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China's treatment of Uighurs is 'embarrassment for humanity', says Turkey
People protest at a pro-Uighur rally outside UN headquarters in New York. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images
Ankara calls for UN to act on ‘human tragedy’ of re-education of the Turkic-speaking minority in Xinjiang province
Turkey has condemned China’s treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur people as “a great embarrassment for humanity”, adding to rights groups’ recent criticism over mass detentions of the Turkic-speaking minority.
“The systematic assimilation policy of Chinese authorities towards Uighur Turks is a great embarrassment for humanity,” Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement.
Aksoy also said Turkey had learned of the “tragic” death in custody on Saturday of Uighur poet and musician Abdurehim Heyit.
“We’ve learned with great sorrow that dignified poet Abdurehim Heyit, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for his compositions, died in the second year of his imprisonment,” he said.
“This tragic incident has further strengthened the Turkish public’s reaction to the serious human rights violations in Xinjiang region.”
The north-west Xinjiang region of China, where most Uighurs live, has been under heavy police surveillance in recent years, after violent inter-ethnic tensions.
Nearly one million Uighurs and other Turkic language-speaking minorities in China have reportedly been held in re-education camps, according to a UN panel of experts.
Beijing says the “vocational education centres” help people steer clear of terrorism and allow them to be reintegrated into society.
But critics say China is seeking to assimilate Xinjiang’s minority population and suppress religious and cultural practices that conflict with communist ideology and the dominant Han culture.
Uighur men pray in a mosque in Hotan, in China's western Xinjiang region, in April 2015
“It is no longer a secret that more than one million Uighur Turks – who are exposed to arbitrary arrests – are subjected to torture and political brainwashing in concentration centres and prisons,” Aksoy said in the Turkish foreign ministry statement.
“Uighurs who are not detained in the camps are also under great pressure,” he added.
Turkey called on the international community and the UN secretary general, António Guterres, “to take effective steps to end the human tragedy in Xinjiang region”.
Most mainly Muslim countries have not been vocal on the issue, not criticising the government in China, which is an important trading partner.
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Lafayette at St. George’s, Nov. 1824
“Lafayette” – Ary Sheffer (1823)
In 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette accepted an invitation from the US Congress and President Monroe, an old friend, to visit the US. Leaving France with his son Georges, a valet and Auguste Levasseur, his secretary on July 13, he sailed into NY Harbor on Aug 15. Levasseur would send back countless dispatches to an eager public awaiting details on the trip.
Lafayette’s trip would span all 24 states along a 6,000 mile route from July, 1824 to September, 1825. He encountered adoring crowds wherever he went. His fellow Masons put on a banquet virtually everywhere he went along with the Society of the Cincinnarians. The way was not always easy especially on the roads he followed in the rural south, often traveling at night. Fredericksburg’s visit was Nov 27, 1824. He had already visited Richmond and an ailing Jefferson at Monticello. There the Richmond volunteer cavalry accompanied Lafayette up the mountain. On the top were hundreds of spectators, including James and Dolly Madison.
Lafayette was 67 years old, the same age as President Monroe. Many of the revolutionary generation had passed away in including Washington and Franklin. In many ways his trip was the beginning of America’s 50 year anniversary of the celebration of independence which would occur two years later. Lafayette represented a link back to that earlier time providing new inspiration. It was also time to look to the future to the possibilities of America. The completion of the Erie Canal which would link the Great Lakes to the Hudson America symbolized this promise. It was also wrapped up in America’s sense of mission standing for freedom shortly after the Greek revolution of 1820 and 6 years before the 1830 July Revolution in France which saw the overthrow of Charles X and the creation of a constitutional monarchy. However, the contentious election of 1824 provided a dose of reality as the House of Representatives had to choose the winner, selecting John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson.
Lafayette came to Fredericksburg from the west after leaving Montpelier and proceeding through Orange. Upon his arrival on Sat. Nov 27, 1824 at the Wilderness he was received by a corps of about forty officers. After a reception provided by veteran of the American Revolution, they left 3pm with Col Hugh Mercer (member of St. George’s), a representative of the city. They arrived at the parade ground after almost 2 hours and just at sunset. The military groups there included Capt Duff Green of Falmouth Rifles (also a member of St. George’s) and two or three hundred citizens. The procession came to Fredericksburg went down Hanover Street to Caroline and then to Town Hall, today besides St. George’s where he was addressed by the Mayor with the the La Fayette Cadets at the center.
The next day was Sunday. Although Lafayette was a catholic, he was a practicing deist in terms of religion. However, he typically attended church services on Sunday out of respect for a nation that still kept the Sabbath. He also restricted his travel on Sundays after earlier criticisms in a New York newspaper and in some cases dispensed with the usual military honors on that day.
A book was written on this visit Reception of La Fayette in Fredericksburg published by Rufus B. Merchant. It may have been written years after the event, at least after Lafayette who died a decade later. “Nearly all the actors of that interesting event have passed over the river and joined the silent majority, including the illustrious chief actor.” Lafayette slept at the Farmers hotel on Saturday and attended a reception at the Mason Lodge early on Sunday and then came to St. George’s for worship. Here is a portion of his visit to St. George’s as recorded in this book:
“A procession was then formed, consisting of the most numerous assemblage of the Masonic Brethren that had ever been witnessed in Fredericksburg. In their peculiar order, the Committee of Arrangements, the civil authorities of the town and the military officers, and the General and his suite, were conducted to the Episcopal Church, where an excellent’ discourse was delivered to an overflowing congregation, by the Rev. Ed. C. McGuire. The text was taken from 139th Psalm, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 verses, and the subject, the omnipotence of God, involving reflections on his particular agency in the affairs of men. The following is an extract:
“It inspires us with precious hope for ourselves and for all mankind. It is full of promise that we shall grow and prosper in every principle and work of holiness, and that soon the world throughout its darkest and most afflicted regions shall realize at once the brightest visions of the philanthropist, and the longing expectations of the saint, when God who hears the groans of nature in this nether world, and hears in infinite compassion, will put forth His power in surrounding us with those scenes of accomplished bliss, foretold by prophets and by poets sung, in which universal peace and love shall reign, in which the sword shall be beat into the plough-share, and the spear into the priming-hook, in which the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and none shall be found to hurt or to destroy in all God’s holy mountain.
“That this glorious day is already dawning upon the world, whoever notes the signs of this distinguished age, must surely see. In hindrance of that illustrious era the civil and spiritual degradation of many of the nations of Christendom has heretofore opposed the must unyielding obstacles. Slavery in mind or body is the deadly foe of human happiness and human honour.
” Tis liberty alone that gives the flow’r
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume.
And we are weeds without it. All constraint,
Except what wisdom lays on evil men,
Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes
Their progress in the road of science; blinds
The eye sight of discovery; and begets
In those that suffer it, a sordid mind;
“Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit
To be the tenant of man’s noble form.
“But in relation to all the obstructions of human happiness, God hath said, “I will overturn, overturn, overturn, till he comes, whose right it is.” In doing this, God works by means. lie lays under contribution all the powers of nature, puts in requisition all the energies of man, when he would achieve his bright designs. And is not the history of our day strongly marked with the indications of His agency in unsettling the foundations of tyranny, in vindicating the equal rights of man, and furthering the cause of universal liberty and peace ? What else can mean this mighty moral excitement, so widely pervading the reviving nations? What means this growing activity and thoughtfulness of the human mind ? What this restless longing after some new and untried goods? Never surely was the human mind more in earnest than at the present moment.
“The political commotions, which from such prominent distinctions of our age, have sprung from some deep and powerful working of the human soul. Men seem to have caught glimpses, however indistinct, of the dignity, rights and great interests of their nature; and a thirst for prohibited blessings, and impatience of long-endured wrongs, have broken out wildly, like the fires of Etna, and shaken and convulsed the earth. See you not in these things, assembling and embattling his hosts for deeds of glorious war, in righteous judgment waged against his foe, that subduing them under his feet, he may urge on to their bright and glorious consummation, his sublime and merciful designs in favour of our afflicted race ? May God in mercy speed the auspicious end, in pity and forbearance wielding his ”rod of iron,” 3-et with resistless energy, constraining the benign and propitious reign of universal peace and love. In furtherance of his purposes of unquestionable love, may he raise up and long sustain the friends and avengers of oppressed and suffering humanity. May He especially regard with favour, and crown with blessings, the illustrious advocate and defender of man’s equal rights, at whose feet this happy and grateful land delights to lay its tribute of profoundest gratitude and love. May the evening of his days be crowned with the blessings of providence and grace, and his eternity with the joys of Heaven, through the merits and intercessions of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.”
[As an aside, it is interesting McGuire made this statement -“Slavery in mind or body is the deadly foe of human happiness and human honour”. Psalm 9 includes the statement “The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.” He contrasts the hope of his day with slavery. He may have been considering the foes of liberty at in the American Revolution or in his day in the 1820’s (“The Holy Alliance” as an example). The slavery issue in the US was heating up with the disagreement over extending slavery to Missouri which results in the Missouri Compromise in 1820. The inability to handle the slavery issue was seen in Virginia. In Richmond and Fredericksburg both slaves and free Blacks were prohibited from attending the ceremonies. The final act in the inability to handle the “peculiar institution” would occur 6 years later in a debate in 1831-32 in Virginia prompted by a slave insurrection in August 1831 led by Nat Turner. A result of the debate is that Virginia’s slaves were not freed.]
After Lafayette left St. George’s he would spend dinner with Judges Brooke and Coalter. Judge Coatler is buried in our graveyard and was an owner of Chatham. The evening was spent with the family of Captain Robert Lewis, George Washington’s nephew. Lewis (1769-1829) was the 10th son of Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington Lewis. He was the closest connection to the Washington family that Lafayette had. We don’t know whether Rev. Edward McGuire met Washington since he had married Judith
Lewis, a granddaughter of Betty Washington Lewis, and daughter of Robert Lewis.
On Monday, his last day in Fredericksburg, the La Fayette cadets escorted Lafayette proceeded through the streets of Fredericksburg to Town Hall next to St. George’s to meet the adoring crowds. He went to Gray’s Tavern for dinner which had 120 guests. He would depart for Washington at 5pm by carriage.
In September, 1825, John Quincy Adams would conclude Lafayette’s visit to America with a farewell address. “You have been received with rapture by the survivors of your earliest companions of arms. You have been hailed as a long absent parent by their children…And a rising generations, the hope of future time.. have [uttered] acclamations of joy at beholding the face of him who they feel to be the common benefactor of all. You have heard the mingled voices of the past, the present and the future.”
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Megan Stott Quick Info
Megan Stott is an American actress and singer who rose to fame for her portrayal of Izzy Richardson in Little Fires Everywhere. However, she has also appeared in a number of other shows and films including So Shook and Second Star to the Right.
Megan Stott
Megan Stott as seen in a picture that was taken in September 2020 (Megan Stott / Instagram)
Siblings – Gabriel Stott (Older Brother), Duncan Stott (Brother)
Megan is represented by Anonymous Content and Osbrink Talent Agency.
Megan Stott as seen in a picture that was taken with actor Gavin Lewis in March 2020 (Megan Stott / Instagram)
Megan Stott as seen in a picture that was taken in November 2020 (Megan Stott / Instagram)
Megan Stott Facts
She was born with a natural talent for music and quickly learned to play the violin, followed by the piano, flute, guitar, and ukulele.
Megan has a dog named LeeLoo.
She made her debut TV show appearance as Chloe in the show So Shook in 2018, alongside the likes of various stars including Travis Burnett, Jamie M Timmons, and Latonya Black Gilliard.
The first picture that Megan uploaded to her self-titled Instagram account was on February 1, 2019.
On Little Fires Everywhere, Megan was cast alongside well-known actress Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, and Rosemarie DeWitt.
Stott once stated in an interview that she succumbed to bullying through elementary and middle school and credits her supportive parents for helping her deal with the stress of being bullied.
She is obsessed with music from the 90s, in particular, that of singer and songwriter Alanis Morissette.
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Pat Riley Heavily Praises Tyler Herro, Calls Him the 'Perfect Pick' - Heat Nation
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Pat Riley Heavily Praises Tyler Herro, Calls Him the ‘Perfect Pick’
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When the Miami Heat made their first pick in Thursday night’s NBA draft, they used it on University of Kentucky guard Tyler Herro.
In the opinion of the team’s president Pat Riley, Herro was the best player to take for the Heat’s purposes.
Riles: "This is a perfect pick for us."
— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) June 21, 2019
One pre-draft scouting report indicated that the 6-foot-5 Herro has the potential to provide instant offense, though he is somewhat streaky. However, he is virtually automatic from the free-throw line and has shown improvement on the defensive side of the ball.
Herro spent only one year with the Wildcats, averaging 14.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists as a starter in all 37 of the school’s games. From the field, he connected at a rate of 46.2 percent, while his percentage from beyond the arc was 35.5 percent.
One Heat player who figures to offer Herro a warm welcome will be center Bam Adebayo, who also attended Kentucky. Last month, Adebayo had publicly advocated for the Heat to choose one of three Wildcats who ended up being selected in the first round, getting his wish when Herro’s name was called.
At just 19 years of age, Herro has plenty of time to develop in the Heat’s rigorous development system. The team is trying to get back to the postseason in the post-Dwayne Wade era and could offer an improved version of the role that Tyler Johnson was in before he was dealt away in February.
Herro’s first opportunity to show what he has to offer will come next month, when he takes part in Summer League action for the Heat.
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Does Gaga attack signal a change in tactics for social media scammers?
The news that Lady Gaga
Clearly, the simplest way to do this is to guess the password used for these accounts. With many people using one login point for a number of social media platforms, it’s possible that finding one right password could have given someone easy access to Gaga’s Facebook and Twitter feeds.
However, we’d like to think that – especially given this summer’s furore over the Fox News Twitter feed claiming Barack Obama had died – those running high-profile accounts at least follow some basic rules in password security.
So what other possibilities are there? It may be that, as awareness of social media security increases, this attack signals a change in tactics by cybercriminals to continue exploiting the medium. The person running Gaga’s account could have been the victim of a spear phishing attack. This technique has been used in more serious attacks, such as the one involving Mitsubishi back in September, so it’s reasonable to expect the same tactics being applied here, too.
As in the Mitsubishi attack, the email may be designed to trick the recipient into installing malware such as a zbot Trojan, which can then automatically steal details such as passwords. This could be through carefully crafted personal information – appropriately gained from social media sources the recipient has an account with – which can be used as the “trigger” to convince them into opening a malicious attachment containing the payload.
Without more details on this specific attack, we can’t say for sure what tactics were used. However, the increasingly simplicity with which spear phishing attacks can be automated and delivered – combined with the huge potential to be gained from exploiting millions of Twitter followers or Facebook fans – makes the use of malware in these celebrity attacks a strong option.
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Realme 7 5G Review: A Great 5G Phone That’s Also Affordable
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by Michael Santo — Friday, March 06, 2009, 09:07 PM EDT
Teen Sues Facebook Over Cyberbullying
The Internet is a wondrous thing, but it's also made teasing and bullying, formerly restricted to schoolyards, something you can do online for all the world to see. A Long Island teenager is suing her tormentors, their parents, and Facebook over a Facebook group "calculated to hold the plaintiff up to public hatred, ridicule and disgrace."
Denise Finkel, 18 and now a student at the University of Albany, filed suit in Manhattan for $3 million. Finkel alleges that four former Oceanside High School classmates (Michael Dauber, Jeffrey Schwartz, Leah Herz and Melinda Danowitz) created the password-protected Facebook group "90 Cents Short Of A Dollar" to bully her.
In her complaint, Finkel claims that the Facebook comments indicated that she "was a woman of dubious morals, dubious sexual character," that she "engaged in bestiality," was "an IV drug user" and had contracted AIDS.
Finkel is suing for $3 million.
Her attorney, Mark Altschul said:
"She had a very difficult time in high school. They were making sure that she was an unwanted soul there."
Likely Facebook will be immune in this case, but this could be a precedent-setter. You'll probably recall the case of Megan Meier, a Dardenne Prairie, Missouri teenager who committed suicide in 2006 over a MySpace romance gone bad, which actually turned out to be a hoax and cyberbullying. That eventually led to citywide, and later statewide laws against cyberbullying.
Civil cases, on the other hand, are rather uncharted territory. We will be watching this one closely.
Tags: Facebook, Cyberbullying, MySpace
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Hepatitis B infection in the Middle East primarily occurs as a re
Hepatitis B infection in the Middle East primarily occurs as a result of perinatal infection, horizontal transmission between family members and transmission from injections. Blood transfusion services have broadly efficient screening programmes, but immunocompromised and haemodialysis patients are at risk. The cost of screening, monitoring and treating CHB influences practice in a number of Middle East countries, and there is a need for information on the most cost-effective options.”
“We present an experimental study on the mechanical response of lithographically defined break junctions by measuring atomic chain formation,
tunneling traces and Gundlach oscillations. The calibration factor, i.e., the ratio between the electrode movement and the bending of the substrate, is found to be 2.5 times larger than expected from a simple mechanical model. This result is consistent
with previous finite-element selleck chemical calculations. Comparing different samples, the mechanical response is AZ 628 cell line found to be similar for electrode separations >4 angstrom. However, for smaller electrode separations significant sample-to-sample variations appear. These variations are ascribed to differences in the shape of the two electrodes on the atomic scale which cannot be controlled by the fabrication process. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3587192]“
“Despite continuous improvement in long-term survival, there is no knowledge about risk of bone health impairment and management strategies before and after intestinal transplantation. Therefore, 147 adults were retrospectively studied via chart review; 70 long-term survivors, 53 candidates and 24 recipients with longitudinal follow-up. Evaluation process PF-6463922 clinical trial included measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) and allied biochemical markers. Both long-term survivors and candidates showed low bone mass with lower (p < 0.05) z-scores at hip, femoral neck and spine. Vitamin D deficiency and secondary hyperparathyroidism were observed in both groups. Prevalence of osteoporosis was 44% among long-term
survivors and 36% in candidates with age, BMD, duration of parenteral nutrition, type of immunosuppression and rejection being significant risk factors. Fragility fractures occurred at a higher (p = 0.02) rate among long-term survivors (20%) compared to candidates (6%). The longitudinal study documented acceleration (p = 0.025) of bone loss after transplantation with a decline of 13.4% (femoral neck), 12.7% (hip) and 2.1% (spine). Alendronate reduced (p < 0.05) but did not prevent bone loss. In conclusion, intestinal transplant recipients are at risk of osteoporosis secondary to bone loss before and after transplantation. Accordingly, current management includes comprehensive preventive measures with prompt therapeutic intervention utilizing intravenous bisphosphonates or subcutaneous human PTH (1-34).”
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This article highlights AZD6094 the special analytic considerations required for proper reporting and interpretation of observational studies. We review statistical principles that are fundamental to understanding what observational data can offer. The concepts include the relationship between a study sample and the target population, and the two primary forms of statistical analysis: estimation and hypothesis testing. The concept of bias, and confounding in particular, is introduced as an obstacle to drawing valid conclusions from an observational study. The discussion will then focus on the techniques that are most useful in the analysis of the three most common types of
observational studies (the case series, the therapeutic study, and the prognostic study). The goal of this review is to empower the reader to take a practical approach to and validly
interpret the statistical analysis of these study types.”
“OBJECTIVE: To examine the association among smoking cessation, gestational and postpartum weight gain, and neonatal birth weight.
METHODS: We analyzed prospectively collected data from 1,774 women with term singleton pregnancies. Smoking status during pregnancy was categorized as nonsmokers, smokers, and quitters; and smoking status 1 year postpartum as nonsmokers, smokers, relapsed quitters, and sustained quitters. The association between smoking status and gestational weight gain, weight gain 1 year postpartum, and neonatal birth weight was tested by linear regression analysis, and the association between smoking status and neonatal birth weight less than the 10th percentile Selleck LY294002 for gestational age and sex was tested Poziotinib cost by multivariable logistic regression analysis.
RESULTS: Gestational weight gain at 16 weeks of gestation was comparable for nonsmokers, smokers, and quitters. The adjusted mean gestational weight gain at 37 weeks of gestation was 2.0 kg (95% confidence
interval [CI] 1.5-2.6) higher in quitters compared with nonsmokers. The rate of neonatal birth weight less than the 10th percentile was 21.7% among smokers, 8.0% among quitters, and 7.4% among nonsmokers. The adjusted odds ratio (OR) for birth weight less than 10th percentile was 3.6 (95% CI 2.5-5.2) in neonates born to smokers; the risk was similar for quitters (OR 1.0, 95% CI 0.6-1.6). One year after delivery, sustained quitters had a 2.4-kg (95% CI 1.6-3.1) higher adjusted postpartum weight gain than nonsmokers.
CONCLUSION: Smoking cessation is associated with gestational as well as postpartum weight gain. However, smoking cessation is associated with a substantially lower rate of neonatal birth weight less than the 10th percentile.”
“Advances in cancer treatment have allowed women to live longer, fuller lives. However, gonadotoxic therapies used to effect cancer ‘cures’ often significantly impair a woman’s reproductive potential.
gingivalis fimA genotypes can be present in primary endodontic in
gingivalis fimA genotypes can be present in primary endodontic infections. (Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 2010; 109: 474-478)”
“Na(DxH1-x)(3)(SeO3)(2) single crystals were grown with a deuterium content of 37%, and the spectra and relaxation times of the H-2 and Na-23 nuclei in the mixed Na(D0.37H0.63)(3)(SeO3)(2)
crystals were measured as functions of temperature. The H-2 and Na-23 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra undergo changes near 213 K. Our 23Na NMR results for x >= 0.3 show that there is no triclinic intermediate phase; the paraelectric alpha-phase and ferroelectric alpha-phase arise in mixed Na(D0.37H0.63)(3)(SeO3)(2) crystals. In addition, the H-2 and Na-23 relaxation times of mixed Na(D0.37H0.63)(3)(SeO3)(2) check details crystals are different from the H-2 and Na-23 relaxation times of NaH3(SeO3)(2) and NaD3(SeO3)(2). The effects of partial deuteration of sodium trihydrogen selenite crystals include not only a shift in the phase transition temperature T-C but also a change in the local symmetry. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3510591]“
“The synthesis of quarternized ammonium cationic polyvinyl alcohol (QPVA(+)) is studied in this
article. The effect of synthesis conditions on the degree of substitution (DS) is studied to acquire the optimal synthesis conditions. Polyelectrolyte and polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) membranes of QPVA(+) and phosphatized LCL161 order anionic polyvinyl alcohol (PPVA(-)) are made by solution casting method. It is found that the flux of polyelectrolyte and PEC membrane, consisting of QPVA(+) and PPVA(-) (1 : 1 in molar ratio), is 403 g/m(2) h, and its separation factor is 970 when the membrane is used in the pervaporation separation of ethanol/water. It is concluded that the hydrophilicity of the membrane and the rigidity of molecular chain segment are enhanced when the anionic and cationic groups are introduced in the PVA, and the membrane separation capability could be adjusted by changing polyelectrolyte material type and cation/anion mole ratio in the polyelectrolyte and PEC. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals,
Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 119: 2584-2594, 2011″
“Objectives. This study evaluated the efficacy of EndoVac system in comparison with Y-27632 solubility dmso that of a conventional needle irrigation method when the root canals were enlarged to various sizes.
Study design. Sixty-nine single-rooted teeth were divided into 3 groups according to the root canal irrigation system (24G and 30G needle and EndoVac). Each group was divided into 3 subgroups according to the MAF size (#25, #40, and #60). Four-micron-thick serial sections were prepared at 1.5 and 3.5 mm from the apical level and photographs were taken for the analysis. The influence of the irrigation system and apical size was evaluated using a 1-way ANOVA test and Tukey’s test (P < .05).
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“We assessed the clinical features and outcome of morbidly obese patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for management of postoperative peritonitis (POP) following bariatric surgery (BS).
In a prospective, observational, surgical ICU cohort, we compared the clinical features, empiric antibiotic therapy, and prognosis of BS patients with those developing POP after conventional surgery (cPOP).
Overall, 49 BS patients were compared to 134 cPOP patients. BS patients were younger (45 +/- 10 versus 63 +/- 16 years; p < 0.0001), had lower rates of fatal underlying selleck kinase inhibitor disease (39 vs 64 %; p = 0.002), and the same SOFA score at the time of reoperation (8 +/- 4 vs 8 +/- 3; p = 0.8) as the cPOP patients. BS patients had higher proportions of Gram-positive cocci (48 vs 35 %; p = 0.007) and lower proportions of Gram-negative bacilli (33 vs 44 %; p = 0.03), anaerobes (4 vs 10 %; p = 0.04), and multidrug-resistant strains (20 vs 40 %; p = 0.01). Despite higher rates of adequate empiric antibiotic therapy (82 vs 64 %; p = 0.024) and high de-escalation rates (67 % in BS cases and 51 % in cPOP cases; p = 0.06), BS patients had similar reoperation rates (53 vs 44 %; p = 0.278)
and similar mortality rates (24 vs 32 %; p = 0.32) Nocodazole mouse to cPOP patients. In multivariate analysis, none of the risk factors for death were related to BS.
The severity of POP in BS patients resulted in high mortality rates, similar to the results observed in cPOP. Usual empiric antibiotic therapy protocols should be applied to target multidrug-resistant microorganisms, but de-escalation can be performed in most cases.”
“OBJECTIVE: To develop effective policies addressing
access to health care for all women in the United States, we report the distribution of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Fellows and Junior Fellows in practice at county and state levels.
METHODS: Data were gathered from the 2010 U.S. County Census File for adult women (aged 15 years or older) and reproductive-aged women (15-44 years old) and from the 2010 membership roster of ACOG. The number of postresidency, actively practicing physicians Autophagy Compound Library trained in general obstetrics and gynecology per targeted population were recorded at state and district levels and mapped at county levels using uDig GIS software and U.S. Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles.
RESULTS: In 2010, the 33,624 general obstetrician-gynecologists (ob-gyns) in the United States, comprised 5.0% of the total 661,400 physicians. There were 2.65 ob-gyns per 10,000 women and 5.39 ob-gyns per 10,000 reproductive-aged women. The density of ob-gyns declined from metropolitan to micropolitan and to rural counties. Approximately half (1,550, 49%) of the 3,143 U. S. counties lacked a single ob-gyn, and 10.1 million women (8.2% of all women) lived in those predominantly rural counties.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted using the Missoul
Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted using the Missoula Vitas Quality of Life Index (MVQOLI), a 26-item QOL questionnaire with five subscales (Function, Symptom, Interpersonal, Well being, Transcendent) covering physical, social, psychological and spiritual domains and one global QOL item. One item in each subscale assesses the subjective importance of the domain on a score from 1 (least important) to 5 (most important), used to weight the contribution of the subscale towards the Total QOL score. The tool was translated into 6 languages and administered to consecutively recruited patients at four facilities in South Africa and one in Uganda.
Results: 285 patients
were recruited, with a mean age of 40.1; 197 (69.1%) were female. Patients’ primary diagnoses were HIV (80.7%), cancer (17.9%) and other conditions GDC-973 (1.4%). The mean global QOL score was 2.81 (possible range 0 (worst) to 5 (best)); mean Total score 17.32 (possible range 0 to 30). Patients scored most poorly on Function (mean 0.21), followed by Well being (2.59), Symptoms (5.38), Transcendent (5.50), Interpersonal (9.53) (possible range for subscale scores -30 to 30). Most important to patients
were: close relationships (mean 4.13), feeling at peace (4.12), sense of meaning in life (4.10), being active (3.84), physical comfort (2.58). Cancer patients were predominantly recruited at three of the sites; hence comparison with HIV-infected patients was restricted to these sites. HIV+ patients (n = 115) scored significantly worse PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibitor 3 cost than cancer patients Citarinostat (n = 50) on Well being (Z = -2.778, p = 0.005), Transcendence (Z = -2.693, p = 0.007) and Total QOL (Z = -2.564, p = 0.01). Global QOL score was most weakly correlated with Total QOL (r = 0.37) and the Transcendent subscale was most highly correlated (r = 0.77) (both p < 0.001). Patients receiving palliative care in South Africa and Uganda exhibited significantly poorer QOL compared to similar populations
in the USA.
Conclusions: Feeling at peace and having a sense of meaning in life were more important to patients than being active or physical comfort, and spiritual wellbeing correlated most highly with overall QOL. It is therefore vital to identify and meet the psychological and spiritual care needs of patients, as well as to assess and treat pain and other symptoms. Our finding that patients scored most poorly on the Function domain warrants further research.”
“Background: In the United States, more children are being vaccinated against influenza in August and September, months before peak influenza activity. Sustained vaccine efficacy through 12 months postvaccination has been demonstrated in children for live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) but not trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV).
T2DM patients with hypertension show significantly
decrea
decreased levels of IL-1 beta and caspase-1 compared to patients without hypertension. No significant differences in lymphocytes subset between cases and normal control were observed. Significant correlations were found between HbA1c and IL-6; body mass index (BMI) was significantly correlated with CRP, TNF-alpha, and phosphate; the weight (Wt) was associated with CRP and IFN-gamma. In conclusion, an alteration in the function of the immune system was observed in T2DM patient.”
“The BMN-673 sterile insect technique (SIT) has been shown to be an effective and sustainable genetic approach to control populations of selected major pest insects, when part of area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. The technique introduces genetic sterility in females of the target population in the field following their mating with released sterile males. This process results in population reduction or elimination via embryo lethality caused by dominant lethal mutations induced in sperm of the released males. In the past, several field trials have been carried out for mosquitoes with varying degrees
of success. New technology and experience gained with other species of insect pests has encouraged a reassessment of the use of the sterility principle as part of integrated control of malaria learn more vectors. Significant technical and logistic hurdles will need to be overcome to develop the technology and make it effective to suppress selected vector populations, and its application will probably be limited to specific ecological situations. Using sterile males to control mosquito vector populations can only be effective as part of an AW-IPM programme. The area-wide concept entails the targeting of the total mosquito population within a defined area. It requires, therefore, a thorough understanding of the target pest population biology especially
as regards mating behaviour, population dynamics, dispersal and level of reproductive isolation. The key challenges for success are: 1) devising methods to monitor vector populations and measuring competitiveness of sterile males Sapitinib mw in the field, 2) designing mass rearing, sterilization and release strategies that maintain competitiveness of the sterile male mosquitoes, 3) developing methods to separate sexes in order to release only male mosquitoes and 4) adapting suppression measures and release rates to take into account the high reproductive rate of mosquitoes. Finally, success in area-wide implementation in the field can only be achieved if close attention is paid to political, socio-economic and environmental sensitivities and an efficient management organization is established taking into account the interests of all potential stakeholders of an AW-IPM programme.
Results: Although there were differences between hearing aided an
Results: Although there were differences between hearing aided and implanted children in all areas of quality of life, in the physical area, these differences were greater than those in the psychological and social domains. HRQoL was positively correlated with auditory performance, speech intelligibility and negatively correlated with implantation age. The correlation coefficient, R = 0.78, indicates that between these three variables, implantation age, SIR and CAP and quality of life, there was a very good linear and direct proportional correlation. According to the determination coefficient YM155 inhibitor (R-2 adjusted = 0.59), 59.5% of quality of life’s variation
was explained by the variation of these three parameters.
Conclusions: Cochlear implant improves the auditory performance and speech production much more than hearing aids. Associated diseases have a negative effect on the evolution of cochlear implanted children but the cochlear implant may have an important impact on these children quality of life. It is well known that children implanted at a young age evolve better than older ones, but we should take into consideration that even older children can get good results, good performances if they are properly selected and well trained. (C) 2012 Elsevier
Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“Crude drug and different extracts of Achyrocline satureioides (Lam.) DC., A. tomentosa Rus-by, Gnaphalium cheiranthifolium Lam. and G. gaudichaudianum DC. (Gnaphalieae: Asteraceae) are widely used in South America mainly as digestives and hepatics. These are raw material for phytotherapics BV-6 preparations and the manufacture of traditional selleckchem bitter drinks. In order to establish some aspects on their safety, we have evaluated four different concentrations (1, 10, 100, and 1000 mu L.mL(-1)) of the aqueous extracts of these plants against Single Cell Gel Electrophoresis Assay (SCGEA) in human peripheral blood lymphocytes. Results
show a significant increase in damage index (p < 0.001) for all aqueous extracts concentrations assayed of the four plant species, in relation to negative control values. This is a contribution to the development of screenings related to the potential health risk associated with the consumption of South American medicinal plants, especially taking in mind that these plants are widely used as over-the-counter herbs.”
“Objectives: Tympanostomy tube (TT) surface modifications have been promoted as a means of reducing biofilm formation, otorrhea, and occlusion. The goal of this study was to determine if biofilm formation on silicone Us could be prevented by commercially available surface coatings.
Methods: Silicone Us with and without polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) or/and silver oxide were exposed to human plasma and cultured with Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Staphylococcus aureus (22 TTs per group). After 4 days, antibiotics were added to kill planktonic bacteria.
The recovery dynamics of the quenching was also confirmed by the
The recovery dynamics of the quenching was also confirmed by the addition of sodium chloride in the QDs-Au NP composites. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3592884]“
“I propose the Relative h-index
of a scientist, which is based on his or her Hirsch’s h-index divided by the total number of published papers recorded in the database. The Relative index h allows for a comparison of the scientific output among researchers and can be very useful for research support institutions, universities, and institutes to rank researchers for the selleck chemical purposes of recruitment, promotions, awards, and grant funding for projects.”
“Identifying when past exposure to an infectious disease will protect against newly emerging strains is central to understanding the spread and the severity of epidemics, but the prediction of viral cross-protection remains an important unsolved problem. For foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) research in particular,
improved methods for predicting this cross-protection are critical for predicting the severity of outbreaks within endemic settings where multiple serotypes and subtypes commonly co-circulate, as well as for deciding whether appropriate vaccine(s) exist and how much they could mitigate the effects of any outbreak. Selleck Fer-1 To identify antigenic relationships and their predictors, we used linear mixed effects models to account for variation in pairwise cross-neutralization titres using only viral sequences and structural data. We identified those substitutions
in surface-exposed structural proteins that are correlates of loss of cross-reactivity. These allowed prediction of both the best vaccine match for any single virus and the breadth of coverage of new vaccine candidates from their ALK 抑制剂 capsid sequences as effectively as or better than serology. Sub-sequences chosen by the model-building process all contained sites that are known epitopes on other serotypes. Furthermore, for the SAT1 serotype, for which epitopes have never previously been identified, we provide strong evidence – by controlling for phylogenetic structure – for the presence of three epitopes across a panel of viruses and quantify the relative significance of some individual residues in determining cross-neutralization. Identifying and quantifying the importance of sites that predict viral strain cross-reactivity not just for single viruses but across entire serotypes can help in the design of vaccines with better targeting and broader coverage. These techniques can be generalized to any infectious agents where cross-reactivity assays have been carried out. As the parameterization uses pre-existing datasets, this approach quickly and cheaply increases both our understanding of antigenic relationships and our power to control disease.
However, NTN1 was downregulated (-2 9-fold; P<0 0001) and UNC5
However, NTN1 was downregulated (-2.9-fold; P<0.0001) and UNC5B upregulated (2.2-fold; P<0.0001) in atherosclerotic plaques (n=68), whereas there were no differences in other NTN1 receptors compared with histologically normal controls (n=28). Increased UNC5B expression Sapitinib supplier is associated with histologically
more stable plaques (P=0.011). NTN1 expression correlated positively with SMC markers and signatures and negatively with inflammatory markers and M1 and especially M2 signatures in the atherosclerotic plaques. UNC5B clustering correlated positively with inflammatory and M phi markers. NTN1 protein colocalized with CD68-positive cells of monocytic origin and muscle-actin-specific-antibody (HHF3)-positive cells indicative of SMCs in the plaques and only with SMCs in the control samples. NTN1 protein was highly expressed in the intimal layer of the control vessels.
Conclusions Present findings provide support for the hypothesis that dysregulation of expression of NTN1 in SMCs and its chemorepulsive receptor UNC5B in macrophages are involved in the development of atherosclerosis and unstable plaques.”
“The dc conductivity measured in a wide range of temperature (93-373 K) for the electrode compounds Li-x[Ni1/3Mn1/3Co1/3]O2-delta (x=1, 0.9 and delta=0, 0.05) is reported in this paper. The dc conductivity data have been MI-503 price analyzed in the framework of theoretical models for polaronic conduction.
The analysis shows that in the low temperature range (93-163 K) the dc conductivity data are consistent with the variable range hopping model and from the fits of experimental data the density of localized states at Fermi level for different compositions have been estimated. We have explained the temperature dependence of the conductivity employing polaron hopping models, proposed by Schnakenberg and Emin
and co-workers, which consider the coupling of polarons with optical and acoustic phonon modes. The value of estimated polaron bandwidth indicates that polaron hopping process is nonadiabatic in nature. The parameters click here obtained from the fits of this model are reasonable. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3428371]“
“Background The molecular mechanisms underlying similarities and differences between physiological and pathological left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) are of intense interest. Most previous work involved targeted analysis of individual signaling pathways or screening of transcriptomic profiles. We developed a network biology approach using genomic and proteomic data to study the molecular patterns that distinguish pathological and physiological LVH.
Methods and Results A network-based analysis using graph theory methods was undertaken on 127 genome-wide expression arrays of in vivo murine LVH. This revealed phenotype-specific pathological and physiological gene coexpression networks.
Analogous to heightened activity upon novel rule acquisition, Fra
Analogous to heightened activity upon novel rule acquisition, Fragile X knockout mice were transiently hyperactive in both a novel open field
(OF) arena and novel home cage. Hyperactivity ceased with familiarization to the environment. Fragile X knockout mice. We therefore provide evidence for subtle but significant differences in the processing of novel stimuli in the mouse model for the FXS.”
“The ability of the strains-destructors of various aromatic compounds to utilize trinitrotoluene (TNT) up to concentration of 70 mg/l was shown. An increase in the TNT concentration from 100 to 150 mg/l did not inhibit its conversion rate by the Kocuria palustris RS32 strain. The Acinetobacter sp. VT11 strain utilized TNT as a sole substrate BAY 73-4506 inhibitor for growth; 3,5-dinitro-4-methyl anilide acetate and 2,6-dinitro-4-aminotoluene were identified as intermediates of TNT degradation by active strains learn more of Pseudomonas sp. VT-7W and Kocuria rosea RS51. At the same time, 4-methyl-3,5-dinitroformamide was discovered for the first time upon the TNT destruction by the bacteria strains of Rhdococcus opacus 1G and Rhdococcus sp. VT-7. The active bacterial strains achieved an 82-90% destruction of TNT when they were introduced into the soil.”
“Background-Prolactin is increasingly recognized
to play a stimulatory role in the inflammatory response. Because inflammation is considered of crucial importance in the development of atherosclerosis, we aimed to evaluate whether prolactin levels are associated with the occurrence of coronary artery disease (CAD).
Methods and Results-We performed a nested case-control study in the prospective EPIC-Norfolk cohort. Cases were apparently healthy men and women, aged 45 to 79 years, who developed fatal or nonfatal CAD (n = 882). Controls remained free of CAD (n = 1490). Overall, systemic prolactin levels did not differ between cases and controls, and people in the highest prolactin tertile did not have a significantly
increased risk of developing future CAD (in men, odds ratio, 1.21; 95% CI, 0.92 to 1.61; in women, odds INCB28060 manufacturer ratio, 1.12; 95% CI, 0.76 to 1.64). However, in a separate immunohistochemical study, the presence of prolactin receptors could be demonstrated in postmortem human coronary artery plaques (preliminary data).
Conclusions-Elevated systemic prolactin levels do not predict CAD in the general population. However, prolactin receptors were found in human coronary artery plaques. This observation may indicate a role of prolactin within atherosclerotic plaques. More studies are needed to define the possible role of prolactin in atherosclerotic plaque development. (Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2009; 2: 389-395.)”
“Background: Multiple imputation (MI) is becoming increasingly popular as a strategy for handling missing data, but there is a scarcity of tools for checking the adequacy of imputation models.
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Love is the last thing on Karen Johnston’s mind. For years she’s been consumed with raising two young children after the untimely death of her husband. Unexpectedly, ruggedly handsome Dominic “Dom” Peretti Jr. blows into her life with the force of a hurricane. Before she can blink, Karen is caught up and finding herself wanting more than a casual relationship. She wants another chance at love.
Dom isn’t looking for a serious commitment. His intention is to have nothing more than a fling with the sexy single mom. As he gets a taste of family life, he has a decision to make. Will he give love a try? Or will he walk away, leaving Karen and her children in harm’s way?
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As Dominic “Dom” Peretti, Jr. turned off the water and stepped out the shower, a distant crashing caught his attention. What the hell? He snatched a thick white towel off the rack on the wall. Not bothering to dry off, he wrapped it around his waist. Slowly opening the bathroom door, Dom stealthily made his way into Ava’s bedroom to get the golf club she kept propped against the wall.
Gripping the handle tight, Dom entered the kitchen and was stopped cold in his tracks. The grip on his weapon loosened and his head slightly tilted to the side. He couldn’t tell who the lovely specimen was, bending over grumbling something about kids being late. It didn’t matter who she was at the moment. Dom was too caught up drooling and staring at her derriere, curvy hips and shapely legs thanks to the denim shorts she wore.
The urge to rub his fingertips down the smooth skin of her partially exposed back, courtesy of the yellow halter top caused him to bite his bottom lip suppressing a groan. Dom tried to fight it. What was he to do? Any red-blooded man’s body would respond the same way his was doing right now. The best thing to do would be to ease out of the room before she noticed him there. He didn’t know if it was fate or not. Before he could slip out as easily as he had slipped in, she stood and swiftly spun around as if she knew she was being watched.
Karen let out a blood curdling scream when her eyes locked eyes with the tall, bronze, half-naked, aroused—yes aroused!—beauty of a man. She had never seen so many rippling muscles in all her life. She didn’t know if she should throw the shards of glass at him and run, or if she should stay and confront him. Right now, she couldn’t figure out which to do because the man was stealing her breath away. Dropping the golf club, Dom held his hands up to show he wasn’t a threat.
“Calm down. I’m not going to hurt you.”
Out of her trance, Karen jutted the glass-filled dustpan at Dom. “Who are you?”
“Whoa, watch it lady,” Dom growled as he jumped back to avoid the flying glass heading straight for the family jewels.
Karen’s eyes widened in horror as she watched the direction of the airborne glass. When she dared to glance up at him, she wished she hadn’t. If looks could kill. Lifting her chin in defiance, Karen glared back at the stranger. After all, he was half-naked in her sister’s house that was being rented to their friend. It wasn’t her fault that the piece of glass had a mind of its own and nearly maimed him.
Again Karen demanded, “I said, who are you?”
“I’m Dom. Ava’s brother,” he gritted out between clenched teeth. The building tension in her shoulders relaxed. Now she could see the family resemblance. Man, he was as handsome as Ava was pretty.
“Oh,” was all that would come out. It was hard to talk with him standing so close and obviously attracted to her although he was clearly annoyed.
“Oh,” Dom sarcastically parroted. “You damn near cut me.”
Karen’s eyes drifted downward and she wished she hadn’t because she wanted to touch him. When was the last time? Years. All Karen could think about right now was how it would feel to be beneath him with her back pressed to a mattress. The dustpan began to shake as she gripped the handle so tight her hand was beginning to ache. When she glanced back up at Dom, his face was still twisted in a scowl. Karen licked her bottom lip. He had no idea how sexy he was, staring down at her and brooding.
It was clear he was irritated with her silence when he snapped, “What are you doing here?”
She would have been well within her right to make him aware that this was her sister’s property. Instead Karen let it go since she knew he wasn’t a threat. “Ava asked me to water her plants,” Karen replied as she went over to the trashcan near the shed door and emptied the broken glass before putting the broom and dustpan back inside the shed.
Karen took several seconds longer than necessary to put everything back in place in hopes Dom would be gone. No such luck. He was still standing there making her mind conjure up things she hadn’t thought, let alone indulged in, in years. She needed to get away from this man. And fast.
Dom tossed the golf club against the wall. “I already watered them,” he murmured, his dark eyes openly appraising her. “Ava didn’t tell me you were coming.”
Oh yeah, it’s time for me to go. He went from a roaring lion to a pussycat. And from the look in his eyes, she was feeling like the mouse he wanted to play with until he was good and tired of playing.
“She must’ve forgotten,” Karen nervously answered as she held her breath and eased by him. “I gotta go. My kids are waiting for me.” Karen swiftly walked to the foyer, her hips swaying from side to side. She could feel the heat of his eyes watching her as she disappeared out of the room. Snatching up her keys and purse she bounded down the stairs and to her car. Slamming the door shut, Karen tossed her purse on the passenger seat. Her head collapsed against the headrest. What in the world just happened back there?
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Greek wildfire rages near Athens, forcing residents from homes
A wildfire raged uncontrolled in a coastal region east of Athens on Monday, causing people to flee their homes and sending huge plumes of smoke over the capital.
More than 70 firefighters with 30 fire engines and five water-dropping helicopters battled the blaze, which broke out near Kinetta, about 54 km (35 miles) west of the city.
A thick cloud of black and orange smoke hung over the Acropolis hill and the Parthenon temple early on Monday afternoon.
Fanned by strong interchanging winds, the blaze burned up areas of pine forest while television images showed gardens burning.
A fire brigade official said that the fire was approaching the residential area of Maroula in Kinetta.
Wildfires are common in Greece in summer, but a dry winter has created tinderbox conditions.
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Trump says no to presidential run in 2012
May 17, 2011 06:55 am JST May 17, 2011 | 07:11 am JST
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Lieberman2012
May 17, 2011 07:28 am JST
He was never a serious candidate.With him and Huckabee out the media search for a patsy they can try and put up against their hero Obama should get interesting.I think we are going to start hearing a lot about Huntsman.
Triumvere
...you are turning the search for the likely Republican candidate into some sort of "liberal media" conspiracy theory? 'cause there's no other possible reason we might want to know who's in the running, right?
Smorkian
Trump has way too much baggage to be a serious candidate. It's best that he's not involved.
Molenir
The circus has ended. As everyone else said, never was a serious candidate, for more then obvious reasons. Was rather fun while it lasted though.
yabits
What's the difference between a "serious candidate" and a total, absolute clown?
In the Republican Party, the clowns poll much higher.
America is largely a nation of one-issue voters, but ironically Republican candidates can get themselves elected just by saying they "support" such issues, like "intelligent design," school prayer, 2nd Amendment (gun ownership), right to life, lower taxes, smaller government, end to school busings, etc. Then when they're elected they continue to pay lip service but seldom manage to ram through legislation that comes anywhere close to their tough talk. In the past voters were unwilling or unable to discriminate between stirring rhetoric and actual accomplishment, but their frustrations finally came to a head, and Republican moderates of the old Nelson Rockefeller school have been marginalized or driven out, and the Tea Party is attempting to take the reins. Despite this, the other day on TV political pundit George Will predicted that only two Republicans -- Mitch Daniels (Indiana) and Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota) -- had a shot at the White House. Both are fiscal conservatives, and also sensible men who eschew extreme rhetoric, although I would not put it past them to "stir the base" during the campaign. If the Republicans allow their party to get hijacked by radical ultraconservatives, we can expect a rerun of Barry Goldwater's resounding loss in 1964 to Lyndon Baines Johnson.
SuperLib
I think Americans said no to a Trump presidential run in 2012, and Trump is simply obliging.
ihavegreatlegs
Superlib......so you mean they would rather have Palen?
manfromamerica
ihavegreat-
you know it's spelled "Palin", right? At least she can spell it correctly.
lostrune2
Ha! I called this! ;-)
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lostrune2 at 04:09 AM JST - 23rd April
Donald Trump wouldn't really run. Donald would drop out just before he has to open his financial books as required for candidates for the Office. Nobody really knows how rich or not he really is because he's always been loathed to disclose it.
Trump had said that he would open his financial books as soon as Obama produces his birth certificate. Well, Obama produced his birth certificate......... and weeks later, no open financial books - instead Trump quit! And where did he make this announcement? In an Upfront Conference gathering of ad timeslot buyers for his upcoming Apprentice TV season!
This whole thing was obviously a publicity stunt. Trump didn't present anything in his presidential platform other than the birther and then the Obama academic records issues. I almost feel sorry that some people took Trump so seriously, whether he was flip-flopping between being a Democrat or a Republican. Then again, some people will attach themselves to anyone who just happens to share their agenda despite anything else (just look at Trump's other lies, like saying he sent investigators to Hawaii, but nobody ever saw them). And he lied here again; he played those people for fools.
At least Trump got roasted in the White House Correspondents Dinner. If ya dish it, ya gotta take it too. And he took it up the chin. Doubt he'd pull that stunt ever again, haha.
And soon Gingrich is out as well - great news!
May 17, 2011 12:24 pm JST
Gingrich is out? Did I miss something?
RomeoRamenII
Whoever the republicans choose, one thing will be certain: liberals will label him or her as a racist.
skipbeat
@RomeoRamenII,
That's so true, wish it wasn't so.
Character, principle, and merits doesn't matter, name calling seems to be acceptable even when it is not true. So immature, where are the grown-ups.
I don't recall liberals labeling John McCain or George W. Bush as racists. I do recall hearing Glenn Beck remark that Barack Obama had "a deep-seated hatred for white people."
trium -
he will be soon. he has no chance, and cemented that in his last interviews.
virtuoso -
I don't recall liberals labeling John McCain or George W. Bush as racists.
WHAT??? Are you kidding? LOL... I guess you slept through the last 10 years.
Moderator: All readers back on topic please. The subject is Donald Trump.
Trump is out. He did show though that he Obama answers to him.
Trump apparently pulls Obama's strings.
luckygohappy
Someone pointed out on another site that Trump may have dropped out, but his hair is still thinking of running!
So, I am glad I did not hold my breath waiting to see those tax returns! Trump has shown us all what kind of man he really is. Being a weasel has a better chance of making you rich than making you president. Heck, that still holds even if you wear a weasel as a toupee!
Trump was never serious. He has now done this dance three times. He just did it until NBC announced his show was renewed (which they did Sunday).
name calling seems to be acceptable even when it is not true.
True dat. But when you are forced to back a guy who views the U.S. presidency as the first 9-5 job he's ever had his life, name calling and playing the tattered race is all liberals have got.
lucky - why do you attack someone's personal appearance? That's not very liberal or tolerant.
Why would a guy who makes hundreds of millions take a job that only pays $400k? Heh, the pay cut wasn't that appealing.
Trump was never a serious candidate; however, he did set the stage for other GOP candidates to get tough on Obama. No more namby-pamby McCain niceties.
He made his point.Notice how now Obama is also following Palin's lead and wants to drill in Alaska.
michaelwhite
can't forget what seth meyers said during the dinner..
sailwind
President Barack Obama is seen as a tough incumbent to beat in the November 2012 elections despite the U.S. economy’s continuing woes.
Only if you are reporter with A.P is he seen that way.
Taka313
John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are seriously bummed. Trump was the gift that kept on giving.
Madverts
"Only if you are reporter with A.P is he seen that way."
Heh, and not in the world of the bitter and vindictive McCain supporter that just can't let go?
Tell us something we don't know.
Trump's show Celebrity Apprentice had one of the most left-leaning audiences out there. Why anyone would want to spend 60 minutes to see if Gary Busey can eventually master the arcane art of making an ice cream cone is beyond me. But why Trump would sabotage his own show is also kinda odd. Hey - maybe Trump can make it up to the far Left by getting disgraced former front runner John Edwards on the show, if and when his legal battles end.
Trump will be known as the guy who got Obama to finally show his birth certificate.
plasticmonkey
@Romeo--
he did set the stage for other GOP candidates to get tough on Obama.
in other words, Trump made it acceptable/respectable for Republicans to flaunt anti-rational, reductionist, and divisive extremism in the shamelessly cynical hope that there are enough people in America who are dumb enough to jump on that bandwagon. Bachman or Palin may not beat Obama in 2012, but with time America's moral and cognitive strengths will weaken enough to make the future America a very very weird place, perhaps a rich man's Pakistan.
LOL! The guy who proved to disbelieving morons that the State of Hawaii's birth registration document matches what they have in their official records. That's about all that Trump accomplished -- making suckers out of anyone who thought there was anything to him than an empty suit.
"LOL! The guy who proved to disbelieving morons"
LOL! yabits just called approximately half the country morons!
yabits just called approximately half the country morons!
Despite the State of Hawaii's release of the certified "long" birth certificate, there is a large percentage of self-identified conservatives who still don't accept Trump's "accomplishment."
I'd say those disbelievers are certifiable idiots. Their numbers might approach half of Trump's party, but certainly not half of the country.
I've always admired a man who started out in life with only a few hundred million dollars in real estate and has managed to transform that into a few hundred million dollars in real estate. The fact that so many Republicans fell for this circus barker is testimony to the depths that party has fallen. Good luck with the remaining candidates - after the mauling the Republican nomination process will inflict on them, the nominee will resemble Vladimir Komarov, post-Soyuz 1.
Trump's show Celebrity Apprentice had one of the most left-leaning audiences out there.
What is it with you and the truth? Why can't you two ever seem to meet?
I've always admired a man who started out in life with only a few hundred million dollars in real estate and has managed to transform that into a few hundred million dollars in real estate.
With the help of a couple of bankuptcies.
But that was a gut buster. Thanks.
LFRAgain
"The fact that so many Republicans fell for this circus barker is testimony to the depths that party has fallen. Good luck with the remaining candidates..."
Given how the Republican Party is burning bridges left and right with their take-no-prisoners assault on Medicare and Medicaid, as well as Social Security, they're going to have a more trouble with finding actual support among their core constituency, the elderly, than finding a potent candidate to field.
The article states that President Obama is a strong incumbent that will be hard to beat. The article offers nothing to back that up. I fail to see how pointing that was worthy of a personal attack on myself or opinion on A.P's reporting in this article.
I do not believe he is a strong incumbent, if you believe he is please post why. I believe the failure in his Stimulus plan, his failure in healthcare reform that he claims lowers prices but raises prices for all, his failure in closing GITMO, his failure in creating jobs, his spending spree that has loaded our future generation with nothing but debt. Tell me Sir, this makes a strong incumbent?
"Obama is seen as a tough incumbent to beat in 2012"
He's got charisma. Charisma goes a long way. It got him to the White House, and it may keep him there even if unemployment hits a new high.
As long as American Idol remains The Template he is formidable...
He's got charisma. Charisma goes a long way. It got him to the White House,
Where, What charisma? He had a slogan "Yes We Can" and a Media that parroted it. 2 years into his administration and seriously what do we really have?
2 years into his administration and seriously what do we really have?
Dumbfounded conservatives who don't have a clue, obviously.
Hey LiEbermann, we loved how the eviscerating debater, Gingrich, eviscerated himself going mano-a-mano with David Gregory. LOL!
If the template is Meet the Press, the Republicans don't have a prayer.
I'm clueless Yabits, what do we have? Tell us, what do we really have. 3 Trillion in debt is what I see.
Tell us, what do we really have.
First of all, conservatives like yourself have a very deep emotional investment in selling themselves on the extremely foolish notion that President Obama has done nothing positive for the country. "There are none so blind..."
Secondly, to assess what we have, genuinely honest and fair-minded people have to go back and assess where we've been. In my opinion, the best place to start would be the last time the United States was faced with the real opportunity to actually pay down on our long term debt. And then, track exactly what happened to squander that enormous opportunity. It might be one of the most sobering assessments that any truly honest American could embark on.
Trump would not address those questions. He wanted to turn the clock back to the early 1960s to present a circus side-show on whether or not an elected and sitting president was actually born in the United States.
As for things that President Obama has done, we could start with restoring faith in the banking system of the U.S., giving the U.S. auto industry enough of a lifeline to see them return to making profits in just two years, reinvigorating the regulatory system that was at the very heart of the collapse of the housing bubble, enacting a health-care bill that makes providing benefits to employees in small businesses like mine much more affordable.
All that, and bin Laden too.
we could start with restoring faith in the banking system of the U.S., giving the U.S. auto industry enough of a lifeline to see them return to making profits in just two years, reinvigorating the regulatory system that was at the very heart of the collapse of the housing bubble, enacting a health-care bill that makes providing benefits to employees in small businesses like mine much more affordable. All that, and bin Laden too.
O.K. We know what bush did. What about President Obama? (snark)
3 Trillion in debt is what I see.
Trump was not going to do anything about that, nor is any other Republican candidate. Then-VP Cheney echoed the completely 180-degree turn from pre-election Republican rhetoric when he proclaimed, "Deficits don't matter."
Turn the clock back a bit to February of 2003, when folks could read this in The Hill: "As President Bush sent his budget to Capitol Hill Monday, a split opened among congressional Republicans between those who are still deficit hawks and an increasing number, including top leaders, who no longer see deficits as the touchstone of fiscal probity.
"Confronted with projected deficits until fiscal 2007, senior GOP lawmakers are backing away from long-standing rhetoric about the government’s duty to live within its means. The switch – whether from conviction, circumstance, or both – is bringing charges of hypocrisy from Democrats.
"Some lawmakers view the existence of deficits as a useful tool to keep spending down. “I came to the House as a real deficit hawk, but I am no longer a deficit hawk,” said Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). “I’ll tell you why. I had to spend the surpluses. Deficits make it easier to say no.”"
I liked the answer Trump gave years ago when a reporter said, "It's said that you're having cash-flow problems."
Trump: "Who says that? My enemies say that. I have no cash-flow problems."
President has done one of the most positives things for the country that you can ever imagine. He is proof once and for all that an African American can be elected President of the United States. I for one am grateful the country came to that point in my lifetime and proud of that fact. It is too bad that if you disagree with President Obama's policies and the direction he wants to head the country you get labeled some sort of racist. That was something I thought his election would finally end and was hoping that was to be for all Americans. As far as his overall politics I disagree with them. I do not see a better America for our children under an ever expanding nanny state but a poorer one with less opportunity and saddled with massive debt. I am talking about his policies, not Bush's, not Cheney's which as always is what Liberals here always default too. I do not see him as a strong incumbent I see him as another Jimmy Carter. Means well, but really doesn't have a clue on how to create real jobs or get our country on a track for real growth and a better future for the next generation. That is my honest opinion on our President.
KevininHawaii
trump is an idiot.
FruitsBasketFan
While I agree that the President knows little about job creation.....but to be so against social safety nets and labelling them "nanny states" is stupid.
Having the right to healthcare and welfare if you are struggling is just plain human decency.
It could be achieved if we cut down our bloated military spending on unnecessary bases in the world since the US has so many.
And tax the rich back to pre-Bush era.
President has done one of the most positives things for the country that you can ever imagine. He is proof once and for all that an African American can be elected President of the United States.
Trump threw some language out there that wasn't very cool: He said something to the effect of "I've always been popular with the blacks." All the while questioning the very citizenship of the president.
The "proof" as you call it, was presented to the United States by the Democratic Party -- who chose Barack Obama as their standard-bearer. Despite the proof and the language thrown out by Trump, let me tell you about a slice of my corner of America (here in the state of Georgia):
Montgomery County (pop. 9,100) -- 70% white/30% African-American is one of all too many in the South that holds a whites-only senior prom for its high school graduates. The African-Americans put on a separate prom where everyone is welcome to attend. I would call this racism in practice.
In the 2008 presidential election, Montogomery County went for the Republican candidate by a ratio identical to its racial mix. The county was therefore no way responsible for providing "proof" that the nation was ready to elect an African-American. Quite the opposite. The whites of Montgomery County are in no way unique from a lot of folks throughout the nation who support the Republican/Tea Party cause.
Nevertheless, when you say "not Bush's, not Cheney's which as always is what Liberals here always default too" -- I would reply that every leader has to play the hand he is dealt. Bush was dealt a terrific hand by Clinton, and Obama a terrible one by Bush.
Trump = chicken you know what!
trump............. YOUR FIRED, you chicken.....
mousepotato464
That's too bad. He has a lot of experience with bankruptcy. Could have put slot machines in the Trump White house.
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Accuracy of a combined insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1/interleukin-6 test (Premaquick) in predicting delivery in women with threatened preterm labor
George Uchenna Eleje, Euzebus Chinonye Ezugwu, Ahizechukwu Eke, Lydia Ijeoma Eleje, Joseph Ifeanyichukwu Ikechebelu, Ifeanyichukwu Uzoma Ezebialu, Chukwudi Celestine Obiora, Betrand Obi Nwosu, Chukwuemeka Okwudili Ezeama, Gerald Okanandu Udigwe, Charles Ikechukwu Okafor, Frank Okechukwu Ezugwu
To determine values of combinations of interleukin-6 (IL-6)/cervical native insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1)/total IGFBP-1 (Premaquick) in predicting spontaneous deliveries and spontaneous exclusive preterm deliveries in women with threatened preterm labor. Women with singleton pregnancies between gestation age (GA) of 24 weeks and 36 weeks and 6 days with preterm labor were recruited during a prospective multicenter study. Premaquick was positive when at least two of three biomarkers were positive. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV) and accuracy were estimated for both prediction of spontaneous deliveries and spontaneous exclusive preterm deliveries. Ninety-seven (99.0%) out of 98 women enrolled were analyzed. Based on delivery status 7/14 days post-enrollment of general study population, Premaquick had a sensitivity of 87.1/85.7%, a specificity of 92.4/96.8%, a PPV of 84.4/93.8% and a NPV of 93.9/92.3% for prediction of spontaneous delivery. Predictive accuracy of Premaquick test in relation to days of enrollment were: 90.7% (≤7 days) and 92.8% (≤14 days). For women enrolled at GA <35 weeks, Premaquick had a sensitivity of 100.0/87.5%, a specificity of 94.1/96.9%, a PPV of 70.5/87.5%, a NPV of 100.0/96.9% and an accuracy of 95.0/95.0% for prediction of preterm delivery within 7/14 days of enrollment, respectively. PPV was most significantly different in both groups when outcomes were compared between 2 days and 14 days post-enrollment (P<0.001). This novel triple biomarker model of native and total IGFBP-1 and IL-6 appears to be an accurate test in predicting spontaneous deliveries and spontaneous exclusive preterm deliveries in threatened preterm labor in singleton pregnancies.
