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Flying the Legendary P51 Mustang – SCAT VII
So I have been planning to write this story for the past.. well, year. Procrastination, you gotta love it.
But hey, I finally decided to write about one of thé most amazing experiences of my life until now: flying the legendary P51 Mustang.
As some of my friends now, about a 1,5 years ago I received the opportunity to join the Vintage Flights team, an organization dedicated to preserving legendary aircraft and offering people the chance to enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime flight in one of these iconic birds. I am in charge of promotion, planning and sales of flights on unique aircraft like the T6 Harvard, P51 Mustang and Fouga Magister.
I usually welcome our passengers and witness how they experience the flight of their lifes. Of course, with lots of envy… But then last August, I got offered the chance to fly ‘our’ P51 Mustang myself, during a fly-in event in Zoersel, Belgium. Flying an 80-year-old WWII fighter worth millions, powered by a 1500 HP V12 Packard Merlin engine is something I would never be able to afford, especially at this age. And when opportunity knocks, you open the door and get in.
The Mustang is probably the most recognized fighter of World War II. Its speed and range made it the ideal bomber escort. This Mustang was built in 1944. It served with the 434th Fighter Squadron, 479th Fighter Group as “SCAT VII” L2-W. It was the personal plane of Major Robin Olds, a triple ace who scored his 4 last kills in this particular machine. It is one of those rare P-51 Mustangs who survived WWII and is now still flying in the same color scheme it had over 70 years ago.
So here I was, a 23-year-old then PPL student pilot, about to fly a WWII P51 Mustang in the skies over Flanders, Belgium. As you can imagine, a surreal feeling.
The standard P51 package includes 30 minutes engine time, with at least 20′ guaranteed airborne time. When waiting on the ground for passengers to return, these 30 min always seem long, but I can guarantee that when you’re inside the airplane, those minutes are over in a blink of an eye. There are not many things in this world that will give you the same 30-minute thrill as flying a legendary WWII fighter airplane, cruising at speeds well over 300 MPH. The fact that this aircraft was the personal P51 Mustang of WWII triple-ace Maj. Robin Olds makes this piece of history even more unique.
We took off from the former military airfield of Zoersel/Oostmalle in Belgium, where we attended a fly-in event (flights are usually operated from the home base at Antwerp airport). After a short run-up – which probably woke up everyone who was still sleeping in a 5-km radius – we continue taxiing to the runway. Due to the very limited visibility from the cockpit, the pilot opens the canopy to be able to lean outside and have a better view of what’s in front of him during taxy. Opening up that throttle to full power (well technically they do not go FULL throttle anymore like in the wartime, as this would wear on the engine too much) starts to give you an idea of what it will feel – and hear- like the next 20 or so minutes.
Before the flight, the pilot usually discusses with the passenger what kind of flight he/she prefers. If you have some flying experience, you might want to take over controls for a little bit to really feel the aircraft. And that’s exactly what I did, of course!
After we left the traffic circuit, we headed North for a little bit and the pilot stabilized the aircraft for the duration of the flight.
I have never, ever, been more excited to hear the words “You have control”.
It’s amazing how sensitive the aircraft is. It only takes a little bit of pressure on the stick to maneuver the aircraft, flying at about 300 MPH through the skies over North-East Belgium. I made some 360 climbing and descending turns, before handing over the controls again to Frédéric, the pilot. He then showed me what the aircraft was réally capable of..
Some barrel rolls and a low pass over the airfield later, he started the approach to Zoersel again. Because in landing configuration, the stall and landing speeds are so close to each other, it takes some serious skills and lots of experience to nail a P51 landing. Fortunately, Frédéric is an instructor on the P51 as well as one of the most experienced warbird technicians and pilots you will find around here.
It’s only once the engine shuts off and the flight is officially over, that you begin to realize what you just experienced.. Memories that will last a lifetime.
Also quite cool to see “TF-51D” between all the PA-38 Tomahawk entries in my logbook!
This has been thé most amazing opportunity in my life until now and I can only recommend it to anyone looking for an extraordinary (flying) experience.
Want to fly the P51 Mustang too in Europe? You can find more info on Vintage.Flights and on the Vintage Flights Facebook page!
Photo credits to Dirk Goethals and Vintage Flights
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Home » Comment and analysis » James Hansen’s climate models versus observations 1958-2015
James Hansen’s climate models versus observations 1958-2015
Jan-‐Erik Solheim, professor (emeritus), University of Tromsø, Norway
Projections based on climate models are used to convince politicians to reduce the emissions of CO2 to save the world from overheating. The latest warning is that a global temperature increase of 2.7K is the lower limit possible in 2100, if the emission control works as proposed for the Paris meeting.
I will describe how climate models developed by James Hansen et al. (1988) have failed to predict how the global temperature has changed until now.
If we cannot stop the building of more coal-fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains – no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.
James Hansen, 2007, in “Super Models, Old King Coal II, & Civil Disobedience”
Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them. James Hansen, 2009. theguardian.com
Figure 1. Global temperature predictions based on 3 scenarios (A, B and C) as described in the text. The hatched area represents the maximum temperature in the present (Holocene – 6000 yr ago) and previous (Eemian-120 000 yr ago) interglacials (1). The solid black curve represents observations.
James Hansen was Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. He was the first scientist to warn the US Congress of the dangers of climate change. This was based on climate models published by Hansen and co-‐ workers in 1988 (1). Simulations with GISS model II were presented, and 3 projections for future global temperature was shown (figure 1):
A: Yearly CO2 –emissions increase exponentially with 1.5 per cent per yr. B: CO2 emissions are stabilized to a yearly constant increase.
C: Strong regulations lead to no increase of CO2 emissions after 2000.
In scenarios B and C some volcanic eruptions are strategically added. They cool the Earth for a limited time. In scenario A there are no volcanoes.
Hansen et al. estimated their uncertainty to be 0.13K, and wrote that a change of three times this uncertainty, i.e. 0.4K warming is the “smoking gun” which proves that humans warm the Earth. In their graph (figure 1) we find that scenario A showed 1K warming in 2005, while B showed 1K warming in 2010. Scenario C showed a maximum warming of 0.7K in 2005 and then cooling.
Figure 2: Scenarios A, B, and C from Hansen et al. (1998)(blue, green and red curves), compared with HadCRUT4 estimated global temperature (black). The arrow suggests a possible prognosis (P) based on more emissions than in scenario A observed the last years. All the curves show running averages over 5 yr with reference period 1961-90.
Figure 2 shows Hansen et al. scenarios compared with HadCRUT4 estimated global temperature until August 2015. Since the CO2 emissions now are increasing 3 per cent per yr (2), a possible higher estimate for expected global temperature in 2015 than scenario A, is marked with an arrow and letter P. This is about 1.6K increase, while the estimated observed value is 0.6K. The prognosis is 170 per cent too high.
An increasing amount of CO2 seems to be absorbed in the sea or biosphere (2), so even if emissions increase with 3 per cent yearly, the atmospheric CO2 increase is constant with about 2 ppmv per year. This is close to scenario B, which estimate
a temperature increase of 1.1K in 2015. This is about 80 per cent higher than observed.
However, the global temperature follows closely scenario C.
We have the remarkable situation that actual CO2-emissions predict a higher temperature than scenario A, while the atmospheric CO2 content indicates scenario B, and the observations follow scenario C.
In a recent paper Hansen et al. (3) suggest that the missing increase in atmospheric CO2 in the atmosphere can be explained by the sharp increase in coal use in China and India. emission of Nitrogen from coal burned power stations in China and India. Fossil fuel emissions increase carbon uptake by fertilizing the biosphere via provision of nutrients essential for tissue building, especially nitrogen. More nitrogen leads to an increased growth of plants, which absorb more CO2. If these power stations are cleaned, and the nitrogen-‐ emissions reduced, CO2 will again increase exponentially and the Earth warms more. Hansen et al. calls this a Faustian bargain. There are many other explanation of the temperature hiatus – but to deny people of cheap electricity, which leads to development, better health and longer life for most people on the Earth, may be the real Faustian bargain.
Figure 3. Extrapolation of the Hansen et al. scenarios A (blue) and B (green) until the year 2100, compared with the COP 21 goal of 2.7 K increase (red).
Estimated temperature increases since 1750 is shown as the red scale on the right. HadCRUT4 observations (black) are shown with extrapolations based on a simple model with a trend and periodic variations (magenta).
Before the COP 21 Paris meeting, it has been announced that it is too late to keep the global warming below the 2 K limit, but if all the announced reductions in the CO2-‐emissions are done as promised, it is estimated that the global warming is kept below 2.7 K (since start of industrialization in 1750?). In figure 3 this is shown as a red, broken line, together with linear extrapolations of scenario A
and B from Hansen et al. (1). This is compared with a simple model proposed by Syun-‐Ichi Akasofu (4), consisting of a linear trend (ΔT=0.005 K/yr) recovery from the Little Ice Age in addition to a few periodic variations determined from the data itself. In this model small temperature changes are expected this century (5).
The (lower) limit of 2.7 K warming by 2100 proposed as a goal for the COP 21 meeting, means a temperature increase of 0.025 K/yr. The 2.7 K limit is based on unvalidated climate models. It has been shown by professional forecasters (6), that a simple no change benchmark test is far better for a long range forecast than the unvalidated IPCC climate models. They found that the errors from the model projections were seven times larger than the benchmark method, and that the best estimate is that the temperature in 2100 will be within ±0.5 K of the temperature of 2008, which was their benchmark year.
Another concern is that the upward trend observed over the last century and half might be at least in part an artifact of measurement errors rather than a genuine global warming (7).
One may then ask why the modest warming observed the last century and the small warming forecasted for this century should lead to such expensive measures as proposed for the COP 21 climate conference in Paris.
J. Hansen et al., 1988, Global Forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies Three-‐Dimensional Model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 93,9341-‐9364.
J. Hansen: http://www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/UpdatedFigures/
J. Hansen m. fl, 2013, Climate forcing growth rates: Doubling down on our Faustian bargin, Environ. Res. Lett. 8 011006.
S.-‐I. Akasofu, 2010, On the recovery from the Little Ice Age, Natural Science, 2,11, 1211-‐1224.
J.-‐E. Solheim, 2013, Signals from the planets, via the Sun to the Earth, Pattern. Recog. Phys, 1, 177-‐184.
K. C. Green, J. Scott Armstrong, W. Soon, 2009, Validity of Climate Change Forecasting for Public Policy Decision Making, International Journal of Forecasting, 25, 826-‐832.
R. McKitrick, & P. J. Michaels, 2007. Quantifying the influence ofanthropogenic surface processes and inhomogenities on gridded global climate data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2007JD008465.
By tallbloke in Comment and analysis, IPCC on November 27, 2015 .
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Remarks of Commissioner Dye, International Bar Association, Annual Conference 2018
FMC Commissioner Rebecca Dye
International Bar Association Annual Conference
It is a pleasure to be here this afternoon to discuss the Federal Maritime Commission’s approach to enforcing competition in the United States liner trades, and to explain why the Shipping Act does not shield liner companies from competition enforcement. Rather, it adds value to the global ocean freight delivery system.
In that regard, my remarks today will focus on the Federal Maritime Commission’s review, evaluation and monitoring of strategic alliances.
I’ll do that by addressing three questions:
How does the FMC analyze alliance agreements under the Shipping Act of 1984 as amended by the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998?
What requirements and processes are involved in that analysis?
How does the FMC monitor the behavior of alliances after the agreements are in effect?
In 1995, I was Maritime Subcommittee Staff Director on the House Transportation Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. My job was to develop and enact legislation in accordance with our member’s policy positions.
With respect to Shipping Act reform in particular, my highest priority was to develop and enact legislation that would increase competition in liner shipping in U.S. trades.
My view was that retaining a limited carrier exemption from the antitrust laws would not preclude a dramatic, effective increase in liner competition.
At the time, the heart of U.S. shippers’ discontent with the Shipping Act of 1984 was that it supported what was known as the “conference system.”
As many of you remember, liner companies joined together in rate conferences to propose collective rate increases.
In addition, liner conferences had the legal authority to collectively regulate their members’ freight rates.
In those days, service contract rates – like tariff rates — were, by law, publicly available.
Which made it relatively easy for rate conferences to keep track of what their members were charging.
It also allowed foreign competitors of U.S. exporters to see their freight rates, causing U.S. agricultural exporters, for example, to lose sales for pennies on the dollar.
By the way, ending rate transparency’s negative impact on U.S. exports ultimately became the most persuasive argument for members of the United States Congress to support the Ocean Shipping Reform Act amendments.
So, what American shippers wanted from any new legislation was:
To preclude conference members from agreeing on freight rates and regulating member lines’ rates;
To prevent the contracts that they negotiated with their preferred carriers from being subject to conference review; and
To have their negotiated service contract rates and terms remain confidential.
If it could be successfully enacted into law, repeal of Shipping Act’s antitrust law exemption may have been the obvious way to achieve those goals.
But outright repeal of the exemption was sure to attract fierce opposition. And not just from lines that were conference members.
Public port authorities, marine terminal operators, and longshore labor did not, for different reasons, support deregulation or reform.
Fortunately, there was an alternative approach by which shippers could obtain the enhanced competition we wanted – even while allowing carriers to maintain a residual, limited antitrust exemption from mainstream U.S. antitrust laws.
But not immunity from competition enforcement!
Reform legislation could directly restrict conference rate authority and the ability to regulate member lines’ individual service contracts.
In addition, making service contract rates and terms of service confidential would reinforce that restriction.
I discussed this alternate approach that I favored with attorneys at the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division – and they agreed to support it. One of the best days of my legislating life!
The Department of Justice’s support was a major factor in the enactment of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act.
Implementing restrictions on conference rate authority, and making service contracts confidential undercut liner companies’ efforts to achieve above market rates.
And that proved to be the case even after “rate discussion agreements” replaced traditional conferences.
The long years of failed general rate increase efforts, and the recent disbanding of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement – the central rate discussion agreement in the US/Asia trade – is a clear example.
In early February, the TSA ended its 29-year history – declaring that the “organization’s mission is no longer viable.”
There was still a good deal of legislative give-and-take involved in getting the Ocean Shipping Reform Act enacted into law in 1998.
But, in the end, the new rate authority restrictions, and the implementation of confidential one-to-one service contracts, succeeded in boosting competition in the U.S. liner trades.
What’s more, the EC’s Directorate-General for Competition promptly adopted a nearly identical approach.
They did so by declaring that the conference block exemption only applied to tariff rates – not service contracting. But, by then, carrier tariffs were already being eliminated as a pricing tool by the expanding use of service contracts.
So, well before it began its review of the conference block exemption in 2003, DG-Comp had ensured that conferences in EU trades could not restrict the availability of individual, confidential service contracts.
Thus, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act’s guiding principles went global – in the major East/West trades and the many North/South trades that originated in the US or Europe.
Today, although the EU approach to liner competition and the US approach are not identical, there is a substantial degree of de facto harmonization.
So, with that brief history as background, I’ll now turn to how the Commission ensures that shipping lines in general, and alliance members in particular continue to compete.
The Shipping Act’s protections are divided into two sections that have their grounding in antitrust principles.
Together they provide a balance that offsets the Act’s grant of limited exemption from antitrust laws.
Section 10 of the Shipping Act of 1984, which enumerates an extensive list of explicit prohibitions grounded in antitrust principles, such as unfair or unjust discriminatory practices, unreasonable refusal to deal (including boycotts), offering or paying deferred rebates, and others.
And Section 6 of the Shipping Act, which contains the Federal Maritime Commission’s flagship competition law enforcement authority.
Section 6 deals with filed agreements among common carriers in the foreign trades, including strategic alliance agreements.
Section 6 also contains the Commission’s authority to seek an injunction to stop substantially anticompetitive agreements.
Proposed alliance agreements, once they are filed with the Commission, are published to allow for public comment, and closely analyzed by our professional staff under what is known informally known as “The 6(g) Standard” after the relevant section of our organic statute.
As enacted, Section 6(g) provides that:
“If, at any time after the filing or effective date of an agreement, the Commission determines that the agreement is likely, by a reduction in competition, to produce an unreasonable reduction in transportation service or an unreasonable increase in transportation cost, it may, after notice to the person filing the agreement, seek appropriate injunctive relief under subsection (h).”
