potato treat.
I’m not even three bites into my main and the boyfriend’s wine, which goes with his chicken, is placed on the table. I say placed, I mean poured all over my back and my main. And it’s red wine. I am sufficiently soaked from my hair to my hips and they don’t even have hand dryers! I soldier on and a replacement main is brought out, thank goodness it’s so wonderful or I might’ve walked out in a huff. Unfortunately, during this kerfuffle, the boyfriend has eaten his main. Greedy so and so, but I try some of the fancy sauce that he’s left behind: a foie gras foam that is rich and indulgent, two things I really like.
I look up occasionally to see what’s going on in the football, and the answer is: not much. The boyfriend agrees and digs deep into his strawberry panna cotta, served in a martini glass. It’s very sweet with a layer of strawberry on top and a fluffy vanilla mousse beneath. The second dessert, the raspberry soufflé, is not as impressive as the other dishes. Although it is cooked perfectly, I don’t think the tartness of the raspberry is fitting for a soufflé.
By half time, we’ve already eaten our whole meal. All served speedily with little time to contemplate. Fortunately for me, all dishes have been very light because normally by dessert I am crying for the food to stop coming. But in this case, I am content.
An Irish coffee cocktail somehow makes its way to our table and, as I’m not a fan of coffee, I politely take a sip and subtly move it over to the boyfriend.
As we’re finished and I’m more than a bit wet, we decide to head off and catch the second half at home. Hopefully it will be more exciting this half, let’s wait and see.
Proud Cabaret’s New Look
By Faye Armstrong
Is it considered weird to exit a party without broadly announcing your departure? I was informed by my friend Claire that my stealthy disappearance from such an event a few weeks back was seen as socially odd and had been a topic of conversation ever since.
In my opinion, reluctance to make a big deal out of leaving a party is common. Those who practice it wish not to create an air of mystique, but are rather just abiding by the assumption that none of the assembled gives a hoot about whether they stay or go, which renders any goodbye completely unnecessary. To loudly state you’re leaving with a comprehensive goodbye presumes that others care about your presence. For those who are the charismatic epicentre of a party, whose absence would be felt, this may be a truth, but for those of us who loiter on the sidelines it makes sense to make a peripheral exit if you only play a peripheral role.
And so, batting back-and-forth our ideas of what is considered appropriate party etiquette, Claire and I entered into yet another minefield of rules; this time not a friend’s birthday party but a showcase evening at one of London’s most treasured supper-clubs: Proud Cabaret.
Decadence at it’s very best, Proud Cabaret is a portal to a 1920s speakeasy and makes a point of dragging its guests out of their 21st Century London stupor into a sea of tassel shaking burlesque, cabaret, and jazz.
The showcase evening had basically been devised to show off the redesigned venue (what’s that they say? If you’ve got it, flaunt it?) as well as its principal for being: the updated entertainment.
I was seated front and centre (not my usual tangential spot) and as the feather yielding entertainment came at me I had to war with my primal instinct to commence flight. Staying glued to my chair, I was eventually glad to be so close, minus the feather-to-face incident.
Close proximity meant that I missed not a second of the show: hula, en pointe burlesque, scarily good dancing from the Globe Girls, and a drag queen cabaret act who performed Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’ better than the former Destiny’s Child star herself.
I managed to divert my eyes from the spotlight antics and take note of the venue itself. It’s dark and it’s obtrusively furtive. It’s a strange exercise in nostalgia for the days of Prohibition and yet it’s nothing like how a true 1920s speakeasy would be. The sought-after hideouts of that time would have attempted to be as inconspicuous as possible; a few chairs, a few tables, perhaps a few posters on the walls. These places didn’t want to be found, didn’t want to be loud. Proud is loud, and proudly so. It’s intemperate, with luxurious purple velveted booths, an expensive (well it looked expensive) wooden floor and heavy floor-to-ceiling drapes. The white linen tablecloths showed no sign of creases and the heavily framed mirrors reflected images of wrought iron screens and imposing candlesticks. The surroundings were as spectacular as the show itself.
A few glasses of champagne and more than my fair share of canapé tasters later, and it was time to leave. As growing up is all about building an arsenal of graceful moves, and no longer wanting my personality to be illegible to the world, I decided there was no other alternative but to smile awkwardly, wave my hand in a rhapsodic gesture, and mouth the word ‘bye’ to the congregated Proud staff. My reward was a jumble of sentiments encouraging me to “come again” and “don’t stay away too long”. I may never be the centre of attention but the nice Proud folk certainly believe that the peripherals - and all who occupy its space -are part of the bigger picture.
Bringing BYOB up to date
By Kelly Parsons
Bring Your Own Booze: conjure up an image of the local curry house? Those associations will soon be consigned to the restaurant dustbin of history if wine lovers, Khadine and Christopher Rose, have their way.
They have persuaded some of London’s leading restaurants – 50 at the latest count – to sign up to their recently-launched brainchild, BYO wine club, and allow wine enthusiasts to bring their own special bottles for no, or a substantially reduced, corkage fees.
Restaurants already on their growing list include perennial favourites like Angelus, L’Oranger, Le Cafe du Marche, Wodka, Boisdale, and Le Cafe Anglais, to top Michelin-rated eateries such as Tom Aikens (pictured here), Apsleys at The Lanesborough and Rasoi Vineet Bhatia.
For restaurants, listing on byowineclub.com is free, but by invitation only, and they must meet the club’s high quality standards. The founders expect to have over one hundred participating across London by the end of 2010.
“My husband and I were thinking about how wonderful it would be to bring a favourite bottle of wine from our collection to dinner at some of London’s best restaurants. After speaking with a few restaurant industry friends, BYO Wine Club was born,” explains co-founder Khadine Johnson Rose, who has a background in the drinks business, having worked as a brand ambassador for Remy Martin and several Diageo brands.
While the club is undeniably aimed at reducing the costs of eating and drinking out, it is a far cry from the traditional concept of sticking a bottle of cheap plonk or a few tins of beer in a carrier bag and rocking up to a low end restaurant which can’t afford an alcohol licence. This new take on BYO is aimed at diners who want to drink fine wines but resent the significant mark-ups charged by decent eateries, which often mean they will drink far better wine at home than they do when out for a meal. To that end, annual membership costs just under £100 a year, although there is currently a special launch rate of £75.
So what’s in it for the restaurants? Surely wine is one of their biggest money-spinners? Clearly the impact of the economic downturn has forced many to get a bit more creative in an attempt to fill empty tables. “Participating restaurants can attract and retain wine enthusiasts - a high-spending restaurant-going audience,” says Rose. Some venues also impose restrictions in their listings, including a corkage fee (typically between £5 and £15), minimum spend, weekdays only and other limitations.
The club also provides a set of clear etiquette tips and common sense do’s and don’ts for members to abide by. It’s absolutely forbidden to bring homemade wine or boxed wine, beer, cider, alcopops or spirits. Other recommendations include discreetly presenting your bottle of wine to the Maître d' or wait staff, preferably in the tote provided to members on joining, or at the very least discarding any carrier bags or other packaging before entering the restaurant and presenting the bottle on its own.
Rose also says members should endeavor to bring wines on par with at least some of the wines on the restaurant's own list. “If you feel the need to bring a truly inexpensive bottle, it's best to do so at a comparably inexpensive restaurant,” she says. She suggests that, where possible, members should avoid bringing exactly the same wine that is on the restaurant's list. “Also, consider offering the sommelier a taste of your wine - it's just a nice thing to do,” she adds.
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SMS4PC grow the business in Europe
Today officially launched the new service SMS4PC in the international market. The service makes it possible to send SMS from your PC to many recipients at once, making it easier for companies in various industries to communicate with their staff and their customers via their mobile phones.
Sales of SMS4PC is already underway and is growing by about 30% per month, and has customers all over Europe. The business concept is simple: By highlighting the benefits of communicating via text messages over e-mails and phone calls will increase sales. The service is used in email clients like Microsoft Outlook, which is part of the interface or in a standalone "app" from the computer.
The first SMS service in the Google Chrome App Store
During the first quarter of 2011, SMS4PC, which is now app-based (Ie. you download and install an application locally on your computer) to develop an intelligent cloud service. Integration with Google Chrome and Google App Markets are also planned, and the service is expected a bright future.
It is the Swedish mobile company Mobispine that develops and sells the service SMS4PC. CEO Joakim Hilj already has a number of successful projects behind him - including the co-founder of the largest consultant broker for IT professionals, eWork Scandinavia AB, and Mobispine AB together with serial entrepreneur Joacim Boivie.
"The type of service that SMS4PC represents is not unique to the market", says Joakim Hilj, CEO of Mobispine. "But our offering and market strategy is unique. Our target customers are industries where the safe and rapid transfer of information is paramount. SMS is still the single most widely used mobile application and we have taken advantage of that when we developed the service, " he continues.
Now also company bundles
Operators previously integrated Mobispine SMS platforms are Vodafone, Telenor, TeliaSonera and Tele2. With the launch today SMS4PC further developed from being merely a product of the major operators' package deals to become a full-scale stand-alone services that are sold directly to users via the website www.sms4pc.com.
Customers who already use SMS4PC are primarily companies in the IT, financial, staffing and transportation industries.
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The Celebrated Thanksgiving Ape
Posted on November 26, 2015 by Mike Glyer
Intro by James H. Burns: For a generation of New Yorkers and indeed, folks all around the country, Thanksgiving became not just about family and friends, and the Macy’s parade (and football!), and early dreams of mistletoe, but a journey alongside Carl Denham, and Ann Darrow, and Captain Englehorn, through what remains one of the finest celluloid fantasies….!
(Besides, it’s also a chance to remember, again, my good friend, Chris Steinbrunner, who helped program that Thanksgiving wonderment, and was responsible for all so much else in the worlds of imagination!)
A Trilogy of Kong by Mike Glyer: James H. Burns’ trilogy of fine articles at The Thunder Child recalls the era when a New York City TV station persuaded whole families to park in front of the set on Thanksgiving and watch King Kong for the zillionth time.
King Kong in the City: A Thanksgiving Tradition: Burns tells about his father’s affinity for the famous ape movie, and his personal memory of discovering the film on Saturday morning TV in the Sixties. The station was New York’s channel 9 (the former WOR-TV) and in the next decade it broadcast the movie every Thanksgiving, before long adding the sequel, Son of Kong, and 1949’s Mighty Joe Young, another stop-motion animation picture from Kong’s creators. The annual tradition lasted until 1985.
Chris Steinbrunner: A Renaissance of Fantasy: Chris Steinbrunner, an executive with WOR-TV, is according to Burns “one of the great unsung heroes of fandom, who helped run many of his era’s conventions, was an Edgar-award winning author, wrote one of the very first books on science fiction and fantasy movies, published many books (with Centaur Press)… and produced what may well be a lost 007 special!…” Burns says, “My old pal was a pretty neat guy, and a while ago, I was stunned that save for a short Wikipedia entry, there was virtually none of Chris’ history on the web.” Articles like this surely will keep him from being forgotten.
One of the great times Chris and I were together came early one morning in 1983 when we ran into each other high atop the Empire State Building, gathered on the Observation Deck for a special press party commemorating King Kong’s fiftieth anniversary. With the men in suits and the ladies elegantly attired, champagne was poured as we looked towards the bi-planes in the distance, booked especially for the event, that buzzed as though in a dream, above the shores of Manhattan.
When someone asked Chris about Kong Thursdays, he replied, as he almost always did, with a quick pause, a sudden smile, and said: “King Kong on Thanksgiving…? Whoever would have thought of such an odd idea?”
Meanwhile, At the Empire State Building: The third installment is about the Empire State Building and Fay Wray.
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Tim Walters on November 27, 2015 at 5:58 am said:
I am glad James H. Burns’ excellent “King Kong in the City” trilogy remains available on The Thunder Child website.
The episode of MAUDE that Jim references in part one is “Vivian’s Party.” Maude’s husband Walter (Bill Macy) is ecstatic when he learns Fay Wray may be attending a party hosted by their friends next door. Walter claims to be the “only man in the world who has seen KING KONG 153 times.”
Coincidentally, the MAUDE segment originally aired on a Monday night in November 1974, just ten days prior to Thanksgiving!
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After 3+ years on this internet mission, what have I learned?
The posts today kinda wrap it up - a wrap-up on the stock market and
Our Exhausted American Mediocracy - By Victor Davis Hanson:
An excellent synopsis for DaLimbrawLibrary - and thank you, Sir VDH!
And my own comment to add - these self-professing 'brilliants' teach our kids, design our cars, provide our healthcare, control our speech, steal our heritage, restrict or force our associations - and a hundred other benefits which they so richly endow us with - all with our tax $$$$$ or the magical outpourings from that wonderful creation of years gone by - known as DaFed!
Will DaBlessings ever end?
God, I sure hope so!
Happy New Year Folks - and hang on!
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Our Exhausted American Mediocracy - By Victor Davis Hanson
The unlikely 2016 election of Donald Trump—the first president without either prior political or military office—was a repudiation of the American “aristocracy.” By “rule of the best” I mean the ancien régime was no longer understood to suggest wealth and birth (alone), but instead envisioned itself as a supposed national meritocracy of those with proper degrees, and long service in the top hierarchies of government, media, blue-chip law firms, Wall Street, high tech, and academia.
The 2016 election and refutation of the ruling class did not signal that those without such educations and qualifications were de facto better suited to direct the country. Instead, the lesson was that the past record of governance and the current stature of our assumed best and brightest certainly did not justify their reputations or authority, much less their outsized self-regard. In short, instead of being a meritocracy, they amount to a mediocracy, neither great nor awful, but mostly mediocre.
This mediocracy is akin to late 4th-century B.C. Athenian politicians, the last generation of the Roman Republic, the late 18th-century French aristocracy, or the British bipartisan elite of the mid-1930s—their reputations relying on the greater wisdom and accomplishment of an earlier generation, while they remain convinced that their own credentials and titles are synonymous with achievement, and clueless about radical political, economic, military, and social upheavals right under their noses.
Remember the “new normal”? Our economic czars had simply decided anemic economic growth was the best Americans could expect and that 3 percent annualized GDP growth was out of the realm of possibility. Big government incompetence combined with Wall Street buccaneerism had almost melted down the economy in 2008. Recent presidents had doubled the debt—twice.
Few could explain how recent agreements such as the Paris Climate Accord or Iran deal could ever have achieved their stated aims, much less were in America’s interest. War planners had not translated interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya into strategic advantage—much less lasting victory—and never offered reasons to be in such places that appealed to half the country.
Most elites had assumed the deindustrialized red-state interior was doomed to a sort of preordained and irreversible decline, much of it supposedly self-induced. In more candid moments, elites jested that red-state losers might be better replaced by new immigrants, both legal and illegal.
Our ruling classes either could not or would not defend American traditions and civilization in our colleges, in our government, and in our popular culture—and they were increasingly accepting of the globalist consensus that America had a flawed past requiring some sort of reparatory future.
Our leadership accepted a world in which America’s misdemeanors were the source of global outrage, while China’s felonies were largely exempt from criticism. China’s global hegemony was seen as assumed and fated. Efforts to derail it were near inane or retrograde.
Most Americans figured that those who lectured them on television, in op-eds, and throughout popular culture about guns, open borders, green mandates, fossil fuels, and the public schools, had the money, desire, and clout to live in desirable neighborhoods, sometimes behind walls, with ample taste for fine cars, jet trips, and private academies for their children.
Earned Hypocrisies?
The charge of hypocrisy against the elite was considered juvenile—given that exemptions were needed for the ruling class to serve us all the better.
How could Al Gore save us from our carbon emissions without his private jet? How could Nancy Pelosi craft drastic climate change legislation without flying to a Kona resort over the holidays?
How could Eric Holder stop prejudice without a jet junket to the Belmont Stakes with his kids? How could our Malibu elite nobly sermonize about their loyal gardeners and dutiful maids without walled estates?
How could Silicon Valley wizards pontificate about the evils of charter schools and the need for teacher unions, without private academies for their own? And how exactly could the heads of our intelligence agencies and justice department officials track down the crimes of Donald Trump without committing greater ones themselves?
Much of the Trump agenda, although nominally embraced by the Republican Party after the July 2016 convention, was largely crafted in antithesis to the bipartisan status quo that either could not or would not end illegal immigration, secure the border, call China out on warping world trade, seek greater reciprocity with allies, curtail optional military interventions, massively deregulate, expand fossil fuel production, and return the federal judiciary to a constitutional and constructionist framework.
If such a nontraditional agenda had been advanced by an “acceptable” outsider or billionaire such as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, or Michael Bloomberg, it would have been seen as eccentric but nevertheless not blasphemous. However, Donald Trump advertised himself as a renegade whose own notorious apostasy was inseparable from his message, and who felt no allegiance to the political protocols and customs that had prepped past presidents. Trump’s often crude demeanor at times seemed to suggest that he was not just interested in revoking the results of status quo policymaking, but the very premises of the status quo itself.
It is easy to suggest that much of the unprecedented hatred shown Trump is the poisoned fruit of his alleged toxic persona. And yet it is hard to calibrate whether any president has faced, from the moment of his election, the level of venom shown Trump by both political parties, and by the elite media, and the centers of progressivism on Wall Street, in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington, and New York.
A country that once banned for life a clown from a state fair for wearing in puerile fashion a Barack Obama mask now ritually talks of impeaching, committing to an institution, overthrowing, or beating, burning, decapitating, blowing up, and shooting the elected president.
Certainly, we have never seen anything like the constant anti-Trump media hatred, the efforts since the election to remove Trump, in slow-motion coup style, by seeking to warp the Electoral College, to invoke the 25th Amendment and the Emoluments Clause, to unleash special counsel Robert Mueller with an unlimited budget, a toadyish media, a team of partisan lawyers and investigators, and prior help from the top echelons at the Obama Department of Justice, the FBI, the National Security Council, and the CIA.
The argument of these elites and their institutions has been not just that Trump is incompetent or inexperienced, but that he is corrupt, perverse, treasonous, criminally minded, and to such a degree that the results of the 2016 should be overturned before the 2020 election. And such an end to Trump’s elected governance is justified not merely by his toxic person, but also by the racist, sexist, nativist, xenophobic Americans—the counterfeit half of the country—who elected him.
A Case Against Trump?
If these arguments of the American aristocracy were valid, we would have to accept three arguments of the best and brightest:
1) There is a clear moral, legal and popular prerogative to remove Trump.
Yet for all the efforts of the professional politicians, the lockstep media, and the elite academic, legal, and financial communities, there is neither a rational nor legal basis to remove Trump. Instead, he enjoys about the general level of support as did many past presidents at this juncture in their administrations. He has survived his first midterm in better fashion than did either Bill Clinton or Barack Obama who were both later easily reelected.
No one has yet argued that the tenures of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, or Bill Clinton—still enshrined in the progressive pantheon—were marked by less crudity. The record of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, General Services Administration, IRS, CIA, and FBI between January 2009 and January 2017 does not qualify as “scandal free.”
It’s unlikely Trump will be convicted of any crimes as outlined by the Mueller collusion investigation. It is more likely he will prove to be the most investigated, probed, and audited president in history. And even more likely, top officials at the Justice Department, CIA, and FBI will be facing eventual legal exposure for unethical and illegal efforts to damage the Trump candidacy, transition, and presidency.
2) Trump has failed.
For all the perceived chaos and disorder in the Trump Administration, it certainly has so far achieved a stronger economic record than did his predecessors, whether adjudicated by GDP growth, unemployment, energy production, or deregulation.
Even a shaky stock market is still much higher than it was when Trump took office. Likewise, abroad, for all Trump’s supposed unpopularity, privately most Americans and many so-called experts agree that the Iran Deal was fatally flawed, the Paris Accord was a charade, the “Palestinian” problem was ossified, a radically new policy toward China was overdue, the Pentagon needed to be recalibrated, and old American partnerships were in dire need of recalibration from NATO to NAFTA.
3) There is a logical and systematic antithesis to Trumpism.
If so, will either primary or general election candidates run on open borders being preferable to secure ones? Eliminating ICE is better than maintaining it? Defense cuts are necessary? Far more gun control? Medicare for all?
There is too much American natural gas and oil production? The economy would be better off with higher unemployment and slower growth? Food stamps need to be increased not reduced by over 3 million recipients?
We are too harsh on Iran and too accommodating of Israel? Taxes are too low, government too small, and entitlements too few? Did Trump appoint too many unqualified strict constructionist judges? Were John Bolton and Mike Pompeo incompetent?
Whom Are We To Trust?
As we look to our celebrities, billionaires, intellectuals and senior statesmen, a sort of American pantheon, do we to find sources of reassurance in Hollywood, perhaps in the statements and behavior of the last two years of Cher, Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, or Madonna? Do the Oscars, Tonys, and Emmys showcase the expertise, competence, and professionalism of our entertainers?
Do the recent statements of the elite marginalized—a LeBron James, Alice Walker, or Tamika Mallory—remind us to reset our ethical bearings, or do they instead suggest that intersectionality can at times exempt, rather than serve as an impediment to, anti-Semitism? Has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shown us superior erudition and common sense?
Perhaps Harvard, now facing allegations that it systematically discriminated on the basis of race, can reassure us of progressive values in these tough times? Can its first Native American professor Elizabeth Warren help us endure Trump? Or maybe Google, Facebook and Twitter can show us the way to protect our civil liberties, free expression, and non-partisanship?
Do the heads of our major entertainment and news organizations, a Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves, offer sources of refuge in these supposedly dark Trump years? Have trusted journals like The New Republic or Der Spiegel been reliable beacons of truth?
Perhaps we can look to the elite of the media, to the careers of Dan Rather, Brian Williams, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, or Mark Halperin, or stellar writers such as Leon Wieseltier, Glenn Thrush, or Garrison Keillor to help us recover our moral bearings. Could a wide array of our best intellectuals, politicians, and activists help find our way home in in the age of Trump, perhaps truth tellers such as Doris Kearns Goodwin, Al Franken, or Dianne Feinstein?
Could not Joe Biden weigh in on the evils of plagiarism, Cory Booker cite the dangers of fabulism, Harry Reid warn of racial stereotyping, or Kamala Harris on the perils of religious bigotry?
Maybe the elites of government will be our touchstones. Trump critic, James Comey, the director of the FBI, has told Congress on 245 occasions during a single appearance that he does not know or cannot remember the answers when asked questions.
The cable television critic and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had lied under oath to Congress and fabulously claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was largely secular.
John Brennan, another cable television consultant and the former CIA head, has trumped Clapper by lying twice to Congress. Brennan also claimed that jihad was little more than a personal introspective religious journey. Are these our watchtowers of sobriety in these dark times?
Both Hillary and Bill Clinton, by education, careers, and service, are advertisements of the ruling class. Yet, she was the godmother of the disastrous Libyan incursion, knee-deep in scandal from cattlegate to Benghazi to Uranium One, and hired a foreign national during the 2016 election to find dirt on her political opponent through the paid services of foreign sources. Bill was impeached and somehow ended up worth well over $100 million largely by selling influence on the premise he and his spouse would one day be back in the White House. The Clinton Foundation is synonymous with corruption.
So do the most acerbic critics of Trump and iconic members of our aristocracy inspire confidence?
Former National Security advisor Susan Rice, to take just one recent example of a prominent critic in the news, lied repeatedly about the Benghazi attacks, about the Bowe Bergdahl swap (the Army deserter served, she said, “with honor and distinction”), about the sordid details of buying back hostages central to the Iran deal (“And we were very specific about the need not to link their fate to that of the negotiations”), about the elimination of weapons of mass destruction in Syria (“We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical-weapons stockpile,”) and about the unmasking of names surveilled through FISA court warrants (“I know nothing about this”).
The point of this tour of our elite is not to excuse Trump’s often retaliatory crassness or bombast, but to remind us that our self-righteous anti- and pre-Trump aristocracy was so often a mediocracy. It had assumed status and privilege largely on suspect criteria. Its record abroad and at home inspired little confidence. Doing mostly the opposite of what elite conventional wisdom advocated since January 2017 has made the nation stronger, not weaker.
Strangest of all, the elite’s furious venom directed at Trump, couched in ethical pretense, has had the odd effect to remind the American people how unethical and incompetent these people were, are, and likely will continue to be.
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Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He was a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Hanson is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict was Fought and Won (Basic Books).
https://amgreatness.com/2018/12/30/our-exhausted-american-mediocracy/
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2019: Zombie Markets Before The Fall | Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer
I haven’t really written about finance since April of this year, and given recent fluctuations in what people persist in calling the markets, maybe it’s time. Then again, nothing has changed since that article in April entitled This Is Not A Market. I was right then, and I still am.
[..] markets need price discovery as much as price discovery needs markets. They are two sides of the same coin. Markets are the mechanism that makes price discovery possible, and vice versa. Functioning markets, that is. Given the interdependence between the two, we must conclude that when there is no price discovery, there are no functioning markets. And a market that doesn’t function is not a market at all.
[..] we must wonder why everyone in the financial world, and the media, is still talking about ‘the markets’ (stocks, bonds et al) as if they still existed. Is it because they think there still is price discovery? Or do they think that even without price discovery, you can still have functioning markets? Or is their idea that a market is still a market even if it doesn’t function?
But perhaps that is confusing, and confusion in and of itself doesn’t lead to better understanding. So maybe I should call what there is out there today ‘zombie markets’. It doesn’t really make much difference. What murdered functioning markets is intervention by central banks, in alleged attempts to save those same markets. Cue your favorite horror movie.
Now Jerome Powell and the Fed he inherited are apparently trying to undo the misery Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen before him wrought upon the economic system, and people, cue Trump, get into fights about that one. All the while still handing the Fed, the ECB, the BoJ, much more power than they should ever have been granted.
And you won’t get actual markets back until that power is wrestled from their cold dead zombie fingers. Even then, the damage will be hard to oversee, and it will take decades. The bankers and investors their free and easy trillions were bestowed upon will be just fine, thank you, but everyone else will definitely not be.
Central banks don’t serve societies, they serve banks. They fool everyone, politicians first of all, into believing that societies automatically do well if only the demands of banks are met first, and as obviously stupid as that sounds, nary a squeak of protest can be heard. Least of all from ‘market participants’ who have done nothing for the better part of this millennium except feast at the teat of main street largesse.
In the past few days we’ve had both -stock- market rallies and plunges of 5% or so, and people have started to realize that is not normal, and it scares them. So you get Tyler posting DataTrek’s Nicolas Colas saying “Healthy” Markets Don’t Rally 1,086 Points On The Dow. Well, he’s kinda right, but there hasn’t been a healthy market in 10+ years, and he’s missed that last bit. Like most people have who work in those so-called ‘markets’.
Here’s why Colas is right, but doesn’t understand why. Price discovery is the flipside of the coin that is a functional market, because it allows for people to see why something is valued at the level it is, by a large(r) number of participants. Take that away and it is obvious that violent price swings may start occurring as soon as the comforting money teat stutters, or even just threatens to do so; a rumor is enough.
In physics terms, price discovery, and therefore markets themselves -provided they’re ‘healthy’ and ‘functioning’- delivers negative feedback to the system, i.e. it injects self-correcting measures. Take away price discovery, in other words kill the market, and you get positive feedback, where -simplified- changes tend to lead to ever bigger changes until something breaks.
Also, different markets, like stocks, bonds, housing, will keep a check on each other, so nothing will reach insane valuations. If they tend to, people stop buying and will shift their money somewhere else. But when everything has an insane value, how would people know what’s insane anymore, and where could they shift that is not insane?
It doesn’t matter much for ‘market participants’, or ‘investors’ as they prefer to label themselves, they shift trillions around on a daily basis just to justify their paychecks, but for mom and pop it’s a whole different story. In between the two you have pension funds, whose rapid forced move from AAA assets to risk will strangle mom and pop’s old-age plans no matter what.
People inevitably talk about the chances of a recession happening, but maybe they should first ask what exactly a recession, or a bear market, is or means when it occurs in a zombie (or just plain dead) market.
If asset ‘values’ have increased by 50% because central banks and companies themselves have bought stocks, it would seem logical that a 10% drop doesn’t have the same meaning as it would in a marketplace where no such manipulation has taken place. Maybe a 50% drop would make more sense then.
The inevitable future is that people are going to get tired of borrowing as soon as it becomes too expensive, hence unattractive, to do so. Central banks can still do more QE, and keep rates low for longer, but that’s not an infinity and beyond move. It a simple question of the longer it lasts the higher will be the price that has to be paid. One more, one last, simple question: who’s going to pay? We all know, don’t we?
That’s where the Fed is now. You can let interest rates rise, as Powell et al are indicating they want to do, but that will cut off debt growth, and since debt is exclusively what keeps the economy going, it will cut into economic growth as well. Or you can keep interest rates low (and lower), but then people have less and less idea of the actual value of assets, which can, and eventually necessarily will, cause people to flee from these assets.
Powell’s rate hikes schedule looks nice from a normalizing point of view, and g-d knows what normal is anymore, but it would massacre the zombie markets the Fed itself created when it decided to kill the actual markets. You can get back to normal, but only if the Fed retreats into the Eccles Building and stays there until 2050 or so (or is abolished).
They won’t, the banks whose interests they protect will soon be in far too dire straits, and bailouts have become much harder to come by since 2008. It’ll be a long time before markets actually function again, and we won’t get there without a world of pain. Which will be felt by those who never participated in the so-called markets to begin with. Beware of yellow vests.
To top off the perversity of zombie markets, one more thing. Zombie markets build overcapacity. One of the best things price discovery brings to an economy is that it lets zombies die, that bankrupt companies and bankrupt ideas go the way of the dodo.
That, again, is negative feedback. Take that away, as low rates and free money do, and you end up with positive feedback, which makes zombies appear alive, and distorts the valuation of everything.
Most of what the ‘popular’ financial press discusses is about stocks, what the Dow and S&P have done for the day. But the bond markets are much bigger. So what are we to think when the two are completely out of sync -and whack-?
Oh well, those are just ‘the markets’, and we already know that they are living dead. Where that may be less obvious, if only because nobody wants it to be true, is in housing markets. Which, though this is being kept from you with much effort, are what’s keeping the entire US, and most of Europe’s, economies going. And guess what?
The Fed and Draghi have just about hit the max on home prices (check 2019 for the sequel). Prices have gotten too high, Jay Powell wants higher interest rates, Draghi can’t be left too far behind him because EU money would all flow to the US, and it’s all well on its way to inevitability.
And anyway, the only thing that’s being achieved with ever higher home prices is ever more debt for the people who buy them, and who will all be on the hook if those prices are subject to the negative feedback loops healthy markets must be subject too, or else.
The only parties who have profited from rising home prices are the banks who dole out the mortgages and the zombie economy that relies on them creating the money society runs on that way. We have all come to rely on a bunch of zombies to keep ourselves from debt slavery, and no, zombies are not actually alive. Nor are the financial markets, and the economies, that prop them up.
Among the first things in 2019 you will see enormous amounts of junk rated debt getting rated ever -and faster- lower , and the pace at which ever more debt that is not yet junk, downgraded to(wards) junk, accelerating. It looks like the zombies can never totally take over, but that is little comfort to those neck deep in debt even before we start falling.
And as for the ‘players’, the economic model will allow again for them to shove the losses of their braindead ventures onto the destiny of those with ever lower paying jobs, who if they’re lucky enough to be young enough, start their careers in those jobs with ever higher student debts.
You’d think that at some point they should be happy they were never sufficiently credit-worthy to afford one of the grossly overpriced properties that are swung like so many carrots before their eyes, but that’s not how the system works. The system will always find a way to keep pushing them deeper into the financial swamp somehow.
The last remaining growth industry our societies have left is inequality, and that’s what our central banks and governments are all betting on to keep Jack Sparrow’s Flying Dutchman afloat for a while longer. Where the poor get squeezed more so the 1% or 10% get to look good a little longer.
But in the end it’s all zombies all the way down, like the turtles, and some equivalent of the yellow vests will pop up in unexpected places. My prediction for next year.
It doesn’t look to me that a year from now we’ll see 2019 as a particular peaceful year, not at all like 2018. I called it from Chaos to Mayhem earlier, and I’m sticking with that. We’re done borrowing from the future, it’s getting time to pay back those loans from that future.
And that ain’t going to happen when there are no functioning markets; after all, how does anyone know what to pay back when the only thing they do know is everything is way overvalued? How wrong can I be when I say debts will only be paid back at fair value?
2019, guys, big year.
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2018/12/2019-zombie-markets-before-the-fall/
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Why No Saaaaaaaaafety Exemption for The Little People? - EPautos - Libertarian Car Talk
You may have caught my article about the brand-new 1960s Mustangs you can legally buy – upgraded in all the right places but left alone everywhere else.
They have modern, fuel-injected engines, high-capacity four-wheel-disc brakes and modern suspensions that make them the equal – or better – of a brand-new (2019) Mustang not only in terms of performance but also everyday driveability, low maintenance and long-haul durability, too.
Also their emissions – which are as low as the new Mustang’s and so Uncle-approved.
But they haven’t got any of the other stuff Uncle has been mandating since the 1960s that may have made cars more crashworthy but also less beautiful and individual. No air bags homogenize the steering wheels; no federally-approved bumpers mar the classic lines of these reborn Mustangs – which look exactly like the originals because they are original.
It’s the same sheetmetal, just newly stamped – fully authorized by Ford – and allowed by Uncle.
This is fine – but also not-so-fine because it’s effectively an exemption for the rich only.
These Mustangs – and a few other similar models, all of them reproductions of classic cars from the ‘60s and ‘70s – are priced well over six figures, chiefly because the exemption is granted for a very small number of vehicles (no more than 500 in a year).
The cars are hand-built to the nth degree of detail and fastidiousness. But the real reason for the high cost is . . . the high cost. Building a small handful of cars for sale means you can’t exploit economies of scale. Every low-volume car is an expensive car, almost by definition. The manufacturer has to make a lot of money on each car because he’s only selling a few cars. A manufacturer of lots of cars, on the other hand, can make just a few bucks on each car and still make a great deal of money.
The best historic example of this is, of course, the Model T Ford – which sold for less with each new model year because Ford was selling more of them each year.
But we’re not allowed to have a modern Model T – a simple car updated in all the right places – that we can afford. Not necessarily a reproduction Model T – but in principle. How about a reproduction 1983-1987 Honda CRX, for instance? That car delivered better gas mileage than any new car – including hybrid new cars.
Sixty-eight miles per gallon (for the HF version) and that was 35 years ago.
It did so via light weight, chiefly. The car weighed less than 1,800 lbs. and so a very small (1.3 liter) and not very powerful (58 horsepower) engine was sufficient – and more than that.
It was fun.
Manual transmission. Sport-tuned suspension. People bought it as much for the mileage as for the enjoyment of driving the thing.
And it was cheap.
$7,668 back in ’83 – which is just under $20k today.
Imagine such a car reborn – and like the six-figure classic Mustangs, upgraded in all the right places – but otherwise left as they were. Lighter than the originals, perhaps. Via the use of modern (and now affordable) composite materials for the body that weren’t affordable back in the early-mid 1980s.
But no air bags – they weren’t around in the ’80s – and (like the reborn Mustangs) exempt from all the federal saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety folderol that has been imposed on new cars since the ’80s.
And not just a handful of them, either.
How about as many of them as people are willing to buy? So that they wouldn’t be for the rich only.
How is it that some cars – expensive ones – are exempted from the regulatory folderol which everyone else is forced to accept?
Isn’t that more or less the same thing as the government allowing people who earn a six figure salary to skip making “contributions” to Social Security since they won’t need a monthly government check in their dotage?
If it is not saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafe for any new car to be built without air bags and back-up cameras and all the other things, why does the government allow some old cars to be resurrected, but only for the enjoyment of those deep-pocketed enough to be able to buy them?
Do the deep-pocketed have thicker skulls to protect them in crashes? Are they exempt from “the laws of physics” the government always ululates about to justify its cosseting of us at bayonet-point?
Don’t forget – it’s illegal for you and me to even temporarily disable a defective air bag (the Takata time bombs) until such time as they can be replaced with non-defective ones. But someone with enough bucks can buy a brand-new 1967 Mustang GT without any air bags at all and it’s perfectly legal.
Some animals are, indeed, more equal than others.
But there’s no legitimate reason why they ought to be.
One can make a morally persuasive case that a new car’s emissions be within a certain spec since emissions over a certain threshold can affect the health of other people. This includes new old cars like the ’60s Mustangs being manufactured by Revology.
But the presence or absence of air bags in a car affects no one except perhaps the person in the car – and even then, only potentially.
If it’s ok by Uncle for a guy who can drop $167,000 on a “new” 1967 Mustang GT to drive around without air bags, then it ought to be ok for you and me to drive around in a “new” 1983 CRX – or maybe a ’78 Dodge Dart or a ’70 VW Beetle – without them, too.
Of course, Uncle won’t ok it precisely because there would be a mass exodus away from Uncle-approved new cars into much more affordable (and far more fun) new old cars such as an updated ’83 CRX, ’78 Dodge Dart or ’70 VW Beetle.
It would crater the new (new) car business – which builds cars to government-spec at our expense, because we’re not allowed the option to opt out.
But Uncle always allows exceptions – and exemptions – for those who can afford them or who have the right connections.
Which gives you some idea as to what Uncle is really up to, his ululations about saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety (and many other things) notwithstanding.
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The United Nations said that it continued to receive “disturbing reports” of airstrikes targeting the civilian population in the province of Deir Ezzor.
“Our humanitarian colleagues continue to receive disturbing reports of airstrikes harming the civilian population in Syria’s Deir Ezzour Governorate,” UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reports on Friday.
“Yesterday, airstrikes reportedly hit a field hospital in the area, killing and injuring scores of civilians, including women, children and medical staff,” Dujarric added.
Dujarric also said that “airstrikes also reportedly hit the prison of Al-Kashma village, near Deir Ezzour on 28 November, killing and injuring prisoners and civilians.”
“We remind all parties to this conflict of their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians, including medical workers.”
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) meanwhile said that at least 241 civilians, including 28 children and 23 women, were killed in Russian and Assad regime’s attacks on crossings on the Euphrates River.
A new report by the Network indicated that at least 20 river crossings were attacked by three main parties, noting that all these crossings are located in the province of Deir Ezzor, without specifying when these attacks took place.
According to the report, the Assad regime forces killed 98 civilians, including seven children and nine women. Russian forces killed 143 civilians, including 21 children and 14 women. The attacks caused 15 massacres, nine of which were committed by the Assad regime, and six by Russian forces. (Source: Syrian Coalition’s Media Department)
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SF9 to Be Featured in New Reality Show ‘SF9 SANGSA’
Song Kang Cast as Protagonist of Netflix’s ‘Sweet Home’
by You Jung
Song Kang / Photo: Namoo Actors
Actor Song Kang has been cast for the leading role of the new original Netflix series, Sweet Home.
Based on the popular webtoon thriller of the same name, Netflix’s Sweet Home is about the bizarre and shocking incidents that happen to a socially withdrawn high school student named Hyun Soo when he moves to a new apartment after losing his family. With Lee Eung Bok (Mr. Sunshine, Descendants of the Sun, Goblin) reportedly being at the directing helm of the new series, Sweet Home is already causing a buzz.
Song Kang will be taking on the role of leading character Cha Hyun Soo, who decides to come back out into the world in order to save people after keeping himself isolated for some time. After already having made a name for himself as an actor who looks like he just jumped off the pages of a comic book while starring in another webtoon-based series, Love Alarm, many are interested to see what new and different side of himself Song Kang will reveal through his newest project.
Unlike the heartthrob image he portrayed in his previous works, in Sweet Home, Song Kang is expected to show the inner workings of his character as he comes face to face with his limitations when faced with tragic circumstances. The actor will also undoubtedly have to perform daredevil action sequences as he gets into tussles with monsters. Fans are excited to see what intense acting transformation the actor will undergo.
After making his debut in 2017 with the drama The Liar and His Lover, Song Kang became a familiar face on television by starring in Man in the Kitchen and Beautiful Vampire. In 2019, he further showed off his potential to become one of the top 20-something actors through his roles on Love Alarm and When the Devil Calls Your Name.
With Netflix original series Love Alarm being confirmed for a second season thanks to the love shown by fans from all over the world, as well as his casting on Sweet Home, his first project with esteemed director Lee Eung Bok, a great deal of interest is surrounding Song Kang and what 2020 will have in store for him as a leading actor.
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Arash Hejazi
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Chief of the ‘Moral Security’ Police in Tehran: Not observing the Islamic cover for women, using satellite dishes and dog-walking are infringing the civil rights!
by Arash Hejazi · Published May 10, 2011 · Updated April 18, 2017
Aftabnews.ir 09/05/2011
The highlights of General Roozbahani’s interview with Aftabnews on Monday 09 May:
– The police will enter the war with West’s cultural invasion and moral corruption with all its might.
– We will strictly prohibit dog-walking after the legistlation is passed through the parliament. Dogs creat insecurity for the citizens and sometimes they bark!
– Not observing the Islamic Hijab (cover) is against the civil rights.
– The usage of satellite dishes has created problems for the country and is against the civil rights.
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LSU Beats Clemson
Holden Paddock, Writer
The College Football National Championship was on Monday January 13 featuring two talented teams in #3 ranked Clemson and #1 ranked LSU. Both teams were undefeated at 14-0. Clemson and LSU have top tier quarterbacks in Trevor Lawrence and Joe Burrow. Both are predicted to go top ten in the NFL draft next year. Joe Burrow is a senior and Trevor Lawrence is a sophomore. Joe Burrow is also the Heisman Trophy winner of the college football league, which is the same thing as the MVP.
Clemson started out strong taking a 6-0 lead with a Trevor Lawrence 1 yard touchdown run. They hit the extra point a had an early 7-0 lead. A few plays later LSU’s Joe Burrow threw a 52 yard touchdown pass to Ja’marr Chase tying it at 7 -7. The second quarter started with Clemson taking a 10-7 lead with a 52 yard field goal from B.T Potter. Clemson then got a big stop on defense and got the ball back and scored again with a Tee Higgins 36 yard touchdown run.
The rest of the second quarter was all LSU where they scored 21 unanswered points. The first one was a three yard Joe Burrow run, the second was a 14 yard touchdown pass to Chase and the last was a 6 yard touchdown pass to Thaddeus Young who is Randy Moss’ kid. Clemson now had a 28-17 lead going into the second half.
The second half kicked off with Clemson scoring first on a 3 yard touchdown run by Travis Etienne. It was now a very tight game only a field goal away from tying it up. But Joe Burrow, showed why he won the Hesiman, and threw another touchdown pass to Moss to take the 35-25 lead. Clemson has a huge possession coming up being down two scores and they ended up turning it over with a Trevor Lawrence scrambling fumble.
The fourth quarter was quiet with one touchdown pass by Joe Burrow to Terrance Marshall. LSU was the dominant team throughout the whole game and they deserved the championship. Joe Burrow had a total of six touchdowns where he threw for five of them and ran for one. LSU had zero turnovers which helped them be victorious. Clemson had a total of 394 total offensive yards where LSU had a total of 628 total yards. It was a great National Championship game and a lot of players featured in this game are hoping to make a name for themselves in the NFL someday.
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Japan Review
A Japanophile's Review of All Things Japan
[Alexandros] Sleepless in Kuala Lumpur 2019 Concert
August 19, 2019 June 8, 2020 sheilarouge
The lights were dim when we entered the concert hall of the Bentley Music Auditorium in Kuala Lumpur. Although to be precise, the auditorium is located in Petaling Jaya, not KL, a place I would say I’m overly familiar with because this is the state where our main office building is located. It helps that this venue is near Ikea Damansara, a place too familiar to me from many previous visits. Actually, my choice of city in this leg of [Alexandros] Sleepless in Asia tour is all too familiar. Indeed KL is like my second home, considering I go here every other month. But despite that, it was not an obvious choice for me. When I saw the list of cities for the Sleepless in Asia tour, I wanted to go to Taipei or Hong Kong because it’s nearest to Manila, but KL won me over because for the previous cities mentioned, I wasn’t able to score VIP tickets. But luck would have it because I was actually in Penang, Malaysia when the ticket went on sale in April. That’s how I secured my VIP tickets for the July 19, KL gig. So enough about my rants on how I ended up watching them live for the first time in a city I have visited every year in varying frequencies for the past 10 years.
Sleepless in Kuala Lumpur
I did experienced Sleepless in Kuala Lumpur, literally, because my supposedly evening flight from Manila to KL on July 18, turned out to be a midnight/early morning flight. With all the hassles that I got from this particular flight, I made it in front of my hotel, Manhattan Business Hotel in Damansara at around 8am in the morning. After checking in, I had a bit of a much needed shut eye but I can’t sleep that long in the morning so by midday I found myself heading out to Suria KLCC to eat lunch and buy books in Kinokuniya. I love Kinokuniya this much that even though I stayed in a hotel near the concert venue, I still made my way to the Kinokuniya branch in KLCC, way out of the way but you just have to do what you got to do. 😛 After this I went back to the hotel to change and off I went to the concert venue. It was almost 5pm by this time. I’m not entirely sure if this is a concert review, ‘cause this writing is like chatting with friends, but anyway, let me first tell you why I like [Alexandros] so much. The next few paragraphs are my rants, so please scroll down if you want to go straight to my recollection on what happened during the concert.
Why I Love [Alexandros]
I have known [Alexandros] and their music for only less than a year. But when I heard them, I love them right away. Their former name was [Champagne] but because of a request from a French company, which wanted to protect or preserve that name to identify only with the drink and not with anything else, they changed their name to [Alexandros]. Personally, I think this is a better name well-suited for the band.
There are many reasons why I like their music. And my desire to see them live tells me that I’ll be consuming this fandom for years to come. Come to think of it, once I like an artist, I usually like them forever. And I know that this band belong to that forever category.
Top 10 list why I think they’re cool
1. They are dreamers. They persevered to make their dreams come true, slowly but surely they are living the life of their dreams.
They have a lot of songs that talk about having a dream and doing everything to make it a reality. Songs like Forever Young & For Freedom are like chronicles of their own history as a struggling band who wanted to make it big. Now, they’re living the life they used to dream about. And that is inspiring. They remind me to not give up and press on.
2. They create uplifting songs even though they talk about sadness, loneliness, and being left out in the world.
The meaning of Yoohei’s lyrics are bittersweet yet they wrap it around music that is fun and uplifts my spirit. Starrrrrrr is that awesome track that always puts a smile on my face when Masaki’s lead come on. This line from ‘Pray’ always gets to me – ‘Every time I see you hurt yourself, you try to move on with no help, だから今は Let me pray!’
3. Yoohei writes all their songs and his lyrics tells me he’s the kind of man who’d rather suffer to live for his truth than be comfortable living in lies. He wants to live his life true to himself. It seems to me that the most important thing for him is to be honest with himself; his desires, his ambitions, his view of the world, his truth. This band knows the essence of being true to who you really are. 私は私だから。
4. They truly enjoy creating music and that is reflected in their performances. Every time I see them perform live, they always seem to be having so much of fun! And you can see this with the high energy they bring on the stage.
5. They are skilled musicians who sound very good live. Only many hours of practice can bring about such perfection. That kind of dedication is always inspiring.
They understand melody and what makes a song tick. In interviews they call this ‘feeling’ that when recording songs, they don’t stop if they don’t feel that the song has captured that ‘feeling’.
6. They all have positive energy and they’re serious with what they set out to do. Whether it’s about conquering the world, getting back from an injury, or learning a language, they know that the most important thing is just to put on the utmost effort, and the results will follow.
7. They know how to take care of themselves. Whether it’s about eating well or dressing up well, they always look good.
8. They enjoy life because they understand the essence of living life to the fullest.
9. They’re kind. To people around them; to their fans. * Although I am not used to the handshake concept of a meet-and-greet, I can attest to this, they were very nice.
10. They are emphatic. Through his songs, I feel that Yoohei understands in a deeper sense the innate sadness one goes through in life and how music can ease people’s pains.
Okay I’ll stop at 10, because this has become a very long post. Now that I’ve let that all out, let me tell you about July 19, 2019.
First the venue. The Bentley Music auditorium is a small concert space offering standing room only perfect for concert performances. I like more intimate venues because I feel closer to the music and the performers especially if I’m seeing them for the first time. We went inside the hall while cueing in based on our ticket numbers, (which I found quite odd), I’m number 67. I’m not sure if this was the decision of the concert promoters or the band management. In this particular city it was Toybox Projects. But anyway, I positioned myself almost at the centre of the VIP area space beside some local Malaysians I’ve befriended, and a couple who said they were from Thailand. A lot of those in front of us were Japanese fans who came to KL to watch the band. Neat!
We waited for about 30 minutes before any indication that the concert is about to start. So when the guitar technicians stepped in to tune in the guitars we are already all ears.
Riado from Big Mama, who is subbing for Satoyasu sat behind the drums, then followed by Rose, Masaki and Hiro. The 3 went on to play the first notes of Last Minute, the first song in the Sleepless in Brooklyn album. When Yoohei stepped on stage, everyone were at their toes, giving the band a very warm welcome! I love the energy and Yoohei hyped up the crowd even more by encouraging all of us to sing along and have fun!
The setlist is beautifully arranged alternating slow songs with fast rock tunes. When they followed Last Minute with Dracula la, I know I’m in for a treat. I love the bass line of this song and it’s always fun to sing along to. Then they played Starrrrrrr, which took me by surprise. So even though I’m mispronouncing some of the Japanese lyrics, I sang my heart out. I Don’t Believe in You, followed which is a track off Sleepless in Brooklyn, but believe me when I say that this band doesn’t have bad songs, really. Next was Girl A & Waitress, Waitress, only then did it occur to me how similar these two songs are.
Then sexy Yoohei unleashed with Party is Over. I love the chill out feeling of this song. If these guys are in my party, I don’t want it to be over. Up next is the monster trio of Kaiju, Mosquito Bite, and Kick & Spin, energetic songs which I think are great when played live. I always liked hearing Kick & Spin live, the kind of song you can just let yourself go. And like asking us to calm down, the solemn piano accompaniment of Rose for New Wall, the hyped up Ashita, Mata and Fish Tacos Party followed. I did remember Rose playing the notes of Mayonaka, which was during this time I just don’t recall the correct song sequence.
After this they played Your Song, also from Sleepless in Brooklyn, then Adventure and one of my favourite songs from them, Arpeggio. It’s an intelligent song built upon an arpeggio, with lyrics that goes “We’re going up and down you know…” which is exactly what you do when you’re playing an arpeggio. Yoohei hinted that this is their last song, but concerts always have an encore, so I had a reason to anticipate that there’s more. Coming here, I expected them to play three of their newest songs, which they released between April and July (talk about proficiency) Pray and 月色ホライゾン. I love ‘Pray’ and I first heard it at a time I needed a prayer so this song will always be dear to me. After Arpeggio, they all went off the stage and the lights went off, but all of us were expecting an encore. After a few moments, they all went back played Pray, followed by 月色ホライゾン and their last song was their biggest hit, Wataridori. Before playing 月色ホライゾン, Yoohei did a little bit of talking, sharing that he wrote this song while on the plane. He says that this song is his testament to remind himself to live life to the fullest and embrace who he really is. That we should value living in the now and make the most of what we can with our lives. It felt like it took a lot of thought saying such profound words in a concert, but I think this is one of the reasons why they are so genuine. ワタリドリ is a great last song. Yoohei even said, “This is really the last song.” Haha. I love how the crowd sing along and I felt like I poured all my remaining energy for this last song.
After the concert, all of us VIP ticket holders get a chance to ‘meet’ the members so we waited outside the hall, and cued again based on our numbers. Then, we were led in inside by groups of 10 people. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect from this. When we went back again inside, Hiro, Yoohei, and Masaki were there with chairs in front of the stage. We took the group photo first, all three seated on the provided chairs while the fan group stand behind them. It was short, just 2 clicks from the camera, then we were led in to greet them and shake their hands. All I managed to say was to thank them for such a fun night. The staff around were all too eager to let everyone finish fast so I thought this part was too business-like that I don’t remember much of it. Despite being tired from performing, I thank the band members for doing this, although I think they don’t have to. I admit I’m not used to this culture of ‘handshake’ fan meeting. When it comes to bands, I prefer a real autograph signing session, where we cue to have them sign before our eyes, that way we can have a little chat, you know. This style was for me too rushed. But as long as some fans, whether Japanese or any other nationalities like this, then all is well. But it was a really fun night, and I can’t wait to watch them perform live again. Maybe next time, I’ll see them in Japan.
Ohhh. I forgot to mention, after Wataridori, before Hiro went backstage, he threw all the remaining guitar picks at the crowd and I got Masaki’s pick. 😛
Concert ticket & Masaki’s pick
[Alexandros] Sleepless in Kuala Lumpur set list:
Dracu la la
Starrrrrrr
I Don’t Believe in You
Waitress, Waitress
Party if Over
Kick & Spin
New Wall
Ashita, Mata
Fish Tacos Party
Mayonaka (keyboard filler only)
Your Song
Tsukiiro Horizon
Wataridori
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New Music, Premiere
Lady Gaga: ‘Venus’ Premiere!
October 27, 2013 / 26 Comments
After teasing the song all week, Lady Gaga finally premieres “Venus“! The track is the second promotional single released as part of the iTunes countdown for her upcoming studio album ARTPOP, which is scheduled for release on November 11 via Interscope Records. Produced by Gaga herself with songwriting assistance by DJ White Shadow, Madeon, Dino Zisis and Nick Monson, “Venus” is one amazingly weird pop song. The production’s on point, the beats are sick, the hooks (all 4 of them) are huge, and the massive chorus is undeniably one of her best yet. ARTPOP is already turning out to be one of my favorites of the year, the music is finally matching her outrageous image and its totally working. What do you guys think?
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Done of her new stuff is catchy :/ sucks
really?? I mean I agree with having your own opinion but all of her songs have massive catchy parts to them unlike anything on the radio. All mainstream music is created to distract humans from what is really important in life any (our spirit and mind) and her music does the best at that imo!
I just don’t hear the catchy parts, the song is confusing and all over the place. I respect Lady Gaga, probably one of the few artists that can SINGGGG. I just am getting sick of the weird acts and naked photos. Like, this music is too much for me, it’s like she’s trying to be too different. To me, a song needs to be something we can all sing along to. That’s not this at all, and Applause you can barely understand a word of the chorus. It’s not all about being a Number 1, I mean she’s already got a huge fan base. It’s just she’s never going to see number 1 ever again at this rate. These songs honestly do nothing for me, I respect the GAGA fans.. I just don’t see how they can be okay with this.
Have you seen any of her interviews? She is not trying to make music for the number one spot any more, she making it for her fans and herself. From all the songs I’ve so far, the album is diverse and it works. As for the weird acts, she has been heavily influenced by Marina Abramovic, who is a performance artist. I think she’s trying to put her point of view out there rather than be shocking, I feel that people aren’t searching for her sources of inspiration and just deem it as weird.
Ryan "Fucqua" Smith
Omg seriously? What a load of wank?!
Idolized101
Sorry Joseph. I agree. This is horrible. I dont want anyone to compare this to Fame. This album is confusing/Lame/Catchy :/ LOL
No real fan of The Fame Album would ever say that anything they have heard from this album even touches Singles like: Just Dance, LoveGame, Poker Face. Truth me told even the singles that didnt make it to radio were better then this stuff.
Example: Money Honey, Boys Boys Boys, Starstruck.
Truth is that she had something different and she drank her own Koolaid, She needs to remember that she doesnt need a meat dress to be recognized as her voice speaks for itself.
Anyway I could go on forever.
I don’t even know why people like The Fame album. It’s my least favorite. It’s typical. It’s radio friendly dance pop and as she’s proven that’s not her style.
This song is wicked. In the best way possible. Completely magical. It’s been clear to me for awhile now she’s just about making music she wants to make even it it’s not for everyone.
former monster
gaga needs a nap. And a reality check
This is bizarre. Really glad she changed the official second single from this.
this sucks. she sucks. applause and do what u want sucks. ugh
This is Bloody awesome! i love it!
After the disaster of the Born This Way, you would think the label would have reigned her in… She needs a reality check before she ends her own career.
Disaster of Born This Way? the album with sold over 6 million copies…..and was the 5th best selling digital album of all times….. in this day and age thats a huge success for an album.
Sounds like she says penis, not Venus
LOL sounds like penis to me too 😀 Planet Penis!
You give this song 3 plays and read the lyrics…it’s going to be a S M A S H. Her lyrics have gotten so metaphorical and creative. Many people may say she’s gotten TOO weird but she’s just gotten more complex. Most of the TOP 40 chart toppers are simple catchy meaningless little ditties that we’ve heard A MILLION times. Gaga is just serving PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Inspired and Inspiring, love this beat right HERE!
It is an amazing track and the fact she produced it herself, even better! People just want the same they had before or generic top 40. Gaga isn’t going to give them exactly what they want ever. Still can remember the days when people didn’t love TFM or TF.
Katy Mackenzie
“Uranus! Don’t you know my ass is famous?” Oh yeah, more complex psh no matter how much you defend her she is still going downhill in sales & fans. Artpop makes me think Britney Spears got more talent, I’m officially no longer a monster. Fuck gaga, she’s lost it. She needs redone to make another mister album like the fame monster like Ciara needs Jazze Pha to make another mister album like goodies!
“Uranus! Don’t you know my ass is famous?” is a commentary…taken out of context to make your vapid point. If Gaga cared about the sales she would have gone to RedOne and made a generic dance album which is what i’m guessing you want…generic…but she’s doing her own thing, it’s called brilliance. Gaga’s music isn’t about pleasing basic individuals, it’s about evolution and growth as an artist.
And for you to think that Britney Spears has ANY talent only goes to show you obviously have no right to have an opinion about music because Gaga is HELLA talented and Britney is a lip syncing puppet. Not to say I don’t adore Britney’s music but it’s not talent she’s selling.
Love it or hate it, you’re still talking about it.
@FernandowJunior
Better than Applause!
Wasn’t sure about it at first, but now I think it’s simply AMAZING!
I think that the people who liked Gaga when she first came out (Before The Fame) understand her music. The fame was a great album and made her a superstar. The fame monster and Born this way were to me even better albums than the fame. I would rather have an artist re-invent their image and music than put out the same cookie cutter crap every single album. You are going love and hate albums and songs as she puts out different things. I don’t think she is really all that concerned with being number one, she is more concerned about using her fame as a platform to make positive changes in the world.
Ive only liked Applause and Do What U Want so far.
I’m surprised at all the hate this song is getting on here. I think that because the Born This Way album was so lame that people have really been turning on her unjustly…people make mistakes, and yes, I HATED the last album, but this one seems like she went back to her roots and I think this song has such a good balance of catchy chorus, pseudo-corny schtick, edge, humor, and intrigue that people have always loved Gaga for. There’s so much generic bullshit out there in the pop world, and this song is very bold, unusual, but so good. I had all but given up on her myself when the last album came out but now I’m super excited.
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I used to like her a lot, but not anymore. Bring me back to 2008 when I first heard Just Dance. sigh
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Specifications-PCB
Quad in-line
A Rockwell 6502-based microcontroller in a QIP package
Rockwell used a quad in-line package with 42 leads formed into staggered rows for their PPS-4 microprocessor family introduced in 1973, and other microprocessors and microcontrollers, some with higher lead counts, through the early 1990s.
The QIP, sometimes called a QIL package, has the same dimensions as a DIL package, but the leads on each side are bent into an alternating zigzag configuration so as to fit four lines of solder pads (instead of two with a DIL). The QIL design increased the spacing between solder pads without increasing package size, for two reasons:
First it allowed more reliable soldering. This may seem odd today, given the far closer solder pad spacing in use now, but in the 1970s, the heyday of the QIL, bridging of neighbouring solder pads on DIL chips was an issue at times,
QIL also increased the possibility of running a copper track between 2 solder pads. This was very handy on the then standard single sided single layer PCBs.
Some QIL packaged ICs had added heatsinking tabs, such as the HA1306.