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Eleje, G. U., Ezugwu, E. C., Eke, A., Eleje, L. I., Ikechebelu, J. I., Ezebialu, I. U., Obiora, C. C., Nwosu, B. O., Ezeama, C. O., Udigwe, G. O., Okafor, C. I., & Ezugwu, F. O. (2017). Accuracy of a combined insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1/interleukin-6 test (Premaquick) in predicting delivery in women with threatened preterm labor. Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 45(8), 915-924. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2016-0339
Accuracy of a combined insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1/interleukin-6 test (Premaquick) in predicting delivery in women with threatened preterm labor. / Eleje, George Uchenna; Ezugwu, Euzebus Chinonye; Eke, Ahizechukwu; Eleje, Lydia Ijeoma; Ikechebelu, Joseph Ifeanyichukwu; Ezebialu, Ifeanyichukwu Uzoma; Obiora, Chukwudi Celestine; Nwosu, Betrand Obi; Ezeama, Chukwuemeka Okwudili; Udigwe, Gerald Okanandu; Okafor, Charles Ikechukwu; Ezugwu, Frank Okechukwu.
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Eleje, GU, Ezugwu, EC, Eke, A, Eleje, LI, Ikechebelu, JI, Ezebialu, IU, Obiora, CC, Nwosu, BO, Ezeama, CO, Udigwe, GO, Okafor, CI & Ezugwu, FO 2017, 'Accuracy of a combined insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1/interleukin-6 test (Premaquick) in predicting delivery in women with threatened preterm labor', Journal of Perinatal Medicine, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 915-924. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2016-0339
Eleje GU, Ezugwu EC, Eke A, Eleje LI, Ikechebelu JI, Ezebialu IU et al. Accuracy of a combined insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1/interleukin-6 test (Premaquick) in predicting delivery in women with threatened preterm labor. Journal of Perinatal Medicine. 2017 Nov 27;45(8):915-924. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2016-0339
Eleje, George Uchenna ; Ezugwu, Euzebus Chinonye ; Eke, Ahizechukwu ; Eleje, Lydia Ijeoma ; Ikechebelu, Joseph Ifeanyichukwu ; Ezebialu, Ifeanyichukwu Uzoma ; Obiora, Chukwudi Celestine ; Nwosu, Betrand Obi ; Ezeama, Chukwuemeka Okwudili ; Udigwe, Gerald Okanandu ; Okafor, Charles Ikechukwu ; Ezugwu, Frank Okechukwu. / Accuracy of a combined insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1/interleukin-6 test (Premaquick) in predicting delivery in women with threatened preterm labor. In: Journal of Perinatal Medicine. 2017 ; Vol. 45, No. 8. pp. 915-924.
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Spiritual Significance of the New Year
Sri Chinmoy's first European Lecture Tour - 50th Anniversary
Writing always begins with the blank page, blankness in the mind. We sit awhile in contemplation, an attentive waiting, looking for the genesis of words, the scattered seeds of language, a spark to kindle inspiration or a touch of grace, the gift of insight. And today, waiting for something to come, when at last it does I am being lured away from the proposed Inspiration-Letters theme of 'time', veering off course and thinking instead about the value of celibacy. Well, let me follow these thoughts and see where they will take me...
In a society where the idolatry of romantic relationships has become obsessive and unchallenged, the choice of celibacy is widely perceived as a strange and bemusing one. Usually associated with cloistered religious communities – Benedictine monks, convents of pale, otherworldly women renunciates, Indian ascetics, archaic Christian orders – celibacy is a mystery to a culture that has never really questioned it's own idealisation of physical love, soul mates, partnering, marriage and remarriage. Celibacy brings these notions skidding to a halt, challenges our Western promiscuity, irritates even feminists who see it either as male misogyny or a denial by women of the capacity to love. It undermines our traditional notions of happiness and puzzles mainstream society through it's extreme disregard for what is considered normal.
True celibacy though is not a negative state of repression, deprivation or incompleteness, nor is it a contraction of love. It is instead a state of great potential where the soul can make room for God. It allows the development of a deep sense of self grounded in a relationship with one’s chosen divinity, Christ, the Buddha, Sri Krishna, one's guru or some personal sense of Deity. It is a singleness of heart, an ability to stay centered, an inner marriage to one's ideal. Celibacy in discipleship is the outer expression of a commitment to God, a singleness of purpose.
For most of us, celibacy may bring an intensification of the human loneliness that we all know. But we also know that loneliness is never finally assuaged by others, for human relationships are a shadow of the soul’s deeper quest for yoga, union with God, and only this final union can satisfy us. "It is the union with God that is the original," writes M. Marnau in Revelations of Divine Love, "and the human union that is the imitation..."
In our choice of aloneness we create space for our guru or God. And as this inner union comes to life, becomes more real to us, we expand our capacity to love. We come to understand too our karmic responsibility to not disturb the spiritual quest of others; we slowly come to a love that is desireless and free of need or expectation; we sublimate our desires in the recognition that what is most beautiful in others is only the God that we seek within ourselves.
Marriage and partnerships are another valid way to also achieve these goals, merely different paths to the same destination. My own guru, Sri Chinmoy, helped me to understand the spiritual dimension in my own marriage, its twenty years and endlessly recurring chances to widen and deepen love, practise a fledgling selflessness in the front lines of often fiery dispute, work at reconciliation and a deep caring. To wear down the ego in otherness, weep at another's tears, despise and pray to be rid of one's own unkindness.
Celibacy too has much to offer us. I value my growing capacity for genderless friendships that recognise and honour the sacredness of the spiritual lives of others, requiring a renunciation of self-interest, reminding me as Sri Chinmoy reminded us all to always see God in everyone around us. Not a repression of love but an expansion of love and it's redirection to a higher level of existence. Celibacy deepens our talent for relationships, that we can love without desire, listen with genuine caring, serve without need of gain, shift love upward from eros to caritas and agape, the divine love of the great masters and servers. Sri Chinmoy calls this ‘purity’.
Celibacy is a rejection of the pervasive, consumerist model of relationships. It allows an accommodation of all others in our heart, allows us to relate to people as human beings and to give up the pursuit of others as possessions. In celibate love we are more available to others, learning to listen more deeply and without possessiveness or need. Those who embody a celibate’s consciousness, one that is inwardly assured and grounded, are often gracious and pleasing and empathetic, making us feel appreciated and valued for what we are. They recognise and respect the boundaries of propinquity, safeguard themselves and protect others from themselves, placing relationships into a spiritual context that dignifies and brings out the best in us.
Celibate love lights up the heart. It sublimates vital energies into sympathy, tenderness or deep concern, and after such encounters we always feel better about ourselves and the world, uplifted and somehow touched by a mysterious and novel kind of love. It's goal is not some otherworldly holiness but that hard won, great detachment that a renunciate's path finally brings – and God love, freedom from desire, an equanimity enduring through all the struggles of life, the unfettered love that at last sees only God in everything.
Human interaction is the schoolroom, the great practicing ground of celibacy; we fall in love easily, and perhaps the experience of love is the only real teacher of love. Or in the words of one Benedictine monk – "To fall in love is celibacy at work". A disciple's celibacy might at first seem a constraint, but then becomes part of a long process of personal conversion, providing the conditions and challenges in which one’s inner development can best flourish. In a lifetime of sometimes loneliness, the struggle to transform our inner longings can be painful and wrenching, but we cry harder than ever to God, pray with real tears for release and consolation. I often feel that God shields me from all the things I am most vulnerable to – since I lack the strength to cope, He simply takes them out of my way.
Celibacy means taking all our feelings and emotions and putting them where God wants them to go. It stretches and transforms our notions and abilities in love, teaches us to love non-exclusively – it's fruit is a widening hospitality of the heart. Celibacy, writes the Benedictine monk, means "not focusing on 'what I gave up' but on what being freed by what I gave up has allowed me to do in terms of my service to others..." And the goal of all love, which celibacy helps us to realise, is union with and service to God.
Marriage or relationships and celibacy are not polar opposites – there are many married celibates who have achieved restraint, purity and the sublimation of physical desires, and unmarried celibates tormented by the clamourings and impulses of mind and body, the 'wild orchestra of the hormones'. For the latter, a commitment to celibacy is the beginning of a process of rapid change, of self scrutiny, the advent of grace which effort brings, intense plea and prayer, disentanglement, the karma yogi's path of daily mindfulness, bringing pain into context and consciousness – 'celibacy at work'.
Seeing too the ability to love and to need love as also a gift from God, but slowly learning to transform this love into a celibate context, converting all relationships into one’s primary relationship with God. Understanding that falling in love is also a part of seeking God – thus having patience and renunciation, fidelity to the path, the guru.
All this effort for spiritual progress is of course hard work, the alchemy where base ignorance begets a shining liberation, but then our struggle is a microcosm of the cosmic game itself and we cannot make progress in a vacuum. Sri Chinmoy's writings speak to our daily trials with reassurance and humane advice, and remind that our efforts will in the future 'be most surprisingly rewarded'.
Fifteen hundred years ago St. Bernard asked of God wonderingly... "What are we, that You make Yourself known to us?” Today's masters tell us that we are all forgetful Gods ourselves, remembering and finding our way back home again, each of us treading our own path, playing our own leading role, all the way back through the needles eye.
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The day when everything began
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In the Right Place, At the Right Time
Eshana Gadjanski Novi Sad, Serbia
When I met Sri Chinmoy for the first time
Spirituality - the most fascinating subject on earth
Laila Faerman New York, United States
Life in a spiritual workplace
What drew me to Sri Chinmoy's path
Nikolaus Drekonja San Diego, United States
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A folyóiratról
II. évfolyam · 2020/3
I. évfolyam · 2019/2
Szerzőknek
I. évfolyam 2.szám / 2019. december
Dr. Takáts Péter: On the Reform of Hungarian Insurance Contract Law*
1. Generalities
In Hungary, insurance contract law has traditionally been regulated by the Civil Code. Earlier, the rules were provided by Chapter XLV of the Law Nr. IV of 1959 (hereinafter referred to as „1959 CC”) – sections 536 to 567 – on the contract of insurance. The recent reform of insurance contract law also took place in the frames of the re-codification of the Civil Code. The respective regulation now is to be found in Book Six – on the Law of Obligations – of the Law Nr. V of 2013, the new Civil Code (hereinafter referred to as „CC”), in Title XXII on the contracts of insurance (sections 6:439 to 6:490). This Title is constituted by the following structure:
Chapter LXII – The general rules of the contract of insurance
Chapter LXIII – Indemnity insurance
Chapter LXIV – Insurances of fixed sums
Chapter LXV – Health insurance
It is necessary to note, however, that Title XXII of the CC provides only the main body of insurance contract rules. Mandatory third-party motor liability insurance – a quite important part of the insurance market[1] – is regulated separately by the Law Nr. LXII of 2009 (hereinafter referred to as „Gfbt”), in many aspects built on different principles than the CC,[2] whereas some rules of private law nature (e.g. the details of information duties of the insurer and the common rules of mandatory insurance contracts) may also be found in the supervisory law – now the Law Nr. LXXXVIII of 2014 on the insurers and the insurance business (hereinafter referred to as „Bit”).[3]
This study cannot strive to provide either a systematical overview of Hungarian insurance contract law, or even of the new rules, introduced throughout the reform. Its target is rather to throw light on the social and economic background, as well, as the main principles, underlying the reform, to highlight the balance, sought between dogmatics and pragmatical solutions. Some of the main new rules are used as examples to demonstrate these. The author (the drafter of Title XXII of CC) would also like to comment on the first experiences in the practice of the new legislation.
2. Backstage
Chapter XLV of the 1959 CC reflected an age characterised by the insurance monopoly of the state in a command economy, where insurance was nearly exclusively a consumer issue (the word „consumer” being certainly an euphemism). Since 1 May 1960, when the 1959 CC entered into force, lots of changes have taken place in this field in Hungary. Starting with the early seventies of the past century, insurance has spread from personal lines also to the corporate area already during the socialism, further to bodies of government and organisations budgeted by the state, too, in the nineties. The insurance monopoly of the state was lifted on 1 July 1986 and – due mostly to the multi- national insurance companies, getting settled in Hungary – after the change in the political system a modern insurance market was established.[4] Independent insurance intermediaries play an increasing role in connecting the competing insurance undertakings and the market. Lately, insurance may also be seen to have become an important means in catalysing savings, as well, as in the self- care for old age or health problems.
Hungary joined the European Union on 1 May 2004. Prior to this date,
Hungarian law underwent a harmonisation to the acquis communautaire in all the relevant fields, of which it may suffice to mention supervisory law and consumer protection legislation. Certainly, the respective developments also affected the area of insurance contract law. However, Chapter XLV of the 1959 CC remained unchanged, new rules were either inserted into the supervisory law or issued as separate legislation. As a result, the regulation lost its transparency, it was not sure whether the new general rules would be applicable to insurance contracts at all,[5] or failing to comply with rules of contractual nature, placed into supervisory law could lead to private law sanctions.[6] It was easy to recognise that many rules of Chapter XLV of the 1959 CC represented different values and to solve such conflicts required the reconsideration of insurance contract law.
The Hungarian government passed its decision on the preparation of the new Civil Code in its Resolution Nr. 1050/1998. (IV.24.) Korm. The concept of the new legislation, prepared by the Codification Committee, chaired by Professor Lajos Vékás, was approved by the Resolution Nr. 1003/2003. (I.25.) Korm.[7]
The first draft of the new rules of insurance contract was published for discussion in the spring of 2005, as a result of which the text was amended in several places until finally approved by the Committee on 28 November 2006. Afterwards, the project was taken over by the Ministry of Justice, its draft, passed by the Parliament as the Law Nr. CXX of 2009 on the Civil Code, however, has never entered into force, due to the veto of the that-time President of Hungary, László Sólyom (a law professor himself, previously the founding chairman of the Hungarian Constitutional Court). Civil law codification was picked up by the new government after the 2010 elections, directed again by Professor Vékás.
The Civil Code – now also including company law – was passed as the Law Nr. V of 2013, entering into force on 15 March 2014.[8] As the rules of insurance contract law are concerned, however, in the merits, the regulations provided by the failed Law Nr. CXX of 2009 and by the CC are practically identical.
3. Balancing – Values, Principles, Regulation
3.1 Commercial vs Consumer Insurance
According to the concept of the CC, the model of the new regulation of the contracts of insurance shall be commercial insurance, flexibility to be balanced by consumer protection measures only where necessary. This was clearly a basic change vis-à-vis the 1959 CC, characterised by the strict semi-mandatory nature of Chapter XLV,[9] its rigidity becoming more and more an obstacle in corporate insurances, in creating modern solutions in B2B insurance contracts. Instead, the CC offers a structured and much more flexible approach, with freedom of contract as the main rule, maintaining the semi-mandatory character of the regulation only in cases expressly specified, provided the policy holder is a consumer.[10]
Accordingly, the CC is semi-mandatory in view of the following rules, provided the policy holder qualifies as consumer:
a) the conclusion of the insurance contract via the implicit behaviour of the insurer; the aggravation of risk; the consequences of non-payment of the premium; the reinstatement of cover; the duty of the insured to prevent and mitigate losses; the information duties of the policy holder and the insured prior to and after the conclusion of the contract as well, as to the notice of the insured event; the settlement between the insured and the victim; the premium, if any, to be paid in case the contract is terminated; the discharge of the insurer from its duties of payment; the subrogation rights of the insurer (section 6:455)
b) the rules of the chapters on life, accident and health insurances are all semi-mandatory, in case the policy holder is a consumer (section 6:456).
The freedom of contract, as the main underlying principle of Title XXII of the CC is not only the appreciation of the fact that in the corporate business the bargaining position of the policy holder vis-à-vis the insurer is much stronger and clients may make extensive use of the services of professional brokers. Freedom of contract might be an incentive for insurers to develop a broader scale of products, too.
Concerns, expressed in the literature, envisaging even the potential abuse of freedom of contract by insurers,[11] have not realised, due to the effect of general consumer protection legislation, including the rules on unfair contract terms and abusive clauses, harmonised with the respective EU directive.
It is interesting to remark, that Hungarian courts share the international trend to interprete rules, offering immunity to certain terms of contracts, based on general conditions of contract, under the „fairness test”[12] rather restrictively, therefore in insurance contracts judicial control seems to prevail in a broader area, than dogmatics of insurance contract law itself would support the reasoning of courts.[13]
3.2 Dogmatics vs Pragmatic Solutions
The dogmatics of Hungarian insurance contract law traditionally requires the existence of an insurable interest as a sine qua non of the insurance contract. Whereas the 1959 CC referred to this only by identifying the person eligible for insurance (section 548), the CC explicitly defines insurable interest as a pre- condition of a valid insurance contract. The second sentence of section 6:440 declares indemnity insurances and group insurances of fixed sums null and void, if made in the absence of insurable interest, whereas section 6:475 requires the written consent of the insured to any individual insurance of fixed sums in case it is made by a different person, relating to this requirement as the expression of the existence of an insurable interest. The first sentence of section 6:440 defines insurable interest as a vested interest in avoiding the occurrence of an insured event under some form of property or personal relationship.
The lapse of insurable interest during the period of insurance leads to the termination of the contract.[14] The CC, however, establishes two exceptions under this rule, from pure pragmatical reasons:
a) as per section 6:454 para. (3): „The legal effects attached to cases of lapse of interest in the insurance shall not apply, if the lapse of interest results solely from the transfer of ownership of the insured property, and the property in question was held by the new owner previously under a different title. In that case, insurance cover shall pass together with ownership, and the former and the new owner shall be jointly and severally liable for premium payments due at the time of transfer of The contract may be terminated by either of the parties within thirty days after gaining knowledge of the transfer of ownership, by giving thirty days’ notice.” This rule is set to regulate a specific situation, rather typical at the end of certain contracts of leasing, the ownership of the leased property being automatically transmitted to the lessor, whereas the property had been insured by the leasing company. The reasoning behind the rule is similar to that of Article 12:102 of PEICL,[15] however, with a narrower scope of application.
b) According to section 6:442 para. (4) the contract on group insurance may provide that „termination of the relationship between the insured and the policy holder shall not affect the insurance cover”. This rule is for the potential benefit of the insured, allowing an arrangement of not losing cover in case this person leaves the group, which would otherwise qualify a lapse of interest. Such agreement may be made either at the time of the conslusion of the group insurance contract or in a later
A similar interplay between traditional dogmatics and pragmatical solutions may be found at the new regulation of overinsurance. Hungarian insurance contract law is uniquely severe in sanctioning overinsurance. Following firm practice since the late 19th century, section 549 para. (1) of the 1959 CC declared the insurance contract null and void in its part where the sum insured exceeded the „real value” of the insured property and ordered the respective part of the premium to be reimbursed to the policy holder. Judicial and company practice, strictly following dogmatics, tackled with the problem of multiple insurance also from this point of view. Accordingly, in case of an already insured property, any subsequent insurance contract, made either unintended or deliberately, might be valid only in the part the prior insurance had not covered the full value (e.g. underinsurance) or the subsequent insurance provided cover against additional risks. Obviously, as a central database on insurance policies exists only in the area of mandatory third-party motor liability insurance,[16] it was practically impossible to track down multiple insurances and in cases where the insurer, to which the loss was reported, suspected there might be another policy, issued earlier, to cover the same risk, the adjustment of the loss might easily have become a lengthy ping-pong game.
As it was deeply embedded in the general practice, the CC did not change the strict approach to overinsurance, only the wording of the respective rule was slightly amended, in compliance of dogmatics. As per section 6:458 para. (1) CC any agreement for an insurance cover that is higher than „the value of the insured interest” shall be null and void and the premium shall be reduced accordingly.
The rules on overinsurance, however, do not apply to multiple insurance, defined by section 6:459 para. (1) CC as the same interest being insured by more than one insurance company independently. Multiple insurance now does not affect the validity of any of the parallel agreements, thus the insured person shall have the right to submit his claim to one or more of these insurance companies of his choice. The insurance company to which a claim is submitted shall be liable to make a settlement payment under the terms and conditions fixed in the respective policy and up to the sum insured as specified therein, with a right to share the paid insurance money afterwards with the other participant insurers proportionally [cf. section 6:459 paras. (2) and (3)].[17]
3.3 Legal Certainty
One of the unique features of Hungarian insurance contract law in Europe was the automatical termination of the contract of insurance upon the failure of the policy holder to pay the insurance premium. As per section 543 para. (1) of the 1959 CC the contract terminates after the expiry of a 30 days’ grace period after the due date, provided the premium was not paid and the insurer did not approve any respite or commenced a lawsuit to claim the premium. Steady practice of the courts confirmed that the insurer was not under any duty to send a reminder about the possibility of the termination in case of non-payment.
However, the most problematic issue was not the lack of the duty of the insurer to remind the policy holder to the delay, but the controversial practice of this rule. One could observe that insurers tended to accept late payments (even those, made fifty-sixty days subsequent to the due date) without applying any consequences, however, this usage did not prevent them to revoke strictly the termination of the cover in case of any loss, occurring after the expiry of the 30 days’ grace period. Courts also could not help policy holders in this situation: as insurance contracts require a written form, they may not be amended solely by the implicit conduct – the acceptance of the late premium payment – of the insurer.[18]
This is why the CC changed the rule, the new regulation being semi- mandatory in consumer insurance. As per section 6:449 para. (1) CC, in the event of the non-payment of the premium as due, the insurer shall dispatch a written reminder with a payment deadline of thirty days from the date of the reminder to the party in default, also indicating the potential legal consequences. In case of non-compliance within this additional period, the contract shall be terminated with a retroactive effect to the original due date, except if the insurance company forthwith moves to enforce its claim in a judicial process. The new regulation maintains the legal tradition of the contract to terminate automatically in case of the non-payment, however, this effect being conditional on the written reminder and the omission to pay during the additional period.
Another problem, however, of less significance, was created by section 554 of the 1959 CC, according to which the cover for the current insurance period shall be reduced by the loss paid for the same insurance period, unless there is a reinstatement of the cover against additional premium paid by the policy holder. Insurers certainly made use of this rule, however, without warning the insureds, who were many times caught by surprise not to be paid in full in case of a second larger loss during the year. Judicial practice also denied any specific information duty of the insurer.
Whereas the CC maintained the above mentioned rule in section 6:461 para. (1), there are further conditions added. Section 6:461 para. (2) allows the insurer to apply the reduction of the cover only if the policy holder has been advised about the consequences in writing not later than at the time of the settlement of the claim and also been informed about the additional premium necessary to the reinstatement of the cover. As per para. (3), the contract may remain in force with the reduced sum insured only if the policy holder did not make use of the option to have the cover reinstated. This regulation is also semi-mandatory in consumer insurance.
A further issue of legal certainty was related to the fact that according to the common interpretation of the 1959 CC, it was always the future policy holder (the „applicant”), that submitted a proposal to the insurance contract and the insurer had a deadline of fifteen days to assess the risk and take a decision on its acceptance.[19]
In the practice, the first axiom was soon questioned by the practice, as soon as a real insurance market was established in Hungary. In the corporate sector, larger enterprises usually invited insurers to tenders at renewals. Here, the competitors were asked to provide firm insurance offers and not only indications, on the basis of which applications would have been made. The CC confirms this development by subsuming the conclusion of insurance contracts under the general rules.[20] The regulation, however, is not mandatory, hence insurers are allowed to provide standard contract documents that put the client into the applicant’s position.
The risk assessment period of fifteen days created more controversies in the practice. First, the general semi-mandatory nature of Chapter XLV of the 1959 CC precluded the insurers to set longer periods even if such could have been necessary in life insurance, as the medical examination of the applicant, if required, was hardly manageable within such a short notice. Second, in cases when the insured event did occur after the application had been made, but before the expiry of the fifteen days’ deadline, insurers usually rejected the application, referring to the negative outcome of the risk assessment to avoid payment, even if the insurance documents were signed and the first instalment of the premium was paid. The vast majority of decisions by the courts in such cases held that insurers might reject applications within the risk assessment period at their discretion, trying, however, to provide protection to applicants by requiring that the letter on the rejection also be received by the applicant within this period, thereby cutting the deadline by days in the practice.
The CC offered a radical change in both situations. First, as per section 6:443 para. (3) the offeror shall be bound by the offer for a period of fifteen days from the time when it was made, or for sixty days if a health risks assessment is required for the evaluation of the offer – this is, however, an optional rule, permitting the parties to find the appropriate arrangement required by the circumstances of the case. Second, section 6:444 para. (3) provides a solution to the problem of the insured event occurring during the risk assessment period, based on the general principle of the prohibition of the abuse of law.[21] As in the practice, insurers usually defer the acceptance of smaller and standard risks in advance to lower levels of their organisations, as a result of prior general actuarial assessments of the risk, the CC allows the insurer to refuse the application only if the insurer’s documentation (proposal form, webpage) contains an express warning to this effect, and it is instantly clear from the nature of the insurance cover requested or from other circumstances of the cover that an individual risk assessment is necessary to accept the application.
3.4 Contract Certainty
The rules in section 537 para. (2) and (3) of the 1959 CC represented another unique feature of Hungarian insurance contract law. Accordingly, the insurance contract shall also be deemed to be concluded, if the insurer did not respond to the application for insurance within fifteen days, however, in case the contents of such contract differ from the general conditions of the insurer, the insurer may propose its amendment in writing within further fifteen days in order to have it adjusted to its general conditions. Should this proposal be rejected or remain unanswered by the policy holder within the same deadline, the insurer would be entitled to cancel the contract in writing, subject to 30 days’ notice.
The raison d’être of this rule, among an environment, characterised by the insurance monopoly of the state, was certainly the protection of the private person seeking insurance, allowing him to rely on his application sent to the monopoly insurer even if the bureaucracy of the latter was unable to react within fifteen days. In the practice, however, there were many cases when insurance contracts with rather untypical contents were made this way, as insurers were often unable to check offers against their general conditions even within the further fifteen days the law allowed for corrections. Establishing the contents of insurance contracts, concluded by the implicit conduct of insurers, became even more complicated with the consumer protection legislation about the information duties of the insurer. Even if the offer of the applicant was made on the proposal form of the insurance company, there was often no evidence that such information duties were performed and the applicant had access to the terms and conditions at the time the offer was dispatched.
It is not surprising, that the rule underwent a thorough revision during the codification. By excluding corporate insurance, its scope of application became restricted to consumer insurance, subject to the following conditions:
a) the relevant period, after the expiry of which the contract shall be deemed to be concluded as a result of the failure of the insurer to respond to the offer is generally fifteen days, or sixty days if a health risk assessment is required for the evaluation of the offer, the deadline starting with the reception of the application,
b) the offer shall have been made on the standard proposal form (electronic surface, website ) used by the insurance company, with reference to the applicable tariff,
c) the information duties of the insurer shall have been performed at the time the application was [22]
In case all these conditions are met, the inception date of the contract shall be the day, following the expiry of the risk assessment period, the insurer to carry the risk with a retroactive effect from the date the offer was conveyed to the insurance company, its contents as per the offer.[23]
3.5 Group Insurance
In Hungarian insurance contract law, the first regulation of group insurance was provided by the CC. This is why it might be interesting to introduce the respective rules.
As per section 6:442 para. (1) in group insurance the insured persons are identified on the basis of their affiliation to an organisation or of a relationship, legal or other, between the insureds and the policy holder, further the insurer’s assessment and acceptance of the risk takes place in view of the group itself and not with respect to the constituent persons individually. If the insured persons are defined in the contract solely on the basis of their membership in a specific group, those shall be regarded as insureds, that were members of such group at the time of the occurrence of the insured event. Family members of any member of the group may also be eligible for cover.
The CC defines group insurance as a unitary category of law, hence it does not follow the classification of group insurances, provided by the PEICL: according to the CC, the real differentiating factor between group insurances and individual insurances is the way, insurers assess and accept the risk.[24] Similar legal structures, such as affinity schemes or framework contracts, might qualify both group or individual insurances. It would still be an individual insurance, notwithstanding the number of the insureds involved, in case each of the participants is picked up and quoted (or rejected) by the insurers subsequent to an individual assessment of the risk.
The CC made an attempt to provide the practice solutions to most of the issues, connected with group insurances. Still, the regulation is far from complete.
a) The information duties of the insurer shall be performed vis-à-vis the policy holder. The policy holder shall be responsible to notify the insured persons of the statements he has received and of any changes in the policy [section 442 para. (2) CC].
b) The main principle, that in insurances of fixed sums, the written consent of the insured person, expressing the existence of insurable interest, shall be required for the conclusion and the amendment of the contract, if the policy holder is different from the insured, prevails also in group insurance. The lack of the written consent, however, cannot hinder the making of a group insurance contract, its consequence being only that the nomination of the beneficiary shall be null and void (section 6:475 CC). On the other hand, in case the insured has already given his written consent to the contract, section 6:479 (2) allows the parties to waive the right of the insured to revoke such consent in group insurance.
c) Section 442 para. (3) CC allows the application of a clause in group insurance to restrict or to exclude the insured person’s right to enter the contract and become policy holder.[25] As group insurances usually contain more advantageous terms and conditions, than individual policies, this rule considers the interest of the policy holder that the insured shall not be permitted to achieve such advantages individually by abusing the right to enter the
d) The right of the insured to continue cover is an issue in several legal systems in the EU.[26] The CC, however, approaches the problem from a different angle. Instead of establishing complicated rules balancing the interests of the group and the member leaving the group, it rather suggests that the solution be taken care of by the group insurance contract itself. Accordingly, section 6:442 (4) CC allows the contract to provide that the termination of the relationship between the insured and the policy holder (i.e. the lapse of interest) shall not affect insurance cover.
3.6 Liability Insurance
The regulation, provided now by the CC acknowledges two functions of liability insurance. The compensatory one, having been also a subject in the 1959 CC,[27] is dealt with now by section 6:470 para. (1) CC: „Under liability insurance, the insured shall be entitled to demand the insurer to exempt him, in the manner and up to the limit specified in the policy, from paying material damages and pain and suffering, respectively, for which he is legally liable.” As a new rule, section 6:470 para. (2) emphasizes the protective function of liability insurance:
„Liability insurance shall cover procedural costs, if incurred under the insurer’s guidance or upon its prior consent. The insurer shall be liable to advance the expenses if so requested by the insured.”[28]
The CC does not define the insured event under liability insurance deliberately, allowing insurers to issue policies both on an occurrence-made or a claims-made basis (or combined). Instead, section 6:471, as a new rule, regulates the notification of the loss rather strictly. The insured shall – within a deadline stipulated in the contract – notify the insurer in writing, if a claim has been filed with respect to his insured activity, specified in the contract, or if he becomes aware of any circumstance that is likely to give rise to such a claim. An extended reporting period of at least thirty days after the termination of the contract shall be provided for the notification of an insured event.
Unlike in most countries of the EU, action directe of the victim against the insurer has never been an issue in Hungarian insurance contract law. The reason for this is that already section 559 para. (2) of the 1959 CC – a rule maintained by section 6:472 para. (1) CC – ordered the insurer to pay the amount of settlement exclusively to the victim. The insured may claim that the payment be made to him only upon giving evidence to have already settled the claim of the victim himself.[29] Accordingly, the main rule is – as defined by section 6:473 para. (1) CC – that the victim shall not be entitled to lodge his claim against the insurer directly,[30] instead, the CC expressly allows the victim to sue the insurer for the judicial establishment that the insured’s liability insurance policy did provide cover for his claim at the time when the loss occurred.[31]
4. The Impact of New Legislation – the First Experiences
The rules of the CC shall apply in case the inception of the insurance policy is dated later, than 15 March, 2014 – the day the CC entered into force.[32] It is therefore no surprise that in the four years since, final judicial decisions, based on the new regulation in insurance-related disputes have not been published yet. However, following the practice of insurance companies, some valid first observations may already be made.
Freedom of contract was hoped to give an incentive to insurers to further product development, which has not been realised yet. Insurers seem to be interested to use freedom of contract rather to maintain previous contractual practice and old solutions in corporate insurance, where possible.
As insurance companies may be seen more and more as the captives of their own internal IT systems, it had also been assumed, that new rules of the CC, which are semi-mandatory in consumer insurance contracts, would necessarily become the default models and would thereby spread also to the corporate area and change contractual practice, simply by the interests of insurance companies to avoid parallel solutions. Such developments have yet to take place. The reason of this delay might be that there still are a lot of insurance contracts in force, to which the 1959 CC applies, hence the unavoidable duplicity. One may, however, observe some effects of the new rules in certain areas.[33]
A recent study also called the attention how supervisory practice might adversely influence insurers in making use of contractual solutions, now fully legal as per the CC, however, not compliant with the guidelines and recommendations of the Hungarian National Bank (and the FSA, its predecessor). Though legally non-binding, as such products of soft law serve as the basis of the regular reviews by the supervisory authority, insurers disciplinedly follow these to avoid consequences ranging from fines to the prohibition of the distribution of products in case, according to the opinion of the supervisors, these were in breach of the law or disadvantageous to the interests of insureds (policy holders, beneficiaries etc.).[34]
Also, hitherto no effects of the CC can be seen on the rules of mandatory third-party motor insurance, even though there are conflicting solutions in important areas – in the definition of the policy holder (eligibility), as to the consequences of the non-payment of the premium, to name only a few. It seems, that the current two-tier system in Hungarian insurance contract law would prevail, at least, mid- term.
[1] There were 4,861,426 motor liability insurance contracts in Hungary in 2016, representing 50% of all non-life insurance contracts: cf. www.mabisz.hu/en/market-reports – Hungarian Insurance Companies’ Yearbook 2017, p. 13
[2] The incongruency may perhaps be explained by the different government bodies in charge of the particular legislations: whereas the CC was drafted under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice, the Gfbt was prepared by the Ministry of Finances, where the lobby of insurance companies may have had a greater influence. It is, however, to be noted that the interim results of the re-codification of the CC were available already to the drafters of the MTPL law, too, hence its main principles could well have been taken into account.
[3] For the information duties of the insurer cf. sections 152 to 157, further Appendix 4 of Bit, the common rules of mandatory insurances are summarized in section 129 Bit.
[4] Currently there are 24 insurance companies and 19 mutual insurance associations, registered in Hungary, further 17 branch offices of insurance companies of other EU Member States, doing business in the country: cf. www.mabisz.hu/en/market-reports – Hungarian Insurance Companies’ Yearbook 2017, p. 8
[5] Insurance contracts are contracts based on general conditions of contract. However, as the modern rules relating to the conclusion and interpretation of such contracts were inserted into the general part of the law of obligations of the 1959 CC without any express reference as to their applicability to insurance contracts, as there were some special rules in Chapter XLV on the conclusion of the contract, the practice of insurers avoided the use of the former, based on the principle of lex specialis derogat legi generali.
[6] In the lack of a reference to any private law consequences, the failure of the insurer to comply with its information duties had no impact on the insurance contract, as the respective rules were regulated in the frames of the supervisory law.
[7] Published in the official gazette Magyar Közlöny Nr. 8/2003 (to the topic of insurance contracts see pp. 104-106). Cf. also the preparatory study by Zavodnyik, József: Tézisek a biztosítási szerződési jog átfogó reformjához (Theses to a comprehensive reform of insurance contract law), Manuscript, 1999
[8] See also the Law Nr. CLXXVII of 2013 on the enactment and interim regulations concerning the CC (hereinafter referred to as „Ptké”).
[9] Section 567 para. (1) of the 1959 CC allowed the parties to deviate from the rules of Chapter XLV in the contract in favour of the policy holder, the insured or the beneficiary only, except in transportation insurance and reinsurance.
[10] Note that according to item 3 of section 8:1 para. (1) CC a consumer is „a natural person acting beyond his or her profession, occupation or trade”.
[11] Cf. Oroszlán, Zsuzsa: A biztosítási szerződések jogának újdonságai a Polgári Törvénykönyvről szóló 2013. évi V. törvény szerint (New rules in insurance contract law in the Law Nr. V of 2013 on the Civil Code), ÜgyvédVilág (LawyerWorld), 2013 May.
[12] As per Article 4(2) of the Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29.: „Assessment of the unfair nature of the terms shall relate neither to the definition of the main subject-matter of the contract nor to the adequacy of the price and remuneration, on the one hand, as against the services or goods [supplied] in exchange, on the other, in so far as these terms are in plain, intelligible language”. This rule had been inserted into Section 209 para. (5) of the 1959 CC and maintained by Section 6:102 para. (3) of the CC.
[13] For a critical analysis cf. Takáts, Péter: Unfair insurance contracts? A case study, in: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Ioannis K. Rokas (ed. Lambros Kotsiris, Kyriaki Noussia), Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2017. pp. 346-355. Cf. also the overview by Molnár, István: A tisztességtelen szerződési feltételek és az egyoldalú kogencia viszonya a biztosítási szerződések jogában (Unfair contracts and semi-mandatory rules in the law of insurance contracts) – Lecture on the 20th Conference of the Hungarian Lawyer’s Association (Pécs, 9-10 October 2003)
[14]Section 6:454 para. (2) CC. Strictly speaking, from a pure dogmatical point of view, this solution is not fully correct. The first draft of the Title on insurance contracts in 2005 phrased the consequence of the lapse of insurable interest as the contract „becoming null and void”. However, after a discussion, the Ministry of Justice decided for a more neutral formula.
[15] Cf. Basedow, J.–Birds, J.–Clarke, M.–Cousy, H.–Heiss, H–Loacker, L. (eds.): Principles of European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL), 2nd Expanded Ed. Sellier, Köln, 2014. p. 280 ff.
[16] Cf. sections 46 to 50/A Gfbt.
[17] This solution follows Article 8:104 of PEICL. Cf. Basedow, J.–Birds, J.–Clarke, M.–Cousy, H.–Heiss, H–Loacker, L. (eds.): Principles of European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL), 2nd Expanded Ed. Sellier, Köln, 2014. pp. 250-254.
[18] Cf. the decision of the Metropolitan Court of Budapest Főv.Bír. 41.Pf.20.365/2000, discussed also by Takáts, Péter: A biztosítási szerződések (Contracts of insurance), in: Wellmann, György (ed.): Polgári jog – Kötelmi jog (Civil law – Law of Obligations), 2nd Expanded Edition, HVG–ORAC, Vol. VI. Budapest, 2014. p. 388.
[19] This was derived from the rule about the consequences of the failure of the insurer to respond, that are discussed infra 12.
[20] This means that any of the parties may make an offer to an insurance contract. The new approach of the law is implicitly suggested by the wording of section 6:443 para. (3) speaking about the „offeror” (and not the „applicant”) when regulating the binding force of the offer. Cf. Takáts: op.cit. (Fn. 18 supra), pp. 380-381.
[21] Cf. section 1:5 para. (1) CC.
[22] Section 6:444 para. (1) CC.
[24] Part Six of the PEICL differentiates between accessory and elective group insurances, offering partly different rules to these. Cf. Basedow, J.–Birds, J.–Clarke, M.–Cousy, H.– Heiss, H–Loacker, L. (eds.): Principles of European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL), 2nd Expanded Ed. Sellier, Köln, 2014. pp. 354-366. Note that the authors of the PEICL have also recognised the specific way group risks are underwritten, but did not raise this to an element of the legal definition: cf. op.cit. C1 on p. 354.
[25] According to section 6:451 para. (1) CC, if a contract was not concluded by the insured, the insured shall be entitled to enter the contract with a written statement addressed to the insurer. The insurer’s consent is not required. Upon entering the contract the rights and obligations conferred upon the policy holder shall pass to the insured person. Para. (2) provides that upon the insured to enter the contract, the insured and the policy holder shall be subject to joint and several liability to pay the premium due for the current insurance period. The insured, entering the contract, however, shall be liable to cover the policy holder’s expenses arising from the contract, including previous premium payments.
[26] Cf. Basedow, J.–Birds, J.–Clarke, M.–Cousy, H.–Heiss, H–Loacker, L. (eds.): Principles of European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL), 2nd Expanded Ed. Sellier, Köln, 2014. p. 362. and Article 18:204 PEICL.
[27] Cf. Section 559 para. (1) of the 1959 CC.
[28] As an optional rule, para. (3) provides that the insurer shall be liable to pay the legal expenses and the interests incurred at the insured also if these exceed the sum insured combined with the settlement payment.
[29] As per section 6:472 para. (2) CC, the insurer may settle the claim of the victim even if the insured disputes his liability, but on grounds manifestly unfounded.
[30] The only exception being mandatory third-party motor liability insurance: the action directe is allowed by section 28 para. (1) Gfbt.
[31] Cf. section 6:473 para. (2) CC.
[32] Cf. section 55 para. (1) Ptké.
[33] It is remarkable, how swiftly the new rule of section 6:461 para. (2) CC on the duties of the insurer relating to the reinstatement of cover changed the practice. Insurance companies immediately started to offer products with automatic reinstatement clauses instead of complying with the new regulation by quoting additional premiums to the reinstatement of the cover on a case by case basis.
[34] Cf. Rabár, Olga: A diszpozitivitás hatása a biztosítási jog komplexitására – Lehetőségek a csoportos biztosítások területén (The effect of non-mandatory rules on the complexity of insurance law – Potential developments in the area of group insurances), Dissertation, ELTE JTI, Budapest, 2015.
* Forrás: Insurance Law (ed. Peter Waldgren, Scandinavian Studies in Law, Vol.64, Stockholm,2018 pp. 197-210)
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Richard Tahtinen, Hafrun Kristjansdottir, Daniel T. Olason and Robert Morris
The aim of the study was to explore the prevalence of specific symptoms of depression in athletes and to test differences in the likelihood of athletes exhibiting these symptoms across age, sex, type of team sport, and level of competition. A sample of Icelandic male and female team sport athletes (N = 894, 18–42 years) was included in the study. Of the athletes exhibiting clinically significant depressive symptoms on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, 37.5% did not exhibit core symptoms of depression. Compared with males, females were significantly more likely to exhibit depressed mood, feelings of worthlessness/guilt, and problems with sleep, fatigue, appetite, and concentration. Within males, differences were mostly related to neurovegetative aspects of depression (sleep and appetite), whereas in females, differences were related to cognitive/emotional aspects (e.g., depressed mood, guilt/worthlessness). The findings underline the importance of exploring specific symptoms of depression to provide a richer understanding of depressive symptomology in athletes.
Volume 14 (2020): Issue 4 (Dec 2020)
The Adaptation and Evaluation of a Pilot Mindfulness Intervention Promoting Mental Health in Student Athletes
Audrey G. Evers, Jessica A Somogie, Ian L. Wong, Jennifer D. Allen and Adolfo G. Cuevas
The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a pilot mindfulness program for student athletes by assessing mental health, mindfulness ability, and perceived stress before and after the intervention. The mindfulness program was adapted from a program developed at the University of Southern California. The four-session intervention taught the basics of mindfulness, self-care skills, and guided meditations. Participants completed surveys before and after the intervention. Mindfulness ability was assessed with the Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale, mental health was assessed with a modified Short Form Health Survey, and stress was assessed with the Perceived Stress Scale. After the intervention, participants reported improvement in mindfulness ability, t(28) = −2.61, p = .014, mental health, t(28) = −2.87, p = .008, and a trending improvement in perceived stress, t(28) = 1.86, p = .073. A short mindfulness program may be effective for improving mental health and mindfulness ability in collegiate student athletes.
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A Scale Measuring Academic-Related Anxiety Following Concussion
Michael Dressing, Jillian Wise, Jennifer Katzenstein and P. Patrick Mularoni
Does academic-related anxiety contribute to an adolescent’s recovery process and return to activity after experiencing a concussion? The authors created a novel measure of academic-related anxiety (Mularoni Measure of Academic Anxiety following Concussion [MMAAC]) and administered it to adolescents following concussion in outpatient pediatric sports medicine clinics. Two previously validated measures of anxiety were also administered, and results were compared with the MMAAC scores as well as the lengths of time for return to school and sports. Results show that higher MMAAC scores positively correlate with the length of time an adolescent needs to return to school. Study results indicate that the MMAAC reliably measures academic-related anxiety in adolescents suffering from concussions and can be helpful in predicting a basic timetable for return to school. The authors believe that this brief survey can be used by physicians in clinic to evaluate anxiety and assist with return to school expectations to provide comprehensive recovery support.
Using Self-Determination Theory to Define Pathological Exercise
Kathryn A. Coniglio and Edward A. Selby
Pathological exercise behavior is pervasive in eating disorder psychopathology, yet minimal treatment guidance exists for extinguishing it as little is known about how to differentiate pathological from healthy exercise. The purpose of this study was to characterize pathological exercise in terms of motivation to increase the specificity with which both pathological and healthy exercise is described and to inform treatment interventions. Latent profile analysis characterized homogenous groups based on exercise motivation in two samples: college women (n = 200) and women with eating psychopathology (n = 211). These profiles were compared on levels of eating and general psychopathology and emotion dysregulation. Three profiles emerged describing sedentary, pathological exercise, and athlete groups in the first sample, and five profiles describing neutral, sedentary, weight loss, athlete, and pathological exercise groups emerged in the second sample. Findings indicate that motivation style is salient in defining pathological exercise and may, therefore, be a clinically useful treatment target.
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MN High School League Sets Date for Winter Sports
Student-athletes shouldn't start lacing up their basketball or wrestling shoes or skates just yet, but the Minnesota State High School League's (MSHSL) Board of Directors approved a "flexible plan" for prep winter sports. In a news release from the MSHSL Thursday, the league states the board "approved a flexible plan for the restart of winter activities when clearance is provided by state governmental leaders." Under the plan, practice could start December 21 with the first competitions as early as January 4.
Dance was the one sport that had started in-person workouts locally before the implementation of Executive Order 20-99 which "mandates a four-week pause in activities designed to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. That is scheduled to expire on December 18," indicates the MSHSL announcement.
Some teams have begun virtual contact with athletes as they prepare for the hoped-for start of the season, according to some coaches and activities directors I have been in touch with. Under the previously revised prep schedule, many winter sports teams would have started their seasons in this first week of December.
Executive Director of the MSHSL Erich Martens states, "With the dynamic nature of COVID-19, flexibility is gong to be critical for our programs. We need to remain flexible in the start of seasons and in carrying them to conclusion."
"We know that the state and our schools are facing extremely high case counts and that adjustments in the models may need to take place...Should the winter season restart get pushed later, we may see shorter seasons and fewer games."
Scheduling models include time set aside for section tournaments with the "potential" for state tournaments. The model includes "a projected view of spring activities, maintain(ing) a traditional number of spring season contests and an end date of no later than June 19, 2021." The 2020 spring sports season was entirely wiped out by the pandemic.
Recommendations came from the league's Return to Participation Task Force.
The governor's Executive Order brought an abrupt end to the fall sports season for football and volleyball on November 20. Many football sections were able to revamp their schedules to complete a section championship event. No volleyball playoffs happened.
Many volleyball coaches I spoke with said they and their players were grateful for the chance to compete this fall. Back in August the high school league postponed the football and volleyball seasons to spring, only to reverse that decision later. Volleyball teams played a maximum of 14 matches. Not many local teams reached that number.
Football teams were allowed six regular season games. Quite a few did not get in that allotment, though most teams played at least one section game.
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Mario Chalmers Breaks Down Specific Reasons Why He’d Be Perfect Fit on Lakers
By Justin Benjamin
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It’s no secret that free agent point guard Mario Chalmers wants to play for the Los Angeles Lakers.
In a recent episode of the “Scoop B Radio” podcast, Chalmers broke down why he believes he would be a good fit with superstar LeBron James and the Lakers.
“For me, it’d just be my basketball IQ,” said Chalmers. “Like I said, I’ve been through almost every situation in basketball. I’ve been to four finals, won two of them, so there’s not much that’s happened in the basketball world that I’ve not seen.”
The point guard went on to speak about how his experience in the league can aid the younger guys as the Lakers prepare to go for a deep postseason run.
“I can definitely help a team,” Chalmers said. “I can come in there, give you some basketball knowledge. I help, I can get guys the open shot, I can play defense and I have chemistry with Bron. I have been on teams and have won championships with him before. It’s like, why not put some basketball minds together and let it work? You got one person that can do it on the court and you got another person that can create help. Teach the young guys and show what it takes to get to that level. I think that’s the main thing because you can’t prepare for something that you’ve never been to before. So that’s just one thing. That’s how I look at it from my perspective.”
Chalmers, 34, last played in the league with the Memphis Grizzlies during the 2017-18 season. He put up 7.7 points and 3.0 assists in 66 games for the Grizzlies that season.
The guard was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the No. 34 pick in the 2008 NBA Draft. He was traded to the Miami Heat shortly after.
The fierce veteran made a name for himself in Miami. In fact, Chalmers gained popularity because of the role he played in each of the Heat’s playoff runs during the Big 3 era.
Next to James, the confident sharpshooter went to four NBA Finals, won two championships and captured the second-longest team winning streak in NBA history. Clearly, James and Chalmers had a fruitful partnership on the court.
The Lakers are the N0. 1 seed in the Western Conference. James is focused on bringing the Lakers a championship this season.
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Cardiology Resources
A general guide to learning about Cardiology.
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This guide was created for patrons looking for general consumer health information. These resources are for informational purposes only and should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For questions related to advice, diagnosis, or treatment please contact a licensed medical provider.
According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, cardiology is a "medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and abnormalities involving the heart and blood vessels."
In 1628 William Harvey, an English physician who published his observations of the heart and circulation, laid the initial groundwork for the field of cardiology. From there, a better understanding of the parts and processes of the cardiovascular system, like blood pressure, heart muscle structure, heart sounds, electrical activity in the heart and more, developed in the 18th and 19th centuries. Then the 20th century saw improved diagnostic tools.
Some inventions and procedures crucial to progress in the cardiology discipline include:
The stethoscope, used for auscultation
Electrocardiography, which measures electrical activity in the heart
Echocardiography, an ultrasound of the heart
Pacemakers, which aid in controlling abnormal heart rhythms
Cardiac catheterization, used to diagnose diseases of the heart and treat some cardiovascular conditions
Coronary angiograms, which use X-ray imaging to display the blood vessels of the heart
Defibrillation, a treatment that sends an electric current to the heart
The importance of heart health cannot be understated. According to Harvard Health Publishing, "The heart beats about 2.5 billion times over the average lifetime, pushing millions of gallons of blood to every part of the body." That being said, as stated by the CDC, heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. For more information about cardiology, heart health and cardiovascular diseases, see Helpful Websites below!
Cardiology. (n.d.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved May 20, 2020, from https://www.britannica.com/science/cardiology
Non-Invasive Tests and Procedures. (2015, July 31). American Heart Association. Retrieved May 20, 2020, from https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-attack/diagnosing-a-heart-attack/noninvasive-tests-and-procedures
Invasive Tests and Procedures. (2015, July 31). American Heart Association. Retrieved May 20, 2020, from https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-attack/diagnosing-a-heart-attack/invasive-tests-and-procedures
Heart Health. (n.d.). Harvard Health Publishing. Retrieved May 20, 2020, from https://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/heart-health
Leading Causes of Death. (2017, March 17). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved May 20, 2020, from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
Below are some of the suggested databases for locating scholarly articles pertaining to cardiology.
If you would like to see the full list of databases available to Touro students, click here. Once there, you can narrow your database options to ones most likely to contain information about cardiology by choosing Health Sciences in the drop down menu.
Access Medicine Access more than 50 leading medical texts, over 25,000 images, videos and audio, USMLE-formatted questions, a self-assessment feature, diagnostic tools, clinical cases, etc.
Anatomy.tv – Primal Pictures View 3D rotatable images for 9 anatomical areas including Interactive Head & Neck, Interactive Pelvis & Perineum, and Interactive Spines; quizzes; MRI views.
BASE Provides access to more than 100 million documents, including journals, institutional repositories, and digital collections, in most subject areas.
EBSCO multi-search Search articles in many EBSCO databases at once. Encompasses ERIC, Professional Development Collection, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Newspaper Source, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE, Business Source Complete, Academic Search Complete.
Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest) Covers all major healthcare specialities, including nursing, pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, physical therapy, etc.
JAMA Network Journals & Archives Journals Includes access to JAMA and the 9 JAMA specialty journals (formerly the Archives journals) from 1998 forward. Also includes the JAMA Network Archives Journals backfile, with some titles dating back to the 1910s.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) Bibliographic database covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, biology, and bio-chemistry.
Oxford Journals Includes academic and research journals from Oxford University Press covering a broad range of subject areas.
ProQuest One Academic Provides access to journals, ebooks, dissertations, video, and news from ProQuest Central, Adademic Video Online, and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Public Health Database (Proquest) Covers a wide variety of disciplines ranging from social sciences to business to biological sciences. Includes thousands of full-text dissertations provide in-depth scholarly insights into important topics such as biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, health services administration, international public health, maternal and child health, and occupational safety and health.
PubMed @ Touro Allows you to not only access PubMed but also the full-text holding at Touro. PubMed comprises over 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.
Basic Research in Cardiology
Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Cardiology Plus
Cardiology Research
Cardiology and Therapy
Cardiology Today Intervention
Nature Reviews: Cardiology
NEJM Journal Watch: Cardiology
Touro Library Catalog
All of Touro's books and e-books can be found by searching the catalog (above, or where it says Catalog Find Books & eBooks on the library homepage).
Use the advanced search to limit your results by year, campus location, or search just e-books by selecting "TC E-Books" under Location. If a print book you'd like is at a different campus, learn how to request it.
The items below are just a sampling of the many titles available:
150 ECG Cases by John Hampton; David Adlam; Joanna Hampton
Available at Bay Shore!
Cardiac Intensive Care by David L. Brown
Cardiology: an Integrated Approach by Adel Elmoselhi
Available as an eBook!
Cardiovascular Care by Mary Ann Siciliano McLaughlin (Contribution by); Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Staff
Available at Bay Shore & Kings Highway!
Clinical Topics in Cardiology by Harrison Cox (Editor)
Available at Midtown!
Current Diagnosis and Treatment Cardiology, Fifth Edition by Michael H. Crawford
Available at Bay Shore and as an eBook!
Interventional Cardiology by George D. Dangas (Editor); Carlo Di Mario (Editor); Nicholas N. Kipshidze (Editor); Peter Barlis (Associate Editor); Tayo Addo (Associate Editor)
Netter's Cardiology by George Stouffer; Marschall S. Runge; Cam Patterson; Joseph S. Rossi
New Concepts in ECG Interpretation by Alessandro Capucci (Editor)
The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need by Malcolm S. Thaler
Available at Bay Shore (On Reserve) and as an eBook!
The Heart: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology
Living Through the Heart Attack
Living With Heart Disease
Heart: Cardiomyopathy / Heart failure
Cardiovascular Care For Assistants
Keep The Blood Flowing
Heart: Coronary Heart Disease
Heart Diseases (MedlinePlus/U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Heart Health (Johns Hopkins Medicine)
Cardiovascular Diseases Fact Sheet (World Health Organization)
Heart Health and Aging (National Institute on Aging)
Heart Disease (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Heart Health (Harvard Health Publishing)
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dōTERRA – Business Opportunity or Terror?
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I’m not an “essential oils” man, myself. I mean, I use a bit of moisturiser, but that’s about as far as I go.
And vitamins. I take a multi-vitamin & mineral tablet with meals, if that counts. That’s it, though.
But I’m aware enough of doTERRA to have been taken by surprise when I walked into my workplace kitchen area and saw a little black bag, shaped like an oversized pencil case, emblazoned with the logo.
I wondered if it was an attempt at “strategic advertising”, or if someone was intending adding oils to their coffee or water.
I wasn’t asking, though. I didn’t particularly want to spend my morning being regaled with the health benefits of that shit. I wasn’t that curious to know why that doTERRA bag was lying there.
That bag containing the “gift of Earth” as doTERRA means. Or gift of dirt maybe, depending on your experience of it.
However, some folks swear by the stuff. They eat it, breathe it, and rub it on themselves. Whatever. So long as you’re happy and it’s not hurting anyone, do what you like: it’s none of my business.
Except some argue it does hurt people, or at least it does the way some zealots of the brand use it.
I’ve read the stories wherein a person has applied these oils direct to skin, then went and lay on a sunbed and ended up with second or third degree burns.
I’ve also read the horror stories where desperately sick people have been talked into abandoning traditional medical treatment in favour of these oil droplets, and it’s ended tragically.
However, you get fruitcakes in all walks of life so maybe not too surprising if an MLM is found to have a few in the ranks as well. A product like oils, with all its new-agey connotations, may attract more than its fair share of these folks.
Exacerbating that, is that MLMs tend to elicit a cult-like devotion to the product, with advocates imbuing all sorts of miraculous properties to the contents of their little overpriced bottles.
Essential oils aren’t quite a placebo either, the body does react to them, so they’re far from harmless.
Like all MLMs in the health & well being market, doTERRA officially prohibits its distributors or “Wellness Advocates” as they call them, from making false or unproven claims for the products. There’s the dire warning that this can lose you your franchise and business.
All found within 5mins on Instagram
But go take a look right now at Instagram with the hashtag “doterra” and you’ll see any number of health benefits being claimed for the oils, along with pseudo-prescriptions describing how to mix and apply them.
According to some, these oils are an effective remedy for everything from the common cold to cancer. They can alleviate depression, provide motivation and focus, cure cerebral palsy and autism… and even ward off spiritual ailments.
My favourite claim is that they can cure Ebola. That one earned doTERRA a warning from the FDA.
Now that’s faith
But nonsense like the above aside, if folks stick to sensible use and adhere to medical guidelines, then go ahead and knock yourself out. I’m not here to argue one way or the other on the pros and cons of actually using the stuff, but on whether you can actually make a buck out of selling it as a distributor.
Joining doTERRA
If you want to get in on doTERRA, it starts with a membership fee of $35 (£20 in UK) and you have to renew that for $25 (£15) every year.
What this gets you, is access to the wholesaler’s discount as a Retail Customer.
You can’t sell to the public at this level, just purchase for personal use at the “lowest possible prices”.
If that’s the case, that you want the product at the lowest possible price, then you could argue you could do that on eBay. You’ll find plenty former MLM distributors dumping their stock there, and for a lot cheaper than any discount you’d get on the home site.
But buying direct from doTERRA does come with the assurance that it’s the genuine article, and depending on what you’re planning on doing with the stuff, maybe it’s worth the extra to be guaranteed of that.
doTERRA states Wholesale or Retail Customers account for 80% of their membership in the US (link). These are people who love the product so much, they join up just to get it cheaper, and nothing more.
Herbalife claims something similar… but all these MLMs pretty much sing the same song, they just put it to different music.
Anyway, doTERRA say they’ve got three million (3,000,000) members in the US, so 80% of that is two million, four hundred thousand (2,400,000).
Meaning 20%, some six hundred thousand (600,000), are folks selling doTERRA as distributors and looking to make some money out of the “opportunity” that the company promises.
So, if you’re a fan of the oils, and want to spread the message as a full blown, ordained doTERRA evangelist, then you step up to being a Wellness Advocate.
doTERRA says this group, the first rung on the ladder, accounts for 62% (372,000 people) of all US Wellness Advocates, and of those 53% (197,160) earned a commission.
Earned a commission. To qualify to be in that group is simply “Commission > $0”. However, doTERRA cites the average earning, which it claims is $380.
That’s for a year, not a month. For a month it’d be $31.67.
Actually, it’d be even lower than that, as expenses aren’t factored in. That’s a gross profit figure only. However, $380 while still paltry, is the higher figure, so the better one to use.
I’ve said it before, but averages can be wildly misleading, and it’s why MLMs list them. They have to post something, so they list the figure with the best spin on it.
For instance, if you have ten people, one earning $100, and the other nine $1, then the average earnings is $10.90. The median would give a truer figure of $1, which is why MLMs don’t use it. They’re not technically lying, they’re just not interpreting the sales figures in any way you’d find meaningful.
doTERRA states that 53% of the 62% who are first rung Wellness Advocates, are the members who earned something more than zero dollars.
Those who made precisely nothing, or “Commission = 0”, are the other 47%. That’s 174,840 members.
So doTERRA is excluding around half of all first rung Wellness Advocates in its earnings disclosure.
Why? Because if they got added into that “average” it’d crash right through the floor. So they’re not, because you don’t want to tell folks what their chances really are of making it in this “business opportunity”.
See how doTERRA likes to try and obfuscate this information as much as possible.
But this will be as nothing once we get to the compensation plan.
Those 174,840 hopefuls, who failed to make a dime, will all have read the company blurb on the business opportunity and bought one of the enrolment kits. You have to buy an enrolment kit if you want to move up to Wellness Advocate and start selling the stuff.
These kits start at 139 € and go all the way up to 2,790 € (1PV is pretty much comparable to $1).
So while nearly 175,000 people made a loss, doTERRA sure didn’t.
The “cheap” section
By the way, if you’re wondering why I’m bouncing around between using US dollars, UK pounds sterling and euros, it’s because I’m trying to use the latest documents available on doTERRA, and am automatically directed to the UK/EU pages. I’ve got to jump to the US archive where a corresponding UK/EU document isn’t available – like that earnings one, which isn’t produced for Europe.
See what I mean about making things difficult.
But with regards to currency, no matter if it’s US, UK or EU, you can see those oils are overpriced.
And you’ll be underpaid for all the hours you’ll put in trying to sell them.
Moving On Up Through doTERRA
Once you start recruiting people to join you in this opportunity, to become one (half) of the lucky 62% who earn $380 a year, you’re regarded as one of the Builders in doTERRA.
Builders are ranked as Manager, Director, Executive, Elite, and Premier.
According to doTERRA these “business entrepreneurs” spend a few hours a week, to a few hours a month, on trying to flog doTERRA’s wares.
This group accounts for 23% of Wellness Advocates in the US i.e. 138,000.
Of that 138,000, it can further broken down as:
I included the true percentage of overall Wellness Advocates so you could see exactly what your chances are of earning $10.5k a year: 1.15%
Making $10k a year puts you in the top one percent of earners in doTERRA.
It’d put you in the poor’s house anywhere else.
That is a ridiculous figure. You could make more than that working a part time waitress job, and with less hours. I say that because no one makes a cent just working a few hours a week in MLMs. You’re always “on”, always trying to sell.
Always annoying everyone you meet.
Wellness Advocate Leaders
Wellness Advocate Leaders are the top one percent of doTERRA’s active membership.
DoTERRA claims the average time to achieve Silver is 18mths, Platinum is 37mths, Diamond 42mths and Presidential Diamond 71mths.
Which former doTERRA YouTubers say is bullshit, along with the average earnings figures.
That group above equates to 6,000 people in total.
So the percentages listed are breaking down that 1% of top doTERRA earners in relation to themselves. To give a better perspective, here’s how that relates to actual numbers of people earning those figures, and the percentage that represents of doTERRA’s 600,000 active members.
So you have a 0.5% chance of earning $28,205 annually.
Which is no chance.
And as before, that’s a gross figure without any expenses deducted.
