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Home PC AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Review: Capable 8-Core Processor On a Budget
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Review: Capable 8-Core Processor On a Budget
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Last Updated: February 15, 2019 1:56 pm
Building a custom PC is getting easier by the day and with the launch of AMD’s Ryzen second-gen processors, gamers and professionals alike can now build a high performance PC on a budget. Today we’ll be taking a close look at one of the most popular processors in the lineup, the Ryzen 7 2700 (Rs. 26,652), an octa-core processor that comes bundled with a Wraith SPIRE LED cooler.
Built on a new 12nm LP process, the Ryzen 7 2700 from AMD has been clocked at a base clock speed of 3.2GHz, with a max boost clock of 4.1GHz. Before we get any further into the review, let’s take a quick look at the specifications of the Ryzen 7 2700:
Ryzen 7 2700 Specifications
CPU Cores 8
CPU Threads 16
Base Clock 3.2GHz
Max Boost Clock 4.1GHz
Total L1 Cache 768KB
Total L2 Cache 4MB
Total L3 Cache 16MB
Unlocked Yes
CMOS 12nm FinFET
Package AM4
PCI Express Version PCIe 3.0 x 16
Ryzen 7 2700 Features
The Ryzen 7 2700 packs in a number of impressive features that work towards improving the overall performance of the processor. These include:
AMD Precision Boost 2 Technology
An iterative upgrade to the AMD Precision Boost technology that debuted with the first-gen Ryzen processors, the Precision Boost 2 technology allows the processor to monitor its own energy consumption and temperature in order to help users safely overclock the processor. The technology allows the processor to assess when it’s running smoothly at a particular frequency and then raise the clock speed in precise 25MHz steps to ensure stability.
AMD XFR 2 Technology
AMD’s Extended Frequency Range or XFR technology, which also debuted with the first-gen Ryzen processors, has also received a significant bump. With XFR 2, overclocking enthusiasts will be able to overclock their processors way beyond Precision Boost limits. However, in order to make use of the technology, users will have to invest in a premium processor cooling system to achieve higher multicore performance. The technology is also fully automated and requires no user input, which means that even novice users will be able to overclock their processors as long as they have a decent cooler in place.
Neural Net Prediction
AMD’s second-gen Ryzen chip also feature something called Neural Net Prediction, which makes use of an artificial neural network to assess a user’s workload and anticipate the next steps to streamline the workflow in real time. The company claims that the Neural Net Prediction technology has the capability to significantly improve performance by staying a step ahead of apps and games to steer them towards the most efficient path.
AMD StoreMI Technology
The AMD Ryzen 7 2700 also comes with support for AMD’s StoreMI technology which makes use of software to combine the speed of an SSD with the capacity of an HDD to create a single, fast, easy-to-manage drive. The AMD StoreMI technology is part of every motherboard that features an AMD X399 or 400-series chipset, but users who have a 300-series chipset will have to pay an additional fee to purchase the Enmotus FuzeDrive software, which serves the same purpose.
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Test Bench
Our Ryzen 7 2700 test bench, on which we tested the performance of the processor by running a couple of popular benchmarks and demanding games, included the following components:
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 processor
ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate motherboard
8GB x2 G Skill Flare X-Series DDR4 RAM
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 GPU
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Performance
Note: For the purpose of this review, AMD provided us with a Wraith PRISM cooler. The product originally ships with a Wraith SPIRE cooler, which is a good option only if you don’t plan on overclocking the Ryzen 7 2700. In case you do intend to overclock the processor, you’ll have to further invest in a better cooling solution.
Synthetic Benchmarks
In order to test the performance of the Ryzen 7 2700, I first put it through a series of synthetic benchmarks. I ran the benchmarks, both at the processor’s base clock speed of 3.2GHz and at an overclocked speed of 4.0GHz. Here’s how the Ryzen 7 2700 performed while running the following benchmarks:
I started off my testing with PCMark 10, in which the AMD Ryzen 7 2700 managed to secure 5320 points at base clock speed. The processor received 8361 points in the Essentials tests, 6744 in the Productivity tests, and 7249 in the Digital Content Creation tests. Upon overclocking the processor to 4.0GHz, I saw a significant jump in the performance which was clearly reflected by the scores. Running at 4.0GHz, the Ryzen 7 2700 managed to score 5832 in PCMark 10, with better individual scores in all three types of tests across the board.
Next up I ran VRMark on the system and the Ryzen 7 2700 managed to score 7988 at its base clock of 3.2GHz. The system managed to sustain an average frame rate of 174.14 FPS, which was well above the target frame rate of 109 FPS and the Oculus Rift minimum spec frame rate of 81 FPS. Upon overclocking the processor to 4.0GHz, the system managed to score 8778 in VRMark, with an average frame rate of 191.37 FPS.
The system also faired quite well in Geekbench 4, managing to score 3834 in the single-core test and 19927 in the multi-core test at its base clock speed. After overclocking the system managed to score 4273 in the single-core test and 22397 in the multi-core test, another significant increase in performance.
In Cinebench R15’s CPU test, the Ryzen 7 2700 managed to score 1493 points while running at its base clock speed of 3.2GHz. Once the processor was overclocked to 4.0GHz the system managed to score 1774 points in the same test, which goes to show how much of a difference overclocking can make.
In order to test the Ryzen 7 2700’s rendering prowess, I rendered the BMW Benchmark by Mike Pan from the Blender demo archive. At base clock, the Ryzen 7 2700 managed to complete the rendering process in 321.83 seconds, which wasn’t too bad by itself. But the processor’s performance was further improved once overclocked and it managed to render the same image in 265.84 seconds.
Next up, I tested the processor’s gaming performance, once again both at its base clock speed and at a 4.0GHz overclock. While the differences in the benchmarking results were quite significant, the games in our test weren’t able to fully utilize the increased clock speed, which is why there was just a minimal difference in the scores. Which means that although you won’t see a major improvement in the gaming performance on most games, there will be a significant improvement in performance while running processor intensive games. Here’s how the Ryzen 7 2700 performed while playing games:
To test the gaming performance of the Ryzen 7 2700, I first ran Far Cry 5 on the test bench at 1080p max settings. According to the in-game benchmark, the system managed to push an average of 75 FPS, running at its base clock speed of 3.2GHz, going as high as 94 FPS and as low as 58 FPS. Running the in-game benchmark after overclocking the processor bumped the average frame rate to 79 FPS, going as high as 95 FPS and as low as 64 FPS.
Even though Metro Last Light is quite a bit old now, its in-game benchmark is still capable of pushing any system to its limits. At base clock speed, the system managed to push an average of 81 FPS, going up to 138 FPS and as dropping as far down as 21 FPS, on the highest graphical settings at 1080p. Once overclocked, the system managed to push 96 FPS on average, going as high as 156 FPS and dropping down as low as to 21 FPS.
In PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the system managed to hover around an average of 76 FPS at the highest graphical settings and 1080p resolution. The system managed to push up to 97 FPS at times, but it even dropped down to 58 FPS when in large cities with a lot of players around. The difference in performance after overclocking was very minimal, with the system managing to push an average of 82 FPS, dropping down as low as 65 FPS and going all the way up to 99 FPS.
Finally, in Monster Hunter World, the system managed to push an average of 83 FPS at the highest graphical settings while running the game at 1080p resolution. The system was able to push a maximum of 108 FPS, which happened only while pointing the camera at the sky, and dropping as low as 58 FPS while trying to hunt monsters. Performance with an overclocked processor wasn’t a whole lot better, with the system managing to push 90 FPS on an average, while going as high as 110 FPS and dropping down to 61 FPS while hunting monsters.
AMD Ryzen 7 2700: Should You Buy?
For the price, the Ryzen 7 2700 (Rs. 26,652) is a great processor for both professionals and gamers alike. However, in order to make the most of the Ryzen 7 2700, you’ll need to overclock it and in order to do that you’ll further have to invest in a better cooling solution. The included Wraith SPIRE cooler isn’t ideal for overclocking and won’t be able to keep the processor cool enough at a higher clock speed. In case you don’t wish to overclock the processor, it would be a wiser choice to invest in the Ryzen 7 2700x (Rs. 31,748), which has a higher base clock speed of 3.7GHz.
Great multi-core performance
Unlocked for overclocking
Stock cooler not sufficient for overclocking
Single-core performance isn’t as good as competing Intel processors
No integrated graphics processor
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Review: Great Multi-Core Performance at a Reasonable Price
Well, that rounds up our review of the AMD Ryzen 7 2700. As I said previously, the processor is a great octa-core option for professionals and gamers on a budget. Not only is the processor capable enough to handle most AAA titles with relative ease, it’s 8-cores and 16-threads ensure that it’ll be able to run even the most CPU-intensive applications without a hitch. However, to get it to its optimal performance, you’ll have to overclock the processor and if you aren’t comfortable with overclocking or aren’t familiar with the procedure, then you should consider the slightly more expensive Ryzen 7 2700x.
Buy from Amazon: Rs. 26,652
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Jaskaran Oct 13, 2018 At 11:40 am
N your performance charts are visually flawed, need to work on those
Rithik Kumar S Oct 13, 2018 At 12:46 am
You do realize that this review is a few months late, right?
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Home Technology Are Electric Planes Now ThisClose to Commercial Reality?
Are Electric Planes Now ThisClose to Commercial Reality?
Full marks to Elon Musk and Tesla for paving the way.
However, a mainstream commercial commitment to electric vehicles was still merely a noble idea in the industry. Everyone knew that, sooner or later, one of the big automakers would have take the plunge before acceptance would finally be a fact.
It’s happened. Chinese-owned and Swedish-built Volvo recently announced that its entire fleet of vehicles are going with electric motors by 2019, which is two years away from this writing.
The company spokesmen sound totally assured about it:
Still, there’s one trend in announcements like this that give one pause.
That two-year thing has become commonplace in virtually every announcement that hails the arrival of innovative transport.
It usually turns out to be a longer wait than anticipated.
Technology finally catches up to the dreams, but the timeline has rarely held true.
Those driverless cars from the 1950s are finally here, and now we seem like we’re getting ever closer to not only the flying cars that have been in sci-fi for decades, but electric-powered flying cars:
With its track record, Tesla participation certainly adds cred to this development.
Then there’s Boeing, which is a clear level higher in terms of corporate endorsement. They’re tossing their resources into electric-powered commercial aircraft being developed by Zunum Aero to serve regional markets.
Unsurprisingly, Zunum’s CEO is predicting a rollout in two years, ie- 2019.
We can only hope his two-year projection of ticket prices is one estimate that remains accurate.
It’d actually bring a piece of the Dot Com lifestyle to newbies, giving them a small taste of what could be awaiting them in their own near future.
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Use of Cannabis to Manage Pandemic Stress and Anxiety
Since the COVID-19 pandemic exploded across the world, there has been an increase in cases of anxiety and stress. Anxiety problems have resulted from people losing their loved ones, some worrying about getting infected while others have remained hopeless after losing their jobs.
In a bid to manage the anxiety, People have devised various coping mechanisms. Some meditate, others stay active to forget their misfortunes while others seek help online from professional therapists to help them overcome the anxiety that has been brought about by the uncertainty of this pandemic.
One most used way to quell anxiety during this pandemic is the use of Cannabis. Reports indicate a 91% increase in the use of CBD since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The increased cannabis use suggests more people are using medical cannabis to cope with mental health challenges brought about by the pandemic.
How CBD helps with managing anxiety
Research shows that CBD is a natural remedy for some conditions such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, and pain. While CBD does not cure these conditions, it helps to alleviate their symptoms.
So how effective is CBD in managing anxiety? Well, CBD works by interacting with receptors in the central nervous system. Lack of enough serotonin in your body can result in anxiety and depression. It is believed that CBD alters serotonin signals, a neurotransmitter that is responsible for your mental health.
Studies from the National Institute on Drug Abuse indicate that CBD has been effective in reducing generalized anxiety disorder in animals.
Recent studies have also shown that CBD is effective in managing other forms of anxiety, such as anxiety-induced insomnia and social anxiety disorder.
Increased CBD use during the pandemic
The pandemic has taken a toll on most people’s mental health. As a result, many people have turned to CBD to get them through these difficult moments.
The increased sale of Cannabis is an indication that indeed people are finding relief in CBD during the pandemic. Because anxiety affects sleep, more people are taking CBD to reduce stress and insomnia, which helps them to have a calmer head and quality sleep.
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Will COVID-19 Lead To More Deer Hunters This Fall?
Clay Hanback2020-08-12T08:55:13-04:00August 12th, 2020|Big Deer TV, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Hunting, Hunting News, whitetail deer|1 Comment
Wildlife officials in Tennessee note that hunters flocked to the turkey woods in big numbers this past spring when life as we knew it shut down due to the pandemic, which left people out of work and looking for something to do. Fishermen followed suit and converged on Tennessee lakes and rivers this summer, too.
The number of people in the state who purchased hunting and fishing licenses has risen by nearly 20 percent so far this year as compared to 2019.
With the pandemic lingering into late summer and fall, TWRA officials believe a similar scenario could play out when deer seasons open.
“The pandemic is still going on and we imagine people still have a lot of free time on their hands,” TWRA spokesperson Barry Cross said. “If it plays out the way it has over the summer, people are looking for something to do. If they’ve ever hunted before, odds are they’ll be back. If they’ve hunted and just haven’t been back in a while, they may come back, and we’re hoping we’ll be able to introduce some people to deer hunting for the first time.”
I believe there will be an increase in deer hunter numbers in Tennessee and most other whitetail states in 2020, though I don’t expect the numbers to be as high as many state officials hope and predict.
As I wrote in a recent Realtree blog:
Back in May I predicted there would be a huge surge in the number of deer hunters for two main reasons. More spare time, for sure. But remember the food and meat shortages back then, and worries about disruptions in the supply chain? I expected the locavore/foodie movement to really take off in the woods as people concerned about their food source would look to shoot a deer or two for the freezer this fall.
Now the fear of meat shortages has subsided, and that will temper the surge in hunter numbers that I had predicted.
Also, I should add that hunting a deer is much harder than turkey hunting or fishing. From finding a good place to hunt, to the gear you need, to the end game of shooting and deer and gutting it and getting it out of the woods and into the freezer, deer hunting is much tougher than getting a big bird or catching a stringer of bass.
There will be more hunters in the woods this fall, both newbies and reactivated sportsmen (some people who used to hunt deer but stopped will have more time to give it another go). How many more hunters remains to be seen, but even a 2% to 5% uptick in license sales would be good. Hunter numbers have been declining rapidly in recent years, and we need all the new people we can get to buy licenses.
To that end, Tennessee officials note that the revenue from the spring/summer surge in turkey and fishing license sales increased $3 million over the same time in 2019!
If we can match that and more in most whitetail states across the nation this fall, that will be the best thing that has happened to hunting and wildlife conservation in many years.
One little silver lining to this horrible pandemic.
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Home All Opinions My Own New Politics – radical or redundant
New Politics – radical or redundant
Irish politics doesn't really do radical, but New Politics has picked a dangerous time to make politics seem so utterly redundant, writes Donal O'Keeffe.
Last Saturday night, the RTÉ 9.00pm News led with Trump's shameful ban on refugees and visitors to the US from certain Muslim majority countries – but not from Saudi Arabia, despite fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 terrorists hailing from Saudi Arabia. Nothing, I'm sure to do with Trump having business interests in the Kingdom of Saud.
(The subsequent protests across the United States were most heartening, especially those coming from Christians declaring Trump's 'Christians only' decree on refugees the most un-Christian thing they had ever heard. It was also a relief to see President Obama's retirement from public life lasting all of ten days.)
Then came a piece about the fallout from Enda Kenny accidentally telling the truth about coalition politics and not ruling out coalition with Sinn Féin.
"Well, you see I said I wouldn't do business with Fianna Fáil either," the Taoiseach said. "Ah, you know, so, like, depending on the result that you gave as a member of the electorate, ah, politicians have to work with the result."
This coincided with Mary-Lou McDonald saying Sinn Féin needs to have 'a conversation' about participating in coalition in the South. Gerry Adams then rather innovatively said he never really subscribed to that notion of a left-wing government, 'certainly not in the short term".
But then Adams – who was also never in the IRA – would be no stranger to 'alternative facts'.
And yea in the prosperous land of Fine Gael there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth and rending of blue garments at the unspeakable prospect of a shared political bed with the sulphurous Jarry and his hive-minded Shinnerdrones, yea, even until such time as a chastened Enda issued a statement saying "The Fine Gael party position is, has been and will remain, not to enter into coalition with Sinn Féin". The Taoiseach also said he doesn't believe the parties to be 'in any way compatible'.
Then Alan 'AK 47' Kelly came on TV but I couldn't concentrate because I kept flashing back to AK47 being hoisted aloft after his last re-election whilst wearing what some cruel observers called his 'sex face'.
Then there was Jarry himself, pretending to be avuncular, with his big expensive American teeth almost giving his face the appearance of a human smile.
RTÉ's Mícheál Lehane came on to say that the clock ticking on Enda's leadership just got a little louder. I like Mícheál. He's very clever and insightful and he can convey complex ideas and situations in a way which even duffers like me find easy to grasp. But that wasn't working for me on Saturday.
There was talk about the latest Red C Sunday Business Post opinion poll but I confess I completely tuned out. By this point, all that was between my ears – to steal a joke from Ross O'Carroll-Kelly – was whalesong.
There followed an item on the victims of the Waterford paedophile Bill Kenneally demanding a commission of enquiry. If there's any justice they'll get it. Another item followed. A tragic road death outside Lombardstown.
It was only at the end of the main bulletin, after Sinead Crowley's excellent obituary package for the sadly-departed John Hurt (what a loss that 'posh gravelly' voice will be) that I got to thinking how unlike me it is to be so utterly bored with Irish politics.
Now, you're probably a normal person and you almost certainly don't get too excited about opinion poll results but to me, they're usually something I shush other people to hear. Not now, though.
Micheál Lehane did his best, but the figures just slid off my brain. I couldn't make myself care.
(I rewound the Sky+ and if you really have to know: FG are at 24%, down 1% – FF 27%, up 3% – SF 14%, down 2% – Inds 14% up 2% – Independent Alliance 3%, down 1% – Labour 5%, unchanged – AAA-PBP 4%, down 1% – Social Democrats 4%, unchanged – Greens 4% up 1% – others 1%. All well within the 3% margin of oh who cares.
Maybe I'm bored and depressed at Irish politics because it's so dead and dreary at the moment.
"New politics" is the nonsense phrase the Blueshirts and Soldiers of Density use to justify their friends-with-benefits arrangement. At the outset, the independent TD Michael Lookit Fitzmaurice likened it to 'a chicken watched over by a fox' and there's an insight there.
Noel Whelan wrote a good Irish Times column last week, wherein he pointed out that this Government – since its eventual establishment last May – has passed only 18 pieces of legislation and only – as he put it – "a handful were substantial Bills". New Politics, Whelan suggests, 'isn't working much'.
I would go further and say "New politics" isn't working at all. We've elected a government that can't actually govern and an opposition that actively helps it not govern.
This zombie arrangement of government-by-inertia will lurch on until the Endapendents' weekly fits of the vapours finally do for them or until the Fianna Fáil fox feels it has a shot at leading the next government.
And then if the next election throws up a similar result, well, shur maybe Fine Gael might return the favour and support a minority Fianna Fáil government.
Even as homelessness spirals to crisis here and democracy itself seems so imperilled internationally, never did Irish politics feel so irrelevant.
Michael McDowell once told the late, unlamented Progressive Democrats that they should be radical or be redundant. Perhaps because of our history, or perhaps because of our national temperament, if there's such a thing, we Irish don't really do radical.
What's troubling is that at such a dangerous time for democracy, where public disaffection has thrown up Brexit, Trump and perhaps (probably?) Marine Le Pen, Irish politics seems to have decided at exactly the worst possible moment that it prefers to be redundant.
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JAWS was the box-office sensation of 1975 and the number-one hit movie of the decade until 1977’s STAR WARS, at a time when
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JAWS remains solidly a director’s film from thefirst ominous chords of John Williams’ moody score. In this, his second directed film,
Steven Spielberg demonstrates remarkable ability to develop a standard scary story into a sweeping adventure with the power to
capture audiences and hold them in breathless suspense.
The plot of JAWS is deceptively simple. A marauding Great White Shark of tremendous size begins attacking bathers in the waters off
Amity Township, a New England seaside resort. Local Sheriff Brody (Roy Scheider) believes the warning of young icthyologist Hooper
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beaches. As the Fourth of July weekend approaches, the mayor fears the loss of Amity’s tourist revenue more than the possibility of
additional tragedy.
When the monster shark strikes again, the beaches are finally closed. Crusty shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw) is retained by the
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In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character Janie goes through many relationships. In herfirst relationship, Logan, she thinks love will just happen. Her second relationship, Joe, everything seemed to be fine but she had conflicting feelings within herself. The third, TeaCake, really seemed to make Janie's life complete. Although not perfect, she discovered what true love was really like.
When Janie married Logan, she never knew what to look for in a marriage but what she saw and imagined. Janie always imagined marriage to fulfill her dreams of love. Yet, those “barren brow stems” never matured into “glistening leaf-buds” in her marriage to Logan Killicks. “The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree.” Instead of love, Janie only found disappointment in this marriage, and thus she came to a rude awakening of reality. “She knew now that marriage did not make love,” so her ” first dream was dead, and then Janie became a woman.” Janie’sfirst marriage was unsuccessful and left her trapped with nothing but her hope. An opportunity to escape this marriage with Logan Killicks finally arose itself with Joe Starks.
Joe Starks “did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for… change and chance.” This is why Janie decided to leave Logan Killicks and marry Joe Starks. Joe was very ambitious and materialistic. Therefore Joe would be able to provide for Janie. But this materialistic nature of Joe also made it impossible for any love to exist in this marriage. Joe didn’t see any worth in things that he couldn’t buy or own. To Joe, Janie was only a woman, a wife, and a helpless being he could possess. The only love he ever had for Janie was the love for a prized possession or object. Since an object can’t speak its mind, think, or have feelings, Joe never expected Janie to be capable of doing any of these things. In this way Joe Starks crushed Jani…
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The Illusion of Control: Force and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Seyom Brown
Brookings Institution Press, 26 мая 2004 г. - Всего страниц: 196
This provocative book assesses the implications of a disturbing trend in U.S. security policy: an increased willingness to use military force as an instrument of diplomacy. In The Illusion of Control, Seyom Brown shows how U.S. officials are relying on force to counter a wide range of threats to America's global interests—eclipsing previous strategies that restricted the use of military force to situations in which the country's vital interests were at stake. Brown points out that a disposition to employ military power broadly as an instrument of diplomacy was on the rise well before September 11, 2001— and it shows every sign of persisting into the future. While resorting to force may seem to be a reliable way to establish control over a disorderly world, Brown cautions that expecting to gain and maintain control through military prowess could turn out to be a dangerous illusion. In fact, employing new military technologies in an effort to control international terrorist activities, wars, and civil conflicts is likely to pull the United States into excessive commitments and imprudent action. Brown analyzes the growing willingness of U.S. government officials to use force, then critically assesses the strategic, political, and moral implications for the United States. Adapting traditional "just war" concepts to contemporary strategic, political, and technological realities, he offers a set of guidelines to help ensure that use-of-force decisions are approached with the judicious care and gravity they warrant.
Together these three developments portend an increased proclivity to employ
military force as an instrument of international conflict prosecution and control. In
situations in which U.S. adversaries remain intransigent despite efforts to modify
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Introduction Force and Foreign Policy Revisited
The Disposition to Use Force Crisis Reaction or General Trend?
The Changing Structure of World Politics
The Changing Shape of War
The Just War Tradition Revisited
The Control of Illusions Using Military Power Judiciously
Excerpts from A National Security Strategy for a New Century
Excerpts from On Military Transformation
Excerpts from The National Security Strategy of the United States
The Illusion of Control: Force and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century
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Стр. 45 - The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction - and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack.
Стр. 150 - I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.
Стр. 186 - Given the goals of rogue states and terrorists, the United States can no longer solely rely on a reactive posture as we have in the past. The inability to deter a potential attacker, the immediacy of today's threats, and the magnitude of potential harm that could be caused by our adversaries ' choice of weapons, do not permit that option.
Стр. 45 - While the United States will constantly strive to enlist the support of the international community, we will not hesitate to act alone, if necessary, to exercise our right of self-defense by acting preemptively against such terrorists, to prevent them from doing harm against our people and our country; and denying further sponsorship, support, and sanctuary to terrorists by convincing or compelling states to accept their sovereign responsibilities.
Стр. 42 - America must stand firmly for the nonnegotiable demands of human dignity: the rule of law; limits on the absolute power of the state; free speech; freedom of worship; equal justice; respect for women; religious and ethnic tolerance; and respect for private property.
Стр. 22 - The primary purpose of our arms is peace, not war— to make certain that they will never have to be used— to deter all wars, general or limited, nuclear or conventional, large or small— to convince all potential aggressors that any attack would be futile —to provide backing for diplomatic settlement of disputes— to insure the adequacy of our bargaining power for an end to the arms race.
Стр. 186 - Traditional concepts of deterrence will not work against a terrorist enemy whose avowed tactics are wanton destruction and the targeting of innocents...
Стр. 187 - ... concept of imminent threat to the capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries. Rogue states and terrorists do not seek to attack us using conventional means. They know such attacks would fail. Instead, they rely on acts of terror and, potentially, the use of weapons of mass destruction — weapons that can be easily concealed, delivered covertly, and used without warning.
Стр. 186 - Today, our enemies see weapons of mass destruction as weapons of choice. For rogue states these weapons are tools of intimidation and military aggression against their neighbors. These weapons may also allow these states to attempt to blackmail the United States and our allies to prevent us from deterring or repelling the aggressive behavior of rogue states.
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
Security and the War on Terror
Alex J. Bellamy,Roland Bleiker,Sara E. Davies,Richard Devetak
Seyom Brown is Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation in the Department of Politics at Brandeis Univesity. He has held senior research and policy analysis positions at the RAND Corporation, the Brookings Institution, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Recent books include Human Rights in World Politics (Longman, 2000), New Forces, Old Forces, and the Future of World Politics (HarperCollins, 1995), The Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Clinton (Columbia, 1994), and The Causes and Prevention of War (St. Martins, 1994).
Название The Illusion of Control: Force and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Автор Seyom Brown
Издатель Brookings Institution Press, 2004
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Come along, come along, boys! We'll roast 'em. ... Runners! Runners!”
The sound of heavy horses at a jolting trot came to our ears. “We're in for it,” Lillywhite grunted. “
D n this county of Kent.”
Thoms never loosed his hold of my collar. At the steep of the hill the men and horses came into sight against the white sky, a confused crowd of ominous things.
“Turn that lanthorn off'n me,” the horseman said. “Don't you see you frighten my horse? Now, boys, get round them. ..."
The great horses formed an irregular half-circle round us; men descended clumsily, like sacks of corn. The lanthorn was seized and flashed upon us; there was a confused hubbub. I caught my own name.
“Yes, I'm Kemp ... John Kemp,” I called. “I'm true blue.”
“Blue be hanged!” a voice shouted back. “What be you a-doing with runners?”
The riot went on—forty or fifty voices. The runners were seized; several hands caught at me. It was impossible to make myself heard; a fist struck me on the cheek.
“Gibbet 'em,” somebody shrieked; "they hung my nephew! Gibbet 'em all the three. Young Kemp's mother's a bad 'un. An informer he is. Up with 'em!”
I was pulled down on my knees, then thrust forward, and then left to myself while they rushed to bonnet Lillywhite. I stumbled against a great, quiet farm horse.
A continuous scuffling went on; an imperious voice cried: "Hold your tongues, you fools! Hold your tongues!...” Someone else called: "Hear to Jack Rangsley. Hear to him!”
There was a silence. I saw a hand light a torch at the lanthorn, and the crowd of faces, the muddle of limbs, the horses' heads, and the quiet trees above, flickered into sight.
"Don't let them hang me, Jack Rangsley,” I sobbed. “You know I'm no spy. Don't let 'em hang me, Jack.”
He rode his horse up to me, and caught me by the collar.
“Hold your tongue,” he said roughly. He began to make a set speech, anathematizing runners. He moved to tie our feet, and hang us by our finger-nails over the quarry edge.
A hubbub of assent and dissent went up; then the crowd became unanimous. Rangsley slipped from his horse.
“Blindfold 'em, lads,” he cried, and turned me sharply round.
“Don't struggle,” he whispered in my ear; his silk handkerchief came cool across my eyelids. I felt hands fumbling with a knot at the back of my head. “You're all right,” he said again. The hubbub of voices ceased suddenly. “Now, lads, bring 'em along."
A voice I knew said their watchword, “Snuff and enough,” loudly, and then, “What's agate?”
Someone else answered, “It's Rooksby, it's Sir Ralph.”
The voice interrupted sharply, “No names, now. I don't want hanging.” The hand left my arm; there was a pause in the motion of the procession. I caught a moment's sound of whispering. Then a new voice cried, “Strip the runners to the shirt. Strip 'em. That's it.” I heard some groans and a cry, “You won't. murder us." Then a nasal drawl, “We will surely." Someone else, Rangsley, I think, called, “Bring 'em along—this way now.”
After a period of turmoil we seemed to come out of the crowd upon a very rough, descending path; Rangsley had called out, “Now, then, the rest of you be off; we've got enough here”; and the hoofs of heavy horses sounded again. Then we came to a halt, and Rangsley called sharply from close to me:
“Now, you runners—and you, John Kemp—here you be on the brink of eternity, above the old quarry. There's a sheer drop of a hundred feet. We'll tie your legs and hang you by your fingers. If you hang long enough, you'll have time to say your prayers. Look alive, lads!”
The voice of one of the runners began to shout, “You'll swing for this-you
As for me I was in a dream. “Jack," I said, “Jack, you won't- "
“Oh, that's all right,” the voice said in a whisper. “Mum, now! It's all right.”
It withdrew itself a little from my ear and called, “Now then, ready with them. When I say three. ..."
I heard groans and curses, and began to shout for help. My voice came back in an echo, despairingly. Suddenly I was dragged backward, and the bandage pulled from my eyes.
“Come along,” Rangsley said, leading me gently enough to the road, which was five steps behind. “It's all a joke,” he snaried. “A pretty bad one for those catchpolls. Hear 'em groan. The drop's not two feet.”
We made a few paces down the road; the pitiful voices of the runners crying for help came plainly to my ears.
“You—they—aren't murdering them?" I asked.
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“No, no,” he answered. “Can't afford to. Wish we could; but they'd make it too hot for us.”
We began to descend the hill. From the quarry a voice shrieked:
“Help-help-for the love of God I can't. ..."
There was a grunt and the sound of a fall; then a precisely similar sequence of sounds.
“That'll teach 'em,” Rangsley said ferociously. “Come along—they've only rolled down a bank. They weren't over the quarry. It's all right, I swear it is.” · And, as a matter of fact, that was the smugglers' ferocious idea of humour. They would hang any undesirable man, like these runners, whom it would make too great a stir to murder outright, over the edge of a low bank, and swear to him that he was clawing the brink of Shakespeare's Cliff or any other hundred-foot drop. The wretched creatures suffered all the tortures of death before they let go, and, as a rule, they never returned to our parts.
ferocious ides hatter of fact, the right, I swear it hey
THE spirit of the age has changed; everything has changed so utterly that one can hardly believe in the existence of one's earlier self. But I can still remember how, at that moment. I made the acquaintance of my heart-a thing that bounded and teapt within my chest, a little sickeningly. The other details I forget.
Jack Rangsley was a tall, big-boned, thin man, with something sinister in the lines of his horseman's cloak, and something reckless in the way he set his spurred heel on the ground. He was the son of an old Marsh squire. Old Rangsley had been head of the last of the Owlers—the aristocracy of export smugglers—and Jack had sunk a little in becoming the head of the Old Bourne Tap importers. But he was hard enough, tyrannical enough, and had nerve enough to keep Freetrading alive in our parts until long after it had become an anachronism. He ended his days on the gallows, of course, but that was long afterwards.
“I'd give a dollar to know what's going on in those runners' heads,” Rangsley said, pointing back with his crop. He laughed gayly. The great white face of the quarry rose up pale in the moonlight; the dusky red fires of the limekilns glowed at the base, sending up a blood-red dust of sullen smoke. “I'll swear they think they've dropped straight into hell.
“You'll have to cut the country, John," he added suddenly, “they'll have got your name uncommon pat. I did my best for you.” He had had me tied up like
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Response to the new IPO orphan works licensing scheme
Orphan works rules result in empty display cases
The UK’s Intellectual Property Office last week announced the launch of a new orphan works licensing scheme.
This allows individuals and institutions wishing to use a work of intellectual property where the rights holder cannot be identified to apply for a licence from the IPO. Licences are awarded where the IPO is satisfied that the applicant conducted a “diligent” search for the rights holder, and they have paid a licensing and administration fee.
This scheme brings forward little that is new. The rule allowing re-use after diligent search has been part of copyright law in the UK for many years. The primary purpose of the new licences seems to be to provide greater certainty to re-users that the searches they have undertaken are sufficiently extensive to guarantee legal protection should the copyright owner come forward.
Searches have to be exceptionally comprehensive before the Intellectual Property Office will certify them as ‘diligent’ and although there are new guidelines which will provide greater clarity for cultural institutions, the imposition of an official fee is concerning.
Even with this new scheme in place orphan works can still not be easily used by the Wikimedia projects and the volunteers who write and curate them.
A real solution to the orphan works problem must await a more radical approach that goes beyond both this and the existing EU Orphan Works Directive.
We believe that this should be addressed as part of a more far-reaching review of copyright as a whole, at a national and European level. For example, a simple reduction in copyright terms would instantly make many works which are currently orphaned available for reuse.
You can see the recent Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU position paper on copyright reform – of which we are a signatory – here.
Author: Stevie Benton on 6 November 2014
Categories: Policy
Tags: copyright, intellectual property, IPO, orphan works
A weekend at MozFest «» A review of EduWiki Conference 2014
Last update on 6 November 2014
Published 6 November 2014
Copyright for Wikimedia photographers in the UK
World Book and Copyright Day: Why copyright laws in Europe need revising
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A strategy to select suitable physicochemical attributes of amino acids for protein fold recognition
Alok Sharma1,3,
Kuldip K Paliwal2,
Abdollah Dehzangi2,
James Lyons2,
Seiya Imoto1 &
Satoru Miyano1
Assigning a protein into one of its folds is a transitional step for discovering three dimensional protein structure, which is a challenging task in bimolecular (biological) science. The present research focuses on: 1) the development of classifiers, and 2) the development of feature extraction techniques based on syntactic and/or physicochemical properties.
Apart from the above two main categories of research, we have shown that the selection of physicochemical attributes of the amino acids is an important step in protein fold recognition and has not been explored adequately. We have presented a multi-dimensional successive feature selection (MD-SFS) approach to systematically select attributes. The proposed method is applied on protein sequence data and an improvement of around 24% in fold recognition has been noted when selecting attributes appropriately.
The MD-SFS has been applied successfully in selecting physicochemical attributes of the amino acids. The selected attributes show improved protein fold recognition performance.
Discovering the three dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence via computational means is a challenging task and open for research in biological science and bioinformatics. Deciphering protein structure elucidates protein functions. This has a profound impact on understanding the heterogeneity of proteins, protein-protein interactions and protein-peptide interactions. This further helps in drug design. A usual way to predict the structure of a protein is to first acquire proteins with known structures (e.g. by crystallography techniques) and then from their sequences, the prediction process can be conducted by developing recognition techniques. Thereafter, the developed techniques can be used to classify unknown protein sequences into one of its classes or folds. The length of a protein sequence (i.e., the number of amino acids in it) is usually different from the length of another protein sequence. However, two proteins with different lengths and low sequential similarities can be categorized to the same fold. The identification of protein folds from a protein sequence would bring us one step closer to the recognition of protein structures. A wide range of techniques have been developed over the past two decades to recognize protein folds. Despite numerous contributions and significant enhancements achieved [1, 2], the protein fold recognition problem is yet to be completely solved.
The focus in protein fold recognition can be broadly classified into two categories: 1) the development of classifiers to improve fold recognition, and 2) the development of feature extraction techniques using alphabetical sequence (syntactical-based) and/or using physicochemical properties of the amino acids (attribute-based or physicochemical-based). For the former case, several classifiers have been developed or used including linear discriminant analysis [3], Bayesian classifiers [4], Bayesian decision rule [5], K-Nearest Neighbor [6, 7], Hidden Markov Model [8, 9], Artificial Neural Network [10, 11] and ensemble classifiers [1, 12]-[14]. For the latter case, several feature extraction techniques have been developed including composition, transition and distribution [15], occurrence [16], pairwise frequencies [17], pseudo-amino acid composition [18], bigrams [19], autocorrelation [6, 20, 21] and deriving features by considering more physicochemical properties [22].
Dubchak et al. [15] proposed syntactical and physicochemical-based features for protein fold recognition. They used the five following attributes of amino acids for deriving physicochemical-based features namely, hydrophobicity (H), predicted secondary structure based on normalized frequency of α-helix (X), polarity (P), polarizability (Z) and van der Waals volume (V). The features proposed by Dubchak et al. [15] have been widely used in the field of protein fold recognition [4, 12, 22]-[28]. Apart from the above mentioned 5 attributes used by Dubchak et al. [15], features have also been extracted by incorporating other attributes of the amino acids. Some of the other attributes used are: solvent accessibility [29], flexibility [30], bulkiness [31], first and second order entropy [32], size of the side chain of the amino acids [22]. Several attributes have been picked for feature extraction usually in an arbitrary way for protein fold recognition. Contrary to this, Taguchi and Gromiha [16] argued that features from attributes of amino acids can be ignored due to having insufficient information and only syntactical-based features should be considered. This shows that proper exploration of the amino acid attributes has not been conducted. To this, we posed a question: ‘which of the attributes of the amino acids are to be selected for the protein fold recognition problem?’ The answer to this would open the third category of research apart from 1) the development of classifiers, and 2) the development of feature extraction techniques based on the syntactic and/or physicochemical properties.
In this study, we develop a methodology for selecting the attributes of the amino acids for protein fold recognition in a systematic manner. In order to do this, a successive feature selection (SFS) technique based on an exhaustive greedy search algorithm can be applied [33, 34]. The SFS technique can find important features from a group of features. However, since several features could be extracted from an attribute (e.g. composition, transition and distribution from hydrophobicity of amino acids) and there could be many attributes, this would lead to selecting multi-dimensional features belonging to an attribute. Therefore, we develop a scheme to identify important attributes by investigating multi-dimensional features corresponding to attributes. For brevity we call the proposed technique as multi-dimensional SFS (MD-SFS).
We show two schemes of MD-SFS: backward elimination and forward selection. In the backward elimination scheme, the search for the best subset of attributes will start by first retaining all the given attributes. Then an irrelevant attribute is discarded from this subset at an iteration time point that causes minimum loss of information for the subset. This elimination of attributes from a subset is performed until all the attributes are ranked. This scheme is useful to find attributes of low importance that could perform well, if selected in an appropriate subset. In the forward selection scheme, the best attribute is selected first, and a subsequent attribute is included in the subset such that the included attribute improves the performance (e.g., in terms of classification) of the subset. This scheme, however, could be biased towards the highest ranking attribute.
Experiments are carried out using Dubchak’s (DD) dataset [25], Taguchi’s (TG) dataset (Taguchi and Gromiha, [16]) and extended Ding and Dubchak (EDD) dataset [2]. The selection of physicochemical attributes by MD-SFS technique shows improvement in protein fold recognition by around 18 ~ 24% on all the datasets when 10-fold cross-validation has been applied. The MD-SFS technique has been illustrated in the next section and its usefulness has been demonstrated in the subsequent sections.
Multi-dimensional successive feature selection
The MD-SFS scheme has been illustrated in Figures 1 and 2. The backward-elimination procedure of MD-SFS has been shown in Figure 1 and the forward-selection procedure has been shown in Figure 2. The purpose of MD-SFS is to select the best attribute for protein fold recognition. In the figures, four attributes (T a = 4) have been depicted. A feature extraction technique has been used to extract d-dimensional features from each attribute. Attributes are represented as Aj (where j = 1, 2,..., T a ) and extracted features of Aj are represented as. f1j, f2j, …, f d j In the figures, there are 4 levels in total, including the beginning state. The number of attributes at each of the level is denoted by NA. The classification accuracy using k-fold cross-validation of a subset of attributes is denoted by H( · ) (Figure 2). The highest average classification accuracy using k-fold cross-validation at each of the level is depicted by α l where l = 0, 1, …, T a − 1. The output is the ranked attributes.
Multi-dimensional successive feature selection: backward elimination scheme.
Multi-dimensional successive feature selection: forward selection scheme.
MD-SFS: backward elimination
For the backward-elimination case of MD-SFS (Figure 1), a group of features belonging to an attribute is dropped one at a time in each of the successive levels. This would give subsets of attributes containing features. The number of features in a subset at level l is (T a − l)d. A classifier is used to compute average classification accuracy using k-fold cross-validation procedure on each of the subsets. The subset of attributes with the highest average classification accuracy is progressed to the next subsequent level. The size of subset is reduced by d number of features as we progress across the levels. This process is terminated when all the attributes are ranked. In Figure 1, at level 1, the highest average classification accuracy (α1) obtained is by attribute subset {A1, A2, A4}. It is also possible that average classification accuracy of more than one subset is the same. In that case, the subsets with the highest average classification accuracies would progress to the next level. In Figure 1, subset {A1, A2, A4} is progressed to level 2 and at this level the subset with highest average classification accuracy (α2) is {A2, A4}. At level 3, the subset with highest average classification accuracy (α3) is {A2}. In Figure 1, ranked attributes are {A2, A4, A1, A3}, where A2 is the top ranked attribute and A3 is the bottom ranked or least important attribute. Furthermore, there could be two criteria in which attributes can be selected. For an instance, if we want to select best 3 attributes for the design then we can take {A2, A4, A1} from the ranked attributes. However, a better way would be to find the argument of the maximum of α l i.e., r = arg max l = 0 , . . . , T a − 1 α l . For an instance, if r = 2 then this indicates that subset {A2, A4} at level 2 exhibits the maximum accuracy among all the selected subsets at all the levels. Therefore, attributes of subset {A2, A4} can be selected for the design. We refer the former criterion of selection as brute-n (where n is the number of attributes to be selected) and the latter criterion as maximum accuracy (MA) based criterion.
The MD-SFS backward elimination procedure would approximately require between C 2 T a + 1 and 2 T a − 1 search combinations, where T α is the total number of attributes and the term mC n is the n-combination of m elements. If t s denotes the number of attributes in a subset s then this subset would have t s d features. Therefore, the computational complexity of a classifier for doing classification using subset s will be based on t s d number of features.
MD-SFS: forward selection
For the forward-selection case of MD-SFS (Figure 2), an attribute with corresponding d-dimensional features would be taken at a time for computing average classification accuracy using the k-fold cross-validation procedure. The attribute corresponding to the highest average classification accuracy will be stored; i.e., r 1 = arg max j = 1 , . . . T a H A j . The selected attribute containing the features will go to the next successive level. In the next level, an attribute that exhibits the highest average classification accuracy in combination with the selected attribute from the previous level A r 1 will be retained. This process will continue until all the attributes are ranked. The number of features used in computing classification accuracy at level l is (l + 1)d. Further, we can apply the same two criteria (brute-n and MA-based) for obtaining attributes from the ranked set of attributes as it was discussed in MD-SFS backward elimination approach.
The MD-SFS forward selection would require around T a (T a + 1)/2 search combinations, where T a is the total number of attributes. A subset s with t s attributes would have t s d number of features. The computational complexity of a classifier used to compute classification accuracy would depend on t s d number of features.
In this study, three protein sequence datasets have been used: 1) DD-dataset [25], 2) TG-dataset (Taguchi and Gromiha, [16]) and 3) EDD-dataset [2]. The DD-dataset that we have used consists of 311 protein sequences in the training set where two proteins have no more than 35% of sequence identity for aligned subsequence longer than 80 residues. The test set consists of 383 protein sequences where sequence identity is less than 40%. Both the sets belong to 27 SCOP folds which represented all major structural classes: α, β, α/β, and α + β[25]. The training set and test set have been merged as a single set of data in order to perform k-fold cross-validation process.
TG-dataset consists of 1612 protein sequences belonging to 30 different folding types of globular proteins. The names of the number of protein sequences in each of 30 folds have been described in Taguchi and Gromiha [16]. The protein sequences of TG-dataset have been first transformed into their corresponding PSSM (position-specific-scoring-matrix) [35] sequences by using PSIBLAST (http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) (the cut off E-value is set to E = 0.001).
EDD-dataset consists of 3418 proteins with less than 40% sequential similarity belonging to the 27 folds that originally used in DD-dataset. We extracted the EDD-dataset from the 1.75 SCOP in similar manner to Dong et al. [2] in order to study our proposed method using a larger number of samples.
Physicochemical attributes
In this study 30 physicochemical attributesa have been utilized including 5 popular attributes as used by Dubchak et al. [15]. The attributes with the corresponding symbols are listed in Table 1. The residues of amino acids of these 30 attributes are given in Table 2.
Table 1 Physicochemical attributes used in the study
Table 2 Residues of amino acids of the 30 attributes 1
As discussed in the Background Section, there exist several feature extraction techniques. Given a classifier, the features derived from different feature extraction techniques would exhibit different fold recognition performances. Since in this paper the aim is not to find a feature extraction technique for a particular classifier, we use a simple autocorrelation of the residues of protein sequences. The expression for autocorrelation features used in the paper is given as follows:
R i = 1 N ∑ k = 1 N − i s k − μ s k + i − μ ,
where N is the length of protein sequence, s k is the residue of kth amino acid in a protein sequence and μ is the mean (or average) of N residues. In this work, we use i = 1, 2, …, 20. Therefore, each protein sequence will give 20-dimensional autocorrelation features.
In the literature, several classifiers have been used for the protein fold recognition problem. We used three techniques for classification: support vector machine (SVM), Naïve Bayes (NB) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) with nearest centroid classifier [57]-[59]. SVM and NB classifiers are used from WEKA environment [60] by using WEKA’s default parameter settings.
Results and discussions
Five attributes used by Ding and Dubchak [25] are used as a benchmark. These attributes are H, P, Z, X and V (see Table 1 for the description of these symbols). In all the experiments we use a 10-fold cross-validation process to obtain the recognition performance. First we present in Table 3 the fold recognition using these 5 attributes on DD, TG and EDD datasets. It can be clearly observed that the highest fold recognition on DD-dataset obtained by HPZXV is 32.8%, on TG-dataset is 28.8% and on EDD-dataset is 38.4%.
Table 3 Protein fold recognition (shown in percentage) on all the datasets using HPZXV attributes used by Ding and Dubchak [[25]]
Next we apply MD-SFS backward elimination approach on DD-dataset, TG-dataset and EDD-dataset, respectively on three cases: 1) using top 10 attributes of the amino acids from Tables 1, 2) using top 15 attributes of the amino acids from Tables 1, and 3) using all 30 attributes from Table 1. We use two criteria: brute-n and MA-based (as discussed in Section MD-SFS: Backward Elimination), to select the attributes. Since in Table 3 the results are reported using 5 attributes, we apply brute-5 to compare the results with that of Table 3. The selected attributes with their corresponding protein fold recognition (abbreviated as PFR in Tables 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11) performance on DD-dataset using brute-5 criterion is given in Table 4 and using MA-based criterion is given in Table 5. The first row of results is by HPZXV (which is taken from Table 3). The first column indicates the number of attributes taken for attribute selection. The same setup has been used for all the remaining tables (Tables 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11). It can be seen from Tables 4 and 5 that incorporating more attributes and then performing attribute selection is helping in improving the recognitionperformance. By using only 5 attributes (Table 4), the recognition performance has significantly improved by 5.7% to 16.6% as compared with the recognition performance of HPZXV attributes. If the number of attributes is not fixed and selection is based on MA criterion then the improvement is recorded between 14.1% and 18.1%.
Table 4 MD-SFS backward elimination approach on DD-dataset using brute-5 criterion
Table 5 MD-SFS backward elimination approach on DD-dataset using MA-based criterion
Table 6 MD-SFS backward elimination approach on TG-dataset using brute-5 criterion
Table 7 MD-SFS backward elimination approach on TG-dataset using MA-based criterion
Table 8 MD-SFS backward elimination approach on EDD-dataset using brute-5 criterion
Table 9 MD-SFS backward elimination approach on EDD-dataset using MA-based criterion
Table 10 MD-SFS forward selection approach on DD-dataset using brute-5 criterion
Table 11 MD-SFS forward selection approach on DD-dataset using MA-based criterion
A similar scheme has been applied using the TG-dataset and the results are reported in Tables 6 and 7 (Table 6 using brute-5 criterion and Table 7 using MA-based criterion). It can be observed from Table 6 that recognition performance has been improved between 7.5% and 10.2%. Also the improvement from Table 7 is between 12.6% and 18.1%.
We have also employed the EDD-dataset for the experiment and the results are reported in Tables 8 and 9 (Table 8 using brute-5 criterion and Table 9 using MA-based criterion). From Table 8, we note that the improvement in recognition performance is between 6.5% and 8.8%, and from Table 9, it is between 15.5% and 24.3%.
Subsequently we applied the MD-SFS forward selection approach on the DD, TG and EDD datasets. Again we use brute-5 and MA-based criteria. The protein fold recognition performance using the DD-dataset with brute-5 criterion is show in Table 10 and with MA-based criterion is shown in Table 11. It can be observed from Table 10 that by using only 5 attributes the recognition performance can be improved between 4.5% and 12.2%. In a similar way, the improvement using MA-based criterion is noted from 13.3% to 17.7%.
On TG-dataset, MD-SFS forward selection with brute-5 criterion is depicted in Table 12 and with MA-based criterion is depicted in Table 13. The improvement from Table 12 using only 5 attributes is between 8.1% and 10.4%; and, from Table 13 we have improvement from 12.4% to 17.5%.
Table 12 MD-SFS forward selection approach on TG-dataset using brute-5 criterion
Table 13 MD-SFS forward selection approach on TG-dataset using MA-based criterion
Similarly, on EDD-dataset, MD-SFS forward selection with brute-5 criterion is shown in Table 14 and with MA-based criterion is shown in Table 15. The improvement from Table 14 using only 5 attributes is between 7.4% and 8.7%; and, from Table 15 we have improvement from 10.5% to 16.2%.
Table 14 MD-SFS forward selection approach on EDD-dataset using brute-5 criterion
Table 15 MD-SFS forward selection approach on EDD-dataset using MA-based criterion
From the results, we can deduce that physicochemical based attributes are important for the prediction accuracy of protein folds. An appropriately selected subset of attributes could enhance the prediction accuracy significantly. The subset of attributes selected for different datasets are different. The attributes in a subset also vary depending on the classifier used. However, some attributes repeatedly appear on the obtained subsets. For an instance, a subset BPEVO is selected from all 30 attributes using brute-5 criterion on DD-dataset when LDA is used and a subset BPDFM is selected when SVM is used (see Table 4). It can be observed that the attributes B and P are common in both the subsets. This could imply that these attributes contain more discriminative information for protein fold recognition than others. When we analyzed all the subsets using brute-5 criterion on all the three datasets (Tables 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14), we found that top 5 occurrences of attributes are J (appeared 12 times), B (appeared 9 times), T (appeared 9 times), F (appeared 8 times) and M (appeared 6 times). Therefore, these attributes (J,B,T,F and M) can be seen as important attributes. However, it does not imply that a subset containing all these 5 attributes would perform the best as the performance of attributes in combination with other attributes is also crucial.
We have also carried out a statistical hypothesis test to exhibit the significance of the results achieved. In order to do this, we randomly selected m attributes from a given set of n attributes and computed prediction accuracy using these m attributes. We repeated this random selection r times and computed average prediction accuracy. All three classifiers (LDA, SVM and NB) are used for this purpose. We applied this testing on all the three benchmark datasets (DD, TG and EDD) and compared the results with the proposed schemes. In this testing, we used m = 5, n = 30 and r = 20. The results are reported in Tables 16, 17 and 18. It can be observed from these tables that the prediction accuracy using a random selection approach is inferior to the proposed schemes. This depicts that systematically selecting attributes (using MD-SFS procedures) contributed to the prediction accuracy of protein folds.