Intel and 3M developed the ceramic leadless quad in-line package (QUIP), introduced in 1979, to boost microprocessor density and economy. The ceramic leadless QUIP is not designed for surface-mount use, and requires a socket. It was used by Intel for the iAPX 432 microprocessor chip set, and by Zilog for the Z8-02 external-ROM prototyping version of the Z8 microcontroller.
Lead count and spacing
Commonly found DIP packages that conform to JEDEC standards use an inter-lead spacing (lead pitch) of 0.1 inch (2.54 mm). Row spacing varies depending on lead counts, with 0.3 in. (7.62 mm)(JEDEC MS-001) or 0.6 inch (15.24 mm)(JEDEC MS-011) the most common. Less common standardized row spacings include 0.4 inch (10.16 mm)(JEDEC MS-010) and 0.9 inch (22.86 mm), as well as a row spacing of 0.3 inch, 0.6 inch or 0.75 inch with a 0.07 inch (1.778 mm) lead pitch.
The former Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries used similar packages, but with a metric inter-lead spacing of 2.5 mm rather than 2.54 mm (0.1 inch).
The number of leads is always even. For 0.3 inch spacing, typical lead counts are 8, 14, 16, 18, and 28; less common are 4, 6, 20, and 24 lead counts. For 0.6 inch spacing, typical lead counts are 24, 28, 32, and 40; less common are 36, 48, 52, and 64 lead counts. Some microprocessors, such as the Motorola 68000 and Zilog Z180, used lead counts as high as 64; this is typically the maximum number of leads for a DIP package.
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WELCOME TO MANCHESTER UTD SUPPORTERS CLUB SLIGO
The Sligo Branch of the Manchester Utd Supporters Club was set up in the 1984/85 season and had over 280 members at the end of the 2019/20 season. We are the 3rd biggest Branch on the island of Ireland and 23rd in the world. New members are always welcome. COVID-19 is preventing us from holding Branch meetings or attending matches at the moment.
Welcome to the Sligo Branch of the Manchester United Supporters Club, we will update you with all the latest news from the Sligo Branch of Manchester United Supporters Club.
Premier League: United returned to the top of the league with a 2-1 win away to Fulham on Wednesday. A defensive lapse saw Lookman burst forward into United's box and score to give Fulham the lead in the 5th minute. United responded well and shortly after Fernandes had hit the post the Fulham keeper spilled a cross from Shaw and Cavani pounced to level the scores. Pogba fired United into the lead and secured the points with a brilliant strike in the 65th minute. Fulham did push for the equaliser late on but United held on.
So United top the table at the half way mark, although Man City, who are 2 points behind, do have a game in hand.
Sheffield United at home on Wednesday is next.
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FA Cup: United progressed into the 4th round aftyer a 1-0 win over Watford at home on Saturday 9 January. Scott McTominay got the all important goal in the l5th minute. United dominated most of the half but couldn't add a 2nd. Watford looked dangerous at times but never really troubled Henderson in United's goal.
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United's reward for beating Watford is a 4th round tie at home to arch rivals Liverpool, a week after the two sides meet at Anfield in the league.
Europa League: United have been drawn to play Real Sociedad in the Europa League, fixtures to be played away on 18 February and the 2nd leg at home on 25 February.
League Cup: United exited the League Cup at the semi-final stage for the second year in a row at the hands of City on Wednesday 5 January.
City scored twice from set pieces and United couldn't convert the chances at the other end.
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With Ryanair flying to Liverpool a very regular basis, travel time and cost has been greatly reduced.
We all await the passing on COVID-19 so that we can all get back to doing what we love.
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First Flight was begun during tobacco harvesting season in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was painted in a baking hay loft while neighbors decked their rafters with the skins of tobacco. The composition was finished seasons later after the crop was cashed and smoked, ribbons of the may pole were tattered, foals born, silos filled. The birds – a cloud of fins, sails, dots and dashes – had gone south again. Its scale – traditionally reserved for religious or history painting – is a reflection of McRae Morton’s American culture. The identity of the figures as Amish, however, is disguised. Vignettes allude to paintings by Gustave Millet, Vincent Van Gogh, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth.
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It may not be easy to evaluate the differences between the two exemplary rowers. But we will try to do it by listing the positives and negatives of both with a hope that this will help you pick the right one easily.
Concept 2 is a wind-resistance rower that can be used almost in any setting. The intensity of rowing determines how much resistance you will get.
You can regulate the level of resistance manually using a damper.
WaterRower is a water-based rowing unit that has “water flywheel” which allows getting a true-to-life feel while rowing.
This machine is rather intended for sports-oriented workouts but it can also be used by those who practice rowing every day. It gives you a feeling of sitting in a boat while the resistance rate can also be controlled. The harder you move, the greater the resistance will be.
Concept 2 rower has an ability to handle 500 pounds while WaterRower can sustain not more than 350 kg which translates into approximately 770 pounds. It boasts of having 1.5 times greater weight capacity.
Performance Display
It is much simpler to keep track of your progress if you have a display at hand that does the whole job for you. Both rower models are excellent in terms of this aspect, and it depends on your personal needs which one to choose.
But Concept 2 rower has a great pro –> you can keep track of your heartbeat!
PM5 display added to Concept 2 can be used to track your workout progress. It allows you to see the heartbeat as it is fully compatible with Bluetooth and ATN. It supports Wireless connection, and the fitness coach will be able to easily extract the outcomes of each workout.
Water-resistance rowers are less loud so in this case WaterRower definitely wins. But wind-resistance rowers are not very loud either.
Both producers provide top-quality models but WaterRower is a bit more expensive. Once again, you might not like certain features in it. If to compare these two models, Concept2 will be a winner this time!
Nonetheless, if you can afford to spend more cash for a more elaborate and modern-looking design or less loud performance, WaterRower might also be a good choice. Concept2 Model E model, however, is also costly.
You can easily position WaterRower vertically as it has a rolling wheelbase and can be carried easily.
In general, it will be a nice option to consider for those users who want something compact and less bulky.
It is not difficult to separate Concept 2 into two halves. The storage is also easy, and you won’t need any particular instruments. It has a wheelbase at the front side for easier transportation.
Level of Preparation
You can regulate the intensity of training in both units. If you have WaterRower, you can set the notifications in case you don’t want to look at the screen every so often. Although it was initially designed for sportsmen, it is suitable for all levels of preparation.
Concept 2 is also packed with many programming options, and it also has the capacity to adapt to each level including elementary users and expert professionals. But it best suits CrossFit and gym workouts due to the specifics of its performance and outer look.
It also tracks your heartbeat but you need to look at the display each time, and there are no notifications here.
Making a comparison of Concept 2 and WaterRower can be a big problem for many users. So now it’s time to give out the score and find out which product received better scores!
15 aspects were evaluated.
Concept 2 wins according to its value for money rating, storage and transportation, and slide bonus feature available on demand (not present in WaterRower).
WaterRower wins according to its size, measurements, weight, and loudness.
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An outbreak of Kyasanur Forest Disease in Kerala: A clinico epidemiological study
<p>Kyasanur Forest disease virus (KFDV) was first identified in 1957, when it was isolated from a sick monkey from the Kyasanur Forest in Karnataka State, India. Since then it has been reported to be enzootic
Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine
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Maternal Health 2016- An executive summary for The Lancet’s Series
<p>Each year, about 210 million women become pregnant and about 140 million newborn babies are delivered. The sheer scale of maternal health issues makes maternal well being and survival vital concerns.
Glyphosate Issue Paper: Evaluation of carcinogenic potential
<p>Glyphosate is a non-selective, phosphonomethyl amino acid herbicide registered to control weeds in various agricultural and non-agricultural settings. The herbicide acts by inhibiting the 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate
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Genes interacting with occupational exposures to low molecular weight agents and irritants on adult-onset asthma in three European studies
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<p>By analysing the similarity of viral genetic sequences from nearly 1,600 people with HIV in one community in KwaZulu-Natal, the study shows that adolescent girls and women in their early 20s tend to
Whole genome sequencing for genomics-guided investigations of Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreaks
<p>Multi isolate whole genome sequencing (WGS) and typing for outbreak investigations has become a reality in the post-genomics era. We applied this technology to strains from Escherichia coli O157:H7
Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings
<p>Brazil has experienced an unprecedented epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV), with ~30,000 cases reported to date. ZIKV was first detected in Brazil in May 2015 and cases of microcephaly potentially associated
Epidemiological trends over a ten-year period of malaria in a non-endemic area of Saudi Arabia
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International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences
A study on knowledge and practices regarding menstrual hygiene among urban adolescent girls
<p>Adolescent girls often lack knowledge regarding reproductive health including menstruation hygiene which can be due to socio-cultural barriers in which they grow up. The objective of the study was to
International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics
Strategies and approaches to vector control in nine malaria-eliminating countries: a cross-case study analysis
<p>There has been progress towards malaria elimination in the last decade. In response, WHO launched the Global Technical Strategy (GTS), in which vector surveillance and control play important roles.
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The ratification and implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty for VIP in the Arab Gulf States
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Visually impaired persons (VIPs) have asked the international community to help end the “book famine” they face and increase the number of books available in accessible formats.
Copyright Law in the United Arab Emirates and Technological Digital Advances
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Copyright law is important for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the county aims to be a leading nation in the region and globally by the Golden Jubilee of the Union.
EIPR’s Article July 2016 Issue
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Sweet & Maxwell’s European Intellectual Property Review has published in its July 2016 Issue (38) (7) at 416-436, my article entitled “The Adoption of the American Fair Use in Gulf States – A Comparative Analysis of Author’s Exceptions in Common Law and Civil Law Countries”.
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The Office of The Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies at Sharjah University invites you to Seminar :Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights & their Economic Importance.
Implementation Regulation of E-commerce in Jordan
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The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has issued a Regulation No 11 of 2014 for the licensing and approval of Trusted Third Parties (Certification Authorities) based on article 40 (b) of the Electronic Transaction Law No. 85 of 2001 (published in page 181 of the Official Gazette 5264/16-01–2014.
Copyright X 2014
I have finished an online course with Professor Terry Fisher on US Copyright Law entitled Copyright X 2014. The course is developed by the HarvardX distance-learning initiative, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
SDP 2013, Toronto, Canada
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I will be attending the eleventh Oxford Internet Institute’s Summer Doctoral Program (OII SDP) that will be held at University of Toronto, Faculty of Information (i-school) from 8-19 July 2013.
New Book: Intellectual Property and Development Theory and Practice
17/06/2013 olwanadmin Copyright & IP, 0
Springer Berlin Heidelberg has recently published a new book for me entitled Intellectual Property and Development Theory and Practice. Foreward by Ahmed Abdel Latif, Senior Program Manager International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva.
IP New Chapter in International Trade Law and the WTO by Indira Carr (et al)
The book discusses some notable debates in the arena of international trade law and globalization. It looks at the basic structure of the WTO, its function, and decision-making, and explores key economic and legal concepts underpinning the WTO, including Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment and National Treatment.
The Penguin and the Leviathan- How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
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I have read the book by Yochai Benkler entitled the “Penguin and the Leviathan- How Cooperation Triumphs over Self Interest” (Crown Business, 2011).
Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, Washington D.C. from 27-29 September 2018
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God, who is holy, calls us to a life of holiness. We believe that the Holy Spirit seeks to do in us a second work of grace, called by various terms including "entire sanctification" and "baptism with the Holy Spirit" - cleansing us from all sin; renewing us in the image of God; empowering us to love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves; and producing in us the character of Christ. Holiness in the life of believers is most clearly understood as Christ likeness.
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We are a "sent people," responding to the call of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to go into all the world, witnessing to the Lordship of Christ and participating with God in the building of the Church and the extension of His kingdom (II Corinthians 6:1). Our mission begins in worship, ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.
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Elton John Gives Blue Boys Gold Chains
The Mirror reports Elton John gave the guys from Blue all a Theo Fennell gold chain, complete with an engraving of their names, along with a personal note with each chain. It was Elton’s way to say thank you for working with him on their latest single, ‘Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word’, which was a hit for him in the 1970s. Blue’s version of the tune is due out December 9th, and a spokesman said, “The boy’s are currently walking around and showing off their gold non-stop. They will all be wearing their chains in the video.”
Elton Hits Out At Idol Manipulation
November 6, 2002 – The Sun reports Sir Elton John is livid at Simon Cowell for how the Idol series winners are treated. “I feel sorry for these artists,” Elton railed. “I say, ‘Make sure you are getting your money and put it in the bank. You are just a commodity to these people.’ Someone like Simon Cowell has no love for Will Young or Gareth Gates. He sees them as another Mercedes-Benz.”
Blue’s Entire ‘One Love’ Album Streaming Online
October 31, 2002 – Blue fans can listen to the entire ‘One Love’ album before its November 4th release on Capital FM of London. They cite the best tracks on the album being ‘Don’t Treat Me Like A Fool’, ‘Without You’, and ‘Get Down’. Tracks to skip include the title track ‘One Love’. The audio has since been removed.
Blue Star Says He’s Received 20,000 Death Threats
October 8, 2002 – Blue star Lee Ryan tells The Sun that he’s had 20,000 death threats since his World Trade Center outburst where he fumed, “Who gives a fu** about New York when whales are dying.” Lee said, “I got death threats, saying things like they wanted to shove anthrax down my throat. I’m still getting them now.” The move squashed any hopes of the group to get promoted in the U.S., but Lee says he doesn’t regret his comments. “I don’t regret what I said, but I do regret the way I said it.”
Blue Can’t Wait To Get On The Road
October 5, 2002 – BBC Newsround reports Blue star Duncan James can’t wait for the group to kick off their tour next month. “It’s a great way for us to see our Irish fans, our Scottish fans, our Welsh fans – all our fans!” said Duncan. Bandmate Ant added, “We want to give back to our fans a great show that’s worth the money.” Read more.
Blue Wear Blue Contact Lenses To Announce Tour
October 3, 2002 – The members of boy band Blue turned themselves blue by wearing blue color contact lenses to announce their sponsors for their forthcoming sold out UK tour called ‘One Love’ in London.
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Q&A with Clayton Wisdom, a World Champion SASS Shooter :: Guns.com
News Posted on July 6, 2020 —by Recoil Daily 157 0
Clayton Wisdom, aka molefty_18, is known for shooting fast and bringing home the hardware. (Photo: Clayton Wisdom)
When he was 11 years old, Clayton Wisdom’s uncle handed him his first single-action revolver to shoot. Afterward, his uncle told him, “You just beat half of SASS.” He’s only gotten faster since. Better known by the Instagram handle @molefty_18, Wisdom, now 20 years old, has won a world title, state titles, and numerous regionals as a competitive SASS shooter. Calling Cedar Hills, Missouri home, we caught up with Wisdom to learn more about SASS and why you should try it.
Guns.com: Why did you get into SASS? Who got you started?
Wisdom: My uncle did. He lived right across the street from us. Actually, I played baseball all the way up until the time my baseball team fell apart. He took me out to the gun range, me and my dad, and I never shot a pistol. He took us out and I tried the pistol for the first time. And he looked at me and said, “You just beat half of SASS.” Didn’t think much of it. Then spring came, I just dove right in.
Guns.com: Did your uncle show you how to fan the hammer when you learned to shoot a pistol or did you run with it by yourself?
Wisdom: Yeah. He showed me the basics and taught me all of that. The more I traveled and met people… I came up with my own thing. Now I shoot gunfighter. I shoot a gun in each hand, but it started what I call The Double Tap. You can see on some of the videos; if there’s two shots on one target, it makes a noise. I came up with that — the pull of the hammer back and firing off two rounds really fast.
Guns.com: Watching your videos, it’s impressive for sure. How long did it take you to get to the point where you were proficient and winning competitions?
Wisdom: When I was 13, I started winning matches and got pretty good then. I really learned that it was just kind of a freak year. The summer I was 16, I won the world championship overall, and I was the second youngest to ever win it.
Guns.com: Wow. Very cool. How many people are you competing against?
Wisdom: I think the year I won it, there were only 500.
Clayton Wisdom, aka @molefty_18, shows off his world title. (Photo: Clayton Wisdom)
Guns.com: Can you talk about any other large matches that you’ve won?
Wisdom: Let’s see, I’ve been the Missouri State Champion five times. I’ve won my regional multiple times.
Guns.com: You have a pretty big Instagram following. Have you had fans tell you that they’ve started SASS shooting because of you?
Wisdom: Yeah. The one that really sticks out is actually a kid from New Zealand. He’s a cowboy, and his name is Kiwi Rooster. He won his division in the World Championship; I think it was 2018 or something. He messaged me after the match on Instagram and thanked me because my videos really got him to step his game up to the next level. He said he saw me shoot, and he wanted to be where I was. That was the first moment where I was like, “Wow, people actually pay attention.” That woke me up. I never thought of it that way.
Guns.com: What’s one thing you’d like to tell people who haven’t tried SASS?
Wisdom: I feel like a lot of people don’t do it because they are nervous. They don’t want to mess up or look dumb in front of people. It’s pretty non-judgmental. Nobody’s like, “Oh, look at that guy. He’s slow.” There are people who’ve been shooting for 20 years who are slow as can be, and they love it. Some people like going slow. It’s their thing. It’s not about how fast you are. Some people are in it for the dress-up; some people are in it just to shoot an old gun that they got.
Don’t be scared to jump into it. Nobody’s going to judge you for being new. If anything, most cowboy matches I’ve been at, 99 percent of them, if there’s anybody spectating, guns and ammo are offered.
Guns.com: What your favorite handgun to compete with?
Wisdom: My favorite handgun is a new model Ruger Vaquero in .357 — 4 5/8-inch barrel. That is my favorite. Ruger has always been the best quality to me.
Guns.com: Very nice. What about a favorite rifle?
Wisdom: I like a Uberti 1873, 18-inch barrel, and .357 also. It’s just quality. It’s fast.
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Author Topic: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️ (Read 82823 times)
Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
There hasn’t been this much CO2 in the air in 3 million years. We have to stop, UN warns
LAST UPDATED ON OCTOBER 31ST, 2017 AT 8:45 PM BY ALEXANDRU MICU
SNIPPET 1:
It doesn’t look pretty. Overall, the document reports, in 2016, atmospheric concentrations of CO2 hit 403.3 parts per million (ppm), up from 400ppm in 2015.
“It is the largest increase we have ever seen in the 30 years we have had this network,” Dr Oksana Tarasova, chief of WMO’s global atmosphere watch programme, told BBC news.
“The largest increase was in the previous El Niño, in 1997-1998, and it was 2.7ppm; and now it is 3.3ppm. It is also 50% higher than the average of the last 10 years.”
Methane (CH4)
One more worrying trend seen by the WMO is a currently-unexplained increase of atmospheric methane , also larger than the average over the past decade. Growth was strongest in the tropics and subtropics, and carbon isotope analysis has revealed the growth is not released by burning fossil fuels; it’s not clear where it is coming from. The worst-case scenario, researchers fear, is that we’re looking at the start of a feedback mechanism.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/wmo-report-gas-bulletin/
Agelbert NOTE: Guess what tiny colony living insect, with a GIGANTIC total biomass on earth, which also just happens to THRIVE on HOT WEATHER (i.e. they live mostly in the tropics and subtropics which just happen to be getting a lot hotter because of Global Warming) produces a LOT of methane (MUCH more than cows, pound for pound) as part of their normal metabolic process?
Termite Metabilism
But there is more to this story that is severely lacking in big picture analysis of cause and effect. The Fossil Fuel Industry is NOT off the hook, though the article on methane wants to make it look that way.
WHY is the Fossil Fuel Industry the main culprit here? Isotope analysis of methane means the type of carbon isotope in the methane, because the isotopes of hydrogen are the ones the nuclear bomb makers (see "heavy" water) and nuclear power plants (see tritium and deuterium) control rather effectively.
So, how do they "know" the carbon isotope in the CH4 is not from burning fossil fuels?
12C & 13C:
These two stable isotopes of carbon are found naturally on Earth. Living matter (i.e., bacteria and plants) takes up carbon through CO2 in the atmosphere. This matter is often isotopically selective, generally preferring to break the weaker, light-isotope bonds. Fractionation is constrained to definable ranges for relatively stable environmental conditions. Measuring this fraction, 13C/12C or d13C, enables the research scientist to determine a variety of factors regarding a particular sample.
http://web.sahra.arizona.edu/programs/isotopes/carbon.html
Logically, the assumption the scientists quoted in the article must have made is that the extra CH4 in the tropics and subtropics is from living metabolic processes because it mostly contains the weaker, light-isotope bond carbon atoms.
But the Fossil Fuel Industry rampant burning of fossil fuels, which causes global warming, is the reason MORE metabolic activity from gut baccteria in the tropics and subtropics is occurring.
Also, I am flabbergasted by the article's silence on the massive increase in methane now occurring in the arctic due to thawing permafrost and thawing clathrates on the sea bed. I mean, they write an article making it rather clear that we are in a horribly dire runaway greenhouse and decide NOT to talk about the rapid increase in methane emissions in the arctic?
And what about all those leaking, recently tapped out fracked wells. that produce methane? Are they trying to avoid discussing the increase in methane in the USA and Canada because, conveniently, the EPA REFUSES to measure it? It sure looks that way.
Fracked wells emit 6 times more methane leaks: New Cornell study
So, yeah, methane producing gut (and ground) bacteria are very happy with increased average global temperatures. And, yeah, methane in that ground is going to be mostly the light carbon isotope type. But the methane from fracked wells is proportionately increasing as more fracking is done. Anybody that has a shred of scientific objectivity must assume that there is MORE methane being released now that there are MORE fracked wells out there, both active and inactive, contributing to the methane problem. Methane is 86 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than CO2. so you don't need a lot of it to goose global warming.
I am rather sick of these articles that go out of there way to let the fossil fuel polluters off the hook. The fossil Fuel Industry is THE CAUSE of all the warming. They need to be held responsible for the increased bacteria producing methane as well as as the increased fracked gas methane.
But the article does provide a great tallking point to knock down one of the fossil fuel industry's favorite duplicitous claims. They claim that CH4 (i.e. methane) from fracked wells and also the refining of crude oil is "natural" gas. It is, CLEARLY, because of its carbon isotope content, NOT NATURAL (i.e. not from bacterial metabolism). Only methane from cows, pig poop, human poop, tundra thawing anaerobic processes, termites, etc. is NATURAL gas. Tell them that methane from fossil fuel industry activity is UNnatural gas. Tell them that carbon isotope ratios prove that. Tell them they are full of baloney when they claim their crap polluting product is "natural" gas. Tell them they should stop lying to people about that.
Then ignore the verbal effluent they spew out.
The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
Bulk Carrier Goes Aground During Deadly Storm in Germany
October 30, 2017 by Reuters
The photo provided by Germany’s Central command for maritime emergencies shows the Panama-flagged bulk carrier Glory Amsterdam which ran aground off the shore of the German island of Langeoog on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017. Germany was hit by a heavy storm on Sunday.
SNIPPET:
BERLIN, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Shallow waters off a North Sea island complicated efforts on Monday to dislodge a large freighter that ran aground as Germany began cleaning up after a storm that killed at least six people there and in Poland and Czech Republic.
Railway operator Deutsche Bahn continued to deal with “significant damage” from downed trees on some rail routes. Service will be limited in parts of northern Germany, DB said, after being suspended in large parts of the north and centre of the country on Sunday, stranding thousands of travellers.
The non-profit environmental group World Wildlife Fund said the oil on board continued to pose a significant risk to the Wadden Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and renewed its call for a worldwide ban on heavy oil for use as ship fuel.
The Wadden Sea is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. Including sand banks, salt marshes and dunes, it stretches from the Netherlands to neighbouring Germany and Denmark.
“Numerous wading birds, ducks and geese that are resting there at the moment would be endangered by the oil” if the ship broke up, Hans-Ulrich Rosenberg, a mud flat expert with WWE, said in a statement.
Elsewhere in Germany, Deutsche Bahn said rail traffic on a number of key routes – including the heavily travelled line from Hamburg to Berlin – would resume on Monday afternoon.
Thousands of travellers were stranded on Sunday, with some seeking shelter in special sleeping cars provided at stations. Trains that resumed service on Monday were crammed so full that some passengers had to disembark. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal; editing by Mark Heinrich)
Full article with link to more photos:
http://gcaptain.com/freighter-aground-deadly-storm/
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House questions FEMA over Puerto Rico power contracts
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GWarnock
Interesting article from weather underground
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/blockbuster-assessment-humans-likely-responsible-virtually-all-global-warming-1950s
Agelbert NOTE: Whatever is in ice anywhere om Earth will soon be totally exposed because of Catastrophic Climate Change.
Top 10 Mysterious Things Found Frozen In Ice
https://youtu.be/lhI4ET18rBs
10 Strange, creepy and shocking things found on the ice:
Global warming opens the veil of secrecy over unique finds that have been buried in the ice for centuries and centuries.
Re: Interesting article from weather underground
Quote from: GWarnock on November 04, 2017, 02:01:46 pm
Blockbuster Assessment: Humans Likely Responsible For Virtually All Global Warming Since 1950s
Bob Henson · November 3, 2017, 2:18 PM EDT
And polluter criminals mostly responsible for global warming are shown below in a pie chart:
GWarnock, Thank you for a great post! Your contributions will bring others who need to learn the truth of how messed up our climate is.
NOTE: The image I posted above is sized. to see how I sized it, so you can size your own images in posts, just include this post in the reply (as I just did for your post) by hitting the "insert Quote" button. There you will see that I used "img width=800" with appropriate brackets framing.
Below are examples of the same image at 300 and 100:
http://cci-reanalyzer.org/reanalysis/monthly_maps/index.php
THIS ISN’T NORMAL!
“Normal” TV weather casting sucks so badly. We just had amazing record heat in California at the end of October. When it’s over 100 degrees day after day in California, it’s way too late to deny climate change is real. Then we have very strong storms (can you say “extreme weather event”) in New England. And of course the American press doesn’t even bother reporting even stronger storms in Germany and Eastern Europe. In the port of Hamburg the seas were more than a meter above normal, flooding the fish market. Millions lost power, with flooding all over. It’s NOT NORMAL!!
Thank you for listening this week, and my thanks to everyone who supports this show. Many of you did make donations, or signed up as subscribing listeners. Frankly, I got enough to cover the costs of producing and distributing the program, but not enough to actually pay me any kind of wage for doing this. Oh well, I love the opportunity you give me to talk with such brilliant people. Plus, I just can’t quit while a series of threats are so plainly developing. On with the show!
If you can still help, please find out how here.
Please tell your friends and your electronic friends about Radio Ecoshock. That helps get the word out too.
https://youtu.be/fqmTtgQ_gPA
https://www.ecoshock.org/2017/11/expect-a-sudden-sea-level-event.html
Agelbert NOTE: Cleantechnica just got the word on the article GWarnock posted here a couple of days ago.
National Climate Report Finds Virtually ALL Global Temperature Rise Since 1950 Caused By Human Activity
November 5th, 2017 by Steve Hanley
Who will the Walton family sell their low-priced products to then? What good will fossil fuels be if there are no cars to drive, homes to heat, or factories to run? Will anyone even know we were here a million years from now when the waters recede and all records of our existence have been lost? Will genetic mutations make the next humans smart enough to work together rather than devising new and interesting ways of killing each other? Based on the history of humanity to date, the most likely answer is no.
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/11/05/national-climate-report-finds-virtually-global-temperature-rise-since-1950-caused-human-activity/
Agelbert NOTE: ANOTHER "gift", compliments of the Fossil Fuel Industry. The "gifts" will increase in frequency and duration. We, not the fossil Fuel Industry, will be billed for the damages. We are screwed. Have a nice day.
Storm Herwart Sweeps Across Germany, Czech Republic, Poland
History in ruins - In Oldenswort in Schleswig Holstein, a historic windmill fell victim to storm Herwart. Windmill Catharina was built in 1786 and was a huge draw among tourists, who could rent a room inside the historical structure.
Under the water - The Elbe River breached its banks in Hamburg, flooding a nearby parking lot. Fire fighters in the city have received 500 calls to deal with emergency situations.
Berlin: state of emergency - The Berlin fire brigade declared a state of emergency early Sunday as Herwart roared over the German capital. One person was seriously injured when scaffolding from a construction site fell on him.
Flood of calls - The Berlin fire brigade said it had received 100 emergency phone calls between 4 a.m. (0300 GMT) and 7 a.m. It has requested all volunteer fire fighters to report for duty
Trees uprooted - The storm has uprooted several trees in the affected regions. No casualties or injuries have been reported in Germany so far due to falling trees.
More info and graphics:
http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/environment/s-11798]http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/environment/s-11798
EcoWatch
Moyers and McKibben: What to Do When Time Is Running Out for the Planet
By Bill Moyers
Moyers: For me the question now is how much time do we have? When it comes to global warming, all signs suggest we are running out of time.
McKibben: The question of time is the question that haunts me. I remain optimistic enough to think that in general human beings will figure out the right thing to do eventually, and Americans will somehow get back on course. Of course, there'll be a lot of damage done in the meantime. But with climate change in particular—the gravest of the problems we face—time is the one thing we don't have. It's the only problem we've ever had that came with a time limit. And if we don't solve it soon, we don't solve it. Our governments so far have not proven capable of dealing with this question. They simply haven't been able to shake off the self-interest and massive power of the fossil-fuel industry. It's going to take a lot of work and a lot of effort to get us onto renewable energy quickly and everywhere. It's doable technically; the question is whether it's doable politically or not. There I don't know.
Full Interview Transcript:
https://www.ecowatch.com/moyers-mckibben-interview-2508046318.html
Empire Files: After Hurricane Harvey, Abandoned Community Takes Charge
After a flurry of media attention, the devastation in Houston, Texas from Hurricane Harvey faded from public view. But after unprecedented floods and widespread destruction, the story is far from over. In Part 1 of her investigation, Abby Martin travels to Houston one month later
https://youtu.be/i_LmCOh-nm8
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20406%27%20style=%27color:#000;
MV Ever Smart Arrives in Los Angeles with Toppled Containers
November 10, 2017 by gCaptain
MV Ever Smart alongside in Los Angeles on November 9, 2017.
The MV Ever Smart arrived at the port of Los Angeles on Wednesday showing clear evidence of the dozens of containers which were lost from the vessel during its voyage across the Pacific.
As gCaptain reported previously, the British-flagged Ever Smart lost 42 containers overboard approximately 700nm east of Japan on October 30, 2017. The UK MAIB has launched an investigation into the incident.
The incident occurred as the ship was underway from Taipei, Taiwan to the Port of Los Angeles.
Although the MAIB investigation will seek to determine the cause of the accident, on the day the containers were lost, meteorologists were tracking a powerful hurricane force low-pressure system over the northwestern Pacific.
http://gcaptain.com/mv-ever-smart-arrives-in-los-angeles-with-toppled-containers/
Agelbert NOTE: Catastrophic Climate Change will eventually make blue water cargo shipping impossible (details below).
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Inviting someone to the cinema
Listen to the conversation and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills.
Check your understanding: multiple choice
Inviting someone to the cinema - exercises
Inviting someone to the cinema - answers
Inviting someone to the cinema - transcript
Jack: Hi, Ismael. How are you?
Ismael: Hi, Jack. I'm OK but I’ve got loads of homework.
Jack: Me too, but would you like to come with us to the cinema tonight?
Ismael: Who's 'us'?
Jack: Me, Jamie, Nicola and Selina.
Ismael: OK, and what's the film?
Jack: We don't know. We can't decide. There's that new horror film, 'Light and Dark'.
Ismael: No, no, no! I don't like horror films.
Jack: OK, well, there's a comedy about a school.
Ismael: Oh, no more school, please! What about a romcom?
Jack: Romcom?
Ismael: You know, romantic comedy, boy meets girl ...
Jack: What? Really? No, I hate romantic films. I like action.
Ismael: Well, there's a new science fiction film, 'Alien attacks'.
Jack: OK, I like science fiction. Let's see that.
Ismael: OK, I'll ask the others if they like sci-fi.
Jack: What time is the film?
Ismael: At 8 o'clock. Let’s meet at 7:30 outside the cinema.
Jack: OK. See you later.
Ismael: Bye.
Beginner/A1
What kind of films do you like?
Kostantinus 7 January, 2021 - 06:50
I don't really like horror movie, although I watched some of them when I was a kid. Now I prefer science fiction films. Sometimes I watch romantic comedy with my girlfriend.
rafaelyeshua 15 December, 2020 - 14:53
I like the science fiction films, more the ones that are about travel to the future
Dul_San 1 November, 2020 - 21:54
My favorite films are the science fiction
Abril_ms 23 October, 2020 - 04:11
I like action films, My favorite movie is Divergent
Luna 20 August, 2020 - 09:13
l like animations (anime specially one piece) and sci-fi (like AVENGERS)
Xuka 16 August, 2020 - 19:11
I like romantic comedy films the best. I often watch this genre of India, Korea, China. I feel both funny and emotional when enjoying them. I don't like horror films. There were lots of blood, scary images, plus some jump-shock moments, shooting, fighting, and dead bodies. I was obsessed with all scenes and sounds in the films.
zagrybast 9 August, 2020 - 09:27
Let’s see... I think I like horror and drama. I like thinking about the film after it ends. And I don’t like a comedy film.
IANPAUL 13 July, 2020 - 19:24
I like comedy, horror and science fiction.
Sherry4869 12 May, 2020 - 15:47
I like Japanese animation very much. I also like to watch comedy, science fiction, romantic films. I like to watch -<JUON>---Horror movie. But these make me so scared.
DIGIOTANIMES 4 May, 2020 - 20:42
the movies that I like are the horror, science fiction and movies from my favorite anime series
_16lx 28 March, 2020 - 21:29
I like every kinds of films , but I don't like horror films , my fav films is ' me before you ' and that's romcom film
karla09 26 March, 2020 - 21:20
the movies i like are suspense, comedy and science fiction.
These exercises help us in situations of daily life for which they are important.
ArelyLuna 12 March, 2020 - 05:57
I like comedy movies because they are so funny but i also like action movies
Raysan 18 September, 2019 - 16:21
I love animations (or call it anime if you want), especially Doraemon and Conan.
cian007 5 July, 2019 - 03:56
i like the action,comedy and science fiction films
empty 2 July, 2019 - 16:13
What kind of films do you like? I like comedy and science fiction films .
I like the cartoon of course, and comedy. Why? Causes I'm a kid. : ) Especially, Mickey's Mouse Short Films, I wonder why he so cute and funny. And because it's short, so I can study MORE ENGLISH. : (
Shashi 6 March, 2019 - 12:38
I like horror, comedy, science fiction and history films. There are fun and I feel happy. My favorite films are kids films such as Cinderella, blue aloe.
khanhlinh92004 7 August, 2018 - 10:54
I like The Courage Dog.
UrbaezEdith 10 July, 2018 - 16:58
I like comedy, romantic, action, science fition or horror films.
mrdoctor123 16 June, 2018 - 09:35
i like anime .special is one piece
I like mistery movies, science fiction, drama.
daniel91815 1 March, 2018 - 17:41
well i like science fictions, war, comedy and biography films, science fictions i like when aliens arrive to the earth, war based in true history or invented, and biography i learn a lot things about other life and dont make the same mistakes
DerekVim21savage 17 January, 2018 - 19:28
My favourite film is Fast and Furious. Vin Diesel is fabulous!
I like comedy
perutiona 6 December, 2017 - 15:40
I like manly the comedy movies, also I like to watch the fiction films and war films. In truth, I never liked to see romantic movies because I think them much sugar.
ute 6 October, 2017 - 09:47
I like action film and detective film. I hate romantic film and love stories
mydream2k2 29 September, 2017 - 02:11
I like films : comedy, romantic film, science fiction movie.... except horrnor films. But I never see a movie at cinema. All of cinemas in my city is so bad and I don't have time to go the other cities to watch film. That's the reason I always watch films at home.
dragon1516 21 September, 2017 - 08:49
I like comedy film and action
abhisheksharma02 4 January, 2019 - 05:34
Can you write a caption for this photo? What are the girls thinking...
Something different this week. Can you guess what this might be?
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The IHE Congratulates Dr. Ilke Akpinar as New HTAi Member
The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) is pleased to congratulate Dr. Ilke Akpinar, MD, as a new member of Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi). Dr. Akpinar is currently pursuing a MSc in Health Policy Research from the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. Dr. Akpinar was a pediatric surgeon at the Antalya Training and Research Hospital in Turkey…
IHE/CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Fellow
Date of Posting: December 11, 2017Application Deadline: April 5, 2018Anticipated Start Date: September 1, 2018 Impact goals The goal for the experiential learning opportunity is: Real world demonstration of the feasibility and practical value of life cycle health technology assessment, analyses, and implementation plans to support the adoption of innovations in precision health…
Fellowship Opportunity – Health System Impact Fellowship Opportunity for post-doctoral fellow at the IHE
CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship The Institute of Health Economics provides a unique intersection between research, health policy and management and commercialization. We have a track record of supporting Masters and Phd students in practicums working on a variety of projects commissioned by health system decision-makers. The goal for the experiential learning opportunity is:…
News Release: The IHE and CAPT: Addressing gaps and challenges of precision health technology integration in Canada
(1) The IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop Summary Report Precision medicine is a treatment model that seeks to shape healthcare decisions, practices, procedures, and prescriptions based on the needs of an individual patient – taking into account such details as a person’s genes, environment, and lifestyle. Shifting away from a one-size-fits-all model, this approach…
Addressing gaps and challenges with the integration of precision health technology into the Canadian health system: Summary report of an IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop
This report provides a summary of the IHE/CAPT Precision Health workshop that took place on October 22, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario. The intent of the workshop was to identify gaps and opportunities in implementing precision health technologies into the Canadian health system. The workshop was supported by unrestricted grants from Merck Canada and Hoffmann-La Roche Limited.The views…
Health Policy Dialogues
2017 The Institute of Health Economics, in partnership with numerous other organizations, regularly hosts small invitational policy dialogues with visiting speakers and Alberta stakeholders to engage in policy dialogues on important topics relevant to Alberta health system priorities. Most of these events are conducted under Chatham House rules and deliberations are confidential,…
Health Policy Events
The Institute of Health Economics, in partnership with numerous other organizations, regularly hosts health policy series and single events to discuss current topics in health policy with a broad audience. One of the ongoing speaker series is the Alberta Innovates – IHE Health Policy Speaker Series, which showcases visiting thought-leaders in health. In development are a number…
Agreement among the Productivity Components of Eight Presenteeism Tests in a Sample of Health Care Workers
| Angus Thompson, Arianna Waye
Presenteeism (reduced productivity at work) is thought to be responsible for large economic costs. Nevertheless, much of the research supporting this is based on self-report questionnaires that have not been adequately evaluated.
IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop: Key Documents
Summary Report Addressing gaps and challenges with the integration of precision health technologies into the Canadian health system – Summary report of an IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop Download Summary Report Program IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop – Final ProgramDownload Final Program
News Release: The IHE congratulates Dr. Dat Tran as the Network of Alberta Health Economist (NOAHE) Health Economics Scholar Award (Fellowship) recipient
The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) is pleased to congratulate Dr. Dat Tran, PhD, as a recipient of the Network of Alberta Health Economists (NOAHE) Health Economics Scholar Award for 2017-2018. This fellowship, funded through the Health Funding and Economics Capacity (HFEC) Grant supported by Alberta Health, and in partnership with the University of Alberta, supports the professional…
News Release: The IHE Congratulates Luiza Grazziotin as New HTAi Member
The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) is pleased to congratulate Ms. Luiza Grazziotin, PhD Student at the University of Calgary, as a new member of Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi). Ms. Grazziotin is currently pursuing a PhD in Community Health Sciences, with a specialization in Health Economics, at the University of Calgary. Ms. Grazziotin is also the Secretary…
Senior Health Economist, Innovation and Commercialization Support
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaDate of Posting: November 21, 2017Start Date: January 1, 2018 or as soon as possible thereafterSalary and Benefits: Competitive remuneration packageDeadline for Application: Posting will remain open until filled Introduction: The Alberta-based Institute of Health Economics (IHE) conveys evidence-based research on complex healthcare issues to provincial…
Senior Health Economist, Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy
Career Opportunity – Senior Health Economist, Innovation and Commercialization Support
The Senior Health Economist will, among other duties, be involved in leading the development of health economics project proposals, including headroom analyses, economic evaluations, and value of information assessments for MNE Biopharmaceutical, Medical Device and Health IT companies. Application process: Please submit a cover letter and CV and contact Dr. McCabe’s Office…
Career Opportunity – Senior Health Economist, Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy
IHE is the Provincial Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agency and has provided analytical support to the Government of Alberta decision making processes for over a decade. The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) team at IHE undertakes evaluations of the full range of health technologies including drugs, devices, talking therapies, and services. The Senior Health Economist provides…
The Economic Contribution of Industry-Sponsored Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
| Dat Tran, Ilke Akpinar, Richard Fedorak, Egon Jonsson, John Mackey, Lawrence Richer, Philip Jacobs
Purpose: In pharmaceutical clinical trials, industrial sponsors pay for study drugs and related healthcare services. We conducted a study to determine industry’s economic contribution of these trials to the Alberta healthcare system. Authors and Affiliations: Dat T. Tran1,2; Ilke Akpinar2 ; Richard N. Fedorak3 ; Egon Jonsson2 ; John R. Mackey4 ; Lawrence Richer5 ; Philip…
Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: Key Documents
Summary Report Summary Report Coming Soon Program Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: A pan-Canadian Roundtable – Final ProgramDownload Final Program Background Document Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: A pan-Canadian Roundtable – BackgrounderDownload Backgrounder
Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: Presentations
Wednesday, 1 November 2017 Edmonton, Alberta 12:00 – 12:45 Lunch 12:45 – 13:00 Welcome and Blessing Elder Marvin Littlechild, Treaty No. 6https://vimeo.com/album/4855345/video/242262239 13:00 – 13:50 Context Setting Overview of Roundtable background report: The economic impact of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous populations in Canada.John Sproule Senior Policy Director,…
Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: Key People
Keynote Speaker Chief Dr. Robert Joseph O.B.C.Chief, Gwawaenuk First Nation; Ambassador, Reconciliation Canada Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, O.B.C., is a true peace-builder whose life and work are examples of his personal commitment. A Hereditary Chief of the Gwawa'enuxw First Nation, Chief Joseph has dedicated his life to bridging the differences brought about by intolerance, lack…
About the Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada Roundtable
1 November 2017 Edmonton, Alberta On November 1st, 2017, the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) hosted a pan-Canadian roundtable discussion regarding diabetes care and management in indigenous populations in Canada. Participation included 49 delegates representing 34 unique organizations from Yukon, BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, as well as several national/Federal…
Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada – Backgrounder
On November 1st, 2017, the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) hosted a pan-Canadian roundtable discussion regarding diabetes care and management in indigenous populations in Canada. This event was sponsored through an educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Canada, and was developed in consultation with an advisory committee including: Mr. Mehmood Alibhai (Boehringer Ingelheim…
Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada – Final Program
Examining the Economic Impact of Diabetes in Indigenous Peoples in Canada
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by John Sproule, Senior Policy Director, Institute of Health Economics. Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: A Pan-Canadian Roundtable
The First Nations Health Transformation Agenda
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Addie Pryce, Director of Health, Assembly of First Nations. Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: A Pan-Canadian Roundtable
Diabetes and My Nation
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Hesham Nabih, President, HN Consultants Ltd. Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: A Pan-Canadian Roundtable
Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Amelia Tekwatonti McGregor, Elder and Community Advisory Board Member, Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project. Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: A Pan-Canadian Roundtable
Reorganizing the Approach to Diabetes through the Application of Registries
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Dean Eurich, Professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, and Kari Meneen, Team Lead, RADAR; Diabetes Care Coordinator, OKAKI Health Intelligence Inc. Diabetes Care and Management in Indigenous Populations in Canada: A Pan-Canadian Roundtable
Addictions & Mental Health Initiatives
Provincial Evaluation of Supervised Consumption Service Sites The Institute of Health Economics has been asked to conduct a Provincial Evaluation of Supervised Consumption Service (SCS) sites. This decision came at the recommendation of the Minister’s Opioid Emergency Response Commission (MOERC). The Institute has been working in close collaboration with Alberta Health, SCS sites,…
Addictions and Mental Health Events hosted by the IHE
Strengthening Mental Health Services for Children and Families Innovation Forum 19 November 2015 Strengthening Mental Health Services for Children and Families was the 14th IHE Innovation Forum, a semi-annual event bringing together senior public- and private-sector experts and decision-makers to address health care policy issues. Improving Mental Health Transitions Consensus Development…
Creating the Conditions for Moving Care to the Community: Learning from the Vermont Experience
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Ms. Jenney Samuelson, Vermont Blueprint for Health Expansion and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP). Health Policy Dialogues
IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop: Presentations
Sunday, 22 October 2017 Toronto, Ontario 13:00 – 13:15 Introduction and Welcome – IHE Dan Palfrey, Senior Consultant, Institute of Health Economics 13:15 – 14:00 The Potential Contribution of Precision Health to Patient Care and the Canadian Experience Thus Far Katherine Bonter, Director Of Intellectual Property, Clementia Pharmaceuticals Inc.Download Presentation…
IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop: Key People
Speaker and Panelist Biographies Louise BinderHealth Policy Consultant, Save Your Skin Foundation Louise is a lawyer and health advocate who has been involved in informing the development of health policy and systemic treatment access practices from a patient perspective for more than 20 years. She started her work in this area in the HIV community in the early 1990s after her…
About the IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop
22 October 2017 Toronto, Ontario On October 22, 2017, in conjunction with the 2017 Annual CAPT Conference, the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) and the Canadian Association for Population Therapeutics (CAPT) co-hosted the IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop. Precision Health (PH) has potential to provide a wide range of solutions such as enhanced R&D efficiency, earlier diagnosis…
IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop - Final Program
On October 22, 2017, in conjunction with the 2017 Annual CAPT Conference, the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) and the Canadian Association for Population Therapeutics (CAPT) co-hosted the IHE/CAPT Precision Health Workshop. Precision Health (PH) has potential to provide a wide range of solutions such as enhanced R&D efficiency, earlier diagnosis and time to treatment,…
An Alberta Framework for Evaluation of Companion Diagnostics for Provincial Decision Making & Case study on PD-L1 testing for NSCLC
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Jennifer Pillay, MSc Student, University of Alberta. IHE/CAPT Precision Health (PH) Workshop – Integrating Precision Health into the Canadian Health System.
Innovation in Personalized Medicine: Is Our Healthcare System Ready?
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Katherine Bonter, Director of Intellectual Property, Clementia Pharmaceuticals Inc. IHE/CAPT Precision Health (PH) Workshop – Integrating Precision Health into the Canadian Health System.
Regulatory Experiences with Precision Health
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Kelly Robinson, Director, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada. IHE/CAPT Precision Health (PH) Workshop – Integrating Precision Health into the Canadian Health System.
Community paramedicine: Program characteristics and evaluation
| Bing Guo, Paula Corabian, Charles Yan, Lisa Tjosvold
This evidence-based report examines expanding the role of paramedics in the community. It summarizes the various types of community paramedicine programs (characteristics, implementation, and funding sources in other jurisdictions) as well as the safety, effectiveness, and economic outcomes of these paramedic programs towards providing patients with alternate, non-emergency health…
IHE Health Economics Graduate Award (Graduate Student Internship Program (GSIP)) – University of Alberta
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaDate of Posting: September 25, 2017Deadline for Application: November 22, 2017Salary: $25.00 per hour; up to $14,000 total ($7,000 from IHE, $7,000 from the University of Alberta)Duration: Part-time (Internship) l The duration of this internship is up to 560 hours, to be worked over 4-8 months, depending on hours worked per week.Note: International…
Matching the supply of doctors with Alberta's needs
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Des Gorman, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland; Executive Chairman of Health Workforce New Zealand. Health Policy Dialogues
List of Headache Guideline Resources and Tools September 2017
This lists all the documents/websites relevant to the guideline that are available on the IHE and TOP websites, both clinician and patient resources. Link to Alberta Ambassador Guideline Adaptation Program
L’Institute of Health Economics publie L’IHE dans votre poche 2017 – guide statistiques sur l’économie de la santé
L’IHE dans votre poche donne une vue d'ensemble compacte, exhaustive et comparative des aspects économiques du système canadien de soins de santé. Ce guide est révisé tous les deux ans depuis 2006. Les catégories employées dans le guide de 2017, ce qui comprend les coûts totaux, les données sur l’utilisation…
L’IHE dans votre poche 2017 – Guide de statistiques sur l’économie de la santé
L’IHE dans votre poche 2017 – Guide de statistiques sur l’économie de la santé présente et divise les données les plus récentes en sections portant sur le fardeau économique de la maladie, les ressources en soins de santé, les comportements liés à la santé, l'état de santé, les…
News Release: New demonstration project marks World Sepsis Day
(Calgary & Edmonton, Alberta) Alberta physicians will soon be evaluating new laboratory tests for improving the diagnosis and treatment of sepsis, a potentially fatal infection that develops in the bloodstream and major organs. A four-way partnership has been struck between Alberta Innovates (AI), Alberta Health Services (AHS), the Institute of Health Economics and bioMérieux…
ERAS - Value based surgery
| Olle Ljungqvist, Thanh Nguyen, Gregg Nelson
This paper reviews implementation of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) and its financial implications. Literature on clinical outcomes and financial implications were reviewed. Reports from many different surgery types shows that implementation of ERAS reduces complications and shortens hospital stay. These improvements have major impacts on reducing the cost of care even…
Endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke
| IHE Institute of Health Economics
Alberta STE Report written under contract with the Alberta Health Technologies Decision Process (AHTDP). This STE report examines the social and system demographics, technological safety and therapeutic efficacy/effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and budget impact of endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke, contextualized to the Alberta setting. Section Authors: Section…
List of Low Back Pain Guideline Resources and Tools July 2017
Ambassador Program Guideline for Management of Primary Headache in Adults - Clinical Practice Guideline Background Document - July 2017
This background document outlines the methods used to develop the Alberta Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for Management of Primary Headache in Adults, which was produced as part of the Alberta Ambassador Guideline Adaptation Program. Link to Alberta Ambassador Guideline Adaptation Program
Ken Bond1, Alun Cameron2, Paula Corabian1, Bing Guo1*, Christa Harstall1, Iñaki Imaz Iglesia3, Carmen Moga1*, Maria Ospina1, Don Schopflocher4, and Ann Scott1 participated in the modified Delphi and or validation process; Patricia Chatterley1 and Liz Dennett1 searched the literature and provided information support; Wendy McIndoo1 provided assistance during the Delphi process.…
IHE and CAPT announce new partnership in support of IHE Life Sciences Open Innovation Platform
The IHE recently launched the IHE Life Sciences Open Innovation Platform™, an on-going/ living, online crowdsourcing or “ideasourcing” tool, used to engage a wide range of stakeholders to catalyze policy conversations and stimulate the formation of teams to solve complex health policy challenges. Since its launch in late 2016, the IHE Life Sciences Open Innovation…
Role of Real-World Evidence in Decision Making: Key Documents
Roundtable Final Report Real-world evidence: What role can it play in real-world decision making? Summary ReportDownload Summary Report Roundtable Background Document Real-world evidence: What role can it play in real-world decision making? BackgrounderDownload Backgrounder
Introducing the IHE Leader Series
Episode 1: Michele Evans, Assistant Deputy Minister, Pharmaceuticals and Supplementary Benefits Division, Alberta Health Subject: Michele Evans explores questions such as the impact biosimilars has on government spending, the opportunities that Biosimilars could address, and asks the question what considerations should be made in their uptake and opens up the discussion on how…
Real-world evidence: What role can it play in real-world decision making? Summary Report
This report provides a summary of the IHE Real-World Evidence Roundtable, which took place on December 12, 2016. The intent of the roundtable was to capture initial thinking regarding preferences and perceptions of the use of real-world evidence for pricing and reimbursement of new medicines in Canada and what more may be needed.
The IHE releases Towards a Framework for Biosimilar Evidence and Knowledge Exchange
This forum was held in conjunction with the 2017 Annual Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) Symposium. This is the third IHE Forum on biologics/biosimilars that has been conducted, with the first held on May 29, 2014, and the second on October 6, 2016. The purpose of this forum was to gather key stakeholders from the public and private sectors, as…
Towards a framework for biosimilar evidence and knowledge exchange: Summary report of the IHE Biosimilars Forum
This report provides a summary of the IHE Biosimilars Forum engagement exercise that took place on April 23, 2017 in Ottawa, Ontario. The intent of the forum was to identify: options to categorize and consider biosimilars; a process to engage stakeholders to identify place in therapy and further evidence development that may be required; and an approach to knowledge exchange that…
The Institute of Health Economics Releases IHE In Your Pocket 2017
IHE In Your Pocket is a compact, comprehensive, and comparative overview of the economic aspects of the Canadian health care system. It has been revised every second year since 2006. As done previously, IHE In Your Pocket 2017 includes aggregate costs, utilization and cost data for separate sectors or provider groups, population indicators, and system-wide performance indicators.…
IHE In Your Pocket 2017: A Handbook of Health Economic Statistics
IHE In Your Pocket 2017 – A Handbook of Health Economic Statistics includes the most currently available data, presented in separate sections on the economic burden of illness, health care resources, health behaviours, health status and demographics, and health system performance. IHE In Your Pocket was designed to provide a compact, comprehensive, and comparative overview…
Benefit of adjunct universal rectal screening for Chlamydia genital infections in women attending Canadian sexually transmitted infection clinics
| Thanh Nguyen, Ilke Akpinar, Jennifer Gratrix, Sabrina Plitt, Petra Smyczek, Ron Read, Philip Jacobs, Tom Wong, Ameeta E Singh
Adding universal rectal screening to urogenital screening should positively impact rectal Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) incidence in affected populations. A dynamic Markov model was used to evaluate costs and outcomes of three rectal CT screening strategies among women attending sexually transmitted infection clinics in Alberta, Canada: universal urogenital-only screening (UG-only),…
Building a Community-Based Health System: Key People
Speaker Biographies Keynote Speakers Mr. Nigel Edwards CEO, Nuffield Trust Nigel Edwards is Chief Executive at the Nuffield Trust. Prior to becoming Chief Executive in 2014, Nigel was an expert advisor with KPMG’s Global Centre of Excellence for Health and Life Sciences and a Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund. Nigel was Policy Director of the NHS Confederation for 11…
IHE Innovation Forum XVII - Building a Community-Based Health System
2 May 2017Edmonton, Alberta Building a Community-Based Health System: Lessons for a Path Forward is the 17th IHE Innovation Forum, a semi-annual event bringing together senior public- and private-sector experts and decision-makers to address health care policy issues. Our 17th IHE Innovation Forum Keynote Speakers are Nigel Edwards, CEO, Nuffield Trust, and Muhamad Elrashidi, Kern…
Building a Commnunity-Based Health System: Presentations
2 May 2017Edmonton, Alberta Welcome and Greetings GreetingsDr. Lorne TyrrellBoard Chair, IHEDr. Carl AmrheinDeputy Minister, Alberta Healthhttps://vimeo.com/album/4593585/video/216192193 Keynote Presentations Shifting the Balance of Care: Great ExpectationsMr. Nigel EdwardsCEO, Nuffield TrustDownload Presentationhttps://vimeo.com/album/4593585/video/216192696 Co-located, Integrated…
IHE Announces Dr. Christopher McCabe as New Executive Director and CEO
“Since its formation, the IHE has grown from a small research team to a global leader in health economics and health technology assessment,” said Dr. D. Lorne Tyrrell, Chair of the Institute of Health Economics, and Professor and Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology at the University of Alberta. “Dr. Christopher McCabe, former Research Director and…
Innovation Forum XVII – Building a Community-Based Health System – Final Program
Building a Community-Based Health System: Lessons for a Path Forward is the 17th IHE Innovation Forum, a semi-annual event bringing together senior public- and private-sector experts and decision-makers to address health care policy issues.