I really don’t think that the usual MLM retort of branding the 99.5% of people who failed to make a living wage, as “not trying”, is believable.
Like I said in my Best Way To Make Money post, get yourself a real job if that’s sort of money you’re aiming for. You’ll work less, have regular hours, and won’t lose friends and family.
Because you ain’t ever, ever, getting into the ranks of Platinum and above.
Not selling overpriced, little bottles of oils out of your living room.
doTERRA Compensation Plan
To be honest, I think analysing this financial maze is moot at this point. We’ve seen the potential earnings, and your chances of landing them, so figuring out how doTERRA calculates your cut is neither here nor there now, in my opinion.
But for the sake of completeness, here it is.
Plus “The Power of 3”
Or summarised in one image:
There’s even a couple of pyramid shapes in there too. Just like there is in doTERRA’s illustrations. Because doTERRA is more Egyptian than the Sphinx.
Don’t be fed the bullshit that a pyramid scheme operates without products, MOBE had products and it was still branded a pyramid scheme and shut down by the FTC.
Speaking of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), it’s an FTC red flag for an MLM’s compensation plan to be difficult to unwind and understand.
doTERRA sure ticks that box. I’ve read this thing several times, and against supplementary literature on the site, and still can’t find definitions for all the acronyms used.
There’s distributors and their seasoned up-lines that aren’t clear on how they’re paid, never mind me.
But if you have six minutes, doTERRA themselves will explain it:
But like I said, what you do get paid in doTERRA is so very little, how it’s calculated is a mystery not worth unravelling.
CPTG Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade
I said I wasn’t going to debate the actual effectiveness of doTERRA’s oils, but it’s worth addressing their much vaunted certification: CPTG Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade.
Sounds impressive.
Except there are no FDA certified Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils.
What doTERRA have copyrighted, is just the string of words, not some magic formula. The link above explains that.
It’s a meaningless, bullshit phrase with a logo attached, nothing more.
In my opinion, that is shady.
Still Thinking Of Becoming A doTERRA Wellness Advocate?
Don’t. For the love of God, don’t.
If you like the products, sure, go ahead and sign up as a Retail Customer and use the oils.
Don’t use the oils to try and cure yourself of cancer in place of Chemo Therapy, or throw away your heart pills because you’re putting a couple drips of lavender on your chest, or smear yourself in them and go sit in the sun.
Be fecking well sensible.
This is not sensible. Topical, but not sensible.
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Directed by Richard Lowenstein
The dramatised story of a coal-miners’ strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra. The story is told through the struggles of Agnes and Wattie Doig, two Scottish immigrants, who were real people.
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REPORT: Making the Changes: a powerful symposium for women in jazz
The poster for Making the Changes featured the band Interchange
Back Row L-R Brigitte Beraha, Yazz Ahmed Corrina Silvester, Helena Kay, Charlie Pyne
Front Row:Carol Jarvis, Tori Freestone, Karen Street, Issie Barratt, Shirley Smart
Making the Changes was a symposium on December 17 2017 held at the Southbank Centre, organised by ISSIE BARRATT and presented by the Centre and by the UK Women’s Jazz Collective. 70 women met to create a network, identify barriers facing them in the jazz industry, celebrate success stories and assemble working parties to move things forward. Mary James attended and reports:
“Now that I’ve seen the ridiculous gender imbalance [in jazz], I cannot unsee. I see and hear sexism on a daily basis.” So said a well-known male instrumentalist via email to Issie Barratt, the organiser of the symposium. Over 70 women met at the Southbank Centre on 17 December 2017 to discuss the issues they face in the music industry and to identify positive action that all (men and women) can contribute to as well as sharing (across the day) numerous examples of “positive action” that had succeeded in implementing change with more gender balanced outcomes.
They also heard of success stories such as the Help Musicians UK Jazz Promoters Fellowships, and ambitions of the three attending funding bodies to phase out women-only funding (such as Women Make Music) within a few years in an era of gender-balanced funding applications. Help Musicians UK intends to develop a National Mentoring Bank and have 50-50 shares on all applications and grant panels by 2021.
Statistics (assembled by Issie Barratt in 2016) were stark – of 200 jazz instrumental professorial seats at 6 of the UK’s 7 conservatoires, only 8 were held by women; fewer than 6% of jazz instrumentalists studying at conservatoires were women; and in 25 years of a major award, only 2 out of 27 recipients had been women (Fortunately, thanks to the award organisers proactively spreading their net and widening their reach the outcome of this year’s award was markedly different, as 55% (6/11) of 2017’s BAND LEADERS THAT MADE IT THROUGH TO THE FINAL ROUND were women) . One speaker spoke of the invisibility of structural privilege that supports this imbalance.
Examples of artistic and educational jazz programmes that signed up to a 50:50 gender balance and the positive outcomes include Northern Line and Jazz North Introduces. In a wide-ranging day several issues stood out:
Feeling an outsider – and the mental challenges when often the only woman in the band, or a female leader, or at a jam. Help Musicians UK recently launched Music Minds Matter to support everyone in the music industry where issues of bullying and depression are rife. This is a joined-up scheme that offers advice and support (through a 24-hour help link) and signposts the way to treatment and funding.
Being heard – blind submission (the anonymising of music presented to promoters and conservatories) is already used in the classical world, at BASCA and Jazz at the Lincoln Center. It would be interesting to see what a panel of jazz journalists would choose if they were subjected to such an experiment.
Being seen and read about – the visual under-representation of women jazz musicians in the jazz print media, and as writers and critics. To discourage stereotyping, women are encouraged to have high quality photographs and text and to insist via their contracts that this image/text is used in publicity. Women should be aware of long print deadlines and not leave publicity too late. And more women could be encouraged to write about jazz.
Raising awareness – days such as this create a community, enabling more women to work together with other female jazz musicians (musically and politically – rather than remaining the lone woman in the band or dealing with gender issues in isolation), encouraging women to apply for funding, having mixed panels at all industry events and festival promotion teams, widening the net by talking about ethnicity and diversity issues alongside gender.
Numerous working parties will be set up in the new year – Including how to help redress the gender imbalance in the conservatoires, festival and gig programming and in the media and tackling bullying/harassment (in conjunction with the MU).
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You are here: Home / Events / London 2012 Games / London Olympic Sculpture to get World’s Biggest Helter-Skelter Slide
London Olympic Sculpture to get World’s Biggest Helter-Skelter Slide
Aug 5, 2015 By jonathan
The ArcelorMittal Orbit in the London Olympic Park wowed the world during the London 2012 games. After the games, no one has really visited it much.
So, in an effort to boost visitors, planners have approved building a 178 meter (583 feet), 12 loop slide. It will start and the top and go all the way to the bottom.
From London’s Evening Standard:
A 178-metre helter-skelter will be built around the Olympic Park’s ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture after getting the thumbs-up from planning bosses.
Visitors will hit speeds of 15mph on the giant 12-loop slide, which will begin from a height of 74m above ground and is expected to last about 40 seconds per ride.
The slide, whose plans were revealed by the Standard earlier this year, was signed off by the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park last night, and will be built in time for spring 2016, according to director of visitor services Peter Tudor.
Will you be more likely to visit now that there will be a giant slide? I still think I’ll pass, I’m not a big fan of huge slides!
Source: Olympic sculpture slide: Go-ahead for ‘world’s biggest’ helter-skelter on Orbit Tower – London – News – London Evening Standard
Filed Under: London 2012 Games, Travel
nitrox11nick says
I can’t believe it took this long. It should have been part of the original design! I think it’s a great addition. London loves quirky things – we put the London Eye up and now you can’t go to any city worth a dime without seeing a copycat version. Maybe this will start a craze for cities opening giant helter skelters 🙂
No, thank you! I would visit the park certainly but I will leave the slide to the them park enthusiasts.
hoppytoad79 says
I love the idea, but not sure how many others will be of the same mind.
MarkM says
Hmmm. I lived in the area as the park was being built, specifically to see it come to life in time for the games. I always wondered about the Orbit. As an amateur enthusiast of art and architectural form it always struck me that it didn’t quite jive with me. Following the games I’ve been away until very recently but had an opportunity to stop by the new park just a few weeks ago. As I sat looking at the orbit on that visit two things struck me. 1. More generally how underutilized the park was. It felt almost lonely. Something odd for what should be a huge tourist attraction. 2. How under impressive the Orbit itself is when considered alongside say the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty. Often renderings of the sculpture make it look more interesting than the sculpture itself. Much like the one above. I wonder about whether the giant slide will make this a more visitable attraction. I think I’ll leave my opinion on that for my next visit in a few more years, when the building in the area is due to conclude.
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Perfectly-judged Royal Christening coverage
25 October 2013 Leave a comment
Sarky note to the Independent about their coverage of the Christening of Prince George which the rest of the media (especially the BBC) went massively over-the-top about:
Congratulations on your near-perfect coverage of the Royal Christening. 19 words in the bottom corner of page 27 was exactly what it needed.
It would have been perfect but for Grace Dent’s whitterings in her column, but then she got the fuss over Bake Off wrong as well, so I wasn’t surprised.
Which, with the usual edits, got printed as:
Filed under The Independent
Jeremy Paxman & Russell Brand Newsnight interview.
My hubby asked earlier this evening what the fuss was about Paxman and Brand. I had no idea, so I watched the interview on YouTube. (Link here)
Brand is a complete twat! He claims he has never voted because he thinks all politicians are self-serving and work only for “the corporations”. And he’s smug and superior about not voting, and by his inaction, is letting them get away with it.
Fucking idiot. If none of the candidates, or their parties, satisfy you then you still vote – you bother turning up and you write “none of the above” on the paper and put it into the ballot box. It IS still counted!
But more importantly, it says that although you reject all the choices you were given, you do not reject the concept of democracy nor the privilege of voting. People like Brand who get smug and superior over doing nothing and who think inaction is something to be proud of get right on my tits.
If you don’t vote, if you can’t even be bothered to write “none of the above” on a piece of paper every couple of years, then you have no right to make any comment whatsoever about anything political.
It’s his shallowness that really pisses me off. When Paxman asks the perfectly reasonable question about the alternative he’d prefer, Brand waffles on about “egalitarian society” or some such meaningless bullshit then whines that he was busy last week and hasn’t had time to think up an alternative political system!
He’s had at least three decades to make one up and he’s basing his non-voting behaviour on that.
He’s decided that a different system is needed. Well THAT is a difficult conclusion to reach, isn’t it? Presumably he decided that back in the seventies when he rejected democracy. But exactly what his different system is, how it will work in reality and how we get there from here, he hasn’t wasted a second thinking about that. Yet he presumes to make political comments?! Just how trivial *is* this man?
Brand should shut the fuck up because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
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Great British Bake Off: Ruby Tandoh misses the point
Whine at the Guardian after this piece appeared on their front page…
In her rambling self-denying piece on the public reaction to her performance in The Great British Bake-Off, Ruby Tandoh seems to have analysed everything except her own performance.
Her unpopularity with the public had nothing to do with sexism, misogynism or flirtatiousness.
It had everything to do with her spending the entire series wearing a face like thunder, sulking like a spoiled simpleton teenager and constantly playing to the camera.
Yes, she’s right, it’s manufactured television. There’s a lot of it around and the viewers have long learned to recognise when they’re being played. She tried to play us and we weren’t fooled by the little girl lost Barbie Doll act.
Widespread resentment at her attempt is inevitable.
Saudi Arabian snub of UN Security Council seat is right
Whinge at the Evening Standard about Saudi Arabia’s bare-face cheek and pretence at being a civilised country:
Saudi Arabia is absolutely right to snub an invitation to sit on the UN Security Council because of the UN’s failure to address issues like Syria, Palestine and nuclear proliferation.
But perhaps those issues are too big and complex for a large, unwieldy organisation like the UN? Maybe it should be addressing smaller, more easily solved problems.
Like human rights in Saudi Arabia.
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Public faith in police is far higher than in politicians
Whinge at the Independent after they printed a leader claiming that after plebgate, the public had lost faith in the police:
You may be right that public faith in the police has been tested by “plebgate” (though nothing like the degree to which our patience has been tested).
However, since public faith in politicians is far far lower than in the police, we’re still giving the benefit of the doubt to the police.
It will take more than the claims of sleaze-ridden, expenses-fiddling, bandwagon-jumping politicians to shake our belief in the police, I assure you.
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moan at the Evening Standard about crap maths…
We are being told that although average rail fares will increase by the expected 4.1% next year, the maximum rise will be capped at 6.1% from 9.1%. Rail users’ pressure groups are saying this is good news. They are under-analysing the situation.
If an average is maintained but an upper limit is reduced, a lower limit has to be increased to compensate. It’s basic maths.
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Royal Mail: Russian standards of asset theft
missive at several papers because I am getting increasingly pissed-off at the Royal Mail sell-off, not least of all because the Royal Mail in its current form already makes a profit for the country
“It’s your chance to own a bit of the Royal Mail” they claim. I’m a British citizen, I already own a bit of the Royal Mail, thank you very much.
What they mean is that they’re stealing my bit and everybody else’s bits and flogging them off very cheaply so their city friends can make a lot of money.
It is asset theft on a Russian scale, pure and simple, and utterly corrupt.
The Evening Standard printed it, which I was quite impressed by, given their Russian ownership…
A day later, the Independent printed their version, without the Russia reference – they’re owned by the same Russian as the Standard…
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Growing Like a Downhill Snowball
Sustainability at ski resorts is ever more common, but is it too late?
by Phil Busse
Keith Carter
This is not the winter that the ski industry, nor skiers, in Oregon wants—and, more broadly, many are worried that this year is a sign of winters to come.
Mt. Ashland, which was closed all last season, has eeked open for a few days, and snow coverage at Hoodoo has been spotty. Nordic ski areas—notably Meissner adjacent to the Cascade Lakes Highway in Central Oregon and Tea Cup on the backside of Mt. Hood, which sit at slightly lower elevations than nearby alpine ski areas—have been closed more days than open this winter.
Certainly there have been droughts in Oregon, and correspondingly lousy ski seasons, but what is notably different is that, according to the latest survey data, the state has received near-normal precipitation since October. It is, quite simply, that the world is getting warmer. (Last year, average temperatures crept up even more, marking 2014 as the warmest year in recorded history.)
For the ski industry, there is a troubling irony: Although an outdoor sport, the ski industry is not inherently eco-friendly. In Oregon, most skiers travel more than 60 miles for a day of skiing, a disturbing number given that carbon emissions from tailpipes are a primary contributor to global warming. Quite simply, it isn't a sustainable equation.
But, that said, ski resorts are scrambling to break the cause-and-effect cycle of global warming. In particular, Mt. Bachelor has joined a vanguard of ski resorts throughout North America, overhauling its operations to reduce carbon emissions—and in the process, perhaps helping save winter and the ski industry.
A Growing Trend
At the turn of the last century, climate change was still a concept most often shelved along with Birkenstocks and flax seed. Prius and wind turbines were, at best, nascent novelties. The concept of "global warming" was still a debated reality, although in 2006 Al Gore's blockbuster An Inconvenient Truth helped push sustainability and the reduction of carbon emissions into the mainstream.
But in 2000, with the battle cry "keeping winter cool," the National Ski Area Association (NSAA) took it upon itself to declare a Sustainable Slopes Environmental Charter. (By comparison, the Kyoto Protocol, which guides nations on carbon emissions, wasn't ratified until 2002.) Although many of Oregon's ski resorts reside within federal lands, the Sustainable Slopes Environmental Charter is not a regulation, but simply a request by a private organization for voluntary compliance. Recognizing the sizable amount of energy necessary to manage ski resorts and its impact on the environment, the charter urges individual resorts to examine current practices, and what to do differently. Eight of Oregon's 12 major downhill resorts were charter members, including Mt. Bachelor, Hoodoo and Anthony Lakes.
Three years ago, NSAA stepped up its efforts even more, and set out a Climate Challenge. Far less well known, but similar to the Leadership in Environmental Energy and Design (LEED) certification process for designating certain buildings environmentally-friendly, the Climate Challenge asks resorts to take measurable steps toward reducing their carbon emissions—and awards points for compliance. The goal is far-reaching: By 2020, to reduce carbon emissions to nearly half the current rates.
At first, only eight out of the 500 or so resorts in North America joined the Climate Challenge. The following year, those pioneers were joined by another seven; Mt. Bachelor and Mt. Hood Meadows both signed up. And this season, 30 resorts have joined this lead group.
In particular, Mt. Bachelor has taken on a wide-reaching number of programs—some obvious and easy, others more challenging in their efforts to change entrenched protocols.
"The easiest sustainability initiative has been to purchase enough wind energy credits to offset 100 percent of our chairlifts' electrical power usage," says Drew Jackson, the marketing and communication manager at Mt. Bachelor. He adds, "The greatest challenge has been to upgrade old buildings and make them more energy efficient."
In the latest report from NSAA, Mt. Bachelor reports energy credits have offset a carbon footprint the equivalent of removing 5,163 cars from Oregon's roadways each year.
More directly, Mt. Bachelor has pushed to actually reduce the number of cars coming and going on Century Drive—and also enforces a "no idling program" for vehicles in its parking lots. All told, from that effort the ski area claims a reduction of seven million pounds of greenhouse gases annually—or, a reduction of 1.7 million vehicle miles in 2014.
Jackson points out that these sustainability programs are a "win-win." Explaining that the goal is to reach the triple-bottom line—reduced carbon emissions, reduced costs and improved lifestyles—he talks about how Mt. Bachelor replaced all of the lighting in its vehicle maintenance shop with LED bulbs. "The new lights reduced our carbon footprint, reduced our energy cost and improved the brightness of the shop for our employees," he explains.
Perhaps the greatest shortcoming in Mt. Bachelor's sustainability efforts is its lack of publicity of the initiatives.
Interestingly, a 2012 study by Madeline Phillips, "Perceptions of Sustainability," which surveyed hundreds of skiers at Oregon resorts, points out that Oregonians strongly value environmentally friendly business practices—with some four out of five respondents saying it is important that ski areas practice sustainability, and roughly that same number saying that knowing a ski resort is working toward sustainability would affect whether they patronize the resort. Yet, whether poor marketing or simple modesty, Mt. Bachelor does little to advertise its efforts and its role as a leader in the ski industry's efforts toward lessening carbon emissions.
Jackson admits Mt. Bachelor's shortcoming marketing its sustainability initiatives, but just as quickly points to the resort's future plans. "Mt. Bachelor received a federal grant for an engineering and feasibility study on the idea of installing a biomass plant in our base area," he says. "If constructed," he continues, "the biomass plant would use local forest debris as fuel to produce energy so that we could replace and retire our current propane heating system. The plant would also aid forest management personnel in making a portion of the nearby forest more fire-resistant by removing highly-flammable natural debris."
All of which sounds good. Yet, will be it enough?
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Morgenrot adds Sauvignon Blanc with World's longest single wine name
Morgenrot is giving its customers a real mouthful with its latest launch from New Zealand’s Hawkes Bay.
The name references a Maori hill in the region, which has gained fame for being the longest place name of consecutive characters, which also makes it the longest, single wine name in the world.
The specialist beer and wine importer has launched: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenaukitanatahu Sauvignon Blanc.
The wine, which is shortened to 'Taumata' to make it easier to pronounce, is described as a rounder, more floral Sauvignon Blanc. It has grassy and asparagus notes backed with tropical fruits and citrus, with hints of pineapple in a fruity palate.
Morgenrot’s commercial director, John Critchley, said: “At 85 characters the wine may have the longest name in the world but as difficult as it may be to say it is definitely not difficult to drink. It perfectly showcases how NZ Sauvignon Blanc wines are evolving with a wonderful balance, hits of tropical fruits and that classic herbal finish. I am confident it will tick all the right boxes with operators and consumers and certainly create conversation, even if they can’t pronounce it.”
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Rounding off our 8-week virtual tour of the Indian Ocean, we have explored some of this region’s most sought after hotels and resorts. Last but not least, we are stopping off in Mauritius, to check in with one of our favourite resorts in the world – the One&Only Le Saint Géran.
We caught up with Cristian Fumado, the Hotel Manager, and discussed how this pinnacle of easy and authentic luxury has ranked so highly for decades.
Over the years it has earned a family of loyal returners. Including LOVE BRAND & Co. founder Oliver and his family. Oliver’s father who lived in South Africa was one of the early guests to discover this haven, when Sole Kerzner first opened Le Saint Géran in 1970’s. Oliver’s family have been going back ever since.
Last year, the resort took the top spot on Condé Nast Traveller’s, ‘Gold List’. A curation of “The Best Hotels and Resorts in the World” confirming that the One&Only Le Saint Géran, is not just one of our favourites and our first resort partner, but draws in discerning guests from all over the world for a piece of Mauritian magic.
Cristian told us “One&Only Le Saint Géran has always had a gift for making its guests happy and for over forty years now, it has never failed to delight those who set foot inside the majestic wooden doorway”.
Despite the resort’s complete transformation in 2017, the resort remains humble to its roots and traditions. Cristian explain that “the arrival of each new guest is signalled by a gong, a longstanding tradition that continues today. There is a sense of family, hospitality, authenticity, and attention, that is the magic that makes One&Only Le Saint Géran so special and remains in the hearts of those who have visited”.
Not only does this sense of family manifest itself within the resort’s guests, but it also extends to its staff, many of whom have remained working here since first opening its doors in 1975.
Discovering the Real Mauritius
Cristian explains that “One&Only resorts are set in some of the most beautiful locations in the world, each award-winning resort offers guests a distinctive style and personality borne of its local culture, genuine hospitality and a lively energy that is unrivalled. Guests are given an opportunity to discover the real Mauritius, for its fascinating and rich history. At One&Only Le Saint Géran, you will find local influences weaved throughout every space, showcasing Mauritian craftsmanship, materials, art and nature”.
Famed for its world-class food, the hotel has exceptional menus that nod to Mauritius’ vibrant culinary heritage. Cristian told us that each individual dining experience at the resort is unique. “From rum masterclasses to Shop, Cook & Eat, an experience led by our Execute Sous Chef Vikash, who takes guests shopping to the bustling Flacq Market for local produce, followed by a visit to the nearby fishermen to discover the fruits of their daily catch”.
For Oliver and his family, it is not just about the food or wine or dangerously good cocktails. Oliver explains “it is one of the most relaxing places on earth. I think it is to do with the hotel having a belt of palm trees through it. With the beach on one side and the rooms on other side. The sound of the wind through the palm fronds is so soporific and the onshore warm breeze has a calming rustle, from breakfast, to snoozing on the beach, to reading outside your room or walking at dusk through the trees from your room to the bar…”
More options by the day…
Relax on the hotel’s peninsula of perfect beach or by the new ‘Palm Grove Pool.’ However, it could be unlikely but if you fancy something a little more action-packed, there is also lots to do in Mauritius to get you up off those canopied pool cabanas and away exploring the island. Cristian told us that “The resort offers many experiences that are immersed in nature and are designed to instil a passion and appreciation for the exceptional local environment”.
Oliver and his family love to hop into the car and explore. Oliver says “From coast to coast the island is so different wherever you go. There are striking mountains and bustling towns, rich in history. The landscape and even the weather can change completely in just a 20 minute drive.” Christian suggests “Port Louis Unwrapped tours offering guests privileged access behind-the-scenes of the colourful island capital to experience points of cultural interest, exceptional private spaces, impressive views, and inspiring local characters.”
Tired after incredible day exploring Port Louis? Head over to the One&Only Le Saint Géran Spa and feel the weight of the day evaporate. Choose from the range of indulgent therapies, all of which are inspired by local Mauritian traditions. We love the Mauritian Fusion ritual, designed to soothe muscles with a herbal poultice.
A family, from its guests to local communities
We love the One&Only Le Saint Géran social project ‘Centre Joie Vivre’. Christian explains the project was “launched in 1987 and is the first specialist school for children with disabilities in the Eastern region of Mauritius. The school provides specialist learning and support facilities for children, and also parents to help them cater for children with additional needs. There are various initiatives planned throughout the year which include an annual sports days and excursions. The Executive Chef and his team are providing kitchen equipment for the new Joie de Vivre nursery building, which will be completed next year.”
It’s clear that One&Only Le Saint Géran is dedicated to its family. The guests, the staff, the community and the local environment that makes this place so special.
“We understand that we are privileged to operate in such a beautiful part of the world, and we want to do our part to protect it for future generations and to impart the same passion in our guests”. – Cristian Fumado
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August 19, 2020 by Lisa Hilton
Luques Curtis, Recording, Rudy Royston, Social Distancing, Studio
Yep, we did it! We recorded a new jazz album, and it was the culmination of six creative months composing during an unprecedented time in America’s history. Whew!
This year recording new music, like everything else, was different of course. Every studio date seems like a miracle to have the band/engineers/studio/piano all available on the same day. The logistics – more like a complex dance – to find a studio that was open and had good safety procedures in place, were more involved than in the past, but thankfully everything finally came together. I decided on recording at The Village Studios in West Los Angeles this year because they are a top studio, (with an illustrious history), and also have approval from the City of Los Angeles to remain open despite any lock down in California. In addition, they were very kind to me during my evacuation from the Woolsey fire almost two years ago, and I like to work with kind people.
Despite all the preliminary work, scheduling, and pandemic precautions, once we enter the studio, everything changes for musicians. We are able to focus 100% on our art, our instruments, the moment, and sound itself. You do hear stories about musicians having difficult times in recording sessions, and there is stress to get things “right”, but I love the act of creating music in the moment with the highest quality sound. Awesome bandmates Rudy Royston and Luques Curtis, top engineer Chandler Harrod, (with Karl Wingate assisting), perfect studio acoustics, and of course, the big nine foot Steinway D that was loaned to me for recording. (This year I was told the piano was a favorite of film composer John Williams – well, it was fabulous!)
So, how did we do? Hmmm… I have a rule that I don’t “judge” until I’m all done. In the studio your senses and emotions are heightened: I think the worst thing you can do is judge under those kinds of conditions, because the tendency is to think it’s the best thing, or the worst thing you’ve ever heard! So in the studio we play at the top of our abilities with freedom from over-analyzing. Those are the euphoric moments for me – when the music comes alive after months of thought, trials, and efforts magically blossoming in real time into a creation we will share with the world. To say that it is an incredibly cool experience is a huge understatement – those are the moments the composer lives for – it feels like the birth of music itself.
Enjoy these last couple weeks of summer,
S U M M E R ☀️ F U N
July 21, 2020 by Lisa Hilton
Jazz, Social Distancing, summer
Hmmm… so what is summer fun this year? We need to reflect on how we have fun, and where we will have it this year, so it takes a moment to decide, right? But fun is often FREE, EASY (and SAFE too). My favs are biking, hiking (early before the crowds), tennis (singles), beach walks at low tide (so there’s more room), and of course, playing the piano!
In fact, summer is the perfect time to get back to practicing if it’s been on your mind, or to get started. I think summer is the best time to begin – so parents/grandparents – if you have a family member who is interested in music, the longer days and relaxed schedule of summer reduce the expectations and stress that can happen for newbies. These days it’s even easier to order an instrument and sign up for classes online, so excuses begone!
We are safer at home – true – but please don’t limit yourself to that: take your wooden flute hiking up a mountain to play on top, or your guitar for around the campfire. I even have a small “travel keyboard” that I use in the car to play scales on road trips, (or when whoever is driving gets stuck in traffic). Time with an instrument is a lot more interesting than social media or most TV shows these days, so give it a try. Most of the time I don’t say I’m “practicing”– I most often refer to what I do at my beloved piano as “P L A Y I N G” because it’s so F U N.
Ok, so if you’re still looking for other entertaining ideas, please try the new SUNSHINE JAZZ playlist on SoundCloud, Pandora, YouTube or Spotify under Lisa Hilton to put you in a summery mood. And to top it all off, I have all CDs at a special SUMMER FUN price of $5 from now through the end of July at LisaHiltonMusic.com. (Simply use the code SUMMERFUN at check out).
Enjoy your summer safely!
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Andalusia Delivers Creative Filmmakers, Financing, Stunning Locations, Talented Crew
Emiliano De Pablos
Spain’s Oscar entry, “The Endless Trench,” a multi-award-winning feature from the Basque trio of Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga, has also become a flagship production for the Andalusian film sector.
The film was set and shot in Andalusia, with Andalusian actors and co-produced by Seville-based La Claqueta. Released last year in Spain by eOne, the film was acquired by Netflix, and bowed in the U.S. on Nov. 6.
Inspired by real-life events after the Spanish Civil War, “Trench” mainly filmed in Huelva’s Higuera de la Sierra, Carboneras and Paymogo for its Andalusian leg. Olmo Figueredo and Manuel H. Martín’s outfit La Claqueta was key for “Trench’s” financing, documentation and narrative support.
“Trench” exemplifies the possibilities of inter-regional partnerships in the Spanish film industry, this time between Andalusia and the Basque Country. Co-produced by La Claqueta with Basque companies Irusoin and Moriarti Produkzioak, alongside France’s Manny Films, “Trench” project won support from regional public broadcaster Canal Sur in Andalusia and Basque Country’s ETB. In an advanced stage, nationwide broadcaster RTVE also joined the project.
Given the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic cuts will probably follow the health crisis in Spain. “My feeling is that the model of inter-regional co-production will be more necessary than ever to seek financing alternatives. And it is much more feasible to unite two regional operators such as Canal Sur and ETB and, once you have the film well assembled, to try for the support of RTVE, who finally entered the project,” Figueredo explains.
Co-production pumps money into the local business and “if the regional authorities understand it – and both Basque and Andalusian authorities do – it is easy to play this game in a natural way,” he adds.
La Claqueta has been producing inter-regional projects since 2012, when it teamed with producer Xabi Berzosa at Irusoin for “30 años de oscuridad,” then continued their partnership with HBO pickup documentary “El Estado contra Pablo Ibar,” handled by Filmax. It’s also co-producing the animated documentary “El viaje más largo,” alongside Basque studio Dibulitoon. Further Basque-Andalusian projects will follow soon, Figueredo says.
Beyond the Basque connection, La Claqueta has co-produced romantic melodrama “El verano que vivimos,” a Warner Bros. Pictures Intl. worldwide distribution pickup, directed by “Fariña’s” Carlos Sedes, co-produced with Atresmedia Cine and Bambú Producciones, filmed in Jerez de la Frontera.
“A model of decentralization is starting to take hold in the Spanish film production sector and new platforms and top free-to-air TV operators are going to support projects by talented filmmakers far from the usual production hubs in Madrid and Barcelona. That will make it easier to develop different film visions and ways of telling stories,” says “La Isla Mínima” producer Gervasio Iglesias.
“Thanks to two fundamental pillars, such as Canal Sur and the regional government, and to talented creators such as Alberto Rodríguez (“The Plague,” “La Isla Minima”) and Benito Zambrano (‘Solas’), the Andalusian audiovisual sector has placed itself in a privileged position,” says Áralan Films producer Marta Velasco, president of the Andalusian Film Academy.
In 1999, feature drama “Solas,” produced by Antonio Pérez at Seville-based Maestranza Films, inaugurated a new period of visibility of Andalusian film production. Later came the so-called “Generación Cinexin,” led by renowned filmmakers such as Alberto Rodríguez and writing partner Rafael Cobos and Gervasio Iglesias. They all decided to develop their film career in Andalusia instead of traveling to Madrid or Barcelona, the traditional hubs of the Spanish film industry, paving the way for a younger generation of film and TV producers and creators.
“These producers laid the foundations of the Andalusian film industry and showed us that there wasn’t a need to leave Andalusia to develop a professional film career,” Velasco adds.
“There is a wide background there, but above all, a very promising future,” Iglesias points out.
“Andalusia has always been a land of great talent in all artistic disciplines, due to the characteristics of the territory, because among other things, it is a borderland, and great things always happen on the borders. There are great stories here that are yet to be told,” he adds.
With the arrival in 2015 of tax incentives for film and TV projects in Spain, Andalusia rapidly attracted the interest of big international projects, which helped to form highly competitive crews.
“There is already a network of technicians and high-quality service companies that helps you to move very little from here and have very advantageous prices, so that while filming you don’t have to spend money, in most cases, on hotels and catering, given that both crew and actors are locals,” says producer Antonio Pérez.
In May, in the middle of the first coronavirus wave, heaven’s doors were opened for Andalusian producers – as for the rest of the sector in Spain – as the Spanish government greenlit a hike of the incentive up to 25%-30% for local and international productions.
“Any change like this puts us on an equal footing with the best countries and greatly benefits funding,” Pérez adds.
“Andalusia is not only landscapes,” said Málaga’s Tate Aráez, twice winner (2015, 2018) of the Location Managers Guild International Awards for Outstanding Locations in Period Television for “Game of Thrones.” “There is also a lot of historical heritage that helps [location managers] find a lot of locations from many stages in history. So apart from the landscapes – we have mountains, beaches, snow, plains, pastures… it is wonderful – but we also have a historical heritage from Roman aqueducts, through to the entire Arab world. And there are cities where you can recreate the 40s, 50s … there is a lot of variety,” Aráez argues.
“In ‘The Crown’ Season 3, partially filmed in Andalusia, you can see all the variety of countries and times that we were able to recreate in a single year of filming. We recreated the Bahamas Islands at the Cadiz Naval Base; a Caribbean island was filmed in Cádiz’s Atlanterra urbanization; Arizona was a Jerez farmhouse owned by bullfighter Fermín Bohórquez; the Beverly Hills Hotel was the Alfonso XIII in Seville … Everything that was not filmed in the U.K. we did in Andalusia. And for Season Four, we did a lot of things from Australia in Andalusia,” he explains.
In “Game of Thrones,” serviced in Spain by Peter Welter’s Málaga-based Fresco Film, Aráez worked on locations for fantasy scenes at the Roman coliseum in the Osuna bullring; an area where dragons lived in the Roman ruins of Italica and inside the Castle of Almodóvar, where the dragons were kept under lock and key.
“For next year it seems that three very strong projects are coming in which I am working on now. Of course, there is great expectation that big international filming will return for 2021,” Aráez says.
Andalusia not only brings to co-production projects rich locations but also the support of regional institutions and public broadcaster RTVA.
“It is crucial to value the support of Canal Sur and the regional government, which are contributing to a solid film and TV industry. This is a key moment to focus on development projects and our own productions,” says Piluca Querol, director of the Andalusia Film Commission, who is also successfully exploring the opportunities of film tourism in the region, such as the Sergio Leone trilogy in Almería.
Andalusia is also nurturing a generation of filmmakers with innovative voices. “There is a strong new generation of emerging talents who will become established names in a few years,” Figueredo says. Among them are Ángel Gómez Hernández, whose feature debut, horror film “Voces,” has been picked up by Netflix and is preparing “The Pope’s Exorcist;” David Sainz, creator of YouTube series “Malviviendo,” now directing comedy “Grasa” for RTVE’s Playz. There is also Laura Hojman, who directed “Antonio Machado. Los días azules,” a documentary recently nominated for the José María Forqué Awards.
At Áralan, Marta Velasco is producing “Rita,” actress Paz Vega’s helming debut, which will be shot entirely in Seville; “La maniobra de la tortuga,” by young talent José Miguel del Castillo (“Techo y comida”); and Jonás Trueba’s “Segundo Premio,” teaming with Toxicosmos. Velasco has just acquired adaptation rights to Eloy Moreno best-selling novel “Invisible” from Penguin Random House.
Meanwhile, Violeta Salama’s “Alegría” has already won support from RTVE and the Andalusian government, and “La Isla Mínima” producer José Sánchez Montes is preparing his first feature fiction project, animation “Noches de duende y luna.”
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State Roundup
Rascovar: Hogan’s rhetoric has Trump tendencies
by Maryland Reporter | Aug 28, 2016 | Commentary | 16 |
By Barry Rascovar
For MarylandReporter.com
The yin and the yang of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan keep bubbling to the surface.
On the one hand, he’s made it clear he finds Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump offensive. The Republican governor says he doesn’t like Trump, disagrees with his behavior and many of his statements and won’t vote for him.
On the other hand, Hogan continues to dip into Trump’s bag of tricks to win emotional points with voters. Indeed, Hogan was way ahead of Trump in one aspect of propaganda campaigning – the use of a fictitious story as a key election tool.
Trump has become a master of making it up as he goes along. He’s even better at taking a negative development and embroidering it with a fairy tale of malevolence and evil that rivals the Brothers Grimm.
Hogan does the same thing. The most recent example is the absurd furor he’s prompted over his mis-named “road kill bill.” It’s similar to his virtuoso propaganda winner from the 2014 campaign: Hogan’s mis-named “rain tax” – a savvy fabrication that helped win him the governorship.
This time, Hogan has latched onto a toothless bill passed by Democrats in the legislature to bring openness to the process of selecting major transportation projects.
Not a “road kill bill”
Hogan thinks the bill is evil incarnate. It will wipe out every road project in Maryland, he told reporters and county leaders this month. That’s why he calls it “the road kill bill.”
That’s an intentional distortion of the facts for political purposes.
Hogan wants to use this unimportant bill – which he vetoed but then saw overridden by lawmakers – as a hammer against Democrats. He thinks it will help him win another term in 2018. You might call it the second coming of the “rain tax.”
As a candidate in 2014, Hogan harangued Democrats for passage of a bill that allowed 10 counties to impose a local levy on impermeable surfaces such as roofs and asphalt or concrete driveways because these surfaces generate stormwater runoff that pollutes the Chesapeake Bay. The tax revenue would be used to reduce waterway pollution.
But Hogan twisted that bill into something that sounded ludicrous. His TV ads sounded the alarm: Democrats had reached the point where “they’re even taxing the rain!”
Brilliant as a campaign tactic. But untrue.
Hogan’s latest invention concerns the Democrat-passed “Maryland Open Transportation Decision Act” aimed at bringing a statistical ranking system to road and bridge projects that the public can understand.
Explaining transportation choices
Its preamble sets out the purpose: to create “a public process for transportation planning. . . that provides Maryland citizens with a clear and transparent explanation as to how their transportation taxes and revenues are allocated to fund major capital transportation projects.”
The key phrase: “a clear and transparent explanation.” Not a mandate. Not an order that forces the governor to fund projects he opposes. Just a new planning tool shared with the public.
It could be a useful planning mechanism, just as it is in Virginia and North Carolina, where conservative Republican legislatures passed similar measures. Why? Because it’s a sensible way to get the “biggest bang” for the state’s buck – a very Republican notion.
But Hogan is thinking politics, not government efficiency.
He says the bill will wreak havoc on every county road project. He keeps repeating this flight of fancy. Mentioning “the road kill bill” revs up Republican crowds.
Compounding the situation is an effort by Hogan’s minions to twist reality even further. Deputy DOT Secretary Jim Ports tried terrorizing the counties by claiming none of their projects would be funded next year because of this Democratic-passed law.
Pure buncombe.
To begin with, DOT hasn’t even created the detailed scoring and ranking metrics needed to come to such a conclusion. Most important, these rankings don’t count when the governor names the transportation projects he wishes to finance. He still can do as he pleases.
A planning tool, not a funding requirement
This is strictly a planning tool, not a funding requirement. The law states quite clearly that the governor can ignore the rankings and toss the list in the trash as long as he “provides in writing a rational basis for the decision.”
Moreover, Ports’ ridiculous assertion that every county’s priority list of road projects would be wiped out by this law is refuted by this wording in the statute: “nothing in this Act may be construed to prohibit or prevent the funding of the capital transportation priorities in each jurisdiction.”
In other words, counties still get to name their top projects and Hogan gets to fund them if he wishes.
Calling it “the road kill bill” is a Trumpian tactic. How ironic for Hogan, who has positioned himself as the anti-Trump in Maryland’s Republican Party. Now he’s following The Donald’s lead by ignoring the facts and generating a story-line that fits his political purposes.
Unfortunately, we’ll be hearing a lot more about Hogan’s made-up “road kill bill.” He will continue demanding that lawmakers get rid of the statute – which won’t happen.
Meanwhile, Ports has made himself a prime target of angry Democrats, who are nearly certain to revise the law to make even clearer that it creates merely an advisory ranking system for road projects.
But has Hogan set an unintended trap for himself?
He and Democrats could get into a game of transportation “chicken” in which lawmakers dare the governor to wipe out all county road projects, as Hogan says is required – but isn’t – under the new advisory law.
What does Hogan do then – especially since this would be happening in the run-up to Hogan’s reelection bid?
Only by harming counties can Hogan prove his assertion is correct. That’s a huge risk for an incumbent who at the moment looks like a shoo-in for a second term.
Barry Rascovar’s blog is www.politicalmaryland.com. His email address is brascovar@hotmail.com.
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Dale McNamee on August 29, 2016 at 2:34 pm
Barry, Barry, Barry… sigh…?
Dave Moe on August 29, 2016 at 8:35 am
So what’s the point of the Democratic General Assembly passing a law allowing for it to be ignored by the Governor ?
Sam D on August 29, 2016 at 9:29 am
The point was to allow for more transparency in the process. The law makes it so all major transportation projects must be ranked. This means that the public will be able to look at the individual merits of each project that is proposed instead of just being told what will be funded. This law just enables the public to be more involved and educated on transportation projects.
If the public were that interested in such…
Most are awaiting the football season (pro and college) and attentive to other trivia…
charlie hayward on August 29, 2016 at 7:10 am
The deciding question should be whether this law is necessary and justified in view of its cost. DLS’ scoring says it costs almost $3 million to administer (over 5 years.) Why is a toothless and unimportant (Rascovar’s words) law justified? On what grounds is the politicization of transportation funding at taxpayer expense a necessary function of government?
Hogan is right on this one.
Len Lazarick on August 28, 2016 at 10:19 pm
Barry Rascovar is always looking for ways to attack our good governor. I already wrote about that stupid road bill six weeks ago. http://marylandreporter.com/2016/07/10/opinion-rascovars-fiction-about-gov-hogan/ Now the Razz dumps on Hogan for using the term “rain tax.” Hogan didn’t invent the term. He did make it popular. It drives environmentalists crazy. They want to call it a “stormwater remediation fee.”
For them, when rain hits the ground, it’s no longer rain, it’s stormwater. And for them, it’s not a tax, it’s a fee. Maryland courts have ruled on this: a fee is something you pay for a particular government service, and it is voluntary; a tax is something everybody pays to raise revenue. That makes it a tax. On rain.
Rascovar is flat out wrong when he said the rain bill “allowed” 10 counties to impose it. It required them.
It was a mandatory rain tax. The governor says it has been repealed, but only the mandate has been repealed. Half the counties are still charging it.
Jenna Fischetti on August 29, 2016 at 2:44 pm
So if it is a “rain tax” EVERY resident of the state would have to pay it AND it would need to be calculated on annual rain fall.
Since neither is true, and what is true is that the fee (and Chapter 151 of 2012 calls it a stormwater remediation fee) is levied upon impervious surfaces, Hogan’s puerile labeling is worthy of critism.
Structures and surfaces which do not allow stormwater to be naturally absorbed into the ground and dissipated, are assessed a fee based on area, to fund remediation efforts.
What gets lost in all of this is the fact the federal government, through the EPA has mandated the state meet pollution goals by 2017 and 2025. These Total Maximum Daily Load goals relate to nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment. Sediment is created by stormwater runoff. So systems like retention ponds or surfaces designed to absorb stormwater to reduce sediment deposits in the Bay are the sort of items funded by these 10 NPDES Phase I jurisdictions.
Hogan can spin this to his base base all he wants. What he has not figured out yet is how to capture more than 23% of registered Maryland voters.
His only true shot at reelection is voter suppression. He won in a historically low gubernatorial turnout. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend got 29% of registered voters in her loss to Ehrlich.
Len Lazarick on August 29, 2016 at 3:39 pm
What a silly argument. These rain taxes don’t do any calculations. They just assign the tax based on the size of the property. And the court case said just because a legislature calls something a fee, it still could be a tax. This mandatory rain tax was not mandated by the EPA. It was just the politically easy way to do so.
As to using registration figures to show political power, what baloney. Maybe the GOP should put up KKT next time.There were a million more registered voters in 2014 than in 2002, yet Hogan and Brown each got only 5,000 votes more than Ehrlich and KKT. So much for early voting, MVA registration, felon voting, etc..
The only thing suppressing votes is the one party monopoly in the state’s biggest counties.
Jenna Fischetti on August 30, 2016 at 8:28 am
What a silly retort. Did you actually read Chapter 151 of 2012? Have you read up TMDL goals and the unfunded mandates the federal government has placed on states which feed the Chesapeake? Of course not.
Yeah, you’re right, using registration power to show power is baloney. But that was not what I did (again with the reading part) PERCENTAGE of registered voters. This measures apathy. Anthony Brown sucked slightly more than Larry Hogan sucked. End of story.
Yet real power to make laws, pass budgets, mandate action by the state is in the 188 seats of the Maryland General Assembly.
Johnny on August 30, 2016 at 7:02 pm
How exactly did Larry Hogan suck? He won the election.
What Hogan has figured out is how to maintain a historically high approval rating, as a Republican, in a majority-Democrat state. Maryland Dems love to use the “historically low turnout” excuse to deflect from the fact that ALL Marylanders were sick of the high taxes, and Anthony Brown ran a pathetic campaign. If the Democrats think the only thing that will win them back the governorship is higher voter turnout, without acknowledging the true reasons a Republican won in a majority-Democrat state, they better prepare for four more years of Hogan.
Ehrlich had a historically high approval rating in his first, err only term… There is one poll that matters for Ehrlich, Hogan, O’Malley, et al. Election Day.
If you think a Baltimore Sun or Goucher poll two and three years out is an indicator of his “power”, you are sadly mistaken.
Here’s the thing. He is highly ineffective as a governor. Only 16 of his 31 non-budget (for those are constitutionally required and must pass at some point,) introduced ever made it back to his desk. Weakest governor in quite some time. His agenda , if you can call it that, is DOA.
REAL power is in the General Assembly, for better or for worse.
When Republicans start winning those seat, call me.
http://marylandreporter.com/2016/01/19/hogans-67-approval-rating-higher-than-tops-for-omalley-ehrlich/
Never said anything about his “power,” but its a pretty significant indicator of his popularity and the job he is doing. If you can’t see the significance of such a high approval rating as a Republican in a majority Dem state – even higher that O’Malley’s – you’re not paying attention. Why do you think Democrats are trying to attack him will all this nonsense, going so far as to try and tie him to Trump? They are nervous.
His agenda to cut taxes and balance the budget has and is being achieved, despite the Democrats trying to hamper his efforts. If you think he is going to be blamed for this come election time, I think you’re mistaken. If you think an effective governor is someone who is just going to rubber-stamp everything the GA sends their way, I guess we have different ideas of what a good governor and leader should be.
Johnny on August 28, 2016 at 10:04 pm
Hogan has passionately expressed his opposition to the “road kill bill.” To say that his expressing of emotion over his position is akin to “dipping into Trump’s bag of tricks” is an absurd argument. Also, let me remind you that no “virtuoso propaganda” was needed to convince people that the rain tax was bad legislation. It was widely unpopular, and its repeal passed the senate unanimously and the house 138-1.
How is calling it the road kill bill a “Trumpian tactic?” What does that even mean? I don’t recall Trump ever being involved in the passage or enforcement of any legislation. He has absolutely no experience with this. As his supporters loudly proclaim – “He’s not a politician!”
Trump has nothing to do with Larry Hogan, or his aims with this or any other legislation. I think YOU – Barry Rascovar – are “following The Donald’s lead by ignoring the facts and generating a story-line” that fits YOUR political purposes. How ironic.
Your characterization of what happened with the repeal of the stormwater management fee is pretty far off. For starters, the so-called “rain-tax” was enacted in response to an EPA mandate that Maryland must spend so much money to protect the Chesapeake Bay. In response to this, the Maryland General Assembly passed a law saying that the counties must charge a fee based on the amount of impervious surfaces on a given property. (The thought behind that is that historically, when it rains, the ground absorbs much of the stormwater. When there are “impervious surfaces” such as concrete, the rain runs off, taking pollutants on the surface with it.) The “repeal” of the fee just removed the requirement that this particular fee be the mechanism for raising money. Counties still have to provide funds to protect the bay as mandated by the EPA, but they can now choose what mechanism to use to raise those funds. The repeal passed so easily because it didn’t actually make it so any less money would go towards the bay.
And to get to the comparisons with Trump, Rascovar is saying that Hogan, like Trump, creates and/or peddles a false narrative for political purposes. Trump lies for political gain by saying that the country is more dangerous than ever, Hogan lies for political gain by saying a toothless transparency bill will kill rural road projects.
If the adminstration had “passionately appeared at General Assembly hearings and sessions with legislators ” maybe the adminstration would have legislation consistent with its objectives.
Instead Secretary Rahn offered a ridiculous analogy of the current Transportation Project funding process as a convoluted series of different athletic games all taking place on the same filed all at the same time.
Yeah, I know. But it is on video available to be viewed at the General Assembly website.
Bottom line is there are two branches of government involved in policy making. The executive and the legislature. Hogan and his supporters love to forget that the legislature is the true representatives of the people for there are 113 individual races across the entire state.
Hogan is the representative of the collect state and the legislature is the collective representatives of the districts.
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GH Executive Producer Frank Valentini Teases: "Some Favorite Villains Will Be Back In The Fall!"
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As eight major television markets die hard GH fans received the news today that their favorite soap will return to its former timeslot of 3PMET/2PMPT, KABC Los Angeles entertainment guru, George Pennacchio spoke to GH’s executive producer Frank Valentini for some inside scoop that will accompanying the time slot change!
To celebrate the move, Valentini is promising big stories for all its major characters. “We’re interested in pushing the envelope in a way that challenges the audience’s ability to accept, understand and be entertained by the show,” says the head honcho of Port Charles. And as for the very near future … well, look for some male and female villains to return and fold into story!
Valentini revealed: “Some favorite villains will be back in the fall. I think the fans will be really excited to see what kind of trouble they will be causing. There will be male and female villains returning, who are our fan favorites who will be causing problems for our friends in Port Charles.”
So what villains do you think will be back causing havoc for the good guys on General Hospital? Share your thoughts below!
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”“We’re interested in pushing the envelope in a way that challenges the audience’s ability to accept,””
You go Frank.. take us to the limit!!
As for the Villains.. I love them all ..!!
Excited for whomever they be !! Bring them on!!
Helen Conboy
I would like to see The Cassidines they are always so much fun and Jerry Jaks. But please I am on the edge of my seat waiting for Rick to return. Read September. I hope so way past time to reunite Ric & Molly! Please please let it be September. And of course our favorite villain Fluke! Who is he? Can’t wait to find out! Please Ric first in September! Love Rick. Not a villain but so much fun & talented. #BRINGRiCBACkNOW. #TeamRic.
Me thinks you’ve already reached THAT destination, su000000000000!!!!!!
I love Jerry Jax, and Anthony Zaccara is fun
Henry Frederick
royal coolness.i cant wait.i wonder who the fake luke is.
sedalia lozano
Please do not bring Helena back…..
Judy schultz
Bring back Cynthia Preston / Faith Roscoe
Timmm
I think Fluke is working for Faith Roscoe. She hates Sonny!
Yes I agree with you Judy- Faith Roscoe is a great choice for villainess comback. (as long she is still played by Cynthia P) She played the psycho-villain fem fatale to a tee. I just don’t know if there will be any scenes left to chew since it’s usually ravaged by Maura West and now Michelle Stafford (ugh) Cynthia was chilling.
I liked Helena because she is played by Constance Towers who has a serpentine smile and malevolent glint in her eye. It’s just that I’m tired of the Cassadine redux- it gives me reflux.
Phyllis Smith
PLEASE PUT US OUT OF OUR MISERIES ABOUT WHEN JASON MORGAN WILL BE BACK ON G’H’ PLEASE!!!! I’M HAVING SO MANY PANIC ATTACKS WAITING FOR HIM TO SHOW UP!!!
ALL SO PLEASE I’M BEGGING YOU DON’T BRING BACK FAISON AT ALL AFTER ALL ISN’T HE THE ONE THAT SHOT AND KILLED JASON AND DUMP HIS BODY IN THE PORT CHARLES RIVER!!!
Don Hewitt
I understand that Billy Miller is taking on the roll of Jason>
I’m hoping faison
MBmomof3
I’m more concerned about his comment of “pushing the envelope”. That usually doesn’t mean in a good way on this show IMO. That said, I’ll be watching and hoping for great writing, casting, acting and production. Wishing all the best for GH and the fans.
He means more gay story lines.
I could care less about “pushing the envelope” type storylines. I want more friendships, romances, core families, and respect paid to the returning veterans. As for the gay storylines, that’s fine, but don’t “dumb it down” and write it stereotypical-which is being doneith Brad, Lucas, and Felix. I think that’s really sad and disrespectful. I think the writing has been all over the map and dreadful. DOOL has much more balance and the writers pay close attention to the veteran characters.
Timmm, I hadn’t thought of ” pushing the envelope” meaning “gay”. I have no problem with gay characters or storylines. I agree with @dmr’s take on it. I think TPTB want “shock and awe” and often miss the core of what is great character-driven story. GH is all over the map in their writing, balance and pacing. I enjoy the show, but they are so inconsistent and often miss the mark because they seem to want the next BIG thing. Whatever that is to them. Back to what Valentini said, the audience shouldn’t have to be challenged, TPTB at GH… Read more »
Ta-Da
Whatever he means, it sounds rather ominous, doesn’t it??????
I agree. I care less about pushing the limits and more about great romances. I want the fluke story over.
Mary SF
Not really sure the show really needs more villains it seems like the town has its quota, but I suspect Jerry Jacks will be back, as well as Heather Weber, perhaps some defrosted Cassadines —- and I’m sure whoever Fluke is associated with or is will be revealed. Not sure if I am comforted by Frank’s words that they want to challenge viewers ability to accept, understand and be entertained by this show—when I hear words like that I have visions of the television shows like Lost or Twin Peaks, where you had no idea what was going on, you… Read more »
jimh(leave it to beaver)
Mary SF, we are kindred spirits…i have some of the same thoughts…especially about Lost and Twin Peaks…i loved both shows…got lost watching the very complexed storylines on Lost and i had high hopes that Twin Peaks and its crimes and mysteries couldve been primetimes answer to daytimes Edge Of Night but T.P. was way too strange and confusing near the end!!! I bet some of those villians you mention will show up plus Faison…i figure if Jason returns the man who shot him must be returning too…not sure too about what Frank is saying as well but iits kind of… Read more »
jaybird369
jimh…your Batman references made me LMAO!!!!! GOOD ONE!!!!! And…let’s not forget Batgirl and Commissioner Gordon…LOL!!!!! Yep.
Take care, dude.
Mary, Mary, quite contrary. Sorry, could not help myself.
Yes, I totally agree with you. There are far too many villains already!!! And they’re not just realistic, passive aggressive villains one might run into at the shopping mall, they’re villains you’d run into in Gotham City.
Enough of the over-the-top camp! It ceases to be interesting or even campy if that is all you’re serving up.
This show really could use Batman and Robin if you know what i mean…it already has Mr.Freeze(Victor Cassidine) and his frozen family…the Joker(Franco, what a joke) and Catwoman(Nina) prowling around the hospital unnoticed…lol
Well we know Helena & Stavros, I’m hoping for Jerry Jax……love, love, love him
Joseph Rockefeller
Helena, Stavros, Victor and the “new” brainwashed Jason.
All I want to see is Robin reunited with Patrick and Emma. She deserves her family and is trying to protect them. Tired of Patrick being stupid and not seeing what is in front of his face. I don’t buy anyone but Robin for Patrick and only Patrick for Robin. Would like to see Patrick save Robin from these villains.
Kim/Robin isn’t going to be with GH, it will not happen, sorry..
But- GH rocks !!
GH doesn’t rock for many, myself included.
According to Kimberly (her words who I believe cover you)!she is with GH, it’s her home and they are working with her and she is returning and not short term. Your lies aren’t happening!
You are right Cathy…i read somewhere where Robin/Kim is returning sometime this fall…
sure they will those lil liars ,,just like when they said genie francis is back to stay,,,
Randy…this regime is not at all interested in the past of the show…or bringong Genie Francis back. They dont like heroes and heroines and good triumphing. They count their new heroines as Ava and Nina. And thats a creep show. And as always…their heroes are greasy murdering abusive Sonny….totally pointless bad hotman Shawn….nasty tighty whities only Julian….its gross!!!!!! Disney owns this channel???? Neat. The most diaguating depraved show on daytime is.owned by,Disney. Wow!
I sincerely wish fans would grab a clue…and boycott Disney for putting such utter filth onto daytime tv.
Most likely Helena and Stavros. Not particularly enthused about either one, especially Stavros. He is just a complete maniac…his last appearance was so creepy, I was glad to see him put in the deep freeze. Although Helena is a superb villainess, I haven’t truly missed her. I really wanted to see Dr. O. assume her mantle as “Queen B.”….maybe alongside Victor???? (And speaking of villains, are we ever going to find out exactly what happened to Liesl’s beloved Cesar? Could Victor actually have him hidden away somewhere?)
Me too Shay…more of our favorite Dr. Mutter and Victor…me thinks Faison will return, especially if Jason is coming back…Jason might remember Faison is the one who shot him and wants revenge…but if Jason doesnt remember and Faison does show up, Victor will program Jason to kill Faison…this is Victors way of eliminating the competition for Dr.Mutter’s heart even if Faison doesnt want her, and people will think Jason attempted to kill Faison because he wanted revenge for shooting him, unaware of Victor’s connection…maybe Faison is Levi’s DunkleDaddy?…with Donna Mills returning as Madalyn or whatever her name is maybe she… Read more »
OMG, jimh! Perish that thought that our dear Mutter could have spawned that miscreant Levi!!!! To even consider that he could be part of a “Goofus and Gallant” birth duo with James/Nathan is even too far-fetched for Cartini! I have to admit I am flummoxed over whom could have produced the “Dunklemeister” unless he is really Bill Eckert’s son, Sly, but I should hope that if that is not the case, then we get a much more clever twist as to Levi’s parentage. If he is truly not an Aussie after all, that kind of puts to paid the notion… Read more »
Oh man, I agree with you that Robert Kelker-Kelly was so creepy as Stavros the last time. But creepy in a good way, I think, lol. When they did such a great job keeping his return a secret, and he showed up out of nowhere in that room with Luke and Laura, my jaw almost hit the floor. That look on his face with the maniacal smile was enough to send chills up and down your spine. He played it like a throwback villain from another era when villains were villains, and not characters that they tried to make cute… Read more »
@Dan…I could see the point of Stavros lurking about the last time around, because Laura was present, and they needed a gimmick to usher in “NuLulu”….it worked, but only because it didn’t last too long. However, I simply cannot understand Victor’s motive for wanting to revive this insane, loose cannon of the family, when there is a great assortment of other more worthy Cassadines from which to choose. First of all, Mikos, Tony and Alexandria Quartermaine were frozen way back in the Ice Princess days, so it wouldn’t be unreasonable to think they were kept in the cooler all these… Read more »
Didnt someone mention that before about Nathan and Levi…like i said…it seems so…i hate when i cant remember little things like that but it seems someone did…was it you or someone else perhaps…i need to give that person the credit!!!
I loved Starvos. Helena is kind of worn out unless you bring back Stephan and have mommy referee the two boys. That would be fun. No Laura to fight over!
I agree Timmm. I love Stavros! He’s a particular brand of lunatic that always leads to some maniacal, crazy out there story…once again I say…bring it on! Could lead to great stories involving Nicolas, Spencer, Britt, Elizabeth, Lulu, Dante…on and on. Plus, Kelker-Kelly plays it so well. Just one smirk and ya know you’re in for a ride! I’d also love to see Stephan back. That would be a great setup of good vs evil brother…or maybe bad vs badder brother whichever way you look at it. I miss Stephan! Would much rather see these two back then Heather…she’s more… Read more »
Hey, what if Rosalee and Sabrina are related and become roomies involved in a love triangle with Morgan?…just kidding…lol
Oh yeah, because placing those two insufferable, irritating, inane (and most of all, completely unnecessary…) nurses together in a single space could only make things better! Definitely not one of your typically bright ideas, jimh….even if it is only in jest! Quite frankly, we could do without either one of those polar-opposite, low-rent she-meeees….neither is exactly a prize for the guys! (Whatever happened to debutantes, models and other assorted GG’s being the young female lead characters on soaps????) I’d even rather see Morgan reunite with Kiki as opposed to cavorting with Sappy or Grossalie!!!! Although on a related note, I… Read more »
Shay! I do declare…hahha…you should be rooting for the working woman, the non-model, picture perfect starlet…Sabrina is so not “low rent.” She’s an accomplished, very intelligent, compassionate woman…heart of gold. Not the definition of “low rent.” Grossalie? She’s just rude, obnoxious and I’m sure has an agenda. So, in a sense it would be interesting if they were related…cousins perhaps…the good witch vs the bad. I don’t see Sabrina with Morgan; but I can see her with Michael. Just as I can’t see Gross with Michael, but she’s tough enough for Morgan. Where would that leave little Kiki? I’m loyal… Read more »
@rebecca1….As far as I can see, nearly ALL the of females populating GH are “working women”….no “ladies of leisure” there anymore, except for maybe, Kiki, Maxie (since her “Dunkledude” escapade commenced…) the faux-incapacitated Nina and retired Monica, so in essence, I do root for the majority of them, just not the two in question! (Besides which, I am not sure you can actually term what the uncouth Grossalie does as “work”…scheming lying, snarking, agitating, yes, but there’s precious little real “elbow grease” involved there…) What I was referring to, I guess, was a glaringly obvious lack of sophistication and social… Read more »
We know the casadines are returning but I am really hoping that the REAL FRANCO @jamesfrancotv returns ans Johnny Z
I would love Johnny Z back, awesome!
but he isn’t interested in returning 🙁
FV and RC would love him back, but if doesn’t want to be back, it wont happen 🙁
”real franco” said no to a return..
We just have no luck ..
I would accept the real Franco’s return if that meant Roger would be Todd again!