Table 16 Statistical analysis using DD-dataset
Table 17 Statistical analysis using TG-dataset
Table 18 Statistical analysis using EDD-dataset
Furthermore, we have carried out paired t-test with 5% significance level to study the statistical significance of the prediction accuracy obtained. We used MD-SFS backward elimination method (using brute-5 criterion) as a prototype and used all the three classifiers (LDA, SVM and NB). We compared the results obtained by all the classifiers for HPZXV attributes for DD, TG and EDD benchmarks (the degree of freedom is 2). The paired t-test results for LDA, SVM and NB are 0.029, 0.003 and 0.004, respectively. These results show that the prediction accuracies obtained are significant.
We can summarize that the performance of the protein fold recognition improved when the attributes are appropriately selected. This also shows that physicochemical attributes can play an important role in protein fold recognition if selected appropriately. It should also be noted that the performance can be improved further by considering several other feature extraction techniques with sophisticated ensemble classifiers.
In this study, we have shown that by selecting physicochemical attributes of amino acids the protein fold recognition performance improved significantly. It is, therefore, beneficial to explore important attributes in the process of determining the three dimensional structure of proteins. To do this, we have developed a multi-dimensional successive feature selection (MD-SFS) technique and shown it on both backward elimination and forward selection approaches. There are several attributes available (e.g. a list of 544 attributes can be found in AAindex, http://www.genome.jp/aaindex/, [61]) and the investigation of these attributes by an exhaustive search would help in solving the problem better. Though it is always useful to explore as many attributes as possible, it comes with an expense of additional computational cost and memory requirements. Nonetheless, computationally efficient techniques for an exhaustive exploration of important attributes should care to develop along with the development of feature extraction and classification techniques.
aThough there are large number of physicochemical based attributes defined for amino acids, many authors (e.g. [31, 62]-[65]) in the past, used limited number of attributes (up to 8) in their studies. We attempted to study the attributes which were given more emphasis in the literature.
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Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis, University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Alok Sharma, Seiya Imoto & Satoru Miyano
School of Engineering, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Kuldip K Paliwal, Abdollah Dehzangi & James Lyons
School of Engineering and Physics, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
Kuldip K Paliwal
Abdollah Dehzangi
James Lyons
Seiya Imoto
Satoru Miyano
Correspondence to Alok Sharma.
AS designed and carried out the experiments, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. KKP assisted in designing a section of experiments. AD provided the dataset and helped in the second draft of the manuscript. JL also helped in the second draft of the manuscript. SI and SM financed the project. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Sharma, A., Paliwal, K.K., Dehzangi, A. et al. A strategy to select suitable physicochemical attributes of amino acids for protein fold recognition. BMC Bioinformatics 14, 233 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-233
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Deb Margolin Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver were both in Spiderwoman Theater. Lois started working on a piece of her own called Split Britches and there was a writing crisis. Peggy and Lois were supposed to open in a week and didn’t have a script. They knew that I was a writer. They showed me some of the ideas they were working with and asked if I could write some connective material, some monologues and scenes. I went up to my friend Ginny’s house—she was the business manager for Spiderwoman—for a week, and I didn’t do anything, and Lois called, “Are you working on it?” and I said, “Oh yes.” That night a mosquito began to torment me at two o’clock in the morning. A persistent mosquito. I took a pad of paper, went into the bathroom, shut the door on the mosquito, and wrote a lot of material that actually ended up in the piece. I think my first performance in Split Britches was in 1981.
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DM In terms of theater it was a simultaneous involvement. My love of language found a home in the theater and that was really a great moment for me. I had written things before but I really hadn’t entered the theater until I began writing for Split Britches and became integrated as a performer in the group. I had been working as a cleaning lady on bicycle, I worked for a greeting cards magazine…
LT You weren’t actually writing greeting cards?
DM No, I never got my hands on those Hallmark mechanicals.
LT In Split Britches’ Upwardly Mobile Home , each of you, Lois, Peggy, and you, had such distinctly different characters that while you were all in the same play, in a sense, you weren’t. It was as if you were sharing the space together: your characters were loosely connected. And yours was the most loosely connected. Suddenly, you appeared and did a monologue.
DM It was that freeze moment when I said, “I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking I can’t do my job. Well, I can do my job.”
LT Almost out of nowhere you launch into a maniacal, obsessed speech, which is, in a sense, your specialty.
DM We were playing a family—Peggy as the mother and Lois and I as the daughters, which is a preposterous notion. We look completely different. Lois is a little Southern belle with a turned-up nose and Peggy is a Bostonian of some stature and I’m a little Jewish girl from Westchester. I think there’s a political statement that comes with assuming that you are going to accept us as a family. Originally we didn’t see ourselves as a family. But somebody came up to us and said, “How interesting that you’re a family in this piece.” And I thought, it’s about redefining family and redefining relationships that way. I thought that we were asking the audience to move along with that assumption—it was very political and very liberating. That’s the kind of stuff to change the world, I think, weird as that is. That was part of the strength of the piece.
LT Most recently you’ve been doing solo pieces—your Hamlet , your show at PS 122, your Bonnie Josephs .
DM There’s an incredible beauty and freedom that comes with performing on your own. I can take an idea and push it as far as I wish to push it. When I work with Peggy and Lois, as far as my scripting work goes, I try to reach around ideas that aren’t just mine. We’ll have an image bank in the center of our work and it grows and grows and all those images go up in the air and I will catch them in the form of scenes, dialogue, monologue, whatever. They are bigger than I am and that’s a great pleasure because these ideas don’t just come from my heart but from a collective heart.
LT Why don’t you describe Bonnie Josephs or give its genesis for the reader who hasn’t seen it?
DM I called my answering machine one day and got this incredible message from a lawyer, this cold, nasal, dry, clipped, terse, bitter-sounding lawyer complaining about an insurance company check that had not been mailed when she, the lawyer, had in fact delivered by hand this insurance check to the lawyer who was supposed to have sent it. Maybe there were two people who are divorced, separated or something, and apparently the lawyer had received a note from one of them that the check had not been sent and how could that be and this kind of thing. Very indignant, very self-righteous, and she’s leaving this message on the wrong number! She clearly didn’t even listen to my machine. That kind of arrogance coupled with that kind of incompetence, it’s a sure bet for humor. Although I could see how somebody else would have just fast-forwarded the message.
LT But you took that material and worked with it. In performance, you said your friends thought you were crazy…
DM As a matter of fact, it was Reno. She said, “Come on, this just is not… what is it about this?” She said if you ever want to make it, you’re going to have to find ways of letting people into your material; this just doesn’t make any sense. She had a point. The point that she made did not make me question whether or not this was theatrically viable or whether it was interesting. I used her skepticism as a way into the material.
LT You lead the audience. You come out and announce that you’ve been obsessed by this message that’s been left on your telephone answering machine and the audience, and as a member I can say this, is dubious. What you proceed to do, like a kind of anthropologist of daily life, is take that message and break it down, going into both the sound of the message, the intonation and what that intonation might mean, the stress on the different syllables, as well as what the social implications of the message may be. You gather the audience to you. You allow it to understand why this obsesses you, and the final coup de grace is asking everyone to read the message out loud. To read the message along with you from placards that you’ve made. I was laughing so hard, there was no way I could have read it aloud.
DM I’ve seen people of such incredible stature, who have just ended up at the show for some reason, saying, “This is Bonnie Josephs…” It’s incredible for me personally, very moving to have people come into the world where I live as a mental and emotional human being. One of the reasons they’re laughing is my obsession with this material; the material itself is on one level and my obsession with the material is on another level. Then they find themselves becoming involved in the material and that culminates in their saying the material out loud with all the history of what it meant to me underneath that rendition. Suddenly they become involved in what they thought was ridiculous.
LT The piece allows you to reflect on how one lets things go in daily life, things that are really quite exceptional and weird. One simply absorbs stuff and moves on, in order to function. But functioning is always an issue in your work. In the Chelsea Coffee routine that you did at PS 122, you’re playing a dysfunctional waitress, who’s answering the phone to take out-going orders.
DM It’s one of three pieces that I call the vacuum cleaner triptych. The origin of those three pieces, which came together in one show, was that I had an overwhelming desire to stand in silence, on a stage, next to a vacuum cleaner. I did not know what that meant. It struck me as wildly funny and I pursued it. The first piece is a party scene where there is a vacuum cleaner on a pedestal with a bow tie on its nozzle and a beer/cocktail next to it. And it is my ex-lover. I’m greeting guests, “Oh Joe your pink-eye looks much better…” But I keep looking at this vacuum cleaner. And many images come out of that.
LT Just the word vacuum.
DM The image of something in a vacuum and this vacuum is my ex-lover. The vacuum asks me to dance and I tell it I’ll just check with my husband. My husband gives me a hard time, but just the same, I put on some Tommy Dorsey swing music, lift the vacuum and begin a fox trot with it. An absurd process, but the nozzle keeps going down my shirt and up my ass and finally I just have to call a halt.
LT Using the vacuum cleaner, the nozzle.
DM There is a definite phallic implication. The second piece in the triptych is me trying to sell the vacuum. It’s a stalwart presentation, but every time I begin to talk about household problems, I just disintegrate. You see someone who’s really not doing well. Just the same I go back into the sales, but every time another household problem is mentioned, another painful association comes up about it. Chelsea Coffee was the last piece in the triptych. In the original version I used a vacuum cleaner and not a broom, so the vacuum was the central image, a sort of metaphor through these pieces.
LT In Chelsea Coffee people are calling up to order a sandwich, a tuna sandwich, and get a waitress who really doesn’t want to give them their food.
DM Nobody gets an order out of this. She gets six phone calls, I think, and not one order goes out. Either she doesn’t approve the order because it has no fiber or she feels that the person is unworthy of getting the special because they have the wrong political ideas, or they’re not in the correct zone and she has to explain certain mathematical principles about a circle and a radius…
LT Who is this person?
DM I don’t know. That piece began when I was working at a type shop and this guy went down and got the special of the day from a restaurant on the corner. I said, “Gee, it looks great.” Pastrami on rye, it looked beautiful and he said it was like a buck-eighty. I said, “Can I take a bite?” He said, “Sure.” It was lean, delicious, a dollar-eighty. This wasn’t that long ago. I thought, great. So as soon as I got a minute, I punched out, ran down, waited in line, and asked for the special of the day. He says, “I’m very sorry, we don’t have that any more; we’re out of it. We’ll make you a sandwich you won’t forget. You’ll really like it.” I took it upstairs. It was disgusting, some BHUCHHKO that I could not eat. So I threw it in the garbage. And two minutes later, another one of my co-workers punches out, goes down, and comes back with a pastrami sandwich. I said, “Where’d you get that?” He says, “It was the special of the day across the street.” Can you imagine that? So it got me going. I mean, I don’t know, maybe they suddenly rushed more pastrami into the store between one o’clock and one o’five.
LT In the piece, you’re not the victim but the victimizer.
DM Yes, exactly. One of the ways that Split Britches has always worked, and that I work, is to attempt to go into the minds of sometimes very untoward characters. And find a way to love them and reclaim whatever it is about them that is hurtful. And I love this woman. I mean, here’s this short-order, menial worker with a huge intellect who is sometimes very cantankerous and arbitrary, but just the same, very bright and very loving. She does care if you know what a radius is, and she does care if your sandwich has vegetables and fiber, if you’re going to get a heart attack.
LT You take those interests and carry them to an extreme. They’re absolutely inappropriate. They’re also not good for business—no orders go out—giving Chelsea Coffee a sort of anti-capitalist thrust.
DM Actually, that’s true. I love how people see things that you don’t see.
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Reviews: The Declaration of IndependenTS
Review by Michael McKenna
Nor'easter Entertainment Magazine
Bruce Lev is a singer/songwriter & producer from Phoenix, AZ who has been heavily influenced by The Beatles, John Lennon, Neil Young, Billy Joel and many other classic rock-n-roll bands from the 60s and 70s. He has received several awards for songwriting. He released his debut CD in December of 2012 and was the winner of the 2014 Artists In Music Awards for "Best Adult Contemporary Artist". In 2014 Bruce's song "Catwoman" made the ballot for the 57th Grammy Awards for "Best Rock Song". In 2015 Bruce released his single, "Jessica" to widespread critical acclaim. Bruce has also recently been named the 2015 "Rock Artist of the Year" at The Josie Awards in Nashville.
With kudos like those, I look forward to listening and reviewing this latest release!
His latest effort “The Declaration of Independents” opens with “Bell Bottom Girl” a track that has country overtones and timely acoustics that enhance his powerful vocals. The lyrics hearken back to those retro memories of the 60's when bell-bottom jeans were the craze.
“Catwoman” grabs you from the door with this classic rock-flavored, guitar-driven track which reminds me of early Jimi Hendrix and his slammin riffs! BANGIN!
“20th Century Man” is a rockin' monster! I can hear some of the Scorpions guitars all over this one. This track is a KILLER CUT!
The acclaimed single "Jessica” featuring Juice (Julia Grayling) just makes me melt. Her powerful pipes dominate the entire track!
“Jewish Guy” which is a parody of “Jealous Guy” is spot on! Bruce puts so much of himself into this number. It's like he's telling the listener of what he himself has gone through in life.
“Live on Alabama Drive” fits right in with the ZZ Top, Southern Rock mold perfectly. This slammin' instrumental makes one want to get up and boogie at the Hoe Down!
“Bell Bottom Girl (No. 9)” features a Ravi Shankar sitar in the way it was used by the immortal John Lennon. This acoustic tune is a nice reprise to the other version. The vocal effects are totally out of the box cool!
The final track “What You Do For Me” features Grammy nominated singer Armand Hutton and opens with a laid-back piano intro that accentuates Armand's vocals nicely. It is on this tune that we can hear the deep feeling that Bruce projects through his powerful songwriting. TOUCHING!
Bruce's latest effort lets the listener hear many sides of this talented musician. From the rock side to the melodic ballad, he nails each one with a spot on performance.
This CD is a MUST LISTEN!
On the Nor'easter Storm Scale, I give this a FORCE 4! WELL DONE!
Review by Beach Sloth
Skope Magazine
Tapping into rock n’ roll’s heart and soul, Bruce Lev’s “The Declaration of Independents” is pure fun. With a wide variety of styles the pieces are woven together impeccably. Vocals are sung straight from the heart, the arrangements flawless, and with the right amount of passion. From the rollicking swagger of “LIVE On Alabama Drive” to the experimental “Bell Bottom Girl (no. 9)” Bruce Lev displays a wide range indeed.
https://soundcloud.com/bruce-lev/sets/the-declaration-of
Romantic to its very core is the tender ballad of “Bell Bottom Girl” which opens the album on a high note. “Catwoman” opts for another approach, demanding full attention. Loud, deliciously so, the song moves forward with tremendous power. The rhythm is colossal, the guitar work blistering, and overall the dominating spirit of the track works wonders. High energy continues on “20th Century Man” where Bruce Lev shows off his impressive vocals, commanding attention. Offering an intricate multi-layered sound is the balanced work of “Jessica” with Juice Lucafo’s sweet voice leading the way. Easily the highlight of the album is the driving rhythm of “LIVE On Alabama Drive”. Going for a stranger more surreal sound is the trip work of “Bell Bottom Girl (no. 9)” whose studio effects recall the Beatles work. Ending the album off with a sense of community is the celebratory “What You Do To Me”.
By letting his songs simply soar Bruce Lev creates a unique finely crafted album with “The Declaration of Independents”.
Review by Arun Shenoy
A beautiful 8 track record by Bruce Lev that crosses over from American Roots to Rock and back.
I really enjoyed the way the album opens with "Bell Bottom Girl, but it was the second track "Catwoman" that kind of blew me away with its intensity, rock solid grooves, intensely powerful vocals, and superb guitar work. I love the pacing and very reminiscent of some of my favorite hard rock and glam rock music from the 80s.
Then the energy is carried forth to the next song "20th Century Man", some wicked lead guitar work happening on this track.
Then, the music on the album shifts beautifully between edgy and biting hard rock songs to more laid back and rhythmic piano based grooves on the more mellow "Jessica" and "Jewish Guy".
Not to be missed is the very experimental production on "Bell Bottom Girl (no. 9)" and the blues rock instrumental jam on "LIVE On Alabama Drive".
Finally the very beautiful rhythmic piano driven groove on "What You do to Me" closes the album.
Overall, good writing, performances, and engineering make "The Declaration of Independents" a very interesting recording!
Review by Keith Pro
As a musician, we will all need a life full of experiences and adventures to inspire good songwriting. A great way to gain these experiences is having the guts to pick up and change your scenery once in a while. The musician who can ride the winds of change will forever have ideas to turn into songs. Our new friend Bruce Lev has remained independent and has used an exciting life to develop a great catalog of songs.
Originally from Kings Park, New York, Bruce Lev has remained a truly independent artist with no real desire to be part of the “industry elite”. Bruce spent his college years in DC honing his craft. His major influence from childhood was The Beatles, who taught him the beauty of writing a song. In a seemingly random decision, he moved to the mountains of Panama for 5 years and found himself teaching the children of Panama music and songs of, well you guessed it, the Beatles! Then almost as suddenly he picked up and returned to the US settling in Phoenix, Arizona.
These varied experiences built up a great set of ideas from which to build up a great songwriting catalog with his new buddies in the studios of Phoenix. These songs began to really get noticed and build up the reputation of Bruce Lev. In 2014 Bruce was named “Best Adult Contemporary Artist” in the Artists in Music Awards. Also in 2014 he released the song “Catwoman” which landed on the 57th Annual Grammy ballot for “Best Rock Song”. Then in 2015 Bruce released the song “Jessica” to widespread critical acclaim and landed on that year’s Grammy ballot in the “Best Arrangement, Instruments & Vocals” category.
Through all this Bruce Lev remains independent. He has mastered the use of the internet (or as he calls it ‘the People-net’) to share and promote his music to people all over the world, including Grammy voting members. We all know the big corporate industry is trying to fight the little indies but it is too far gone and there is no turning back.
The latest album by Bruce Lev is titled The Declaration of IndependenTS. The 10 track record is proof that a major label is not needed to create commercial ready music. The opening track “Bell Bottom Girl” is a throwback to an earlier time with a mellow vibe and steady groove pushing the song forward. The power of “20th Century Man” jumps out at you immediately with its raw punk rock feel and exquisite guitar skills. This one will get your heart beating as you hear the plight of the working man. An adult contemporary ballad is not out of Bruce Lev’s reach either as demonstrated on “Jessica”. Emotions will pop up as you listen to this one. A live track is thrown at us too with “LIVE on Alabama Drive”. The jam is a great example of how music can be such fun to both the listener and the performer. One of the bonus tracks on the album, only available through Bruce’s website is “A Lonely Heart”. It shows the influence of The Beatles yet adds a modern flair and some super melodic guitar that is very pretty and catchy.
Review by
Sophia the Gypsy Poet
Bongo Boy TV
Catwoman Returns!
From Arizona, Bruce Lev and his music video “Catwoman Returns!“. This song was the most TOP 1 listened song on Bongo Boy iSpin Radio on New Visions Radio Network in the month of June’16. Kudos to Bruce!!
Please, do not tell me that you do not love Dr. Lev! This man has a talent that is endless. His writing style is insane and absolutely the bomb! He never fails on anything he touches and the guy delivers! Seriously! You gotta love his sound! Audiosoave and the Red Hot Chili Peppers could take a tip from Bruce! He ROXX this track to no end! Love it, LOOOOVE IT!
Wendell Jones
DUB-J & 'NEM
I am humbly honored that Dr. Lev has asked me to review his CD. Let me start by saying this Bruce Lev flat-out can write a song, he can play guitar, he can pr...oduce. So I'm not going to talk about instrumentation, production quality, sound quality, or his lyrical Savvy that's obvious Bruce knows what he's doing.This is going to be a quick review about how it makes me feel, like I said I don't normally write reviews but since someone was brave enough to release Disco Duck... well I'm not afraid to say what I think! ( what are you going to do make Disco Duck part 2 )? First of all I love the concept "Declaration of Independents", and secondly oddly enough the era style costume really fits you. This Declaration of Independents makes me feel the freedom to( see what I did there ) relive rock and roll I grew up. I was born in 1955 and rock and roll was everywhere and ever evolving thank you Doctor Lev for a fresh sound on the Retro feel. Okay on to the tracks I'm not going to review each one but I'll give you my thoughts and feelings on a few. Let's start with track no. 4 "Jessica" Mmmm best song of 2015 let's move on. Track no. 8 "What You Do To Me" drove me to break out my few Cat Stevens albums. Track no.1 "Bell Bottom Girl" took me on a refreshing sixties type ride, by the time I got to Bell Bottom Girl no.9, I was on a different prescription. Great job Dr Lev when you prescribed track no.6 "Live on Alabama Drive" it got me refocused on the the rock and roll highway, I'll describe it as slow sweet sweep's and nice straight aways, great track to listen to doing the Sunrise Drive. Well there you have it Bruce overall I think you did a great job, I love everything you do so I'm a bit biased keep up the good work! I bet you think twice about who you ask to write a review. As I read over this I'm not sure of this is a review or a roast?!
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A few days in scenic Scotland 1
Day 1 Wednesday 27th February 2019 West Highland Line
A quick, cheap Easyjet flight from Gatwick up to Glasgow for 1030, a ride into the city centre on First Glasgow route 500 allowing time for a wander to admire recent and welcome new arrivals in that company’s bus fleet and it’s soon time to see the ongoing redevelopment at Queen Street station before catching the 1220 for Mallaig with a portion for Oban – a train of two halves.
A two carriage train arrives into Queen Street from Oban on time at 1203 to form the rear portion for the 1220 to Mallaig but it’s not until departure time at 1220 that what will be the front two carriages (for Oban) arrive from the depot and join up and we’re allowed on board for a slightly delayed departure at 1225.
The five hour twenty minutes train journey to Mallaig gets better as every hour passes. Luckily at this time of year the train isn’t very full so there’s plenty of room to swap sides for the best views as we make our way along the line.
The magnificent Clyde on the left hand side, then Gare Loch between Hellinsburgh Upper and Garelochhead followed by Loch Long and then over on the right hand side, Loch Lomond as far as Ardlui.
At Crianlarich there’s time for a quick stretch of the legs on the platform while the front two carriages are uncoupled and head off to Oban first as we begin the slow climb towards the highest summit on the line at the delightful Corrour. But not before enjoying the wonderful horseshoe curve on the left hand side between Upper Tyndrum and Bridge of Orchy and the deer enjoying the isolation of Rannoch Moor, watching out for the snow shelter just after that station, although not needed this month!
After Corrour the gradual descent passes the magnificent Loch Treig on the left hand side and the waterfall on the River Spean as the train approaches Roy Bridge not long before we enter Fort William for another brief stop as the driver changes ends and a crew change before we set off on the final leg to Mallaig.
I find this section of line even surpasses what’s come already and not just for Loch Eil and the now world famous Glenfinnan Viaduct both on the left hand side…
…..but the slow meander alongside Loch Eilt on the right hand side before continuing through mountain scenery to Arisaig, Morar (Britain’s most westerly station) and finally arriving in Mallaig at 1743. Every minute a delight.
At this time of year there are no ferries to Armadale on Skye and the light is rapidly fading so I opted for a return journey in the dark to Fort William for an overnight stay.
Day 2 Thursday 28th February 2019 Fort William – Kyle – Inverness – Glasgow
Time to pick up some snacks for lunch from the large Morrisons adjacent to Fort William’s transport hub (it’s going to be a tight connectional day during eight hours travelling) before the 1000 departure on Citylink’s 916 service to Kyle of Lochalsh.
It seems strange to see Fort William devoid of Stagecoach buses. The beneficiary from last year’s exodus has been the smart looking locally based Shiel buses who’ve added the town’s local bus routes to its longer distance routes which include the wonderful route 500 to Mallaig which largely parallels the rail line being equally as scenic and well worth a ride.
Fort William’s bus station sports eight stances grouped into four departure points from a long and sturdy shelter to provide passengers protection from the weather. It’s a touch desolate with minimal seating.
Hi-Trans provides stop departure information for local bus routes and the Mallaig departures which the computer software confusingly refuses to acknowledge is Mallaig rather than the unhelpful destination for tourists of Hotel.
The traditional timetable displays for Citylink look rather faint and forlorn are not in keeping with that Company’s smart image.
On the upside there is a ‘real’ (actually ‘scheduled’) electronic display showing the next two or three departures from each stance which commendably is replicated in the adjacent station by the ticket office. The station also has an independent Travel Centre which had local bus timetables for Shiel buses as well as CityLink and Caledonian MacBrayne (ferry) timetables.
The Caledonian Sleeper rolls into Fort William at 0957 just three minutes before the 916 leaves for Kyle of Lochalsh and onwards to Portree and Uig on Skye. What a shame there’s not a better connection as it would give tourists much greater options to travel around this area by public transport.
However a new Lounge for arriving sleeper passengers (and departing passengers in the evening) has now opened and there’s the obligatory electronic totem point which lists the one departure of the day, as these now do having been installed at every station served by Caledonian Sleeper trains. An amazing expense for one train a day. Quite extraordinary. Compare this to many bus real time systems being turned off and left out of use by local authorities for lack of funds.
My 916 coach arrives spot on time at 0951 giving passengers already on board a welcome break before departing again, especially if they’ve been in board since leaving Glasgow at 0650. The timely arrival was reassuring as I had my fingers crossed for an on time arrival into Kyle of Lochalsh at 1152 giving enough time for a leisurely wander from the bus stance to the rail station for the 1208 departure for Inverness.
I’ve still got bad memories of a southbound trip on the 916 last summer (from Uig to Fort William) which got badly delayed on route due to heavy traffic, many temporary traffic lights along the way as well as getting stuck behind an abnormal load taking the same route!
Luckily today our driver made good progress keeping impeccably to time helped by sparse traffic and only two temporary traffic light sections both of which we got green lights on approach and sailed through.
Our coach was from West Coast Motors with legal lettering showing ‘Craig of Campbeltown’ and not surprisingly drivers changed over in Fort William. Our fresh driver decided to do his paperwork and logging on with the door firmly closed letting passengers reboarding, after their leg stretching and fag break, first followed by us newbies. There were only nine of us in total leaving Fort William.
The closed door seemed a touch rude and unfriendly but our new driver made up for it by driving smoothly during the entire journey and giving a great ride.
Citylink’s 916 is undoubtedly Britain’s most scenic bus route (it was voted second in last summer’s internet poll). It rivals the West Highland rail line offering alternative views of Loch Lomond as well as Glencoe before Fort William and on my journey, the spectacular scenery alongside Loch Lochy and Loch Garry before continuing along the famous Road to the Isles.
The 1208 ScotRail departure from Kyle of Lochalsh was ready and waiting in the platform as our coach pulled in to the nearby town centre bus stop. A wander through Kyle before boarding gave time to pick up a coffee.
We left spot on time which was another timely reassurance as on arrival in Inverness I only had six minutes before the Glasgow train I was booked on departed.
When I compiled my Hundred Best Train Journeys at the end of last year there was no question that the Kyle of Lochalsh would come near the top, if not the top spot. It’s a well deserved second to the West Highland Line to Mallaig and it’s scenic delights never disappoint.
Today the low early Spring sun made for some spectacular reflections in Loch Carron which had to be seen to appreciate and can’t easily be represented by a camera phone photograph through a train window. It really was quite a splendid ride made all the better for keeping to time and arriving in Inverness at 1442 for an easy cross platform interchange with the 1448 departure to Glasgow.
This three coach Class 170 was busy even at this time of year and the intended introduction by ScotRail of refurbished HSTs on this and other ‘Inter7City’ routes is a masterstroke of marketing and route development.
The Highland Line offers wonderful mountainous views through the Cairngorms and came in at number 4 in my listing (behind the Oban section of the West Highland Line).
It’s been a brilliant first two days in Scotland with a few more to come.
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What train ticket did you use to do your trip. Last summer I was very lucky to get a first class ticket on the Highland Chieftain from Kings Cross to Inverness for around £60 with my Senior Citizens Railcard. It was amazing value with 2 meals thrown in and snacks and drinks to your hearts content. A superb scenic trip.
Wow; that £60 fare was good value for a great trip too. I got an advance ticket Kyle to Glasgow for £11.10 which was a good deal too.
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Human Curation Sets Apple News Apart From Algorithm-Focused News Sources Like Google and Facebook
In a new report by The New York Times today, Apple let a reporter take a glimpse inside the human curation process of its Apple News service. The article looks into Apple’s news strategy (which is focusing less on algorithm-led news curation like its rivals), the service’s future integration with Texture magazine subscriptions, and its issues with ad revenue.
Providing context, the NYT explains how the rise of Google and Facebook came with news delivery that was driven in part by algorithms. While this enabled the companies to point users towards millions of articles, boosting clicks and shares and driving traffic to various sites, the process ended up sometimes emphasizing articles that were sensational, misleading, highly partisan, or simply false. Although both Facebook and Google have now highlighted methods to fight back against “fake news,” some view it as too little too late, and now Apple is taking a different approach.
Apple News editor in chief Lauren Kern via NYT
With Apple News, users can select the publishers they like the most, as well as interests like tech or entertainment, and Apple will surface relevant articles every day. The human curation aspect of Apple News comes on the app’s main screen: every top article you see is hand selected every day by the company’s editors. According to Apple News editor in chief Lauren Kern, “There is this deep understanding that a thriving free press is critical for an informed public, and an informed public is critical for a functioning democracy, and that Apple News can play a part in that.”
Following the events of the 2016 presidential election and revelations about Russian spies using algorithm-focused news curation sites to spread misinformation, Apple “remained convinced of the benefits of people.”
“We are responsible for what’s in there,” Roger Rosner, Apple’s chief of apps and Ms. Kern’s boss, said about Apple News. “We’re not just going to let it be a total crazy land.”
Kern joined Apple from New York Magazine, and now leads around 30 journalists located across Sydney, London, New York, and Silicon Valley. Among hundreds of pitches from various publishers, the team picks five stories that sit atop Apple News every day, the top two of which also appear in the Apple News widget.
In the interview, Kern explains that there are just some stories that don’t pass “the smell test,” which has led Apple to avoid covering certain events that were heavily shared across Google News, Facebook, and Twitter. In one example, Apple News did not run a story posted by ABC News concerning the Robert Mueller investigation. As an explanation, Kern explained that the Apple News team’s methods can’t be “baked into an algorithm.”
The main concern brought up in regards to human editors are their potential bias toward certain political coverage. In response, Kern says that bias can be baked into an algorithm’s code, and that humans offer far more subtly in the decision making process of sharing the news.
Ms. Kern criticized the argument that algorithms are the sole way to avoid prejudice because bias can be baked into the algorithm’s code, such as whether it labels news organizations liberal or conservative. She argued that humans — with all their biases — are the only way to avoid bias.
“We’re so much more subtly following the news cycle and what’s important,” she said. “That’s really the only legitimate way to do it at this point.”
Some publishers remain concerned with Apple News’ future, particularly because of Apple’s ad revenue policies. For one, readers on Apple News stay inside of Apple’s app for the most part, curbing ad revenue for the publisher of the article and limiting data from direct clicks to the sites. While publishers can sell ads on their stories in Apple News, most say the process is complicated and that advertiser interest was low because of the lack of consumer data.
Some were optimistic that Apple could be a better partner than other tech giants, but were leery of making the company the portal to their readers. “What Apple giveth, Apple can taketh away,” said Bill Grueskin, a Columbia University journalism professor and a former editor at The Journal, Bloomberg and other publications. Once readers are trained to get their news from Apple, he said, news organizations will realize: “You’re at the mercy of Apple.”
Looking to the future, Apple next plans to integrate a magazine subscription service — acquired through Texture — into Apple News. When asked about Apple potentially reporting the news itself and not just curating it, Apple’s chief of apps Roger Rosner said, “We don’t talk about future plans, but that’s certainly not what we set out to do.” Asked for further clarification, Rosner responded, “Who knows?”
While concerns over ad revenue and the app’s future remain, many publishers were positive about Apple News when asked about their opinion of the service. New York Magazine chief product officer Daniel Hallac noted that traffic from Apple News had doubled since last December, as Facebook dropped and Google remained the dominant source of the site’s traffic. Looking at the growth, Hallac said that he’s “optimistic about Apple News.”
To read the full story, head over to The New York Times: “Apple’s Radical Approach to News: Humans Over Machines”
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This Russian City Is Called the ‘Graveyard of the Earth’
★★★★, Culture, Weekly_Article July 27, 2016
[Culture ★★★★]
(P1) On the face of it, the living is good in Ozersk, Russia. The 100,000 people living in the city tucked in the Ural Mountains have always had plenty of food, private apartments, well-regarded schools, and good healthcare, even when the rest of the country lived in poverty. However, there are a few downsides for locals, the Guardian reports: “Their water is contaminated, their mushrooms and berries are poisoned, and their children may be sick.” Ozersk, or City 40 as it was first called, is where the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons program was born. In the 70 years since the city was secretly built around the Mayak nuclear plant, its residents have been victims of nuclear accidents; waste from the nuclear plant is dumped into local lakes and rivers.
(P2) “The rate of cancer is enormous and their kids are born with cancer,” Samira Goetschel, who made the documentary City 40, told Vice in May. “They die from cancer. But they take it as part of life.” So why do the denizens of Ozersk remain in a city called the “graveyard of the Earth”? At first, they had no choice. Ozersk is a closed city, and for its first several year’s residents could neither leave nor communicate with the outside world. Now, residents may obtain an exit visa on certain days, but other Russians and any foreigners aren’t allowed in without approval. “You know, it’s double barbed-wire fences, it’s heavily guarded,” says Goetschel, who managed to gain access. Residents today have the choice to leave and never return, per the Guardian, but “few do because it would mean losing the privileges of being a resident of this closed city.”
*click on city 40 in the article to watch a youtube video about the city*
SOURCE: http://www.newser.com/story/228464/this-russian-city-is-called-the-graveyard-of-the-earth.html
VOCABULARY: tucked, downsides, enormous, denizens, barb-wire, privileges
If you were a resident of this closed city, would you want to continue living there? Why or why not?
Should the city be relocated away from the nuclear plant and waste? Why or why not?
If you had the opportunity, would you visit this city? Why or why not?
How many residents live in Ozersk?
Where in Russia is the closed city located?
What’s wrong with the berries and mushrooms?
The city was built with the public’s knowledge. (T or F)
The people of Ozersk have to stay. (T or F)
on the face of it (P1)
dumped into local lakes and rivers (P1)
The rate of cancer (P2)
closed city (P2)
Image source: Photograph: DIG Films https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/20/graveyard-earth-inside-city-40-ozersk-russia-deadly-secret-nuclear
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Ancoats Strategic Study
Design and placemaking principles for the regeneration of Ancoats and New Islington.
Ancoats and New Islington are two areas that sit on the north eastern fringe of Manchester city centre. As Manchester continues to grow as a living city, we were appointed to work with Manchester City Council and the Homes & Communities Agency to develop place-making and design guidance that would underpin the new development in the two areas.
Both areas were developed as a result of the Industrial Revolution; Ancoats as a tightly grained, mixed use district with a grid street pattern and many large mill complexes; New Islington as a more organic collection of mill workers’ terraced housing, warehouses and workshops.
The two areas suffered decline as the areas’ traditional industries became uncompetitive and the areas were left as pale shadows of their former selves by the late 20th century.
Working with retail development specialist CF Commercial, we established a series of urban design strategies for the area focusing. By focusing on the strategic location for business and retail at ground floor, a catalyst is established which helps set-out and reinforce the primary pedestrian routes into and through the area. An adjacent public realm animates the spaces and provides an amenity for the local and adjacent neighbourhood communities.
The study is a place-making and positioning piece that will help shape and define this new and distinctive urban quarter, adding the next layer to Manchester’s record of developing successful place-making strategies.
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You are here: Home / Firearms / An uncommon rimfire – the .22 WRF Winchester 1890
Winchester Model 1890 in .22 WRF
Many years ago I had temporary care, on behalf of my nephew, of a rifle from a deceased estate. The ‘old rifle’ is a Winchester Model 1890 in .22 WRF (more on this unusual cartridge later).
It’s a little pump gun with a nice octagonal barrel, notable surface rust (ahem, patina), a very dirty bore, the action stiff in operation and stock in desperate need of refinishing.
So just what is it about this ‘old rifle’ that makes it interesting ?
The Winchester 1890
The model 1890 was the first slide (pump) action rifle produced by Winchester, as they had previously concentrated on the popular lever action repeaters. It went on to become one of the company’s best selling small calibre firearms worldwide. The rifle, designed by brothers John and Matthew Browning, was available chambered for the .22 Short, Long, and Winchester Rim fire cartridges, but not interchangeably. It wasn’t until 1919 that the .22 LR cartridge was also offered. The rifle was a slide action, top ejecting rifle with 18” magazine tube under the barrel. All Model 1890’s were furnished standard with plain walnut straight stocks, a crescent butt plate and 12 groove slide handle, however over time three distinct variations emerged.
Octagonal barrel and tube magazine
First model.
Solid frame, 24” octagonal barrel, case hardened frame, fixed rear sight. Manufactured from 1890 to 1892, It is thought that 15,552 of these first models were produced. They are distinguished by their concealed locking lugs and solid frame. They are serial numbered on the lower tang only.
Second Model.
Takedown, 24” octagonal barrel, case hardened frame, adjustable rear sight. Serial numbered (on lower tang only) from 15,553 to 112,970. They retain the concealed locking lugs but add the takedown feature. A Deluxe version was available featuring fancy walnut chequered straight or pistol grip stock and grooved slide handle.
Second Model. (Blued frame variation).
Distinguished only by the frame being blued rather than case hardened, but otherwise identical to other Second models. Serial numbered from 112,971 to 325,250. (From number 232,328 the serial number was also stamped into the bottom front end of the receiver as well as the lower tang).
A Deluxe version was also available.
Note the cut out and external locking lugs on the breech bolt
Third Model.
Takedown, 24” octagonal barrel, blued frame, adjustable rear sight. Serial numbered from 325,251 to as high as 853,000 it is clearly the most common of the 1890 model types. (The serial number is stamped into the bottom front end of the receiver as well as the lower tang). Distinguished by the locking cut made on the front top of the receiver to allow the breech bolt to lock externally. A Deluxe version was also available.
The Model 1890 was produced from 1890 to 1932, with around 775,000 guns sold. Values can vary enormously according to model, chambering, and condition.
If you are fortunate enough to have an excellent condition First Model (standard grade) then in 2001 an expert would have appraised it at around USD $9,000. A Case hardened Second Model Deluxe in excellent condition would fetch even more at around USD $10,000, though even a poor one would command USD $1,000. Interestingly because the .22LR was only introduced during the third model run they command a 25% premium.
This particular 1890 Third Model
The 'old rifle' is a standard grade gun, serial numbered in the 738,000’s which makes it a late production model (probably around 1930), and given that it is in poor condition it would be worth no more than USD $500 but probably much less. In this case however the value is sentimental and historical, rather than monetary. For my nephew it is a connection with his grandfather, not a term deposit.
The Successors to the 1890
The Model 1906 was designed as a lower cost version of the 1890. While using the same receiver it was fitted with a 20” round barrel and gumwood stock. In 1908 it was altered so that it could shoot the .22 Short, Long and Long Rifle cartridges interchangeably, making it a very flexible and cheaper (about two-thirds the cost of an 1890) option ensuring its success.
The Model 62 that replaced both these earlier models, featured a 23” round barrel, combined the ability to shoot the .22 Short, Long and Long Rifle cartridges interchangeably (from the 1906) with some of the 1890’s finer finish features, as well as incorporating a few “modern” manufacturing refinements to the basic Browning action. What if I want to buy a new one? Well, maybe.
Picture Courtesy of Taurus USA.
Picture from taurususa.com
The Taurus M62R is, as the model number suggests, modelled after the Winchester Model 62. It has a 23” barrel, with a tube magazine holding thirteen .22 LR rounds only. Metalwork is stainless steel, contrasting with dark stained timber stock.
Naturally the Taurus features some concessions to modern design such as a safety mechanism, which was not seen back in the days of the 1890. In 2004 it was available at an RRP of $600. I'm unsure if it's still available new, perhaps someone can enlighten me. Keep an eye out on BuyUsedGuns and one may pop up eventually.
The .22 WRF Cartridge
The .22 WRF (Winchester Rim Fire) was designed specifically for the Model 1890 slide action rifle. It was later adapted to Remington and Stevens Rifles as well as Colt Revolvers. While the Winchester round used a flattened point bullet, when Remington manufactured for the cartridge they used a round nose bullet and the name .22 Remington Special. (These cartridges are otherwise identical and the name simply points to the fact that Remington did not want the name Winchester to appear on any of their rifles. Times have changed in these days of WSMs and WSSMs haven’t they!)
Chuck Hawks tells us that “The .22WRF fires a 45 grain, copper-plated, lead semi-wadcutter style bullet at a velocity of 1,320 fps and 175 ft. lbs. of energy at the muzzle of a 22" rifle barrel.
Picture Courtesy of CCI
The sectional density (SD) of the 45 grain WRF bullet is .128”. Winchester also offered a 40 grain Hollow Point bullet. As its size would suggest, the .22WRF fits in between the .22LR and .22 Magnum as a hunting cartridge. This is the time to sound a note of caution. The cases of the.22WRF and .22 Magnum (WMR) are slightly larger in diameter (using a .224” bullet) than a .22LR case (which use a .220” bullet). Thus, while a .22LR cartridge will fit into a .22WRF chamber it should not be used in one. The .22WRF will not go into a .22LR chamber, so don’t try! Similarly a .22WRF cartridge will fit into a .22 Magnum (WMR) chamber but CCI warn against doing so.
Due to the relative rarity of firearms chambered for the .22WRF cartridge, it is no longer catalogued by Remington. Winchester and CCI occasionally produce runs of .22WRF ammunition. The CCI round is loaded with a jacketed Hollow point bullet. I have been unable to find any data on the Winchester wound. Ammunition is imported from time to time by Nioa - check with your preferred gunshop to see when they can get some for you (should you have the need).
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Home/Business/Tech CEO seen on camera barraging Asian family with racist rant has resigned
Tech CEO seen on camera barraging Asian family with racist rant has resigned
The man who was seen on-camera barraging an Asian American family with a racist rant has resigned as CEO of the cloud computing firm Solid8.
In a video that went viral last week, Michael Lofthouse can be seen smirking and giving his middle finger to the family, who were out celebrating a birthday in Carmel, California, on July 4.
“Trump’s going to f— you,” he said in the video. “You f—ers need to leave … f—ing Asian piece of s—.”
“Who are these f—ers,” Lofthouse added when staff asked him to leave, saying, “Yes, they are valued guests in America?”
Lofthouse apologized in an initial statement last week, but said in a follow-up statement Sunday that the first one “did not go far enough in addressing my behavior” and the “steps that I need to take.”
“I can confirm that I have stepped down from Solid8, terminating all business relationships with immediate effect,” Lofthouse said in the new statement. “I will make it my duty to ensure my personal actions do not continue to have a detrimental impact on those people closest to me.”
He added that he has “begun my journey back to sobriety and have enrolled in an anti-racist program with immediate effect.”
“My comments towards the families involved were racist, hurtful and deeply inappropriate,” he said. “The reactions to what was said have been deserved and I wholeheartedly acknowledge that I am complicit in a system that enables this behaviour and these broken beliefs to exist but I am dedicated to changing.”
He went on to apologize to families and the restaurant, saying he hopes that “the conversations and awareness that this incident has created can act as a catalyst for necessary change.”
Raymond Orosa, whose family was in the video, told local ABC News affiliate KGO-TV at the time that he was at the restaurant celebrating his wife’s birthday when he heard Lofthouse start spewing his anti-Asian rhetoric.
“He was full of hate and anger,” Orosa said. “And it’s sad that there is still people that are like that in this world, let alone in this country.”
Orosa said his niece filmed the video and shared it on Instagram, where it has garnered nearly a million views. It was also widely shared on Twitter and even re-shared by celebrities including Chrissy Teigen.
Last week, Orosa told KGO-TV that he though Lofthouse’s initial apology was “just saving face.”
“I think he really meant what he said and what he did,” he said. “I don’t believe his words because his actions speak louder than the words he say.”
Still, the father said while he doesn’t believe that what Lofthouse did was “acceptable or right,” he has chosen to forgive him.
“A lot of people will probably disagree with me for saying that I forgive him,” Orosa said. “But I do.”
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Home/World/USA/Kansas mother of 3 goes missing on trip to visit family in Alabama
Kansas mother of 3 goes missing on trip to visit family in Alabama
A mother of three from Kansas has now been missing for a week after leaving on a trip to visit family in Alabama.
Marilane Carter, 36, left her home in Overland Park, Kansas, just outside Kansas City, on the night of Saturday, Aug. 1, according to police. She was last seen in surveillance footage checking into a hotel in West Plains, Missouri, the following morning.
Law enforcement said Carter last spoke to family on that Sunday near Memphis, Tennessee, before her phone went dead. Police confirmed her cellphone last pinged in that area.
Her husband, Adam Carter, told Kansas City ABC affiliate that his wife spent about three hours at the Missouri hotel before leaving and was speaking to her when her phone died. She spoke to her mother minutes later and her phone died again.
The Overland Park police said she “made concerning statements to her family and has not been heard from since later Sunday, August 2nd.”
Authorities did not specify what was said.
“She was seeking some mental health care and she didn’t want to go to any place in Kansas City, but she wanted to go to a place she was familiar with,” Adam Carter, who works as a pastor in Kansas, told KMBC on Saturday.
Marilane Carter’s mother lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and she was also going to see her newborn niece.
Carter said the family has been searching in the area of the Interstate 55 bridge over the Mississippi River in Memphis where the cellphone last pinged her location. She has not used her phone or credit card since speaking to her husband and mother on Sunday evening.
“We are devastated because she has three children and they cry every night,” Marlene Mesler, Marilane’s mother, told Birmingham ABC affiliate WBMA. “They are asking for their mommy. Her husband loves her so much.”
Police said she was driving a gray 2011 GMC Acadia with the Kansas license plate, 194 LFY.
Carter is about 5-foot-8 and 130 pounds with long brown hair and green eyes. Police said she was last seen wearing a green T-shirt and black yoga pants.
“She’s a loving mother, loving wife. We have a great relationship. I miss her terribly. I want her home. I want her home with our kids,” Adam Carter said.
ABC News’ Erin Calabrese and Ahmad Hemingway contributed to this report.
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Back to story August 14, 2015 Anna Kendrick: She’s tiny and feisty, and like any good BFF, the ‘Pitch Perfect’ star leverages her quick wit to avoid a potentially awkward encounter or deliver a stinging quip when necessary. She also has the perfect justification for the importance of carbs and sugar in the morning, "If the frosting has cream cheese it counts as breakfast, right?" she posted on Instagram. Photo: © Getty Images
Anna Kendrick: She’s tiny and feisty, and like any good BFF, the ‘Pitch Perfect’ star leverages her quick wit to avoid a potentially awkward encounter or deliver a stinging quip when necessary. She also has the perfect justification for the importance of carbs and sugar in the morning, "If the frosting has cream cheese it counts as breakfast, right?" she posted on Instagram. Photo: © Getty Images
Henry Cavill: Going by his previous roles alone, Superman (‘Man of Steel’ and the upcoming ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ blockbuster) and smooth-talking CIA agent Napoleon Solo in ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ charming Brit Henry Cavill embodies the kind of strong, chiseled and dashing counterpart one could easily find a happily ever after with—or at least, fight crime and save the world alongside. Photo: © Getty Images
Mindy Kaling: She has an impeccable, notice-me sense of style and is the kind of #boss to both admire from afar and glean career and life advice from regularly. A teaser from her upcoming book, ‘Why Not Me?’ set to be released in September, includes her personal, “No Fail, Always Works, Secret Guide to Confidence.” Photo: © Getty Images
Amy Schumer: The kind of partner in crime who not only laughs at herself, but will make you laugh too, Amy would no doubt make any situation—an apocalypse, your cousin’s wedding—a good time. She’s also a fighter: “Boxing is like stand-up. Getting hit in boxing really made me feel stronger as a stand-up, because it's like having your worst fears happen to you. That gives you power, because you're no longer scared of it happening anymore. You got hit, and it hurt, but you're okay,” she told ‘Esquire.’ Photo: © Getty Images
Channing Tatum: Having Chan on your team is the equivalent of round-the-clock access to entertainment: The ‘Magic Mike XXL’ star and producer is down to earth, full of punchy one-liners, and has the moves like Jagger. And when it comes to his inner circle, he will always have your back. "I know a lot of people come up and say 'we just loved each other, we like hanging out,'" he told Hello! about his ‘Magic Mike’ cast mates. "[But] I haven’t been on a movie where people show up on their days off to watch, and to support their friends. That doesn’t happen a lot and that’s ultimately what happened on this film." Photo: © Getty Images
Charlize Theron: The Oscar-winning South African-born actress keeps a protective eye on her family—which includes her adopted son, Jackson, 4, and his newly adopted baby sister August—preferring to maintain a low-profile so she can focus on being a mom. Whether it’s saving the world on screen, she displayed her tough-as-nails chops in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ or as a United Nations Messenger of Peace off-duty, Charlize is the kind of role model partner-in-crime you want in your corner. Photo: © Getty Images
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Taylor Swift: Being a member of Taylor’s girl squad means a lifetime pass to enjoy her amazing homemade brunches, being constantly surrounded by a posse your closest BFFs, and a strong army of fierce ladies to come to your defense whenever the haters “gonna hate, hate, hate.” Photo: © Getty Images
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You are here: Home / Announcements / Kohn Family Nature Preserve
The Cadillac Area Land Conservancy has been given another important piece of property that is now open as a public nature preserve — the Kohn Family Nature Preserve. This 22 acre area includes 4,300 feet of the Manistee River shoreline. (The river is listed as a special, unique area in the Wexford County Master plan.) It’s an unbroken natural area, a canoe resting place and a forested scenic backdrop for hikers using the North Country Scenic Trail. Not only scenic, the property is a natural habitat for water fowl and upland game birds such as ruffed grouse, as well as whitetail deer, black bear, squirrel, etc. Furthermore, the land abuts US Forest Service land which creates an even larger natural habitat area.
How did we secure this gem? It was bequeathed to us because the Kohn family loved the land and believed in preservation and protection. When the late Deborah Kohn, retired Traverse City school teacher, inherited family property in 2003, she activated plans put in place by her mother, Grace, before Grace’s death at 95. Grace and her husband, Lloyd, owned a home in Mesick, a 160 acre farm northwest of Mesick (now protected from development by a CALC easement) and the oxbow in the Manistee River south of Buckley (our new preserve).
Deborah’s dad loved the river property and she had pleasant childhood memories of being there with him. He came and got her when the dog found a raccoon nest in an old tree stump. He wanted her to see them and took photos so she would always remember it. The family treasured this property and wanted it to be kept in its natural condition for future generations to enjoy.
In 2005 Deborah placed a CALC conservation easement on this river property. She had seen the farm directly across the river undergo extensive development with several home sites. As canoers paddle the Manistee River there is now that subdivision on one bank and the Kohn Family Nature Preserve with scenic banks covered with mature trees on the other. The 2005 easement protected the land from development while Deborah retained ownership. Upon her death, it was willed to CALC, who has opened it for you to enjoy.
Map and Directions:
Access to the preserve is acquired by traveling on M-115 to the intersection of M-37. Turn North on M-37 and travel approximately 2.2 Miles. Just after crossing the Manistee River turn right onto W-12 Road for approximately .2 mile. At this point W-12 Road becomes an unimproved seasonal road. Follow W-12 Road East for approximately .2 mile until it intersects with a 16.5 foot wide easement road exiting W-12 Road to the right or South. The larger portion of the preserve is located approximately 1,625 feet south of W-12 Road along this easement road.
Access to the smaller portion of the preserve is acquired by traveling due East from the intersection of W-12 Road and the easement road for approximately .3 mile until W-12 Road turns North at the trailhead of the North County Trail. At this point follow the North Country Trail East for approximately .3 mile and you will see a small footbridge over a stream. The preserve lies south of bridge. It should be noted that access to the smaller part of the preserve may be gained only on foot by walking across Department of Natural Resources property or by boat on the river. The GPS coordinates of the northeast corner of preserve and the river are N 44◦ 26.389 Minutes and 85◦ 40.404 Minutes.