Co-located, Integrated Community Specialists in Primary Care
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Muhamad Elrashidi, Kern Center Population Health Scholar, Mayo Clinic. IHE Innovation Forum XVII – Building a Community-Based Health System: Lessons for a Path Forward
Shifting the Balance of Care: Great Expectations
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Mr. Nigel Edwards, CEO, Nuffield Trust. IHE Innovation Forum XVII – Building a Community-Based Health System: Lessons for a Path Forward
Towards a Framework for Biosimilar Evidence Knowledge Exchange – IHE Biosimilars Forum 2017
Attendees represented a diverse range of perspectives and included: public and private payers, clinicians, patient advocacy groups, and biosimilar and originator industry leaders. Speakers included: Laura McIvor, Chief Pharmacist, Healthcare Improvement Scotland; Dr. Thomas Walters, Co-Director, SickKids Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Program in Toronto; and Dr. Carter…
About the IHE Biosimilars Invitational Forum
23 April 2017 Ottawa, Ontario On April 23rd, the IHE held an invitational forum on the topic of biosimilars in conjunction with the annual CADTH meeting. Download Summary ReportTowards a framework for biosimilar evidence and knowledge exchange – Summary report of the IHE Biosimilars Forum The meeting objectives were to: leverage a previous IHE Biosimilars Forum and share…
IHE Biosimilars Invitational Forum: Key Documents
Summary Report Towards a framework for biosimilar evidence and knowledge exchange – Summary report of the IHE Biosimilars Forum Download Summary Report Program IHE Biosimilars Invitational Forum: Towards a Framework for Biosimilar Evidence & Knowledge Exchange – Final ProgramDownload Final Program
IHE Biosimilars Invitational Forum: Key People
Biographies Ms. Julia Brown Julia Brown has been with Janssen Inc. for 14 years and is currently the Vice President of Government Affairs and Market Access. Previous roles at Janssen include National Director of Government and Community Relations, Director of Health Economics and Reimbursement, and Director of Government Relations, Ontario/Atlantic. Julia also serves as the Past-President…
IHE Biosimilars Invitational Forum: Presentations
12:30 – 13:00 Opening RemarksDr. Chris Henshall, Professor, Health Economics Research Group, Brunel Universityhttps://vimeo.com/album/4584047/video/215117100 13:00 – 13:15 Setting the Stage: Enabling Elements to Achieve Biosimilar ObjectivesMr. Dan Palfrey, Senior Consultant, Institute of Health Economicshttps://vimeo.com/album/4584047/video/215117153 13:15 –…
IHE Biosimilars Invitational Forum – Final Program
This IHE Biosimilars Invitational Forum provided the perspective of international, national, and Alberta speakers and panellists who described the biosimilar reimbursement approach taken and outcomes achieved by other jurisdictions, guiding principles and policy options for Alberta, and key performance indicators and targets for reimbursement policy going forward. Towards a Framework…
IHE Health Economics Scholar (Fellowship) Award
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaDate of Posting: March 29, 2017Application Deadline: June 1, 2017, close of business (4 pm MDT)Start Date: flexible - to be determined once a successful candidate has been identified Salary: $55,000Note: This posting may close before the deadline if a successful candidate has been identified. Purpose: There is considerable need for greater development…
IHE Newsletter Issue 1
IHE to lead the economic evaluation of two major provincial initiatives The Economic Evaluation of the Nurse Practitioner Demonstration Project Last week, Alberta Health announced that four health care centres (three in Calgary and one in Edmonton) will receive an additional $10 million dollars to hire nurse practitioners, to further meet the healthcare needs of Albertans. The…
Partnering for a Healthier Alberta – Summary Report from SCN/Innovative Medicines Canada Engagement
Alberta Health Services (AHS) has established a number of Strategic Clinical Networks (SCNs) in the province around specific health care topics (e.g., Cardiovascular Health & Stroke) and within areas where care is delivered (e.g., Surgery). The SCNs are the engines of innovation in the health system and have a mandate to find new and innovative ways of delivering care to provide…
Ambassador Program Guideline for the Evidence-Informed Primary Care Management of Low Back Pain, 3rd Edition - Background Document - February 2017
This background document outlines the methods used to update the Alberta Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for the Evidence-Informed Primary Care Management of Low Back Pain, which was produced as part of the second phase of the Alberta Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Ambassador Program. Link to Alberta Ambassador Guideline Adaptation Program
Biosimilars Bi-weekly Update – February 27, 2017
Using existing infrastructure to track outcomes utilize existing health IT infrastructure to track biosimilar utilization and outcomes, as opposed to creating separate national or multiple provincial patient registries Avoid non-medical switching no non-medical switching of innovator biologics to biosimilars until there is unequivocal evidence supporting its safety Robust patient…
IHE Graduate Award (Internship) - University of Calgary
Date of Posting: February 23, 2017Application Deadline: March 13, 2017 11:59 pm MSTSalary: $7,000 for the equivalent of one semester (approx. 4 months, or part time for a period agreed upon by the candidate, supervisor, and IHE).Note: For this award, internship work and payment are exclusive of existing graduate work and payment (see * below for details). Purpose: A need has been…
IHE Scholar Award (Fellowship) - University of Calgary
Date of Posting: February 23, 2017Application Deadline: March 13, 2017 11:59 pm MSTSalary: $55,000 for one year (includes benefits of approximately $2000)Note: This award can be applied as a portion of a longer postdoctoral position, dependent on commitment of funding from other sources. Purpose: A need has been identified for greater development in health economics capacity, as…
eHealth Policy Symposium: Key Documents
Symposium Agenda e-Health Policy Symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health in Alberta – Morning AgendaDownload Agenda Discussion Paper Information Exchange: Engaging Providers in Health Care InnovationDownload Discussion Paper
e-Health Policy Symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health in Alberta
About the e-Health Policy Symposium
14 February 2017 Edmonton, Alberta The Institute of Health Economics and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health, in collaboration with Alberta Health, are pleased to have co-hosted a public policy symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health – focused on moving Alberta towards a person-centric health system, and the need to improve continuity…
eHealth Policy Symposium: Key People
Biographies Moderators Dr. William Ghali, MD, MPH, FRCPCScientific Director, O’Brien Institute for Public HealthProfessor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary Dr. Ghali is a General Internist (MD, University of Calgary; FRCPC, Queen’s University) with methodological training in health services research and epidemiology (MPH)…
e-Health Policy Symposium: Presentations
Tuesday, 14 February 2017 Edmonton, Alberta 09:00 – 09:15 Greetings and Opening Remarks Dr. Carl Amrhein, Deputy Minister of HealthDr. William Ghali, Scientific Director, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of CalgaryMr. John Sproule, Senior Policy Director, Institute of Health Economicshttps://vimeo.com/album/4434657/video/205238362 09:15 – 09:30 A Citizen's…
E-Health Policy Symposium – Morning Agenda
This symposium addressed the importance of integrated health information as a necessary foundation for improved patient and system outcomes. The focus of the symposium was to discuss the benefits and challenges of shared health information and to better understand the role that health care providers play individually and collectively in achieving more person-centred and integrated…
The Case for Change: Integration of health information to enable patient centered care
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Ms. Annamarie Fuchs, IMAGINE Citizens, Collaborating for Health. e-Health Policy Symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health in Alberta
Next Generation Care: People centred health services in a digital age
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Jennifer Zelmer, President, Azimuth Health Group; Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Policy, Toronto, Ontario. e-Health Policy Symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health in Alberta
Introduction to eHealth Policy White Paper
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Ms. Kim Wieringa, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Information Systems, Alberta Health. e-Health Policy Symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health in Alberta
Health Information Exchange: Engaging providers in health care innovation
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Doreen Rabi, Clinical Endocrinologist, Associate Professor, University of Calgary. e-Health Policy Symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health in Alberta
Creating community health through the health home
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Ms. Kathleen Ness, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Service Delivery Division, Alberta Health. e-Health Policy Symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health in Alberta
Transforming care with health information
PDF of a PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Robert Reid, Chief Scientist, Trillium Health Partners, Institute for Better Health, Mississauga, Ontario. e-Health Policy Symposium – Towards “Person-Centred” Integrated Health in Alberta
E-Health in Alberta – Moving patients and their health care providers into the 21st century
The impact of digital technology in today’s world is hard to miss. Our Wi-Fi-enabled gadgets have changed the way we work, play and, most importantly, communicate. But, despite being proven to significantly improve health outcomes and satisfaction with care, health care systems have been slow to adopt the use of digital technologies to communicate with patients, and to improve…
IHE Life Sciences Open Innovation Platform™ Brochure
The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) Life Sciences Open Innovation Platform™ is an online “ideasourcing” platform to encourage a broad pan-Canadian community to comment on key issues and topics related to life science policy. Preliminary campaigns will focus on biosimilars policy. Ideas with the most support will be used to inform policy discourse at an IHE…
Join the IHE in Impacting Biosimilars Policy at CADTH 2017 - Participate in the IHE Life Sciences Open Innovation Platform
Participation is easy. Once you register, you can add your ideas on biosimilar policy in key areas highlighted on the platform, comment and contribute to the ideas of others, and vote for the ones that have the most promise. Your level of participation is up to you, and you don't have to be an expert to contribute. Preliminary campaigns include: Biosimilar Policy Stakeholder Engagement…
Exploratory brief on glucose monitoring technologies
| Paula Corabian, Dagmara Chojecki
This report provides a summary of recently published information (January 2015 to present) regarding the glucose monitoring technologies that are commercially available in North America, as well as those that are emerging within the next five years (up to 2021).
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Value in Health Forum: Standards, Quality, and Economics
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Thursday, 19 January 2017 Edmonton, Alberta Please click the following link to watch the recorded webcast: Event Webcast 08:15 – 08:30 Opening Greetings and Remarks Dr. Carl Amrhein, Deputy Minister of Healthhttps://vimeo.com/album/4374633/video/201377972 08:30 – 10:30 Session 1 Opening Addresses: High Performing Health Systems: Measuring and Managing Dr. Reinhard…
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| Alain Lesage, Roger Bland, Ian Musgrave, Egon Jonsson, Mike Kirby, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis
The Liberal government committed to making mental health services more accessible. Housing funding was increased in the last budget, but now commitment to comprehensive home care for the severely mentally ill and access to primary care treatments for common mental disorders are needed.
Conductive education for children with cerebral palsy
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Home » My Trial Guide » Diseases » Endometrial Cancer » PIK3CA » H1047L (c.3140A>T)
T41N (c.122C>A)
Endometrial Cancer, PIK3CA, H1047L (c.3140A>T)
Expand Collapse Endometrial Cancer - General Description Endometrial cancer begins in cells within the endometrium, the tissue that lines the inside of a woman's uterus. The uterus is the hollow muscular organ in which a baby (fetus) develops. The outer muscular layer of the uterus is called the myometrium. The lower end of the uterus is the cervix, which leads to the vagina. Cancer can develop in the cervix and vagina, but endometrial cancer is the most common cancer affecting a women's reproductive system. This year about 47,000 U.S. women will be diagnosed with endometrial cancer.
Most endometrial cancers are adenocarcinomas, which begin in gland-like cells that produce mucus and other fluids. Examination of the cancer tissue under a microscope can help differentiate the cancer type and roughly predict tumor behavior. When cancer cells are closer in appearance to normal endometrial tissue, it is classified as a well differentiated cancer and this usually indicates that the cancer will not spread. On the other hand, when the cancer cells are distinctly different from normal cells, they are considered poorly differentiated and are most likely to invade the myometrium. From the myometrium, the cancer can spread to lymph nodes in the pelvis and chest and to other parts of the body, such as the lungs, liver, bones, brain and vagina.
Endometrial cancer (and other tumors) can spread (metastasize) from the place where it started (the primary tumor) in 3 ways. First, it can invade the normal tissue surrounding it. Second, cancer cells can enter the lymph system and travel through lymph vessels to distant parts of the body. Third, the cancer cells can get into the bloodstream and go to other places in the body. In these distant places, the endometrial cancer cells cause secondary tumors to grow.
To find out whether the cancer has entered the lymph system, a surgeon removes all or part of a lymph node near the primary tumor and a pathologist looks at it through a microscope to see if cancer cells are present. Several kinds of imaging can also be performed to determine if endometrial cancer has spread. These include chest x-rays, MRI and CT scans.
Despite significant improvements in the treatment of endometrial cancer, novel therapies and treatment strategies are needed.
Estimated new cases and deaths from endometrial cancer in the United States in 2015:
New cases: 54,870
Cancer of the endometrium is the most common gynecologic malignancy and accounts for an estimated 47,000 newly diagnosed cases in the United States in 2012. Endometrial cancer encompasses a broad range of histologic subtypes, with the most common being the endometrioid endometrial adenocarcinoma. Marked differences in clinical behavior have been observed in patients with endometrial cancers depending on the histologic subtype, the tumor grade and the extent of cancer spread. A classification system that groups endometrial cancers into Type I and Type II has been proposed to account for the divide in clinical behavior.
Type I endometrial cancers account for approximately 75-85% of endometrial cancers and tend to be of endometrioid histology, are most commonly diagnosed at stage I/II or are confined to the uterus and cervix. These tumors can present with a precursor lesion known as atypical hyperplasia, and are associated with unopposed estrogen exposures such as obesity, hormone replacement or tamoxifen use. For these patients, surgery is likely to be a curative procedure and lymph node staging is generally not pursued unless risk factors are present. The addition of vaginal radiation has been shown to reduce recurrence of some early stage cancers if certain risk factors are present. Overall, the recurrence risk for these women is between 2-7%.
Type I cancers, type II endometrial cancers present with a spectrum of histologies including uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC), carcinosarcoma, clear cell carcinoma and high-grade endometrioid carcinoma. These cancers are high-grade by definition, tend to present with disease outside of the uterus (stage III or IV) and have a high propensity to develop recurrence after primary therapy. Common sites of metastasis include pelvic/para-aortic lymph nodes, vagina, lungs, liver and peritoneum. The upfront therapeutic approach to type II cancers frequently involves individualized multi-modality combinations of aggressive cytoreductive surgery, followed by platinum containing chemotherapy and pelvic or abdominal radiation. While this subset of patients accounts for only 15-25% of patients with endometrial cancer, patients with these tumors account for 75% of the mortality observed.
In the recurrent setting, type I and II endometrial tumors tend to be managed in a similar fashion. When a localized recurrence occurs, surgery and focused radiation is commonly employed and is sometimes followed by platinum- and taxane-based cytotoxic chemotherapy. With widespread or surgically inaccessible recurrent disease, chemotherapies provide the mainstay of therapy. While low-grade advanced stage or recurrent tumors are commonly refractory to cytotoxic agents, they may (20-30%) respond to hormonal therapies that modulate the progesterone or estrogen receptor. As type II cancers are high-grade and commonly (40-50%) present with extra-uterine spread, the risk of recurrence is markedly elevated in this population and further therapeutic modalities in the upfront setting are often warranted.
Correlative scientific investigations have utilized the type I and II distinctions to describe molecular signatures specific to the individual tumors types that may be key drivers of the neoplasia. By targeting specific overactive pathways with novel small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) or antibody therapies, investigators hope to improve the therapeutic options for patients with endometrial cancer. Type I cancers have been shown to have molecular alterations via gene mutation, gene amplification or protein expression in KRAS, CTNNB1 and PTEN. In contrast, type II cancers have been shown to have 20-30% gene amplification in the HER2 (ERBB2) gene and a close to 90% frequency of mutation in the TP53 gene. Alterations in the phosphoinositol 3-Kinase (PI3K) pathway appear to affect both type I and II endometrial cancers through alterations in PTEN (50-80%) and PIK3CA (25-40%). With many promising signatures, clinical trials are currently in development.
http://targetedcancercare.massgeneral.org/My-Trial-Guide/Diseases/Endometrial-Cancer.aspx Disease Accordion Expanded
Endometrial cancer begins in cells within the endometrium, the tissue that lines the inside of a woman's uterus. The uterus is the hollow muscular organ in which a baby (fetus) develops. The outer muscular layer of the uterus is called the myometrium. The lower end of the uterus is the cervix, which leads to the vagina. Cancer can develop in the cervix and vagina, but endometrial cancer is the most common cancer affecting a women's reproductive system. This year about 47,000 U.S. women will be diagnosed with endometrial cancer.
Expand Collapse H1047L (c.3140A>T) in PIK3CA http://targetedcancercare.massgeneral.org/My-Trial-Guide/Diseases/Endometrial-Cancer/PIK3CA/H1047L-(c-3140A-T).aspx Mutation Accordion Expanded
The PIK3CA H1047L mutation arises from a single nucleotide change (c.3140A>T) and results in an amino acid substitution of the histidine (H) at position 1047 by a leucine (L).
Mutation in the PIK3CA gene has been associated with aggressive disease, tumor recurrence and decreased survival in some endometrial cancer populations, though this has yet to be validated on a large population basis. It is expected that the prognostic contribution of specific mutations in PIK3CA will be better characterized once the data from the endometrial cancer genome atlas is available.
A number of preclinical studies have demonstrated that activating mutations in the PIK3CA gene can heighten sensitivity to PI3K small molecule inhibitors. Currently, ongoing phase II trials are being conducted to determine whether PIK3CA gene mutations promote sensitivity to PI3K targeted therapy in women with endometrial cancer. Therefore, it is still being determined within these trials whether specific mutations in PIK3CA are associated with differential responses.
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Learn more about our dedicated Endometrial Cancer treatment team at the Mass General Cancer Center website.
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NCT03675893 Abemaciclib With Letrozole in Recurrent or Persistent Endometrial Cancer Abemaciclib With Letrozole in Recurrent or Persistent Endometrial Cancer MGH Open DG
NCT03600883 A Phase 1/2, Study Evaluating the Safety, Tolerability, PK, and Efficacy of AMG 510 in Subjects With Solid Tumors With a Specific KRAS Mutation (CodeBreak 100) A Phase 1/2, Study Evaluating the Safety, Tolerability, PK, and Efficacy of AMG 510 in Subjects With Solid Tumors With a Specific KRAS Mutation (CodeBreak 100) MGH Open D
NCT02052778 A Study of TAS-120 in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors A Study of TAS-120 in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors MGH Open D
NCT02912572 Avelumab in Patients With MSS, MSI-H and POLE-mutated Recurrent or Persistent Endometrial Cancer and of Avelumab/Talazoparib and Avelumab/Axitinib in Patients With MSS Recurrent or Persistent Endometrial Cancer Avelumab in Patients With MSS, MSI-H and POLE-mutated Recurrent or Persistent Endometrial Cancer and of Avelumab/Talazoparib and Avelumab/Axitinib in Patients With MSS Recurrent or Persistent Endometrial Cancer MGH Open D
NCT03667716 COM701 in Subjects With Advanced Solid Tumors COM701 in Subjects With Advanced Solid Tumors MGH Open D
NCT01953926 Neratinib HER Mutation Basket Study Neratinib HER Mutation Basket Study MGH Open D
NCT02715284 Study of TSR-042, an Anti-programmed Cell Death-1 Receptor (PD-1) Monoclonal Antibody, in Participants With Advanced Solid Tumors Study of TSR-042, an Anti-programmed Cell Death-1 Receptor (PD-1) Monoclonal Antibody, in Participants With Advanced Solid Tumors MGH Open D
NCT02465060 Targeted Therapy Directed by Genetic Testing in Treating Patients With Advanced Refractory Solid Tumors, Lymphomas, or Multiple Myeloma (The MATCH Screening Trial) Targeted Therapy Directed by Genetic Testing in Treating Patients With Advanced Refractory Solid Tumors, Lymphomas, or Multiple Myeloma (The MATCH Screening Trial) MGH Open D
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Exchange 2000 [email protected] And [email protected] Mailboxes
/* Lee Derbyshire*/ /*Lee Derbyshire">Lee Derbyshire*/ /*Lee Derbyshire*/ Posted On July 7, 2003
By Lee Derbyshire
The problem of junk email seems to be spiralling out of control, and more and more companies are resorting to email domain blacklists in an effort to control the flood of unwanted messages. As a result, many Exchange admins will inadvertently find their servers blacklisted. Usually, all that is required is to secure your server against open relay, and all is well again.
Sometimes, however, you might find yourself on a list whose conditions are somewhat stricter than others. And you will have to jump through a few more hoops to get yourself removed from it.
One such requirement is for your email domain to have two special addresses , [email protected][xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] and [email protected][xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] , which will allow anyone to send email to the administrator of the domain and expect that it will be delivered, regardless of whether or not the domain has functioning DNS. Unfortunately, MS Exchange has never made any provision for these special recipients out of the box, and in Exchange 2000 it is not particularly easy to add them manually.
If you find yourself in the position of having to add these addresses, or even if you just want to do it to be ‘on the safe side’, then this article will describe how it can be done.
You may first want to confirm that your server is, indeed, incapable of receiving mail destined for these addresses. You can’t do it in Outlook because it will just get confused if you try to send an email to, say, [email protected][192.168.1.3] (although Outlook Express is perfectly happy to do so). The best way to do it is to use Telnet to open a connection to your server on port 25 (SMTP) and use standard SMTP commands to send a test message to the server. You can open a telnet session from your Start menu by using the Run dialog as shown in figure 1 and entering the telnet command. The IP address of your server will be different to mine, so throughout the rest of this article you will need to substitute your own IP address instead of 192.168.1.3 .
Fig. 1 – Starting a Telnet session from the Start menu.
When you have an open telnet session to your server, you can send a test message to it by using the HELO, MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO: and DATA commands as shown in figure 2. Type QUIT when you have finished.
Fig. 2 – An unsuccessful attempt to email postmaster using Telnet.
If you see the expected 550 response to the RCPT TO: command as shown above, then you will need to follow the instructions described here. If, on the other hand, you get a 250 response, then someone has already beaten you to it and you need go no further.
There are two stages to the process:
Persuade Exchange to accept email for the domain [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (i.e. your subnet address).
Assign the [email protected] and [email protected] email addresses to the relevant mailbox(es).
Stage 1 requires a straightforward application of the Exchange System Manager, but there a two quite different approaches to stage 2:
The first approach (described in this article) requires the use of the Windows 2000 ADSI Edit utility to add the required email addresses to an existing user’s details. We will add them to the Administrator user, since someone is likely to be checking this mailbox routinely. However, incautious use of ADSI Edit can reduce your precious Exchange server to a beige-coloured brick, so if you are not familiar with its operation, do not attempt to use it.
If you do not wish to use ADSI Edit, you will need to create two users named ‘postmaster’ and ‘abuse’, and let automatic email address generation create the addresses for you. The reason you can’t simply use the Active Directory Users and Computers tool to add the addresses to an existing mailbox is that it simply won’t allow you to create email address containing the [ and ] characters.
To get Exchange to receive email addressed to [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], you need to add the IP address as a domain to the Default Recipient Policy using the Exchange System Manager. Start the ESM, and locate the Default Recipient Policy as shown in figure 3:
Fig. 3 – Locating the Default Recipient Policy in ESM.
Double-click the Default Recipient Policy to reveal its properties as shown in figure 4:
Fig. 4 – Email Addresses for the Default Recipient Policy.
You should see your existing domain listed here, but you need to add the server’s IP address as a domain. Click the ‘New…’ button to reveal the ‘New E-mail Address’ dialog shown in figure 5:
Fig. 5 – The ‘New E-mail Address’ dialog.
Add the IP address as a domain in the form @[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your own server’s IP address) as shown in figure 6:
Fig. 6 – Adding the IP address as a domain.
Click OK to add it to the list, and make sure the checkbox to the left is checked. Unfortunately, this means that all users will now get an email address @[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] added to their profile, but you will be unable to receive email for this domain if you do not check it. The Default Policy property dialog should now look something like figure 7:
Fig. 7 – The Default Policy properties with the new domain added.
You will be asked (figure 8) if you want to create a new email address @[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] for all your existing users. You do not need to do so, but as previously mentioned, all new users will get this address added (although you can safely remove them later).
Fig. 8 – Address generation query dialog.
Now your Exchange system will accept email addressed to its IP address. Next, we need to add the required email address to the relevant user. I’m using the Administrator’s mailbox, since this will probably be regularly checked for things like virus scanner notifications, badly addressed messages, and so on. Unfortunately, the Active Directory Users and Computers tool will not accept email address with the [ or ] characters, so you need to hard code the addresses with the ADSI Edit utility. Like I have already said; misuse of ADSI Edit can really upset your server, so please proceed only if you are familiar with its operation. Locate the user that you are going to add the addresses to (in this example, Administrator) and view its properties as shown in figure 9:
Fig. 9 – ADSI Edit showing the properties of the Administrator user.
Select the property named ‘proxyAddresses’ from the drop-down box to reveal a string containing the email addresses for the user, as shown in figure 10:
Fig. 10 – The proxyAddresses field in ADSI Edit.
Type SMTP:[email protected][xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] in the Edit Attribute field (remember that xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx represents your IP address), and click Add to insert it into the string as shown in figure 11. Repeat the operation for the [email protected] address.
Fig. 11 – The [email protected] and [email protected] address in ADSI Edit.
Now when you look at the Administrator’s email address in Active Directory Users and Computers, you will see the two extra email addresses as shown in figure 12. You would not have been able to add these addresses using this utility, although you can edit them once they’re in there.
Fig. 12 – The [email protected] and [email protected] address in ADUC
Now if you try to send an email to [email protected][IP address] (using telnet as before), the mail is sent successfully as shown in figure 13:
Fig. 13 – A successful attempt to email postmaster using Telnet.
And, as final proof that the email reached its destination, here is the email message in the Administrator’s mailbox being opened in Outlook:
Fig. 14 – The test message in MS Outlook.
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Match preview and team news for Arsenal v Wigan
So here it is Arsenal, I don’t think so many fans have been so excited for a game in such a long time. Today, Arsenal return to Wembley for the first time since the horror show against Birmingham in the Capital One Cup a few years back. A defensive error in the closing minutes saw Arsenal plummet into disappointment, a feeling that Arsenal fans have become accustomed to far too often in the past decade. However hopefully all that changes today, with a victory and something to smile about in the FA Cup semi-final.
Arsenal face Wigan at Wembley for the first fixture of the four semi-final participators, and Arsenal are the highest ranked club by far, with other competitors being Hull City, also of the Premier League, and then Sheffield United and obviously Arsenal’s opponents Wigan. Arguably having the harder tie of the round, Arsenal are still expected to win, with all the odds going in the Gunners favour, despite our recent slump of form. But I think we will have to be very careful against a Wigan side, who are more often than not, capable of defining the odds and turning over a top class side. They have done so to Manchester City for the past two seasons, and on their day they are capable of doing the same to any top class side.
So whilst we must play effectively, with passion and determination, a little bit of luck with them not being on their day would be a great help for the Gunners too. I think if we want to achieve the best out of this game, we may have to adopt a very balanced approach. We must play strong attacking football, that has free flowing passing and a strong midfield, but also be very wary of our defensive duties because not only are Wigan very capable of causing damage on the counter attack, but this is also a game in which we can afford no defensive errors. If Wigan scores first, they will park the bus and so Arsenal will find it increasingly difficult to break them down.
Going into the game we have had a few injury updates from the many many players that Arsene wenger’s side currently has out. Rosicky, Gibbs and Chamberlain are all 50/50 to play, whilst Mathieu Flamini is suspended and so definitely won’t play. Ozil and Koscielny continue to miss out. Therefore I think Wenger will go for something as follows:
Sagna Mertesacker Vermaelen Gibbs
Arteta Ramsey
Cazorla Ox/Rosicky Podolski
Ramsey and Fabianski have already been given the thumbs up to play in this game, whilst I think if one at the very least out of Rosicky or Ox can make it back for this game then they will take on an attacking CAM role. Monreal has been awful all season and so I’m hoping Gibbs can return for this game but Wenger will also be a little wary of the game on Tuesday against West Ham.
As already stated, Arsenal have all the odds in their favour, it seems as if nobody expects us to lose. However I think as excited as we all are to see our team play at Wembley again, there is still an air of doubt in us all that know that this game is not going to be so easy like others seem to think.
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Video: Showtime(R) Releases Fifth Season Trailer for "Billions"
Starring Oscar(R) nominee and Emmy(R) and Golden Globe(R) winner Paul Giamatti and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Damian Lewis, the fifth season cast includes new recurring guest stars Corey Stoll and Julianna Margulies.
[via press release from Showtime]
SHOWTIME(R) RELEASES FIFTH SEASON TRAILER FOR "BILLIONS"
Hit Drama Series Returns On Sunday, May 3 At 9 PM ET/PT
NEW YORK - March 19, 2020 - SHOWTIME has released the official trailer for the fifth season of its hit drama series BILLIONS, premiering on Sunday, May 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Starring Oscar(R) nominee and Emmy(R) and Golden Globe(R) winner Paul Giamatti and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Damian Lewis, the fifth season cast of BILLIONS includes new recurring guest stars Corey Stoll (House of Cards) and Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife). To watch and share the trailer, go to:
In season five of BILLIONS, Bobby Axelrod (Lewis) and Chuck Rhoades (Giamatti) see their vicious rivalry reignited, while new enemies rise and take aim. Social impact pioneer Mike Prince (Stoll) poses a true threat to Axe's dominance, and Chuck feuds with a formidable district attorney (Roma Maffia). Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon) is forced back to Axe Capital, where Taylor must fight to protect their employees and their assets. Wendy Rhoades (Maggie Siff) reevaluates her loyalties and forges surprising new alliances that put her at odds with both Chuck and Axe. Margulies will play Catherine Brant, an Ivy League sociology professor and bestselling author. The series also stars David Costabile, Condola Rashad, Kelly AuCoin and Jeffrey DeMunn.
BILLIONS is created and executive produced by showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien. The series was also created by Andrew Ross Sorkin. For more information about BILLIONS, visit SHO.com, follow on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and join the conversation using #Billions.
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Zuletzt angesehen: • allium_sativum_l
allium_sativum_l
Allium sativum L. - Liliaceae - 蒜 suan (chin.), (common) garlic, Knoblauch
Perennial herb, up to 90cm tall, only known in cultur, cultivated nearly everywhere as vegetable/spice; bulbs consisting of several bulbels, all inclosed in a silky white or pink general envelope; scape exceeding leaves; leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, arising near together at the soil-surface, blades flat, keeled on the back; umbel erect, producing ovoid bulblets and a few flowers, the involucre deciduous in one piece.
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027526
„Combined headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HSGC-MS) was used in the analysis of garlic volatile compounds. Twenty major components were identified in the gas phases enriched by fresh, sliced garlic cloves… Suspended dry garlic powder and crushed garlic, incubated in vegetable oil, revealed a different pattern since mainly the amounts of di- and trisulfides were decreased. The considerable compositional differences found in the analyses for the gas phase of garlic cloves, kept in oil, are likely associated with the poor stability of allicin in a lipophilic environment; a marked increase in the amounts of 2-propene-1-thiol, acetic acid, and ethanol was observed in the gas phase, whereas trisulfides were present in traces only. The occurrence of 2-propene-1-thiol and diallyl disulfide, the two principal sulfur components in exhaled air, also may indicate a rapid degradation of most garlic volatile components probably caused by the enzymatically active human salivary or digestive system.“
[Volatile garlic odor components: gas phases and adsorbed exhaled air analysed by headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry., Laakso, I., Seppänen-Laakso, T., Hiltunen, R., Müller, B., Jansen, H., Knobloch, K., Planta medica, Vol.55(3), 1989, 257-261]
allicin
„Thiosulfinates… originate from S-alk(en)yl-l-cysteine-S-oxide, located in the cytoplasm, through an enzymatic reaction catalyzed by alliinase, a C-S lyase present in the vacuoles, giving initially sulfenic acids. These are highly reactive intermediates that immediately produce thiosulfinates by condensation reaction.“
[The analysis of onion and garlic., Lanzotti, V., Journal of Chromatography A, 1112(1), 2006, 3-22]
http://herbs.ph/attachments/article/1157/The%20analysis%20of%20onion%20and%20garlic.pdf
Main product of alliinase action in fresh garlic extract is allicin (89%), together with some propenyl- and methyl-substituted allylthiosulfinates.
[Allium chemistry: HPLC analysis of thiosulfinates from onion, garlic, wild garlic (ramsoms), leek, scallion, shallot, elephant (great-headed) garlic, chive, and Chinese chive. Uniquely high allyl to methyl ratios in some garlic samples., Block, E., Naganathan, S., Putman, D., Zhao, S.H., Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol.40(12), 1992, 2418-2430]
„Several sampling techniques based on steam distillation (SD), simultaneous distillation and solvent extraction (SDE), solid-phase trapping solvent extraction (SPTE), and headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) have been compared for the determination of Korean garlic flavor components by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS). Diallyl disulfide (57.88%), allyl sulfide (23.59%), and diallyl trisulfide (11.40%) were found to be the predominant flavor components of garlic samples extracted by SDE whereas these components were at levels of 89.77%, 2.43%, and 3.89% when the same sample was extracted by SD, 97.77%, 0.17%, and 0.10% by SPTE, and 97.85%, 0.01%, and 0.01% by HS-SPME using the 50/30-μm divinyl benzene/carboxen/polydimethylsiloxane (DVB/CAR/PDMS) fiber. Thermal degradation of components such as allyl methyl sulfide, dimethyl disulfide, and thiirane were observed for SDE and SD but not for SPTE or HS-SPME.“
[Comparative study of extraction techniques for determination of garlic flavor components by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry., Lee, S.N., Kim, N.S., Lee, D.S., Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, Vol.377(4), 2003, 749-756]
„Through the use of direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS), 2-propenesulfenic acid, an intermediate long postulated as being formed when garlic (Allium sativum) is crushed, has been detected for the first time and determined by mass spectrometric methods to have a half-life of <1 s at room temperature. Two other key intermediates, 2-propenesulfinic acid and diallyl trisulfane S-oxide, have also been detected for the first time in volatiles from crushed garlic, along with allicin and related thiosulfinates, allyl alcohol, sulfur dioxide, propene, and pyruvate as coproducts. A commercial dietary supplement containing garlic powder, which was sampled after crushing, was found to contain alliin, methiin, and S-allylcysteine and produced allicin upon addition of water… Disulfanes and polysulfanes are detected only when the Allium samples are heated, consistent with earlier conclusions that these are not primary products from cut or crushed alliums.“
[Applications of direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) in Allium chemistry. 2-Propenesulfenic and 2-propenesulfinic acids, diallyl trisulfane S-oxide, and other reactive sulfur compounds from crushed garlic and other Alliums., Block, E., Dane, A.J., Thomas, S., Cody, R.B., Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, Vol.58(8), 2010, 4617-4625]
„The effect of aqueous garlic extract on the macromolecular synthesis of Candida albicans was studied. Protein and nucleic acid syntheses were inhibited to the same extent as growth, but lipid synthesis was completely arrested. Blockage of lipid synthesis is likely an important component of the anticandidal activity of garlic.“
[Allium sativum (garlic) inhibits lipid synthesis by Candida albicans., Adetumbi, M., Javor, G.T., Lau, B. H., Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, Vol.30(3), 1986, 499-501]
„The inhibitory effects of adenosine and 16 quantitatively determined organosulfur compounds derived from garlic cloves or commercial garlic preparations on collagen stimulated in vitro platelet aggregation in whole blood were determined… The best garlic powder tablets were equally as active as clove homogenates whereas steam-distilled oils were 35% as active and oil-macerates (due to low content) only 12% as active. A garlic product aged many months in aqueous alcohol had no activity. For steam-distilled oils, most of the activity was due to diallyl trisulfide. For the oil-macerates, most of the activity was due largely to the vinyl dithiins. Ajoene, an exclusive component of the oil-macerates, had highest specific activity of all the compounds tested but, because of its low concentration, had only 13% of the activity of diallyl trisulfide and 3% of the activity of allicin.“
[Inhibition of whole blood platelet-aggregation by compounds in garlic clove extracts and commercial garlic products., Lawson, L.D., Ransom, D.K., Hughes, B.G., Thrombosis research, Vol.65(2), 1992, 141-156]
„Allicin, one of the active principles of freshly crushed garlic homogenates, has a variety of antimicrobial activities. Allicin in its pure form was found to exhibit i) antibacterial activity against a wide range of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, including multidrug-resistant enterotoxicogenic strains of Escherichia coli; ii) antifungal activity, particularly against Candida albicans; iii) antiparasitic activity, including some major human intestinal protozoan parasites such as Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia lamblia; and iv) antiviral activity. The main antimicrobial effect of allicin is due to its chemical reaction with thiol groups of various enzymes, e.g. alcohol dehydrogenase, thioredoxin reductase, and RNA polymerase, which can affect essential metabolism of cysteine proteinase activity involved in the virulence of E. histolytica.“
[Antimicrobial properties of allicin from garlic., Ankri, S., Mirelman, D., Microbes and infection, Vol.1(2), 1999, 125-129]
„Ajoene, a constituent of essential oil of garlic, has been shown to inhibit in vitro platelet aggregation in different species of animals i.e., cow, dog, guinea-pig, horse, monkey, pig, rabbit and rat. Under in vivo flow conditions and in the presence of physiological calcium levels, ajoene prevented thrombus formation induced by severe vascular damage, mainly in arterial sites with local low shear stress. Makheja and Bailey (1990) identified three main antiplatelet constituents, namely adenosine, allicin and polysulfides in garlic. Adenosine and allicin both inhibited platelet aggregation without affecting cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase metabolites of arachidonic acid. The polysulfides inhibited platelet aggregation as well as thromboxane synthesis. The observed in vivo antiplatelet effects of ingesting garlic are attributable more to adenosine than to allicin and polysulfide constituents.“
[Effect of garlic on cardiovascular disorders: a review., Banerjee, S.K., Maulik, S.K., Nutrition journal, 1(1), 2002, 4]
http://www.nutritionj.com/content/1/1/4
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Ashley Winchester Mar 2, 2008
I figured this would be the best place to ask this: What do you think of CN's Adult Swim?
I'm not talking about the shows per say but the overall attitude I get from the bumps. When I started watching in 2003 I thought the bumps were very clever but over the years they have degraded into two predicable formulas:
a) someone says something bad about Adult Swim or show = revenge strike back
b) someone kisses Adult Swim's ass with a related picture = glowing review of said item
I don't find their answers to "type a" that amusing because sometimes people do bring up good points... for example, the amount of time they devoted pitching the Aqua Teen Movie DVD release was simply overkill. Don't even get me started on how they showed the movie before showing it in theaters when it was in a microscopic box in the corner... I'm not a fan but that was really is insulting to me a viewer becuase I knew they had to be up to something stupid.
...but it seems to be the "cool" thing to hate Adult Swim now, even if you watch the shows that air. I'm just curious as to why...
Datschge Mar 2, 2008
Wow, what's up here? o.O
Zorbfish Mar 3, 2008
I think I started around that time as well; maybe a bit later in '04 when Bebop was aired.
Well they just cater exactly to the audience they drawn in- angsty teenagers with nothing better to do than bitch. They're on their way to being the MTV of cartoons.
With Futurama gone, as well as most of their old original shows, there's very little left worth watching anyway... they've killed Family Guy. I'm surprised anime is still even being played.
The movie trick was on April Fool's so I don't think it was that big of a deal. I laughed the next day when I realized that's what it must have been.
Megavolt Mar 3, 2008
I have no opinion on the 'bumps'.
But just to participate, I used to watch it somewhat regularly when they showed Cowboy Bebop, though I've never really been a loyal fan. It's something that I may or may not catch depending on the show. I do owe it for sparking my interest in Futurama and GitS: SAC, but I never had any interest in original shows like Aqua Teen, Squidbillies, and whatever other crazy stuff they have on there. Actually, that's not entirely true, as I did like Harvey Birdman.
Ryu Mar 3, 2008
I like a few of the shows, Moral Orel, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the departed Harvey Birdman, and ESPECIALLY Venture Bros. I don't aim to watch it, and end up rarely watching it. It has always been like that too, so I can't comment on the history of its bumps.
Kirin Lemon Mar 3, 2008
Frisky Dingo is slowly taking over Home Movies' title of "Best Adult Swim Show Ever."
jb Mar 3, 2008
I don't watch dubbed anime, only thing on Adult Swim that I watch is Aqua Teen Hunger Force, because it's amazing. <3 Jersey Carl lol
Zane Mar 3, 2008
I used to watch Adult Swim regularly back in 2002 or so, but I haven't caught it in a long time. I don't even know what shows are on anymore. That said, I used to love ATHF and Sealab.
jb wrote:
<3 Jersey Carl lol
Seriously! Best supporting character ever.
absuplendous Mar 3, 2008
Here's the part where I get ostracized from the community--the only shows I regularly watched were Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim & Awesome Show Great Job!. Some of the other shows I've enjoyed, like Venture Bros. and Harvey Birdman (though I prefer his characterization in Space Ghost Coast to Coast), but I rarely made a point of tuning in. The rest generally didn't appeal to me or angered me.
shdwrlm3 Mar 3, 2008
I used to love Harvey Birdman and Sealab, but for the life of me I could never get into ATHF. There's just something disconcerting about a talking wad of meat.
I don't watch regularly anymore, but I thought the bumps they showed during the final Futurama marathon were hilarious.
csK Mar 4, 2008 (edited Mar 4, 2008)
I don't really no what bumps are... so,...
The Boondocks is the best show I've ever seen, period.
But I get watch episodes on-line, so it may not be all that related to Adult Swim. I remember thinking that Harvey Birdman show was pretty alright. I also really liked Space Ghost C2C, but probably that was before Adult Swim's time?
Ashley Winchester Sep 22, 2010
To resurrect an old thread from the grave... does anyone else like Delocated and Children's Hospital? Personally, I don't like either and the ridiculous amount of time they spend plugging these shows makes me hate them - and the channel - even more.
Also, chalk up another Aqua Teen convert. Don't know when, don't know how but it's the reason I tune in anymore. Would definitely like to nab up some of the box sets for Christmas or after Christmas if I can get a good deal.
Also, love how Robot Chicken gets an Emmy after it starts going downhill - post Season 2.
Bernhardt Sep 22, 2010 (edited Sep 22, 2010)
Robot Chicken, I still like, but honestly, I don't watch a whole lot of TV anymore...definitely not Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, nothing. Not even South Park...
Adult Swim, and Cartoon Network in general, have really been going downhill for some time now, as far as I'm concerned, especially since they refuse to show anime anymore.
A lot of things on CN and Comedy Central, I only used to just watch, after coming home tired at night, from classes or whatever job I used to have...I've actually got more energy to do other things these days, instead of TV. Like video games! Or anime! Hey, some anime actually requires you to pay attention, in order to get anything out of it...
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Charting a Course for Prosperity in Rural Alaska
by Bethany Goodrich | Apr 25, 2018 | Economic Self-reliance, Hoonah
Written and photographed by Bethany Goodrich for Alaska Business Monthly
Dennis Gray Jr. sets his fishing gear with a calm and practiced rhythm in the Gulf of Alaska, south of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. “My ancestors have fished these waters since the last Ice Age,” Gray says as he slides his knife through the crimson gills of a coho salmon.
Gray is a fourth-generation commercial fisherman. He’s also the city administrator for Hoonah, a Tlingit village carved into the slender coast of Chichagof Island.
Aboard his humming freezer troller, Gray relies on a time-tested strategy: selecting hoochies and flashers, adjusting depth and speed to catch salmon. But back in town, he and his community of 800 concentrate their efforts on another silvery target: building prosperity in rural Alaska.
Challenges confront hundreds of isolated villages across Alaska. Despite being just seventy miles west of the state capital, Hoonah remains accessible only by boat or small plane. Goods and services are barged in, and that’s costly. Energy prices are more than double what Juneau residents pay. And the unemployment rate for the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, which includes Angoon, Hoonah, Gustavus, Tenakee Springs, and Pelican, was more than twice as high as the state’s average in 2015, due in part to a lack of year-round jobs. Still, many Alaska Native families in Hoonah trace their ancestry back for centuries with roots anchored to specific shorelines, forests, and fishing grounds.
And despite its isolation, Hoonah’s location helps. There are bountiful fisheries and the town’s position between Juneau and Glacier Bay makes it a strategic and attractive stop for cruise ships plying the Inside Passage from Seattle or Vancouver. According to the city of Hoonah’s 2016 economic report, the number of available jobs and average annual wages have all risen since 2010. The median family income jumped 15 percent and Hoonah’s sales tax revenue jumped 46 percent, according to the report.
While every rural Alaska town and village has its own unique economic challenges, the way Hoonah is facing theirs can offer insight and inspiration to others seeking development options.
Adapt with Authenticity
“Adapt or die,” says Gray with a smile as he captains his freezer troller past a brightly lit cruise ship pulling into town. “Hoonah has always done a good job of transitioning from one industry to the next. We are good fishermen, we were good loggers, and now we are good tour operators.” Icy Strait Point, established by Huna Totem Corporation in 2004, is a cultural ecotourism port built on the site of Hoonah’s historic cannery, which operated until 1953.
Gray vividly remembers the energy in town when Hoonah decided to invest in Icy Strait and tourism—even though it was contentious. “I was twenty-two, new to the city council, and scared as heck,” he says. Huna Totem requested city support to connect the historic site to city water and electricity. Some Hoonah residents were not convinced. “I’d say the community was about 40/60 against developing tourism. People were like: ‘What? That’s never going to happen. A little Indian village, why would tourists even come to Hoonah?’ Eventually, we spent our last savings to put in a waterline… because we believed in … what it might do for Hoonah.”
Before Icy Strait, tourists seldom visited. Today, according to the city, Icy Strait Point supports one-third of the city’s sales tax base. Huna Totem Corporation says more than 156,000 visitors arrived this year on eighty-three cruises, including Disney Cruise Lines—a number the company expects will exceed one hundred next year. And Icy Strait’s workforce is 80 percent local.
According to Russell Dick, CEO of Huna Totem Corporation, authenticity and community buy-in led to Icy Strait’s success. “If there is any place we are going to invest our money, it is going to be at home, putting our people to work,” Dick says.
“It’s not Disneyland. [Icy Strait Point] is an incredibly authentic port and done in a way that meets the expectations of the cruise lines without having to compromise our values.”
Sharing Home and Culture
Britney Jack began working with Icy Strait Point while in high school. Today, the twenty-two year old is the company’s logistics coordinator. “I take a lot of ownership and pride in working here and so [do] a lot of other local people … This is our home and our culture. We want to share it,” Jack says.
Gordon Greenwald is a master carver in Hoonah who also sits on several city boards including Hoonah’s economic development committee. Since Icy Strait opened thirteen years ago, Greenwald has seen progressively more tourists wander into the center of town, some visiting the carving shed where he works.
“Honestly, I was not in favor of it [Icy Strait Point] in the very beginning because I thought it was going to change us and we would end up like South Franklin [Street] of Juneau or Ketchikan. I don’t want that for Hoonah and I’m afraid that’s the direction they are going to go,” says Greenwald. “But in the meantime, it’s a positive thing and an employment base. Yes, it’s a service industry [and] it’s not a $35-an-hour job, but it’s better than nothing, and I think it has helped put Hoonah on the map.”
Since Icy Strait launched, nineteen new locally-owned businesses have opened in Hoonah, most catering to visitors. Tax revenue from Icy Strait is being invested in community assets such as sidewalks, a youth center, and the school system.
“Hoonah in the past had a lot of male-dominated employment opportunities with fishing and timber,” Gray says. “Tourism presents more widespread opportunities for women with kids and even grade-school students who work after school or dance when ships are in.”
Collaborate and Diversify
Some 150 miles of old logging roads weave throughout the forests, rivers, and valleys surrounding Hoonah. These roads, maintained by the US Forest Service, support local subsistence users as well as tourism guides and charters. They’re also important to a collaborative land management partnership called the Hoonah Native Forest Partnership that includes Huna Totem Corporation, Sealaska, the City of Hoonah, the Hoonah Indian Association, the Nature Conservancy, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the Sustainable Southeast Partnership, and the US Forest Service.
According to Robert Starbard, tribal administrator of the Hoonah Indian Association, some of these entities—particularly environmental nonprofits and Alaska Native corporations—have not always seen eye-to-eye.
But the organizations have adopted “this new collaborative way of working. This is the… future of how to do natural resource work effectively, efficiently, and sustainably,” says Starbard. “It is possible to have all stakeholders at the table building an effective private-public partnership for land stewardship and watershed management.”
A core goal is to create career opportunities in natural resources and land stewardship for locals.
“[It’s] about diversifying the economy in Hoonah,” adds Dick. “Tourism is not for everybody, but doing things like harvesting commercial blueberries, for example, are great opportunities.”
“Alaskan blueberries, black huckleberries, dwarf blueberries, bog blueberries,” rattles off Donovan Smith, who belongs to the partnership. “We’ve learned a lot about all the different plants and types of habitats where they thrive.”
This year, local pickers sold blueberries to Goldbelt Corporation, as well as ice cream and coffee shop, Coppa, in Juneau. Juneau’s Amalga Distillery also purchased one hundred pounds of blueberries for its blueberry vodka.
And while harvesting blueberries doesn’t bring in anywhere near the money that the commercial fishing fleet earns, it creates economic options for Hoonah. And the Hoonah Native Forest Partnership is about far more than just blueberries: the field crew traverses across the landscape from Sealaska watersheds to US Forest Service lands to map and monitor salmon streams, report on road conditions, thin forest stands for timber production, and restore salmon habitat.
“In terms of our youth and early career residents, the partnership creates professions for land use management. If you want to work with fish, you don’t have to be a commercial fisherman, you can be a fisheries biologist and can come home even if you went out to college and studied science. You can bring that expertise back to Hoonah,” says Starbard.
Strategic Infrastructure
Kristi Styers dishes up a holistic view of her hometown’s economy while bouncing her daughter Alfie on her knees at Fishermen’s Daughter, the restaurant she opened in 2011.
“Everyone has to eat,” says Styers. “[So] we really see how the economy is doing. When fishing is good, we feel it. When it is great weather or a full cruise ship is in town, we feel it.”
Styers also felt it when Hoonah secured federal economic development agency grants and state legislative grants to invest $5.5 million in a boat haul-out that attracted more outside revenue.
“[Now] the boatyard stays full in the spring and the fall. It really stretched out our season,” says Styers, who keeps Fishermen’s Daughter open May to November, three months longer than during her first year. And when Huna Totem Corporation and the city installed a $22 million deep-water dock, more cruise companies could stop in Hoonah, and Styers saw even more diners.
That’s no accident. According to Gray, the city invests purposefully in infrastructure that catalyzes far-reaching economic impact in town for new industries like boat repair, old industries like fishing, and ancillary businesses like Fishermen’s Daughter.
Thinking Outside City Limits
Hoonah can’t do it alone and is looking to surrounding villages to ease some of the costs associated with isolated island living. “Savings can happen region-wide if we collaborate,” Gray says.
Hoonah hired a consultant to look at the feasibility of Angoon, Hoonah, Tenakee, Pelican, and Kake forming a borough. “That would help us with school costs,” says Gray. “Neighboring towns have schools of the same size and have the same overhead costs of a superintendent and principal and in theory we could share.” A flourishing school system can help Hoonah cultivate homegrown leaders.
“For a community to thrive you need to have committed people … in leadership positions [who] are around for the long term,” says Gray.
But Dick sees a Catch 22.
“How do you invest in local leadership? You have to create employment opportunities for good top-notch people to come back. And, if you don’t have that kind of leadership, how do you create those opportunities? It’s really a challenge.”
Cultivating prosperity in isolated Alaska is not easy. However, the coastal community of Hoonah remains dedicated, leaning on collaboration, diversification, adaptation, strategic investments, creativity, and a focus on cultivating local leadership to meet the challenge.
“My biggest hope is that in twenty years, Hoonah remains this place we can all be proud of,” says Styers.
Natural Resource Stewardship
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No: 246, 15 October 2020, Press Release Regarding Armenia’s Attacks On Terter City Of Azerbaijan
We strongly condemn the continuing attacks of Armenia on civilian settlements in Azerbaijan. As a result of Armenia’s latest attack on Terter today, three civilians lost their lives and five others were wounded while they were attending a funeral ceremony.
Armenia continues to disregard the humanitarian ceasefire declared on 10 October for the exchange of prisoners of war and bodies of the dead. Showing no traits of humanity, Armenia does not even let our Azerbaijani brothers lay their beloveds to rest.
With this latest attack, Armenia once again demonstrated to the whole world its total disrespect for humanitarian values and laws.
Turkey stands with brotherly Azerbaijan in full and eternal solidarity.
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Hop Brook Dam MTB Race 2016- Late Recap
I think this is the 4th year I've come to this race with my son Evan, and now the third with his friend Shane and dad John. I attempted a pre-ride earlier in the week, but two-inches of snow hid most of the tracks, so I followed the reverse as described by Kurt D, the race organizer, on the phone, but lost the sharp left up the second major climb halfway in. I managed to ride some of the route, and entirely miss the rest.
The Cat 3 race was at 2 and the Cat 2 race was at 9. I wanted to start the year trying Cat 2, but didn't want to be at Hopbrook all day waiting for everyone else. So Cat 3 it was. I was riding my new used Tallboy Carbon frame. I traded in my 2015 black beauty for a year older white frame that is considerably less stunning to look at, but riding is another story. It feels stiffer and faster by quite a bit. It has carbon Easton wheels, and an Xfusion Slant 110/140mm fork. The AM fork would add some weight to my otherwise ultra-svelte ride, but I ride hard and I was looking forward to the DH head angles as I bomb downhills with disregard. It seems like my most recent fox forks leaked quite a bit and had to go home to the mother ship earlier than one would have expected... But now I had a 34mm stantion fork, I thought it might hold up better. Unlike my talas, where I only shorten travel on the climb, this would default to short travel except for long DH runs. Time to put theory to the test...
Starting out. We left our house at 11, ready to roll, and all four of us pretty smooth with the routine of loading and provisioning by now. As we rolled through Naugatuck, Shane pointed out the sign "He Is Risen" and was asking about grammar and tense. There was a running joke We is arrived... lol etc.
Evan had done a 10k trail run the week before to get ready for the race, combined with soccer, track and being 13 was enough ...meanwhile I had been carefully tracking my rides to make sure I was close to physically ready to explode when the whistle blew. The trails was relatively dry considering that the snow had only just melted. I was greeted with a hug from Sue (Kirk's mom) from Amity bikes as I picked up my number plate, and was glad to see Guy, (but only spoke briefly)... he was busy playing bikes with his grand-daughter. So I was glad to see his priorities were straight. John and Katie were there for more Rad support and John had just finished the Cat 1 race. He said Zak was still out on the course. I looked for Aubrey, but didn't see him, though he raced Fat. Lately the Hop Brook Dam race is more like a bike family reunion, with uncle Kirk coming in from his 5 grueling fast laps to flip burgers while waiting for all the other Cat 1 racers to finish.
The new Rad n Gnar kits looked awesome, but for some reason mine never has all that extra fabric around the torso that John Bien's does... (see pic).
The first call to line up for the race came as I was watching the cat 1/pro racers get the free burgers, and ice cold free IPAs. I kind of felt like skipping the race part and just going for the burgers and beer in case they were gone by the time I was done.
We lined up, and I saw a few familiar faces from years before. Most in the age group I came from (40-49), and a couple from my own group. Somehow I made the front line as I usually do. 30 seconds. 15 seconds....
GO. I fizzled more than exploded... We took off in reverse route up toward the previous year's finishing DH. I was passed before we got to the hill. I think I had some nerves holding me up from being aggressive. A rider two people in front of me inconveniently fell and everyone left behind me passed running straight up the climb. I was second to last at this point. I recovered at the hill top and hit my pace passing several riders as we approached the DH. Everyone seemed as fast. The first place and second place guys were in sight, but just barely they broke and we were caught behind the slower mob. Eventually, I caught one racer just after the road section and followed another around the corner under the power-lines to the first climb. I had calmed down by then my heart and breathing returned to manageable, and I passed several riders who had dismounted to push the steep gravel climb.
At his point, I wasn't sure who was in which age group but I remember passing last year's series winner on the inside as we crested the top. My lungs hurt. But no matter how far he pushed inside, I went deeper into the brush and continued around him. Once past, there was the DH. I opened up my front fork and gained some distance and recovered some wind. I was hoping to catch the first two guys, but they were pretty far ahead. The next climb was a long winding trudge littered with slower riders and pushing racers. AS you'd turn the corner and look for the hill to lighten-up, it would only look steeper until the next level you could not see. But when you managed to pedal those few last strokes to that point, the hill continued farther up to the next bend. But when I finally crested, I found it had an even better DH off the back toward the road and dam spillway. I gained some time it appeared and I saw the first two riders having problems in the rock garden at the top of the climb to a thin strip of rocky single track leading back toward the dam.
There was a young kid in front who would not yield for the other racers, so I was able to catch up a bit closer, and met the kid at an opening where passing was not a factor or loss in time. I ended the first lap following a slightly younger roadie, who said it was his first mountain race. I was drafting him through the start and recovering for the next lap. People were yelling "we've got a race", but I had no intention of passing. I drafted to the base of the start hill where the rider fell on the start. The younger roadie dismounted and ran up it and I rode up the right. He was fast and kept his lead, but not for long. He yielded as we hit the flat before the downhill.
I think this is the point where I passed last year's Hop Brook winner from Laurel. I didn't recognize him at this point and thought he was in another age group. I still thought I was in third place. I was quickly passed by a quick 20-30 year old. As we hit the the DH I told him he better go fast if he's going to pass me here. He did. He totally smoked me on the straight 200 yard rooty descent to a hairpin turn at the bottom. I was recovered and pissed so went as fast as I could to try to catch him. No brakes. How could he be that much faster when I'm not slowing at all? Anyway its moments like that that put you farther ahead of those who don't have a rabbit such as that to chase. I felt comfortable in my pace as we hit the road stretch and began to prepare mentally for the approaching round of climbs. One can only prepare so much... I was dying after the first climb at the water bar when I rounded a dog-leg turn toward the steep climb to the crest, but I caught a glimpse of both the last season's series champ, and the Laurel guy coming up behind me with more energy than I thought I had. Within about 20 feet. I doubled-down, lungs and legs burned, super dizzy. But suddenly I was in the DH and I lost them from sight... until the next climb, they were slightly farther behind and I was slightly faster up. This climb I had more space between us rounding the top as my back and stomach were sore from breathing so hard. I passed my son Evan on this climb and then my friend John. John held my rear wheel for a while, but then as I gapped on the Downhill, the Laurel guy passed him. We ended this section of DH through a stream. I heard someone yelling don't slow-down here. But the Laurel guy behind me slowed and it in the stream and everyone disappeared behind me.
I gained about 30 seconds on that group and was all by myself. I was wondering if I was in third or fourth. But then as I hit the single-track rock techs on the side of the spillway, there was the Laurel guy gaining ground as he approached across the flat field below. There was another (same?) kid who didn't want to Yield like last lap. But this time he seemed to be trying to hold me up. I took a chance on a mech and went deep into the woods and brush around him without slowing down. I think he swore at me, though I wasn't even close to him. Just the thought of not being able to block me probably steamed him, as I 've noticed with a lot of little racers. I was careful not to pedal until the crunching stopped in the rear wheel and I was pretty sure the twigs had cleared themselves.
Then to my surprise I passed a guy who I thought was way off the front as he pushed his bike and swore. His chain snapped! I said are you okay? but I thought, Lucky me! I was really encouraged and climbed up the gravel/tar? to the dam with new power standing as I sprinted, glancing back to see the Laurel guy looking at me in dismay from below. I think he was hoping to catch me on the road climb and across the dam. My drivetrain was working flawlessly, and I had some legs left to try to power away. My new build has been working well thus far.
I think I may have realized he was in my age group after all and was the guy who killed me by minutes last year. But now on the DH nobody could touch me, or so I felt. I opened up entirely, enjoying being heckled by a couple of Biens, and Fabien E. who was menacing me with a giant stick in the middle of the trail! I hit the finish and was quickly joined the Laurel guy who I only beat by 10 seconds.
It was such a fun race! I went to get a free beer, and the only thing left was a few Anchor Steams.... Not shabby. I had more in the car. Then I remembered Evan. I went back and waited with my phone to take his pic as he finished racing in against a Team Edge racer.
I wonder how I did. Nobody knew. I went to the car and got more beer for John and myself. The results had a problem and seemed to take forever.
Evan and Shane came in and ate 3 hamburgers each. There were none left for me. But then someone came up and said the results were posted and I won! WOW!!! that was unexpected. I never even placed better than 4th at Hop Brook!!!
Chris Logan announced "And the long overdue in age and races, first place: Tom Ghoreyeb!" I was flattered that he even knew my name, or noticed my years of drought there at Hop Brook. And it was the state Championship!!! I could not believe it. The only way it could have been better is if there was cash in addition to the cool Hop Brook MTB Race T-shirt I won. And it actually fit!
After I podiumed the icing on the cake was Evan. He finished 2nd in his group!
And so the season continues....
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OCC Hosts Mutual Savings Association Advisory Committee Meeting June 29 Via Webinar
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced it will host a public meeting of the Mutual Savings Association Advisory Committee (MSAAC) on Monday, June 29, 2020, via webinar.
Read more / Original news source: https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2020/nr-occ-2020-77.html
Author OCCPosted on June 8, 2020 Categories Mutual Savings Associations, news, occTags news, occ
OCC Hosts Mutual Savings Association Advisory Committee Meeting April 21 Via Teleconference
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced it will host a public meeting of the Mutual Savings Association Advisory Committee (MSAAC) on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, via teleconference. The teleconference is open to the public and …
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced it will host a public meeting of the Mutual Savings Association Advisory Committee (MSAAC) on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, via teleconference. The teleconference is open to the public and will begin at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Author OCCPosted on March 30, 2020 Categories Mutual Savings Associations, news, occTags news, occ
OCC Hosts Mutual Savings Association Advisory Committee Meeting September 17
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced it will host a public meeting of the Mutual Savings Association Advisory Committee (MSAAC) on Tuesday September 17, 2019, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Read more / Original news source: https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2019/nr-occ-2019-97.html?utm_source=RSS_feed&utm_medium=RSS
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Happy Easter/Passover/Egg Hunting! A new update of The Journal 6 was released on 31 March. You can see the details of what's new and fixed in "The Journal News" section, below. NOTE: The primary purpose of this update was to make The Journal 6 display better on newer, high density displays (like on the Surface Pro). If you have The Journal 6 Build #739 (from February), and you're happy, there's no *need* to upgrade. Just an FYI. =) We have our usual new writing prompts and a new tip about numbered lists.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! A new update of The Journal 6 was released last month. You can see the details of what's new and fixed in "The Journal News" section, below. FYI: This update looks a bit different. There are (finally) new toolbar/menu and entry tree icons for TJ6. (You can use User Preferences, Global tab, under Skinning sub-tab to revert back to the TJ5 menu/toolbar icons.) Also, I had to squeeze and rearrange User Preferences and Category Properties forms some to support the larger UI settings. We have our usual new writing prompts and a new tip: Typing Wiki-Like Links in The Journal
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The Journal Newsletter – December 2013
A new release of The Journal 6 is now available. Check out "The Journal News" below to see what's been fixed/added. This month's tip shows you how to include the number of years in a special day reminder, and we have a couple new writing prompts. I hope your 2013 Holiday Season is filled with family, fun and festivities!
Welcome to the Autumn of 2013! This is my favorite time of year: colorful leaves blowing in the wind, cool days under warm sunshine--when it's not cold rain under gray clouds--and I like that too. =) The latest update of The Journal 6 streamlines (and fixes) the topic feature, making topics much easier to use. There are also some other neat additions (and fixes). See "The Journal News" below for all the details. This month's tip introduces the new, simpler way to wrap text around pictures in your entries, and, as always, we have a couple new writing prompts.
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Horror Headlines: Thursday, May 3rd, 2011
"We Are What We Are", the remake of a Mexican cannibal family flick, has added none other than Riley Keough to the cast. You might know her better as Elvis Presley's granddaughter. She's also been in a bunch of other movies and is apparently a model. But she'll aways be Elvis Presley's granddaughter that I found out existed 5 minutes ago to me.
Lionsgate has announced they hope to bring a new web series titled "Soul Survivor" to a laptop near you in the not too distant future. The series will focus an last of his kind mercenary who will be voiced by none other than Sylvester Stallone. Sounds kind of weird yes but remember when they made a Rambo cartoon? That was a lot weirder.