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Tim…from your lips to Franks ears! I loved Roger as Todd… the role he is reduced to playing is downright crazy… he has no purpose, no job ( well until recently) has no money, no sex appeal….he reminds me of the absent minded professor! This whole Franco storyline is bizarre…. Lets hope they can get the rights to the characters back so we can get rid of Kiki and bring back Starr and Todd….don’t care about Mc bain or john…never had my interest… Carly and Todd were hot together! Carly with Franco is like a mother figure always taking care… Read more »
Love me some Todd. The Franco thing was a terrible idea for the awesome RH!
not sure that would ever happen… even after all these lawsuits with Prospect Park are over and done with… They just need more in-depth story lines for Franco like they did when Carly was kidnapped. Hate that Carly slept with Sonny, which was a total set up of Sonny’s… he wants an excuse to kill Franco to keep him completely silent about who Sonny and Ava killed (separately). I hope he’s got letters to Diane, Anna, Michael and Kiki in case of any accident he may be involved in… “Dear anna, ava was the sniper who tried to kill me… Read more »
Jerry Jax, Helena and Stavros Cassadine and the list is probably unimaginable.
mrsnoahdrake
I have been a GH fan for decades and I think Ron & Frank have done an incredible job of bringing ratings up and saving the show. I realize there are many fan factions to please. But do we really need MORE characters on the show – villains or not? The cast is SO heavy already. We see a story and then it disappears for weeks at a time. The show is well written and humorous, but it’s so hard to come back day after day and not have the continuity that one would expect. What happened with Lucy/Scotty/ Bobbie/… Read more »
sandnole
I agree with you. We already have way too many people on the show that hardly get seen. Bringing in even more, especially villains for me, will ruin it.
Thank you. The continuity thing is a big issue for me.
I agree about the continuity part…hope that changes…also hope the return of some heroes and heroines and not just villians!!!
I am looking forward to the villains. I am very disappointed that the whole East coast isn’t moving back to 3:00. Atlanta is staying at 2:00 while NY is moving to 3:00. That means I will lose lots of my Twitter pals since we will be watching at different times. GH should have always been at 3:00. The whole East Coast changed to 2:00 before, now it should all change back to 3:00. Haven’t it only change in some markets across the country is stupid and makes no sense at all.
when the change happened, washington dc went to 2pm and baltimore stayed at 3pm, and it’s been that way ever since…………
Helena & Stavros Cassadine are for sure turning, not sure about anyone else right now.
Cathy Borruso
Off course Helena. Hoping for jerry jacks n having adventure w/anna & Patrick fighting to find robin
I hope there isnt another rescue Robin story!
Robin was never rescue the first time! They need to do it right!
That is what I want to see Cathy Borruso! Patrick needs to rescue Robin.
Wpbpatfl
I wonder whether GH changing time slots is a good thing or a bad thing for the show.
don’t think it will matter. Those are probably the same markets that had the time change a year or so ago to make room for the Katie Couric show. GH is just going back to it’s original time slot. My time slot didn’t change, but I wouldn’t care if it did… I’d still record/watch it.
Helena cassidine my girl
Can’t wait to see what’s in store!
It’s a fair bet we’ll see Helena and Stavros Cassadine, as well as Heather Webber, who I’m sure will play into Luke being held captive at the same psych ward she’s in.
I take it the Cassidines are returning. I’d be surprise if Faison returns as well. So we’ll see…
Really? Can’t you ever come up with anything new. Helena of course will be back and I am sure we will see her hands or her feet for a month before we acturally see her.
Stavros, Helena, Fluke, Faison? Jerry Jacks? Suzanne Stanwyck?
pinevalleylover
I would love to see Suzanne again! Forgot about her. A great role played by a great actress
To “celebrate the move” on 8 stations? Talk about Valentini trying to spin a move that shows ABC has lost interest in his show. Ben Sherwood is coming and he’s not impressed. No Chew lead in. No continuity and consistency across time zones. ABC puts a premium on cross promotion, lead ins and social media. They’re preparing GH for the scrap heap and it is deserved. The writing, the quality of the entire show has just reached a point of total amateur hour. They’ve had two and a half years to really build some momentum and grow a significant audience… Read more »
Curacaoman
Great analysis, right on the money
mellowYELLOW
The show is not in trouble GH50. If you kept up with the ratings, GH has soared in recapturing it’s audience by huge numbers. It’s also the #1 soap in the key 18 to 34 year old female demos. Your comments are nonsense.
@mellowYELLOW, soared? Did you miss the part of my “nonsense” comments that pointed out that the GH total audience is only up 15-20% from the time under Guza and Wolf, when the show was on the chopping block? Did you miss the part that pointed out that the current numbers in 18-49 are identical to the last six weeks of Wolf? Number one in 18-34? Y&R has regained its 18-34 audience and beat GH two of the last three weeks. GH is also down in 18-34, under 200,000 viewers where it had been. ABC isn’t keeping GH on the air… Read more »
GH is the best. You are delusional.
Bah ha ha! Bob, thank you for the very funny comment.
The best at what?? Honouring history? Nope. Utilizing vets? Wrong. Listening to fans? Uh-uh. Character driven stories? Nope…all plot here. Stories that make any kind of logical sense? Nope. I could go on…I just wonder what you think this show is currently the best at? Under Claire Labine and Wendy Riche it was the apex of what soap opera could and should be. Now it is a frickin cartoon.
You make some valid points but I have to disagree with the production values. The “look” of the show is fine; its the erratic and campy writing that loses me. When this show finally does bite the dust i will wager that these actors will have a heck of a time finding a job. What was Michelle Stafford thinking?
As someone who has “tuned-in” Since April 1, 1963; I have seen so, so many actors, writers, producers, etc., etc., come and go. That being said; the show today, is the best produced, acted, written GH, since the “Gloria” days of the late seventies. Bringing on FV and RC was genius and I for one, have only been disappointed once since they came aboard. That was this past week with the crap about the three ways they were discussing. And that is totally generational. At my age, REALLY?!?!?!? Any actor that is lucky enough to some to GH now…congratulations. I,… Read more »
I too find some of the writing a problem…for example why is Felicia and Lucy taking shooting victim Mac(without even a wheelchair) to the tenth floor of the hospital…no first floor emergency room?…and evertime someone goes up there no matter the health scare whether its a heart attack or gunshot wound the victim is treated by whatever type of specialist is on duty who are never in their office and just happens to be there at the nurses station most of the time…a hospital with no waiting, without an emergency room, where you can see any type of doctor who… Read more »
Ok, maybe some are treated by the right docs…but not always…and it is still silly all medical problems are rushed to the 10th floor…
Only….youre forgetting one thing….Jax isnt a leering 65 year old murdering psychopath. I wouldnt put it past Ron to retcon it that way…he has destroyed just about every other legacy character on the show…however…the clues have been laid in….Fluke hates Tracy for what she did to his sister. That is Bill Eckert. Unless Ron creates more made up history that no one cares about (Nina, Silas, etc etc etc) then no….its not Jax.
What I want to know…whats with the shootings that have absolutely no impact or long term effect on story?? In the past year alone…AJ…Connie…Olivia…Max…Lucas…Mac…i know im forgetting someone. Even under the Phelps Guza reign of terror we never had that many pointless shootings! Lucas got shot…then was not seen on air for weeks or months…then suddenly he is up and it talking about gay threesomes. I see being shot really kade him examine his life priorities. Now Mac….we wont see him on screen for 3 weeks until he has a band aid on and is recuperating. And when…oh when…did Felicia… Read more »
The show is safe! Quit spewing negative Ga Ga! Katie was going to change daytime and you see how that worked! GH is watched and has advertisers who believe in it. People are sick of talk shows! Thank you Frank and Ron.
DidjaNoit
Shh, GH50, what are you thinking throwing actual facts and figures out? LOL Don’t you realize it’s not allowed to be truly pragmatic and reasonable when discussing Cartini’s GH? Why would people care that GH can’t even pull in the ratings numbers with only four shows airing, that it once did when it was one of ten shows on the air? It doesn’t seem to register that GH’s numbers in the 18-49 age demo is barely one fifth of what it was during most of 2000-2010. Or that 175,000 in the 18-34 age group isn’t worth the advertisers time or… Read more »
soapbaby
Standing Ovation! Couldn’t have said it any better.
I agree GH50. And villains are not interesting if they are in majority–if they have no hero to play against. Without sunlight there is no shade, without good guys, there are no villains.
This show has become so boring with it’s over-the-top camp, that it makes Perry Como Comes Alive Album look exciting by comparison.
Hot Diggity Dog Diggity!…..
GH is in no danger of being canceled anytime soon. I know some here would love to see that happen, but seriously, enough with the doomsday “sky is falling” scenarios already. Michael Fairman just said in an article on this site last week that the show is on good footing with ABC, and Michael is as tuned into the happenings of the soap industry as anyone. Michael Logan from TV Guide said something similar in an article on the GH timeslot change. These are well respected journalists that cover soaps for a living, and there’s been no indication or hint… Read more »
davlestev1
I commented below and that’s why I think this change has taken place. I’m sure of it.
Dan- first of all, you’re wrong about people wanting GH to be cancelled just because they talk about the reality that exists. Second, You don’t need to drag Michael Fairman or Michael Logan into this as a way to suggest that I or anyone else is discrediting their reporting. GH isn’t in danger of being cancelled soon and maybe not at all because they still have an opportunity to improve the show and build up some real numbers. But what is the definition of soon anyway. GH was renewed through 2015. That’s almost a year and a half from now… Read more »
Please let them be Helena & Faison. They’re my two favorite villains!! I also wouldn’t mind seeing Jerry Jacks & Stavros. Or maybe a few we haven’t heard from in Years!! Cannot wait!!!
Tsuds
yaaahhh … yaaahhh… yaaahhh… I am not getting anymore excited about their spoilers and teases… epic.. epic.. epic…. …
Stavros and Helena Cassadine are back
Robert started taping scenes in Aug and Constance is starting to tape in Aug but it could be Sept actually. 🙂
I just wish Robert had Stephen Nichols there to bounce his evil ideas off of!
him interesting question, the guys are easy to guess because they always come back from the dead, theres jerry jax, faison, fluke, but for women villians, they always get killed off for good, like olivia jerome, faith roscoe, claudia zachara, so who knows, but i would really love to see claudia zacharra back.
oh wait i almost forgot, theres starvos and helena that are currently frozen along with jason, big duhhhh, really no surprise there. Sorry but neither will be a surprising return.
oh god, no heather please, last round was exhausting, and way to long, pleaaaase no heather.
Fingers crossed for Heather, Helena, Stavros, Madeline (Magda), Faison and Jerry!
I want Jerry Jax!!
I like all the GH villains, they are the best of the best..
but- I really like Jerry Jax ..
(and the great Faison!!
and Fluk will return, Tony is knocking it outta the park!! (emmy)
No more heather please. I love robin mattson to bits but can’t handle another go around with her escaping from the loony bin!
I would spring Heather from the loony bin and you know how she has always had a crush on Luke, have her run into Fluke. She wouldnt know how to handle the impostor!
On the contrary, Timmm, our Heather is cagey enough to know EXACTLY how to handle FLuke! I’m still divided on whether she was part of the caper to switch the “Two Lukes” at the nuthouse, or if she was totally unaware. If she didn’t have a hand in it, I would love to see her play a heroine for once and help to rescue “Real Luke” from his captivity.
ditto Mark! She ran her course.
In Los Angeles GH airs alongside Days at 1:00 pm…was not happy with the time change when the soaps dropped to 4 and two of the four were competing for viewers. It makes a lot of sense as GH will pick up a lot of viewers that were without the benefit of a dvr(luckily i have the benefit) but now west coast will be able to not only watch both shows but also with an hour break in between. I get it. They’ll benefit and ABC is aware of that i’m quite sure. You don’t mess with a soap that’s… Read more »
That is an explanation for LA and SF, it doesn’t explain New York and Philadelphia moving to 3pm, losing the CHEW lead in and airing an hour later than other east coast markets. It doesn;t explain Chicago that now also loses the Chew lead in and GH did not face another soap at 1pm in Chicago. The problem is that ABC moved GH in every single one of its owned markets. That includes Raleigh which is not a larger market. if you make a case for some markets, like LA and San Fran, not competing against another soap and they… Read more »
John Eric
Someone has to be the fake Luke imposter, so it is likely either Faison or Jerry Jacks. Stavros is a bit silly but I’ll accept any story to bring back Constance Towers as Helena. Sorry, but I miss my crazy Heather Webber – and Robin Mattson, who has been on soaps as long as Heather, even though she joined as Heather #3 in 1980; I just wish they’d write the character seriously again and not as silly comic relief and a lunatic without motivation or reason because Heather has been part of Port Charles and GH history since 1976 (when… Read more »
If they only could…i wish they could have all three actresses who played Heather on the show…all together at the asylum…under the care of Dr. Kevin Collins…and all claiming to be the real Heather Webber…that would be a hoot!!!
Kind of reminds me of when Sarah Michelle Geller did that cameo as “Erica Kane’s daughter” on the waning days of AMC.
The problem with your Fluke theory is Fluke hates Sonny. Faison or Jerry really never had any real problem with Sonny.
CODE FOR: We need to bring up the ratings so we are gonna do some more stunt casting.
SZima
Be afraid, VERY AFRAID!
Any time Frank says he wants to challenge the audience’s ability to accept, I want to run for the hills. I’ve just about had it with his cockamamie stories.
Glad you said it and not me for obvious reasons…lol
Jenny Brooks
I’m looking forward to whoever is coming back, but I am more concerned about this time switch/change. I don’t like that some television markets are moving the show and some are not. A lot of folks have joined FB chat groups and we watch together from states all over the eastern time zone, while chatting about it. It’s a lot of fun and has brought a whole new element of joy to the show for a lot of people. I wish ABC would just be consistent and show GH at the same time in time zones across the U.S.
I would like to see Liesl in a love triangle with Victor and Faison.
only person I want back on GH is Genie Francis(Laura)
They have no story for her unless she comes back to patch things up with Luke and is really patching things up with Fluke!
Avatar610
I am NOT happy about Helena and Stavros coming back- we’ve been there before so many times. I’d love to see development among the veterans. How about a ‘late in life’ pregnancy for Felicia? Mac has never had any biological children of his own, and this would be a great story. Also, I’d love to see Sabrina and Kevin get to know each other, just to give Lucy screaming fits. Most of all, someone PLEASE give Monica a love interest? She hasn’t had a lover (or a storyline) since Alan was killed off. Killing off A.J. was a huge mistake-… Read more »
Maybe Levi’s that child…yikes!!!
Please don’t insult A.J.’s memory.
I do know it would be insulting to A.J.s memory…
Yes, and he has already been besmirched in life and particularly, IN DEATH! Enough of the AJ bashing.
Who I would like to see is Phil Brewer, Jr., the unknown son of Phil Brewer, arguably the best GH villain in its history!
Phil did father two kids with Diana Taylor, but they’re all dead now.
I know. But this is a soap. He can have kids out there we don’t know about. Don’t forget he disappeared for a time before he came back as Harold Williamson.
Don’t bring back anymore Cassadines!
Engrady Pind
I hope this means that we will have to endure LESS of Sonny and his world of All That is Corinthos. Damn, but I find that character ludicrously self-involved, as if the whole world revolves around him and his black hole of need.
Sonny has never been involved with the real villains of the show, even his story association with the Zachara family. All of Sonny’s opponents pale in comparison to the Cassadines and Jerry Jax. It is time for the show to do WITHOUT Sonny and his little mobster connections.
Write this down! Remember that Timmm told you so. Fluke is Jasper Jax. I’m telling you. No one hates Sonny more. It gives Ingo something totally different to do. After all, he and Jerry are brothers. Derek helped Jerry escape and Derek hates Sonny. I’m telling you, its Derek and the Jax brothers bringing Sonny down!
If it is, I want my money back, Timm. Seriously, Jasper Jax was not an evil, sociopathic pedophile. He was an ethical, compassionate man.
I am not saying your prediction is wrong, I am saying that if it is true than this would be the worst type of character defilement since AMC made Tadd Martin a creepy, cowardly murderer who buried someone alive.
It’s probably just Bill Echhert.
Linda N .
I know some Cassadines will be back. My wish list includes Johnny and for old time sake how about Damian Smith. Now as for GH returning home to 3pm I couldn’t be happier. Since I was a kid GH aired at 3p followed by Dark Shadows and The Edge of Night. ABC’s Katie experiment failed big time. Now hopefully ABC gets the rights back to AMC and OLTL back and restores Love In The Afternoon. Naysayers be dammed!
sarah brown’s claudia!!!
if only!
That would be so awesome… wish they could pull that off!
I am just waiting for the story about the kitchen sink, because heaven knows they have thrown everything else at this show, lol 🙂
I REALLY hope it won’t be Heather Webber returning! She became a joke
Actually, the show is kind of a mess right now.
That whole stupid Maxie/Levi wedding was done for what purpose??
Franco & Carly have no chemistry
Sonny & Carly have no chemistry
Nina is a bore
Silas, Sam & Patrick are not interesting either
Stupid Jason returning? Who cares …..
Why am I still watching?
Hey Ces….I stopped last week! You know that old saying about banging your head against a brick wall? It feels VERY good when you stop!! LOL and I did. I have much better ways to spend 36 minutes of my life.
Hey Johnny! While I completely understand your reasons for bidding “au revoir” to GH, I am most gratified that you still see fit to visit and post here….I simply love the way you encapsulate, enumerate and express the many egregious aspects of this once venerable show. Please don’t go away…..
“… It feels VERY good when you stop!! ”
Johnny…Shay is right!!!!! And, Johnny…as far as I’m concerned, you have a VOICE (verbally speaking and all) and you know how to use that VOICE…BEAUTIFULLY!!!!! Always, always remember that.
Take care, bro.
A-C-E-S!!!!!
I agree with Shay, Johnny…keep posting…you’re one of the best…loved what you said about Carly and the girls above…actually im suprised its not a scene on the show!!!
because like sand through the hourglass dool, ynr and bb arent any better.
LOL! I quit Days last year and never watched B&B or Y&R 😉
I hear ya Johnny!! haha …. I guess I like to torture myself daily.
Denise Alexander Responds to Outpouring of Fan Support on Her Return to General Hospital
Watch the Replay: GH, DAYS, Y&R, B&B & OLTL Stars at Michael Fairman’s Virtual Birthday Party for SAG-AFTRA Foundation Covid-19 Relief Fund
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Longtime fans of General Hospital were over the moon when it was revealed that Denise Alexander was on her way back to the ABC daytime drama series to reprise her role of Dr. Lesley Webber, mother of Laura, played by Genie Francis.
With Laura’s story with her new found half-brothers central to the current storyline, it’s a perfect time for Alexander to be back in Port Charles.
Tricia Sheldon, a fan of General Hospital who loves the vintage years of the show and more as she notes on her Twitter account, was able to reach Alexander, who is not on social media. Sheldon showed her the outpouring of love the actress received, and the excitement on her on-screen imminent return.
In turn, Denise wrote a message to Sheldon to share publicly. Part of which read “Wow! I am breathless! What a wonderful surprise! I am beyond grateful for all the kind and amazing and funny and sweet and caring and supportive and truly delicious messages. I have never felt so appreciated and it brought tears and laughter reading each one.”
Alexander added, “I do not have a clue as to how to communicate on the Internet on Twitter.” She then noted, “I would love to reach each and every person who wrote about that first day back. But I don’t even know what the rules are. I’ve a vague sense that there is a limit to how long a message can be,but do not know how to reach anyone. Is there any way you could forward at least my thanks to everyone?”
Denise closed with, “I love each and every message, and am full of gratitude.”
You can view the communication and Denise’s heartfelt message below.
Now let us know what you thought of Denise reaching out to all of the fans, and how grateful she is that viewers are excited to see her back on-screen via the comment section,
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— Tricia Sheldon (@TriciaSheldon) January 16, 2021
Earlier this week on Monday night, several of the stars of General Hospital, Days of our Lives, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, and One Life to Live, took part in a virtual livestream “party” for Michael Fairman’s 60th birthday.
The event was held virtually to help performers in need who have been deeply affected by the Covid-19 pandemic by letting viewers know where to make a donation to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Covid-19 Relief Fund.
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Participating throughout the 90 minute livestream were: The Young and the Restless, Jason Thompson, Sharon Case, and Christian LeBlanc, General Hospital’s Maurice Benard, Laura Wright, Wes Ramsey, and Chloe Lanier, The Bold and the Beautiful’s Katherine Kelly Lang, Days of our Lives’ Rob Scott Wilson, Eric Martsolf, Galen Gering, Arianne Zucker, Shawn Christian, Santa Barbara favorite, A Martinez, One Life to Live’s Kristen Alderson and Eddie Alderson, and Studio City’s Sean Kanan.
You can catch the replay of the birthday benefit event below or on The Michael Fairman Channel on You Tube.
Throughout the evening, the actors shared stories of how they got their SAG card, played a game of Michael’s trivia, and revealed stories about themselves and other “party” guests in a wonderful display of community and camaraderie at all went down live!
Since March of 2o2o, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation has given out more than $6.2 million in emergency aid to over 6,500 SAG-AFTRA performers and their families facing hardship and uncertainty during this pandemic. Thousands of SAG-AFTRA artists have found themselves in dire need of assistance to help pay their rent, buy groceries, cover health care premiums and other bills. You can still make a donation of any dollar amount to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Covid-19 relief fund here. https://members.sagfoundation.org/donate
Now, check it out below, and let us know if you enjoyed the virtual birthday party livestream via the comment section.
Beloved stars from All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital will reunite for ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway, a one-night-only streaming concert benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The free streamed event can be viewed on the Broadway Cares website beginning at 8 pm Eastern on Thursday, February 11.
Additionally, the event can be seen on Broadway Cares’ YouTube Channel, ABC-owned television stations’ 32 connected TV apps on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Roku and each of the eight stations’ websites around the country, including abc7ny.com and Good Morning America’s Facebook page..
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The star-studded lineup will include performances by All My Children’s Bobbie Eakes, Melissa Claire Egan, Vincent Irizarry, Eva La Rue, Susan Lucci, Cameron Mathison, Eden Riegel, Chrishell Stause and Walt Willey, One Life to Live’s Kristen Alderson, BethAnn Fuenmayor, Kathy Brier, Kassie DePaiva, David Gregory, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Catherine Hickland, Mark Lawson, Hillary B. Smith, Jason Tam and Brittany Underwood; and General Hospital’s Bradford Anderson, Brandon Barash and Anthony Geary..
For the February 11 streaming special, viewers can expect to hear a bevy of Broadway classics and jazzy standards. The streaming event will be directed by John Dietrich, who also directed each of the live stage performances.
Dedicated fans also will have the opportunity for one-on-one virtual meet-and-greets with their favorite soap stars on Saturday, February 13. Further information on tickets and the lineup of special guests will be announced later this month.
From 2005-2011, the stars of ABC Daytime took the stage at New York City’s Town Hall one night each year for ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares. The evening featured dynamic production numbers, heartfelt ballads and hilarious skits. Now, 10 years after that final performance, the iconic ABC Daytime actors revisit their performances as they help raise money for those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the event began in 2005. it was for a one-night benefit concert to celebrate All My Children’s 35th Anniversary. With overwhelming support from fans, the event continued for six more years and included cast members from One Life to Live, General Hospital and co-hosts of The View. Over its seven-year run, ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares raised an incredible $1.85 million.
“This event is truly one of a kind,” Broadway Cares Executive Director Tom Viola said. “We are so thankful to the stars from ABC Daytime for joining us again as we relive moments from this delightful tradition, while helping to provide lifesaving medication, healthy meals and emergency support to those struggling during this ongoing pandemic.”
“It was such an incredible privilege and joy to join my fellow co-stars to perform in the seven ABC Daytime Salutes concerts to benefit Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS,” said former All My Children star Susan Lucci. “There are no fans like ABC Daytime fans. Their love and support continue to astonish us. We can’t wait to share these special performances with them and help raise money for so many in need during this difficult time.”
Lucci also shared her excitement on her Instagram account expressing: “We’re getting the fans and cast back together!!! Join us on Thursday, February 11 at 8pm for “ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway”—a fabulous online event revisiting seven years of singing, dancing and plot twists, featuring your favorite ABC Daytime stars. And it’s all to help Broadway Cares support our friends and neighbors who are struggling during this pandemic. Watch the stream at
broadway-cares.org, to join the fun! I hope to see you there!”
So excited to hear about the ABC Daytime Back to Broadway event? Let us know in the comment section, and check out the announcement from The View’s Whoopi Goldberg below.
BREAKING! Queen of @theview @WhoopiGoldberg announces ABC Daytime: Back on #Broadway will stream on February 11. Theatre and Soap fans alike are sure to swoon over performances of Broadway hits and parodies by @Susan_Lucci and stars from AMC, OLTL, and GH. https://t.co/Nxa3X2oJcx
— Broadway Cares (@BCEFA) January 14, 2021
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Days Of Our LivesJanuary 20, 2021
Victoria Konefal Returns to Days of our Lives
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DAYS Mike Manning On Role in Film ‘Son of the South’: “I Hope it Strengthens the Dialogue Our Country is Currently Having About the Fight for Equality on All Fronts”
TONIGHT: DAYS Lamon Archey on CW’s ‘All American’
Breaking NewsJanuary 18, 2021
Soap Alums Tom Pelphrey, Justin Hartley & William Fichtner Receive 26th Annual Critics Choice Award TV Nominations
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Justin Hartley To Star in New Series In The Works; TV Adaptation of ‘The Never Game’
Kristian Alfonso Shares Upcoming Role In V.C. Andrews Lifetime Movie Event Series, ‘All That Glitters’ and ‘Hidden Jewel’
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DAYS Freddie Smith and Alyssa Tabit Tie the Knot in Heart-Tugging New Year’s Eve Nuptials
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DAYS Stephen Nichols and Lucas Adams Talk Salem Longevity, Tripp’s Predicament and Their Co-Stars
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THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS: Will Adam Crash Sharon and Rey’s Wedding? Do You Want Him To?
Video InterviewsDecember 27, 2020
Lamon Archey, Camila Banus & Rob Scott Wilson Interview – Days of our Lives 14,000 Episode Celebration
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3 CRITICAL KEYS TO COMBATTING THE ‘INFODEMIC’
Wed Jan 13 2021 Michael McQueen
In the mid-1960s, Dr Martin Luther King Jr suggested that the primary goal of education ought to be two things: teaching students to think deeply, and to think with discernment. These two essential ingredients, he argued, were the key to building both intelligence and character.[1] Beyond this, Dr King knew that these skills were the antidote to the biases and bigotry fuelling the racism of America at the time.
Fast forward 60 years, to the first month of 2021, and the danger of ignorance is again painfully clear. The last year has brought us the chaos of misinformation more than any other year before. The media information surrounding COVID alone brought dozens of conflicting messages, all of them amplified within a context of panic in which even officials struggled to effectively deal with this unprecedented issue.
Not only is misinformation readily available in our world at the moment, but it is sensationalised within echo chambers and panic, appealing to emotion and mob thinking, rather than rational thought, dialogue and fact. This sensationalised misinformation flourishes most readily in the area of politics, as we saw clearly in the later months of last year especially. Political chaos was enabled by the intensity of the conflicting messages the public was receiving, and we saw this reach its pinnacle last week as an angry mob stormed the Capitol in the USA.
Within this world of conspiracy and fake news, the last year has proven that for every informed group, there is a misinformed one with just as much supposed evidence and mobilised anger to support and action their claims. The World Health Organisation, in responding to the misinformation surrounding COVID, aptly labelled our current state an ‘infodemic’.[2]
In a revealing admission, Twitter’s co-founder Evan Williams recently shared in an interview his regret for having contributed to the current state of play in online misinformation. Despite the initial vision of creating a better world where ideas could be shared freely, Williams despairs at the way Twitter, and the internet more broadly, has had the opposite effect: ‘I think the internet is broken… The trouble with the internet, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behaviour like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them. Fake news, whether created for ideology or profit, runs rampant.’[3]
I think many of us would relate to the metaphor of a car crash to summarise much of the contents of last year, especially that surrounding Twitter…
It is here that the sentiment of Dr King finds a new relevance and importance in our modern context. Critical thinking and the discernment of fact and fiction are fundamental to safety and sanity in our time. Just as when he was speaking, ignorance leads to dangerous real-world outcomes which rapidly gain intensity in our digital era.
Thankfully, it seems that for some, the clear prevalence of fake news, conspiracy and propaganda has encouraged critical thought, and many have taken the issue into their own hands by assessing bias and engaging more with reputable sources.[4] The public’s trust in institutions has rapidly diminished in the last decade, but this may not always be a bad thing.
Beyond this, some media platforms have made moves that encourage critical thinking in their users. Twitter, for example, has now created a rule whereby users can no longer share a tweet unless they have left a personal comment of their own. Complicating the single-click sharing option forces users out of the realm of mindlessly sharing and into that of meaningful contribution.
However, for the majority of us, exercising some of some tools of critical thinking is now not only essential in educating ourselves but in protecting each other. Here are 3 of those keys:
1. Media Literacy. One of the key lessons many students are taught when researching for assignments and tasks in school is how assess a source.[5] For many adults, this is a lesson we need to be reminded of. In order to analyse the veracity of source, taking into account the author, supplier, date, and language of the source is essential. Inferring the potential bias of an author or supplier is a key step of the process. Beyond this, in a digital age that has a tendency to sensationalise, assessing the language of a source is crucial. Is it using inflammatory or informative language? Is it attempting to appeal to emotion or is it presenting fact? This is a good sign as to whether the author of the source is concerned about their own bias. One part of the source we may often forget or take as a given is the date of the source. There have been many posts that have exploded across the media in the last year which were being presented as current when they actually concerned events from years before. The panic that they contributed to was entirely misplaced and the posts added to hysteria while concealing truth.
2. Cross-checking. Another essential in grappling with fake news is the skill of cross-checking. One of the greatest tools for inciting panic is taking a fact and manipulating it into an appeal to emotion or an affirmation of one opinion.[6] Cross-checking can be helpful in protecting readers from these traps. Verifying the facts of a source with another source, preferably one of a different bias than the original one, helps to separate what is true and what is there to provoke a reaction.
This practice of engaging with sources that are of a different background is an even more helpful tool when we are accessing our news through social media and phone apps. The algorithms behind these platforms operate to maximise your engagement with the platform, so the articles they feed you are generally determined by your past engagement.[7] This is part of what creates the echo chambers that can turn the everyday reader into an extremist. Reading articles and news pieces that are contrary to what you normally read or disagree with your regular views not only provides you with a more well-rounded perspective, but it helps to disrupt the very algorithms that turn mindsets into mobs.
3. Variety. There are few things as infuriating as someone who simply cannot see things the way you do. However, the era of the echo chamber and fake news means that they may not be simply seeing things differently, they may actually be seeing different things. Yet again, the advice of Dr King is applicable. If we are to protect ourselves from the division, extremism and fear that have increasingly proved themselves to be an unprecedented threat to our society, we must fight the ignorance which fuels them.
This means sharpening our critical thought and thinking first, before speaking, acting and perhaps most importantly, sharing.
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[1] Orme, G 2021, ‘After Donald Trump’s Angry Mob Storms The Capitol, How To Discover The Vaccine For The Fake News “Infodemic”’ Forbes, 7 January.
[2] Brennen, Dr. J. Scott Brennen & Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen 2020, ‘COVID–19 has intensified concerns about misinformation. Here's what our past research says about these issues,’ University of Oxford, 16 March.
[3] Streitfeld, D. 2017, ‘The Internet Is Broken: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It’, The New York Times, 20 May.
[5] Roulet, T 2020, ‘To combat conspiracy theories teach critical thinking – and community values,’ The Conversation, 2 October.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Landen has “super hero blood.”
He came all the way from Michigan to get his blood genetically modified to help him battle a rare brain disease.
Like a lot of 7-year-olds, Landen is a pro on the iPad. But Landen gets a lot of extra practice, because he can’t go to school or play outside.
His immune system can’t handle it.
“We’re here nonstop until we make our daily doctors’ appointments,” said Scot Veneklase, Landon’s dad.
Landen has Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), which is a rare genetic brain disease.
“Most hospitals don’t even know what ALD is,” said Priscilla Veneklase, Landon’s mom.
In fact, Priscilla didn’t find out she was a carrier until her dad, cousin and several other boys in her family mysteriously died.
“Just happened to run into another doctor who put our family tree together and we were losing so many boys in our family,” Priscilla said.
Girls can be carriers, but the devastating symptoms only show up in boys.
So when Landen was born, they were able to be proactive. Every year Landen had an MRI to watch for signs of ALD. Those signs showed up this year.
“Once we found out he had a lesion on his MRI, we were already set up with the [University of Minnesota] to come here and get the ball rolling,” Priscilla said.
The University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital is one a few that not only knows ALD, they have some of the top specialists.
Landen is one of eight kids in a clinical trial.
“So they took out some of his stem cells and platelets,” Scot said. “They shipped them off to get corrected.”
Landen’s stem cells were sent to Texas to be genetically modified, which he calls “super hero blood.”
Once they’re corrected, they come back to Landen.
“I get super powers,” Landen said.
While Landen waits for his super powers, he’s fully embracing his time in Minnesota.
“The Community here has been amazing,” Scot said. “The Minnesota Vikings came by. When we get those visitors, it takes our mind off what’s going on.”
And while Landen might dress up as Spiderman, there’s no question he’s the real super hero.
“I think this is going to be our best year yet,” Scot said.
Landen’s parents say the prescreening made all the difference.
Minnesota is one a few states that does ALD screening on newborns. But many other states — including Michigan — still don’t.
Landen’s family is working to change that.
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(9/20/09) "ENTOURAGE" episode -- IMPORTANT!!!!!
Michael Jackson Death Hoax Investigators :: All odd things
by MJ_Fan_For_40_yrs on Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:41 am
VERY LONG POST....MY APOLOGIES...
But you will be AWED .........!!!!!
I wanted to post this last night but wasn't at home, so forgive me for parts that I didn't get...and didn't write down at the time.
I was watching the show "Entourage" last night and I kept thinking, "This whole show relates to Michael Jackson!"
THEN, at the end, as they're rolling the credits....they played a MICHAEL JACKSON song!!
Here's the part I apologize for...I didn't get the name of the song! But of course I was listening to the lyrics, and they had to do w/ leaving, I think "needing to go, but (of course) coming back home."
Did anyone else see the show
So after waking up early because I couldn't get this off my mind, I jumped onto my computer and went to the www.hbo.com/entourage .com website.
I would encourage you to go watch the little vid they have there, the recap of last night's show....at the end, a girlfriend of one of the main characters says she's got a new job, but she has to leave...the job's in New Zealand..... (I'm still working on this one...I realize this isn't making sense to anyone who hasn't seen the show.)
The recap gives you the gist of last night's episode.
But wait.....there's more (Pitchman Billie Mays, whom I still don't believe passed away, but I'll put that in another thread!).....
If you'll go to www.hbo.com/entourage/lloyd, this is a new "feature" for the show! I've never seen this before (HINT??)
Lloyd (hmmm, why did they name him Lloyd?? "Lloyd's of London"??)...anyway, he's one of the main characters. He's an agent (PR agent).
In last night's episode he quit Miller Gold to branch off on his own, taking his one and only client w/ him. Only problem is, this one client is in a contract w/ Ari Gold's company ("Miller Gold") and has to convince Ari to break his contract so that he persue other/BETTER things ............
This "entourage/lloyd" link (above) has "Lloyd's diary" w/ a
"Top 5 Things I Won't Miss About Miller Gold."
(Miller Gold -- company Lloyd just quit.)
5. Forced to catch -- "I'm not a catcher. I'm a pitcher" (Whangdoodle softball team.)
(Julie Andrews Edwards wrote a book: The Last of The Really Great Whangdoodles." The Whangdoodle was once the wisest, the kindest, and the most extraordinary creature in the world.Then he disappeared and created a wonderful land for himself and all the other remarkable animals -- the ten-legged Sidewinders, the little furry Flukes, the friendly Whiffle Bird, and the treacherous, "oily" Prock. It was an almost perfect place where the last of the really great Whangdoodles could rule his kingdom with "peace, love and a sense of fun" -- apart from and forgotten by people. But not completely forgotten. Professor Savant believed in the Whangdoodle. And when he told the three Potter children of his search for the spectacular creature, Lindy, Tom, and Ben were eager to reach Whangdoodleland. With the Professor's help, they discovered the secret way. But waiting for them was the scheming Prock, who would use almost any means to keep them away from his beloved king. Only by skill and determination were the four travelers able to discover the last of the really great Whangdoodles and grant him his heart's desire. Julie Andrews Edwards, star of stage and screen, has written a unique and beloved story that has become a modern classic. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles is sure to continue to delight readers everywhere. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.
4. Overly Casual Fridays (gotta look into this one...)
3. White Boys I Can't Jump -- ("a lawsuit waiting to happen") (The sidekick says...."but you do get material")
2. Company Mixers (He Ralphed on my Ralphs -- Ralph Lauren Turin Penny Loafers)
1. Ari Gold (owner/agent) -- (..."The gay-bashing, race-baiting, girly-push-up doing, script-skimming, Lakers'-bandwagon-jumping, facial-getting, lying, cheating sadist.")
(sidekick says: "He is a good agent though, right?")
(Lloyd replies: "Taught me everything I know!)
(Also notice in this Lloyds clip what's in the background: a slot machine, "$ Lot $", and the word "LUCKY!", a cactus, a plant...) Anything else???????
Does anyone else see, after watching the recap & Lloyd link, see the relationship I'm trying to make?????
If ANYONE watched the show AND DVR'd it, PLEASE post the song that was playing when credits were rolling...the lyrics!
There are a few other things I'm looking into right now. I hope this makes at least some sense............
OH....almost forgot! The person I was watching the show w/ does not believe Michael is alive. I've stopped trying to convince...but I AM here when there are questions....and last night during the show I kept thinking, This all has to do w/ Michael Jackson, but I didn't say anything. At the end when that song played, my friend just looked at me and said, "Is that Michael Jackson (song)?" I just smiled.....
(One last thing.....Michael's shoes....Penny Loafers....Turin .....he's ALWAYS wears....when I searched for a pic I included the word "Turin." Does anyone question WHY he would ALWAYS WEAR THESE SHOES?? ................... A Picture of The Shroud Of Turin came up in my Google Search.
My HEART is telling me things....oh, and beating REALLY FAST!
PM me if you'd like..... I know I went on and on and on here...
:~ The COMPLETE ATTRACTION TO MICHAEL IS REAL ~:
(....forgive me if there are typoes. I edited it once.......)
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Re: (9/20/09) "ENTOURAGE" episode -- IMPORTANT!!!!!
by GirlSaturday on Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:14 am
"I Wanna Be Where You Are" from the 1972 Got to Be There album.
I didn't see the episode of Entourage but I did check their message board. Someone post a thread asking about the MJ song. Ironically, the poster noticed the frequence of MJ songs played on tv these days i.e. the Statefarm Insurance commercial.
by kdkennedy74 on Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:16 am
Has anyone noticed the flurry of Beatles songs being played as well. Michael bought the Beatles catalogue so I am sure that is not a coincidence either.
kdkennedy74
by yaya on Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:18 am
kdkennedy74 wrote: Has anyone noticed the flurry of Beatles songs being played as well. Michael bought the Beatles catalogue so I am sure that is not a coincidence either.
i noticed that too. i feel like i'm hearing beatles songs on every other commercial now.
Woonplaats : Central Texas
by MJFoReVeRandAlways on Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:25 am
Yepp, The Beatles are on here too all the time. I noticed it too.
MJFoReVeRandAlways
by ishealive on Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:32 am
Don't the Beatles have some album coming out a box set or something???
They were advertising here and straight away I thought MJ is involved.
I asked my dad if there was an anniversary or something coming up about the Beatles and there isn't, MJ is the one to make the money out of this!
ishealive
Woonplaats : Ireland
by EarthAngel90 on Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:40 am
I notice "The Beatles" Videogame Set Commercial being playing in heavy roation everytime I watch ...
EarthAngel90
Woonplaats : Fort Worth , TX - USA
Whether it is a Michael song or a Beatles song, we know that the MJ "estate" is being paid very well right about now.
by amy on Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:50 am
oh yes they r making profits
by CantStopLovingU on Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:07 am
I thought it was very weird too. You never EVER heard the Beatles on television, not in a commercial, not in a show, never! It was like the only way you could hear a Beatles track was to listen to your own albums.
I always thought that was because Michael owned the catalog.
Now since he "passed" we have Beatles Rock Band game for PS3 ect, and we hear the songs everywhere!
Hmmmmmmm
CantStopLovingU
by MJSmile4Us on Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:38 am
ishealive wrote: Don't the Beatles have some album coming out a box set or something???
yes, as far as I know they came out on 9th September 2009.
CantStopLovingU:
I agree with u - it's weird that despite Michael owning the Beatles catalogue, all of a sudden the video game and box set of the Beatles were released..and Paul McCartney said on David Letterman's show shortly after June 25th that he has to pay everytime he plays the Beatles song and seemed pissed about it and kinda indirectly dissed Michael which was so unnecessary..
MJSmile4Us
by ~StarLight~UK~ on Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:40 am
MJSmile4Us wrote:
Is he the 'real' Paul McCartney though?!!!
Sorry just wondering!!!!
Maybe MJ knows........
~StarLight~UK~
Woonplaats : London UK
~StarLight~UK~ wrote:
Loll - I'm not sure - he could've been the real deal but it's possible it's this guy
but definitely one of these 2 ;
I agree with u
I did not see the episode, but I just looked it up. The title of this episode is:
Buried alive.
mjssoulmate wrote: I did not see the episode, but I just looked it up. The title of this episode is:
Thank you for posting the name, now I can download it and watch it!
by GirlSaturday on Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:14 pm
Too funny:
Episode title is "Buried Alive"
MJ song is "I Wanna Be Where You Are"
by juliet on Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:48 pm
Thanks for the info. I never watched ENTOURAGE but I read your post and I thought I'll check it out.
Wow!!! It's so weird. And I agree with you the story line is related to Michael.
Hey, you guys, watch ENTOURAGE and take MJ_FAN_FOR_40_YEARS' word for it.
I forgot to mention that what I saw S6E12 and the title of the episode is GIVE A LITTLE BIT where the end is Ari fires almost everybody with an ink gun.
I haven't seen the BURIED ALIVE episode, so I'll check it now.
If you guys are talking about BURIED ALIVE episode and I was talking about GIVE A LITTLE BIT episode, and you guys say the storyline is about MJ and I also say that the episode I saw is also the storyline of MJ, mmm I guess I have to check and watch ENTOURAGE from now on and see what they are trying to convey.
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Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III: Cyberbullying: Dealing with Online Meanness, Cruelty and Threats
This report is drawn from a national survey of Canadian youth conducted by MediaSmarts in 2013. The classroom-based survey of 5,436 students in grades 4 through 11, in every province and territory, examined the role of networked technologies in young people’s lives. Cyberbullying: Dealing with Online Meanness, Cruelty and Threats (the third in a series of reports from the survey) looks at youths’ experiences with online conflict, the strategies they use to deal with this and who they turn to for support.
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CLN6 gene
URL of this page: https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/cln6/
CLN6, transmembrane ER protein
The CLN6 gene provides instructions for making a protein whose function is not well understood. Within cells, the CLN6 protein is found in a structure called the endoplasmic reticulum, which is involved in protein processing and transport. Research suggests that the CLN6 protein regulates the transportation of certain proteins and fats from the endoplasmic reticulum to lysosomes. Lysosomes are compartments in the cell that digest and recycle materials. Based on this function, the CLN6 protein appears to help cells get rid of materials they no longer need.
CLN6 disease
More than 70 mutations in the CLN6 gene have been found to cause CLN6 disease. This condition impairs motor and mental development, typically starting in early to late childhood, causing gradually worsening problems with movement and a decline in intellectual function. In some cases, signs and symptoms of CLN6 disease do not appear until adulthood.
Most CLN6 gene mutations result in the production of an abnormal CLN6 protein that is quickly broken down (degraded). As a result, there is a severe reduction in the amount of functional CLN6 protein in cells. While it is not known how the loss of this protein causes the signs and symptoms of CLN6 disease, it is likely that the protein's quick degradation contributes to the childhood onset of CLN6 disease.
In the cases in which CLN6 disease develops in adulthood, CLN6 gene mutations often change single protein building blocks (amino acids), resulting in a CLN6 protein with reduced function. Research suggests that these CLN6 gene mutations allow enough functional protein to be produced so that signs and symptoms of the disorder do not develop until later in life.
CLN6 disease is characterized by the accumulation of proteins or peptides and other substances in lysosomes. These accumulations occur in cells throughout the body; however, nerve cells seem to be particularly vulnerable to their effects. The accumulations can cause cell damage leading to cell death. The progressive death of nerve cells in the brain and other tissues leads to the signs and symptoms of CLN6 disease. However, it is unclear how mutations in the CLN6 gene are involved in the buildup of substances in lysosomes in CLN6 disease. These accumulations occur in more cells throughout the body in children with CLN6 disease than in affected adults.
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CLN6 TRANSMEMBRANE ER PROTEIN
Arsov T, Smith KR, Damiano J, Franceschetti S, Canafoglia L, Bromhead CJ, Andermann E, Vears DF, Cossette P, Rajagopalan S, McDougall A, Sofia V, Farrell M, Aguglia U, Zini A, Meletti S, Morbin M, Mullen S, Andermann F, Mole SE, Bahlo M, Berkovic SF. Kufs disease, the major adult form of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, caused by mutations in CLN6. Am J Hum Genet. 2011 May 13;88(5):566-73. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.04.004. Epub 2011 May 5. Citation on PubMed or Free article on PubMed Central
Canafoglia L, Gilioli I, Invernizzi F, Sofia V, Fugnanesi V, Morbin M, Chiapparini L, Granata T, Binelli S, Scaioli V, Garavaglia B, Nardocci N, Berkovic SF, Franceschetti S. Electroclinical spectrum of the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses associated with CLN6 mutations. Neurology. 2015 Jul 28;85(4):316-24. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000001784. Epub 2015 Jun 26. Citation on PubMed or Free article on PubMed Central
Cannelli N, Garavaglia B, Simonati A, Aiello C, Barzaghi C, Pezzini F, Cilio MR, Biancheri R, Morbin M, Dalla Bernardina B, Granata T, Tessa A, Invernizzi F, Pessagno A, Boldrini R, Zibordi F, Grazian L, Claps D, Carrozzo R, Mole SE, Nardocci N, Santorelli FM. Variant late infantile ceroid lipofuscinoses associated with novel mutations in CLN6. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2009 Feb 20;379(4):892-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.12.159. Epub 2009 Jan 7. Citation on PubMed
Kay C. Same gene, surprising difference: adult neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis linked to CLN6, mutated in variant late-infantile form. Clin Genet. 2011 Dec;80(6):505-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2011.01761.x. Epub 2011 Aug 30. Citation on PubMed
Kurze AK, Galliciotti G, Heine C, Mole SE, Quitsch A, Braulke T. Pathogenic mutations cause rapid degradation of lysosomal storage disease-related membrane protein CLN6. Hum Mutat. 2010 Feb;31(2):E1163-74. doi: 10.1002/humu.21184. Citation on PubMed
Sato R, Inui T, Endo W, Okubo Y, Takezawa Y, Anzai M, Morita H, Saitsu H, Matsumoto N, Haginoya K. First Japanese variant of late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis caused by novel CLN6 mutations. Brain Dev. 2016 Oct;38(9):852-6. doi: 10.1016/j.braindev.2016.04.007. Epub 2016 May 7. Citation on PubMed
The CLN6 gene is found on chromosome 15.
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We are concerned with the recent resurfacing of allegations of workplace misconduct and sexual harassment against Dr. Abhijit Das and Mr. Satish Kumar Singh, Director and Deputy Director respectively of Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ) India. Abhijit Das is one of the Co-Chairs of MenEngage Global Alliance, and Satish Singh is a member of the Steering Committee of MenEngage Alliance South Asia (MEASA) and Convener of Forum to Engage Men (FEM), an affiliate network of the Alliance in India.
While we are awaiting more information and insights, we acknowledge that silence and inaction is not an option. As MenEngage Alliance we take the matter very seriously. This statement serves to acknowledge that the behaviors of two of our leaders have been questioned; to reaffirm our commitment to our principles and accountability standards; and to inform what we are doing accordingly.
Background of the case based on available information
A former employee of CHSJ recently posted on her Facebook page about her negative experiences working with the organization, including allegations of sexual harassment and bullying. Citing specific instances and conversations from her time at CHSJ, the post was subsequently shared on the blog Kractivist. The allegations pertain to her complaint dating back to 2014, which had been investigated and followed up internally by her then-employer CHSJ. The concluding report of the enquiry committee, instituted by CHSJ, recognized “tensions” within the organization, including “displays of temper” and “expressions of agitation” by the Director. The committee did not conclude that sexual harassment had taken place. The committee recommended a list of steps to respond to the complainant, and improve the organizational culture, the management practices and internal communication. However, in 2018 the complainant came forward again and it is our understanding that she was not satisfied with the inquiry process and did not accept the conclusions of the report.
The MenEngage Alliance leadership at the time kept itself informed, monitored the local process, and decided to accept the local committee’s findings and recommendations. While we had considered the case resolved in 2014, emerging insights – including our increased attention for strengthening accountable practices and lessons from #MeToo on the comprehensive nature of sexual harassment and other forms of abuse – have led us to conclude that we need to reassess our response from 2014 and determine ways forward.
Our commitments and ways forward:
As a network founded on human rights and feminist principles, MenEngage Alliance upholds our core principles and code of conduct and holds everyone affiliated with the Alliance to account by these standards, including our staff, Board, network members, and collaborating partners. These include zero tolerance against violence and sexual harassment; a survivor-centered approach; the prioritization of transparency and ethical standards; maximizing safety and wellbeing for all; and holding one another accountable. Considering that Abhijit Das and Satish Singh are members of the Alliance and fulfil leadership roles, we recognize MenEngage Alliance has a role and responsibility to act. We are doing so in the following ways:
In light of the current situation, Abhijit Das has excused himself from his role as Co-Chair, membership of the Global Board, and any work related to MenEngage Alliance, until the matter is resolved. Satish Singh has also recused himself from his roles as member of the Steering Committee of MEASA and Convener of FEM.
After being informed by Abhijit Das about the case, MenEngage Alliance leadership has had conversations with him and others involved, and has reviewed documentation to better inform ourselves about the local context and situation. The Global Board convened to discuss its principles and responsibilities, and has formed a working group that will determine its scope of influence and roles in reviewing the handling of the case. The working group will outline ways forward including a clear time-frame for response from the Alliance; and issue recommendation to the Global Board, bearing in mind its mandate. In doing so it will test our policies and procedures, including the draft sexual harassment and misconduct policy, and identify ways to improve these. We commit to finalize and fully implement the policy. We furthermore commit to release the outcomes of the working group process publicly. The Steering Committee of MenEngage Alliance South Asia, following their internal discussion, has submitted its recommendations to the Global Board, which includes that an independent investigation be commissioned during the first quarter of 2019.
MenEngage Alliance leadership has had a conversation with the complainant to listen to and understand her views and expectations. We are also in contact with CHSJ leadership about how they are handling the case and dealing with the complaint. We are exploring with the parties involved what MenEngage Alliance’s role can be in supporting a restorative justice process.
A moment of reflection and learning:
As this case and others highlight, it is of utmost importance – and we reaffirm our commitment – to self-reflect on the potential of sexual harassment and workplace misconduct occurring within our Alliance itself, as a global collective engaging men and boys in women’s rights and gender justice. These situations require us to discuss, act diligently, and strengthen our accountability processes and practices. We humbly acknowledge that we do not have all the answers. We acknowledge that we as MenEngage Alliance are growing together with the MeToo and feminist movements. We strive to jointly explore answers to the questions that such cases bring to the surface. We are committed to extending our support, as appropriate, to our members and partners who experience or face allegations – so that they can respond in ethical and accountable ways.
As members of the Global Board, Global Secretariat and Regional Steering Committee, we will use this moment to deepen our commitment, work towards transforming our own cultures, and act in line with the values and principles we strive to uphold and promote throughout the network, while working towards the vision of women’s rights and gender justice for all.
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Literary Aspirations on the Northern Plains
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David Grettler, Great Plains, Jeanne K. Ode, NDSU Press, NGPHC, Northern Great Plains History Conference, Northern Plains, publishing, South Dakota State Historical Society Press, Suzzanne Kelley, Terry Shoptaugh, Tom Isern
Publisher note from Suzzanne Kelley
In late September, NDSU Press will be visible in multiple sessions and responsibilities at the 55th Northern Great Plains History Conference for 2020. Too bad for all of us, our sessions will be virtual, but I still look forward to witnessing the splendid work from scholars across the United States and Canada. While the conference is by necessity going virtual, its home base will still be Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the sacred and ancestral lands of the Ojibwe and Dakota Nations.
Two of our NDSU Press authors and I will present papers in the session called Literary Aspirations on the Northern Plains, wherein…
Prairie scholars describe and reflect upon their literary aspirations and their place in the history of the northern plains. The first author examines the seventy-year history of publishing by the Institute for Regional Studies; the emergence of its publishing imprint, North Dakota State University Press; and its vision as the voice of the prairies and the plains. The second author reflects on his ambitions and audacity in roasting that great chestnut of regional history, the Nonpartisan League. The third author considers how best to invigorate the familiar genre of collected essays in the realm of regional literary nonfiction.
Here are the session participants:
Jeanne K. Ode
Moderator: Jeanne K. Ode, Acting Press Director and Managing Editor of South Dakota History, South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Suzzanne Kelley
Paper 1: “Serving, not only the scholarly world, but the world in which the scholar lives”: North Dakota State University Press Celebrates 70 Years. Suzzanne Kelley, Publisher and Assistant Professor of Practice
Terry L. Shoptaugh
Paper 2: Roasting a Chestnut: Historians Return to the Nonpartisan League. Terry L. Shoptaugh, Archivist and Professor of History (Ret’d.), Minnesota State University–Moorhead
Thomas D. Isern
Paper 3: Doing History in Grassy Places. Thomas D. Isern, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of History, North Dakota State University
David Grettler
Commentator: David Grettler, Professor of History, Northern Sate University, South Dakota
We invite YOU to attend the session and/or the whole conference, September 16-19, 2020. Follow along for updates here: 2020 Northern Great Plains History Conference.
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Rome’s Largest Catacombs with Newly Uncovered Frescoes Will Open to the Public
By Kelly Richman-Abdou on June 2, 2017
This month, Rome's largest catacombs will open to the public after an in-depth, years-long restoration project. For the first time in centuries, visitors will be able to descend into the underground cemetery to see a recently rediscovered collection of ancient frescoes.
Located in subterranean Domitilla, the catacombs are over 7 miles long and house a labyrinth of over 26,250 tombs. For decades, restorers have tirelessly worked to rehabilitate 2 of the Domitilla Catacombs' burial chambers, using lasers and other technology to remove layers of dust, dirt, smoke, and algae from their walls. Fortunately, their efforts have paid off, as the restoration has revealed a stunning 1,600-year-old fresco collection.
The polychromatic paintings shed some light on the interests of the ancient Romans who commissioned them. In the case of these burial rooms, it was a group of bakers, as illustrated by a series of pieces chronicling the transport of grain. In addition to the baking trade, frescoes found in the chambers also signify an interest in religion, with iconography from both the bible and the Pagan faith making painterly appearances. According to Barbara Mazzei, who led the project, this fusion of faith aptly represents the shift from Paganism to Christianity that was occurring at the time.
Following the fall of the Roman Empire, the catacombs were largely forgotten until the 16th Century, when they were re-discovered by archaeologist Antonio Bosio. It is not until the present, however, that they can be seen in their original, dirt-free glory.
This month, following decades of fresco restoration, Rome's oldest and longest catacombs will open to the public.
Photo: Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology
The Domitilla Catacombs feature a labyrinth of burial rooms and tombs.
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Homes for the Holidays: U-Haul of St. Louis Helps Love Family
ST. LOUIS — U-Haul Company of St. Louis and NFL Hall of Famer Kurt Warner’s Homes for the Holidays program helped make this past Independence Day a little sweeter for Kamerial Love and her daughters.
Kurt and Brenda Warner introduce the Love family to their new home. Photo credit: First Things First Foundation
Outside the new home on Gladys Avenue in Hazelwood, some 23 miles northwest of downtown St. Louis, Kurt and Brenda Warner shared laughs, tears and prayers with the Love family.
“Watch over this family and bless them as they step into their new home,” Kurt prayed. “Fill it with lots of laughter and incredible memories.”
After the prayer, the Love family cut the red ribbon strung across the porch. Then they proceeded through the front doors into what they thought was an empty house.
Kamerial and her daughters, Heavenly and Spiritly, knew that the Habitat for Humanity house they helped build would belong to them. But they didn’t know that four U-Haul Team Members had been inside the day before, decorating and helping to furnish the home.
Each room is decorated with the family in mind. Photo credit: First Things First Foundation
The kitchen was fully stocked with food and the bedrooms were decorated to each family member’s personal tastes. As a result, there was a new sense of comfort and security that was previously unknown.
“For me, the best part was watching the 10-year-old daughter carry the stuffed unicorn we bought,” U-Haul field computer specialist Colleen Reome said. “I’m sure it was overwhelming to be around so many people and have cameras everywhere, so hopefully we offered some comfort.”
The two-story home features a spacious living room, kitchen, four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a washer and dryer. Because this is the Loves’ first backyard, there is also a lawn mower in the garage to help keep the landscaping tidy.
“It feels like I’m in a dream,” Love said.
Homes for the Holidays
The First Things First Foundation, created by the Warners, assists two low-income, working single-parent families by helping them achieve their dream of home ownership each year in the St. Louis area as part of the Homes for the Holidays project. The foundation also assists families in Arizona.
U-Haul Company of St. Louis helps Homes for the Holidays make Independence Day a little sweeter for the Love family. Photo credit: First Things First Foundation
U-Haul has partnered with the Warners and First Things First for much of the last 10 years as a proud corporate sponsor of Homes for the Holidays. Therefore, U-Haul Team Members were present for the purchasing of household items, the decorating and the unveiling of the Love home.
“More than a decade ago we began a partnership with U-Haul for an in-kind donation of trucks to assist us with transporting furnishings for the Homes for the Holidays program in both Phoenix and St. Louis,” said Jennifer Zink, Executive Director, First Things First Foundation. “After learning more about the program, U-Haul increased its support and has become an invaluable teammate in helping us continue to bless more and more families.”
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Please join NAMI California in urging the California Legislature to oppose SB 665 (Umberg), diverting MHSA funds to those incarcerated in California jails (read our letter of opposition). This bill has been completely revised and will be heard in committee Tuesday, August 4, 2020, at 2 pm PT.
SB 665 would authorize counties to use Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Innovation funds to establish a Jail-Based Community Mental Health Innovation Program (JBCMHIP) upon approval from the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC). This bill is in violation of the goals and principles of the voter-approved MHSA, which designated funds be spent to provide care in the community, not incarceration. SB 665 would override voter intent by redirecting mental health funds away from local mental health departments into jails at a time when funding for community services already projected to be greatly reduced because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Families cannot afford to lose any more programs to departments that already receive significant funding from the counties. COVID-19 has highlighted an increasing need for mental health supports and services. Counties are already struggling to find ways to meet those needs; further raiding of the MHSA to divert funds will only exacerbate the disparities in access to care experienced by so many families and individuals.
Letters of opposition can be sent directly to NAMI California at angela@namica.org, staffers of the Assembly Health Committee OR to any of the members listed below. You can reference NAMI California’s official letter of opposition or use this sample opposition letter. We thank you for your advocacy efforts in behalf of families and individuals in California.
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A small mercy for priests
As Christmas approaches, I thought I thought it would be a mercy to re-post one of those letters (the first) that Cardinal Piacenza used to address to clergy in his time as Prefect for the Congregation of Clergy. I always found them uplifting and full of a sense of care and joyful hope about those whom he was addressing. A father encouraging the best from his sons and pointing them in the right direction to stay on the good path or return to it if they had strayed. The Lord knows, we priests need all the encouragement we can get in these times.
Dear Priests and Deacons,
At this time, when the Holy Father has graciously named me as the new Prefect, I would like to take the opportunity to convey a cordial greeting to each and every one of you.
The Eucharist Celebrated and Adored
The Year for Priests, recently brought to a conclusion, remains always before us, both in its content and in its model of sanctity, St John Mary Vianney. With regard to its content, it is to be fully assimilated into the environment of the formation of the Clergy, both in the initial and ongoing stages, especially concerning to the central place it wished to recognise of the Eucharist, celebrated and adored; with regard to the model of sanctity that was offered, the heroic participation of the Curé of Ars in the self-giving of Christ for the life of men shines forth, and that witness spurs us continually to offer ourselves to the Lord in the "fragrant sacrifice".
It is in the contemplation and adoration of the Most Holy Eucharist that each priest and deacon begins to understand the exigencies of his own personal participation in the mystery of Christ, "the pure Victim, the holy Victim, the immaculate Victim". The life of he priest and deacon becomes increasingly identified with the sacrifice of the altar, consumed by the fire of the Holy Ghost, and rising as a pleasing fragrance in the presence of the Father.
First of All, Abide in Him
Even in the face of the storm of the "worldly sea," Jesus of Nazareth repeats to his disciples, "Do not be afraid!" To the temptation of activism and of the fitful searching after solutions that are human, and all too human, He beckons us gently, "Abide in my love" (Jn 15: 9).
The temptation of activism and the fitful searching after solutions that are human, and all too human: His Eminence identifies what lies at the root of so much clerical burn-out, superficiality, and despair.
As the Holy Father Benedict XVI pointed out, "If we continue to read this Gospel passage attentively, we also find a second imperative: "abide", and "observe my commandments". "Observe" only comes second. "Abide" comes first, at the ontological level, namely that we are united with him, he has given himself to us beforehand and has already given us his love, the fruit. It is not we who must produce the abundant fruit; Christianity is not moralism, it is not we who must do all that God expects of the world but we must first of all enter this ontological mystery: God gives himself. His being, his loving, precedes our action and, in the context of his Body, in the context of being in him, being identified with him and ennobled with his Blood, we too can act with Christ" (Allocution at the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, 12 February 2010).
It is impossible to observe the commandments of Christ without first abiding in Christ, without making one's dwelling in His open Heart. "His being, His loving," says Cardinal Piacenza, "precedes our action." This is, expressed in biblical terms, what Dom Chautard called, in his spiritual classic, The Soul of the Apostolate.
Dear friends, it is precisely this primacy of the ontological over the ethical, of the "abiding" over the "doing" that is the guarantee, and the only guarantee possible, of the fruitfulness of our apostolate!