Subsection (h) allows the Commission to bring suit to enjoin the agreement in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
But, Section 6(g) of the Shipping Act is very similar to section 7 of the Clayton Act of 1914, a central part of US antitrust law that prohibits mergers and acquisitions “the effect of [which] may be substantially to lessen competition, or tend to create a monopoly.”
Along those lines, our review of the agreements filed with us – including strategic operational alliance agreements – employs the same type of analysis that the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission conduct under the Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the Antitrust Guidelines for Collaboration among Competitors.
As our colleagues at the Justice Department have noted:
“Congress expressly gave the [Federal Maritime] Commission authority to protect the public from agreements that will result in an unreasonable increase in price or reduction in service. This charge parallels the goals of the antitrust laws: to protect the public from a reduction in competition caused by agreements that unreasonably increase market power, that is, the power to increase price or reduce output.”
That commonality of purpose and approach is why I describe the Commission not as a traditional regulatory agency, but as a competition law enforcement agency — one with exceptional expertise in the structure and performance of liner shipping and marine terminal operations.
In evaluating potential anticompetitive effects, we pay close attention to any potential for increased market concentration. Our approach is familiar to any competition attorney or official:
Defining the relevant product and geographic market;
Examining likely changes in market share and concentration ratios, including the assessment of market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirchman Index;
Determining whether or not there are barriers to entry;
Assessing the number and strength of competitors, the state of the industry, and the agreement parties’ performance history; and
Considering the likely consequences of any organizational and operational changes under the proposed agreement.
The Federal Maritime Commission also considers the likelihood of beneficial effects that the agreement likely would produce – the benefits it would provide to shippers and any efficiencies it would introduce.
Just as important — during the agreement review process, we also identify agreements that, because of their importance to U.S. liner shipping markets, the Commission should monitor on an on-going basis.
Given their importance, the Big Three strategic alliances are among the agreements that we closely monitor.
That process includes two meetings with the alliance parties each year – typically one face-to-face and the other by conference call.
We also require each alliance to provide us with minutes from their executive committee meetings.
And finally each alliance is required to provide us data on services, capacity, blank sailings, liftings (from which we calculate market share), vessel utilization and average revenue — for 9 US trades.
The data is subject to statistical analyses of, for example, changes in average revenue.
So, even after the initial review of new agreements or amendments, we keep a close eye on the alliances. And, so far, no red flags.
Because the topic at hand is large carrier alliances and mergers — I want to emphasize a distinction that has been central to the Commission’s assessments of the Big Three alliances – 2M, OCEAN and THE Alliance.
2M includes Maersk and MSC and has a market share, based on capacity, of 32% globally – and roughly 31% in US-based trades.
OCEAN Alliance is COSCO Group (including OOCL), CMA CGM, and Evergreen – with a global market share of 29.5% and 33% for U.S. trades.
And THE Alliance – including Ocean Network Express, Hapag-Lloyd and Yang Ming –at 16.7% globally, and 23% in U.S. trades.
The distinction I want to emphasize is the one between operational consolidation and market concentration.
In the trade press, one often sees alliances described using the general term “consolidation.”
Using the term “consolidation” for alliances can obscure the fact that “consolidating” participating lines’ vessel operations, but not their marketing and pricing, has very different consequences from “consolidating” the lines into one indivisible company.
Because mergers and acquisitions eliminate a competitive rival, they increase market concentration – a potential concern for future anticompetitive market behavior.
But when an alliance is established – rate competition continues among its members. There are just as many sellers of vessel space as there were before. Thus, there is no increase in market concentration.
To the extent that alliances provide an alternative to mergers and acquisitions – or to a line declaring bankruptcy – they are a valuable option that is provided for under the Shipping Act.
As things stand today, the shift from four to three strategic alliances has not increased market concentration in U.S. trades.
And the Federal Maritime Commission, specialized in the global ocean freight delivery system, adds value by enforcing competition and insisting that, under the Shipping Act, there remains a place for beneficial agreements in U.S. liner trades.
As for the prospects for greater operational consolidation – and, perhaps, greater market concentration – in the liner industry, I’m afraid that, given the current political and economic climate, further consolidation is more likely than not.
In the longer run, industry experts like Lars Jensen, a Maersk alumnus and now CEO of SeaIntelligence Consulting, have speculated that when liner concentration reaches its end point – that is, when competition standards on concentration run up against the increased concentration that is seen as necessary for improved liner profitability – only 6 to 8 main global shipping lines will remain.
Today, according to Alphaliner’s September monthly report, we have seven lines with global market shares of 5% or more – running from Maersk at 17.9% to Evergreen with 5.2%.
Together those seven represent over three-quarters of the global market for liner vessel slots.
So, if Mr. Jensen’s forecast does prove accurate, it may happen sooner than even he envisioned in his book entitled “Liner Shipping 2025.”
Thank you for your kind attention.
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By Mesh Tennakoon
Dominic was dead.
Freddie heard the announcement on the morning news while washing dishes between sips of condensed-milk tea. Even though he had foreseen Dominic’s passing, the news of his brother’s death still hit him like a one-punch assault.
Outside, on Glenwood Avenue in Glen Waverly, cars slowed at the traffic lights. The resident magpie mined for worms in the overrun backyard and the decaying bird’s nest hung lopsided in the banksia tree like a cancer mass. Everything existed just as it did two minutes ago, except for Freddie Fonseka. He had the languid movements of a fly drowning in a jar of honey. Freddie hauled a dining chair and positioned it within inches of the TV screen. He sat down and turned up the volume so that the sound thumped inside his chest. The ABC news showed the security video of his brother Dominic in an almost empty train carriage on the Glen Waverley train line. It was like watching a replay of his vision from two months ago.
In the news footage, Dom was wearing his awful grey suit—the one he wore to work. Pants too long in the legs, hanging hopelessly over his shoes, and the jacket pinched across his broad shoulders. He seemed calm, head downcast as always, standing with his back to the doors as they closed.
Freddie watched the final moments of Dominic’s life. The recording was black and white, grainy and sped up, making Dom look like a character out of a Charlie Chaplin film. His movements were rendered jerky as he walked, sat down, scanned his phone, and then stood up again to leave. Dominic’s bald patch on the crown of his head gleamed in the artificial light, and his chin stuck out—a bit like an ape. His brother would not have liked all this publicity.
Freddie sighed; the air fled his lungs. He didn’t want to think about what happened when Dom left the train. He’d already seen it.
Just as the newsreader asked anyone who recognised the man in the footage to call the police, the phone rang. Bloody Dominic and his insistence on maintaining a landline. The brothers had a rule that Freddie would at no time answer the home telephone owing to his ‘unlawful’ status. Yet, inexplicably he picked up the phone.
“Hello, Detective Constable John Sorensen…”
Freddie hung up swiftly, so fast that the call might not have occurred.
He turned off the TV, returned to the sink full of dirty dishes and peered out of the window above the washbasin. It was threatening to rain, but the magpie was still strutting around in the garden, its black and white chest shoved out. Freddie watched the theatrical creature, marvelling at how nature and this ugly bird carried on with their business despite his loss. He wished he had his childhood slingshot; he’d hit the creature over for six.
The magpie stopped swaggering, quite suddenly, and cocked its head to the side. It turned its chestnut gaze onto Freddie and launched into a full-throated warble. The notes were warm and mellifluous. And, just for a moment, Freddie felt hopeful.
“It’s a sign—” Freddie whispered, his breath misting the glass.
He had always believed in signs. Just as the air became dense before a monsoon, Freddie experienced premonitions. As he grew older, these signs mutated, expanding into visions. Whenever Freddie touched another person an explosion of their entire life played in his head. He discovered that if he held on to someone’s hand for long enough, he’d see snippets of their future too. Freddie’s visions had included his mother’s death to tuberculosis, his father’s affair with the maid and their spinster Aunt Lily finding love with a Haitian refugee in LA. Curiously, Freddie couldn’t ascertain his own fate. His future lingered like a haze whenever he reached for it, never materialising into images.
Dominic passed as white. He’d inherited the fair skin, auburn hair and pale eyes of his Burgher ancestors. In misguided assimilation attempts, Dom had acquired a taste for Bunnings’ sausage sizzles, the Australian cricket team and the North Melbourne footy club. However, when Dom opened his mouth, any bloody fool knew from his accent that he was not an Aussie.
Freddie resided at the other end of the spectrum, with his teak-coloured skin and thick black hair characteristic of Southern Asians. And he would never swap a curry for a sausage.
None of this bullshit mattered now. Dominic was dead.
They had been at a pre-Christmas party hosted by one of Dominic’s work colleagues. At the smorgasbord table, the woman had hovered near the sausages, temporarily causing a bottleneck in the buffet line. Freddie watched as she made a slow circuit of the table returning to the now diminished plate of sausages.
The first thing that Freddie noticed about the woman was her eyes—large, rust-coloured and tragic, like a doe. She wore purple pin-striped pedal-pushers and a close-fitting linen shirt that accentuated her breasts and highlighted her milk-tea skin. It wasn’t easy to discern whether the woman was an Australian or a foreigner like him. Perhaps she was mixed. Almost certainly she legally resided in Australia, unlike Freddie. He could tell from her easy-going manner. Freddie thought she looked like someone who could be trusted.
All he needed was a little touch, and he’d know most things about her. Freddie seized a plate and headed to the table.
“I’m wondering if those are chicken sausages. I don’t eat beef or pork, but I eat bacon,” he blurted to the woman. She gazed at him and smiled, a row of perfect teeth.
“Me too. I never touch pork. But I love bacon!” she said, in an unmistakable Sri Lankan accent. She held out her hand. “Hi, I’m Shanthi.”
“Pleased to meet you! I’m Freddie, brother of Dominic, over there in the corner.” He pointed to his brother, a plate of food on his lap, seated alone and looking out of place.
As he took Shanthi’s hand, her past wafted up between his eyes. “You have a younger brother, isn’t that so? And your mother passed away when you were quite young?”
He heard a small gasp as Shanthi’s eyes met his, and she pulled her hand out of his grasp. Her eyelids fluttered, as if trying to squash the memories, and she took a small step backwards.
“I am so sorry. I can’t help it. I’m a fortune-teller.” Freddie said as he put his hands together and bowed his head, genuinely regretful.
Shanthi broke her extended silence. “I must introduce you to my friend, Claire. She’s obsessed with that sort of thing,” said Shanthi, beckoning to a woman with an asymmetrical face, who was in the process of shoving a fistful of crisps in her mouth.
“Claire, Freddie here is a fortune teller.”
“Really?” Claire said in a somewhat uncouth Australian accent, craning to take in Freddie. She had remnant crisps stuck in the corners of her mouth and sweat pooling on her upper lip.
“I’d be interested in what you have to say about me! How much do you charge for a reading, Freddie?” asked Claire as she attempted to lick and dislodge the food from her lips.
Freddie could only think in Sri Lankan rupees. He did a quick calculation in his head. Of course, he’d be able to charge more in Australia than he did back home.
“Is $50 okay? I can do a preliminary reading here. For free. You can decide afterwards if you’d like a full reading.”
“That sounds alright. Let’s see how good you really are,” Claire spoke, deliberately. It felt as if she was trapping him.
“Shall we sit down?” he said, gesturing to several vacant chairs lined against the wall. “I prefer to hold a client’s hands. Is this okay with you, Claire?”
Claire nodded and held out her hands.
“Is there anything in particular you’d like to know?”
“You can start by telling me about my family background,” said Claire with a secretive smile.
To appear authentic, Freddie closed his eyes as he held the woman’s hands, still oily from the crisps. Claire’s past uncoiled inside Freddie’s head.
“You grew up in the country; I can’t pronounce the town’s name correctly, maybe an Aboriginal sounding name, no? You have a younger brother, and your father died a few years back. I can also see something that looks like…an elephant? A mountain perhaps?” Freddie opened his eyes. Claire was staring at him, her face white, like the flesh of a king coconut.
“You’re kidding me! Shanthi, you set this bloke up, right?”
“Nooo, it’s not a joke! I just met him at the buffet table.” Shanthi paused. “And I didn’t know when your father passed away.”
The three of them sat in silence. Freddie thought about what he’d seen when he held each woman’s hand. There was much more happiness in Claire’s life than there had been in Shanthi’s. Yet, Claire had become a gloomy, half-full character. Entitled and very much like a child, thought Freddie. Shanthi’s life had been pitiful, like her eyes. And her death would be more tragic still. Some people attracted misfortune, he figured. The initial intrigue he had for Shanthi faded.
“I’m not sure how you do it, Freddie, but you have quite a remarkable gift,” said Claire.
“Yes, a real talent you have there,” agreed Shanthi nodding her head. “I thought you told me you read fortunes so that you could hold my hand,” she laughed. “But, unlike Claire, I don’t want you to predict my future. I will take life as it comes. I have no desire to know what lies ahead for me.” Freddie thought that her approach was probably a good thing, given what he had seen in store for Shanthi.
A small crowd had gathered around the trio, as a result of Claire’s announcement to the party that they had a “fair dinkum clairvoyant” in their midst.
Freddie felt intoxicated by all the attention. He soon had a list of clients that would earn him at least $500. Dominic remained quietly ensconced in his corner, looking more like an image than a real man.
“You’re a fool,” said Dominic as soon as they were in the car.
“For God’s sake Freddie! You’re the brown man, who tells fortunes. You may as well wear a turban and carry around a genie lamp,” spat Dominic without looking at Freddie. The feeling of intoxication Freddie had carried from the party evaporated.
He was quiet as he shifted in the passenger seat to observe his brother’s profile at the steering wheel. Here was a man with little joy in his life. Dominic had placed restraints on himself and altered his identity to fit in with the suthas; his brother merely existed. The thought depressed Freddie.
“What’s your problem, Dom?”
Dominic remained silent for several seconds. He exhaled heavily. “I know I’m a loser.” Dom turned. His sea-green eyes met Freddie’s, his gaze desolate, even in the darkness of the car.
It had not been a deliberate decision to overstay his visitor’s visa—that’s what he told Dominic.
“What harm am I doing by being here? I haven’t taken someone’s job. Actually, I’m helping the Aussies with my readings.”
By Christmas, six months had passed. Freddie was no longer an over-stayer. He was an unlawful citizen. There was no going back to anywhere, except a detention centre.
On Australia Day Freddie had hosted a lunch with the promise of free readings, a curry buffet and arak cocktails. He’d invited a few key clients and a Sri Lankan psychiatrist and his wife he had met while out shopping for spices in Clayton.
In the same way a tourist gazed at an unknown metropolis, Freddie observed the gestures and demeanours of his guests. He noticed the violaceous half-moons under Dr Senadipathy’s eyes, and Mrs Senadipathy’s bitten fingernails with traces of red nail polish. He observed Dom’s habit of resting his nose on his bent left index finger when he was contemplating, and the way that crisp-eating Claire picked at a scab on her right arm whenever she spoke. They were all signs.
“It’s your turn for a reading, Dominic,” Mrs Senadipathy declared abruptly. “How lucky you are to have a brother with such talents as Freddie. You have predictions on tap, no?”
“Actually, I haven’t read Dom’s palm for years,” said Freddie, taken aback by the woman’s impertinence.
The arak cocktails made Dominic compliant. He sat opposite Freddie and thrust his hands into Freddie’s lap, unfurling them like lotus blossoms. “Come on then. Get on with it.”
“Are you sure, Dom?” it seemed the decent thing to do, to clarify his brother’s permission.
Dominic nodded, egged on by the arak.
Freddie felt a prickle on his skin as he took Dom’s hands in his. An unease possessed him. The ferocity of the vision slammed into his chest, winding him. Freddie paused to even out his breathing, then released Dom’s hands. He cracked his knuckles and adjusted the collar on his polo shirt.
“Nothing revelatory here!”
Later, when the guests had left, Freddie followed Dominic into the kitchen.
“I need to talk to you.”
“Hmm…Yes?” Dom said slowly while soaping the plates at the sink.
Freddie knew that he needed to articulate his words carefully.
“Don’t take this the wrong way. I feel a responsibility to tell you…what I saw…when I held your palm. I didn’t want to say it in front of everyone.”
“Umm. But I don’t believe in…” Dom trailed off.
Freddie paused. His brother didn’t believe in much. Dominic barely believed in himself. But Freddie persisted
“You have a terrible accident on the Glen Waverly line. Can you use another train line or drive to work, just for a few weeks?”
Freddie watched the back of Dominic’s prematurely balding head, but his brother did not turn around.