It is located approximately 18 miles from downtown Cadillac.
View from center of large easement
Looking North from river from end access road
Riverbank East side in the large portion of the easement
Field outside of easement – view from access road
North Country Trail bridge just outside the North boundary of the small easement
End of the access road
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1 Esdras (Ezra)
2 Esdras (Nehemias)
Tobias (Tobit)
Canticle of Canticles (Song of Solomon)
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach)
Isaias (Isaiah)
Jeremias (Jeremiah)
Ezechiel (Ezekiel)
Osee (Hosea)
Abdias (Obadiah)
Jonas (Jonah)
Micheas (Micah)
Habacuc (Habakkuk)
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St Jude
1Joseph could no longer refrain himself before many that stood by: whereupon he commanded that all should go out, and no stranger be present at their knowing one another.
2And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Egyptians and all the house of Pharao heard.
3And he said to his brethren: I am Joseph. Is my father yet living? His brethren could no answer him, being struck with exceeding great fear.
4And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were come near him, he said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation.
6For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.
7And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.
8Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole house, and governor in all the land of Egypt.
9Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt. Come down to me, linger not.
10And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be near me, thou and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, thy sheep, and thy herds, and all things that thou hast.
11And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of famine remaining): lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things that thou hast.
12Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is my mouth that speaketh to you.
13You shall tell my father of all my glory, and all things that you have seen in Egypt: make haste and bring him to me.
14And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, he embraced him and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck.
15And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one of them: after which they were emboldened to speak to him.
16And it was heard, and the fame was abroad in the king's court: The brethren of Joseph are come. And Pharao with all his family was glad.
17And he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his brethren, saying: Load your beasts, and go into the land of Chanaan.
18And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat the marrow of the land.
19Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt, for the carriage of their children and their wives. And say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed.
20And leave nothing of your household stuff: for all the riches of Egypt shall be yours.
21And the sons of Israel did as they were bid. And Joseph gave them wagons according to Pharao's commandment: and provisions for the way.
22He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two robes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver with five robes of the best.
23Sending to his father as much money and raiment, adding besides ten he-asses to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and as many she-asses, carrying wheat and bread for the journey.
24So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.
25And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Chanaan to their father Jacob.
26And they told him, saying: Joseph thy son is living: and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.
27They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And when he saw the wagons and all that he had sent, his spirit revived,
28And he said: It is enough for me, if Joseph my son be yet living: I will go and see him before I die.
An historical text maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.
Joseph tells his brothers who he is
1Since Joseph could no longer control his feelings in front of his servants, he sent them out of the room. When he was alone with his brothers, he told them, “I am Joseph.”#Ac 7.13. 2Then he cried so loudly that the Egyptians heard him and told about it in the king's#45.2 the king's: See the note at 12.15. palace.
3Joseph asked his brothers if his father was still alive, but they were too frightened to answer. 4Joseph told them to come closer to him, and when they did, he said:
Yes, I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt. 5Don't worry or blame yourselves for what you did. God is the one who sent me ahead of you to save lives.
6There has already been a famine for two years, and for five more years no one will plough fields or harvest grain. 7But God sent me on ahead of you to keep your families alive and to save you in this wonderful way. 8After all, you weren't really the ones who sent me here—it was God. He made me the highest official in the king's court and placed me over all Egypt.
9Now hurry back and tell my father that his son Joseph says, “God has made me ruler of Egypt. Come here as quickly as you can.#Ac 7.14. 10You will live near me in the region of Goshen with your children and grandchildren, as well as with your sheep, goats, cattle, and everything else you own. 11I will take care of you there during the next five years of famine. But if you don't come, you and your family and your animals will starve to death.”
12All of you, including my brother Benjamin, can tell by what I have said that I really am Joseph. 13Tell my father about my great power here in Egypt and about everything you have seen. Hurry and bring him here.
14Joseph and Benjamin hugged each other and started crying. 15Joseph was still crying as he kissed each of his other brothers. After this, they started talking with Joseph.
16When it was told in the palace that Joseph's brothers had come, the king and his officials were happy. 17So the king said to Joseph:
Tell your brothers to load their donkeys and return to Canaan. 18They must bring their father and their families here. I will give them the best land in Egypt, and they can eat and enjoy everything that grows on it. 19Also tell your brothers to take some wagons from Egypt for their wives and children to ride in. And they must be sure to bring their father. 20They can leave their possessions behind, because they will be given the best of everything in Egypt.
21Jacob's sons agreed to do what the king had said. And Joseph gave them wagons and food for their trip home, just as the king had ordered. 22Joseph gave some new clothes to each of his brothers, but to Benjamin he gave five new outfits and three hundred pieces of silver. 23To his father he sent ten donkeys loaded with the best things in Egypt, and ten other donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other food for the return trip. 24Then he sent his brothers off and told them, “Don't argue on the way home!”
25Joseph's brothers left Egypt, and when they arrived in Canaan, 26they told their father that Joseph was still alive and was the ruler of Egypt. But their father was so surprised that he could not believe them. 27Then they told him everything Joseph had said. When he saw the wagons Joseph had sent, he felt much better 28and said, “Now I can believe you! My son Joseph must really be alive, and I will get to see him before I die.”
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Stations of the Crass is the second album by Crass, released in 1979. The record, originally released as a double 12", includes live tracks from a gig recorded at the Pied Bull pub in Islington, London, on August 7, 1979. The first three sides contain the studio tracks and play at 45 rpm, while the final side comprises the live material and plays at 33 rpm. The album's title is not only a pun on the Catholic rite of the Stations of the Cross (such jibes against the religious establishment were typical of Crass), but is also a reference to the graffiti campaign that the band had been conducting around London's underground railway system, the cover artwork depicting a wall at Bond Street tube station that had allegedly been 'decorated' by them. Although the album met mixed critical reception at first, it managed to sell at least 20,000 copies within two weeks.
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The State of Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists & Clinical Professional Counselors Deploys Certemy as their Online Software Platform for Professional Licensing Management
The Board is now using Certemy to provide Nevada-based Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors with an online platform for license applications and renewals.
LOS ANGELES, CA—December 16, 2020—Certemy, a leading provider of professional licensing management software for state licensing boards, is pleased to announce that the Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists & Clinical Professional Counselors has deployed Certemy as their online software platform for professional licensing. Certemy is helping the Board process license applications and renewals faster with higher completion rates and fewer errors. The Board will also use Certemy to streamline third-party license verification requests and plans to use Certemy’s Enforcement Management module to investigate complaints and manage disciplinary actions.
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With paper applications, submitting application and renewal documents was slow and laborious for licensees. Reviewing and approving those applications was equally time-consuming for Board staff. Also, storing paper documents for each licensee for 30 years following their final year of practice, a state requirement, required considerable paper handling and storage.
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Licensees can complete forms and sign documents electronically, with instant updates to the system database, saving everyone significant time and effort.
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About the State of Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists & Clinical Professional Counselors
The State of Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists & Clinical Professional Counselors regulates and licenses persons providing therapy and counseling services to the general public in the State of Nevada. The Board's purposes are to protect consumers and promote the quality of therapy and counseling services, and to assure the highest degree of professional care and conduct on the part of therapists and counselors.
Certemy is a leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use licensing and enforcement management software for state licensing boards. Our platform streamlines and automates licensing application and renewal workflows to help state boards become more efficient, transparent, and agile while reducing IT costs and administrative burdens.
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An active member of the credentialing community, Certemy is a proud member of The Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR), the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE), and the Association of Test Publishers (ATP).
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1985 Fender Telecaster Thinline ’72 Reissue MIJ
This Natural Ash Telecaster Thinline is in exceptionally fine condition and weighs 7.30 lbs! Twelve and three-quarter inch wide, one and seven-eighths inch thick, hollow ash body with single 'f' hole on bass side. One-piece fretted maple neck with 21 original thin frets and black dot position markers. Headstock with "Fender" logo in black with gold trim, with two patent numbers in black below. "Telecaster" in black in bold letters beside it, with "Thinline" in black below. Two "butterfly" string trees, one with large nylon spacer. Individual Fender "F" tuners with octagonal metal buttons. Three-bolt 'microtilt' neck plate with serial number "398448" stamped between the top two screws. Two fully adjustable Fender 'Seth Lover' metal-covered split-pole-piece humbucker pickups with outputs of 10.37k and 10.53k. Three-layer mother-of-toilet seat over black and white pickguard with fourteen screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way selector switch, all on pickguard. The potentiometers are stamped "137 7201" (CTS, January 1972). Chrome knobs with flat tops and knurled sides. Fender fully adjustable six-saddle combined bridge/tailpiece. The end of the neck is stamped in black "0703-1513" ("07"=Tele Thinline; "03"= Maple neck; "15"= Week; "1" = Day of week; "3" = Year - i.e. Monday April 11th, 1973. The underside of the neck is also stamped in black "T. Hughes". The neck pocket is stamped in black "Gabe" and the two pickup cavities are stamped in red "Natural".There is some minor discoloration to the pickguard and two small areas of cracking by the screws where the pickguard has shrunk as usual. There is some fine lacquer checking and the bare minimum of fret wear. This fine guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition. Complete with the original Fender 12 page Telecaster Thinline Owner's Manual. Housed in its original Fender black hardshell case with dark orange plush lining (9.00).
Introduced in 1968, this model was an attempt by Fender to reduce the weight of the solid Telecaster by hollowing out sections of the body -- and the guitar even included a token f-hole as a visual clue to its semi-solid status. The Thinline at first retained the standard Tele pickup layout, but with a restyled pickguard" (Tony Bacon and Paul Day, The Fender Book, p. 47).
The Telecaster Thinline was "basically a Telecaster body with pockets hollowed-out from the rear, including a bigger one opening into the top via an 'f' hole. With the exception of the pickguard shape modified to accommodate the new semi-acoustic design, the Thinline was otherwise identical to a regular '68 Telecaster in terms of neck, electronics and hardware. But its body was about half the weight of a regular Telecaster. The new variant was first listed in July 1968 for $319.50…To convey the idea of a lighter, almost acoustic guitar, the Thinline was at first released in only natural ash and mahogany finishes with a 2-piece maple neck… By 1969, it also became available with a 3-tone sunburst finish and an optional rosewood-capped neck.
The 60s blues boom and the ensuing transition towards heavy rock gave exposure to Gibson-type double coil humbuckers because of their sustain and weeping tone. As Fender later claimed in a 1972 leaflet: "Humbucking pickups eliminate feedback and add a gutty mid-range and bass sound." In the late 60s however, the Fender sound was mostly associated with bright sounding single coil units and CBS Musical Instruments felt the commercial need to enlarge its pickup offering. Meanwhile, Seth Lover, the man who had designed Gibson's famous humbucker in the mid-50s, resigned from his job at Kalamazoo in 1967. When Dick Evans, a former Gibson employee then working in Fullerton, heard of Seth's resignation he invited him to California. Guess what happened: Seth Lover was hired by Fender and he subsequently designed the company's first double coil pickup (available in a guitar and bass version).
Compared to a classic late 60s humbucker, the new Fender unit was primarily characterized by twelve adjustable cunife magnets and a mega output (DC resistance > 10k Ohms). Seth Lover's new humbucking pickup was finalized in the course of 1970 and first appeared on Fender instruments after mid-1971. Telecaster guitars were initially the sole recipient of the newly designed pickup, also fitted later to the short-lived Starcaster. By the end of 1971, The Thinline was thus revamped with two humbuckers and a Tilt Neck. The second variant of the semi-acoustic model, first listed in February 1972, otherwise incorporated a modified pickguard, a 6-piece Strat-style bridge and a "Thinline" decal on the upper bout of the headstock. At first it retained the same basic finishes as the original Thinline, i.e. Ash, Mahogany and Sunburst, but very few were actually made in mahogany before this finish was dropped." (A.R. Duchossoir, The Fender Telecaster, pp. 23-25).
Body Semi-Hollow Ash Body
Neck 1-Piece Maple, "U" Shape, (Gloss Polyurethane Finish)
Fingerboard Maple, 7.25" Radius (184 mm)
No. of Frets 21 Vintage Style Frets
Pickups 2 Fender "Wide Range" Humbuckers, (Neck/Bridge)
Controls Master Volume, Master Tone
Pickup Switching 3-Position Blade
Bridge Vintage Style Strat Strings-Through-Body Hardtail Bridge
Machine Heads Fender/Schaller Vintage "F" Style Tuning Machines
Hardware Chrome
"F" Hole
3-Bolt Neck Plate with Micro-Tilt Adjustment
"Bullet" Truss Rod Nut
Pickguard: 4-Ply White Pearloid
Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
Owner's Manual 1 Owner's Manual 2 Original Japan Brochure
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What are Antidepressants?
Seratonin Specific Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) are a class of prescription medications approved for the treatment of depression and anxiety. The exact mechanism of action is unknown, but researchers believe in that in some individuals, these medications delay the speed at which the body’s naturally produced neurotransmitter Seratonin is reabsorbed, therefore prolonging the Seratonin’s naturally occurring pleasant effects.
What are Antidepressants Used for?
SSRI antidepressants are used to treat depression and anxiety, after non-pharmacological interventions such as lifestyle changes, stress management, and therapy or counselling have not helped alleviate the individual’s symptoms.
What are the Side Effects of Antidepressants?
There are a wide range of side effects that can occur with antidepressants. Mild physical side-effects include nausea, dry mouth, mild lethargy, or mild agitation, and these frequently resolve fairly quickly. More serious side effects include sexual side effects, mood swings, rashes, tics, stomach upset, agitation, profound lethargy, and in some cases, suicidal thinking and/or suicide. Some SSRIs are also considered significantly dangerous for pregnancy, breastfeeding, and prenatal exposure.
Signs of Antidepressant Abuse
SSRIs are not frequently abused, as they do not produce any of the qualities that characterise substances of abuse. Additionally, SSRIs do not work immediately. They require daily doses for up to four weeks before the individual may recognize any change in symptoms. One possible way in which antidepressants have been misused is by individuals who have other substance abuse issues and are seeking to alleviate the side-effects of those substances by taking a prescribed antidepressant or other mood management medication.
Health Risks of Antidepressant Abuse
There is not currently scientific research demonstrating long-term antidepressant use risks, although individuals may build up tolerances and experience ongoing side-effects during the course of use. Using antidepressants to alleviate the side effects of other substances is considered by some practitioners to be misuse. Some antidepressants pose risks to a developing fetus and babies that are breastfeeding. Additionally, there are certain medical conditions such as a potentially fatal condition known as Seratonin Syndrome that can occur with antidepressant use. Some antidepressants have been identified as having a higher potential for addiction than others.
Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms
Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms can include minor physical symptoms such as stomach upset, headaches, and agitation or lethargy. Psychological symptoms of withdrawal may include severe mood disturbance, severe agitation, depression, suicidal thinking, and death from suicide. Individuals needing to discontinue antidepressant use should do so under the careful direction and supervision of a medical professional.
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I found out the next Monday at school. Like every other child in town between the ages of five and 10, I attended Deerhorn Elementary, the old, one-story brick building on the other side of town. It had always been a trial for me to get there. Although I’d figured out the safest routes by now, I sometimes still encountered kids who jumped out from behind trees to scare me or who tried to keep me off their streets. The most persistent of these was a girl named Jeannie Allen. Her house was situated in the cradle of a Y whose right arm led to the school. If she was out in her yard, she’d try to turn me around or chase me down the left side of the Y, adding a half a mile to my trip.
Jeannie wasn’t outside her house that morning, but arriving at school was no relief. As I entered the hallway, someone shoved me hard from behind, and I couldn’t tell whether this contact was accidental, or a special Monday morning greeting just for me.
“Morning, niphead,” a fifth grader offered as he passed, and the girls around him giggled. The week before, a group of fourth graders had pushed me against a wall and made me count to ten in Japanese, but today I made it to my locker without further incident. I saw that there were fresh ink marks on the front of my locker, black scrawlings that were supposed to be kanji. The janitor had painted over them several times before finally giving up, and now things just collected, layer upon layer of jagged black marks, spelling out my difference.
“Your daddy’s a Jap-lover!” a girl hissed behind me.
“Yeah,” said her friend, “I heard her mama’s a geisha whore.”
“That can’t be,” said the first girl. “’Cos geishas are pretty. And Michelle’s butt-ugly—just look at her.”
I didn’t reply—I never replied—and fought the urge to turn and face them. After I got my books, I walked quickly to class and kept my eyes trained on the floor.
Although technically, as a nine-year-old, I should have been in fourth grade, the school officials had decided when I arrived the year before that my reading and writing in English were spotty enough to keep me back a grade. It hadn’t helped that I’d lived in Deerhorn for more than a month before I’d gone to school; because my grandparents didn’t think I was staying, it hadn’t occurred to them to enroll me. By the time it was clear I wasn’t going anywhere, I’d missed several weeks of the school year already and was way behind my class. So now I was assigned to Miss Anderson’s third grade class, a year below the rest of my age group.
Penny Anderson was a tall, dark-haired woman in her late twenties. She was completely unlike the teachers I’d had in Japan—both the stern, daunting teachers in the Japanese school, and the friendly but firm teachers at the English-language school. Miss Anderson always seemed nervous, starting to venture one way in conversation or movement, and then pausing and changing direction. She had a way of half-laughing that made it hard to believe she was really amused; her anger, usually accompanied by an almost comically furrowed brow, was equally unconvincing. Miss Anderson’s one distinguishing feature was her beautiful voice. She sang in the church choir, and even when she yelled at you, it sounded like a lullaby. Often, in the mornings, she lingered at her doorway on the chance that the principal, Mr. Baker, would pass by. Everyone knew that Mr. Baker and Miss Anderson were boyfriend and girlfriend, even though he had a wife.
That morning, though, when I entered the classroom, Miss Anderson was sitting at her desk looking troubled. I wondered if Mr. Baker was absent this morning, but as all the children settled into their seats for roll call, the usual morning jokes and light chatter that went on before the bell rang were replaced by a strange and different murmur.
“He’s supposed to come tomorrow? But my mom said Mr. Baker wouldn’t let him.”
“My dad said he’d come over himself, if that’s what it took to stop it.”
“I’ve never seen one before, have you? What do they look like?”
“I’m glad I’m not in fifth grade,” said Brady Grimson, whose parents ran a diner on Route 5.
“Yeah,” said Tommy Fry, the pharmacist’s son, “and you’ll never get there, either.”
Finally, the bell rang and Miss Anderson stood up. “All right, children. Settle down. Did you have a good weekend? What did you do?”
Everyone went silent and rapt with attention, and this, more than anything, made me realize that something was wrong.
“Well, what did you all do?” Miss Anderson asked again. “Did anyone go on a car trip?”
Slowly, tentatively, Missy Calloway raised her hand. She was the smartest girl in class, a no-nonsense, stocky, bespectacled child whose farm parents treated her with bewildered respect, as if she were a visiting alien. Missy didn’t waste her time on the childish topics that occupied most of our classmates, and I always listened to what she had to say. “Miss Anderson,” she said, after the teacher acknowledged her, “is it true we have a Negro teacher coming?”
Miss Anderson started to draw herself up straight, and then fell back into a tired slouch.
“Yes, Missy, it’s true,” she answered, and the room exploded into chaos, thirty voices speaking all at once. Miss Anderson put her hands up to call for silence and the noise subsided a little. “The teacher’s name is Mr. Garrett, and he’s going to be substituting in Mrs. Hebig’s class until after she has her baby.”
Now everyone was silent. Finally, Brady Grimson spoke without raising his hand. “But . . . why is he coming?”
“I just told you. Mrs. Hebig is out because she’s having a baby, and—”
“No, I mean, why is he coming to Deerhorn?”
Everyone looked at Miss Anderson, waiting, more interested and attentive than they ever were when she was talking about biology or math.
“I’m not sure, Brady. But I hear that his wife is a nurse over at the clinic.”
The room was quiet while we digested this information. The one other time the classroom felt this way—tense, strange, uncertain, unbelieving—was when we heard that Mr. Greene, our P.E. teacher, had been paralyzed in a boating accident.
Miss Anderson tried to teach that morning, covering a lesson on plants and oxygen, but no one was paying attention. My classmates whispered to each other when her back was turned, and for once she didn’t really seem to care. Finally, at 10:30, she let us out for recess, and while the other kids all shifted easily into their out-of-class selves—chasing each other and yelling, jumping on the monkey bars and swing sets—I was still thinking about what Miss Anderson had told us.
A Negro teacher was coming to teach at our school, and his wife was a nurse at the clinic. A black couple had moved to Deerhorn, a town that, before my own arrival the year before, had never been home to a soul who wasn’t white. In that town, in 1974, this was as dramatic and inconceivable as deer starting to speak or a flock of ducks flying backwards. To my grandparents and their friends, black people lived elsewhere, in big-city slums or remote country settings, deep in the backwater South. Blacks, they believed, were lazy and ignorant, and if any one Negro had not run afoul of the law, it would only be a matter of time before he succumbed to his basic nature and robbed a house or assaulted a woman. To them, the voting and housing laws of the 1960s and ’70s must have seemed like capitulations, the equivalent of handouts from a weak-willed government and directly counter to the natural order of things. Blacks could be useful, yes, in other parts of the country, to work as field hands or nannies or cooks. But they were certainly not meant to be employed there in Deerhorn. They were not meant to live among whites.
This unthinking racism was so accepted and prevalent that people didn’t even bother to disguise it. One of the reasons why people were discouraged from visiting places like Chicago and New York was that those places were known to be “dark.” If a teenager stole a car or committed a petty crime, he was said to be acting “colored.” The only black men who were respected were athletes—Dave May of the Brewers, MacArthur Lane of the Packers. But even they were only acceptable in their prescribed public roles—as sports heroes removed from everyday life. And there were limits to the admiration. Many people, including Charlie, had been unhappy that spring when Hank Aaron had broken Babe Ruth’s home run record.
That morning, several teachers gathered near the steps that led down to the playground. Miss Anderson was there, and Mr. Sealer, who taught fourth grade. Mrs. Hood, the first grade teacher, stood next to him, and one step above her was the kindergarten teacher, Miss Gandt. Because I usually stayed on a bench near the steps and didn’t wander out to the playground, I could hear their conversation, although they made no real effort to keep their voices down.
“. . . can’t believe it,” Mrs. Hood, the first grade teacher, was saying. She was a small woman in her forties who wore her blond hair in a bun and had a voice so high you thought she was pretending. “I know they’ve been telling us, but I never thought they’d actually go through with it.”
“I’ll tell you, if Janie had known that this would happen,” said Miss Gandt, the teacher from kindergarten, who was dark-haired and gruff, “she never would have taken the time off. She would have stayed in her class till the second she went into labor.”
“Fred says she’s all in knots about it,” said Mr. Sealer, the fourth grade teacher. He was in his 50s, with a paunch and very red cheeks, and he was known to keep a flask of whiskey in his desk. “This country’s going to hell and it’s happening fast. I told you that mess in Boston was going to affect us. It’s crazy—white children being bused into the ghetto, and those ghetto children let loose in white schools. The way things are going these days, with busing and all, it’s no surprise they’re letting niggers teach our children.”
Mrs. Hood nodded and leaned forward so that Mr. Sealer could light her cigarette. “Not to mention his wife’s going to be working at the clinic.”
“But at least we can avoid the clinic,” Miss Anderson said, sounding almost mournful. “With school, the parents don’t have a choice. What are we going to do about these poor children?”
“Well, couldn’t you do something, Penny?” Miss Gandt asked intently. “I mean, couldn’t you talk to Steven?”
There was a silence. Although Miss Anderson’s romance with Mr. Baker was general knowledge, it was rare that anyone referred to it so openly.
“He can’t do anything, really,” Miss Anderson said after a pause. “He’s been talking and talking about how we need a long-term sub, and then this teacher comes along out of the blue. He’s qualified—over-qualified even—he has a master’s degree besides his credential. There’s no way Steven could deny him without it looking like discrimination. I mean, if worse came to worst, there could even be a lawsuit.”
Mr. Sealer scoffed. “That degree’s probably not worth the paper it’s printed on, anyway. The female’s either. The schools are just giving diplomas away now, whether or not those people deserve it. I mean, who would ever trust a black nurse?”
“Exactly,” said Mrs. Hood, her voice more squeaky than usual. “And anyhow, it’s not discrimination to want to protect our way of life. We should be able to have some say about who our children are exposed to. Besides—what if more of them come? What if they have children? Before you know it, it could get as bad here as Milwaukee or Chicago.”
“You’re right, Gracie,” Miss Anderson said. “It’s about our way of life. We’re just thinking about what’s best for our children.”
Nina Revoyr
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Reviewing BBC reporting on UAE investment in Beitar Jerusalem FC
by Hadar Sela
On December 8th the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Tom Bateman produced a filmed report on a topic which has been widely covered by the corporation in the past – the Beitar Jerusalem football club.
Titled “How UAE sheikh came to buy infamous Israeli football club”, Bateman’s report begins by once again focusing on the exception to the rule in Israeli football, where most teams – including the national squads – have players from many different ethnic and religious backgrounds.
Bateman: “And what makes this such a story is that Beitar is known for a notoriously racist far-right element of its fan base. They’re called La Familia. They’ve been known in the past for racist chants in the terraces, for aggressive behaviour and they take pride in the fact that Beitar never signed an Arab player.”
Later on in the film Bateman acknowledges that his opening portrayal is currently less relevant.
Bateman: “There’s been a change here though because the club says that in the last couple of years it’s seriously cracked down on racism. Its owner threatened to sue fans for hate speech in the terraces, says he will not tolerate racism. And one of the groups that calls for an end to all of it says there has been a significant change. They say that they’ve all but wiped out racist chants in the terraces here.”
Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Six O’Clock News’ on the same day heard a report from Bateman (from 25:42 here) in which he similarly first told audiences of “far-right, ultra-nationalist” fans “notorious too for racism” and only later on acknowledged that the club’s current owner “has done much to stamp out racism”.
Interestingly, Bateman also chose to bring in some Palestinian Authority talking points unrelated to the story itself: [emphasis in italics in the original]
Bateman: “The £70 million deal is one of the fruits of normalisation. Israel and the UAE established diplomatic ties as part of a historic shift in Middle East relations. But all of this infuriates the Palestinians. As business warms between Israel and the Gulf, they see a betrayal of Arab solidarity over their hopes for statehood.”
Also on December 8th the same story was covered in a BBC News website report titled “Beitar Jerusalem: UAE sheikh buys stake in racism-tainted Israeli club” in which readers find a quote from the new part-owner of Beitar Jerusalem:
“Sheikh Hamad said: “I am thrilled to be a partner in such a glorious club that I have heard so much of and in such a great city, the capital of Israel and one of the holiest cities in the world.”
He added: “I have heard a lot about the change taking place in the club and the way things are going, and I am happy to take part in that.””
The report could have explored the topic to which Sheikh Hamad referred in that second quoted sentence: how the efforts (which were widely covered by the BBC just a year ago) made by owner Moshe Hogeg to tackle the issue of racism among some of the club’s fans laid the foundations for significant investment from an Arab country.
Instead, the BBC chose to editorialise:
“Sheikh Hamad’s reference to Jerusalem is potentially controversial, given the city’s status is at the heart of Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians.
Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since the 1967 Middle East war and regards the entire city as its capital – a position supported only by the Trump administration, Guatemala and Honduras.
The Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state of their own.”
Similar editorialising also appears in a report published on the BBC Sport website on December 8th under the headline “Beitar Jerusalem: Why is an Arab investor pouring money into Israel’s ‘most racist football club?‘”.
“…Al Nahyan’s carefully worded statement on 7 December included an allusion to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The city’s status is one of the core issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel considers all of Jerusalem its capital, a position that the United States supports but that is not recognised by most countries.
Palestinians seek to make East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, the capital of their future state.”
In December 2019 the BBC told its audiences “How Beitar Jerusalem’s football club owner took on racism and won”. One year on, it has side-lined that effort in order to promote some of its own long-standing narratives.
The BBC returns to an old obsession
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Momentum builds for Cards
The Plattsburgh State men’s hockey team has experienced plenty of success early on this season, and that success continued as the team battled in the PrimeLink Great Northern ShootOut over the weekend.
The No. 1 Cardinals (8-0-0, 5-0-0 SUNYAC) picked up two wins, defeating Middlebury College 5-4 Friday and Norwich University 6-5 in overtime Saturday to take home the PrimeLink title.
PSUC senior forward Dillan Fox was the hero of the weekend as he buried the overtime winner for the Cards, which allowed theteam to tally its eighth-straight win and remain undefeated.
Fox said it was great to score the game-winning goal.
He also noted playing Middlebury and Norwich was a good test for the team and defeating both opponents was a nice accomplishment.
“Middlebury and Norwich are always really tough matchups for us,” Fox said. “It was a huge weekend for us at the PrimeLink, and coming out with a tournament trophy is real nice.”
While the Cards were able to secure two non-conference wins, neither came easy, and they had to battle back in both games. PSUC faced two separate one goal deficits against Middlebury and a 2-0 deficit against Norwich.
Fighting back to win games is nothing new for PSUC. The Cards have done this in five matchups already this season, and Fox said it’s due to a simple mindset the team has.
“I think we just do a good job at staying positive,” Fox said. “We got a lot of older guys on the team and a lot of guys who have been in those situations before, so I think that helps, but the biggest part is just staying positive.”
The Cards will return to the ice this weekend as they travel to face Brockport Friday and Geneseo Saturday, looking to secure two more SUNYAC wins.
PSUC head coach Bob Emery said his team’s undefeated start to the season is a great achievement but knows opponents will want to hand the Cards their first loss of the season, and he is eager to see how his team reacts.
“I’m looking forward to how we respond because it’s lonely at the top,” Emery said. “We are going to get everyone’s best game. They are going to be bigger, faster and stronger than they normally are when they play us, and I hope we know that.”
Emery stressed the games this weekend against Brockport and Geneseo are going to be about hard work and the Cards emotion level.
“We just have to know how important hard work is,” Emery said. “Hard work will beat talent, and talent doesn’t work hard.”
Emery feels PSUC has developed a good hard-working culture that can serve as a foundation for the team to grow as a whole and develop quality chemistry.
Senior defenseman Anthony Calabrese believes the Cards’ growing chemistry is helping the team.
“Our team is very tight,” Calabrese said. “We are very close, and we have a good group of guys. I think our leadership and how close our team is this year has made a difference.”
This bond is something that’s felt from the seniors all the way to the freshmen.
“We are such a close-knit team this year,” freshman forward Cole Stallard said. “Everyone is really close, everyone cares for each other, everyone sacrifices for each other and everyone buys in.”
Along with their chemistry, PSUC maintains an urgency to consistently improve every day, knowing that’s the key to achieving their goals this season.
“When we come into practice each week, we realize what is at stake,” Stallard said. “We know one game or one point can keep us out of a tournament down the road, so we just work harder each week.”
After their latest two wins, the Cards will look to apply this mindset to their upcoming games.
“Winning the PrimeLink is definitely a momentum builder,” senior forward Connor Gorman said. “During the season, you never want to get too high or too low, but I think this is a high for us. We are excited about the wins, but I think all of us are focused on this upcoming weekend against Brockport and Geneseo and finishing out the first semester with two more wins.”
Email Joey LaFranca at joseph.lafranca@cardinalpointsonline.com
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CLINICAL LEAD RN - DUKE LIFE FLIGHT
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Every word Frank Lampard just said on Chelsea’s draw at Leicester, Kepa, Caballero and Giroud
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A good point?
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Rudiger, did it show how much you have missed him?
“Yeah. We did miss him. He brings an aggression and a presence in everything that he does, which is good because we have young players in that area as well. I think he is the more experienced of our centre-backs, and he brings something in set-pieces. We have been a bit short in them, in terms of how much desire have we got to it to score goals. He does that naturally. I was delighted with his two goals, we need to score more from set-pieces, particularly in these games against good opposition where it is tight. I am really pleased with Toni.”
Did they let you off the hook slightly?
“Yeah, they did. But I also feel we had as good a chance with Tammy in the first half from Reece James’ cross where he is there and didn’t get anything on it. A couple of bits around their box. For instance the Chilwell goal we had a similar situation to that two or three times in the first half where we didn’t score. They evened themselves out over the game.”
Caballero, was he to blame for the second goal?
“Not in my opinion, no. As the ball travels in the cross, it is a miss-hit cross, he follows that and moves back towards his goal when he realises he couldn’t get it. I think the problem was that when we defended we sunk to the six-yard box. Chilwell pops up with that and someone has to be tighter to them.”
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allConnex’s boardroom radiates a bustle of energy as Steve King and Jamie Kuzman, the managing partners of the firm draw a “Comparative Analysis Model” for quantitative and qualitative analysis against its client’s existing infrastructure and bandwidth. They are engaged with their executive team in a back-and-forth ideation process to understand the client’s vision and find the perfect service provider. After hours of focused deliberation and work with allConnex engineers, hardware vendors, and client IT staff, what gets developed is a network solution, amalgamating multiple network designs and phases of deployment relative to corporate growth. Next, the firm uses the Comparative Analysis Model to help the client choose best-fit providers relative to the design and network strategy that is chosen.
At a time when most cloud consulting conglomerates get involved in endowing consultancy services without even considering the vision of the company or the criticality of its application, it is a rarity to come across a firm such as allConnex that delivers services based on a full technology assessment of the clients’ needs and landscape. Setting a new paradigm in the cloud consulting landscape, the firm provides its expertise and guidance for a company from the conception phase of a cloud project to switch-over and beyond. As allConnex’s client, Rich Giurleo, the Director of IT of QuickPivot says, “allConnex played a vital role in successfully distributing our telecommunications services. Thanks to their expert advice and support, we have managed to cut costs and improve the redundancy of our mission-critical networks.”
As a collaborative technology consultant, the firm employs an approach that guides its delivery of services and framework for all the 60 carriers that allConnex is associated with. “Our approach assures that we not only provide actionable recommendations to our clients, but we also see through the decision-making and execution phases of our projects,” states King. allConnex operationalizes an in-depth technical and business analysis of its clients’ existing network and infrastructure which is followed by a comparative analysis of existing terms and commitments.
Our approach assures that we not only provide actionable recommendations to our clients, but we also see through the decision-making and execution phases
Next, the firm comprehends the future corporate vision of its client and builds network designs and deployment stages. The subsequent step commences with allConnex reaching out to the carriers to educate on the design and run full-fledged operation of communications with vendors. The firm also assists the carrier in streamlining and aggregating all communication from multiple vendors and escalating processes on their behalf. Further, redundancy options embedded into the design are also checked by allConnex to ensure network stability. The result is a productive relationship as the firm serves as a liaison between its clients and service providers.
Built on a mission to provide expert knowledge, unbiased consultation, and consistent advocacy, allConnex has been in the consulting business since 2002 and has witnessed substantial changes in the cloud landscape. “We see more application-driven environments, with clients moving out of independent collocation service providers,” adds King. The firm has transitioned itself from a traditional telco to an IT-driven service provider and serves by leveraging its relationships with service providers to broker excellence in pricing and service.
With over 1000 clients, 90 sub-agents and 60 carrier partners, the firm also has two independent divisions that deliver consulting expertise in the energy space and also plays the role of a carrier that can customize the products according to the clients’ demands. In the near future, allConnex aims to expand its sales on the agent and direct side, and continue to grow.
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An Appraisal of Energy Drinks, Supplements, and Medications: Deadly Implications
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Recognize the potential for energy drink drug interactions.
List the known energy drink components drug interactions as reported in the medical literature.
Know the principles for clinical coping with energy drinks and supplement drug interactions.
List the known supplements components drug interactions as reported in the medical literature.
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Standing on the wrong side of history for something you think is right
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$250,000 it costs taxpayers for Pence to be inside that stadium... -- The Midnight Toker 10/09/2017 2:28PM
Of course only one side can protest... -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 08:44AM
Why do you keep pushing this theme? -- Portland 10/09/2017 11:24AM
Moved. -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 10:17AM
I think they believe deeply in a cause. And have demonstrated -- hawg1 10/09/2017 10:21AM
Of course, I respect everyone's right to protest.... -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 10:24AM
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It's really getting hard for them to defend trump and his silly... -- Gateway 10/09/2017 3:15PM
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We need to review the definition of protest in the historical sense. -- Portland 10/09/2017 12:23PM
Standing on the wrong side of history for something you think is right -- hawg1 10/09/2017 12:34PM
No you didn’t. I asked two different questions. You are trapped. And I’m -- hawg1 10/09/2017 10:37AM
Hardley, as I said before reading is not your strong suit.... -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 10:46AM
Cut and paste it for me. I’ll ask again to make sure. -- hawg1 10/09/2017 10:51AM
You don't see anything wrong with Pence and Mother's............ -- H.I. McDunnough 10/09/2017 10:28AM
Trumps ploy was aimed right at Spade. He fell for it. ** -- hawg1 10/09/2017 10:36AM
Did he leave during the anthem? Didn't watch a minute of NFL... -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 10:32AM
Is this a BFFL alt account? -- H.I. McDunnough 10/09/2017 10:45AM
That's great, did he leave during the anthem? ** -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 10:48AM
Game is this weekend. Are Pence and Mother going to another game? ** -- H.I. McDunnough 10/09/2017 10:52AM
"Pence and Mother". LOL 😂** -- Buffs4Ever 10/09/2017 7:26PM
But, but, but he was flying back to DC anyway and had to go over IN. -- hawg1 10/09/2017 10:55AM
He flew to Las Vegas, Indy, California in that order ** -- buffdad 10/09/2017 11:03AM
How do you reconcile that with WH statement? ** -- hawg1 10/09/2017 11:08AM
So did he just leave or was he protesting? What did Pence say?... -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 11:00AM
He was told what to do by Trump. They kneel. You leave. It was a -- hawg1 10/09/2017 11:07AM
Didn't hear anything about till I got here to the circle of hate -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 11:09AM
Now that you have thought about it amidst all this hate (truth), -- hawg1 10/09/2017 11:15AM
No. Was it a ploy to play to base? ** -- hawg1 10/09/2017 10:52AM
So again, another McDunnough's post is pointless.... -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 10:57AM
Give us another 9News poll. ** -- H.I. McDunnough 10/09/2017 11:01AM
9News poll or not, at least my post was on topic when it was published... -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 11:05AM
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Re: Back on topic: Tell me more about your weekend with the grandkids -- jackmorman 10/09/2017 1:06PM
It’s not about protesting. To deliberatingly divide is horrible. -- hawg1 10/09/2017 10:14AM
One man's division, another man's protest. -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 10:19AM
If they are protesting against something real -- Portland 10/09/2017 11:29AM
Yes. They are staged to happen during the anthem. They are -- hawg1 10/09/2017 10:39AM
Pence and Mother. -- H.I. McDunnough 10/09/2017 09:59AM
Media told pre-game: he might be leaving early ** -- cu2x 10/09/2017 07:36AM
What do you want to bet it is the ONLY NFL game he has ever gone to? ** -- buffdad 10/09/2017 01:36AM
A gagillion dollars... -- SamSpade 10/09/2017 08:46AM
A big fan -- buffdad 10/09/2017 10:59AM
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Top Horror Shows to Watch This Fall
This Fall came with some better additions to our Horror TV list as fans will get to see three of the biggest shows this season. This came as a surprise as we have expected a light showing for new content this upcoming season, however, pandemic complications with filming haven’t affected three of these established shows. Here is what you need to see:
Fear the Walking Dead- October 11th
FTWD takes over Fall as the steadfast spinoff covers for The Walking Dead while their 11th season remains in hiatus due to the pandemic. Regardless, we’ll see Walkers again this Fall.
The Haunting of Bly Manor (Hill House Season 2)- October 9th
Luckily, filming wrapped up in February of this year as fans have been waiting since it was green-lit and renewed from 2019. Despite being a separate story from season one, there will be returning actors as different characters and the show will be an adaptation of The Turn of the Screw novella by Henry James. We hope to see more hidden ghosts in the Bly Manor during each episode like season one!
Supernatural-October 8th
The continuation of the final season would have happened already as the finale was scheduled for late Spring. Although, the production was affected by the Covid Pandemic like many other shows. This stretched out the process of closing the final chapter, and with well over 300 episodes of such an admired show, this gave fans even more crushing anticipation as they await its grand conclusion. Still, we are grateful to hear the series end is not in hiatus and we get more Supernatural this Fall Season!
If you didn’t catch our article on some of the brand new horror shows to see this season, check it out since we brought up some really interesting shows still premiering this Fall. I’ll admit, I may have jumped the gun on calling the Fall Season a little bit lacking on the Horror side, but I was happy to be wrong! Whatever you’re into, stay safe and catch up on some of the best horror shows out there!
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Recruiting a Diverse Workforce with Jason Jones
A diverse workforce is directly related to a successful business, so how can we make sure our recruitment efforts and company culture are attractive to the talent we want to be hiring?
By Grace Amodeo
Our guest Jason Jones delves into the importance of diversity when searching for new talent for your workforce. It goes beyond just a diverse applicant pool, but really targeting new audiences and tailoring your recruitment marketing to the talent you want to be hiring at your company.
The following interview is an excerpt from our video series , Marketing - In Conversation. To watch the full interview and see more video content, click here. Or you can listen to the SHIFT - In Conversation podcast here.
Jason Jones - Senior Recruitment Marketing Specialist - DraftKings
Grace Amodeo - Program Manager - SHIFT
Tell us about yourself and DraftKings.
Jason:
DraftKings is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company with products that range from daily fantasy sports, regulated gaming, and digital media. We launched in 2012 and we are the only US-based vertically integrated sports betting partner. My career in tech began around 2013 where I was in a traditional talent acquisition role. I was tasked with uncovering passive talent, and finding people based off of the needs of the hiring manager's qualifications.
In the scope of a larger company, what is the importance of recruitment marketing? What influence does recruiting have over a company as a whole?
Recruiters are your talent market experts, and they do more than just post a job on a job board. They are consultants to the business, especially in times of rapid growth. Recruitment marketing has many benefits, the first is creating an Employee Value Proposition. What makes your company unique and special? Your EVP is woven through your career site, job descriptions, marketing campaigns, and social media content. It’s your differentiator to attract the right candidates. People don't apply to jobs, they apply to brands. Candidates want to work for a company that aligns with their values and goals.
People don't apply to jobs, they apply to brands. Candidates want to work for a company that aligns with their values and goals.
What is that influence of recruitment marketing on the company culture and employee experience?
In doing my job, I think about the candidate journey. How are candidates finding DraftKings, and what mechanism are they using to research the company as an employer of choice? By understanding their journey, I work with the business to produce authentic content that will convert them to an applicant. Our employment brand externally is called DraftKings Life, especially on social media. Our strategy was to showcase our people, to spotlight employees with unique backgrounds and stories that appeal to different audiences who are looking at DraftKings as their next employer. I believe that storytelling is important for recruiting marketers, because the stories you tell result in interest that you garner from candidates. We work to tell the stories of our employees.
Do you think directly about diversity in your recruitment role? How important is that in your job, and why?
By making your company attractive to diverse audiences, you expand your talent pool to new candidates who you previously wouldn't have come across.
We've seen stats on how tech companies struggle to hire for diversity. When companies continue to tap into the same sources of talent, the well dries up quickly. By making your company attractive to diverse audiences, you expand your talent pool to new candidates who you previously wouldn't have come across. Being a Black male in tech, representation matters. By hiring diverse talent, your employer brand improves and, because it appeals to different candidates, it deepens your talent pools for future hiring needs. Many people aren't aware that DraftKings is a technology company, we hire and employ hundreds of software engineers and data analysts. If all of our external content featured people who look the same, we'd struggle to hire anyone who looked differently that could provide diverse thoughts and ideas to improve our company and products.
From a business perspective, how does diversity benefit the bottom line?
Diverse teams are six times more likely to be innovative and agile than homogeneous teams, according to Deloitte Research. So as DraftKings enters into new states with unique regulations, we need this ability to be agile and innovative with respect to our product suite. One estimate says that Blacks make up 9% of core IT roles in the tech industry. By improving that 9% of Blacks in tech roles, imagine the endless possibilities of thoughts and ideas to progress technology for the masses. That same Deloitte study also says that diverse teams are two times more likely to meet and exceed financial targets, and eight times more likely to achieve better business outcomes.
What are some tangible things you do in your job to make sure that when candidates are looking at DraftKings, they are seeing a diverse and happy place to work?
It's all about making your employment brand attainable to candidates. We could say until we're blue in the face, “DraftKings is a great place to work”, but what’s validating that statement? Everything we do is rooted in data, and is driven by being the voice and the face of our employees and our culture. Anything that I am turning out from an external standpoint, I'm constantly getting internal validation. Does this piece of content resonate with you, and why you work at DraftKings? We're constantly working with our employees to understand what the value prop of DraftKings is. Even as we grow in scale, what keeps you here? And what can we do to tell a story to attract other like minded people?
Can you share a specific example of a project or partnership you've implemented that showed the positive tangible result you were looking for?
I'm the co-host of the DraftKing Life podcast, and we've really had success in the past showcasing our people and culture. We wanted to explore a new medium that would go deeper and share stories of our employees outside of just a picture and a quote. The podcast really allows us to dive deep, and understand your first impressions of the company, why you joined, and what keeps you here. I'm a firm believer in not being identified by your job title. I'm not a recruitment marketer, I'm Jason the recruitment marketer. We really want to understand the person behind the job title, and telling these stories is invaluable to anyone considering us as their next employer.
We really want to understand the person behind the job title, and telling these stories is invaluable to anyone considering us as their next employer.
Can give any guidance on how someone can start to evaluate and measure their own recruitment marketing efforts?
Your measurement efforts are only as good as your data integrity. What that means is you need a baseline to give you a starting point of where to improve. If you're in talent acquisition or HR, I recommend starting with your applicant tracking system. Another good starting point is your source of hire, time to fill, cost per hire, and quality of hire. As your data capturing becomes more sophisticated you can also fold in candidate experience, diversity stats, offer acceptance rate, and channel effectiveness. Your data capturing will evolve as your company evolves. So if you work for a small startup and you have a small team, having the ability to capture key metrics is important. Work with the business and the hiring manager to ask them their recruitment needs and what they care about.
Let's say you're at a company that isn’t where they want to be in terms of diversity, equity, and inclusion. What are some actionable things that an HR manager or recruiting manager can do to start that process?
What I would say is don't worry, you're definitely not alone. Given recent times, corporate America is scrambling to get their house in order to fix this issue. Before you get started, ask yourself why diversity matters to your business. Are you doing it because everyone else is doing it, or do you care about hiring diverse talent? If your company is looking to make a diverse hire and there's no support system in place to allow them to do their best work, your diverse hire is going to walk out the door. So to get started, partner with your People Analytics team to uncover the data across the employee life cycle. If you don't have that capability, reach out to a DEI consultant who can assist and guide you along this journey. It's by no means a sprint, it's a journey.
If your company is looking to make a diverse hire and there's no support system in place to allow them to do their best work, your diverse hire is going to walk out the door.
Are there any organizations, action items, or resources that someone can check out if they are looking to get started on this journey?
This problem that we're facing is systemic, but we all have the ability to affect change. So if your organization has the ability to explore groups and resources, do so. If you have a Corporate Social Responsibility team, leverage their expertise as a starting point. At DraftKings, we partnered with Vets in Tech to launch Tech for Heroes, a program that provides vets and their spouses with high-tech job training skills. You can also look at the vendors that you partner with for swag, food, and other solutions. Are they minority or women owned? There are ways to make an impact, and it takes a lot of work but the work is worth it.
Would you like to participate in a future In Conversation video interview? Email grace@shift.io for more information.
Grace Amodeo is a program manager at SHIFT, where she oversees the annual SHIFT Creative Fund grant program. She is a graduate of Emerson College, where she studied film with a concentration in directing narrative fiction. Grace lives in Los Angeles.
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Rethinking the Future
Beyond wind: Furthering development of clean energy in South Australia
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Transforming our economy. Cleaning our energy. Sustaining our future.
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Written by Ben Heard, Founder and Executive Director, Bright New WorldPosted on July 21, 2013 September 4, 2013 11 Comments
At short notice, I was asked for a contribution to an industry magazine for the recent Australian Uranium and Rare Earths conference in Perth, WA. This is what they got: a good-natured call for this industry to get out and tell us why they should exist.
Many of you in Australia’s uranium industry may not like to think of yourselves as environmentalists, but that’s tough luck. It’s just a fact that this industry is essential to achieving sustainability in the 21st century. You might as well get used to it. Heck, you may even want to talk about it.
Your industry supplies the fuel for nuclear power plants. The Australian Government acknowledges that operating these plants avoids around two and a half billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions every single year. Since it began production of electricity, nuclear power has probably saved 1.8 million lives through the avoidance of particulate and other air pollution from the combustion of coal and other fossil fuels. Nuclear power has always been, and remains, the only scalable replacement for the use of coal, oil and gas, thanks to the extraordinary energy density of uranium. An esky full of your product, unrefined yellow cake, contains more energy than the 161 wagon loads of coal delivered to Northern and Playford power stations at Port Augusta every day. You may disturb the earth, but you deliver staggering quantities of greenhouse-free fuel in return. Actually, if you are using the ISL method, you don’t even remove overburden to get your product. What a bunch of bloody do-gooders.
In situ leaching (ISL) well heads (file shot, provided by Heathgate). The awful truth of uranium mining
Some of you will be thinking “No, you’ve got it wrong. The environmental technologies are solar and wind power”. Actually, that’s really not true, and we’ve done the analysis to prove it in an independent report (as in, your industry didn’t pay for it) called Zero Carbon Options.
If we tried to replace the power stations at Pt Augusta, that use the 161 wagons of coal daily, with wind and solar, we would need to blanket 16 km2 in solar mirrors, and erect 100 of the world’s largest wind turbines across a project area of 175 km2. It would need 375,000 tons of steel, 85,000 tons of glass and 590,000 tons of concrete, for assets that will only last around 25 years.
It would cost over $8 billion and produce a variable supply of up to 4,650 GWh electricity. A lot of this will come when it is not most wanted, so it would save us somewhere between 2 million and 5 million tCO2-e per year.
To achieve the same thing using your product as fuel, we would need a single unit of one of the smallest commercial nuclear power plants in the world today, an Enhanced CANDU 6 (EC6), costing around half as much to build. This would occupy around 2 km2, use 1/10th the steel, virtually none of the glass, and last for a minimum of 60 years, possibly 80 or even 100 with refurbishment. In that time it would produce, on demand, 1,000 GWh more greenhouse-free electricity than the renewable option every single year, saving comfortably more than 5 million tCO2-e. For the same money as the renewable option we could build two of them, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than double that figure. The electricity from the nuclear plant would cost about half as much as from the solar plant. This would pull public sentiment in behind strong climate action, rather than causing households and businesses the pain that works against climate action. Now that’s a green technology.
I’m afraid you are even greener than biomass. As mathematician, author and fellow environmentalist Geoff Russell recently pointed out:
In easily remembered round numbers, it takes a million tonnes of stubble pulled off about a million hectares of crop land and transported in 40,000 x 25 tonne truck loads to produce 1.1 terawatt hours of electricity. The adverse consequences could spread far and wide with topsoil productivity losses adversely impacting food production capacity for decades. Alternatively, you can mine 21 tonnes of uranium to produce 2 tonnes of slightly enriched fuel transported in 1 rather small minivan.
The principle nuclear trade off, the storage of spent fuel, is barely a trade-off at all. It’s just pre-mined fuel for an Integral Fast Reactor (IFR). All this talk of long term geological storage is just a solution looking for a problem. The 6,250 t of spent fuel from 60 years of operating the EC6 can be recycled to release another ninety-nine times the energy. That’s zero-carbon fuel for 690 MW of generation for just shy of 6,000 years. Remember the old wisdom of considering the next seven generations? We would be providing fuel for the next two hundred.
27 years worth of spent nuclear fuel doing nothing of consequence in Connecticut, USA
Australian uranium may have been content to sit quietly on its green credentials, but that time is nearly up. In the US audiences are already watching the powerful documentary Pandora’s Promise from Academy-nominated film director Robert Stone.