In Confidence and Peace
In the face of prevailing secularism and rampant relativism, Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman reminds us that:
Christianity has been too often in what seemed deadly peril, that we should fear for it any new trial now. So far is certain; on the other hand, what is uncertain, and in these great contests commonly is uncertain, and what is commonly a great surprise, when it is witnessed, is the particular mode by which, in the event, Providence rescues and saves His elect inheritance. Sometimes our enemy is turned into a friend; sometimes he is despoiled of that special virulence of evil which was so threatening; sometimes he falls to pieces of himself; sometimes he does just so much as is beneficial, and then is removed. Commonly the Church has nothing more to do than to go on in her own proper duties, in confidence and peace; to stand still and to see the salvation of God" (Biglietto Speech, 12 May 1879).
A splendid quotation from Blessed John Henry Newman! What can any one of us do but go on his own proper duties, in confidence and peace? "Stand still, " says Blessed Newman, echoing the versicle sung at Tierce on Christmas Eve: V. Constantes estote. R. Videbitis auxilium Domini super vos. "Be ye steadfast. And ye shall see the help of Lord upon you." There is a hidden heroism in quiet fidelity to one's duties sustained by confidence in the Providence of God, and by the peace that is the fruit of such a confidence.
The Mother of Priests
With these sentiments of profound, radical fidelity to the Lord in the Church and in history, in the Lord of my and of your sacerdotal existence, I ask a particular remembrance in your prayers, while I assure you of my pastoral concern, entrusting each one of you to the powerful protection of Her who, by virtue of a most special title, is the Mother of Priests: the Blessed Virgin Mary.
+ Mauro Card. Piacenza
Charity Carol Concert
Our annual charity Carol Concert is this coming Saturday. Always a fantastic event. We have raised thousands of pounds at this event over the last five years which has been sent to Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith for SUROl, the leprosy charity of which he is the patron. Let's make this another great year!
Carol Concert
A collection for the work of SUROL
(those affected by leprosy in Sri Lanka)
will take place
Mince pies &Mulled wine to follow
St Catherine’s Church
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The mitre made for Pope Pius IX to wear for the proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854.
The Fraternity of St Peter Fathers at St Mary's in Warrington have very kindly invited me to preach and assist as deacon at High Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception at 7.30pm tomorrow (8th December). So I am looking forward to the music, which they are much blest with there and to seeing friends and acquaintances. Do come along if you can - especially if you have not been to the splendid St Mary's church before.
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New Foundation year a drawcard for Fine Art and Photography students
Published October 20, 2016 AuthorContributed
Image credit: Rachael Wellisch, How will it be?, Plastic stitched indigo dyed canvas on ply, 50cm x 50cm x 10cm, 2015.
Students commencing Fine Art or Photography degrees at the Queensland College of Art (QCA) in 2017 will be immersed in a new joint foundation year program that will foster skills and knowledge key to their artistic development throughout their degree and beyond.
Lecturer in Fine Art and convenor of the new Studio Foundations course, Dr Bill Platz, said the program will follow principles of best practice drawn from leading art and design schools internationally.
‘The course will begin by exploring fundamental notions — what does art do? how does image function? — and go on to examine the deep link between materiality and concept in visual art practice,’ Dr Platz said.
‘It will be a true foundation year, combining intensive studio work with a grounding in art theory and history, new technologies and insight into local and global art contexts.’
Each trimester of the Studio Foundations course will be structured via three four-week blocks focused on a particular thematic. Different aspects of each theme will be explored through weekly hour-long lectures presented by course leaders and guest artists and lecturers.
The thematics will cover ground such as ‘site and residue’, ‘subject and self’ and ‘distortion and mutation’. In addition, and unique to QCA’s foundation year nationally, each student will spend a four-week block with the college’s Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (CAIA) program.
The thematic lectures will be followed by day-long studio intensives where students will make work in a range of different disciplines — from painting and sculpture to photography and print, paper and books. Studio work will be approached through the lens of the theme or area of focus currently being explored.
In the fourth week of each thematic block students will interact with a guest artist invited to present an overview of their practise and/or demonstrate a technique specific to their discipline. These professional seminars will also incorporate review and critique of student work, ensuring students develop the language and frameworks of reference needed to bring new perspectives and lines of enquiry to their own work and that of others.
Integration of new technologies is also a key aspect of the course. Partnering with lecturers from QCA’s Creative and Interactive Media degree, foundation-year students will be encouraged to hybridise media and processes through engaging with new technologies. They will create an e-portfolio or online journal relating to their work, learnings and influences — a valuable record and resource which can be added to throughout the course of their degree.
The Studio Foundations course has been in development by Dr Platz and a core teaching team for over eight months, and he is looking forward to the benefits it will offer Fine Art and Photography students.
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New ‘High-Entropy’ Alloy Is As Light As Aluminum, As Strong as Titanium Alloys
December 10, 2014 Matt Shipman
Dr. Carl Kochcarl_koch@ncsu.edu919.515.7340
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Qatar University have developed a new “high-entropy” metal alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than any other existing metal material.
High-entropy alloys are materials that consist of five or more metals in approximately equal amounts. These alloys are currently the focus of significant attention in materials science and engineering because they can have desirable properties.
The NC State research team combined lithium, magnesium, titanium, aluminum and scandium to make a nanocrystalline high-entropy alloy that has low density, but very high strength.
“The density is comparable to aluminum, but it is stronger than titanium alloys,” says Dr. Carl Koch, Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work. “It has a combination of high strength and low density that is, as far as we can tell, unmatched by any other metallic material. The strength-to-weight ratio is comparable to some ceramics, but we think it’s tougher – less brittle – than ceramics.”
There are a wide range of uses for strong, lightweight materials, such as in vehicles or prosthetic devices.
“We still have a lot of research to do to fully characterize this material and explore the best processing methods for it,” Koch says.
At this point, the primary problem with the alloy is that it is made of 20 percent scandium, which is extremely expensive.
“One thing we’ll be looking at is whether scandium can be replaced or eliminated from the alloy,” Koch says.
The paper “A Novel Low Density, High Hardness, High-Entropy Alloy with Close-packed Single-phase Nanocrystalline Structures,” is published online in the open-access journal Materials Research Letters. Lead author of the paper is Dr. Khaled Youssef of Qatar University. Co-authors include Alexander Zaddach and Changning Niu, Ph.D. students at NC State; and Douglas Irving, an associate professor of material science and engineering at NC State. The work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number DMR-1104930.
“A Novel Low Density, High Hardness, High-Entropy Alloy with Close-packed Single-phase Nanocrystalline Structures”
Authors: Khaled M. Youssef, Qatar University; Alexander J. Zaddach, Changning Niu, Douglas L. Irving, and Carl C. Koch, North Carolina State University
Published: online Dec. 9, Materials Research Letters
Abstract: A low density, nanocrystalline high-entropy alloy, Al20Li20Mg10Sc20Ti30 was produced by mechanical alloying. It formed a single-phase fcc structure during ball milling and transformed to single-phase hcp upon annealing. The alloy has an estimated strength-to-weight ratio that is significantly higher than other nanocrystalline alloys and is comparable to ceramics. High hardness is retained after annealing.
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Normal Human says:
Sounds like were gonna get plasteel soon.
Glenn Russell says:
It has been over 4 years, any progress to report on final composition, cost, and properties?
I never understand how can somebody make so much marketing about a poor materials like this…. They just measured the hardness – it is hard, but so are the ceramics… And from the hardness they compare it already to strength of titanium and steel that was measured in tension on standard samples…… It can be super super super hard, however it will be as brittle as glass, even when its metal. You will never be able to make any safe structure from this. Sorry to disappoint, but this is not a good piece of basic research.
How would Boron work instead of Scandium?
Cutter Ramirez says:
Will this be a good knife steel?
AVeryThirstyMegalomaniac says:
Lighter than steel, stronger than dragon scale! Somebody call Tolkien! We’ve found Mithril!
Justin Tussing says:
Have you tested the behavior of the new nano-alloy when it is exposed to extremes of pressure (both high and low)? I am also interested in how it behaves when bombarded by both high energy photons and particles.
Adrian Smith says:
Say the material is 12″ in length & 12″ width..@ 1/8″ thickness…what is the breaking point when held at each end and bent in a N shape?..if held verticle and compressed @ what point does it bend and snap or just shatter?.
vasu says:
What is THE BEST processing method to make 50 lbs high entropy alloys in a small lab for research??? Thanks.
Bill Kratzer says:
curious as to the shock resistance or tolerance it can handle or transmits ?
Hi, how much does it weigh? Also, can this be aerodynamically sound under drone speed?
roosevelt rolland says:
Can this material be used on Air Plane and will there be a weight factor? That would cause a plane to operate unsafe.
How about replacing scandium with vanadium? The melting point and boiling ppoints are both higher in vanadium but the only drawback is that vanadium’s density is 6.00(g cm) whereas scandium is 2.99(g cm).
brian littler says:
Can it. Be used on AM machine in powder form?
How much less expensive than Nitinol?
Jagan says:
Sir, can u tell the composition of the alloy, and the properties of the alloy
yong zhang says:
Is there any ordered intermetallics like TiAl phase forming?
very nice work
Marcus Aurellias says:
Are there any pictures of this new alloy? I would like to see the finished product.
ISAIAS HILERIO says:
Normally an alloy HCP has low mechanical properties. If this alloy presents an structure lihe this. How is tis possible?
Chris Hill says:
1. How long do you imagine before the lower cost non-scandium alloy will be available?
2. What manufacturing processes are likely to produce the highest strength?
Anthony Jackson says:
Having worked in the F1 aerospace industries as a cnc miller, I wonder what it would be like to machine the material into specific parts? Very interesting times ahead.
Re Adrian says:
CNC millers will be phased out in favor of robotic assembly lines and depopulation.
Bob the Builder says:
This is awesome! Definitely going to use this in my future constructions.
William Olenick says:
Will it burn?
Todd Coolbaugh, Ph.D says:
Have you characterized the corrosion properties of these alloys. I am at JCSU and am well equipped with electrochemistry, including EIS.
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Columbus IT Partner A/S - Prospectus/Announcement of Prospectus
Columbus IT Partner A/S is offering new shares with pre-emptive rights for existing shareholders
Columbus IT Partner A/S (”Columbus IT”) is offering 26,434,873 new shares at a
price of DKK 1.90 per share with pre-emptive rights for existing shareholders
of the Company at a ratio of 3:1. The net proceeds of app. DKK 47.9M will be
used partly for investment in focusing of the Company and partly for
acquisitions.
Today, the Board of Directors in Columbus IT decided to exercise its
authorization to increase the share capital of the Company. Thus, Columbus IT
is today publishing a prospectus in connection with the capital increase with
pre-emptive rights for existing shareholders of the Company (”the Offering”).
The Offering comprises 26,434,873 new shares with a nominal value of DKK 1.25
with pre-emptive rights for existing shareholders.
The shares are offered at a ratio of 3:1 (which means that shareholders will be
allocated one (1) pre-emptive right for each existing share, and three (3)
pre-emptive rights entitle shareholders to subscribe for one (1) new share).
The subscription price is fixed at DKK 1.90 per share. In total the Offering
comprises DKK 33,043,591.25 (nom.), corresponding to 26,434,873 new shares of
DKK 1.25 (nom.) per share.
The purpose of the capital increase is to strengthen Columbus IT Partner A/S's
capital base, partly to be able to invest in focusing of the Company on
development and implementation of a few verticals and partly to ensure
available funds for acquisitions.
If the Offering is implemented gross proceeds will amount to DKK 50.2M and net
proceeds to app. DKK 47.9M after deduction of costs. The Offering is 100%
guaranteed by Consolidated Holdings A/S.
Reason for the Offering
In the market for ERP solutions there is an increasing demand for industry
solutions which correspond to the unique requirements of the individual
industries.
In the future, the Company has therefore decided to focus on development and
implementation of selected standard solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics and
wishes to expand within these solutions.
The Group will focus on the industry specific solutions (”Verticals”), within
which the Group already possesses industry knowledge and experience-based “best
practice” processes. With the acquisition of To-Increase, the Group obtained
the possibility to gather and intensify the development actions for the
verticals.
Now, the Group will initiate a change of the organization to a business which
obtains results through global execution of well-defined industry solutions
• a documented concept
• limited need for education and controlling
• focus on customers' return on net assets in relation with the implementation.
Furthermore, this will lead to a higher rate of utilization of consultants,
which will consequently improve the earnings capacity of the Group. The
organizational change will, however, require investments in supplementary
training, internal processes and development of industry solutions, etc.
Against this background the Group wishes to strengthen its equity base, partly
to be able to carry out the necessary investments, and partly to ensure the
necessary financial flexibility to be able to utilize the strategic development
possibilities which may occur, through constant liquidity resources for company
acquisitions or start-up of new subsidiaries.
When the Offering is implemented net proceeds after deduction of estimated
costs related to the Offering will amount to DKK 47.9M, as the underwriting
agreement guarantees 100% subscription of the Offering.
The proceeds from the Offering will improve the capital base of the Company
and, together with the expected cash flow from operations, be spent on the
planned investments in the organizational change, development of verticals and
investments in growth. Company acquisitions or establish¬ment of new
subsidiaries are expected to constitute app. half of the proceeds.
Underwriting agreement and underwriting commitment
On 17 June 2010, an underwriting agreement with Consolidated Holdings A/S (the
largest shareholder of the company) was made subject to certain conditions of
up to 100% of any new shares not subscribed for at the subscription price when
the subscription period closes.
Before the Offering, Consolidated Holdings A/S owns 26,976,166 shares in
Columbus IT, corresponding to 34.02%, and Consolidated Holdings A/S has
provided underwriting commitments for subscription of its shareholding.
Up to DKK 33,043,591.25 (nom.) new shares, corresponding to 26,434,873 shares
of DKK 1.25 (nom.) will be offered with pre-emptive rights for existing
shareholders of the company. The shareholders of the company are allocated
pre-emptive rights to the offered shares at the ratio 3:1. Thus, shareholders
will be allocated one (1) pre-emptive right for each existing share of DKK 1.25
(nom.), and three (3) pre-emptive rights entitle the holder to subscribe for
one (1) offered share of DKK 1.25 (nom). Pre-emptive rights will be allocated
to shareholders of Columbus IT who are registered with VP Securities A/S on 30
June 2010 at 12.30 CET.
The shares are offered at a price of DKK 1.90 per share of DKK 1.25, free of
brokerage.
Pre-emptive rights
On 30 June 2010 at 12.30 CET each shareholder registered in VP as shareholder
in the company will be allocated one (1) pre-emptive right for each existing
Subscription ratio
The new shares will be offered at a ratio of 3:1.
The subscription period for the offered shares commences on 1 July 2010 at 9.00
CET and closes on 14 July 2010 at 17.00 CET.
The offered shares will be registered with the Danish Commerce and Companies
Agency after implementation of the Offering, which is anticipated on 21 July
2010. The offered shares will be issued and registered under a temporary ISIN
code and application for approval for trading and official listing on NASDAQ
OMX Copenhagen A/S from 22 July 2010 at 9.00 CET has been submitted.
The rights issue has been prepared and executed by ATRIUM Corporate Finance as
financial advisor for Columbus IT Partner A/S.
Expected timetable for implementation of the Offering
Publication of prospectus 23 June 2010
Last trading day for existing shares including pre-emptive rights 25 June 2010
First trading day for shares excluding pre-emptive rights 28 June 2010 at 09:00
Trading and official listing of the pre-emptive rights 28 June 2010 at 09:00
Trading period for pre-emptive rights commences 28 June 2010 at 09:00
Allotment of pre-emptive rights 30 June 2010 at 12:30
Opening of subscription period for offered shares 1 July 2010 at 09:00
Closing of trading period for pre-emptive rights 9 July 2010 at 17:00
Closing of subscription period for offered shares 14 July 2010 at 17:00
Expected implementation and publication of the Offering 20 July 2010
Expected registration of offered shares 21 July 2010
Expected official listing and trading of the new shares 22 July 2010
The prospectus will be available in Danish only and will be distributed
electronically to registered shareholders of the company who have provided the
company with a valid e-mail address.
Besides, requests for copies of the prospectus may be addressed to:
Columbus IT
Lautrupvang 6
DK-2750 Ballerup
E-mail: cgr@dk.columbusit.com
The prospectus will also be available at the company's website,
www.columbusit.com. The contents of the website do not form part of the
prospectus.
Limitations for the Offering
This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any
solicitation of an
offer, for securities.
This announcement does not constitute an invitation to invest in Columbus IT.
This announcement only comprises an extract of the information contained in the
prospectus. Subscription of shares must be based on the published prospectus.
The announcement includes forward-looking statements on the strategy, growth,
activities, operating profit, financial position and financial expectations,
etc, of the Group. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks and
uncertainties. The actual development of the Group may therefore vary
substantially from the mentioned or understood forward-looking statements. The
factors that may cause such variations are described in the section “Risk
factors” in the prospectus.
No money, securities or other consideration is being solicited, and, if sent in
response to the
information contained herein, will not be accepted.
This announcement, or copies of this announcement, may neither directly nor
indirectly be carried or forwarded to, downloaded or distributed in the United
States, Canada, Australia, Japan or any other jurisdiction, where such
forwarding or distribution is illegal. Non-¬compliance with this limitation may
be a violation of U.S., Canadian, Australian or Japanese securities
legislation, or securities legislation in other countries. This announcement
does not constitute an offer to sell securities in the United States, Canada,
Australia or Japan. Securities mentioned in this announcement have not been and
will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 as amended, and
they may not be offered or sold in the U.S. without registration or in
compliance with an exemption to, or in a transaction that is not subject to
registration in accordance with the U.S. Securities Act.
Ib Kunøe Claus E. Hansen
Chairman of the Board Chief Executive Officer
Columbus IT Partner A/S Columbus IT Partner A/S
Contact for further details:
Claus E. Hansen, CEO T: (+45) 70 20 50 00.
Translation: In the event of any inconsistency between this document and the
Danish language version, the Danish language version shall be the governing
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In Yiddish, a yenta is a woman who gossips. In more modern times, I think we recognize that being a gossip is not just something unique to women. Men gossip, too.
There is a lovely story about a man who had this problem of talking about other people way too much. That’s because he was in business and would hear stories from his customers about other people but had the bad habit of sharing what he heard all the time.
One day, he heard something strange but true about another businessman in town and, as was his habit, you start to share what he heard with others. The story started to go around town until no one would deal with the other businessman. That man went to see the rabbi and cried because he was ruined. No one would talk to him or deal with them anymore.
The rabbi starts to reach out amongst the people in his community and, of course, to the man who is the subject of our story. He admitted that he had shared what he had heard but had not considered it would be a problem. After all, the story was true!
When the man heard about the effect upon the person he had gossiped about, he felt genuine remorse. He had not considered that sharing what he heard might hurt the other man.
The rabbi explained that whether it was true or not was irrelevant. You kill a man’s reputation when you talk about him. It is a form of murder.
“What can I do to make it undone,” he asked.
The rabbi asked, “Do you own a feather pillow?”
Thinking that the rabbi would want him to sell them, he told him, “I have several. Do you want me to sell them?”
“No, bring me one.”
The man returned the next morning with a pillow. The rabbi open the window and handed him a knife. “Cut it open,” he commanded.
“But rabbi, you will make a mess everywhere!”
“Cut it open.”
The man did as he was told and, as expected, feathers flew out everywhere. They landed on books. They landed on the cat. They landed everywhere in the rabbi study. It was a mess!
They waited 10 minutes.
The rabbi now ordered him. “Pick up all the feathers. Every one! Stuff them back in your pillow.”
“But, rabbi, that’s impossible! I might find most of them but the ones that flew out the window are gone forever!”
“Yes,” said the rabbi. Once a story, a rumor leaves your mouth, you have no idea where it winds up. It flies everywhere and you can never get back.” You’re the man to sincerely apologize to the businessman about whom he’d spread the rumor as well as to the people he had told the stories to (making them accomplices) and to sincerely study the laws and come back to him after a year.
At the end of the year, he changed his ways and overcame his problem.
I’m sharing the story with you because of the habit I have and I suspect many of you have about being a yenta at work. We talked about others much too often without being aware that our discussions have consequences for them and for us.
I’m not going to ask you to study for a year. I am going to suggest you become aware and stop this insidious behavior.
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I’ve been thinking in percentages for months now, so I’ve had a head start. Congenital heart defect, 1 percent. Spina bifida, 0.07 percent. Down syndrome, for a baby born to a mother in her early thirties, between 0.1 and 0.2 percent.
We found out my wife was pregnant in September, right after we got back from our honeymoon, right after we started trying: Too good to be true. Too nervous to look at the stick, my wife asked me to read the results. There were no symbols to decode, just a word: PREGNANT. Hopping around the bathroom we felt giddy and sick, two people who by their natures expect the worst celebrating something suspiciously great.
Marfan syndrome, 0.02 percent. Microcephaly, 0.12 percent. Tay-Sachs disease:
Tay-Sachs is a fatal genetic disease that disproportionately afflicts Ashkenazi Jews like me. In November, we found out that my ethnically Armenian wife is a carrier, a 0.3 percent chance. Of course: Just our luck. I knew my odds of being a carrier were about 1 in 25. I went to get my blood drawn. Dazed, sitting in that weird Falun Gong coffee shop on Eighth Avenue, we told half-hearted jokes about my wife being an honorary Jew. Then we did the morbid math.
If we were both carriers, there was a 1 in 4 chance the baby would have two copies of the bad gene, a death sentence. 0.04 x 0.25 = 0.01. For the next 10 days we took turns freaking out about the one percent. “It’s one percent,” one of us would offer, briefly composed. “It’s. One. Percent,” the other would respond, slunk into the couch, staring straight ahead.
Eventually, we heard from our “genetic counselor” — not a person who tells you what career you’re cut out for based on your DNA, it turns out — and the news was good. I pictured my college statistics professor and felt a little rush of gratitude toward him, as if he embodied the unsentimental odds of the universe. We told our families and went out to an expensive meal, at which I yet again broke my promise to stay sober in pregnancy solidarity. My wife was too relieved to care.
Compared to the agony of many expectant parents, our first trip into the Probability Zone was benign. But this way of thinking, this sense that our health and happiness were down to a dice roll, stuck. Over the winter, as the coronavirus set its own unsentimental course, I was tuned into a new frequency of fear, a low buzz of risk and consequence out of a Don DeLillo novel. I came down with a bad respiratory illness at the end of January and spent feverish hours googling flu death statistics. Was this any sillier than worrying about Zika virus or spina bifida? Jaywalking, wearing noise-canceling headphones on my commute, rushing down the subway steps — these all suddenly seemed less like New York City table stakes and more like deliberate and fraught bets. I wasn’t afraid for my life, exactly. I was afraid for our joy.
Now it is April, and as the virus occupies my city, we are all spending more and more time in the Probability Zone. We are all now making morbid calculations and a thousand decisions, small ones and big ones, based on them. True, New Yorkers love “there but for the grace of God” chitchat about one-in-a-million subway nightmares and street grate disasters. But my wife and the people we know live in a predictable version of the city, a safe version of the city, in which it is impossible to get a substandard cup of coffee and in which the chances of a catastrophe have never been lower. Had never been lower. Real material fear has come for those of us who usually just tweet about such things, even as we know we have less to fear than so many others. For these New Yorkers, who can’t work from home and can’t get good health care, the Probability Zone is far crueler.
COVID-19 death rate, 6 percent. COVID-19 death rate among Americans under 18, 0.11 percent. In-utero transmission rate from COVID-19 positive mothers to infants, unknown.
Now everything outside our home feels uncertain. Every time either one of us leaves and comes back, we bring the outside in — a bad feeling that could harden into a reflex with lasting consequences for the city. Every time we come back, we have rolled the dice again. Only, we don’t know the rules of the game. The studies have small sample sizes. The results have been contradictory. Everyone walks around nursing a theory about why some people get sick and others don’t, some idiosyncratic solution of recency bias, media diet, and half-forgotten high school biology. Everyone’s Probability Zone looks different, changes constantly. We are told not to wear a mask, and I resent the mask wearers. We are told to wear a mask, and I resent the maskless. We are told that some of the masks are fake, that wearing masks wrong can trap the virus against your mucus membranes, that you can stick a mask in the oven to purify it. Outside, when there’s no one around, my wife sometimes removes her mask to steal a full breath. She’s 8 months pregnant and she gets winded. This annoys me — doesn’t she know that she’s adding to the number? Then I’m annoyed that I’m annoyed. I’m not the pregnant one. I have no idea how she feels. Am I trying to protect her or am I trying to control her body? I have stopped policing her sips of wine. How the fuck would I make it through this without wine?
Yet somehow my wife exudes calm, in the kind of “Que Sera, Sera” way I associate with Buddhists and stoners — not exactly with the woman I married. Her therapist says this is because of “pregnancy hormones.” Her hair is thicker and her skin is brighter. She has heartburn. She grabs my hand to her belly in delight when the baby kicks, but sometimes it’s too late and he’s stopped. Her experience is physical. Mine is abstract. She seems to have left the Probability Zone. I spend all my time there, reworking my algorithm based on studies about pregnant women in Wuhan, feeling grateful for the dependability of Amazon deliveries and the Capital One mobile banking app.
We retreat into telemedicine, teletherapy, telepregnancy. We attend a virtual birthing class. I’m distracted by the bookmarks for Gothamist and Smitten Kitchen on the doula’s shared desktop screen. I wonder if she’s baked the “i want chocolate cake” chocolate cake recently. A couple in Alabama keeps cutting in and out. Three hours pass. When it comes to medical interventions, the doula concludes, “Always remember BRAIN.” It stands for BENEFITS, RISKS, ALTERNATIVES, INTUITION, NO, NEVER, NOT NOW.
We want to know which way the baby is facing, so we video-chat a friend, a midwife in California. She tells me to press around my wife’s stomach to try to find something round and protuberant — it’s likely to be the head or the butt, and we can triangulate from there. So I go about trying to seize my unborn son’s butt, with all the grace of a bowling alley arcade claw. Incompetence leads to ticklishness, leads to laughter, leads to failure, leads to Netflix.
One day, we learn that our hospital has banned partners from the delivery room. We are COVID-19 risks.
“I had been doing so well until this,” my wife says. “But I don’t know how I can make it through labor alone.” We discuss fleeing to where we grew up, but worry about infecting our parents. We hatch harebrained schemes to get me into the hospital. One of them involves bribing the medical staff with baked goods. Or maybe I could contract and recover from COVID-19 in time for the delivery?
I tell her I’ll be there the whole way on FaceTime. Don’t worry about it.
A small part of me is glad for the ban. Doctors are masters of the Probability Zone. They deliver lots of babies — we only have one. If the doctors at this hospital have consulted the Zone and concluded that I am not safe, then I will swallow my pain and update accordingly. Maybe all the other hospitals have it wrong. I read about critically sick women in labor, intubated, unconscious, cut, sewn. If it is unsafe for these women to experience childbirth, they will have to update accordingly. They will have photographs. If our son spends the first months of his life in a NICU, we will have to update accordingly. We will get Seamless delivery and see him as often as possible. If he doesn’t meet his grandparents until he is 2 years old, if he never meets his grandparents, we will have to update accordingly. We will Zoom — or we won’t.
When the governor announces an executive order requiring that the hospital let partners in, I cry, mostly but not entirely out of relief. I had adjusted my fear hypothesis and now I have to adjust it back.
For now, that’s where we are. We have enwombed ourselves, and we will stay here until my son has to leave. Recently, when I’m lying in bed and I can’t sleep for running the odds, I picture him. I don’t see him in my arms or my wife’s arms. But I see him, new and good, with a chance — whatever that number is — and I stop imagining what could go wrong.
The other day, I came across a neighbor on all fours at her front door, disinfecting plastic containers of Thai food with Clorox wipes. She’s such a nice person, with two kids under 2.
“I know I look crazy,” she said with a laugh. I wanted to give her a big hug. Instead I hoped she could see from my eyes that I was smiling underneath my surgical mask. Then I rushed inside. ●
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Boston Pizza in Guelph opening hours
Guelph is one of the shops of Boston Pizza that have a place at 35 Woodlawn Rd W, N1H 1G8. Our website provides detailed information about the opening and closing hours today, the address, services and more. The shop serves customers landing from neighbouring areas, for example,
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Boston Pizza in Guelph is typically open on Monday: 11:00-24:00, Tuesday: 11:00-24:00, Wednesday: 11:00-24:00, Thursday: 11:00-24:00, Friday: 00:00-24:00, Saturday: 00:00-24:00. Its Sunday opening hours are: 11:00-24:00. The store provides services including:
Boston Pizza is Canada’s No. 1 casual dining brand with more than 365 restaurants in Canada serving more than 100 unique and delicious menu items such as gourmet pizzas and pastas, juicy burgers and our famous BP wings. Annually, Boston Pizza serves more than 40 million guests, and in 2014 achieved system-wide sales that surpassed $1 billion. Boston Pizza has proudly been recognized as a Platinum Member of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies for 21 consecutive years.
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SF 49ers Easily Beat NY Giants, 36-9
staff writer Uncategorized October 2, 2020 September 28, 2020
The way the San Francisco 49ers played, missing quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and a slew of starters wasn’t an issue against the woeful and winless New York Giants.
Backup Nick Mullens threw for 343 yards and a touchdown and the Niners controlled the ball on offense, took it away on defense and had another easy day on the East Coast in a 36-9 win at MetLife Stadium.
“I real happy with this week,” said coach Kyle Shanahan, who wore a mask this week after being fined $100,000 for failing to do so last week in a game that saw his team lose six starters to injuries on a new field his players criticized.
“We pulled together throughout the week,” Shanahan said of the concern about the field. “I just got real good energy and vibe from the guys from Wednesday when we started practicing all the way to last night at the hotel meeting. And then today. I thought they played very hard all four quarters, I was very proud of our team.”
San Francisco played a near flawless game as Mullens hit 25 for 36 passes, including a 19-yard TD pass to running back Jeff Wilson. It outgained New York 420-231, held the ball for 39:44 and forced three turnovers without giving the ball up. The Giants did not run a play in the red zone.
New York, which came into the game as the NFL’s lowest-scoring offense, got three field goals from Graham Gano, the second of which tied the game at 6-all midway through the second quarter. Quarterback Daniel Jones turned the ball over twice.
“We are not looking for excuses or pointing fingers,” Coach Judge said after his team’s worst effort of the season. “We are not looking for shortcuts. We are looking to build this thing and build it the right way. We’re going to come back Wednesday and work our butts off to get this thing right.”
Published October 2, 2020 September 28, 2020
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Sophisticated Exclusion and Sophisticated Causation
Lei Zhong
Journal of Philosophy 111 (7):341-360 (2014)
The Exclusion Argument, which aims to deny the causal efficacy of irreducible mental properties, is probably the most serious challenge to non-reductive physicalism. Many proposed solutions to the exclusion problem can only reject simplified exclusion arguments, but fail to block a sophisticated version I introduce. In this paper, I attempt to show that we can refute the sophisticated exclusion argument by appeal to a sophisticated understanding of causation, what I call the 'Dual-condition Conception of Causation'. Specifically, I argue that the dual-condition account of causation gives strong support to the so-called 'Autonomy Solution', which contends that even if mental properties are unable to cause (fundamental) physical properties, they can still cause higher-level properties (such as mental, behavioral, and social properties)—if so, human agency would be preserved in the physical world.
Keywords Analytic Philosophy Contemporary Philosophy
Causal Overdetermination in Metaphysics
Downward Causation in Metaphysics
Manipulability Theories of Causation in Metaphysics
Psychophysical Parallelism in Philosophy of Mind
The Exclusion Problem in Philosophy of Mind
ISBN(s) 0022-362X
DOI 10.5840/jphil2014111724
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Taking Emergentism Seriously.Lei Zhong - 2020 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98 (1):31-46.
Causal Exclusion and the Limits of Proportionality.Neil McDonnell - 2017 - Philosophical Studies 174 (6):1459-1474.
Mental Causation.David Robb & John Heil - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Virtual Reality: Digital or Fictional?Neil McDonnell & Nathan Wildman - 2019 - Disputatio 11 (55):371-397.
Causal Exclusion and Downward Counterfactuals.Tuomas Pernu - 2016 - Erkenntnis 81 (5):1031-1049.
Can Counterfactuals Solve the Exclusion Problem?Lei Zhong - 2011 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83 (1):129-147.
The Seven Strategies of the Sophisticated Pseudo-Scientist: A Look Into Freud's Rhetorical Tool Box. [REVIEW]Athony A. Derksen - 2001 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 32 (2):329-350.
Counterfactuals, Autonomy and Downward Causation: Reply to Zhong.Dwayne Moore - 2013 - Philosophia 41 (3):831-839.
In Defense of Naïve Universalism.Daniel Howard-Snyder - 2003 - Faith and Philosophy 20 (3):345-363.
Exclusion Excluded.Brad Weslake - manuscript
The Need for an Epistemology.John L. Pollock - unknown
Review of Dowe's Physical Causation. [REVIEW]Jonathan Schaffer - 2001 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52 (4):809-813.
Probabilistic Causation and Causal Processes: A Critique of Lewis.Peter Menzies - 1989 - Philosophy of Science 56 (4):642-663.
A Probabilistic Analysis of Causation.Luke Glynn - 2011 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 62 (2):343-392.
The Causal Exclusion Puzzle.David Pineda - 2002 - European Journal of Philosophy 10 (1):26-42.
The Sophisticated Inductive Approach and Science Education.Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast, Zahra Niknam & Mohammad Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast - 2011 - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences.
The Sophisticated Inductive Approach and Science Education.Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast, Zahra Niknam & Mohammad Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast - 2011 - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 30:1365-1369.
Causation, Exclusion, and the Special Sciences.Panu Raatikainen - 2010 - Erkenntnis 73 (3):349-363.
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Plague 12.7
Mannequin lunged for me, his bladed toes biting into the ground for traction. He moved fast enough that his arms trailed behind him like twin ribbons in a strong wind.
He stopped several paces away from me, turning his body to swing at me with his right arm and the three foot long blade that was attached to it. If I hadn’t known better, I would have thought he’d fall well short. But his arm extended on a chain, giving the swing just enough reach to put the blade on a collision course with my head.
I parried it with my baton. The hit was heavy, more like trying to fend off a sledgehammer than what I’d expected. I almost lost my grip on my weapon.
As the blade bounced off my baton, he reversed the direction his upper body was turning to start spinning like a top. His one attached arm hurtling around him, he sprung at me. I threw myself back and away, escaping by a mere two inches.
His spinning upper body had, with his right arm spooled out, caused the chain to wind around his body. He began reeling it in, the arm and blade drawing a lazy circle around him. I backed away, thinking I finally had a chance to get my bearings.
As his detached arm reeled in, the fingers folded backwards around the end of one of his feet, gripping it. He retracted the blade at the toe of the other foot and dropped that foot flat on the ground. The motion seemed to unbalance him, and he teetered, almost falling over. Then in one sudden motion, he righted himself and thrust out with his other leg and the three-foot blade that was now attached to it.
I didn’t have time to get out of the way, to bring my baton up to defend myself or even to do more than belatedly realize his near-collapse had been a feint. He caught me in the stomach with that same surprising strength as before, then slashed up toward my collarbone with enough force to lift my feet up off the ground. I landed hard on my back, my armor absorbing the brunt of the impact. The sides of my armor panels bit into the ribs of my back where they curved toward my body.
Keeping the lessons I’d learned from sparring with Grue in mind, I tried to scramble back and away while Mannequin righted himself and put the forearm and hand he had connected to his foot in the right place. Before I could get to my feet, he started striding toward me.
I drew my bugs around me to conceal my movements as I rolled to one side, set my feet under me and sprinted to his left.
While still beneath the cover of my bugs, I was struck from behind and knocked face first to the ground. The surprise was as bad as the pain.
Through the swarm, I sensed him approach until he stood with one foot on either side of me. I felt him wind his fingers into my hair and pull my head up and back. I struggled, trying to catch him in the knee with my baton, but he wrenched me to one side, and I felt a blade press against my throat.
As he’d done with the gray-haired doctor, he pulled the blade hard against my throat in one long, smooth motion, adjusting for the curvature of my neck.
In one heartbeat, I formed and initiated a plan. I grunted and made a choking sound, which was all the more realistic because he’d just pulled a length of metal hard against my windpipe; I did want to grunt and I did choke. Then I went limp and had every bug in the area cease moving. Like snowflakes, the flies began drifting down from the air.
He let go of my hair, and my mask clacked hard against the floor. I heard a girl scream, heard noises and shouts from everyone else.
I swallowed, partially to check that my throat really hadn’t been cut. My costume had saved me. I wished the gathered onlookers hadn’t witnessed the scene. It would have been better if the bugs had blocked their line of sight, as their noises of fear and alarm were going to get his attention.
I just needed a second to think. Mannequin could press an assault indefinitely, until he succeeded in cutting my throat open or delivering that mortal wound. It was like sparring against Brian, but worse in every way. Mannequin was stronger, faster, he had more reach, he didn’t get tired, he was good and he was out to kill me. He was versatile in a way no ordinary human could be. He couldn’t be caught in an arm-lock- his limb would just come free or bend in some screwed up way.
He could sense me somehow. How? It had been reckless of me to assume that he used sight to get by, especially when he didn’t have eyeholes in his mask. The fact that he hadn’t noticed I was faking meant he wasn’t relying on sight, or his sight was limited enough that he couldn’t make out the lack of blood through the cloud of bugs around us. If he wasn’t hearing my breathing, I doubted he had super hearing either.
Did he use radar, like Cricket? It would be my first assumption, except my bugs hadn’t heard anything of the sort.
No. This line of thinking wasn’t accomplishing anything.
I heard him sharpening his blades against one another with the sound of steel on steel. I could sense the movement, from the bugs that were drifting down onto him. A man in the crowd whimpered, and Mannequin turned towards him.
The metal singing in the pauses between the scrapes of blade on blade. Mannequin was standing still, observing.
I had to come up with a plan of attack, or others would pay the price. My deadline was the point, I suspected, that someone lost their nerve and tried to run.
If I was going to attack, I needed to find a weak point. But he was smart. Before the disaster that had turned him into this, he had been on the brink of solving many of the world’s crises. Overpopulation, renewable energy, effective recycling, world hunger. Even with tinker abilities offering the means, it took someone special to manage that and actually make progress.
It was a given that he wouldn’t have any blatant weaknesses. Any measure he didn’t think of himself, he would have shored up by now, by virtue of being a longstanding member of the Nine. He’d fought heroes and villains better than me, and he’d learned and improved in the process.
In that respect, perhaps, he and I weren’t so different. I’d developed in much the same ways. The difference was that he had years more experience. That, and he was batshit insane.
What would I do in his shoes, with his power?
I wouldn’t leave any vital openings uncovered. That was a given. My focus -Mannequin’s focus- would be on designing way to make himself a completely closed system. It wasn’t just sensible, it was the whole point of his transformation. He’d have perfect recycling of all waste, dissipation of excess energy by diverting it to mechanical movement, intake of energy by absorption of heat.
Could that be a clue as to how he sensed the world around him? Heat? Or was it something completely different? Radiation? Radio waves? Electromagnetics?
Putting myself in his shoes, I had to think of his motivation. Why this form? I’d make myself resemble a doll or a store mannequin because… it was an eternal reminder. Didn’t his wife and kids die when the Simurgh attacked? There was a story there.
But what else? Why resemble a human?
To mislead? Maybe the configuration of ‘my’ organs and parts wasn’t human in the slightest. I might have gone the Aegis route and built-in redundancies for everything I could spare. I wouldn’t need a heart, kidneys, or a conventional digestive system, bone marrow or any of that stuff. Everything I could strip away would be more room for equipment, more room for all the pieces and parts that help turn ‘my’ individual body parts into perpetually self-sustaining systems.
His torso was the biggest section of his body. It wouldn’t have his heart, lungs or any of that, because he didn’t have a circulatory system. More likely, it contained his brain, his sensory organs/system, and whatever mechanism he was using to remotely control his arms, legs, hands and feet. Unless he didn’t want to put all his items in one basket. It was easily possible for some of that stuff to be in his thighs and forearms.
If I were him… I would have spent hours carefully balancing the ‘ecosystems’ of each individual part of my body. Something that exacting and that fine tuned would be sensitive, fragile. They’d be resistant to impacts, I wouldn’t go around getting into fights if they weren’t. But heat and cold? A crack in that exterior of his? It could wreak havoc.
Okay. I was getting a sense of him, maybe. That said, none of that mattered if I couldn’t hurt him in the first place. Maybe I was thinking about this all wrong.
Bugs dealt with threats that were encased in hard shells all the time, didn’t they? They dealt with other species of bugs. There were a hundred solutions there, if I was willing to look for them.
That was the spark of inspiration I needed. In a matter of seconds, I had a plan.
It wasn’t a good plan, but it was something. As a just-in-case measure, I could try some other smaller plans, on the off chance that they might distract or even work. Having those options, if nothing else, would make me feel better. Mannequin had just brutally and unquestionably kicked my ass in the span of fifteen seconds, and it was going to be at least two minutes until I could even begin my plan, judging by how long it had taken my bugs to deliver the supplies from my lair.
The same instant I had that thought, I started everything in motion. Every flying insect near my lair headed indoors to gather what I needed.
I made a mental note to make a more easily accessible opening to my lair, so I could do this faster in the future.
I made another mental note to set up a clock with ticking hands, so I could have bugs ride the three hands and have a precise way of tracking time when I was in my territory. I supposed it would have to be an old-fashioned clock, since Shatterbird had screwed up everything else.
I had to guess. Roughly two minutes until I could start my plan.
As I lay face down on the floor of the factory, I tried to control my breathing so he wouldn’t notice I was still alive. The beat of my heart in my chest was so intense I was worried it would give me away.
Staying still was one of the hardest things I’d ever had to do, and I had done some hard things before. Knowing that he might leap for someone and end their life any moment, it had me on edge. Every second I could buy here counted because every second I didn’t have to fight him was crucial.
“Mommy,” the word was drawn out. Had to have come from someone young. A toddler? “I don’t want to be here!”
The rhythm of steel rasping against steel ceased. Mannequin went still.
Shit. So much for my reprieve.
I pulled myself to my feet and stirred all of the bugs in the area into action. They rose from the floor like a dark whirlwind. I sheathed my knife and gripped my baton in both hands.
“Mannequin!”
He stopped and turned his upper body to face me. His head cocked to one side.
“Yeah,” I said. “You didn’t get me.”
He turned back around and started walking toward the mother and the little boy. The pair were huddled between an empty metal frame and a workbench.
“Hey!” I shouted. “Come on! Fight me! Don’t you have the balls to take on a teenage girl? Or are they one of the things you cut away!?”
He didn’t slow or hesitate at my words.
“Bastard!” I ran for him. It was a hundred percent possible he was baiting me, forcing me into a situation where I had to do something stupid or let the mom and the little kid get hurt. Maybe if I’d been a harder person, I could have let him hurt them, knowing it was smarter in the long run. But I wasn’t capable of doing that.
What could I even do? I had to make the call in the three or four seconds it took me to cross the floor of the factory. He was more than half-again as tall as I was, and my weapons couldn’t do anything to him.
I threw myself at the backs of his legs, colliding with the back of his knees and his calves. Not all of his precarious balance was an act. He teetered and collapsed backward onto the floor, his legs on top of me.
“Go!” I screamed at the mother. “Run!”
She did. Mannequin reached out to extend a blade into the back of her leg, and she fell, but someone else hurried forward to help her.
Mannequin’s left leg snaked around my throat in an impromptu headlock. I tried to slip out, to force his leg apart. Even though I could move it, I couldn’t squeeze my head through the gap.
Not counting the time I’d spent lying on the ground, buying time, how long had I lasted? Less than thirty seconds?
Four blades sprung from the calf of his right leg. He extended it high above me, and they began to rotate, slowly at first, then faster, like the blades of a fan. Or a food processor.
He had me in a headlock, but the rest of me was free to move. Gripping my baton with both hands, I swung it into the whirling blades with as much strength as my leverage afforded me.
My baton went flying out of my grip, but the blades stopped. My heart sank as I saw them begin to rotate again, slowly.
They didn’t return to the same blurring speed they’d been at before. A few seconds passed, and they retracted back into his leg.
I might have been relieved, but I was still in his grip.
He heaved me upward, positioning himself with two hands and one leg on the ground, the other leg holding me up high. My toes scrabbled to touch ground and fell short. The grip on my neck wasn’t perfect: it wasn’t cutting off my blood flow, it barely impacted my breathing, but it still hurt, and my neck strained with the weight of the rest of my body.
I drew my knife and gripped the handle. Then I drove it at my throat. Or at Mannequin’s leg, which was folded around my throat. Same idea. I aimed at the ball joint, striking a mere two or so inches from my own face. Once, twice, three times.
I was swinging for a fourth hit when he shifted positions. I couldn’t be sure if he had hoped to gradually strangle me, to leave me dangling until I started begging or if he’d been poised for something else, but he’d apparently changed his mind. He turned over, his leg unfolding from my throat at the same instant one large hand closed over my face.
He whipped me around himself in one tight circle, then let his arm go free from the socket, the whirring sound of chain feeding out swiftly becoming distant as I hurtled across the room.
I crashed into a pile of wooden boards that were riddled with nails and screws. The metal points jabbed at me but didn’t penetrate my costume. I tried to get my feet under me, but the boards only slid underfoot. His hand was still attached to my face.
He began to pull me forward, no doubt to repeat the process. Half blind under the grip of his hand, I reacted in a heartbeat, slamming the point of the knife into the gap between his hand and my face.
Tattletale had said it was strong enough to serve as a crowbar. I was glad to discover she was right. Between the pull of the retracting chain and the leverage of the knife, I freed myself from his grip, his fingertips scraping hard against my scalp. Flying back to him, his arm clicked back into place. I tried to blink a blurry spot out of my vision, only to realize I had a scratch on the right lens of my mask where I’d hit it with the knife’s edge.
The pain from being thrown around was belatedly making itself known. Bruises, I could deal with. Just so long as my body moved where and when I needed it to. I felt the dull ache of a building headache. From where I’d been gripped in the headlock?
Okay. Still in one piece, more or less. How much time had I bought? One minute? One and a half? Could I hold out for long enough? Could the bystanders? The moment my bugs arrived would be the moment I could begin my plan. I’d still have to survive after that, and there was no guarantee it would work. In fact, my gut was telling me it was a long shot.
Thirty seconds to a minute. I was panting for breath, counting every second that he silently stared at me as something I should value.
What was going on behind that expressionless mask? Was he coming up with a battle plan? Maybe, maybe not. He didn’t really need one. It could be that he was calculating how best to destroy me: not just killing me, but ruining me. There were enough ways he could do it. Inflicting lifelong scars and injury. Or he could go down the opposite road and murder the civilians, leaving me as the only one standing. Both were very real possibilities, both devastating in their own way.
Or maybe, behind that hard shell, he was in the throes of mental anguish. Maybe he was spending every second of every day reliving the day he lost his family and his dreams to a nigh-unstoppable, malignant force.
There was nothing I could do about his past. Whoever he had been before, he was a monster now. I had to pull out all the stops to try and stop him from hurting anyone else.
It was time to enact battle plan number one, one of the two ideas I had in mind that almost definitely wouldn’t work. I set my swarm on him. Up to this point, I had kept them largely at bay, using only the bare minimum necessary to keep track of my surroundings. Now I smothered him, piling them on every available surface.
It didn’t accomplish a thing, of course. He started running toward me, weapons at the ready. He wasn’t impeded in his movements, nor were his senses -sight or otherwise- impaired.
I ducked beneath his first swing as he closed in, but I couldn’t avoid the follow-up hit. His second swing scraped off the armor on my shoulder and struck my chest. Beyond the momentary pain, I was almost grateful for it, because the strike knocked me further out of his reach.
Some of my bugs managed to squeeze inside the slots where his weapons had emerged. The spaces didn’t perfectly match the bases of the blades, and the bugs were small. There was nothing organic inside the sheaths. Even the interior was completely sealed off. Still, I managed to get bugs into the mechanisms, lodging their bodies inside the finer workings or killing one another to spill ichor and their bodily contents onto anything that felt sensitive.
Mannequin stepped back, and I watched as he retracted all of his blades, the slots they’d speared out of sealing closed behind them. A wave of pressure and heat killed off every bug and likely most of the gunk I’d managed to smear inside.
Yeah, I hadn’t figured that would work. Plan one down.
For plan two, I needed my baton. I could only hope it was in one piece. I used my power and my eyes to search the factory floor, while keeping my head still, so he couldn’t see what I was doing.
My bugs were almost here, arriving in droves.
I found my baton lying against the wall near where I’d been pinned by Mannequin. I’d have to get by him to get it.
Fetch. I ordered my bugs, as Mannequin lunged for me again. I didn’t have a second thought to spare as far as telling them how. For now, I needed to survive.
This time, his attack was frenzied. If I didn’t know better, I’d have thought he was irritated. I hopped back out of reach of the first swing, then quickly backed up as he followed that up with a series of rapid rotations of his upper body, momentarily becoming a blender-whir of whirling blades.
I was so busy trying not to get hit by the blades that I missed it when he tilted. He balanced on one leg and kicked out wide with the other, letting the chain out so it could stretch the seven or eight feet to me. I was knocked back onto the wood pile a second time, landing on the edge and falling to the ground a second later.
He stopped spinning and retracted his leg, apparently unfazed after the dizzying act of spinning like a top. I saw my bugs tugging the baton, but Mannequin spotted them at the same time. He stepped back and placed one foot on top of it. With a kick, he sent it sliding across the floor, away from me.
Fuck. I’d have to take the slightly less efficient route. I grabbed a stout two-by-four as I stood. It was old, dusty, damaged by years of exposure, and the screws that clustered in one end were rusted.
Better than nothing, as weapons went.
His blades made that rasping sound as he sharpened them against one another, one edge of each blade, then the other. After doing it just long enough to lull me into a false sense of security, he lunged, blades spearing for my chest and throat. I struck out simultaneously with the piece of wood. It seemed to catch him off guard. I struck too soon to hit him, but he wasn’t my target.
I clubbed at the uppermost blade, driving it down toward the floor. I tried to avoid the edge and strike the flat of the blade, but my strike wasn’t spot on. I didn’t see if I’d had any of the desired effect, because he collided with me, both blades striking the armor of my chest. Pain exploded in my collarbone and ribs, but I didn’t experience any of the telltale pain of impalement. My armor had saved me.
Finding the tips stuck in the denser material of my armor, he whipped both arms to one side, throwing me a solid ten or twelve feet. I sprawled where I landed.
I huffed out a breath, feeling pain in my chest with every movement. Then I smiled a little.
My swarm had finally arrived.
The bugs flowed into the room as a singular mass and roughly half of them swept over Mannequin. He wobbled a little, then turned his attention to me, uncaring.
Which was a good thing. It was better that he didn’t pay much attention.
Behind him, the bugs moved in an almost kaleidoscopic pattern, slowly expanding outward from a center point, their arrangement symmetric.
He paused and looked over his shoulder at the swarm.
He was apparently able to sense my bugs on the floor, floating in the air. That much was apparent. He hadn’t, at the same time, been able to tell I wasn’t bleeding out into a pool on the ground, or that I was still breathing while I lay prone on the factory floor. My plan hinged on two things; whether his peculiar means of sensing things would let him grasp what I was doing here, and if he would be able to do something about it.
The formation ceased expanding, then swept over him again. Once again, he wobbled, staggered a step.
He charged through the mass of bugs that now sat between the two of us, running towards me. I managed to parry one swing of his blade with my piece of wood, then jump out of the way of the second blade. When I tried to block his kick with the two-by-four, however, I lost my grip and it fell to the ground. He kicked me a second time, hard, and I staggered back, hand to my stomach, nausea building up in my throat. I controlled my breathing to keep my dinner down.
Third pass with my swarm. They focused on his legs, and very nearly unbalanced him.
I could see him pause, watched his head tilt quizzically. I bit my lip.
To his right, my left, the swarm had once again gathered in a tight cluster, and were expanding slowly, with controlled movements.
The swarm consisted of pairings of flying insect and arachnid. Every spider from my lair was clutching a bee, a wasp or a larger dragonfly, who clutched the spider in turn. A thousand pairs.
Connecting to one another, these bugs quickly drew out five hundred or more lines of webbing. Mostly dragline silk, this ‘net’ maintained enough of the sticky webbing to attach to him, draping over his artificial body and staying there.
I hadn’t used the black widow spiders I’d brought into the factory earlier out of a fear that he’d realize what I was doing and counteract it before I could really get the ball rolling. Now I gathered them up and brought them into play. I used all of the spiders I’d already placed on him, focusing on his joints, reinforcing the stronger webs that were already there. Their silk was nothing compared to the black widows, but it was something.
He moved without a problem, either unaware or uncaring. Silk strands stretched and snapped as he extended his arms, more broke free as he walked. Alone, the threads were negligible. It was together that they were stronger. Much like my costume.
He tried to retract the blade in his right arm, but it caught. Pressing the point against the ground, he bent it back into alignment. It retracted on his next attempt. My strike with the two-by-four hadn’t done much there. My second just-in-case measure hadn’t worked out.
That same arm disconnected and extended towards me as he tried to grab for me, and I turned to one side just in time to avoid being caught. He fired the other arm out with an almost explosive force and I managed to catch hold of it before it got a grip on my costume.
My swarm made a fourth pass, focusing on the chain of his extended arm and the joints of his shoulders, elbows, crotch and knees where the webbing had already accumulated to some degree. Fifty or sixty spiders stayed on the extended chain, spitting out large amounts of their stickiest webbing.
He was trying to maneuver the arm I was holding to grab onto me, his fingers and wrist bending at unnatural angles as he sought a grip on my hands and wrists. He changed tactics, making the blades in the arm spear out at random, to make it as impossible to hold as he could. When that failed, he whipped the chain. I let go of the hand just in time to avoid being caught by the tail end of the whiplash. He reeled it in, and it got about three-quarters of the way in before he ran into a slight snag.
The last quarter of the retraction process was a fraction slower. Silk glue gumming up the works, I could hope. I saw him look at his arm, then flex the fingers, as if to test them.
While he was distracted, I made a fifth pass with my formation. I tried to be more subtle about it, carefully draping the silk over him rather than letting it pull tight against him with enough collective force to move him off-balance.
He attacked, stretching out the arm I hadn’t gummed up. The pain from the most recent hit to my stomach slowed me down, and his fist collided with me, knocking me over for what seemed like the hundredth time. I managed to backhand it off of me before he could do anything, and hurried to my feet.
While the arm was still partially extended, I managed to deposit spiders on the chain. They immediately began straining to produce silk glue on and around the mechanisms that allowed the chain to retract. One spider wasn’t much, but all together, it added up.
I could pinpoint the moment he realized what I was doing. Extending the chain, he flung it across the room, the blade cutting a wide swathe. I ducked clear, but two bystanders were struck down, screaming. When he moved to retract that chain, the mechanism stalled.
His body was like Armsmaster’s powersuit, but every piece of equipment he added necessitated that he cut away a pound of flesh. I was inclined to suspect that, crazy as he was, that reality made him more inclined to go for elegant, efficient design over more rugged craftsmanship. The propeller blades in his ankle, the chain retraction mechanisms in his arms, they were built to be lightweight, to use minimal energy, and achieve maximum effect at the same time.
He tilted his head, looking at the arm that was stubbornly refusing to retract back into place.
I made my sixth sweep with my bugs. As the swarm passed, his head snapped up, looking at me. As much as he could without eyes, anyways. He knew what was happening.
A better cape than I might have had a quip there, an insult. I hurt in too many places, in my ribs, my stomach, my shoulders, neck, back and legs. Some of the pain was fierce, like a red-hot poker being driven with a constant, ceaseless pressure into the body parts in question. I couldn’t spare the breath.
The chain dropped from his elbow socket, and I watched as he paced over to his fallen arm, picked it up, tore the remaining chain out, and clicked it into place.
“Come on,” I muttered under my breath.
Blades speared out of slots all over his body, some of which I hadn’t even guessed were present. Then he began spinning furiously, every body part rotating the individual blades with enough force that webs were cut before they could be secured in place.
Different tactic. This time, the swarm took its time passing over him, thirty or forty spiders working at a time, their work relentless, ceaseless. Each spider cut the threads so they drifted down like strings in the wind.
Falling gently instead of being stretched taut, they would drape over the spinning blades, attach to other trailing silk, and form a looser cloud.
I’d anticipated this.
The part where I was caught off guard was when he changed tactics, going after the civilians for the second time.
“Hey!” I shouted after him.
I’d hoped to be more subtle about my second phase of attack.
Half of the swarm I’d brought from my lair was still waiting for the instruction. I deployed them while running after Mannequin, stopping at the wood pile to get another two-by-four.
Someone screamed as Mannequin started cutting into them. Two or three people, cornered by the monster. One already in harm’s way.
“Fucker! Stop!” I shouted, my words useless.
I moved on to the second phase of my attack. As I’d done with the pens, markers, the candles and the bottles of disinfectant, I’d instructed my bugs to arrive with supplies in hand.
Some carried the scraps of silk cloth from my work on the costumes: The masks I’d made as trial runs, the belts and straps. As with the silk that drifted in the air, they were caught by the blades rather than being cut. Mannequin soon had a dark blur whirling around his upper body.
Other bugs packed the remainder of my costume design supplies. Tubes of paint were rigid enough to be cut by the blades, creating small, wet, colorful explosions. A large bottle of glue made its way to my hand, and I hurried to tear off the lid before a large group of bugs carted it off to him, holding it upside-down over his head so streams of the stuff could spill onto his head and shoulders. Packages of dye were torn in half by his blades, expanding into clouds of black, brown, gray and lavender powder, sticking to any liquid on him, filling every gap to highlight the hidden slots for his weaponry and the seams where everything fit together.
Swinging underhand, I brought the two-by-four up toward the widest part of the buzzsaw whirl that was Mannequin. Through luck as much as intent, I managed a glancing blow on the end of the blade, knocking it up toward the ceiling. The momentum of his rotation managed the rest. He tipped and crashed onto his side, literally falling apart in the process. Lengths of chain connected everything, but nothing was in the right socket. Some sort of built-in defense mechanism against heavy impacts?
My swarm flooded over him to draw out more lines of silk and to spill glue -both organic glue from my spiders and brand name supplies- where possible.
He began to reel the various parts in, slowly. I hurried in to grab the one arm he’d disconnected from the chain and hurled it away. Then I seized his head.
I knew he wouldn’t have anything particularly valuable in his head. It was too obvious a target. But it was easy to get my hands on, it wasn’t connected to too many other things, and there was a chance he might want to keep it.
Holding the head, I hauled back, pulling more chain from the neck. With one hard pull, I hauled half of his body in my direction, the exertion making every injury I had screaming in protest. Another pull, and I dragged his body another half-foot back, but I got one or two feet of length from the neck-chain.
Even with stuff gumming up the works, his chest clearly had stronger mechanisms inside it than the rest of his body did. The chain began slowly retracting.
Someone appeared behind me, and his hands gripped the chain, just a bit behind my own. He added his strength to mine, and Mannequin’s body was dragged another two or three feet back.
“Where?” he asked. It was a burly bystander with a thick black beard, thick rimmed glasses and a red and black striped t-shirt. One of my people.
I turned and let go to point. There was a metal frame that had once stood around some equipment. Now it stood empty, just a connection of metal bars.
“Stand back,” he said. I let go and backed off. Without me in the way, the bystander was able to haul Mannequin another four or five feet towards the frame. Another haul, and they were close enough to the frame.
I hurried forward, gripping the head, and winding it through and beneath the bars, tying it in the crudest of knots and tangling it in the bars in the process. It dangled, the stump facing the ceiling. Fifteen feet of chain trailed between it and Mannequin’s body.
Mannequin had only just managed to reel in the chain and reconnect his remaining arm, and was using it to attach his legs securely into place.
I had only seconds.
Having my bugs in the area, I knew exactly where to find what I was looking for. I hurried over to the corner and hefted a cinder block.
I wasn’t halfway back to the head when I saw Mannequin stand. I abandoned my plan, dropped the block and stepped away, circling him, putting distance between myself and his head. His attention seemed to be on me.
Had I pissed him off?
He wasn’t spinning any more, and I could see the damage the bugs had wrought. Dense webs and scraps of cloth had collected across his body, and only half of the blades had succeeded in retracting in the face of the silk, glue and other gunk. Color streaked him, both liquid from the paints and powder from the dyes.
I gathered my bugs into another formation. We were running low on silk, but I’d have to deal.
He stepped forward, and his movements were more awkward than usual. Good. That might mean the ball joints weren’t in pristine condition anymore.
He moved again, disconnecting the chain to free himself from the metal frame I’d tied the neck-chain to. He wasn’t focusing on me. I felt out with my bugs and sought his target.
His arm. It crawled weakly for him, using the fingertips to scrape forward.
The moment I realized what he was after, I redirected a portion of my web-spinning swarm to the hand. Then I limped to my left to put myself between him and his target. My swarm passed over him. The seventh strafing run. He slashed at it as it passed in a surprising display of emotion.
He reached into the hole where his neck and head were supposed to be and withdrew a small knife.
I adjusted my posture. He was a tinker, and that knife could be anything.
He pressed a switch, and it was soon surrounded with a gray blur. I recognized it as Armsmaster’s tech.
A weapon with that exact same visual effect had done horrendous damage to Leviathan.
He stepped forward, and I stepped back. Behind me, the arm jumped. Mannequin was using the telescoping blade to help push it in the right direction. It was trying to take a circuitous route around me.
My bugs made their eighth sweep past the headless Mannequin.
He lunged for me once again. This time, there was no blocking the hit, no letting my armor absorb it. His movements were ungainly, unbalanced by his lack of an arm, but he stood nine feet tall, usually, and that meant he had reach, no matter the type of weapon he was wielding.
I backed off, rapidly stepping away, all too aware that my spiders weren’t working fast enough to stop him before he landed a hit. I was swiftly running out of room to retreat.
There was a sound, a heavy impact followed by the noise of ringing metal. Mannequin stopped and whirled on the spot, striding back the way he’d come.
The sound came again. I chased, trying not to limp, knowing there was little I could do to stop the monster. I crossed half the factory floor before I saw what had earned Mannequin’s attention.
The man who’d helped me with Mannequin had the concrete block in his hand, and for the third time, be brought it down on Mannequin’s head. The head came free of the chain and fell to the ground, rolling briefly.
The man hefted the cinder block again, saw Mannequin approaching, and changed his mind. He dropped the block onto the head and then ran.
Mannequin didn’t give chase to his attacker. Instead, he stooped down to pick up his head, then stood straight. I stopped where I was.