“Don’t you have anything to say?”
Dominic breathed in and out wearily. “What do you want me to say? Do you want me to admit that the universe has sent a sign?”
“Dom! You’re going to die! Can you stop using the Glen Waverley line?”
“If your vision, or whatever you want to call it, is correct, then it’s my karma—I’ve been slotted to die. It’s not as if the universe cares whether I change my routine or not!”
If people told themselves enough lies, they failed to recognise the truth. And like a shrink, Freddie helped people sift out the truths from their fiction. Yet, what comfort had there been in Dominic knowing the truth? Freddie had merely burdened Dom with his Australia Day revelation. And now, two months later, Dom was dead. The truth hadn’t changed anything.
He remembered Shanthi from the Christmas party. Hers would be a frightening demise—trapped inside a paralysed body, only able to move her eyes. Shanthi had been right in not wanting to know. Freddie regretted telling Dom. Who in their right mind would want to know that they’d be crushed to death by a bloody train?
The security that Dominic provided to Freddie with his sheer existence in the world had vanished. He had been dependent on his brother the way people are reliant on their mobile phones—a comforting weight in their pocket, even when not being used. Freddie stood alone in the world now. His loneliness was so thick he could touch it. And the house was quiet, like a still-life painting; it unnerved him. Even the act of standing at the kitchen sink seemed out of place and wrong, somehow.
Freddie wondered if Dom’s dead body had reached the morgue. He forced the thought away and stared out of the window, allowing his gaze to land on the magpie; now silent yet intensely present and still rummaging around in the garden. Tilting his head, Freddie was astonished to notice the magnificence of the bird with its robust chest and intelligent eyes. Freddie felt the urge to join the magpie and stumbled out the backdoor to the garden. The air smelled of damp autumn leaves and felt crisp on his bare arms. The bird, unperturbed, by his arrival strutted towards the banksia tree. Freddie’s eyes were drawn to a cluster of yellow daisies where the magpie had been. He glanced back between the flowers and the bird.
“You’re here to remind me—I owe a duty to Dom… Australians don’t know any of our traditions,” Freddie nodded slowly in acknowledgement, then bent down to pull the daisies out of the ground. He searched unsuccessfully for more flowers. Unlike the tropical gardens of Sri Lanka, there was nothing beautiful in the bleak and soulless Melbourne suburbs. Still, some of Freddie’s despondency had disappeared. Back inside, he arranged the daisies on a plate with a selection of cut-up fruit and Dom’s favourite sweet, love-cake. He placed the offerings at the family altar together with Dom’s passport, opened like a sorry-for your-loss card; the only photograph he could find of his brother. Then Freddie lit a candle and an incense stick and chanted the Seth pirith.
Australians treated death differently to Asians. There were no rites to prevent the departed from becoming hungry ghosts. Concern began to plague Freddie. In six days, he needed to engage a monk to conduct a bana to gain merit for Dominic’s soul. Ordinarily, a body was cremated before the bana so that a spirit knew it was dead. Yet, Dom’s damaged corpse would languish in a freezer drawer beyond the optimal time for cremation. Unless Freddie identified and claimed the body, it would eventually be buried like rubbish, in an unmarked grave.
The landline sounded again. Insistent.
Each successive ring felt like a noose tightening around his neck.
Freddie had the urge to snatch the phone and tell the caller to fuck off. Alternatively, he could pull the cord out of the socket, and find his way to the mortuary where Dom’s body lay. Or, he could just walk out and not return to Glenwood Avenue or Sri Lanka or anywhere.
Freddie kneeled at the altar. He closed his eyes and brought his palms together. “Tell me what to do,” he whispered to the inert pictures of his parents and to Dominic’s passport. The haze which prevented Freddie from visualising his destiny lifted, allowing his future to unravel. For the first time, he imagined the world as it was meant to be perceived—no gaps, only a glistening straight line to the future.
Mesh Tennakoon is a Melbourne writer, currently working on a collection of short stories that explore brief yet significant moments. Her work has been published in the Meanjin Quarterly.
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Why do so many of the protesters in the Women's March embrace the hijab and shar
CJWood71posted 3 years ago
Why do so many of the protesters in the Women's March embrace the hijab and sharia law?
I understand that, to a certain degree, it is intended to show solidarity with others whom they feel will be marginalized under a Trump administration. However, given that many of the rights they are fighting for are forbidden under sharia law, it seems a bit odd. This is not intended to be a heated political debate, rather an attempt to simply understand. Any thoughts on this?
tamarawilhiteposted 3 years ago
Denial of how Islam oppresses women from the many nations where it is illegal women to NOT wear to hijab to jailing of rape victims to legalized child marriage and spousal abuse to FGM being tolerated.
The liberals are so afraid of the boogeyman of a Christian theocracy (A Handmaid's Tale is a classic vision of their fear) that they ignore REAL Islamic theocracies from Saudi Arabia and Iran to Boko Haram and ISIS.
So you get privileged women in the West protesting slavery 150 years ago but ignoring ISIS sex slaves in 2017, complaining that they don't want to pay for their own birth control while many Muslim women are killed annually for choosing their own husband or leaving an abusive one.
bradmasterOCcalposted 3 years agoin reply to this
good points.
Aime Fposted 3 years ago
I think it's important to make a distinction between Islam and Sharia Law, first of all.
Most Islamic countries actually aren't under full Sharia Law and don't care to adopt it.
I support religious freedom, and I support women who choose to wear a hijab, niqab, or burka as a symbol of their faith. Key word being "choose". This does not mean that I "embrace" Sharia Law - at least not in its full form. Again, if a woman should *choose* that she wants to deal with personal status issues under Sharia Law then I believe that is her choice to make.
Do I agree with Sharia Law imposed on women? No, certainly not. Do I agree with women making their own choices based on their faith? Yes, absolutely.
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Home Local News Huntsville Hospital prepares to administer COVID-19 vaccine
Huntsville Hospital prepares to administer COVID-19 vaccine
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The Huntsville Hospital system announced its plans to administer the COVID-19 vaccine that is expected to be delivered Tuesday.
Huntsville Hospital is one of 15 sites in Alabama receiving initial doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
At a briefing Monday afternoon Huntsville Hospital Senior Vice President of Operations Tracy Doughty outlined the hospital’s plans for administering the vaccine/.
“We’ll receive 6,825 doses, sometime tomorrow, don’t know what time,” Doughty said. “We don’t know what time in the morning or afternoon, but we do know they’re planning to be here tomorrow.
He said they hope to administer all of the vaccine over the next two weeks.
“We’ll have the Pfizer dose, which is a two-dose vaccine. One on Day 1 and one on Day 21. So we’re ready to give those doses. Our team has been working very hard over the last week, getting ready to track them and put them in the state system, and give them safely.
“So, we’re ready to do that starting Wednesday. Tuesday we’ll receive the dose, Wednesday we’ll start giving the doses out to our employees.”
Doughty said the doses will be given to frontline hospital employees and other health workers. The original distribution of the vaccine will include regional employees of the Huntsville Hospital system and other medical providers.
Doughty said they will make the second order for the Pfizer drug, which is to be administered 21 days after the initial dose. But, he said, it is not clear at this point when other shipments — and in what amounts — would be delivered to Huntsville Hospital.
“The state has given us these doses for Huntsville Hospital employees, employees in the system throughout North Alabama, other hospitals in the region,” Doughty said. “So we’re going to make sure our partner hospitals, in our system and out of our system get their allocation of doses out of our allotment. Physician offices in the region and EMS providers.
“So we’re prepared to take care of all of those vaccinations.”
Doughty said Huntsville Hospital leadership worked to designate the initial vaccine for health workers taking care of covid patients. He said that includes nurses, doctors, environmental services workers — who help maintain the hospital’s cleanliness and other required standards — respiratory therapists, and others taking care of patients on the front line.
Doctors taking care of covid patients in the hospital are on the priority list as well, Doughty said. Some of the doses will go to physician’s offices and their employees.
Doughty said they are in the process of contacting expected recipients for the vaccine. He said they didn’t want to put out a schedule for getting the vaccine before they got it. He said there is enough “consternation” about the vaccine in the public, they didn’t want any hiccups in the process.
Doughty said at Huntsville Hospital frontline employees by groupings know who will get vaccinated. But, he said, there is vaccine administration scheduling to sort out.
“For example, the employees of the Fever and Flu Clinic, we know they are on the front line of covid every day,” Doughty said. “So, the manager there will pick out the ones who want to go, to make sure we’re not getting five people off the same shift or the same day, because sometimes people have a reaction to it, or maybe a little headache, and we don’t want a ton of people out on the same shift.
“You wouldn’t want all of your respiratory therapists from the same shift, on nights to go the same day.”
Doughty was asked if employees are “excited” about the opportunity to get vaccinated.
“I think it’s (like) the general public’s percentages,” he said. “We think, rough estimates, about 50-55 percent of the frontline employees eligible to take it on the first round and another 25 percent will take it on the second round. We did kind of an internal survey of our employees and we got a couple thousand responses and that’s what we saw.
“On the first and second round about 75 to 80 percent of the people plan to take it. Fifty percent, first chance I can get it. Another 25, 30 second chance, then we have some people who don’t get vaccines at all, or they’re worried about it.”
Doughty said he thinks as employees see the vaccine’s effectiveness, more will take it. o
As far as nursing home residents, that vaccine allotment will be distributed through Walgreen’s and CVS, not from the Huntsville Hospital shipment, Doughty said.
Huntsville Hospital plans to provide vaccine in Huntsville and ship some around the region to serve employees outside of the immediate Huntsville area.
Doughty also said because the information about the vaccine is so new, they will administer vaccine to frontline health workers who have previously contracted COVID-19.
He said vaccine recipients will be asked to report any side effects or adverse reactions. That information will be uploaded to a state tracking system for further review.
Doughty said they hope to get vaccine shipments in more regular intervals, but there are few firm details.
“There is some indication we may get some by the end of the year, first of next year” he said. “But it is still so early in the process.”
Doughty said beyond the second dose that will be assigned to the original vaccine recipients, there is no concrete information on when they will get more of the Pfizer vaccine or the Moderna vaccine. The Moderna vaccine is still awaiting final emergency authorization for use.
Doughty said in deciding who should get the vaccine and the process for administering it, Huntsville Hospital leadership has done a series of planning exercises, including monitoring the 30-minute wait period required after the vaccine is received.
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Philip D. MacKenzie
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Resource Fairness and Composability of Cryptographic Protocols
Juan A. Garay Philip D. MacKenzie Manoj Prabhakaran Ke Yang
A Method for Making Password-Based Key Exchange Resilient to Server Compromise
Craig Gentry Philip D. MacKenzie Zulfikar Ramzan
Strengthening Zero-Knowledge Protocols Using Signatures
Juan A. Garay Philip D. MacKenzie Ke Yang
Threshold Password-Authenticated Key Exchange
Philip D. MacKenzie Thomas Shrimpton Markus Jakobsson
Universally Composable Password-Based Key Exchange
Ran Canetti Shai Halevi Jonathan Katz Yehuda Lindell Philip D. MacKenzie
Universally Composable Password-Based Key Exchange Abstract
Ran Canetti Shai Halevi Jonathan Katz Yehuda Lindell Philip MacKenzie
We propose and realize a definition of security for password-based key exchange within the framework of universal composability (UC), thus providing security guarantees under arbitrary composition with other protocols. In addition, our definition captures some aspects of the problem that were not adequately addressed by most prior notions. For instance, our definition does not assume any underlying probability distribution on passwords, nor does it assume independence between passwords chosen by different parties. We also formulate a definition of password-based secure channels, and show how to realize such channels given any password-based key exchange protocol. The password-based key exchange protocol shown here is in the common reference string model and relies on standard number-theoretic assumptions. The components of our protocol can be instantiated to give a relatively efficient solution which is conceivably usable in practice. We also show that it is impossible to satisfy our definition in the "plain" model (e.g., without a common reference string).
Resource Fairness and Composability of Cryptographic Protocols Abstract
Juan A. Garay Philip MacKenzie Manoj Prabhakaran Ke Yang
We introduce the notion of {\em resource-fair} protocols. Informally, this property states that if one party learns the output of the protocol, then so can all other parties, as long as they expend roughly the same amount of resources. As opposed to similar previously proposed definitions, our definition follows the standard simulation paradigm and enjoys strong composability properties. In particular, our definition is similar to the security definition in the universal composability (UC) framework, but works in a model that allows any party to request additional resources from the environment to deal with dishonest parties that may prematurely abort. In this model we specify the ideally fair functionality as allowing parties to ``invest resources'' in return for outputs, but in such an event offering all other parties a fair deal. (The formulation of fair dealings is kept independent of any particular functionality, by defining it using a ``wrapper.'') Thus, by relaxing the notion of fairness, we avoid a well-known impossibility result for fair multi-party computation with corrupted majority; in particular, our definition admits constructions that tolerate arbitrary number of corruptions. We also show that, as in the UC framework, protocols in our framework may be arbitrarily and concurrently composed. Turning to constructions, we define a ``commit-prove-fair-open'' functionality and design an efficient resource-fair protocol that securely realizes it, using a new variant of a cryptographic primitive known as ``time-lines.'' With (the fairly wrapped version of) this functionality we show that some of the existing secure multi-party computation protocols can be easily transformed into resource-fair protocols while preserving their security.
On Simulation-Sound Trapdoor Commitments
Philip D. MacKenzie Ke Yang
Alternatives to Non-malleability: Definitions, Constructions, and Applications (Extended Abstract)
Philip D. MacKenzie Michael K. Reiter Ke Yang
Efficient and Secure Multi-Party Computation with Faulty Majority and Complete Fairness Abstract
Juan A. Garay Philip MacKenzie Ke Yang
We study the problem of constructing secure multi-party computation (MPC) protocols that are {\em completely fair} --- meaning that either all the parties learn the output of the function, or nobody does --- even when a majority of the parties are corrupted. We first propose a framework for fair multi-party computation, within which we formulate a definition of secure and fair protocols. The definition follows the standard simulation paradigm, but is modified to allow the protocol to depend on the runing time of the adversary. In this way, we avoid a well-known impossibility result for fair MPC with corrupted majority; in particular, our definition admits constructions that tolerate up to $(n-1)$ corruptions, where $n$ is the total number of parties. Next, we define a ``commit-prove-fair-open'' functionality and construct an efficient protocol that realizes it, using a new variant of a cryptographic primitive known as ``time-lines.'' With this functionality, we show that some of the existing secure MPC protocols can be easily transformed into fair protocols while preserving their security. Putting these results together, we construct efficient, secure MPC protocols that are completely fair even in the presence of corrupted majorities. Furthermore, these protocols remain secure when arbitrarily composed with any protocols, which means, in particular, that they are concurrently-composable and non-malleable. Finally, as an example of our results, we show a very efficient protocol that fairly and securely solves the socialist millionaires' problem.
Efficient and Universally Composable Committed Oblivious Transfer and Applications Abstract
Juan Garay Philip MacKenzie Ke Yang
Committed Oblivious Transfer (COT) is a useful cryptographic primitive that combines the functionalities of bit commitment and oblivious transfer. In this paper, we introduce an extended version of COT (ECOT) which additionally allows proofs of relations among committed bits, and we construct an efficient protocol that securely realizes an ECOT functionality in the universal-composability (UC) framework in the common reference string (CRS) model. Our construction is more efficient than previous (non-UC) constructions of COT, involving only a constant number of exponentiations and communication rounds. Using the ECOT functionality as a building block, we construct efficient UC protocols for general two-party and multi-party functionalities (in the CRS model), each gate requiring a constant number of ECOT's.
An Efficient Two-Party Public Key Cryptosystem Secure against Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Attack
Strengthening Zero-Knowledge Protocols using Signatures Abstract
Recently there has been an interest in zero-knowledge protocols with stronger properties, such as concurrency, unbounded simulation soundness, non-malleability, and universal composability. In this paper, we show a novel technique to convert a large class of existing honest-verifier zero-knowledge protocols into ones with these stronger properties in the common reference string model. More precisely, our technique utilizes a signature scheme existentially unforgeable against adaptive chosen-message attacks, and transforms any $\Sigma$-protocol (which is honest-verifier zero-knowledge) into an unbounded simulation sound concurrent zero-knowledge protocol. We also introduce $\Omega$-protocols, a variant of $\Sigma$-protocols for which our technique further achieves the properties of non-malleability and/or universal composability. In addition to its conceptual simplicity, a main advantage of this new technique over previous ones is that it avoids the Cook-Levin theorem, which tends to be rather inefficient. Indeed, our technique allows for very efficient instantiation based on the security of some efficient signature schemes and standard number-theoretic assumptions. For instance, one instantiation of our technique yields a universally composable zero-knowledge protocol under the Strong RSA assumption, incurring an overhead of a small constant number of exponentiations, plus the generation of two signatures.