In Pandora’s Promise audiences see the brutally honest journey of five prominent, respected environmentalists who, like me and many others in Australia, have taken the journey from staunchly anti-nuclear to vocally pro-nuclear, largely propelled by facing the awful realities of climate change. Audiences will be shown how nuclear power alone holds the key to both powering our world and winning back a stable climate. They will visit a beach that is more radioactive than Chernobyl and learn about the IFR from the very scientists who designed and tested the reactor that eats nuclear waste and won’t have a meltdown even when you try to cause one. It has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “the most important environmental film since An Inconvenient Truth”. Having seen both films I’d say they are nearly right… Pandora’s Promise holds a solution. It holds hope. Right now the fight against climate change needs the Stone’s hopeful message much or more than it ever needed Gore’s wake-up call.
So to Australia’s uranium industry, it’s time to come out from under your hard hats. Whether you meant it or not, you sit at the front end of probably the greenest industry in the world. Maybe it’s time to own that fact.
Ben Heard is Director of ThinkClimate Consulting, a knowledge-based advisory firm providing services in sustainability and climate change. He blog extensively on nuclear power at DecarboniseSA, and Tweets as BenThinkClimate. He is the lead author of Zero Carbon Options: An economic mix for an environmental outcome.
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singletonengineerJohn Bennetts says:
Great work, Ben.
Maximum points!
grlcowan says:
To achieve the same thing using your product as fuel, we would need a single unit of one of the smallest commercial nuclear power plants in the world today, and Enhanced CANDU 6 (EC6)
John Newlands says:
In relation to South Australia specifically I’d ask
1) what happens to the state’s 44% of gas fired electricity when wholesale gas goes from $4 a GJ to a predicted $9? Late 2014 Cooper Basin gas heads the other way to Queensland to make LNG for export.
2) what energy source will be used to develop the north and the west of the state? This involves desalination, long distance water pumping and the operation of a number of mines, processing plants and settlements.
Decarbonise SA says:
Regarding point one, I believe it just did. If the paper is to be believed it has driven a retail price rise of about 12% for gas.
Don’t know the impact for the gas fired electricity.
A guesstimate of doubling of the gas price on SA retail electricity prices is 10-20%. An IEA paper some years ago said fuel was half the operating cost of a combined cycle plant. In SA there is combined cycle at Pelican Pt, steam only cycle at Torrens Island and presumably the 80 MW plants are gas turbine only. If ~40% of retail electricity bills is for gas fired and half of that is wholesale and half of that is fuel then gas cost is ~10% of retail bills. Now add another 10% passing on to retail prices, perhaps more with various forms of padding.
Another death blow for manufacturing such as cars. Also those hot nights when the wind doesn’t doesn’t blow and the PV has gone to bed but people need aircon to get to sleep, No doubt the Greens have the answer.
markawbolton says:
What a superb piece of writing ! Elegant, eloquent and persuasive. Kudos !!
Nothing sharpens the mind like a short deadline!
Cheers, much appreciated.
Marion Brook says:
Excellent piece! Humorous, sobering and enlightening all at once… How do you do it?
Hmmm… a restless anger and deep dissatisfaction with the gutless insanity that seems to drive so much decision making, leading to a constantly ruminating brain that runs on a great deal of caffeine?
Thanks, nice of you to say so.
Irregular Comentator says:
I have to agree with the other commenters, a nice piece. Well done.
Gary D says:
Me too. Respek, Ben!
“Ideology should piss off.” Followed by: “That’s all you need to know” 🤦🏼♂️ 🤷 twitter.com/mcannonbrookes… 2 hours ago
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What To Watch Tonight: ‘The Collection’ + More
By Kayla Cobb Twitter @kaylcobb Jan 24, 2018 at 6:00pm
Photos: Everett Collection; Illustration: Dillen Phelps
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What's Streaming On Netflix Tonight: 'Voltron: Legendary Defender' + More
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It’s the middle of the week, which means you’re halfway there. The weekend is in sight, but you still have two more days of work ahead of you. That’s disappointing, but what’s new on your favorite streaming services is not. In addition to Decider’s What to Watch recommendations for today, we have your guide to what’s new on streaming tonight.
If you’re a scary movie lover, you’re going to be a fan of Netflix’s biggest addition today. The Collection, a 2012 torture horror film, is now streaming. Can our hero save a woman from a serial killer’s bobby-trapped lair? Knowing the genre, probably not, but it’s thrilling to watch either way. If that sounds like a miserable watch to you, the international comedy Blockbuster may be more your speed. n the world of streaming, a VHS tape brings together one couple.
If that doesn’t sound interesting to you, no worries. Scroll down to see what’s new this month on all of your favorite streaming services.
NEW ON NETFLIX
Blockbuster (2018) *Netflix Original: Dumped over a video he made to amuse his ailing dad, a heartsick Jérémy hatches an elaborate scheme to win back his superhero-loving girlfriend, Lola.
STARS: Syrus Shahidi, Lionel Abelanski, Charlotte Gabris
ROTTEN TOMATOES: —
IMDB SCORE: 6.8/10
The Collection (2012): A man who escapes from the vicious grips of the serial killer known as “The Collector” is then forced to help rescue an innocent girl from the killer’s booby-trapped lair.
STARS: Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald
ROTTEN TOMATOES: 37%
The Good Catholic (2017): Daniel loved his job as a small town priest more than anything. Then he met Jane. God help him.
STARS: Zachary Spicer, Wrenn Schmidt, Danny Glover
None of these look appealing to you? Don’t forget about Decider’s What To Watch recommendations, which are sortable by genre, streaming service and even mood! Or check out what’s new on streaming for the entire month of January on the following services:
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The Narrow Bar and Restaurant on the bank of the Thames
Thanks to Joanna Bryant Projects we now have 11 paintings showing at The Narrow Bar and Restaurant in Limehouse, London E14, part of the Gordon Ramsey group of restaurants. All paintings are for sale and complement the restaurant’s riverside setting alongside photographs by Elizabeth Hayley
Tags abstract paintings, alfresco dining, elizabeth hayley, Gordon Ramsey, joanna bryant, Limehouse, London restaurant, paintings, riverside, Robinson & McMahon, The Narrow
Visible Traces
Some installation views from the show Visible Traces at Clerkenwell Gallery 12th – 17th April showing with Ian Stephenson, Jayne Wilton and Elizabeth Hayley
Tags abstract paintings, Clerkenwell, joanna bryant, London gallery, painting, Robinson & McMahon, visible traces
April 9, 2016 //
We are pleased to be part of a group exhibition showing a number of paintings alongside 1960’s abstract painter Ian Stephenson at Clerkenwell Gallery, London EC1 next week. Curated by Joanna Bryant and Julian Page, other artists exhibiting are Jayne Wilton and Elizabeth Hayley. The opening preview is Tuesday 12th April 6 – 8.30pm and the show continues until 17th April.
http://joannabryantprojects.com/portfolio_page/visible-traces/
Visible Traces offers an alternative showing of works by Ian Stephenson (1934-2000) in the context of a select group show. Stephenson was a pioneering English abstract artist who characteristically splattered colours in layers towards obliteration. His work featured in Antonioni’s film Blow Up (1966), an iconic vision of London in the swinging sixties. The film’s aura of elegance and cool was transferred onto the artist and made him fashionable, but obscured the serious intent behind his lifelong investigation into visual density.
“Countless happenings in time present as one simultaneous expression. Emptiness filled with matter. Solids filled with space.” Andrew Forge (The Independent, 2000)
Curators Julian Page and Joanna Bryant seek to provide new insights into this underrated artist, by contextualising his work with that of three emerging artists. A series of his experimental prints are shown alongside sculptures by Jayne Wilton, paintings by Robinson/McMahon and photographs by Elizabeth Hayley. Visible Traces draws attention to Stephenson’s work in a new, contemporary context and suggests links between these diverse artists and one of the pioneers of British 60’s abstract art.
Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DP
Private View: 12 April, 6 – 8.30pm
Exhibition: 13 – 16 April, 11am – 6pm
Finissage Brunch: 17 April, 11am – 1pm
The artists and works:
Ian Stephenson (1934-2000) taught painting at the Chelsea School of Art alongside Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore and Jeremy Moon, and was exhibited widely with other significant artists of his day, including Patrick Caulfield, Howard Hodgkin and RB Kitaj. Shown within this exhibition are six original prints from the series ‘Phoenix’, which comprises 540 unique prints put together in sets of six. The basic image has an additional rectangle (about one seventh the size of the whole) collaged onto each print in six sequences of regulated shifts of angle, determined by the movement of the rectangle around the edge of the image area, starting at the top left corner. From a position against the edge it tilts on one fixed corner until another corner or side hits the edge again; then it tilts away from a new fixed corner. The movement is thus like a regulated tumbling around the inside edge of the image area. The completed sequence ends with the rectangle back in its starting position. The prints were numbered from 1 to 540 from start to finish of the sequence and the sets of six were made up by taking one from each run of ninety figures.
Elizabeth Hayley’s silver gelatin prints on steel and brass, seek to trace a record and likeness of the experience of life lived on and surrounded by water, making references to the past and impermanence. The pictorial quality of her photographic tableaux correlates with their documentary value: about life on a ship, old vessels, or boat communities; about ways of seeing and ways of doing, yet they also invite us to experience the density and transparency of time.
While most of Jayne Wilton‘s work focuses on making exhaled breath visible, she is also intrigued by the in-breath, which is more challenging to capture without clinical equipment. Recently, she has been exploring media that allows her to make visible both the in-breath and the out-breath. The resulting work, Round, is a series of sculptures that demonstrates the dynamics of the full breathing cycle. Round uses molten glass to capture breathing, in particular the in-breath. She created the sculptures using traditional glassblowing processes that involve exhaling into molten glass through a pipe. Unlike traditional glassblowing, however, and before the glass had cooled, she inhaled back into the pipe. The resultant lung-like form demonstrates the force and motion of the in-breath. The idea of a breath turning back in on itself was one of her core considerations for creating the Roundseries, as were ideas of liminality and palimpsests; at every moment we overwrite each breathing gesture with that of the next.
As a collaboration of two artists painting on the same canvas, with very different methods of using paint, Jason Robinson and Helen McMahon are guided by reaction and response, not imposing rules or process. A finished work exists as a result of all marks made by both artists, whether they are still seen, been obliterated or have just left a trace. Their practice shows the distinctly different painting styles which convey a dissonant harmony, a playful discussion, muted versus loud. There are times though when there is no harmony or discussion but rather a full blown argument and attack on each other’s marks. A number of these paintings have been left to calm down over a few years and as they have become more considerate of each other’s actions, these battle scarred paintings have been salvaged. Sanding has bulldozed some of the blights but still left a trace, foundations that have been built upon and smoothed over, a kind of beauty from the rubble.
Their paintings exist because of the other; not necessarily bearing equal marks, but coming to a compromise, a resolution to find a kind of harmony.
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Hurricane Patricia as of Friday morning, 23 Oct.
(NOAA satellite image via National Hurricane Center)
Attention Contesters: Please protect the Mexican hurricane emergency net frequency of 7060 kHz during the upcoming CQWW SSB DX Contest as potentially catastrophic Hurricane Patricia heads for Mexico's Pacific coast.
This request comes from IARU Region II/Area C Emergency Coordinator Arnie Coro, CO2KK, who says additional frequencies on 40 and 80 meters may be required once Hurricane Patricia makes landfall later today (Friday).
According to the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Patricia is the strongest eastern North Pacific hurricane on record and is "heading for potentially catastrophic landfall in southwestern Mexico later today." As of Friday morning, the Category 5 storm had maximum sustained winds of 200 miles per hour (322 km/h).
Please avoid 7055-7065 kHz during the contest, to provide a clear frequency for the net on 7060. Thanks and good luck in the contest!
Posted by CQ Newsroom at 8:32 AM
Milestones: W1UED, W9DYV SKs
Former ARRL Washington Coordinator Perry Williams, W1UED, became a Silent Key on September 25 at age 86, according to the ARRL. Williams served on the League staff from 1954 through 1994, starting as an assistant secretary and then rising to Membership Services Manager before being named Washington Coordinator in 1980. He is credited with convincing Congress not to impose license application fees on amateurs and promoted approval of vanity call signs.
Wes Sxhum, W9DYV, in early photo.
(Photo from Central Electronics website
www.ce-multiphase.com)
Wes Schum, W9DYV, also passed away in late September. You may not know his name, but you most likely are familiar with his work. According to Newsline, Schum is considered the father of single-sideband in amateur radio. As founder of Central Electronics in 1949, he and colleague Joe Batchelor developed the CE 10-A, the first practical amateur SSB transmitter. Schum was 94.
Jan 31 Deadline for ARRL Foundation Scholarship Applications
Young hams planning to pursue post-secondary education have until January 31, 2016 to apply for one of the 80-plus scholarships administered by the ARRL Foundation.
According to the ARRL Letter, the grants range from $500 to $5000, as well as the four-year Goldfarb Scholarship, which fills the "gap" between the recipient's other scholarships and his/her "expected family contribution," based on the federal FAFSA form. Some scholarships are restricted by geographic region or planned college major.
For more information, visit <http://www.arrl.org/scholarship-descriptions>.
ARRL: FCC Must Clarify Proposed Rules on Modifying WiFi Gear
The ARRL has called on the FCC to make clear that hams will still be permitted to modify non-amateur equipment for use on the amateur bands. According to the League, the call came in comments on proposed FCC rules that would require manufacturers of WiFi equipment to include security features on network devices to prevent modifications. Hams often modify commercial routers and other WiFi equipment to operate on amateur frequencies at higher power and/or with external antennas.
The League also called on the FCC to tighten rules on Part 15 and Part 18 equipment authorization to minimize the potential for interference with licensed services.
ARRL to FCC: Hurry Up on 630/2200 Meters
The ARRL is urging the FCC to quickly enact final rules to permit amateur radio operation on 630 meters (472-479 kHz) and to propose specific rules for amateur operation on 2200 meters (135.7-137.8 kHz). The FCC last April proposed rules for 630 meters and announced its intention to do the same for 2200 meters, but has yet to take further action.
The FCC's proposals are opposed primarily by the Utilities Telecom Council, which fears amateur use of these frequencies may interfere with utility systems that control the power grid and operate between 4 and 490 kHz.
IARU: Minimize Antenna Restrictions Worldwide
The administrative council of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) has called on governments worldwide to ease restrictions on amateur radio antennas. According to Newsline, the council's resolution urges member societies to press their governments to "recognize the importance" of amateur antennas and not to "place undue restrictions" on them.
The resolution, which was adopted at the council's October meeting in Bali, Indonesia, noted the non-pecuniary nature of amateur radio and "its popularity in the student and senior communities."
FEMA Administrator Visits WX4NHC
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - who is also a ham - paid a call on amateur station WX4NHC during a visit to the National Hurricane Center while Hurricane Joaquin was deciding whether or not to head to the U.S. east coast (it didn't).
FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate,
KK4INZ. (FEMA photo)
According to the ARRL, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, talked with station operator Hank Collins, W8KIW, and his wife, Pat, about reports being received from hams in the Bahamas as well as the multiple modes and frequencies used by WX4NHC to gather reports of on-the-ground conditions during hurricanes.
ARRL Re-Opens 146.52 for Contest Use
Reversing a long-standing policy intended to protect simplex users on 2 meters, the ARRL has approved the use of national simplex frequency 146.52 MHz for making contest contacts during ARRL-sponsored VHF contests. The change takes effect as of the 2016 ARRL January VHF contest.
The new policy was recommended by the League's "VHF and Above Revitalization Committee," which is hoping the change will encourage more new licensees to discover and enjoy VHF contesting. The committee concluded that the current restriction is no longer necessary, due to reduced activity on the 2-meter band.
Note: There has been no change to date in the rules for the CQ World Wide VHF Contest, which continue to prohibit contest contacts on 146.52 or other countries' designated national simplex frequencies.
ARRL Launches "National Parks on the Air" Event for 2016
The ARRL is sponsoring a year-long activity to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the U.S. national park system. The "National Parks on the Air" program, or NPOTA, runs from January 1 to December 31, 2016, according to the ARRL Letter.
The program will be similar to other "OTA" programs run by various groups, offering separate awards to "activators," who operate from within national parks and other sites administered by the National Park Service, and to "chasers," who contact a certain number of "activators." For the purposes of this program, acceptable sites include not only national parks but also national battlefields, historic sites, memorials, preserves, reserves, rivers, seashores, national scenic trails and other NPS-administered locations. See the ARRL website <http://www.arrl.org/npota-rules> for complete details and program rules.
New Foundation Formed to Administer IOTA Program
The original, and arguably most popular, "OTA" program is the Radio Society of Great Britain's (RSGB's) Islands on the Air (IOTA), which has been encouraging "activations" of islands around the world since 1964. Since celebrating the program's 50th anniversary last year, the RSGB's board has been looking at ways to keep it growing and to meet its challenges, including a computer system to allow online credit submissions similar to the ARRL's Logbook of the World (LoTW).
The RSGB announced in October that it is forming a new organization - the IOTA Foundation - to manage IOTA in partnership with RSGB and to spearhead development of an online credit system with a target completion date of 2017. Initial leaders of the foundation will be Roger Balister, G3KMA; Bob Barden, MD0CCE; Cezar Trifu, VE3LYC, and Johan Willemsen, PA3EXX.
Satellite Roundup - Multiple Launches in Sept/Oct.
AMSAT Fox-1A lifts off from
Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California aboard the US National
Reconnaissance Office's Atlas-5
launch on October 8. (NRO photo)
The skies are once again filling up with amateur radio satellites, with eight new "birds" launched in late September and early October.
AMSAT's Fox-1A satellite, now known as AO-85, was successfully launched on October 8 and the AMSAT News Service reportst that signals were heard on its first orbit. For more information, visit <http://bit.ly/1McAMcG>.
The week before, Indonesia's LAPAN-2 satellite (now IO-86) was launched from India. This satellite carries an FM transponder and an APRS digipeater. Primary access will be to stations located in the tropics, between 30 degrees north latitude and 30 degrees south latitude.
China followed its mid-September launch of nine amateur radio satellites with the liftoff of three more on September 25 (Tianwang 1-A, 1-B and 1-C), according to the ARRL. Another Chinese ham satellite - LQSat - was launched on October 7. All four lifted off from a launch facility in Inner Mongolia.
Finally, two Danish ham satellites - AAUSat-5 and GomX-3 - were deployed from the International Space Station on October 5. The AMSAT News Service says the crew used the station's robotic arm to place the cubesats in orbit. As of this writing, no OSCAR numbers were available for either the Chinese or the Danish satellites.
ARRL.Net Users: Beware of "Phishing" Scheme
(Federal Trade Commission image)
Newsline reports that the ARRL's e-mail forwarding service has been hit by a "phishing" attack, in which members using arrl.net e-mail addresses are receiving e-mails claiming to be from the League and requesting personal information.
The e-mails purportedly come from "Arrl Webmail Admin," carry a subject line of "account upgrade," and warn recipients that their accounts will be cancelled unless they provide their usernames and passwords. ARRL officials state emphatically that these e-mails are bogus and urge anyone receiving them to simply ignore them.
Meanwhile, the League's IT department was working to block the sender's e-mail address at its "upstream server."
Hurricane Watch Net Secures
The Hurricane Watch Net has shut down operations for Hurricane Joaquin after the storm skirted Bermuda without causing significant damage, according to Net Manager Bobby Graves, KB5HAV. Graves thanked the many reporting stations for a considerable amount of data, all of which was forwarded to the National Hurricane Center. He also thanked the everyday users of the net's main frequencies - 14.325 and 7.268 MHz - for changing frequencies during the net's activity. More information on the Hurricane Watch Net may be found online at <www.hwn.org>.
Uncertainty Over Status of Hara Arena
Will Hara Arena still be open when it's time for the 2016 Dayton Hamvention®? That is the basic question being faced by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA), the owners of Hara Arena and local government officials, all of whom want to be sure the world's largest ham radio gathering remains where it has been since 1964. Last year, according to news reports, the Hamvention was responsible for contributing $8.5 million to the region's economy.
There have been rumors for years that the arena was about to close, but an announcement at the end of the 2015 show promised improvements at the half-century old exhibition center in time for the 2016 event. However, news reports in early October cast new doubts on the arena's ongoing viability.
The reports - first on WHIO-TV and then in the Dayton Daily News - centered on a July e-mail sent by Hara Marketing Director Karen Wampler to the city manager and a city councilman in Trotwood, the municipality in which Hara Arena is actually located. A consultant hired by Hara recommended this summer that the city purchase the venue, but Trotwood officials felt such a move would be too risky, according to the reports. A Dayton Daily News article in late 2014 reported that Hara owed more than $300,000 in back taxes, but was working with local authorities to pay down that balance.
Wampler's e-mail, which the TV station and newspaper (both owned by Cox Media Ohio) received through a public records request, informed the local officials that they had briefed the Hamvention's chairman and select board members on the arena's status and said "they are reeling" after being told that the venue might be forced to close. "They … like us, believed we were close to stabilizing Hara for future growth, rather than ending her nearly 60-year run," Wampler wrote, adding that "(t)here may be one last chance to add Hamvention investment dollars to the proposal before their Board puts all its resources into relocating their event - most likely out of Montgomery County - in 2016."
She told the Daily News in an interview for the October 3 article that the arena is now in much better shape than it had been in July, when that e-mail was written, and that there are no current plans to close.
Hamvention General Chairman Jim Tiderman, N8IDS, shared Wampler's current optimism in a statement issued after the news reports ran. He said DARA "is fully committed to (holding) the 2016 Dayton Hamvention at Hara Arena and Exposition Center … on May 20, 21, 22, 2016," and told the newspaper that "We do not have any plans whatsoever for relocating."
Tiderman dismissed other reports as "speculation," but added that DARA is "still (keeping) an open mind to alternate plans in case they become necessary." The news articles had reported that Hamvention officials had met with the Dayton/Montgomery County Convention and Visitors Bureau and others to examine other possible venues within the Dayton area in the event that Hara was no longer an option.
Bottom line: As of early October, Hara Arena remains open and intends to host the Hamvention next May; and DARA will hold the 2016 Hamvention at Hara as long as the facility is still open. However, uncertainty continues and contingency plans are being considered in case a move is necessary.
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Craig Connects
Fact-checkers are mad as hell and they’re not taking it anymore…
Fact-checking and Paul Ryan, BFFs by accident?
News media taking fact checking seriously?
The Paddy Chayefsky classic, Network. Which includes both the immortal "mad as hell" line, but also... "I'm a man without a corporation."
Okay, there’s been a slow build to a possible rebirth of fact-checking in the news. That had been kept alive quietly by a few news outlets, mostly notably The Daily Show and the Colbert Report and media commentators including Jeff Jarvis, Arianna Huffington, and Jay Rosen in #presspushback.
(Seriously, Stewart’s work, in particular, has been highly professional; note CNN leaves it there and an unedited interview with Chris Wallace.)
Recently, we saw Soledad O’Brien possibly risking her job, check out CNN Actually Fact-Checks A Politician; Hilarity Ensues.
The Paul Ryan speech has now triggered a spasm of fact-checking; perhaps the best summary was recently done by Ari Melber.
I’ve been speaking to news publishers, editors, and reporters for years.
They’re concerned that people don’t generally trust news outlets anymore, and want help restoring trustworthiness. (I guess it’s a source of desperation that they ask me.)
They’re doing it quietly, since they’re fighting factions that regard fact-checking and journalistic ethics as quaint relics.
However, they feel that Paul Ryan just went too far at the RNC convention. Check out: Why Paul Ryan thought he could get away with lying: 6 theories.
And Media Shift does a real good job explaining Why Fact-Checking Has Taken Root in This Year’s Election:
Take Paul Ryan’s convention address last week. Ryan offered several misleading statements and a few obvious lies — falsehoods that he had to know were false — although there’s nothing new about politicians lying.
Just look at Ryan’s fellow running mates: Sarah Palin lied about the Bridge to Nowhere in her convention address, for example, while during a nationally televised debate, Dick Cheney falsely said he had never met John Edwards, and Edwards falsely charged that the Bush administration lobbied to cut combat pay. They faced mild corrections and very little collateral damage for those high-profile statements.
This time, however, reporters did not let Ryan off the hook by noncommittally airing criticism (“opponents disagreed with his claims”), or reducing corrections to one of those stand-alone sidebars evaluating distortions (“three Pinocchios for the deficit commission history”).
Instead, several authoritative accounts of Ryan’s address decided that his falsehoods were a key part of the news Ryan made…
So, maybe what’s changed is that surviving serious professional news people are “as mad as hell and not taking it anymore.”
Beside Paul Ryan’s speech, we’ve seen this building among the most professional people in news media, including Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, and Will McAvoy. (Yes, the latter’s a fictional character, but he’s been a seriously inspirational force.)
It also helps that Poynter Institute, which is all about professional journalism, will be holding a conference about the restoration of journalistic ethics this fall. (Disclaimer: I’m sponsoring it.)
So the deal is that a minority of news people are risking a lot to get serious about their job.
This could be doomed, or a rebirth of news media. They need our help.
If you think it matters, tell me, and do stuff like Sharing and Retweeting the best of fact-checking. Maybe start with the links above?
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That Soledad video was just perfect! This truly is the end of the Oligarchy of information.
Until the news media start fact checking obama then they are nothing more than the governments lapdog.
Everyone brags about things they have done and over time they embellish it so Ryan bragging about running a mile in under 4 minutes is nothing, but they need something to derail him and the news just goes to show they are firmly in obamas pocket by reporting this Gasp scandel “OMG Ryan is lying”.
Regardless of this fact, my vote is still going to Romney / Ryan.
At this point my vote would go to Ronald McDonald over obama, anyone but obama would get my vote.
wendy Beck says:
Thanks, Craig. I’m hoping it’s a “Newsroom” effect. I’d love to see all journalists, broadcast, print and web, by my proxies. Ask the hard questions and then, when it’s avoided, ask a follow-up and SAY the question was not answered! Someone like David Gregory should be shamed when he (as he did on yesterday’s Meet The Press) allows Mitt Romney to get away with obfuscation to a perfectly simple question — one example of a loophole he’d close. And I’d love to see “tag-team” journalists who, when a fellow journalist’s question doesn’t get answered, will continue to ask the question until it’s answered. Perhaps a journalist’s hall of fame and hall of shame are called for.
Irene Solnik says:
Taking back the news from the corporate media is a tough endeveavor, I wish them the best.
I think most Americans are sick of the lies and would like to see journalists calling politicians out on those lies. If the media continuously calls the politicians out on every lie they tell it forces them, the politicians, to tell truths because they know they won’t get away with the lies. That’s how it should be!! We teach our children that it isn’t okay to lie but then people make excuses for politicians that lie. It’s wrong and we all know. It has got to stop. It is the opinion of most that journalists are supposed to present facts, not spin the story in favor of one person or another or try to cover up the facts. I’d like to see journalistic integrity come back, just sayin’.
Teresa Blakeslee says:
I think the lying has become a pandemic and needs to be brought under control. Canada has laws against politicians lying in public. We need the same laws, but will never have them if REAL journalists don’t call them on their lies. My Twitter and FaceBook friends are BEGGING the news people to call them on their lies!
PLEASE teach ethics and the requirement of the truth in journalism!
susanguffy says:
How do we know who are the real Fact Checkers and who are trolls?
Marge says:
Thanks for this. Nothing more important than the press in protecting what’s left of our democracy.
Do this same type of “FACT CHECKING” on our current president too!
Cut the deficit in half in first term… Really? 6 trillion added!
Unemplyment after stimulus will not get higher the 8%… Really? It’s not been below since.
Can you just be honest on both sides? Politicains lie, sure and so does EVERY ONE of them not just the R’s the D’s and the I’s do it too.
I call this “The Newsroom” effect. It could be just a coincidence but I think the show The Newsroom is having a profound effect on journalist psyche in America.
It’s amazing to me that The Newsroom — which is largely unwatchable pablum — is having such an effect on journalist culture. Maybe they really are as stupid, poorly educated, and uncurious as they say they are.
I belive Obama and his team push the lieing about as far as anyone or even more, so if you going to check one check yhe other.
People keep commenting on Corporate contributions to campaigns. But what about union contributions. In Chicago, teachers are making 50% more than the average joe and they still go on strike. Oh, I get it. Its for the children. BS. Its greed, pure and simmle.
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The Democrats’ Ongoing Fascination With Political Losers
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an actress. – Everyone should watch this video. Trust me, just watch it. It’ll be the best 23 minutes you invest this week. I’m going to keep this pinned at the top of each piece I post for the next few days in order to maximize its – and her – exposure.
Paul Begala is an anti-Semitic sleaze. – The man with the highest forehead on television referred to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump as “cockroaches” in a clear effort to dehumanize the Jewish couple in the minds of CNN viewers. Adolph Hitler and Joseph Goebbels would have been extremely proud of Mr. Begala, who has made a living for 25 years now by lying on television.
Why is today’s Democrat Party such a steaming cesspit of anti-Semitism? – Speaking of raging anti-Semites, the Deputy Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign, an illegal alien named Belen Sisa, was forced to apologize yesterday when anti-Semitic posts she made on Facebook on Sunday were made public. Just more proof that Jewish voters who continue voting for Democrats are voting for their own destruction.
I’m betting she learned how to lose Florida. – The Tampa Bay Times had this to say in a tweet yesterday: “Amy Klobuchar revealed she recently spoke with Andrew Gillum about what it takes to win Florida. Here’s what she learned.” I swear I don’t make this stuff up.
What is it about the current crop of Democrats and their ongoing obsession with losers? Irish Bob O’Rourke, the Texas loser to Ted Cruz, after months of dithering around while trying to “find” himself as if he were a 22 year-old snowflake, appears about to finally announce his run for the presidency. Stacey Abrams, who lost the Georgia governor’s race to Brian Kemp despite having massive voter fraud in her favor, is now making noises about doing the same, as we noted here on Monday.
And now we have presidential candidates seeking advice from Gillum, who lost the governor’s race to Republican Ron DeSantis in spite of the sleazebag elections officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties spending a week trying to manufacture enough votes to tip the count in his favor. Gillum is so ethically challenged that he will probably soon find himself on trial on findings by the Florida Ethics Commission that he accepted illegal gifts on many occasions while serving as Mayor of Tallahassee.
Ok, come to think of it, that is all most likely exactly why Klobuchar is seeking Gillum’s advice. These are Democrats we’re talking about here, after all.
Hey, no offense intended, but these guys are really, really old. – Going back to our precious Robert “Beto” O’Rourke for a moment, despite all the hundreds of millions of dollars in free media hype he has received from every media outlet from CNN to the New York Times to the Washington Post to MSNBC to Oprah (who is a media outlet in and of her own self), Irish Bob finds himself running a poor 5th in the latest Monmouth poll, trailing Creepy Joe Biden, the Commie, Kamala Harris and even Fauxcahontas with just 6% support among registered Democrat voters.
Meanwhile, Creepy Joe Biden comes in at 28%, with the Commie close behind at 26%. This brings me to just a fascinating set of fun facts.
On Election Day 2020, the Commie will be 79 years old, while Creepy Joe will be less than two weeks away from turning 78. If elected and then re-elected, either man would be pushing 90 by the end of a second term in office. This is rather stunning to know, considering that the oldest serving president in our nation’s history, Ronald Reagan, was 77 years old the day he left office after having served two full terms.
Every Democrat in America spent the full eight years of Ronaldus Magnus’s presidency screaming that he was just too darn old for the office. Today, the Creep and the Commie are pulling well over half of Democrat voter support. Meanwhile, the comparative “young guns” in the race, Irish Bob and Harris, are stumbling along with a combined 14%.
Thus, at this point, the Democrat fascination with political losers by the Party’s leadership hasn’t begun translating into actual support among Democrat voters. It seems these voters will require many more months of heavy-duty brainwashing by the Democrat fake news media.
Rest assured, that’s exactly what they will be getting, and they’ll like it. Because, Democrats.
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It could be that they have a good thing going as is, that if they actually won an election, the political campaign donations and charitable contributions to foundations would dry up. As is, they can be running against Republicans such as Trump, who mobilizes enormous campaign donations in opposition candidates, although they don’t seem to enable winning, but the money’s good.
Are there any Democratic candidates who actually were in business, industry or entertainment, the military, something, and made a lot of money on their own, or is it primarily getting elected, and then seeming to accumulate wealth.
Meanwhile Republican candidates such as George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Ike Eisenhower, Trump, seemed to have a career in some other field, and then went into politics, usually later in life after they had been successful in their career.
For the Democrats, you don’t need to win to get big contributions, and perhaps it works out better if you’re against the Republicans which seems to generate a lot of campaign and foundation money.
For instance, the Clinton’s didn’t have an extended legal career, but seemed to accumulate wealth after entering politics, the same with the Obamas.
I think Gore may of had family wealth, and Kennedy certainly did.
Both Roosevelts came from well established New York families with business connections.
Truman had his haberdashery or was a small business man, but he seems to be an outlier to both parties.
That AOC video is quite a piece of info. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were also mentioned as part of this organization’s efforts to plant people in the Dem party. I would bet this isn’t the first time this has happened, but with AOC and these other two so high profile, it becomes clearer with some investigation as Mr. Reagan has done. The clips showing the Justice Democrats speaking, and then AOC parroting verbatim are particularly damning, and explains why AOC seems completely unaware of what she is saying all of the time.
Watch for Mark “MI6” Warner to enter, the first Simpsons character to run. From his emails, it appears that he’s only slightly more literate than AOC. Biden wants to be able to sniff the hair of pre-teens everywhere, and running for office will give him massive opportunities! And all the hugs and groping of other men’s wives! The Goddess of love-for-sale Kamala, will surely get the backing of the Kraft backrub industry, and that’s about all she’ll get. Klobuchar will always remind us of stale salad dressing, and Beta will only be master of his own little spot. HRC still has hopes that all the losers will turn to smoke and ashes when the sun hits them, and she wants to have her helpers drag her out like a moldy tome from a library that’s survived both fire and water.
Watch for Mark “MI6” Warner to enter, the first Simpsons character to run. From his emails, it appears that he’s only slightly more literate than AOC. Biden wants to be able to sniff the hair of pre-teens everywhere, and running for office will give him massive opportunities! And all the hugs and groping of other men’s wives! The Goddess of sex-trading-for-power, Kamala, will surely get the backing of the rub’n’tug industry, and that’s about all she’ll get. Klobuchar will always remind us of stale salad dressing, and Beta will only be master of his own little spot. HRC still has hopes that all the losers will turn to smoke and ashes when the sun hits them, and she wants to have her helpers drag her out like a moldy tome from a library that’s survived both fire and water.
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Wednesday Was a No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day for the Deep State Dems
Wednesday may have been the worst day the Democrat Party has had during the Trump presidency. – Just as it appeared to some that the Deep State Dems might be gaining a little traction in their neverending coup d’etat, they suffered a series a series of self-inflicted wounds and bombs lobbed by the President into their midst that had them scrambling to pretend they’re actually going to work on real legislation by the end of the day.
That pretense is just that, of course, as the Democrat Party has totally sacrificed itself at the altar of its ultra-radical social media Outrage Mob and its pea-brained organ grinder monkey leader, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
There will be no serious effort to pass meaningful legislation for the rest of this year, as San Fran Nan’s gang of Munchkin committee chairmen focus their efforts solely on staging this fake impeachment “investigation” that is just another bit of DC Kabuki Theater, and a massive one at that.
Pictured above (l to r): Eliot Engel, Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler.
Let’s just go through a few of the disasters the Democrats suffered throughout the day on Wednesday:
Pompeo decimates Democrat case for subpoenas. – At a press conference in Rome, Italy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterates his firm opposition to allowing any of State Department professionals to be forced to become a party to the Democrats’ carnival midway freak show, and lays out a detailed constitutional case for taking that stance. The Outrage Mob went into full outrage mode, because of course they did, but nobody real cared.
Pelosi and Schiff hold a disastrous press conference. – Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum followed shortly thereafter with possibly the most dishonest press event since Baghdad Bob went on TV to assure the world that all was well in Iraq, promising a fake impeachment process that would be “fair to the President,” and with Pelosi’s newly-restructured face trying and failing to summon tears about how she has a big case of the sads about it all. The unintentionally-hilarious presser ends with San Fran Nan begging in vain to convince one member of the Democrat toady press to ask her a question – any question at all would have done – about something other than impeachment.
Schiff revealed to have coordinated with the fake whistleblower before the complaint was even written. – The New York Times published a piece in which it claimed that Schiff had in fact begun coordinating with the fake whistleblower even before the fake whistleblower’s complaint had been drafted. Which means that this entire charade is being run on the exact same playbook the Democrat/media complex used to smear Brett Kavanaugh a year ago, given that that all began with Dianne Feinstein coordinating efforts with false witness Christine Blasey Ford months before Ford “came forward” with her false allegations. Schiff naturally denied the allegation in the Times’s report, but no matter: Schiff has been caught publicly in so many fabrications now that he has no credibility with any non-media American, and the likely truth of his mendacity has been planted in the public’s mind.
Trump owns them both in three different press events. – The President, meanwhile, held three separate press availabilties at the White House during the day, eviscerating the Democrats’ false case at every turn. Having been handed the New York Times piece about Schiff’s mendacity just before the third presser, he took it a step further, contending that Schiff actually helped write the complaint. While the corrupt media immediately went into full scoffing and tut-tutting mode over that statement, how many dozens of times have we seen the President make a statement like this and watch it turn out to be 100% true days, weeks, or months later?
Ukraine President Zelensky confirms he has never even met Rudy Giuliani. – This of course puts the lie to various media reports that have claimed that Giuliani had met face-to-face with Zelensky even before the July call with President Trump that supposedly germinated the fake whistleblower complaint.
Details of recent Barr/Durham visit to Italy become public. – While rumors and a few reports about this recent trip had begun to float around late last week, the details and their implications did not fully spill out into the mainstream and social media worlds until Wednesday.
State Department IG, after requesting “emergency hearing” with House Intel Committee staff, delivers folder full of four-month old newspaper clippings. – News of this event, possibly the greatest trolling event in federal government history, landed on Twitter early in the evening thanks to the reporting of the Daily Caller’s Amber Athey:
Sources tell @dailycaller that the State IG presented a packet of months-old news articles about Dem ties to Ukraine to congressional staffers during today's "urgent" briefing.
Huge blow to Dems who were expecting docs that could help w/ impeachment.https://t.co/bbjccetWed
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) October 2, 2019
To summarize: Dems went into the briefing expecting impeachable information. Came out with articles (which they call conspiracy theories) about their own party's connections to and pressure on Ukraine. Brutal.
Brutal, indeed.
What Wednesday demonstrated more than anything else is that literally everything the Democrats do or say is a lie. Everything is just more theater to try to influence public opinion from a political party that has succeeded in purging itself of actual substance.
They will keep doubling down on the neverending coup d’etat not because it’s likely to be a successful strategy, but because they literally have no idea what else to do at this point.
If the Democrat Party were a brain, it would be that of a one-trick Donkey.
#fakenewsadam schiffcampaign updatedbdailyupdatedeep statedonald trumpimpeachmentitalymedia biasmike pompeonancy pelosinew york timesukraine
Larry Schweikart: Don’t Worry About Mitch McConnell On Impeachment
Bernie is Toast, Biden is Close
Yesterday, Rush referenced an article by Politico published back in January of 2017 (right after Trump’s inauguration) that laid out how the previous Ukrainian administration was working with Hillary and the Dems against Trump. Unbelievable how much info is and has been out there and the MSM is able to ignore/deflect and control the narrative. Everything is out there to debunk Pelosi and Schiff on this stupid impeachment fiasco, it needs more light.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
alonzo1956
There actually was “urgent” bombshell information presented by the IG to the various committees. The stuff John Solomon posted on the net is quite damning. The sworn affidavits from Shokin and others really shafts Biden. Some of the other stuff points to Hillary, the DNC (owned by Hillary), et.al. (controlled by Hillary and Obama) colluding with the government of Ukraine to sway an election by digging up dirt on Trump and Paul Manafort. Obama’s ambassador to Ukraine blocked visas for people wanting to inform Trump of some of the corruption and on and on!!! That is just the tip of the iceberg regarding John Solomon’s stuff. Will the Democratic leadership intentionally ignore evidence of corruption presented to them? President Trump may have trolled them in a way that will be difficult to explain away at a later date. I can certainly see him say that “I gave you evidence of criminal behavior and you did nothing about it”. BTW: That crosses both party lines. Where is the clamor for investigations into this obvious criminal corruption?
You need to be careful because if you aren’t, you and the folks at CTH will become known as prophets, and who in their right mind would want a bunch of Democrat converted to Republican sycophants chasing them incessantly, wishing for more words of wit. You see how they act before conversion don’t you?
It appears now that the Blower was Adam S himself/herself, who apparently channeled Sméagol/Gollum in his Blower conversation to himself. By golly! That’s the image of Adam that we’ve been lacking! He’s Sméagol one minute, Gollum the next!
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=smeagol&view=detail&mid=E0C5C6271DF59EA4452BE0C5C6271DF59EA4452B&FORM=VIRE
Some other bad news for the Dhimmicrats:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/breaking-former-cia-director-john-brennan-reveals-he-will-be-interviewed-by-us-attorney-john-durham-in-coming-days-video/
https://www.weaselzippers.us/434219-flashback-schiff-we-didnt-directly-speak-to-the-whistleblower/
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-doj-docs-show-rosenstein-advising-mueller-the-boss-doesnt-know-about-their-communications/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-10-02-bombshell-adam-schiff-fabricate-the-whistleblower.html
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Ypu are so right! I never before saw Schiff’s likeness in Smeagol. Now it is so clear. Thanks
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Restrictions No restrictions. Open to research.
Project A.1. Southern Politics: Bass-DeVries Interviews
Project description Interviews, 1973-1975, conducted by Jack Solomon Bass and Walter De Vries with political leaders, journalists, editors, party officials, political scientists, campaign directors, union officials, and civil rights leaders from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, as part of a study of politics in the South, 1945-1974.
Interviewee Waring, Thomas.
Interviewee occupation Editors
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Interviewee ethnicity Whites
Interviewer Bass, Jack.
De Vries, Walter.
Abstract Thomas Waring, former editor of Charleston's News and Courier newspaper, discusses the importance of Strom Thurmond to the Republican Party and reflects at length on his uncle, Judge J. Waties Waring, and the reaction in Charleston to the Warings after his historic 1948 decision opening the Democratic Party primary to black voters.
Subject Topical South Carolina--Politics and government.
Civil rights movements--South Carolina.
Subject Name Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003.
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968.
Citation Interview with Thomas Waring by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, 19 February 1974. A-0278 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Help free Western Sahara, Africa's last colony
von: AVAAZ am: 26.10.2019 - 09:20
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EU-Morocco
From Syria to Yemen, our community has stood by the brave and determined people on the frontlines fighting repressive dictatorships and military regimes. Some prominent scholars say that Western Sahara was the original birthplace of the Arab Spring, even before the protests in Tunisia took hold. Let’s celebrate the courage of peaceful Sahrawi activists and hold it up as a beacon of inspiration for the world in a time of rising authoritarianism, and help free Africa’s last colony.
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Elghalia Djimi was tortured for years, with acid, dogs, and sexual violence — yet she continues her brave and gritty struggle for justice and freedom in Africa’s last colony.
Hundreds of thousands like her face brutal oppression from Moroccan authorities in Western Sahara under an international media blackout. But now we have a rare opportunity to help put an end to over 40 years of occupation.
Morocco wants a lucrative new trade deal with the European Union, which is not allowed to take the valuable octopus and other fish caught in West Saharan waters without the consent of the Sahrawi people, per a new ruling by Europe’s top court.
Europe’s new foreign policy chief is about to start his term — if we raise a massive global call to Free Western Sahara right as he takes office, we can make sure he can’t quietly ignore the laws of the land, and pressure Morocco to hand over rights to the Sahrawis. We only have days to act before a key vote… join the urgent call and share widely:
Free Western Sahara
The Sahrawis were promised a say in their future over 30 years ago, but they’ve been neglected by the international community again and again while European countries like France and Spain have been only too happy to continue to profit from their natural resources like fish and phosphate minerals.
It’s a blatant hypocrisy, and it’s gotta end.
Over the last two years, political negotiations gained some steam, but now they’ve stalled again, and could get squashed in a vote in days! If we come together now and blow the lid on the tragic silence on the fate of the Sahrawis, and show that Europeans don’t want colonial fish on dinner plates, we can usher a tipping point for an outcome that protects the rights of Sahrawis. The power of our global community, including millions in France and Spain, could make the difference.
Saharawis have given their lives to this fight — let’s stand with them now, when they need us most:
With hope and determination,
Risalat, Rewan, Aloys, Marie, and the rest of the Avaaz team
Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara—A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony (Democracy Now)
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/1/four_days_in_occupied_western_sahara
Morocco/Western Sahara: Investigate brutal crackdown on Sahrawi protesters (Amnesty)
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/08/morocco-western-sahara-investigate-brutal-crackdown-on-sahrawi-protesters/
European Court Dismisses Morocco's Claim To Western Sahara, Throwing EU Trade Deal Into Doubt (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2018/02/27/ecj-morocco-western-sahara-fisheries/#69d3a43327f3
Morocco moves closer to 'privileged' partnership with EU (Euractiv)
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/morocco-moves-closer-to-privileged-partnership-with-eu/
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About the Author / Jeanie Finlay
Jeanie is a British artist and filmmaker who creates intimate, funny and personal work for the cinema and broadcast, including Emmy nominated Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, Bifa nominated Seahorse and The Great Hip Hop Hoax; Bifa winning ORION and SOUND IT OUT. She is currently making her ninth and tenth feature.
Jeanie Finlay Top Ten Features of 2020
Jeanie Finlay returns to DN to share her experiences of this unprecedented year, along with the 2020 features which left an indelible mark on her memory.
Jeanie Finlay Top Ten Feature Films of 2019
1st January, 2020
"My top ten includes films that have lingered and stayed with me." Jeanie Finlay reflects on her year of cinema as a director and audience member.
Director Jeanie Finlay runs through the top ten films which left a lasting impression on her in the tumultuous year that was 2016.
You might think that Jeanie Finlay would have been too busy in 2015 with the release of her music doc ‘Orion’ and its BIFA win to have watched anyone
Director Jeanie Finlay takes a break from a hectic year of filmmaking and even abides by the DN house rules for her 2014 top ten list.
ORION Unmasked: Further Adventures in Crowdfunding with Jeanie Finlay
Jeanie Finlay's latest feature, ORION: The Man Who Would Be King, has been waiting in the wings for several years but is now ready to take centre stage as
What a year for viewing. It feels odd to be picking a top ten list exclusively from films as 2013 for me was the year of astounding television – both
Jeanie Finlay 2012 Top Ten
2012 has been a strange year in film for me as I’ve seen fewer films than I have in previous years. It’s been more circumstance than choice
2011 has been a funny old year. At the beginning I had just finished my documentary film Sound It Out and was getting ready to release it on DVD in the
Director Jeanie Finlay takes a break from her own filmmaking exploits to give us a rundown of her Top Ten films of 2010.
Sound It Out: Adventures in Crowd Funding
I was at Sheffield Doc/Fest last week and crowd funding was everywhere, I mean EVERYWHERE! It felt like the thing that was being talk about and discussed
Sunnyside of the Doc
La Rochelle station Entrance to conference centre The conference centre Party on a boat Sunnyside in La Rochelle is not quite like any other film event I
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Felbamate in vitro metabolism by rat liver microsomes.
V E Adusumalli, K K Wong, N Kucharczyk and R D Sofia
Drug Metabolism and Disposition November 1991, 19 (6) 1135-1138;
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Incubation of [14C]felbamate at 37 degrees C for 60 min with liver microsomes from untreated Sprague-Dawley rats converted 10% of the drug to the p-hydroxy (6%) and 2-hydroxy (4%) metabolites. With microsomes from phenobarbital-pretreated rats, 21% of the drug was metabolized to the p-hydroxy (7.5%) and 2-hydroxy (13.5%) metabolites. With microsomes from felbamate-pretreated rats, up to 25% of drug was metabolized to the p-hydroxy (5%) and 2-hydroxy (20%) metabolites. In addition, a small amount of the monocarbamate metabolite was also present, but no other metabolites were formed. Coincubations of [14C]phenytoin with felbamate had no effect on the metabolism of phenytoin, whereas the amount of [14C]felbamate metabolized in the presence of phenytoin decreased by 30-38%.
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Alicia Keys on going makeup free: ‘Every day I’m challenging myself’
Alicia Keys, Makeup
One of the funniest parts of Miley Cyrus’s stoned Elle interview was the shade she threw on Alicia Keys, also a judge on The Voice, for having a makeup artist when she insists on going makeup free. Miley said that she does her own makeup but “Alicia doesn’t really wear it. But she’s got a makeup artist and I don’t.” Then Miley made a bunch of excuses for why she does wear makeup and it made about as much sense as the rest of Miley’s interview.
Alicia has been going without makeup for some months now and while it seemed like a put-on at first she’s committed to it and she’s said that she’s not anti-makeup in general. This is just a choice that she’s making. In a new interview with Access Hollywood, Alicia talked about going makeup-free and described it as a kind of challenge to herself, although I think she was making a broader point. You can see the video on Access Hollywood and here’s what she said:
Gwyneth Paltrow just posted a photo on her birthday like ‘no makeup, holler at me now’ I just wonder if you expected that kind of response when you made the choice for yourself?
No. I didn’t even really think about it to be honest. I was just realizing, just like I was saying, this evolution of even realizing how I could just be. You can just emanate. Here’s me. And learning that is like a constant challenge. Every day I’m challenging myself like ‘come on Alicia, don’t forget.’
[From Access Hollywood]
I like this, I think it’s a nice point to make as long as it’s framed as a personal choice, which Alicia has done, and not as a challenge to all women. It’s also worth looking at how you present yourself and what your personal choices are regarding that, and how to be your most authentic self. For Alicia, that means not wearing makeup.
Alicia is promoting the music she wrote for the Disney movie Queen of Katwe, about a young Ugandan girl who becomes a chess master, starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo. She also has an interview with E! in which she talked about her sons with husband Swizz Beats, Egypt, six, and Genesis, one and a half. Alicia said that she’s trying to help protect their innocence. “I love them to just be able to be innocent… to create their world and what the world looks like for them.” She has such a unique way of looking at things.
Photos credit: WENN and Getty
98 Responses to “Alicia Keys on going makeup free: ‘Every day I’m challenging myself’”
Loulou says:
I mean yeah if I had skin like hers… It would be a lot easier to jump on “makeup-free”.
Spittair says:
Yup, it’s easy to go makeup free with a face like that. Great skin and beautiful. But some of us have tenacious acne, scarring, skin damage, etc.
marley31 says:
In high school I wore lipstick and eyeliner in my 20′s I stopped and I’m now 45 I choose not to wear makeup because I come to believe it makes me look younger as I’ve been told plus I’m into natural beauty. And I believe make tends to age the skin. But to each it’s own it is my choice. Plus less fuss getting ready. In special occasion I do we’re lip gloss to make my lips shinny 😃 but I commend her for making a choice
I’ve read somewhere, don’t know if it was on Lainey or Jezebel, an interview with Alicia’s make up artist and it’s not like she don’t wear ANY make-up, she wear as little as possible, like a very light facial cream with some color, she still does facial treatments, so it’s kind of a lie to say you wear nothing.
Ennie says:
She used to have bad skin, quite some acne. I understand her being so young when she started and working in the public eye, selling your music and your image, that would make her quite dependent on makeup.
Just look around and see celebs and famous musicians. Even men wear it.
I like that she reinforces that it is a choice to wear it, just after reading in the Zayn interview that he had to ask permission to even change his hair.
If I looked like Alicia Keys or Nicole Richie without makeup, I’d do it in a heartbeat. This 53 year old has never looked good without some help unless I was in my 20′s – 30′s and had some sun.
oooh ah says:
I’m with you sister
LMFAO I’ve only worn makeup a few times in my life. Most days I just wear chapstick and MAYBE lip gloss. Why the hell aren’t I being called a savior and brave? People who care so much about makeup and wearing or not wearing it should get a life.