For long moments, Mannequin held the head at arm’s length. Then it fell to the ground.
Seconds stretched on as his arm flopped its way towards him. My spiders swarmed it, surrounding it in silk. Only the blade was really allowing it to move, now, the fingers struggling around the silk to move it into position for the next sudden thrust of the blade.
Mannequin turned his attention to his arm, and I set my swarm on it. A thousand threads of silk, each held by as many flying insects as I could grip it with, all carrying the arm aloft. I brought it up to the ceiling, and began fixing it in place, building a cocoon around it. My enemy turned his attention to me, his shoulders facing me square-on. As he no longer had a head, I found his body language doubly hard to read. Had I irritated him, doing that?
He stepped forward, as if to lunge, and the silk that wreathed him hampered his full range of movement. His leg didn’t move as far as he intended, and his missing arm displaced his sense of balance. He collapsed.
“Want to keep going?” I asked his fallen form, my heart in my throat. I stood ready to jump and react at a moment’s notice.
Slowly, he pulled himself to his feet again. Twice, he used the knife to slash at the silk. On the second attempt, I hit him with the formation of bugs for an eighth sweep of the silk net, hoping to throw him off-balance enough that he’d stab himself. No such luck.
Standing straight, Mannequin shifted his grip on his knife and then raised one finger. Wagged it left and right, that same gesture of disapproval, condemnation.
Then he turned to leave, striding for the door. I didn’t try to stop him. I didn’t have it in me.
I watched him leave with my bugs. Felt him get three, four, then five blocks away with my power, before he was out of my range. The second he was gone, all the strength went out of my legs. I collapsed onto my knees in the center of the room.
I hurt all over. If Mannequin hadn’t broken something in my ribs or collarbone, he’d fractured something. But pain was only part of it. Physically, I was exhausted. Emotionally? Doubly so.
Charlotte appeared at my side and offered me a hand. The murmurs of conversation started to sound around me. I tuned it out. I couldn’t take the criticism, and I didn’t deserve any praise. How many people had been hurt while I fought Mannequin? How many people had died because I hadn’t been on the alert?
With Charlotte’s help, I stood. I shook my head at her offer for support standing. Moving slowly and carefully, not wanting to embarrass myself, I walked over to the dismembered head.
It was miniscule, but there was a drop of black fluid beading at the seam in the neck where the chain had been threaded. Apparently that was enough of a flaw for Mannequin to abandon it. I left it where it was.
Then I hobbled over to the body of the gray-haired doctor. Getting onto my knees was painful, but I did. I gently turned her head and stared into her open eyes. Light blue, surprised.
“I’m sorry,” I told her.
I couldn’t think of anything more to add or say. A minute or two passed before I gave up on it. I left her eyes open; using my fingertips to close her eyes seemed presumptuous and trite.
I cut the threads with my bugs and let the arm fall from the ceiling. More than one person was startled at the sudden drop and impact.
“Throw the head and the arm into the ocean,” I said, to nobody in particular. “If you can find a boat, drop it somewhere deep.”
“Okay,” Charlotte said, her voice quiet.
“I’m going to go. I’ll be using my bugs to watch for more trouble,” I said, as I began limping toward the door.
I’d won. So to speak.
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174 thoughts on “Plague 12.7”
para on July 17, 2012 at 00:20 said:
She should immediately call for backup now – get Mannequin while he’s all glued up. Wonder if she will…
Gecko keeps bopping his screenless phone. Then he runs inside a house to a powerless cordless phone. Fed up, he rushes off to his lab to invent the rotary dial cellphone.
RandomFace on May 6, 2018 at 10:55 said:
*Gasp* You’re a tinker Harry!
kaida tong on January 14, 2017 at 16:37 said:
I’d probably consider the arm and head as really dangerous items and store them in a special containment facility that doesn’t hold any humans.
Slimek on July 20, 2018 at 12:35 said:
With some kind of Special Containment Procedures one would hope.
hopefwlyanonymous on March 24, 2017 at 21:12 said:
Phones have glass in them. Or silicon chips that shatter when Birdshatter sings.
mrgazzer on July 17, 2012 at 00:24 said:
So….Awesome! /)^3^(\
mc2rpg on July 17, 2012 at 00:49 said:
I can believe that she sees that fight as a failure, but holy crap it just goes to show that she has some serious self esteem issues.
A couple of things surprised me, the fact that she still has an open spot for her hair is kind of mindboggling. I hope she thinks back on the fight and decides to fix that, or at least fix it in the next costume she makes with the new spiders. Also I find it weird that she wants the pieces dropped in the ocean, rather than thinking to give them to Coil or the Protectorate.
I think the most important thing that happened in that fight was the command to fetch. Up until now she always kept manual control of her bugs. I can’t remember her ever just giving them a general order and having them carry it out on their own initiative before now. I don’t quite know what it says about her powers, but I am willing to bet it will end up being important
One slight error “If hadn’t known better” is missing an I.
Hobbes on July 17, 2012 at 01:03 said:
The self-esteem thing was my first thought, too. Charlotte’s reaction would seem to indicate that Skitter just gained some serious hero cachet.
I didn’t take the fetch command literally, but rather as a figurative description of her multitasking power for the sake of the reader.
If it is indeed a new aspect of her power it rather seems like a downgrade as there is no real advantage to autonomous acting as long as she can do her extreme multitasking thing. The only benefit would be if they would follow her command even when out of range.
She’s done something like it before, back when she and the others of the Brockton Bay League of Doom were taking out the ABB. While she was busy dealing with Lung, she had ordered her bugs to bag up money and carry it out of the building. At the end of the section, it turned out they had been doing so that whole time, leaving them all with a parting gift.
Max on September 23, 2014 at 20:27 said:
Agreed. She has shown the multitasking-in-the-background ability before. When she starts actively taking advantage of this 24/7 she is going to be a nightmare. Well, more of a nightmare than she already is.
I loved the fetch command. All I could think of at that point was “who’s a good little cockroach? You are! You’re a good little cockroach!” It was very inappropriate but I had to stop myself from laughing.
Well, she is still alive, but so is Mannequin. Skitter faild to save everyone and didn’t score a decisive victory. Mannequin will be back and he will have improved himself enough that this won’t work again.
I have to wonder though why he was there in the first place. Taylor is not a potential recruit. Two of her teammates are but they weren’t recruited by Mannequin. Why should he go through the trouble of targetting her and playing with her like he did, especially after the four others seemed content to let her go?
Also Skitter again failed to take a trophy. She is never going to get any serious supervillain cred if she refuses to properly display her oponents servered bodyparts after she maims them.
The talk about how insects would handle a threat like Mannquin reminded me of a documentary I once saw about how some bees handle an invasion of wasps into their nests. They surround the larger insects with their bodys and cook them to death with friction and body-heat. Unfortunately I don’t think that would work in this case as the hermetically sealed tinker probably can withstand far higher temperatures than Taylor could produce even if she had a flamethrower handy.
Mannequin was there, I think, because the Slaughterhouse Nine can’t just hang around menacing capes all the time. They have to actually *slaughter* people to be frightening.
Also, @Wildbow, this chapter was quite literally pulse-pounding.
yes, but he wasn’t randomly killing people, he wa specifically targeting people in Skiter’s territory and killing them in such a way as to taunt her. He took care to evade detection from her bugs as he did his killings, meaning he knew she was there and was planing to surprise her with his ‘work’.
If he had just been randomly killing people he would probably have just killed Skitter too instead of playing with her by stealthily killing her people first like he did. But maybe he just knew about her powers from a briefing and decided to have some fun with her when he randomly came across her and her people, he seems like the type.
Abrakadabra on September 17, 2019 at 04:12 said:
I think he targeted skitter because she wants to help people. He was the same too, once, but He is no longer. I presume He hates his past “naiv” self, and skitter reminds him of it.
Think of it as punishment. Hypothetical (don’t take this as gospel): Cherish reports that less people died than usual, maybe there’s even something in the collective emotions that points to Skitter’s involvement. Gratitude?
Mannequin volunteers to see what’s up, finds that she’s helping people? Organizing things, on top of what she did to reduce Shatterbird’s casualty count?
Finger wag. No, no, no. Bad girl. Now he has to punish her on behalf of the Nine.
Well, that would make sense, if it was what happened. Your reply suggest that there might have been more to it, but I guess we will see.
Wageslave94 on July 17, 2012 at 01:57 said:
And… she *lived*. Unlike so many of the others who have confronted the Nine and either took them down/replaced them or were murdered, Skitter not only stood up to Mannequin, but managed to survive and ‘count coup’ in a manner of speaking. And she was the ‘quiet timid one’ that no one expected to be much of anything in the way of trouble? The Nine may have to truly re-assess their options after this encounter.
Especially because Skitter just gave her area a sense of *hope*. It cost a great deal, this *hope*. And she’s done something that the Armsmaster could *not* do, which is remain conscious after the fight.
This could have the potential of even taking Mannequin out for a while as he attempts to re-engineer his sections to deal with this threat. Not that he’s not capable, but a la Mister Stark in a different setting it’s probably going to take trial and error… which is an involved process even with a super-genius mind.
To be fair to Armsmaster, he was totally unequiped, which turns him into a baseline human.
Jim from BC. on April 16, 2015 at 03:07 said:
Indeed, ’twas hardly a fair fight when arms master had no arms and only one arm.
She’s accumulated a bunch of missed trophies. Lung’s eyes, Armsmaster’s halberd, Mannequin’s head and arm.
Charles on October 5, 2012 at 20:39 said:
Not to forget Bakuda’s toes.
The halberd is justifiable though, with the tracking.
twofoe on October 15, 2013 at 21:56 said:
I just realized that Mannequin’s parts probably have tracking, too. That would be a good reason to throw them in the ocean.
Glass Kitty on January 23, 2017 at 09:09 said:
You are a sad, strange little man, and I pity you.
Dread Pirate on January 26, 2018 at 12:19 said:
Hmm, she should totally set up (empty) plaques in her base with labels of all the trophies she could have claimed.
Skitter managed to not only survive the fight with minimal injuries but she also beat Mannequin enough that he abandoned not one but two sections of his body. I’d say that counts as a massive win. Considering one of the top heroes in the city (granted on house arrest with minimal equipment but still) got torn to shreds while sitting in one of the most secure buildings in the city…I think this is as close to an out and out win as possible when going one on one with these monsters.
Don’t take Tinker things as trophies. One of the first rules we learn during the bank robbery. Even if there aren’t tracking chips in them I’d always be worried there was some other booby trap. She should start a little board though over her throne chair. Put a picture of Lung up there with two X’s below it, one for Leviathan and now one of Mannequin.
Wow…just wow.
1114 on July 17, 2012 at 01:49 said:
Very nice chapter. I really liked the descriptions of Mannequin. He was creepy and lethal at the same time, and I didn’t have any trouble following the action. Hopefully Skitter gets some medical help for herself!
After all this Slaughterhouse Nine business I think we need a breather to find out about her dad, Tattletale, and get her fixed up!
Plus what’s everyone going to think when they found out Skitter fought Mannequin to a standstill, and made him run? Cause you know the story is going in the record books as a victory for Skitter.
Which will probably make her a target for the rest of the Nine, but hopefully not for a while.
To mc2rpg above, I think that the fetch command, along with her unthinkingly using the swarm to change her voice in the last chapter shows that she is becoming more attuned to her bugs.
To the Author, Wildbow, this is a great story and I’m totally hooked. Keep it up! And give us a Grue interlude already! 😉 I loved that comment a bit back where he thought Skitter started a war and called him to cover her turf. I’d like to hear about his perspective.
Catastronaut on July 17, 2012 at 02:25 said:
I wonder why she doesn’t think to call for Coil to see if he has somebody who’d be interested in examining some of Mannequin’s Tinker-tech.
Do they still use glass for cellphone screens?
I didn’t mean “call” in the literal sense. But it won’t be possible to get the artifact to Coil with the means of disposal she’s chosen for now.
Packbat on March 29, 2013 at 23:13 said:
*necroreply*
That actually explains why she didn’t (or, at least, shouldn’t have), to my eyes: Coil wouldn’t want his connection to the Undersiders and Travelers publicized.
Hexa on June 6, 2016 at 01:05 said:
Still, offer the pieces to the Protectorate?
Worst case scenarios are:
1. They refuse and the delay allows Mannequin to track down and reclaim his hand.
2. They’re boobytrapped and blow up the entire PRT building.
Both plausible, but not especially likely.
Best case scenario, Dragon and Colin find a perfect way to stop him, perhaps remote detonating him to take out most of the other Nine. Or more likely they build a weapon that destroys his casing, or they block the signal he’s using to control his body parts, effectively paralyzing him.
Seems worth the risk to me, but maybe this has been tried before and backfired horribly. If so it’s quite likely Skitter would know about it with how famous the Nine are.
A great chapter. Possibly better than my prediction about Panacea drowning puppies and kittens, but I suppose you can save that for later.
I have to say, and I think I’m the first to mention this so far, but Mannequin really lived up to his name as Skitter glued scraps of her black widow silk clothing to him and colored him all over the place. As far as he goes, this is a humiliation. It’s also important that 1. Someone stood up to the Nine and won (so far), and 2. Someone survived Mannequin and not just because he let them. Skitter certainly did a lot better at it than Armsmaster, who only survived because Mannequin wanted him to.
Just goes to show you, Mannequin, that you need to learn to quit while you’re a head. Some people would give their right arm to have survived Mannequin, and in this case Skitter made him give an arm to have survived her.
I began to suspect, about the spider silk, that she was going to turn Mannequin into a puppet. It was not to be, however.
It’s also apparent that she’s won the support of her people. After all, she could have just played possum the entire time, but she got back up to face him when her people were in danger, and engaged him whenever he targeted the noncombatants. One of the bystanders actually helped her drag Mannequin along, then even had her let go so he could do it better.
Now, as to Mannequin’s senses. It’s not sound. If it could pick up bugs hovering in the air, but was unable to pick up Skitter’s breathing and heartbeat, then it wasn’t sound. At first I thought his shell had special receptors on it that allowed him to figure things out via a combination of touch, smell, and taste as they do involve particles touching nerves and receptors. The fact that he didn’t realize the spider silk was getting on him kinda shoots that one down for me, unless someone can think of an explanation why this very attentative tinker who controls how he moves exactly just ignored that.
The weaknesses of using the various senses also forces me to avoid the idea I had of his shell acting as a conglomeration of sense receptors. After all, sight involves light hitting the equipment in your eye, sound involves waves moving along atoms to your ear drum, scent involves particles of what you’re smelling (yes, even poo) getting into your nose and touching down in the scent receptors, and taste involves something similar (I think) with the tongue (to the extent that your sense of smell can affect your sense of taste), and touch is more of a generalized version of the same thing not adapted necessarily to those stimuli. Speaking of generalizations, I may have made some big ones there so feel free to correct me if anyone knows any better.
Which leaves me with having to reverse course. It might be sight, of a sort. There are some difficulties with dealing with the ambient temperature outside, and cold blooded critters, so I could be off on it being thermal vision, or at least thermal sensors. Got the idea from a pit viper, actually, which is a snake capable of sensing heat. Made the connection over the taste sense as that’s effectively what all the tonguing they do is for, or so I’ve been told.
Not sure how bugs show up on that, but it’s possible that he could use it as an effective means to have done what he’s done so far. Given that it takes a little bit for a body to cool down after death, it is one way he could see someone lying limp and not notice the blood. Possibly, I don’t know much about how the blood changes temperature upon exiting the body from a wound, but there’s enough moisture around these days that, in the summer, it might be capable of confusing him maybe?
I was considering he uses some sort of thermobaric pulse somehow, but that’s a lot more of a giveaway given what it does to the bugs that get internal to him, and he’d no doubt use it if he could on someone outside, which means it is probably something he can only use inside his shell as a form of controlling the temperature and pressure of his encasement.
Pinkhair on July 18, 2012 at 16:29 said:
Another possibility for the ‘missing the blood’ might be that the nature of the attack might have been intended mostly for internal injuries with a small entry wound.
Fun fact about scent versus taste: humans use their nose and scent to taste as well; in fact the mouth only has 5 flavor receptors (sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and a Japanese word that translates as “richness”). Where this gets really interesting is that despite using exactly the same scent receptors, the brain registers many of them completely differently when used on food in the mouth. That’s why coffee smells good but tastes bitter, why bleu cheese smells bad but tastes good. [obligatory “food for thought” pun here]
Also, you might have to show us more about the atoms of supers (like the brain of a Tinker), or those Cthuloid critters dealing with the tesseracts. I had an interesting idea about the effects of gravity on time, including what happens when two black holes attempt to cannibalize each other, along with the knowledge of where the atoms of creatures on earth come from that may make for a very boring and long comment that no one will read about where superpowers come from in Wormverse. It still doesn’t explain the Manton effect fully, however, though I just had an idea about that too, involving one of the signs of life…hmm….ability to react to external stimuli could do it…or maybe it is back to the DNA and the ability to reproduce. I just don’t fully see growth, intake of material, or excretion of waste as useable in this case…
wanderinggeek on July 17, 2012 at 21:11 said:
I don’t think that it could be ability to react to external stimuli. When Faultline was testing, one of the things she was trying was a “live” piece of wood, one that wold have been incapable of doing anything or taking in any sort of stimuli. At least, not at the macro level. I think that the Manton effect functions at the microscopic level, at the level of cells. It would explain why Narwhal was able to slice through people: Her force fields shifted around the cells to produce chopped people without chopped cells. There is little support in canon for this idea, but it is the best one I have so far.
The fact that it is capable, and quite possibly attempting, to react to the stimuli may be enough. After all, via whatever processes it had left. It was probably excreting sap or its particular equivalent to handle the wounds to it, attempting to take in light, air, and water when possible. I don’t know how much biology treats taking in nutrients itself as a matter of reacting to external stimuli, but it would be trying on some level as long as it is alive. I also start to wonder, and this is a newer thought, if maybe the secret is not attempting to hit the person, but attempting to affect what is past the person to the extent of not recognizing the person in your way, like how people asked to focus on and count the times a basketball is passed in a video go on to be completely unaware of the man in the gorilla suit walking through the middle of it.
My point is that the Manton effect reacts to life. There are a few things that differentiate life from things that aren’t alive, and actually a few unliving things that are capable of one or two features. I think something I was considering was that the atoms that function as part of a human body, because they are involved in those living processes, would provide some sort of connection to the individual using the power due to the bond of being alive and having similar origins. Dead or unliving material wouldn’t allow this.
My hypothesis was supposedly pretty good. Unfortunately, I might have to go get jacked up on science and caffeine again so that I can remember it. This sucks, and I blame my later fascination with the nature of time that night, especially as I can’t remember why I dragged those black holes into this.
Maybe I can salvage this somehow…
Coming 2014, Hangover Part 3: A Brief History of Last Night
“Wow, I don’t remember anything that happened last night.” “Me neither. Those drugs Stephen Hawking brought us from all those chemists were really strong.” “Yeah, you started talking about some sort of grand unified theory thing, got Stephen all excited.” “Oh yeah, what’d I say?” “I don’t remember, it’s all fuzzy.” “Hey, why is Mike Tyson sitting in his underwear in Hawking’s wheelchair?” *minutes later* “We lost Stephen Hawking. We need to find him, and we’re stuck in Switzerland.”
JN on October 21, 2012 at 18:52 said:
And somewhere, Hawking is saying, “Dude, where’s my chair?”
toafan on February 5, 2016 at 19:05 said:
Actually, that makes me think of an important test re: the Manton Effect: Did Faultline have any dead wood in her testing rig? And, did (does) her power work on dead wood? This may imply a connection between the Manton Effect and cells, rather than with life per say.
I remember that she did have dead wood, and I think she cut it.
I’d not be surprised if there’s a daemon who does nothing but check each atom to make sure whether it is living or dead.
Would be interesting to see what Faultline’s faultlines would do to Mannequin.
Awesome suggestion.
Hydrargentium Hg on July 17, 2012 at 03:37 said:
Speaking of senses that other animals have that might be used by Mannequin, a very real possibility is something similar to the electrosensitivity that both sharks and platypuses (platypi?) use to detect prey. And then there are blind moles (like the star-nosed mole) that navigate by sensing sub-sonic vibrations made by moving creatures.
Of course, given that Mannequin has cut himself off from the world that pains him so completely, it is distinctly possible that he has NO senses that are anything like human senses, specifically so that he can’t be reminded of what he’s lost. I’d bet an Endbringer’s tail that his body modifications include a very strict regimentation of his emotional capacity, cutting off any possibility for emotional pain.
The electrosensitivity could work. Does it require a better medium than air, though?
I just didn’t figure something that had too much to do with sound or vibrations because he could sense a fly in the air, but not a human’s heartbeat or intake of breath, especially with her laying on the ground..
I’m strongly betting on millimeter or backscatter x-rays, but for all we know it could be a mass detector- the sort of thing he’d have been designing for spaceships once upon a time. It could also be sight, but in any case I’m guessing from the specifics of how he reacts that the important thing about how he sees isn’t actually the mechanics of the sight so much as his perception. That is, how the information is presented to his brain.
It seems to me that he sees the area around him in either a three or two dimensional cloud of density that he can recolor to highlight areas of interest- presumably calibrated specifically to detecting clouds of insects and insects crawling on surfaces. Most likely he has so many data points that it would be impractical to view the raw data without preprocessing- Just like MRI data is basically a volume block of voxels with surfaces reconstructed at points in the density gradient or with colors representing materials of different densities.
After all, he presumably targeted Skitter, and would tailor(taylor?) his approach- He would hardly be expecting to need to follow the motion of any SINGLE insect, and a density based representation(probably enhanced with motion vectors) would give a better general purpose idea of what the bugs are doing. It would also give a good view of Skitter and other humanoid objects for all the data needed to engage in combat with them, at the expense of certain details.
In regards to missing the blood, as the Gecko pointed out there is a lot of fluid around and it is possible that Mannequin’s senses are currently set to filter it out so as to not miss the movement of submerged objects. You can do all sorts of neat things of that sort with filtering and three dimensional datasets.
There does seem to be at least rudimentary sound or at least detection of vibration- Not hearing her heartbeat might have been another effect of filtering, with his sensory range shifted either high enough to focus on insect wings or simply lowered in volume to avoid sensory overload from an anticipated large cloud if insects- explaining when he only reacted to a large noise with primarily high frequency elements. Either way Taylor’s life sounds might have been too low volume, too low frequency, or both to fall in the threshold.
Bravo, Pinkhair. Very well analysed, and very well explained.
The big lesson to be learned here is that Skitter’s armor is absolutely amazing. If I was her I don’t think I would take it off until the Nine were out of the city. Also, I would be gathering all that webbing up and putting a rush on outfitting my teammates.
Agreed. I hope she didn’t end up using the parts of the costumes she had already made in the attack in addition to the discarded bits.
This is one of my major thoughts from the chapter too.
If Wormverse had unpowered capes that armour would be enough to allow her to be a cape even without bug control.
And when she gets the new suit made? She’ll leap up to a Brute4. And she can theoretically mass produce the things… imagine if all her minions are classified as Brute4s.
Mr Walaa on July 17, 2012 at 08:23 said:
Ok I knew wildbow would make this chapter memorable but this one exceeds my expectations 🙂
I know some readers commented on Taylor’s self esteem issues but think about the natural progression. It’s been only a few months since she put on her costume and started running with the undersiders. Before that she was a scared bully prone teenager who had been physically and mentally traumatized for years by the kids at her school. No one turns into a badass alpha type over night.
This to me encapsulate what I love about the worm universe. Outside of the kickass storyline is to slowly see Taylor change and grow with each new adversary and or accomplishment. She is as a character a work in progress and we get to read along as Wildbow’s imagination takes us on a merry ride.
Fluff on July 17, 2012 at 08:49 said:
Is throwing the parts in the sea the best bet over giving it to the Protectorate so they can analyse it? You could have Dragon turn up with Anti-Mannequin Spray!
On the Mannequin sensing side of things, he needs to be able to spot hovering insects at a fine resolution but not see Skitters blood. Thermal imaging is out because it would have trouble seeing the insects (which aren’t hot) and would easily spot the lack of a spray of hot blood, plus the physics of the light means he’d need much too big a lens or array to have thermal imaging in his seamless shell.
Thus I’d guess he has an array of photoreceptors embedded but no lens (as a lens is a weak point), which gives high res sight (and great movement detection) within a few feet but poorer long range resolution. Higher wavelengths of light means smaller holes to pick up the photons (and thus stronger armour) and would explain him not being able to see the blood so I’ll warrant he’s seeing in the near ultraviolet like birds and insects do to improve his night vision.
You meant smaller (or lower) wavelengths, no?
I really do not know if blood would be visible in the ultraviolet, but I agree that many bugs would.
Lets put this in perspective.
Ultraviolet is bellow 400 nm of wavelength. -> it is a possibility IF his armor do not absorb in this region (unlikely, light with this wavelength interacts in atoms, with the first occupied states bellow valence level).
Visible -> goes from 400 to 900 nm (approx.) light interacts with valence electrons both in atomic and molecular orbitals.
Infrared -> Possible using a ccd camera or two, bigger than the human eye, but fit into the torso. Basically it would give heat detection plus chemical composition if the software was really good. BUT, he would see the blood.
Next in the scale would be microwaves and I really don´t think so.
Must have some kind of passive sound detection system. He was attracted by the complaining child, he likes the sound of metals against metal (which work as a kind of sonar). But he does not have sonar, so, he must have something else also.
At a guess: the sigurd made his wife and kid try to kill him and latter kill each other. This is why he went after the woman with the kid.
He’s a little bit contradictory. Can hear normal noises, but it’s not super hearing or sonar because he can’t hear breathing or a heartbeat despite being able to tell bugs are in the air. Can’t be our normal version of sight because he can’t see that he’s not cutting someone and can’t see the lack of blood, but could be something on a different wavelength. He can feel bugs enter into his mechanisms, but it he went just by touch then he’d have brushed against all of them rather than walk around them.
Are any of the methods he could sense things more consistent with how he acted at the end of the fight rather than beforehand? Given how he screwed with Armsmaster, he might have noticed more at the beginning and just never acted on it.
Higher = Shorter = Smaller (from higher frequency, more waves packed together with smaller wavelengths). Lower wavelengths are larger.
The point of using UV is the pits can be smaller than is visible to the human eye. Also only quite high UV interacts with atoms like that, the whole 400-300 spectrum is fine to use.
Thermal imaging is likely out since his shell is described as visibly seamless and opaque and any level of being heat resistant will cut sensitivity right out.
I’d guess that the outer layer of his armor is transparent to a narrow range of frequencies of whatever he uses, just like infrared cameras have visibly opaque lenses but are transparent to IR.
But in any case,being covered in silk and paint didn’t seem to obscure his vision.
Maybe he has multiple sensory techniques that he is switching between, rather than a single comprehensive one? He just had the wrong one active for sensing blood. This of course raises the question of why he wouldn’t switch to that to confirm his kill, so it’s probably not the case.
Mute on July 17, 2012 at 09:42 said:
Another great chapter.
Regarding giving the arm and head to another party (raised in a couple of comments); I don’t know if I would personally do that in Taylor’s position. She has reasons to distrust both Coil and the Protectorate. I doubt she wants to give either group the immense power of mannequin’s self-contained biosuit…thing. Even if it COULD be used against the Nine, there’s every chance that they’ll use it for their own purposes instead, or keep it for themselves afterwards.
And that’s without addressing the issues of communication post-shatterbird.
Mark on July 17, 2012 at 09:51 said:
As normal I really enjoyed this. The imaginative way Taylor responds to this foe was fascinating as is the way she increasingly thinks in bug terms. Hows does a bug handle a similar creature, we are running low on silk…
One phrase clashed for me, Even with tinker abilities offering the ability. Perhaps capacity or opportunity instead of ability.
Fixed the typo. Thanks.
Um the Muse on July 17, 2012 at 09:52 said:
I’m going to guess his senses work in a completely different way. One thing that people forget is that he responds to people when they talk to him.
My opinion is that Bonesaw (that’s the Body Tinker’s name, right?) is actually controlling him. If she had a bad angle, that might explain why she didn’t see the blood (the costume would probably keep it from gushing).
I’m guessing that Mannequin has been in her control from even before he joined the Nine or put himself into a self-contained suit. If it was after, she would’ve presumably had a hard time cutting him open in time. Also, Jack would probably have noticed Mannequin acting differently.
David Burns on January 5, 2014 at 15:01 said:
Bonesaw has lots of puppets, but they don’t fight without her, don’t count as members of the Nine. OTOH, Mannequin had to have some sort of assistance on the day her removed his brain from his head and installed it in this cyborg body. But I doubt it was Bonesaw. He had to develop a rep to get invited into the Nine, or kill an existing member.
I am still curious about why there were already 8 members when Cherish killed Hachetface, and how long did they wait before looking for a recruit.
Pahan on July 17, 2012 at 11:29 said:
Great job with the fight, Wildbow. I can’t wait until Saturday to find out how the world will react. Actually, the world is already reacting:
“Mannequin reached out to extend a blade into the back of her leg, and she fell, but someone else hurried forward to help her.” — To stand out in front of Mannequin took heckuvalot of courage for that someone. I think they might be developing a sense of… community?
“It was a burly bystander with a thick black beard, thick rimmed glasses and a red and black striped t-shirt. One of my people.” — Has Skitter has just acquired her third minion? (Also, have we seen him before? I don’t feel up to searching the archive for burly, bearded men at the moment.) That said, he didn’t get a tag at the end of the episode, so he might never appear again, though he could be a Checkov’s Gunman.
One possible nitpick. A radar-type device that uses sound waves — such as what Cricket uses — is called a “sonar”, though perhaps it’s just our unreliable narrator misusing a word.
I can see arguments both for and against tossing the Mannequin parts.
From the point of view of The Nine, Mannequin didn’t just have to retreat. He was humiliated by her, losing multiple body parts to an opponent every one of whose powers he was supposed to have been able to counter, while being painted all colors of the rainbow (but mostly black). (I can imagine Bonesaw giggling when she sees him like that.) Now, if I read their dynamic right, the other Nine will expect him to go back for a rematch against Skitter, without their help, to restore his honor. This means that it’s likely that none of the others will come after Skitter while Mannequin builds new limbs and cleans up. So, in a weird way, she might have just earned herself and her territory some respite from The Nine.
Keeping the body parts as trophies would change this dynamic, since flaunting her victory over Mannequin is an attack on The Nine’s myth of invincibility, which may lead them all to come after her, and that can’t end well. Throwing the parts into the ocean will be an insult against Mannequin, not the rest of The Nine. (There is the more practical issue of where to keep them. For one thing, there is a pretty good chance that they can be tracked, which means she can’t really stash them anywhere she doesn’t want to be found, like her lair.)
Handing the parts over to Coil and/or The Protectorate is a better idea, and I am a little surprised she chose not to do that. Yes, she doesn’t trust them, but there isn’t likely to be anything genuinely game-changing in them, and there are some interesting discoveries to be made. For example, just how dependent is Mannequin on Bonesaw? Did Bonesaw leave any easter eggs in him that could be exploited? What mechanism, if any, do the limbs use to communicate with the torso, and can it be exploited to track him? Of course, it’s unlikely that they’ll extract anything in time for it to be of use.
The most likely thing they’d find inside would be the organic components dissolving into a deadly bioweapon and the mechanics exploding to spread it.
Windblow: “thick rimmed glasses” right after Shatterbird attack?
Not necessarily with glass in them. :p
Hmm, that’s true; polycarbonate and (most) plastic lenses wouldn’t be affected. This raises a different question, by the way: if Taylor hates contact lenses so much, why doesn’t she just requisition silicon-free prescription glasses?
So. For anyone who’s still perusing the comments: My idea for the next interlude (coming up next week) isn’t panning out especially well. I’m opening the floor to suggestions. I can’t promise I’ll use the top suggestions, but they’ll get definite consideration.
Who do you want to see in the next Interlude?
Personally, I’d love to see the heroes reaction to all this…craziness. Or perhaps the Nine finding out about Mannequin’s defeat?
You saw my suggestion earlier, for Grue, but I’d be for a Hero’s perspective as well. Maybe somebody who tracked the undersiders from being nobodies to robbing a Casino/Bank etc… up to taking control of the city.
Other suggestions: Armsmaster/Dragon shipping 🙂
Taylor’s Dad.
One of the Nine’s perspectives. (What do they think of Brockton Bay? Hookwolf beat Shatterbird, Flashbang/Panacea beat Bonesaw/Hackjob, Skitter beat Mannequin, was all of this a bad idea?)
Follow up with one of the Ward’s again.
Great chapter btw, going to donate right now!
Thank you, 1114!
That brings us just $25 shy of the next bonus interlude/update. Which, I suppose, makes this query about interludes people are interested in all the more applicable.
I try not to repeat characters for interludes, so I’m sorta reluctant to go back to, say, Dragon/Armsmaster or one of the wards. Though if there’s definite demand…
MadNinja on July 17, 2012 at 19:37 said:
The Guild ,Alexandria’s team or maybe Battery but if you want to do something different for an interlude a what if story would be good.
How about the burly dude that just helped Taylor? I like him. Make him a realer character.
If not him, any of the random Shmoes in Skitter’s Territory! Or someone in the city who’s migrating to Skitter’s territory, seeing as how it’s going to be the place to be!
Food? Yes.
Supplies? Yes.
Drugs? No.
Medicine? Yes.
Gangs? No.
Protection? Double Yes!
And of course, it’s close to the beach! ^_^
…A giant bullseye, after this chapter.
Faultline and her crew. I don’t know if this is a viable option for your next Interlude, but I am curious to see how they’re doing. I’d like to see the group’s response to Burnscar’s visit. Also, we got a glimpse of Shamrock but don’t know anything about her, really. Finally, this is the second time they’ve been bought/brought into an alliance by Coil, and something of that negotiation and interaction would be fun to see. It’d be another chance to see what Coil’s up to at the moment (or maybe not, if he’s not doing anything particularly delicate here).
Yes, THIS. I have been dying to see what the hell Faultline and her crew have been doing. Who were they working for, that they got all those files on Cauldron? Or was Faultline advancing her own agenda? Also, what IS Cauldron?
You know what, an interlude from somebody involved in Cauldron would also be awesome. Not that it’ll happen, as that seems too plot relevant for a bonus interlude.
Also, a Grue interlude. In fact, I’m going to throw my weight behind that, if the word of an indecisive reader means anything. Why bother commenting when everyone else is so insightful?
Woe on July 17, 2012 at 17:33 said:
This is a chance too good to pass up. Some ideas:
Trainwreck has an interesting thing going on, working for multiple groups.
We haven’t had an interlude from the school bullies Emma Barnes and Madison Clement yet. Might be a good break from all this action.
The Wards and Protectorate haven’t been featured in a while. It might be interesting to see their take on villains taking over unstable regions. Maybe something for Battery’s perspective, post Skitter claim?
Imp hasn’t had an interlude and we haven’t seen what Grue is doing with his area yet. Might be fun change of pace with teenage drama.
Taylor’s hospitalised Dad vs. the manipulative forces of Coil would make for an excellent showdown.
I would like to see either a Grue or Imp interlude. Either one would have an interesting viewpoint on the team and the current siuation, and Imp could really use some fleshing out. She is less developed than alot of the minor characters, and has spoken maybe two or three lines since she joined the Undersiders.
frozen chicken on July 18, 2012 at 05:55 said:
Imp’s actually spoken a lot more than that, you just don’t remember it.
Holy shit. I will NEVER be convinced that this isn’t true.
I’d love to see something about the Numbers Man. It strikes me that there may be some parallels between his(or her, or their) handling the money and Taylor’s handling her bugs.
Not so much.
My original plan had been for the mention of the Number Man to serve as foreshadowing for a future conflict, but in retrospect, it’d be far too close to what’s been going on with the Nine to be particularly interesting.
Which isn’t to say he isn’t sorta-kinda-important, but he won’t show up or be mentioned again for a good while.
I’d like to think I’m alright when it comes to putting words next to one another and having it mean something, but I’m kind of at a loss when it comes to properly thanking the generous reader who donated a full $75, which is enough to pay for a bonus update unto itself.
I won’t name them in case they want to stay private in that regard, but if they choose to identify themselves, I can verify.
Provided I can wrangle my scheduling and get everything done, you guys should get a bonus interlude next Thursday, courtesy of this individual.
Hurray, mystery individual!
Three cheers for The Individual!
Now you’ve named him- we just need Gecko to write his backstory for us.
Powers or no powers? Serious or humorous? Dark or light? Paper or plastic?
“Paper or plastic?” Zayid asked the blonde-haired man with the star tattoo on his wrist who handed him a 20 for his bright blue slurpee. That much change over one drink! These decadent Americans, with their tattoos everywhere. Ah, but now Zayid can afford to make change as well, in his wallet and in his life here far away from the sectarian violence of his homeland. As he punched a button on the register, he noticed a news report about a group of Catholic priests getting into a fight with Westboro Baptist Church.
“Yes,” is all the customer said, prompting Zayid to turn back towards the man, the captivating image of Father Randy Poffo jumping up and dropping his elbow on a member of the Phelps clan having distracted him from the man pulling out a handgun. Oh Allah.
These Indian assholes taking over all the 7 Elevens, thought Rich, the gunman. He knew he tasted piss in this slurpee. He knew it! That’s why he kept coming back, testing it, tasting it, until he was sure! Oh yeah, he’d show his friends he wasn’t crazy when he told them what conspiracy lay behind the surface of that dot on their head…
He would have, at least, but the man in front of him changed. His skin grew white. Not pink, but a pale dull white that covered his face completely. Eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and hair were all gone. The clothing the cashier had been wearing melted into a skintight suit that stretched over the man’s thin but well-muscled frame. The man’s pink, blue, and white My Little Pony t-shirt became a blue and white letter “I” over the skintight pink of his top.
The Individual.
Rich’s hands shook. He’s in some major caca now, he realized. Before he can decide whether it’s time to surrender, the Individual reached towards the gun. Reacting without thinking, Rich fired. In a flash, the Individual lept over the counter, ignoring the buckshot as it bounced off his costume. It smacked the gun away, then grabs hold of Rich by the throat, lifting him slightly. Having seen into Rich’s thoughts before possessing the cashier, it knew Rich was unbalanced and had no desire to kill the troubled man. A man in need of help. The kind of help he needed was the kind you had to admit you needed, though.
The Individual leaned in close. Knowing the effect a blank face of no color has when right in front of a person, he whispered, “Are you scared to see me, or is that pudding in your pants?” They both glanced down, only to see that Rich was being pressed a little too hard against the snack display, leaving the seat of his pants with a dark brown stain and a popped-open package of pudding stuck to it.
“Hey man, I don’t want any trouble. I don’t want to go to jail. I’ll be good, ok? I’ll take my meds again, will that make you happy? That’s always what people want, me taking my meds again. I’ll do it, ok? Ok?” Rich stammered out. His hand flew to his jacket’s pockets, searching. Finally, he found his pills and pointed to the slurpee that now lay half-empty on the floor. Had he been on his pills sooner, it would be half-full on the floor, but no matter the interpretation, the data was the same. All of the drink was somewhere, but not all of it was in the cup. And that’s how someone who enjoys screwing with people who use cliches views the world.
The Individual set the man down, watching him carefully as he took the prescription that would keep him level if he bothered to take it and the slurpee that, the Individual knew from possessing Zayid, was actually about 37% urine. The Individual advanced on the man, shepherded him toward the door, and called out after him, “Thank you, come again!”
That’s when the heroic entity slumped, the color returning to Zayid’s body and his clothing reforming. Zayid looked around, confused and unsure of what just happened. In a lot behind the building, the Individual gathered its etheral form together and once again became solid. Its own body and sense of self, even gender, took awhile to reform after using its power.
It tried to cough but found it still didn’t have a nose or mouth. The horrible pressure in its chest reminded it, as always, of the day it gained these abilities. What had started as an ordinary fall day was irrevocably etched into its and the nation’s memory. It was one of the ones that got a call from its brother onboard a plane over Pennsylvania. It wasn’t real. A loved one, someone that had always been in its life, a plane full of people just like him with a story and family and emotions, all being used as a weapon. It would have been up there to help them fight, if it could have. It wanted to that day, so badly, that it felt like it had completely disconnected from the world.
The Individual appeared that day to help the fellow mankind it was a part of, but there was only so much to be done. It did all it could, but it failed. When it woke up hours later, back in its home, it ached from the crash but knew its brother was still back there at that strip mine.
It took a long time to recover from that day, mentally, physically, and spiritually. Maybe there had been no way for it to save its brother on that fateful day, but it could still remember and most importantly it could still help its fellow man and let those who are victimized know that they are not and never will be alone.
A cry for help drew the Individual from its memories and transformation to human form. Its powers tell it that an old woman named Rosie is nearby, with a man holding a knife on her and demanding her purse. It blows in the wind, losing physical form as The Individual moves invisibly through the air to aid its fellow man and always push back against deception, justice, and adversity.
ARGH! Curse you, continuity error!…I originally was going to have a shotgun. Then it became a handgun. Unless we’re talking about someone not knowing the difference between a sawed-off shotgun and a handgun, or Rich having a handgun that fires shotgun shells (surprisingly, they’re out there, which is a little bit awesome, but apparently you can load them up in a .45 Colt), then he shouldn’t really fire buckshot from it. Actually, now I almost feel like saying it’s not an error because a part of me likes the idea of using one of those guns better.
At least the tense change in the last paragraph can be slightly overlooked. I’m way too used to present tense so I had to go back and change that a couple of times. I need to get better at editing.
estocasticom on July 19, 2012 at 07:52 said:
¡¡¡Viva el Individuo Misterioso!!!
¡¡Hip Hip Hurra!!
I noticed that Mannequin’s injuries(if you can call them that) parallel Armsmaster’s. His arm, his face, and his ego. Clearly he chose his pick for the Nine well.
Of course, he could have killed Taylor and all the witnesses- but he wanted people to survive, to tell terrified stories about how their protector was toyed with and killed.
Now the stories will be somewhat different, one might hope. Of course, Taylor might have signed the death warrants of all the people that Mannequin would have let go to tell the story. On the other hand, those people might be off limits now until he’s… taken care of things.
I think he’ll come at her with a vengeance. A man who just wasn’t good enough at what he did to protect the ones he loved from a monster bent only on death turned into Mannequin. And then, Taylor was good enough at what she did to protect people she has no reason to protect from a Mannequin bent only on death. The man with the tools for the job, his specialty knowledge, failed. Then he failed again, this time when he played the part of the monster and went up against someone who he should have easily been able to beat because in conventional thinking she didn’t have the tools to beat him.
Taylor won because he basically gave her the opportunity. Just like Armsmaster again.
He slit her throat.
Eventually.
“Mannequin had just brutally and unquestionably kicked my ass in the span of fifteen seconds, and it was going to be at least two minutes until I could even begin my plan, judging by how long it had taken my bugs to deliver the supplies from my lair.”
Random question: as of this comment, this chapter has 78 comments, excluding this one; is that a record for Worm?
Yep. Next highest are Parasite 10.1 (67), Extermination 8.4 (65), Plague 12.6 (58) and Infestation 11.7 (57).
And if you’re wondering who’s commenting the most, distribution of past 1000 comments (2636 to date) puts the top commenters as:
Wildbow – 183
Psycho Gecko – 155
Pinkhair – 99
Pahan – 59
Hydrargentium Hg – 44
mc2rpg – 41
frozen chicken – 30
Random numbers, woo!
Yes! I made the list! Though clearly I need to work harder if I want to come up with lots more entertaining comments.
..Well, no choice then. I’ll just have to contact Bonesaw and get her to sew me and Psycho Gecko together. Some sort of psychotic Gecko/Chicken hybrid.
..That would make for an excellent monster in a horror movie.
Psychozen Chicko!
157, and I’ll try to cut back if it’s a problem for anyone, but wow. I really have a way of moving in and taking over the place. You gonna finish that chicken in the fridge?
It’s not so much the quantity as the quality. Any troll or monkey can type “FIRST” in response to a topic and ‘pad their count’. Type cohesively whether for comment or entertainment, and one need not fear that label.
As far as this ‘The Individual’ I keep coming back to a construct of law called ‘The Rights of the Individual’ and envisioning a mystical bent called ‘The Rites of The Individual’ for some reason. Odd, I know.
Prefab theme song: Psycho Chicken, qu’est Qu c’est? Pok pokpok pokak, pok pok pok pok pokaaaak!
Wow, it didn’t feel like that many.
And with this one you are in 100 i think.
ShawnMorgan on February 1, 2014 at 00:58 said:
78.. a record… that takes me back to the olden days of worm before 20.5 (whose record stood for some time lemme tell you and it took serious awesome to overtake it.)
Wildbow: still on my personal word yoink project and partial reread and seeing how your style changes over time. from this to pact and the two show the (ongoing) rise of your skill.
SadCat on July 19, 2012 at 07:46 said:
I would like Tattletale but I expect with her power it would show way more than you would like us to know right now. She was hurt bad and needs to recover. SadCat
Yes, Tattletale would be good, if she is alive.
FYI, readers, I’m away for the weekend, not sure about internet access, but very probably won’t have any. Forgive my lack of responses to comments in Saturday’s update (which should go up just fine). Back Sunday night.
What follows is one hundred percent Out Of Character for a few reasons.
This is perhaps not the best time or place to bring this up, but at 12:30 am, a young gunman, 24 years old, attacked people who were attending a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. He used either smoke or tear gas, was dressed in a gas mask and body armor, and fired on regular people like any of us who were just out for a good time. What I read put the number at 12 people dead and 59 injured. He put up no resistance when arrested, though his residence was booby-trapped with chemical and incendiary devices.
This is a horrible tragedy, not to be made light of. It will fade from public conciousness for most people, or the emotional impact of what has occured will wear off and we will return to our “out of sight, out of mind” way of thought. In the coming days you’re going to see the Circus start up again. I hope what I’m doing is not any part of it. I just hope to say a few things and preempt a few erroneous assertions that you’ll be hearing soon.
I’m afraid I won’t have much to say that pays the proper respect to the victims and their loved ones. I lack the words. Just keep in mind that someone like you is suffering through the end of the world even as it moves on around them.
As someone who writes a villainous protagonist, roleplays as a supervillain, and who likes to occasionally indulge in the very hammy “I’ll show them all!” speech in the privacy of my own home, I always feel I should come out and say something in these circumstances. Whether you call them writers, roleplayers, or whatever, people like me are not the same as that person who plotted and prepared to end the lives of others. Psycho Gecko’s armor does indeed feature a prominent rebreather in City of Heroes. I do try to write him as a legitimately mentally disturbed person, though that’s a delicate thing to attempt. And in one story I had written but never released, he left explosive traps in his apartment in case someone raided it.
I am also close in age to the gunman.
Considering my online persona and some similarities between myself and the people who do things like this, I feel the need to step back and make sure everyone knows that I have nothing to do with any of that and no desire to perform such an act. It weighs on me some since I make a very public point of getting right in the mind of a crazed assassin, unlike Wildbow or Jim who have regular people caught up in doing some bad things or who feature villains as a prominent “other” category that the heroes are quite different from. I just want people to know that there’s a big difference between the kind of things I write and the kinds of things I’d actually do or encourage someone to do. No one has the right to shuck the responsibility of their actions by blaming it on a work of fiction.
Now, I’m nobody to be inspired by, but what you’re all going to hear in the future is that either videogames or the movie itself were the cause of what this guy did. Both are ridiculous. If videogames prompted certain real world behaviors, then the entire industry would have died off in the 1980s with everyone jumping so they could headbutt brick walls. Videogames might serve as a form of enjoyment for people who have mental disorders, but that is secondary to their main goal: entertaining whoever plays.
I’ve already heard in personal conversation where someone drew comparisons to the shooter’s appearance, with a gas mask and body armor, to Bane from Dark Knight Rises. I will now show you how the man’s behavior and dress actually shows him to have premeditated this entire tragedy. First off, a midnight showing means there are fewer people around a movie theater, meaning fewer people to notice something is up. It also means that those in the movie are excited fans who are less likely to pay attention to some guy preparing something unless he makes a lot of noise. As it was the premier of an anticipated superhero movie, there were also people present in costumes, which made accessing it in that getup all the easier. The gas mask is simply explained because he used gas or smoke and that was a way to keep from being affected like everyone else. The body armor is protection against firearms of both civilians and police. I don’t know why he chose to surrender without resistance given his preparations, but the body armor and booby-trapped apartment suggest he had a more violent end in mind originally.
This was not just someone with a concealed firearm standing up and shooting in the middle of a movie because he didn’t take his pills that day. It was deliberately plotted out, using the movie as an ideal location to attack and kill a large group of people. The movie was a means to an end and not an inspiration.
Seeing as he was arrested rather than killed, he will face punishment for his crimes. Some might argue he’s legally unfit to stand trial because of what he did, but insanity is a matter of motive and not actions. His actions show a carefully thought out plan. The responsibility for his actions are on the gunman himself and not on videogames or movies just because someone has a social agenda they want to push. Remember, he chose to do this.
Now that my miniscule piece is said and was hopefully not a disrespect, return your attention to those who are suffering now.
Be good, people.
Many people who read and comment on a story like this will probably not see why you’d need to make such a statement, Gecko.
But I definitely understand why you did, and I hope nobody gives you or anyone else grief over this; there’s already far too much grief already, and I know from experience how people lash out at ‘easy targets’ any time something like this happens.
I’d rather not discuss my own experiences on here, but if you feel the need to talk I’m Pinkhair3d on skype.
Chiro on March 17, 2013 at 02:45 said:
Oh wow. This chapter was so awesome. And Mannequin is so ungodly creepy.
My first thought was ‘Don’t throw them in the ocean, give them to the protectorate to study!’, but then again, if they can be controlled at long distances that would be a bad idea. Don’t want a disembodied head rolling around Protectorate headquarters disembowelling people.
Super-belated, but it still bothers me a bit:
These seem to be ‘pairings’ of three animals each. If I’m reading it correctly, I think I would say something like:
The swarm consisted of pairs of flying insects and arachnids. Every spider from my lair was clutching a bee, a wasp or a larger dragonfly, who clutched the spider in turn. A thousand trios.
wildbow on March 29, 2013 at 23:14 said:
I’m not sure I follow. Flying insect + Arachnid = pair.
No, you’re right – somehow I got it in my head that each spider was supported by two flyers.
rmcd94 on September 19, 2013 at 12:48 said:
” If I didn’t know better, I’d have thought he was irritated. ” Huh? What does she know better? How does she know he isn’t affected by emotion if the story readers don’t? Why can’t he be irrirated?
Also what a waste of time, why the fuck would you let one of the slaughterhouse nine go, fucking idiot. She didn’t have to move to kill him she had plenty of bugs so tiredness is not an excuse, and it was already shown a fucking random ordinary with a cinderblock can break through a head. Basically all she did was make it like Mannuquin had sat and watched a tv show instead, she never removed the threat, she pissed him off and let him walk away. Why?!
Curious George on November 30, 2013 at 02:35 said:
Um…calm down, maybe? She’s uncertain about his emotions because there are few visual tells and none of the normal human ones. Despite his (its?) name, Mannequin has ceased to resemble a human being in many ways, including how he moves. Posture, facial expression, and other aspects of body language are important to communication among humans, and Mannequin’s are all off significantly. He doesn’t talk. The only totally clear communication she’s seen this whole time was the finger-wagging type thing he did. At the same time, she is operating on the belief that he still has emotions, even if they’re twisted; it’s just that they’re difficult to interpret in the middle of a stressful combat situation.
As for the idea that she screwed up by “letting him go,” Skitter is exhausted and beat up. She may not be cut, but her armor doesn’t completely prevent the transfer of force; I wouldn’t be surprised if she has bruised ribs, sprained ankles, and a host of other injuries. Even if she were in condition to pursue, doing so would be idiotic; she’d likely just end up ambushed by Mannequin and possibly more of the S9. Even with her bugs, Shatterbird and Cherish at least have enough range to pose a major risk that they could surprise her. Additionally, she states in the narration that the silk her spiders have could run out, and there’s also the chance that someone else will hit her territory if she follows Mannequin, or that he’ll double back. Lastly, the way he snuck into her territory unnoticed in the first place suggests that Skitter can’t track Mannequin reliably to begin with, and he can definitely move faster than her.
On a different note, this is a strong chapter, IMO, both in terms of action and characterization. From what Armsmaster said in the interlude introducing Mannequin, it seems likely that he’s angry at Skitter for trying to make things better in general, and particularly for interfering in the effectiveness of Shatterbird’s opening attack. The S9 have been in town more than long enough to locate her territory, so punishing her makes a certain amount of sense, for Mannequin. It’s great to see Skitter finally getting a chance to step up and defend people the way she always wanted to, and a bit funny to think that if she and Armsmaster met now, after seeing each other face off against Mannequin, they’d probably notice that they had some things in common, like a stubborn unwillingness to give up. I think they could both respect that about each other, under the right circumstances.
It’s also great to see that normals don’t always let themselves become paralyzed in a world of parahumans. Nameless guy who was willing to step up and fight, I salute you. The Wormverse may be dark and full of terrors, but people like you keep it from being pitch black and starring Vin Diesel.
Lastly, I’m not entirely sure what to think about getting rid of the two pieces. On the one hand, it could be extremely useful to learn about Mannequin’s systems (and anything Bonesaw might have done to help him out). From that perspective, giving the pieces to either Coil or the PRT for analysis seems like an obvious move. It would also make any tracking devices their problem, and both groups are competent to assess the risks and handle them. On the other hand, there’s no way to be sure that Mannequin can’t just reactivate the pieces any time he wants, so transporting them is extremely dangerous. Getting rid of them as fast as possible seems like the smart play, and I would hesitate to hand Coil anything that might make him more dangerous in the long-term. It’s a tough call to make. Skitter might have made the wrong choice, but if so it’s understandable given her exhaustion. There are arguments for either course of action.
Irrevenant on March 30, 2014 at 17:13 said:
I have to agree with rmcd94 – the phrase “If I hadn’t known better” rang false to me too – she has no way of knowing better and it was a weird thing to say.
As to the other thing, I didn’t get the impression that she *let* him get away. More that she’d fought him to a standstill by throwing everything she had at him and that she had nothing in her arsenal potent enough to stop him in a hurry when he decided to leave. When she said she didn’t have it in her to stop him, I believe she meant that quite literally…
cyphis on May 1, 2014 at 10:22 said:
she knows she doesn’t know
gpyei on November 6, 2013 at 15:15 said:
Shoulda had skitter remove a leg as well, an arm and a head just doesn’t sound the same.
MadScientist14159 on November 25, 2013 at 16:51 said:
NONONONONO!!! Don’t throw away the arm and head!!! Give them to Lisa so she can- oh. Right. Errr… Give them to Coil so he can have whatever scientists and tinkers he employs check them for exploitable weaknesses?
Julius Jacobsen (@TehSuckerer) on December 18, 2013 at 17:03 said:
Even a toddler can rip a thousands strands of spider silk. I mean, I can pull apart a spider web, consisting of hundreds of strands, and I hardly feel the resistance at all. So Manequin comes of as a total weakling here, if you ask me.
Btw, I was waiting for her to steal Armsmasters knive from Manequin and kill him with it. Maybe another time?
Lastly, I imagine Manequin looking like the Safeguard Exterminators from “Blame!”, which means I love him. http://s1139.photobucket.com/user/Pandamoniuum/media/Blamev01c006168.jpg.html
How many strands of silk are in a silk thread? Not all silk has the same strength.
swiftmockingjay451 on January 15, 2014 at 23:21 said:
Mannequin basically sounds like a cross-over between the Clockwork Droid and Handbot from Doctor Who. Perhaps with a dash of Auton.
About the Clockwork Droid, I quote from the Tardis Data Core:
“They were equipped with short range teleporters, scanners, tranquillisers and sharp tools within their wrists for part removal. They could also heat themselves if they were frozen and empty unwanted fluids from their system.”
Handbot:
“The Handbots were approximately six feet tall, white and humanoid. Their hands were their most prominent features, serving many strange and mundane purposes. They use them to manipulate objects such as hypodermic needles, which they carried in their chests and heads. With the aid of synthetic, organic skin grafted onto their hands, they were used for sensory perception, “seeing” with their fingers. This form of sight was so potent that Handbots could see the types of bacteria on a person. The eponymous hands also held anaesthetic transfer: one touch was all it took to send someone to sleep in moments.
Handbots communicated to a degree with the patients, but lacked any kind of intelligence. If a person’s reply to a Handbot did not match an “acceptable” reply, the statement would be rejected and the handbot would continue any course of action it deemed appropriate … however, they were slow moving and they were easily knocked out by blunt or sharp force.”
Emphasis on the sensory perception. Anyway, he’s a creepy motherfucker.
Also, does Imp have some sort of perception filter going on? As her power??
anKLJ on February 8, 2014 at 03:12 said:
Taylor’s ability to analyze, evaluate motivations and methods, parse the situation and run though a vast quantity of options and decisions in a very compressed timeframe in the midst of battle seems to grow exponentially with each showdown. ALMOST unbelievably so, but you sell it anyway!
Cocoon the batshit crazy, ceramic-encased Meccano-boy? Well, sure!
Sorry — this one bit did jerk me out of the story momentarily.
“I controlled my breathing to keep my dinner down.”
When the fuck has she had time for DINNER in the last, oh, 24 hours?!?!
Try “gorge” instead — less likely to cause that jar, I think.
Throw them in the ocean?
It should be explained if her injuries are causing this obvious lapse in intelligence.
That annoys me.
Still it was a fantastic read. I need to put it down for a minute. Been reading for like 5 hours straight. XD
wildbow on May 1, 2014 at 12:12 said:
Don’t hurt yourself!
Also, tinker tech can have trackers, and Mannequin has friends. Gotta get rid of that stuff, and the ocean’s the nearest available target.
Don’t forget one of the very first lessons we learn during the Bank Job was “Don’t Take Tinker Stuff Home.”
bundle on May 30, 2014 at 21:51 said:
” I tried to blink a blurry spot out of my vision, only to realize I had a scratch on the right lens of my mask where I’d hit it with the knife’s edge.”
err, that lens should have exploded a while ago. i was wondering why she didn’t remove her mask before shatterbird hit, with her lenses being so close to her eyes and other stuff she doesn’t want exploding.
Astra on August 20, 2014 at 18:02 said:
i thought the lenses on her mask were plastic…?
nutella on July 2, 2015 at 13:50 said:
She took the lenses out a few chapters ago, when she warned her dad to remove his glasses as well. She’s been wearing contacts.
I was confused by this line for this reason but I guess you can still call the eyeholes of the mask “lenses” even though the glass has been removed.
MisterTeatime on November 9, 2015 at 00:00 said:
The eye covering of her mask was made from a set of swim goggles (outer, plastic) and a pair of glasses lenses (inner; maybe plastic, maybe glass). She removed the inner lenses and started wearing contacts in preparation for Shatterbird, but she still has the goggles covering her eyes, so they’re not fully exposed. The goggles lens is what got scratched in the quoted passage.
oh no, what’s this? spider web’s tangled up with me. and I lost my head…
Kertys on October 2, 2014 at 16:14 said:
Taylor, you’re a goddamned superhero.
MisterTeatime on October 15, 2014 at 00:15 said:
Cinderblock Guy deserves a tag.
kaida tong on February 17, 2017 at 14:37 said:
Someone said he was a Chekhov’s gunman.
Spoilers (too lazy to hide)
He eventually gets nominated by Charlotte or Sierra
Brockton Bay gets a Tagg
Clownie on January 7, 2015 at 00:11 said:
Ugh, Taylor’s self-blaming syndrome putting a dampener on an otherwise fairly good (if suspension-of-disbelief-stretching, what with how Mannequin is a 9ft trained fighter with an advanced mechanical body and armed to the teeth with lethal weaponry, yet still failing to deal with Taylor in a matter of seconds) chapter.
Devon Jolly on January 31, 2015 at 15:06 said:
why didn’t she take armsmasters knife? That all on it’s own would have made this a win even if she hadn’t managed to damage either of his two sections and lost more people… That knife carried by her buggs? It could end him by punching through his chest cavity as you’d attempted with armsmaster himself. Pity she never went back to retrieve the Halberd.
Sanddog1 on February 27, 2015 at 14:28 said:
Oooo tossing one of the defeated Nine’s tech in the ocean. I might of made a donation to Dragon or Armmaster to see if they could find a weakness. Hell hath no fury like a mannequins scorn.
Joshua on August 11, 2015 at 20:46 said:
Why did he leave?
Yeah, he was a little gummed up, a bit more wobbly than usual, and yeah, he was missing a limb or two, but he also had a nanotech blade that could have cut her in half with one swipe. He could have ended her right there, but instead he decided to leave. Why?
Max on August 12, 2015 at 00:58 said:
I think part of it is the intimidation factor. The Nine really go for a combination of ambush tactics and shock-and-awe. Sure he still probably could’ve won but he was badly enough injured that it was now a status thing. Skitter got enough hits in that it was no longer a curb stomp battle which is a blow to his ego and the Nine’s rep so he’d come back later fully healed and beat her so badly that no one would ever dare think he had actually lost a battle.
Plus she actually was doing very good. He is one of the people who is more or less Skitter’s worst match up. He has so few things that the bugs can get into or even damage that the simple fact she managed to both survive and take off some of his limbs might have actually gotten him a slightly worried.
TVP on September 2, 2015 at 08:17 said:
This needs to not only be made into an official series of books, but i want to see it as a movie or show of some sort, then again that could also just ruin it, but its just so good ;_;
inventorfrog on October 23, 2015 at 20:32 said:
“In that respect, perhaps, he and I weren’t so different. I’d developed in much the same ways. The difference was that he had years more experience. That, and he was batshit insane.” Great quote 😀
Also, a few editing things:
“My focus -Mannequin’s focus- would be on designing way to make himself a completely closed system.” Those should be double quotes, separated from the words by spaces, so “my focus — Mannequin’s focus — would be…”.
“Unless he didn’t want to put all his items in one basket.” I would change that to “all his eggs in one basket”. I don’t see much reason to change the original phrase unless it’s a pun or something.
Zach on June 15, 2016 at 20:41 said:
Basically what I gathered from this fight is that one of those foam gun things the PRT uses would easily defeat Mannequin.