The sassy new Aussie flick "Crawl", which will premiere at Cannes, has been given an October release date for selected cities and VOD. The film tells the story of a bar owner who hires a Croatian hitman to murder someone only to have it backfire in his face. I assume there's also a lot of Bloomin Onions involved. Mother of god those things are good.
A handful of new names have been added to the cast list of "Beginning Of the End: The Last Exorcism 2" but honestly no one has ever heard of them so it's kind of silly to list them. So what are your plans for the weekend? Celebrating the Kentucky Derby or Cinco De Mayo? I know you could try doing a joint party but I kind of feel like you need to pick a side. Stand for something in your life god damn it! Kevin Perez, Boyana Balta, Sharice A. Williams and Gideon Hodge are the names.
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Frequently Answered Questions
How do I Find my Local Pop Warner Program:
To locate a Pop Warner program in your area, you can use the national League Finder. You can then contact that program for more information such as how/when to sign up, costs, etc. If no contact information is listed, please close this window and use the contact form and we can find the closest program for you.
How do I Sign Up to play:
To sign up for Pop Warner football, cheerleading or dance, you must first locate your local program. (Find Your Program). You can then contact that program to inquire about when and where sign ups are being offered for the upcoming season.
How much does it cost to play:
Registrations costs vary from program to program, and are determined by each individual Pop Warner member association. A typical registration fee for each participant usually ranges from about $75 to $200, however, some programs may include other fees such as mandatory fundraising, additional equipment, etc.
What are the Age & Weight Divisions:
For football players, you will play in an age-weight division with similar players of your age and weight range. Pop Warner is open to players ages 5-16, with your age being determined by your age on 7/31 of that year. Please review the Age-Weight Divisions to determine what level of play you fall into.
For cheerleaders and dancers, ages also range from 5-16. The spirit program is broken into seven age divisions ranging from Flag (ages 5-7) up to Unlimited (ages 11-15). Cheerleading squads are also broken down into Large (25-35). Medium (13-24) and Small (12 or fewer) Squads, and four different competition levels (PW1, PW2, PW3 and PW4). Please review the Spirit Age-Weight Divisions to determine what level of play you fall into.
What are the academic requirements for participation:
Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. (PWLS) is the only national youth sports organization in America that requires its participants to perform adequately in the classroom before permitting them to play. We believe that the standards we have set give these children a sense of responsibility and an appreciation for academics and athletics that will help them develop later on in life.
Proof of satisfactory progress in school is required. A 2.0/70% or the equivalent shall be the minimum grade point average acceptable to participate. Those who do not meet this requirement, or home-schooled students can still play if they follow the alternative eligibility process which is monitored by progress reports.
Are Tryouts Allowed in Pop Warner:
NO TRYOUTS! – Pop Warner programs are not permitted to hold tryouts or cutting of rosters.
Is Participation in Pop Warner Safe:
Pop Warner has a long history of providing a safe environment for all of our members. Kids compete with kids of similar age and size. Pop Warner is the ONLY youth football program (local, regional and national) that sets and enforces a strict Age & Weight Matrix that reduces the risk and reality of injuries. Datalys Institute’s research data show that Pop Warner Rules and Heads-Up Football Training result in injury rate that has 87% fewer injuries than non-Heads-Up/non Pop Warner programs.
How do volunteer to be a coach/administrator for my local program:
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Media Release: NSDesign joins the Clan
ICE hockey favourites, Braehead Clan, have announced a new partnership with Glasgow digital agency, NSDesign.
The company, based in Hillington, has been appointed as the Clan’s official social media partner and will help deliver regular updates through platforms including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
NSDesign boss, Gary Ennis, said: “My wife, two sons and I love a night out at the ice hockey. It’s fast, furious and physical and there’s always a passionate crowd. The whole team at NSDesign is thrilled with this new partnership and we’ve got some exciting plans.”
Braehead Clan already enjoys a strong presence on social media with almost six thousand followers on its official Facebook and Twitter pages. The YouTube channel shows highlights of every Clan game.
Ice hockey is the latest sport to enjoy a relationship with NSDesign which has similar social media partnerships with Glasgow Rocks basketball team and Greenock Morton Football Club. Ennis and his colleagues regularly deliver social media training to the sporting sector with recent sessions for sportScotland and Glasgow Warriors rugby.
Notes to editors: Gary Ennis is available for interview by calling 0141 585 6390.
NSDesign is a full-service digital agency delivering web development and design, social media training and consultancy and search engine optimisation. It has operated for more than 14 years and employs a full time staff of eight.
It’s been recognised as the Best Value For Money UK Agency (less than 25 employees) in each of the last three years according to Recommended Agency Register (RAR). The company is best known for its highly popular ‘Embrace The Space’ Social Media Masterclass series which helps small and medium businesses get results from social media.
Tickets are available now for the next workshop which takes place at Hillington Park Innovation Centre on Friday March 15th.
For more information visit www.embracethespace.co.uk
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Alyssa A. Lappen
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Who Says Utility Stocks are Boring?
Posted on May 4, 1995 | Comments Off on Who Says Utility Stocks are Boring?
by Alyssa A. Lappen Institutional Investor | May 1995 All Articles, Poems & Commentaries Copyright © 1971-2021 Alyssa A. LappenAll Rights Reserved.Printing is allowed for personal use only | Commercial usage (For Profit) is a copyright violation and written permission … Continue reading →
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Mutual Fund and Variable Insurance Products Performance Advertising
Posted on May 1, 1995 | Comments Off on Mutual Fund and Variable Insurance Products Performance Advertising
By Clifford E. Kirsch, Wendell M. Faria and W. Thomas Conner* The Business Lawyer American Bar Association | May 1995 * Mr. Kirsch is Chief Counsel, Variable Products, The Prudential Insurance Company of America. Mr. Kirsch was formerly Assistant Director … Continue reading →
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Advanced CMO analytics for bank examiners
Posted on May 1, 1995 | Comments Off on Advanced CMO analytics for bank examiners
Practical applications using Bloomberg by Joseph Cilia, Financial Markets Unit Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | May 1995 Bibliography cites: Michael Carroll, and Alyssa A. Lappen, “Mortgage-Backed Mayhem,†Institutional Investor, July 1994 All Articles, Poems & Commentaries Copyright © 1971-2021 … Continue reading →
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Some Good Conservation News: Scottish Beavers Can Stay
Beaver ponds on Vinal Creek in the Purcell Mountains, Montana
All too often conservation news is bad. It's about dead raptors, mountain hare slaughter, the destruction of wild land by developments, about a desperate-seeming struggle to try and protect what's left. Occasionally though there's a positive story, a story that gives hope for the future, that eases the burden of concern. That was the case this week when the Scottish Government announced that beavers are to be officially recognised as a native species and that the two populations already existing in Scotland - those in the official reintroduction trial in Knapdale in Argyll and the unofficial ones along the River Tay - can remain.
The last beavers were exterminated in Scotland in the sixteenth century. Now, after 400 years, they are not only back but protected. This is very significant as it's the first formal reintroduction of a mammal ever in Scotland and the whole of the UK.
I think this is excellent news for the beavers, for wild land, and for the future. It sets a precedent that mammals can be reintroduced. It's the most cheering news for quite a while.
The Scottish Wildlife Trust was one of the lead partners in the Knapdale trial. There's much more information on the SWT website.
Labels: animal reintroductions, beavers, rewilding, Scottish beavers, Scottish wildlife
Jay 27 November 2016 at 10:25
Good news indeed Chris. I have been watching George Monbiot giving talks about rewilding before I start reading his book Feral. From his talks I think he is spot on, though I can understand why his views may go 'against the grain' of what society considers wild and the balance between profit/conservation.
I vividly remember walking through the Julian Alps and walking through incredibly rich wildflower meadows up to my chest with hundreds of butterflies, dragon flies, marmots, mountain goats, vultures, eagles... And knowing there were brown bears in the vicinity too. Rich, diverse deciduous forest un-man-managed with a natural tree line. Rivers free to forge their own way unhindered. I experienced the same in the Pyrenees this past summer.
So it comes as a disappointment as you say Chris, that so often we hear negative news regarding conservation. I must say I was surprised and disappointed at Roger Smith's recent article in The Great Outdoors about his objections to the reintroduction of Lynx into the Scottish Highlands.. In a similar vein I was surprised by a question/comment from a member of the audience at one of Cameron McNeish's talks - Cameron was singing the praises of the rewilding of some parts of the Highlands be it tree planting or deer fences, and the member of the audience complained that such practices 'spoil his views in the hills as they are obstructed by woodland now' (!). Come on! Isn't it OK for humans to take a back seat? Is wildness there simply for the aesthetic pleasure it brings to humans, or is it there for the bigger ecological picture?
Talking to farmers in the Pyrenees and in the Julian Alps, they said that Lynx, wolves and bears can sense a human hundreds of metres away and will do everything they can to avoid contact with humans, turn around and go in the opposite direction. its fear of humans instilled in their DNA over hundreds of thousands of years.
Beavers and woodland planting could dramatically help with the flooding events that we have seen recently by slowing the run-off of rainwater from the hills and into the valleys and our homes. Let's hope the beaver story is just the first of many future positive stories.
Chris Townsend 27 November 2016 at 18:25
I agree completely Jay. I've seen rich wildland in the Pyrenees, Scandinavia, the USA, Canada. I was disappointed in Roger's piece on lynx, which was quite inaccurate. I've heard the 'it'll spoil the views' comments too.
I've seen wolves a couple of times and heard them more often. I've seen bears more frequently. I've never seen lynx despite walking thousands of miles through lynx country. Knowing they are there is enough.
Jane M. 27 November 2016 at 21:44
I'd be interested to know which areas of tree re-planting the audience member was referring to. The only areas of woodland that have ever spoiled my view on a hill have been the massed ranks of alien conifers blotting the landscape around them. Good news about the beavers - there's so much bad news you forget to look for the good.
Jane M - I can't recall the name of the area, but Cameron had a slide up on the screen of a hill valley view and commented how he would like to see it enriched with the return of woodland and the associated ecology which prompted the member of the audience's comments about wanting to keep the hills bare so he could see the range of hills unfolding behind.
It IS lovely to see the effect of hills unfolding, but surely they don't have to be bare. It would take some very luxuriant tree growth to render all the land contours invisible. Seeing a bit more wildlife instead of the current desert would be welcome, too.
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Tag: paranormal romance
A Heart of Salt & Silver Blog Tour Schedule
It’s time! The blog tour is upon us, and the first stop is today.
Links are provided below if you want to check out any of the bloggers, along with the dates that I’ll be appearing on their sites. Some stops have guest blogs written by me, others have interviews with special behind the scenes info and personal tidbits. These have been listed in bold print.
And of course, there will be a giveaway running throughout the duration of the tour. Stay tuned to learn how you can enter to win one of five signed hardbacks, each with their own swag pack.
Tour Stops:
October 26: Midnight Musings with Bertena
https://vocal.media/authors/midnight-musings-with-bertena
October 27: JB’s Bookworms with Brandy Mulder (Interview)
https://jbbookworms.blogspot.com
October 28: SImply Kelina
http://simplykelina.blogspot.com
October 29: Bewitching Book Tours
https://bewitchingbooktours.tumblr.com/
October 30: Westveil Publishing
https://www.westveilpublishing.com
November 2: Bewitching Book Tours FB
https://www.facebook.com/BewitchingBookTours/
November 4: Roxanne Rhoads FB
https://www.facebook.com/RoxanneRhoadsAuthor/
November 5: Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read
http://mommasaystoreadornottoread.blogspot.com/
November 6: The Book Junkie Reads (Interview)
https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blogspot.com/
November 9: Lisa’s World of Books
http://www.lisasworldofbooks.net/
November 9: Sapphyria’s Books
https://saphsbooks.blogspot.com/
November 10: Fang-tastic Books
http://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com
November 11: Other Worlds of Romance (Guest Blog)
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Paranormal Romances
http://lindamooney.blogspot.com/
November 12: Paranormalists (Interview)
https://paranormalists.blogspot.com/
November 13: Roxanne’s Realm
http://www.roxannerhoads.com/
November 16: The Pimpettes FB
https://www.facebook.com/bookpimpettes/
November 17: The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom (Guest Blog)
http://creativelygreen.blogspot.com/
November 18: Jazzy Book Reviews
http://bookreviewsbyjasmine.blogspot.com/
November 19: Fang-tastic Books FB
https://www.facebook.com/FangtasticBooks/
November 20: T’s Stuff (Interview)
http://www.tsstuff.net
November 23: Supernatural Central (Interview)
http://supernaturalcentral.blogspot.com
November 23: Serena Synn
https://serenasynn.blogspot.com/
Be sure to check out each stop! Some of those interview questions were pretty intense.
I’ll be back on all my social media platforms throughout the week with a deleted scene and giveaway details.
If you’ve already pre-ordered (ebook, paperback, or hardback), don’t forget to send me a picture of your order to be entered for a chance to win a swag pack to go along with that new book. (This international giveaway is open until release day, aka November 3rd.)
If you haven’t pre-ordered and need some gritty paranormal fantasy in your life (chock full of shifters, magic, and deep psychological scars), you can order your copy here:
mybook.to/AHeartOfSaltAndSilver
A Heart of Salt & Silver: Excerpt and Playlist
Holy shit. There’s just over two weeks until the release of A Heart of Salt & Silver!
November 3rd is so close, and I’m freaking excited. So much so that I can’t resist sharing some more with you.
Down below, you’ll find an excerpt from this dark and brooding Paranormal High Fantasy Romance, as well as the playlist I listened to while writing.
Shall we start with the excerpt?
I pulled this one from chapter 12, taking you deep into the action. Ness and Elias are in some trouble, but since she’s immortal and Elias isn’t, she’s facing down a pack of Howlers (animals in a state of suspended/delayed death under the magical control of our big bad evil guy) all by herself.
Behind me, the alpha struggles to gain its feet, slipping in its own gore over by the tree. I turn to show it mercy, but the remainder, a small black wolf, grabs my right thigh in its jaws. It shakes its head back and forth, pulling my leg out from under me.
The ground rushes up to meet me, and I feel my nose break with the impact. Pain explodes through my skull. Blood gushes out, pouring down over my lips when I roll onto my back. The Howler drags me toward its alpha, arching its back and jerking as it does.
Thrashing, I swipe a hand at its face, desperate to end the pain for the both of us. My slash falls short, merely catching the flesh of her muzzle with my nails. It tears away in a bloody hunk. The poor thing screams, and the sound is just a bit too human.
It pierces my soul, sending shivers through my body.
But she lets go of my leg.
Scrambling upward, pain exploding through me with every move, I pull the wolf’s head to my chest. Holding her still against me, I take her head in both hands and snap her neck. She goes limp in my arms, and I set her gently on the ground.
Her eyes shine with nothing more than firelight, finally lifeless in death. As they should be. The bone around them glows against her black fur, matted down with dried blood.
Finally gaining its feet, the massive alpha charges, barreling into me as I wipe tears from my face. Its teeth find my left arm, sinking in deep. Lightning bursts of agony explode across every fiber of my being.
Pulling my hands apart, I pry the Howler’s jaws from my arms without ever touching the beast. A single twirling finger secures its jaw with a Nether binding, a thing I probably should have done from the start.
Another thing I’ll regret later…
Pulling the great grey beast against me, I hold it tight, despite its thrashing, finally finding a use for my unnatural strength. Staring into its eyes, I see pain.
And fear.
With one hand on the side of its face, I fill my own eyes with compassion, letting my emotions seep into the beast. Another seldom used ability. I’m much more likely to keep my feelings to myself.
But here, now, it soothes this poor creature. The beast lays down across my lap, staring up at me.
Snarls become whimpers, and howls morph into soft whines. I feel death in the poor thing. His body is cold, and thick blood drains from its gaping stomach. Eyes like caramel stare into my soul, aching for release.
Twirling one finger counterclockwise, I release Elias from his Nether binding in the tree and free the wolf’s jaws. He won’t bite me, now.
With tears streaming down my face, I place my right hand atop the wolf’s head. My savaged left arm lies limp across the beast’s side. Stroking gently and hiding a grimace of pain, I try to show this poor animal a bit of comfort.
Then, I place one nail over the top of his head. He whines softly, and I make gentle sounds of reassurance.
“Shhh… It’s okay, now,” I whisper, petting the poor animal slowly and driving my talon through his skull.
Black blood oozes out around it, but for a split second, before the life fades from his eyes, he finds peace. His muscles go limp, finally relaxing as they should have when he first died.
Heaving a great sob, I haul the massive wolf’s head to my chest. My cries drown out the sounds of Elias climbing down from the tree. I hug the cold, dead wolf to me, weeping into matted fur.
My body shakes with sobs, and my chest aches. My world goes black, wiping the stars and the moon from the sky. My breath catches in my throat as my fingers tighten around dirty fur.
Can I just say that I cried writing this scene?
God, the poor animals. They went through so much. And they tore Ness up pretty badly before she could put them out of their misery.
Needless to say, there are some truly sad songs in the playlist. There are also some happy ones, some songs full of romantic tension, and a few that just sound fucking bad ass.
So, if you’re looking to broaden your musical horizons, the playlist below (assembled on YouTube Music) has 94 songs from all different genres. If you don’t have YouTube Music, I’ve also included screenshots of the playlist.
Who knows, you could listen to it while reading.
If you haven’t entered my preorder giveaway, it’s open until release day. Preorders are still available.
Links are down below.
Preorder Giveaway
A Heart of Salt & Silver Playlist
Amazon Preorder
10 Amazing Romance Authors: Guest Post By Beth Linton
There’s nothing better than discovering a new author but often we discover those new authors by recommendation. Below, in no particular order, are some authors I have recently discovered and thought you might enjoy!
The Guardians’ Trust: Ana by Beth Linton
Beth Linton lives in North Wales and loves books, coffee, growing things and her young ‘un. Ana is her debut paranormal romance and is the first of a series (books 2 and 3 are due out soon). If you want a romance that has passion, shapeshifters and an almost magical connection with Mother Nature then this story will hook you.
Some women are born identical – one in the human world, one in the jungle of the Other Realm. It is their fate to change places. In The Guardians’ Trust series Doubles embrace their fate with the men born for them…
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU LEARNT THERE WERE TWO OF YOU?
Dr Ana Jones learns it is her destiny to leave the human world and cross into an Amazonian realm to join the Resistance who are fighting for survival – a fate that is akin to stepping back in time… no iPads, running water or underwear! A Double, one of a pair of identical women born by Mother Nature to swap places, she must cross into an Amazonian world to join the Resistance who are fighting for survival within the Other Realm and marry a stranger to help them win the war.
HE WAS BORN FOR HER
A warrior, leading the Resistance is Brenin’s life but Ana is his fate. Brenin embraces his marriage, and the shapeshifting gift his mating brings, but will her love be enough to help both man and panther survive the war?
Werewolves Only by Carrie Pulkinen
Carrie Pulkinen is an author of spicy, haunting romances. Like me, she is fuelled by coffee. She loves her dog and the worlds she creates in her series. We share a similar fascination with shapeshifters which is what first attracted me to her books – If you like sexy shifters and fated mates, you’ll love this thrilling paranormal romance.
Macey doesn’t know she’s hunting demons.
Luke is making sure she never discovers the truth.
Detective Macey Carpenter has been on the trail of a vicious attacker for weeks. The evidence keeps disappearing, and it seems she’ll never solve the case. Finding love is the least of her worries, but she can’t deny her attraction to a mysterious man who knows more about the crimes than he should.
A man who may be more than he seems…
When Luke falls head over tail for the feisty human detective, supernatural secrets aren’t the only things at stake.
He has to mate with another werewolf or he’ll sacrifice his position as alpha. But as heat builds between the pair, he discovers Macey has a few secrets of her own.
She may hold the key to ridding New Orleans of its demons…
But his feelings for her will tear his pack apart.
Stripped Down by Mae Harden
Mae Harden is an author of contemporary romances and, talented lady that she is, she also co-hosts a podcast. Harden started her love of romance by reading Harlequin just as I did and she shares my enjoyment of writing strong female characters. Her novel, Stripped Down is definitely going into my TBR pile. Hot!
Contractor. Loner. Stripper? Not usually, but I’ll do anything to get the Bachelorette party in the room next door to settle down. All I want is a good nights sleep so I can focus on work. I never expected my entire world to shift when she opens the hotel door with her wide green eyes and sweet vanilla scent.
She’s just in town for the party, there’s no way I can have her. I certainly shouldn’t have pinned her against the wall and kissed her on my way out. After all, it’s not like I’ll ever see her again, right?
Baking is my thing. Running a successful, expanding business is my thing. Bachelorette parties are not. Surprise strippers even less so. But I’m pretty sure this guy isn’t really a stripper and if he is, he’s pretty bad at it.
On the other hand, he’s very very good at kissing. I’ll never see him again but at least I’ll have something to fantasize about when I’m baking muffins tomorrow morning.
Peterson Estate: Birth of A Witch by A. R. Grosjean
A. R. Grosjean is an author of multiple genres including Fantasy, Romance, Suspense, and more. She describes herself as ‘a head in the clouds kind of author’. I have chosen this book as not only is it the first in this series but you can also get the e-book for free when you sign up for her newsletter. Her new novel Stolen is out in October and sounds like a great read. Read an excerpt here.
Love, Art, and Other Obstacles by Sadira Stone
Sadira Stone writes contemporary romance set in the Pacific Northwest and this novel is book 3 of her Nirvana series. Stone is a star because she not only writes great romance stories but she also promotes fellow writers as well.
She’s a free spirit. He’s a one-woman man.
Rejected by her family for her bisexuality, graphic artist Margot DuPont yearns for a life with no fences, no limits, and no family ties. Between college, work at Book Nirvana, and an art competition, she barely has time for her part-time girlfriend much less a flirtation with her competitor.
Dumped into the foster system at a young age, ceramics artist Elmer Byrne craves a big, loving family of the heart. His artist tribe almost fills that need, but something is missing…until Margot. But when he offers his heart, her thorny defences shatter him.
Thrown together in an art competition that could jump-start one artist’s career, but not both, their irresistible attraction forces them to reconsider the meaning of success.
Bishop Takes Knight by Mckenna Dean
Mckenna Dean’s Instagram profile hooked me from the start: she loves putting her characters in hot water to see how strong they are – like tea bags, she says, only sexier. Romance, heat and humour all promised within one sentence! Her style is slow burn, crockpot paranormal.
Redclaw Origins: The year is 1955. Rebel without a Cause and The Seven Year Itch are playing in the movie theatres. The Chevy Bel Air is the most popular car in America. Gas is 25 cents a gallon and you can get a hotel room for $4 bucks. This flirty, fun series takes us back to the beginning and shows us how Redclaw Security got started.
Bishop Takes Knight (Redclaw Origins Book 1)
New York, 1955. Former socialite Henrietta (“Rhett”) Bishop, desperately seeking work, gets hired by Redclaw Security. But Redclaw is no ordinary operation. Part detective firm and part enforcement agency, Redclaw regulates matters involving the growing population of shifters who have emerged since the onset of the nuclear age.
Peter Knight is a nuclear scientist shattered by the death of his wife. Blacklisted by the government and scientific organizations, he drowns his sorrows while searching for the people behind his wife’s murder.
Together they form an unlikely partnership to search for a missing cache of mysterious technology stolen from Redclaw. But when a dangerous person from the past turns up to start a bidding war on the artifacts, Bishop and Knight wind up in a fight for their very lives.
A Heart of Salt and Silver by Elexis Bell
Elexis Bell writes books that sweep you off your feet, and tie you to the chair. Her style is romance sprinkled across high fantasy, sci-fi and post-apocalyptic novels. Whatever you chose to read of hers, they are always dark. Fans of gritty fiction, compelling romance, and imaginative takes on magic and the afterlife will love this dark paranormal high fantasy romance. A Heart of Salt and Silver (out November 3rd) is available for pre-order.
Ness, a demi-demon with a conscience, just wanted a peaceful afternoon in the Forest of Immortals. But Elias, a reckless mortal, went and spoiled it. Not that he wanted to be chased by psychotic vampires.
After saving his life, Ness agrees to help him find his estranged father and his Pack. But that means facing Nolan, the werewolf ex that holds her heart.
Now, Ness must decide. Use Elias to forget Nolan at the cost of his soul or crawl back to her ex and hope he still wants her even though she broke his heart.
But when the vampires come calling, broken hearts might be the least of their worries.
Hunting for a Highlander by Lynsay Sands
Lynsay Sands is a New York Times Best Selling author. Her stories are packed with not only romance but wit and humour. For both steam and a good laugh, her books are gold. Sands says that this story is much sexier than many of her others. Enjoy!
Lady Dwyn Innes feels utterly out of place among the eligible women who’ve descended on Buchanan Keep, vying for the attention of the last unmarried brothers. She isn’t long-legged and slender like her sisters, or flirtatious and wily like other lasses. Since her betrothed died, Dwyn has resigned herself to becoming an old maid. Yet a chance encounter with a stranger in the orchard awakens her to a new world of sensation and possibility…
After weeks away, Geordie Buchanan returns to find his home swarming with potential brides, thanks to his loving but interfering family. But one lass in particular draws his attention from the moment he spies her climbing a tree. Lady Dwyn is not nearly as plain as she thinks. Her lush figure and eager kisses delight him, as does her honesty. But the real test lies ahead: eliminating a hidden enemy, so that he and Dwyn can seal their Highland passion with a vow.
Highland Crossfire by Monica McCarthy
Monica McCarthy is a lawer and a hugely succesful author. Many of her books are historical and based in Scotland and, believe it or not, it was writing a legal paper on the Scottish Clan System that led to her love of Scotland.
At eighteen, Annie MacGregor thought the worst thing that could happen to her was a broken heart. But she was wrong. Caught in the crossfire of warring clans, Annie’s ravaging at the hands of the hated Campbells has nearly destroyed her. But she is determined to put her life back together, and that life doesn’t include Niall Lamont, the man who broke her heart two years before and has now appointed himself her unwanted avenger and sentinel.
Niall made the biggest mistake of his life when he told Annie that he couldn’t marry her. By the time he realizes his mistake, however, it’s too late. His clan is nearly destroyed by the Campbells for harbouring her kinsmen, he is outlawed, and the woman he loves has been brutalized. With time running out, and the king’s men closing in, Niall will do whatever he must to earn Annie’s forgiveness—even if it means teaching the stubborn lass to defend herself. But Annie is a MacGregor, and if there is one thing the persecuted clan knows how to do, it is fight. Forgiveness, however, is another matter, and Niall begins to wonder if some wounds just might be too deep to heal.
Exorcism by Penny Jordan
Penny Jordan is the queen of romance. Writing for Mills & Boon, she writes around four books a year and is, arguably, the jewel of M&B’s crown. Jordan prefers to write about virginal heroines as a shorthand to convey her character’s attraction to the hero, so if this is your preferred trope then have look at her huge collection!
Could she exorcise her dreams of love?
Looking back, Christy realised that Simon hadn’t wanted to fall in love six years ago – while she’d had no other choice. Still, she shouldn’t have assumed he’d want to marry her.
She’d naively planned their future together until the day Simon accused her of trying to trap him into marriage. Apparently, unlike her, he hadn’t needed to be in love to experience desire.
Now he was determined to have her accompany him to the Caribbean to research his new book. Did he really expect her to put the past behind her?
My thoughts on Insta-love vs Slow Burn
So, it’s no secret that I’m not a fan of insta-love in books, whether I’m writing or reading.
I much prefer the sweet, drawn out tension of a slow burn. That will they/won’t they, that back and forth, is just way more appealing to me.
But I’m not sure I’ve ever explained why except to a few individuals.
Now, bear in mind, this is just my opinion. You’re free to write or read whatever you want. In fact, I actively encourage it. The literary world needs to serve all readers and writers.
But that’s a rant I’ve done before.
On to the topic at hand.
To me, insta-love just isn’t immersive or realistic.
I know that sounds rich coming from a sci-fi/fantasy writer. Magic and dragons and werewolves aren’t real.
But that’s the element of the fantastical that I prefer.
I want the characters, their personalities, and their interactions to be believable and immersive.
Instantly falling in love just isn’t believable for me.
Instant attraction, yeah. That makes way more sense. That happens to people all over the globe, day in and day out.
But if two characters just fall in love within a day or a week, I start trying to figure out if they have some sort of attachment problems, psychologically speaking.
And that isn’t usually what insta-love writers want their readers focusing on.
Plus, I always find myself picking out red flags, little things the characters should notice about each other (but don’t), and find it all a little worrisome.
Because there are usually a few.
Or a lot.
So I just tend to stay away from insta-love books, in general.
There are exceptions, of course.
If it’s written into the fabric of the world and based in a magical element…that makes more sense to me. Or in books where the aim is to show the dangers of losing yourself in a relationship, insta-love makes sense then, too.
But it just doesn’t work for me, outside of those few exceptions.
I’ll take the slow progress, the building chemistry, the back and forth and will they/won’t they of a slow burn over insta-love any day.
Again, this is all personal opinion. I strongly advise you to read or write whatever you want.
Where do you stand on the matter?
Come back next week to find out why I write romance into even my darkest books.
Now, as far as my progress on my books is concerned.
I finished the first round of edits on Second to None last week, battled countless technological demons, wrote about 6,000 words in The Regonia Chronicles, decided to move the divider between book one and two within the series, and got A Heart of Salt & Silver up for preorder in paperback and ebook. The hardback will be available soon.
Check it out here: mybook.to/AHeartOfSaltAndSilver
I need to jump into another round of edits on either Allmother Rising or Where Darkness Leads, soon.
I’d say that I’ll have eventually have fewer projects going at once, but that would be a lie. And I’m okay with that.
A Heart of Salt & Silver Cover Reveal!
It’s finally time to show off this cover!
I’m so freaking excited to get this out there.
Here are a couple of excerpts to give you a sneak peak at the book!
Excerpt one:
“Unhand us, witch!” the vampire shouts.
The mortals, apparently far smarter than this vampire, remain silent. Even the vampire’s own pledge seals his lips shut. A wave of Nether wafts off him, marking him as a Nether witch.
But fury sparks within me, and a dark grin overtakes me. I lower my arm, setting the blades down gently in the middle of the clearing.
“What was that?” I ask, daring the vampire to repeat himself.
Stupidly enough, he does. “I said, ‘unhand us, witch!’ Let us go quickly, and I might not kill you.”
Arrogant fool.
I laugh quietly, and all the birds fly away, deserting their treetop perches. A dangerous glint shines in my eyes as I saunter within arm’s reach.
“Witch? You think me a witch?”
“How else could a pitiful, puny little woman like you do all this?” He jerks his head at the other two men, unable to move his arms. Cheeks flushed with anger, he draws back and spits in my face, dark eyes flashing, all the while.
Nearby animals sense my anger reverberating on the Nether, and the woods fall completely silent. Fury roils within me, and visions of blood fill my mind. Everything in me demands his evisceration.
Or perhaps the removal of some limbs…
With eyes narrowed, I lift one hand. He flinches, and I smile, baring my teeth. His spit floats into the air, leaping happily from my skin. My spine shivers with disgust and hatred as I force the spit to smear itself over the vampire’s face, over his eyes.
Slowly twirling one finger, I tighten his bonds. Air rushes from his lungs, and his soft face goes red as he struggles to breathe.
“You underestimate me. I don’t know a single witch who can do everything I’ve done without at least three days of spell and potion preparation. Not to mention the difficulty of lugging all those ingredients out here.”
Lifting one average looking fingernail to his face, I trace one of his cheekbones, then the other, splitting the skin wide. A line drawn down the center of his nose, from bridge to tip, releases still more blood.
My eyes flutter as the darkest parts of me savor the sight.
“As for spitting on me,” I whisper, knowing my voice will carry to the others, echoing in their bones despite its low volume, “that was a grave mistake. Most of my kind would have killed you on the spot, simply for the disturbance.”
Voice suddenly a hiss, I say, “You’re lucky I’ve learned patience.”
My soul riots for revenge, and my blood boils in my veins. I fight the damnable words, hating my own weakness before my rage, but still, I say, “But ignorance must not go to seed. Your family line will end with you. You will never again create, or prolong, life.”
And I shift the Nether to make it so.
“Your kind? What are you talking about? What makes you think you can curse me?” All bluff and bluster, the vampire tries to appear brave and defiant.
But I feel the fear leaking off him. I smell it in his blood, acrid and spoiled. I hear it in his sputtering heartbeat, slightly more erratic than those of the others.
Again, I say nothing. Drawing a deep breath, I close my eyes slowly.
Thunder roars through the clearing, rumbling in all our chests. I open my eyes, glittering gold sending light reflecting back at the vampire, and my skin grows paler. Fingernails become golden talons, embedded in black skin which reveals hues of purple as it fades to white just above my wrist. My eyelids are colored similarly, pulsing with the Nether that reaches out through my skin.
Black horns burst from my skull, sticking through locks of deepest red. My horns twist as they taper off, curling back over the top of my head.
The color drains from the vampire’s face, concealed as it is by his blood. Sick glee spikes through me.
“Did you know you would feel my revelation in your blood? Did you know the very air would tremble with it?” I ask, knowing the answer to be a resounding “no.”
“You’re a…” he trails off, unable to speak for lack of air.
“Demi-demon is, I believe, the word you’re looking for,” I say, smiling malevolently. “Now, I’m going to untether you, and you’re going to run. Before I change my mind.”
Can I just say that Ness is pretty OP? Lol. She has her flaws, don’t get me wrong. She isn’t perfect. But she’s powerful as hell.
And because I just can’t help myself, here’s another excerpt:
With my good arm, I pull my leg up to bend the knee. Hiking the hem of my dress up, I reveal torn muscle and shredded skin. I wince as the fabric moves over it, tugging flaps of skin in directions they aren’t meant to go.
Elias’ hands set to work, scooping water up, and pouring it over my thigh. Each drop, gentle as the administration of them may be, pulls a moan of pain from my lips. Wrapping fingers tightly around a stone, I do what I can to bear the pain without making Elias feel worse.
The blood washes away, revealing the true devastation wrought by the dead wolf’s jaws. My leg hangs open, dark muscle showing itself to the sky as it was never meant to do.
“Itand have mercy,” he whispers, calling on the goddess of fortitude.
But she’ll spare no blessings for the likes of me.
“What do I need to do?” he asks. His eyes roam over me, and one hand finds its way to my cheek. Brows knitted together, he clearly longs for something to do, some reassurance that I’ll be ok.
Does he want me to be alright for the sake of spending more time together? Or merely for the sake of having an escort for the rest of the trek?
I hope for his sake that it’s the latter. But the well of loneliness within me wishes for the former.
Either way, there’s nothing he can do.
“My body will mend itself,” I tell him. “It’ll hurt, but it’ll mend. It’s already started.”
His eyes drop to my arm, my leg. The bleeding has stopped, and the cuts aren’t as deep as they were mere seconds ago. Had he seen it when the wounds were first inflicted, he likely would’ve been sick.
“I wish you would’ve let me help,” he murmurs, sliding his hand along my jaw until his thumb finds my earlobe.
Exhaustion pulls my inhibitions low. Despite myself, despite the guilt churning within me, I lean into his caress.
Nolan won’t want me back, anyway.
My heart shrinks from the thought, and I close my eyes, nuzzling my cheek into Elias’ palm.
“Letting you help would’ve been a terrible idea. They could never kill me. They had no salt, no silver. They couldn’t say any incantations.”
I pause, squeezing my eyes tight against the horrid images which flash before them. I don’t want to see the ways they could’ve hurt him. I don’t want to watch them tear him to shreds. I don’t want to see his blood on the ground.
“They could’ve killed you, though,” I whisper.
Suddenly desperate to see him alive and healthy, to ease my conscience just a bit, I open my eyes. Sure enough, he’s there, face inches from mine. The moonlight glows in his magnificent eyes, but the blood of the Howlers still adorns his face.
Reaching for his sodden shirt, I lift a corner of it to his face. Wiping away the dried blood, I memorize the strength in his jaw, the kindness in his eyes. I trace the small kink in his nose, a remnant from a previous fight.
From a distance, it’s almost impossible to notice, but this close…
My eyes drop to his lips, full and soft. They part, but only to speak.
Confusion wrinkles his brow. “If they couldn’t kill you, why were they sent after us? To maim you and kill me?”
“No,” I say, shaking my head. I stifle a groan as my thigh stitches itself together. “They sent them to find us. They know where we are, now. They know which way we were headed. They’ll find us.”
Those words sew our lips shut, for we both know. This won’t be the last of the vampire and his pledge. And if this was just the search party, what awaits us down the path?
The things awaiting them down the path are pretty intense. Just so you know.
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Grenada: Island of Spice and Enchantment
by Margaret Ayala
Grenada: Island of Spice and Enchantment. Discover this magical island, explore its culture, beaches and, of course, its fabulous rums.
A few years ago I took a trip to my twin sister ’s office to drop in and say “hello”. While we were wandering the halls and she was introducing me to her co-workers we approached a door that was ajar. Suddenly it swung open and a gentleman stepped out into the hall. He glanced over briefly at us and smiled and then did a very quick double take with a shocked and amazed look on his face at the realization that he was staring at identical twins.
It was a moment that I will never forget when he said “I don’t think I drank that much Rum & Coke last night!”. Little did I know that these few seconds and words would be the beginning of a very dear, dear friendship with DC Campbell. His expression that day ranks as our top #1 in people’s reactions to the sight of twins. While I was talking to DC, there was an apparent accent, but one I was not familiar with. Come to find out, he was from Grenada.
Not knowing anything about Grenada, or even where it was on the map, I found myself asking him many questions about his country. He told stories, one after another, about his childhood and the rums he grew up with. For example, when he was a young boy, his father would use Clarke’s Court White Rum to bless the foundation of their new home and to drive away any evil spirits. His mother would put a rum-soaked cloth on his forehead whenever he had a fever.
He also went on to tell me about Grenada’s famous Jack Iron Rum (180 Proof). This rum is so strong that when you add ice, it sinks to the bottom of the glass! To this day, it is still considered one of the Caribbean’s strongest rums and has one of the most colorful stories behind it.
Grenada is full of amazing history, for example, the country remained un-colonized for more than one hundred years following its discovery or the myths surrounding the end of Fedon’s Rebellion or the fact that a distillery in Grenada has the oldest water-propelled sugarcane mill in all of the Caribbean.
I want to extend a big “Thank You” to my dear friend DC for giving me the inspiration for this article, to the Grenada Board of Tourism (thank you Mr. Edwin Frank!) and to the rum distilleries for all of their assistance and hospitality. If you would like more information about Grenada, make sure to visit the Grenada Board of Tourism’s website, http://www.grenadagrenadines.com/.
See you in Grenada!
Margaret Ayala, Executive Editor
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Everything Board Games' Best of Lunar 2017
Nick Shipley February 13, 2018
As the year was coming to a close, the Everything Board Games review team started looking back at 2017 and the work over the course of the year which included:
96 Giveaways
166 Winners
We owe a debt of gratitude to the Everything Board Games community; everyone who read a review, entered and shared a giveaway, or watched a YouTube Live interview with a designer - thank you. We could not have done this without you.
We also began thinking back on the board games that defined the year, and stood out to us as the best of the best of 2017. We each compiled our lists of the best games we reviewed (and for the new reviewers, simply played) and discussed these games and how we would best share our thoughts.
But as I (Nick S.) began looking at my list, I could not help but to glance under the Christmas tree and notice the Sagrada-shaped box, and the Azul-shaped box, and the I-may-not-know-which-scenario-but-I-know-that-it-is-an-Exit-shaped box.
It was at this time that a crazy idea popped into my head. The type of crazy idea that tip-toes the fine line between "so crazy it just might work" and "so crazy that my cohorts will think I'm crazy".
Knowing (hoping) that some of those games under the tree would make my top ten list after I had a chance to play them, and that everyone in my house is Korean and would be recognizing the Lunar New Year complete with hanboks and bibimbap in just a few weeks, I thought, What if our "best of 2017" reflected the Lunar Year, rather than the calendar year?
I floated the idea out to the group, and to my surprise, here we are. Without further ado, we present the Everything Board Games Reviewers' Best of Lunar Year 2017.
Nick Shipley's Top 10 of 2017:
1. Sagrada
2. Azul
3. Mole Rats in Space
4. Photosynthesis
5. Campy Creatures
6. NMBR 9
7. Codenames: Disney Family Edition
8. Starving Artists
9. Gadgeteers
10. Kiwetin
Sagrada gets the nod over Azul because of the solo variant, but one of my favorite lesser-known games of 2017 was easily Campy Creatures by KeyMaster Games. The art is fantastic, and it is a game that I have enjoyed showing off as much as I have enjoyed playing. Everything from the box, to the individual cards, to the inserts all stand as an homage to the campy monster movie films and will tug at the nostalgia heart-strings of players of a certain age.
Nick Shipley - Reviewer
Nick is a compliance consultant by day, a board gamer at night, and a husband and father always. When he is not bringing a game to the table, he is running (most often to or from his kids) or watching the New York Yankees. You can follow what Nick is playing by following him on Twitter @ndshipley.
See Nick's reviews HERE.
David Jensen's Top 10 of 2017:
1. Kiwetin
2. Witches of the Revolution
3. Expedition: The Roleplaying Card Game
4. Ladder 29
5. Polemic
6. Armor & Ash
7. Knot Dice
8. Collectors and Capers
9. Wizard's WARdrobe
10. Shadow Strike Melee
Several fun party games and card drafting games made the cut. Expedition brought with it a fun and welcoming introduction to role-playing games. Witches of the Revolution, a cooperative board game with a historical theme, nearly edged out the win. But it was Kiwetin, the pioneer creation of Flyos Games, that stole the top spot. Its lightning-fast gameplay, gorgeous art and components, and ever-changing board means that this game will always be welcome at our table.
David Jensen - Editor and Reviewer
David has tried his hand at everything from warehouse work and washing dishes to delivering pizza. Now, he's trying his hand at writing creatively and working as an editor for a start-up literary magazine. When he's not busy procrastinating, he's running tabletop game sessions for friends and family.
See David's reviews HERE.
Rodger Moore's Top 10 of 2017:
1. Champions of Midgard Valhalla/Dark Mountains
2. Dinosaur Island
3. Wasteland Express Delivery Service
4. Gloomhaven
5. Ethnos
7. Dragon Island
8. Chimera Station
9. Assault of the Giants
10. Wartime
This year was certainly an exceptional year for gaming and it was extremely difficult to narrow my list down to my top ten. I could have easily made a top twenty, or even thirty for that matter. It was a great year of what I considered gateway games that were easy to teach but had amazing depth to them, and many of them did not even make it into my top 10! The ones that did were Ethnos and Photosynthesis. It was also a year of some very clever game design as well with my number 10 pick in Wartime from Wizkids in which it is a real-time strategy game that uses sand timers. Amazing fun! Champions of Midgard was my top pick, however even though it was due to expansions which made it an entirely new and fantastic experience. One final note on Gloomhaven not being higher on my list is that is was just due to less play time. I plan on changing that in the future.
Rodger Moore - Kickstarter Content Manager
I am in the education profession as a part time teacher (spent 19 years previously in the classroom) and majority of the time I am the IT/Tech coordinator at my school. I am currently working behind the scenes to develop lessons and techniques for teachers to use board gaming in their classrooms (I will release more information in the future). I have been an avid gamer all my life. I got into board gaming in the late seventies starting with many fantasy and war games (I still own many of the ones I started with and they seem so much more involved than the iterations today). I got back into board gaming in 2012 by joining a local meet-up group with which I am very involved with to this day. I help with a local convention called RAGECON which we put on every June. I love the interactions and escape that board gaming provides. Most people I have encountered like games and find it is a great way to meet new people and get to know them. My wife (just got married last April) shares the passion for gaming as I do. She will play anything! I hail from Northern Nevada and am a native.
Benjamin Kocher's Top 10 of 2017:
1. Champions of Midgard
2. Torres
3. Gearworks
4. Blueshift
5. Dwarven Smithy
6. Gruff: Rage of the Trolls
7. Cthulhu Wars: Windwalker Expansion
8. Longhorn
9. Doodle Quest
10. Gyrating Hamsters
Champions of Midgard was the very first game I reviewed for Everything Board Games and, thankfully, it wasn't the last. I love Champions of Midgard probably more than I should (and yes, the expansions are brilliant as well). That being said, I want to take a moment to talk about a different game on this list: Gearworks.
Gearworks surprised me. I honestly didn't know what to expect from it initially, other than it looked pretty neat. Once I got into it and started understanding the mechanics of it, Gearworks had me in the palm of its proverbial, steampunky hand. It was a unique twist on area control (which I'm already a fan of), and quite Sudoku-esque in nature. Despite being absolutely horrendous at mathematics and numbers in general, I have always liked the number puzzle Sudoku offers. Likewise, Gearworks provided a puzzle similar to Sudoku, but this puzzle was constantly changing through player interaction, unique mechanics, and as all good steampunk games should have, moving gear parts. It's relatively simple to pick up and understand, and is a wonderful game for gamers of all skill levels.
Honorable mentions go to Dwarven Smithy for its card crafting creativity, and Blueshift for its sci-fi adventure of space exploration, battles, and dominion.
Benjamin Kocher - Editor and Reviewer
Benjamin Kocher hails from Canada but now lives in Utah with his wife and kids. He's a freelance blogger and budding game designer. As an avid writer of science fiction and fantasy, it comes as no surprise that his favorite board games are those with a rich, engaging theme. When he’s not writing or playing games, Benjamin loves to play ultimate Frisbee, watch and play rugby, and read the most epic fantasy books available. Follow him on Twitter @BenjaminKocher and read his board game-inspired fiction at BenjaminKocher.com.
See Benjamin's reviews HERE.
Delton Perez's Top 10 of 2017:
3. Tiny Epic Quest
4. The Climbers
5. First Martians
6. Wildcatters
7. Alien Artifacts
9. 7th Continent
10. Agra
Honorable Mention: The Ruhr
Honorable Mention: Herbaceous
I was one of the lucky folks who received Gloomhaven early in 2017, and immediately fell in love with this for many reasons. It has a complete system and solid gameplay, whether solo or with multiple players. Both story and characters progress as you play. Additionally, this gave me a fantastic opportunity to play with my daughters and grow a world together with them. Now, Ethnos came up a very close second, with extremely solid gameplay. The differentiator for me and my play groups, though, was in the appearance. Let's be honest, the color scheme applied to the board is extremely boring and drives people away before they get to enjoy this great game.
Delton Perez - Reviewer
Delton Perez is a FLGS owner with two locations in Puerto Rico. Originally from Boston, he currently lives in the wilds of Ohio, where he currently resides with his family. By day, he is a Retail Consultant working in New York in the Fashion Industry, but by night, meeples, dice, and cardboard take over. Delton also runs a gaming organization based in Northeast Ohio that focuses on running game nights at libraries, schools, and churches on a scheduled, monthly basis. At times, Delton has even been able to sleep, though proof has yet to be found.
See Delton's reviews HERE.
Dave Merrell's Top 10 of 2017:
1. Hafid's Grand Bazaar
2. Kingdom of Aer: Kingmaker
3. Lisboa
4. Brass Empire: New Canton
5. Danger Suit
6. Dragoon Rogue and Barbarian Expansion
7. This Belongs in a Museum
8. Argle Bargle
9. Burst My Bubble
10. Sky Heist
They say hindsight is 20/20. I gave Lisboa the highest number of "super meeples," but as I look back at the multiple games I reviewed in 2017, it doesn't fit in the top spot. Yes, I reviewed one of the grand daddies of 2017, but the nod has to go to two lesser known games.
Purists would likely pick Lisboa; it's heavy, deep, there are multiple paths to victory, it looks amazing, and the pure heft and size of the box is unbelievable. But if you truly enjoy a hobby that ranges all levels of society, Hafid's Grand Bazaar is a gem that you need.
Hafid's is a game that also had multiple paths to victory, but it also is fast to learn, quick and involved to play, and leaves the player feeling satisfied and happy. The theme is admittedly different, but it actually works. It is a game that will always get pulled out when the group or family comes over.
Dave Merrell - Review Manager and Reviewer
Dave is a Professional Structural Engineer who specializes in Zip Lines and Challenge Courses. When he’s not swinging in the trees (or sharpening his pencil) he’s playing games, most often with some or all of his five kids. Dave lives in beautiful Flagstaff, Arizona.
See Dave's reviews HERE.
Alexa Chaplin’s Top Ten of 2017:
2. Yamatai
3. Flatline
4. Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game
5. Herbaceous
6. Fugitive
7. Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
9. Mint Works
10. Word Domination
I have to give an honorable mention to Bahoochie! which is more or less a Top Trumps reskin but delightfully Scottish and hysterical to play with the kids, and another to the reissue of Stop Thief which uses an app instead of a Merlin-like voice box! Nick discussed my #1 choice, the elegant Sagrada, above. My #2 game is the beautiful Yamatai from Days of Wonder, which has an interesting movement and set collection mechanic and is a delight to play. My #3 is the pulse-pounding sequel to Fuse, the patient-saving, frantic dice-tossing Flatline from Renegade Games, which took the timed pressure of Fuse and bumped it up a notch with even more interesting decision-making tossed in. My #7, Pandemic Legacy, might rise higher in my estimation as time goes on, but so far we’re only two months in.
Alexa Chaplin- Reviewer
My name is Alexa. I'm a life-long game player and homeschooling mom to two awesome kids. I've loved board games since my early days playing Scrabble and Gin Rummy with my grandmother, and life only got more interesting when I married a Battletech enthusiast and fellow game lover. We've played games with our kids since they were small, and I helped start a thriving homeschool co-op where we have weekly sessions of board games with kids. In a family with kids raised on Catan and Pandemic, life is sure to be fun. You may run into me on Twitter, BoardGameGeek, and other social media as MamaGames. Be sure to say hi!
See Alexa's reviews HERE.
Brody Sheard’s Top Ten of 2017:
1. Coldwater Crown
2. Beasts of Balance
3. Farlight
4. Space Race: Interkosmos
5. TMNT: Shadows of the Past
6. Valeria: Card Kingdoms
7. Coma Ward
8. Sunset Over Water
9. The Witching Hour
10. 10 Minute Heist
I'd like to highlight Farlight on my list as I feel like more people need to know about this game. I usually like a game more if I'm good at it and win a lot when playing it. When I play Farlight, however, I rarely win, but it seems to always trigger an area in my brain where I have to think about so many things to do well in it, and I love games like that. Farlight uses a betting mechanic that includes a false bet where you can throw off your opponents. You are also making your spaceship more powerful through the cards you get and build, but watch out, because when you make yourself limited on what type of cards you can place on your ship, you will soon realize how fast the others are becoming more powerful and going on more and better missions than you. I'd encourage you to check out the game if you haven't heard of it, or don't know much about it.
Brody Sheard - Outreach Manager
Brody Sheard played board games with his large family growing up. He continues with his love of games by teaching his family, local gaming guild, and friends about new and exciting games. Brody believes that board gaming keeps your mind healthy while also having fun interacting with others.
See Brody's reviews HERE.
Stephen Guilk’s Top Ten of 2017:
1. Trench
2. Planetarium
3. Raiders of the North Sea: Fields of Fame
4. Santorini
6. Charterstone
7. Larklamp
8. Raiders of the North Sea: Hall of Heroes
9. The Thing
10. Consentacle
My shelves saw quite a few notable additions this year. Larklamp gets the award for most innovative. It uses a lantern with replaceable panels to make a board out of light and promises regular additional games for their subscribers. The games are cleaver and fun, but a little light for my taste. They are good fillers, and the lamp is a cool decoration between games. Raiders of the North Sea (with its expansions) was the most replayed. It's a beautiful worker placement game with solid mechanics that is sure to hit the table many more times in the years to come. Planetarium, the elegant light/medium-weight strategy game where you carefully adapt planets by crashing stuff into them, didn’t get nearly the publicity it deserved. Trench got the number one spot because it was one of the few games I think people will still be playing three-hundred-years from now. It doesn’t rely on minis or gimmicks; it’s simply a brilliant abstract game that pits two minds against one another on an even playing field.
Stephen Gulik - Reviewer
Stephen Gulik is a trans-dimensional cockroach, doomsday prophet, author, and editor at sausage-press.com. When he’s not manipulating energy fields to alter the space-time continuum, he’s playing or designing board games. He has four cats and drinks too much coffee.
See Stephen's reviews HERE.
Nicholas Leeman's Top 10 of 2017:
2. Shifty Eyed Spies
4. Clank! In! Space!
5. HeroTec
6. Daemon Trilogy: Subrosa
7. Infected
9. Moons
10. The Wizard Always Wins
Ethnos takes the top spot by a wide margin this year. While ugly, and perhaps only very tenuously thematic, the gameplay and replayability put this game into a class by itself. There's rarely a game night where Ethnos isn't asked for by name. Two of the top 10 games this year are Target exclusives (as far as I know), and both are really, really solid in their own right. Shifty Eyed Spies is worth a long look to replace your usual party games, and The Wizard Always Wins is a delightfully fun palate cleanser. Moons is probably the best trick-taking game you've never heard of, and Farlight earns the number three spot by virtue of the fact that it combines a whole stack of mechanics into one game that still manages to play at a decent time and takes full advantage of theme.
Nicholas Leeman - Reviewer
Nicholas has been a board game evangelist for over 10 years now, converting friends and family alike to the hobby. He's also a trained actor and works summers as one of the PA announcers for the St. Paul Saints. He lives in Minneapolis, MN with his board gaming wife and son.
See Nicholas's reviews HERE.
Dane Trimble's Top 10 of 2017:
1. Vikings Gone Wild
2. Queendomino
3. 5-Minute Dungeon
4. Hotshots
5. Quests of Valreia
8. Dice Forge
9. Rebles of Ravenport
10. Heroes and Tricks
Honorable mentions include Kaiju Crush, British Vs Pirates, Incantris, Herbacious, Pocket Ops, Gadgeteers, Mole Rats in Space, and Monsters in the Elevator.
When first tasked to come up with my top 10 from 2017, I thought surely I haven't even played 10 games released this year. Well, to my surprise I have played quite a few and was very impressed by many if not all of them. Vikings Gone Wild tops my list for last year as I am a huge fan of deck building, engine building, and fun art. I have the Guild Wars expansion with desires to pick up the others. And I am now eagerly awaiting the Masters of Elements Kickstarter.
There are also many games I wish I could have played from 2017 like Sagrada, Gloomhaven, Charterstone, and the list goes on and on. Hopefully I can get caught up in 2018.
Dane Trimble - Owner
Dane is an Advertising Manager for a national magazine by day and a husband, father of four, and board gamer by night (and mornings). He has a passion for board games and believes board games help bring families closer together while providing kids a unique way to learn many diverse skills. And he thinks they are down right fun!
See Dane's reviews HERE.
With the current growth of the industry we are expecting 2018 to be even bigger and better with new inventive mechanics and stellar production values; tabletop games are going to a whole new level. We here at Everything Board Games are also excited for 2018 with even more reviews, giveaways, and new content.
Everything Board Games' Best of Lunar 2017 Reviewed by Nick Shipley on February 13, 2018 Rating: 5
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GANBARE NIPPON! On to the World Cup Best Sixteen!
Posted on June 25, 2010 June 30, 2010 by Debito Arudou, Ph.D.
Hi Blog. It was certainly worth getting up at an ungodly hour this morning to watch the Japan vs. Denmark football match. Defying many people’s expectations (especially the domestic media’s), Japan has played very well in this World Cup, and earned their keep today by beating Denmark (according to FIFA, the 36th ranked, with Japan the 45th) soundly and clearly, 3-1. Omedetou!!
Now the Japan team is advancing to the quarterfinals Best Sixteen. I had strong doubts about having Okada on as coach again (given his previous dismal performance, I thought the powers that be hired him essentially because he’s Japanese). Looks like I was wrong — he does have more than a pretty face. Good team, good football, good games so far. Again, well done. Ganbare!! Arudou Debito in Sapporo
UPDATE: Thought of this while cycling to work this morning: To put a Debito.org angle on this issue, let’s keep an eye out on how the Japanese media begins to spin this victory. I’ve found that if a team representing Japan loses, the media looks for an issue of unfairness or unequalness (such as the alleged lack of good food at the Turin (a city hosting a world cuisine!) Olympics affecting Japanese performance). But if there is a win, the media searches for “Japanese qualities” that gave the J athlete an advantage (winning J swimmers keep having the “yamato damashii” (Japanese Spirit) attributed to them). I already saw TV commentary this morning referring to the special “cooperativeness” of Japan’s soccer team. But of course, if they had lost, no doubt we’d hear about the innately small and weaker Japanese bodies going up against the formidable Danish and Dutch tank-built bodies, etc. It’s never a neutral, “may the best man win on a level playing field”, is it? There are plenty of examples of how sports rules under Japanese control are tailored to that bias (here, here, and here). It’s not terribly “sporting”.
Ears open for how this gets spun, everyone? Thanks. D
Good News, Media, Sport
23 comments on “GANBARE NIPPON! On to the World Cup Best Sixteen!”
Romain says:
Japan will have to beat Paraguay before advancing to the quarterfinals
— Sorry. What’s the appropriate term here?
Given the inevitable spin, I always root for Japan to lose.
Less Nihonjinron nonsense the next day.
In terms of WC, Japan has entered the Best 16 stage. After that, it’s the Quarter Finals (8 teams remaining). Then, after that, it’s the Semi Finals (4 teams remaining), then the Finals.
In terms of how Japanese media is covering this, I am always amused by the manic-depressive nature of coverage that can go on here. From the hyperboles and over-optimism after their first “history making” win, to the toned down, “mada kanosei aru” reaction after their first loss, to once again, the return to hyperboles after this recent win. Granted it was a very good win, but WC is sort of like Japanese politics at this point. Everyone is focused too much on the one game, the one victory, and immediate gratification that they forget this is just the first stage. It gets tougher from here and the true results won’t be seen for a little while more. But with proper preparedness, and an eye on the long-term goal, good things can happen.
I also find it interesting that the media has really avoided mentioning how the key players that are always mentioned in terms of Japan’s winning potential are the players with international experience, particularly Honda in this year’s WC. Haven’t heard any commentators speaking of the benefits of going abroad to learn and experience ways of doing things that build better players or perhaps better citizens.
Joe Jones says:
“Sweet sixteen” maybe? But that’s the NCAA background in me coming out.
The playing field is never quite level, and I think it’s common in all countries to blame the weather, the referee, or whatever external factor for the team’s lousy performance. The US has certainly been playing a lot of blame-the-ref lately (justified, in my opinion). The only exception I’ve seen in this Cup is France — Sarkozy has done a pretty good job of drumming down the French team for being whiny, unpatriotic, uncooperative pricks, which is satisfying to an Ireland fan like me.
Anyway, I’m rooting for Japan — Paraguay will be a tough opponent, and Japan needs every spiritual boost it can get right now. Plus TV Asahi will probably keep repeating the clip of Tulio giving up his gaijin card.
Kimpatsu says:
Japan hasn’t reached the quarter-finals yet, Debido; they’ve advaced to the last 16. The quarter-finals are the last eight teams, the sem-finals the last two teams, and the finals… well, you get the idea.
FG says:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/groups_and_teams
mytea@om says:
It`s called the round of 16….LOL at the ungodly hour…Being english i have to wake up regular at this hour to watch the Premier league in winter..but yes a great performance from Japan.
They have played some great football!…ganbare indeed.
Vlado says:
Yes, Japan advanced to the 1/8 finals. Lets all hope she will go further. They are playing nice football.
Asia (or, for Japanese people, “Asia and Japan”) is really representing this time around. Japan and South Korea qualified for the knockout round, Australia tied and beat [a] stronger team, second weakest team New Zealand went undefeated. And North Korea…well, we love North Korea.
Good Job Japan!
My wife (Japanese) thought Japan would lose and did not want to watch the game. I made her watch the game with me anyway and it was awesome to see them win.
As far as spin, my wife read an article about one reason why Japan played better in the 2002 WC, when they co-hosted with South Korea, is that they did not had to deal with the jet lag of flying to South Africa to play a soccer game. The team showed what a BS excuse that is.