And no, my skin isn’t particularly great and i’m not naturally a great beauty, I just have no desire to spend $$$$$ on crap that society tells me I need.
@Laura, I agree with you! “Everyday I don’t wear makeupI’m challenging myself” try walking miles in the desert to go get water or run a marathon, that’s challenging yourself! It’s juste makeup!! On another note; I enjoy going at Sephora, gazing at the alleys of shinny products and sometimes I buy something, but after that I never wear it 😛 It feels just to good to rub your eyes in the middle of the afternoon after hours of computer.. And not dreading the mascara mess!
I don’t wear makeup either. I can’t believe this is a “thing” to celebrate. I have bigger fish to fry then talk about how brave I am to not slap on spackle every morning. I’m not anti make up. It’s not for me.
I couldn’t agree more, Laura. I felt the same way when I read Miley’s interview the other day. How the hell did we end up at this point where NOT WEARING MAKE-UP is considered brave and nonconformist? It’s a ridiculously superficial point to make. It says a lot about Miley and Alicia and the little bubble they apparently live in that they actually believe that.
Ladies, not wearing make up does not make you ‘brave’ or a rebel or a hippie. It’s still you. Just with no make up on.
There is a long history of women wearing make up. Think it was actually worn more in the past than currently. Especially in the 20s, 30s, 40s where they especially laid it on thick. Victorian age and yes even the Egyptians. Its been a long long tradition for women.
Pine Cone says:
Right On! I had taken Alicia’s new look to be just a re-invention of her image.
I feel the same way, but it seems many people really bought into this beauty standard, so for them it really was a big deal. If someone spent so much time and money on choosing products and finding their style that it became a part of their identity, I see why it would be brave from their point of view. Presenting a certain type of appearance is very wrapped into many people’s sense of self, so choosing a different appearance (even thought it’s just your own bare face!) can seem like a major change. It does seem bizarre from the outside point of view. I don’t bother with makeup because that’s time and money I could be spending on something else. Complete no brainer.
Locke Lamora says:
But if you wear lipstick most days, you are wearing makeup. I only wear mascara but I can’t say I go makeup free.
Edit- I misread chapstick as lipstick. So no, you are going makeup free. My apologies.
I think it is brave. Going makeup free is brave for some people, especially if you have insecurities, and especially in a appearance obsessed industry like the one Alicia’s in. Bravery is different for different people. Just because it isn’t brave for you, doesn’t mean it isn’t for someone else.
I think people who hadn’t had severe insecurities, or haven’t been insecure about that particular thing, can’t emphatize just how much it can affect a person.
I would view it as a personal challenge for herself, especially in a looks driven industry, but I would hesitate to use the word brave.
I don’t consider myself brave for striving to either live up to or failing to live up to a certain beauty ideal. There’s some other word that probably fits, but I think of bravery in terms of being heroic. I think of myself as just living my life, and so is she.
It’s probably because to her, wearing makeup every single day and being in front of the camera the majority of life makes it a big deal.
I wear makeup every single day and have done so for as long as I can remember. I also work from home so I don’t need to. I gave birth with a full face of makeup twice haha. For me, this would be an enormous decision to make and a big deal.
I never would though… makeup is amazing. I just wish everyone would stop with the highlighting fad it’s so awful.
Bluesky says:
I would like to cosign on this. Chapstick and maybe lip gloss is the extent of my makeup regime. No one goes on and on about me being brave either. Please, it’s not like she’s going into some dangerous war zone helping refugees. I don’t understand why it’s being made into some revolutionary thing. She’s a beautiful woman anyway, give me a break!
swak says:
The most I’ve worn is mascara and blush and now don’t even do that. For me it’s a challenge to wear makeup!
I was raised in a house where my mom didn’t even step a toe into public, not even the corner tiny store, without a full face of makeup. My grandmother was the same way. Very old school red lip, clean eye, painted nails kind of esthetic. I am now a mom of a teenage girl, and I have struggled since she was born to present makeup as an option/choice for her, not a mandatory thing. I most definitely don’t feel beautiful without my “face” on, but making it through elementary school with her helped me loosen up about it and now I will run to the store or an errand with nothing at all on. And if my mom sees me she squints and says things like “did you forget to put on your mascara today?” LOL Truly, I have to LOL or I would be sad.
For me, it’s totally “brave” to go out bare faced, but for someone who wasn’t raised similar to how I was with regard to makeup probably just doesn’t have the same issue. For that person, maybe it would be more brave to dress way up and wear some makeup? I have no idea, we all have our personal issues. I am extremely hopeful my daughter won’t get this one, though. She has a tiny interest in lip gloss, but nothing else. The teens are young though, so time will tell.
Wren says:
It’s because you’re not famous. Makeup is expected for famous women, especially at public events. To go without is noteworthy because wearing it is the norm. It’s such the norm that’s jarring enough to cause comments when a woman isn’t wearing it.
I don’t wear makeup either. I will put on mascara when I have to get fancy, but that’s it, and I don’t get fancy all that often. But I’m happy that this is becoming “cool” to talk about. I’m sick of the beauty industry, I’m tired of being told I need to buy things to be beautiful, and I’m beyond over the fact that ads for makeup pervade every single form of media directed at women.
NeoCleo says:
Hey Laura:
I’m in your corner. I stopped wearing makeup about 10 years ago and it’s been truly liberating. I still spend money on skin care and most importantly on sunscreen but not having to deal with all that other stuff on a daily basis has been heaven and very helpful to my budget. And quite frankly, though I look better when I wear it, I’m just so over the routine.
pcruz says:
Honestly!
What is the big deal? I LOVE make-up, but don’t wear a lot of it and often go totally without it (out of laziness). I certainly don’t feel I HAVE TO wear it. My skin isn’t the greatest and I’m not a great beauty. No biggie.
Alicia looks great, her skin looks great and good for her. I am sure it is harder in her industry than for us normies. But it’s ridiculous that this is supposed to be brave and challenging. I think it’s time for some perspective here!
Tris says:
Totally! Personally, I’m a Burts Bees gal, not Chapstick.
I think people who wear makeup day to day look kind of silly, TBH. Same with fancy fingernails. All I see is an exhausting amount of money and effort and waste. But that’s just me. Fresh-faced and judgemental!
Alicia is beautiful, as is Goop, and so of course they look lovely makeup free. As does everyone, I think. I’ve never seen a soul who looks BETTER with makeup. Different, maybe, but always better without.
iseepinkelefants says:
I don’t wear it either. Sometimes I’ll define my brows and put on mascara but most days it’s just chopstick. And I live in Paris. Most girls don’t wear a lot of makeup. It’s kind of more an American thing to spend all of your money at Sephora. I’m American but I’m lazy as all hell. I can’t be bothered. Plus I look harsher with it. I have Scarlett Hohanson/Angelina Jolie’s lips so I try to wear some color on my lips but chapstick is all I can muster.
Tiffany :) says:
It’s great that you are good with that, but sadly, society does pressure females to wear make-up. If this was no big deal, then she wouldn’t be getting the coverage for it. But it is a big deal because it is UNHEARD OF for women on camera.
ConcernedWoman says:
I think it is a much different choice when you’re photographed on a regular basis and expected to conform to the norm of Hollywood and the music industry. For those of us just living our life – it really doesn’t matter.
aenflex says:
I like that she’s doing this for herself. It’d be great if it did spread a bit. Something about looking at a woman without makeup makes me look harder at her, and what makes her really beautiful.
I rarely if ever wear makeup and I don’t have flawless skin. I’ve ever been into it. Now I try to wear foundation, eyeliner and mascara every day but I don’t always. It’s about being comfortable and I guess I’m comfortable with or without. Plus I used to wear a ton of makeup as a dancer which is why I was a late bloomer on makeup outside of that
ab says:
I was going to make a similar comment. I used to dance and all the heavy pancake stuff you use for the stage gave me such horrible breakouts that I would just avoid wearing makeup at all when I didn’t have to. now I’m just used to not wearing makeup on a day-to-day basis. if I’m going out or doing something special I put on some eyeliner and mascara, but then I tend to rub it all off my eyes before I even get to where I’m going. lol.
BeBeA says:
I personally don’t mind her no make up movement like you said, she isn’t pushing this on all women, it’s just where she is and what she is doing for herself. Unfortunately every media outlet is going to ask her about every detail and that’s when hearing about it over and over again gets annoying. I can even see why she may have a makeup artist, maybe this person is a skincare tech, just because your makeup free doesn’t mean you need to seen on national TV all shiny or dry. It’s OK to have a team, and putting something on your face doesn’t make it makeup.
Do what works for you.
It is easier if you are as naturally pretty as Alicia though!
Sixer says:
It will be nice when nobody even considers this a significant choice. But I suppose until nobody does, we will have to continue have these navel-gazing conversations. WHY DOES ANYBODY CARE WHO WEARS MAKE UP AND WHO DOESN’T?
I rarely wear make up. It’s not a particular choice. It’s because I can’t be bothered. I might suddenly find myself bothered tomorrow – although I doubt it, I’m not ruling it out.
BritAfrica says:
I’m the opposite. No makeup = no going out!
I don’t know why exactly but in America you do NOT see women without makeup in the media. Not on TV, not in magazines, not in person when a famous woman does a public event, not even in pictures on most websites. Women wear makeup, full stop. The idea, though rarely explicitly stated, is everywhere.
As a woman who does not wear makeup, I’m tired of it. I’m tired of seeing women in makeup in the media no matter where I turn and no unpainted faces. It’s a relief to see Alicia’s natural face, just like it’s a relief to see Ashley Graham, both of whom represent a facet of me that is very rarely given any space, much less considered desirable or beautiful.
Little Darling says:
I feel like such a clown in makeup. But, as I said on an earlier thread, makeup free isn’t realistic for a lot of light skinned fair people, who feel washed out in public, something I never really understood because I have dark eyes dark long lashes and nice olive skin that is pretty kind to me. So I never felt the need.
Also, I work with newborns and makeup is pretty much not worn while I work, so as to not rub on them etc. which is pretty much the norm in my industry.
When I go out I wear a bit of Chanel foundation with SPF Moisturizer (separate items and one tiny little dot of foundation to a blob of SPF) and then I have one Mac and one Chanel blush each that I put on my cheeks and lids and one mascara (yes they’re real is the name I think- AMAZING) and that’s kind of full face for me and really makes my face get more attention than I’m normally comfy with.
MrsBPitt says:
Little Darling….lol I am one of those light, fair skinned people. Whenever I go makeup free, inevitably, someone will say to me “are you feeling okay, you look so pale”….needless to say, I usually wear at least a little makeup!
prettylights says:
Same here! Fair skin, blonde hair (brows and lashes too) and pale lips. I don’t mind not wearing makeup if I’m just at home, camping, etc. but for work I do wear it because I think it makes me look more polished (I’m an Office Manager, so I like to present myself nicely) and less tired or sick looking, which is what people at work ask me about if I don’t have it on.
Kitten says:
That’s my fave mascara too, LD!
And I’ve been subscribed to The New Yorker for 20 years!
Seriously both are the best!
Hope your heart is okay <3
I’ll go makeup free quite often because I live a very busy lifestyle and my job requires it sometimes (sterile IV room), but I am a very fair skinned woman, and I admit that I’m always slightly self-conscious about the (natural) dark circles under my eyes. I consider myself a decently attractive woman, but especially in the winter when I’m more or less ivory-toned, they do make me look very tired – particularly if I AM tired.
(I really like Chanel’s foundation, but they don’t have a shade light enough for my winter skin tone. I’m a big fan of NARS tinted moisturizer, and Korean BB cream is amazeballs.)
barfly says:
She rubs me the wrong way. She says these things to sound ethereal and whatever but she’s no different than any other chick going to work, raising a family and not wearing makeup. She’s also no different in the sense that she dated/slept with a married man, he divorced his wife and Alicia was pregnant and walking down the aisle as soon as the papers were signed. But she doesn’t wear makeup because she’s being “different”. Please.
Snowflake says:
This^^^
JudyK says:
Another “this”…and I’m frankly tired of looking at her w/o makeup. She looks tired and drained. She’s on a national televised show and looks like she doesn’t give a damn. But then, I’m also tired of looking at Miley’s childish, clownish outfits.
I once had a freak accident, had an ulcerated cornea for a month and couldn’t wear makeup on that eye. I still had to go to work every day and remember my best friend saying to me, “I’m so tired of looking at that naked eye.” I thought it was funny. I’m tired of looking at Alicia’s naked face when I’m watching The Voice.
Naya says:
Lol. Maybe look away when she is onscreen? I love looking at her “naked face”. Sate yourself with the thousands of made up female faces on TV everyday and let this one natural beauty be.
Well I’m tired of looking at pictures of famous women in makeup, so where’s my accommodation? Oh wait, this is pretty much it, this one woman. Who I don’t even particularly like as a person, but who, just by daring to be on TV without makeup, illustrates just how pervasive the idea that women somehow need makeup is in our culture.
Bwahaha This is where I’m at she sounds both High and Corny and too cute by Half, Discuss how you got your skin to THAT point from what it used to be which is NOT Proactiv (i’d be super interested in that!) and Also No cookies from me for wearing at Least concealer and BB Cream and Light Mascara and telling us you are ethereally Makeup free
If Miley is Peak Insufferable Alicia Is Right at Level Orange Eyeroll
I love ALL your comments lol
Some MU free people come off like the crazy Vegans. Give off the “my way is more ethical than your way” and you are the devil for doing it. Seriously know a MU free woman that just trashes I mean trashes women that wear MU. Some have the holier than thou attitude.
Michelina says:
I scoffed at this at first but then I thought about the fact that this isn’t the case of an average woman deciding not to wear makeup, it’s an international celebrity doing that and that’s pretty awesome considering the expectations that are heaped upon her and the fact that celebrities are expected to be aesthetically perfect.
The makeup vs. no makeup debate is completely exhausting to me. In my experience I’ve found that many women who don’t wear makeup unfairly and harshly judge women who do. 95% of the women that I know don’t wear any makeup on a daily basis. Most of those women talk a ton of crap about women who do their hair and makeup on a daily basis. It’s a matter of preference, and that’s all it should be. I don’t like how some offices and places of employment have created “makeup free days” because again, this directly implies that women who do wear makeup are secretly insecure and hate themselves deep down. Some people just enjoy it or find it fun.
You covered everything nicely here. Nothing else to add.
Granger says:
“Some people just enjoy it or find it fun.” This is so true. I have a good friend who’s really into skin care and make-up, and just has a blast researching products and trying new trends. And she’s good at it. She never looks caked or weird — just herself, with a little extra going on.
Anyone remember the televangelist, Tammy Faye Baker? She was ridiculed constantly for wearing ridiculous amounts of make-up — like, massive eyelashes caked in mascara, crazy eyeshadows, blush you could see from a mile away. She looked like a joke — until you found out why she did it. She grew up dirt poor and never got to have any fun, much less any fun with make-up. So as soon as she had some money, she decided to spend it on her face. She was a wacky lady (and her husband was totally corrupt), but a good reminder that we don’t always know what somebody’s motivations are, and we have no right to judge what makes someone else feel good.
Look at it from the other side. “Makeup free day” implies that for the rest of the time you’re expected to wear makeup. That wearing makeup is the norm and not wearing it is inappropriate under normal circumstances. That is what bugs, the entrenched notion that a woman not wearing makeup is unprofessional somehow. Why? Why do we think that? Isn’t that kind of strange? I’m all for personal choice, but the choice not to wear makeup is often looked down upon. I wish it wasn’t a big deal, in fact I think it’s rather stupid, but the fact remains that wearing it is expected and with THAT I have issues.
ITA, all your comments on this post are on point.
Exactly. If there was no expectation then there would be no problem about people making their own personal choices about their skincare. But to me, it seems to tie into women needing to be ‘decorative’ as one of their defining characteristics. The judginess of non-wearers may partially be a backlash to this expectation, at least in some cases. (I don’t mind if someone wants to wear it, I just don’t want there to be an expectation that women should have to wear it. Which there is, in many settings.)
Good statement and yes some of MU free women have holier than thou attitudes about their choice.
If Alicia had a round white face with no natural rosiness, stubby blonde lashes, and colorless lips, as I do, I might be a bit more impressed with her “I don’t need makeup” attitude.
My lips are the same colour as my skin, and I’m super pale. But I hate the way lipstick looks on me, because I have quite full lips and I feel like lipstick is just too much. I tried coloured lipbalms, but they’re a hit and miss so now I kinda just made peace with the fact that I look slighty ill all the time.
Bex says:
On a tangentially related note, Queen of Katwe looks like a wonderful movie!
Santia says:
It really does! And the promotion has been superb. I can’t wait to see it.
Almondjoy says:
Obviously it’s no big deal for most of us to go makeup free. But for someone in Alicia’s industry it actually IS. Name one other celeb who has gone makeup free for as long as she has and I’ll join in on the “I don’t see why this is a big deal” comments. And she’s on tv and goes makeup free to big events at that.
With that said Alicia annoys the heck outta me 😩
This. Exactly. All of it. And the amount of attention she’s getting for doing it just shows how much of a big deal it really is. If it wasn’t a big deal nobody would talk about it or even think to comment.
Moneypenny says:
Exactly. Unless we have some undercover celebs on this board, our situations are not in any way the same. We’re not talking about her not wearing making while running to CVS. She is appearing on TV and on red carpets without makeup. I am generally not on red carpets or on TV. It is a big deal in her industry.
And you can see the differences, appreciate her talent and still think it isn’t cool that she got with Swizz while he was married (though again, that was HIS commitment, not hers).
Josefina says:
This is such a first world problem to me. In this side of the world you’d have to live an extremely priviledged life to think going makeup free is anything revolutionary.
This. Who cares? That being said, she looks gorgeous without makeup.
This. It’s the very definition of first world problems. Wear makeup, don’t wear makeup. Who cares?
I kind of disagree that this is a first world problem (at least as represented by Alicia): this is a celebrity problem. Even celebrities in the third world wear makeup on TV.
We get it, Alicia. Now please move on.
Omg these people are so out of touch, she doesn’t wear make up so what?! woman of the year award? Most days I don’t even have the time to put it on.
Jennet says:
I’m a teacher and I work with many amazing women who don’t wear makeup. I wasn’t aware this is such a big deal. Lots of women don’t wear makeup…
Sullivan says:
Well, I guess if an actress can go without makeup and anticipate an Oscar then a celebrity/singer can expect a badge of courage for baring her face.
Exactly. It’s stupid. It’s nothing more than an attention-getting scheme for a personal choice. There’s no “worthy cause” involved here.
Micki says:
Very amusing. When Angelina had her breasts removed and went public there was a discussion whether that’t brave (some said no) and why she took the “easy” way out compared perhaps with bread-water-prayer route perhaps.
Now going without make up ( a completely personal choice) is being banged up and down.
I wonder if someone admits to hate kale chip will that be a bravery too?
Good for her. She’s a beautiful woman, always has been.
Revolutionary? Maybe not.
But there’s a good amount of research out there indicating that both sexes tend to rate women who don’t wear make-up as less competent, friendly, trustworthy & hygienic than women who do. And that employers are less likely to hire a female candidate or promote a female employee who doesn’t wear make-up.
And that consciously or subconsciously, we have different expectations for women – for example, when people complain about barefaced women “needing” color. It’s not that these women are really washed-out/lacking color in any objective sense, it’s that we expect women to have greater luminance contrast (i.e. the extent to which facial features like eyes and lips stand out from one’s skin) than men and feel like something’s missing when that contrast is too subtle.
And, of course, that we judge normal “flaws” like uneven skin tone, visible pores, fine lines & other physical signs of aging far more harshly than we do on men.
So, yeah, Alicia Keys isn’t doing the most amazing!thing!ever!, but bucking cultural expectations when it comes to performing femininity must be particularly rough in an industry where your looks are scrutinized, up for public discussion/criticism, and regularly photographed in HD. Good for her.
Candela says:
Thanks! exactly!
i feel like most women are conditioned to appear as presentable as possible, almost all the time. (“maybe her body isn’t perfect, but at least her make-up is nice = so she cares = as women should”)
it’s nice that so many celebitchies don’t see the need for make-up, but I think the pressure is real, especially for younger women.
it’s not the biggest deal ever to go makeup free (and I don’t think that Alicia herself would put it like that), but it’s just refreshing to see a female celeb go about her buisness without make up, and I can’t think of many other women in the public eye who do so.
Actually I think the women who do wear makeup and enjoy it don’t really feel that pressure. The industry and media cater to their interests so why would it be a big deal? They’re already doing it and it feels normal to them, so being shown that wearing it is normal is pretty much business as usual. Nobody questions a message that already agrees with what they think and often they don’t even see it or understand why those who don’t agree would be bothered. It’s obvious from so many of the responses on this site.
For those of us who don’t wear makeup, we’re surrounded by messages that what we’re not being a woman in the right way. We’re not as beautiful, we’re not as “put together”, and we’re lacking because our own natural features aren’t nice enough on their own, they need to be enhanced. Of course it isn’t a big deal to makeup wearers, it never is when mainstream views align with your own opinions and media images show you what you already think is normal. But to me, being told implicitly in nearly every form of media that my natural face is somehow lacking, it is a big deal. If we’re going to make it not a big deal, we need to shift how we view women, how we portray women and how we react to woman who choose not to wear makeup, especially famous women.
m0sha says:
@dana this is a marvelous comment. thank you.
Otaku Fairy says:
Agreed. To me she manages to get her point across about her own choice about not wearing make-up without coming off as self-righteous. She’s not implying that women who do wear make-up are somehow less intelligent, aren’t strong, or don’t have as much integrity (arguments people have actually made). It’s a little surprising to hear that employers see women who don’t wear make-up as less competent, less friendly, less trustworthy, and less hygienic. With the hygienic part, you can almost see the logic behind that one (even though I don’t agree with it at all) because they’re probably going based on the assumption that if someone’s going to put in the effort with make-up, they must put in a lot more effort into hygiene. But I don’t how people would think it makes someone more competent, friendly, or trustworthy.
CarrieUK says:
I haven’t worn make up daily since I left work 3.5 years ago to have kids (3rd one brewing) I wore very very little then anyway, curled my eyelashes, lip balm. I wore it on my wedding day and if (ha if) I ever go out!
I enjoy make up I just don’t see the need for it to be honest, I’m lucky my skin is ok, I also see how it can be a very useful tool for confidence and think it’s all about personal choice.
Don’t take my eyelash curlers away though!!
Sahra says:
my eyes were mildly irritated by those green cucumber make up remover wipes and so I went without makeup to work today and immediately my boss was like “wow you look awful.”
and my boss is a man in his mid 30s.
honestly, I have good skin and just normally wear a lot of eyeliner and smoky eye so it looks different. but not awful. I love that alicia is casually taking a public stance.
Same thing happens to me when I got to work without makeup. I have fair skin, light eyebrows and lashes, and blue eyes so especially if I am not wearing eye makeup I always hear that I look ‘tired’. It happened to me from 2 different people the other morning – “You like tired, are you ok? Are you sick?” Kind of frustrating, ha ha!
HK9 says:
Why do people always feel they have to tell women they look ‘tired’? I would never say that to anyone even if I thought so. What do you think the person is going to do, pack up and go home to get some sleep? The ‘faux’ concern isn’t masking the fact that all they’re telling you is that you look bad, which is in no way helpful.
@HK9
Yes, it’s like why the f@ck are you telling me this? It’s not a compliment and it’s not like I could go home and put makeup on if I felt self-conscious, so stfu.
annaloo. says:
Apropos of nothing, but Gwyneth saying “no makeup, holler at me now!” like she’s some sort of hero? Please, have a seat. No makeup, but I see that Instagram filter!
I went makeup free a few months ago because I moved and couldn’t find my usual brand/shade, and I was just lazy to apply makeup in general. My skin’s gotten SO MUCH better and to be honest I just enjoy not having to wake up earlier to spend that 10 mins making sure I look perfect or hitting the bed straight when I’m back late.
She’s a woman in the public eye. She is judged every single time she gets photographed, and she gets photographed a lot. Check the comments section of almost any website if you don’t believe me.
I’m not at all famous. I had a small write up in a trade publication. The very first comment was about my nose. It made me feel awful, and I’m not even professionally pretty. I can’t imagine how it would feel like if I were.
Leni says:
Exactly Tanya. Thank you for making the point.
I’m sorry sweetie. I know what that feels like, f@ck them or he or she, whoever said it.. Rude
if you want to wear makeup, do it.
if you don’t want to wear makeup, don’t do it.
either way ladies, I support you.
NGBoston says:
Didn’t Miley just out her as still having a make-up Artist on set for The Voice? Oh, what- to give her the “natural no-makeup
look” makeup?
Ugh. Whatever with all these stories on the new no make up gimmick. To each his own but with all that is going on in the US and the World–not sure this is relevant news even on a Celebrity Gossip website more than once.
And no, no one pissed in my Cornflakes today I just am over this story of Alicia’s.
Amyday says:
When I was in my 20′s I always felt more confident with makeup, and I also found it super fun to play with… kind of like an art project. However, I never looked down on women who were make-up less. I actually envied them a bit, they usually has clear skin and didn’t need it for their confidence. I’m actually very surprised to see so many comments of women saying they are looked down upon for not wearing it. As much as I’ve always loved makeup, I’m now at age (37) where I feel wearing make up makes me look older so I’m going most days without it. Anyway, I like Alicia Keys’ music, and she isn’t pushing this, she just keeps getting asked about it that’s all. Why is everyone getting so irritated about It?
I go makeup free all the time, particularly since I work in an IV room fairly often and can’t for sterility purposes anyway. But I also own a ton of expensive product and will sometimes wear full face just for the hell of it. Never bothered me much to go with or without, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with women who do wear it all the time. This being said, I do recognize that being able to go makeup free is easy when you have good skin, and I might feel differently if I suffered from serious acne or a similar problem. Alicia Keys is also a very lovely woman, so she very much has that in her favor, too.
I don’t actually think it’s a big deal given the type of music she makes and image she tries to present. She’s not a pop star ala Katy Perry or Taylor Swift, she’s a singer/songwriter who aims for a more mature audience and to be taken a bit more seriously. She’s beautiful and that’s certainly helped her, but her image is about her sitting behind a piano singing, it’s not about how fierce she looks or how many times she can re-invent herself.
Outside of pop there’s no shortage of women who don’t wear make-up or wear very little (as Alicia is usually doing, look at that first picture then look at her pink lips and cheeks in the ones further down), not to mention women who wear purposefully unflattering make-up.
virginfangirl says:
AT 49 years old, I just started wearing makeup, only powdered foundation, blush, mascara and eyebrow pencil. My 14 yr old daughter is really good at applying makeup and encouraged me to wear it and chose those basic items for me. It most definitely makes me look better, and as odd it it seems, the eyebrow pencil makes the biggest difference.
naomipaige says:
I didn’t recognize her. I had to do a double take. Wow! She’s so beautiful!
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received from Fort Leavenworth. By it you will perceive there is no intention to return the prisoners illegally captured in missouri and of which I wrote you several days since.
You will also observe that it is but a fair "inference" from the expressions used that it is the intention of the commanding officer to disregard all laws of the State, the proceedings of the courts, and the rights of the citizens.
That upon an "inference" it is proposed to invade Missouri, and in the courts of justice or elsewhere arrest whom they please and convey them to Kansas and there try them before a military commission.
Well, sir, he will not do it with impunity.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
BEN. LOAN,
Brigadier-General, Missouri State Militia.
[Sub-inclosure.]
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS,
Fort Leavenworth, May 15, 1862.
Brigadier General BEN. LOAN. Mo. S. M.:
SIR: Yours on the 9th instant received and placed on file. In reply I would state, as directed by the general commanding, that on or about the 7th of May a man and a lady from Kansas visited Missouri for the [purpose] of getting some stolen property. The men merely accompanied the lady to act her, her husband being in the United States service. It so happened that they found a mare, which the lady claimed, and the man accompanying her also recognized. The man in Missouri who had the mare went with the Kansas parties to a number of the neighbors, all of whom failed to prove the mare as his. At this the Kansas man was determined to take the mare and did start with her, when he was overtaken by an armed party of missourians and made prisoner. The lady came here and made her report, and stated how the man was a prisoner in the hands of a lawless and armed party. It became the duty of the commanding general to rescue the man and property as well as arrest the parties concerned, if possible. Accordingly a party was detached for that purpose, which succeeded. The mare is now in the hands of the Government awaiting settlement. Parties from Missouri visited these headquarters some days afterward, but failed to prove by any means that the property was theirs, it being clearly understood by all parties that the mare was left with the man who now claims her by another party, and that other party is in the Southern Army. Inference: the mare was probably stolen originally from Kansas, as claimed by Kansas party.
The intention of the general commanding is to restore peace and harmony as far as possible between Missouri and Kansas, and to this end he will endeavor to prevent parties from crossing into Missouri on any such errand, but at the same time he will not suffer Kansas men to be thrown into prison with impunity by an armed band of men who make it a business to carry on this work. If men from Missouri cross into Kansas and carry on their depredations-kidnaping, &c.-they will be pursued until they are overtaken and justice meted out to them by a military commission.
I have the honor to be, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
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L to R: Hector Huertas, Kuna Yala; Ochieng Odhiambo, Kenya; and Paulo Pankararu, Pankararu territory; in Eugene, Oregon,1996.
Paulo Pankararu, Brasília, 2020
Congresswoman Wapichana (right) acknowledges the work of Luiz Enrique Eloy Amado, an ELAW partner and a lawyer with Brazil's national indigenous association (APIB)
Twenty-five years ago, I traveled to Brazil to reach out to public interest lawyers and invite them to connect to ELAW. I met the founders of the (then) new organization Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). ELAW has worked with terrific lawyers at ISA ever since. In 1996, ISA sponsored the first ever indigenous lawyer in Brazil, Paulo Pankararu, to come to Oregon and work in our office.
Last week, I was privileged to accompany Paulo on a new and critically important phase of his work and leadership. We are working together, along with Instituto Pro Bono (an NGO in Sao Paulo that is leveraging additional legal services from some of Brazil's biggest law firms to support indigenous communities) to help indigenous attorneys across Brazil represent their communities and protect indigenous lands.
One participant in our 3-day workshop said, "The name Paulo Pankararu has been a point of reference for me in my career." Others acknowledged the strength and audacity it required for Paulo to become the first indigenous Brazilian to earn a law degree, before affirmative action laws streamlined access to education.
Now there are roughly 90 indigenous lawyers in Brazil. Fifteen of them will receive mentorship and legal education in rights-based representation from Paulo and other experts in Brazil over the next year.
During this first workshop, Paulo talked about the history and legal milestones of indigenous advocacy in Brazil. Brazil's only indigenous Congresswoman (attorney) Joênia Wapichana gave an inspirational talk about the importance of protecting indigenous Brazilians and their lands. Other respected Brazilian professionals came to offer support, legal services, office space in the capital, and solidarity.
Six of the lawyers (five from the Amazon region) will travel to the U.S. for ELAW Fellowships in June, to continue their learning and share their experiences.
We are excited to be part of this project to help indigenous lawyer partners protect land and resources in Brazil. Stay tuned!
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Cars produced at a plant of Ford Vietnam in Hai Duong Province. The domestic car industry was benefiting from the Government’s support policies. — VNA/VNS Photo Tran Viet
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The second policy was a decree allowing automakers who met the requirements of outputs to enjoy zero import tariffs for automobile components which could not have been produced domestically, cutting production costs by 2-2.5 per cent.
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Global Property and Casualty Insurance for Automobile market is expected to see growth rate of 8.31%
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Global Automobile Electronics Market 2020-2026 with Yamaha, Delphi, Koninklijke Philips, Sanyo, Sony, Denon, Continental & Denso Dominating – Press Release
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Indian Railways eyes 20% share in automobile transportation by 2021-22
Aiming to achieve a modal share of 20 percent by the end of 2021-22 and 30 percent by 2023-24 in transportation of automobiles, Union Minister for Railways, Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food & Public Distribution Piyush Goyal has met the automobile industry leaders, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) and others. The minister asked them to partner with Indian Railways to facilitate transportation of automobiles.
At the meeting, Goyal highlighted the government’s steps to facilitate automobile loading in the railways. In the past six months, amid the COVID-19 lockdown, Indian Railways has loaded 836 rakes of automobiles against 731 rakes in the previous year.
Automobile sales may fall 20-25% this fiscal: Ind-Ra.
While in 2013-14, the total loading of automobiles through the railways was only 429 rakes, which increased to 1,595 rakes in 2019-20.
Here are
Goyal holds meet to boost automobile loading through Rly
Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday met automobile Industry leaders to give boost to automobile loading through Railways.
Representatives of SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers), Tata Motors, Hyundai Motors, Ford Motors, Mahindra and Mahindra, Honda India, and Maruti Suzuki Ltd, The Automobile Freight Train Operators (AFTOs), Automotive Tyre Manufacturers’ Association (ATMA), attended the meeting and lauded the initiative and committed to work in partnership with Indian Railways to facilitate transportation of automobiles through railways.
“Indian Railways is attaining new heights in transportation of automobiles. The total loading of automobiles through Railway was only 429 rakes in 2013-14, which has increased to 1,595 rakes 2019-20. And in the first six months of the current year (Apr to Sep), Indian Railway has loaded 836 rakes of automobiles against 731 rakes in the previous year (despite almost negligible loading in the first two months),” the ministry said in a statement.
Railways are
Goyal meeting with Automobile Industry leaders gives boost to Automobile loading through Railways
New Delhi, Oct 10 (UNI) Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday met who’s who of the Automobile Industry leaders to give boost to Automobile loading through Railways.
At the meeting, Representatives of SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers), Tata Motors, Hyundai Motors, Ford Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Honda India, and Maruti Suzuki Ltd, The Automobile Freight Train Operators (AFTOs), Automotive Tyre Manufacturers’ Association (ATMA), who were all part of the meeting, lauded the initiative and committed to work in partnership with Indian Railways to facilitate transportation of automobiles through Railways.
The total loading of automobiles through Railway, which was only 429 rakes in 2013-14, has increased to 1,595 rakes in 2019-20. And in the first six months of the current year (Apr to Sep), Indian Railway has loaded 836 rakes of automobiles against 731 rakes in the previous year (despite almost negligible loading in the first two months).
Railways is
Railways aims to achieve a modal share of Automobile loading to 20% by the end of 2021-22, and a modal share of 30% by 2023-24 – Odisha Breaking News | Odisha News | Latest Odisha News
New Delhi: Minister of Railways, Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food & Public Distribution, Shri Piyush Goyal met who so who of the Automobile Industry leaders to give boost to Automobile loading through Railways.
Representatives of SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers), Tata Motors, Hyundai Motors, Ford Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Honda India, and Maruti Suzuki Ltd, The Automobile Freight Train Operators (AFTOs), Automotive Tyre Manufacturers’ Association (ATMA), who were all part of the meeting, lauded the initiative and committed to work in partnership with Indian Railways to facilitate transportation of automobiles through Railways.
Indian Railways is attaining new heights in transportation of automobiles. The total loading of automobiles through Railway was only 429 rakes in 2013-14, which has increased to 1,595 rakes 2019-20. And in the first six months of the current year (Apr to Sep), Indian Railway has loaded 836 rakes of automobiles against 731 rakes in
Railway assures Automobile industry associations to resolve their concerns on priority
New Delhi [India], October 10 (ANI): Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday met with the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), Automobile Freight Train Operators (AFTOs), Automotive Tyre Manufacturers’ Association (ATMA), and discussed ways to boost Automobile loading through Railways.
According to an official release, the participants in the interaction were informed about the steps taken by Railways to promote loading of automobiles, which has led to this “quantum jump” – and were asked to bring more loading to Rail.
The participants were assured that all possible help will be extended to them, and all their concerns and issues will be addressed on priority, the release said.
Railways said the total loading of automobiles through railway was only 429 rakes in 2013-14, which has increased to 1,595 rakes 2019-20.
It said that Railways is aiming to achieve a modal share of Automobile loading to 20 per cent by the end
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India asks its states not to partner with Philip Morris-funded foundation
By wpadmin | July 1, 2019
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s health ministry has asked all state governments in the country not to partner with the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) because of its links to tobacco giant Philip Morris International Inc (PM.N), a letter seen by Reuters showed.
FILE PHOTO: A man smokes a cigarette along a road in Mumbai, India, October 26, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo
Established in 2017, the FSFW focuses on eliminating usage of cigarettes and works toward smoking cessation using new technologies and alternative products. It says it works independently, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has said there are “clear conflicts” due to the $ 80 million in annual funding the foundation receives from Philip Morris.
At least three Indian anti-tobacco groups earlier this year wrote to the federal health ministry in New Delhi calling for the rejection of any possible partnerships with FSFW, according to copies of their representations seen by Reuters.
India’s federal health ministry has sent a letter, dated June 24, to chief secretaries of all states, saying they should not partner with FSFW and also advise other departments and institutions in their region accordingly.
The ministry said Philip Morris was funding FSFW as well as manufacturing and promoting harm-reduction smoking devices. Reuters has previously reported Philip Morris has plans to launch its iQOS smoking device in India which it says is less harmful than conventional cigarettes.
“Any collaboration with the Foundation for a Smoke Free World should be avoided in the larger interest of Public Health,” senior health ministry official, Sanjeeva Kumar, wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by Reuters.
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The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, which is led by former WHO official Dr. Derek Yach, said it “operates with complete independence from Philip Morris” and was committed to full transparency about who its funders were.
Philip Morris, which has a stated longer-term vision to replace cigarette sales with products such as its iQOS device, in a statement said FSFW was “an independent body governed by its own independent Board of Directors”.
TOBACCO IN INDIA
In recent years, the Indian government has intensified its tobacco-control efforts, raising cigarette taxes and ordering companies to print bigger health warnings on cigarette packs.
India has 106 million adult smokers, second only to China, and more than 900,000 people die each year in India due to tobacco-related illnesses.
A federal health ministry official said on Sunday the letter on FSFW had been sent as a preventive measure to dissuade states from any collaboration with the foundation, and similar instructions were likely to be sent to other federal ministries.
The FSFW said there were no projects with any state government institutions in India. “We seek partnerships with all who share our goal to end smoking in the world,” a spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters.
In May, FSFW said its team was committed to working with others “to accelerate an end to smoking in this generation” in India. It also invited people to study its strategic plan.
That same month, Philip Morris in a press statement said it had urged the Indian government to create a regulatory environment for devices such as its iQOS.
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When the FSFW was launched in 2017, the WHO had said it will not partner with the foundation and asked governments around the world and public health communities to follow the agency’s lead.
(Story refiled to fix grammar in paragraph 4)
Reporting by Aditya Kalra; Editing by Martin Howell and David Evans
Reuters: Health News
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21 March 2007 Monte Carlo simulated coronary angiograms of realistic anatomy and pathology models
Iacovos S. Kyprianou, Andreu Badal, Aldo Badano, Diemphuc Banh, Melanie Freed, Kyle J. Myers, Laura Thompson
Iacovos S. Kyprianou,1 Andreu Badal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1655-4177,1 Aldo Badano,1 Diemphuc Banh,1 Melanie Freed,1 Kyle J. Myers,1 Laura Thompson1
1NIBIB/CDRH Lab. for the Assessment of Medical Imaging Systems (United States)
Proceedings Volume 6509, Medical Imaging 2007: Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures; 65090O (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709553
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States
We have constructed a fourth generation anthropomorphic phantom which, in addition to the realistic description of the human anatomy, includes a coronary artery disease model. A watertight version of the NURBS-based Cardiac-Torso (NCAT) phantom was generated by converting the individual NURBS surfaces of each organ into closed, manifold and non-self-intersecting tessellated surfaces. The resulting 330 surfaces of the phantom organs and tissues are now comprised of ~5×106 triangles whose size depends on the individual organ surface normals. A database of the elemental composition of each organ was generated, and material properties such as density and scattering cross-sections were defined using PENELOPE. A 300 μm resolution model of a heart with 55 coronary vessel segments was constructed by fitting smooth triangular meshes to a high resolution cardiac CT scan we have segmented, and was consequently registered inside the torso model. A coronary artery disease model that uses hemodynamic properties such as blood viscosity and resistivity was used to randomly place plaque within the artery tree. To generate x-ray images of the aforementioned phantom, our group has developed an efficient Monte Carlo radiation transport code based on the subroutine package PENELOPE, which employs an octree spatial data-structure that stores and traverses the phantom triangles. X-ray angiography images were generated under realistic imaging conditions (90 kVp, 10° Wanode spectra with 3 mm Al filtration, ~5×1011 x-ray source photons, and 10% per volume iodine contrast in the coronaries). The images will be used in an optimization algorithm to select the optimal technique parameters for a variety of imaging tasks.
Iacovos S. Kyprianou, Andreu Badal, Aldo Badano, Diemphuc Banh, Melanie Freed, Kyle J. Myers, and Laura Thompson "Monte Carlo simulated coronary angiograms of realistic anatomy and pathology models", Proc. SPIE 6509, Medical Imaging 2007: Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures, 65090O (21 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709553
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Iacovos S. Kyprianou, Andreu Badal, Aldo Badano, Diemphuc Banh, Melanie Freed, Kyle J. Myers, Laura Thompson, "Monte Carlo simulated coronary angiograms of realistic anatomy and pathology models," Proc. SPIE 6509, Medical Imaging 2007: Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures, 65090O (21 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.709553
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Cure for diabetes? University of Alberta researchers believe they've found one
Jay Rosove CTV News Edmonton
Published Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:47PM MST
EDMONTON -- Scientists at the University of Alberta say they may have discovered a cure for diabetes.
So far, the research team has been able to cure diabetes in mice using a new stem cell process, and is hopeful that process will translate to humans.
The lead researcher on the project, Dr. James Shapiro, told CTV News Edmonton that his team at the U of A was able to collaborate with experts from around the world to turn a patient's own blood into insulin-producing islet cells.
"So now we're at the point where we can reliably manufacture insulin producing cells from patients' blood who have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes and we have been doing this now for the last several months in the lab," he said. "Putting these cells into diabetic mice and reversing diabetes to the point where essentially their diabetes is cured."
Twenty years ago, the same Dr. Shapiro made medical history with the "Edmonton Protocol," a procedure that gives patients new insulin-producing cells, thanks to islet transplants from organ donors.
That procedure, though, necessitates the use of powerful anti-rejection medications which carry significant side effects.
Dr. Shapiro says this new stem cell process would eliminate that problem.
"If they're their own cells, patients won't reject them," he said.
According to Dr. Shapiro, more testing will be needed before his team can move its trials from animals to people.
"There needs to be preliminary data and ideally a handful of patients that would demonstrate to the world that this is possible and that it's safe and effective."
More money is also needed in order to purchase equipment for the research, he said.
The lead researcher says lack of funding is a major research hurdle.
That's why a small group of volunteers is aiming to raise $22 million by 2022 to fund further research with Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Canada.
Dr. Shapiro hopes the financial help will allow him to prove to government that the science works.
According to the World Health Organization, there are roughly 422 million people living with diabetes globally, with 1.6 million deaths directly attributed to diabetes each year.
With files from CTV News Edmonton's Carmen Leibel
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Kentucky Reclamation Guaranty Fund
In late 2010, the Kentucky Department for Natural Resources (DNR) and the Lexington Field Office of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining (OSM) completed a joint special study on reclamation bonding for coal mining operations in Kentucky. In January 2011, OSM determined that the Kentucky regulatory program contained several reclamation bonding deficiencies.
On May 1, 2012, OSM issued a letter to the department for Part 733 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA), requiring the implementation of program changes to resolve the issues. Prominent among those changes was the promulgation of House Bill 66, now codified as KRS 350.500 through 350.521. Enacted March 22, 2013, this legislation established the Kentucky Reclamation Guaranty Fund (fund), the Fund Commission and the Office of the Reclamation Guaranty Fund (ORGF), to support the commission and administer its affairs.
The fund is a revolving, interest-bearing account that will provide financial assistance to the cabinet in the event the permit-specific reclamation bond is insufficient to complete reclamation on a mine site. Participation in the fund is mandatory, unless permittees elect to provide a full-cost bond in accordance with specific calculation methods.
The fund received initial capitalization from the assets of the former voluntary Kentucky Bond Pool, which was abolished by the above legislation. Additional initial capitalization resulted from a start-up assessment and a one-time acreage fee. Subsequent additional revenue is generated from tonnage and acreage fees paid annually, depending on the operational status of each permit.
Office Responsibilities and ContactsKRGF Commission MembersKRGF Statutes & RegulationsNotification of Permit Activity Form
300 Sower Blvd., 2nd Floor
Online Portal Link
https://dep.gateway.ky.gov/KRGFPortal/
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The Fletcher Trust Collection
The Colonial
The first public viewing of a collection of nineteenth century watercolours started in 1962
Curator’s Statement
This exhibition is the first public viewing of a collection of nineteenth century watercolours started in 1962 when Sir James Fletcher and George Fraser purchased four works by J.B.C. Hoyte. Two of these are exhibited here, Coromandel and Coromandel Hotel. The Fletcher Collection, as it was soon known, consisted largely of historic paintings until 1977 when it was decided that, due to the growing interest shown by Fletcher staff, work by contemporary artists should also be added.
Under this expanded collecting policy major paintings by Colin McCahon, Gordon Walters and Don Binney were among the first to be purchased. This policy has not changed to the present time. Despite expansion the collection, later known as the Fletcher Challenge Art Collection, never lost sight of its origins and continued to acquire historic New Zealand oil paintings, watercolours and lithographs. A number of the works in this exhibition, Allom’s rare Mt Egmont, Hoyte’s The Golden Crown and Igglesden’s Captain Sharpe’s Residence were purchased in 2001.
The Fletcher Trust Art Collection now represents one of the largest and most complete collections of New Zealand art held outside a public gallery. It can no longer be surprising that an exhibition of such obviously beautiful paintings should also be controversial. In today’s climate the word colonial has negative connotations, associated as it is with suppression of indigenous culture, alienation of land and loss of sovereignty.
Viewed from this position, these paintings represent an imposed view, albeit in most cases presented with immense skill. None of the artists whose work is included was born here; all were colonials, fondly looking back to their countries of origin and putting (in Francis Pound’s indispensable phrase) frames on the land reflecting their artistic training in schools far distant from Aotearoa/New Zealand.
HOYTE, John Barr Clark;
Tauranga Hotel, Coromandel
c.1868, 290 x 440mm, Watercolour on paper
HEAPHY, Charles;
Whangaroa Harbour
MERRETT, Joseph Jenner;
Nagel’s Cove
1849, 165 x 250mm, Watercolour on paper
ALLOM, Thomas;
Mount Taranaki from the North Shore of Cook Strait, New Zealand
IGGLESDEN, Charles;
Captain Sharpe’s Residence
O'BRIEN, George;
Woodhaugh, Near Dunedin
Auckland, The North Head from Cheltenham Beach
The earliest paintings in the exhibition, Heaphy’s Whangaroa Harbour and Merrett’s Nagel’s Cove, Great Barrier, New Zealand record the familiar scene of arrival: a beach, some Māori and Pakeha figures, a small European boat, a raupo whare, the frame of what will be a cottage in the European style. In Francis Dillon Bell’s New Zealand Bush the group of three Māori positioned on a rock beside a waterfall are passive bystanders in a painting whose subject is the accurate depiction of native foliage. George O’Brien’s Woodhaugh, near Dunedin 1865 is observed with the sharp eye of a surveyor/draughtsman; in his precise topographical manner he records the tidy division of land, the growth of breweries and in the middle ground a European family come to look at its small flock of emus.
In both paintings, it is with a stranger’s eye that the artist views his subject: one dramatically but precisely recording unusual flora, the other showing a growing townscape in which the process of orderly settlement is proceeding. O’Brien’s The North Head from Cheltenham Beach is a later work, produced after it was clear in the 1880s that tastes had changed and the romantic sublime manner of John Gully and William Mathew Hodgkins of the Otago Art Society was now preferred to the topographical subjects favoured by Hoyte and O’Brien.
Gully’s Mitre Peak is a magnificent example of his romantic sublime manner, reflecting his English background and training. The Bealey Valley, an unusually large work in this artist’s output, is noteworthy for the added interest provided by a coach and horses shown in the foreground. Even here amid Gully’s mountain glory, the process of colonisation is felt. Then there is the little 1844 picture by John Gifford of his six year old son John holding a small axe, standing beside a tree stump with a mountainous landscape as background. Here the juxtaposition of childhood innocence and two blatant symbols of colonisation is given added poignancy by the fact that three years later the child’s mother and three sisters were to be murdered by Māori at their farm settlement at Mataraua, near Petre (Wanganui) after which Gilfillan gave up the disputed property and moved to Sydney.
BELL, Francis Dillon;
New Zealand Bush
SHARPE, Alfred;
The Garden Front, Sir George Grey’s Mansion, Kawau
GULLY, John;
Mitre Peak
GILFILLAN, John Alexander;
Portrait of the Artist’s Son, John Gordon Gilfillan
Sunset on the Puhoi River, Wenderholm
AUBREY, Christopher;
Wellington from Kelburn
The Bealey Valley
1879, 600 x 1226mm, Watercolour on paper
Maybe there is less innocence in Robert Atkinson’s portrait of another six year old, Te Uira Te Heuheu, painted inside a whare at Tokaanu in 1889. The daughter of Te Heuheu Tukino V of Ngati Tuwharetoa, Te Uira was destined to a life of political activism, living for many years in Wellington or at Waahi marae near Huntly where she was a devoted supporter of the Kingitanga, a repository of much ancient Māori knowledge and an accomplished musician and artist. This painting was sent by Atkinson to the Royal Academy where it was exhibited for sale in 1891. In 1986 it surfaced again in an auction catalogue and was repatriated.
Von Tempsky’s rare Encampment of the Forest Rangers tells yet another colonial story; one of disaster, despite the relaxed stage set depicted. It records an event following the devastation in 1865 by Imperial troops of the South Taranaki territory belonging to tribes loyal to Te Ua Huamene who opposed the alienation of Māori land by confiscation. The watercolour records a single incident in what should have been a trouble-free sixty-mile march from South Taranaki back to a triumphal entry into New Plymouth. The force was hampered by ceaseless rain and ran out of supplies resulting in the eating of pack horses and the necessity of a supply party being sent from North Taranaki.
It is likely that von Tempsky made this painting in 1866 by which time his military career was in temporary recess and he was in financial difficulties. He gifted it to Surgeon-General William Manley with whom he has shown himself, dressed in typical swashbuckling style, in conversation on the left of the painting. Von Tempsky’s unashamedly propagandistic painting of a military embarrassment is but one example of the way in which colonial artists fashioned a view not only of the landscape, making it seem attractively exotic to colonists, but also of political events. Of course the intention behind such a work as J.C. Richmond’s alpine landscape is more obviously painterly than political, though undeniably the two are linked, in hindsight. The appropriation of the landscape by these artists is one small aspect of the social and political revolution that occurred in New Zealand during the early period of colonisation.
— Peter Shaw, Curator
ATKINSON, Robert;
Portrait of Te Uira Te Heuheu
SMITH, William Mein;
Woburn Farm, River Hutt
ANGAS, George French;
E Rangi and E Tohi, Girls of Port Nicholson, with Kiko, an Old Woman of Tiakiwai
VON TEMPSKY, Gustavus Ferdinand;
Encampment of the Forest Rangers
The Fletcher Trust Collection is one of the largest curated private collections of Aotearoa New Zealand art. The Trust makes works available to the public online as well as via exhibitions initiated by public art institutions and by the Trust itself.
The Fletcher Trust
Private Bag 92114
curator@fletchertrust.co.nz
Fletcher Archives
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Rotaviral Gastroenteritis
Rotavirus Diarrhea
Rotaviruses are the most common cause of diarrhea in very young calves. Bovine rotavirus belongs to the family Reoviridae. The virus is present in most cattle herds and typically causes diarrhea in calves between 4 to 14 days old, sometimes up to 3 weeks of age.
These viruses are present in the environment and nearly all cattle have come into contact with them; most adult animals have antibodies and are immune to the effects, whereas baby calve with no immunities are very susceptible.
The intestinal tract is the site of multiplication, and these viruses are excreted only in feces. The feces of infected calves contain large numbers of rotavirus and quickly contaminate the environment, to be picked up by susceptible calves.
Clinical disease in calves older than one month is rare. However, periodic re-infection (without signs of disease) and virus shedding occurs in older cows and calves.