On Simulation-Sound Trapdoor Commitments Abstract
Philip MacKenzie Ke Yang
We study the recently introduced notion of a simulation-sound trapdoor commitment (SSTC) scheme. In this paper, we present a new, simpler definition for an SSTC scheme that admits more efficient constructions and can be used in a larger set of applications. Specifically, we show how to construct SSTC schemes from any one-way functions, and how to construct very efficient SSTC schemes based on specific number-theoretic assumptions. We also show how to construct simulation-sound, non-malleable, and universally-composable zero-knowledge protocols using SSTC schemes, yielding, for instance, the most efficient universally-composable zero-knowledge protocols known. Finally, we explore the relation between SSTC schemes and non-malleable commitment schemes by presenting a sequence of implication and separation results, which in particular imply that SSTC schemes are non-malleable.
Two-Party Generation of DSA Signatures
Philip D. MacKenzie Michael K. Reiter
Adaptive Security for the Additive-Sharing Based Proactive RSA
Yair Frankel Philip D. MacKenzie Moti Yung
On the Security of the SPEKE Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol Abstract
Philip MacKenzie
In the most strict formal definition of security for password-authenticated key exchange, an adversary can test at most one password per impersonation attempt. We propose a slightly relaxed definition which restricts an adversary to testing at most a constant number of passwords per impersonation attempt. This definition seems useful, since there is currently a popular password-authenticated key exchange protocol called SRP that seems resistant to off-line dictionary attack, yet does allow an adversary to test two passwords per impersonation attempt. In this paper we prove (in the random oracle model) that a certain instantiation of the SPEKE protocol that uses hashed passwords instead of non-hashed passwords is a secure password-authenticated key exchange protocol (using our relaxed definition) based on a new assumption, the Decision Inverted-Additive Diffie-Hellman assumption. Since this is a new security assumption, we investigate its security and relation to other assumptions; specifically we prove a lower bound for breaking this new assumption in the generic model, and we show that the computational version of this new assumption is equivalent to the Computational Diffie-Hellman assumption.
Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Based on RSA
Philip D. MacKenzie Sarvar Patel Ram Swaminathan
Provably Secure Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Using Diffie-Hellman
Victor Boyko Philip D. MacKenzie Sarvar Patel
"Psyeudorandom Intermixing": A Tool for Shared Cryptography
Efficient and Fresh Cerification
Irene Gassko Peter Gemmell Philip D. MacKenzie
Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge Without Intractability Assumptions
Ronald Cramer Ivan Damgård Philip D. MacKenzie
Provably Secure Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Using Diffie-Hellman Abstract
Victor Boyko Philip MacKenzie Sarvar Patel
When designing password-authenticated key exchange protocols (as opposed to key exchange protocols authenticated using cryptographically secure keys), one must not allow any information to be leaked that would allow verification of the password (a weak shared key), since an attacker who obtains this information may be able to run an off-line dictionary attack to determine the correct password. Of course, it may be extremely difficult to hide all password information, especially if the attacker may pose as one of the parties in the key exchange. Nevertheless, we present a new protocol called PAK which is the first Diffie-Hellman-based password-authenticated key exchange protocol to provide a formal proof of security (in the random oracle model) against both passive and active adversaries. In addition to the PAK protocol that provides mutual explicit authentication, we also show a more efficient protocol called PPK that is provably secure in the implicit-authentication model. We then extend PAK to a protocol called PAK-X, in which one side (the client) stores a plaintext version of the password, while the other side (the server) only stores a verifier for the password. We formally prove security of PAK-X, even when the server is compromised. Our formal model for password-authenticated key exchange is new, and may be of independent interest.
Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge Without Intractability Assumptions Abstract
Ronald Cramer Ivan Damgård Philip MacKenzie
We initiate the investigation of the class of relations that admit extremely efficient perfect zero knowledge proofs of knowledge: constant number of rounds, communication linear in the length of the statement and the witness, and negligible knowledge error. In its most general incarnation, our result says that for relations that have a particular three-move honest-verifier zero-knowledge (HVZK) proof of knowledge, and which admit a particular three-move HVZK proof of knowledge for an associated commitment relation, perfect zero knowledge (against a general verifier) can be achieved essentially for free, even when proving statements on several instances combined under under monotone function composition. In addition, perfect zero-knowledge is achieved with an optimal 4-moves. Instantiations of our main protocol lead to efficient perfect ZK proofs of knowledge of discrete logarithms and RSA-roots, or more generally, $q$-one-way group homomorphisms. None of our results rely on intractability assumptions.
Adaptively-Secure Optimal-Resilience Proactive RSA
Abuse-Free Optimistic Contract Signing
Juan A. Garay Markus Jakobsson Philip D. MacKenzie
Proactive RSA
Yair Frankel Peter Gemmell Philip D. MacKenzie Moti Yung
Mis-representation of Identities in E-cash Schemes and how to Prevent it
Agnes Hui Chan Yair Frankel Philip D. MacKenzie Yiannis Tsiounis
Proactive RSA Abstract
We consider a "mobile adversary" which may corrupt all participants throughout the lifetime of the system in a non-monotonic fashion (i.e. recoveries are possible) but the adversary is unable to corrupt too many participants during any short time period. Schemes resiliant to such adverasry are called proactive. We present a proactive RSA system in which a threshold of servers applies the RSA signature (or decryption) function in a distributed manner. Employing new combinatorial and elementary number theoretic techniques, our protocol enables the dynamic updating of the servers (which hold the RSA key distributively); it is secure even when a linear number of the servers are corrupted during any time period; it efficiently "self-maintains" the security of the function and its messages (ciphertexts or signatures); and it enables continuous availability, namely, correct function application using the shared key is possible at any time.
Eurocrypt 2006
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Peter Gemmell (3)
Craig Gentry (1)
Shai Halevi (2)
Markus Jakobsson (3)
Jonathan Katz (2)
Yehuda Lindell (2)
Sarvar Patel (3)
Manoj Prabhakaran (3)
Zulfikar Ramzan (1)
Michael K. Reiter (2)
Thomas Shrimpton (2)
Ram Swaminathan (1)
Yiannis Tsiounis (1)
Ke Yang (11)
Moti Yung (5)
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General Hospital Spoilers: Lucy Blasts Ava For Stealing Laura’s Husband
By Rita Ryan Last updated Jan 21, 2019
General Hospital spoilers tease that Lucy Coe (Lynn Herring) will blast Ava Jerome (Maura West) about stealing the new mayor’s husband, among other things! She will likely tell her some things about “Kevin” (Jon Lindstrom) that she thinks Ava doesn’t know as well and give her some warnings.
Lucy is one who has known Kevin since he first came to Port Charles, and was even married to him for a while. She also knew Ryan and is probably noticing some very Ryan-like behaviors in her ex, and as Lulu Falconeri (Emme Rylan) also warned Ava, Kevin has not been himself for a while!
Lucy was there when Kevin had a psychotic break and thought he was Ryan, after Ryan’s death, and stalked and kidnapped Felicia Scorpio (Kristina Wagner); Lucy stood by him, and the charges were later dropped, but he lost his medical license for a while. During that time Kevin wrote a book called “General Homicide”, a best-selling murder mystery based on people who worked at General Hospital.
Lucy is ready to unleash her literary debut on the world! But are the people of Port Charles ready for the world to see their dirty laundry? #GH55
Tune into a dramatic, new #GH – STARTING NOW on ABC! @TheLynnHerring pic.twitter.com/hhPAwwpjMW
Unfortunately, a disgruntled former intern named Greg Cooper (David Holcomb) used Kevin’s book as a blueprint for murder. Lulu told Ava about the breakdown but Lucy might go into it more in depth! She may also be concerned, with all the publicity about Ryan (which she herself is contributing to by referring to his crime spree in her book and talking about it at the release party!) that Kevin might again be having a psychotic break and thinking he’s Ryan!
General Hospital Spoilers: Anthony Geary Talks About Luke’s Possible Return To Port Charles
Lucy and Ava getting into a public confrontation should be interesting at the least, possibly explosive, and definitely no-holds-barred! Neither woman pussyfoots around what she is going to say, and both are very outspoken! The only thing that would make it a real free-for-all is if Carly
Corinthos (Laura Wright) were there to join in the fracas! But if Lucy upsets Ava and it gets back to Ryan, Lucy may have unwittingly made herself a target! Stay tuned to GH and keep checking General Hospital spoilers frequently to see what happens next!
Rita Ryan
Rita Ryan has been writing since the age of thirteen, starting with songs and later short plays and articles. In her teenage years she was known as “Rita Lorraine” and tried to get into the country music recording industry in the 1970s and later the gospel music industry in the 1990s. Now, she concentrates her writing on soap opera spoilers specializing in General Hospital, aspires to write a series of family-friendly mysteries in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries style, and the rest of her time is spent being grandma to her three grandchildren and cat mama to Mollie & Missie. She is married to her childhood sweetheart whom she rediscovered after 30 years apart.
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Nurses at UC Davis Health
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Nurse Stories
Lourdes Moldre
It’s about giving back
As the Clinical Director of Oncology Services and Regulatory Compliance at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lourdes works every day to give patients a chance.
Yeah, definitely. I think just being in the oncology clinical trial world, you see patients that... At least when I was at UCSF, this is their last kind of option in order to live and be part of that clinical trial is really crucial. And just the fact that they are very appreciative in everything that we do. These patients come to the clinic depending on the protocols, it can be every day, it can be weekly, it can be once a month, but really just appreciation of the staff and that knowing that this is the last resort for them, just mixed emotions. Some of these patients, it's helpful with their care, but some of the patients would be out of the study because the cancer had progressed. We've had those conversations as well, but just really, from that, really cherishing every moment I meet with my kids. Also, overseeing the pediatric infusion and pediatric clinic, seeing these kids with their parents daily, with their ports trying to get their infusion makes you just really appreciate everything.
And also, identify how determined they are. They're so little yet. They're still fighting every day coming to the clinic and having this really positive outlook in life. The innocence, it's really refreshing. When I was in nursing school, I couldn't... The pediatric rotation was actually trainers in the Burn ICU. And that's when I told myself, I could not, I could never do Peds, and that made me pick, really decide to be an adult nurse going like, "Oh my gosh, this is crazy, this is too intense." It was a Burn ICU unit. I remember after every clinical day we have a debriefing in the end, everyone would always just cry in our group. So that's what I told myself, "I can't be a pediatric nurse." Me being the clinical director over the pediatric clinic, and infusion is another opportunity to give back knowing that I can't do it myself.
About Year of the Nurse
The World Health Organization, in honor of the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale, designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and was an opportunity to celebrate nurses and how they impact health care at all levels.
The Year of the Nurse blog is dedicated to the hard working nurses here at UC Davis Health. Listen to each podcast delving into the work life and accomplishments of each featured nurse.
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Jason of Cascadia: Green Warrior
Bill Walsh | April 24, 2007 | Newsletter
In September 2006, Jason F. McLennan left his position as Principal at BNIM Architects of Kansas City to become the CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council. This week the Cascadia GBC hosts the first annual Cascadia Regional Collaboration Summit and Living Future conference. McLennan is the author of The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, in which he coined the term "Green Warrior" to describe "one who...has internalized the holistic thinking approach to design and problem solving."
BW: Why'd you do it? Not yet 40, you were the youngest Principal at BNIM . You led Elements, their green design division. You were in demand as a conference speaker and as a consultant to other firms. You authored three books, started Ecotone publishing company, and actually designed green buildings. What motivated you to give up that full-time practice and security that comes with it to lead a non-profit group?
JM: The underlying motivation of my decision and all that we are doing now in the Cascadia GBC is urgency. Al Gore's famous climate change graphics pushed that issue into the mainstream and helped inspire what we hope will be a global energy revolution. But there is an almost identical graphic, known to Canadians like myself as a "hockey stick" curve, that documents growing concentrations of bioaccumulative toxins in humans, mother's milk. My 8-year-old son just did a research project on why honey bee populations have mysteriously declined as much as 70% on the east coast and 60% on the west coast. That jeopardizes pollination, an essential link in our food chain. Hurricane Katrina laid bare the inevitable connection between environmental crisis and social crisis. This position appealed to me as a platform from which I could challenge myself to push boundaries, catalyze more ideas and actions, move beyond incrementalism in response to these warning signs. The Cascadia organization appealed to me because I knew a lot of the leaders and members, and I knew they felt the same way. I also like the fact that it has a bioregional consciousness, comprising Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The best solutions for sustainability are always local and bio-regional.
BW: What can the Cascadia Green Building Council really do about declining honey bee populations or climate change?
JM: We've started by identifying priorities, setting big picture goals, and identifying signal issues that we can develop strategies to address in the built environment. We've identified four issues that shape all our programs: climate change; the rise of persistent bioaccumulative toxins in the environment; habitat and species loss; and social equity. We are committed to developing explicit strategies to address these issues in every program we advance: the Living Building Challenge; the Pharos materials evaluation system; and even the conference this week.
BW: How does this vision work operationally in the initiatives you've mentioned, for example?
JM: Our vision gets real in two ways: specific programs and creative collaborations. In both the Living Building Challenge and the Pharos Project, for example, you will find an ideal goal set forth, a vision of what a truly good—not just less-bad—material or building would be. Then you will find specific steps to achieve that ideal. Difficult steps for sure, but they codify what needs to be done and what can be done. By setting targets, we believe that the 'universe' will respond. In other words, the innovations that are necessary will occur as people figure out how to achieve the goals we set. This approach requires a great deal of collaboration and a trust in the collective genius of our industry. We are teaming up with you at the Healthy Building Network on the Pharos Project and with the USGBC to sponsor a design competition for the Living Building Challenge as two powerful examples.
BW: How do things like the Living Building Challenge and the Pharos Project fit with LEED?
JM: Everything we do is a complement to LEED, and vice versa. The USGBC leadership has made clear that LEED is not just about checklists. The ambitious climate change initiatives announced by Rick Fedrizzi at GreenBuild last year stretched the boundaries of LEED to respond to the urgency of that issue. Adopting the Precautionary Principle as a guiding principle of the organization sets the stage for responding to new scientific information, like the hockey stick graph on bioaccumaltive toxins, or when my son figures out what's killing off the honey bees. We are moving toward a major revision of LEED in version 3. In the meantime, the USGBC supports and depends upon strong chapter development in the belief that members, through the chapters, will provide the long-term leadership of the organization. That's what we are all about. Setting out a future vision, unleashing people's creativity and energy and making change happen.
BW: And how does this week's conference figure in this vision? Is it like a regional GreenBuild?
JM: Actually, no. This is not designed as a general meeting of the green building movement. Living Future in particular was originally the idea of a board member that we needed to get people together to think about how to leap-frog current ideas on climate change. My response to the idea was to agree wholeheartedly - but then to stretch it to a wider set of issues that we'll be facing as a society as the effects of global warming and pollution become more real. This conference is organized around the four signal issues and the collaborative approaches I mentioned earlier. I've always been a big fan of Bucky Fuller's description of the trim tab, a tiny component of a sailboat's rudder, which, when properly located, exerts enormous influence over its navigation. It's the little rudder that makes the big rudder turn. I think there are lots of potential trim tab ideas out there that can be applied to the biggest challenges we are facing. We've designed a lot of the sessions specifically so that we can get ideas out in the open and invite the universe to respond, create more of an open-source in the green building community. This is not where you come to learn the ABC's of LEED, but it's where you will feel welcome if you have big ideas that you want to share. How do we begin building living buildings today?
BW: Sounds interesting. That's why I'm going.
JM: All are welcome. Here's a link to our website where folks can register. http://www.cascadiagbc.org/resources/LivingFuture07/living-future
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Small Business Marketing Expert Rhondalynn Korolak Warns Alcohol Lowers Intelligence and Business Opportunities
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Two recent studies show that even a stone-cold, sober person holding (or being photographed with) a glass of wine at a business function, will suffer a 10-20 point drop in their perceived IQ and receive fewer business prospects. According to Rhondalynn Korolak, small business marketing expert and author of Sales Seduction, “small business owners who network or have a strong social media presence are particularly at risk – just being pictured with a glass of wine has the potential to tarnish your reputation, decrease the number of leads you receive and reduce your intelligence – not in real terms, but in the eyes of those who see you.”