Andreas Kill on June 17, 2016 at 14:32 said:
1: unless you have precognition or super reflexes he moves to fast to be hit by a foam gun (he was moving slow to taunt skitter, his mistake. but he would not do that with someone who has the fore mentioned powers)
2: he; as a tinker, likely has an EMP device on him somewhere which could disable said foam guns
other than that, its great to see other people still commenting 🙂
Cartwright on August 15, 2016 at 14:11 said:
If I remember correctly, we’ve already seen lots of characters slower than Mannequin dodge that foam. The spider silk was harder to dodge because it covered a larger area.
That having been said, I do agree that this chapter made Mannequin look too weak, because Taylor shouldn’t have been able to spar with him so easily. If it were up to me, I would have added a hero to the mix somehow. Someone with good defensive abilities who could slow the fight down while Skitter hatches a plan.
Seergun on October 2, 2016 at 04:35 said:
This chapter really highlights something Lisa mentioned back in her interlude; that Rachel may be better at user her power than she herself is. If Rachel can process info like this normally, just imagine what she’d be like with Lisa’s power…
aslandus on January 9, 2017 at 14:37 said:
Tossing the head in the ocean instead of asking if anyone wants to take a look at it? Well, you can’t be too paranoid when dealing with the Slaughterhouse 9, I suppose…
Jay Thompson on January 17, 2017 at 06:19 said:
Nerd comment over a super awesome chapter….Cars and ambulances…would be disabled by shatterbirds strike
,the ECU and most likely sparkplug insulators….
wildbow on January 17, 2017 at 08:02 said:
Unless somehow, a very clever individual knew about the possibility and had the ambulances in reserve.
huntervore on February 16, 2017 at 21:24 said:
Why not save his body parts to study for weaknesses! WHY TAYLOR WHY!?!
I think she decided it wasn’t worth the risk without having a Tinker to deal with booby-traps and tracking devices.
For instance, if I were Mannequin I’d have my teammate Bonesaw give me a few vials of deadly pathogens that would be released if my non-essential limbs were ever cracked open. My sealed environment tinkerteck makes me one hundred percent immune to this backfiring (if my important shells are cracked open I’ll be killed anyway do to introduction of normal pathogens), and Bonesaw’s work means even the rest of my team is safe (assuming I care about them at all).
YES! I love weaponised intelligence. And this was done well. Love the flying superkevlar net she can now use on her opponents.
jmdlugosz on April 10, 2017 at 04:15 said:
«I landed hard on my back, my armor absorbing the brunt of the impact.» her armor was never described as having padding to absorb falls like this. The small packet described at her Dad’s makes it sound like it’s still a thin chitin plate, not the rollerblading pads she planned on adding later. Her spine armor would prevent knives from going through but a solid hard plate actually transmits a forceful blow.
«Mannequin reached out to extend a blade into the back of her leg, and she fell, but someone else hurried forward to help her.» what’s the intended antecedent of “her”? Because it doesn’t make sense referring back to the subject, Mannequin.
«it barely impacted my breathing» you mean it barely *affected* my breathing, puh-leese! “impact” as a VERB means “to crush together”. Even the improper verbing of the noun “a profound influence” is wrong as it’s the opposite of profound—it is slight.
« A wave of pressure and heat killed off every bug and likely most of the gunk I’d managed to smear inside.» what does it mean to kill the gunk? The bugs were already dead, and dead or alive there’s foriegn matter in the mechanisms.
«He was apparently able to sense my bugs on the floor, floating in the air.» huh? The bugs on the floor were floating — doesn’t make sence. *He* was floating? No, he’s standing with one arm on the ground too.
«A better cape than I» should be “me”
Gene Wirchenko on June 11, 2017 at 13:36 said:
Nope. It is short for “A better cape than I am”.
ArkhCthuul on August 14, 2017 at 11:04 said:
The first time I read this it blew me away.
Second time? It clearly.points to a certain point in the future, regarding.skitters methods…
Doubly Great.chapter.
slowpokerface on June 7, 2018 at 13:29 said:
“The man who’d helped me with Mannequin had the concrete block in his hand, and for the third time, be brought it down on Mannequin’s head.”
“be” instead of “he” typo.
Blub on September 1, 2018 at 21:56 said:
Seriously how much this costume is supposed to block is ridiculous. If it would be 5cm thick, okay but not if it´s only a thin costume.
And I highly doubt that spiders have that much webbing.
Why she is throwing away the arm… I don´t get it. Would be better to learn from it.
Riniko on November 8, 2018 at 21:38 said:
I would not have dumped the head and arm in the ocean, I would have found a press and crushed them if possible.
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Pint Size Heroes: Marvel Studios 10
slovak34 August 22, 2018
Even the most ferocious of Marvel Super Heroes and Super Villains are adorable as Pint Size Heroes. Funko has announced the Pint Size Heroes: Marvel Studios 10 series, which will include 12 different characters, including Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Loki, Doctor Strange, Red Skull, Shuri, Thanos, Black Widow, Hela and Thor. It's also celebrating 10 years of Marvel Studios films.
Look for these to be available for pre-order over at Amazon.com.
DHD and 1000toys – 1/12th scale Hellboy
Celebrate Summer Slam with Bleacher Creatures
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British PM Johnson’s Father Applying for French Citizenship
The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday he was in the process of applying for a French passport to maintain his ties with the European Union after Brexit.
Stanley Johnson, a former member of the European Parliament who voted Remain in Britain’s 2016 referendum, told RTL radio he wanted to become a French citizen because of strong family links to France.
“If I understand it correctly, I am French. My mother was born in France, her mother was totally French as was her grandfather. So for me it is about reclaiming what I already have. And that makes me very happy,” said the 80-year-old Johnson, who was speaking in French.
“I will always be a European, that’s for sure. One cannot tell the British people: you are not Europeans. Having a tie with the European Union is important,” he added.
His son Boris was the public face of the Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum and says Britain can “prosper mightily” as a fully sovereign nation outside what he sees as an overly bureaucratic EU.
But on Wednesday, the prime minister sounded a more conciliatory note as parliament approved a new trade deal with the EU, saying: “This is not the end of Britain as a European country. We are in many ways the quintessential European civilization … and we will continue to be that.”
Britain officially leaves the EU’s orbit Thursday night, after an often strained 48-year liaison with the European project.
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Experts Explain What's at Stake in the 2020 Election When It Comes to Women's Health
How the 2020 Election Could Affect Women's Health Care
September 11, 2020 by Caitlin Flynn
With the 2020 election less than three months away, all eyes are on the showdown between the incumbent Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. The former has repeatedly waged attacks on women's rights, particularly when it comes to healthcare issues including (but not limited to) Title X funding, access to contraception, and a longheld mission to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Of course, President Trump is hardly the only politician who poses a threat to women's health. It's equally important to educate ourselves about the healthcare policies and voting records of Congressional, state, and even local candidates. Most campaigns have websites that include comprehensive information about a candidate's policies, so you can become well-versed on where they stand on the issues that are most important to you. If a candidate's stance on a particular issue isn't available to the public, contact them and request a clear answer on the actions they plan to take if elected. To get you started, we've rounded up six of the most pressing issues on the ballot in November, according to doctors and policy experts.
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Postellers
Young people discovering the countryside
What are the Postellers?
The Postellers is a group founded in 1968 by Martin Johns and Diane Nightingale with the aim of introducing young people to the countryside through youth hostelling. A measure of the success can be given in terms of numbers of trips, but the success in terms of lives developed and changed for the better is hard to quantify. However, our belief is that the value was always there in abundance and we want to pass on our experience in the hope that others may benefit from it. The last trip was run in February 2017 with pressures of running costs (new mini-bus required), lack of publicity, recruitment difficulties and increasing regulatory demands making continuation too much of a challenge.
The calendar of a typical Posteller year involved around ten weekend trips to hostels within about 70 miles of London, plus a four-night trip at Easter and one or two week-long trips during the summer months. The latter trips would go further afield to places like the Lake District, Wales, North York Moors and Scotland. The minimum age for joining the Postellers was 10 and the hope was that new recruits would become regular participants, although they could dip in and out as they wished. Once they reached 15 or 16, we encouraged them to become junior leaders on trips.
Members were informed of trips through a newsletter that arrived through their letterboxes each month (post + hostelling = Postellers). A key element was encouraging the young people to take on responsibilities, so that they were involved in planning trips, minibus cleaning and taking on such activities as map reading while on trips.
Travel was mainly by the Postellers’ own minibus, although there were some trips with larger numbers (bonfire party, valentines party, Ivinghoe Rally) where travel had to be by train.
Another feature of the Postellers was to take young people from all backgrounds, some who would be classified as disadvantaged and others as not. Meeting on neutral ground led to a situation where all could gain in different ways from the others’ experiences. An attempt to quantify the achievements is given on the Achievements page.
THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER WHICH KEPT US ALL TOGETHER
Another successful minibus cleaning session
INVOLVING YOUNG PEOPLE
One of the key elements in the Postellers has been involving young people in helping to run the group. They generally rose to the occasion, even if it did sometimes mean waving a sponge around!
Postellers Blog at WordPress.com.
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SNL Season 1 Episode 12 [1976)
Wikipedia generally gives a nice overview of some of these early Saturday Night Live episodes, but not in this case.
Even so, that’s alright.
We’ll make do.
It might be enough to focus on the divide between droll host Dick Cavett (his pitch for “his” Nebraska Pimp book as part of “Looks on Books” kinda sums it up) and impassioned musical guest Jimmy Cliff.
Cavett is that sort of personality that everyone likes. Always a warm smile. A wry smile, perhaps. A smart guy, but not too smart. Cavett was, in some ways, in the exact middle of the cultural road.
He was just hip enough to be marginally “with it” in a revolutionary era (witness the Weekend Update attempts to cover “war-torn” Luanda, Angola) steaming with frustration.
And so the natural way to play off his image is to have him do risqué things. For example, the skit “Our Town” substitutes New York City for the Grover’s Corners of playwright Thornton Wilder.
Cavett describes the more prurient details of NYC. At one point, it is fairly obvious that he is describing the old Times Square full of sex shops and massage parlors. As always, the exercise of watching this show gives us an opportunity to reflect on days gone by. For example, this must have been around the time of a sanitation workers strike in the Big Apple.
[Speaking of Big Apple, the home movie sent in by someone (whose name I have forgotten) makes nice use of apples (and plums) as actors in a stop-motion Super-8 experiment.]
But yes…Dick Cavett is kind of like a bathroom sanitizer. You’re glad he’s there (when the place is sullied), but he is generally harmless and flavorless.
What is staggering about this episode is that I remember a friend from college who (on second thought) reminds me quite a bit of Cavett. The craziest part is that Jimmy Cliff does a song in this episode which played a part in my college days (funny enough, in relation to the aforementioned gentleman).
It’s funny how the mundane can make us sentimental. However, Jimmy Cliff is not at all himself mundane on the song in question: “Many Rivers to Cross”.
Jimmy Cliff couldn’t be more different in persona from Dick Cavett. Cliff delivers the first great, desperate performance in SNL history. Sure, Simon & Garfunkel were great in the early season, but they were pretty…composed…easily poised.
On “Many Rivers to Cross” Jimmy Cliff sings like his life depends on it. The guitars are out of tune. The drummer is barely in control of the song. A bongo player (who alternates on timbales…with brushes) adds a bit of flavor. The SNL horns (Howard Shore’s band) add some nice stabs and swells of excitement.
But it is Jimmy Cliff. Singing right in tune. Dead serious. Pinging each note in absolute perfection.
Closing his eyes. Lifting his head back. Singing so the veins bulge out in his neck. …ending the performance out of breath.
Cliff absolutely deserved to perform the three songs he did on this episode. However, neither of the other two match the intensity of “Many Rivers to Cross”.
And so it takes me back.
These memories I mentioned. They’re important to me.
If I’d only chosen to have my taxes done by H. & L. Brock…I coulda been a contenda.
How do we become losers?
Is it from the very first hand we’re dealt?
Some things feel like a lost cause.
Life is unkind. Sometimes.
But what I want to know is…will it pay off?
Jimmy Cliff was ready when the opportunity arose.
How significant was this performance for the acceptance of reggae in America?
Those questions don’t matter.
What matters is what each one of us feels…in little moments of reflection.
I’d like to think that I’d belt it out just like Jimmy Cliff.
That’s when you give it all you have.
It’s when your passion raises you head and shoulders above the rest.
It’s a passion. A hunger. Of going from nothing to something.
I think quite a few of us feel like nothings.
It’s all we ever get to be.
We’re behind.
I can only speak for myself.
No wife. No kids.
In school for the millionth time.
And my dreams seem light years away…in the rearview mirror.
Will I find them again down the road?
Is this a loop? A mere episode?
-PD
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Mark Hamill Remembers Carrie Fisher on Her Birthday: 'The World Will Never Stop Missing You'
On what would have been Carrie Fisher's 64th birthday, Mark Hamill made sure to share a sweet tribute to the actress
By Claudia Harmata
Mark Hamill will always remember his late Star Wars costar Carrie Fisher.
On what would have been Fisher's 64th birthday on Wednesday, Hamill made sure to share a sweet tribute to the actress, who died in 2016 at age 60.
"Happy Birthday Carrie Frances Fisher. The world will never stop missing you," the actor, 69, wrote on Twitter alongside a sweet throwback photo of the pair sharing a friendly kiss.
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Hamill and Fisher starred in the Star Wars franchise’s original trilogy together, which first premiered in 1977, as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, respectively.
Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill
Fisher went on to garner unparalleled success and she later reprised her role in a third trilogy nearly 40 years later.
In 2016, she died from sleep apnea and other undetermined factors after she suffered a heart attack while flying from London to Los Angeles.
Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty
She is survived by her daughter, Billie Lourd, who proudly stood in for her mother for a scene in one of the latest Star Wars movies, The Rise of Skywalker.
The scene was a flashback to a young Leia training with her brother Luke (Hamill). The sequence couldn’t be shot using previous footage featuring Fisher, according to Visual Effects Supervisor Patrick Tubach.
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“Billie was playing her mother,” Tubach revealed to Yahoo! earlier this year. “It was a poignant thing, and something that nobody took lightly — that she was willing to stand in for her mom.”
Footage of Fisher from an earlier Star Wars movie was used to digitally replace Lourd’s face.
“It was an emotional thing for everybody to see her in that position,” Tubach continued. “It felt great for us, too. If you’re going to have someone play [Fisher’s] part, it’s great that it’s [Billie] because there are a lot of similarities between them that we were able to draw from. The real challenge was just making the Leia footage we had to work with fit in that scene.”
Earlier this year, Lourd, 28, remembered her mother in a post on Mother's Day, opening up to her fans about the grief she still feels and how she copes with it.
"Days like today are never easy, but I’ve found that doing things that make me feel more connected to her make it a little easier — watching her favorite movies, listening to music we listened to together, looking through old pictures and my personal favorite — eating + drinking things she loved," Lourd explained.
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LoL: Immortals Releases Five Players, Including sOAZ & Altec
After ending the regular season in last place, Immortals has decided to release a number of members of their LCS and Academy roster.
With the regular season over, Immortals has taken early steps to build a roster for 2021 by release talent from its 2020 campaign. Johnny “Altec” Ru, Austin “Gate” Yu, Paul “sOAZ” Boyer, Jeremy “Eika” Valdenaire, and coach Adrien “GoToOne” Picard. A thing to note about these player departures is that Immortals now has no imports on the active roster, so we’d expect to see Immortals utilize that play in the near future.
One of the most notable departures from the roster is top laner sOAZ. He joined Immortals at the end of 2019, but only spent Spring Split with the LCS roster, spending the Summer Split with the Academy side. sOAZ has most notably spent a large part of his career at Fnatic, before spending one split with Misfits in 2019.
sOAZ was one of the first players released to release a statement, noting that he’s likely to take a year off from playing, while he looks at coaching before a possible playing return in 2022.
“The last two years have taken quite a toll on me, especially this one with being in quarantine for 5 months in a foreign country and being away from everything. Even though I believe I can still compete at the top level, I think it’s for the better that I make the decision to take a year off from playing. It’s honestly exciting for me to think about coaching players, theory-crafting, and being more involved with staff. I have had countless discussions with people over the years telling me that I could be a good coach, and I think now is a good time to give it a fair try.”
Immortals can only improve in 2021
Xmithie is one of the roster’s most experienced members left. Do Immortals build around him?
It’s safe to say that 2020 wasn’t a great year for Immortals at it returned to the LCS after it initially missed out on a franchise spot. The good news is that they can only improve on last place, though it might take a lot of work with four current spots open across both LCS and Academy sides.
As it stands, Immortals is left with the following 6-man roster:
Top – Kieran “Allorim” Logue”
Jungle – Nicholas “Potluck” Pollock & Jake “Xmithie” Puchero
Mid – David “Insanity” Challe
ADC – Apollo “Apollo” Price
Support – Nickolas “Hakuho” Surgent
With the expedition of Xmithie, the entire Immortals roster only has one year left with the organization, so the team has some time left to nail down the roster. Immortals also have a fairly experienced roster and a number of players who have played multiple years in the LCS.
The post LoL: Immortals Releases Five Players, Including sOAZ & Altec appeared first on Esports News Network | ESTNN.
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Cision Publishes Media Analysis of the First 2020 Presidential Debate
Cision analyzes the latest media coverage in week 5 of its State of the Election series
CHICAGO, Oct. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cision, an industry-leading earned media communications management and media advisory platform, today published the latest data from its 2020 State of the Election blog series, a weekly nonpartisan media analysis of the U.S. presidential election. This week, Cision analyzed media coverage of the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Cision also looked at how coverage was consumed by left and right audiences and monitored the seven key issues asked by moderator Chris Wallace.
View the full media analysis and subscribe to Cision's election blog series here.
"As expected, the debate continues to garner significant media coverage and it remains important to Cision to look at the full picture from a nonpartisan point of view," said Seth Gilpin, Product Marketing Manager at Cision. "As we've done in past analyses, we are keen to understand how the left- and right-leaning online publications cover important topics around the election, how that content is shared across social media and the quality of coverage."
Over the past week, Cision found there have been nearly 100k mentions across online media, newspapers, TV, radio, and podcasts related to the presidential debate. In the days leading up to the debate and on the night of the debate, right-leaning publications had published 32% more content than left-leaning publications; however, at the time of publishing the day after the debate, left-leaning publications generated 25% more coverage.
Left-leaning coverage was shared about 2x more on Facebook, 24x more on Reddit, and 2.9x more on Twitter. In past analyses, left-leaning content has always outperformed on Reddit, and right-leaning content has outperformed on Twitter. There was a discrepancy this week in Twitter amplification.
Cision also analyzed the seven debate themes and the key messages around the top three topics. The Supreme Court, the novel coronavirus, and the economy yielded the most coverage while racial inequality yielded the least amount of coverage.
Cision is politically unaffiliated and does not endorse any political parties, platforms, campaigns or candidates.
Cision is a leading global provider of earned media software and wire distribution services to public relations and marketing communications professionals. Cision's software allows users to identify key influencers, craft and distribute strategic content, and measure meaningful impact. Cision has over 4,800 employees with offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information about Cision's award-winning products and services, including the Cision Communications Cloud®, visit www.cision.com and follow Cision on Twitter @Cision.
Rebecca Dersh
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Jurisprudence Quotes
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
— Edward Coke
Famous Jurisprudence quotations
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
— Ezra Stiles
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
— Herbert Read
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
— William Shakespeare
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society.
One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.
— Joseph Story
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
— Thomas Huxley
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.
— Joseph Sobran
By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties, and end combat operations as soon as possible. These are provisions recognized by almost all authorities on international jurisprudence.
— Bhikkhu Bodhi
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We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.
— Barack Obama
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.
— Gerolamo Cardano
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.
— Victoria Woodhull
I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
— Edmund Burke
Every faith uses some kind of tool to understand itself better.
Faith seeks understanding. The Western tradition has used philosophy to understand the truths of the faith and you come up with theology. Where as, Islam at a certain point said: we'll use law. There are these four major, developed schools of Islamic jurisprudence.
— Francis George
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence;
for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
— Baron de Montesquieu
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
— Truman Capote
I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
There's a long history of antipathy between science and the law in American jurisprudence.
— Scott Fraser
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
— Aly Khan
Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran.
He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.
— Vandana Shiva
The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use, and they sunk forever as soon as that use was superseded by the innovations of fashion, superior merit, or public authority.
— Edward Gibbon
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Money in Motion: Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Retirement
Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond H. Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell, The Wharton School, Univ. of PAFollow
Michael Z. Stamos
Retirees confront the difficult problem of how to manage their money in retirement so as to not outlive their funds while continuing to invest in capital markets. We posit a dynamic utility maximizer who makes both asset location and allocation decisions when managing her retirement financial wealth and annuities, and we prove that she can benefit from both the equity premium and longevity insurance in her retirement portfolio. Even without bequests, she will not fully annuitize; rather, her optimal stock allocation amounts initially to more than half of her financial wealth and declines with age. Welfare gains from this strategy can amount to 40 percent of financial wealth (depending on risk parameters and other resources). In practice, it turns out that many retirees will do almost as well by purchasing a variable annuity invested 60/40 in stocks/bonds.
portfolio choice, private financial services, insurance, personal finance, retirement policies, social security
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This is part of the NBER Program on the Economics of Aging. Opinions and errors are solely those of the authors and not of the institutions with whom the authors are affiliated. © 2007 Horneff, Maurer, Mitchell, Stamos. All rights reserved. © 2007 Pension Research Council. All rights reserved.
This research was conducted with support from the US Social Security Administration via the Michigan Retirement Research Center at the University of Michigan. Additional research support was provided by the German Investment and Asset Management Association (BVI), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, the Observatoire de l’Epargne Européenne (OEE), and the Pension Research Council at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We are grateful for useful comments from John Ameriks and Jeffrey Brown.
Date Posted: 17 December 2019
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A stream function solver for liquid simulations
R. Ando, N. Thuerey, C.J. Wojtan, in:, ACM, 2015.
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Ando, Ryoichi; Thuerey, Nils; Wojtan, ChrisIST Austria
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ACM Transactions on Graphics
This paper presents a liquid simulation technique that enforces the incompressibility condition using a stream function solve instead of a pressure projection. Previous methods have used stream function techniques for the simulation of detailed single-phase flows, but a formulation for liquid simulation has proved elusive in part due to the free surface boundary conditions. In this paper, we introduce a stream function approach to liquid simulations with novel boundary conditions for free surfaces, solid obstacles, and solid-fluid coupling. Although our approach increases the dimension of the linear system necessary to enforce incompressibility, it provides interesting and surprising benefits. First, the resulting flow is guaranteed to be divergence-free regardless of the accuracy of the solve. Second, our free-surface boundary conditions guarantee divergence-free motion even in the un-simulated air phase, which enables two-phase flow simulation by only computing a single phase. We implemented this method using a variant of FLIP simulation which only samples particles within a narrow band of the liquid surface, and we illustrate the effectiveness of our method for detailed two-phase flow simulations with complex boundaries, detailed bubble interactions, and two-way solid-fluid coupling.
The first author was supported by a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad. This work was also supported by the ERC projects ERC-2014-StG-637014 realFlow and ERC-2014- StG-638176 BigSplash.
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Ando R, Thuerey N, Wojtan CJ. A stream function solver for liquid simulations. In: Vol 34. ACM; 2015. doi:10.1145/2766935
Ando, R., Thuerey, N., & Wojtan, C. J. (2015). A stream function solver for liquid simulations (Vol. 34). Presented at the SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, CA, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2766935
Ando, Ryoichi, Nils Thuerey, and Christopher J Wojtan. “A Stream Function Solver for Liquid Simulations,” Vol. 34. ACM, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2766935.
R. Ando, N. Thuerey, and C. J. Wojtan, “A stream function solver for liquid simulations,” presented at the SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2015, vol. 34, no. 4.
Ando R, Thuerey N, Wojtan CJ. 2015. A stream function solver for liquid simulations. SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 34, 53.
Ando, Ryoichi, et al. A Stream Function Solver for Liquid Simulations. Vol. 34, no. 4, 53, ACM, 2015, doi:10.1145/2766935.
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Analyzing the impact of change in multi-threaded programs
K. Chatterjee, L. De Alfaro, V. Raman, C. Sánchez, in:, D. Rosenblum, G. Taenzer (Eds.), Springer, 2010, pp. 293–307.
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We introduce a technique for debugging multi-threaded C programs and analyzing the impact of source code changes, and its implementation in the prototype tool DIRECT. Our approach uses a combination of source code instrumentation and runtime management. The source code along with a test harness is instrumented to monitor Operating System (OS) and user defined function calls. DIRECT tracks all concurrency control primitives and, optionally, data from the program. DIRECT maintains an abstract global state that combines information from every thread, including the sequence of function calls and concurrency primitives executed. The runtime manager can insert delays, provoking thread inter-leavings that may exhibit bugs that are difficult to reach otherwise. The runtime manager collects an approximation of the reachable state space and uses this approximation to assess the impact of change in a new version of the program.
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Chatterjee K, De Alfaro L, Raman V, Sánchez C. Analyzing the impact of change in multi-threaded programs. In: Rosenblum D, Taenzer G, eds. Vol 6013. Springer; 2010:293-307. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12029-9_21
Chatterjee, K., De Alfaro, L., Raman, V., & Sánchez, C. (2010). Analyzing the impact of change in multi-threaded programs. In D. Rosenblum & G. Taenzer (Eds.) (Vol. 6013, pp. 293–307). Presented at the FASE: Fundamental Approaches To Software Engineering, Paphos, Cyprus: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12029-9_21
Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Luca De Alfaro, Vishwanath Raman, and César Sánchez. “Analyzing the Impact of Change in Multi-Threaded Programs.” edited by David Rosenblum and Gabriele Taenzer, 6013:293–307. Springer, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12029-9_21.
K. Chatterjee, L. De Alfaro, V. Raman, and C. Sánchez, “Analyzing the impact of change in multi-threaded programs,” presented at the FASE: Fundamental Approaches To Software Engineering, Paphos, Cyprus, 2010, vol. 6013, pp. 293–307.
Chatterjee K, De Alfaro L, Raman V, Sánchez C. 2010. Analyzing the impact of change in multi-threaded programs. FASE: Fundamental Approaches To Software Engineering, LNCS, vol. 6013, 293–307.
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Children today are, more than ever before, likely to interact with family and community members living with a dementia. These occurrences are more likely to happen as the population ages, with over 900,000 Australians expected to be living with dementia by 2050 (Deloitte Access Economics, 2011). Project DARE developed a short education intervention for Stage 2 (ages 8 - 11 years) at a local public school. It utilised art as a medium for children to express their knowledge and perception of dementia. The children were introduced to the talents of local artists who spent two full days working with the children at the school and teaching them new visual art techniques and histories. In between the two art lessons the children received a lesson on dementia.
The children presented as surprised, excited and proud to learn new art skills and to see the results of their works. The project made children aware of the issue of dementia so that they can better understand people in our community who live with a dementia. In turn, Project DARE, in its stages of infancy, has started a small but powerful wave of change in our community... children who better understand dementia, who are more open to relating to those who have dementia, creating a more caring, understanding and humanistic relationship with those around us who need our care and compassion. It is this kind of impact that we can only hope will grow, as this project grows both in Australia around the globe.
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The project utilised a mixed-methods approach to gain an understanding of children’s knowledge and perceptions of dementia. Prior to exposure to the intervention, children’s knowledge of dementia was measured using a previously developed tool from the Kids4Dementia Project (Baker, Goodenough, & Low, 2015). The children then completed an art work representing a personal memory with the help of local artists. Photography was used to capture the artwork at this stage.
A week later, a short education intervention occurred, which explained dementia, the signs and symptoms, the reasons people get dementia, what people with dementia might do, and how we can help people with dementia in our communities. A week after the educational intervention the children were given a colour photocopy and a black and white photocopy of their initial artwork and an art board. The children then asked to add to their initial artwork based on what they had learnt about memory and dementia. At the completion of the project, the children were asked to complete the knowledge survey for a second time.
The people involved in the research included an interdisciplinary group of academics from UOW, a teacher from the local public school and a local artist. The group grew to include the local public school community, including the administrative and teaching staff of the school, parents, community members, and other local artists
The teachers at the school commented on the benefit of this project (see video) and suggested this could be delivered to other schools. We have also been contacted by other international institutions and hope to work together to deliver similar projects in their regions.
There is much research that looks at the best way that we can teach our children in schools and a recent trend is "short, cyclical programming" where students are taught in short spurts of time with outcomes that relate to other subject matter. Project DARE successfully utilised this pedagogy in the one hour, six part lesson on dementia. As educators discuss and struggle to meet the outcomes of the "crowded curriculum" it is often the fine arts that begin to suffer in our school systems. This project harnessed the exquisite skills of experts in the community to share their passion of visual arts with the children and helped them to explore their creative talents without added stress, work, time, or clean up for the teachers themselves. In this way, each expert, whether researcher, artist or teacher, was able to impact the children.
Project DARE opens the doors to future university/school/community partnerships where all three groups work together. We believe that a global Project DARE is on the horizon where we share the vision, expand the purpose, include more health related issues and create a global impact of working together to strengthen our communities.
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition in the international community: A look at the influence of region, rurality, setting and gender (the macro study)
Megan Crichton, Dana L. Craven, Hannah Mackay, Wolfgang Marx, Skye Marshall
Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine
Bond University Nutrition and Dietetics Research Group
Protein‐energy malnutrition is a major health concern in home‐dwelling older adults, particularly in the context of population ageing. Therefore, a systematic review and meta‐analysis was undertaken to examine the international prevalence of malnutrition in older adults living independently in the community; including examination of geographical region, rurality and gender. Six electronic databases were searched until September 2016. Original research studies which used the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), patient generated – subjective global assessment (PG‐SGA) or SGA to determine nutrition status in community samples with a mean age of ≥ 65 years were included and critically appraised and pooled using meta‐analysis. 112 studies from 38 countries (n = 69,498 total participants) were included. The global prevalence of malnutrition in the older community setting was 6.9% (95% CI: 5.6–8.3%), ranging from 0.8% (95% CI: 0.2–1.7%) in Northern Europe to 29.9% (95% CI: 0.0–80.3%) in South‐East Asia. Of all settings, participants receiving homecare services had the highest prevalence at 13.2% (95% CI: 9.0–18.2). Malnutrition prevalence in rural communities (9.9%; 95% CI: 4.5–16.8%) was double that in urban communities (5.1%; 95% CI: 3.7–6.7%) and significantly higher among females than males (OR 1.50 [95% CI: 1.27–1.75]; P < 0.00001). The results of this review provide the best available strategic insight for global and national public health priorities for preventing malnutrition and associated poor health outcomes.
Dietitians Association of Australia 35th National Conference: Think Big - ICC , Sydney, Australia
Duration: 17 May 2018 → 19 May 2018
Conference number: 35
http://daa2018.com.au/
10.1111/1747-0080.12426Licence: Free to read
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Protein-Energy Malnutrition Medicine & Life Sciences
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Marshall, S., Isenring, E., Hugo, C., Agarwal, E., Teleni, L., Reidlinger, D., Campbell, K. & Van der Meij, B.
Crichton, M., Craven, D. L., Mackay, H., Marx, W., & Marshall, S. (2018). A systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition in the international community: A look at the influence of region, rurality, setting and gender (the macro study). Nutrition and Dietetics, 75(S1), 35-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/1747-0080.12426
Crichton, Megan ; Craven, Dana L. ; Mackay, Hannah ; Marx, Wolfgang ; Marshall, Skye. / A systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition in the international community: A look at the influence of region, rurality, setting and gender (the macro study). In: Nutrition and Dietetics. 2018 ; Vol. 75, No. S1. pp. 35-36.
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Crichton M, Craven DL, Mackay H, Marx W, Marshall S. A systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition in the international community: A look at the influence of region, rurality, setting and gender (the macro study). Nutrition and Dietetics. 2018 May;75(S1):35-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/1747-0080.12426
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Optimal wavelength for the clot waveform analysis: Determination of the best resolution with minimal interference of the reagents
Jonathan Evrard, Romain Siriez, Laure Morimont, Pauline Thémans, Julie Laloy, Céline Bouvy, Damien Gheldof, François Mullier, Jean Michel Dogné, Jonathan Douxfils
University of Namur
Namur Thrombosis and Hemostasis Center
Introduction: Clot waveform analysis (CWA), a new methodology to assess coagulation process, can be usefully applied in various clinical settings. However, its clinical use is limited mainly because of the absence of standardization. No consensus exists regarding the wavelengths at which CWA has to be performed what is crucial for the sensitivity of the CWA. Objectives: The primary aim of this study is to determine which wavelength is the most sensitive and specific for CWA. Interindividual baseline absorbance will also be assessed as the impact of reagents from the intrinsic, extrinsic, and common coagulation pathway will be determined. Methods: Plasma samples were screened at wavelengths from 280 to 700 nm to provide absorbance spectra in clotted and nonclotted plasma. The interindividual variability of baseline absorbance was obtained by screening plasma from 50 healthy individuals at 340, 635, and 671 nm. The inner-filter effect of reagents was assessed in plasma or serum when appropriate at the same wavelengths. The reagents were those commonly used for activated partial thromboplastin time, prothrombin time, thrombin time, and dilute Russell's viper venom time. Results: Clotted plasma has higher absorbance value than nonclotted plasma (P < 0.01). The absorbance of all type of samples is higher at 340 nm than at >600 nm (P < 0.01). The interindividual variability at the different wavelengths was around 25%. However, except with the STA®-CKPrest® and STA®-NeoPTimal®, the reagents do not have a significant effect on the baseline absorbance. Conclusions: Wavelengths above 650 nm are recommended to perform CWA. Most of the commercialized reagents can be used for CWA.
International Journal of Laboratory Hematology
https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.12975
Published - 1 Jun 2019
10.1111/ijlh.12975
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Evrard, J., Siriez, R., Morimont, L., Thémans, P., Laloy, J., Bouvy, C., Gheldof, D., Mullier, F., Dogné, J. M., & Douxfils, J. (2019). Optimal wavelength for the clot waveform analysis: Determination of the best resolution with minimal interference of the reagents. International Journal of Laboratory Hematology, 41(3), 316-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.12975
Evrard, Jonathan ; Siriez, Romain ; Morimont, Laure ; Thémans, Pauline ; Laloy, Julie ; Bouvy, Céline ; Gheldof, Damien ; Mullier, François ; Dogné, Jean Michel ; Douxfils, Jonathan. / Optimal wavelength for the clot waveform analysis : Determination of the best resolution with minimal interference of the reagents. In: International Journal of Laboratory Hematology. 2019 ; Vol. 41, No. 3. pp. 316-324.
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abstract = "Introduction: Clot waveform analysis (CWA), a new methodology to assess coagulation process, can be usefully applied in various clinical settings. However, its clinical use is limited mainly because of the absence of standardization. No consensus exists regarding the wavelengths at which CWA has to be performed what is crucial for the sensitivity of the CWA. Objectives: The primary aim of this study is to determine which wavelength is the most sensitive and specific for CWA. Interindividual baseline absorbance will also be assessed as the impact of reagents from the intrinsic, extrinsic, and common coagulation pathway will be determined. Methods: Plasma samples were screened at wavelengths from 280 to 700 nm to provide absorbance spectra in clotted and nonclotted plasma. The interindividual variability of baseline absorbance was obtained by screening plasma from 50 healthy individuals at 340, 635, and 671 nm. The inner-filter effect of reagents was assessed in plasma or serum when appropriate at the same wavelengths. The reagents were those commonly used for activated partial thromboplastin time, prothrombin time, thrombin time, and dilute Russell's viper venom time. Results: Clotted plasma has higher absorbance value than nonclotted plasma (P < 0.01). The absorbance of all type of samples is higher at 340 nm than at >600 nm (P < 0.01). The interindividual variability at the different wavelengths was around 25%. However, except with the STA{\textregistered}-CKPrest{\textregistered} and STA{\textregistered}-NeoPTimal{\textregistered}, the reagents do not have a significant effect on the baseline absorbance. Conclusions: Wavelengths above 650 nm are recommended to perform CWA. Most of the commercialized reagents can be used for CWA.",
author = "Jonathan Evrard and Romain Siriez and Laure Morimont and Pauline Th{\'e}mans and Julie Laloy and C{\'e}line Bouvy and Damien Gheldof and Fran{\c c}ois Mullier and Dogn{\'e}, {Jean Michel} and Jonathan Douxfils",
doi = "10.1111/ijlh.12975",
journal = "International Journal of Laboratory Hematology",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing",
Evrard, J, Siriez, R, Morimont, L, Thémans, P, Laloy, J, Bouvy, C, Gheldof, D, Mullier, F, Dogné, JM & Douxfils, J 2019, 'Optimal wavelength for the clot waveform analysis: Determination of the best resolution with minimal interference of the reagents', International Journal of Laboratory Hematology, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 316-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.12975
Optimal wavelength for the clot waveform analysis : Determination of the best resolution with minimal interference of the reagents. / Evrard, Jonathan; Siriez, Romain; Morimont, Laure; Thémans, Pauline; Laloy, Julie; Bouvy, Céline; Gheldof, Damien; Mullier, François; Dogné, Jean Michel; Douxfils, Jonathan.
In: International Journal of Laboratory Hematology, Vol. 41, No. 3, 01.06.2019, p. 316-324.
T1 - Optimal wavelength for the clot waveform analysis
T2 - Determination of the best resolution with minimal interference of the reagents
AU - Evrard, Jonathan
AU - Siriez, Romain
AU - Morimont, Laure
AU - Thémans, Pauline
AU - Laloy, Julie
AU - Bouvy, Céline
AU - Gheldof, Damien
AU - Mullier, François
AU - Dogné, Jean Michel
AU - Douxfils, Jonathan
N2 - Introduction: Clot waveform analysis (CWA), a new methodology to assess coagulation process, can be usefully applied in various clinical settings. However, its clinical use is limited mainly because of the absence of standardization. No consensus exists regarding the wavelengths at which CWA has to be performed what is crucial for the sensitivity of the CWA. Objectives: The primary aim of this study is to determine which wavelength is the most sensitive and specific for CWA. Interindividual baseline absorbance will also be assessed as the impact of reagents from the intrinsic, extrinsic, and common coagulation pathway will be determined. Methods: Plasma samples were screened at wavelengths from 280 to 700 nm to provide absorbance spectra in clotted and nonclotted plasma. The interindividual variability of baseline absorbance was obtained by screening plasma from 50 healthy individuals at 340, 635, and 671 nm. The inner-filter effect of reagents was assessed in plasma or serum when appropriate at the same wavelengths. The reagents were those commonly used for activated partial thromboplastin time, prothrombin time, thrombin time, and dilute Russell's viper venom time. Results: Clotted plasma has higher absorbance value than nonclotted plasma (P < 0.01). The absorbance of all type of samples is higher at 340 nm than at >600 nm (P < 0.01). The interindividual variability at the different wavelengths was around 25%. However, except with the STA®-CKPrest® and STA®-NeoPTimal®, the reagents do not have a significant effect on the baseline absorbance. Conclusions: Wavelengths above 650 nm are recommended to perform CWA. Most of the commercialized reagents can be used for CWA.
AB - Introduction: Clot waveform analysis (CWA), a new methodology to assess coagulation process, can be usefully applied in various clinical settings. However, its clinical use is limited mainly because of the absence of standardization. No consensus exists regarding the wavelengths at which CWA has to be performed what is crucial for the sensitivity of the CWA. Objectives: The primary aim of this study is to determine which wavelength is the most sensitive and specific for CWA. Interindividual baseline absorbance will also be assessed as the impact of reagents from the intrinsic, extrinsic, and common coagulation pathway will be determined. Methods: Plasma samples were screened at wavelengths from 280 to 700 nm to provide absorbance spectra in clotted and nonclotted plasma. The interindividual variability of baseline absorbance was obtained by screening plasma from 50 healthy individuals at 340, 635, and 671 nm. The inner-filter effect of reagents was assessed in plasma or serum when appropriate at the same wavelengths. The reagents were those commonly used for activated partial thromboplastin time, prothrombin time, thrombin time, and dilute Russell's viper venom time. Results: Clotted plasma has higher absorbance value than nonclotted plasma (P < 0.01). The absorbance of all type of samples is higher at 340 nm than at >600 nm (P < 0.01). The interindividual variability at the different wavelengths was around 25%. However, except with the STA®-CKPrest® and STA®-NeoPTimal®, the reagents do not have a significant effect on the baseline absorbance. Conclusions: Wavelengths above 650 nm are recommended to perform CWA. Most of the commercialized reagents can be used for CWA.
U2 - 10.1111/ijlh.12975
DO - 10.1111/ijlh.12975
JO - International Journal of Laboratory Hematology
JF - International Journal of Laboratory Hematology
Evrard J, Siriez R, Morimont L, Thémans P, Laloy J, Bouvy C et al. Optimal wavelength for the clot waveform analysis: Determination of the best resolution with minimal interference of the reagents. International Journal of Laboratory Hematology. 2019 Jun 1;41(3):316-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.12975
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Blog: Dispatches from the Left Forum, part I
Whenever I go to any leftist gathering, whether it’s an anti-G8 rally, an alter-globalist european symposium or an academic conference, I always feel like running with open arms to every person who crosses my path and shouting “God am I glad to see you!” I usually manage to refrain myself though, but I must say that this time, at the Left Forum, it is particularly hard. First,everybody is evidently in a good mood because of the current wind shift–and quite astonishingly friendly and united–it’s a little bit like Antioch alumni around the the time of the first Business Plan, if you can still picture it. Second, you can tell from the program that we all have a lot in common: panels hold names ranging from Seattle-generation hipster buzzwords (“From the barrio to the barricades: visions for a better world,” “Is another world really possible?”) to more old-fashioned stuff (“Beyond Capital’s Crisis,””Class struggle and the crisis: from workers to capital and back again” and Marx, Marx, Marx.) There’s also some more specific panels about campus activism, foreign policy, economic development, radical media, latin american examples, anarchy, global warming, race and gender, and yes, here and there, Obama.
Since between twenty and thirty 2-hour panels happen simultaneously at every time slot, you can imagine it’s quite difficult to choose. I decided to adopt the Groupie Strategy: my main criteria, then, is to go see the people I know; I have my list of the People-I-Just-Can’t-Miss. This morning, for example, I went to a discussion about Joseph Schwartz’s book “The future of democratic equality: rebuilding social solidarity in a fragmented America” because (drumrolls) Gayatri Spivak was there.( Now, the fact that I usually understand about a third (on good days) of what she writes is in no way a deterrent to my adoration. Students of Isabella’s will understand this feeling, I am sure.) The first speakers summed up Schwartz’s book–one of the main theme being the rebuilding of solidarity–“solidaristic politics”– in the US both as a moral and an intrsumental force. This “solidarity of citizenship” would be expressed in rainbow coalitions in which unity would be found among different groups, while preserving each one’s distinctiveness (Textbook alterglobalism, but okay…) A public philosophy should also be created, it was argued–and this is where Schwartz became controversial for the panel– as he accused post-structuralist thinkers to have given up on influencing public discourse and thus having abandoned the frontlines of the struggle against inequality. Corey Walker, Brown University Professor, critiqued that view by positing that 1) politics of identity were “always already a condition of any politics” (We, the people… who is included in the we? he asked) and that 2) our political imaginations were limited by the “citadels of western thinking”, and the limits of that thinking, sealed too early, needed to be pushed back–and new categories created… an activity of the poststructuralists! There was a visible rift, on the panel, between the two old-school marxists, talking about very concrete measures, and the two poststructuralist advocates, who advocated for placing the political fight on another level–the usual tension between the urgency of the socio-economic situation and what it requires as immediate answers, and the skepticism over an over-used proven-to-fail system–and the seemingly never-ending process questioning it would imply.
Then Spivak finally spoke, and, I must say, I could not repeat word for word what she said, or even weave an argument in a linear way. Not that I wasn’t listening to her every word, but I think even if you were there it wasn’t all linear and coherent. (I think she’s queering the idea of coherence, as Chelsea would say…) She is very elliptic, (if not ADD..) going from one idea to the next quickly– expecting you to get an idea in a sentence and then move on, as in “i’m going to drop an intellectual bomb on your every 5 seconds and then change the subject: deal with it”. She’s definitely one of the most charismatic, lively, interesting, funny speakers I ever saw. So, in about 14 minutes, she talked about: learning Chinese, Education, Criminal Capitalism, High school children, the falling bottom of the global South (“and they’re not in trouble because of poststructuralists you know”), she made fun of Derrida, Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and the french media, she mentioned the system defeating Obama, short-lived mobilizations around crises, European centered masculine humanism, the failure of poststructuralists to pay attention to industrial capitalism, their inability to get tenure so quit accusing them, Communism in Bengal, Union politics, the world social forum, Dubois, Eric Foner, and the intellectual subaltern. Memorable quotes include: “Education–that’s where you build solidarity, that’s where I begin.” “To be equal is not to be the same, we can’t refuse this double bind.” and “Poststructuralists are a blip in the machine. They’re interesting, I like them, but….”
During Questions and Answers, I walked to the microphone shortly after Norman Birnbaum asked his question– and asked about the prospects for solidarity-building education in the current global context of the corporatization of Higher Ed, etc… Spivak said she signed the Antioch petition even though she rarely signs anything, really, and called Marx to the rescue, in a mid-weary, mid-esoteric way. Meanwhile, Colombus-Lawyer-Gerry- Bello-friend Bob Fitrakis had spotted me in the audience and came up to me afterwards to talk about Antioch.
The next panel I went to was much less impressive, I must say. It was called “Secularism and the Radical Imagination,” and I went so that I could make up to Iveta for my post-secularism essay being late by making it cutting-edge. There were, however, very few of us in the little classroom on the third floor of Pace University, to listen to the panel of CUNY Grad Students who gave their talks. The presentation was quite disappointing–content wise, it was really nothing you wouldn’t get in a handout Iveta would give you –secularism as false neutrality/tolerance, in reality very much based on christianity, double standards with islam, etc….Worst than the bland content, the delivery was either terribly boring– or the late-twenty-something grad student was unbearably pretentious, arrogant and, really, not that smart. This kindof thing is always a little reassuring however; former admissions director Angie Glukhov, who is now at University of Dayton always says that Antioch students could wipe the floor with the grad students she admits to UD– it’s quite reassuring (thinking about our uncertain shaky futures, Nonsters…) to know we could do the same with some CUNY grad students. (Sorry Frances Horrowitz…(ps it’s not too late to salvage us..!))
At 3 PM, the classroom for the future of Palestine after Gaza was so full I had to migrate to the end of the hall, to Africa and the Crisis of Global Capitalism. Panelists were editors or journalists for independent media covering African news and devoted most of their presentation to ridiculing the new york times and presenting alternative versions to popular newsstories about Africa. The East Congo conflict, for example, presented as “tribal wars” by the mainstream, is, Milton Allimadi argues, a well-planned project for Western companies to plunder raw materials in the region–and the guerrillas are not guerrillas but hired “corporate finance terrorists.” Another issue: Somali piracy, suddenly on the forefront when it’s nothing new–whereas the toxic dumping of western corporations on somali shores, or illegal fishing in somalian waters are hardly mentioned. Rosalind McLymont told the story of the group of women in one of Uganda’s poorest slums who, when they heard about Hurricane Katrina, broke and sold rocks to raise up to one thousand dollars, and called the american embassy in Uganda to give them the money for the victims. She put this kind of generosity in an asymetric parallel with the “Bono-style notion of aid” manufactured in the west.
What comes after Neoliberalism? was the title of the last pannel of the day, and, even though I was exhausted, I owed it to SANE to attend. First panelist was a member of the Berlin-based Rosa Luxemburg institute. He posited that neoliberalism was “still ruling but not leading anymore” and presented a pretty standard version of the different alternatives we could expect to surge out of the crisis: a public sector new deal, a green deal, the risk of authoritarianism, scandinavian-style Keynesianism etc… To tell the truth, he was not an exciting enough speaker to catch my attention for very long after 7 hours of lecture. But Walden Bello certainly was. He started by emphasizing that the crisis of neoliberalism preceded the financial crisis, that ever since Seattle, the paradigm shift had started to happen and was starting to reach mainstream consciousness–through mass movements but also ruling class intellectuals (Soros Stiglitz Sachs). The financial crisis only confirmed and precipitated the neoliberal crisis of legitimacy. He predicted that the alternative model that was likely to emerge would be a “global social-democrat agenda,” traces of which had already been seen at the G20. The crisis would continue to be blamed on extreme neoliberals, bad apples and some practical mistakes, and everything would be done by states to preserve and salvage the system as a whole. How successful would such a plan be? The methods of the 30s might not be applicable in a society that has, because of thirty years of neoliberal hegemony, lost a lot of the structures needed to implement keynesian reform, and there was always the danger of authoritarianism. Like other speakers, he emphasized that the crisis of neoliberalism was not going to automatically benefit the left. Interestingly, he mentioned Sarkozy as an example of straying towards that kind of authoritarianism: while declaring the end of free-market fundamentalism, the french president was going towards the far right, having co-opted most of the extremist national front electorate (I believe this is far-fetched, though I would love to use that argument against Sarkozy–his anti-immigration, law and order agenda was put in place way before the crisis, it is based on a political discourse that has been circulating in france for years and years, and he certainly hasn’t seemed to tighten his grip recently at all, quite the opposite.)
Walden Bello concluded by calling for a stronger left, that would shift the social-democrat agenda to the center, where it belongs. Other speakers, at the opening plenary and elsewhere, made the same call: when Paul Krugman is depicted as the radical left by the mainstream media, we’ve definitely got a problem. A strong, imaginative, bold, uncensored left should focus on bursting its self-containing bubble to reach the mainstream and build strong public support. A strong civil society is indispensable in a post-neoliberal society.
More tomorrow. It’s really warm in New York.
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On the development of China’s leadership in international collaborations
Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
Wei Quan, Wuhan University, HEC Montréal (Université de Montréal)
Philippe Mongeon, HEC Montréal (Université de Montréal), Leiden University
Maxime Sainte-Marie, HEC Montréal (Université de Montréal)
Rongying Zhao, Wuhan University
Vincent Larivière, HEC Montréal (Université de Montréal), Leiden University
This paper studies the relationship between leadership, team size, and citation impact in China’s international research output from 1980 to 2016, measured in terms of number of authors, institutions, countries, and citations. Distinction is here made between leading and non-leading Chinese international collaborations, which respectively refer to papers whose first or corresponding author is affiliated to a Chinese institution and papers co-authored by researchers from a Chinese institution but whose first and corresponding authors are not. Analysis at the individual, institutional, and country level show that while average team size by paper increases over the period, the main collaboration mode remains bilateral at the country level. We also observe a positive relationship between team size and research impact up to a certain point, but Chinese-led international collaborations tend to imply smaller teams and have lower impact than non-leading collaborations.
Udgivet - aug. 2019
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Urinary metabolites and antioxidant products of exogenous melatonin in the mouse
Leopoldo Ceraulo, Frank J. Gonzalez, Kristopher W. Krausz, Jeffrey R. Idle, Dun-Xian Tan, Xiaochao Ma
Risultato della ricerca: Article › peer review
48 Citazioni (Scopus)
Exogenous melatonin is widely used for sleep disorders and has potential value in neuroprotection, cardioprotection and as an antioxidant. Here, a novel method is described for the determination of melatonin and six metabolites in mouse urine by use of LC-MS/MS and GC-MS. LC-MS/MS is used for the measurement of melatonin, N-1-acetyl-5-methoxykynuramine (AMK), N-1-acetyl-N-2-formyl-5-methoxykynuramine (AFMK) and 6-hydroxymelatonin (6-HMEL), while GC/MS is used for the determination of N-[2-(5-methoxy-2-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-indol-3-yl)-ethyl]-acetamide (2-OMEL) and cyclic 3-hydroxymelatonin (3-HMEL) with detection limits on column of 0.02-0.5 pmol, depending on the metabolite. Following oral administration of melatonin to mice, a 0-24 hr urine collection revealed the presence of melatonin (0.2% dose), 6-HMEL (37.1%) and NAS (3.1%) comprising > 90% of the total metabolites; AMK and AFMK were also detected at 0.01% each; 2-OMEL was found at 2.2% of the dose, which is > 100 times more than the AMK/AFMK pathway, and comprises > 5% of the melatonin-related material detected in mouse urine. 3-HMEL was largely found as a sulfate conjugate. These studies establish sensitive assays for determination of six melatonin metabolites in mouse urine and confirm the potential for antioxidant activity of melatonin through the identification in vivo of AMK and AFMK, ring-opened metabolites with a high capacity for scavenging reactive oxygen species.
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Journal of Pineal Research
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N-acetyl-5-methoxy kynurenamine Medicine & Life Sciences
Melatonin Medicine & Life Sciences
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Ceraulo, L., Gonzalez, F. J., Krausz, K. W., Idle, J. R., Tan, D-X., & Ma, X. (2006). Urinary metabolites and antioxidant products of exogenous melatonin in the mouse. Journal of Pineal Research, 40, 343-349.
Urinary metabolites and antioxidant products of exogenous melatonin in the mouse. / Ceraulo, Leopoldo; Gonzalez, Frank J.; Krausz, Kristopher W.; Idle, Jeffrey R.; Tan, Dun-Xian; Ma, Xiaochao.
In: Journal of Pineal Research, Vol. 40, 2006, pag. 343-349.
Ceraulo, L, Gonzalez, FJ, Krausz, KW, Idle, JR, Tan, D-X & Ma, X 2006, 'Urinary metabolites and antioxidant products of exogenous melatonin in the mouse', Journal of Pineal Research, vol. 40, pagg. 343-349.
Ceraulo L, Gonzalez FJ, Krausz KW, Idle JR, Tan D-X, Ma X. Urinary metabolites and antioxidant products of exogenous melatonin in the mouse. Journal of Pineal Research. 2006;40:343-349.
Ceraulo, Leopoldo ; Gonzalez, Frank J. ; Krausz, Kristopher W. ; Idle, Jeffrey R. ; Tan, Dun-Xian ; Ma, Xiaochao. / Urinary metabolites and antioxidant products of exogenous melatonin in the mouse. In: Journal of Pineal Research. 2006 ; Vol. 40. pagg. 343-349.
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Saskatchewan officials are keeping an eye on happenings south of the border. Not just on the transfer of power from former president Donald Trump to President Joe Biden, but also North Dakota’s apparent success in overcoming the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. 1
Long-time Regina sports broadcaster Warren ‘Woodsy’ Woods, has died as a result of complications due to COVID-19. He was 66 years-old.
A Regina man has been charged in connection to the city’s second homicide of 2021, according to the Regina Police Service (RPS).
RCMP is investigating after more than 60 cows and calves were stolen from farmland near Moosomin.
The Government of Saskatchewan reported four new COVID-19 related deaths and 234 new cases on Wednesday.
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s first call to a foreign leader will be to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this Friday, the White House has announced. 6
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Saskatchewan’s premier had strong words for councillors, after Regina’s Executive Committee passed a motion to restrict energy companies ability to advertise with the City. 1
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The Regina Police Service is investigating the city’s second homicide of 2021 after the victim of a ‘serious assault’ died in hospital.
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Saskatchewan Huskies' Lokombo named a top CFL prospect
The Canadian Football League released its top 20 prospects from the Winter Scouting Bureau rankings on Wednessday, and a promising member of the Saskatchewan Huskies made the cut. 1
A Saskatchewan author is writing a book featuring an historical account about a devastating military plane crash that shook the Estevan community more than 70 years ago. 1
The Government of Saskatchewan reported four new COVID-19 related deaths and 234 new cases on Wednesday. 3
Sask. sisters using new podcast to help Indigenous youth connect with their culture
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Nearly three years after losing his son Evan in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, Scott Thomas has written a letter in support of the semi-driver who was responsible, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu. 1
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Sask. premier urges feds to 'pick up the pace' after a disruption in Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine deliveries
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Schools in seven southern Ontario regions will reopen Monday
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Sask. reports 175 new COVID-19 cases, 2,927 active
Brendan Ellis CTVNewsRegina.ca Digital Content Producer
@BrendanEllisCTV Contact
Published Tuesday, November 24, 2020 8:04AM CST Last Updated Tuesday, November 24, 2020 7:24PM CST
REGINA -- The Government of Saskatchewan reported 175 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the provincial active case count to 2,927.
Saskatchewan’s seven-day average of daily cases is 209, which equals 17.3 new cases per 100,000 population.
Tuesday afternoon's COVID-19 update has been postponed. Premier Scott Moe and Dr. Saqib Shahab will provide a live COVID-19 update at 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. This event will be streamed live on CTVNewsRegina.ca and CTVNewsSaskatoon.ca.
In a release, the province said five new cases are in the far northwest zone, five are in the far north central zone, 13 are in the far northeast zone, 14 are in the northwest zone, five in the north central zone, four in the north east zone, 28 in Saskatoon, nine in the central west zone, two in the central east zone, 70 in Regina, three in the southwest zone, nine in the south central and four in the southeast zone.
Four new cases are pending location information. Five cases with pending location information were assigned, including one in the far northeast zone, three in the north central zone, and one in the northwest zone.
A total of 112 recovered cases were reported on Tuesday.
There are 105 people in hospital in Saskatchewan related to COVID-19, including 85 people in inpatient care and 20 in intensive care.
826 active cases are from the Saskatoon area
On Monday, 3,174 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.
OUTBREAKS DECLARED IN LONG-TERM CARE HOMES IN REGINA, SASKATOON
The Saskatchewan government has declared new outbreaks in long-term care homes in Regina and Saskatoon.
These follow a number of outbreaks at several long-term care facilities earlier last week, including Regina’s Wascana Rehabilitation Centre. Other businesses and schools have also had outbreaks declared.
According to the province, an outbreak is declared when two people or more test positive for COVID-19 in a non-household setting.
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the virus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS/NIAID-RML via AP
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COVID-19 outbreaks declared in long-term care homes in Regina, Saskatoon
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09.21.2011 Sports
Boys Cross-Country Preview: Burke likes Riverhead’s commitment
GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Anthony Galvan enters the 2011 season as Riverhead's top runner.
That’s the keyword this year for the Riverhead High School boys cross-country team. Commitment can be found in the runners and the coaches.
“The commitment is far greater,” Coach Pat Burke said. “The kids were at summer practices. The leaders, my three top runners, Anthony [Galvan], Travis Wooten and Kevin Williams, these guys are pushing kids now when they walk in practice. When practice is over, they take the initiative to make sure that everyone does another lap.”
And the runners aren’t alone. Burke and his assistant coach, Christy Salerno, can be found running with their athletes during training sessions, encouraging them along the way.
“Coach and I both run,” Burke said. “Whatever we ask the kids to do, we do. So, we did Sunken Meadow [State Park]. We ran with them, and I always tell them, ‘If I beat you, you have a problem.’ ”
The initiative shown by the Blue Waves is a nice starting point.
Galvan, the team’s top runner, is a junior who serves as a captain along with Williams, a senior. Wooten, a sophomore, is back from last year’s squad along with senior Sebastian Jakubiuk and sophomore Matthew Tuthill. All five were scorers last season.
“For me, Anthony Galvan is a special kid and a special runner,” Burke said. “He’s been with me for the introduction to cross-country to him, and he … exemplifies what a leader should do.”
Added to the mix are senior Ed Kruszon and juniors Jonathan Gao and Raymond Lai. The squad has a lot of freshmen (including Jeremy Bornstein, Fabiola Castillo and Nicholas Cunha) and sophomores (including Matthew Cutrone and Joseph Gattuso).
To prepare for the season, the Blue Waves have held practices at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, Red Creek Park in Hampton Bays and Indian Island County Park in Riverhead.
Burke said Riverhead’s goal is to produce some all-league and all-county runners, qualify as a team for the Suffolk County meet, and post a winning team record. But he knows it will not be easy.
“Cross-country is a tough sport,” he said. “I’ve coached different sports, I’ve participated in different sports. It’s you against yourself. It’s the hardest sport you can do. When you run, your objective is to beat the time you had before, not the guy next to you.”
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10.24.2014 Police
Gang activity continues to move farther east, police say
Third Street park in Greenport, where an altercation that led to last week’s shooting incident in Southold occurred. Police say the parties involved are from rival gangs. (Credit: Paul Squire)
Last Tuesday’s shooting in Southold, in which four alleged members of MS-13 attacked two men from a rival gang with guns and a machete, has brought attention to the growing problem of gangs on the East End.
In Riverhead, Riverside and Flanders, gang violence has long been an issue. Town, police and community leaders say they are working together in an attempt to attack the root of the problem.
In Southold Town, gangs are more prevalent than in the past, as changing demographics have brought Latin groups like MS-13 and 18th Street to the East End.
Sgt. Steven Lundquist, an investigator with the Gang Intelligence Unit of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, said the county’s most prevalent gang is the Bloods, though other national gangs — including the two involved in last week’s shooting, as well as the Crips and the Latin Kings — are also active across the area.
Most gang activity, he said, is tied to drug operations and assaults.
“Drugs, guns and gangs all go together,” he said. “It’s all linked.”
Gang members have tried to “fly under the radar” in Suffolk County in recent years, Sgt. Lundquist said. Law enforcement is seeing fewer gang members wearing their traditional colors or getting associated tattoos.
Police have also found that gang members known to live in Nassau or New York City have turned up across Suffolk County, Sgt. Lundquist said. He believes those gang members are traveling east to avoid a larger police presence.
Last week’s incident was an escalation of the gang activity typically reported in Southold Town, where shootings are rare, said police chief Martin Flatley.
“None of [the recent violence] has been as blatant as this,” he said.
See also: No local shooting data available
Chief Flatley said police suspect that some assaults involving different “factions” of Hispanic men may be gang-related, but added that it’s often difficult to prove, since some members of the Hispanic community often do not trust police. He said the root of that problem with trusting cops lies in Central America, where police corruption is rampant and gangs are said to control many parts of the region.
The last major gang-related incident in Southold Town took place in 2009, when a 15-year-old Eber Lopez of Greenport went missing from a christening celebration in Southold, Chief Flatley said. At the time, neighbors said they heard three gunshots just before midnight and police found blood in the backyard, according to a previous Suffolk Times article.
See also: Five gangs with a presence in Suffolk County
Homicide investigators said that Eber — who was not affiliated with a gang — had been confronted by known gang members at the celebration.
The teen’s body was discovered in Farmingville the following month. A Southold man was later convicted of aiding another man who murdered the boy, though the killer was never caught.
Chief Flatley said crimes like the murder of Eber Lopez or the shooting early last Tuesday are rare. He told The Suffolk Times that police have noticed more activity with Hispanic gangs in the area, likely because of the rising immigrant population.