The diarrhea usually lasts 4 to 8 days. During this time calves can become dehydrated and pick up secondary infections and these combinations can sometimes be fatal without treatment.
Sudden onset of profuse liquid diarrhea—often pale yellow and containing mucous and flecks of blood
Sometimes off feed
Rotavirus was first identified in the U.S in 1969 and thought to be the cause of outbreaks of diarrhea in beef calves in Nebraska. Since then, this virus has been found in calves with diarrhea in many countries, and is the most common viral cause of diarrhea in calves and lambs worldwide.
Groups A and B rotavirus are involved, but group A is most prevalent and clinically important and contains several serotypes of differing virulence.
The factors that influence rotavirus infection and severity include the age of the calf, immune status of the dam, how much antibody was obtained via colostrum, ambient temperature (weather stress), level of exposure to the virus, presence of other pathogens (rotavirus infections are often accompanied by coronavirus and E. coli in calves over 4 days of age), and level of stress.
Mortality rates are highest in the youngest animals that received insufficient colostrum and are subjected to severe weather stress.
Healthy adult cattle may be carriers and periodically excrete the virus in feces. Excretion may increase around the time of calving and be more frequent in first-calf heifers. This can lead to contaminated calving areas and infection of the udder and perineum of the dam.
Other sources of infection include feces of healthy calves and especially feces of diarrheic calves, which contain large numbers of the virus early in the course of infection. A few scouring calves in the herd can result in severe contamination of the area. Transmission is primarily by fecal-oral contact,
Incubation period (from ingestion of the pathogen until breaking with diarrhea) is 10 to 24 hours. Levels of antibodies in colostrum are lower in first-calf heifers, and their calves are at risk for higher incidence of disease and higher rates of mortality.
Rotavirus replicates in the absorptive and enzyme-producing enterocytes (absorptive cells that line the intestine) on the villi of the small intestine, leading to rupture and sloughing of those cells, with release of more virus to infect adjacent cells. With virulent strains of rotavirus, the loss of enterocytes exceeds the ability of the intestinal surface to replace them; thus there is a decrease in intestinal absorptive surface area and intestinal digestive enzyme activity.
Viruses usually produce diarrhea by destroying these absorptive cells of the mucosal lining, as well as causing inflammation. Unable to absorb fluids and nutrients (with everything passing on through the tract) the calf soon becomes weak and dehydrated.
Diarrhea due to rotavirus, coronavirus, and other viruses usually is seen in calves 5–15 days old but can affect calves up to several months of age. Affected calves are only moderately depressed and may continue to suck or drink milk, but remain dehydrated.
The feces are voluminous, soft to liquid, and often contain large amounts of mucus. Diarrhea commonly persists for at least 3 days and often longer. Cases of viral diarrhea that are uncomplicated by other pathogens commonly respond within a few days to fluid and electrolyte therapy and adequate nutritional support.
These viruses are resistant to commonly used disinfectants so it is difficult to prevent contamination of barns, calf shelters, etc. once these pathogens have been introduced. However, it is still very important to try to keep calves’ environment clean, and isolate any calves with diarrhea from the rest of the group. All young calves under 3 weeks of age are highly susceptible to infection.
Early immunity in new-born calves depends almost entirely on their obtaining antibodies via colostrum. The transfer of antibodies via colostrum is the single most important form of protection of the new-born calf.
Ensuring that calves receive sufficient colostrum (at least two quarts within the first six hours) is vital in the control of calf diarrhea, and continued consumption of colostrum through the first day or two of life is helpful since the antibodies are protective within the gut after the calf can no longer absorb antibodies directly into the bloodstream.
However, this protection lasts for only three to four days, so it generally only reduces rather than eliminates rotavirus diarrhea. This explains why rotavirus infection generally occurs after about 5 to 7 days of age (and even earlier in calves that did not receive colostrum). Continued colostrum feeding can extend this period and reduce the risk.
Vaccines are available for pre-calving administration to the dam to increase the amount of rotavirus antibodies in colostrum. Levels of antibodies in the colostrum often can be high enough to result in a protection period of about 7 days if the calf ingests colostrum within 12 hours of birth.
For farms with a severe rotavirus problem, continued feeding of colostrum from vaccinated dams can extend this period still further. Oral vaccines given to calves immediately birth have been used, but have not proven to be highly effective.
Because of the complex nature of diarrhea in very young calves, it is unrealistic to expect total prevention. The incidence of clinical disease and fatality rate depend on the balance between levels of exposure to infectious agents and resistance in the calf.
Degree of exposure can be reduced by isolating sick animals or by moving calving and calf rearing to a separate area, and by practicing good general hygiene.
Nonspecific resistance should be maximized by providing good nutrition to the dam and assuring that newborn calves consume adequate amounts of high-quality colostrum, preferably within 2 hours and definitely within 6 hours of birth, followed by equivalent amounts at 12-hour intervals for the next 48 hours.
Specific resistance of the newborn can be increased by vaccinating the dam or the newborn.
Some calves do not obtain adequate amounts of antibodies because of delayed sucking or feeding, ingestion of an inadequate volume of colostrum, or ingestion of colostrum of inferior immunoglobulin concentration. In calves that are unable to suckle on their own, administration of 2 to 4 quarts of colostrum by esophageal feeder within the first 2 hours of life can be very helpful.
In a scouring calf, therapy can and should be started even before a diagnosis (regarding the actual pathogen) has been established. Treatment includes fluid therapy (water and electrolyte replacement) and correction of acid-base disturbances, plus antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory therapy.
Fluid and electrolyte therapy is most important and should be started as soon as possible regardless of whether there is evidence of dehydration; clinical signs of dehydration are not apparent until the calf has lost at least 6% of its body weight in fluid.
Calves that are still able to stand and willing and able to suck can usually be treated with oral electrolyte solutions alone. Fluids for oral rehydration should include glucose and amino acids to promote transport of sodium, and should contain sodium, glucose, glycine or alanine, potassium, and either bicarbonate or citrate or acetate as alkalinizing agents.
Several commercial preparations are available. These can be administered by nipple bottle or, if necessary, by stomach tube. These solutions should be administered several times a day until the animal is rehydrated.
In the past, many veterinarians recommended withholding milk from scouring calves, thinking milk would aggravate the diarrhea, but young calves have no energy reserves and have large requirements for energy—and milk provides energy to the calf.
Electrolyte solutions by themselves do not meet calf energy requirements, and milk should not be withheld. The only caution is that milk should not be given at the same time as an electrolyte solution containing bicarbonate since it will interfere with curd formation.
If feeding milk to a calf with diarrhea, wait 2 to 3 hours before giving electrolyte fluid containing bicarbonate.
Calves that are recumbent, weak (unable to stand, unable to suckle), and show evidence of dehydration greater than 8% of their body weight will need IV fluids. These calves are unable to absorb oral fluids and are usually acidotic.
The fluid and base deficits can be corrected initially by rapidly administering a hypertonic solution of sodium bicarbonate (either 500 mL of a 4.2% solution, or 250 mL of an 8.4% solution), followed by a balanced electrolyte solution administered at up to 40 mL per kg of body weight per hour until the fluid deficit is corrected.
Because diarrheic calves are frequently hypoglycemic, adding dextrose to the electrolyte solution is often beneficial in the initial treatment. Oral electrolyte solutions should be used concurrently with and after IV fluid therapy to compensate for ongoing fluid and electrolyte losses.
Although mild diarrhea without systemic disease will not require antimicrobial therapy, use of antibiotics should be considered whenever calves are systemically ill or recumbent to combat possible secondary bacterial infection.
Field studies have shown that at least 30% of diarrheic calves with systemic disease are bacteremic (bacteria in the bloodstream). Because most cases of bacteremia and septicemia in young calves are associated with E. coli, the antibiotic selected should be one that is effective against gram-negative bacteria.
In several studies, severely affected diarrheic calves treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications in conjunction with fluid therapy showed fewer signs of pain, made faster recovery, and had better weight gains after recovery. These medications help reduce pain, fever and inflammation, and the calves feel better, eat better, and bounce back faster.
The use of drugs such as hyoscine-N-butylbromide or atropine to reduce intestinal motility is sometimes advocated in severe cases of diarrhea, because they decrease fecal output.
There is no research evidence, however, to show if they help or hinder; the veterinary literature does not provide any strong supportive evidence for or against the use of anti-motility drugs.
Intestinal gels and adsorbents, such as kaolin and pectin, are often used, but their only established effect is to increase fecal consistency; they do not reduce the loss of water and ions—but they may soothe the irritated gut.
Oral electrolyte fluids are the most important treatment as long as the calf is still able to absorb them (and is not recumbent). They prevent dehydration, correct acidosis, and replace lost salts. The best electrolytes are far more than just a salt and glucose solution. Ask your veterinarian for advice regarding which oral product to use.
The use of antibiotics to treat calf diarrhea is controversial, particularly if rotavirus is the only cause. Antibiotics will not kill the virus, but can reduce secondary bacterial infection.
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Andy Pag, who founded Mt. Gox Legal, has resigned his position as leader of the group, which represents the majority of the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange’s creditors (users who still had funds on the platform at the time of its implosion.) While some reports have said that users could get paid as early as this year, Pag believes that the over-sized claim of startup incubator and one-time Mt. Gox partner CoinLab will slow the process to a crawl.
CoinLab’s $16 Billion Claim Slows Civil Rehabilitation Process
Mt. Gox victims may not see their lost crypto funds for years. | Source: Shutterstock
It could be years before creditors ever see any money. The cryptocurrency available to disperse was already partially liquidated, but the crypto exchange still holds thousands of BTC, Bitcoin Cash, and Bitcoin SV, all of which amount to a substantial sum.
CoinLab has filed a $16 billion claim on the Mt. Gox estate, claiming that it deserves to be made whole as part of a profit-sharing agreement. $16 billion far outsizes the amount that existed in the failed exchange’s coffers at the time of its failure. Brock Pierce, who argues a rightful claim to Mt. Gox’s assets, has estimated the exchange’s assets at present to be around $1 billion. CoinLab’s $16 billion claim is interesting because they had previously only demanded $75 million – the amount of a lawsuit filed against Mt. Gox in 2013 alleging that the exchange had not lived up to its end of a partnership.
The CoinLab claim introduces kinks to the process of getting creditors paid due to the voting rights aspect of civil rehabilitation. CoinLab would effectively have more voting rights than anyone else if its claim were approved, but its request has not received approval. The Mt. Gox trustee rejected the application as soon as it was received, but CoinLab is fighting that. Creditors on Reddit are furious about the matter.
Last June, when Mt. Gox re-entered civil rehabilitation, many believed payments would be disbursed – in cryptocurrency or some combination of crypto and fiat – by the end of 2019. It now looks like years will add on to the process, and many place blame squarely at the feet of CoinLab.
Andy Pag Dumps Bitcoin Claim at Massive Discount
Mark Karpeles was recently exonerated of most criminal charges related to the failure of Mt. Gox, and he seeks to have his singular conviction overturned. | Source: Quentin TYBERGHIEN / AFP
According to Pag, everyone else who had a claim during the bankruptcy segment of the Mt. Gox saga simply refiled that claim when it re-entered civil rehabilitation. Essentially, all that needs to happen is all legitimate creditors need to receive approval and then the court needs to approve – along with all verified creditors – the plan to pay everyone.
Pag told CoinDesk that Mt. Gox is not even actually in civil rehabilitation until the creditors approve a plan.
“We’ve started that process but it’s not finished and it’s not confirmed, it’s not confirmed that we’re in civil rehabilitation until the creditors vote on a civil rehabilitation plan.”
Mark Karpeles thinks that CoinLab’s tactics will be swiftly dealt with by the Tokyo District Court. He also says that – despite CoinLab’s claims to the contrary – CoinLab never really did anything for Mt. Gox. CoinLab argues that courts would have dismissed the original lawsuit if it were entirely invalid.
“Courts are likely to consider CoinLab’s case with some matter of urgency today and will likely try to get things handled quickly, but CoinLab has likely no interest of bringing a losing battle to its conclusion, and will likely try to extend the process as much as possible.”
Andy Pag is selling his claim in the Mt. Gox affair, ridding himself of the headache at a mere $600 per BTC held on the exchange. He posted a letter to a private forum that elucidated his reasoning for doing so.
Pag Recuses Himself After Deciding to Sell His Bitcoin Claim
Pag believes that selling his Bitcoin claim disqualifies him from running a large victims group. Mt. Gox Legal represents about 1,000 claimants and about 15% of all the BTC available to creditors. Pag writes in his private forum post:
“Without owning a claim, I don’t think I’d carry support to run the group.”
Some have expressed discontent with Mt. Gox Legal, which is funded with donations from creditors.
“[T]hey didn’t [achieve] anything but spend 200k, half from that went to Andy and his [sockpuppets].”
Perhaps the most notable takeaway from Pag’s resignation is his confidence that the process of repatriating funds will go on much longer than recently expected. Pag also says “Mark is plotting again.”
He elucidates that Karpeles wants to get Tibanne, his company which parented Mt. Gox, out of bankruptcy to fight CoinLab.
“What really pisses me off about this is that after all the scheming and conniving he did in 2011-2014 which led to this mess, he’s straight at it again, trying to co-opt conspirators to rob Peter to pay Paul. I don’t think he’s malevolent, but I got a glimpse at our meeting of someone who is ruthless, and I suspect is only interested in helping creditors if it helps himself.”
For his part, Karpeles was recently exonerated of most charges related to the failure of Mt. Gox and seeks to have his singular conviction overturned.
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It takes a lot of courage to talk about the things that we are going through, but when you are a celebrity, I can only imagine that it’s harder. The world is sitting by, waiting to judge everything about you and make comments about everything.
But some appreciate that when a celebrity talks about something personal that they are going through, because it can make people feel less alone.
Outerbanks star, Madelyn Cline spoke with Women’s Health magazine and spoke about her eating disorder, which started due to body issues that she had as a teenager.
“I think I was around 16 when I started working out a lot,” she told the magazine. “I would wake up every morning at 5 a.m. and I would work out for 30 minutes. It was super rigorous cardio every day.”
And though she was working out religiously, she did not achieve the body that she wanted, and that sent her into a spiral which involved her cutting calories from her diet.
“It would be the kind of thing where I would eat six almonds for breakfast, because I didn’t want to counteract the cardio I just did,” Madelyn added. “It turned into not feeding myself protein and not feeding my body what it needed when I was working out so much.”
But she did get help and is in recovery and credits her Mom with giving her the support that she needs.
“My mom was a wonderful help in that. She would stand there in the mirror with me and we would list out things that I liked about my body,” Madelyn said. “After that repetition those things became solidified in my mind. I like my curves, I like my hips, and after a while I started to love my body. I became so much happier.”
I love that she had her Mama’s support. So important to have people that you can count on and a support system who is there for you.
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MAD, a world of fashion
Patricia Munster 4:00:00 AM A world of fashion, documentary, fashion illustration, MAD, Maddalena Sisto
Yesterday I had the pleasure to see a documentary on Maddalena Sisto, an architect, journalist, eclectic artist, and best known as fashion illustrator MAD, starting at the end of the sixties.
The documentary is about Milano and Italian fashion seen through the eyes of MAD.
People like VOGUE editor Franca Sozzani and fashion designers as Elio Fiorucci and Ottavio and Rosita Missoni are looking with respect and affection back to MAD and her work literally comes to life thanks to her drawings were animated specially for the documentary.
Italian fashion. Practically synonymous with creativity and style. Armani, Ferrè, Fiorucci, Missoni, Gucci, Versace, Prada and the rest all come from the same place and flourished in a few decades. Before that Milano was just a town of textile industries and needle-workers.
All starts at the end of the sixties. Italian tailors take advantage of the 1968 youth protest movements, and give form and shape to women's dreams. Fashion goes from Haute Couture to Prêt-à-Porter, hand in hand with the women's fight for equal rights. The revolution in fashion rapidly evolves following social trends which see women getting into power roles (and dresses) and young and talented tailors becoming famous.
Then branding explodes and Milano becomes the world’s fashion centre.
Maddalena Sisto, MAD for the readers of Vogue, Elle Germany, The New Yorker and the Corriere della Sera, witnessed it all and put it into extraordinary drawings and sketches. She recorded every trend suggested by the Milan stylists and chronicled how fashion developed and influenced the life of Italian women. To such an extent that her 'signorine' represent the desires, fears and imagination of women today.
She left us over 12.000 drawings together with her personal diaries and the video's of her work in the fashion field. Everything neatly and persistently collected by her husband.
A WORLD OF FASHION tells the story of Italian fashion through MAD's drawings, specifically animated for the film, and through the fashion designers that loved her work and the way she was able to predict where their own work was heading to.
Welcome to the liberated, sensual and glamorous world of MAD!
(with dutch subtitles and mainly Italian speaking)
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Director: Anna Di Francisca and Zoltan Horvat
A Stefilm production in co-production with Nadasdy Film
In collaboration with Mosaique Film With the support of AVRO, SVS, YLE, TSR MEDIA Programme, Piemonte Doc Film Fund.
About Maddalena Sisto
Maddalena Sisto was born in Alessandria in 1951. After completing secondary school, she moved to Milan, where (with articles and drawings) she devoted herself to fashion, custom, design and trends within the Condè Nast Group (Vogue). She contributed to Panorama. She took a degree in Architecture at Milan Polytechnic. She designed a collection of sculpture-teapots in the shape of women’s heads. She published drawings and wrote articles for Glamour, Casa Vogue, Elle Germania, Marie Claire. She had a page of her own on Elle Decor and on Sette, a Corriere della Sera magazine. She contributed to German, American and Spanish magazines. She engineered advertising campaigns in Germany (Scholz & Friends in Hamburg) and Italy (JWT, TBWA). Notice how Mad creates out of women’s figures (her favourite subject) the genial “signorine” [young ladies]; delicate and eccentric second selves, extravagant icons that have left their mark on the history of fashion and communication. Fitted in improbable landscapes or related to current works of design, they “wear” fashion, with which they constantly have a difficult relation. They move lightly and naturally, like bosom friends; they make people think and (what is just as important) they make people laugh. Mad, who was a journalist, an architect, a designer, an illustrator and a refined artist, passed away in Milan in July 2000.
See more of her fashion illustrations here.
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Commission sets out path towards ‘fair taxation’ of the ‘digital economy’
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The European Commission has announced that it is launching a new EU agenda to ensure that the ‘digital economy’ is taxed in a fair and growth-friendly way. The concerns that they are seeking to address result from a tax framework that has struggled to keep pace with modern realities. The right of a jurisdiction to tax profits has traditionally relied on a taxpayer having physical presence in that jurisdiction. The nebulous nature of the ‘digital economy’ however, has a borderless character that creates complexity for taxing jurisdictions and opportunities for companies to minimise physical presence (and therefore its tax base) in a country whilst continuing to do business there. According to the Commission, the effective tax rate of digital companies in the EU is estimated to be half that of traditional companies – and often much less.
The Commission has said that in the absence of adequate global progress, the EU should implement its own solutions to taxing the profits of digital companies. Their preferred approach for doing so is to include the ‘digital economy’ within the proposals of the ‘Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base’ (CCCTB) – a long-term strategy currently being discussed by member states which could see the introduction of a wholly new definition of ‘permanent establishment’, the threshold for determining whether an enterprise of one country can be subjected to tax by another country on its business activities there. Multinational businesses will be concerned that any move towards a concept of ‘virtual permanent establishment’ not requiring physical presence could trigger tax obligations in multiple countries leading to unmanageable compliance obligations, double taxation and increased costs. Other short term measures being considered include ‘targeted turnover tax’ and withholding taxes on digital transactions.
The Commission have an ambitious timescale with conclusions for the initiative hoped for by the end of the year. These conclusions will form the EU’s contribution to international discussions on digital taxation, and lay the basis for future work in the single market.
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HUMBIO 3B: Behavior, Health, and Development
Research and theory on human behavior, health, and life span development. How biological factors and cultural practices influence cognition, emotion, motivation, personality, and health in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. HUMBIO 3B, with HUMBIO2B and HUMBIO 4B, satisfies the Writing in the Major (WIM) requirement for students in Human Biology. HUMBIO 3A and HUMBIO 3B are designed to be taken concurrently and exams for both sides may include material from joint module lectures. Concurrent enrollment is strongly encouraged and is necessary for majors in order to meet declaration deadlines. Please note Human Biology majors are required to take the Human Biology Core Courses for a letter grade.
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HUMBIO 29G: Gender and Intersectionality in Global Health
Intersectional thinking is increasingly being applied to global health and other academic disciplines as a framework for understanding complex, and often seemingly intractable, challenges to health and well-being. This course explores how gender (e.g. male, female, trans*, non-binary, etc) identity and relationships intersect with other social categorizations, including age and reproductive status (particularly for women), race/ethnicity, socioeconomic class, immigration status, educational attainment, to create systemic advantages or disadvantages that may explain and/or could address poor health outcomes within and across global communities. More specifically, we will focus on intersectional and biological frameworks in the context of cultural gender norms, to explore possible reasons for differences in incidence and prevalence of a wide range of health disparities worldwide. We will also use these frameworks to explore options for health improvement, in terms of both prevention and care/treatment.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Sarnquist, C. (PI) ; Stefanick, M. (SI)
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04/01/2019 - 06/05/2019 Mon, Wed 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 200-305 with Sarnquist, C. (PI); Stefanick, M. (SI)
Instructors: Sarnquist, C. (PI); Stefanick, M. (SI)
HUMBIO 65: Biosocial Medicine: The Social, Psychological, and Biological Determinants of Behavior and Wellbeing (EDUC 205, SOMGEN 215)
Explores how social forces, psychological influences, and biological systems combine to affect human behavior in early childhood, in the educational experience, and throughout the life course. Examines how behaviors are linked to well-being. Uses a flipped classroom model, in which a series of lectures are available for students to view on-line before class. In-class time then focuses on case studies from published research. For Ways credit eligibility, students must enroll in HUMBIO 65 for a letter grade.
Instructors: Barr, D. (PI)
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HUMBIO 79Q: Sexuality and Society
This course will explore how sexual identity, attitudes, and behaviors are shaped by the messages sent by the various agents of society such as schools, family, peers, media, and religious, medical, and political institutions. The interaction of biology, psychology, and socio-cultural factors, such as gender roles and sexual/relationship scripts will be discussed, as will the intersection of sexuality and notions of love, romance, and commitment. Critical developmental periods, such as adolescence and emerging adulthood will be examined in depth. Students will explore their own values and feelings about sexuality and come to an understanding of how their beliefs were formed. We will discuss how information about sexuality is disseminated in our society and what we can do to help ensure that such information is used in a way that promotes healthy self-conceptions, behavior, and relationships.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-SI
Instructors: Medoff, L. (PI)
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HUMBIO 82A: Qualitative Research Methodology
Goal is to develop knowledge and skills for designing and conducting qualitative research studies including purposes, conceptual contexts, research questions, methods, validity issues, and interactions among these facets. Each student designs a qualitative research study.
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Notes: Priority will be given to Human Biology majors planning a research project, such as Honors or a similar capstone project. All students must attend the first meeting of the class.
HUMBIO 82B: Advanced Data Analysis in Qualitative Research
For students writing up their own qualitative research. Students prepare a complete draft presenting their own qualitative research study including results, with reports drafted section by section, week by week. Class provides feedback, guidance, support.
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HUMBIO 118: Theory of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (ANTHRO 90C)
Dynamics of culturally inherited human behavior and its relationship to social and physical environments. Topics include a history of ecological approaches in anthropology, subsistence ecology, sharing, risk management, territoriality, warfare, and resource conservation and management. Case studies from Australia, Melanesia, Africa, and S. America.
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HUMBIO 120: Health Care in America: An Introduction to U.S. Health Policy
Health policy and health care delivery from a historical and a current policy perspective. Introduces cost, quality, and access as measures of health system performance. Considers institutional aspects of health care reform. Upper division course with preference given to upperclassmen.
Instructors: Barr, D. (PI) ; McNulty, J. (TA) ; Rodriguez Osorio, A. (TA)
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HUMBIO 120A: American Health Policy
Issues in health care reform and the policy making process, the evolution of current systems, and theories underlying efforts for change. The national search for solutions to the problems of the uninsured, and the feasibility, options, and ramifications of alternative proposals for health care reform. Student presentations. Prerequisite: Human Biology 4B or equivalent, Human Biology 120, or consent of instructor.
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HUMBIO 122: Beyond Health Care: the effects of social policies on health (PEDS 222)
Available evidence at the national and cross-country level linking social welfare interventions and health outcomes. If and how non-health programs and policies could have an impact on positive health outcomes. Evaluation of social programs and policies that buffer the negative health impact of economic instability and unemployment among adult workers and their children. Examination of safety nets, including public health insurance, income maintenance programs, and disability insurance. Prerequisites: HumBio 4B or equivalent, and some background in research methods and statistics, or Instructor permission.
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Pre-orders for Angels of Death on Nintendo Switch Now Available
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Angels of Death, a hit game and a manga series, is set to be a part of the Nintendo Switch game library pretty soon. The title is set to get people off their seats with its horrific genre.
Developed by Makoto Sanada, the creator of horror game “Forest of Drizzling Rain”, Angels of Death is a psycho horror adventure game based on the manga and game that existed before. The game is a project of PLAYISM, who published the game as well. They teased the trailer for the game on June 14th, 2018 which can be seen below
It is a 4 part-er game which has 4 episodes, or levels in it. The story goes something like, Ray, the main character wakes up to be in a concrete room with no memory of being or getting there. She crosses paths with a person named Zack whose face seems to be bandaged, as viewed in the trailer. Together the two, trapped in a building, work together to find a way out of it, going through a series of obstacles in their to complete their “promise”.
Features of the game include:
Consisting of 4 episodes, each containing an entertaining and dark story – A storytelling style that is designed full of 2D game technology.
A psycho horror with a crazy serial killer.
A variety of missions, including “shooting” and “escape” themes.
4 games – each an episode in the story – released in one package.
The game is available for pre-order now for $14.99 on Nintendo eShop, with a 10% discount. In the Europe Market, it will be available from 21st of June. The game is set to be available to all from 28th of June, 2018.
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ThisNameIsTooLo said: ↑
I would disagree. That confused me at first glance.
I'm mostly hoping that the royale will show off some proper AI tactical decision making. That is probably the hardest thing to get right, yet the easiest to observe and what will make the most impact in terms of feeling like the AI is competent. Empire building mistakes can be easily compensated by bonuses, war not so easily. You'll get unfairness feelings much quicker with combat bonuses than with production bonuses, because what happens in combat is just so much more visible. It's also almost certain to be impossible to mod tactical combat until we get access to the source code, while empire building related problems could potentially be fixed by the community and/or patches.
If the AI manages not to dance around, and we see it maneuver terrain (especially choke points) properly and if it manages to correctly position and use range units, then we can expect good things!
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Well, surely weighted decisions with priorities algorithm looks the best for most strategic decisions in civilization, but there are other simple AI algorithms like decision tree, which could be used for parts of the strategic AI. And I should say tactical AI is quite different beast.
I agree. It would seem that we will likely learn quite a bit about the AI's functionality from the royale on the 19th. Fingers crossed it won't be as bad as I currently believe it may be.
I have a feeling that most observers will see exactly what they want to from the AI only battle.
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True, but even if a decision tree like system is chosen over a purely weighted model, it is likely to still base the decisions of the tree on values that can be easily set in configuration files. The civ teams have released a lot of content outside of the main game, like little scenarios with their own tech trees, and they're not going to create entirely new AI systems based just on that. They need a system that can be configured easily to fit new tech trees, new government options, new buildings, etc. And likely this'll be possible for those who didn't actually write the AI, as they'll probably use different people. The AI core programmer is unlikely to be the one who ends up setting all of the config values for all the scenarios.
And considering both civ 5 and civ 4 have used these weighted models (I'm not sure about earlier installments), I think I feel pretty secure in saying that civ 6 and probably most future civ games will also use very similar systems.
Which would mean were probably stuck with AIs that have rather similar skills in terms of empire building as the ones we have now. Hopefully it'll be better tweaked, and hopefully some of the systems will be offloaded to more specific systems that can allow 'planning', but I'm not expecting too much. I fear that the AI will be rather weak when it comes to chasing eurekas and placing districts for example.
The tactical game is where were likely to see the biggest gains, this is the most visible aspect of AI, they had more complaints about it, and its probably the easiest part to make significant gains in.
True, but even if a decision tree like system is chosen over a purely weighted model, it is likely to still base the decisions of the tree on values that can be easily set in configuration files.
I didn't dive deep into the AI code for Civ5, but isn't weighted model lacks decent planning capabilities? The tactical AI surely uses some kind of "targets", do you know whether strategic AI has anything like this?
Do you mean strategic as in who to declare war on?
If so, the standard war declaration model uses a couple of weights too and isn't based on a plan like 'I want city x'
It's basically a mix of: 'what is my personality', 'how much do I like civ x', 'am I already at war with someone/planning a war', 'how close is civ x', 'what is my relative military strength compared to civ x', 'am I on the conquest grand strategy', 'do they have nukes', 'are they a reckless expander', 'what is the difficulty level (prince and above all have the same)'.
It loops through all of the civs, and for each combines these factors using weights and if that combination of those factors hits a certain threshold, the AI will go into a war planning phase towards the civ with the highest score. When it prepares it will do a 'call to arms' where it collects all units in a certain area, puts it in a formation, moves it over, then declares war when its close. You can see this in game sometimes as the 'sneak attack' spies tell you about. During the preparation phase, the AI can still change its mind, which is especially common with distant civs, hence the phantom sneak attacks.
War can also be declared by someone asking them to, which uses hardcoded weights rather than xml weights and a completely different method. Whether a player asks and/or accepts is determined by:
'Do I like the person asking', 'do I like the target', 'am I not already in or planning a war', 'whats my personality', 'am I on the conquest grand strategy', 'is the target a warmonger'
So significantly less factors.
And lol, it appears I just found a bug, because its written so that the AI will be less likely to ask for a joint war if trade is happening, but instead of checking this for the player it is targeting it checks for the player it is asking. So its less likely to ask if it is trading with whoever he would've wanted to ask. This actually doubles up in effectiveness too, because whether a civ accepts is also impacted by the same thing. I guess that explains why the civs that declare together seem so random and why it's almost always some random civ across the globe that bugs you about declaring war.
In these types of joint declarations, the AI also won't wait for the 'call to arms' before declaring. And might never end up sending any forces.
On top of these systems, there's an additional weight based system that checks whether they will offer or accept peace and at what cost. This again uses different weights, most of which can be set through xml.
Because you basically have 4 different systems which all work with different weights: do I declare war myself, shall I ask/accept to declare war together, shall I offer/accept peace, shall I launch an attack force; you sometimes get funny results like war declarations not being followed up by attacks, or civs that declare war and will then offer everything for peace asap (there's a fixed timer).
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Do you mean strategic as in who to declare war on?.
I was speaking about the whole strategic level - techs, policies, building things.
Anyway, as described, the AI uses "states" as "war planning phase", which is the most basic form of planning. That's ok
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The Civ 6 unstacking of cities will really cause a significant change to this area of the AI. Will be interesting to see the AI in action
Wizard-Bob, Oct 17, 2016
Yeah the war preparation phase is definitely a form of planning. There's also some things like deceit put in there so that they'll hide their intentions. The normal war declaration and general attitudes towards players feel like some of the more sensible AI systems in game, although some tweaking would be nice (its weirdly sensitive to rapid expansion and not sensitive enough to players having no military).
The joint war system is sadly terrible though. I didn't expect it to actually contain a major bug, but I think most players can agree that those declarations felt very random.
In terms of techs/policies/buildings/units, there's very little on top of of the flavor system and very little I would consider planning ahead. There is absolutely 0 regard for requirements, and a lot of complex mechanics have been reduced to simple flavor values. A real player thinks about the amount of marble/stone he has when considering the Mausoleum, an AI just has flavor_gold. Even the worst of real players wouldn't build navy in preparation for a war with a landlocked player, an AI just sees flavor_offense and flavor_defense on navy units and builds them.
But, some of the flavor system reacts to changing environments and is in that sense intelligent. Being on a naval map increases the desire for naval, there's a boost to expansion at the start of the game, that kind of thing. Sadly there's not that many of these though.
On top of that, looking through the actual code now, I can find these intelligent behaviors on top of the flavor system
- It does do city specialization based on intelligent factors. This impacts flavors. On top of that, there's a designated wonder city. Other cities don't build wonders. And there's a randomness based system in place that stops them from going 100% into wonder production.
- It can recommend units of a certain type if it needs to fill a certain formation up. As in, we're going to siege a city, we don't have any siege units, lets build a catapult. As far as I can tell this happens rarely though.
The religion picker system works differently from units/buildings/policies/techs and appears to be one of the better systems. It actually calculates the extra benefit every religion gives in terms of increase of yields inside of its empire based on the benefit to tiles/cities. Then out of its top 3 choices, it picks one. The only weird things here are is that happiness is dramatically undervalued, and that I don't think they really realized that the formula used massively overvalues the benefit of the city bombard damage boost pantheon, which will probably always be in the top 3 picks.
Thanks for the details, it's really helpful! Looking through tonns of C++ code is really a pain
What if the AI, in addition to having preference values for building flavors, also had preference values for specific buildings?
For instance, Tomyris may only want a Domination victory, so she'd prefer to make only buildings with a high Military flavor. But she, like all AIs, would have a high preference value for building a Science District, so as soon as she runs out of Military-flavor things to build in a city, that'll be the next building she focuses on.
That's possible even within flavor based system through adding one-use flavors that boost only one building, unfortunately that wasn't possible in civ 5. Creative use would be a great tool in promoting better strategies and more flavorful leader strategies.
It'd be great if they made use of this or allowed modders this ability. You could for example make a civ specific flavor that you slap on ancient/classic science buildings, medieval production/military buildings, some techs to beeline in renaissance and then on some units of that era. That would encourage behavior we'd think of as planning for a renaissance era assault, while still allowing some flexibility if the map doesn't allow for it or something.
It would appear to us like planning and proper strategizing, even though it uses the same flavor system.
Weighted system is actually quite powerful, as there's no limit how complex the parameters are. For example, it's possible could calculate "naval exposure" (like the percentage of naval cities from the total amount of cities) and use it to favor building naval/land units during war preparation.
Naval = (Civ-specific weighted constant) * (number of water tiles within workable radius of own cities) / (total number of tiles within workable radius of own cities)
Lyoncet Emperor
Agreed. Unfortunately they're just as powerful as they're made to be, and no more. And in the case of Civ, the answer, unfortunately, is usually "not terribly."
Lyoncet, Oct 17, 2016
Yeah that's right. A weighted system is definitely one of the best ways of doing this kind of thing, but if most if your weights are 'dumb' as in 'not responding to the environment', and if many of the weights are weirdly tweaked, then you end up with players that barely manage to get anything done.
I've done a bunch of flavor tweaking for a balance/ai mod Ive been working on for a while, and the AI actually ends up being a beast (at emperor+) with proper weights and less lopsided balance. T300 domination victories in battle royales, that kind of thing. And that's using just the 'dumb' preconfigured flavors, without being able to resort to more intelligent stuff like weighting certain civs to prefer good strategies.
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Stardockians
Elemental Dev Journals
The Middle Market is not dying
Frogboy
March 24, 2011 1:23:13 PM from JoeUser Forums
There’s been a lot of debate in our industry in the past year about the so-called “middle market”. This is the class of games between say Call of Duty and Angry Birds. Not quite AAA (i.e. not $25 million to produce) but also not $250,000 to make the game. The middle market is the world that Stardock and Paradox thrive in. And both of us have done very well in this market.
The argument against the middle market basically boils down to market size. That the middle market just misses the “sweet spot”. Retailers don’t want to carry middle market products because they don’t sell as well AAA or the casual market. The thing is, digital distribution changes all this.
I contend that a game like say Baldur’s Gate (with updated graphics but no where near Dragon Age) would likely sell very well at a fraction of the cost of Dragon Age. The same is true on a whole host of games. The challenge, of course, is for developers to carefully budget their title based on their best guess on the market size. A game like War in the East may not sell a million copies but they also didn’t cost that much to make.
What’s your take?
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Alstein
Reply #76 March 31, 2011 5:28:44 AM
Quoting SmilingSpectre,
March 29, 2011 11:46:43 AM from Elemental Forums Elemental Forums
Well, as for me, AAA-games killing gaming industry. At least, PC-industry. It's because they become more and more expensive, so it need more and more auditory to be successful, and it is, in turn, force it to be addressed to max. broad amount of people. And it is made games too easy and simple for me. Well, graphic become more and more impressive, complex and unrestricted, but gameplay behind it become easier and easier accordingly. I was forced to reload each second fight in the beginning of Baldur's Gate 2, but Mass Effect 2 mostly was beaten from 1st try on "Normal". It is not good for me.
So I presume, middle market is necessity for such gamers as me. And I am very pleased that digital distribution allows it to work.
Your AAA game example is good and makes sense. But you say one thing that's wrong.
If a game is
The console industry is more at risk. PC, if the AAA guys die off, Stardock/Paradox effectively become the new AAA. PC gaming would survive. also I don't think Valve and Blizzard are going anywhere.
You're right about the budgets really hurting the industry though, due to a combination of forcing rises in game prices (via DLC/online passes, not just price hikes)- which makes consumers more risk-averse, and discouraging risk-taking in general- and you can only preach to the choir so long before they get bored with it. (why I think we get a AAA crash next gen).
Napean
Reply #77 April 4, 2011 9:13:03 AM
Quoting LightofAbraxas,
Case in point: I bought Crusader Kings Complete earlier today on Impulse, like 8 years after it was released. And I don't know what the hell is going on in that game quite yet, but I think that I like it. Now if I could only bind the pause function to the space bar...
Welcome to the club! I have played Crusader Kings consistently since its release. I'm wrapping up a game where I've united Ireland and conquered Jerusalem - what other game on the planet will let you do that (well, Knights of Honor, & Medieval TW to an extent, but really...) That game is amazing! Keep your eyes open for II!
I grew up on console games (SNES mostly), which, surprisingly, got me into PC gaming by way of a Civ I port to the SNES that simply blew my mind - Germany started a pan-continental war in my first game!
As a rule, it seems, PC games simply offer more depth. There's no way around it. The combination of keyboard and mouse simply permits more control. Consoles tend to have heftier hardware (at least compared to my PCs) at a lower price point; why buy a $200 graphics card, have to upgrade your power supply and cooling system (and then pray it doesn't melt down), when you can dish out the same amount and have a ready-to-go game box? The limiting factor (aside from the virtual three-way monopoly on hardware) is that (bleep) controller. Great for FPS. Great for arcade titles. Not so great for anything else.
I had hoped with the Wii's pointing capability that Nintendo would start to open the console market to more PC-esque titles (Romance of Three Kingdoms is great, but KOEI needs some company). Still waiting for that. For this reason, I'm pretty certain the middle market will endure; it's the only place where gamers who want a good game can go to get one.
chaintm
Reply #78 April 14, 2011 1:51:58 AM
I think it comes down to inovation and or re-inovation. I see a game like The Witcher that was really done by a small team and then grew now into a huge AAA title after word of mouth went big. Sure, the graphics where pretty , but they took another engine to make it etc.. The devs there where very open on how it all went down etc. Now with their new releasing definitly in the AAA club, they kept to their roots of what made the first game great and in the end they will see that pay off yet again. Too many larger companies loose direction and push faster development. As a coder myself, I can say that is partly probably due to the same team getting lazy and sucking the dollar and slowing their own work down. I see this mostly in static companies that don't hire/fire teams. (when u got a good team why split it up?) Sadly this is also it's downfall. I think at that point it comes down to the leadership to keep the pace, give legit numbers to the publisher etc and do "their best" everytime.
When companies like this can succeed anything is possible, personally if I was in the industry I know of 4 games I would re-produce in an instant that where great in the day or missed the mark but now have such a following you could make a good value at it. Alas I am not, but new version of these with some graphic updates would be fun fun fun! Only isssue would be rights, I know 2 of them are not owned by anyone anymore (well at least not listed as protected at this point) and the other 2 not sure. Eh , I think anything is possible in this industry and for others to say the middle or any part of the industry is fail is just showing how short minded they are to begain with and won't last long in the business.
I find it funny that anyone that ever makes such open ended remarks or think they have the ulitmate answer are always wrong, there is of course a reason for that, but alas it just happens over and over and people will beleive it. As a game of 20 years now (eh probably longer, 43 now) I can say that I have seen the industry in all it's glory and all it's fumblings and I have to see one thing that says "This is the way it is". All it takes is a great idea and the strive to make it, the old saying is "if you make it , they will come" is so true even to this day. The issue with so many companies (in my personal opinion) is inovation or again re-inovation has lost it's flavor.
Take WoW, everyone has copied that over and over so much so people jump into a new version of an MMO and say, "whooope, new skins!, ok so umm what's so great about this game again?" and constantly bash the repeditive remakes of WoW 2.0. The industry is just to scared to invest into something "unkown" or "unproven" that it will , in the end be the "Middle Guys" that make the games people actually want. Will that happen all the time? No, I personally loved the concept of Elemental when it was first announced, my thoughts about it then where "wow, a new take on the old game of Fantasy Empires!" which for those that remember was a concept of sending your heroes below ground to adventure and gather resources and items to enhance your troops on top for large battles. This to me was the ultimate in fun and innovation in it's day. Elemental came close, but graphically for me it didn't even surpass that old title.
That brings me to the subject of graphics, while graphics don't need to be revolutionary that have to do well to represent the world you are partaking in. In almost ever instances of an interaction type of game , a descent graphic set is expected at this point. While elemental had it's own "take" on how things looked, the way it played out was most dissapointing. I got into the depthness of the elements in the game, but the looks lost flavor for me very quickly. I look at games like Ghost Masters for instance , the graphics while very old at this point still hold up well today. In that instance of a remake, I would be about upgrading said graphics, making new levels, adding new items and maybe a new innovation or two, but beyond that nothing much, the base game was sound, the concept was brilliant it was just a head of it's time. If you look at it now say on Steam, it's very popular indeed even today. So to me, graphics hold a place and while squar icons can represent things like our old strat board game would, it's nothing I would look for today as we are tecnically beyond such and I would expect more from any company.
In the end, it's really up to the company be it small,med or big to come up with a good concept they think will sell. It just takes the right leaders to make it happen and we see new titles still being produced with innovation and improvments, it has been slower as of late, but I think that will change. The market is learning that flooding one type of product is also bad for business. (see all the music games)... So as people come and go, I say the ones that will stay are the ones that understand quality and innovation. Bioware had this, they merged with EA, now we see that coming threw on their recent Dragon Age 2 title, I loved 1, 2 was horribly done and definitly rushed. If that is the "new" bioware, I can say I won't be a loyal subscriber as I was before, they lost the meaning of great gameplay. Startdock to me still holds this concept of being innovative and trying to be unique, which keeps me coming back. I might have not liked Elemental as much as I should have, but I still love all their other titles, this game came more down to preference. Sure when it launched it was buggy etc, but it was still a good game in concept and they kept up on fixing and updating it. After that, I just lost the want to play it out of my reasons above, but I still watch for new releases from them, they have a good team and they are trying to be "out of the box " in their way of thinking, which is good as well. Thou, re-inovations never hurt
PS. Sorry for the long writing, good topic, had allot to say
Aerion Istari
In my opinion, the two most overused "cost multiplying features are ultra-high quality graphics and multiplayer. Nice graphics is nice but not essential. In some genres, multiplayer is actually harms rather than helps a game while simultaneously driving up the price to produce. I applauded the decision to keep GalCiv as a single player game.
nickak2003
Why exactly did elemental sell for 50$ when its made by a middle developer?
plz dont try to make a baldurs gate clone
Quoting nickak2003,
They say that the new AAA game price is 60$
Why shouldn't they try to make an RPG like Baldurs Gate?
Lord Xia
I would love a new AAA Baldurs gate-like RPG. Hells yes.
Edwin99
Reply #83 April 17, 2011 3:34:26 PM
I would buy a new improved Baldar's gate-life RPG.
The features I would added to it are;
World Changing Events - i.e. PC actions and decisions have a real impact on the game. Complete the quest and a Castle with new NPCs arises on the map. Fail the quest and the town is burnt to a crisp, most of its NPCs inhabitants dead or sold into slavery. The ice crystal is the source of a magical curse that covers the lands and villages with the snow and ice of a perpetual winter. Destroy the crystal to lift the curse and the lands are now covered in green grees and trees. A really dramatic visual impact. (i.e. Ice Crystal Not Destroyed = Map 1 with all the lands covered in snow and ice, Ice Crystal Destroyed = Map 2 which is a copy of Map 1 with no snow and ice)
Editor - like that in NWN so that users can add design and add new adventurers to existing maps.
Subscription to receive continual new Downloadable Content Paks - new classes, new spells, new NPCs, new monsters, new adventures
Turn Based Tactical Combat with movement that alternates between PC and NPCs based on initiative (like chess, I like planning my move, rather than a clickfest or relying on the NPC's AI)
Krantos
In my opinion, the best thing about the middle market (from a gamer's perspective) is that it is THE place for niche games. The simple, unfortunate truth is that you simply cannot make a AAA game with "Niche appeal." They cost too much to make. Thus, any game that only caters to a (relatively) small demographic (for example, 4x Turn based strategy games IN SPAAAAAAAACE!) cannot be profitable, and therefore, cannot be made.
However, give them a middle market budget rather than a AAA one, and they'll create substantial returns on investment. You won't get rich doing it , which is why most major companies prefer to chase the AAA tail, but if you're interested in making games first, and just want to make enough to keep doing so comfortably, the Middle market is where to go.
As for the cost to the consumer. Price is not indicative of a middle market game, budget is. So you're paying $40+ for these games because the market is smaller. You're paying close to AAA prices because that's us doing our part to ensure we keep getting the games we love.
Achronous
EDIT: oops I missed the date, sorry for bringing it back to life.
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This is an old thread.. Next time I'll check the OP date before replying.
TitanCreed
The middle market suffers from a lack of a proper distribution model. Digital distribution helps, but it doesn’t solve the inherent issue: a good product is sometimes more valuable as part of a set.
This is partly an issue with video games basing too much of their production on the film industry. Developers seem to think movies are what they should aim for when it comes to narrative structure, scope, and release scheduling. That’s fine for the AAA games that can hit all of the key demographics, make a bunch of money, and then spend a huge portion of the revenue on the next iteration. For mid-market games, developers need to create a model similar to television.
We need something like a gaming channel distribution system. In this system, I can subscribe to a gaming channel, and every week they give me a mid-sized game. Ideally, these would be episodic games and I would receive more than one a week. I might not play all of the games, but by subscribing to a genre, I could be assured that the material coming in was at least pertinent to my interests.
It doesn’t just have to be genre-based, either. Imagine if a parent subscribes to a Disney channel gaming network. They know, in broad strokes, what they’re getting. It’s safe, easy, and the better of the games will resonate with their children. Those games have their qualities and innovations permeate through the network, and small-scale risks can be taken to see if a “diamond in the rough” big hit indie project can be created.
The real issue with this isn’t selling it to gamers. “Free games” go over very well on Xbox Live and PSN. The problem is selling it to game companies. The industry is shockingly insular. Technology isn’t shared. Assets aren’t shared. Convincing a bunch of developers to make a game, then have a third party “network” determine their profits, even if it is determined by downloads, is going to be very difficult.
Quoting Krantos,
It's a great subject, but don't just bump an multiyear old dead thread. Alot has changed in this time with releases of Rebellion, CKII, and EU4. Multiple indie titles have taken off, as well, and this isn't even mentioning Kickstarter. This kinda negates many points in this thread.
Matopicus
I don't care if a game costs several million to make or if a game costs a few thousand to make. If i like the game i buy the game. However i will say that there are particular favorites, dragon age, xcom, civ, galCiv, FE are all my favorites and i'll gobble up anything that they produce.
I will say though that mod-ability is a HUGE thing for me. A game doesn't have to have it but if it does then it goes a long long way for me. To be honest i love FE for the simple fact that i can make the game do anything i want, i can make it "mine" by modding some files adding a new race here and adding several new items and if i think a monster is to weak or strong i can mod it so that next time i play that monster is more challenging and so fourth. I can't do that as easily with some of the others. So it's not about how much it costs to make the game or even how much i have to spend on the game. It comes down to how much i get out of the game that matters to me. Can i play it for 1k hours and still enjoy it? the only games i've been able to really do that with are games that allow me to mod the game and/or are totally random like FE, GalCiv and Civilization. XCOM and Dragon Age are awesome games but they are pretty scripted i know whats going to happen and when in those games. So the replay-ability isn't quite there. Still among my favs but they're the back burner games i go to after my 1k hours of FE for a break
It seems like my middle portion is what grows the fastest these days...
Seriously, I enjoy mostly middle market games. I think the only AAA game I play right now is Civ V. Other games are from Stardock, Matrix, Paradox and GOG. They are IMO some of the better games.
Bellack
I play more Middle Market games than any other and love that I can get nice sales of these games on Steam. My favorite over all game of all times AOW:SM is middle market and it's predicessor AOW3 will be as well and looks like it will be my next most played game of all time.
Now I hope that my second new favorite game of all time will be GS3 but only time will tell. GS2 ties will Civ for the 3rd spot.
Quoting Campaigner,
I'm all for a RPG remake of BG and am for Multiplayer in GS3.
Kantok
Quoting Bellack,
Do you mean an actual direct remake of Baldur's Gate? Because that's been done recently. Both 1 and 2 and their expansion packs.
http://www.baldursgate.com/
That is just the same game as before with a few updates. It is not a remake
Unless you're talking about remaking it in another engine (like to IWD in NWN 2), it has LOTS of new content is definitely is worth investing into. It's the closest you'll get to BG III (end goal).
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Station West (1948): Starring Dick Powell and Jane Greer
Posted on January 15, 2020 by 4StarFilmFan
First impressions suggest Dick Powell doesn’t fit the boots of a western hero as he did the fedoras of noir. Like Bogart or even Cagney, his physique isn’t imposing and yet he makes up for it with a wry wit. Running off his mouth as he often does fits the cynicism of noir.
Not that it can’t have a place in the old west as well, but with other actors, it feels like second nature and yet when he gets off the stagecoach, it really does feel like he has just entered western country for the first time.
As the film evolves, it plays a bit in his favor because this is a version of the West suited for his talents. Granted, The Tall Target (1951) is not a western, but in that film, Anthony Mann made a bit of a Civil War-era noir with a similar milieu. However, unfortunately, by reputation, Sidney Lansfield is no Mann so I’m not sure the material is ever injected with a similarly visceral and engaging energy.
Events simply happen, characters interact, and there is a resolution. Thankfully Station West serves up one major plot twist, suggesting there is more than meets the eye in this out-of-towner who all but picks a fight with a soldier boy in the local saloon.
Maybe Haven is more Phillip Marlowe than we were initially led to believe. Regardless, he’s immediately taken by the local lounge singer, since the quizzical look of Jane Greer does that to people. He is quite forward in looking to make her acquaintance and ends up having a run-in with the local muscle (Guinn Williams).
There are moments where the fighting between them feels genuinely frenetic blended with hokey shots that look horribly fake. I’m not sure what to feel but for the sake of the story, Haven is now a big shot and news gets around about him. It’s all just a smokescreen; he wants to investigate a suspiciously missing shipment of gold.
Still a few years away from his much-deserved starring stint on Perry Mason, Raymond Burr plays a relatively uncharacteristic Lilly-livered loser. I love Burl Ives as much as the next fellow, however, his ballad singing feels forced and frankly, inorganic. It breaks up the scenes in a strange way as he keeps his guitar handy, welcoming guests to his very stingy hotel.
What remains to be seen is the identity of Charlie, the person who has their hand in all the town’s major dealings. Our snooping hero has a feeling discovering this information along with staging another gold run might get him some much-needed leads.
It’s not quite a black pool forming around him, but he does get whacked over the head in the middle of a gold run. It’s another added complication in the mystery to settle who is masterminding these robberies. It might be a testament more to the cut of the picture I saw. Regardless, Station West winds up a bit disjointed.