The “imbibing idiot bias” is documented in a 2012 study by Scott Rick (University of Michigan) and Maurice Schweitzer (Wharton – The University of Pennsylvania). Their work demonstrates, among other things, that subjects viewed holding a glass of wine were judged to be less intelligent and less appropriate for hiring. Conversely, participants who were pictured with a soft drink were viewed as more intelligent and more hireable.
These conclusions were further explored in a March 2013 survey of 100 business owners who attended an after-work networking event. 71% reported having at least one alcoholic beverage, while 36% reported having at least two. Not surprisingly, the 36 respondents reported the least number of business cards exchanged and qualified leads gained. The 29% who did not consume an alcoholic beverage exchanged twice as many business cards and gained 41% more leads.
The “imbibing idiot bias” is an excellent example of a phenomenon called “the priming effect.” Essentially, priming occurs whenever decisions and actions are predisposed, hastened or influenced in a particular direction by the context, visuals, emotions, or symbols.
Priming works so effectively to influence and persuade (even in a small business marketing context) because most of the drivers behind choices and decisions primarily happen below the level of thought and consciousness. This means that business owners in a networking situation are strongly influenced by intangible factors that up until now, have largely slipped under the radar and gone undetected.
Evidence of the priming effect at work is all around us – even in a small business marketing context.
It is the reason why presidents and prime ministers pose for photos while sitting behind a desk, surrounded by a flag, a photo of their family, and bookshelves full of leather bound books. Says Korolak, “Without saying a word, they have already predisposed or influenced your opinion of their values, work ethic, and intelligence. And it also explains why voters cast more politically conservative ballots if asked to attend polls in or near a church location, as opposed to those who vote near government or secular buildings.”
According to Korolak, “Alcohol and small business marketing (and networking) don’t mix – humans are conditioned to associate alcohol with cognitive impairment, and even when no such impairment is present, the association still sticks and we will automatically judge the person partaking as less intelligent and less suitable for doing business with.”
In a tight economy, where perception and first impressions can make the difference between thriving and going bankrupt, it makes good sense for business owners to avoid alcoholic beverages in networking, small business marketing or social media environments. Understanding how strongly the human brain is influenced and primed by subtle cues (such as a glass of wine) can prevent an entrepreneur from unwittingly committing an act of reputational suicide.
To learn more about Sales Seduction and small business marketing, visit:https://imagineeringnow.com/products/sales-seduction/
About Rhondalynn Korolak
Korolak is a Melbourne-based lawyer, chartered accountant, business coach, speaker, best-selling author and small business marketing expert. She has been featured in/on Yahoo, CNN ireport, Skynews, 3AW, Channel 9, Kochie’s Business Builders, bNet, Fast Thinking, MYOB, Dynamic Business, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire. Her recent books also include Financial Foreplay® and On The Shoulders of Giants.
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Peeling Off the Layers
Jeanne E. Fredriksen | Apr 18, 2005
UNDER HER SKIN: How Girls Experience Race in America. Edited by Pooja Makhijani. Seal Press, 2004. 318 pages. $15.95. www.poojamakhijani.com. www.avalonpub.com
“I decided that everything I am is important,” writes Devorah Stone in her essay, “Except.” She and the 20 other women who contributed to Under Her Skin share this celebration of self but not without reliving what made them the women they are today.
Edited by Pooja Makhijani, this collection of essays expresses everything from residual anger to amused sadness. Never easy, always honest, often innocent, rarely less-than-complex, these stories share the thoughts and emotions of women who, in their childhoods, realized that while race is inherent, racism is learned. Interestingly enough, more than one essay addresses the racism of the authors’ own parents. In others, the cross-mix of heritage is represented by an overwhelming desire to belong but never quite knowing how or to what group.
These extraordinary women share their reminiscences, still cushioned in the honesty of youth while supported by the wisdom of age. In so many of the stories, it is clear that race was not a divisive factor in the children’s lives but rather a celebration tying relationships together. “… while we never forget that we have been scattered and persecuted and enslaved in the past, we remain facing ever forward, our hands out to each other. We see the colors of our various skins as beauty, not destiny. We know there’s more inside than will ever be visible on the outside,” writes Lisa Drostova in “Bionic Child.”
The anger and frustration of the incidents that introduced them to racism are, for the most part, gone, replaced by a confidence grown stronger over the years. As painful as some memories may have been to put on paper, the candor must soothe the wounds in the realization that the authors have survived and become vital women in a society that still imposes blatant racial biases.
While there are 21 stories (including the editor’s introduction), there are not, unfortunately, 21 different representative combinations, which would have enhanced the rainbow of perspectives; however, there are some surprising and unique voices. The African-American point of view dominates the collection, and while there is a variety of voices and backgrounds represented, it was easy to wonder: where are the Chinese, the Hispanic, the Filipino voices? Where are the stories of race vs. same race? So many voices must be waiting, begging to be heard.
The writers express no apologies for who they are. There are no threats to the readers. There is only a series of women sharing a developmental part of their lives with everyone who will listen. From the African-American, Jewish, Japanese, and Caribbean-Spanish, to the Nigerian, Vietnamese, Native American, South Asian, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, and Scandinavian-American, these women’s roots circle the globe and find a commonality in this anthology. “We’re white and black and yellow and red and cinnamon, and our hair is kinky and straight and curly and we’re rich and not-so-rich, and nobody cares,” writes Toiya Kristen Finley in “The Last Safe Place.”
The thread that ties this collection together is that none of us—not one—chooses the skin into which we are born. That is not our responsibility. Our responsibility lies in how we honor our skin and respect that of others.
Jeanne E. Fredriksen reads and writes near Chicago, where she freelances as a copywriter and teaches Creative Writing to children through the Center for Gifted-National Louis University.
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BMW launches Z4 in Australia
07/05/2009 - 12:15 | Australia, BMW Z4, Sideblog | Shrawan Raja
BMW has launched the Z4 convertible in Australia. The Australians get the choice of three straight-6 engines displacing 3.0 or 2.5 litres: 225 kW in the BMW Z4 sDrive35i, 190 kW in the BMW Z4 sDrive30i, and 150 kW in the BMW Z4 sDrive23i. The Z4 is expected in India by the year end with probably the least powerful engine.
Hyundai's new Direct Injection Engine for Sonata
BMW Enthusiastic about 2018 Winter Olympics in Munich
International Engine of the Year Award
Ferrari boss puts his own car up for auction
BMW beats Mercedes Benz and Audi with respect to sales
Fiat's Brazilian sales goes from 0 - 10 million in 33 years!
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Welcome to the Highgate Society
11th January 2021 7.30 pm
An online Zoom event
An illustrated talk by Catherine Budgett-Meakin about her round-the-world ‘adventure’ including travel by the Trans-Siberian Railway and Trans-Mongolian Railway.
While our Tidy up Events would still be permitted under Government guidance, in light of the Mayor of London’s recent announcement of a Major Incident, we are reluctantly cancelling the next Tidy up Event on Saturday 16 January. Thank you to all those who had said they would be able to attend and watch this space for our February event.
Monday 18th January 2021 7.30 pm
Roger Sainsbury, a former chairman of the company, will recount how, over thirty years, what began as an evening class for amateurs has become a widely respected company.
Monday 1st February 2021 7.30 pm
Fiona Venus of the Marie Curie Hampstead Hospice will talk on the work of the charity, its funding and how it has adapted to the pandemic.
What do you think of the new ‘No right turn’ rules at Bisham Gardens and South Grove? Have your say by responding to Camden’s consultation. Click More for a link to the consultation page.
Highgate Cemetery launches design competitions
Highgate Cemetery has launched two design competitions as it seeks to implement its long term Conservation Plan
Highgate Society responds to Planning White Paper
The Highgate Society submitted a detailed 19-page response to the
Government’s consultation on its Planning White Paper. To learn more and to access the full submission, click More
Highgate business survey
The Society is aware of the very difficult conditions for all businesses in the area as a result of the COVID pandemic coming on top of many existing challenges. Our Infrastructure and Projects Group ran an online business survey between 14 and 29 October 2020 and the summary report is now available. Click More for a link to the report.
Highgate Society Events
The Highgate Society exists to make Highgate and its neighbourhood a better place in which to live and work; to ensure changes enhance the area, to encourage sound planning and to improve public transport.
As a social hub the Society is at the very heart of Highgate, staging or facilitating a wide range of events for the whole community.
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Another victim of Oplan Bayanihan killed in Arakan Valley
Ramon Batoy, 35, was killed a mere three days after Fr. Fausto Tentorio was killed also in Arakan Valley.
MANILA – A peasant farmer was killed by soldiers from the 57th Infantry Battalion (IB) in Sitio Upper Lumbo, barangay Kabalantian, Arakan Valley, North Cotabato last Oct. 20. Ramon Batoy, 35, was killed a mere three days after Fr. Fausto Tentorio was killed also in Arakan Valley. The soldiers also fired at Batoy’s house, his wife Gina, who is six months old pregnant, and their two children were able to escape.
According to the initial report, before his killing, Ramon Batoy was being accused by soldiers of being a member of the New People’s Army. Batoy is an active supporter of Bantay Katubigan and Bantay Kalikasan of Mt. Sinaka facilitated by the Municipal Agriculture Office of Arakan. He was also a tenant-farmer of the Mayor of Antipas.
According to the urgent action alert sent to Bulatlat.com, three soldiers from the 57th IB forcibly entered Batoy’s house. When Batoy resisted, he was hit with rifle butt. Batoy defended himself against the soldiers and struck the soldier with his bolo. Three soldiers nearby, one of whom was covering his face with a mask, riddled Batoy with bullets. A witness saw that one soldier strapped a rifle on Batoy and took pictures of his dead body.
Batoy’s house and seven other houses nearby were then fired upon by the soldiers. Batoy’s brother, Roger, 44, suffered minor wounds on his left foot. He was inside his house with his wife and stepmother. His wife, Janeth noticed bullets passed over her head during the firing.
On the same day, according to human rights groups Karapatan, Noli Badol, 35, farmer and a leader of Sitio Upper Lumbo, Brgy. Kabalantian, Arakan was also mauled by soldiers from 57th IB. “Badol’s legs and hands were tied. Soldiers also fired at his wife Evelyn, 32, who is eight months pregnant, and their children when she attempted to go near Badol. The military took Badol and detained him at the detachment of the 57th Infantry Battalion for several hours,” Karapatan said in a statement.
Celso Batoy, elder brother of Batoy, 47, was also mauled and detained by the soldiers. Both Celso and Badol are both currently detained at the police station of Ammas Municipality in North Cotabato for charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives.
These incidents resulted to the evacuation of 136 families. Some 43 families from Sitio Lumbo evacuated to Binoongan Elementary School for fear of more attacks from the military.
The following day, Oct. 21, another 93 families evacuated to the same school.
“What kind of ‘peace and development’ is going on in the communities in Arakan? The military’s ‘peace and development’ activities actually means the fake surrender of civilians being forced to admit to being members of the NPA; the mauling, strafing, harassment, threat, intimidation and killings of civilian. We are now seeing the true face of Oplan Bayanihan, the current administration’s counter-insurgency program, where scores of human rights violations take place amid the presence of the so-called Peace and Development Teams (PDTs),” Karapatan Southern Mindanao said in a statement.
Lt. Col. Joven Gonzales, commander of the 57th Infantry Battalion immediately announced to the media that an encounter took place in Arakan town around 5:45 a.m. while the soldiers were conducting “a clearing operation.” He told the media that the operation was “legitimate” and that Ramon Batoy, Noli Badol and Celso Batoy were NPA members.
Isabel Santiago, spokeswoman of the Alfonso Command (Front 53) in Mindanao belied the military’s claim saying that there no encounter occurred.
“The Herminio Alfonso Command, Front 53 Operations, likewise scoffed at the lies perpetrated by the AFP. Col. Joven Gonzales said the raid conducted by the 5th Special Forces Company was in response to a tip that there were land mines in the area,”] while 602nd Brigade Commander Col. Cesar Sedillo and AFP Eastern Mindanao Command spokesperson Col. Leopoldo Galon, Jr, claimed that there was a legitimate encounter with Red Fighters in the area. No such encounter occurred.”
“The murders and atrocities in Arakan, North Cotabato has showed that the fascists have no compunction in unleashing their brutality against the people using the deceptive ‘soft approach’ trickery. The toiling masses can only turn to the people’s democratic revolution for genuine justice,” Santiago said.
Karapatan Southern Mindanao said the military’s 10th Infantry Division, Eastern Mindanao Command and the Aquino government, because of its Oplan Bayanihan, shares the blood of these victims on their hands. “This is the face of Peace and Development Outreach Program. Their peace is silencing the people’s dissent. Their peace means death to leaders of farmers, church people, and civilians.”
The group also called on the Aquino government to prosecute the perpetrators in the incident. “We are calling the government to pull-out all military troops in the countrysides and to pull-out all peace and development teams.” (by ANNE MARXZE D.UMIL,Bulatlat.com)
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The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development
Pascali, Luigi
(Department of Economics, University of Warwick)
Luigi Pascali
The 1870-1913 period marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization. How did this tremendous increase in trade affect economic development? This work isolates a causality channel by exploiting the fact that the steamship produced an asymmetric change in trade distances among countries. Before the invention of the steamship, trade routes depended on wind patterns. The introduction of the steamship in the shipping industry reduced shipping costs and time in a disproportionate manner across countries and trade routes. Using this source of variation and a completely novel set of data on shipping times, trade, and development that spans the great majority of the world between 1850 and 1900, I find that 1) the adoption of the steamship was the major reason for the first wave of trade globalization, 2) only a small number of countries that were characterized by more inclusive institutions benefited from globalization, and 3) globalization exerted a negative effect on both urbanization rates and economic development in most other countries. JEL classification: F1 ; F15 ; F43 ; O43
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Mexico Is Not Colombia: Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-trafficking Organizations, Supporting Case Studies
Product Description: Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexicoâs security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case to Mexicoâs current security situation, historical case studies may offer lessons for policymakers as they cope with challenges related to violence and corruption in that country...read more
By Chad C. Serena
9780833084446, titled "Mexico Is Not Colombia: Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations: Supporting Case Studies" | Rand Corp, May 29, 2014, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexicoâs security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified.
Mexico Is Not Colombia: Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-trafficking Organizations
9780833084408 | Rand Corp, May 29, 2014, cover price $29.95
It Takes More Than a Network: The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation
Product Description: It Takes More than a Network presents a structured investigation of the Iraqi insurgency's capacity for and conduct of organizational adaptation. In particular, it answers the question of why the Iraqi insurgency was seemingly so successful between 2003 and late 2006 and yet nearly totally collapsed by 2008...read more
9780804789035 | Stanford Univ Pr, February 12, 2014, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: It Takes More than a Network presents a structured investigation of the Iraqi insurgency's capacity for and conduct of organizational adaptation.
Redefining Information Warfare Boundaries for an Army in a Wireless World
Product Description: The U.S. Army is studying ways to apply its cyber power and is reconsidering doctrinally defined areas that are integral to cyberspace operations. An examination of network operations, information operations, and several other, more focused areas across the U...read more
By Christopher Paul, Isaac R. Porche, III, Chad C. Serena, Jerry M. Sollinger and Michael York
9780833059123 | Rand Corp, January 16, 2013, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: The U.
A Revolution in Military Adaptation: The US Army in the Iraq War
Product Description: During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory. Iraq plunged into a complex insurgency, and defeating this insurgency required beating highly adaptive foes...read more
9781589017832 | Original edition (Georgetown Univ Pr, October 15, 2011), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory.
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How Do I Connect a Dell Latitude to a TV?
By Steve McDonnell
The Dell Latitude is a family of a laptops manufactured by Dell Computer Corporation. The Dell Latitude Family includes an S-Video, or Separated Video, adapter, often called a "Super Video" adapter. S-Video utilizes a mini-DIN plug to provide a video signal from the Dell Latitude to any television with RCA jack inputs, and provides a better-quality signal than a composite video connection. You can connect a Dell Latitude to a television with an S-Video cable for the video portion. For the audio portion, it's easiest to listen to the audio through the Dell Latitude speakers, since the laptop and television need to be in close proximity to each other anyway.