Well if Japan loses my students will get more sleep and probably fewer of them will be late or absent to class. Some were pretty chipper today. Otherwise they are rather dour.
Japan played well. I did not expect it. In the the friendlies they were bad, but they just have to win now. I think they could beat Paraguay but after that, it gets real tough.
E.P.Lowe says:
On the NHK News 7 tonight there was no mention of the goal Denmark scored in the section on the match…virtually a 3-0 win then!
and now all of a sudden everyone jumped on the japan soccer team bandwagon, and if they lose the next game the media will say the other team is too tall, like they said back in 2006 and then all the sudden loyal supportors will jump off the bandwagon faster then hatoyama resigned. excuses excuses excuses. And now all of a sudden there starting to call the team okada-japan can you believe it.
Sorry folks – I have no interest in sport, and have to agree with Johnny in post #2 – Japan loses and we don’t have to put up with: replays 60,000 times a day for the next week; interviews with players’ family, friends, second grade elementary teachers; commentators with 3-word vocabularies (“ganbare”, “tsuyoi”, “Nippon”); or smug kids in mock-up uniforms at elementary school who think they are better than the white guy because Japan won.
Interestingly, one of the news services did cover some of the bad behaviour by fans in Shibuya, but failed to call it hooliganism.
— Quite. See here too. http://www.debito.org/seijinshikihooligans.html#english
Ok I have the best prediction.
Team Japan wins the World Cup and the entire country attributes it to the fact that they finally brought in a Japanese coach who understands the Japanese spirit.
Ironically, the country seems to have amnesia about how unpopular Okada was following the 98 World Cup.
burb says:
Just to concur with your point about sour grapes or gloating as the two most likely outcomes. I’m an athlete living in Japan. Everytime I win anything; “gaijin ha gatai ga ii ne”.
John (Yokohama) says:
I’m confused… so running around more without the ball compared to other teams is some kind of special “Japanese” mojo? 😉
“Even the ball possession rates of the three opponents in the first round — Cameroon, the Netherlands and Denmark — all surpassed those of Japan, but Japan exceeded in terms of the total running distance for the 11 players on the pitch in all of the three games. That’s something very “Japanese,” that is unswerving and led them on to the second round.”
“Unique Japanese team ‘oneness,’ on-field hustle led to World Cup opening round success”
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20100626p2a00m0na001000c.html
— The Japanese version is significantly less “unique” in tone — more “Nihon ga tokui” — as in Japan is pretty good at it. The translator has taken a few liberties with the Nihonjinron tone. Especially in the headline. Where’s the word “unique” here?
サッカー：南アフリカＷ杯 日本、走り抜いて１６強 「個」の理想捨て組織戦
http://mainichi.jp/enta/sports/soccer/japan/archive/news/2010/06/26/20100626ddm001050008000c.html
Relevant excerpt: 岡田監督が大会直前まで求めた「理想」とは、日本が得意とする組織力だけではなく、選手が個々の力でも世界と対等に戦うこと。だが、デンマーク戦後には「まだ世界との差はある。同じ数のチャンスを作ったら、決定力の差でやられる可能性が大きい」とも話した。日本の強みを最大限に生かす「守備的な組織戦」という現実路線に切り替えた理由は、そこにある。
Chuckie says:
International sport does tend to bring out the worst in patriotic pseudo-psychology. This from the BBC website:
South Korea coach Huh Jung-moo has described his players as “true Koreans” after their 2-1 second-round defeat to Uruguay in Port Elizabeth.
“My players never gave up, they were tenacious and rose to the challenge,” he said.
His side managed to draw it level after going a goal down, but had no reply to Luis Suarez’s 80th minute strike.
“Uruguay were lucky enough to score, we lost because we weren’t able to match them,” Huh added.
“Our players never give up no matter what the situation. We were on a high, we were doing quite well”
It was South Korea’s first knock-out stage World Cup game off home soil.
“We wanted to go to the quarter-finals and my players did their best but we didn’t get there,” said the coach.
“We had lots of opportunities and I thought Uruguay was lucky to put in the goals.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8765318.stm
So, Uruguay was lucky (to score one of the goals of the tournament) and the South Koreans showed true Korean spirit (because heroic losses are more honourable than victories and you can dine out on them for ages). We’ve had lots of crap here in NZ about the Kiwi attitude and ability to make do with limited resources: the “little guy battles the odds” kind of stuff. Incidentally, Uruguay has a population of about 3.5 million and has won two Worl Cups. Their media must be going stratospheric…
I grew up in America when, except for the World Cup, soccer was almost never on TV. I enjoyed watching countries like Brazil, Italy, Germany, Holland, etc. I like to see the US win but given a choice I would much rather see the great soccer of people like Lionel Messi of Argentina or the Brazilians. Or see some minnow country pull off a miracle. There seems to be too much nationalism and not enough appreciation of good soccer.
— Amen. I’m rooting for whatever team shows me the best soccer in this World Cup. I had narrowed it down to Argentina, Brazil, and Portugal, but after that boring “let’s kick the ball around listlessly so we can have a scoreless tie” Brazil vs. Portugal game the other day (what a rip! even the crowd booed!), right now I’m rooting for Argentina.
Have to disagree with the posters above. I don’t care how the media will spin it, I don’t care how many Nihonjinron types will crow over it, I’m supporting Japan in this cup (second to my native England, of course). The patriotism that comes with international sporting competitions should be the most innocent expression of national pride, in that at the end of the day we all realise it’s just a game. It’s irrational, and it doesn’t particularly mean anything, but who cares, I live here, I like it here, and I hope Japan gets a good boost from a good performance.
By the way, I don’t know if anyone else is watching England vs Germany now, but that last goal was bloody well in! We was robbed!
— I agree. WTF was that call?! In, in, in! Another “Hand of God” (a la Maradona) divine intervention to make the ref temporarily blind when England is playing…?
Pete McC says:
I do get a bit more patriotic than usual when the Socceroos(the Australian national football team) but I usually am over whatever emotions I felt so strongly by the next day. My wife is also the average pessimist when it comes to Japan’s hopes but that could be a ‘Japanese’ personality trait.
Poor England. That goal may have made a difference.
Germany might just go on to win…
Oh and Go Japan against Paraguay. If the Kiwis can draw level with em…
Frank Lampard says:
FIFA have no “apologized” to England (and Mexico) for poor refereeing.
As it makes no difference to the final result (as Germany put away 4), I think the least they can do is change the score after the fact.
Lampard, as probably the only player who possibly deserves to stay on that troubled “team” (actually, a bunch of individual-minded egotists), should be awarded the goal, and it was a good one.
I can only say its Karma for Hurst’s in 1966 against Germany.
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Beatboxing, a hip-hop musical genre of rhythms and sounds created by the human voice, will soon make its professional debut in India`s mainstream music circuit with the launch of Voctronica, India`s first beatboxing orchestra. Voctronica, which debuts by the end of the month, will be assembled after a series of workshops in India and Britain with aspirants being auditioned for their vocal range, feel for rhythm and pitch. Ten of the best beatboxers will be chosen to assemble the band.
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“Beatboxing is all about rhythm and how well you combine sounds to produce a unique tune. It crosses genres as it borrows from every culture. It is relevant in India because of Indian percussion which is mostly played on the tabla. We`re exploring similar sounds and beat with beatboxing,” Shlomo told DesiHipHop.com. Explaining the genesis of beatboxing, Shlomo said beatboxing “had its roots in the beginning of modern hip-hop, on street corners in places like Chicago, the Bronx, and Los Angeles”. “However, vocal percussion – the art form from which beatboxing was born – has been part of the music and urban scene for a lot longer than people think,” the beatboxer said.
Shlomo, who toured India in 2010 and enthralled audiences with his hyper-intensive vocal skills and supernatural swiftness on stage, is known to produce a wide range of music like rhythms, songs, melody and harmony using only his voice and a microphone. The term beatboxing is derived from the first generation of drum machines, then known as beatboxes, Shlomo said.
“Human beatboxing in hip-hop originated in the 1980s. Its early pioneers include Doug E. Fresh, a self-proclaimed first `human beatbox`, Swifty, who was the first to implement the inhale sound technique, Buffy, who helped perfect many beatboxing techniques and Wise, who contributed significantly to the proliferation of beatboxing,” the musician said.
Shlomo said he had been instinctively making noises with his mouth since he was a toddler. “I didn`t know it was called beatboxing until much later,” Shlomo said. The musician said the “Voctronica orchestra hopefully will be full of surprises”. “We cannot say the kind of music we plan to make. Once the group is formed, we will work on each other`s strengths and come up with something original and maybe with a twist of fusion. I can`t really say right now, but we are sure it will be a unique experience,” he said. The top 10 finalists of the beatboxing auditions will be part of an eight-day training workshop in Mumbai in January 2012, he said. The training will be conducted by Testament, a human beatboxer, MC and a member of the Lip Factory – Shlomo`s vocal project in Britain.
Voctronica will continue to be trained by Shlomo via Skype and will perform as the country`s first ever locally bred beatboxing troupe across India and in Britain in the first half of 2012.
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De Utvalgte | Retrospektive – 2015
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Retrospektive – 2015
On the occasion of our 20th anniversary, we showed seven of our last performances during four weeks at the Black Box Theatre in February and March 2015.
Bang Bang Club
13th – 15th February
“It’s all about the difficult space between the public and the private, the authentic and enacted, between watching and partaking, but Bang Bang Club evolves into a much more complex and strong performance than anyone could expect.”- Therese Bjørneboe, The Norwegian Shakespeare and Theatre Journal
Bang Bang Club is a club for therapeutic experiments, a meeting place for the materialization of states of mind, where the need to see and be seen entices participants to expose themselves. Through a membership in the Bang-Bang Club you will be offered a playpen to challenge your loneliness. Here narcissism competes with compassion, lust with deception.
20th – 22nd February
“The performance makes me experience conceptual art as horror – nothing is anything more than what the thought makes possible – but it is in and of itself an example of highly skilled, conceptual or reflective performing arts, directed by Kari Holtan.” Therese Bjørneboe, The Norwegian Shakespeare and Theatre Journal
Jimmy Young is a character that was created in the course of three days by the actor Torbjørn Davidsen and video artist Joachim Hamou in 1994.
With Hamou behind the camera and Davidsen dressed for the part of Jimmy, they embarked on a reverse educational trip that came to last for ten years. With fake press cards they traveled to the Cannes Film Festival, to the Sufi spiritual head of Egypt, to the beggars and the wealthy in New York, to broken Inuits and drunken veterans in Greenland. Using a film camera and a microphone Jimmy attracted both young and old who were eager to expose themselves and inserted themselves into his story.
“Through advanced artistic means, it is brought forth a new understanding of an old message: you can reach many key insights only when you again become like a child” – Jan Bachmann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Shadows (2009) is the first written play that De Utvalgte performed in its entirety. Jon Fosse’s writing, however, has accompanied De Utvalgte since they in 1995 produced the show “Erosion”. The textual material in this play was based on several of Fosse’s novels. This was before he had his breakthrough as a dramatist. The meeting with his texts at the time became a stirring experience that created a fascination that has been there since. Time was therefore ripe to realize a desire to work with his textual universe again when we produced Shadows in 2009.
(2010) February 27th and 28th and March 1st
“The Dream lived up to many of the criteria that were the basis for the price. It is a performance of high artistic quality that emanates from a Norwegian reality with an original text and with profound actor achievements, as well as an obsessive use of modern technology seamlessly integrated.” Thea Stabell, Torshovteatrets Friends Prize 2010
The play unfolds in Ella’s idyllic summer house on the shore. Ella is an elderly lady who during the summer has started a close friendship with the much younger man Torbjørn who lives in a caravan on an overgrown tennis court in the neighborhood. They have many common interests and enjoy each other’s company, although both probably recognize the other’s hidden motives. Tactfulness leads them into the binding maze of mixed messages.
The Art of Being Tamed
(2011) March 6th – 8th
“Terrifying beautiful”. “De Utvalgte once again show that they have a distinctive voice and vision, they represent the important alternative theater. The Art of Being Tamed is a meditation on topics that the rational consciousness only has a limited access to. “- Andreas Wiese, Dagbladet.
“The art of Being Tamed” (2011) takes place in an expressive visual universe with free associations to the beautiful and the hideous, the longing for the wild, and the need to tame and to become tame.
In “The art of Being Tamed”, De Utvalgte for the first time use 3D video as a scenography. The actors move in and out of different landscapes in 3D.
De Utvalgte
“I still have no overview of what really happened there. But when I walked out of the theater, people looked quite different. More whole. Holier. And I could still taste a bit of space in my mouth: Something larger than us, in us. “- Demian Marco Vitanza, The Norwegian Shakespeare and Theatre Journal
In continuation of “The Art of Being Tamed” and the actualization of the terms “inside” and “outside”, De Utvalgte collaborated with a group of people who are marginalized and fall outside the concept of normality.
People categorize each other by looking for signs of whether one is in the same culture or the same in-group, on the basis of inequality or proximity to the in-group. We are measured against norms of behavior, average intellectual abilities, and culturally accepted emotional expressions. If we are to believe evolutional psychologists, we have an inherited skepticism towards what we perceive as different and alien.
(2014) Dates: March 12th – 14th
“Openly conceived, strong visual theater”. “This is theater that makes us think. And feel.” – Andreas Wiese, Dagbladet.
War is intoxication, power, and the smell of blood – and reveals how empathy disappears when the hunter instinct kicks in. The loss of dignity leaves us unable to forgive or be forgiven.
The performance is inspired by Holberg’s Jeppe on the Mountain. The story of a war-torn man, seeking refuge in intoxication. In her powerlessness his wife attempts to knock some sense into his skull.
We fear the outcasts because they are erratic in their behavior and remind us of all that can go wrong.
Jeppe is the scapegoat. He is in a delirious chaos, a free space for visionary ideas and dystopian ruminations. Exposed to everyday life he is without the ability to want what he wants, and remains a symptom of an overworked world.
The textual material is partially improvised by the ensemble and mixed with textual fragments from Jeppe on the Mountain, Maria Tryti Vennerød, and video interviews of drug counselor Vegar Lenslie, weapons expert Ketil Davidsen, peace worker Marguarite Barankitse, and the Dalai Lama. The theatrical action unfolds in dialogue with the video material. The sound is produced by 3 Øre in cooperation with the sound designer and partially recorded and processed live from the stage.
DE UTVALGTE RETROSPECTIVE
In 2015, De Utvalgte celebrated their 21-year anniversary. We celebrated this with a retrospective view of seven performances made during the last 10 years after the group achieved its current constellation; Kari Holtan – director, Boya Bøckman –video designer, Torbjørn Davidsen: actor / text developer and Anne Holtan: dramaturge.
Once during the nineties, we were encouraged by the Norwegian Council of Arts to stick to physical theater as we were trained to do, and stop talking on stage.
We agreed with ourselves that we should be allowed to experiment with expressive forms and create what we think is interesting. In hindsight we can look back on a handful of performances, with a distinctive and multifaceted expression where virtually all components are created by each of the performers. Precisely the willingness to experiment and try new avenues was noted by the jury when we received the Hedda Price for special artistic achievement 20 years later.
Distance in time gives new perspectives and therefore introspection is perhaps an equally appropriate term for this project because it deals with delving into the matter and seeing lines and connections in our work.
We see theater as an opportunity to play with perceptions of reality. The work examines the human experience of identity and belonging, or lack thereof, our vulnerability and inadequacy in a complex contemporary time. We see it as our privilege to define what theater can be.
The media of film is an important part of our theatrical expression. From the child who witnesses the adult world in Bang Bang Club to the three-dimensional space of the stage, mixing the action on stage with the potential in film. The stage room flickers and changes. In some moments commenting, in others contrasting. Sometimes documentary other times as scenography. The technological development has enabled us to mediate visual signs and languages that communicate at different levels. Paradoxically we are battling against the technified world using its own tools. We want to put people at the center.
Bang Bang Club premiered at the Black Box Theatre in 2004, and is the first play we present. Thematic, structural, and technological elements are continued in later productions, but it is perhaps the unpredictable aspect that creates reverberation.
The fact that we are also working intuitively and with improvisation in our performances make it interesting to reconstruct something that was created in a contemporary time and discover that it can achieve new layers of meaning today.
Retrospection is about looking backwards. Sometimes to inform ourselves of where we are and why we are where we are. Sometimes looking backwards can give inspiration to go forward.
By and with
Kari Holtan, Boya Bøckman, Torbjørn Davidsen, Anne Holtan, Morten Kippe, Pelle Ask, Marius Kolbenstvedt, John Birger Wormdahl, Randi Rommetveit, Vilde Wahl, Joachim Hamou, Jørgen Langhelle, Jean Vincent Kerebel, Fabian Sæthre, Leo Holtan Bøckman, Lois Mathias Williams, Ronja, Maria Rodrigues, Synne Flikke, Eva Bøe Moen, Hans Wedvik, Kari Vik Knutsen, Stein Davidsen, Carle Lange, Kari Onstad Winge, Tor Erling Staff, Maya Liu Bøckman, Jon Platou Selvig, Merete Mongstad, Gjøril Bjerke Sæther, Bjarne Larsen, Egil Berggren, Hans Askill Utaaker, Inger Johanne Norberg, Katarina Fierrro Norberg, Lotte Tvedt, Ramou Lewis, Rebekka Joki, Vilja Larsen, Cantaragiu Rasturnel, Ketil Davidsen, Kim Atle Hansen, Maria Tryti Vennerød, Marguerite Barankitse og Emil Rodrigo Jørgensen
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A Sustainable Economy by pursuing employment creation and income increases through import substitution
Posted on December 8th, 2013
By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D., former G.A. Matara
The warning given to Sri Lanka at the CHOGM by the British Premier tells me that the International Community wants to have a Regime Change. This can be said to be due to the fact that President Rajapaksa was firm and could not be moved to stop battling the LTTE in 2009. That also is indicative of the sinister motives of the SuperPowers. They wanted to have an LTTE State in a portion of Sri Lanka. Perhaps the manner in which the LTTE diaspora is accepted with open arms by the Superpowers Canada, the USA and the UK today indicates that the LTTE did have some sort of agreements with the International Superpowers.
The attitude of Premier Cameron tells us that they are yet having a colonial mentality. They yet want to control us, to structure our economies to contribute to their economies. That is exactly what they did to all the countries in the Third World through the International Monetary Fund(IMF). The Structural Adjustment Programme is the method they used to pillage our foreign exchange and made our countries the markets to sell their manufactures. The IMF imposed a high interest policy (as high as 24%). This has caused the closure of all our manufacturers as our locals can never make things cheap and compete with manufacturers in those countries where the interest rate is only 2% or even less. Import duties were slashed or abolished. This Structural Adjustment Programme was imposed on us from 1977 and as a result we have become an indebted country where whatever income we have and all inflows of money are drained away to the Superpower countries to get imports from them
For the future of our country we need a sustainable economy, where we can assure our own people of a fair income with which they can subsist. They have to become productive producing what the country needs. For this purpose we have to develop our production capacity to make what we need and to process the produce into consumable form. In this manner we can find employment and incomes for our people and this will also save our foreign exchange. We have to introduce controls to ensure that the foreign exchange we earn is used in the interests of the needs of the country and not allow it to be used for importing anything that the importers decide and borrow at over 9% interest to meet this spending spree. Minister Tissa Vitharne has voiced himself that we should not import everything under the sun. I would add that we should become productive to make everything we need. Since 1977 we have operated our economy on an import and consume basis. Instead we must have produce and consume as our motto. I have been advocating this in all my writings.
In reviewing my book, “Papers on the Economic Development of Sri Lanka,” Professor Chandra Dharmawardena questioned whether the above strategy of building up our production would be feasible in these days of a non authoritarian administration. In implementing the Divisional Development Councils Programme of 1971-1977 we were never authoritative,. We only guided community leaders to make the people productive. We only guided the youths to work on industries that brought them an income. We never ordered them; instead we worked with them. We administrators have learned the art of working with people. Some of us can even sell ice to the Eskimos.
To my thinking there is no other way ahead. We have to muster our resources find out how things are made and get down to it. Before 1977 we did produce many items we needed. Thus if we hark back to those days we do have the expertise as well as the experience.
Take Coffee. We produce the world’s best coffee. In my days in Kegalla where I served as Additional Government Agent I have seen lush coffee plantations in the Kitulgala area. That is easily our coffee belt. Yet we import coffee and we import vast quantities of Nescafe. Imported Nescafe is being sold everywhere, with small Nescafe vending machines and the earnings go abroad. The few coffee grinding companies- Harischandra, Island and a few others have never finalized the art of making instant coffee granules. It is my contention that we can easily make coffee in instant granular form and stop the import of Nescafe. It will not take long to find how to make instant coffee granules. This will be a far easier task that our making crayons- the art of which was unearthed by my Planning Officer a chemistry graduate with no experience, aided by a few science teachers and a few graduate trainees, graduates who are now shunned on the basis that they cannot become productive. It was all achieved in a school science lab. (More later)
Let us take chocolate . We produce the world’s best cocoa and export the raw product. This is snapped up by chocolate manufacturers in Switzerland, California, Europe and Britain. We have a few manufacturers whose production is tasty and can stand comparison to reputed makes. They require more technical guidance which the Government should provide. It will be ideal for the Government to help the manufacturers to better their production. More people should take up to making chocolates and the Government should guide them further. Imports of chocolates should be entirely stopped.
No less a person than Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, easily the Chief of the Dasa Maha Yodhayas we have today had once commented that we even import tamarind. Our tamarind trees are in full bearing but there is no plan to harvest and process it into Tamarind Paste. We fools allow the tamarind to rot under trees and import our needs!
This story is true of many items. Take tomatoes. We produce tomatoes and there are areas like Hanguranketa and Kekirawa which can produce any amount. When I worked in Nuwara Eliya I purchased a car load of tomatoes from Hanguranketa and my entire house was turned into a cannery for one week working in evenings and one weekend and the sauce lasted a full year. Now we allow the tomatoes to rot because it cannot be sold- we produce more than can be sold and then we import Heinz tomatoes sauce. It is silly and also idiotic but that is how the IMF decided because it is on their advice that we privatized the Marketing Department Cannery that produced tomatoe juice and tomatoe sauce. Their Plan was to close down our production so that their manufactures can find a market.
We then had the Marketing Department Cannery I was working as an Assistant Commissioner in that Department. The Cannery enabled us to give floor prices for Red Pumpkin, Ash Pumpkin, where we purchased the total produce and made them into Golden Melon Jam and Silver Melon Jam. Then on the IMF’s programme we privatized the Cannery and abolished the Marketing Department and we are no longer self sufficient in jam. Red Pumpkin and Ash Pumpkin grows wild on chenas and imagine the money that poor village farmers made when the Marketing Department bought their entire production. Sadly we create employment for cannery workers in Australia and the USA! And the worst is our leaders either do not understand this fact or are frightened to decide to establish all those industries again.
Then we had a developed brass foundry industry in Kelaniya and in Pilimatalawa(Kandy). This industry was lost because of imports from China and India. This can be easily resurrected.
Perhaps the manner in which small industries have sprung up in Marakesh in Morocco offers us ideas. There hundreds of copper workers are at work and every tourist walks away with a lamp shade that is attractive. Sri Lanka can well do with a Craft Emporium where there are workers turning our small industry goods. Laksala is only a Sales Emporium. We should add workers making various items for sale to Laksala.
We import Chip Board, which is made with sawdust and timber shavings pressed with latex. We can easily make chip board. Today saw dust is even burnt. This is the base raw material for the chip board. All imports should be stopped and we should make chip board ourselves.
I can go on for ever giving details of what we can do. Many economists will think that we cannot do what I preach. If you take a hard look at the experience these negative oriented economists have you will find that they have never done anything of that type like establishing a viable industry in their lives and therefore they do not know how it can be done. We have to get people with hands on experience at the helm.
To convince anyone that doubts whether we can get down tp production, let me tell you the story of Coop Crayon– not a hypothetical story of fiction but something that we ourselves did not long ago. It clearly illustrates what we can do- administrators and politicians working together. This happened in 1971 when the Sirimavo Government made a mad dash to create employment for the youth. I was one of the chief officers as I worked then as the Government Agent at Matara. We were ordered to create employment and a special budget was created for us. I asked for authority to make painting colour boxes, something we then imported but it was turned down by the Ministry of Plan Implementation. I asked for authority to develop the dairy industry and establish a cheese and butter creamery. All that was turned down. It came to a point where we had to go on making crafts and petty things like dresses and garments. To me that was a duplication of what the Small industries Department did and was doing successfully. I had a team of enthusiastic officers at the kachcheri who wanted to something fantastic. We wanted to show the Ministry that we can do something worthwhile. It all began in a spare room in my Residency. We experimented to find the method of making crayons an item that we then imported. The scientists in the team were Vetus Fernando my Planning Officer the chemistry graduate who had just passed out of the University of Colombo. He was aided by two science teachers. Then there were a few administrative officers who were encouraging the task and I guided them. When the basis equipment in my Residence was inadequate we asked for the services of the Rahula College science lab and the Principal the late Mr Ariyawamsa readily agreed. We worked in that school lab after College closed and worked till midnight for around two months. We finalized the art of making crayons.. Once during that time Vetus Fernando went to his professors at the University of Colombo for help and advice. He spent three days beseeching help and advice but the doors of the Chemistry Department with all their sophisticated equipment and the dons that had been even trained abroad were closed to him. He was chased away. Those are the erudite dons that now prefer to walk and talk on the streets rather than to roll up their sleeves and establish an industry that will help the country. He came back a broken man and narrated his tale of woe. But we were undeterred and continued burning the mid night oil till we finalized the art and made crayons that could be easily compared with Crayola.
We made one silly mistake. We never applied and obtained a patent. Because we got into production quickly and the crayon industry was a paying concern we never thought that our industry would face a closure and that was our failing.
I had to decide as to who would make crayons. I decided that it should be done by one of the cooperatives and I could trust The Deniyaya Cooperatives because the President of the Cooperative Union Sumanapala Dahanayake, the Member of Parliament for Deniyaya was a maverick and someone who could be trusted with any difficult task. He was of the dare devil type who would not take no for an answer. . I showed him the crayons and he readily agreed to get down to manufacture and sell the product., I authorized the cooperative union to immediately purchase the equipment-pots, pans, cookers, tubes etc and the ingredients and to recruit youths and the officers who had found the art of making crayons moved en masse to Kotapola where Sumanapala worked night and day making crayons. Vetus controlled the quality. He was ably helped by Graduate Tranee Paliakkara and my District Land Officer the late Chandra Silva.
I had not obtained authority from the Ministry of Plan Implementation for this. This was purposely so because they never approved any of my suggestions to make painting colour boxes or making cheese and butter. So I was going it alone on my steam. In a few weeks Sumanapala manufactured crayons to fill two full rooms and we decided to start selling. We decided to do it in style. Sumanapala and I took a few samples and showed it to the Minister of Industries. T.B.Subasinghe who was really taken by surprise. He readily agreed to come and open up sales. At the Opening Ceremony the industry came to function openly. It was a grand success and it became the best and the most successful industry done during that period.
Last year I bought some local crayons in Colombo and found that one even soiled one’s fingers and a desk and the floor had to be wiped clean. The Coop Crayon was of very high quality.
When we established it we had to buy the dyes in the open market as the Ministry of Industries did not have a vote specifically to import ingredients for cooperative industries. We were refused foreign exchange to import dyes by the Ministry because we were doing it through a cooperative. We racked our brains and finally decided to get help from the Ministry of Imports. Sumanapala and I approached the Controller of Imports, the late Harry Guneratne. We showed him that by allocating some foreign exchange for the import of dyes for Coop Craylon, he could make a large saving by stopping the imports of crayons. We did not have to argue for long; he had the brains to realize that we spoke sense. However he wanted us to get the approval of the Minister Illagaratne as this method had never been done earlier. Sumanapala and I went to the Ministry of Industries. Minister Illangaratne was taken aback to see the crayons we made and immediately approved the allocation of import funds for our industry. He also wanted us to establish a Coop Crayon in his electorate.
From 1972 to 1977 that Coop Crayon did produce around a tenth of the country’s requirements.
The industry was stopped by the UNP who wanted to abolish everything good done by the outgoing government. That is the fate that we have to face because we yet follow the party system of democracy. In nostalgia my blood boils in me today the moment I spot a pack of crayola crayons on sale in Sri Lanka. I am taken over by thoughts of what we lost in employment and incomes as well as savings in foreign exchange.
The details I have given of how we ourselves did produce items that we import today will convince anyone that we can even today set up industries and that the graduates of our universities and our science teachers can all get activised in the task of production. That will also save foreign exchange. Making cheese and butter, making chip board, chocolates are all easier tasks than making crayons. We have a research and engineering institute called the Industrial Development Board which should be immediately decentralized to the Districts and put in charge of drafting industrial projects to make what we need and therby create employment and incomes for the people. In my days in 1971 the IDB sabotaged development tasks assigned to them by me and I had to go it alone to make crayons on our own.
We had great politicians and administrators in the past who helped us in this task. My book:Papers on the Economic Development of Sri Lanka(Godages:2012) was dedicated to those giants who helped the country then, those who are not with us. That was to Dr NM Perera, Minister of Finance, Minister of Industries Mr TB Subasinghe and Sumanapala Dahanayake the Member of Parliament for Deniyaya. The two Ministers guided us while Sumanapala took charge of production, working day and night with the youths.
It is upto our present leader- President Rajapaksa to find a paradigm for development where we can find employment and increased incomes for our own people and the past experience I have detailed may offer ideas as to how it can be achieved. Every Sri Lankan is indebted to him for delivering us out of the terrorist maniac Prabhakaran. We also look to him to make our country have a sustainable economy where our youths can become entrepreneurs instead of being menial workers in foreign countries. Moving with public sector workers even today I can vouch for the fact that the Grama Niladharis, the graduates who have been just found employment, the Divisional Secretaries are eager to spring into action if the go ahead is given for a massive programme of import substitution.
If one requires a programme to offer further ideas there is the Youth Self Employment Programme of Bangladesh, which I myself designed and established which is today the largest and most successful employment creation programme in the world. It has guided over two million youths to become self employed (by Feb 2011), a target that has never been achieved ever. Bangladeshi administrators, lecturers of vocational training institutes and youth development workers were trained by me to work with the youths who received vocational training to motivate them to commence producing for sale and they were guided in selling their wares till they became commercially viable. (Documented in my book: “How the IMF Ruined Sri Lanka & Alternative Programs of Success”(Godages) The closest to this in Sri Lanka is the Divisional Development Councils Programme of 1971-73 where we create employment for 33,271 youths including part timers.(“Papers on the Economic Development of Sri Lanka”(Godages).
Let us hope that our leaders will put their shoulder to the wheel and take immediate action. We have to have a strong economy to withstand attacks from the Camerons, the Navi Pillais, the USA and India. Either we take up the challenge or slump in defeat.
Garvin Karunaratne, former G.A. Matara
9/12.2013
10 Responses to “A Sustainable Economy by pursuing employment creation and income increases through import substitution”
Susantha Wijesinghe Says:
December 8th, 2013 at 5:21 pm
GARVIN, time and again, you have valiantly given very beautiful ideas how to develop the Country to be self sufficient. There is truly no one to assimilate your ideas and put into practice. We are importing even Mangoes. Why Nescafe, when we can make granular instant coffee ? If 10% of your ideas are implemented, we are getting somewhere. Iam sad, it will not happen. I remember, when I was MM at Metalix Engineering, the Company manufactured enough Instrument Boxes, for the whole country, being the only manufacturer. Then the Government allowed imports of Instrument Boxes. Now the Company is unheard of. It was a leading Industry. That is how Industries were killed. Anyway, let us pray and hope for the best.
mjaya Says:
More and more people are echoing this sentiment on Lankaweb.
It is unlikely our idiotic politicians will ever notice, but we must do our part by boycotting Indian imports.
Ananda-USA Says:
Import substitution in key areas to protect local industries is very important, despite the US-dominated IMF (as usual) warning recently that import substitution is not in the best interest of Sri Lanka.
Food, for example, is a key area in which local producers should be protected.
Japan, for example, protects rice production, rice being the primary staple of the Japanese people. The United States, the world largest EXPORTER (not producer) of rice, is always criticizing and pressuring Japan to open up its rice market to US producers; this the Japanese Government has consistently REFUSED TO DO earning the wrath of successive US administrations.
For Japan, food security is a critical national security issue; it should be so for Sri Lanka as well, for as the world’s population explodes, food will become the MOST VALUABLE GLOBALLY TRADED PRODUCT in the not too distant future.
For the same reason, Sri Lanka MUST PROTECT its marine food resource from over exploitation by foreign countries as well, and prepare to protect, maintain and exploit it more efficiently in a sustainable way, for fish and marine vegetation will become the primary nutritious protein sources available to the Sri Lankan people in the future.
Wonderful MOTTOS to be inscribed in GOLD for all Sri Lankans
“Instead of importing everything we need, we should produce everything we need.”
“Instead of importing and consuming, we must produce and consume.”
The MOST IMPORTANT Import Substitution area for Sri Lanka is ENERGY for Electricity and for Transportation. The largest outflow of foreign exchange from Si Lanka is for petroleum (oil, natural gas, coal) purchases from foreign countries. US sanctions against Iran has forced Sri Lanka to compete for petroleum supplies at much higher prices.
Instead of relying on imported fossil fuels the GOSL should promote solar and wind renewable energy production, using hydrogen energy storage for load levelling. When renewable energy is available in excess, use it to produce and store hydrogen through electrolysis of water. When energy is needed, run the hydrogen through fuel cells to produce electricity and water. Recycle the water to the electrolysers.
Instead of relying SOLELY on central energy generation plants, the GOSL should promote distributed energy generation in local communities and even at the level of individual residences. Enable homeowners and small business owners to install grid-tied roof-top solar arrays without a limitation on the maximum amount of energy produced through government guaranteed low-interest loans, and pay the highest tariff for the net energy produced above consumption. The power capacity of solar panels degrade slowly at less than 1% per year, and are usually guaranteed to last for a minimum of 30 years, still producing at 80% capacity at the end of that period. The payoff-period from the avoided energy cost for a typical Sri Lankan homeowner is less than five years.
Instead of relying SOLELY on petroleum-based transportation vehicles, the GOSL should promote fully electric and hybrid plug-in electric vehicles. Make it possible for homeowners and small businesses to charge their vehicles using the energy produced from their own roof top solar arrays.
Instead on relying SOLELY on diesel and gas electric locomotives, use electric locomotives to run passenger and freight trains. Convert buses to hydrogen fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles. Use hydrogen generated by electrolyisis of water using renewable energy to fuel these vehicles at existing gas stations converted to dispense hydrogen and charged battery packs.
Instead of relying on Mega-Watt Scale wind turbines in large wind farms, promote the installation of small grid-tied windturbines in local communities and rural residences, through government supported technology transfer and low-interest loans. The wind blows even at night. Wind turbines and Solar arrays complement each other beautifully to level the energy production. Hydrogen and battery storage systems coupled to wind and solar generation units can provide even the remotest villages with round-the-clock electrical power.
Small can be beautiful and cost effective; local communities in the Netherlands and in Germany are doing it; why not Sri Lanka? BTW, I am not a novice waxing enthusiastic outside my expertise, for I am an engineering entrepreneur with decades of experience fully focused on developing small wind turbines and solar energy systems for developing countries such as Sri Lanka …. even as I write.
In these ways, Sri Lanka can be COST-EFFECTIVELY made ENTIRELY SELF-SUFFICIENT in ENERGY sourced from our own glorious sunshine and the winds that billow through the hills and valleys of our Resplendent Island.
Dilrook Says:
December 9th, 2013 at 2:24 am
For economic sustenance there must be capitalism at both private individual level and at state level. Otherwise there is no proven continuous production economic system. Government cannot do all this. They must be done by private individuals following the profit seeking capitalist model.
The government too should seek profit as happening in Malaysia and Singapore.
However, Sri Lanka’s largest employer is the state and the state is uninterested in profit making or even reducing losses. This causes large deficits. To cover the deficits, the government borrows. However, local capital is limited so essentially foreign borrowings become inevitable. In order to pay for these the government raises taxes which further erodes profit of successful businesses.
This cycle must be broken for there to be incentives for wide spread import substitution industries. The 1970-77 model is not appropriate to modern economic realities as it is not economically sustainable.
CPC should regain its monopoly over petroleum import and distribution for a start. Today this profitable industry has been sold to Indians. It is a national crime.
A local motor vehicle manufacturing industry is also needed. Self sufficiency in milk is another avenue.
What will happen? NOTHING!!
Because this ROTTEN SYSTEM bails ALL criminals out.
A nation is being wasted.
“The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), a coalition partner of the ruling government, has called for the immediate arrest of Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister for allegedly assisting in the distribution of narcotics in the country.
At least 131kg of heroin was seized on 30 August hidden in cans packed into a container sent from the Pakistani port of Karachi.
It had been unloaded at Colombo’s port two months earlier and was addressed to a local recipient, but had been held pending production of documents and cash needed for its import.
A letter emerged from the prime minister’s office, dated 23 August and signed by a co-ordinating secretary seeking to waive import charges on the container.
The letter reportedly said it was being imported by a local company which was just launching its business and could not afford heavy duties.
When the issue was raised in Parliament, Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne said he wasn’t aware of it and that the letters are written by his staff.
The Prime Minister told Parliament that he has no time to read the 150 or so letters that pass through his office on a daily basis and that he has not approved such a thing, the Leader of the JHU Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobitha Thero said.
He stated that the if the Prime Minister, who is also the Minister of Buddha Sasana and Religious Affairs, is unable to find a trustworthy and educated official to read these letters then he should understand that he can no longer do his duty.
“If he does not possess the physical and mental ability, the biggest service he should do is to resign from the Premiership,” he said, addressing a ceremony commemorating the 10th death anniversary of Ven. Gangodawila Soma Thero.
If the secretary has engaged in such an illegal act in violation of the Prime Minister’s orders, why is he not being punished or sacked, Sobitha Thero questioned.
The leader of the Sinhala nationalist party further said that in comparison to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Relations and Public Affairs, Mervyn Silva, somewhat has a policy.
When certain accusations are being made against his secretaries, Mervyn Silva either says “he is not my secretary” or removes that person. “It seems the Prime Minister doesn’t even have such manners,” he said.
“How does this fraudster continue to remain as a secretary to the Prime Minister?”
He stated that assisting in importing heroin will be the “main weapon” for destroying the Buddha Sasana and there is no doubt about it as it goes against the virtue of Buddhism.
“Therefore with complete responsibility we advise the country’s President to immediately arrest the prime Minister, who is assisting these illegal acts,” Dr. Omalpe Sobitha Thero.”
Restoration of Sri Lanka’s access to cheaper Iranian oil should not DETER Sri Lanka from movingrapidly towards ENERGY INDEPENDENCE based on the indigenous production of renewable energies such as wind and solar.
Reliance on imported fossil fuels because TEMPORARY access has been restored, would be a MONUMENTAL FOLLY that is contrary to Sri Lanka’s LONG-TERM National Interest!
Disce’ aut Discede’!
Sri Lanka oil bill: ‘We need an alternative’
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Dec 09 (AJ) A jubilant Petroleum Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa told a local radio station that Sri Lanka would have a huge advantage if the sanctions on Tehran were eventually lifted.
Responding to a question by an opposition member about the government’s seeming inability to bring down petrol prices, Yapa told parliament it was due to the fact that the country’s petroleum sector has been badly hit by the sanctions on Iran.
The nuclear accord between Iran and the six world powers was, therefore, not only good news for Tehran, but also Sri Lanka, a country severely affected by international sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic. Iran accounted for almost 93 percent of the country’s oil needs and had even offered a seven-month credit to Sri Lanka to settle the oil bill.
Prior to the sanctions, which severely affected Iran’s ability to export its oil, Sri Lanka had been importing 39,000 barrelsa day. After the sanctions were placed, the country’s oil import bill shot up. Sri Lanka’s search for an alternative source of oil, when supplies ran thin, was costly.
Sanctions’ effect
Sri Lanka’s only oil refinery at Sapugaskanda, a half-a-century old national asset, had been fine-tuned largely to handle light crude from Iran. Before the crippling sanctions started to bite, Iran, which also provided military aid to Sri Lanka during the civil war, had pledged more than $1bn in aid to modernise and expand the refinery’s capacity.
Susantha Silva, Managing Director of the state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) told Al Jazeera, “We have been kind of under US sanctions. Since the sanctions on Iran came into effect, we could not buy oil from Iran. We imported 13 cargoes every year from Iran. But once imposed, we were compelled to reduce the quantity to 9 in keeping with the US sanctions.”
He said Sri Lanka was also hit by the sanction-driven oil price increase in the world market. Oil imports constituted 25 percent of Sri Lanka’s $20bn import bill last year. The oil bill, more or less, was equal to the foreign exchange Sri Lanka earned through remittances from expatriate workers in the Middle East and elsewhere, last year.
Given Sri Lanka’s widening trade deficit, any increase in the oil bill was a blow to the economy. It was under such circumstances that the US sanctions hit Sri Lanka like a bolt from the sky, sending the fuel sector into disarray. The US and European Union sanctions also effected Sri Lanka, a country which is trying to rebuild its economy after three decades of civil war.
Silva said that apart from the global price hike, the CPC also faced numerous problems: “The banking sector refused to open letters of credit. To circumvent this problem, the Iranians agreed to give us loans to buy their oil. But ships, including Sri Lankan vessels, to Iran could not get P&I (protection and indemnity) insurance cover. Iran offered to send crude in its vessels, but our ports were not geared to handle Iran’s large carriers.”
No substitute for Iranian crude
Sri Lanka now buys crude and refined products from countries such as Oman, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Vietnam at a much higher price. But it has not found the right replacement for the Iranian crude, which is low in sulphur. In desperation, the CPC tried Arabian light, but the refinery encountered technical glitches because of the crude’s high sulphur content. Then it tried Oman crude, but the refinery produced more residue than oil. The CPC now runs the refinery with crude from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company but in this instance too, the CPC has to blend it with other crude to obtain the right final product.
This week the Sapugaskanda oil refinery was functioning smoothly, but no one knows for how long.
According to Silva, the Sapugaskanda refinery has been closed twice last year and twice this year for want of crude. The last shut down was a month ago. Days before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) was opened in Colombo, the government had to issue a statement to allay fears of a fuel shortage. The rumours about the fuel shortage spread after the government, acting on US complaints, turned away a ship carrying Iranian oil from a third party source. The US complained during a meeting between its ambassador, Michele Sisson, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa in October.
Rajapaksa has been a critic of the US sanctions. In February 2012, he told Sri Lanka-based foreign correspondents that the sanctions hit largely small nations like Sri Lanka . “We need an alternative. In the end, they [the U.S. and the West] are not punishing Iran. They are punishing us, small countries,” said Rajapaksa.
The CPC’s Silva could not agree more. He said his corporation was happy to hear that Iran and world powers had reached an interim deal that might lead to a situation where restrictions on Iran would be lifted and countries like Sri Lanka could find some relief.
Fran Diaz Says:
Totally agree with Dr Garvin Karunaratne’s statement : “we must have produce and consume as our motto”. SELF SUFFICIENCY as much as possible is the key to well being of any Nation, given the voracious (and sometimes slimy) international methods of marketing goods.
‘BUY LANKA’ is a good motto for our times.
In any Democracy, the Government (the entire Parliament) steps in when there is a dearth of production & employment in the country. It is time that the GoSL stepped in for production and employment, big time. However, to prevent wastage and thieving, private sector methods will have to be employed.
Generally speaking, the private sector usually cannot deliver on essential services such as food, as it is bent mainly on the PROFIT MOTIVE only, and is not service oriented, unless there is exceptional national minded entrepreneurship, which is rare.
Removal of the MARKETING DEPARTMENT is one of the great tragedies that befell Lanka. Shouldn’t those who want to help foreign countries more than help Lanka, emigrate to those countries ?
Self-sufficiency in Chillies is GREAT, but NOT ENOUGH!
We need self-sufficiency in other foods like rice, parippu, maldive fish etc etc.
But, Self-Sufficiency in ENERGY through massive development of RENEWABLE energy sources (solar, wind, wave, in both concentrated large plants and distributed rooftop systems), of energy STORAGE methods (hydrogen gas using electrolysis of water and generation using fuel cells), and electrification of TRANSPORTATION through complete transformation of Sri Lanka’s vehicle fleet to all-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles should be the HIGHEST PRIORITY!
Govt on chillie self-sufficiency drive
by S.M. Wijayaratne, Kurunegala Cor
SundayObserver.lk
The annual requirement of dried chillies for the consumption of Sri Lankans is 50,000 metric tonnes. The Government still imports 35,000 metric tonnes of chillies annually to meet the local demand.
The Department of Agriculture made Sri Lanka self-sufficient in dried chillies during the period from 1970-1980. Now, under the guidance of Director General of Agriculture, Dr. Rohan Wijekoon, a massive program to encourage farmers islandwide towards the cultivation of chillies is to be launched by the Department.
Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has instructed top officials to allocate funds to motivate farmers islandwide to cultivate chillies locally, to make Sri Lanka self-sufficient in chillies again, President, Kurunegala District Small Farmers’ Association, S.M. Wimalasena told a conference of representatives of small farmers’ societies in the Kurunegala district. He said the Government will invest Rs. 150 million for this purpose. Under the Divi Neguma national development program of the Ministry of Economic Development, 15,000 farmers in the Kurunegala and Puttalam districts of the North Western Province would be encouraged to grow chillies, fruits and vegetables during the next three months.
Quality chillie and vegetable plants would be provided free to interested farmers by the Government through Divisional Agricultural Instructors, Wimalasena said.
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"Not baked goods, Professor; baked bads!" -- The Tick
quasi-dyson's sphere
Schrödinger's Dyson Shell
smaller Dyson's sphere
Space Junk Zapping Balloon
Space-Tram
Space Umbrella
Special Orbit #2
Tangential space elevator material currency standard
That Oort to do it.
science:space: orbit
Like a space elevator, but in the x-axis
Two satellites are placed into Earth orbit at points where a carbon fiber tether between them forms a tangent to the Earth itself. So the satellites stay where they are and the Earth spins under them, the tether "slides" along the surface of the Earth (but about 1000 feet off the ground). When the tether comes by your part of the Earth a helicopter elevates your Space-Tram to the tether and you attach your Space-Tram to it. The Earth spins underneath you and later on when you are over China, you request a detach and another helicopter comes and gets you. You have just travelled to the other side of the globe for the cost of a 1000ft vertical helicopter ride.
The Space-Tram is really just like a regular tram you might find at a ski resort, but it has a special arm to attach to the tether. It also has a sofa, a bar, small kitchen, and video games to make the long ride more enjoyable.
Yes, the Space-Tram never actually goes into space. Calling it "Space-Tram" is more of marketing gimmick.
— DeathNinja, Sep 19 2003
No reason it can't go into space as well
— yamahito, Sep 19 2003
Very good idea if you can find some strong-enough cable (which you can’t.) I think you could do this with just one satellite and a cable hanging straight down. You would also have to make sure there were no mountains or tall buildings in the way. +
— AO, Sep 19 2003
I think it would be hard to catch if it was just a dangling cable. The double-satellite thing gives you a nice long stretch of cable so you can take more time attaching.
Another thing I just though of, the cable can’t travel through the air any faster than the helicopter’s top speed (probably about 300 mph). At that speed it would take about 42 hours to get to the other side of the planet.
If you used an airplane to get you up to the cable you could have it going about 2000 mph, which would reduce the trip to about 6 hours. The airplane wouldn’t have to land, it would just need to match the speed of the tram car, and then latch on from the bottom using a special docking ring.
//the satellites stay where they are//
The satellites will need momentum to overcome gravity, as well as moving in relation to the planet's rotation, to pull the cable with the tram.
It will take a vast amount of energy to keep the satellites in orbit, compared to the energy needed to move a non-tethered tram. However, if the cable is used as a space elevator, it might be worthwhile. You can almost balance this contraption when not in use (minimal energy). And with enough fast airplanes, you can sustain the inertia of the satellites. Or it would pull them down -- one or the other.
— Amos Kito, Sep 19 2003
[Amos] as far as I know the energy that keeps the satellite in orbit is the centrafugal energy of the satellite and it's mass in geo-sync orbit.
[AO]- the cable strong enough would be carbon nano fibers, they figure they could build a system like this right now for a mear 6 billion.
— SystemAdmin, Sep 19 2003
AO - how long would it take if the cable was counter-orbiting the direction of the earth's rotation?
SystemAdmin - No, they can't - the carbon nano-fiber isn't there yet. What you probably mean is that, after 6 billions' worth of investment into research, it will become possible.
How about attaching cable cars to either side of the main tram, which travel along the tether to either satellite. Voila! your'e in space!
— EdZ, Oct 28 2003
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Milan-Crotone Preview: Worst Coach Ever
Elaine ac milan, crotone, Gattuso, preview, Serie A, zenga
After the Fiorentina match, Gattuso confessed to being the worst coach in Serie A. But he has a competitor for that title, which is ex-goalkeeper Walter Zenga. Crotone’s current coach, Zenga, has a lot more experience in Serie A and really anywhere stupid enough to hire him, but with some varied results. In Serie A, however, his win average is pretty comparable to Gattuso’s. But just for the fact that his aspiration is to coach Inter someday (which I actually hope he does, so they can lose,) for me, he gets the title of worst coach ever.
Do these glasses make me look smarter?
I assume Zenga has good luggage, and keeps it ready for use throughout the season. Crotone is his 17th unique club in his 20 years of coaching experience. For him, I would guess that making it to the end of the season is like winning the world cup. He’s a pretty terrible coach. But the good news is that since he was brought in mid-season at Crotone, he only has to do marginally better than Davide Nicola to last to the end of this season. And so far, a single victory against Chievo in his first four matches in charge is perhaps just marginally better than the man who saved Crotone from relegation last year and then cycled 1300 km from Calabria to Turin to keep his promise.
Zenga’s latest test was hosting Napoli, in which Crotone surprisingly made it very difficult for the league leaders to win 1-0. For that match, he lined up Cordaz; Ceccherini, Simic, Martella, Faraoni, Barberis, Mandrabora, Rohden, Budimir, Stoian, and Trotta. He’s still missing Tumminello to an ACL injury from earlier this season, but other than that, he seems to have a full frenzy of Squali, or sharks, to travel to the San Siro with.
The enthusiasm is overwhelming
Gattuso will be missing Conti still, whom the club touted this week will be our real signing for the January market (even though he’s not expected back until early March.) He may have Kalinic at his disposal (which is exactly where many Milan fans want him – in the garbage disposal.) The Croatian striker is still injured, but recovering and may or may not make it on Saturday afternoon. Storari, Abate, and Mauri definitely won’t be available. But there aren’t really any excuses there for Gattuso, he should still be able to field a solid starting 11.
Now this guy I would be motivated by
If we are trying to decide which coach is worse, Gattuso has a record of three wins, three losses, and two draws in his eight games in charge thus far in all competitions. He does have an infinitely better squad than Zenga, but it’s hard to know which club has more problems and distractions off of the pitch. So I guess it comes down to this face-off: Will Gattuso and his legions of devils be able to take out Zenga’s Sharknado? In a way, this game will determine which man really is the worst coach ever.
This post inspired by the music of Beck’s “Loser”
Serie A Week 20
Milan vs. Crotone
Saturday, January 6 • 15:00 CET (9am EST)
This match will be shown LIVE on RAI Italia in the U.S.
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Home REGION Singapore Singapore Airlines suffers worst-ever quarterly loss
Singapore Airlines suffers worst-ever quarterly loss
(Singapore, July 30, 2020) It will take two to four years for air passenger traffic numbers to return to the pre-pandemic levels, Singapore Airlines said while announcing its largest quarterly loss on record till June 30.
A worst-ever $1.12 billion net loss in the quarter ended June 30 was reported as demand plummeted amid travel restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
On its outlook, SIA believes that international air travel is not recovering as quickly as expected, with industry experts such as the International Air Transport Association and the International Civil Aviation Organisation projecting slower recovery of global passenger traffic in the near term.
SIA’s profit and loss account. Source: SIA
“Demand for air travel evaporated as travel restrictions and border controls were imposed around the world to contain the spread of the virus,” the SIA statement says.
Its revenue for the group plunged 79.3 per cent to $851 million year on year, while expenditure dropped 51.6 per cent to $1.89 billion, the company said in a regulatory filing.
Passenger carriage fell across SIA, SilkAir and Scoot, resulting in a 99.5 per cent decline for the company.
The group’s passenger capacity by the end of the next quarter is projected to be about 7 per cent compared to pre-Covid-19 levels.
It further estimates that capacity may be less than half of pre-Covid-19 levels by the end of this financial year.
“We are reviewing the shape and size of our network over the longer term, given Covid-19 and its impact on our passenger traffic and revenue, which will provide clarity on fleet size and mix that (Singapore Airlines) will need.”
In all, SIA has raised about $11 billion in liquidity since the start of its financial year in April.
Experts believe that as travel demand remains substantially subdued for a prolonged period and the air travel demand has plunged quickly in recent weeks, a prolonged drop in air travel demand will lead to more losses for SIA.
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11 Arrested, Including Rapper 2 Chainz, After OKC Police Stop Tour Bus
Thursday, August 22nd 2013, 10:42 am
By: News 9
WEB EXTRA: Rapper's Tour Bus Pulled Over, Searched In OKC
News 9 has learned rapper 2 Chainz was among 11 people arrested Thursday after his tour bus was pulled over in Oklahoma City for a traffic violation that led to a showdown with police.
The rapper performed Wednesday night with Lil Wayne and T.I. at a concert at Chesapeake Energy Arena. Just after midnight Thursday, police pulled over the tour bus at Interstate 40 and Meridian for a broken taillight.
The officer suspected there were illegal drugs on the bus, but the driver locked the doors and refused to let police inside. Everyone on board also refused to leave the bus.
Related Story 8/22/2013: OKC Police Release Names Of 11 Arrested On Board 2 Chainz Tour Bus
Police had the tour bus towed, with the people still on board, to the police training facility at 850 N. Portland until officers obtained a warrant to search the bus.
Several hours later, the people on board the bus who initially refused to open the doors were taken off the vehicle and arrested. All 11 were booked into the Oklahoma County jail for a state misdemeanor charge of obstruction.
Officers searched the vehicle. Police have not said what they found during the search.
The rapper is best known for the songs "We Own It," "Birthday Song" with Kanye West, and "No Lie" featuring Drake. He also had a guest appearance on the CBS sitcom, Two Broke Girls.
News 9 News 9 has learned rapper 2 Chainz was among 11 people arrested Thursday after his tour bus was pulled over in Oklahoma City for a traffic violation that led to a showdown with police.
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Brook Marston Farm Hotel, Sutton Coldfield
Bodymoor Heath, nr. Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, B76 9JD, United Kingdom
The 3 star Brook Marston Farm Hotel near Birmingham was built in the 17th century and is a country hotel surrounded by nine acres of picturesque countryside in Sutton Coldfield. Well located near Birmingham, the Brook Marston Farm Hotel provides an attractive country hotel alternative to city centre accommodation, without compromising on accessibility. Drayton Manor, Tamworth Snow Dome, Birmingham NEC and Cadbury World are tourist attractions near Brook Marston Farm Hotel.
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The 3 star Marston Farm Hotel near Birmingham was built in the 17th century and was the ancestral home of Sir Robert Peel, the founder of Her Majesty's constabulary.
The Marston Farm Hotel is a country hotel surrounded by nine acres of picturesque countryside.
The Marston Farm Hotel is well located and provides an attractive country hotel alternative to city centre accommodation, without compromising on accessibility.
Birmingham city centre (14 miles)
Birmingham NEC (11 miles)
Birmingham International Airport (12 miles)
Sutton Coldfield (6 miles)
Belfry Golf Complex (2 miles)
The Marston Farm Hotel has been modernised and it still retains its country charm and character features which include inglenook fireplaces, original rafters, a pretty courtyard and comfortable decor.
Guests at Marston Farm Hotel can play tennis on the outdoor Tennis Courts.
Wi-Fi internet access is available.
The Marston Farm Hotel offers a range of tastefully decorated en-suite rooms which includes single, double, twin and four poster bedrooms.
The restaurant at the Marston Farm Hotel is a destination in its own right; you'll discover an excellent selection of fine food and a wide variety of wines. People travel from the neighbouring areas to sample the mouth-watering meals every evening.
Weddings and Conference Venue
The Marston Farm Hotel near Birmingham has four conference rooms that can be used for wedding receptions, banquets, business meetings and other special private and corporate events.
For larger parties, the permanent marquee outside is the perfect place whatever the occasion and we can also offer catering for private functions and receptions.
Tourist Attractions near Birmingham
The Brook Marston Farm Hotel near Birmingham is close to:
Birminghamcity centre (14 miles)
Birmingham Airport (12 miles)
Brook Marston Farm Hotel is an ideal base for a family holiday or weekend break as it is close to a number of tourist attractions including :-
Stratford Upon Avon, Birmingham NEC, Shopping at Birmingham's famous Bull Ring, Gas Street, Cadbury World Drayton Manor Theme Park and Tamworth Snow Dome.
Birmingham NEC
The Birmingham NEC is the busiest exhibition centre in Europe, staging more than 180 exhibitions and accommodating up to four million visitors each year. Ever since it opened in February 1976, Birmingham NEC has held popular exhibitions and even music concerts. The first event to be staged at the venue in 1976 was the International Spring Fair which has returned every year since. The Birmingham NEC hosts exhibitions ranging from world famous public shows to international trade shows.
Golf at The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield
Situated in Wishaw, Warwickshire - just 10 minutes north of the Birmingham NEC, The Belfry is the one of the world's most famous golfing destinations and is the adopted home of the Ryder Cup. The UK headquarters of the PGA, its two superb Championship golf courses sit within 550 acres of picturesque North Warwickshire countryside, and have provided some of the most dramatic moments in golfing history. With three courses in total, play the internationally recognised Brabazon - home of the Quinn Insurance British Masters, the PGA National course - England's only PGA course, or for players of all levels, the shorter and more relaxed course The Derby. Or why not play all three, and even enjoy a game on the mini 18 hole Brabazon Putting course.
Cadbury World, Birmingham
Love Chocolate? Indulge your senses at Cadbury World, Birmingham's very own chocolate paradise and a unique adventure into the world of chocolate. One of the main attractions in the West Midlands, Cadbury World attracts over 500,000 visitors from all over the UK and beyond every year. The Marston Farm is the ideal hotel near Cadbury World as it is only 19 miles away yet in a tranquil location and near to the other tourist attractions of Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham.
Drayton Manor, Tamworth
Drayton Manor is the UK's largest family owned theme park and one of the oldest parks in the country. Located near Tamworth, Staffordshire on the A4091 and just 3 miles from the Brook Marston Farm Hotel. Drayton Manor includes legendary rides such as Shockwave, Stormforce 10 and Apocalypse. Drayton Manor is made up of six main themed lands: Action park, Aerial Park, Fisherman's Wharf, Pirate Cove, Thomas Land and a Zoo, Farm and Museum.
Tamworth SnowDome, Staffordshire
Enjoy real snow, all year round at The SnowDome in Tamworth which provides the ultimate Alpine surface to learn and enjoy skiing and snowboarding. Whether it's skiing, snowboarding, ice skating or tobogganing, all you need is a sense of adventure! The UK's premier real snow centre features a 170 metre main indoor slope and the two Snow Academy areas (separate 30 metre and 25 metre teaching slopes), where a wide variety of skiing and snowboarding lessons are held.
24-hour front desk, Air conditioning, Accessible facilities, Parking, Restaurant, Lounges/bars, Non-smoking rooms (generic).
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China Hopes for Better US Relations 01/21 06:18
BEIJING (AP) -- China on Thursday expressed hope the Biden administration
will improve prospects for people of both countries and give a boost to
relations after an especially rocky patch, while getting in a few final digs at
former Trump officials.
"I think after this very difficult and extraordinary time, both the Chinese
and American people deserve a better future," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua
Chunying told reporters at a daily briefing.