The payoffs are barely satisfying, and there’s never much of a motor to the picture’s action even amid the burning of a warehouse and some gunfire. Qualms about Powell’s performance aside, the greatest disappointment was Jane Greer. It just never feels like she has anything interesting to do even as her part has inherent possibilities. The opportunities afforded feel wasted. Then again, it could come down to chemistry, and it’s hard to top what she was able to conjure up with Robert Mitchum in not only Out of The Past but The Big Steal as well.
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ABSURD, undemocratic and totally unacceptable.
These were the general consensus among legal experts on the one month jail sentence and a hefty fine imposed on graphic designer Fahmi Reza by the Ipoh Sessions Court today for posting an edited image of Prime Minister Najib Razak on Facebook.
The court decision raised alarm bells, with one law expert questioning if Malaysia was emulating Thailand where punitive measures are taken against those who criticised the country’s monarch.
Universiti Malaya law lecturer Azmi Sharom said if laws were used selectively to protect one individual or a special group from legitimate criticism, it echoes of “lese majeste” (insulting the monarch or other ruler).
Thailand has a strict draconian lese-majeste law which forbids any insult to the monarchy.
Azmi said the decision against Fahmi also placed restrictions on the freedom of speech and made it an offence if anyone poked fun at a politician. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs Fahmi Reza, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, s. 233(1)(a) Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (CMA), satire, social media
Fahmi Reza jailed one month, fined RM30,000 over offensive caricature of PM
Source: The Star Online
Fahmi Reza — Pic drawn from The Star Online
IPOH: Activist and graphic designer Fahmi Reza (pic) has been sentenced to one month’s jail and fined RM30,000 for posting a caricature of a national leader on social media.
Fahmi, 40, whose full name is Mohd Fahmi Reza Mohd Zarin, was found guilty by the Sessions Court here Tuesday (Feb 20) of uploading an edited image of the Prime Minister on Facebook with the intention to offend.
He was charged with committing the offence on Feb 8, 2016 at 12.31pm.
Mohd Fahmi was charged under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, which is punishable under Section 233(3) of the same Act.
Judge Norashima Khalid also ordered the accused to be jailed an additional six months if he fails to pay the fine. Read more →
Woman remanded for insulting Terengganu MB on Facebook
January 22, 2018 HAKAM_Intern
KUALA TERENGGANU: A woman was arrested after she allegedly insulted Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman on social media.
It is learned that the 45-year-old contractor had put up the derogatory comment on a Facebook Group called Gabungan Anak Terengganu.
Human Rights & Wrongs freedom of expression, freedom of speech, Global Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy, Malaysia, online expression, politics, social media
The Buzz in Social Media: Fake News, Propaganda or Stigma?
Taken from FB
NO ONE is free from the politics of information in this digital age, and whatever its shortfalls, the internet has democratised information and changed the way we create and consume information, including “fake news”. But what is fake news? Who gets to decide if news is fake or not?
This session will help unpack what we mean when we talk about ‘fake news’, ‘misinformation’ and disinformation, in particular how these are weaponised against human rights advocates, activists, media, politicians and democracy.
Forum by Empower
Sun 17 Dec 2017, 1.30pm
Ground floor, The School, Jaya One, Petaling Jaya.
1. Asohan Aryaduray, Star Online, Senior Editor
2. Rizal Guaperas, Empower, Advocacy Officer
3. Nik Elin Nik Rashid, lawyer
4. Zurairi AR, The Malay Mail, Assistant News Editor
This forum is part of Art For Grabs: Laundromat of Love, Sat 16 & Sun 17 Dec 2017, at The School, Jaya One, Petaling Jaya.
Forum on Use of Social Media to Express Opinions on the Government and Public Institutions: When Is This a Criminal Offence?
Forum poster
Schoolboy gets RM5,000 fine for insulting Perak Sultan on Twitter
IPOH: The 18-year-old schoolboy who insulted the Sultan of Perak on his Twitter account using has pleaded guilty.
The SM Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah 1 student Muhammad Nor Farhan Burhan pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s court here on Thursday. (Oct 19)
He was sentenced to a RM5,000 fine.
During the proceeding, Magistrate Siti Hafiza Jaafar had asked him to recite the five verses of the Rukun Negara, to which he did fluently.
She also urged him to reflect on the Rukun Negara’s fifth verse in relation to his case, which was Good Behaviour and Morality. (Kesopanan dan Kesusilaan)
Human Rights & Wrongs insulting royalty, social media
Over 2,000 fake accounts blocked or shut down since January
August 3, 2017 August 3, 2017 admin
Facebook — AFP pic
KUALA LUMPUR: More than 2,000 fake social media accounts have been blocked or shut down since January this year, said the Communications and Multimedia Ministry.
Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak said the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) had reported these accounts to social media providers such as Facebook and Twitter because they violated the terms and conditions set by these platforms.
“From the 2,000 fake accounts, almost 75% of them have been subjected to further action while the rest are still under investigation,” he told the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday.
Salleh was responding to a question from Datuk Mohd Fasiah Mohd Fakeh (BN – Sabak Bernam) on the number of fake accounts that have been identified and the actions taken to curb the spread of fake news. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs fake news, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), social media
Developing Critical Thinking should be an important agenda toward TN50 — Ng Seng Yi
July 7, 2017 July 8, 2017 Wei Meng Lim
Source:The Star
By Ng Seng Yi
In today’s context of a plethora of information available on social media, a “critical thinking ” approach could help discern fake information – Ng Seng Yi.
IF I were asked what my aspiration for the Transformasi Nasional 2050 (TN50) initiative is, I would say a developed nation with people who can think critically.
At the Eighth Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and Education Reform, Summer 1987, Michael Scriven and Richard Paul defined critical thinking as the intellectually disciplined process of actively conceptualizing, applying, analysing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
In other words, critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking when evaluating a plethora of information presented to readers. Read more →
Opinions & Statements 2050 National Transformation (TN50), critical thinking, education, fake news, Ng Seng Yi, social media
1 day jail, RM4,000 fine for insulting Najib on Facebook
June 19, 2017 June 21, 2017 Coordinator
Money changer pleads guilty, as goverment lawyer presses for harsh sentence to deter other would-be offenders from making disparaging remarks about the prime minister. Pic from FMT News
KUALA LUMPUR: A foreign currency trader paid dearly for posting derogatory remarks about Prime Minister Najib Razak on his Facebook last year.
Mohd Nasaruddin Sairon, who hails from a Felda settlement in Kota Tinggi, Johor, was jailed a day and fined RM4,000 by a Sessions Court after he pleaded guilty to the charge.
The 41-year-old, who was unrepresented, committed the offence when he posted an emotionally charged remark about Najib on Facebook on Oct 8.
The posting on Nasaruddin’s Facebook page was read by a member of the public, Khalijah Mohamed, who filed a complaint with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) the following day. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs allegations of insulting leader, Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (CMA), Facebook, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), social media
MCMC does not spy on WhatsApp users, says Salleh
May 5, 2017 Coordinator
Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak – Pic from the Star Online.
KUCHING: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is only a regulatory body and does not monitor or spy on messages WhatsApp users send on the platform, said Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak.
Recent posts which alleged that the commission was monitoring content in the application was “absolutely false news,” the Communications and Multimedia Minister told reporters Friday after launching the Asean International Film Festival and Awards (AIFFA) 2017 Biz World.
Salleh said that the ministry had only been advising people against abusing the messaging platform as they were bound by the country’s laws and regulations. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (CMA), Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), social media, WhatsApp
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Fulham face Ipswich in FA Youth Cup
by Dan | Jan 20, 2010 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Fulham’s youngsters will play Ipswich in the fifth round of the FA Youth Cup after the Tractor Boys beat Arsenal last night.
Highly-rated striker Conor Wickham starred in Ipswich’s 2-0 win over the holders. Fulham had already made it through having beaten Bolton on penalties after a 1-1 draw last week.
The fifth round tie is due to take place on Saturday 30 January at Portman Road, according to the FA website.
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Eating Lots of Eggs Might Be Bad Again
Ed Cara
Image: Andreas Rentz (Getty Images)
Breakfast sandwich fans beware: Eating too many eggs might be bad for your health... again. A new study released Friday found that daily consumption of a certain amount of cholesterol, a key nutrient of eggs, is linked to a modest increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease and early death.
The findings, if valid, could overturn the current medical consensus that there’s no need to watch your cholesterol or egg intake—itself a controversial idea among nutritionists.
In 2016, the United States Department of Agriculture finalized its current five-year update of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, meant to run until 2020. There was one change from previous guidelines that got everyone’s attention. The USDA no longer called for a upper limit to the amount of dietary cholesterol you should have, which was previously set at 300 milligrams a day (one large egg alone provides around 160 milligrams). Instead, the guidelines said, dietary cholesterol shouldn’t be considered “a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.”
The USDA’s decision, which did receive some criticism at the time, reflected the latest shift in thinking around cholesterol in the nutrition world. To put it simply, studies haven’t consistently shown that more cholesterol in our diets leads to more cholesterol in the blood, particularly the unhealthier low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, which can contribute to clogged arteries and heart disease. Nor have they clearly shown that eggs and dietary cholesterol are linked to poorer health, since factors like a person’s overall diet can cloud the picture. People who love to eat eggs, for instance, might also love eating unhealthier foods like bacon in general.
The authors behind this new paper, published in JAMA, acknowledge the long-standing debate around eggs’ benefits and harms. But they argue that their study’s design and methodology was able to separate the wheat from the chaff and look at the effects of cholesterol and eggs in isolation and in more detail than other attempts.
“With eggs, like most foods, there are good and bad parts to them. And it’s been very hard to tease apart the potential harmful effects of high cholesterol in eggs vs other beneficial nutrients,” study author Norrina Allen, associate professor of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Illinois, told Gizmodo.
They turned to the Lifetime Risk Pooling Project, which combines data from 20 large population studies that have tracked people’s health over years to figure out risk factors for cardiovascular disease. For this study, they used data from six studies, which collectively involved nearly 30,000 relatively healthy, middle-aged people with no pre-existing heart disease and followed them for a median of 17 years and up to as long as 31 years. All of the volunteers, at the start of their respective studies, detailed their typical diet, including how much they ate eggs and other high-cholesterol foods like red meat.
Ultimately, they found there was a 17 percent increased risk of cardiovascular disease associated with every extra 300 milligrams of dietary cholesterol a day, along with an 18 percent increased risk of early death, even after adjusting for factors like the amount of calories eaten per day. And each extra half-egg a day was similarly linked to a 6 percent and 8 percent increased risk of cardiovascular disease and early death, respectively. The link between egg consumption and poorer health went away after accounting for a person’s cholesterol intake, suggesting their high cholesterol content was the principle reason behind the increased risk.
The findings, Allen said, might prompt yet another reconsideration of health organizations’ advice to not worry about dietary cholesterol or eggs.
“I think [organizations like the USDA] were working with the best evidence they had available, which has never been conclusive,” she said. “But this study is a large, very strong observational study that may start to change the balance of data.”
At the same time, Allen and her team caution that people shouldn’t be too worried about their egg-eating habits. For one, though the average American eats around three to four eggs a week, they’re not the only major source of cholesterol in our diet; processed and red meats provide plenty, too. And unlike some studies, this one included more of a real-world context.
The researchers estimated that the absolute risk difference linked to eating 300 milligrams of cholesterol a day, over a 31-year-period, was 3.24 percent for cardiovascular disease and 4.43 percent for mortality. In other words, if your risk of heart disease in the next 31 years was 5 percent (hypothetically), eating that much cholesterol would raise it to around 8 percent. That’s an important increase, one most of us would probably want to avoid, given the average American eats around 300 milligrams of cholesterol a day. But it’s still a small added risk in the grand scheme of things.
Allen believes that this study and others like it in the future could be enough to convince the USDA and other health organizations to revise their cholesterol advice. But there are also steps they say the average person can take right now.
“We’ve known for a long time that the yolk in eggs is the main source of cholesterol found in them. So we would advocate that people reduce their cholesterol intake, and if you’re eating eggs, that maybe you just eat the egg whites and moderate your consumption of yolk,” Allen said. “Also, eggs aren’t the only thing cholesterol comes out of, so people should moderate their consumption of those foods as well.”
In the future, Allen hopes she and others can establish a clear threshold of perfectly safe egg consumption, as well as whether certain individuals respond differently to dietary cholesterol.
Science writer at Gizmodo and pug aficionado elsewhere
BingleyJoe
This is simple: Eat some of everything. Mostly vegetables. Avoid processed foods. Change up the menu as often as you can.
The human body is remarkably adept at coping with a diet like that.
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Trudeau says Wet’suwet’en solidarity blockades ‘need to come down now’
By Amanda Connolly Global News
Posted February 21, 2020 3:25 pm
Updated February 21, 2020 7:10 pm
4:32 Trudeau says barricades across Canada ‘need to come down now’
WATCH: On Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that although the government will “never close the door on dialogue,” discussions regarding the rail blockades occurring across Canada “have not been productive” and that the “barricades need to come down.” – Feb 21, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the time has come to end the Wet’suwet’en solidarity blockades that have shut down railroads across the country for two weeks.
His comments to reporters marked a hardening of tone and come as pressure mounts on the government to act to end the blockades and as even Liberal caucus members have begun to use language in recent days suggesting the patience the government has asked Canadians for is wearing thin.
READ MORE: Blockade trips up Canada’s biggest ports as shippers steer clear of rail closure
“Every attempt at dialogue has been made but discussions have not been productive. We cannot have dialogue when only one party is coming to the table,” said Trudeau in a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa.
“The fact remains: the barricades must now come down. The injunctions must be obeyed and the law must be upheld.
“Let me be clear, our resolve to pursue the reconciliation agenda with Indigenous people is as strong as ever.”
1:49 Trudeau says government believes ‘in a peaceful resolution’ to nationwide rail blockades
Trudeau says government believes ‘in a peaceful resolution’ to nationwide rail blockades – Feb 21, 2020
Several hereditary chiefs from the Wet’suwet’en Nation in B.C. oppose the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline set to be built through the land they claim as their traditional territory. But the elected band councils for that and 20 other First Nations communities along the route support the project.
The result has been tension over which group speaks for the interests of the community.
Those tensions escalated after RCMP enforced a court injunction last month that let them begin removing activists from a blockade set up on the pipeline route.
The arrests sparked nationwide protests and blockades that have intermittently shut down border crossings, railroad lines and service, barred access to government buildings, and prompted provincial leaders to warn about looming shortages of essentials like propane.
READ MORE: Will Wet’suwet’en solidarity protests set the stage for what’s to come with TMX?
Trudeau said the federal government continues to believe that dialogue is the best solution and will continue to be available to speak with Indigenous leaders.
“That is what we have done,” he said.
“But we cannot continue to watch Canadians suffer.”
More than 1,000 rail workers have been laid off by Via Rail and CN Rail as a result of the blockades, which forced the companies to shut down the majority of their rail service — both passenger and freight — across the country.
Via Rail is slowly restoring service, announcing Friday that trains will start moving between Montreal and Ottawa full-time starting Saturday, continuing with full weekday service starting Monday.
Routes connecting Toronto to Niagara Falls, London and Sarnia are already back up and running, but others — including major connections between Toronto and Ottawa, and Montreal and Quebec City — aren’t expected to resume until next week at the earliest as the Tyendinaga blockade remains in place.
1:46 Frustration grows over protests and blockades across Canada
Frustration grows over protests and blockades across Canada – Feb 20, 2020
While the RCMP in B.C. have agreed to a demand by some of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs opposed to the project for the force to leave the site of the barricades it has erected on the pipeline route, Trudeau said the efforts of the government and police are not yielding any results.
He said the responsibility now lies with Indigenous leaders and with police.
“The intervention in the case of the Tyendinaga blockade is the responsibility of the Ontario Provincial Police,” he said.
“We continue to be hopeful that the leadership within these Indigenous communities will find a way to bring down these barricades peacefully, but as a federal government we have exhausted our capacity to engage in a positive, substantive, active way.”
Several leaders from the Tyendinaga Mohawk community and several of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs held a press conference on Friday following Trudeau’s and in it, they said they would not end the barricades because the RCMP in B.C. have not left the territory the Wet’suwet’en claim as their traditional lands.
In addition to that full removal, Chief Woos Frank Alec, one of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, said they will not be satisfied until all work on the Coastal GasLink project stops. But Coastal GasLink has said in recent days that the project will still go ahead.
6:07 Wet’suwet’en chief says trains can pass through once all RCMP have left their territory
Wet’suwet’en chief says trains can pass through once all RCMP have left their territory – Feb 21, 2020
The question now is what will happen in the coming days if the blockades do remain in place.
The potential for violent clashes with police if they do step in to remove the barricades — or a repeat of the Oka Crisis — is a major factor in why the government has tried to give time for ministers and protesters to meet to agree on a way forward.
Protesters dismantle camp on Montreal’s south shore after Trudeau calls for end to blockades
Blockade trips up Canada’s biggest ports as shippers steer clear of rail closure
But when Trudeau was asked by reporters about what message he was sending to police forces across the country now, he was clear.
“My message is to everyone in Canada. My message is that injunctions must be obeyed. Barricades must come down. But we must look to see this happen peacefully,” he said.
“The responsibility of law enforcement in this country is to keep the peace and ensure that laws are enforced and we need to enforce those laws. How they do that, when they do that, is part of their professionalism.”
READ MORE: RCMP agrees to leave Wet’suwet’en territory, feds call for ‘urgent’ talks
Since the start of the blockades more than two weeks ago, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has been calling for the government to direct the RCMP to intervene and remove them.
However, while the public safety minister can issue broad directives to the force, operational and daily matters remain under the purview of the RCMP commissioner.
Scheer on Friday acknowledged those limited powers, as well as the fact that the Ontario Provincial Police are not under the federal government’s jurisdiction — but added Trudeau could change that if he wanted.
“If Justin Trudeau feels that there are jurisdictional issues or authority issues that he doesn’t have the tools that he needs at his disposal, he can certainly come to Parliament and ask for them,” he said. “We’d be willing to sit down and listen to what those proposals are.
“To date, all we’ve heard are platitudes, mixed messages, contradictory messages, so you’d pardon me if I don’t take [the prime minister] at his word today.”
1:09 Tensions mount in Saint-Lambert after injunction served
Tensions mount in Saint-Lambert after injunction served – Feb 21, 2020
Over recent days, though, it hasn’t just been Conservative critics and business groups saying something needs to change.
Liberal MPs Joel Lightbound and Chris Bittle have both spoken over the last two days about the limits of dialogue in resolving the situation.
“We’re doing what we can. It’s up to law enforcement to do their job but we’re moving forward on our side through negotiation, through dialogue. We’re asking Canadians for their patience,” Bittle told reporters prior to Trudeau’s remarks on Friday.
“There’s a limit to that dialogue but we’ll do what we can and we trust the RCMP to do their job.”
—With files from Sean Boynton
PM discusses meaningful and lasting solution to blockades with premiers
Rail blockades cause concern for Alberta grain farmer
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Tag: Michael Steel
“Boehner’s anti-gay turn threatens GOP”
November 5, 2013 November 5, 2013 by goodolewoody, posted in Congress, CONGRESS' WAR ON BARACK OBAMA, CONGRESSIONAL GRIDLOCK, CONSERVATIVES, gay, Jobs, John Boehner, LGBT, Politics, REPUBLICANS
By Bengy Sarlin
Official portrait of United States House Speaker (R-Ohio). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Few voters would be surprised to learn Speaker John Boehner came out against a Senate bill banning discrimination against LGBT employees For Republicans, that’s a problem.
On Monday night, the Senate voted to open debate on The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, overcoming a filibuster with 61 votes thanks to support from a handful of Republicans. Not a single Republican Senator delivered a speech opposing its passage. President Obama is campaigning for the bill in the run up to the final vote, which is expected later this week.
Politically, voting “yes” should be a no-brainer. While support for gay marriage only recently crossed into majority backing, the margin is overwhelming for workplace protection. Republican pollster Alex Lundry found 68% of respondents supported its passage in September. Not only that, about to 8 in 10 respondents assumed incorrectly that such anti-discrimination measures were already in place. Both these results track closely with an earlier poll by the liberal Center for American Progress in 2011.
But majority support, even overwhelming majority support, isn’t good enough for the House GOP on ENDA. Just as it isn’t good enough on immigration or keeping the government funded without incident.
“The Speaker believes this legislation will increase frivolous litigation and cost American jobs, especially small business jobs,” Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, said in a statement.
While not an entirely new position for Boehner, who has claimed in the past that existing employment laws provide sufficient protection for LGBT Americans, his renewed criticism means ENDA will likely not get a vote in the House this year.
Continue reading ““Boehner’s anti-gay turn threatens GOP”” →
Tagged American Jobs, Barack Obama, boehner, Employment Non-Discrimination Act, John Boehner, LGBT, Michael Steel, Senate
“White House: States will feel impact from imminent budget cuts”
February 25, 2013 February 25, 2013 by goodolewoody, posted in 2014 ELECTION, Barack Obama, Congress, Human Interest, Politics
Continuing their full-court press offensive just days before $85 billion in automatic cuts to federal spending kicks in, senior administration officials are highlighting the impact of the cuts on individual states.
The officials’ dire warnings come on the heels of more Republican criticism of President Obama and his administration’s handling of the so-called sequester; the officials took the opportunity to again slam Republicans for refusing to compromise by including new revenue in a sequester replacement.
Who’s responsible for the sequester?
Governors agree: Avoid the sequester
Obama on budget cuts: Hope springs eternal
“It’s important to understand,” White House political director Dan Pfeiffer said, that the sequester is “going into effect because Republicans are choosing for it to go into effect.”
“Republicans are making a policy choice that these cuts are better for the economy than eliminating loopholes that benefit the wealthy,” he explained. “Hopefully they’ll change their mind in the next seven days.”
House Speaker John Boehner‘s spokesman Michael Steel responded in an email saying, “Republicans in the House have voted – twice – to replace President Obama’s sequester with smarter spending cuts. The White House needs to spend less time explaining to the press how bad the sequester will be and more time actually working to stop it.” FULL ARTICLE
White House: States will feel impact from imminent budget cuts (cbsnews.com)
Sequester Impact On States Detailed In New White House Reports (huffingtonpost.com)
Ohio would feel severe pain from automatic budget cuts Friday, White House argues (vindy.com)
White House warns states of looming pain from March 1 budget cuts (reuters.com)
White House releases state-by-state breakdown of sequesters effects (democraticunderground.com)
WH details ‘sequester’ cuts for each state (upi.com)
Obama to governors: “We’ve got more work to do” (cbsnews.com)
Republicans and Democrats brace for impact of March 1 cuts (reuters.com)
Woodward: Obama owns sequester (politico.com)
Tagged Barack Obama, CBS, Daniel Pfeiffer, John Boehner, Michael Steel, obama, Republican, White House
The Today Show’s Matt Lauer throws a softball to Reince Priebus, RNC Chairman
August 27, 2012 by goodolewoody, posted in 2012_ELECTION, Eric Cantor, INDEPENDENT VOTERS, John Boehner, Latinos, MIDDLE-CLASS, Mitt Romney, Politics, Re-Elect_Obama, REPUBLICANS
@MLauer U didn't remind Reince Priebus that his critique of Obama's unfulfilled promises are the result of Rs in Congress & the Tea Party!
Yes We Can (@GoodOleWoody) August 27, 2012
WILL REPUBLICANS ‘RINSE’ PRIEBUS
OUT OF THE RNC CHAIR?
LR Reince Priebus, RNC Chairman and his predecessor, Michael Steel
Tagged Barack Obama, CNN, MATT LAUER, Michael Steel, Mitt Romney, Reince Priebus, Republican, Republican National Committee, RNC, The Today Show, Twitter, United States
HAPPY NEW YEAR CARTOON #2
SERMON: "Let the little children come to me" - Jason Helopoulos
REMEMBERING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
America, Land of the Free? - Racial Profiling Cartoon #7
Republicans Want to Shutdown the Govt.? - Cartoon #1
Our leaders are blind...or don't give a damn: Crumbling Cartoon #2
SERMON: "ALL LIARS GO TO HELL" - Revelation 21
Unemployment Cartoon #3
"Tillerson: diplomacy until 'first bomb drops'"
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Larissa Shmailo is a poet, novelist, translator, editor, and critic. Her new novel is Sly Bang; her first novel is Patient Women. Her poetry collections are Medusa’s Country, #specialcharacters, In Paran, A Cure for Suicide, and Fib Sequence . Her poetry albums are The No-Net World and Exorcism, for which she won the New Century Best Spoken Word Album award. Shmailo is the original English-language translator of the first Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by Alexei Kruchenych, performed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Garage Museum of Moscow, and theaters and universities worldwide. Shmailo also edited the online anthology Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry and has been a translator for the Eugene A. Nida Institute of Biblical Scholarship on the Russian Bible. Please see more about Larissa at her website larissashmailo.com and Wikipedia.
Tell us about your writing journey. How did you begin writing, and how did you break into the industry? When did you know you could make a career out of it?
I have always made a living writing, editing, and translating—as a development officer for Baruch College and the American Foundation for the Blind, as an editor for Pearson and McGraw-Hill, as a translator for NASA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the American Bible Society. But I went entirely freelance in 2012 to work on literary projects. I discovered ghosting and creative naming and verbal identity branding for advertising was more lucrative than grant writing and writing for educational publishing. I supplement my book sales and article writing that way.
What topics do you particularly enjoy writing about? Why?
I am a gadfly. Recently, I published a critical article about the dangers of the the religious right in the sacred cow Alcoholics Anonymous; I have also questioned Louise Hay and the New Age movement. In addition to novels and poetry, I especially enjoy critical wriitng, and most recently wrote on sexual sadism in [the works of] David Foster Wallace.
What does your writing routine look like? How do you stay productive and overcome blocks?
I don’t block; what I need to write always comes to me. I usually plan my day the night before, and set out small and specific writing tasks, like “flesh out Nora’s torture in the Hades lab.” I just open the Word doc—the rest comes.
What strategies do you focus on when cultivating your platform?
I am very active on Facebook, where I have a fan base of 1,622 registered fans (Larissa Shmailo – Poetry and Prose) and 4,900 friends. I create groups and pages to support book sales; Facebook is text friendly. I also post to LinkedIn and blog on Goodreads and my personal blog. Now, I am working on cultivating my Twitter following.
If you could go back and change anything about your writing career, is there anything you would choose to do differently?
I would have gone freelance earlier; I also would have required more money for my work-for-hire projects.
I drank, drugged, and whored around until I was fifty, then set down to serious work on my literary career. I pity anyone who does it the other way around.
What’s your best piece of advice for someone looking to be a full-time writer?
Don’t do it alone—get a community, many communities, to support you. Connect with colleagues and make friends with other writers.
What are you working on next?
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by David Carrico
Early December 1634
Johann Bach stepped into the room. He saw Lady Beth Haygood glance toward the door, notice him, and immediately begin moving in his direction even as she continued her conversation with a woman Johann did not know.
“Master Bach, so good of you to come.” Frau Haygood held out her hand.
Johann knew enough not to bow over her hand; up-timers by and large were rather egalitarian, he had found. Instead, he simply gave her the warm handshake he would have given another master musician. “Thank you for inviting me,” he replied. He looked around, then looked down at his plain coat. “I fear that I may be out of place.”
“Nonsense.” Lady Beth gave a lady-like snort, if there was such a thing. “You were invited, you came, therefore you are exactly in your place. Everyone knows the rules by now, but if anyone sneers at you, feel free to sneer right back at him—or her, as the case may be.” The expression on her face could only be described as a grin, and a large one at that. Johann returned a smile to her grin, and nodded. “Now, find yourself a glass and join the throng. There must be someone here you know.” She turned away with another grin.
The invitation to attend one of Frau Haygood’s salons had been unexpected. Twice a month or so she would gather an eclectic mix of people from Magdeburg and its growing exurb for an evening of conversation, sometime collaboration, and occasional confrontation. The practice had actually been started by Mary Simpson early in 1634 in order to bring together people that she felt should know each other, and had been continued by Lady Beth after Mary had begun her travels. The attendees included some of the most influential, important, prominent, and accomplished people in the land, drawn from all manner of disciplines and offices.
Johann was aware that his being issued an invitation marked his arrival in the highest levels of Magdeburg society, and his approval by its guardians. It was flattering, and for all that he had dealt with influential patrons several times in his past, a bit daunting as well. He squared his shoulders and straightened his spine, looked around once more, and stepped into the current.
“Would you care for wine, sir?”
Johann looked toward the voice and saw a youth dressed in a short white jacket and up-timer style long pants balancing a tray. He nodded. “What do you have?”
The youth pointed to various glasses as he spoke. “Black Muskat, Riesling, and Elbling.”
Johann fingered his chin, read the name on the young man’s pewter badge, and said, “What do you suggest, Barnabas?”
The young man looked around, turned slightly and leaned his head close to Johann’s. “The Muskat is barely drinkable,” he murmured, “and the Riesling and Elbling are not much better than okay.” There was that American slang again, Johann thought. “The war, you know. But my friend Jacob is at the bar in the corner, and he has a couple of bottles of a good Hungarian Aszú under the bar. Tell him I sent you and he’ll fix you up.”
Barnabas straightened, and continued in a normal voice. “The bar also has coffee and purified water, sir.” He pointed in the direction of the bar.
Johann nodded his thanks and made his way to the bar, which looked like nothing so much as a wide board laid over two barrels and draped with a table cloth. He knocked once on the bar. At the sound, the young man behind the bar straightened. In dress he was the twin of Barnabas, except that his badge read “Jacob.” Physically, however, he was shorter and stockier, but looked to be about the same age as his friend.
“May I help you, Master Bach?”
Johann was taken a bit aback. “How do you know me?”
Jacob grinned. “Frau Haygood always makes sure we know who was invited, and usually sees to it that we have a description. Besides, I heard her greet you when you entered.” He pointed to a couple of small kegs on stands. “I do have some schnapps and Weinbrand, as well as some fresh coffee if you desire it.”
Johann nodded, impressed by the organization and attention to detail this implied. “Barnabas said you had some Aszú.” He kept his voice low.
“Yes, Master Bach.” Jacob busied himself, selecting a yellow wine glass, holding it below the level of the counter as he pulled a decanter from under the counter to fill it. He placed it in front of Johann. “Here you are, sir.” He glanced at a clear glass jar at the end of the counter which contained several coins and a few of the Grantville bills. Johann took his meaning and felt in his pocket. He pulled a single one dollar bill from the money clip he was now carrying and placed it in the jar. Jacob smiled at him in return. “Thank you, sir.”
The Aszú was good, Johann decided after taking a sample of the wine. In fact, from his limited experience, it was better than good; well worth his contribution to the “tip” jar—another innovation from the up-timers. It was not the kind of wine that an assistant small town music master was offered very often, and he decided that he would savor every drop.
With another nod to Jacob, Johann turned away from the bar and began a slow stroll around the perimeter of the salon. Frau Haygood, as had Frau Simpson before her, varied the locales of her gatherings. One night might be at the house of a prosperous burgher; another in the town home of one of the Adel. He had heard that an early salon had even been held at the newly rebuilt Rathaus. The salon before this one had been held at the Duchess Elisabeth Sofie Secondary School for Girls, where Frau Haygood was headmistress.
Tonight—Johann grinned for a moment—tonight was held at the guild house of the Brewer’s Guild. He knew that the up-timers had a pronounced taste for beer over wine, so it didn’t surprise him that Frau Haygood had chosen to favor this particular guild. Too, from what he could tell, the way the guild would license anyone to brew beer, from the largest brewery to the youngest housefrau who wanted to brew for her husband and his brothers, would appeal to the open-mindedness of the up-timers.
But the reality of it, he decided, was that the weightiest factor of the choice of the guild house as tonight’s venue was the simple fact that it was one of the few spaces in Magdeburg, outside of the churches, that was with purpose designed for gatherings of people. There were rooms of various sizes in the building, and he knew from experience that the guild made more than a bit of coin from renting those rooms to families and groups for celebrations and meetings. He’d made a bit of coin himself playing with other members of the Magdeburg Symphony Orchestra at wedding celebrations and other parties.
Johann looked into the various side rooms as he strolled past them. Here and there through his promenade he noticed people that he knew, most of whom were engaged in conversation with others. One or two who caught his eye nodded to him, but none offered to bring him into their immediate circles. But before long he heard the sound of a piano cutting through the hum of voices.
His attention firmly attracted, Johann followed the sound to a corner of the room. Where before he had drifted on the currents of conversation, now he was as a vessel driven by the wind to his destination where he found Marla Linder seated at the keyboard of a piano. It was not a grand piano; not of a length that would compare to the Zenti piano that had been gifted to the emperor by that famed Italian craftsman. Rather, it was of the type called a baby grand by the up-timers. For all that it was smaller, he decided, it had a nice tone.
Frau Marla was playing something very slow, not quite a largo tempo, but not far from it either, with a slow arpeggio in the right and plain chords in the bass, over all of which was a melody that almost sang. It was a simple piece, really; a child’s piece, almost. Yet in her charge it was an offering of lyrical beauty; not exactly understated but a work so bare of disguising adornment that Johann knew that the composer had to have been an up-timer of superlative skill, for no down-timer could have written the harmonies in the piece—not yet, anyway.
Johann’s steps had carried him to stand behind the young woman as she drew the piece to a close with a series of quiet chords in the bass. She finished the last one, and let the resonances of the strings ring out and gradually fade away. At length she lifted her hands from the keyboard and let the strings damp.
“Brava, Marla.” Someone spoke before Johann was able to open his mouth. He focused on the area just to the right of the piano, and saw what looked for all the world to him to be a musical tribunal: Maestro Giacomo Carissimi, master of the Royal and Imperial Academy of Music, was seated in the center, flanked on the right by Master Heinrich Schütz, Kappellmeister to the Vasa court in Magdeburg and on the left by Master Andrea Abati, the noted gentilhuomo from Rome, now a teacher and producer here in Magdeburg.
“Brava,” Maestro Carissimi repeated. His fellow “judges” nodded in agreement.
“Bellissima,” Abati added. His soprano voice never failed to take Johann by surprise. Abati was his first contact with a castrato, and whenever he thought of what had been done to the young boy who grew into Andrea Abati, Johann wanted to fold his hands over his groin in protection. But he had to admit the man had a superlative voice of a most beautiful, almost haunting timbre.
Master Schütz looked beyond Marla. “Ah, there you are, Bach. Come, pull up a chair and join us. Frau Marla has been arguing for some little time now that all arts, but most particularly music, need no reason for their existence but their existence. It seems to become a topic of discussion every time we are at one of these little gatherings. And she has just played this . . . what was the name again, my dear?”
“‘Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia’, otherwise known as the ‘Mondschein‘ or ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, by Ludwig van Beethoven.”
“And when was it written?”
“I believe it was in 1801,” Marla replied with a bit of a grin on her face. Johann had learned that Marla loved to tweak down-time musicians with the thought that so much of this new music that so many of them were having to adjust to came from times that were well beyond their life spans. In truth, his own mind still spun from time to time with the thought.
“So, Master Bach,” Schütz continued, “let us hear your thoughts on the idea.”
Johann started to beg off, but the others encouraged him to join them. At length he settled himself into the chair brought forward from the wall by Franz Sylwester, Frau Marla’s husband.
“Since I have come in in media res, so to speak,” Johann began, “I think it only fair to ask Frau Marla to restate her case.” He gestured with his wine glass—carefully, so as not to spill a drop of what he was coming to think was really an excellent vintage of Aszú. He watched as the young woman straightened on the piano bench and squared her shoulders. She took an obvious deep breath, and began.
“You all know how much I love the music brought back in the Ring of Fire. And you know that I’ve made it my life’s work to spread that music throughout Europe. So I obviously feel some passion about music. I believe that music is its own reward. It used to be called ‘Art for Art’s sake’ in the up-time. There should be no constraints on what can be written or performed, that whatever the mind of a composer can conceive of should be expressed.”
Marla paused for a moment. Johann heard the sound of murmurs, and looked around to see several other guests gathering behind the others. His attention returned to the young woman as she continued. “Music should be performed just because it’s music. It has no function other than to be music, to provide that avenue of enjoyment, to be a balm for the soul. And all things musical should be free, unhampered by requirements to justify their existence. Composers should be able to write what is in their minds and hearts without restrictions from a patron. All people—men, women, boys, girls—should be allowed to perform—to sing or play or dance to the best of their abilities. Music requires no justification. It simply is.”
The murmuring was a little louder now. Johann did not turn his head, but he could see more people gathering behind the Schütz/Carissimi/Abati line.
“So, Master Bach,” Schütz gathered the thread of conversation to himself, and the surrounding eyes as well. “So. How would you respond to that?”
Johann postponed his response, sipping at his wine almost in panic. How to address this question—ah, it must be done with care.
He lowered his glass from his mouth and held it with both hands. “Masters,” he nodded to Carissimi, Schütz and Abati. “Frau Linder,” he nodded to Marla with equal gravity. “It is not a new proposition, I believe. I know my own grandfather said words somewhat like those at least once, and I daresay that if one could call King David, the greatest singer of old, to the witness bar, he would say something alike that. Especially after King Saul threw the spear at him.” A chuckle sounded round the group that was observing. “All those who create beauty feel that beauty is all that is needed. But ‘Quodcumque potest manus tua facere instanter operare,’ as the great preacher said—’Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.'”
Johann raised his glass again and moistened his lips. “I submit to you that music is a created thing, as indeed are all things called art. And as such we as musicians are addressed by that scriptural ordinance. It is not enough that we make music, for in truth we can be lazy and careless and slothful and reckless and devil-may-care about how we do it, just as a farmer or a joiner or a seamstress may be. But when we are, we are guilty of disregarding this stricture: that whatever we do, we should do to the best of our ability.”
Heads nodded around the circle that had gathered as Johann took a slow breath, which he then released just as slowly.
“But, Johann,” Marla turned on the piano bench to face him, “you didn’t talk about why the music should be made. You only talked about how we should make it. That’s not the same thing.” She faced back to the other men. “I still stand by what I said.”
Carissimi looked to Abati, who smiled and shrugged before nodding back toward Carissimi’s right hand. The Italian master then looked to Schütz and made a gesture with a smile of his own. The German sat up straight and harrumphed. Amber Higham came up behind him and placed a hand on his shoulder. Schütz almost absently lifted his empty hand and laid it atop the hand that rested on his shoulder while he directed his gaze toward the up-timer woman.
“Let me attempt to build upon the foundation laid by our young Master Bach. It is indeed true that we who make music should take most seriously that instruction from Ecclesiastes which he mentioned. But you rightly point out that your issue is not about the crafting of music, but more about why music is made. And to discuss that, we must step even farther back; to first principles, as it were.
“Tell me, Frau Marla, who created music?” At her puzzled glance, Schütz smiled. “‘Tis obvious, child. Think back to your lessons: who created all things?”
“God.” Johann watched as Marla’s eyebrows drew down, as if she were suspicious about something.
“Indeed, yes,” Schütz replied as he raised a finger. “First point: the Holy Word says ‘And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it . . . ‘”
Johann nodded, and heard murmurs of agreement from around him.
“So, God created us as we are. Therefore there is nothing that we can do that is outside the boundary of God’s intent. We must assume this includes the ability to make music.” Schütz smiled as another finger was raised. “Second point: why would God do so?” He looked around the people grouped around the discussion. “No one has an answer?” A longer pause. “Oh, come now; one cannot read God’s Word without seeing the commands to praise God, to sing unto the Lord, to play instruments in His praise. So one is therefore forced to the conclusion that at least part of why God created man was for the creation to praise the Creator.”
Johann nodded in acknowledgment of the point, visually echoed by others in the crowd.
The Kappellmeister lifted another finger. “To the third point: is the making of music unique to man?”
Johann raised his eyebrows. He could think of birds making musical songs, but he was not going to interrupt the older master.
“Birds . . . whales . . . maybe wolves . . . ” Marla said thoughtfully.
“Angels,” Franz Sylwester spoke from behind his wife.
Schütz smiled again. “The natural and the supernatural together, eh? But let us first consider the natural.” He pointed a finger at Marla. “We have all of us heard birds making sounds that we call singing, particularly in the spring. But is that singing truly music, or only musical sounds? Is ‘birdsong’ truly music as you think of it, or is it just pleasantly tonal noise?”
Johann watched Marla’s eyebrows draw down again as she spent moments in obvious thought. At length her chin lifted and her brow smoothed. “I guess I have to say that when you look at it like that, it’s not music.”
“And can you say differently about your whales and wolves?”
“Err . . . no,” Marla admitted with obvious reluctance.
“I would agree with that statement,” the Kappellmeister nodded. “I have heard the CD of the ‘whale songs’ in Grantville, and I found it interesting but unmusical.”
“He should listen to John Cage,” someone muttered behind Johann. He turned his head to see a bland smile on the face of Isaac Fremdling.
“I heard that, young Isaac,” Schütz intoned. Johann looked back to see what could only be called a wicked grin on the master’s face, mirrored by the expressions on the faces of Maestros Carissimi and Abati. “And I have heard some of what that man created. I found him both uninteresting and unmusical; außer, to say the least.”
The Kappellmeister returned to his original subject. “Still on the third point, having disposed of the natural, let us turn to the supernatural. We are all of us, up-timers and down-timers alike, conditioned to think of choirs of angels in heaven. But have any of you ever looked at the original languages behind either our good Luther’s translation of the Holy Writ, or the more recent translation authorized by King James of England?”
Johann saw heads shake all around him.
“I am neither a Hebrew scholar nor one of Greek, but I know men who are. And when one fine day I asked them to help me scratch a curious itch about this matter, imagine my astonishment when I discovered that there are passages in Scripture that speak of angels praising God, but none that unequivocally speak of angels singing.”
An astonished murmur ran through the crowd, and Schütz’s wicked grin reappeared. “Doubt me? Then find your own scholars and prove me wrong.”
“I believe there is a verse in Job that might gainsay you, Master Schütz.” The speaker was a portly man dressed in sober clothing.
“Ah, good evening to you, Pastor Cuno. Master Bach, have you met the pastor of St. Peter’s Church? Pastor Tobias Cuno, this is Master Johann Bach, a musician with much promise. Master Bach, Pastor Tobias Cuno.” Johann stood to give a slight bow and shake the hand that was offered him. They exchanged murmured pleasantries. He resumed his seat as the pastor turned back to Schütz.
“Well, Master Schütz? What have you to say about my thesis?”
The older man sobered. “Is that the one that says something like ‘When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy’?”
“Indeed.” There was a note of surprise in the pastor’s voice, and Johann could see his eyebrows had raised.
“I did say that I had consulted scholars,” Schütz said with a smile. “As to the verse, I would say that although ‘the morning stars’ might be interpreted as meaning angels, it also very well may not. After all, the very God that could raise stones to be sons of Abraham and to praise Our Lord would doubtless have no trouble in arranging for stars and planets to sing.” The smile disappeared again, and then he was serious. “But if not outright undeniable truth, it is at least a matter of interpretation, and one can make a case that music is unique to mankind, something given to the descendants of Adam that not even Lucifer or Michael or Gabriel can possess.”
Franz stirred. “The last trump . . . “
“Is a battle call,” Schütz interjected, “not a fanfare. Read the context.”
Amber Higham stirred from behind her husband-to-be, lifting a glass of wine from the tray of one of the attendants and handing it to Heinrich. He cradled it in his hands and took a sip. “Ah, thank you, my dear.” He reached up and patted her hand where it rested on his shoulder, and the glance he gave her left no one in doubt as to the affection of their relationship. “Now then, where were we?”
“You had just finished point the third,” Johann said, leaning forward in the chair.
“Ah, yes. Thank you, Master Johann. Point the fourth,” and another finger was lifted in the air. “This one circles back to the words of Master Johann. Music is a creation, the product of craft and, sometimes, art. Young Isaac,” Schütz said as he directed his gaze past Johann. “Let us bring you into the discussion, since you have found your voice. Is the natural world the creation of God?”
“I believe it to be so,” Isaac returned in a strong voice.
“Is the natural world itself God?”
Johann shook his head as Isaac responded, “No. Although there are pagans who might say so, it strains the bounds of credulity to think so.”
Marla half-lifted a hand. “There were these ecology extremists in the up-time . . . “
Schütz shrugged. “There will be apostates in the future, why not pagans as well?” He looked back to Isaac. “May we then abstract a principle from this that the Creator is not the creation?”
“Aye,” Isaac voiced as murmurs of assent were heard around them.
Schütz sat back in his chair. “Let us pause there for a moment. Frau Marla, have you anything else for us tonight? Something else for piano, or perhaps a song?”
Marla said nothing, but looked down at where her hands rested on the keys of the piano. After a moment, they began to move as if by their own volition. Again, quiet chords, nothing the up-timers would have called flashy. Just as Johann began to wonder what Marla was doing, she smiled and said, “In honor of both the season and the discussion,” then opened her mouth and sang.
The angel Gabriel from Heaven came,
His wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame;
“All hail,” said he, “thou lowly maiden Mary,”
Most highly favored lady,
Johann was struck by the simple beauty of the melody. Anyone with a voice could have sung it. Any child, any mother, any deacon of the church.
“For known, a blessed Mother thou shalt be,
All generations laud and honor thee,
Thy Son shall be Emmanuel, by seers foretold,”
Listening, Johann began to truly understand why Marla’s name was on the lips of everyone in Magdeburg who knew anything about music. Yes, anyone could sing the song; but how many could sing it with such purity? A tone that never wavered, every note absolutely on pitch, there were those who could do that—not least of whom was Signor Abati who was smiling and nodding his head. But the pure lack of ornamentation, the so simple rise and fall, ebb and flow, swell and fade of her voice, so simple and yet so hard. How many could make the song sing as she did?
Then gentle Mary meekly bowed her head,
“To me be as it pleaseth God,” she said;
“My soul shall laud and magnify His holy name,”
Marla’s voice and the piano faded away to an instant of pure stillness. Then the applause broke out from those standing in the circle. Johann gulped the last of his wine so he could set the glass down and join in.
The three masters were smiling; Abati’s face contained an expression that could only be called beatific.
“Oh, very nicely done, Frau Marla,” Schütz said after the applause died down, “very nicely done, indeed.” A brief smile crossed her face as she nodded in response. “Now, where were we?”
“The Creator is not the creation,” Isaac responded.
“Yes. Thank you, Isaac.” He shifted in his chair. “So, the Creator is not the creation. And inasmuch as man is created in the image of God, then the same principle must be held true for man and his works as well, must it not?”
Johann nodded with the others. Truly, the Kappellmeister was speaking well tonight. He hoped someone was making notes, as this discourse was enlightening and deserved to be made public in some manner.
Schütz took a sip of his own wine, then continued in a sober voice. “I have thought much on these things. My time in Grantville was . . . difficult . . . in some ways . . . “
Johann had heard that the master had suffered some form of crisis, but from the expression that he saw on Schütz’s face it must have been severe.
” . . . and it caused me to truly consider music,” Schütz continued, “what it is, and what purpose it serves. And to confirm this thought, what was the purpose of man in God’s creation?”
Johann looked around. No one was willing to answer. He mustered his courage, and said, “To have dominion.”
Schütz flashed a smile toward him. “I perhaps misspoke, in that there are more purposes than one in God’s design for man. Yet Master Bach has named the purpose I sought. Directly after God said ‘Let us make man in our image . . . ‘ He declared that man would be given dominion over all the earth. All the earth; others would say all of creation. Surely that includes music. And as proof, I offer this from the Holy Word: ‘The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in his love, He will joy over thee with singing.'”
“Zephaniah, the third chapter,” Pastor Cuno said thoughtfully. Schütz nodded. Johann pursed his lips and tugged on his beard. He would have to think about that one.
“So if the Lord sings, and we are created in his image, then one can infer that our music is an integral part of being made in the image of God. And here, Frau Marla, is where we perhaps begin to address your thesis—and the dangers contained therein.” Schütz was now sitting up straight, staring at the young woman. “If the purpose of man is to have dominion, and the purpose of music is to praise God the Creator, then we must be very careful.”
Marla was frowning now, Johann noted.
“In and of itself,” Schütz continued, “music is morally neutral. An A-flat is an A-flat, regardless of what produces it or what the type of music in which it is used. It is the words we attach to the music, it is the staging we accompany with it, it is the behavior of those associated with it, that provide a moral valuation. But setting that aside, considering music simply as music as you wish to do in your ideas, we must be very careful.”
He paused for a moment, then lifted one hand palm up. “Music is under dominion, under the control and shaping of man, of the musicians, yes?”
Marla slowly nodded, echoed by others in the group, including Johann.
“But music must never be allowed to have dominion.”
The crowd became absolutely still. Marla, still frowning, at length said, “I don’t understand, Master Heinrich.”
Schütz sighed. “In this time, my dear, and perhaps in your up-time as well, music is all too often considered to be a tool. We who write for the church consider it an aid to worship, something to shape people, to mold them into the appropriate state of mind and emotion.”
Johann nodded to himself. He had heard statements very like that from his old master Johann Hoffman, the Stadtpfeifer in Suhl.
“But there is a danger with that thinking, a danger most insidious. Music can progress from being under dominion to having dominion. When we credit to music capabilities that it, as a created thing, does not inherently possess, then we have crossed a line into idolatry.”
Johann saw an expression of shock on Marla’s face, and knew that its twin was on his own.
“I have spoken with Master Marcus Wendell and Master Atwood Cochran in Grantville at much length, and they have shared knowledge and wisdom with me, showing me how in their history-that-was musicians would turn their art and craft into idols.” A wry grin appeared on the Kappellmeister’s face as he reached up again to touch his Amber’s hands where they rested on his shoulders. “Of course, all the other arts and artists did as well: the painters, the actors . . . ” Amber’s low chuckle filled the space. ” . . . those who made the movies and DVDs. But the fact is, Frau Marla; young Isaac; and you, Master Bach who so strongly pursues the music of a descendant who will never live; when you take a created thing and give it dominion over its creator, when you surrender causality to the music, you have created an idol. And if you do so with music, you have made an idol of the very thing that we are commanded to use to praise God. And that should never be permitted.”
Schütz sat back, and tiredly waved a hand. “Or so this old man thinks.”
Silence reigned in their group. All eyes turned toward Marla, whose face had returned to a frown. “So are you saying that we should do nothing but church music? That only religious music should be performed, that . . . that . . . ” she stuttered, “that the only music acceptable is that which contains the name of God?”
Johann was wondering the same thing as he watched Master Schütz jerk up straight as if shocked by the up-timer’s electricity.
“By no means, child, or I would not be sitting here listening to you play the piano and having this delightful conversation. By no means.” He waved a hand. “Play your Beethoven and your Chopin on the piano. Play your flute. Sing your Irish folk songs with zest and vigor. Let your younger Grantvillers play trumpets and beat drums and march in the parades. Let some of your friends even learn jazz.” The older musician shuddered a little. “Enjoy it all; have fun with it all; but when you make music, make the best music you can make; not for the glory of the music, but for the glory of God. Anything less cheats God and cheapens you. And neither of those things ought be.”
Marla sat still, unmoving, for long moments. Johann watched as Franz at length reached out and touched a finger to her shoulder. She looked up, and Johann could see tears pooling in her eyes. “I have never considered that, Master Heinrich. I will think on what you have said.”
“Indeed,” Giacomo Carissimi said as he stood, followed by Andrea Abati. Johann almost lunged to his own feet, not to be caught sitting at this moment. “You are master of us all, Master Heinrich, and we will think on these things.” He bowed with respect, followed a split-second later by Andrea and Johann. Others in the group murmured support. Carissimi straightened with a wicked grin of his own. “But do not be surprised if the subject raises its head again, Master Heinrich. A good subject loves to be debated.”
“Ach,” Schütz said, waving his hand again. “Enough talk. Let tomorrow’s talk take care of itself. Tonight, make music! Make joyful music! Who has more music for us? Frau Marla?” She shook her head with a laugh, and pointed at Isaac. “Young Isaac! How fitting! What do you bring to us tonight?”
Isaac lifted the violin he had been holding all along, plucked the strings to test their tuning, and said, “With all joy, Master Heinrich, I offer up to you and to God the Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, by Johann Sebastian Bach.”
Without another word, Isaac launched into the great work. Johann sat back, bemused by the fact that Isaac had brought such a work as that. The music poured out, and he soaked it up. Mein Gott, he thought. Such beauty, such power, as much with the violin as I had found in the organ works. This other Johann, who will never be, was so good I cannot even be jealous of him.