Connect one end of an S-Video cable to the S-Video jack on the back of the Latitude.
Connect the other end of the S-Video cable to the S-Video input jack on the television.
Shut down and power off the Dell Latitude. Ensure that the television is turned on. Power up the Dell Latitude to view the picture on the television screen rather than on the laptop screen.
Click "Start" and "Control Panel." Select "Adjust screen resolution" under "Appearance and Personalization" if you want to adjust the resolution of the picture from the Latitude to the television set. Click "OK" when done to save your changes.
Dell: S-Video Cable for Select Dell Latitude D-Family Laptops
This solution has been tested by Dell on the Dell Latitude D410, D420, D530, D531N, D610, D630N, D630c, D631, D6341N, D810, D820 and D830 laptops and is supported by Dell Technical Support.
Simply disconnecting the S-Video cable will not return the video to the Dell Latitude Screen. To stop viewing the video on the television, you must power on the Latitude without the S-Video cable connected.
Steve McDonnell's experience running businesses and launching companies complements his technical expertise in information, technology and human resources. He earned a degree in computer science from Dartmouth College, served on the WorldatWork editorial board, blogged for the Spotfire Business Intelligence blog and has published books and book chapters for International Human Resource Information Management and Westlaw.
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Three-fold rise in ceasefire violations in first five months
According to data available with The Indian Express, there were 110 incidents of ceasefire violation by Pakistan in 2017, leading to the death of two BSF personnel and seven injuries.
Written by Deeptiman Tiwary | New Delhi | May 24, 2018 3:57:01 am
Tuesday night turned out to be among the worst this month when 40 border outposts of the BSF in Arnia, R S Pura and Hiranagar sectors received fire from across the border. (File)
There has been a spike in hostilities between India and Pakistan along the International Border, with the first four-and-a-half months of 2018 seeing thrice the number of ceasefire violations that were recorded in 2017. For the past one week, there has been constant exchange of fire between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers, leading to casualties and heavy property and security infrastructure damage on both sides.
According to data available with The Indian Express, there were 110 incidents of ceasefire violation by Pakistan in 2017, leading to the death of two BSF personnel and seven injuries. This year, till May 23, the figure has already crossed 300 violations on the International Border in Jammu. As many as five BSF personnel have been killed. In 2017, only 16 ceasefire violations were recorded till May on the Jammu border. That makes figures for the corresponding period this year about 20 times that of last year.
Tuesday night turned out to be among the worst this month when 40 border outposts of the BSF in Arnia, R S Pura and Hiranagar sectors received fire from across the border. “The last time we saw so much aggression from Pakistan was in 2014-15 when almost the entire border was lit up and there were significant casualties on both sides,” a BSF officer said.
In August-September 2014, the BSF engaged with Pakistani forces on the Jammu border for days, firing over 1,000 shells every night, after being given a free hand by the government. By 2015, the two sides were back on the negotiating table and in a two-day meet in Delhi between BSF and Pakistan Rangers, it was decided that the two sides would not answer fire immediately. It was also decided to establish hotlines between the brass of the two forces to sort out small issues among themselves.
“It was very fruitful — 2016 and 2017 were very quiet. Much of the action was on the LoC managed by the Indian Army in these two years. But action appears to be shifting back to Jammu border now; right after farmers have harvested their produce,” said a senior BSF officer. While January saw close to 200 incidents of ceasefire violations in Jammu, things started returning to normal in the subsequent months. However, the situation has changed in the last week.
According to BSF sources, it all started when the BSF fired at an infiltrator on the Jammu border last week, leading to constant exchange of fire. It turned worse when a video of BSF targeting and destroying Pakistani bunkers was leaked to the media and a narrative was built that India had brought Pakistan to its knees. “This has led to Pakistan indulging in more firing,” a BSF officer said.
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Insurance catastrophe declared for Mildura storm damage
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared a catastrophe for damage caused by a severe hail storm that struck the Mildura region of north-west Victoria, and nearby parts of New South Wales and South Australia, last Friday.
Insurers have received about 9000 claims, with estimated insured losses of more than $20 million. More claims are expected over the next few weeks.
ICA CEO Rob Whelan said the industry had escalated its response to help policyholders affected by the storm.
“In addition to the building and vehicle damage these storms typically bring, the storm has caused significant agricultural losses. The timing could barely be worse for many producers, coming so close to harvest time. Fortunately, a substantial proportion of the damaged crops, trees and vines will be covered by insurance," Mr Whelan said.
· Established an industry taskforce to address and identify any issues that arise
· Activated its disaster hotline – 1800 734 621 – helping policyholders if they are uncertain which insurer they are with, or have general inquiries about the claims process
· Mobilised ICA staff to work directly with local services and affected policyholders in the region
The ICA and its members are also liaising with state governments, local councils, emergency services and other agencies.
“Representatives of several insurance companies have already arrived in the area to assist their policyholders,” he said.
“Insurers recognise how serious this situation is for a region so dependent on agriculture, and are responding with appropriate urgency.”
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First Impressions: “I Miss You,” “King of Dramas,” and “Can We Get Married”
by joonni on November 14, 2012
My apologizes for the late update. I wanted to give each drama a two-episode watch before I gave my first impressions so it took me a while to get through them.
Starring: Park Yoochun, Yoon Eun-hye, and Yoo Seung-ho
Director: Lee Jae-dong (Thank You)
Writer: Moon Jung-hee (Can You Hear My Heart)
Episodes watched: 2/2
Oh the angst. But thankfully “I Miss You” is not all tears and gloom as the poster would suggest. I went in expecting heavy angst so I was pleasantly surprised by the innocence and the whimsical present in the story. For the first time, I am glad a drama started with a childhood back-story because the innocence of Han Jung-woo (Yeo Jin-gu) and Lee Soo-yeon (Kim So-hyeon) as fifteen year-olds in love help to lighten the atmosphere of the generally makjang drama. I find the parental stories typically overwrought with lots of crying, screaming, and bug-eyed glaring, which do nothing to help me build a connection to the drama. The childhood story of Jung-woo and Soo-yeon becoming friends, opening up to each other, and falling in love is where the heart of the drama lies. It is the space where the viewers can make the emotional connection to what they are watching.
Typical of a makjang, the plot and narrative elements of “I Miss You” are all set up to evoke very discrete emotions. In other words, the drama sets up each scene with flashing signs that say, “This is a sad moment,” “This is a horrifying moment,” “This is a romantic moment,” with no spectrum in between. I disliked being emotionally maneuvered this way but thankfully, the acting of the child actors and beautiful cinematography are compelling enough to bring me into the story instead of leaving me to watch it pass like an annoyed bystander.
If she does this for much longer, I think she is going to need those glasses to help keep her eyeballs inside her skull.
I think I have to watch at least two more episodes until I can make a commitment to this drama because while it is better than I expected, I still feel very wary of where the drama will turn once the childhood portion ends. That poster is seriously the worst poster ever. I want to run away screaming whenever I see it.
King of Dramas
Starring: Kim Myung-min, Jung Ryeo-won, Choi Si-won
Director: Hong Sung-chan (Take Care, Captain; Smile, Mom)
Writer: Jang Hang-joon (Sign)
Immediately off the bat, we are introduced to the pompous, self-righteous, and unlikeable lead character Anthony Kim, who is a president of a drama production company. Let me emphasize how much I hate this type of character. H.A.T. E. HATE. It is a great credit to the actor, Kim Myung-min, for drawing me in within a minute of the drama instead of sending me dashing off for the hills. I don’t know how he does it, but despite the awful character and fashion, I find Anthony Kim magnetic, hilarious, and very complex. I love how Kim Myung-min is such a physical actor, who not only speaks and emotes the character, but also inhabits the character with his entire body and aura. Guh, I can gush all day about him.
As for the story itself, I like the subject of drama production and find the take different enough from “Worlds Within” to not constantly compare. In fact, I can’t compare it all. “Worlds Within” was very slice-of-life and it took its subject matter seriously, while “King of Dramas” is sort of tongue-in-cheek and geared for the masses who are content to be entertained, not preached at. “King of Dramas” started off meta, emphasizing the ludicrousness of product placement in contemporary dramas. However, the drama never goes deep into a real critique of the current drama production system, content to remain a character-driven and mass-consumed entertainment piece. It’s good at not being pretentious, unlike it’s main character. 😉
Death by product placement.
Can We Get Married
Starring: Sung Joon, Jung So-min, Lee Mi-sook
Director: Kim Yoon-chul (My Name is Kim Sam-soon; Que Sera Sera)
Writer: Ha Myung-hee
I have pretty mixed feelings about this drama. I find the story realistic and diversified among its different characters but the subject matter itself is not something I am interested in. I particularly don’t like dramas about in-laws fighting and cheating husbands so this drama is riding a very thin line on my nerves. What keeps me engaged is the story between Ki-joong and Dong-bi and their sizzling, sexy chemistry, and the sweet and hopeful story between Min-ho, Deul-rae, and motorcycle.
This drama is populated with characters who talk a mile-a-minute (“Gilmore Girls” style) and not always in a very likeable manner. The characters just keep saying everything out loud and while it can be refreshing to have characters who actually talk through their problems, there are just moments where I want to scream, “THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK!” It keeps me feeling pretty agitated throughout the whole episode and it doesn’t help that the cuts are frequent and rapid. Ultimately, I think I can watch this drama with liberal fast-fowarding so I can enjoy the good without being chased away by the bad.
What about you guys? What dramas are you currently watching and what are your impressions?
Tags: Can We Get Married, I Miss You, Kim Myung-min, King of Dramas
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lizzie #
I came to realize most of people don’t get interested on a couple who is already together and love each other and don’t have much thouble. Most of people are interested on DB and KJ’s couple and Aunt and Motocycle ahjusshi.
I’m interested in all couples and their story, not interested on the mother’s war at all. Which is the main plot of the drama.
But Joonni, so this mean you don’t like HY and SH’s couple?
DB and KJ had lots of scenes on episode 1 and 2, but then their scenes got so small….
also about I miss you, episode 3 killed the only thing I liked about the drama.
You’ll know what I mean when you watch it.
kisseds
Missy #
I’m like you, I enjoy all the couples. I love DB’s character, I really feel for her. DB & KJ don’t have a lot of scenes together because of their situation. I love HY & SJ, even though they are already together, they still have their issues & are quite funny. The auntie and motorcycle ahjussi are super funny. I am waiting for them to get together.
BTW How many episodes are in this show?
joonni #
I don’t like HY so much. She talks way too much and is kind of manipulative. I like HY and JH together when they are being all adorable but since their story is so intertwined with the mothers, I get really irritated.
anna #
still looking for replacement of “Faith” any suggestion? By the way im so happy to see CHOI YOUNG at the airport yesterday as he arrived here in the Philippines…Oh my god…everybody got crazy…he’s …he’s.. so handsome…i can’t express my happiness really….so so much luv him…welcome LEE MIN HO.
gukja #
You saw LMH in the flesh at the airport? LUCKY GIRL! You must felt like being in heaven at the time. Did you try to reach out and touch his royal highness? We saw how crazy the fans were on the videos posted on Youtube. It must have been a riot being there in person. Was your voice among the ones we heard on the video screaming and yelling ‘OPPA’…..LOL!
my week is lee min ho’s day…yes, evrybody got crazy…filipino fans are shouting his name “Lee Min Ho.” and also shouting to him “Saranghae” he answered back “mahal ko kayo'(meaning i luv u.) they are very happy to see lee Min Ho in person. Thet joy he brought to us is unmeasurable…He’s so handsome, charming, fashionable, tall and evrything evrything…the fans here are so many…all his events here are very successfull..Thanks to Bench who is the major sponsor of bringing Lee Min Ho here…He learned some tagalog words and promised to come back again here in the Phillippines.
Yulia #
Dear Joonni-
First of all, I would like to thank you for your work on Faith. The recaps were helpful and perfect for me, who doesn’t speak Korean and had been watching Faith as the first Korean drama ever. I am not ready to watch the new drama yet. I liked Faith a lot. I visited old LMH dramas Personal Taste and Hunter that haven’t inspired me much. I was thinking to watch a bit The Great Queen SD. I appreciate sharing your drama list, thanks!
Hi Yulia!
Mileyy #
heloo Jooni. . I started reading about “I miss you” after faith ended just to overcome the “miss u lot – K drama Faith”. I still miss it :
After reading update of “I Miss you” I feel that this will be another sad story which is filled with equal mesmerising happy moments between the lead couple that helps to overcome the sadness. .
Though I am not much into this drama (its just started), roght now its just the only drama that interests me. .
I am looking frwd to ur opinions and updates for this drama. . 🙂
Stephy #
I am still not over Faith =( Probably going to start watching City Hunter soon. I can’t say goodbye to Lee Min Ho just yet 😉
minozlove #
I know, I am wondering if I should start this one or not, I am worried Iwill get even more depressed ay minoxy mask is on
Dreico #
we have the same list.. except or the king of dramas.
I’m still waiting for jo woon’s new drama
If you’re not watching Can We Get Married Yet?, you should! It’s on episode 10 and it’s getting so good! Only 6 episodes left 😦
SH #
At long last, I finally saw King of Dramas! The topic is engaging. The actors and actresses are fantastic. LOVE the music. BUT I’m just not connecting with this show emotionally. The problem is that show focuses too much on the politics of drama making and inside jokes, but gives us just glimpses of the characters’ inner feelings and thoughts. Anthony is the center piece of this show, but I want to know more of Go Eun, Hyun Min, and the minor characters. Eight episodes in (or half way in), and I still feel that the show is at an exposition stage.
I haven’t watched after episode two yet but I get the impression that this is not going to be a drama about characters. I tend to like dramas with more focus on character stories but King of Dramas is a nice change from my usual drama plate.
Sari #
i watched king of dramas till 8 episode so far..totally addicted to this drama..Anthony is a kind of person i HATE the most (just like you jooni), but somehow he’s also the reason i addicted to this drama (thanks to Kim Myung Min).Can’t wait to the next episode 🙂
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7 Top Games For Glorious PC Gaming This Year
For those wondering PC gaming is dead, well, it’s absolutely not. In fact, 2020 speaks of a bright year for PC gamers. You would be surprised to know some game publishers are offering exclusive editions especially for PC gamers. Are you an avid PC gamer who believes in the sustainability of PC gaming? That’s great and you must be looking for new games to try out in gaming PC this year. The great bit is the post below offers a brief on some of the best games you can try on your gaming PC in 2020.
Interestingly, this is not the sequel but the prequel of the previously published Red Dead game. You will find yourself in a big open world nestled in Wild West. As a player you will have to go through a series of shenanigans like robbing trains, collecting bounties as well as hunting of wild cougars. And for all these you will be accompanied by a faithful horse and your 6 shooter weapon. What’s more intriguing about the game is its detailed graphics. From gun care to player’s bond with horse, the game boasts a commendable work of detailing.
If you have already played Evil Genius on your gaming PC before, you will surely love the new version. It’s because, the latest launch promises a more enriching experience for every PC gamer out there. The game follows the same theme of the previous version yet also takes it a notch higher with improved mechanics. Mention must be made of the enhanced henchman management portfolio as well as improved strategy elements that make the game even more attractive.
Connect 4 Online
Connect 4 is a classic board game that most of us have played for years. If you have a “thing” for the game, you will be elated to know connect 4 online is available for PC gamers as well. The gameplay is basic and the same as the original one. The online version also features a two player game and each player here will have to drop playing pieces on the virtual game board. The first one to match four pieces before the other will win. You will get the online version of the game from Microsoft store.
Are you a fan of the cyberpunk genre of gaming? That’s cool and you must have played Cyberpunk 2077 plenty of times. But, it’s the only one for cyberpunk fans. If you are looking out for new titles in the said genre this year, look no further than Ghostrunner.
You have a one-of-a-kind game here that blends the cool atomosphere of cyberpunk along with free-running spirit of Mirror’s Edge. Alongside, you have smashing action sequences like the ones you have always raved about in Superhot. The end result has to be a fantastic action game that you will enjoy for hours.
Have you already played Darksiders III and liked it? Well, now you have Darksiders Genesis that will add a new flavor to your Darksiders experience. It’s like a solid dungeon-crawling makeover that promises more exciting adventures in Darksiders world.