She said China and the U.S. need to relaunch cooperation in a number of
areas. She particularly welcomed the new administration's decision to remain in
the World Health Organization and return to the Paris Agreement on climate
"Many people of insight in the international community are looking forward
to the early return of Sino-U.S. relations to the correct track in making due
contributions to jointly address the major and urgent challenges facing the
world today," Hua said.
She also criticized ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other former
officials, a day after Beijing imposed travel and business sanctions on 30 of
them, including Trump's national security adviser Robert O'Brien and U.N.
Ambassador Kelly Craft.
"Over the past few years, the Trump administration, especially Pompeo, has
buried too many mines in Sino-U.S. relations that need to be eliminated, burned
too many bridges that need to be rebuilt and wrecked too many roads that need
to be repaired," Hua said.
Hua on Wednesday described Pompeo as a "doomsday clown" and said his
designation of China as a perpetrator of genocide and crimes against humanity
was merely "a piece of wastepaper."
Hua's markedly more friendly tone Thursday appeared to signal Chinese hopes
to cool the rhetoric on both sides and give the relationship a chance to heal
over some of the worst divisions.
"I think both China and the United States need to show courage, show wisdom,
listen to each other, face up to each other and respect each other," Hua said.
"I think this is the responsibility of the two major countries of China and the
United States, and it is also the expectation of the international community."
Also Thursday, China's Ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai offered his
congratulations to Biden on Twitter, which is widely used by the Chinese
government despite being blocked in the country.
"Congratulations to President Biden on his inauguration! China looks forward
to working with the new administration to promote sound & steady development of
China-U.S. relations and jointly address global challenges in public health,
climate change & growth," Cui tweeted.
Chinese President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping congratulated Biden
on his election but had no immediate comment on Wednesday's inauguration.
While Biden's administration is expected to seek to put relations with China
back on an even keel, he is unlikely to significantly alter U.S. policies on
trade, Taiwan, human rights and the South China Sea that have angered Xi's
increasingly assertive government.
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The Naked Flame
Blood Invocation
The Beast Inside
One Last Try Marvel Comics
The 1995 Yearbook
Starring the first seven Doctors and various companions
What a load of rubbish! We think we're more sophisticated these days, but those simplistic World Distributors annuals were far more entertaining than this boring Yearbook. There's no Colin Baker, no Terrance Dicks, no Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett and basically not much fun. Some of these stories are good, but more are tedious. Going through in ascending order...
Mark Gatiss's Urrozdinee is set in an evil EuroDisney, but has absolutely nothing else to recommend it. I nearly slipped into a coma. Rescue is by the author of Dimensions in Time. Steve Lyons's One Last Try is ingenious but dull, Daniel Blythe's The Beast Inside is well-written but unmemorable, and I'm convinced that Gareth Roberts wrote The Hungry Bomb in his sleep. It brings back the Chelonians, one of Who's most over-rated creations. The story has its moments, but I couldn't call it good.
Only three of these stories entertained me. Simon Messingham's Work is Hell treads water for two pages but thereafter becomes amusing. For some reason the Yearbooks' 6th Doctor stories were always good. Andy Lane's It's Only A Game is silly 7th Doctor nonsense with too much continuity, but it's written with Andy's usual panache and holds you throughout. I really enjoyed it, not least for its Adrian Salmon illustrations. However my favourite story here is Justin Richards's Briefly Noted, a comedy with the 2nd Doctor, Jamie, Zoe and some musical instruments. It feels so effortless that one wonders why all Troughton stories aren't this good. However it's not presented to best advantage, with intimidating swathes of microscopic text and illustrations that aren't suited to a comedy. I'm a Brian Hudd fan, but he should have been given another story instead.
There are two comic strips, again drawn by John Ridgway and Charlie Adlard. Adlard's strip is The Naked Flame by Warwick Gray and is enjoyable fluff with the 4th Doctor and ninja butterflies on Vortis. However Ridgway's strip (Blood Invocation by Paul Cornell) falls flat again, probably because of the unsympathetic colouring. Mind you, it's handicapped by starting on Gallifrey. It's a prequel to Goth Opera... unless it's a sequel... umm.
There's a crossword and some retrospectives about the 1993 Doctor Who productions. Kevin Davies remembers 30 Years in the TARDIS, Nicholas Courtney remembers The Paradise of Death and Sophie Aldred remembers Dimensions in Time. Courtney's article is the least interesting of the three, if only because he has less to talk about, but it's still perfectly readable. Sophie Aldred's piece is fun but my favourite was Kevin Davies, if only because the fella's so proud to be a fan and obviously over the moon at making his documentary. I found it charming.
The 1995 Yearbook looks great. It has lovely illustrations and more stories than ever before. There's probably as much good fiction as there was in the 1992 and 1993 Yearbooks; it's just that there's a whole load of dross in there too. The word count and the production values are impressive. Unfortunately something's happened to the quality control.
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Capitol Report Archives | Email alerts
Dec. 1, 2020, 2:02 p.m. EST
Democratic senator blasts Mnuchin for ending coronavirus loan programs: ‘It’s malpractice’
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By Victor Reklaitis and Greg Robb
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin drew flak from Democratic senators over his stance on some emergency loan programs, as he and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell took part in a Tuesday hearing on the federal government’s response to the coronavirus crisis.
The hearing before the Senate Banking Committee reflected how Republicans and Democrats remain divided on relief efforts following last month’s election. It comes amid record hospitalizations due to COVID-19 — and as President-elect Joe Biden rolls out the economic team that will take over next month from President Donald Trump’s team. Biden has picked former Fed chief Janet Yellen to succeed Mnuchin at the Treasury Department.
Mnuchin had been expected to face questions from Democrats about his decision earlier this month not to extend some lending programs set up with the Federal Reserve that are set to expire at the end of the year. Powell’s Fed said that it opposed the Treasury secretary’s decision.
“You appear to be trying to sabotage our economy on the way out the door,” Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio told Mnuchin. “Either you’re purposely trying to stop President-elect Biden and Treasury Secretary–designee Yellen from getting to work for the people we all serve, or you’re delusional.”
“Either way, it’s malpractice,” added Brown, the committee’s top Democrat, as he said the Treasury secretary is following Trump’s lead in thinking that because the stock market is up “everything is fine.”
Capitol Report: ‘Help is on the way,’ says Biden as he introduces Yellen and more economic team members
Mnuchin pushed back after the Ohio lawmaker’s criticism.
“I’d be more than happy, Sen. Brown, to come see you and your staff and walk you through the legal analysis,” Mnuchin said. “I find it implausible that any member of this committee believes that in voting for the CARES Act, you are authorizing me to invest $500 billion to make loans in perpetuity.”
Republican senators came to the Treasury secretary’s defense.
“I’m quite surprised to hear you criticized for following the law in how you have dealt with the return of the CARES Act funds,” GOP Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, the committee’s chairman, told Mnuchin. “You and we were accused of creating a big slush fund, and now when we have terminated these funds, as required by the law, so that we can utilize them more effectively in the next act, the criticism is that this fund should not have been terminated.”
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said Mnuchin’s announcement about the programs earlier this month “brought absolutely no disruption to any financial markets that I can tell at all.”
“These facilities were designed for a very specific purpose. They achieved that purpose more successfully than we could have reasonably hoped, and we should not use them to morph into some other purpose,” said Toomey, who is expected to become the Senate Banking Committee’s chairman next year if the GOP retains control of the chamber following Georgia’s Jan. 5 runoff elections.
See: Georgia’s runoffs on your mind? Here’s what you need to know
Also read: Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections could spark $1 billion in political spending, analysts say
During the hearing, Mnuchin and Powell expressed some support for a new bipartisan coronavirus relief proposal with a $908 billion price tag.
“It sounds like you’re hitting a lot of the areas that could definitely benefit from help,” Powell said, when asked about the proposal.
Mnuchin said he looked forward to reviewing the package and believed more fiscal response is needed. The Treasury secretary also said he planned to talk on Tuesday afternoon with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat, about fresh stimulus and a bill to avoid a government shutdown, adding that he has spoken more than once this week with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, and has kept Trump updated.
Henrietta Treyz, director of economic policy at Veda Partners, played down the $908 billion package’s prospects. “While the proposal is generating a lot of enthusiasm today amongst the investment community, we are advised by leadership on both sides of the political aisle and both chambers of Congress, that it is not being considered seriously and is very unlikely to become law,” she said in a note.
In his opening statement, Powell said that the central bank’s actions to backstop a range of credit markets after the coronavirus convulsed Wall Street this past spring had unlocked almost $2 trillion to support businesses, cities and states.
“I strongly encourage Congress to use the $455 billion in unused funds from the CARES Act to pass an additional bill with bipartisan support,” Mnuchin said in his opening statement .
U.S. stocks were advancing Tuesday, with equities /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX +0.18% /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA +0.15% aiming to build on a historic November rally that was fueled in part by optimism over progress on COVID-19 vaccines.
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Candlemoth Book 3
A Holy City Romance
'A Twist of Fate' by Pauline West
Genre: Steamy New Adult, Romance
As Lily and Ry are reunited, the lovers are caught in a tragedy that changes their lives forever. Boldly sensual and deeply inspiring, this installment in the Candlemoth series will have you on the edge of your seat all the way to its soaring finish.
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His mouth slack with desire, red with kissing. Ry bent to my neck, his hand fucking me expertly, relentlessly. “Oh, oh, you’re so fucking hot I can’t even-” “What’s that?” Ry said, his voice a raspy purr. “I, oh-” “What’s that, Lily?” His steady, deep, hunting rhythm. He had me right on the edge. His touch strayed back along my cleft to rest alongside the tight bud of flesh at my back. I tried to squirm away but had nowhere to go. “Hey, you’ve got me between a rock and a hard place, here,” I said, laughing nervously. Ry slowed, still exploring. He circled pressingly, his free hand wrapped around the side of my hip, pinning me where he wanted. I loved how big his hands were, but the very bigness of Ry meant he could pin me like a butterfly. Worst of all, it felt wonderful. Even as shame began to lick at me hotly. I felt ragingly shy. “I can’t…” Ry wouldn’t let me go. My eyes sparked on his. “Please, I can’t-” Just when I thought I couldn’t bear his strokes any longer, Ry moved sideways, massaging the inner muscles of the back of my ass. The thumb of Ry’s hand at my waist still stroked me soothingly. I wrapped my arms around him, trying to let myself go, to float in him. But whenever I thought about what he was doing, what he was trying to do and where he was doing it, I’d get so embarrassed I’d squirm away from him again. The sunlight throbbed. “Oh, I don’t know, I don’t know, I just don’t want to-” “I love your crazy talk when you go out of your mind.” Ry kissed my cheek hard, and then found my mouth, working me open. Soon I was panting into him again, my hips lifting for his. Pleasure strobed as we drank, sucking, our tongues shamelessly wet. “You trust me, baby?” Ry said. “Ohh…” His touch tipped inside me, pulsing. I felt myself open; flowers gasped candent in the sun. “I could watch your face forever,” he said. “I’d die, you feel so good, you feel too good-” “Ssh, ssh, relax, just let it. Just let me know you.” The sound of Ry’s voice curled through me as his touch slid, a metronome of desire. Quickening in me. This overwhelming fullness. Ry covered me with kisses. “You’re so, so soft. I love touching you all over.” He grinned. “Staking my claim.” He moved back, lingeringly, to stand above me, his frame commanding even as he was dwarfed amongst the hugeness of rock and forest, the mountains in the distance. He began unbuckling his jeans for me, teasingly slow.
A bold and independent free spirit from the foster system of small town South Carolina, Lily is a survivor with skeletons in her closet. She knows what she wants and how to get it. And a spoiled rich playboy is not part of her plan- but Ry is irresistible.
Steamy, exciting and beautifully written, this dramatic romance will appeal to fans of Sylvia Day.
Book One in the Holy City Romance series about a wild and fun-loving group of twenty-somethings in Charleston, South Carolina.
“The masterpiece of my life was having learned how to glass myself inward, burying my heart so deep I didn’t even know where it was buried.” - Lily Inoue Lily is a bold, passionate free thinker from small town South Carolina. Fiercely self reliant, the same strength that helped Lily survive a traumatic upbringing makes it difficult for her to trust anyone, especially Ry Calhoun. When Ry’s political obligations and Lily’s rising notoriety in Charleston threaten their relationship, Lily arrives into her most reckless act yet- and at incredible cost. The scorching second installment in the Holy City Romance series of steamy romance novels about a wild, fun-loving group of twenty-somethings in Charleston, South Carolina.
Pauline West is a bookworm, trail runner and bourbon lover. Her hobbies include mild hypochondria and ill-advised matchmaking. For more romantic stories about Charleston, follow West on Pauline-West.com and Amazon for news on the Candlemoth: Holy City Romance novels, as well as her upcoming series, Evening’s Land: a Gothic Fantasy.
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St George Girls High School
An Academically Selective High School For Girls
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Visit the NSW Department of Education School Safety Page page for any emergency updates including school closures and notifications regarding coronavirus (COVID-19).
Up to date information on Novel coronavirus (COVID - 19)
Schools to implement distancing measures
Mark Scott, Secretary of the Department of Education, today announced that schools would adopt social distancing measures requiring them to cancel assemblies, excursions, travel, some events and conferences.
Mr Scott said these measures are precautionary and designed to reduce exposure via non-essential gatherings.
"Schools have been a focus of the community and the government as the impacts of coronavirus have developed globally," Mr Scott said.
"From Monday onwards, I expect school assemblies and substantial gatherings to be cancelled, along with all excursions.
"The community expects schools to be as safe as possible. We are implementing these measures to provide peace of mind for students, parents and staff."
"These cancellations also extend to inter-school arts, sports, initiative activities and events.
All major arts, sports and initiative activities and events will temporarily be ceased until further notice. This includes whole-school sporting events and inter-school events involving three or more schools.
"Local inter-school sport and other activities can proceed, but we ask organisers to ensure that as far as possible, reasonable precautions are taken," Mr Scott said.
"I trust our principals and staff to show leadership during this time."
Schools will be provided with more detailed advice and suggestions on how they can adjust their day to day activities with minimal disruption.
The department is continuing to prepare for further closures if necessary with scaling up of technology, additional training of staff and preparation of offsite lessons.
Families and students in self-isolation can find useful information to continue Learning from Home.
For the latest information, check COVID-19 advice for schools.
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The Start of the 2011 Riots
This is where the 2011 London Summer riots all began.
Location: Ferry Lane, Tottenham
Description: This is where Mark Duggan was shot dead by armed police on Thursday August 4th 2011, and somehow triggering riots two days later which spread like wildfire across London and Britain in the following days.
The death occurred during an operation where specialist firearm officers from Operation Trident, which deals with gun crime in the local African and Caribbean communities, are attempting to carry out an arrest.
Mr Duggan was a passenger in a minicab and was shot after an apparent exchange of fire.
A police officer's radio was later found to have a bullet lodged in it.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announces it will investigate the incident and later says it believes two shots were fired by police. It also confirms that an illegal firearm was recovered from the scene.
Tours: The London Riots Tour
Themes: Death Crime
New York Doll Murcia died here», 8.1km
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GM/SCR calls for Promptness in arresting Technical failures & Alertness during Duty for Safety and Efficiency
23 May 2017 in Category(ies): Author railPosted on 23/05/2017 23/05/2017 Categories Headlines, SCR-Guntakal Division, SCR-Guntur Division, SCR-Hyderabad Division, SCR-Nanded Division, SCR-Secunderabad Division, SCR-Vijayawada Division, South Central Railway
SECUNDERABAD: Promptness in arresting technical failures and alertness during duty is needed to ensure optimal Safety and Efficiency on the Railways, asserted Vinod Kumar Yadav, General Manager, South Central Railway while addressing a meeting to review Safety, Punctuality and Performance of the Zone with Principal Heads of Departments present today i.e., 22nd May, 2017 at Rail Nilayam, Secunderabad. Divisional Railway Managers (DRMs) of six Divisions on South Central Railway viz., Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guntur, Guntakal and Nanded attended the review meeting through video conference.
Vinod Kumar Yadav advised that top priority shall be accorded to safety in train operations and at the same time punctuality should also be maintained. He advised all the Divisional Railway Managers to take up measures to arrest technical failures, counseling of Loco Pilots, Permanent Way Inspectors. He instructed to take special care on Signaling aspect and advised them to come with new ideas to improve the Safety, Punctuality and achieve the Performance parameters set for current fiscal. All measures have to be taken to avoid signal failures and top priority may be given to attend the signal failures immediately. He instructed all the DRMs to give importance to departure timings of originating trains in their jurisdiction. Priority may be accorded towards maintenance of coaches and to enhance average speed of sections.
D.K.Singh, Chief Safety Officer; N.Madhusudana Rao, Chief Operations Manager; M.G.Sekharam, Chief Commercial Manager; Smt.Padmini Radhakrishnan, FA & CAO; M.S. Mahaboob Ali, Chief Signal & Telecommunications Engineer; Arjun Mundiya, Chief Mechanical Engineer; P.K. Sangewar, Controller of Stores; N.V.Ramana Reddy, Chief Personnel Officer; Dr.K.H.K.Dora, Chief Medical Director; Sanjay Sankrityayan, Chief Security Commissioner were amongst the officials present.
Punctuality of trains has to be given utmost importance and all efforts should be made to run trains on time. He also reviewed the punctuality position of express and passenger services on the Zone and at Divisional level. The General Manager advised all the DRMs that, the Speed restrictions in zone may be reviewed intensively and make suitable plans to evacuate the feasible speed restrictions, which can improve the punctuality of the trains.
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With 10 Days to Go, Silver Line Still Needs Some Tape, Names For LoCo Stations
With 10 days to go before our awesome E-ticket ride to the wonders of Tysons and beyond begins service, we're eagerly anticipating news of yet another delay seeing a fully operational system when we ride walk down the escalators a week from Saturday. Um, right?
Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said on Monday that several items DTP should have completed by now are not finished.
One area — the application of heat tape on the third rail — is to be done by the end of July according to the post-operational readiness agreement. Stessel says the heat tape work has not even started.
“It has been disappointing to us to see that the contractor has not been taking advantage of every available work window,” he said. “They could have done much more.”
Stessel said DTP has also not resolved water leaks at several stations. He said that the heat tape, which prevents freezing so it isn’t urgently needed in July, can be applied after opening.
Exactly how hard is it to apply tape? We've hung a few posters in our day -- without a no-bid contract even.
In the meantime, there's a fancy open house on Saturday, where you can see the escalators while they're still running. And the temporary Park and Ride lot on Sunset Hills will close on July 26, the day the Silver Line opens, presumably to allow its owners to forego their $1.46 million in leasing fees and continue to move Reston Town Center's footprint closer to the nearby, someday-to-be-built Metro station there.
But all the ch-ch-ch-changes will be worth the hassle, according to yet another Metro ad, this one not directed at lonely men:
That sweeeeeeet wood paneling screams "early '70s Reston family room," so we totally relate.
Meanwhile, the process for selecting names for the Loudoun County stations to be built in the next phase of the Silver Line has begun, according to (awesomely named) website Ashburn Rising. No one paid attention to our humble suggestions during the first phase, but as is the case with painting hand railings on a no-bid contract, maybe the second time will be the charm:
Particleboard Center
We Didn't Want This Station Anyway
McMansion Square
Suburban Dulles Airport
Tyvektown
Big Box Nirvana
You're welcome, Loudoun. You're welcome.
Labels: 20190, Loudoun County (here there be dragons), Metro Fiasco, Reston
But will the Loudoun stations have a brick front and three poorly constructed vinyl sides?
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A Hot, Humid Christmas in Cuba
It was Christmas morning and I was stranded on the side of a windswept road in the thick Cuban heat about four kilometers from anything. Read on.
It was Christmas morning and I was stranded on the side of a windswept road in the thick Cuban heat about four kilometers from anything. To the west was Trinidad—I could still see a few steeples rising among red rooftops—and to the east was the Caribbean, deep blue in the late-morning haze. For nearly a week I had been traveling through Cuba, memorizing bus schedules and eating at Lonely Planet-approved restaurants. But increasingly the reservations and museum tours had started to feel like a list of things to check off, when all I really wanted was to escape the swarms of tourists who had descended on the island for the holidays, and roam freely through this strange and beautiful country.
And so on Christmas Eve—perhaps the biggest holiday in Cuba—amid fireworks and salsa dancing, I resolved that I would rent a bike and, on my own terms, spend a day riding along the Caribbean coast, swimming and talking to fishermen. I became obsessed with the idea of rolling through Cuba with nothing but a straw hat and a bathing suit. When you're traveling, sometimes your heart just fixates on something, and there's no shaking it until you've seen it through. In my case, I had to ride a bike to the sea.
Trinidad is a small Spanish colonial town on the southwestern coast of the island where red-clay tiles top pastel-colored houses and salsa music holds the nights captive. About 12 kilometers south is glittering Playa Ancon, a string of white-sand beaches that include a few resorts with hammocks hanging between palms and bamboo-walled bars that serve Cuba Libres at all hours, but also long empty stretches of clean sand and coral rocks where the lucky beach-stroller might find a washed-up conch shell.
Whenever you want something in Cuba, the easiest way to get it is to ask someone, anyone, on the street. The tourist's dollar goes very far here, and there is an extensive network of entrepreneurial Cubans eager to help you get what you want for the right price. And the price is, usually, fair.
"Ven! Ven!" said the first guy I asked about renting a bike, his dark eyes lighting up beneath a faded baseball cap. He waved his hand at me and set off up the cobblestone street past horse-drawn carriages and men selling peeled oranges. In five minutes we were at a light blue house with a white wrought iron gate and a tile plaque that read "La Casa de Rosa y Louis." Inside a woman I could only assume was Rosa led us to a back patio where a red mountain bike was leaning on its kickstand. It was too small and looked too old, but there was air in the balding tires and the brakes appeared to work. This was the bike for me, I thought. I could almost feel the wind in my hair, almost taste the hot salt of freedom. I handed over the money and rolled my new chariot out into the bright Caribbean sun.
What finally gave way were the pedals, or rather the bolts that hold the pedals in place. Usually bike pedals are opposed, like two points on opposite sides of a ferris wheel—when one is up the other is down. But just when I had really gotten out of town, into the province of cows and crickets, the arms that should have held my pedals in place began to slip and soon both were hanging down next to each other like a pair of swings.
Now I am a fairly versed cyclist—I ride about fourteen miles to and from work every day and have been doing so for nearly five years. I do my own bike maintenance, and would consider myself "handy." This, mixed with my complete infatuation with the idea of riding a bike through Cuba made it easy to overlook all the warning signs about this particular bike—that it was truly fit for a midget, that only half the gears worked, that the front wheel threatened to fall off every time I picked up speed. I only need it for a day, I'd thought.
But I did need it for the entire day, and now, alone in the hot sun, I also needed a wrench, a few nuts, and a bolt the size of my pinky finger.
Cursing myself and Rosa and Cuba in general, I started walking towards La Boca, a small town halfway between Trinidad and Playa Ancon. A few horse carts passed with workers in the back staring at me impassively. The sun blazed across the pavement—I could see the ocean further south, but all around me rolled prairie-like hills of burnt grass and prickly shrubs. I was in the gradual plains that slope from the Caribbean up into the Sierra del Escambray, Cuba's second-largest mountains where Che camped on the way to his first major military victory in Santa Clara nearly 60 years ago. Skinny white cows munched indifferently in the fields and the occasional kettle of vultures slid silently overhead, their enormous black wings hardly flapping in the steady sea breeze.
After half an hour, I came to the small fishing village. Had I come to this town under different circumstances, it would be impossible not to be charmed. A few bungalows along the main street with thatched palm roofs led down to a small pebbly beach at the coral-lined mouth of the Rio Guaurabo where two fishing boats listed gently. Salsa and regaton music mixed with the sound of the waves on the coral, and flip-flops were the norm.
But tired, sweaty, and parched, I was anything but relaxed. Walking past houses where residents were eating late breakfasts on their porches, I eventually came upon a shirtless man with a prodigious and shinning beer belly who listened to my predicament with gravity, examined the evidence, and motioned me across the street to his house where regaton music was streaming out of the open windows and door. He said his name was Miguel and that there were no bicycle shops in La Boca. Then he put a glass of water in my hand and disappeared into a back room while I made small talk with his wife.
Minutes later, Miguel reappeared with an enormous wooden box and beckoned me out to the porch where he quickly emptied the contents on to the floor. Nails, steel wool, bolts, string, razor blades, screws, bottle caps, wrenches, hammers that looked provisional, tacks, pipes, and every other kind of "replacement" spilled onto the concrete. We began combing it all for the bolt and nuts, or something vaguely similar, but it quickly became clear that though Miguel had accumulated an impressive collection of junk, he lacked a robust supply of bicycle parts.
I began to make excuses, telling him I'd push on to find someone else, but he shook his head and motioned me to the side. And with swiftness that verged on recklessness, as if I might make a dash for it and he'd lose his chance, he stuffed two nails and what looked like the pin from a grenade into the pedal crank and began smashing away at it with the hammer. After nearly a minute, he stepped back and tried his foot on the pedal. It held.
"That will get you back to Trinidad," he said with a proud smile, handing me the bike.
And it did. It took almost another hour back the way I'd come, fighting a headwind and ignoring the cows, but soon I was standing in the casa de Rosa y Louis, sweating like a gringo and demanding my money back in pathetic Spanish while withstanding accusations that the broken bike was my fault and defending my conviction that despite appearances, it was not yet truly "fixed." I wrangled half of my deposit, and left feeling stupidly victorious.
By this time it was well into the afternoon and with the punishing sun and an empty stomach I felt my dream of a day at the beach evaporate. Not only was I weak with fatigue and dehydration, but my failure was demoralizing. The whole endeavor had assumed such profound status in my mind that it had become a kind of test as my ability as a traveller. I suddenly felt doomed to guided tours of old churches and endless renditions of the Buena Vista Social Club soundtrack at polished restaurants exclusively for foreigners.
I wandered despondently from Rosa's until I found a Cuban cafeteria—small lunch counters people run out of their homes that serve a simple sandwiches with espresso. I sat down to eat in an old plaza and watched children play soccer with a crushed can while their parents checked emails on a nearby bench.
After recuperating slightly, I began walking again through the streets crowded with fruit vendors and taxi drivers, shrugging off incessant offers to buy cigars. I had been staying in the center of town and without a plan headed east into an area that I remembered didn't have much my guidebook found notable. The rows of houses seemed increasingly pinched together and just when the cobblestones gave way to dirt, the buzzing sound of salsa music caught my ear. I tracked it to a large boxed wagon parked in the middle of the street, surrounded by perhaps fifty leathery farmers. A few women stood or sat in their doorways and looked on, while the men brought empty water bottles to the wagon and deposited a few coins into the hand of a man who in turn opened a spigot to fill their bottle with a light brown liquid I thought at first might be fuel and then realized was beer. Quickly I found myself with an overflowing plastic cup filled and dancing with a nearly toothless man. This beer tasted like very old and very thick Budweiser, but it flowed liberally and I wasn't one to refuse the hospitality where I knew no one, and now had no where else to go. Every time my cup reached empty, someone new poured in some of his. We stood around and talked about the wind and old age. I danced with old campesinos and gulped the rotten liquid.
As the afternoon faded into evening I eventually wandered back to the Casa de la Musica, an open-air venue on the steps of the Plaza Mayor at the center of the town. I had stayed with the farmers and their wives until the wagon was empty, and now all that was left was dancing, and I wanted more than songs on repeat from scratchy speakers. Pinched between quaint balconied restaurants serving fried plantains and roast pork, and the austere Iglesia Parraquial de la Santisima, the Casa has some of the best salsa in Trinidad with rotating bands that play deep into the night. By the time I made it up the cobblestone steps, the party was in full swing, with everyone from young locals to suave old-timers spinning and twisting under the lights.
Salsa is spectacularly hard to dance, and nearly impossible to dance well, especially if you've been standing around a wagon of beer for the better part of the afternoon. But it is also a dance that forgives the novice and rewards the brave. Not long after arriving, I saw a young woman I had spoken with the previous night standing by herself and eyeing the dance floor. Her long brown hair curled over her shoulders and she waved when I caught her eye from across the crowd. By the time was had finished our third dance together, all thoughts of the day's broken bike had sizzled away, and Cuba seemed not so hopeless after all.
The next morning, after chasing away a headache with fresh squeezed juice, fried eggs, and pineapple, I set out. Again. This time, I told myself, I would only accept the perfect bike. This time I wouldn't let excitement get the better of me. This time I would not be persuaded by the first offer I was made.
I had no plan. I simply walked further before asking someone about a bike, which led to a different house, with a different shed where I then promptly agreed to the first offer I was made. This time it was a teal-colored mountain bike, and though I wasn't going to win any races, it was a far superior machine than the one I had suffered the previous day. Not only was it almost my size, but all pedals and breaks and wheels looked new and even withstood a few discreet kicks. I paid and once again, rolled out into the Cuban sun.
Back through the sloping hills, I felt a small triumph when I coasted past the ditch where my pedals had broken, and saluted Miguel's now quiet house as I rolled through La Boca. The next five kilometers ran roughly along the coast and I peered through mangrove trees and palms for glimpses of white spray. It was another scorching day and the water beckoned. At one point a young cyclist named Oreste came up next to me. He had a sparkling road bike and was even wearing one of those funny cyclist hats with a tiny brim. He ran a bicycle repair shop in town. "In La Boca!?" I exclaimed. No, back in Trinidad. As we rode side-by-side I told him of my travails the day before. He laughed.
"Yes, all of those bikes are breaking," he said mischievously. "They are too old and no one takes care of them. But sometimes they are good. Like your bike today. That is a strong bike."
"How do you know?"
"Because of the color."
It was good enough for me. When our routes diverged, he advised on the best way back and told me to stop in to see him on my return. I said I would, but first I had the beach.
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Apple and steve is like Tom n Jerry. Could never being separated one to each other. And finally he's back, folks. Six months after Steve Jobs took a medical leave from Apple due to health reasons, the company has announced that he's back on the job, working a "few days a week" on the Apple campus and from home the remainder. Of course, we'd been hearing of Steve's continual involvement in "key aspects" of Apple's business for a while now, so this seems like more of a rubber stamp on the status quo than a major change, but now that it's official we're sure the questions from shareholders and other interested parties regarding Steve's health will only grow louder and more insistent -- especially given the news of his liver transplant earlier this year. We'll see how Apple decides to handle the situation when the time comes -- until then, we're just thankful that he's returned and is doing well.
The company's share price fell in January this year, when he announced he was taking leave because of a hormone imbalance. Investors are likely to welcome Mr Jobs' return to the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California. "In many ways he's irreplaceable," Ashok Kumar, of financial analysts Collins Stewart, told Reuters news agency."Having him back brings the halo back to the company."
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Assistant Professor in Ecology, University of Toronto & Scientific Advisor to Ocean Conservancy http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Chelsea Rochman Assistant Professor in Ecology, University of Toronto & Scientific Advisor to Ocean Conservancy <div class="ExternalClass54CAAE5B211641C2A427C251E8DF4433"><p>Chelsea received her PhD in Ecology from a joint program between University of California, Davis and San Diego State University in 2013. She then was a Smith Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Biology. She is currently a Sloan Fellow. She was hired as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2016. Chelsea has been researching the sources, sinks and ecological implications of plastic debris in marine and freshwater habitats for more than a decade.</p><p>She has published dozens of scientific papers in respected journals and has led international working groups about plastic pollution. In addition to her research, Chelsea works to translate her science beyond academia. For example, Chelsea presented her work to the United Nations General Assembly and at the US State Department. Moreover, she co-founded an outreach group call the U of T Trash Team.</p></div> http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/SpeakersPhotos/Chelsea-Rochman.jpg GP0|#a66eeac0-5a42-4791-8976-64767cae6840;L0|#0a66eeac0-5a42-4791-8976-64767cae6840|Chelsea Rochman;GTSet|#c31bcefc-bba8-4775-8a91-82f54b19d6e1;GPP|#d4606ea2-a17f-44c9-8c88-c038bb814434 Chelsea Rochman
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MixedByAli Bought Death Row's Studios
Top Dawg Entertainment engineer MixedByAli announced he purchased the previously owned Death Row studio where their classic albums were recorded at.
“This is the most exciting news I’ve announced since the birth of my daughter,” he began.
Ali showed videos of where 2Pac, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre crafted All Eyez On Me, The Doggfather and 2001.
“We’re looking forward to harnessing the energy & history from this studio and continue pumping out nothing but timeless hit records just as they did in the ’90s.” he continued
Renovations on the Los Angeles studio will begin next week on NoName Studios.
“I’m proud to announce, this is now my facility,” Ali wrote.
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As published in The County Times (countytimes.somd.com), August 2020
One of my favorite modern albums is Ray LaMontagne’s “God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise.” The music – soothing, deep…almost meditative - is phenomenal. The title is a psychological grabber too – a reminder to be in the moment and enjoy life, as beauty is often fragile and fleeting.
Many in Southern Maryland recently realized that fragility. I don’t know if God wasn’t willing, but creek certainly did rise - to levels I’ve never seen in my lifetime - courtesy of Isaias, Mother Nature’s latest angry tropical spawn. It was difficult to see large swaths of my hometown – Leonardtown – turned into a water world. The awful swells inundated roads, vehicles, businesses and homes and broke many hearts under a flood of painful emotion. Now the processing of this disaster and rebuild is underway, the latter likely happening more quickly than the former. For all those impacted, be steadfast and get well soon. And for all those tirelessly assisting family and friends back to their feet, thank you.
This has been a difficult year to say the least – school closures, virus anxiety, sports cancellations at all levels, missed vacations and family events, unemployment and business upheaval. And now a natural disaster. Because why not? It’s 20…bleeping…20.
It has been several weeks now since three of four major sports restarted play. The NBA’s product while on its Disney World lockdown has been quite good. Same for the NHL, even if men on ice in the blistering August heat makes no sense. MLB has been choppy with several COVID outbreaks causing schedule chaos. Still, live sports are back to offer some normalcy and a welcomed distraction from, well, damn near everything these days.
As a life-long, rabid sports fan, I should love this. The empty stadiums are odd, the cardboard cutouts of fans are cheesy and the piped in fake game noises feel like an unfortunate extension of society’s manufactured, manipulated and inorganic social media living. But with a frenetic 60-game MLB regular-season sprint and overlapping NBA and NHL playoffs in three North American bubble cities that necessitate daily games stacked from mid-afternoon to midnight, such oddities are easily overlooked. After being forced to go off sports cold turkey and for four long months, this bizarre and intense sports calendar should have me feeling completely bubblicious and begging The County Times to let me write at least two articles every week.
But I have no juice. I watch, but the games cycle through the evening as little more than background noise. The Caps blew early leads and dropped the first two games of their playoff series against the New York Islanders. This normally would have prompted a volley of foul language hurled at an innocent T.V. and people far, far away from earshot. This year, I responded to the 0-2 hole with a listless shrug. As for Nats’ defense of their World Series title, I find myself more concerned about the team’s ace pitchers maintaining their health and the growth of a few young talents than I am about chasing another beer shower and championship parade.
It just feels like a mulligan. All of it. Thanks for playing, fellas. I appreciate the effort. The distraction is valuable. But really, what does it mean? Certainly not as much as a traditional season would have. If fans can’t manage the same fervor, it is difficult to believe players have complete emotional and physical investment while playing under quarantine and/or in empty, cavernous arenas. There’s no escaping the gimmicky nature of these seasons. Essentially a bunch of professional athletes were sent to a months-long summer camp.
At this point, I just want the year to end without any more severe weather, with a normal school year for our kids, with a vaccine and a better, more inclusive, tolerant and decent future for our country. If, along the journey to that place where big wishes are granted, the Caps or Nats manage more playoff magic and my nameless NFL team actually plays a full season, I’ll manage a smile, if not a primal, guttural cheer. The guess, in these most troubling times, is many share that sentiment.
United Front
We are now 148 days past the NBA’s sudden COVID shutdown, but a week into its unprecedented bubble city reboot. Baseball’s back too, but after playing briefly outside of a tightly controlled environment, COVID cases with the Miami Marlins, Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals have caused postponements and tattooed a big question mark on the rest of the season. If this is any indication of how sports will fare while operating where pathogens roam, the chances of football this fall are slim (at least football with any acceptable level of competitive integrity). And let’s hope MLB’s bubble-less experience isn’t a prelude for school re-openings.
Rumors are swirling that poor choices by some Marlins players caused the outbreak. Bad choices by unsupervised humans? Get out of here. You mean like how the nation shut down in March and April, made progress against the viral enemy, then rushed to re-open around Memorial Day with no uniform strategy other than the hope that 300 million people would put the country’s interests ahead of their own hankering for a mask-less life featuring massive pool parties, nights at the club and political rallies? Just this past weekend I watched a mask-less couple enter a local restaurant without seemingly a care in the world. Maybe they just missed the massive sign on the door requiring masks upon entry. I figured once they got inside and saw all the employees and patrons dutifully wearing masks, they would do the right thing and extend the same courtesy. Or not…
You know who has been doing the right thing? Washington Football Team (love how that sounds) QB Alex Smith.
It was the afternoon of Sunday, November 18, 2018. I was leaving Miami International Airport in a rental car and looking for the fastest trip out of the city and toward a unique world where roosters and the ghosts of pirates, writers and former presidents roam – Key West. I flipped on the radio to get an update on NFL action and, specifically Washington’s pivotal game against the Houston Texans. It was late in the second half, Washington was trailing and backup QB Colt McCoy was in the game.
That’s where I was when I learned that Alex Smith had suffered a gruesome compound fracture of his lower right leg, an injury that immediately threatened his career, then the viability of his limb and, ultimately, his life.
Smith’s recovery since was chronicled in the documentary “Project 11”. It is equally inspirational and disturbing. The 17 surgeries aside, there are clips of Smith’s leg in the film that leave the cringing viewer marveling at modern medicine and the quarterback’s resolve. For those that haven’t seen it, I won’t attempt a detailed description. Just know this: A dangerous infection necessitated significant tissue removal.
With that context, it is a miracle that Smith just has his leg, much less that he’s moving around without restriction and living a normal life – but he is. Admission: This is where I thought the story would end. After seeing that injury and learning of the complications that threatened his life, I figured happily ever after was Smith being able to run around in the backyard with his kids.
Smith, however, is flirting with a different conclusion. Last week he was cleared by his medical team to resume football activities. The Washington Football Team officially placed Smith on the Physically Unable to Perform list and his availability during the upcoming training camp is uncertain, but even the hint of Smith on a football field for anything more than polite applause to acknowledge his journey is a comeback of biblical proportions. That he has made it this far is a testament to the alignment of his mind, body and spirit. It is also stands witness to the shared commitment that he, his wife and family and his tending medical professionals had in defeating the bacteria that threatened his life and avoiding an amputation.
Now, to scale that gritty team effort nationally in order to disintegrate political divides, divisive rhetoric and false claims and create a united front against a novel virus…
This Feels Different
Bi-weekly status check: it has been 92 days since the NBA suspended its season and 36 days since schools closed. The NBA is targeting a late July return in an Orlando bubble; hopefully everyone stays healthy and a season is salvaged. If schools reopen on schedule later this summer, and families feel confident in this return to normalcy (as much as one can living with COVID-19), then we will be in a much better place.
We are not in a good place at present.
In the 12 years this column has appeared in this fine paper, no entries have generated as many responses as those covering Colin Kaepernick’s protest of racial injustice during the national anthem. Some feedback was positive. Most was flippant defiance. All was welcomed.
The disagreements with expressed opinions were rooted in the common interpretation of Kaepernick’s protest as anti-American and anti-military. Kaepernick denied his act was either, even switching from sitting on the bench during the anthem to kneeling, after thoughtful conversations with Nate Boyer, a former Green Beret. But the die was cast for certain cross-sections of America – Kaepernick was ungrateful, didn’t appreciate his country, its military or his afforded opportunities.
Power-brokers enforced this narrative. In 2016, then presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested Kaepernick, “…try another country” and has gleefully criticized the former quarterback in the years since. The NFL first condemned Kaepernick’s actions, then eventually banned kneeling during the anthem. But it’s what the league did quietly – blackballing Kaepernick and ending his career (an objective analysis of employed NFL quarterbacks from 2017-2019 supports no other conclusion) – that spoke the loudest.
The most frustrating part of the bastardization of Kaepernick’s message was that the original, real and critically important issue he sought to combat – systemic racism and police mistreatment of minorities – was lost in the static. The anti-American, anti-military angle was his critics’ primary fuel, but it would be naïve to think that that argument wasn’t, at least to some extent, a convenient cover for the heart of the matter - a fundamental disbelief in the validity of Kaepernick’s beef with white America and police authority.
Almost four years after Kaepernick first took a knee, and after more minority lives have been lost while in police custody or at the hands of racist vigilantes, here we are again. But this time, aside from now President Trump’s callous rhetoric, much has changed. The issue isn’t being clouded by tangential debates over the merits and motivations of a genuflecting quarterback. No, there is tragic, undeniable evidence in 2020 of the injustice Kaepernick tried to illuminate in 2016 – a disturbing nine minute video of George Floyd, handcuffed, held face down in the street under a white police officer’s knee, desperately voicing his distress, while his life is slowly taken.
Now protests rage in urban and rural America and around the globe. Sadly, it took Freddie Gray, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and many other victims to realize the pressing truth Kaepernick was conveying in his silent but powerful act four years ago. America is in crisis again over an old, recurring and disgraceful flaw – systemic racism.
Still, somewhere in all this death and unrest is an opportunity. This feels different from Ferguson, Charlottesville and Baltimore. It is bigger and the push to “fix this” is coming from black and white America. There are more voices screaming “enough” than ones snickering, waiting for the chaos to subside and planning a return to status quo. Drew Brees issued an apology after regurgitating tired old criticisms of Kaepernick; he then sent a note challenging Trump to deeper reflection. Even Roger Goodell, the kingpin of Kaepernick’s silencing and a political operative for the White House, admitted “We were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier.” It was an unfashionably late course-correction, failed to mention Kaepernick by name and will be proven authentic only by action, but the NFL’s advocacy is significant.
What must Kaepernick be feeling now? Frustrated, no doubt, that more – especially his employer - didn’t understand four years ago. But mostly hopeful, I think, that the movement he envisioned and the change he desired might finally be underway.
Lights Please
As published in The County Times (countytimes.somd.com), July 2020
Bi-weekly status check: it has been 134 days since the NBA shut down, but its Orlando bubble re-start begins July 30. MLB’s opening day is a week early earlier – July 23, the day this screed goes to press. The NFL is charging along, business as usual, toward a full season in the fall. Meanwhile, college football is gradually scaling back its pending season. I suppose it is harder on the conscience to expose amateur athletes lacking union representation to a potentially vicious pathogen than it is to nudge well-compensated professional athletes into the viral playground of close contact and heavy breathing. Our dual realities continue to coexist. Nevertheless, let us hope – with prayers, rabbit feet, crossed fingers, horseshoes, four-leaf clovers and whatever other good luck sorcery you subscribed to - that this all goes well.
No amount of luck can overcome the organizational buffoonery of D.C.’s now nameless football team. As if a begrudging re-brand wasn’t embarrassing enough, The Washington Post came off the top rope with a lethal finishing move last week: a shocking piece by Will Hobson and Liz Clarke alleging long-term and uncontrolled sexual and verbal harassment of female employees by male co-workers. The timeline for the allegations was lengthy – 2006 to 2019 – the number of sources citing misconduct was startling – 15 former female staff members – and several high-ranking members of the organization were involved, including Larry Michael, the team’s suddenly retired radio voice, and Alex Santos, the now former director of pro personnel.
The Post’s piece reads like something from 1960s corporate America or a documentary on outrageous fraternity behavior. The women reported salacious texts, inappropriate touching, men on lower floors looking up glass staircases as women descended, requests that female employees wear tighter clothes and office pools over whether female colleagues had had breast augmentation.
How is this possible??? What kind of clown show is Dan Snyder running? I thought this team was just awful on the field; it is worse off of it. If the world of professional sports was a municipality, the Washington football club would be the sewer. I applaud Sean McVay, Kirk Cousins, Kyle Shanahan, Trent Williams and every other player or coach who escaped this awful institution with their dignity and careers intact.
Three questions – ones that often apply in life’s ethical and moral crises – will decide Snyder’s future as owner: what did he know, when did he know it and what did he do about it? At best he truly didn’t have a clue. If that’s the case, he is stunningly incompetent. If he had even a hint something was up, then he’s complicit and should be forced to sell the team and live with the stain of this sordid episode on his already dreadful reputation. So which is it? The King of Incompetence or The Complicit CEO. Place your bets. I know where I’m laying my chips.
In addition to the women who courageously shared their stories, the other power-player in this is The Washington Post. Hobson and Clarke gave 15 women the outlet they never had within Snyder’s perverse organization. Dogged, relentless journalism exposed this story. The recently mocked, maligned and vilified free press – an “enemy of the state” some have said - put the spotlight on a corrupt boys club that had existed in darkness for over a decade.
If you doubt the importance of a free press, watch the movie “Spotlight” or “All the President’s Men”. Or consider these words from late Senator John McCain, “Journalists play a major role in the promotion and protection of democracy and our unalienable rights, and they must be able to do their jobs freely.” Or these from then outgoing President Barack Obama when urged the press to maintain its tenacity, “...to do the hard work of getting to the bottom of stories…and to push those of us in power to be the best version of ourselves and to push this country to be the best version of itself.” Or better yet, just pull up The Washington Post’s online addition and read the heading: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
Today Dan Snyder is staring into a blinding light.
Bi-weekly status check: it has been 120 days since the NBA suspended its season and the corona monster shut down sports and, largely, our lives. Happy four-month anniversary! Our fling with the coronavirus has lasted longer than most high school relationships…and some marriages!
As the calendar trickles past the July 4, baseball should be preparing for the All-Star Game. Instead, MLB hasn’t even started and the Midsummer classic was canceled for the first time since World War II. Meanwhile, the NBA’s attempt at bubble cities is floundering after several positive COVID-19 tests and numerous cases with LSU and Clemson football players makes any football this fall feel unlikely.
As for the rest of life and the sports world, much is changing. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, America is having a passionate debate with itself. How will law enforcement and citizens, particularly those of color, interact in the future? How will society’s cancerous racism be overcome? What are acceptable displays of American history? Obvious example: should we continue honoring vestiges of the Confederacy – a nation that existed only because of its secession from our union and largely to perpetuate the subjugation of African Americans - with elaborate statues around the country?
The trend indicates America is undergoing a rebranding and will re-emerge as a nation closer to the one documented long ago. This transition has spread to sports, where the NFL did a curious but commendable about-face on Colin Kaepernick and player protests, and debates have reignited over the use of Native American names and imagery.
"We'll never change the name. It's that simple. NEVER — you can use caps."
Washington owner Dan Snyder spoke those words to USA Today Sports in 2013. It’s rarely wise, in all things life, to use absolutes - just ask Rafael “I never used steroids” Palmeiro, George H.W. “Read my lips: No new taxes” Bush and Nick “I’m not going to be the Alabama coach” Saban, among many others.
Now seven years later, Snyder is navigating a different world and is reportedly embracing what has always seemed inevitable - a name and, presumably, a logo change. There should be no struggle this time. No foolish defiance. No misleading pride. No prioritization of profit over morality. This must happen.
As an ardent, lifelong supporter of the franchise, I understand fans’ consternation. To many, the current branding represents pride, Super Bowls and special times with loved ones. But it is wrong to use a name for a football team that would otherwise only be used to denigrate. It is wrong to profit off people whose land was systematically taken and whose culture was willfully disregarded. The shameful treatment of native people by European settlers on this continent and individual associations with a football team cannot be conveniently separated. Similarly, a Confederate flag cannot represent “southern pride” and not the Civil War and slavery. The positive doesn’t cancel out the negative - each coexist.
Moreover, the name’s source is long-time owner George Preston Marshall – a segregationist who fought against NFL integration and whose worldview resulted in Washington being the last NFL team to employ a minority player (Bobby Mitchell). Is that a legacy to perpetuate?
Snyder’s answer is now, apparently, an overdue “no”. Is a change of heart behind his shift in opinion? Doubtful. It is more likely an acknowledgment of the inevitable and a play to long-term profitability. After all, Snyder deflected the heat seven years ago with a cross-country tour of native reservations and the establishment of the Original Americans Foundation. If you doubt that was a charade, search for the OAF. There are dated fragments on the team’s website but the foundation has no website, Facebook page or Twitter account (at least that I could find).
Still, this is a unique moment in history and offers Snyder another chance to set a new course for the franchise (even if its impetus is more financial than moral). This is Snyder’s last chance to at least create the illusion of a voluntary act and a desire to do the right thing. His next “all caps” declaration better be to announce the team’s new name.
Going Though Something
As published in The County Times (countytimes.somd.com), June 2020
Bi-weekly status check: it has been 106 long and bizarre days since the NBA suspended its season. We should be celebrating recently crowned NHL (maybe the Caps?) and NBA champions (definitely not the Wizards) and enjoying Serena Williams’s attempts at the French Open and Wimbledon to tie Margaret Court’s record 24 major tennis championships. Instead, the NHL and NBA are planning frantic championship sprints in bubble cities, MLB is struggling to salvage a season and the NFL is pondering helmets retrofitted with anti-COVID face shields. Meanwhile, the viral culprit of all of this is re-energizing in new hot spots around the country.
In the immortal words of Vince Lombardi, “What the hell’s going on out here?” Good question, sir. I saw a dude wearing an “Occupy Mars” shirt the other day. It feels like we already have.
On, then, to good and rather important news. In some ways this article is long overdue; in others - as we battle a pandemic and social injustice - discussing psychological health feels timely. Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love started talking about “it”, specifically anxiety and depression, in 2017. And he didn’t address either generically, as part of his foundation or in the context of loved ones struggling with mental health. No, Kevin Wesley Love - a big, strong and classically masculine professional athlete, and one whose middle name is an homage to former Bullet Wes Unseld, another rugged man among men - talked to the world about his personal struggles and the panic attack he had…on the court…during an NBA game.
The psychological freight train arrived, unannounced, in November 2017. He couldn’t catch his breath. His heart was racing. Death seemed imminent. The game went on, coaches drew up plays during timeouts, but Love, lost in the death spiral of his mind, was disconnected from this familiar basketball reality. Ultimately he couldn’t physically bring himself to re-enter the game and fled to the locker room in an attempt to escape the inferno raging inside him.
Love survived and even returned to play in the Cavaliers’ next game, but the episode left him confused and searching to determine what happened and why.
Love had had a panic attack. Why it happened was - as it often is for anyone with such experiences - a complex trip into his mental make-up, scars acquired through his life and a series of recent triggers. Instead of shrugging off the episode and moving on, Love took the difficult journey into understanding and controlling the beast within him. More courageously even than facing it for himself, he did so publicly. In March 2018, he penned a raw, personal account of the attack and his recovery in The Players Tribune (a highly recommended read) and has continued his mental health advocacy in the years since.
ESPN gives the Arthur Ashe Award at the ESPYS each year to the athlete reflecting “the spirit of Arthur Ashe, possessing strength in the face of adversity, courage in the face of peril and the willingness to stand up for their beliefs no matter what the cost” (as an aside, Ashe’s memoir "Days of Grace”, a gripping farewell to life and his family, is another suggested read). Last Sunday, Love received the award for his bravery in discussing his struggles and on-going efforts to raise awareness of mental health. Since 2018, Love has turned a spotlight on a pervasive and invisible affliction that, due to lingering social stigmas, is still misunderstood and for which proactive treatment remains inconsistent – especially for prideful men.
While physically just a trophy, the Arthur Ashe Award represents an official “thank you” from Love’s peers in the world of sports; unofficially, it expresses gratitude from anyone struggling directly or indirectly with mental health. As Love said in his Player’s Tribune piece, “Everyone is going through something we can’t see” – encouraging words as we tote around our burdens and a reminder when encountering others carrying theirs. Elvis Costello once sang, “What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?” Nothing. The truth is everyone needs more of each as we seek to find and maintain health of mind, body and spirit.
Jordan's the GOAT, but...
As published in The County Times (countytimes.somd.com), May 2020
Bi-weekly status check: it has been 78 days since the NBA suspended its season and 22 days since schools shuttered for the year. March 26 was supposed to MLB’s opening day. Last May, the Nationals had a brutal-turned-famous 19-31 record; now, we long for them play again, win or lose. Graduations have gone virtual and workplaces are increasingly remote. We are masked (mostly) and distanced, frustrated yet hopeful, divided yet together. This experience has brought out the best in some and the worst in others. COVID-19 has claimed over 100,000 American lives; too many more will die. This moves many to tears; others are disturbingly numb and defiant (or is ignorant and selfish?). Regardless, this truth is shared: we face many more months living with this virus in a skewed reality.
In the meantime, sports limp on, as do the “Views”. And being of sufficient vintage to recall both the disco era and the arrival of the NBA’s Greatest of all Time (GOAT), I have had the fabulous Donna Summer and the indomitable Michael Jordan on my mind.
You caught the connection, right? “Last Dance” – both a 10-part docuseries on Jordan’s Chicago Bulls and Summer’s iconic disco song? Anyway, director Jason Hehir’s masterpiece on the 1998 Bulls, with fabulous, chronological storytelling of Jordan’s career, was a welcomed nostalgia trip and a perfect respite from the COVID-induced sports desert.
My personal ties to Jordan are deep. My first vivid NCAA Championship game memory is North Carolina’s defeat of Georgetown in 1982. Jordan, a freshman, hit the winning shot. I remember his games against Len Bias’s Terrapins, the first generation of Air Jordan shoes, his 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest victory over Dominique Wilkins, his brutal playoff battles with the Bad Boy Detroit Pistons and all…those…championships.
The NBA has changed considerably since 1998. The competition is gentler, effort is inconsistent, offensive approaches are increasingly about isolation and either a three-point shot or a dunk, trophy-hunting stars form superteams and “load management” (taking games off) is an accepted practice.
With that grumpy backdrop, I wanted two things from “Last Dance”: first, to accurately portray Jordan as the insane, rip-your-heart-out competitor that he was and, second, settle the GOAT debate once and for all. “Last Dance” delivered on both accounts. Jordan didn’t take games off, he was as passionate about defense as his jump shot, the early-career losses to the Celtics and Pistons didn’t prompt him to tuck tail, run from Chicago and join forces with other stars, and unlike anyone I’ve ever seen, he rose to deliver the greatness demanded by the biggest, championship-winning moments.
He’s the greatest basketball player ever.
With that settled, an omission: “Last Dance” delivered two “buts” I didn’t expect. Jordan’s approach taught many life-lessons: the value of determination, hard work, clear focus, staying the course against adversity, not taking the easy way out (superteams), turning slights into motivation, maintaining confidence and an unwavering belief in yourself.
In the moment, Jordan’s competitive madness made sense and its effectiveness is unquestioned – six championships. But has it aged well? In a basketball sense, yes; in a human sense, no. Jordan permanently fractured many relationships – with peers of his era and some teammates – in the name of winning. He is now, in many ways, alone at the top.
Jordan seems at peace with this. In his words, “winning has a price…and leadership has a price.” True. However that prompts the second “but” from “Last Dance”: why was Jordan only willing to pay that price as a basketball player? With the exception of perhaps Tiger Woods, no athlete has held more global significance than Michael Jordan. He sold a lot of shoes, Gatorade and Happy Meals with that influence. Where was the great courage, determination and competitiveness to adopt an off-the-court cause and advance the world, kicking and screaming, into some better version of itself? As did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. And Jim Brown. And Muhammad Ali. And, even, LeBron James.
As Spider-Man knew, with great power comes great responsibility. It is fair to have expected more from Jordan. “Last Dance” confirmed that he’s the GOAT, but only on the basketball court.
Magic Forkball
You know the drill by now, fellow bleacher bums. The first order of business is a quarantine check.
It has been 64 days since the NBA suspended its season, 63 days since schools closed temporarily and eight days since they shuttered for the year. Got Zoom? We should be sitting in these cheap seats to together, just inches much less six feet apart, discussing the start of the NFL’s minicamps and getting increasingly amped for the Capitals’ push to another Stanley Cup. Instead we are lamenting the recent cancellation of the Little League World Series, an event where kids from around the world teach us how a common love and a shared experience can trivialize divides in nationality, language, race, religion and any other barrier cooked up by the simple-minded, cynical and generally flawed adult world.
This all stinks, of course, but isolation, facemasks, social distancing and cancelled sporting events save lives and lighten the load on health care workers – so it’s a small price to pay. A very small price. For the patriot readers, if George Washington or Patrick Henry were alive today, they would be sacrificing for their fellow Americans. For the Christian readers, Jesus would be masked up and all about touch-free takeout, at least when not giving virtual sermons. For everyone, included in those groups or not, just be a good human. Our wellness is now very much intertwined.
Roy Face and Washington baseball are also connected. Face pitched 16 seasons in the major leagues from 1953-1969, with all but one being with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Face was traded during the 1968 season to Detroit, where he stayed long enough to have a cup of coffee. He finished his career the next season with the newly established Montreal Expos, the franchise that ultimately moved south some 35 years later and are now our WORLD CHAMPION Washington Nationals (nope, never gets old).
Embarrassing admission: Despite owning a version of “Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia” for over 25 years, I had never heard of Face until a recent ESPN article by David Schoenfield chronicled his 18-1 record in 1959 – a major-league record .947 winning percentage. Further research revealed Face was far from a one-season wonder. From 1958-1962, Face led the majors in saves four times and saved three World Series games in 1960, a feat since tied several times and bested only by John Wetteland’s four saves in 1996. But neither Wetteland nor the five other pitchers with three saves pitched more than the 10.1 innings Face did in the Pirates’ 1960 Fall Classic victory over the New York Yankees.
Face wasn’t done setting records or with Washington sports. Over all those seasons in Pittsburgh, Face took the mound 807 times for the Pirates, tying the then record for most appearances by a pitcher with a single club. Whose record did he equal? Washington Senators pitchers and all-time baseball legend Walter Johnson, of course. You can’t make this stuff up.
Roy Face, who was all of 5’8” and 155lbs, managed this long, notable major league career because he found his magic trick. See, Face threw a forkball, something of a split-fingered fastball and quite the novelty for his era. How fabulous. Isn’t that what we’re all doing in life – hunting for what makes us unique? Foraging for a sustaining force? Scrambling for something that sets us apart? Searching for our version of a magic forkball? It could be a skill that starts a career, a calling that provides lifelong inspiration, a friendship that develops into a business partnership or an innocent spark that leads to a relationship, love, a family and contentment. More broadly, it could be a magic elixir that solves one of society’s “isms” or “phobias”, the recent rise in divisive tribalism, wealth inequality or an existential threat like climate change. Or it could even be a pertinent discovery that overcomes an incredible challenge faced in a specific moment in history – something like a vaccine for an evil, pervasive virus sweeping the globe, suspending personal liberties and creating uncertainty, fear and heartache. Yeah, give me…give us all…a magic forkball like that.
Twelve Years Ago
As published in The County Times (countytimes.somd.com), April 2020
Say it with me: “#$!% COVID-19.” Ah, that feels better.
Quarantine check: it has been 50 days since the NBA suspended its season and 49 days since schools closed. We should be checking baseball standings and following the Capitals’ playoff charge to another possible Stanley Cup. Instead we are watching re-runs of old baseball games, encore broadcasts of the Capitals’ march to the 2018 Stanley Cup and “The Last Dance”, that so far so sweet docuseries on the 1998 Chicago Bulls.
Thank God for the memories, I suppose.
Last Thursday, the NFL Draft mercifully stepped into this barren wasteland of cancelled athletic events and nostalgia grabs to offer the fix we craved: a live sporting event, minus actual blood and sweat, but with all the uncertainty, intrigue, excitement and even the occasional tears. Like interactions with family, work and schooling these days, it was virtual, which isn’t familiar or ideal, but with candid shots into the homes of coaches and general managers - lavish spreads, elite landscaping, kids and pets! - it was curiously different. What stood out most though, was that everyone – ESPN, the league, teams and prospective draftees – adapted and made it work. And isn’t that what we’re all doing right now: making “it”, whatever “it” is, work?