As he rose and fell with Isaac’s bow, Johann understood how close he had come to becoming idolatrous. But never again, he decided. I will celebrate the greatness of the music, and the greatness of the man, but most of all the greatness of God who by His grace gave us both the music and the man, and gave us the Ring of Fire by which both the music and the man will be made known.
A commitment formed in his mind, to be observed for the rest of his days.
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AGL’s biggest signing: Diego Maradona’s impact in UAE will not be forgotten
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How the Argentine legend captivated during coaching stints with Al Wasl and Fujairah
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Maradona was on his way to attend the opening of a new stadium in the Chechen capital of Grozny via Dubai. One of the officials from Al Wasl who received Maradona in transit asked him if he would take over as manager. The Argentine is believed to have agreed and then a few days later, made a quick stop in Dubai to be unveiled as the Cheetahs’ new coach for the 2011-12 season. The scene was crazy when more than 10,000 turned up at Al Wasl to welcome the legend in his new role.
The club, in turn, witnessed a true renaissance with many international brands wanting to associate with the legend. One of them was international luxury watchmaker Hublot.
However, a legendary footballer need not be a class act in coaching. With the professional football league in the UAE just a few years young, a new breed of players didn’t mind receiving valuable lessons from a great footballer. The on-field energy was evident during training sessions and matches.
But, the honeymoon was not to last forever as Al Wasl started slipping in their matches. Not to be outdone, Maradona excelled with his off-field antics, including an occasion when he actually manhandled a fan from Al Wasl through the fence — and all because a section of the crowd had taunted his grandson Benjamin, who was with Maradona on the ground.
Slowly, but surely, the lustre eroded. Maradona became real and human. Al Wasl had no real results to justify his signing. The club were forced to prematurely part ways with him. But Maradona refused to depart from Dubai, and Dubai Sports Council stepped in to appoint him as a ‘Sporting Ambassador’.
In his new role, Maradona turned up at sporting events from the Fifa Intercontinental Beach Soccer to the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. And as expected given his charisma, he never stopped entertaining. He turned up at the tennis stadium in Al Garhoud and just before fellow Argentine Juan Martin del Potro came on Centre court, Maradona wowed the fans with his keepie-up skills with a tennis ball.
Maradona's Fujairah struggled and failed to gain promotion to the AGL.
In 2017, Maradona returned for a second coaching stint in the UAE, this time with Fujairah. But, here too, he was unable to see the second-tier minnows gain promotion to the Arabian Gulf League after losing in the play-offs. His mission incomplete, Maradona slowly and quietly slipped away from the UAE footballing scene, but left an indelible mark on the nation.
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Best Left Midfielders in PES 2020
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eFootball Pro Evolution 2020 is already on sale and PES fans are scrambling to assemble a solid squad to win their way through the different modes of the game. To help you make the best possible selections, check out FTBL Gamer’s list of the 10 best left midfielders (LMF) in PES 2020 below:
10. Ryan Fraser
Club: Bournemouth
Ryan Fraser may not have got his dream move to a bigger club over the summer, but his stock has risen immensely over the past few seasons with some jaw-dropping performances for Bournemouth. Last season he scored 7 and assisted 14 in 38 league games. Technically gifted and a good passer of the ball, Frazer’s low centre of gravity helps him wade off defenders as he looks to create chances for his teammates. His impressive stats last season earned him an upgrade to 80 overall rating on PES 2020 with in-game abilities like 89 balance, 89 speed and 82 dribbling.
9. Roberto Pereyra
Club: Argentina
After a string of impressive performances for Watford, Roberto Pereyra managed to break into the Argentine national team set-up. His pace, trickery, and crossing abilities are a powerful weapon that any top side would love to have at its disposal. His versatility means he can play across the midfield as well as on both sides of the wing. He is rated 81 overall in PES 2020 and his in-game stats include 83 dribbling, 84 speed and 85 acceleration.
8. Filip Kostić
Club: Eintracht Frankfurt
After a few promising seasons for Hamburger SV, Filip Kostić earned a loan move to Eintracht Frankfurt where he scored 6 goals and assisted his teammates 10 times in 34 league games last season. He added 4 more goals and 2 assists in Frankfurt’s run to the Europa League semi-final last season. Pacey and technically gifted, Filip Kostić can play either on both sides of the wing or as a forward. His 81 overall rating makes him a decent option for PES fans who would love a pacey winger running up and down on the wings for 90 minutes. His in-game abilities include 81 kicking power, 80 dribbling and 87 speed.
7. Marcos Acuña
Club: Sporting CP
If you’re a big fan of wingers who bump from one end of the pitch to another in a matter of seconds, you’re going to love Acuna. The Argentine winger had a decent season with Sporting CP with a goal and 9 assists to his name. Obviously not the most clinical of wingers, Acuna’s main strength is his stamina and inch-perfect set pieces. Many of his 9 assists came from set-pieces and some excellently whipped cross. In PES 2020, his in-game stats include 82 dribbling, 82 curl and 85 stamina.
6. Raphaël Guerreiro
Club: Borussia Dortmund
Raphaël Guerreiro has grown in leaps and bound since he moved to Borussia Dortmund in the 2016/2017 season. From a reliable defender, Guerreiro’s passing abilities and unbelievable technical skills have seen him deployed as a right-winger. Wherever he’s called to play, you can be sure that the Portuguese star will deliver. PES fans who love versatile players will no doubt enjoy having Guerreiro on their team and with statistics like 85 dribbling, 89 tight possession and 86 lofted pass in PES 2020, it’s easy to see why.
5. Yannick Ferreira Carrasco
Club: Dalian Yifang
When you’re 24 years old and at the top of your game, moving from a huge Spanish club to one in the less prestigious China Super League (CSL) is hardly the most ambitious of transfer moves, but that’s exactly what Carrasco did. As many predicted, it was a move he has come to regret as the riches in Asia haven’t been enough to keep the Belgian footballer happy. However, this hasn’t affected his on-field performances, and Carrasco has been producing dominant performances for his Chinese club. But with the lower overall level of competition in the CSL and his incredible talent, he’s expected to be that good. He has steadily been downgraded over the years in different instalments of Pro Evolution Soccer and this year he has been downgraded to 82. Still, his impressive in-game abilities mean he can still be a great asset to any team. Carrasco’s statistics include 85 kicking power, 86 dribbling and 86 speed.
4. Anthony Martial
Club: Manchester United
Despite bursting onto the scene a few years ago with so much potential, Anthony Martial is still finding his feet in Manchester United. Omitted from his country’s squad that went ahead to win the World Cup in 2018, Martial has had a difficult few years that he’d love to forget. Last season, the winger started 18 games and scored 10 goals while providing 2 for his teammates. His tally is no doubt decent, but such is his talent that many expect more from the winger. His 83 overall rating on PES 2020 is respectable for any 24 year old, while his key in-game abilities include 83 finishing, 87 dribbling and 88 speed.
3. Marco Asensio
Club: Real Madrid
Marco Asensio announced himself to the world two seasons ago after a string of impressive performances for Real Madrid. Skillful, technically gifted and with a quality left foot, the Spanish winger was expected to be the star of Real Madrid last season after Ronaldo left for Juventus. Unfortunately, Asensio and the rest of his teammates had a miserable season that they would like to quickly put behind them. His not so impressive showing last season meant he was downgraded to 83 on PES 2020. His most impressive in-game stats are 89 kicking power, 86 dribbling and 86 speed.
2. Felipe Anderson
Club: West Ham United
After his big-money move to West Ham United, a lot was expected from Felipe Anderson. It seems the pressure got to him as he had a slow start to life in the English Premier League last season. However, the tricky Brazilian winger recovered just in time to produce a spectacular 9 goals and 4 assist in 36 Premier League games. His performances earned him an upgrade to 83 overall with in-game attributes like 84 kicking power, 88 dribbling and 88 speed.
1. Ivan Perisic
Club: Bayern München
Ivan Perisic has been up there amongst the best wingers in the game for some time now. His dribbling skills, crossing, and accurate shooting ability are all a winger needs to excel in his position. After another impressive season for Inter Milan, he finally got his dream move to German giants Bayern München. Despite being 30 years old, he has managed to keep his 84 overall rating from PES 2019. His in-game stats in PES 2020 include impressive abilities like 83 kicking power, 84 ball control and 86 speed.
Every player on this list brings a unique quality to any team they play on. Whether you’re looking for a winger who is a set-piece specialist or you want a versatile option to expand your team’s tactical prowess, you’ll find some great choices on this list of the best left midfielders in Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2020.
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Mayo Clinic states that Peyronie’s disease may cause deformity to the penis. Such deformity may include:
A significant bend in the penis, either upward, downward, or to the side
Shortening of the penis
Indentations in the penis
Narrowing of the penis
An hourglass-like shape to the penis shaft
In addition to the above possible deformities of what Peyronie’s disease looks like, PD disease is often very painful. The pain and deformity may both contribute to a restricted or non-existent sex life and, if untreated, these effects may lead to more significant emotional and psychological conditions.
Causes of Peyronie’s Disease
Healthline states that Peyronie’s disease may be the result of genetics or age. Additionally, acute or chronic trauma to the penis may cause Peyronie’s disease, according to Mayo Clinic. Some of the circumstances where a penile injury may occur include:
During an athletic event, specifically, if an object strikes a man in the penis and causes trauma
During sex, whether the injury results from a single event or repeated trauma over time
Any circumstance where a man’s penis is injured
Whether because of injury or genetic condition, Peyronie’s results in the buildup of plaque and scar tissue in the penis that can cause deformity and resulting pain.
Known Risk Factors for Developing Peyronie’s Disease
According to the Mayo Clinic, several factors may increase a man’s odds of developing Peyronie’s disease. Some of these risk factors include:
Prostate surgery
Health disorders such as Dupuytren’s contracture and other connective tissue disorders
Aging, which can weaken penis tissue and increase a man’s risk of injury
Regardless of the cause of Peyronie’s disease, it’s critical that men seek treatment with minimal side effects.
Choosing the Right Treatment for Peyronie’s Disease
Peyronie’s disease directly affects the penis, which can, in turn, affect romantic relationships that may be essential to a man’s happiness. When Peyronie’s is left untreated, the pain and lack of romantic involvement can lead to more serious conditions.
According to an article published in the Asian Journal of Andrology, the effects that result from Peyronie’s can diminish a man’s psychological and emotional health. A few of the consequences that may be caused by PD disease may include:
Difficulty maintaining a romantic relationship
If men are suffering from Peyronie’s disease, and especially if they developed a more serious condition such as depression, it’s important that they weigh their options for treatment and make the decision that has the lowest risk and greatest potential benefit.
Possible Side Effects of Peyronie’s Disease Surgery
According to the University California San Francisco, surgeries designed to correct Peyronie’s can lead to serious side effects, including:
Impotence, or the inability to get or maintain an erection
Nerve injury, which may also affect a man’s ability to get or maintain an erection
Anesthesia-related complications
A man may not have to put himself at risk of suffering these side effects. There are non-surgical treatment options for treating Peyronie’s disease.
Shockwave Therapy is Safe and Effective Treatment for PD Disease
Shockwave therapy is one non-surgical treatment option for treating Peyronie’s disease and resulting erectile dysfunction. Before choosing shockwave therapy, it’s important that men speak with their doctors to treat any underlying conditions that may have caused their PD. Once they are ready to address the symptoms of Peyronie’s disease, they should consider shockwave therapy.
Shockwave Therapy Uses Soundwaves to Improve Sexual Health
Shockwave therapy consists of low-intensity soundwaves that break down scar tissue in the penis. Shockwave therapy may also increase blood flow while targeting scar tissue, with the end effect being the reduction of any unnatural curvature of the penis. A treatment of this kind may alleviate the symptoms that have characterized a man’s erectile dysfunction to date.
Urologist Daniel Stokes testifies to the effectiveness of shockwave therapy for treating erectile dysfunction in the Cleveland Clinic’s digital publication. He states that shockwave therapy promotes blood growth in the penis that may result in strong, lasting erections. He adds that shockwave therapy has a track record of being both safe and effective in treating erectile dysfunction.
A study published in the International Journal of Impotence Research echoes those findings. The study concludes that most patients with Peyronie’s disease experienced pain relief after undergoing shockwave therapy.
A different study published in Translational Andrology and Urology supports the effectiveness of soundwave therapy as a treatment for Peyronie’s disease.
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Cuban Migrants in Panama to Fly to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Starting Tuesday
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Cuban migrants in Puerto Obaldia, Panama. Photo: tvn-2.com
HAVANA TIMES — The Panamanian government today confirmed the start of the air lift of Cubans from Panama to Mexico on Tuesday, as part of an exceptional and limited solution to the transit of migrants, reported dpa news.
The Panamanian Foreign Ministry released a statement Monday explaining the official position on the transit arrangement for the Cubans, derived from an immigration agreement with the Government of Mexico.
Hundreds of Cubans who entered Panamanian territory from South America are stranded at the border between Panama and Colombia, likewise on the border area between Panama to Costa Rica. The migrants seek to reach the United States and benefit from special immigration laws that benefit Cubans.
The statement said that “the first flights will take place February 23, 24 and 25, with a capacity of 145 people each, from Tocumen International Airport to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.”
The Cubans will travel by bus from Chiriquí the day before their flight. In this regard, the Panamanian Foreign Ministry stated that “the joint efforts of Mexico and Panama are ensuring an agile, orderly and safe migration, while the respecting the migrants human rights.”
“Panama is grateful for the support from Mexico, which led to finding a solution to the humanitarian situation faced by the Cuban migrants,” vulnerable to being exploited by “people traffickers who are offering riskier routes at a high cost,” noted the Panamanian government.
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not totally slacking off!
biology 101, biology and behavior, biology matters, breakfast at speedy's, crime and punishment, europe, europeans, further research is required, homicide, i am SHERlocked, londinium, medieval europe, slacker, violence, what's this hbd business all about anyway?
i have been researching crime and punishment in medieval europe so you don’t have to! (^_^)
remember my last post sneak preview: violence, punishment, outbreeding, and swashbuckling pirates in medieval england? — in which i quoted manuel eisner [pdf]:
“‘Although the long-term expansion of the state and the decline of lethal violence appear to correlate nicely on the surface, a closer look reveals several inconsistencies. Muchembled (1996), for example, points out that the decline of homicide rates in early modern Europe does not appear to correspond with the rise of the absolutist state. Rather, he argues, the example of the Low Countries shows that homicide rates declined in polities where centralized power structures never emerged and the political system much more resembled a loose association of largely independent units. Neither does intensified policing nor the harsh regime of public corporal punishment, both probably the most immediate manifestations of state power in any premodern society, seem to aid understanding of the trajectories into lower levels of homicide rates.'”
well, i’ve now got that muchembled 1996 article — “Elias und die neuere historische Forschung in Frankreich” — and i’ll post about that as soon as i (*ahem*) quit slacking off (and find my german-english dictionary). (~_^)
some other articles i picked up (and posts to look forward to):
– Norwegians and Europe: The Theme of Marriage and Consanguinity in Early Norwegian Law [source]
– Coercion, vengeance, feud and accomodation: homicide in medieval Iceland [source]
– Law and the peasant: rural society and justice in Carolingian Italy [source]
– Law and order in the age of Theoderic the Great (c.493-526) [source]
also guess this building! and breakfast at speedy’s. (^_^)
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chrisdavies09 04/29/2014 at 12:19 PM
Was just there yesterday before I got my train from St Pancras back to Leicester. It’s open until 8pm and I did consider going in as I had some time to kill. Maybe we passed each other!
Luke Lea 04/30/2014 at 11:05 AM
You are an amazingly indefatigable researcher once you get a bone in your mouth. My hat will always be off to you.
Maio2 05/02/2014 at 7:35 AM
@HBDChick & fellow readers
HAPPY 2ND ANNUAL HBD DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPREAD THE WORD, MAY 2ND IS HBD DAY.
James Thompson 05/04/2014 at 2:09 PM
Dear HBD Chick, In approvingly describing your work I recounted your testing of the theory and said to Mrs Dr Thompson “So the genes for violence were lost due to capital punishment, or transportation”. “What are the figures for Australia?” she said. So, you will need to spend another week in The British Library. Best of luck with your researches.
Bret 05/05/2014 at 7:07 AM
Peripheral areas, especially islands, tend to breed for strong criminality and powerful resistance to state authority. I’ve noticed this in myself and my mother’s family, most of whom were pirates.
hbd chick 05/07/2014 at 12:36 PM
@james – “In approvingly describing your work I recounted your testing of the theory and said to Mrs Dr Thompson ‘So the genes for violence were lost due to capital punishment, or transportation’. ‘What are the figures for Australia?’ she said.”
well, if you take a look at the chart from pinker/eisner (from previous post) which shows the decline in homicide rates in europe beginning in the 1300s, you’ll see that by far most of the decline happened in the medieval period, well before the transportations to australia — or even north america — happened. so i think we have to look to that period for the “pacification” of nw europeans and not so much the 1600s-1800s. if anything, there’s an interesting spike in homicide rates right around 1800 — whether that has to do with the increasing population or better records or something else altogether (or all of the above), i don’t know.
anyway, not that many murderers were actually transported to australia (or north america). from l.l. robson’s The Convict Settlers of Australia: An Enquiry Into the Origin and Character of the Convicts Transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land 1787-1852, we know that out of the 125,000 transportees which he surveyed (the total number of transportees to australia was approximately 165,000 — a total of 60,000 was sent to north america, btw):
– men outnumbered women six to one (a total of 24,960 female convicts was sent to australia)
of the male convicts:
– 54% were transported for unspecified larcenies
– 15% for burglary or housebreaking
– 11.3% for stealing domestic or farm animals (as distinct from poaching game)
– 6% for “theft of wearing apparel”
– 4% were sentenced for “offences of a public nature,” for instance “coining and uttering” bad money (2%) or treason (1.5%) or membership in trade unions or (the lord save us and bless us!) irish secret societies (ca. 1 convict in 5 was tried in ireland, most of them in dublin)
– a little more than 3% were transported for “offences against the person,” which ranged from assault, rape, kidnapping and a few statistically negligible sodomy convictions to manslaughter and murder
so something less than 3% out of ca. 106,000 convicts were murderers. if we call it 1%, that’s just 1060 murderers transported to australia in a 65 year period (16 per year). and 20% of those were irish!
so, no – the transportation of murderers out of england probably contributed very little to the pacification of the english. like i said above, that happened earlier in the middle ages. i think the increasing use of capital punishment (in some periods, the normans favored castration, btw — same or similar effect prolly) must’ve affected the average nature of the population. however, as i said in my previous post, historians of crime have a hard time explaining why homicide rates dropped so significantly in the medieval period in the netherlands where there *wasn’t* a strong state which could impose capital punishment on the population, while on the other hand in medieval northern italy where there *were* strong states meting out capital punishment, the homicide rates *didn’t* drop. something else must’ve been going on in the nw corner of europe. i’ll be posting more about this going forward, so…stay tuned!
@james – “So, you will need to spend another week in The British Library.”
would’ve liked to have moved in if i could! they even have good food at the cafe there. and free wifi! what more does one need? (^_^)
@chris – “Maybe we passed each other!”
oh, no! that’s a sad thought! =( i was there in the morning on monday (the 28th). and by “morning” i mean right around noon. (~_^)
@luke – “You are an amazingly indefatigable researcher once you get a bone in your mouth. My hat will always be off to you.”
awww, shucks! (*^_^*) thanks, luke! (^_^)
@maio2 – “HAPPY 2ND ANNUAL HBD DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPREAD THE WORD, MAY 2ND IS HBD DAY.”
oh, cripes! i forgot. ‘course i always forget our wedding anniversary, too…. (*^_^*)
pseudoerasmus 05/08/2014 at 11:56 AM
We know so much, and potentially so much more, about the social characteristics of European and Asian migrants to the Americas & Australasia & southern Africa etc. But I always wonder about where in the home social distribution most of the African slaves to the Americas would have fit. We have genetic data on New World African diaspora populations, but not much social information. Traditional interpretations are that there were captives of war from the interior, but I was arguing with Sam Pritchard about this and I don’t think that view is so neatly captured by the linguistic data we have, nor by the pattern of current income with slave-exporting areas ( https://twitter.com/pseudoerasmus/status/461485768028848128/photo/1 ) I wish we could do a kind of Albion’s Seed for the New World African diaspora. Is the difference between Jamaica and Haiti mostly in the Euro admixture rate ? Or is there a difference in the African source population that also matters ? So many such questions to be asked…
@pseudoerasmus – ” I wish we could do a kind of Albion’s Seed for the New World African diaspora.”
yes! that’s something i’d really like to see, too. kinda working on that in the background here — from an historical+genetics p.o.v. there *are* some data out there.
pseudoerasmus 05/08/2014 at 12:42 PM
I’m seriously considering doing a global income database for the Indian & Chinese diasporas. I even mentioned HBDchick as my inspiration during a previous airing of this view… http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com/2014/05/lci14-figueredo-cognitive-ecology-of.html?showComment=1399570006319#c7988776132436996142
pseudoerasmus 05/08/2014 at 1:14 PM
For the Indian & Chinese diasporas, not just income data, but also at the very least ethnicity/language, state/province of origin, & educational info. Of course IQ and caste (for India) and clan affiliation (for Chinese) would be really nice but that’s just asking for manna from heaven.
On the African diaspora in the New World I also want to compile at least income data, the language registers and the genetic data are probably the best we can do about specifying source regions in Africa.
by the way if you can read Portuguese & French you wouldn’t believe the wealth of information out there about the African diaspora. Did you know there was a Muslim slave uprising in Bahia in 1835 ?
dearieme 05/13/2014 at 4:05 AM
“(ca. 1 convict in 5 was tried in ireland, most of them in dublin)”: it was notoriously difficult to get Irish juries to convict – those must have been very stupid, or very guilty, criminals.
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Contraceptive Jewelry Administers Hormones via Backings
by Bruce Brown | April 29, 2019 | Health | 0 comments
We haven’t written much about wearables, carryables, or health tech apps used for contraception or family planning. Due to controversy regarding reported effectiveness rates, we raised a journalistic eyebrow when the FDA cleared the Natural Cycles fertility awareness smartphone app. Reliance on abstinence or the use of secondary means of pregnancy prevention during fertile days also colored our reaction to Cycle Technologie’s Dot (Dynamic Optimal Timing) fertility app.
A new wearable contraceptive patch in development at the Georgia Institute of Technology may have promise, although to date it has not been tested with humans. In a report detailing proof-of-concept research published in the Journal of Controlled Release, initial testing with transdermal patches showed that jewelry in contact with the skin such as earrings, wristwatches, rings, or necklaces can deliver hormones in amounts sufficient to prevent pregnancy. The Georgia Tech researchers applied conventional transdermal patch technology to make patches small enough to fit on an earring backing. Testing was performed with pigs and hairless rats. The patches have three layers: an impermeable adhesive layer that sticks to the earring backing, the hormone payload in solid form, and a layer that consists of a skin adhesive that allows the hormone transfer. The testing with both species consisted of wearing the patches for 16 hours a day and removed for 8 hours daily. The results show that while the hormone levels of levonorgestrel dropped when the patches were off, the amount of hormone remaining in the bloodstream was sufficient.
According to Georgia Tech researchers, the patch on the jewelry would likely need to be changed weekly. Work on the contraceptive patches initially focused on applications in developing countries with limited health care service access. Further thinking now leads the team to believe contraceptive jewelry could have a global appeal for women.
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Home Statistics Filmstars Martino Rivas Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics
Martino Rivas Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics
Martiño Rivas López
Martino Rivas headshot
Vimianzo, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Rivas did his schooling at a high school in London.
He pursued audiovisual communications from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
Father – Manuel Rivas (Writer, Poet and Journalist)
Mother – María Isabel López Mariño
Siblings – Sol Rivas (Sister)
Others – María Rivas (Aunt)
He is managed by Dalzell & Beresford Ltd.
Martino Rivas dated –
Sara Casasnovas – Martino and actress Sara Casasnovas were in a relationship and split in 2008.
Irene Escolar (2008-Present) – Martin and actress Irene Escolar first met on the sets of Los girasoles ciegos or The Blind Sunflowers (2008). The two are still in a relationship currently.
Martino Rivas and Irene Escolar
Grey / Green
His Eyes
Speaks Spanish with a Galician accent
His body specifications may be –
Arms / Biceps – 14¼ in or 36 cm
Martino Rivas shirtless for TenMag’s May 2014 Issue
8 (US) or 41 (EU)
In 2010, Martino modelled for Spanish fashion designer Purificación García’s Spring / Summer collection with Ángela Molina.
He is best known for playing the character of Marcos Novoa Pazos in the Antena 3 TV series The Boarding School or El internado from 2007 to 2010 and for his role in the film The Blind Sunflowers or Los girasoles ciegos (2008) as Lalo.
His first feature film was Los girasoles ciegos or The Blind Sunflowers (in English) in 2008 as Lalo.
Before that, he was already seen in a short film Puzzle in 2004 where he played the role as a boy.
Rivas started his acting career as a child actor in 1998 with the Spanish TV series Mareas vivas or Live Tides where he appeared as Dani.
First Stage Performance
His debut stage performance was in Drácula (2011) as Jonathan Harker.
Martino Rivas in a still from a film
Martino Rivas Facts
He supported the ONG Childhood Without Limits Foundation in 2007 with Yon González and Marta Torné.
In 2010, Rivas was the spokesperson for Spanish fashion designer Purificación García.
In 2010, he modeled for renowned Spanish calendar Larios de la Moda.
He can fluently speak Spanish, Galician, and English and faced criticism for speaking Spanish with a Galician accent.
He was ranked at the 8th position among the Sexiest Spanish Actors in the 20 minutos list in 2011.
Martino Rivas
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Home Sports Stars Male Tom Dillmann Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics
Tom Dillmann Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics
Tom Dillmann Quick Info
Height 5 ft 10 in
Date of Birth April 6, 1989
Zodiac Sign Aries
Spouse Nicolle Taketa Schneider
Tom Dillmann is a French professional racing driver who has participated in the Formula E World Championship, the GP2 Series, the FIA World Endurance Championship, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race. He is best known for being the first French driver to win the German Formula Three Championship (2010). He had also triumphed at the 2016 Formula V8 3.5 Series despite achieving only 2 wins in the season’s 18 races.
Tom Aston Dillmann
Tom Dillmann as seen in an Instagram Post in June 2015 (Tom Dillmann / Instagram)
Mulhouse, France
Professional Racing Driver
Tom Dillmann as seen in an Instagram Post in July 2018 (Tom Dillmann / Instagram)
Father – Gerard Dillmann (Former Racing Driver, Team Manager, Mechanic)
Car Number
16 – Formula V8 3.5
8 – Formula E
Formula E Teams
Tom has raced for –
Venturi Grand Prix (2016-17)
Venturi Formula E Team (2017-18)
NIO Formula E Team (2018-19)
75 kg or 165.5 lbs
Tom has dated –
Nicolle Taketa Schneider (2017-Present) – Tom began dating Brazilian model Nicolle Taketa Schneider in 2017. He proposed to her in May 2018 and the couple got married in September 2018.
Tom Dillmann and Nicolle Taketa Schneider posing in front of the Eiffel Tower on Valentine’s day in 2020 (Tom Dillmann / Instagram)
Lean physique
Short-cropped, wavy hair
Often sports a light stubble
Thick eyebrows
Has a mole on his neck
Tom Dillmann as seen in an Instagram Post in May 2019 (Tom Dillmann / Instagram)
Tom Dillmann Facts
He began his racing career with go-karts in the minime and junior classes. Tom competed with karts between 2000 and 2002 and won a regional title. He also achieved 4th position in the French national karting championship.
Tom made his single-seater professional debut in 2004 at the Formula Renault 1600 Belgium series where he competed for his family-run racing unit named Tom Team. He finished the season placed 5th in the overall drivers’ standings.
He had to miss the opening race of the 2007 Formula 3 Euro Series after a crash during pre-season testing had left him nursing a broken sternum and vertebra. Tom returned to the competition despite the severity of his injuries and managed to finish the season in 9th place.
In the 2009 German Formula 3 Championship, he finished in 6th place despite competing in only 6 races.
He had finished the 2012 GP2 Series in 15th position and was the highest-placed driver among those who did not compete in the entire season.
Featured Image by Tom Dillmann / Instagram
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Atmospheres for Artists & Art Lovers
Cultural Centre Mark
The Cultural Centre ● Photo: Ona Janzen
A little over five years ago, the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre — or The Cultural Centre as it’s more commonly known— was opened to the public. If you stand right in the middle of it, you have the main street of Katoomba to the east, houses to the west, the former power station (and current Carrington Hotel) to the south, and before you in the north is the endless expanse of the Jamison Valley. It’s quite a sight, and makes this venue the literal centre of culture in the region.
Heath began working with the Cultural Centre team in 2017 on a variety of projects, largely focused on formalising venue’s identity, assisting with brand positioning, copywriting, and designing new communications materials for both print and digital. This work is ongoing, currently undertaking live pressure tests with the team as the new look and feel is rolled out.
The Local Context
Built on the highest point in Katoomba with panoramic views of the World Heritage area, The Cultural Centre links the main shopping precinct on Katoomba Street through enhanced pedestrian connections. Being the first publicly owned and managed, purpose designed facility of the arts to be constructed in the Blue Mountains, it is expected that the development will significantly contribute to the improvement of the economic health and cultural vitality of the Blue Mountains and the surrounding regions.
To date, the venue has hosted some of the most significant exhibitions and events that the region has ever seen, including a David Hockney retrospective, and a stunning collection of land art from the John Kaldor Family Collection. Additionally a wide range of local talent is regularly displayed throuought the year.
Exhibiting Artist: Nicole Welch
Exhibiting Artist: Richard Long
Exhibiting Artist: David Hockney
Exhibiting Artist: Cicada Press
Exhibiting Artist: Karen Miranda Abel
The Cultural Centre isn’t just a gallery though. In fact the City Art Gallery is just one facet. Contained within the same building is also the World Heritage Exhibition (a permanent and interactive A/V installation), the Katoomba Library, the Cultural Centre store and cafe, as well as variety of viewing platforms, gardens, and sculptural works located on the grounds As such, Heath’s work quickly expanded into developing a comprehensive branding system that would encompass all these different touchpoints. Born from the new “square” logo came a bespoke set of symbols for each related venue and event type, under the umbrella “Blue Mountains Cultural Spaces”
Cultural Centre Logo
Blue Mountains Cultural Spaces
Among the many challenges of this project were the fact that a colour palette was mandated by the local council (who oversee operations) and the fact that the new identity had to co-exist with the old, as in some cases it will still be used in various forms, including sigange, for the time being. Despite these restrictions, Heath set about bringing in new clarity and sophistication for how the venue thinks and talks about itself.
Cultural Centre Information Flyer
Exhibition Opening Flyer
As part of this branding and strategy work, Heath comissioned regular collaborator Ona Janzen to take a new suite of images of the venue and its activities, which the Cultural Centre team can then use in promotional campaigns and social media.
● Photo: Ona Janzen
Local wares at the store
Gallery Cafe
Among the many tools and templates that Heath created for The Cultural Centre team are a new website, merchandise design, social media templates, and pieces of copy that speak to the local context and flavour of this venue.
Website Homepage
Social Media Templates
Exhibition Billboard
Merchandise - Tote Bag
Merchandise - T Shirt
Heath’s work with the Cultural Centre continues and is currently focused on the Centre’s membership program and community engagement.
World Heritage Exhibition ● Photo: Ona Janzen
The Cloud Deck ● Photo: Ona Janzen
bluemountainsculturalcentre.com.au
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Designing writing tasks by Roger Hunt
‘And mother bear enquired as to who had been eating her porridge’:
designing writing tasks
By Roger Hunt
With the possible exception of art forms such as poetry, all authentic writing is written with a particular reader in mind and has a specific purpose. The intended readership and purpose of the piece of writing determines the linguistic style of the text and the sort of inclusions that would normally be expected to be present.
For example a magazine article about dolphins will differ markedly from an academic paper on the same subject; business letters are usually written in a formal style and include a number of formulaic expressions that would not be found in an informal email to a friend. Newspaper articles on a particular news item differ widely from paper to paper depending on the perceived readership – hence one paper might describe a particularly hot summer day as a ‘scorcher’, while another may describe it as an ‘exceptionally warm day’.
Readers expect certain conventions to be followed when they read a text: business people expect a letter to be addressed to the reader as ‘Dear Sir or Madam’, they expect an introductory opening in appropriate style and they expect brevity and clarity in the content of the letter. The reader of a newspaper article expects a headline then a concise description of what happened followed by further detail which the reader decides to read or not depending on personal interest in the topic or the interest created by the opening lines. Newspaper readers do not expect to see a lot of background detail before getting to the ‘news’ of the item: this always comes first.
Even in children’s stories there are strict conventions. For example the use of reported speech, the past perfect continuous and some of the lexis in the following from Goldilocks and the three bears is wrong:
‘And mother bear enquired as to who had been eating her porridge’ (CF: ‘Mummy bear said: “Who’s been eating my porridge?” ‘). Writing for children is in the here and now, or ‘once upon a time’ at least, and uses direct speech.
In other words texts are written to conform to a particular genre, with a particular type of reader in mind and with a specific purpose whether this be to inform, to complain, to invite or to thank.
However this is frequently not the case with writing tasks set in ELT classrooms. Such ‘tasks’ as ‘Describe a recent holiday’, ‘What would you do if you won the lottery?’ and ‘Describe a childhood experience’ are common but do not take account of a number of issues such as:
Who is the intended reader?
What sort of style is the writer to adopt?
What sort of information should be included?
What should the text length be?
What is the purpose of the text?
Does the student have anything to say on the topic?
These questions also impact on the marking of a piece of student work. One common criterion for assessment is task achievement, however, the examples cited above do not have a specific purpose therefore it is impossible to say whether or not this criterion has been achieved. Another criterion is the appropriacy of the language used; however, as no genre style has been indicated it is impossible to assess this criterion. At best a marker might focus on such things as grammatical accuracy and spelling, although a task such as ‘What would you do if you won the lottery?’ might elicit little more than something resembling a shopping list and such a list could be written with equal accuracy by an intermediate student as by an advanced level student. Therefore what is expected and what is being tested or assessed in terms of grading is unclear.
A model of a valid writing task
Background: this task was designed for a multi-lingual group of young adult students at upper intermediate level studying to take the IELTS examination in the near future with the intention of entering a British university. The group have studied a number of different text types and the linguistic conventions in each including pseudo-scientific reports and articles such as those found in publications such as National Geographic; news articles on current issues from different newspaper types; formal letters in the context of financial and general business English and informal letters and emails. They have also studied examples of academic writing such as discursive essays, reports describing processes and conventions such as sentence types in paragraphs and punctuation.
“What are the arguments for and against children learning one or more foreign languages from the age of seven? Is it better to learn one foreign language fluently or to have a superficial understanding of three or four? Refer to how and when you learned languages other than your own mother tongue. The text you write is intended for publication in a Sunday newspaper supplement and should be similar in style to the text in the reading test above.”
NB: The section written in italics above is particularly important as the students had just read a text on this topic which provided them with ideas on the sort of things they could include (as opposed to having to only use their imaginations). It was also a reminder of the genre or text style they should use in their own texts.
Rational underlying task:
The genre and intended readership is clear and a model has been provided.
The task has a purpose in as much as conclusions must be drawn.
A wide range of language is required for the task. This includes discursive and narrative features.
A word limit is given.
The task does not rely on imagination: the students all have backgrounds in language learning and they have been provided with discussion points in the text they read prior to this writing task.
Marking criteria:
Task achievement
Appropriacy of language used for the genre specified
General cohesion and coherence
Conformity to conventions such as sentence types used and paragraphing
Spelling and punctuation where misuse of these interferes with comprehension
Range of language structures and lexis
Conformity to word count
More attention should be paid to the design of writing tasks we set for our students. These should be valid tasks in terms of clarity in genre style and the intended readership; the task should have a purpose or outcome; it should require an appropriate range of structure and lexis; the task should not rely on imagination which could disadvantage some learners who may have little or nothing to say on a topic; a word limit should be set and the students should be clear on the criteria the teacher uses to evaluate and assess their finished work.
There is nothing wrong with students engaging in writing for its own sake – some may well be poets or budding novelists. However, the majority of our students will probably need to write text to get them through university or business, therefore we should set tasks which reflect these needs and ensure we teach these features as well as testing them.
Roger Hunt is Director of Education at International House Barcelona and author of the on-line teacher training course in teaching writing skills offered by the Barcelona school.
Please go to http://www.ihes.com/bcn/tt/online/writing.html
Genre matters in academic writing by Thomas Baker
Teaching Analytical Writing: A Scaffolded Approach – by Kam Yin Wu
Examinator Column: Building Reading Skills – by David Petrie
Doing Task-based Teaching
Examinator Column: Helping Learners with Exam Writing – by David Petrie
Back to Issue 28: Spring 2010 of the IH Journal of Education and Development.
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How (and when) to take sides and still be a good collaborator
dannywong
leadership, management, team collaboration
Conflict curtails productivity. In the U.S., employees spend 2.8 hours per week dealing with conflict at work, according to CPP Global’s Human Capital Report. But its negative effects do not end there. Heated discussions tend to demoralize staff and lead to increased employee turnover. After an argument, animosity and distrust can loom. In all-too-common worst-case scenarios, discussions are brought to a standstill and the main issues meant to be addressed are never taken care of.
Sometimes divisive arguments can’t be solved diplomatically. Instead, an iron fist may be needed to ensure productivity doesn’t grind to a screeching halt. Realizing that, I reached out to entrepreneurs and managers to ask the question: “When is it appropriate to actually pick sides?”
Here’s what they have to say.
Leadership over diplomacy
“Always pick a side,” says Ursula Lauriston, editor-in-chief of Capitol Standard. “The only time a manager doesn’t need to pick a side is when the conflict is of a personal nature. At that time, the manager may have to explain that such things need to be left outside of the workplace. However when conflict does arise during projects regarding who’s in charge of what and who finishes what, you absolutely have to pick a side or a direction.” Many times, a simple argument can cause people to either doubt their abilities or to protest by stopping their work. In those situations, leaders are tasked to make a decision.
Lauriston adds, “Everyone is looking to you to steer the ship, and picking sides is absolutely part of charting the course of the project and the business. I have found that the person who may look like they lost out won’t hold a grudge (at least not for long).”
Businesses win when their management teams address issues quickly. Often, failure to act allows sparring team members to let bad emotions build up. “Your team will be more frustrated and have less morale if the leader never makes any hard and fast decisions,” says Lauriston. “Being in this position is a great burden, but a good team understands that and will want to move forward for the good of the project.”
Thinking logically, not emotionally
At 12 Labs, CEO Durga P. Pandey chooses sides all the time. “The choosing is based not on my affection for one party, but on what is reasonable, logical and leads to progress,” he says. Emotions can cause people to act irrationally. Leaders entering an argument must remain impartial and think practically.
“Endless arguments are really time wasting and I’d rather choose a side and make a quick mistake than allow the fear of discomfort to stop me from adopting one point of view over another,” Pandey says. “Also, it sends a clear signal that I’m not there to please everyone, but to create a successful growing business.”
Building bridges instead of burning them
Of course, not everyone is convinced that company leaders should intervene with a final decision. Andrew Thomas, co-founder of SkyBell, argues, “In the absence of clear cut conclusions, I’ve found that crucial conversations demand that we elevate above choosing sides, and instead focus on mutual purpose and mutual respect. As a leader, people look to us to resolve arguments by staying in the middle, and focusing on nobler goals like protecting culture, purpose and holding space for employees to feel safe to grow and express.”
By reminding everyone about their shared values, team members have the opportunity to make more reasonable, goal-oriented decisions.
Remembering the marathon
In some instances, Corey Blake, founder and president of Round Table Companies, has been the catalyst for conflict at the office. Blake admits, “At times, I’ve been the one pitting people against one another. As a creative agency, quality and deadlines work against one another. At one point, I asked my director of ops to reign in our executive editor’s team. My request valued deadlines over creative quality and put them at opposite ends of the rope pulling in different directions. That request created terrible tension and demoralized everyone.”
Finally, Blake realized that was not a winning strategy, so he tried a different method. “We had to take the time to slow down, deeply listen, and then find a new approach that put them on the same team, not opposing teams. That was the right choice.”
Leaders should pick a side when the best solution is obvious and eschew conflict when personal agendas are the root cause. On the other hand, some entrepreneurs argue that all parties need to come to the same conclusion to maintain strong working relationships and guarantee the success of future collaborations. Just remember that a common misconception about collaboration is that collaboration equals democracy. It doesn’t. So, when an office debate derails productivity, a leader should step in and take action by making a decision or coordinating initiatives that help team members reach an agreement.
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Danny Wong is an entrepreneur, marketer, and writer. He is the co-founder of Blank Label (an award winning menswear company focusing on luxury made-to-measure garments) and does marketing at Grapevine (a platform that drives eCommerce, helping retailers partner with YouTube celebrities). Tweet him @dannywong1190
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Business and Product Overview / Presentation
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Invest In SaaS
In this episode, Mike Watts (@mike100w) joins us for a 1-on-1 interview on the SaaS District podcast.
Mike is an experienced entrepreneur who has 6 startup companies under his belt including founding three consecutive multi-million dollar companies in the last 10 years. He has successful exits from three companies including one for over $6 million, and he had a business partnership with Shark Tank famous: Daymond John.
He currently serves as Founder and CEO of LoveHandle, a fast-growing American manufacturer of custom smartphone grips. His products which have been featured on Good Morning America, QVC, HSN, The Today Show and sold through major retailers such as Walmart, CVS, Home Depot, Lowe’s, RiteAid, Office Depot and more.
Mike is also a regular keynote speaker for entrepreneur and inventor group, a guest professor at Texas AM University’s entrepreneur program in College Station, a 2-time winner of the Aggie 100 Award for fastest growing companies and has been listed on the Fortune 5000. In today’s interview Mike shares his tips and experience on how to overcome the market’s most challenging scenarios.
During this interview we cover:
Challenges when starting off as an entrepreneur
Sourcing and manufacturing a product during a crisis
Finding a reliable supplier for your product
Increasing the odds for success
Finding a valuable investor/mentor
Steps on overcoming the “perfect” idea
Validating your business model
Dealing with competition
Links and mentions:
LoveHandle’s Website: https://www.lovehandle.com/
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British Designer Ilse Crawford Lists London Flat For $1.6M
British interior designer Ilse Crawford’s private sanctuary just hit the market for $1.6 million. Situated in the heart of London’s lively Borough neighborhood, the flat, designed in collaboration with Vincent Van Duysen and 6a Architects, is on the third floor of a converted Victorian warehouse. Here’s a peek inside the stunning space.
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UN Urges World Action to Prevent More Hunger Deaths in Four Countries
28 April 2017, Rome – The leaders of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have called on the international community to urgently step up action to prevent further hunger deaths in four countries stalked by famine: north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
Extreme hunger is hitting north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Photo: FAO
“Many people have already died,” FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said at a briefing on the sidelines of FAO’s Council – the executive arm of FAO’s governing body.
“Peace is of course the key to ending these crises. But even in times of conflict, there is much we can do to fight hunger and avoid famine… I visited Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria and saw myself how powerful agricultural support can be in a humanitarian crisis,” he said.
A famine has been formally declared in parts of South Sudan, while north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen are on the brink of famine. Combined, 30 million people are grappling with finding enough food each day.
“We need to reach hungry people to prevent them from dying,” said WFP’s new Executive Director David Beasley.
“We have the strength, logistical capacity and technology to get the job done. What we need is access to the people who are on the brink of famine and resources, now not later. Without this support, we will have to make life-challenging decisions over who will receive food and who will not.”
The heads of FAO and WFP stressed that both agencies’ famine response operations are severely underfunded, and there must be an immediate and substantial increase in resources to save lives and livelihoods.
Conflict is the common thread across the four affected countries. FAO and WFP are working quickly and closely in these emergency zones to prevent famine spreading further.
For example, in South Sudan, FAO and WFP are part of an inter-agency rapid response that is bringing life-saving food, fishing and vegetable-growing kits, and other emergency services to hard-to-reach communities gripped by famine.
In north-eastern Nigeria, the two agencies are collaborating to ensure people facing hunger receive both food assistance to meet their immediate needs and food production assistance to grow their own food.
Food production kits cost less than $90 but can provide enough food for a family of eight for six months. (SOURCE: FAO).
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Paul Foot on Kincora Boys’ Home, and Recent Kincora Articles
Posted: August 1, 2014 | Author: Ian Pace | Filed under: Abuse, History, Politics, Westminster | Tags: chris moore, colin wallace, ken livingstone, kincora, kincora boys' home, mike nesbitt, paul foot | 6 Comments
Many voices have been raised in the midst of the plans for an abuse inquiry rightly insisting that the many unanswered questions about the dreadful abuse scandal at the Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast should also be addressed.
At a later date, I will collate in chronological order a wide range of newspaper articles past and present on Kincora; for now, one should look at the extensive collection at the Spotlight blog, and an equally important collection of pieces at the Needle blog, not least in terms of much material relating to former London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s comments on the affair. On recent calls, I would strongly recommend the below articles, not least for the highly principled words on video (in the Belfast Telegraph article from July 15th) of Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt.
Leo McKinstry, ‘Fear of child abuse cover up secret dossier at the heart of establishment’, Daily Express, July 3rd, 2014. (with comments on Anthony Blunt and Kincora)
Kincora should be part of UK inquiry into child abuse says Amnesty, BBC News Northern Ireland, July 8th, 2014.
Chris Kilpatrick, ‘Kincora: MI5 ‘must hand over files on abuse at east Belfast boys’ home’, Belfast Telegraph, July 9th, 2014.
‘Butler-Sloss abuse inquiry ‘would have led to Kincora”, BBC News Northern Ireland, July 14th, 2014.
‘Kincora: Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt joins calls for inquiry into abuse at boys’ home’, Belfast Telegraph, July 15th, 2014.
Chris Page ‘Kincora victim: ‘NI home should be part of UK child abuse inquiry’, BBC News Northern Ireland, July 15th, 2014.
Chris Moore, ‘Why we need a proper investigation into Kincora’, Sunday World, July 16th, 2014. (also mentions Blunt, and claims about the late Mountbatten).
‘Kincora: Keith Vaz calls for east Belfast home to be included in UK child abuse investigation’, BBC News Northern Ireland, July 17th, 2014.
Liam Clarke, ‘Kincora scandal: I will reveal the secrets, says ex-Army officer Colin Wallace’, Belfast Telegraph, July 17th, 2014.
Eamonn McCann, ‘Victims of abuse in North still waiting for justice’, Irish Times, July 17th, 2014.
‘Colin Wallace: Any Kincora inquiry ‘must have full access”, BBC News Northern Ireland, July 20th, 2014.
Ciaran Barnes, ‘Paisley’s dead pastor friend linked to Kincora abuse’, Belfast Telegraph, July 21st, 2014.
Eamonn McCann, ‘MI5’s murky role in Kincora scandal yet to be exposed’, Irish Times, July 24th, 2014.
Henry McDonald, ‘State can’t ignore abuse at Kincora Boys Home under secret watch’, Belfast Telegraph, July 29th, 2014.
Mike Browne, ‘Former MI5 officer says agency buried sexual abuse of boys at Kincora home’, Irish Mirror, July 31st, 2014.
Kincora abuse investigation stopped by MI5 says ex-army officer’, BBC News Northern Ireland, August 1st, 2014.
See also this guest blog post by Brian Merritt on Sir Maurice Oldfield, Sir Michael Havers and Kincora.
There are two standard texts on Kincora. One is Chris Moore’s The Kincora Scandal: Political Cover-Up and Intrigue in Northern Ireland, with foreword by Clifford Smyth (Dublin: Marina Books, 1996), which can be accessed by those with Scribd access here. The other is an earlier text, Paul Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace? (London: Macmillan, 1989), a section from which I earlier posted here. Here I include all the passages from the book specifically relating to Kincora.
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Sales and profits dive at Richemont but business starts to bounce back
The big news around Richemont this week may have been its major investment in Farfetch, but on Friday it also made headlines with its own half-year results.
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The owner of Net-A-Porter, Chloé and Cartier said that sales for the March to September period fell 26% to €5.478 billion. That was a 25% fall at constant exchange rates.
Group operating profit was down 61% to €452 million with an 8.3% operating margin, and net profit for the period was down 82% to €159 million
Q1 revenue had fallen 47% but, like other luxury companies, it saw a strong bounce-back in the second quarter. Sales from July to September fell only 5% at actual exchange rates and a smaller 2% at constant exchange rates.
For the half, sales in the group’s directly operated boutiques and wholesale channels declined at double-digit rates compared to the prior year period. But sales in China were up by 78% during the period and helped to rescue the Asia-Pacific region as a whole. Meanwhile Europe, the Americas and Japan were down in double-digits.
Europe recorded the highest rate of decline alongside Japan, with sales down 44%. All markets and business areas were dented by temporary store and fulfilment centre closures, a halt in international tourism and muted local demand. France, Italy, Switzerland and the UK were particularly affected by a lower level of tourist activity, as were the Jewellery Maisons, Specialist Watchmakers and Fashion & Accessories Maisons.
The contribution of Europe to group sales was reduced to 22% from 30%, but it remains the group’s second largest region in terms of sales.
The Americas region posted a 31% reduction in sales, with all business areas “significantly impacted” in Q1. All channels saw lower sales, including online retail sales, which decreased by a low-single-digit rate overall. But despite the volatile environment, trading improved steadily and turned positive in September while Q2 was marked by positive retail sales and strong online retail sales for the Jewellery Maisons.
The Online Distributors division (comprising Yoox, Net-A-Porter, Outnet, Mr Porter and Watchfinder) weren’t as strong as they might have been in H1. They were initially impacted by temporary fulfilment centre closures, but overall, they showed the most resilient performance. The Online Distributors segment’s H1 sales fell 21% to €934 million. But compared to retail and wholesale sales which contracted at significant double-digit rates, total group online retail sales (that is, including sales for its individual brands) fared better, with only a 4% decline.
In fact, it saw triple-digit growth in e-commerce sales at some of its brands. Overall, online retail including Online Distributors increased its contribution to 22% of group sales from 17% in the prior year period. And when excluding the aforementioned Online Distributors, the group’s online retail sales percentage increased significantly, to make up 7% of total sales, from 2% in the prior year period. This is still a small figure but is clearly improving fast.
Meanwhile the company said that it’s Jewellery Maisons such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels “showed strong resilience with sales in the second quarter growing by 4% at actual exchange rates and 7% at constant exchange rates, leading to an operating margin of 30.1% for the half year”.
But Specialist Watchmakers saw a “more pronounced decline in sales” that reflected their greater reliance on multibrand retail partners. They generated a small loss but remained cash flow positive.
Its Other segment that includes labels like Montblanc, Chloé, Dunhill and Alaïa saw sales falling 42% to €545 million.
Chairman Johann Rupert said: “A strong presence in China and an acceleration in digital initiatives have partially mitigated the consequences of temporary store closures and a halt in tourism worldwide. Our Maisons were swift to build on past investments in digital infrastructure and maintain direct engagement with clients, contributing to our Maisons’ resilience. Our efforts to improve the quality of our distribution networks and inventories at our multibrand retail partners also helped lessen some of the negative impacts of the pandemic.”
Photo: Sandra Halliday
As mentioned, online sales declined, but Rupert added that “although the pandemic has hampered sentiment and demand around the world, we have continued to make good headway on key digital initiatives and further advance on our journey towards New Retail.
“Net-A-Porter’s platform migration is progressing steadily and YNAP began operating the e-commerce activities of Montblanc in August and Cartier in the UK in October. Watchfinder has further strengthened its international footprint”.
And its joint venture with Alibaba, Feng Mao, has “continued to develop favourably”. Eight Maisons (Dunhill, Chloé, Montblanc, IWC Schaffhausen, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Piaget and Vacheron Constantin) opened flagship stores on Tmall Luxury Pavilion in the period. “Early results of these Pavilion flagship stores are promising, and our teams are working closely with Alibaba to target their vast client base and extend our reach to the lower tier cities in China,” Rupert said.
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