The new launch focuses on Strife who teams up with grim-faced War to throw out heavier attacks than you have seen in the Darksiders games before. One of the most important features of the game is Strife’s unique pistol which allows him to kind of grief his enemies from a huge distance. The game also features twin-stick shooter system that will take your monster slaying experience a step further. And of course, the game boasts excellent visuals which will give life to the game when you will play in your advanced gaming PC.
The Kerbal Space game is all about building a super rocket which will be able to reach the moon as well as beyond. The game has received brownie points for amazing aesthetics and certainly the high-end physics methodology. The Kerbal Space Program 2 will follow almost the same ambience that you have seen in the first game. It implies the new version will deal with space science but the content will be slightly different to bring a new flavor for the gamers.
Are you looking for a great RPG game for your new advanced gaming PC this year? Well, in that case, you won’t certainly be disappointed with The Outer Worlds. From dialogues to combat tactics to gunplay, this game impresses on all counts hands down.
In regards to gameplay, it’s somewhat similar to Fallout game. You will have to gather weapons, upgrade, repair and then there is a bunch of powerful enemies that you will have to beat. To add more to the excitement, the game will take you across multiple planets swimming all over the galaxy.
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Israel says it launched airstrikes on Syria over explosive devices at border
Israel’s military has said it launched air strikes against the Syrian army and Iran’s Quds Force in Syria on Wednesday after explosive devices were planted in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
In a statement, the Israeli military said its planes hit storage facilities, military compounds and Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries.
The Syrian state news agency reported that three military personnel were killed and one was wounded in “Israeli aggression” over Damascus.
Referring to territory inside the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Israeli military said: “Earlier, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) troops exposed improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on the Israeli side of the Alpha Line which were placed by a Syrian squad led by Iranian forces.
“The IEDs’ exposure on Tuesday is further clear proof of the Iranian entrenchment in Syria,” the statement said, adding that Israel holds the Syrian government responsible for all actions perpetrated in Syria.
Israel has launched hundreds of strikes against Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war and later annexed it in a move not recognised internationally.
Israel views Iran as its greatest threat and says it will not tolerate the establishment of a permanent Iranian military presence in Syria, especially near its borders. Iran is a key ally of Syrian president Bashar Assad in the country’s civil war and has sent military advisers and allied militias to aid his forces.
The Quds Force has been instrumental in directing militia that fought on behalf of Assad throughout Syria’s civil war.
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There is a lot that can be said about the virus issue and its impacts. On the railway, it has led to a large reduction in services and has made it difficult for the Kent Community Rail Partnership to carry out planned activities and our involvement with colleagues as well as the rail industry itself. Our (SUSTRANS) management have stepped up with a contingency plan and are looking forward to the relaxation of the social distancing rules and being able to get out and meet with others face to face instead of online meetings.
When the 'lockdown' started we already had a lot of issues to resolve. The new franchise to operate our railways was only confirmed in the last days before the previous one was due to expire on the 31st March. No sooner was the award announced that the situation changed due to the COVID19 situation and the franchise control was handed to the Department of Transport (DfT) - but with Southeastern carrying out the day to day operation.
Before the previous franchise bidding process was cancelled, we had talked to all the potential bidders and there was a great deal of support for the extension of funding for Community Rail activities across the new franchise. This has been carried into the new direct-award franchise and Southeastern announced a £400,000 fund to support activities over two years, with proposals to be submitted by mid-June. This also included the current KCRP activities (although £40,000 had been underwritten by the DfT for the current year).
There had been previous suggestions that an additional line could be added, with Tonbridge/Hastings being investigated and some interest from the Dover/Faversham line. As Tonbridge/Hastings crosses the border with East Sussex, it looks like the Sussex CRP will be taking that forward. So after discussions with interested parties, it has been agreed to propose CRPs for both the Dover/Faversham line and the Maidstone East line from Ashford to join up with fellow CRP, the Darent Valley Line (Swanley to Sevenoaks). Additional KCRP staff will be recruited. The result of our bid will be known before the end of July - all part of exciting time for the partnership. More details will announced when we know the result of our bid.
In the meantime please keep safe and well, we hope to see you out on our railways as soon as it is safe to do so.
Chris Fribbins Chairman – KCRP
Thank You Southeastern
Kent Community Rail Partnership and all it’s members would like to show their appreciation for the Southeastern staff. Over a very difficult period during the Covid 19 Pandemic, Southeastern staff have ensured that all key workers have been able to get to work safely, who provide essential services for the county and save lives. This has involved a lot of behind the scenes work as well as front line staff to revise timetables, communicate information to our passengers and cover other people’s roles due to reduced staffing.
At the time of writing the government has said, “social distancing means there will be space for as few as 1 in 10 of the usual number of passengers on the railway. The safety of the public and our employees remains our top priority and people should help protect everyone on the railway by only using trains if they have no alternative. Those who can work from home should continue to do so. Please help us keep the railway free for those who need it most.”
Please respect this guidance and work from home when you can and only make essential journeys in the meantime.
Over the past 3 months I am delighted to say that our partnership members have been fantastic in adapting to using online technology to attend our partnership meetings and to join in with our online activities.
Kent CRP Quiz
We launched our first online quiz event on May 7th and had 42 people take part forming ten teams. This included teams from Brighton and Huddersfield. The event was hosted on Zoom and consisted of 6 rounds. The categories were, Sport, History, Music, Geography, General Knowledge and Food and Drink. Thank you to Matthew Fraser from Southeastern for being our wonderful quiz master.
The event was very successful and as a result we will be hosting our second online quiz on Friday July 3rd at 7pm.
Kent CRP Book Club
Kent CRP also launched their first virtual book club. Only 4 people took part to read the first book and join in with an online meeting to share their thoughts about “ The Mystery of the Blue Train” by Agatha Christie. However once word got round, the second book “On the Slow Train” by Michael Williams has attracted 12 bookworms to take part. If you would like to join in and receive weekly emails and meet up online with our next book please contact therese.hammond@sustrans.org to sign up.
Unfortunately, due to Covid- 19 our planned up and coming events have all been postponed for the foreseeable near future. We will continue to run smaller online events such as the Book Club and Quiz.
Kent CRP Online Quiz— 3rd July 2020 7-8:30 pm
Book Club — 9th July 2020 Zoom Meeting
Please remember that as from June 15th face coverings must be worn on trains and public transport until further notice.
As soon as it is safe to do so Kent Community Rail Partnership will be working closely with Southeastern to carry out our action plan and deliver a number of events on the train.
Train services will still be restricted during Covid19 and over the coming months as the country starts to return to normal, so please continue to keep an eye on the Southeastern website for the latest updates regarding train times and services.
Kent CRP Logo Competition
During the lock down period we decided to launch a Logo Competition to design a logo for Kent CRP. Our 2 existing line logos will still be used. We had a wonderful range of fantastic entries from all different walks of life, including primary school children, university students and graphic designers. We would like to thank all those who entered for sharing their wonderful ideas and giving up their time to be involved.
A panel of ten judges struggled to separate some of the imaginative designs we received. However, two entries tied for first place with 41 votes each. Well done to both Matthew Crowley and Hannah Legg. Their ideas will be combined to become our new logo. They were also both rewarded with an Amazon Voucher for £100.
We would also like to congratulate our runner-up Isabella who wins a £50 Amazon Voucher
Old Train Station Photos
Kent CRP are putting together a new page for our website about the history of our stations. If you have any old photographs of any of our stations on the SwaleRail or Medway Valley Line, we would be delighted to share these. We will need permission from the owner to allow us to share them on our site. If have any interesting facts about your local stations , we would also love to hear from you. Please contact andy.place@sustrans.org.uk for more information or to send in any photos.
Photo of Swale Halt courtesy of Ray Moore from the Kent Photo Archive.
Keep up to date! Visit our website www.kentcrp.org.uk
Follow us on Twitter @kentcrp1 or our Facebook page - Facebook Kent Community Rail Partnership
Therese Hammond - Project Officer email: therese.hammond@sustrans.org.uk 07917 131248
Andy Place - Engagement Officer email andy.place@sustrans.org.uk 07920 088441
The Kent Community Rail Partnership is hosted by the registered Charity Sustrans. The Kent Community Rail Partnership encourages greater use of the Medway Valley and SwaleRail lines by local people and visitors and aims to improve station environments and facilities on offer.
Click on the links below to view previous newsletters.
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Research ArticleArticle
Anticoagulant and Antithrombotic Activity of Maltodapoh, a Novel Sulfated Tetrasaccharide
Daniel J. Martin, Joseph A. Toce, Phillip J. Anevski, Douglas M. Tollefsen and Dana R. Abendschein
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics February 1999, 288 (2) 516-521;
Daniel J. Martin
Joseph A. Toce
Phillip J. Anevski
Douglas M. Tollefsen
Dana R. Abendschein
Orally bioavailable anticoagulants are needed that exhibit rapid and predictable onset and offset kinetics. This study was designed to determine whether maltodapoh, a novel sulfated bis-maltobionic acid amide, exhibits anticoagulant and antithrombotic activity in vivo after oral administration. Maltodapoh exhibited a dose-dependent increase in activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) in both rabbit and human plasma in vitro. Maltodapoh also induced a dose-dependent increase in aPTT when administered either i.v. or p.o. in rabbits. After a single oral bolus (3 mg/kg), aPTT increased 2- to 3-fold between 4 and 8 h and remained elevated for at least 24 h. This dose doubled the time to the onset of thrombotic occlusion after electrical injury to the carotid artery (from 52 ± 12 min in vehicle-treated, control rabbits, n = 7, to 98 ± 12 min in maltodapoh-treated animals, n = 7,P < .001) and reduced by 84% the weight of thrombus in the superior vena cava induced over 2 h after insertion of a thrombogenic copper wire and thread device (from 37 ± 10 mg in controls to 6 ± 3 mg in maltodapoh-treated animals,P < .001). Thus, based on the in vivo activity after oral administration, favorable kinetic profile and efficacy for inhibition of both arterial and venous thrombosis, further testing of this class of compounds appears warranted.
Send reprint requests to: Dr. Dana R. Abendschein, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Box 8086, St. Louis, MO 63110.
↵1 This work was supported by Grants HL-53460 (D.R.A.) and HL-55520 (D.M.T.) from the National Institutes of Health and a grant from Reliable Biopharmaceuticals.
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ATIII
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July 16, 2012 The Daily Planet Leave a comment 2012apollo 440chase and statusdaily planetdelilaheven after allfinley quayekosheenlove you somorcheebasneaker pimps
Delilah, ‘Love You So’
I’ve done a proper, almost considered review of her album for NME, but we do of course need to appraise Delilah frivolously – and with input from a seven-year-old.
Delilah’s all 21st century trip-hop, which sounds like a creaking bore on paper until you appreciate what she could’ve been. She was a vocal foil for Chase And Status, the hollow-hearted Apollo 440 for nos jours. We could’ve had another Kosheen on our hands. In the circumstances, some lush, gorgeously sung trip-hop is manna from Heaven.
Junior’s musical muscle memory isn’t weighed down by the plodding mass of Morcheeba or Sneaker Pimps, so she can sit here and enjoy ‘Love You So’. There’s a trace of sarcasm in her “fantastic” verdict and the cherry on top is the wavering thumb, neither up nor down.
Junior’s mum just spends three minutes trying to remember the name of Finley Quaye’s ‘Even After All’.
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July 11, 2012 July 16, 2012 The Daily Planet Leave a comment 1988better the devil you knowdaily planetespecially for youjason donovankeith washingtonkylie minogue
Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, ‘Especially For You’
A very minor consolation for the epic gig we’re all missing tonight. Don’t know about you guys, but I couldn’t wait to stand in the tipping rain making amazing gags about what a ‘Tragedy’ it was. But even gnat’s piss-weak jokes would’ve been worth it to see Kylie and Jason turning on that half-arsed chemistry again, to have Donovan make us yearn for the glory days of Keith Washington, to hear this wan melody squeaking over a vast PA. Oh, alright, I quite like it – but back in 1988, something made me take against ‘Especially For You’. There was something irritating about that hairsprayed sock puppet Donovan draping himself all over the delectable pocket-sized goddess Kylie that I can’t quite put my finger on.
Junior says this is “boring”. When I put on ‘Better The Devil You Know’ she says it’s way better. I think we can all detect the uncommon factor, kids.
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July 10, 2012 July 11, 2012 The Daily Planet Leave a comment azealia banksbelieveboyfrienddaily planetdisneyjustin bieberjustin timberlakeone directionrihanna
Justin Bieber, ‘Boyfriend’
Junior is seven today. And this is her first record – well, the album is. Maybe her record-buying development’s been arrested by Jukebox Junior because you’d expect her to have her own records by now, wouldn’t you? Sure, she has Disney Princess compilations and nursery rhyme CDs, but she doesn’t need to go out and buy (or ask for) One Direction or Rihanna albums because nice people send them to Daddy anyway.
So Justin Bieber’s Believe will be the answer to that first record question in years to come and it’ll all be because Bieber’s UK label thought Junior’s dad would rip it and spray it all over the Internet, so they didn’t give it to him.
This is just streaming. It doesn’t count.
To my ears this is a pale Trousersnake retread, but I just don’t get it, do I? Junior does the patented family shoulder roll and Junior 2 already knows all the words. It’s quite chilling how the Cult of the Belieber has infiltrated my house while I was trying to win the family over with clean edits of Azealia Banks tracks. This is just a taste of my powerlessness to come.
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July 10, 2009 The Daily Planet 1 Comment 2009animal collectiveantipop consortiumdaily planetglastonburykanye westmerriweather post pavilionmissy elliottmusicsummertime clothes
Animal Collective, ‘Summertime Clothes’
So it’s Junior’s fourth birthday. It seems only three and a half years and a bit since we were reviewing Antipop Consortium records together and plumping for Kanye West over Missy Elliott in the 2005 chart. How time flies, innit.
And in those few short years, Animal Collective have gone from quirky indie electronica nerds to quirky indie electronica nerds with something approaching proper tunes. There have always been squirts of brilliance, but 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion has pulled together more than most and set them to some full rave dynamics. The jaunty ‘Summertime Clothes’ isn’t the best single on it – mayyybbeee we’ll save one for the year-end chart – but it’s a ray of hope as everything goes haywire outside the window.
Newly grown-up Junior is more interested in the flashy magic eye madness on the album sleeve, gracing the song with a mere handclap or two. She’d have loved them at Glastonbury though, where they stole the show with disco lights and hands aloft and sent all my mates packing to buy their album.
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January 21, 2009 August 5, 2016 The Daily Planet 13 Comments 2008adelebat for lashesbrit awardsbritscritics choicedaily planetdog days are overflorence and the machinemusic
Florence And The Machine, ‘Dog Days Are Over’
Yes, I fibbed. I played the industry tart last night and went along to the BRITs launch at the Roundhouse, so it seems only fair to stick around in 2008 for a few minutes to laud Critics’ Choice award winner Florence. Her vocals were mixed way too high – not quite such a treat when your voice leans towards the old banshee’s wail – but nothing could spoil this storming number. Flo bashed the drum Bat For Lashes-style while harp trilled prettily alongside. Whether she’ll hit the commercial peaks of last year’s CC winner Adele is another matter altogether, but she’s sure to be a whole lot more interesting.
Junior was acting the arse this morning, rabbiting baby talk back at me whenever I asked a question. To give her the benefit, she was possibly trying to include little Junior 2 who writhed rhythmically on the rug while big sis did a ludicrous high-tempo dance. It’s the kind of record that should make you lose your inhibitions, whirling wildly to each burst of energy. Either that or you’ll just hate it.
Where are you then? Pick a year, any year, except 1969, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
January 20, 2009 August 5, 2016 The Daily Planet 2 Comments 2008black and golddaily planetmusicsam sparro
Sam Sparro, ‘Black And Gold’
I kind of like it, but I sort of don’t. Sam Sparro’s huge written-in-the-stars hit was in the mix for our countdown until I was overcome by wishy-washyness. There’s something undeniably impressive about ‘Black And Gold’, and yet there also seems to be nothing there when you chip away at the surface. Should that matter? I guess, sometimes, it does. Anyway, it’s bold, it brims with cod-philosophy and it appears convinced it really means something. Throw in some weighty synths and catchy dust, and you’ve got a hit lodged in everyone’s brain for a calendar year.