Moments into the broadcast, Ravens defensive linemen Calais Campbell, the current Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, made a brief cameo. I hadn’t even gotten my head wrapped around Commissioner Roger Goodell announcing picks from his man cave, Bill Belichick’s “war room”/kitchen table or Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury’s palatial spread before the NFL opened up this old wound.
Campbell has haunted me for a dozen years. See, back before the 2008 NFL Draft, he was a top prospect from the University of Miami and seemed a good fit for my struggling, Jim Zorn/Vinny Cerrato era ‘Skins of Washington. I am going to extend some benevolence to myself and those with similar rooting interests by cutting this long, sordid story short. So here’s the gist: the ‘Skins traded out of the first round and ended up with three second round picks. Campbell was available for the first two of those picks but the ‘Skins chose WR Devin Thomas and TE Fred Davis instead. Thomas lasted just over two years in D.C. and managed only 40 receptions. Despite showing promise, Davis’s career was over by 2013 after a series of drug suspensions and a DUI charge.
Meanwhile Campbell has been to five Pro Bowls, is a three-time All-Pro, was Defensive Player of the Year in 2017, is a member of the NFL 2010’s All-Decade Team and won the Bart Starr Award and Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year in 2019. But wait, there’s more! My favorite stat: Campbell, a DEFENSIVE LINEMAN, has three career touchdowns…matching the total touchdown catches Thomas managed in his “illustrious” career!
Ugh. Like I said, haunted…for…twelve…years.
I watched the 2008 NFL Draft at my sister’s house where our family had gathered to celebrate my nephew’s birthday. Not virtually. We were there live and in person. No one wore masks or practiced social distancing. Kids ran around like wild animals, a culinary spread filled the kitchen, candles were perfectly placed on the cake, presents covered the table, smoke billowed from the grill and adults mingle on the deck around a cooler of beer. Aside from the whiff on Campbell, it was a perfect day.
This year I wished my nephew a happy birthday via text. My dad and I talked on the phone before the draft about the ‘Skins’ prospects. After Philadelphia shocked the world by taking QB Jalen Hurts in the second round, I poked my bother-in-law and diehard Philly Goon with a text. It was okay, I guess – a sign of the times for football fans…a sign of the times for the world. Truth is, I’d trade it all in a second for another combined in-person draft day and birthday party, even it if meant the ‘Skins choosing two duds instead of this year’s version of Calais Campbell.
No doubt that’s a draft day trade we would all make.
Stay safe. Be well.
Corona the Genie
It has been 36 days since the NBA suspended its season and 34 days since schools closed. This week we woulda, coulda been wondering how Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods missed the cut at The Masters and why the golf gods ruined our sacred spring event and “A tradition unlike any other.”
Oh to have such problems.
Instead we, all of us – not blues or reds, black or white, Christian or Jew, gay or straight, etcetera and so forth – are dealing with, well, you know – the microorganism that hatched from Hell, spawned in Wuhan, China and silently proliferated the globe.
But that’s not why you started reading. It was the intriguing title, wasn’t it? No? What then? Sheer boredom? Understandable and since you’re here - on to the story.
While strolling down my lane, properly masked and remaining at least six feet from other humans (which isn’t all bad depending on those encountered), I find what appears to be a genie’s lamp in the grass. Skeptical but old enough to remember re-runs of “I Dream of Jeannie”, I rub it with no expectation of magic. But sure enough, a groggy genie (or was he drunk?) appeared and reluctantly offered to grant three wishes.
There’s a catch, though. My initial doubt that this lamp was little more than a hollow trinket severely limited the apparition’s offer. The genie, we’ll call him Corona, knew I was a sports writer in a time of no sports. Corona, wanting to help my plight but also penalize for my doubt, said he would grant three interviews with any sports luminaries of my choice, but one had to be an active player, one retired and one deceased.
I chose Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle, former New Orleans Saint Steve Gleason and ‘Skins Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell, who passed away on April 5. At least that’s how the bizarre dream went. Social distancing has activated my subconscious - and arguably a wicked psychosis.
The choice of Doolittle defies explanation; maybe his love of Star Wars piqued my interest. Gleason, I get – his story is inspirational. Watch the documentary “Gleason” if you haven’t…just have tissues near. Picking Mitchell was obvious too; he is the most important person in the history of Washington professional football.
Whoa. What? Most important?
It’s fair to take umbrage. Sammy Baugh, Sonny Jurgensen, John Riggins or Joe Gibbs would all be reasonable candidates. Baugh was a superior player. Jurgensen and Riggins are more popular. Gibbs is more accomplished. But Mitchell, who played for the ‘Skins from 1962 to 1968 and served in the front office from 1969 through 2003, likely had the longest tenure with the team (setting aside Jurgensen’s broadcasting career). And like the others, his bust resides at the Pro Football Hall of Fame and his name appears in the ‘Skins Ring of Fame.
Tenure, touchdowns and shrewd personnel moves aren’t what separate Mitchell’s resume in the annals of franchise history, though. When Bobby Mitchell took the field for Washington in 1962, he became the first African American to play for the last NFL team to integrate. This happened a shameful 15 years after Jackie Robinson first played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, 16 years after African Americans first played in the NFL - and it happened in the capital of a nation that was supposedly founded on freedom and equality. Mitchell’s donning of the burgundy and gold didn’t solve racism, but it promoted its continued confrontation. And his first appearance on the ‘Skins roster maintains a dubious relevance today as the organization, nearly 50 years later, is still struggling with racial awareness (the nickname).
Mitchell was vastly under-appreciated by the fan base and the organization at large. Fact is, a statue of Bobby Mitchell should reside outside of FedEx Field and his number 49 should join Baugh’s as the second in franchise history to be retired. That’s how you honor your most important player.
As for having an opportunity to interview him, that would have been a genie-in-a-bottle wish. I didn’t get the chance in this life, but there’s always the next…unless that DeLorean/flux capacitor/time travel thing becomes reality.
The Thinks I Think
As published in The County Times (countytimes.somd.com) March 2020
It has been just over three weeks – three very slow weeks - since the NBA cancelled a game between the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets, a decision that triggered the rapid shuddering of the sports world.
Baseball’s opening day was scheduled for March 26; it was to be the first since 1925 with the Washington D.C. team as the reigning World Series champions.
April 4 was the Capitals’ scheduled regular season finale. Was another Stanley Cup possible had the season not been put on…errr…ice?
The Final Four for the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments would have been played this weekend. Would both Terrapins teams have been participants?
Questions that will forever lack answers.
Instead of March Madness buzzer-beaters, welcoming back baseball and preparing for the Stanley Cup playoffs, sports fans have been left with various retro-programming and riveting social media posts of athletes doing golf trick shots, hitting merciless backyard home runs off their kids using Little Tikes gear and claiming to be staying in shape – yeah…aren’t we all - with questionable workout videos.
It’s cute. Funny at times. And yet so inadequate.
The NFL is oddly continuing to operate largely as if COVID-19 is, in fact, a hoax or something a miracle will sweep away at any moment, as some have suggested. The football news is welcomed but the optic of multi-million dollar free agent contracts being handed out while millions file for unemployment and worry about complete economic upheaval is…interesting. It gets weirder. Commissioner Roger Goodell recently affirmed that the April 23-25 NFL Draft, a time when the difficult realities of COVID-19 spread will almost certainly be far worse than today, will proceed (in some alternate form) as scheduled. Goodell followed up with teams – many of whom had expressed their displeasure to the league office – by issuing a memo that warned them to refrain from discussing (read: criticizing) the decision or risk disciplinary action. I’ll stop there, lest Goodell extend his tyranny to neighborhood sportswriters.
Needless to say, these are unprecedented times. Many things are missed. Many things will be experienced with far greater gratitude when this ends - whenever we arrive in that seemingly far off realm. For the foreseeable future, life will march on without athletic competition. That makes me want to direct very vulgar language that my mom would be ashamed of at this damn virus. What I wouldn’t give to resume watching Alexander Ovechkin’s assault on the NHL’s goals scored list. Or to stand and applaud – and probably cry…again – as our World Series champion Nats took to the diamond. Or to lament my busted March Madness bracket and await the crowning of the 2020 champs. Or to wonder if Tiger Woods could make magic again at The Masters. Or…
I can almost develop a bit of a victim complex. But then I watch the news or follow Twitter or just reset my brain and sit in quiet reflection like Pooh Bear in his thoughtful – or thotful, per his sign - spot with a jar full of honey. Oh the thinks you can think when you think about Seuss…and the real victims and the real tragedy and the enormity of this shared crisis.
Those more thoughtful thinks go immediately to those around the world who have lost their lives to this sinister virus and those fighting it – both the ill and the heroic medical professionals who bravely stare down this enemy daily, often without adequate equipment for biological war. After that, my thinks go to those whose jobs have been lost or whose livelihoods are threatened. Then my thinks consider those in high risk categories and the anxiety sowed by the consequences of contracting an invisible threat that could hide anywhere.
Somewhere way down the list of thinks, I eventually get to sports and lament the absence of the games we love. But it hardly matters at that point, not with a raw, sobering social perspective. I just want to turn on the television and see a game again, not because I miss sports, but because it will mean we have started to heal and life is returning to something near normal.
Epitaph on Humanity
The texts and emails arrived in mass last week. Daniel Snyder, overlord of the Washington Football Team, was back in the news – always a bad thing – and a volley of ill-intended friends of other NFL persuasions wanted to ensure that I, longtime fan of the team, was aware. I was easy prey; it was a familiar wound to peck.
Twenty years into Snyder’s abysmal ownership, such occurrences have become cliché. The ribbings from opposing fans have ceased to cause irritation. After all, how could they resist? Snyder’s been a treasure trove of botched coaching hires, obnoxious free agent signings, odd front office structures and disgraceful on-field performances. The incompetence is just too tempting to ignore.
But Snyder has gone next-level embarrassing this offseason. First, after receiving pressure from big corporate sponsors (threats to his precious bottom line), he had to move on, kicking and screaming, from the team’s racially insensitive (being kind here) nickname. Snyder’s years of foolish defiance of the inevitable left him so ill-prepared that his team will now play nameless this season.
After this debacle, a raging feud between Snyder and his minority owners was exposed - the tiff has one in a legal wrangle with Snyder and others so fed up with him that they are seeking to sell their stakes.
Worst of all, though, are the growing reports of a deep, systemic organizational culture that permitted rampant incidents of sexual harassment and sowed a hostile, demeaning work environment for female employees. The Washington Post first exposed the moral rot within Snyder’s franchise in a July expose. It has proven to be the tip of an ugly iceberg, as last week, The Post published an expansive follow-up chronicling more boorish, disgusting behavior. In all, 40 woman have made various allegations – propositions, verbal abuse and salacious outtake videos from a swimsuit calendar shoot - against some of the highest ranking men in the organization, including Snyder himself.
It would be easy to lay this all at the feet of Snyder, slap him with the Scarlet letter and feel good that justice was served to society’s great amoral villain. The uncomfortable reality is that what happened in Snyder’s organization is too common, and with creeps like Larry Nassar and Harvey Weinstein, among many others, this feels like just the latest chapter in human indecency. And these are just examples of how women are treated; what about our on-going struggles with racism or the disgusting predation of children by the likes of Jerry Sandusky and evil doers in the Catholic Church?
If humans suddenly vanished and the epitaph on our species was written today, it would be “They had so much potential.” When the next advanced Earth inhabitants or aliens sift through our artifacts, they will be puzzled by humans’ demise. They will discover our amazing technological advances - including the ability to live sustainably within the planet’s resources, our great works of arts, the music of Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the deep thoughts of Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., the courage of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, the imagination of Dr. Seuss and Steve Jobs and a widely documented moral code – various “good books”, the seven deadly sins or Dangers to Human Virtue and the 10 Commandments (even reduced to two…and one adder…by the brilliant George Carlin), among many others. It will all leave the beings analyzing human history asking, “How did they fail?”
Not as evident in the relics will be our susceptibility to tribalism and fear-based propaganda, our failure to address inconvenient existential threats, our obsession with differences and our inability to embrace our common humanity. There will be evidence of war but it will inadequately convey the depth of our compulsion to fight over territory, ethnic or racial dominance or whose god was cooler. Despite our brilliance and accelerating technological arc, humanity’s legacy is its inability to tolerate, achieve equality, share vast resources and recognize our intertwined destiny – fatal flaws so illogical that it will shroud our ruin in mystery.
Hypothetically speaking, of course…for we are still here and our ending remains mercifully unwritten.
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The Municipal Posted on January 3, 2021 by Ray Balogh December 30, 2020
Municipalities should aim for inclusion of all racial and ethnic groups in the conduct of city business and maintenance of peaceful community relations. (Photo by FrankHH)
On June 2, 2020, the citizenry of Ferguson, Mo., did something powerful.
In a citywide gesture of solidarity — an exercise in community empowerment — a hopeful venture to put the city on the path of reconciliation, healing and inclusion — the electorate selected Ella M. Jones to be the St. Louis suburb’s first Black mayor.
The vote came six years after Ferguson was thrust into national infamy for violent protests following the death of Black teenager Michael Brown, who was fatally shot by white police officer Darren Wilson.
The ensuing yearlong unrest was frequently punctuated by rioting and vandalism that resulted in damages exceeding $26 million, or roughly twice Ferguson’s yearly operating budget.
Ella M. Jones was elected mayor by the citizens of Ferguson, Mo. She is the city’s first Black woman mayor and ran on a platform of restoring racial harmony after the unrest elicited by the shooting of Michael Brown. (Photo provided)
Jones, 65, a pastor of the local African Methodist Episcopal Church, served as a city council member when she decided to throw her hat in the ring to replace Mayor James Knowles III, who was elected in 2011 and prevented by term limits from seeking reelection this year.
Jones had lost to Knowles in 2017 and resolved to reprise her campaign, running on the concept of embracing diversity and resolving racial conflict in the city, despite the headwinds of discrimination and injustice of which she was painfully aware during her 40 years of residence in Ferguson.
She heard the concerns of her fellow citizens who despaired of any meaningful change in the city. “If you’ve been oppressed for so long, it’s hard for you to break out to a new idea,” she said. “When you’ve been governed by fear and people telling you that the city is going to decline because an African American person is going to be in charge, then you tend to listen to the rhetoric and don’t open your mind to new possibilities.”
But Jones is made of sterner stuff and refused to resign herself to the inequities of living in a racially polarized community. “If I see something that needs to be addressed, I will address it.”
She told the New York Times the day after her mayoral election, “My election gives people hope. Everybody is looking for a change; everybody wants to have a better way of life. You don’t want to go four blocks and worry about getting shot. Nobody wants that. It is starting to get better. We are making changes.”
As the city’s chief executive, Jones is overseeing continued implementation of the federal consent decree Ferguson adopted in 2016. The decree, codified by city ordinance, includes the following remediations:
• Hosting small group meetings between police officers and community members.
• Revising the municipal code to clearly define applicable offenses and imposing appropriate penalties.
• Increasing the quality and scope of police department personnel training.
• Ensuring equal protection of the law and preservation of constitutional rights.
• Protecting First Amendment rights.
• Promoting government transparency and encouraging community feedback.
• Determining when force may be used by law enforcement and dictating when reporting, oversight and investigation are required.
• Implementing a Crisis Intervention Team to assist individuals in mental health or substance abuse crisis and promote community solutions to situations involving mental illness.
• Equipping police officers with body or in-car cameras.
• Providing services to ensure officers’ physical and mental well-being.
• Conducting outreach to recruit a highly qualified diverse workforce.
• Reforming the municipal court.
• Providing a more detailed complaint process.
• Ensuring the collection and tracking of data to assess and improve law enforcement practices.
• Selecting an Independent Monitor consisting of a team of individuals highly qualified in policing, civil rights and related areas.
Protestors gather in Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against racial strife in the United States. Municipalities can take many steps to forestall racial tension before violent outbursts occur. (Photo by Eli Wilson)
At 21,000 residents, Ferguson is one of the smallest municipalities to enter into a federal consent decree and serves as an example of a community, recently beleaguered by violence and bloodshed, that is turning itself around and laboring toward a new dawn of racial harmony and understanding.
The National League of Cities has published “Responding to Racial Tension in Your City: A Municipal Action Guide,” which provides detailed advice to cities and towns experiencing inchoate crisis along racial lines.
The guide, found at www.nlc.org, advises municipalities to “embed common values in local response to racial tension,” listing five such values:
• Empathy. Municipal leaders must acknowledge that “the community is looking for answers and wants to be heard” and should recognize the pain the victims and participants are experiencing. City officials should express the shared urgency of the present crisis, acknowledge the different life experiences contributing to the racial tension and provide timely information about any investigations.
• Transparency. Leaders should understand the historical context of systemic racism and work to rebuild fractured trust, providing frequent transparent updates to the city’s stakeholders while managing expectations by not overselling solutions.
• Authenticity. The municipality should demonstrate clear responsiveness to its constituents and develop relationships with respected community partners, both citywide and at the neighborhood level.
• Partnership and collaboration. Municipalities should explore ways to make space for intentionally collaborative efforts to actively listen to community and stakeholder input, create authentic opportunities to include citizens in the decision-making process and find solutions.
• Consistency. Municipal leaders can practice consistency in showing up to public forums; communicating frequently; issuing inclusive communitywide messages; signaling acknowledgment of the severity of any tensions; committing to logic, accuracy and fairness; establishing clear roles for the administration’s response team; and clearly articulating expectations and guidelines.
The action guide provides six pages of checklists to assist municipalities in properly responding to racial conflict under the headings of crisis response, communications and stakeholders.
The Community Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Justice starts one step earlier and has made available its guide, “Avoiding Racial Conflict: A Guide for Municipalities,” found at www.justice.gov, to prepare cities and towns before any manifestation of racial unrest occurs.
The guide begins with a discussion of “two volatile community dynamics known to create extraordinary tension and a triggering incident”: perceived disparity of treatment and lack of confidence in redress systems.
“When one or both community dynamics indicate that a high level of tension exists, a volatile atmosphere marked by frustration and anger may develop … When indicators of tension are extremely high, any rancorous encounter between groups and/or with the police has the potential of becoming a triggering incident that can spark disruption.”
Preemptive or prompt remedial action by municipal authorities is the key to averting racial disruption, and the guide offers a host of proactive efforts that can be taken to avoid costly and tragic consequences down the road.
Use of penalties
The guide recommends a carrot-and-stick approach to crafting local legislation. Consequences for violation of — or compliance with — city equal opportunity and protection ordinances may include:
• Imposing fines or penalties.
• Reviewing licenses, privileges and tax-exempt status.
• Providing incentives and awards.
Civil rights ordinance
Elements of a general ordinance outlining a commitment to positive race relations include:
• Each municipal department developing its own policy and program.
• Monetary and disciplinary sanctions against violators.
• Measures to assure positive race relations.
• Performance incentive awards to department heads.
• Public municipal awards ceremonies.
The municipality can establish or reenergize its human relations commission as the central instrumentality to monitor equal rights, assure conformity with constitutional rights and promote the municipality’s positive goals.
Hate activity ordinance
Hate crimes are defined in federal law as “crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation or ethnicity.” Municipalities may model their own ordinance after existing hate crime laws and should develop public service announcements and local information campaigns to notify the public of its passage and provisions.
It is advisable to develop a local coalition of police, educators, clergy, business people and human relations specialists of various ages to counter hate activity. The municipality may also establish a local hotline for reporting such activity.
Fair housing ordinance
The ordinance should mirror the provisions of Title VIII of the 1968 Civil Rights Act so the municipality can receive a “substantial equivalent” determination from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The determination passes the right to adjudicate fair housing complaints from HUD to the municipality.
The ordinance should prohibit discrimination in the marketing, sale, purchase, rental and financing of housing and the provision of brokerage services.
Business ordinance
Applicable policies and procedures should be prominently displayed in all relevant governmental offices, and all entities doing business with the municipality should be required to comply with regulations governing:
• Promoting nondiscrimination in the workplace.
• Promulgating and posting equal opportunity policies.
• Requiring all subcontractors to comply with requirements.
Voting rights ordinance
The ordinance should:
• State the city’s commitment to fairness.
• Be prominently posted in all polling locations.
• Require polling places to be located at convenient sites.
• Require efforts to remove language barriers.
• Require voting districts to be consistent with federal laws, particularly during redistricting.
Representation on boards and commissions
All community members should be ensured access to full participation in municipal affairs, including representation on appointed boards and commissions. Any ordinance should require:
• Listing all municipal boards and commissions to which appointments are made.
• An outreach effort seeking to recruit appointments from all racial and ethnic groups.
• Designating a specific municipal official or agency to ensure compliance.
Police department policy
The department’s policies should include a statement of the municipality’s commitment to civil rights and harmonious race relations, criminal and disciplinary sanctions for noncompliance and descriptions of procedures and programs to improve police/minority relations.
Examples of policies and programs include:
• Developing a set of values to inform implementation.
• Updating regulations concerning critical situations leading to police/citizen violence.
• Establishing a racial-bias unit and/or civil rights office.
• Implementing procedures for public accountability.
• Providing civil rights training.
Police-community relations
Community partnerships should feature:
• Establishing and maintaining standing advisory police/community relations boards or committees.
• Including all groups in the development of programs and policing activity initiatives.
• Holding regular public accountability sessions with representatives of all racial and ethnic groups.
• Promulgating procedures for relations with municipal departments, civil rights agencies and local civic or social organizations.
The municipality and local school system may not be coterminous, but the municipality should nevertheless pay attention to programs and procedures such as:
• Parent/student councils.
• In-service training for teachers.
• Outreach programs to parents and the community at large.
• Police/school cooperation agreements.
• Agreements or memoranda of understanding addressing hostility surrounding racial diversity; dropout rates, causes and prevention; and health issues.
No department should be left out of the planning. Relevant departments include those administrating public works, assessing, planning, sanitation, licensing, hospitals, real property
and recreation.
Municipalities should be diligent to forestall or ameliorate racial tensions, but should not manufacture problems through exaggeration or panic.
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The DOJ guide ends with a caveat:
“Just as local governments must be sensitive to matters that have the potential for racial or ethnic conflict, they must also be wary of creating or encouraging racial or ethnic issues where none exit. Not every multiethnic community is ready to explode, not every dispute between individuals of different races is a racial dispute and not every police incident is a potential riot. “In implementing the suggestions of this guide, local governments should not send the inadvertent message that every issue is a racial issue; rather, they should convey a healthy, positive concern for the well-being of all residents.”
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Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015) - Horror Film Review
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne is Romania's first ever found footage horror movie. Nowadays the whole found footage genre is a bit of a put off for many people, over the years the genre has been literally swamped with seemingly never ending numbers of films due to the ease and relative cheapness they can be made. As such Be My Cat is not going to be a movie for everyone, regardless I am very impressed with how this has been made.
Adrian Tofei stars as Adrian; a small town simpleton who after watching The Dark Knight Rises has become obsessed with the actress Anne Hathaway and decides to make her a movie that will demonstrate his acting and directorial skills so that she will fly to Romania so he can film with her. To help with this he hires three local actresses, but unknown to them his methods are to be more dramatic than they expect, something that can be inferred with the introduction that states the footage about to be shown was pieced together by the Police from the Be My Cat crime scene.
Adrian directed, wrote, produced as well as starred in Be My Cat, he really threw himself into the fictional character of Adrian, the film was shot entirely by himself with no film crew on hand, he stayed in character constantly, and tried wherever possible to only do one take for each scene. This is all impressive stuff, especially when he is such a good actor. This may be a low budget horror but Adrian never once comes across as anything but legitimate, he doesn't over act, he keeps character constantly. His is a crazy character, obviously with some mental health problems, he is intense at times but also very dorky and strangely endearing. It was refreshing to see a bad guy who doesn't have the slightest idea he is the bad guy, he is completely oblivious to any wrong doings, a sort of child like believable innocence that makes him seem so real.
What also makes Be My Cat so interesting is that the core concept is a film within a film, everything we see is relevant to what Adrian is making for Anne, he often talks to her as if she is watching, and narrates what he is about to do and his reasons for doing it. This even feeds into the ending which is purposely vague due to him stopping filming when what he needed to do is done. With this being meant for an American actress this immediately explains why he is talking in English, a cool way to get around the fact that Romanian would have been the language otherwise. He gets the actresses in his film to talk in English, explaining whenever he is filming they need to do this. This also leads to some of the dark humour that Be My Cat shows at times, such as the fact that he has told everyone in the neighbourhood he is filming a horror film so to ignore any screams. At one point he is interrupted in the middle of doing something quite incriminating, but after he explains it is all acting they leave satisfied, pretty funny.
The film does follow some of the conventions of the found footage genre quite strongly. As such despite some editing there is plenty of dead air time when things are happening and feel quite natural but they are not very exciting to see. This is a fallacy of the genre, there was no real way around it but this did lead me to getting slightly bored at times. Also being low budget some of the few special effects are not very realistic and led to losing some immersion, a scene involving blood in particular lacked impact. Regardless of that it does feel at times kind of realistic, I'm pleased to see Tofei has won awards for his performance as it is well deserved.
Be My Cat is a fantastic found footage film, with some fantastic acting, even better than Creep but it is that same genre that means this is not going to appeal to everyone as there are a lot of familiar beats. The whole concept was very well done with Tofei's performance elevating this above the norm. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne releases on Vimeo On Demand on 5th December. It is to be released on Amazon Video, Prime and DVD January 2017.
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No, Murphy says, you can’t ring in New Year inside NJ restaurants
Louis C. Hochman
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You're probably eager to ring in 2021 and put 2020 behind you. But you won't be doing inside a New Jersey restaurant or bar – at least not legally.
Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday he's unlikely to lift the state's current restrictions on indoor dining – which require bars and restaurants to close indoor facilities at 10 p.m. Midnight remains off the table. The state also continues to restrict indoor dining capacity to 25 percent of normal use.
"I do not see it," Murphy said Monday when asked about the prospect of relaxing the restriction. And he acknowledged: "I don't think that's going to make a lot of people happy."
The pronouncement, though expected, comes as the governor is also sounding mixed notes of optimism and caution, with New Jersey expecting to roll begin its rollout of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine from a select few hospitals on Tuesday – first prioritizing healthcare workers and long-term care facility residents, and then moving on to broader populations.
The state has received 76,000 Pfizer doses so far (the vaccine is a two-dose regimen), and expects hundreds of thousands more in the coming weeks. Murphy and state officials say they're also optimistic a vaccine by Moderna will be approved for emergency use by the FDA in just days. The Moderna vaccine, unlike the Pfizer vaccine, doesn't require storage at extremely cold temperatures, making it easier for the state to arrange distribution from more locations.
But if the vaccine means light at the end of the tunnel, Murphy said, "we have to travel more before we are through this darkness."
That's with hospitalizations continuing to climb. Rising death tolls typically lag behind hospitalizations, though mortality still remains just a fraction of what the state saw as it as hit hard in the spring.
New Jersey is aiming for 70 percent of eligible adults to get vaccinated – but in polling, about half of respondents say they're wary about getting the shots. Many cite the quick turnaround on development, saying they're worried the vaccines may not be safe.
The governor, for his part, also said the state won't require healthcare workers to be vaccinated – but he's hopefully they'll do so voluntarily.
Murphy said he's optimistic that in about six weeks, the state will begin to move past what he and other New Jersey officials have described as a potentially troubling winter, with rising cases and deaths. He also said he's hopeful to "use a scalpel" on any further restrictions. He said seemingly increasing reports about violations of his coronavirus executive orders by New Jersey business can be chalked up to more enforcement, not more non-compliance.
And the governor repeated calls he made leading up to Thanksgiving, before instituting a 10-person limit on most indoor gatherings – to keep Christmas and other holiday celebrations small.
"We get through the next six weeks, we're gonna, I believe, have the worst behind us," Murphy said.
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Senators Express Doubt As FG Unveils Plans To Buy ₦400bn COVID-19 Vaccines
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan and his colleagues spoke at a meeting with the Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire and Finance Minister, Mrs Zainab Ahmed.
The ministers were in the Senate to brief the leadership of the Red Chamber on the Federal Government’s plans to procure COVID-19 vaccines worth about N400bn.
Lawan said it was a good bargain to spend N400 billion to protect Nigerians from the deadly virus but expressed reservations over the availability of facilities and manpower to manage the vaccine.
“I have not been convinced with your presentation that we are ready to bring in the vaccines.
“You have to do much more to convince me that we are ready. This is a matter of life and death. I am not only a doubting Thomas, I am also doubting Ahmad”
The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, also joined in expressing doubt in the ability of the health officials to guarantee the safety of the vaccines.
He said, “I am a doubting Omo-Agege also.”
He expressed worry that the government so far had made preparations for only four cold chains for the vaccines, in Abuja, Kano, Enugu and Lagos and asked why the entire South South region was not included in the plan.
The DSP also expressed worry that the vaccines may lose its efficacy on transit to the South South if no facility was provided.
Other senators also expressed doubts over the presentations of the officials from the Ministry of Health on the facilities that had been put in place to ensure adequate storage protection for the vaccines.
But the health minister insisted that the government was substantially ready for a successful COVID-19 vaccination exercise for its citizens.
He maintained that the country, which has successfully fought polio, would use the same storage facilities (cold chains) to store the COVID-19 vaccines.
He explained that the federal government was in talks with manufacturers and had trained staff as well as put the right cooling infrastructure in place to store the vaccines when they are acquired.
The minister said about N400bn would be required to vaccinate 70 per cent of Nigerians 211 million population, at $8 person.
He said N156bn would be needed in 2021 while N200bn in 2022.
Source:- Daily Trust
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The dirty war in London
As we learn a little more about the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, it is becoming clearer that this was a military operation, involving a special unit set up, in April, to combat terrorism, which included members that were trained by the SAS (see comment 2 here, and the speculations here). This was their first live operation. Sources said there was "no direct military involvement in the shooting". Was there indirect military involvement? Or was the military involvement, strictly speaking, not in the shooting itself? The distinction being made is that the new unit was just involved in intelligence, and were perhaps just the guys who screwed up in tagging an innocent man as a terrorist, while it was a police unit that did the actual 'wet work'. Jean Charles de Menezes was followed onto the bus with several plainclothes officers (who at that time apparently weren't worried about a bomb). Defense sources refused to comment on suggestions that these officers may have been members of the new special unit. Why would defense sources have to comment on it?
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) had produced guidelines on July 8 recommending that suicide bombers be shot in the head. Since Jean Charles de Menezes obviously wasn't a suicide bomber, but had managed to fall under the surveillance of a paramilitary unit who may have been in charge of directing police actions, the obvious question is whether they marked him as a target for police shooting because the British military wanted to set a precedent establishing the IACP guidelines as being in full force in Britain. Pick a patsy, have the police shoot him in the head, and suddenly you've recreated in London the good old days of Northern Ireland. I don't think the British people want to see paramilitary operations from the dirty war in Ireland imported by their military into downtown London.
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Maggie is a film by director Henry Hobson and screenwriter John Scott 3. This 95-minute film was first launched on May 8, 2015. Maggie, the film in the studio KaptenPoker can be seen on streaming service FandangoNow, Prime Video, Apple TV. as well as Vudu.
Synopsis Maggie There is information that spreads if one of the cities is attacked by the Necroambulist virus epidemic. The virus turns humans into zombies. Wade Vogel (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who has children in the city is also worried. He went to find his son to confirm the situation. On the way, he saw a lot of chaos, including many gardens that had been burned down. There are many steps for some people to avoid viral infection, including burning the garden. The situation in the city at that time was getting more chaotic. After a long and tiring search, Wade arrived at the quarantine hospital.
He gets Maggie (Abigail Breslin), his son who apparently has been contaminated with the virus. He was involved in a conversation with the doctor and asked Maggie to come home with him. The doctor agreed. The stipulation was that Wade had to return Maggie to quarantine if the virus had started to spread to her body. The virus does take time for the whole person to become a zombie. On their way home, Wade and Maggie occasionally run into people who have become zombies.
To survive, Wade beat the zombie until it lost its capacity anymore. Look at the panoramic view, Maggie is scared. He thought if this could also happen to him. The remaining time is little Wade uses as much as possible with his beloved child. Wade wasn’t ready to lose Maggie. Wade, who contacted the doctor, asked about several opportunities he could take. There are many options, first Wade can return Maggie to quarantine.
The second option is to inject the same serum as in quarantine, which is very likely Maggie died in the house, but it will be painful. The third option is to speed up Maggie’s death so that she doesn’t endure the suffering for long. Except for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin, other players who entered were Joely Richardson, Douglas M. Griffin, J.D. Evermore, Rachel Whitman Groves, and Jodie Moore.
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High Road to China
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist’s daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Actors: Bess Armstrong, Brian Blessed, Cassandra Gava, Jack Weston, Robert Morley, Tom Selleck, Wilford Brimley
Country: Hong Kong, USA, Yugoslavia
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell
Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) and his son Travis Welker (Jamie Kennedy) find themselves up to their ears in Graboids and Ass-Blasters when they head to Canada to investigate a series…
Frog Dreaming
American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive, and inquisitive. He comes accross some strange events happening in Devil’s Knob national park associated…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Maya the Bee: The Honey Games
When an overenthusiastic Maya accidentally embarrasses the Empress of Buzztropolis, she is forced to unite with a team of misfit bugs and compete in the Honey Games for a chance…
Country: Australia, Germany
Love Wrecked
On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny (Bynes) is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages…
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Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge yet – taking care of the problems of his three children.
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Sharpe’s Gold
Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and…
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the…
Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with…
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan — an adult who’s been trapped inside the…
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to…
Trailer: High Road to China
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A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man’s existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged terrain, rival tribes and savage beasts, Quest for Fire examines a peaceful tribe’s search for that all important element fire, and the knowledge to create it. Focusing on human dream as well as realistic insights into pre-historic man, the constant struggle for survival is vividly recreated in this sensational production.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Actors: Everett McGill, Franck-Olivier Bonnet, Gary Schwartz, Naseer El-Kadi, Nicholas Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman
Country: Canada, France
A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic “loot of a thousand worlds,” a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and…
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family, Science Fiction
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission…
Country: Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, United Arab Emirates, USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They’re the only hope to save our universe from invasion by…
Country: France, Japan, UK, USA
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened “Titanic 2,” follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an ice berg into…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads — and Deakins’s co-pilot, Riley Hale,…
A helicopter pilot and an environmental scientist lead a exodus of survivors in a search for a safe haven after a catastrophic tectonic event causes the crust of the earth…
In Scooby-Doo’s greatest adventure yet, see the never-before told story of how lifelong friends Scooby and Shaggy first met and how they joined forces with young detectives Fred, Velma, and…
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Trending
While on a hunting trip in the isolated wilderness, a father and his adopted teenage son are turned into the prey of unknown assailants. They are unexpectedly joined in their…
Resident Evil: Afterlife
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle…
Country: Canada, France, Germany, UK, USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
An island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been…
Country: Finland, USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Trailer: Quest for Fire
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Arcade1Up Announces New Cabinets For X-Men, Dragon’s Lair, Killer Instinct, And More
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Arcade1Up is a company that lets you bring the arcade action you remember (or maybe only heard about, depending on your age) into the comfort of your own house, and it recently announced several new cabinets to add to your collection. From one of the most beloved co-op beat-’em-ups of the ’90s to one-stop shops for some of the most classic arcade publishers around, the lineup Arcade1Up debuted during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show is eclectic and enticing.
The lineup begins with the new X-Men arcade cabinet (pictured above), which features the classic side-scrolling 1992 brawler from Konami. This four-player cabinet might not allow you to squeeze six of your closest friends on to one screen like some of the double-wide original cabinets, but what it lacks in width, it makes up for in added features. You can bring in additional players online thanks to the cabinet’s WiFi capability, plus it adds two additional Marvel action titles: Captain American and the Avengers, and The Avengers in Galactic Storm. The cabinet also features an X-Men-themed riser to bring the mini hardware to the correct height.
Next up is Dragon’s Lair, the 1983 classic made let arcade-goers feel like they were controlling a cartoon. Those who pick up this cabinet get the hand-drawn original, as well as Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp and the science-fiction adventure Space Ace, also from animator Don Bluth. This machine also includes a custom riser, though the art (which is pretty much just the three games’ logos) is more understated than that of the X-Men cabinet. If you’re more of a Space Ace fan, you can also pick up the same cabinet in a Space Ace variant.
Rare is remembered by many for its arcade prowess, and Arcade1Up is celebrating that with a new Killer Instinct machine. While the classic fighting game is the centerpiece, the full games list on this cabinet includes Killer Instinct, Killer Instinct 2, Battletoads (arcade version), and Battletoads/Double Dragon. This package also features WiFi play and a matching riser for those who want additional height.
Speaking of classic arcade companies, the Atari Legacy Edition Arcade Cabinet features 12 games in one machine. Those who pick up this special release (which, again, includes a riser), will be able to play Asteroids, Centipede, Major Havoc, Missile Command, Akka Arrh, Crystal Castles, Tempest, Millipede, Gravitar, Liberator, Asteroids Deluxe, and Space Duel.
Arcade1Up has already given fans a Street Fighter II cabinet featuring the various editions of the game, but while this new Capcom cabinet features various Street Fighter II, it’s more about celebrating the publisher than anything else. The Capcom Legacy Edition Arcade Cabinet gives you 12 games from Capcom’s storied arcade past. This machine includes the original Street Fighter, Street Fighter II: World Warrior, Street Fighter II: Champion Edition, Street Fighter II: Turbo, Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, Super Street Fighter II: Turbo, Darkstalkers, Strider, Commando, Final Fight, Ghosts n Goblins, and 1944. The cabinet itself is themed after Street Fighter II and also features a custom riser.
If you haven’t yet gotten your Pac-fill, Arcade1Up is ready to give you all you can handle with the Bandai Namco Legacy Edition cabinet. Much like the Capcom and Atari compilation cabinets, this features a collection of some of Bandai Namco’s most classic arcade titles, with a keen emphasis on the Pac-Man and Dig-Dug series. This arcade bundle features Pac-Man, Pac-Land, Pac-Man Plus, Super Pac-Man, Pac & Pal, Pac-Mania, Galaxian, Galaga, Dig Dug, Dig Dug II, Mappy, and Rompers. This bundle also features a custom riser like so many of the others announced at the same time.
If you’re more of a sit-down gamer, the Pong 4-Player Pub Table machine lets you gather three of your closest friends to play eight Atari classics. On this machine, which features a clear cover top to protect against spills, you can play Pong, Quadra Pong, Pong Doubles, Warlords, Pong Sports, Circus Atari, Tempest, and Super Breakout. Since this is meant to be played seated, it does not include a customer riser like the rest of the machines on this list.
To this point, Arcade1Up has released a ton of arcade cabinets in all shapes and sizes. In the past, the company has released cabinets dedicated to Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, NBA Jam, Marvel vs. Capcom, and more previously coin-operated classics. However, the machines tend to sell out relatively quickly, though Arcade1Up has sometimes brought them back into stock.
Pre-orders for the new cabinets are not yet open, but if you go to Arcade1Up’s website, you can sign up to be notified when they are live.
[Source: Arcade1Up via GameSpot]
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Woody charcoal with traces of pre-charring decay from the Late Oligocene (Chattian) of Norken (Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, W Germany)
Dieter Uhl 1
, Michael Wuttke 1, André Jasper 2
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Universidade do Vale do Taquari – UNIVATES (PPGAD/UNIVATES), Lajeado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Online publication date: 2020-06-29
A variety of traces of pre-charring decay are described from coniferous charcoals from the Norken locality, stratigraphically positioned within the Breitscheid Formation (Late Oligocene, Chattian) of the Westerwald area (Rhineland-Palatinate; W Germany). The traces include three-dimensionally preserved as well as collapsed fungal hyphae, collapsed filamentous structures (maybe related to ascomycetes), so-called shot-like holes of different diameters in cell walls of tracheids, as well as crater-like structures on the surface of tracheid walls. The latter occur on tracheids with bordered pits, in the direct vicinity of charred phloem (so far only rarely reported from pre-Quaternary charcoal). These observations, together with evidence that some of the charcoal fragments originated from wood that dried out prior to charring, point to a surface fire as the most likely source of the charcoal, although it cannot totally be ruled out that (partly) dead but still standing trees were affected during a crown fire. The data from the Late Oligocene of Norken provide further evidence that pre-Quaternary charcoal can be used as an additional, so far largely underutilized source for additional information about plant– microorganism interactions in deep time.
Taxodioxylon-like charcoal from the Late Miocene of western Bulgaria
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THE MANDALORIAN: Season 2 (2020) Review
By: Eoin Friel Plot: The Mandalorian has been tasked with returning his charge, a child, to its people, the Jedi. He begins searching for other Mandalorians who he believes can […]
By: Eoin Friel
Plot: The Mandalorian has been tasked with returning his charge, a child, to its people, the Jedi. He begins searching for other Mandalorians who he believes can help him find the Jedi
Review: I go into MAJOR spoilers here so if you haven’t finished season 2 of The Mandalorian yet then read no further!
The first season of The Mandalorian contained some of the best Star Wars content of the entire franchise with Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau clearly demonstrating they understood George Lucas’ world far more than J.J. Abrams or anyone else involved with the sequel trilogy. It genuinely felt like it belonged in the Star Wars universe but still feeling familiar yet fresh. Season 2 is another triumph and thinking back on it, quite a lot takes place in the space of 8 episodes.
The live action debut of several beloved characters from The Clone Wars is arguably the highlight but also the return of Boba Fett who was meant to be killed by the Sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi but we old-school fans knew better as he had reappeared in the Expanded Universe but now it’s canon. Fett has never been more badass and even the previous naysayers about the character cannot deny just how awesome he is; he fires rockets out of his knees for crying out loud! Temuera Morrison has a fierce countenance and yet he makes Boba Fett world weary but honourable; watching him kick ass alongside Mando is just pure joy. We also get the return of the seismic charges which is the greatest sound in Star Wars history.
With the passing of original Boba Fett Jeremy Bulloch this week it feels like a nice tribute that the character’s legacy will live on.
Each episode is packed with action from space battles, to creatures, shoot-outs and hand to hand combat but anything involving Slave-1 just stole every moment for me.
There are several throwbacks to the prequels which some have described as “fan service”; I despise that term because if you aren’t trying to appeal to fans then what are you doing?
Rosario Dawson makes her debut as beloved former Jedi Ashoka Tano and she just completely nails it in every way. I think episode 5 (which was all about her) is possibly the best of this season as it also gives us the great Michael Biehn and Bruce Lee’s goddaughter Diana Lee Inosanto in key roles. I love the nod Biehn gives to his role in Tombstone which fans will love and I think we all gasped when Ashoka asks Morgan Elsbeth (Inosanto) where her master is.
Eagle eyed fans will notice the various tributes to Kurosawa throughout episode 5 with various shots practically taken straight out of Yojimbo (which incidentally I’ll be reviewing soon).
A lot is packed into this series and each episode benefits from several viewings to pick up all the little Easter eggs; it really expands the lore and it’s starting to fill in the gaps that nobody bothered telling us about in the sequel trilogy.
I only have two real issues with this season – the second episode was terrible and maybe the worst of the series so far; it involved Mando and Baby Yoda (or Grogu as his name) crashing on a snow planet as they try to transport a frog lady to meet her husband. Grogu spends the episode eating her eggs which she is trying to save as they are the last of her species. It might just be dropping a hint that perhaps our little green friend is actually a dark side user as he has Force choked people in the past but the episode feels like filler and doesn’t add anything major. On the plus side it gives us some nice father/son moments between Mando and Grogu and after all Star Wars has always been about fathers and sons. The other minor gripe I have is that if you take a step back from it each episode is basically someone saying to Mando “I can’t help you, you need to see this person” and it just goes on like that making it feel like a videogame but I am just nit-picking.
Bill Burr who was previously known as being a Star Wars hater returns as Mayfeld and frankly deserves a series of his own as he also has some amazing character moments with a high point being a scene where he, Mando and an imperial officer are sitting down talking about Operation Cinder.
Any TV series or movie that has Timothy Olyphant in it gets my seal of approval and although he is only in the first episode he makes an immediate impression as Cobb Vanth with his sheer charisma and screen presence. It feels like Deadwood in the Star Wars universe with less swearing… although “Dank farrik” will make its way into my vocabulary.
Katee Sackhoff also shines as Bo-Katan Kryze who she played in The Clone Wars and Rebels; seeing her brought to life was just stunning. I imagine she will get her own spin-off at some point as there is a lot to explore with her as a character.
It was fantastic to see Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) return as she felt wasted in the first season but she is one of the most badass characters in Star Wars and provides some awesome fight scenes.
With all these characters you could be in danger over oversaturating the show where Mando is no longer the primary focus but he always is and we even get to see him without his helmet on in one episode which was a great acting moment from Pedro Pascal; he looks so uncomfortable like he needs to put his helmet back on or he’ll die.
The music from Ludwig Göransson is once again widely unique but we even get to hear some familiar themes which made me tear up a little.
I was going to give this 4 stars but after that finale anything less than 5 would feel wrong as it really delivered everything I’ve wanted as a fan giving us the moments we had wanted to see in the sequel movies.
Overall, I could talk about this for days but The Mandalorian season 2 is another winner with some fantastic new characters and spectacular action scenes to keep even the most jaded viewer entertained.
Season 2 of The Mandalorian gives us bigger scale and more characters with no shortage of Star Wars flavoured action. Despite all the new cast members this is still a story about a father and son giving us tender moments in between the action.
Star Wars at its Best!
5 OUT OF 5 STARS!
About the Author: I grew up watching JCVD, Sly and Arnold destroy bad guys, blow things up and spew one-liners like it’s a fashion statement. Action is everything I go to the movies for and the reason I came up with The Action Elite to share my love for the genre with everyone.
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admin’s & enterpreneur’s reading list
1. Entrepreneur & Creative Economy
art and economy
Hans Abbing (2010). Why are artists poor? The exceptional economy of the arts. Amsterdam University Press.
Tatiana Bazzichelli (2013) Networked disruption. Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, 73.
Richard Florida (2002) The economic geography of talent. Annals of the Association of American geographers, 92(4), pp.743-755.
creative economy flag-raiser
Richard Florida (2005) Cities and the creative class. Routledge.
Bridgstock Entrepreneurship Education in the Arts
quadruple bottom line theory, career self-management
Hartley et al Key Concepts in Creative Industries
creative economy critique
Banks, M. and O’Connor, J. (2017) Inside the whale (and how to get out of there): Moving on from two decades of creative industries research. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20(6), pp.637-654.
Timely self-critique from apologetic creative economy former enthusiasts. Creative cities, cluster theory, Landry, Florida etc.
Paul Chatterton (2000). Will the real Creative City please stand up?. City, 4(3), pp.390-397. [online]
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/713657028
Banks, M., 2010. Craft labour and creative industries. International journal of cultural policy, 16(3), pp.305-321.
Richard Sennett and craft.
Anthony Davies (2007) Take me I’m yours: neoliberalising the cultural institution. In Mute Vol 2 No 5 It’s not easy being green [online]
http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/take-me-im-yours-neoliberalising-cultural-institution
A principle contradiction: the content of the institution’s discourse can be utterly inverted in the institutional form.
Jones, C. and Murtola, A.M. (2012) Entrepreneurship and expropriation. Organization, 19(5), pp.635-655.
Entrepreneurship as individual activity which rests on appropriation of production in common.
Angela McRobbie 2016. Be creative: Making a living in the new culture industries. John Wiley & Sons.
Book. Forensic examination of the UK cultural economy.
2. Diverse Economies
..& research
Butler, J., 1993. Critically queer. GLQ: A journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1(1), pp.17-32.
Performativity as a research strategy.
Queer theory.
Law, J. and Urry, J. (2004) Enacting the social. Economy and society, 33(3), pp.390-410.
Sedgwick, E.K., (1997) Paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, You’re so paranoid, you probably think this introduction is about you. [online]
https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10224/3628/2001-1233.pdf?sequence=1
.. & art
Brook, Donald. Experimental Art [online]
http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/niea-experimentalartsconference/files/2011/08/DONALD-BROOK-Experimental-Art.pdf
Art as ‘mimetic innovation’
Wright, S. (2013). 1:1 Scale, Toward a lexicon of usership. Van Abbemuseum. [online]
Art on a 1:1 scale
.. & economy
Çalışkan, K. and Callon, M., 2009. Economization, part 1: shifting attention from the economy towards processes of economization. Economy and Society, 38(3), pp.369-398.
Performing the economy / economy as performance.
Callon, M., 2006. What does it mean to say that economics is performative? [online]
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00091596/document
Diverse economies
JK Gibson-Graham and Ethan Miller (2015) ‘Economy as ecological livelihood’. Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene, pp.7-16.
Rethinking economic action as a space for ethical negotiation. In economic geography, JK Gibson-Graham challenges the idea of “the economy” as a unified, capitalist domain, to instead reframe it as diverse practices and interrelationships of sustenance and livelihood. This “diverse economies” approach is grounded in methodologies from feminist theory, which emphasise the need to recognise, theorise and engage with diversity. It constructs a different vision of “economy” where a host of informal, underground, non-market, collective and co-operative behaviours and activities are considered not only prevalent, but also primary and consequential.
JK Gibson-Graham. (2008) ‘Diverse economies: performative practices for other worlds’. Progress in Human Geography, 32(5), pp.613-632.
Gibson-Graham, J.K., 1999. Queer(y)ing Capitalism in and out of the Classroom [1]. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 23(1), pp.80-85.
Zanoni, P., Contu, A., Healy, S. and Mir, R.,(2017) Post-capitalistic politics in the making: The imaginary and praxis of alternative economies. In Organization, Vol. 24(5) Sage Publications pp 575-588
Gibson-Graham, J.K., 2014. Rethinking the economy with thick description and weak theory. Current Anthropology, 55(S9), pp.S147-S153.
3. Radmin
Art and admin
Andrea Phillips (2015) Invest in What
howtoworktogether.org [online]
Arts organisations’ structures shape their policies. A history of artistic work proposing radical forms of cooperation
vs potlitcally endorsed models of entrepreneurship.
Caroline Woolard (2017) Ourgoods, BAMBAPHD [online]
Art-based critique of art economies. Objects and contexts: together, objects
and contexts create space for reflection, circulation, and social transformation.
Angela McRobbie (2010) Rethinking Creative Economy as Radical Social Enterprise. Variant Magazine
[online]
How does teaching students critical understanding tally with also encouraging self-reliance and entrepreneurship?
Proposes a renewal of radical social enterprise and co-operatives as self-organised collectives, to provide working structures for diverse occupations, including artists.
Martin Parker Art as Work
Critical management studies perspective on Art. Being an artist is supposed to expose the constraints of rules by bending / breaking conventions .. but art is work and involves rules, and work is creative and produces difference.
Matthew Manos (2012) Business as a Medium in Hertz, Garnet. Critical Making. 1st ed. [United States]: Telharmonium p.27-32. [online]
Business as a medium for critical enquiry and meaning-making, to change perceptions.
A means of designing a future the entrepreneur would like to inhabit.
Business as a non end-dated project; an ultra accessible medium; a platform for experiments.
Martin Parker et al (2013) ‘Horizons of possibility’. In: Parker, M., Cheney, G., Fournier, V. and Land, C. eds., The Routledge companion to alternative organization. Routledge.
Assimilation and recuperation (Boltanski & Chiapello) vs operating in the cracks.
Essential laboratories for post/non/modified capitalist practices, ‘less-governed’ (Foucault).
Critique is a limited strategy if the real goal is social transformation. (A positive critique which brings new things into the world).
Does the scale of resistance have to match the scale of the problem?
Calls for a radical insurgent entrepreneurship as form of social creativity. Changes in daily practice, invents futures.
Entrepreneurship as a set of unstable, untested, potentially transformational practices of collective invention and reorientation.
Craig Deegan (2016)
Twenty five years of social and environmental accounting research within Critical Perspectives of Accounting: Hits, misses and ways forward. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 43, pp.65-87.
Critical accounting.
The transformational potential of accounting, vs producing incontravertible facts.
Accounting as a means of identifying which action one must defend.
Gregory Bateson (1972) Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Form is the primary mode of communication, understood analogically. Significant meta-level change requires a change of context as well as content.
Bruno Latour (2011) What’s the story? Organizing as a mode of existence. In: Passoth, JH., Peuker, B. and Schillmeier, M., Agency without Actors.
Organisation staves off disorder. Being-in-action, organisations as scripts. Organisations as a flock of sparrows.
Janelle Orsi
Bronwen Morgan
Morgan, B. and Kush, D. (2015) ‘Radical transactionalism: legal consciousness, diverse economies and the sharing economy’. Journal of Law and Society 556-587
Bronwen Mogan and Declan Kuch Radical Transactionalism
An expansive concept of enterprise as ‘any productive activity that might bring us sustenance’.
The legal, financial and organisational structures of our current economy do not sit comfortable with small-scale sustainable economy initiatives.
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Colchicine, 1 mg tablets
Drug formTablets
ATC categoryAgents for treatment metabolic and energy disorders
ATC subcategoryAgents influencing metabolism of uric acid. arthrifuges
Brand nameColchicine
Generic nameColchicine
Each tablet contains:
active ingredient: colchicine – 1 mg;
excipients: sucrose, povidone, sodium starch glycolate,magnesium stearate, color red E-129, microcrystalline cellulose.
Antigout. ATC code: M04AC01.
Pharmacological properties
Pharmacodynamic properties
The anti-inflammatory effect of colchicine in acute gouty arthritis is selective for this disorder. Although its mode of action is not clearly understood, it is thought that colchicine causes the inhibition of the migration of granulocytes into the inflamed area. This reduces the release of lactic acid and proinflammatory enzymes that occurs during phagocytosis and breaks the cycle that leads to the inflammatory response.
Pharmacokinetic properties
Colchicine is readily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and peak concentrations occur in plasma by half an hour to two hours.
The kidney, liver and the spleen also contain high concentrations of colchicine, but it is apparently largely excluded from the heart, skeletal muscle and brain. It is partially deacetylated in the liver. Colchicine and its metabolites are excreted in the urine and faeces.
Preclinical safety data
There are no pre-clinical data of relevance to the prescriber which are additional to those already included in other sections.
Treatment of acute gout.
Short term prophylaxis during initial therapy with allopurinol and uricosuric drugs.
Periodic disease (familial mediterranean fever).
Posology and method of administration
Adults only:
1mg initially, followed by 0.5 mg every two to three hours until relief of pain is obtained or
vomiting or diarrhoea occurs. A total dose of 6 mg should not be exceeded. The course should
not be repeated within three days.
For use with allopurinol or uricosuric drugs: 0.5 mg two to three times daily.
Take 0.5 – 2.0 mg of colchicine evening.
FMF (Familial mediterranean fever): The recommended dosage of colchicine for FMF in
pediatric patients under 5 years of age and older is based on age.
Children under the 5 years of age: 0.5 mg daily
Children 5 -10 years: 1.5 mg daily
Аdolescents 10 years of age and over: 1.5 mg daily
Maximum daily dose is not more than 2 mg daily
Elderly:
To be given with great care.
Renal Impairment:
For mild/moderate renal impairment (creatinine clearance 10-50 ml/minute), reduce dose or increase interval between doses (see “Contraindications”).
Colchicine has a narrow therapeutic window and is extremely toxic in overdose. Patients at
particular risk of toxicity are those with renal or hepatic impairment, gastrointestinal or
cardiac disease, and patients at extremes of age.
Colchicine overdose is complex and specialist advice should be promptly obtained. There is
often a delay of up to 6 hours before toxicity is apparent, and some features of toxicity may
be delayed by 1 week or longer. All patients, even in the absence of early symptoms, should
be referred for immediate medical assessment.
Early features (up to 1 day after ingestion) include a feeling of burning and rawness in the mouth and throat, difficulty in swallowing, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhoea. Diarrhoea may be profuse, bloody and accompanied by tenesmus, and the patient may present with electrolyte disturbances and hypovolaemic shock. These symptoms, coupled with vascular damage, may lead to dehydration, hypotension and shock.
Features after 1 to 7 days include confusion, decreased cardiac output, cardiac arrhythmias, renal and hepatic impairment, respiratory distress, hyperpyrexia and bone marrow depression. This can progress in severe cases to multiple organ failure with accompanying bone marrow aplasia, CNS toxicity, convulsions, coma, hepatocellular damage, rhabdomyolysis, respiratory distress, myocardial injury, renal damage and disseminated intravascular coagulation.
Death may be due to respiratory depression, cardiovascular collapse or sepsis.
In surviving patients, alopecia, rebound leucocytosis and stomatitis may occur about 10 days after the acute overdose.
Consider oral activated charcoal in adults who have ingested more than 0.1 mg/kg bodyweight within 1 hour of presentation, and in children who have ingested any amount within 1 hour. Further doses of activated charcoal may enhance systemic elimination and may be considered in patients who have ingested more than 0.3 mg/kg
Haemodialysis and haemoperfusion do not enhance colchicine elimination.
Management should include general symptomatic and supportive measures as indicated by the patient’s clinical condition, including monitoring of vital signs, ECG, haematological and biochemical indices. Respiration may need assistance. Circulation should be maintained and fluid and electrolyte imbalance corrected.
Morphine sulphate 10mg, intramuscularly, may be given to relieve severe abdominal cramps.
To allow for the delayed onset of symptoms, patients should be carefully monitored for at least 6 hours after ingestion, or for 12 hours if they have taken more than 0.3 mg/kg. After this time, asymptomatic patients may be discharged with advice to return if gastrointestinal symptoms appear.
The use of colchicine is contraindicated in pregnancy.
Colchicine should not be used in patients undergoing haemodialysis since it cannot be removed by dialysis or exchange transfusion.
Colchicine should not be used in patients with severe renal impairment (creatinine clearance less than 10ml/minute).
Colchicine is contraindicated in patients with renal or hepatic impairment who are taking a P-glycoprotein or a strong CYP3A4 inhibitor (see “Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction”).
Colchicine frequently causes nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Larger doses may cause profuse diarrhoea, gastrointestinal haemorrhage, skin rashes and renal and hepatic damage.
Rarely peripheral neuritis, myopathy, rhabdomyolysis, alopecia, inhibition of spermatogenesis and, with prolonged treatment, bone marrow suppression with agranulocytosis, thrombocytopenia and aplastic anaemia occur.
Antibacterials: increased risk of colchicine toxicity when given with clarithromycin or erythromycin, particularly in patients with pre-existing renal impairment.
Rare reports of fatalities (see “Contraindications”). AS CYP3A4 inhibitors, macrolides should not be used to treat patients with renal or hepatic impairment who are taking colchicine (see “Contraindications”).
P-glycoprotein or strong CYP3A4 inhibitors: Colchicine is contraindicated in patients with renal or hepatic impairment who are taking a P-glycoprotein inhibitor (e.g. ciclosporin, verapamil or quinidine) or a strong CYP3A4 inhibitor (e.g. ritonavir, atazanavir, indinavir, clarithromycin, telithromycin, itraconazole or ketaconazole) (see “Contraindications”).
A reduction in colchicine dosage or an interruption of colchicine treatment is recommended in patients with normal renal or hepatic function if treatment with a P-glycoprotein or strong CYP3A4 inhibitor is required (see “Special warnings and precautions for use”).
Ciclosporin: Colchicine should be used with caution with ciclosporin due to the possible increased risk of nephrotoxicity and myotoxicity.
Vitamins: the absorption of Vitamin B12 may be impaired by chronic administration or high doses of colchicine; requirement may be increased.
Statins: Acute myopathy has been reported in patients given colchicine with statins. Patients should be advised to report muscle pain or weakness.
Special warnings and precautions for use
Colchicine should be given with care to elderly and debilitated patients as there is a greater risk of cumulative toxicity.
Care should also be exercised in those with cardiac, hepatic, gastrointestinal disease or if patients are breast-feeding.
Colchicine should be avoided in patients with blood disorders.
Reduce dose in patients with mild to moderate renal impairment (see “Posology and Method of Administration” and “Contraindications”).