“It’s almost inevitable,” he said. “A lot of the families are from El Salvador. We obviously do know how a lot of the culture is in El Salvador and when they move to our area they’re moving with a part of their culture.”
The Southold chief said his officers take training courses on how to identify gang members and have worked with other police departments to build a database of possible gang members in the area.
Chief David Hegermiller
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Cases & Resources
About the Dog
Principles of damages for loss of economic capacity in personal injury cases December 14, 2015
State of NSW v Moss [2000] NSWCA 133; (2000) 54 NSWLR 536
Heydon JA
[66] There are two uncontroversial themes running through the cases relating to the assessment of damages for injury to earning capacity. One is that in general it is desirable for precise evidence to be called as to what the plaintiff would have been likely to earn but for the injury and what the plaintiff is likely to earn after it. The second is that the failure to call such evidence does not necessarily result in selection of only a nil or nominal figure as damages for impaired earning capacity.
[67] Thus, in relation to the first of these themes, in Paff v Speed (1961) 105 CLR 549 at 559 Fullagar J said that the “usual method of proving damages under [this] head is by calling evidence to show what the plaintiff could probably have earned during the rest of his life if he had not been injured and what, if anything, he is now capable of earning”. The same is true where the defendant is seeking to demonstrate that the diminution of earning capacity is only partial. Barwick CJ in Arthur Robinson (Grafton) Pty Ltd v Carter (1968) 122 CLR 649 at 657 said of a plaintiff who had been rendered almost a quadriplegic:
“He has lost his earning capacity, so far as the evidence goes, all earning capacity. In this connexion, however, too little attention it seems to me is paid to the possibilities which have and will yet open up for paraplegics and quadriplegics: but this ought to be the subject of the evidence and not of mere suggestion on the part of judge or advocate.”
[68] The first theme was stated with the qualification “in general”, because there is authority that in some circumstances over-elaborate evidence is unhelpful. In J K Kealley v Jones [1979] 1 NSWLR 723 at 734-735 Moffitt P said:
“Sometimes, particularly in a jury trial, evidence of some claimed prospective earnings but for injury may distract rather than aid quantification of loss. A jury may well make a better assessment of the loss of a young law student debarred by injury from becoming a barrister by evidence such as in Gilles’ case [(1975) 49 ALJR 349] uncluttered by evidence of earnings made by selected leading senior counsel, with or without the aid of statistics as to success and failure rates of students and barristers, where such evidence is led in supposed aid of quantifying the lost opportunity of becoming leading counsel in the foggy future.”
This approach may rest on a general recognition that “the task of assessing damages in personal injuries cases should be kept as simple as possible”: Jongen v CSR Ltd (1992) Aust Torts Reports 81-192 at 61,713 per Anderson J.
[69] The second theme in the authorities was summed up by Reynolds JA in Yammine v Kalwy [1979] 2 NSWLR 151 at 155 as follows:
“in seeking to quantify his damages, a plaintiff could be well advised to offer [evidence of wage levels] in many cases; and likewise a defendant, in seeking to cut down the damage, might similarly be well advised to tender such evidence; neither, in the absence of such evidence, could complain, to the same effect, at any quantification arrived at. This, however, is far from asserting that in the absence of such evidence only nominal damages is appropriate. …[W]here a plaintiff has suffered a significantly disabling injury which obviously affects the range and nature of the work he can, therefore, perform, a tribunal of fact can, without specific evidence as to what other persons with that kind of disability can earn, make a judgment and assessment, on a percentage basis or otherwise, of the value of the lost capacity.”
Where the plaintiff calls incomplete evidence and there is only a low award for diminution of earning capacity, it is difficult for the plaintiff to complain: Minchin v Public Curator of Queensland [1965] ALR 91 at 93; Giorginis v Kastrati (1998) 49 SASR 371 at 375. But it does not follow that a substantial award in a case where the evidence is incomplete cannot survive appellate attack by the defendant: Luntz, Assessment of Damages for Personal Injury and Death, 3rd ed, para[1.9.28]. This is so for several reasons.
[70] First, damages to compensate for that part of reduced economic capacity which will be reflected in the future are sometimes analysed as being one type of “general damages”. Like other types of “general damages”, as Fullagar J said in Paff v Speed (1961) 105 CLR 549 at 559, they are “of their very nature, incapable of mathematical calculation and (although the expression is apt to be misleading) commonly very much ‘at large’. They are also at large in the sense that a jury has, in serious cases, a wide discretion in assessing them.” In Russell v J Hargreaves & Sons Pty Ltd (1956) 30 ALJ 533 at 534 Taylor J said:
“Since … it is impossible to prescribe fixed or precise standards for the translation into terms of money of physical injuries and pain and suffering and varying degrees of physical incapacity, it is inevitable that individual opinions as to what amount may be said to constitute full compensation in any particular case will vary. Indeed within the bounds of reasonableness they may vary greatly.”
The field is an “uncertain” one: Breska v Lysaghts Works Pty Ltd (1956) 74 WN (NSW) 168 at 169 per Street CJ.
[71] Secondly, strictly the issue does not turn on a comparison between what money the plaintiff would have earned apart from the injury and what money the plaintiff will earn after the injury. The compensable loss is not a loss of income but the loss of capacity to earn income in a manner productive of financial loss: Graham v Baker (1961) 106 CLR 340 at 347. The income earned before the injury is relevant, but only as an evidentiary aid in assessing damages for the loss of capacity to earn income: Paff v Speed (1961) 105 CLR 549 at 566 per Windeyer J. Evaluation of the worth of a loss of capacity to earn – of a lost chance to earn – is of its nature a more imprecise inquiry than calculation of a lost income. It rests on the hypothesis – that the plaintiff will have undiminished capacity – which has been rendered false by events. It does not depend on calculating the income from a particular career which is no longer possible, but in calculating the damage to a capacity to carry on various careers. It is an exercise in estimation of possibilities, not proof of probabilities. Luntz, Assessment of Damages for Personal Injury and Death, 3rd ed, para[1.9.18], said:
“it is not necessary for the plaintiff to establish the future loss with the same degree of precision as the present and past loss … The court is really being asked to estimate as best it can the future effect of the injuries from which the plaintiff has been proved to be suffering as a result of the defendant’s wrongful act.”
In Malec v J C Hutton Pty Ltd (1990) 169 CLR 638 at 639 Brennan and Dawson JJ said: “the ascertainment of earning capacity involves an evaluation of possibilities, not establishing a fact as a matter of history.” They approved Lord Diplock’s statement in Mallett v McMonagle [1970] AC 166 at 176: “in assessing damages which depend upon its view as to what will happen in the future or would have happened in the future if something had not happened in the past, the court must make an estimate as to what are the chances that a particular thing would or could have happened and reflect those chances, whether or not they are more or less than even, in the amount of damages …”. The majority (Deane, Gaudron and McHugh JJ) in Malec v J C Hutton Pty Ltd said at 643 that when the law takes account of future or hypothetical events in assessing damages, it can only do so in terms of the degree of probability of those events occurring in a range from just above the speculative to just below the certain. The inquiry – the process of estimation of possibilities – is thus an imprecise and indeterminate one to be carried out within very broad parameters. The trier of fact may have to form conclusions on “slender materials”: Callaghan v Wm C Lynch Pty Ltd [1962] NSWR 871 at 877 per Evatt CJ, Herron and Sugerman JJ. That language, unlike the reference to permitting “guess work or speculation” elsewhere in that judgment, was not criticised in Ivkovic v Australian Iron & Steel Ltd [1963] SR (NSW) 598 at 607 per Manning J. However, Menzies J said that sometimes the assessment of damages involves “guess work rather than estimation”: Jones v Schiffman (1971) 124 CLR 303 at 308; see also Linsell v Robson [1976] 1 NSWLR 249 at 259 per Mahoney JA; Chaplin v Hicks [1911] 2 KB 786 at 792 per Vaughan Williams LJ. Lord Diplock described the factors underlying the assessment of damages for diminished earning capacity as “matters of prophecy or judicial guesses” in Paul v Rendell (1981) 34 ALR 569 at 578. The English position was summarised thus by Lloyd LJ in Foster v Tyne and Wear County Council [1986] 1 All ER 567 at 570:
“when it comes to estimating loss of earning capacity, there is no such thing as a conventional approach; there is no rule of thumb which can be applied. It would be so much easier if there were. But there is not. In each case the trial judge has to do his best to assess the plaintiff’s handicap, as an existing disability, by reference to what may happen in the future. As has been said so often, that is necessarily a matter of speculation; it is necessarily a matter of weighing up risks and chances in all the circumstances of a particular case. The very fact that the approach must necessarily be so speculative means, of course, that the occasions on which this court will feel justified in interfering with a judge’s assessment will be few and far between, for there is no established range or standard against which to measure the judge’s award.”
[72] Thirdly, the mere fact that the quantum of damages is difficult to assess does not mean that the plaintiff is only entitled to a nominal sum. This principle applies as much to the assessment of damages for impaired earning capacity in injured plaintiffs as it does to pecuniary loss caused by negligent advice (Bowen v Blair [1933] VLR 398) or to loss in the form of the diminished value of damaged property (Wheeler v Riverside Coal Transport Co Pty Ltd [1964] Qd R 113), or equitable damages (Talbot v General Television Corp Pty Ltd [1980] VR 224 at 250-1), or damages for breach of contract (Fink v Fink (1946) 74 CLR 127 at 143). In the last case, Dixon and McTiernan JJ put the following general proposition: “Where there has been an actual loss of some sort, the common law does not permit difficulties of estimating the loss in money to defeat the only remedy it provided for breach of contract, an award of damages.” This was followed in Sellars v Adelaide Petroleum NL (1994) 185 CLR 332 at 349 per Mason CJ, Dawson, Toohey and Gaudron JJ. The same is true in tort. In Naylor v Yorkshire Electricity Board [1968] AC 529 at 548 Lord Devlin said: “in the law of damages … difficulty in calculation is not ordinarily taken as a ground either for reducing or for increasing the award”. The court will be more ready to shoulder the burden of acting without specific evidence where that evidence is difficult to call. In Biggin & Co Ltd v Permanite Ltd [1951] 1 KB 422 at 438, a sale of goods case involving a recovery in respect of damaged goods, Devlin J said: “It is only that where precise evidence is obtainable the Court naturally expects to have it. Where it is not the Court must do the best it can”. As McPherson J said in Nilon v Bezzina [1988] 2 Qd R 420 at 424: “The degree of precision with which damages are to be proved is proportionate to the proof reasonably available”. The courts on occasion cite in related contexts Bowen LJ’s related but stricter observation in Ratcliffe v Evans [1892] 2 QB 524 at 532-523, an injurious falsehood case:
“In all actions … on the case where the damage actually done is the gist of the action, the character of the acts themselves which produce the damage, and the circumstances under which these acts are done, must regulate the degree of certainty and particularity with which the damage done ought to be stated and proved. As much certainty and particularity must be insisted on … in … proof of damage, as is reasonable, having regard to the circumstances and the nature of the acts themselves by which the damage is done.”
[73] The application of these principles is illustrated in a category of cases where the injury to a plaintiff who had the chance of a relatively high income if an appropriate tertiary training had been undertaken has prevented that training. In this category in particular the courts have not declined to make substantial awards to compensate for impaired economic capacity measured by valuing the lost chance to earn high income even though there was no evidence of the possible ranges of income.
[74] In Ashford v Ashford (1970) 44 ALJR 195 at 196, a case where there was no evidence of particular income levels which would have been attained but for the injury and which could be attained after it, but where it was clear that there had been a diminution in earning capacity, Barwick CJ said for reasons including “the difficulty in determining what was the actual diminution of the appellant’s earning capacity, the margins within which a trial judge might properly exercise his discretion in arriving at a verdict in this case were necessarily fairly wide.” The High Court restored a verdict of the trial judge of $90,000 general damages, which evidently included $25,000 for impaired earning capacity.
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Posted on December 25, 2014 by Joseph Suto
Kissmas Bash 2014
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Thousands of screaming teenage girls inside the First Niagara Center can only mean one thing during the month of December…Kissmas Bash time. Friday evening WKSE-98.5 FM trotted out their 2014 edition featuring several up and coming artists who will make up the mainstream of pop music in the very near future. The show closed out the third consecutive day of concerts at the arena, as Bob Seger and The J. Geils Band played Wednesday and Kerfuffle last night.
Actor turned singer Jacob Latimore opened the show much to the approval of the large crowd the was assembled. The show moved along at a fast pace as the downtime between acts for changeover was the key to having a smooth running show.
Rixton, the British boy band was up next followed by Echosmith the American indie rock band that has been garnering some attention recently.
Nico and Vinz a duo from Norway followed with an interesting set that had them fusing reggae, pop and soul and rap. Formed in 2009 they are comprised of Kahouly Nicolay “Nico” Sereba and Vincent “Vinz” Dery. They may very well have been the most underrated act on the bill.
Surprisingly the biggest name on the bill appeared next as Nick Jonas took his turn center stage. Performing songs from his recently released solo album, Jonas had the crowd’s attention and then some. Jonas dressed in a black leather jacket and backwards baseball cap had the crowd swooning every time he addressed them.
Jake Miller the 22 year old from Florida quickly followed with his blend of pop rap. He was able to connect with the crowd very easily during his brief set. Another artist to look out for in the near future.
Closing out the show was Charli XCX. After a considerable delay Charli came out and explained technical difficulties caused the lag and apologized for being late. She proceeded to make everyone forget about the delay as she delved into songs from her latest release Sucker. With a powerful voice and sound that at times reminded one of later Madonna and Blondie, the future for Charli is looking very luminous.
Overall Kissmas Bash 2014 will go down as one of the more peculiar ones. On paper the show did not seem overall appealing, but after seeing the affair first hand it surely did what it is designed to do, turn people on to up and coming talent. In year’s past, Kissmas Bashes featured artists such as Avril Lavigne, Vanessa Carlton and other artists who were already established. The past few years we have seen some very bright artists like Ed Sheeran and Philip Phillips who among others keep getting bigger as their careers progress. Put next year’s Kissmas Bash on your things to do list, chances are you may see the next big act.
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Eighty years on, the RSS women's wing has not moved beyond seeing the woman as mother
A three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti opens in Delhi with talk of matri shakti – but only within the confines of a family.
Nov 12, 2016 · 07:00 am
For a snapshot of how the all-male Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has kept its women’s wing relegated to a domestic role and away from all issues of gender justice, visit the three-day training camp of the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, which was inaugurated by the organisation’s chief, Mohan Bhagwat, at Chhatarpur in Delhi on Friday.
In his speech, Bhagwat made no mention of gender justice or self-choice for women, instead stressing on “matri shakti”, or woman power, and “kutumb prabodhan”, or the awakening of family values – showing that the women’s group has not been allowed to change even a bit by its male counterpart since its formation eight decades ago in 1936.
“Till India’s matri shakti turns active and comes forward, India will not be able to achieve its potential and pristine glory and act as a guiding force to the world,” Bhagwat told hundreds of sevikas, as the members are called, from across the country.
In his hour-long speech, the RSS chief made authoritative pronouncements on the woman’s central role of imparting sanskar (values) to children and, thereby, strengthening society and the nation. “Our kutumb vyavastha [family system] has caught the attention of the world,” he said.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at the Rashtra Sevika Samiti training camp in Delhi on Friday.
This was the ideological position in 1936 too when Lakshmibai Kelkar set up the Rashtra Sevika Samiti, at the behest of RSS founder Dr KB Hedgewar. The group was, in fact, the first branch of the RSS, which now heads a parivar of members operating in different civil and political spheres.
Initially, Kelkar was not in favour of forming a separate front for women. She approached Hedgewar with a request to open the all-male RSS shakhas (branches) to women members. The RSS chief, however, was against this idea of joint shakhas, and as a compromise helped Kelkar set up the Rashtra Sevika Samiti.
But since the RSS has always focused on the mobilisation of chauvinistic Hindu men and hardly ever attached any importance to formal organisational work by women, the group led a low-priority existence and worked on the basis of its male counterpart’s ideology.
Patriarchal belief
This conformist character that the group has sought to deepen all these decades becomes obvious the moment one talks to its office-bearers.
On November 9, at a press conference called to announce the training camp, Rashtra Sevika Samiti general secretary Seetha Annadanam vociferously defended the exclusion of women from RSS shakhas. “Our culture does not permit joint shakhas for men and women,” she said. “That is why we have separate shakhas for them.”
Annadanam, in fact, appeared so tied to patriarchal family interests that, while replying to another question, she stood against allowing Hindu women a share in the ancestral property of their parents. “There should be a balance between women’s rights and our traditions, and this should be done on the basis of shastras,” she said. “Otherwise, it would split our families and pit brothers against sisters.”
She made an equally controversial statement in an interview to the Indian Express, published earlier in the day. “There is nothing called marital rape,” the newspaper quoted her as saying. “Marriage is a sacred bond. Coexistence should lead to bliss. If we are able to understand the concept of this bliss, then everything runs smooth.”
It is, therefore, no surprise that the Rashtra Sevika Samiti within the RSS framework of sanskar, is largely restricted to the Sangh’s traditional base of Maharashtra and nearby areas. Eight decades after it was founded, it continues to hold to the formulations of former RSS leader MS Golwalkar, as mentioned in his book Bunch of Thoughts, that women are predominantly mothers who should rear their children.
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Having made waves with their 2015 debut, The Life I Remember, the band have dramatically progressed beyond the melodic death metal sound of that release into something more complex, emotional, distinct, and devastatingly heavy. Evolution was not just the title of Once Human s sophomore release last year it was an armorplated declaration. And it evolved into something big. The video for their lead-off single Eye Of Chaos by now gathered more than 7 million views on YouTube alone. Stage Of Evolution is the consequential mutation of the Evolution album from studio to stage. It was recorded during last year s US tour and features not only songs from the studio album but also a cover of Machine Head s Davidian , a track from their 1994 debut album Burn My Eyes, co-written by Logan Mader. The track also features guest vocals by Fred Leclercq of Sinsaeneum and Dragonforce.
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‘Utterly absorbing, astonishingly inventive, and richly imagined. Dominic Smith is a wizard.’ Andrea Barrett, National Book Award Winner and author of Archangel
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his muse.
Dominic Smith’s The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey–America’s first movie town–and on the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious film studio and one man’s doomed obsession with all that passes in front of the viewfinder.
For nearly half a century, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films, who started out as a concession agent for the Lumiere brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film-history student comes to interview Claude about The Electric Hotel–the lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrose–the past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments and reels in desperate need of restoration, and Claude’s memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him.
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Sayles
Posted on March 13, 2019 March 13, 2019 by Kay Strickland
Reading Between the Lines: A note from Ira Sayles, 1869
This post examines the letter Ira Sayles, my great-great-grandfather, wrote
to his brother James in July of 1869 for its tantalizing clues of sibling
whereabouts.
Many thanks to cousin, blog-reader, and James Sayles descendant, Sharon Babcock,
for sharing her family stash.
A bit of Review
Ira Sayles (1817-1894) was one of nine children born to Christopher and Sarah [King] Sayles. In 1824, the family migrated from Burrillville, Rhode Island to Westfield Township in the Cowanesque Valley of Tioga County, Pennsylvania. By mid-century, however, few of the Sayles kids remained in that northern tier county.
As I systematically reviewed what I knew or wanted to know about each person mentioned, the 1869 letter became more than a sibling’s let-me-catch-up-with-you. It documents family movements and issues that are inextricably tied with economic and social events that prompted mass migrations of people in the mid-19th century.
let me reintroduce Ira
Ira, the eldest child, was the first to leave the Westfield homeplace, to apprentice in a woolen mill located in Whitesville, Allegany County, New York, in 1837. It was a poor fit for the voracious reader and Ira leapt at the chance to become a student at an Allegany County academy in Alfred in 1839. With the exception of military service in Virginia during 1862-1863, Ira resided in Allegany County, just over the New York-Pennsylvania border from his family, for the next thirty years, serving as a teacher and/or principal:
at Alfred Academy,
then Rushford Academy,
back to Alfred Academy,
and, after the war,
once again at Rushford Academy.
And it is from Rushford that Ira wrote to James in 1869.
Who Else is mentioned in this letter?
James (1822-1882), the letter’s recipient, was a fiery-tempered, hazel eyed younger brother, who remained in his hometown to become first a machinist and then a hotelier. In the mid-1860s James, wife Lucinda, and their family disappeared from Ira’s life.
“Yours of the 18 inst[ant] came to hand, last evening. I need not say I was somewhat surprised: for I had lost all trace of you…I am glad to receive a line now,” said Ira.
A line from Austin, Minnesota where James and his wife Lucinda had purchased a farm in the south central part of that state.
Another person mentioned is the blue-eyed middle child, Loren. “[He] is in East Boston, I suppose.”
This brother had left Westfield in his twenties to study at Alfred Academy before relocating to Lowell, Massachusetts where he married Francis Weymouth in 1855. Shortly thereafter, the couple trekked across the continent to Cosumnes, a gold mining camp in the Michigan Bar District of California. After trying his hand as a miner, Loren, his wife, and baby daughter returned to the east coast, to East Boston, where Loren likely worked as a machinist in the area’s shipbuilding yards.
And wrote to Ira inquiring about other family members. “He (Loren) has twice inquired of me for you. I could not tell. The matter has rested.”
A third person is discussed in that note to James–Ira’s wife, my great-great-grandmother, Serena Crandall White Sayles. The couple was living together in a house across Main Street from Rushford Academy. Serena was a full-time homemaker, assisted by black teenager, Virginia Copeland, and mother to three surviving children, Clifton, Merlin, and Christopher Sherman.
Serena was also the controller of the family’s purse-strings, a role that Ira seems to have resented. Ira’s principal salary was devoured by family expenses and any financial flexibility was attributed to his wife’s assets, given or bequeathed to Serena by her parents, Samuel S. and Nancy Teater White.
“Serena does not dispose of much of her landed property, though of some. She is moving to sell her Alfred property, house and all, for six thousand. It ought to bring ten thousand. She wanted me to invest her means in Virginia lands. Then she thought she didn’t dare trust me alone, so she went with me. It was exceedingly warm; and I suspect she will not go again very soon.”
“I could get and make a splendid home there, at a very low price. But it is all of no use. The means of making such a home are hers. Where she says invest, there investment will be made, or nowhere.”
Once Correspondence, Now Evidence
Ira wrote to bring James up to speed on family news. It was a conversation via post.
For me now, the letter provides evidence of family members’ residences, as well as evidence of marital discord. It also offers evidence of when the Sayles first began to consider relocating to Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
Ira’s determination to remain connected with his extended family unwittingly recorded how the era’s political and economic whirlwinds separated family networks and reinforced racial hierarchies.
In taking his animal husbandry, blacksmithing, and business skills west, James joined a stream of white settlers that flooded into Minnesota lands from which indigenous peoples had been forcibly removed during the US-Dakota War of 1862.
Loren trained as a machinist, and left the mountains of rural Pennsylvania to participate in the northeast’s textile economy, which thrived off the cotton picked by enslaved labor. Loren then sought opportunity amidst the gold rush in California and returned to the industrial opportunities of East Boston‘s ship yards.
Ira, though chafing at his wife’s property rights, contemplated the possibilities of migrating to a reconstructing south.
All three families were white, descendants of Rhode Island British colonizers. The Sayles families moved to opportunity, confident that they would be welcomed and capable of moving again if prospects didn’t work out. They negotiated no bans, confronted no xenophobic signs, carried no passes or permission to travel from employers or law enforcement.
Three different stories. Three different sets of choices that separated siblings. All remained joined by the position they, as white men, occupied in the country’s hierarchy of color, race, and opportunity.
Beyond pricking my conscience about white intergenerational opportunity, the letter also prompts questions for further family research.
How much was an average teacher’s salary in post-war New York? Virginia? Nationally?
What were the laws in New York and Virginia governing a married woman’s right to own property and control her wages?
What were the motives for Serena and Ira’s consideration of a Virginia residence?
How do the answers to these questions affect my understanding of what unfolded in the next decade for Serena and Ira?
The past dwells in the present, and confronting its truth is requisite to participating in reconciliation.
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I am a keeper of my family's lore, chasing after my ancestors' tales in south central New York, southwestern Pennsylvania and Southside Virginia. The stories and photographs that I share on this blog are my intellectual property. While I do my very best to provide well researched posts, I do not pretend to have reached genealogical proof standards. Therefore, much of this work is to generate conversation among interested parties. If you would like to share my work or my records, please contact me: dkaysdays (at) gmail (dot) com.
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Transcript Tuesday: General Affidavit for Pension Claim of Serena C. Sayles, 27 August 1895
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What Happens in Alberta Stays in Alberta
by Shannon O'Brien
Dinosaur Provincial Park
I rode this. Just kidding.
This was probably the coolest thing we saw on the whole trip to Alberta. The landscape around the museum was a fossil hunters fantasy. My now-husband and I went into this huge museum filled with every cool and nice fossil you could imagine.
My favorite part was this room full of blown glass sculptures of the Cambrian Explosion, but blown way up. Much like the glass was. I guess there was a lot of tiny but extremely diverse species on the planet at that point, so they decided to magnify them for show.
And boy, let me tell you, these things were like giant sea bugs and plants that looks like something from an LSD trip. Well, I haven’t taken LSD. But I imagine it’s something like that Cambrian Explosion room.
The whole time everybody was looking for the T-Rex. I don’t know why T-Rex is king, but he is. And the woman dinosaurs too. I would tell you more about the T-Rex but I don’t really remember it.
A little funny thing that happened was I was outside and I had my husband take pictures of me in front of all the garbage cans. Well little did I know, a little kid was watching us and decided to take pictures in front of the garbage cans too! What a funny little kid!
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
I fell off this and died. Just kidding.
The buffalo jump is possible due to the Rocky Mountains rising from prairie. The buffalo would think the prairie continued on when they were scared by the people, dressed as wolves. Then there’s a cliff. So they would jump off the cliff and fall to their death.
We went to outside to the buffalo jump and it was windy as fuck. I kept holding onto the railing and hanging on for dear life screaming, “Help me, Jesus!”
The other tourists seemed distracted by that for some reason.
I climbed to the top of each one of these mountains. Just kidding.
Banff National Park was badass. First of all, the mountains? Huge. And they take up a good portion of the sky. Actually there’s no sky. It’s all hidden behind these dang mountains. That’s how big they are.
We actually went camping there. For a long time. We got firewood and made a fire. I told ghost stories until my husband begged me to stop. Telling me things like, “Please stop telling your stories and telling me they’re true. They are not true!”
I don’t know why he said that. I really was a mummy before.
There’s also a little town that was packed full of people and cars. It was definitely a traffic jam. I figured that out really quick. So I don’t recommend going there in August when all the tourists are on vacation. STupid tourists.
Um, hi.
We went to a waterfall there. That’s right. There’s waterfalls there. Also glaciers, hot springs, lakes, and mountains. Also waterfalls but we already covered that.
The waterfall carved a huge canyon out of the rock. Then there were all these plaques of people who died going over the railings to get a closer look. It was sad. But also wouldn’t that be kind of a cool way to die? In a beautiful waterfall? I don’t know. Sounds pretty nice to me.
Oh right, and we saw 2 bears!!! The host of the campground didn’t see too impressed by that. “Oh yeah, they like to hang around the entrance of the park.” Probably because that’s where the garbage was. They could eat the garbage so they just kind of hang out. I know I did.
This could be Emerald Lake. Yeah, it’s Emerald Lake.
We hiked up a steep but pretty easy trail to see Emerald Lake. But it was summer and it was dried up a lot. The cool part is the turquoise water that’s caused by rock flour and the light spectrum somehow. I don’t know. I wasn’t really listening to the tour guide.
Anyway, it’s beautiful blah blah blah.
Canmore Cave Tours
This person is having a great time in a cave.
I have a lot to say about this caving tour of Rat’s Nest Cave. We get to this place that looks like of like a dance studio, but full of caving equipment and rocks.
We put on our special suits and brought our helmets and gloves. Before we left, we signed a form that means you won’t sue anyone for having a bad body and getting hurt.
I actually almost backed out of this one because the website said you should be able to do moderate exercise. For me, that means walking fast. Apparently that means something different in Canadian.
We get in our cars and follow the tour guide to the hiking trail to get to the cave. The views on the hike were beautiful, we went up a dirt and rock trail. It could get steep so watch out. My weak ass had to stop a lot and be the caboose.
I took a solemn swear right then and there that I would be in perfect shape from then on.
I closed my eyes and whispered the swear under my breath. The tour guide and other people with us on the hike felt pretty weird in their bodies at that point. But I opened my eyes and stopped mouthing my oath after a while and we went on with the hike.
We put on our special space suits and climbed into the spooooky cave. And guess. what. We saw a rat and its nest! In Rat’s Nest Cave! Apparently those are super rare. But guess what else? We saw another one! That’s 2 rats!!!! That’s so many rats!!!
We go deeper into the cave, which has small crevices to go through, some of which you have to go head first into. This is not for claustrophobic people. So beware! *shakes you*
We get to the bottom of the cave, and well, there was lots more of the cave that was unmapped because it’s so hard to navigate, but we get to this grotto, this beautiful rainbow and turquoise water that’s supposed to have fish in it but I didn’t see any so I demanded a refund.
We turned off our headlamps (oh, we were wearing headlamps). It was the darkest place I’ve ever been. You could just hear the water dripping from those cone things that are in a cave ceiling or floor or sides.
We eventually turned on our headlamps because I screamed and cried. Just kidding. I was a big girl.
On the way back, we had to climb through a steep crevice and climb up a rope with no knots in it. Here’s the problem: I have zero core strength so I made a huge mistake: I used my lower back muscles to pull myself up. Yikes! As we left and started the hike down the hill, I started to feel pain all around my lower back. Uh…
We came back and I was the most exhausted I’ve been in my life. It was a workout the whole time. My back was getting more painful while I was sitting driving and I was pretty sure something was wrong.
Then we got to our shitty motel and I couldn’t bend over at all. Not even a little bit. I laid on my stomach and used all the ice in the cooler to put on my back and then I took a hot shower. You know, doing that ice heat ice heat ice heat ice heat ice heat ice heat thing.
When I got back I had to go to physical therapy so take them seriously when they say it’s moderate exercise and you shouldn’t use your back to get out of a cave!
There’s ice in there. Trust me.
This road was constructed during the Great Depression as a relief project, and because the government wanted to employ as many people as possible, they had 600 men make the road by hand! That sounds pretty inefficient to me but, I believe the government was acting in everybody’s best interest.
This drive had such a variety of nature. There were also mountain goats and bears on the side of the road. Everyone was going nuts trying to get a close picture with the wild animal.
By the way, that’s a bad idea and people get gored that way. “Gored” means stabbed with a horn. So… don’t do that unless you’re ready for death/injury. I just sped right the fuck past at 100 mph and flew off a cliff and my car caught on fire and rolled down the mountain once. Then we all thought it was over. But the cliff below us gave out! And we fell off the cliff and the car caught on fire again and we rolled down the mountain again!!
After that, I was fine and it was on to the next attraction.
Blue lake. Wow. What a big surprise.
Surreal. Picturesque. Those are some words.
This lake is glacier fed which gives it its distinctive blue color. Something, something refraction of light.
The end? Nope. Here’s one last story.
Look, I enjoy some fine legal cannabis in the state I live. A lot. But I was not about to cross the border with drugs. So I left all my “stuff” behind at home. Here’s the problem though.
Let’s just say, I did not accidentally bring drugs across the border. We did not have to throw it in a garbage conspicuously. There is not a bag of edibles in some random garbage in Alberta, Canada.
Literally signing off,
Shannon O’Brien
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I just made my friend and myself the world’s worst pasta. I tried to mix cheeses, pepper, and mushrooms. But it glopped.
And it was too late to order something for delivery or buy groceries to make something else.
Welcome to curfew life in Egypt.
For the first nine days, curfew started at 7:00PM. That meant that you had to figure out what you wanted for dinner by 5:00PM because all restaurants and shops close then. Nowadays curfew begins at 9:00PM (with the exception of Fridays): restaurants and shops closing at 6:30/7:00PM.
This has called for more home cooking than I am used to or qualified for. It has also entailed being homebound every single night, all night. All clubs and bars closed, except for a few strongholds in Zamalek, downtown and Maadi. No latenite chats at a cafe.
I may or may not have defied curfew twice, though. Shhh.
Curfew also means no going to the movies or concerts in the evenings. No theatre or dance performances after 4:00. All closed. It has meant the classes I teach are scheduled earlier in the day. It has meant that we have turned to home workouts, reading books, watching far too much TV, online courses like Coursera, complaining about the lowsy wifi connections and blackouts, and wracking up the electric bill by our AC usage.
But things are safe, in that the military is control. Young guys in camo relaxing atop tanks on the corner. Muslim Brotherhood, Ikhwan, Pro-Morsi, Salafis and self-proclaimed Anti-Coup protesters do make their stance every once in awhile. Like Wednesday when there was some gunfire and residents were taking it upon themselves to cordon off the area and redirect traffic. And tomorrow there may be big protests.
In all honesty, my heart goes out to them. The young military and this set of protestors. Caught in a sad and sick and unrevolutionary algorithm. Where money and bodies are counted then multiplied by either national security or imposed Sharia. Where xenophobia, spin and blame are actually deafening. And revolutionary liberals and secularists sit back instead of planning the build-up they so desperately need before elections.
This week is the one-year anniversary of me coming to Egypt as a Fulbright Scholar. I first came here in 2010 as a UN Alliance of Civilizations International Fellow. Then I came for a week in the (post) revolutionary summer of 2011 to visit the friends I had met during that original trip. But a year ago, I came for something big. I had left my jobs in Chicago and was flying into an unknown future, as a professional, as a dance educator, as a single woman in her mid-30s, as a survival of sexual assault and harassment, as an American in the MENA region.
A Fulbright staff member met me at the airport, we negotiated the gender roles in the carrying of my bags and he took me to my Fulbright apartment where there was fresh fruit and milk waiting and the TV was turned on to CNN. He showed me where to do my grocery shopping and left me the keys.
September 2, 2012. Yes, I asked a male stranger to take a photo of me posing alone in Tahrir Square.
A little over a week later, watching CNN led to me witnessing the “storming” of the embassy by Egyptian Salafis and other groups protesting a video most of them had never seen. I am now realizing these are the same groups I am now seeing as pro-Morsi.
Then in September I met a fantastic guy and I allowed myself the happiness of dating. I also walked into 57357 Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt and described my vision of a dance program, applied to volunteer, and was invited to the sleepaway camp at the Health & Hope Oasis.
The semester began at the High Institute of Ballet and pedagogical differences both inspired and shocked me.
Then came October/November and the Constitutional mess of a referendum and shockingly undemocratic decrees. There were the liberal groups uniting to end the increasingly fascist rule of the Muslim Brotherhood and to remember those who died at the hands of the SCAF a year ago, many artists among the victims. And to honor all those liberal protestors who had been shot intentionally in the eye. These actions were the seeds of Tamarod. There was the power of Tahrir.
There was Halloween and Thanksgiving and Christmas in Egypt. There were unforgettable experiences with dance schools in Palestine, witnessing the apartheid in Hebron/Al Khalil, teaching at a university and community dance program in Uganda, seeing innovations in bringing electricity to the people there, a real African safari and baby elephant orphanage, and visiting the continent’s largest slum and then the unaccompanied refugee girls in the safehouse of Heshima Kenya. Then there was Azerbaijan and Michigan.
There was my mother’s cancer battle accompanying this entire year story. Her humor comforting us and our messages comforting her.
There was the 35-day Egyptian artists’ sit-in, occupying the Ministry of Culture, led by my friends and colleagues.
There was a joyous revolution, with artists as catalysts. There was a feeling of accomplishment followed by the evacuation of current US Fulbrighters.
Then there was a shocking and disturbing mass military killing of civilians, armed or not, terrorists or not.
Then more American artists arrived here in Cairo with gusto to begin their own unexpected year or two.
Then there was Curfew Life and my goppy pasta.
Oh, what a mighty year. Please stay tuned…
A Fulbright Scholar in Cairo
Egypt: Moving Through the Boom, Boom, Boom
Is Dance the Love of Your Life?: Q’s/Cues from a 12-yr-old
A Problem With Pronouns in Dance Education
I’m a Dance Teacher and I Liked Maïmouna Doucouré’s “Mignonnes (Cuties)”
Warning Signs During the COVID-19 Crisis
How this Could Be a COVID Pandemic for the Better
Why I Want to Remember Everything About the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
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When Asian Women Are Harassed for Marrying Non-Asian Men
Posted by Shelly Johnson
The men who harass me know three things: I’m Chinese-American, my husband is white, and ourson is multiracial.You hate Asian men,they insist;you hate your own child. You hate yourself.I once received 27 tweets — calling me everything from “irrelevant” to “liar” to “coward” to “neglectful gaslighting mother” — in 48 hours, from one person. I save these messages in a folder on my computer to document the abuse. Whenever I upgrade my laptop, I copy them over, little packets of poison I must keep and carry forever.
I’ve gotten messages like this for more than four years, ever since my first novel — featuring a family with an Asian father and a white mother — was published and my own mixed family became public knowledge. But this message arrived in August — #AsianAugust, some were calling it, because of the huge success of Asian-centered films likeCrazy Rich Asians,Searching,andTo All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.It was a moment when Asian-Americans were celebrating as a community, yet here was a hate message plummeting out of the blue into my inbox.And like most of the harassing messages I receive, it came from an Asian man.
In frustration, I shared the message on Twitter, and most people were appalled. I’d thought I was alone, or just unlucky, but as I spoke to other women — 13 for this piece — I realized it wasn’t just me. Targeted harassment from Asian-American men toward Asian-American women over choosing a non-Asian partner or having multiracial children, I discovered, is widespread, vicious, and devastating. We tell kids, “Ignore bullies and they’ll go away,” but the thing about ignoring bullies is that even if they leaveyoualone, they find other targets. For instance, actress Hana Wu was targeted on Twitter after she tweeted a film trailer in which her character has a relationship with a white man, and she soon began receiving misogynistic messages on Instagram.
On Reddit, users speculate freely about Asian women’s sexual relationships. “Perhaps she settled for a black guy because she couldn’t snag a white boyfriend?” suggestsa threadon writer Jenn Fang, who is the founder of the Asian-American blog Reappropriate — and is married to a black man. Another reads: “She probably dated a village of White guys before she dated the black guy to be ‘edgy’ and further her SJW career.”
Hateful language is also directed at the women’s multiracial children. Sometimes it’s direct and horrific: Writer Christine Tan — whose husband is white and whose son is multiracial — received the following email via her personal blog, a few months after suffering a miscarriage. Here’s just the first half of the message.
Other times, the implied violence is more subtle. About half the women I spoke with shared messages in which harassers called their children (or hypothetical children) “the next Elliot Rodger.” Elliot Rodger was a 22-year-old who killed 6 people and wounded 14 others near the UC Santa Barbara campus in 2014 — leaving behind a “manifesto” blaming his mixed-race heritage and rejection by women as his motive — and the harassers invoke his name frequently as an argument against interracial dating and multiracial children.
The volume and venom of these messages has real-world consequences for these women. They told me they reduced their internet presence afterward — making it harder to share their work and get new work. Some writers told me they shied away from writing about race, relationships, or identity. Some quit altogether.
Although the messages come from many users, one particular subgroup on Reddit seems to be the root for most of this harassment. WritersMimi Wong, journalistClarissa Wei, and the vast majority of women I spoke to for this piece (including me) were all targeted after being highlighted on “AZNidentity” — which frequentlycalls outAsianwomenits members disapprove of.
Officially, AZNidentity describes itself as “a Pan Asian (East, Southeast, South, Central) community against all forms of anti Asian racism.” Though some of the posts on the forum do focus on Asian identity and fighting racism, on the day I checked, 18 of the 30 most recent posts — and20 of the 30 top posts of all time— explicitlydiscussedAsianwomen’schoiceofsexualpartners. Derogatory and misogynistic language is common: “Lu,” “self-hating AF” [Asian female], “colonial mentality,” “white worshipping.” On this board, all these terms are used liberally, and virtually interchangeably, to denigrate Asian women thought to be ashamed of Asian culture. Almost always, the “proof” is that they have relationships with non-Asian men.
academicstoworktodating apps. Fromtheirposts, it’s clear that Asian men like those on AZNidentity believe they’re fighting a constant battle against a culture that’s out to get them.
To this community, it’s a scarcity model: Asian women who succeed are accused of succeeding “at the expense of” Asian men. The worst scarcity, they believe, is in the dating pool:Asian women who “marry out”areperpetuating the stereotype that Asian men are undesirable. (The reverse, however, is not true — relationships between Asian men and white women are celebrated, with AZNidentity evencrowdfundinga pornobased on such a couple.)Asian women who have mixed children, it’s assumed, will raise them to prefer non-Asians,perpetuatingthe cycle.
If Asian men lose out in jobs and in dating, the logic goes, the result will be theextinctionof Asian men— in cultural relevance, and possibly literally. Thus, in the eyes of these men, interracial relationships andmultiracial childrenare “eugenics” — selectively “breeding” Asian menout of existence— but inter-Asian marrying to create “pure” Asians, as they put it, is commendable.
There’s a range of behavior from men who engage in this harassment on Reddit, Twitter, and other channels. The problem is that even legitimate concerns end up entwined with these more extreme views. Some of the men on these forums argue that they are overlooked culturally and that Asian women’s activism sidelines them — a point that the Asian community can and should civilly discuss further. However, most speak not about cultural representation and activism, but about what they perceive as a dearth of dating opportunities for Asian men. The most toxic posts come from men who argue for racial purity and refer to Asian women as if they are commodities rather than people. Yet men all along this spectrum of opinions engage in similar harassing behavior, using similar misogynistic language and similar bullying tactics — and placing the blame for the entire array of complaints squarely on Asian women.
Read even a small sample of messages and you’ll notice they focus overwhelmingly on who an Asian woman chooses (or doesn’t choose) as a sexual partner. While Asian men in interracial relationships face this as well — Eddie Huang hastweeted, “my dm box and LIFE is full of azn women that come at me for having dated non-Asian women and its foul” — the harassment is directed almost exclusively, and most viciously, at Asian women in relationships with non-Asian men.
I know this all too well myself. These harassers frequently brand me “self-hating” and accuse me of “hating Asian men” — because I have a white husband, and because of atweetI posted years ago in which I acknowledged I wasn’t always attracted to Asian men.
They have a valid complaint here: My tweet fedinto those stereotypes that Asian men are unsexy, and when people pointed this out, I rethought my own biases. Growing up, the only Asians I knew were my cousins — so, as I admitted, when I see Asian men, my first instinctive feeling is often kinship rather than sexual attraction. This is a shortcoming in me, not them, and it’s something I’ve worked — and am still working — to unlearn.
But though I’ve addressed this topicmultipletimes, it doesn’t matter to the harassers. They send a screenshot of that tweet repeatedly at me and anyone who tries to support me, passing the .jpg along on Reddit like a shared baseball bat for anyone who wants to take a swing.
In their messages, these harassers often claim Asian women don’t care about the issues facing Asian men, or even that they believe the stereotypes. But for the women I interviewed, the opposite was true. Nearly every woman acknowledged how hard it was to be an Asian man.
“I will fight anyone who wants to emasculate Asian men,” YA author Ellen Oh wrote me. “But I won’t do it at the expense of misogynistic hate toward my sisters. There are many enlightened Asian males out there who are able to see that Asian women who promote women’s rights, including the right to date and marry whoever the hell they want, are not the enemy.”
Several women had hesitated to speak publicly about the harassment, fearing it would make Asian men look bad. “It’s family matters,” several said.
Reddit post complains. “I have to scroll pages to see one comment on her speaking to anything about Asian men.”
Many people don’t know this harassment is happening, but even those who do often stay silent. Few Asian men speak out, knowing that the harassers turn on anyone who displeases them. One woman said a prominent Asian man privately gave her advice about harassment, but he said he would get heat if he got involved directly. In another case, when an Asian man tweeted against the harassment of an Asian woman, the harassers contacted his workplace and asked to have him fired. Still others refuse to believe that the harassment is real: After I shared examples of harassment, some people tried to convince me that a white person sent the message to stir up intra-Asian infighting. Thiscouldbe a very long con — but it seems unlikely.
Officially reporting the harassment often leads nowhere, leading many women to stay silent. When I made reports to Twitter and Reddit, I received no response, and local police said the messages were deplorable but didn’t reach the level of criminal harassment.
Despite fear of reprisal, however, many Asian women have begun to speak about the targeted harassment they’ve experienced, and several prominent Asian men, such as Phil Yu of the blogAngry Asian Man, writerJonny Sun,Eddie Huang, andArthur Chuhave recently denounced this behavior, too. With no official recourse, the best way to combat this type of harassment may be bringing it into the open — with the entire Asian community, men included, speaking against it wherever it occurs. Asians are not a monolith; we will inevitably disagree on particular opinions or pieces of work. But empathy and thoughtful conversation must be the goal, and the entire Asian community must work together to end the misogynist harassment that prevents it. It is,in this way, a family matter: We have to support each other.
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Earthling, Knight Terror, Left Cross, Lore @ Strange Matter
RVA Staff | November 1, 2017
Topics: Earthling, Knight Terror, Left Cross, Lore, strange matter
It’s a Monday night double whammy, as two local labels present two Virginia bands that just released albums on their respective labels to an always-rabid RVA metal scene. We start off with headliners Earthling, who’ve been around the scene here in the Commonwealth for years and have returned to Forcefield Records for a follow-up to their 2013 Forcefield release, Dark Path. The new record, Spinning In The Void, sees the band carrying on its tradition of epic riffs and intricate songcraft complete with an always jet-black vein of crust, doom, and black metal running through things. And really, could you expect anything less?
You’re in luck, because there’s not less but MORE! Local thrashers Left Cross have their first full-length on deck for you as well, this one coming from fellow local powerhouse label Vinyl Conflict. Chaos Ascension finds these guys continuing to ply their trade in late 80s death metal moves, channeling Scream Bloody Gore and Slowly We Rot with abandon on this brutal full-length. A special bonus appearance by Knight Terror, who hail from Brooklyn, feature members of Mutilation Rites, and are every bit as raw and ripping as these two facts would lead you to expect, is sure to thrill all assembled.
RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 11/1-11/7
Marilyn Drew Necci | November 1, 2017
Topics: American, ASM, Ben Shepherd, Blitzen Trapper, Carry Fisher, Champion RVA, Chino Amobi, Confidence, Cool Moon, Crurifragium, Demoncy, Don Fredrick, Earthling, Everview, Flora, Fontaine, Homesafe, Knight Terror, Knuckle Puck, Ladygod, Left Cross, Lily Hiatt, Lore, Lotus, McKinley Dixon & Friends, Movements, Pinact, Rikki Shay, shows you must see, strange matter, Teen Death, The American Indie, The Broadberry, The Canal Club, The Firnats, Toxic Moxie, Ululatum Tollunt
Saturday, November 4, 7 PM
Ladygod, Rikki Shay, Ben Shepherd, Cool Moon @ Flora – $7
They’ve cultivated an air of mystery around themselves throughout their time in the RVA scene, which stretches back at least three years now. Releases have been few and far between, with too few songs on them. It’s always been hard to pin down who is actually in the band. And recently it’s become tough to even determine whether their band name is one or two words. But Saturday night at Flora, Ladygod (Lady God?) will finally reveal themselves with the release of their debut full-length, Rock n Roll Kaliphate.
In fairness, those who’ve seen the band have surely grasped at least a little of what was going on. The group’s hazy, “Exile-era Stones fed through a Brian Jonestown Massacre cloud of psychedelia” sound becomes clear over the course of a full set. And regardless of who is singing, it’s obvious that singer/guitarist Skye Handler is the Anton Newcomb of the group — as various talented, noteworthy members have come and gone, he’s held things together, regardless of how much of a mess he himself seems during any given performance.
These days, Handler’s band features Peace Beast frontwoman Kelly Queener as well as some other capable if slightly lesser-known players. The sound they churn out on their new LP has a stumbling, louche glamour to it, and is sure to slowly entrance you as its tendrils work their way from the Flora stage into your waiting mind. Ladygod will be joined on this bill by Rikki Shay (and the Martin Ruthless, I guess?), whose indie hipster-lounge funk sound was clarified on their own debut full-length of a few months ago, The Mixed Tapes. Opening sets will also be provided by local singer-songwriter Ben Shepherd and Houston’s Cool Moon. You won’t even dance, you’ll drift blissfully across the floor.
Wednesday, November 1, 8 PM
The American Indie, Fontaine, The Firnats, Don Fredrick @ Strange Matter – $10 in advance/$13 day of show (order tickets HERE)
I admit it–I’m a bit flummoxed by a band calling themselves “The American Indie.” It feels sort of like a band from Oslo calling themselves “The Norwegian Black Metal.” But hey, this is the United States, after all, where anytime we seek to give something profundity, we put the word “American” in the title (American Hustle, American Gangster, American Gigolo, American Idol, American Horror Story, American Dad, etc. ad nauseam). So hey, why not?
The American Indie have a pretty good sound, after all, with a surprising smoothness and some killer melodies that bring together power pop guitars with silky 80s synth-pop keys and killer vocal calisthenics. Their When Money Swallows Up Your Time EP is full of killer tunes that’ll have you hitting the dancefloor the way you normally only do at 80s nights. And then there’s Fontaine, the Boston band joining with Nashvillians The American Indie for this tour. In a geographic surprise, they’ve got a bit more of that heartland jangle than their Southern counterparts. But it all evens out in the end, right? Hot new locals The Firnats and Don Fredrick will get it warmed up in fine fashion, so get set for some good ol’ American Fun!
Thursday, November 2, 6 PM
Pinact, Teen Death, Carry Fisher @ Champion RVA – Free!
Another Thursday, and once again, we’re back at Champion gaining fortification for the last work day of the week with a shot of heavy-duty musical salvation for the low low price of nothing at all. There’s even beer, if that’s your kind of thing. But more importantly, there’s rad music, this week featuring a performance from touring Scottish act Pinact, who just released their second album, The Part That No One Knows. Its killer punk riffs incorporate the sorts of awesome post-Nirvana early-90s alt-rock influences that have been showing up across the indie underground for the past few years to outstanding effect. It also features some excellent choruses that will stick in your head and refuse to go away, keeping your toes tapping all night. Who can complain about that?
Pinact are excellently paired with local rockin’ punk trio Teen Death, who have been back on the radar after a relatively quiet last year or so with a bunch of local shows and a recent trip to The Fest in Gainesville, FL. These guys mix early 90s influences of their own with some crunchy garage sounds that crank up the punk quotient and give you something to snarl about. Recent Woodbridge transplants Carry Fisher kick things off with what promises to be the noisiest, sloppiest set of the night–and if you don’t think those are good qualities, I’ll have to ask you to re-evaluate what you look for in good music. Come to this one ready to rock, because the heavy jolt of energy this show is packing is sure to get you moving.
Friday, November 3, 8 PM
Chino Amobi, McKinley Dixon & Friends, Toxic Moxie, Lotus @ Strange Matter – $8
Chino Amobi has remained steadily fascinating throughout his lengthy tenure as part of the RVA music scene. Beginning in his days performing under the name Diamond Black Hearted Boy and continuing to his current solo work, Amobi’s had a constant sonic thrust paired with an intense political message, all of which added up to rejecting of current political realities through genre-spanning works of experimental gothic noise pop. Or something like that. Deep dives into his recently released album PARADISO, the sonic environments of which often give the lie to the sunny-sounding title, will yield a variety of strange electronic grooves, which sometimes bring a hypnotic funk sensibility sure to charm any listener, and other times disrupt themselves with harsh explosions of found sound. It changes from moment to moment, and while the change can wrong-foot you a bit, it’s always an engrossing experience, reflecting Amobi’s noted antipathy towards passive listening. Your listening experience at Strange Matter this Friday night will be an active one–Amobi guarantees it.
In this performance, he unites with several other Richmond artists to raise funds for Advocates For Richmond Youth, an activist group dedicated to preventing youth homelessness in our area. A worthy cause, one that it’s no surprise to see uniting POC and LGBTQ artists who themselves are members of marginalized groups more likely to encounter the grim reality of homelessness than the average person. It’s not just words on paper to them. And not only is this clear from listening to Amobi’s music, it shines through just as brightly from the music of hot local rapper McKinley Dixon, who’s brought a notable social consciousness to his meteoric rise through the ranks of Richmond musicians. Meanwhile, disco-punk ragers Toxic Moxie have always shown a dedication to moving bodies with tremendous grooves backed by sincere conviction. I’m not as familiar with newcomers Lotus, who open this night of noise for a cause, but their position on this bill alone is enough to speak well for them. Come catch this whole show, and dance your ass off for a good cause!
Blitzen Trapper, Lilly Hiatt @ The Broadberry – $15 in advance/$18 day of show (order tickets HERE)
I’ll say this for Blitzen Trapper–they haven’t settled into some sort of mid-career rut. No, the band’s recent days have seen them putting together a full-on stage production, debuted in their Portland, OR hometown earlier this year. And you can make cracks about the fact that of course it’s a band from the setting of Portlandia who are the ones to do something like this, or how go figure that a band with major Springsteen influences have finally done what Bruce’s critics always accused him of, i.e. turning rock n’ roll into a Broadway show, but the songs that are part of Wild N’ Reckless are enough to hush up any such wisecracks in a big hurry. The seven-song rock opera joins with five more songs on the band’s new album of the same name, and its title track has a real Desire-era Dylan fed through, yes, 70s Springsteen sound, but I can’t imagine why anyone would complain about that.
Make no mistake, these songs have a real darkness at their heart. Blitzen Trapper is older and wiser now, finding themselves looking back at their younger days and wondering if they can somehow recapture the energy of those days and feel truly alive again without reliving the mistakes they made back then. It’s kind of an alt-country Beach Slang move, if anything, and fans of groups from The Band to the Drive-By Truckers should find something to enjoy here, both musically and lyrically. And you know, it’s always a great to catch a band at the moment of their big statement, so if you were ever gonna go see Blitzen Trapper, you couldn’t do better than going this Saturday night. You’re sure to feel some feels.
Sunday, November 5, 6 PM
Knuckle Puck, Movements, With Confidence, Homesafe, Everview @ The Canal Club – $17 in advance/$20 day of show (order tickets HERE)
OMG, y’all. This show almost escaped my notice, because I had forgotten to check the Canal Club’s website. Thank god I headed over there randomly this morning as I was getting this column together–I would definitely never want to miss a show by one of my favorite melodic punk bands of the past several years. If I’d missed this show I would have cried–just like I have done more than once while listening to their records. Hey, I’m not too proud to admit it. The brand new Knuckle Puck LP, Shapeshifter, was also news to me, which is if anything embarrassing in light of my long-professed fandom for this group. But if you need any reason to actually take the plunge on this show, one listen to the new album should be enough to give you plenty.
While the band has steadily grown from the rawness of their early EPs, this full-length follows on the heels of their debut LP, Copacetic, in its simultaneous leavening of the band’s harsh teenage momentum with heartfelt melody without doing anything to dull the powerful emotional punch their music packs. If there’s only one pop-punk band you’re still willing to hang with in this post-Fall Out Boy world (and who could blame you, with what that band sounds like now? We all got burned by that one), Knuckle Puck are an excellent choice. And I’m right there making it with you. Get down there early, because all-ages shows don’t observe “rock time,” and make sure you catch the excellent opening bands as well. But yeah, I admit it–this show is all about Knuckle Puck for me. If they play “No Good” I’m gonna freak out.
Photo via Bandcamp
Monday, November 6, 8 PM
Earthling, Knight Terror, Left Cross, Lore @ Strange Matter – $8 (order tickets HERE)
Tuesday, November 7, 8 PM
Demoncy, Crurifragium, Ululatum Tollunt, ASM, American @ Strange Matter – $12 in advance/$15 day of show (order tickets HERE)
I hope you didn’t think that last show is as brutal as things would get in this column. Sure, Earthling, Left Cross, and Knight Terror are all pretty blackened, but the unutterable horror of Demoncy takes things to another level entirely. Their killer 2012 album Enthroned Is the Night was released on Nuclear War Now (so you know they’re for real) and features a constant low-end pummeling rumble laden with blast beats and topped with a sinister, throaty growl that speaks of Satan and infinity with sinister intent. Halloween was last Tuesday, but this band doesn’t care for your petty holidays–they’re terrifying all the time.
Fellow Seattle-ites Crurifragium (which seems like the sort of name a band picks mainly because of the ways its letters flow together to create a totally brutal logo) bring more high-end guitar buzz than Demoncy on their most recent full-length, Beasts Of the Temple of Satan, but the result is essentially the same–and really, how could you expect anything less from an album with that title? Prepare to throw the horns and bang your head, because this show is going to bring the beast out of you.
Email me if you’ve got any tips for me about upcoming shows (that take place after the week this column covers–this week’s column has obviously already been written): [email protected] [yes, my email is through GayRVA, don’t get weird about it]
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Clinical Studies Related to Hepatitis
(There are clinical studies topically related to our monolaurin research here. We prefer to base our nutritional recommendations on clinical studies more than testimonies. Some studies are listed at the end of particular articles. More can be found under the general topics of Monolaurin, Lactoferrin, Essential Oils, etc.)
(Monolaurin is our main recommendation for both effectiveness and price! We also mention adding lactoferrin, as mentioned in some of the hepatitis articles. Lactoferrin has some excellent defenses against Hepatitis. However, compared to monolaurin, it is expensive to use long term so it may not fit for everyone.)
“Review article of studies which indicate that bovine lactoferrin is an effective anticancer agent in rat studies; capable of significantly inhibiting colon, esophagus, lung, bladder, and tongue carcinogenesis. It was also found that lactoferrin has significant anti-Hepatitis C virus activity; Hepatitis C is a leading cause of liver cancer in Japan.”
Tsuda H, Sekine K, Fujita K, Ligo M. Cancer prevention by bovine lactoferrin and underlying mechanisms—A review of experimental and clinical studies. Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 80(1):131–136 (2002).
Monolaurin – Against Enveloped RNA and DNA Viruses (which including Hepatitis)
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General Monolaurin Hepatitis, Herpes & Shingles Related Articles:
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Frobert E, Ooka T, Cortay JC, et al. Resistance of Herpes simplex virus type 1 to acyclovir: Thymidine kinase gene mutagenesis study. Antiviral Res 2006 Aug 30;epub ahead of print.
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(And more related studies):
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Furst P. Dietary L-lysine supplementation: a promising nutritional tool in the prophylaxis and treatment of osteoporosis. Nutrition. 1993;9(1):71-72.
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Homung B, Arntmann E, Sauer G. Lauric acid inhibits the maturation of vesicular storriatitis virus. Journal of General Virology 1994;75:353-361.
Kabara. J.J.. Conley. A J.- Swieczkowski. D M. Ismail, I.A . Lie Ken Jie and Gunstone, F D. Fatty Acids and Derivatives as Antimicrobial Agents Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2(l):23-28 (1972)
Macallan D. C., Noble C., Baldwin C., Foskett M., McManus T., Griffin G. E. Prospective analysis of patterns of weight change in stage IV human immunodeficiency virus infection. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 1993; 58:417-424
Ósk Thorgeirsdóttir, Thórunn; Kristmundsdóttir, Thórdís; Thormar, Halldór; Axelsdóttir, Íris; Peter Holbrook. Source: Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, Volume 64, Number 1, Number 1/February 2006 , pp. 21-26(6), Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Toxicological, Bactericidal and Fungicidal Properties of Fatty Acids and Some Derivatives Kabara, J.J. JAOCS 56:760-767
Lauric oils as antimicrobial agents: theory of effect, scientific rationale, and dietary applications as adjunct nutritional support.
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Towards Trusted Epidemic Simulation
Agent-based models (ABMs) are powerful methods to describe the spread of epidemics. An ABM treats each susceptible individual as an agent in a simulated world. The simulation algorithm of the model tracks the health status of each agent. ABMs can provide realistic dynamics for the epidemic at the individual level so that users can observe and predict the spread of epidemic over time and space.
ABMs allow users to change public health policies in the simulated world. Healthcare professionals and policymakers can then run what-if tests to evaluate strategies for containment and mitigation. ABMs have been used in modelling various pandemics by epidemiologists [Adam2020].
This project concerns agent-based simulation to evaluate the trustworthiness of epidemic simulation in a
computationally efficient way. It addresses three themes: trustworthiness evaluation, efficient computation, and case studies.
First, trustworthiness evaluation includes simulation and model-checking. The models in this study should allow calibration algorithms to search and tune model parameters to fit existing data in relevant patient records. Due to randomness in disease spreading situations, the simulation algorithm should generate different versions of future scenarios based on the same initial configuration. The distribution of such scenarios provides a measure of the trustworthiness of the simulation. Model-checking provides a way for hypothesis testing under uncertainty. In particular, as epidemic simulation is stochastic, Bayesian model-checking [Jha2009] and public-domain data on COVID-19 will be adopted to check trustworthiness-related hypotheses to complement simulation. Also, trustworthiness reports will be generated to provide a human-understandable interpretation of spreading dynamics and the error distribution of predictions.
Second, computational efficiency issues arise when the agent-based models are stochastic, and the population is large. The models should capture assumptions and rules on the interactions between agents and the environment. Since the actions and their outcomes are not deterministic, it is often necessary to simulate such models for a considerable number of times to model the distribution accurately and allow rare events to emerge. Concerning the computational efficiency issues, this study includes the design of accelerated software and hardware tools for calibration, simulation and model-checking on multi-cores, graphics processing units (GPUs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). This can be built on our recent research on acceleration of epidemic simulation [Guo2020].
Third, case studies involve applying the proposed approach to current epidemic simulation, and evaluate their trustworthiness using publicly available data. Our research would help identify potential trustworthiness issues with realistic computational time and resources, and would explore novel ways of developing trusted epidemic simulation.
[Adam2020] D. Adam. Modelling the pandemic. Nature, vol. 580, pp. 316-318, 2020.
[Guo2020] C. Guo, W. Luk and S. Weston, Accelerating simulation for agent-based epidemic models using FPGAs, The ACS/IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Systems and Applications, 2020.
[Jha2009] Jha, S.K. et al. “A Bayesian approach to model checking biological systems.” Int. Conf. on Computational
Methods in Sys. Bio., 2009.
STAI-CDT-2021-IC-4
Wayne Luk
w.luk@imperial.ac.uk
https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~wl/
Beyond research
CDT management
CDT office
CDT supervisors
CDT students
© 2020 UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence
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