A reduction in colchicine dosage or interruption of colchicine treatment is recommended in patients with normal renal and hepatic function if treatment with a P-glycoprotein or a strong CYP3A4 inhibitor is required (see “Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction”).
Contains surcose. Patients with rare hereditary problems of fructose intolerance, glucose-galactose malabsorption or sucrase-isomaltase insufficiency should not take this medicine.
Effects on ability to drive and use machines
– None known.
Fertility,pregnancy and lactation
Do not use in pregnancy as there is a risk of foetal chromosome damage.
Colchicine is distributed into breast milk. Colchicine may be used with caution during
breast-feeding.
96 tablets are packed into PVC-Aluminum blister packets (inside package).
4 blisters are packed with 24 tablets in each are inserted together with the leaflet into
cardboard boxes (outer package).
3 years. Do not use after the expiration date.
Store at a room temperature (15-250C), in a dry place, out of the reach of children. Protect from light.
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Research ArticleSCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
Reducing achievement gaps in undergraduate general chemistry could lift underrepresented students into a “hyperpersistent zone”
View ORCID ProfileR. B. Harris1,*,
M. R. Mack2,
View ORCID ProfileJ. Bryant2,†,
View ORCID ProfileE. J. Theobald1 and
View ORCID ProfileS. Freeman1,‡
1Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355320, Seattle, WA 98195-5320, USA.
2Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, USA.
↵‡Corresponding author. Email: srf991{at}uw.edu
↵* Present address: Adaptive Biotechnologies, 1551 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102, USA.
↵† Present address: Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, 3620 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1062, USA.
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RE: Progress toward making general chemistry more equitable and inclusive
Rebecca Harris, Data scientist
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Michael R. Mack, Data scientist
Jasmine Bryant, Associate Professor (teaching), University of Southern California
Elli J. Theobald, Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Washington
Scott Freeman, Lecturer Emeritus, University of Washington
(31 July 2020)
We strongly endorse Cooper and Klymkowsky’s call for instructors in general chemistry and other STEM disciplines to reform course design in three mutually reinforcing ways: 1) what we teach, 2) how we teach, and 3) how we assess students and assign grades. In general chemistry, exciting inroads have been made on all three fronts, including innovative curricula that emphasize applying concepts to issues that are highly relevant to students [1, 2], high structure or flipped approaches that emphasize pre-class preparation and intensive active learning in class [3, 4], and more sophisticated approaches to assessment that improve alignment with learning objectives and course goals [5, 6].
In terms of interpreting our paper, however, it is important to offer a clarification: During the study period, there was no “curving” in the sense of failing a pre-set percentage of students, and the DFW rates reported in Figure 3 were far less than the 30% suggested in Cooper and Klymkowsky’s letter. Instead, grades among sections within the same term were normalized to a common median. Nonetheless, their point is well-taken: Students, instructors, and the STEM professions are much better-served by grading systems that are mastery-based and explicitly non-competitive.
Finally, although Cooper and Klymkowsky’s letter appears to challenge our statement that “the literature still lacks an example of a revised course design in general chemistry that results in reduced or no achie...
Finally, although Cooper and Klymkowsky’s letter appears to challenge our statement that “the literature still lacks an example of a revised course design in general chemistry that results in reduced or no achievement gaps,” the papers they cite do not actually report data disaggregated by student population. Their note about an evidence-based curriculum’s impact on female and URM students appears consistent with data in a study by Talanquer and Pollard [2], but that paper only reported descriptive data without formal statistical analysis. Fortunately, the issue is currently being investigated by several research groups, with some evidence indicating that narrowed achievement gaps are associated with changes in how we teach in introductory chemistry [3]. We close by echoing the call in that paper for institutions to provide tangible support to instructors who embark on course reform focused on inclusion and equity, and by thanking Cooper and Klymkowsy for their longstanding contributions to reform in undergraduate chemistry.
1. M. Cooper, M. Klymkowsky, Chemistry, life, the universe, and everything: a new approach to general chemistry, and a model for curriculum reform. J. Chem. Educ. 90, 1116-1122 (2013).
2. V. Talanquer, J. Pollard, Reforming a large foundational course: successes and challenges. J. Chem. Educ. 94, 1844-1851 (2017).
3. S.F. Bancroft, S. Fowler, M. Jalaeian, K. Patterson. Leveling the field: flipped instruction as a tool for promoting equity in general chemistry. J. Chem. Educ. 97, 36-47 (2020).
4. M. A. Deri, P. Mills, D. McGregor, Structure and evaluation of a flipped general chemistry course as a model for small and large gateway science courses at an urban public institution. J. Coll. Sci. Teach. 47, 68-77 (2018).
5. V. Talanquer, J. Pollard, Let’s teach how we think instead of what we know. Chem. Educ. Res. Prac. 11, 74-83 (2010).
6. O.M. Crandell, H. Kouroumdjian, S.M. Underwood, M.M. Cooper, Reasoning about reactions in organic chemistry: starting it in general chemistry. J. Chem. Educ. 96, 213-226 (2018).
Competing Interests: None declared.
Unnecessary obstacles hampering equity in education
Melanie Cooper, Professor / Science Education Researcher, Michigan State University
Mike Klymkowsky, Professor / Science Education Researcher, University of Colorado Boulder
(24 June 2020)
The paper by Harris et. al. [1] confirms what most of us already know [2]; poorly designed gateway courses hinder the inclusion and success of under-represented students in STEM: these students often perform more poorly than their academic records would predict. What is interesting is the observation that under-represented students who "just" pass general chemistry are more likely to be persistent in STEM than their well-represented peers. The difference between a C, which allows a student to proceed, and a C–, which requires them to retake the course, has a profound and symbolic impact on students sense of inclusion.
So what does this grade difference "mean"? particularly since the courses used in their analysis were “curved”, an abominable practice without pedagogical justification that explicitly pre-judges students while ignoring flaws in course design and instructional practice. What if the "bottom" 30% of the students (a common cut off) don't deserve to fail? Isn’t the insistence on curving grades an implicit acknowledgement that either the curriculum or the instructor is not
In the paper, the authors state that “the literature still lacks an example of a revised course design in general chemistry that results in reduced or no achievement gaps”, however, there IS an evidence-based curriculum that has been shown to improve both student persistence and learning outcomes [3, 4]. Better course design remo...
In the paper, the authors state that “the literature still lacks an example of a revised course design in general chemistry that results in reduced or no achievement gaps”, however, there IS an evidence-based curriculum that has been shown to improve both student persistence and learning outcomes [3, 4]. Better course design removed the grade gap between male and female students and improved the numbers of under-represented students who passed the course with a C. Moreover, these students succeeded in subsequent courses.
The take-home message appears to be that courses based on a misguided culture of pseudo-rigor are harming students who belong and can thrive in STEM. To correct this situation, we must go beyond sorting students – we need to critically consider what we want students to learn, how we support students as they learn, and how we evaluate learning outcomes. This will require a culture change that goes beyond incorporating active learning techniques.
1. Harris, R., et al., Reducing achievement gaps in undergraduate general chemistry could lift underrepresented students into a “hyperpersistent zone”. Science Advances, 2020. 6(24): p. eaaz5687.
2. Mervis, J., Weed-out courses hamper diversity. Science, 2011. 334(6061): p. 1333-1333.
3. Crandell, O.M., et al., Reasoning about Reactions in Organic Chemistry: Starting It in General Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education, 2018. 96(2): p. 213-226.
4. Matz, R.L., et al., Evaluating the extent of a large-scale transformation in gateway science courses. Science advances, 2018. 4(10): p. eaau0554.
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Experts Decoded These Common Dog Habits – And Revealed What Your Pet Is Trying To Tell You
We all love dogs, right? These jumpy, loyal animals make for the perfect pets at home, often showing us plenty of affection. But have you ever wondered what your canines might be telling you through their everyday habits? Well, we’ve compiled a list of 40 of these behaviors – and what they mean might surprise you.
41. A quick look
When your dog gives you a glance and then quickly stares at something else, don’t worry. It’s not a bad sign! In fact, it indicates that your canine friend is respectful of you and compliant. Remember this, though: if you’ve got any snacks on your person, that short look will turn into a prolonged gaze. Yes, dogs love their goodies.
40. Scooting
Scooting may look like an eccentric behavior at first, but try not to laugh too much. Because it’s a sign of anal discomfort in dogs, the website Petsworld reported. From a simple itch to an infection, they drag their backsides along the ground to alleviate the problem. Poor pooches.
39. Stretching
Who doesn’t love a good stretch? It really helps to shake the cobwebs away after staying in one position for a while. But what about dogs? Is it the same for them? Well, according to the website PetHelpful, they like to do it when they see their owners following a spell apart. Simply put, stretching is a sign of affection.
38. Raised hackles
When a dog’s hackles (hairs on their spine) start to prick up, you should probably try to calm them down. This reaction is more often than not a sign of fear, anxiety or anger. Plus they’ll appear to be quite attentive as well, carefully watching their surroundings. Your pooch might be like this around other canines too, so be ready!
37. Flicking their ears
Dogs are renowned for their fantastic hearing, but they don’t always recognize certain sounds. So to combat that problem, the animals flick their ears in an attempt to zone in on the emission. It’s just like when we’re trying to pick up a radio signal by adjusting the antenna. Hopefully they avoid the static!
36. Sitting between your legs
When your pet tries to sit on you, it could be interpreted as an act of domination. Almost like the animal is trying to claim control over its master. But that’s not the case with dogs, according to PetsWorld. In fact, if they position themselves on your lap, it might be a sign that they’re feeling worried or frightened. In other words, they’re after a feeling of security, and your lap provides it!
35. Yelping
If you own a dog, there are few sounds more troubling than that of a yelp. What does it mean? Well, it might indicate two different things, according to the website Rover.com. Either your canine chum is crying out in shock, or they’ve just hurt themselves. It certainly gets your attention either way.
34. Opening their mouth slightly
Did you know that you can tell a lot about a dog’s mood by just looking at their mouths? They’re easier to decipher than cats anyway. For instance, if a canine keeps its jaws open a little, that’s a sign that the pooch is content. You could almost say that it’s their way of smiling.
33. Pacing
While speaking to the Dogster website in March 2020, canine expert Amanda Gagnon touched upon the act of pacing. She said, “Dogs will pace because they’re bored or carry excessive energy. Less common reasons for pacing are mating behaviors, attention-seeking behaviors and medical issues.” Regarding that last point, the problems can range from stomach ailments to their mental health. So remember a hug and a stroke goes a long way.
32. Licking their crotch
When your dog starts to lick its genitals, you can’t help but look away. Because it should be a private moment, right? According to the VCA Animal Hospital website, the pooch usually does this to cleanse themselves after peeing. If they stay down there, though, you might want to consider visiting a vet.You see, constant licking could be a sign of an urinary tract infection.
31. Jumping
Does your dog leap at you when you return home at the end of the day? More often than not, that’s their own way of saying hello. Yet according to famed canine expert Cesar Millan, there could be another meaning behind it. “Jumping up is a sign that your dog is attempting to assert their dominance over you,” read a post on the Cesar’s Way website.
30. Sniffing the air
Dogs have an incredible sense of smell, latching on to scents in an instant. They put all of us to shame. But why do our lovable pals sniff the air? Well, it’s the canines’ way of picking up on any nearby hazards, says website PetHelpful. And you probably won’t hear a peep out of them while they’re doing it, as they don’t want to give themselves away.
29. Narrowed eyes
When a person narrows their eyes, they’re usually focused on whatever’s in front of them. Dogs are fairly similar in that regard, albeit with more aggression. Because if a pooch sports that particular look, they want to establish themselves as an intimidating force. So be careful!
28. Howling
Yes, wolves aren’t the only animals that howl. And dogs can fire out this distinctive sound for a few different reasons. The website Rover.com claimed that it’s both a sign of loneliness and a way of marking their territory. Plus the cry is seen as a “guide” to their absent owners, too.
27. Pulling back their mouth
Dogs can get pretty noisy, right? So when you’re greeted by periods of silence, you can’t help but wonder if your pet’s alright. Well, should you find that their mouths are shut and pulled back, they’re not okay. Canines are afraid or anxious in those instances, notes the animal welfare website ASPCApro.
26. Shaking their head
Have you ever questioned why your dog rattles its head on occasion? Wonder no more. As vet Jennifer Coates explained on the PetMD website, “Head shaking is a brilliant way for dogs to get something out of their ears that shouldn’t be there. When dogs feel itchiness or irritation in their ears, they instinctively shake their heads.”
25. Panting
While humans pant when they’re trying to catch their breath, it’s a bit different with dogs. Cesar’s Way revealed, “Because dogs sweat through the pads on their feet, most of their body heat is expelled through their mouth when they pant. It’s their primary means of regulating body temperature. Dogs also pant to cope with pain.”
24. Straightening their tail
You can often tell a lot about a dog’s mindset through the movement of their tail. But why does it straighten up sometimes? Is that a bad sign? We can assure you – it isn’t. In fact, ASPCApro noted that it’s a way for canines to show their excitement. Plus, a stiff tail also indicates arousal… so there’s that too!
23. Follows you everywhere
Have you ever wondered why your dog sometimes follows you all over the place? Well, Dr. Rachel Barrack could have the answers. She informed the American Kennel Club in 2018, “Young puppies can often imprint on their owners and look to them as they would their mother.” Barrack went on, “If every time you’re with your dog, he gets affection or treats, he’s likely to [follow you around] more often.”
22. Walking in circles before bed
We all like to get comfortable prior to going to sleep, right? So why should dogs be any different? But your pooch doesn’t just walk in a circle beforehand to get cosy. As per the VCA Animal Hospital, it’s an act that’s embedded in their genes. Much like their forebears, they want to find a spot ready to face danger.
21. Exposing their stomach
It’s always nice to show your dog affection, but you still might be caught in two minds when it rolls over onto its back. Should you give your pet a belly rub, or focus on another area? Well, the canine is actually highlighting its “respect” for you in those instances, according to PetHelpful. So tickle away!
20. Pricking their ears
If you’re bored at home, you could entertain yourself by watching the behavior of your dog’s ears. Thanks to their ever-changing movement, they’re just as unpredictable as any TV drama. Why do the pooch’s lugs prick forward, though? What does it mean? Well, ASPCApro reported that it’s a sign of arousal.
19. Growling
Once a dog starts to growl, you should be wary of what to do next. Because this aggressive sound acts as a “warning” if the canine is anxious, Rover.com noted. So you obviously don’t want to make things worse. Yet at the same time, the website suggested that growling happens when a pair of pooches horse around together.
18. Pawing your legs
It’s pretty easy for a dog to get your attention, but you might not know what they actually want. If only we were all like Doctor Dolittle! According to animal welfare journalist Josie Turner, one act is simple enough to understand. As she wrote on the website AnimalWised, a paw to the lap indicates that they’d love some fuss from you.
17. Chasing their tail
You might think that it’s quite normal for a dog to chase its tail. And that’s true if they don’t do it too often. But should your canine pal be fixated on the act, there could be an underlying issue. Yes, ear infections have been responsible in the past, says the Hill’s Pet Nutrition website. So keep that in mind.
16. Crouching
When certain animals crouch down, they’re usually ready to spring back up and catch something. That’s not always the case with dogs, though. Because crouching could indicate that they’re feeling anxious or afraid of their surroundings. Then again, it’s sometimes a sign that your pet is eager to have a little fun as well.
15. Freezing their position
When something startles you, how do you react? Do you run away, or find yourself frozen to the spot? Dogs are no different in that respect, as the jolt can affect them either way. According to ASPCApro, a terrified pooch might just stay put, unable to move. So we’d advise you to be very cautious around them if that happens.
14. Wagging their tail
A tail wag can tell you everything that you need to know about your dog’s mood. So you should watch them closely. For instance, PetHelpful noted that a slow wiggle from a “natural position” highlights that the canine is eager to have fun. And when it’s raised, they’re exuberant. But if their tail’s low, it’s a sign of unhappiness.
13. Showing their teeth
While dogs are fairly calm for the most part, they’re not afraid to let you know when something’s bothering them. On those occasions, the animals show their teeth. The website Wag! claimed that canines have different tipping points, so not every dog will be annoyed by the same thing. Just like humans then.
12. Digging
If you’ve ever wondered why dogs love to dig, Cesar Millan provided an answer via his website. He said, “Digging is an instinctual activity, written deep in a dog’s DNA. Dogs in natural packs will dig to hide food or to uncover food such as small rodents. A den dug in the cool earth can also provide shelter from the heat.” Who knew?
11. Mounting and humping
Let’s face it. There are few things more embarrassing than when your dog mounts and humps anything during its daily walks. But is it just a sexual act? You bet it is! By jumping on a person or another pooch, the canine looks to pleasure itself, with the ASPCA website confirming that that applies to both males and females. Time to cover your children’s eyes.
10. Whimpering
While writing for the PetHelpful website, canine fan Januaris Saint Fores made an interesting point. He said, “If a dog produces a low, short whine or whimper, he’s excited, anxious or submissive. A prolonged whine or whimper shows that he’s uncomfortable or in pain. According to my own observations, most dogs use these body languages to ask for attention.”
9. Eating poop
We hope you’ve got a strong stomach for this one. Yes, dogs do eat poop from time to time, but what drives them on to it? Well, they could devour the mess if they’ve done it somewhere they shouldn’t have. Or the pooch might be looking to try it out of curiosity, according to Hill’s Pet Nutrition. Can’t say we’ve ever felt the same.
8. Yawning
Now we know what you’re thinking – “dogs yawn just like us, right?” Well, we hate to break it to you, but when a canine is caught yawning, it’s not necessarily an indication of tiredness. In fact, Hill’s Pet Nutrition reported that it’s actually an outpouring of anxiety. It could happen near people the dog doesn’t know, so be mindful of that.
7. A wrinkled muzzle
When a dog’s snout starts to crease up, you’ve got to be very careful. As Fores explained on PetHelpful, “If your canine friend is wrinkling his muzzle, he’s angry or aggressive. You should stop the thing causing this behavior and move away to avoid being attacked.” They should calm down eventually.
6. Bowing
People usually bow as a sign of respect to another person. But of course, dogs do it for an entirely different reason. Because bowing showcases their happiness. Unlike crouching, they’ll bring their torso down to the floor and rest their paws in front of them.
5. Tucking their tail between their legs
You might be surprised to hear that dogs do indeed tuck their tail between their legs at times. It’s not just a derogatory phrase! Why does it happen? Well, ASPCApro claimed that scared pooches react in that manner, so it appears to match that famous old phrase. And their appendage moves in an almost-robotic way as well.
4. Biting
Yes, dogs are prone to biting people, but why do they do it? As per Cesar’s Way, “A dog will bite a person as a way of communicating their current state of mind. The dog could be reacting in aggression, fear or nervousness. [But] there are ways to prevent a dog bite from ever happening if you stay in tune to the dog’s body language.”
3. Licking their lips
When your dog starts to lick its lips, don’t be deceived. If it’s away from its bowl, food has nothing to do with the action. In fact, it’s a sign of nervousness noted canine expert Amy Bender while writing for the website The Spruce Pets. She called the behavior an “appeasement gesture.”
2. Tilting their head
Is there anything cuter than a dog that tilts its head? They’re absolutely adorable! Normally, canines exhibit this behavior when an object piques their curiosity. People do that too. And PetHelpful also said that pooches try to pick up distant noises this way, zoning in on their location.
1. Head pressing
Should there ever come a time when your dog starts to push its head on a wall or flat surface, don’t ignore it. Please. You see, Hill’s Pet Nutrition reported that the canine could be suffering from a severe neurological ailment. In other cases, it might be a bout of poisoning. Either way, you must contact a vet as quickly as possible.
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Karachi, October 04, 2019 (PPI-OT): Mr. Ahsan Shakeel has been elected unopposed as Chairman of All Pakistan Motorcycles Spare Parts Importers and Dealers Association (APMSPIDA) for the term 2019-2020. In addition, Shahzada Nasir Maqbool has been elected Senior Vice Chairman, Muhammad Arif Siddiqui as Vice Chairman for 2019-20. The office bearers will take charge of their office.
Others elected Members Salman Ahmed, Shahzad Sarfaraz, Amjad Noor, Danish Shakeel, Muhammad Hashim, Muhammad Asif Chutani, Imran Shoaib, Yahya Shaukat and Muhammad Amir Khan and Mr. Faisal Khalil. Member, Ex Office.
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Gameplay is similar to that of Asphalt 7: Heat, with the player given four control “Tilt to steer” (auto-acceleration with movement controlled by tilting the device), “Tilt and icons” (manual acceleration via an on-screen icon, with movement controlled by tilting the device), “On-screen controls” (auto-acceleration with movement controlled by an on-screen virtual steering-wheel), “Tap to steer” (auto-acceleration with movement controlled by tapping the side of the screen). The Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 versions feature different control schemes, including the traditional WASD and the up, down, left, right keyboard scheme.
The five star rating system for each race, the use of primary and secondary objectives introduced in Asphalt 6: Adrenaline and also used in Asphalt 7 have all been retained in Asphalt 8. Three stars are awarded for finishing in first place, two for second, and one for third. Achieving secondary objectives, such as performing a given number of stunts or knocking down opponents, awards the player with two additional stars. This is the same in Moto Blitz and Championships but you have to complete the primary objectives before unlocking the secondary objectives. Obtaining stars in an event is cumulative – players who finished first in an event without completing the secondary objectives may replay the race and obtain a five-star rating even if the primary objectives are not met. The core gameplay is slightly different, however. As the subtitle implies, the focus of Airborne is on jumping, with tracks featuring a lot more ramps than in previous games.[6] In addition to performing standard jumps, the player can also perform flat spins (by drifting onto a ramp) and barrel rolls (by driving off of a curved ramp). It is also possible to perform a barrel roll by driving with 1 side on a normal ramp.[7] All jumps earn nitro boost; the longer the airtime, the more boost earned. Destroying obstacles such as barriers and lamp posts, hitting traffic cars, or almost hitting traffic cars (near misses) also earns nitros. Another new feature, which substitutes the “Adrenaline mode” in Asphalt 6 and 7, is the ability to perform a “Perfect Nitro”. In the initial version of the game, the career mode consisted of 180 events split into eight “seasons”, which become progressively more difficult.[8][9] In later versions, additional challenges and seasons were added. As of March 2020, Asphalt developed a total of nine seasons, excluding the “McLaren Legends Season”. When the game begins, only Season One is available. Later seasons must be unlocked either by earning a certain number of stars or by purchasing a “Season Unlock” in the in-app store. You cannot unlock a season through an in-app purchase unless you have played and earnt the required amount of stars to unlock the previous season or purchased the previous season.[10] The Great Wall update added 30 new events centered on the Great Wall.[11] The Dubai update introduced a new season where only fully upgraded cars are eligible to participate, besides adding three new events centered on Dubai.[citation needed] The San Diego Harbor update introduced a new season featuring events where the player can participate in a twenty-four car race (Exclusive Metal Events – only on iOS 8), alongside several new events centered on both Dubai and the San Diego Harbor.[citation needed]
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Reainbow Tree by Vincent Callebaut Architectures
Introducing the architects of the Belgian Pavilion
Vincent Callebaut
This month we talked to one of our architects, and true visionary, Vincent Callebaut.
The “Vincent Callebaut Architectures” agency was created following the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 during which they exhibited their manifest projects across ten pavilions. These projects included floating cities for climate refugees (Lilypad), vertical farms in New York (Dragonfly), zero-carbon hydrogen planes (Hydrogenase), and self-built upcycling villages in Haiti (Coral Reef).
Tao Zhu Yin Yuan in Taipei
In general, what motivated you?
The common target of these projects was to develop an imaginary eco-design advocating positive ecology and drawing inspiration from all living things, that is to say, shapes, structures and all the feedback loops we found in ecosystems. This discipline is now called Biomimicry and is expanding rapidly. Following the exhibition of our research work in Shanghai in 2010, many promoters, investors and stakeholders have commissioned us to design ecological projects internationally, mainly in emerging countries in Southeast Asia, South Africa, and North and Latin America. Today our agency, based at Place de la Bastille in Paris, has around ten employees who are constantly building bridges between laboratory research in collaboration with universities and scientists on the one hand, and application of innovations in industries and on construction sites on the other.
Mountain Towers
What do architecture and design mean to you? What impact do they have?
We live through architecture 24 hours a day: in the office, at home, during transport, in theatres, in the streets. This directly influences our health and comfort. Being an architect is like being an haute-couture designer, it is inventing spaces that dress you and closely embrace your body like a garment to optimize your quality of life and magnify your emotions.
What do you think is the greatest strength of your creations?
I am part of the new generation of architects sensitized during our adolescence by Yann Arthus Bertrand, Nicolas Hulot or even Al Gore who has alerted us for the past 30 years on the harmful effects of climate change.
Caught between the denial of climate sceptics and the cry of help from "collapsologists" who announce the end of our civilization, we optimistically advocate the right symbiosis between Nature and Humanity. Our architecture is destined to be ecological, vegetated, and producing its own energy thanks to renewable energies, recycling its own waste thanks to biomass plants and phyto-purification lagoons, and being built on the basis of bio-based materials.
Our creations demonstrate that it is possible to implement a circular economy which ensures that everything that is produced and consumed is recycled and recyclable, which then transforms waste into resources in virtuous loops, and which aims for carbon neutrality. In short, an economy that can implement the ecological and inclusive transition.
The Belgian Pavilion
You designed the Belgian pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. What have you learned so far from the cooperative effort between a government agency and your company?
The government agency, builder (Besix) and the architects have but one ambition: to make our country shine internationally. "The Green Arch", the Belgian pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, was intended to be a non-standard "out of the box" building which, from the first sketches, expresses the dynamism and diversity of our country.
This project is a true "spatialization" of the concept of "Belgitude", a clever blend of Latin romanticism specific to Southern Europe and high pragmatic technicality obtained from the Germanic and Anglo-Saxon countries in Northern Europe.
Two creative companies (such as yours and Assar Architects) working together can create fireworks, both in a positive and a negative way. How did you set up your cooperation? What were the challenges?
"Connecting Minds, Creating the Future" is the main theme of Expo 2020 Dubai. With Assar Architects and our Krafthaus scenographers, we have applied this leitmotif to the letter to imagine a project with a very strong identity that can be summarized in two pencil lines on a simple box: A green building-bridge forming a huge wooden arch to accommodate a vast public Agora protected from the sun.
The result of our rich and intense collaboration will express the affinities of each living force of our plural team to design a unique project from the overall concept to the mastery of the smallest detail.
Paris Smart City 2020
After the design process: how do you support the construction of the Belgian pavilion?
Our role as architect is to guarantee BelExpo the quality of the construction by integrating the submitted studies and following up on the site progress. For example: respect for the budget and deadlines, the management and the noble integration of sponsorships, and the engineering of the organic façade built with more than 5.5 kilometers of wooden louvers forming a giant moucharabieh.
What vision do you want to bring to the Belgian pavilion and Expo 2020 Dubai?
The Green Arch will be Belgium's showcase for over 6 months. As an architect, we want to promote the know-how and innovations of the best Belgian manufacturers and companies in all fields. The kiosks, the exhibition, the brasserie, the business centre, each space is carefully thought out to highlight our art of living, our gastronomy, our ingenuity, our engineering and our ecological commitments.
How has the current pandemic affected your work?
Since the spring of 2020, the Covid-19 health crisis has required a lot of resilience, agility and creativity to reinvent our work methodologies, and to constantly be able to adjust the project in real time when addressing, for example, the deficiencies of certain suppliers.
Do you have any advice for those who want to embark on the same adventure as you?
Do you want to become an architect? Be fiercely persevering and always keep a dose of unconsciousness if you want to continue sleeping at night. As Oscar Wilde said so well, always aim for the moon to at least land in the stars.
Besides the Belgian pavilion, of course, what is your favourite project you've worked on and why?
My agency's favourite project is the one that allowed us to demonstrate that we could make architectural utopias a reality: the “Tao Zhu Yin Yuan” project. A 50,000m² residential tower of which we won the tender during an international competition in Taipei, Taiwan.
When a customer believes in you and empowers you, you're ready to move mountains for them! This is what we did for our Taiwanese client "BES Engineering Corporation".
After 10 years of studies and construction, this spiral ecological tower was delivered in early 2020. It is covered with more than 23,000 plants, shrubs and trees, absorbing more than 135 tonnes of CO2 per year through photosynthesis. Certified earthquake-resistant 7.0 on the Richter scale, and LEED Gold Plus and Diamond Level labelled by the Low Carbon Buildings Alliance, it demonstrates that nothing is impossible and that the future of an ecological, sustainable and united city is a dream that can be realized today.
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Bakers reveal their new year’s resolutions for 2021
By Amy North2021-01-01T09:00:00+00:00
Bakers are kicking off the new year with hope and a host of ambitious plans as they look to boost their businesses in 2021.
We’ve asked bakers from across the UK to reveal what they’d like to achieve over the next year:
Source: Warings Bakery
“Capitalising on our new-found fame”
Daniel Carr, PR manager at Warings Bakery in Reading, says:
Despite the turbulent year and challenges we have faced, Covid has in fact provided at least one positive for our industry and that has been to raise the profile of small independent bakers like ourselves. New customers have discovered us and we find ourselves baking for a new generation of customer that is enjoying our traditional products, with increases in sales of bread, buns, doughnuts, and pastries.
Lockdown forced us, out of necessity, to develop online home deliveries and since its launch we have continued to evolve and re-developed our temporary site into a new company website and on online shop.
Our resolution for the new year is to continue to offer our customers a wide range of fresh, tasty traditional baked products, capitalising on our new-found fame and also to look at how we can evolve our online shop to offer a postal service across the UK, as we’ve already seen demand for items such as lardy cake to be posted.
Source: Ginger Bakers
“Keenly welcoming back out volunteers”
Lisa Smith, owner of Ginger Bakers in the Lake District, says:
First off, we need to take stock, assess the impact of all the new online sales we’ve taken and examine how they will develop them and then fit into our ongoing business model. The increased volume of sales took us by surprise somewhat, especially with the levels experienced in the build-up to Christmas. We just haven’t had the time to analyse the financials, so this is where I will start and feed this into the business plan to give us structure for 2021.
We will be adding a couple of new seasonal cakes to our range and including them in our newly launched cake club as well.
Once the pandemic allows, we will be keenly welcoming back our volunteers, we’ve really missed them, especially as they enhance our working day in the bakery, and we are able to offer them much needed work experience which helps them to develop and provide them with key skills.
Source: Project D
L to r: Project D co-owners Matthew Bond, Max Poynton and Jacob Watts in the new bakery
“We don’t want to abandon the high street”
Max Poynton, co-director of Derby-based doughnut specialist Project D, says:
Our business model completely changed during 2020 where the focus shifted from selling our luxury handcrafted doughnuts at events and shopping centre kiosks to offering an online home delivery model and at pop-ups announced on social media. We currently deliver across a region from Leeds to Birmingham, but our recent move into a bakery which is 11 times the size of our previous home will allow us to triple our capacity so we intend to extend into Manchester and London.
We don’t plan to abandon the high street and we hope to reopen some, if not all, of our kiosks as well as opening a flagship store in Leeds. We can see from the proliferation of coffee shops on the high streets that customers want somewhere to socialise, to gather and meet friends, or even as a place to work and we want to open somewhere where the baked goods are just as important as the coffee.
Customers want an ‘experience’ – somewhere that will look amazing on their social media feeds and offer an opportunity to try something innovative, creative and exciting. This is certainly something we intend to offer in our flagship store, and we are batting around some incredible concepts.
“Dedicate some time to reflecting after a year of survival”
Catherine Connor and Aidan Monks, owners of Lovingly Artisan, says:
We’re big believers in daydreams and forecasting a future you desire. Creating a few realistic goals and perhaps a couple of fairytales too, this is what we both sketch out on our vision boards before the 1 Jan and have done for decades. The type of resolutions that help you visualise a brighter future or a future you’re prepared to get up early for and fight for when the going gets tough (and wow wee has it been tough this year).
Our resolutions for 2021 are:
· Create a creative baking space, with time to play, time to explore and experiment
· The year of learning – Aidan’s year will kick starts with a six-week fermentation course as this year is all about growth and discovery. Whilst Catherine is on a programme dedicated to developing a greater understanding of retailing successfully
· To dedicate some time to stepping back, reflecting and evaluating, needed after a year of survival.
Source: Village Bakery
Christien and Robin Jones at the new Village Bakery site on Wrexham Industrial estate
“Opening our new state-of-the-art bakery”
Robin Jones, managing director of the Village Bakery in Wales, says:
Like everyone else we are hoping that the cloud of coronavirus will start to recede in 2021 and we can return to something like normality.
One of the things we have to look forward to is the opening of our new state-of the-art bakery next summer which will be more than three times the size of the one its replacing and will be kitted out with the best, most modern equipment on the market.
It will enable us to relaunch of our Baking Academy to train the next generation of bakers, teaching them with the skills and providing a firm foundation for the future. It will also be home to our new Innovation Centre where we will be developing and perfecting new products.
Source: Birds Bakery
“We can find the new normal on the high street”
Mike Holling, sales and marketing director at Birds Bakery, says:
The challenges of this year, which have impacted our trading performance, have already put us in a strong position to deal with the next year. The development of new revenue streams will continue – home delivery and “Birds by Post” have been very successful, and we expect this to expand further.
We have some excellent new product development in the pipeline, especially with our seasonal lines, which starts very quickly with Valentine’s Day and Easter. We will also be focussing on increasing the gluten-free offering and our vegan products.
With the Covid-19 vaccine becoming more available, this will hopefully reduce the impact of the pandemic and we can find the new normal on the high street, but I envisage we will be under constraints during the forthcoming months. Our number one priority will be to keep our colleagues and customers safe at all times.
We would like to wish everyone in the baking community a more positive new year – bring on 2021.
Craft Bakery
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Header Image by Eric Alonso via Getty Images
After a 2019//20 season full of ups and downs for her personally, Lieke Martens was back at his best in the month of December as she was Barça Femení’s player of the month.
FC Barcelona Femení maintained their winning record at the end of December and, despite playing three less matches than second-place Real Madrid Femenino, went into the winter break as leaders of the Primera Iberdrola. Lieke Martens enjoyed a great run of fixtures in the month of December, racking up six goals and three assists. Notably, three of those goals were scored in the important UEFA Women’s Champions League tie against PSV Eindhoven in the round of 32.
After missing nearly half of the 2019/20 season due to injury and having a rough restart since August’s Champions League matches, Martens seems to have fully returned to being a key player for Barcelona, hitting world-class form. The Dutch international has scored a goal every 85 minutes and assisted every 128 minutes in the league, and as of December, she is the top scorer for Barça Femení in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
It was quite the task to pick the player of the month, especially given the multiple record-breaking performances from Jennifer Hermoso and the complete domination of the right side by Caroline Graham Hansen. However, Martens was simply too dominant throughout the month – especially in the two important European encounter – for her to not be chosen.
Primera Iberdrola | Santa Teresa CD (H) (5/12/2020): 9–0
Minutes: 62
Assist: 1
With Caroline Graham Hansen out of the clash against Santa Teresa, Lieke Martens was tasked to hold the team’s width on the right side. She showed her versatility by combining well with Ana-Maria Crnogorčević, scoring a quick hat-trick within the space of 15 minutes which helped blew away the opponent at the end of the first half.
She started the game brightly forcing a save out of Raquel Poza in the early minutes. With some intricate passing, Barca got the lead in the 4th minute through Jennifer Hermoso. It was non-stop entertainment from Barca Femeni as they continued to score for fun. In the 10th minute, Crnogorćević played a low cross into the penalty box for Martens to score an instinctive tap in.
Again in the 16th minute, she utilized her speed when Mariona Caldentey played a long pass into her path on the edge of the box. Martens controlled the ball with one foot and volleyed the ball into the net in a fantastic display of skill and technical quality. Moments later, she completed her first-ever hat trick in blaugrana colours when she either intentionally or unintentionally placed a perfectly-aimed cross from out wide into the back of the net, catching the Santa Teresa goalkeeper completely off-guard.
Golaaaaazo de @liekemartens1!!! Vaya pase de @mariona8co!! (3-0) pic.twitter.com/GNLW9Gx5yY
— FCBSeny (@FCBseny) December 5, 2020
She didn’t think of stopping there. Martens continued to toy with Santa Teresa’s left-back, creating quality changes and eventually recording an assist in Barcelona’s sixth goal scored by the ever-reliant Jennifer Hermoso.
UEFA Women’s Champions League | PSV Eindhoven (A) (9/12/2020): 1–4
Goal: 1
Barça Femení made their return to the Champions League in the round of 32 against Dutch side PSV Eindhoven. Once again, Martens was played in the right-wing position. She caused a lot of trouble in the early minutes, creating quality chances such as in the 16th minute when she picked out Asisat Oshoala, who shot the ball well above the post.
📹🔵🔴 What a goal!!!! @liekemartens1 @FCBfemeni #ForçaBarça #FCBFemeni #Juguemcomsom #jugamoscomosomos pic.twitter.com/jD3528Halx
— FC Barcelona Femení (@FCBfemeni) December 9, 2020
Martens’s pace provided some much-needed width for Barca on the right side, balancing out the width which was lacking down the left due to the inverted winger in Mariona. After about 67 minutes into the game, Caroline Graham Hansen was introduced into the game and Martens switched back to her natural left-wing position. As usual, switching Martens from right wing to left wing majorly improved Barcelona’s chance creation. Not soon after, at the 75th minute mark, Hansen picked out Martens on the left after a well-worked move, and Lieke smashed an exuberant volley into the back of the net. This goal gave Barça a much-needed cushion to experiment and rotate players in the second leg at home.
UEFA Women’s Champions League | PSV Eindhoven (H) (16/12/2020): 4–1
The Catalans welcomed PSV to the Estadi Johan Cruyff in the second leg of the round of 32. This time around, birthday girl Lieke Martens started in her natural left position while the wrecker in chief Caroline Graham Hansen started on the right side. Barcelona started the game brightly and never took the foot off the gas. Martens could hardly be stopped here.
A misplaced pass from PSV captain Mandy van den Berg led to a Barça breakaway with Vicky Losada lifting the ball over the top to the far corner for Martens to slot it home. It was later pointed out that this goal was reminiscent of Johan Cyruff’s “Flying Dutchman” goal.
🇳🇱🙋♂️ 1973: The Flying Dutchman
🇳🇱🙋♀️ 2020: The Flying Dutch𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 pic.twitter.com/rICmkK9Vha
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 17, 2020
Fifteen minutes before the end, Martens made it 4–0 with a second striking header following a corner.
Martens scored a total of three goals in the tie, which were important in dismantling a physically imposing, high pressing PSV side. Her performances over both legs helped Barcelona reach the round of 16 of the Champions League with ease.
Primera Iberdrola | Sevilla (H) (19/12/2020): 6–0
Martens started in her natural left-wing position against a Sevilla side that likes to counter-attack with their pacy forwards. Although she didn’t mark the scoresheet, her dribbling and pace were a threat to Sevilla’s backline and her combination play in the final third greatly helped Barcelona’s attack. It was a convincing game from the Netherlands playmaker who continued to solidify her case to be a starter.
Primera Iberdrola | RC Deportivo de la Coruña (A) (22/12/2020): 1–6
Assists: 2
To cap off an excellent month, Martens made her 100th appearance against RC Deportivo. She started on the right but switched back to the left-wing to help exploit Deportivo de la Coruña’s weakness in the right-back position. Two crosses from Lieke Martens led to two further goals from Oshoala and Aitana Bonmatí before the break. If Barça were clinical in front of the final third, she easily could have ended up with more assists.
Lieke Martens had a sensational month both in domestic and continental competitions | Photo by David Ramírez / Zuma via Imago
Lieke Martens will be returning from the holiday break brimming with confidence, her form hopefully continuing to some of Barcelona’s more important league, Supercup, Copa de la Reina, and Champions League matches. This includes the next match at the Camp Nou against Espanyol, a historic clash that she is very likely to start given her current form.
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I have been a cricketer during my school days, but Barça changed my love towards football. Since then, football has always been an integral part of my life and the perfect antidote during my hard times. I have been a Barça addict since 2009 and passionate about writing articles on Barça Femení. I have been a follower and admirer of Barça Femení since 2017. One of the admins of the website Footballengine.net.
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Another day, another avoidable loss for a team that’s supposed to be one of the best in the world.
FCB Femení lost on penalties to Atlético Madrid in the Supercopa Femenina semifinal yesterday, their first competitive loss against their Rojiblanco rivals in nearly two years. On the surface, this match means little in the greater context of Barcelona’s season. So far, they have won every match in the Spanish league by scoring 62 goals and conceding just two in 11 matches.
They likely will have an easy Round of 16 Champions League draw, and are still probable to complete a domestic treble for the 2019-20 season, pending the Final of last season’s Copa de la Reina. With all this in mind, this Supercopa loss should be just a blip in what is supposed to be a very exciting 2021, but the outcome of this match is representative of some much more pressing issues within the club that have gone on for far longer than necessary.
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So, all these glaring issues that came to light against the Germans… were they ever resolved?
Did they address their vulnerability in defense? Did they ever find a pure striker who could consistently score goals without having to be handed 20 opportunities? Have their managerial decisions gotten any better? Has their big-game mentality improved any since then? Has the club brought in any significant reinforcements in their problem areas? Has FCB Femení done anything meaningful to remedy the many mistakes that they made against Wolfsburg?
After having two transfer windows and almost six months to fix their issues, the answer for all of those questions remains a flat no. Specifically, Barcelona’s forwards have not addressed their inability to convert, the backline have not addressed their defensive shortcomings, and the coaching staff’s managerial decisions have not gotten any better. As a collective, they have not improved their mentality in big games and they have not improved their squad since the Champions League semifinal.
Barcelona may have only conceded 2 goals in the league and they may regularly win their league matches by 5 or more goals, but that speaks more to an ever-increasing disparity in the quality of Primera Iberdrola teams than it does to the overall quality of Barcelona. The defensive issues are still there- they’re just less evident when Barcelona is in the opposition’s half 90% of the time. The inability to convert is still there- it’s just less evident if the opposition’s backline is discouraged from the starting whistle when it’s almost a guarantee that they’ll be letting in 5+ goals. Recording dominant wins like these every matchweek makes it easy to ignore the problems that still exist within the team, which could very well lead to complacency farther down the line.
These problems need to be acknowledged and addressed if they have any chance of winning it all in Europe. This starts with their key issues on the pitch. Barcelona have no reliable, consistent strikers. Jenni Hermoso might be Barcelona’s all-time top scorer, but she is not a pure 9, she is too slow to play as a 9, and she should not be in Barcelona’s long-term plans considering her age. Barcelona’s other option at striker, Asisat Oshoala, is also less than ideal. Her resolve in front of goal has taken a downturn since returning from the pandemic hiatus, and she has shown herself time and time again since then to be ineffective under pressure. Her shooting against Atléti in last year’s Champions League was poor, her shooting against Wolfsburg in the Champion’s League was a disaster, and aside from one or two moments of quality inside the box against Atléti in the Supercopa yesterday, her performance was nothing to write home about. This also includes her poor performances in the league that often go under the radar because she ends up on the scoresheet anyway. Her signing in 2019 seemed extremely promising, but this summer should be time for her to hang up her boots in Barcelona so the club can make room for a proven, world-class striker, whomever that may be.
Barcelona’s other biggest area of weakness can be found in left-back Leila Ouahabi. Leila offers little to the team in terms of providing width, giving defensive stability, creating chances, or really any other quality that a fullback might want to have. Her positioning is often so poor that Mapi León spends a significant part of any given match covering for her, to the point where she regularly plays as both a left-back and a center-back at the same time. Too many times has this thrown off Barcelona’s formation and made the team lose its balance, causing them to suffer from avoidable counter-attacks through the left-wing and the centre. Cortés either needs to shift his focus towards Melanie, who is a significant improvement in almost every area except pace or go shopping for a world-class left-back. The club outgrew Leila’s level a long time ago, and they simply do not have time to waste being held back by players who are not at the level that they need to be.
Speaking of Cortés, he has yet again demonstrated himself to be a weak coach in big matches, something culés have seen on more than a handful of occasions now. This time around, he fielded an extremely predictable starting XI- no formation changes, no surprises. When he does this, he gives his opponents an opportunity to learn from their mistakes. On the other hand, he seems content and even adamant in repeating his mistakes, and then doing nothing to fix them. He also seems apprehensive to own up to his shortcomings as a coach. Poor substitution choices, inadequate reading of the team’s needs and extreme predictability are all things he does that lower the level of Barcelona when it counts the most. As time has passed, Lluís has shown himself to be a more and more limited coach. If this trend continues, Barcelona will have to search elsewhere for a manager who can rise to the occasion, especially given the level of talent at their disposal.
Finally, it goes without saying that the refereeing in the women’s game is a disaster. VAR in major competitions should be one of the top priorities of women’s football, because the two penalties not called in Barcelona’s favor could have easily had a significant impact on the outcome of this match. Alexia practically being tackled in the box by Silvia Meseguer and a handball from Merel van Dongen were not called, despite the fact that van Dongen clearly extended her arm to prevent a cross into the area. Meanwhile, on the other side of the pitch, a handball was called against Andrea Pereira which gave Atléti the upper hand and nearly sent them through to the semifinals in regular time. Decisions like this are immensely frustrating, but at this point, poor refereeing is not a valid excuse when it’s pretty much a staple of Spanish football. The players should know by now that they need to expect major refereeing mistakes in big games. What really prevented them from winning was their shooting, which, similar to the Wolfsburg match, was absolutely unacceptable. Barcelona recorded 31 shots with 17 on target and had 5.4 expected goals but shockingly scored zero goals from open play. Atleti’s keeper Hedvig Lindahl is one of the greatest keepers to ever do it, but she has not played a match since August of last year. Their only goal came through a miracle free kick from Alexia Putellas, who yet again had to save Barcelona from crumbling.
Posible penalti a @alexiaps94 pic.twitter.com/u2ho9tAf1V
— FCBSeny (@FCBseny) January 13, 2021
The possible penalty on Alexia Putellas by Silvia Meseguer
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The possible penalty from Merel van Dongen after a cross into the box hits her outstretched arm
It’s difficult to look at this match and not feel discouraged by a loss like this that was completely preventable. It felt exactly the way Wolfsburg did- all the team’s issues came to the forefront at the worst possible time, causing them to crash out of a tournament once again.
The club simply cannot afford to overlook this loss. The Supercopa is a relatively meaningless trophy, but it’s extremely telling that the first time Barcelona was legitimately challenged in a win-or-go-home match this season, they failed to put up any sort of fight. Until these problems are fixed to the point of near perfection, they are not serious about European success. It is not possible to put up a challenge to Lyon with so many glaring weaknesses in a team, let alone the likes of PSG, Chelsea, or Bayern.
Atléti let them off with a warning. The next time they face a bigger and better team, it will be a test whether or not they’re truly prepared to join the ranks of Europe’s top clubs, or whether they’ll continue to settle for being second, third, or fourth-best.
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In this tactical analysis, we take a look at the tactics observed in the matchup between Athletic Bilbao and FC Barcelona.
The Blaugrana travelled to San Mames to face Athletic Bilbao, with both sides within seven points of each other. After the 90 minutes passed, the gap was now 10 points as Barcelona got all three. The 2-3 win is not the most accurate description of the match. Barcelona were the dominant side for a large majority of the 90, with several impressive individual performances. In this analysis, we look at the matchup between Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao and discuss the tactics.
Athletic Bilbao’s recent system
Under Gaizka Garitano, Athletic Bilbao had lined up in a 4-2-3-1. Though, with ex-Valencia manager Marcelino Garcia now at the helm, little to no changes were to be expected as he was only appointed on the 4th of January, giving him minimal time to implement his ideas.
Taking a look at Bilbao’s tactics this season, the wings have been crucial to the side. With the full-backs as well as wingers possessing a fair bit of pace, they look to take the opposition on. Attempts at central overloads were seen often but failed just as often with the usual high backline being caught off-guard.
As the side attacks somewhat fluidly, the wingers come in narrow sometimes looking to receive the ball between the opposition’s full-back and centre-back, and sometimes stay wide. Inaki Williams and Raul Garcia have been the threat down the right as they often switch positions to destabilize the opposition defence.
The high backline forces the defenders to always be on a tightrope. Striking a balance between playing the offside trap while cutting off passing lanes is very tough. If Marcelino’s tactics at Valencia are anything to go by, we were to expect a well-balanced 4-4-2, which is exactly what we got. In his system, compact defending and quick counters were seen often. Of course, he has to work with different player profiles at his new club naturally leading to slight tactical tweaks at the very least.
Marcelino’s Bilbao System
With a 4-4-2, Marcelino deployed a team that could be a 4-5-1 or a 4-2-3-1, if needed anytime during the match. Something exciting about this Bilbao side is how well the player profiles match what the new manager has demanded from each team he has managed. Pace down the wings, a good striker partnership, and a squad well-versed in zonal marking. In this match, they went with a position-oriented zonal marking system, the only difference this and the ball-oriented zonal marking seen at times in the match is due to the independent pressing system of the front two.
The two players up front had the job of preventing passes to the base of midfield, or in general towards the centre. Here, the ball is being brought out of Barcelona’s defence. The passing option that Koeman’s side would usually prefer is a pass to the pivot, or to the interiors to attack vertically through the middle. Bilbao were in a compact 4-4-2, completely willing to give Barcelona’s full-backs space.
Because of Inaki Williams blocking the passing lane to the middle of the pitch, the only short-passing options without risk are back to the defender or on the wings to the full-back. As a part of their tactics, Bilbao would press down the wings often once the ball was in their half.
When building-up from the back, Bilbao would look to play short passes, but not exclusively. The full-backs would look to move up the field when the ball was with the central-defenders. Often, passing lanes wouldn’t be readily available. In such situations, a midfielder would drop back, and the centre-halves would stretch. Due to this, they would get better passing options down the wings.
However, there was one problem that the Basque side faced often. When distributing to the wide midfielders or the full-backs, the said players would be too high up the pitch to provide a good passing angle. This led to several interceptions from Barcelona, especially through Dembele.
As we see in the image below, though the Basque club has players who can receive, only a few of them can receive the ball up the field. On the far side, Dembele has been highlighted as well because due to his positioning, the full-backs would need to come short to receive or stay very high up the field to escape his cover-shadow.
Barcelona’s system
(Via Sofascore)
From Ronald Koeman’s lineup, which only had Antoine Griezmann in for Martin Braithwaite as a change from the last match, a 4-3-3 was expected. In this formation, which is a welcome change from the frequently problematic 4-2-3-1, the interiors are the team’s core. In this case, these two players, Frenkie De Jong and Pedri Gonzalez would look to find space behind the lines in the channels.
The full-backs would move high up the field, looking for overlaps. In the case of Sergino Dest down the right, a lot more space would be available with Lionel Messi usually drifting in towards the middle. Almost to the point that the American would be isolated. However, Ousmane Dembele started as the right-winger, with Messi down the middle. The Argentine had a free role, which he made full use of, displayed by his exemplary passing.
The Catalans looked to sustain attacking play while attempting to unlock Bilbao’s defence in the final third. To do this, Pedri was key. The 18-year-old midfielder was crucial in the attack, especially the combinations with Messi. Barcelona have greatly benefitted from the kind of roaming-playmaker player profile that Pedri provides. In Bilbao’s zonal marking, this is exactly the kind of player who can be a problem as we see in the next section.
The battles that decided the war
The key to breaking down a zonal marking is to play the ball around the opposition patiently and wait for openings. If not, individual talent and making the most of 1v1s remain the options. In Barcelona’s case, the 1v1 talent of Ousmane Dembele has been the only outlet for the latter. What really made the difference was the free role of Messi and Pedri’s playmaking.
Both these players were very fluid, moving the opposition’s structure around. Many goal-creating opportunities originated from the quick combinational play seen between Pedri and Messi. Though Bilbao’s zonal-marking system suited their playstyle, this partnership has been visible for a significant time now.
Bilbao were playing on the transition. Marcelino’s side would look to commit multiple players to the attack while trying to pin Barcelona’s players and look for a runner. As we can see in the image below, there were many similar situations where Bilbao’s forwards would run wide with a runner through the middle.
This is a simple tactic, but it forces the opposition defence to have good communication. If Barcelona’s defenders don’t decide which player to track and which player to leave amongst the confusion caused by Bilbao’s regular overlaps and underlaps, they would be vulnerable. This led to most of the chances that the Basque side got.
The matchup between Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao is one of the few ones this season that can be said to have multiple positives for Barcelona. Most of these, such as the new roles of the interiors benefitting Pedri and Frenkie De Jong, or the partnership between Pedri and Messi, are just affirmations of what we have seen recently. But it’s these affirmations that could play a part in Barcelona’s season turning out to be much better than how it started out to be. A strong performance from the team sees the Blaugrana move up to third in the La Liga table.
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Work rate is a crucial element in a successful football side, but which Barcelona players have put in the most effort this season?
While FC Barcelona has always been renowned for their technical ability and tactical intelligence of its players, their work rate on the pitch has also played a key role in the club’s greatest triumphs.
The concept is simple, but that does not detract from its importance. Players who track back to win the ball, make bursting runs to create space and passing angles, and constantly apply pressure out of possession are incredibly valuable.
While it may be impossible to quantify a player’s effort with full accuracy truly, the available data can still reveal some prominent trends. With that in mind, which Barcelona players put in the highest amount of work rate statistically?
Offensive effort
First things first, time to establish a methodology. Using data from FBRef, the dataset will be filtered down to outfield players who have played five or more 90’s in one of the big five European leagues in the 2020/21 season. That means each player has at least a decent sample size under their belt, so there will not be anyone with only a few ten-minute appearances off the bench.
Then, which metrics can be used to quantify effort best? With the data available, it seems like the most viable option is to try and identify box-to-box players. For that, we can use the different areas of the pitch in which players take their touches.
Each player’s percentile rank for touches per 90 minutes in the defensive penalty area, defensive third, middle third, attacking third, and attacking penalty area was found. The average of those five percentiles became each player’s “attacking average.”
These averages were then scaled between 0 and 100 for the final “Offensive Coverage Rating.” This is how the top five came out for all clubs:
Raphaël Guerreiro (Dortmund) – 100
Jordi Alba (Barcelona) – 97.5
Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain) – 94.3
Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich) – 92.7
Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid) – 92.4
Elsewhere in the top 20 are names like Andrew Robertson, Reece James, Luke Ayling of the intense Leeds United system, Ander Herrera, and Frenkie de Jong. There seems to a solid set of players who work their way up and down the pitch, either down the flank as full-backs or as energetic centre-midfielders.
How does the Barça squad stack up in particular?
As previously mentioned, the full-backs are the main standouts. The never-ending stamina of Jordi Alba is especially on display. Frenkie de Jong sits as the top non-full-back by a solid distance, reflecting his ability to drop deep in the buildup and provide dangerous runs forward.
A bit lower down the list, though, things start to look a bit weirder. It should be noted that this methodology can be a bit biased towards centre-backs. They rack up many touches in the defensive penalty area, defensive third, and middle third in a possession-based system, and the additional touches they get in the attacking penalty area off of corners and free-kicks can drive their scores pretty high.
Looking at Antoine Griezmann and Martin Braithwaite all the way at the bottom brings up another limitation. While we can track players who are active in many different areas of the pitch, we can not do the same for players who move and work a lot in the same area.
Watching Braithwaite and Griezmann definitely shows how active they are making runs in behind or across the attacking third, but because they do not drop off very often to pick up the ball, they rank low in the team.
However, those top names prove this offensive coverage metric is able to quantify box-to-box play in possession. Additionally, incorporating defensive metrics will clean things up even more.
Defensive effort
On the other side of the ball, the process is very similar. The same players and methodology will be applied, only this time with pressures instead of touches.
StatsBomb, who collect the data displayed on FBRef, define pressure as, “…applying pressure to an opposing player who is receiving, carrying, or releasing the ball.” These pressures are just broken down based on the thirds of the pitch, not the penalty areas too, so only three metrics go into each player’s “defensive average.”
Once again, those averages are then scaled between 0 and 100, creating the “Defensive Coverage Ratings.” The top five performers in these ratings were:
Jean-Daniel Akpa-Akpro (Lazio) – 100
Mikkel Damsgaard (Sampdoria) – 98.1
Leonardo Bittencourt (Werder Bremen) – 98.1
Morgan Sanson (Marseille) – 98.0
Maxence Caqueret (Lyon) – 97.2
Midfield workhorses like Fred and Adrien Silva, along with high-pressing forwards such as Diogo Jota are common throughout the rest of the top 25.
Given that Barcelona are a possession-heavy side, and one that often presses at a lower intensity, one would expect these defensive work-rate ratings to be a bit lower. Still, though, which players stand out?
Pedri comes out as the clear leader. Impressively, the teenager’s score is one that would be respectable in any side. Let it serve as just another testament to his work rate and ability to perform a variety of different tasks on the pitch.
With Sergio Busquets in second, even as he ages, he is still one of Barça’s most active players in terms of closing down the opposition. In third is another newcomer, as Sergiño Dest’s tendency to press aggressively puts him much higher than most of the other defenders in the squad.
The tallies for the other members of the backline are quite low because they defend in a more reserved nature. This can also be attributed to the fact that Barcelona give up fewer opportunities than many teams.
With both of these two ratings in place and some solid results for top-ranking players, it is time to combine them.
Here in the endgame, we will be combining all eight metrics to create one “Overall Coverage Rating.” That means touches in each third, touches in both penalty areas, and pressures in each third are all included. This way, we can see the players who cover most of the pitch overall.
The top five is comprised of:
Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund) – 100
Ander Herrera (Paris Saint-Germain) – 99.3
Bruno Guimarães (Lyon) – 97.6
Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid) – 96.7
Idrissa Gana Gueye, Dani Carvajal, Joshua Kimmich, Renan Lodi, Arturo Vidal, Maxence Caqueret, Ezgjan Alioski, Pedri, Reece James, Mason Mount, and Mateusz Klich are among the top names as well.
Now, for the final Barcelona squad rankings:
The numbers still involve the same intricacies as those discussed for the separate offensive and defensive ratings, but at least the top five names seem to match an eye test evaluation of the squad.
Pedri has joined the team and impressed everyone with his work rate and movement. He will track an opposition runner back to the defensive third, win the ball, combine in midfield, and then get forward to be an outlet for Messi.
While not as youthful and agile, Busquets still serves as a metronome in the possession and an active defender. He will move and reposition to rack up touches in the deeper thirds and engages in defensive duels very often.
The right flank has been slightly ignored at times this season, leaving Dest isolated, but the American always brings energy. He has all the skills and the mentality to be a great modern full-back.
Dest’s counterpart on the left, Jordi Alba, performs a much greater portion of his work offensively. His countless runs down the left wing have made him a key target for through balls and switches of play over the last few seasons.
Lastly, Frenkie de Jong backs up his reputation as an all-round midfielder. This season, the Dutchman is settling in more at the Camp Nou, and his surging runs forward to the penalty area have been awe-inspiring as of late.
Rivaldo (on De Jong): "It is being shown that near the area it seems that he is capable of playing better as an offensive midfielder and that he can even play a role similar to what Messi does when the Argentine is away. This is great news for Koeman." pic.twitter.com/r8aIrdMWSg
— Barça Universal (@BarcaUniversal) January 15, 2021
Griezmann and Braithwaite are probably the hardest done by these metrics. However, their energy, work rate and volume of runs they can provide off the ball is noticeable when watching them play, and invaluable for Barcelona.
There is no perfect way to quantify how hard a player works in-game, especially with these limited statistics. What this attempted to do, though, is focus on effort in terms moving to a variety of areas, being as involved in the match as possible, and doing so in different ways.
While not perfect, this methodology was successful in identifying some of the busiest players in the side. It should serve as a reminder of the value these players, like Pedri or de Jong, can offer beyond even their brilliant technical ability.
Given that 32-year-old Sergio Busquets and 31-year-old Jordi Alba were also near the top, it is a reminder of the potential replacements the club will be forced to make eventually. How long can these two continue to exert energy at this level? Could younger players be doing even more in those roles? How will Barça fill those holes when they move on? These are questions that need answering.
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