Perhaps I should have left the decision with Junior, who yells “Black and gold!” before Sparro’s finished uttering his first line. She taps out the rhythm on her little table and has a merry old time for the duration of Sam’s career.
So long then, 2008. And so long it was. I’m ready to move on and I reckon the rest of you are too. If the mood grabs, use the comments box wisely to choose a new year – but not 1969, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007 or 2008.
January 15, 2009 August 5, 2016 The Daily Planet 1 Comment 2008bernard butlercoldplaydaily planetduffyleona lewismcalmont and butlermercymusicoasispigalleq magazinerockferrywarwick avenue
Duffy, ‘Warwick Avenue’/‘Mercy’
Any seemingly endless round-up of 2008 would be incomplete without mentioning the Dusty-voiced siren from Wales. Rockferry was the bestelling album of the year, chart fans – no mean feat in a climate where Coldplay were releasing their best record in years (ever?), Oasis were returning to form (hmmm – maybe Q asserted that) and Leona Lewis was still shifting units by the warehouse. But is Duffy up to much? On this day in history or near enough, I saw her play at the Pigalle when she was a mere twinkle in an industry tipster’s eye, and thought, “Yeah, ok, she does it well enough.” That “it” being “the voguish ‘60s thing”. The songs are pastiche with a bit of verve – Bernard Butler’s calling card from McAlmont And days – and she has some nice, witchy hand gestures.
That’s about the limit, though. Today’s tune was ‘Warwick Avenue’, all bereft and stirring, but we turned to ‘Mercy’ soon after because we hadn’t quite reached nursery. To the first, Junior asked, “Is that Duff?” which seems harsh – it’s a pleasant song, even if it sticks to its template like glue. I could see Junior mouthing along to ‘Mercy’ in the rear view, which is no surprise considering its grating ubiquity. “I heard this yesterday,” said Junior, and in her speak that means any point in the past. Sounds about right.
January 14, 2009 August 5, 2016 The Daily Planet 3 Comments 2008christine mcviedaily planetfleet foxesfleetwood macjohn mcvielindsey buckinghammusicstevie nicksthe beach boysthe byrdswhite winter hymnalzz top
Fleet Foxes, ‘White Winter Hymnal’
Another one that narrowly missed our 2008 chart, finishing around 23. It’s a gorgeous song, but that’s not enough, is it? It needs to be a single – not just a single – and this feels like part of an album. If that doesn’t make any sense, stick it on my list of hang-ups.
So, beards in popular music: do they make better harmonies? I’m thinking later Byrds, Fleetwood Mac (ok, maybe not Stevie and Christine, but who knows what Lindsey Buckingham and John McVie were trying to hide?), The Beach Boys in transcendental mode, erm, ZZ Top? Well, it has the doings of a theory. Fleet Foxes’ debut – an album of the year in all the likely places – is glazed in harmony, and nowhere is the melding of hirsute voice more lovely than on ‘White Winter Hymnal’, with its mercury lyrics (“scarves of red tied ‘round their throats/to keep their little heads/from fallin’ in the snow,” anyone?) and rising/falling chords.
It’s a soft hit with Junior who answers my “Do you like it?”s with “Stop talking, Daddy, I’m trying to listen”. I shut my trap and the album wanders on, with Junior recognising other tracks and pointing out I play them at home. She’s right – it’s been one of my favourites too. I’d like to see these bears perform live but I understand you need to be well over six foot to catch a glimpse of them, sitting down strumming their guitars. I’m not that tall yet.
January 13, 2009 August 5, 2016 The Daily Planet 6 Comments 2008accelerateautomatic for the peopledaily planetharry hillman-sized wreathmichael stipemurmurmusicout of timerem
R.E.M., ‘Man-Sized Wreath’
We need a dose of healthy scepticism to tackle the thorny old “return to form”: was it up to much in the first place? Did the artist really lose it or just fall out of fashion? If they lost their mojo, have they genuinely rediscovered it? And were they better when they had hair?
It’s particularly hard with R.E.M. – who seem to tempt these fanfares with every other release – because no one can agree when they peaked. Last year’s Accelerate was critically regarded as a near-match for Murmur, an aficionado’s high-point, but R.E.M.’s universal love-in centred around Out of Time and Automatic For The People. No one’s expecting them to reap those commercial riches again, so perhaps it’s safest just to wish for the solid basics again. Do things well, avoid the spectacular, mittens to megasales. On this playing field Accelerate’s a success, but it’s not enough to matter.
Junior’s first reaction was an oddly leading question: “What’s his hair like?” Makes you wonder; can you hear if a singer’s bald? And can we get a government grant to find out? She was pleased to hear about Michael Stipe’s chrome dome anyway, because Harry Hill’s pate has been fascinating enough.
And what about ‘Man-Sized Wreath’? We both enjoyed the steely guitars, the urgent riffing. It’s angry and engaged, with some quotable lines – “Turn on the TV and what do I see? A pageantry of empty gestures all lined up me”, “Nature abhors a vacuum, but what’s between your ears?” – and rousing “wow!”s. On the album it’s tethered by some ordinary pegs, but set against the old-time form this is one track that isn’t shamed.
January 7, 2009 August 5, 2016 The Daily Planet 2 Comments 2008b'daybeyoncedaily planeti amif i were a boyleann rimesmusicsasha fierce
Beyoncé, ‘If I Were A Boy’
And here’s B herself, who made the halfwit’s decision to release a double album in 2008 showing both sides of her personality. One, presumably, is the real Beyoncé – a girl who likes nothing better than to flex her vocal chords on a stack of lachrymose ballads, seemingly bent on reducing our braincells to so much grey sludge – while the other is the much-trumpeted Sasha Fierce. Ol’ Sasha’s a bit more fun than real B, happier to bump and grind her way through some r’n’b floorfillers, waggling those intimidating thighs, but even she has nothing to challenge the dazzling B’Day, Beyoncé’s storming 2006 triumph. All in all, a schizo misfire.
The maudlin, bitter ‘If I Were A Boy’ is of course one of those “real me” ballads, and one of the better ones too. It’s heartfelt country-soul that should really be crooned by the likes of LeAnn Rimes, but Beyoncé makes a decent fist, elevating a fairly ordinary song to something closer to special simply by the power of her lungs and emotional heft. Obviously, we chaps got all miffed at the outrageous suggestion that we never listen to the missus and just want to have a beer with the lads and… ah, ok.
Junior had a gander at the sleeve, keen to know who was claiming to champion her interests. She was quiet, so I fired a few questions: “Do you like it?” met with a modest nod; the more searching “What would you do if you were a boy?” got her thinking. Then the answer: “Run.”
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Trump: Illusion, Mist and Bought?
Thread: Trump: Illusion, Mist and Bought?
2nd March 2016, 21:56 #1
Aianawa
A year or two ago Trump was in financial crisis, was watching this unfold and at a certain point, that feeling came over me, Trump has just been enlisted, bought off etc or aligned into a future plan/timeline, by tptW. IMO one ( whomever it is ) cannot do what Trump at present is doing unless it has been orchestrated, by tptW, because Noone gets a potential crack opened for them president wise unless the illusion can continue, Fullstop imo. I was taught by an amazing chess player years ago how things are pre planned and executed by media and tptW and the script of Trump so far is brilliantly done, even part of myself is cheering for him, I acknowledge that part of myself and why it cheers and also know thyself/mind well enough to see and feel the illusion created by tptW. Okay now for the BUT > the world has changed and also Gaia and Humanity, So huge potentials will be within timelines totally unseen by tptW that will present themselves, just watch as your popcorn decreases.
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Mayberry Lane
I hear ya Aianawa. I have felt for quite some time now that things seem to be 'orchestrated'. I am on the fence about Trump. I don't like the fact that he's funded Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid in the past. He's also 'king of corporations' which is a big part of the problem, as our country is now established as a corporation and is being run as a corporation for many years now, which is why the 'CEO' of a corporation doesn't need to have a birth certificate. So I personally have concerns...and at this point there are no viable options and Trump appears to be the only 'choice'. He's quite entertaining, I'll give him that...I'm so burnt on the process I can hardly watch. But if he does get elected I'll hope for the best. Thank god I love popcorn.
"We never left you...."- ELizabeth Marie from the E.T. race The ELohim 5/19/2017
From my astrological chart:
"Your function is to be a MESSENGER, a link or bridge between people and between ideas, whether through teaching or speaking, selling or simply circulating socially....you are able to flow into the perception of Unity, and you become a messenger for the truth."
Please don't shoot the messenger, I am here to help when and where I can.
No I am not Wes Penre.
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Outside of Addlepatia
Unless someone else enters the race, Trump is the only one promoting dialogue with Russian. I think he a bad for America but, a safer pick for the world at large. USA is not the indispensable nation. Geo-politics that might include a third world war is a far more urgent focus than the domestic politics of the USA. On the world stage and looking towards peace, Trump is the only sane one running for president. This is all based on their public words. At least Trump does not feed into the war spirit of America.
"To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" -- Voltaire
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Misery loves company. Wisdom has to look for it." -- Anonymous
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Yes Modwiz, that is the cheering on feel I have with Trump ( some of the things you say ), OMG got to be better than Hilary < will give Trump a great platform imo and yes popcorn DF lots of it lol.
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At first I was against Trump as being the corporate establishment saying everything they think the people want to hear, just like Obama did, only to break all his promises once elected (under threats to his family or otherwise).
But Trump would not be saying these things and getting away with it unless someone very powerful was protecting him and family. It's certainly not the old Bush/Clinton faction that is behind him.
Is it the the good guys in the Pentagon/Military who are finally gaining the upper hand over a military brass that has been for many years consumed by sick satanic ritual as we all know it was? These are people who, not unlike Putin, have freed themselves from Masonic mind control. I dare say there is nothing that can be used against them for blackmail. That puts Hilary in a handicapped position.
Any leader is only as good (or bad) as the people behind him who are protecting (or threatening) his life. Kennedy was his own man who surrounded himself with the right people who wanted what he wanted. But he lost the protection of the military, which proved fatal. Reagan was a good man who lost control to Bush under threat of his life.
Trump needs to bring in the people who have the same vision we all have for a better world. The vision Putin is exemplifying.
I have never voted because I see voting as giving my power away to the establishment. They need the power of the people, their permission to go on screwing us.
That's why they keep coming back every few years.
Whether it will be different this time is up to us because the revolution for freedom takes place in our minds first. We all have to see the world in a different light to shift the collective consciousness.
Freedom has never been about money or power or intellect. It has always been about feelings for all of life. This article says it better than I can:
https://deusnexus.wordpress.com/2016...on-of-freedom/
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Originally posted by Herbert
Interesting Herbert, as I just meditated upon, was there an opportunity for the good guys as such to have got Trump on board, hard to believe IMO but an option, with there being talk of alliance, blue birdies, etc. Lol use the corporate to take away/transmute the corporate with Trump.
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Drumpf for President! I just might buy one of those red caps priced at cost. http://donaldjdrumpf.com
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3rd March 2016, 01:15 #8
bsbray
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Au dela
Exactly. And that's the only reason I'm hoping he gets in: he's not part of the political mafia establishment, I think he represents a real and radical change that will legitimately satisfy US interests (rather than the international crime cartel) and his last name is not "Bush" or "Clinton."
Is it the the good guys in the Pentagon/Military who are finally gaining the upper hand over a military brass that has been for many years consumed by sick satanic ritual as we all know it was?
That's exactly my thought. Well before these primaries even started it was already clear to me that the Pentagon had broken with the ranks of the political mafia and were going in a different direction. At first, Obama was sacking literally hundreds of top-ranking military officials. Later, Obama started singing the Pentagon's tune, and signed the peace deal with Iran, which enraged Netanyahu among others. We also backed off from Syria, largely due to Pentagon and public pressure, and now are freely allowing Russia to destroy a CIA-created terrorist organization.
All of this was already going on, along with a lot of other stuff that indicates that the CIA types (who seem to be in bed with plenty of other factions, bankers, oil cartel, banks, you name it) have finally run enough afoul of US military interests that it really seems to me that the Pentagon is having a covert war of sorts against them. Or I think a better term for it would be a coup d'état, or a counter-coup. We had a coup d'état when Kennedy was killed, and again on 9/11, and the Bushes were up to their chests in both of those events. So much for their dynastic aspirations, since Trump has bullied Jeb out of the race already while exposing how these official debate halls are filled with super-PAC supports. I have no sympathy for the "establishment" candidates whatsoever.
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I appreciate your input, bsbray. You know a lot more about this stuff than I do.
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3rd March 2016, 04:13 #10
Being a Kiwi, am watching from the sidelines, are more people waking up to the illusion ( one horse race might actually be like Wow, two horses ), that their political past recently, few decades say, was organised and orchestrated by some uglies or tptW ?.
Originally posted by Dreamtimer
Just don't take what I say for granted. He might get into office and be a total jerk to everybody.
But really I think the Pentagon is both protecting him and pulling his strings to a certain extent so it can't be worse than what we've been having. At least we already have peace with Iran, aren't getting more involved in Syria, and like modwiz says, he's willing to work with Putin.
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Interesting that Donald's mum was born on Lewis island Scotland (We the Skythians ), also died in Jewish residence, also his dad's middle name crist.
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scibuster
The US is ruled by the Billionaires
by the Illimunati
by the alien renegates
by the banksters
by the Hollywood Stars.
(one star or five)
no escape.
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Maybe all the people at the "top" are just very nice and generous people, Scibuster, and would never conspire to take advantage of their wealth and influence over others?
If that were the case then corporate monopolies would never form, and dictatorships would surely only be the best interest of the people. Cultures and social values may change but underlying human nature is the same.
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Wow, okay maybe for you or your perception at least, underlying human nature imo is definatley not as you say, say you got a million perple together and they had all their needs met, unconditional love within their upbringing ( imo this was once so ), all knew their own mind, lived in relative natural environment. whats gonna change this ?, imo catastrophy or invasion are my picks.
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Herb ALPERT - From Legal Eagles To Tijuana Brass, 1958-1962
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Before he arrived in the US Top 10 in November 1962, accompanied by The Tijuana Brass and their 'Lonely Bull', trumpeter HERB ALPERT had spent four years cutting mainstream Pop 45s, under various aliases.
These early 45s run to eight releases, an intriguing body of work which takes in popcorn teen vocals (three of which were bizarrely released under his newborn baby son's name, Dore Alpert), R&R instros and a novelty debut 45.
This unique compilation comprises these early 45s, alongside the mono single version of his breakthrough hit 'The Lonely Bull' and the first, million-selling Tijuana Brass LP, in stereo.
Includes the 'slowed-down' version of his rare-as-hens-teeth collectors' instro 'Fun House', which was released as The Roosters.
These early, pre-Tijuana Brass 45s are unavailable elsewhere on CD, thus making this compilation indispensable to Herb Alpert collectors.
1. HERB B LOU & THE LEGAL EAGLES - THE TRIAL
2. HERB B LOU & THE LEGAL EAGLES - KISS ME
3. HERBIE ALPERT & HIS QUARTET - SWEET GEORGIA BROWN
4. HERBIE ALPERT & HIS QUARTET - VIPER'S BLUES
5. HERBIE ALPERT & HIS SEXTET - SUMMER SCHOOL
6. HERBIE ALPERT & HIS SEXTET - THE HULLY GULLY
7. THE ROOSTERS - FUN HOUSE
8. THE ROOSTERS - CHICKEN HOP
10. HERBIE ALPERT - FINDERS KEEPERS
11. HERBIE ALPERT - THIS GAME CALLED LOVE
12. DORE ALPERT - GONNA GET A GIRL
13. DORE ALPERT - DREAMLAND
14. DORE ALPERT - LITTLE LOST LOVER
15. DORE ALPERT - WON'T YOU BE MY VALENTINE
16. DORE ALPERT - TELL IT TO THE BIRDS
17. DORE ALPERT - FALLOUT SHELTER
18. THE TIJUANA BRASS FEATURING HERB ALPERT - THE LONELY BULL
19. THE TIJUANA BRASS FEATURING HERB ALPERT - ACAPULCO 1922
20. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - THE LONELY BULL
21. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - EL LOBO (The Wolf)
22. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - TIJUANA SAUERKRAUT
23. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - DESAFINADO
24. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - MEXICO
25. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - NEVER ON SUNDAY
26. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - STRUTTIN' WITH MARIA
27. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - LET IT BE ME
28. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - ACAPULCO 1922
29. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - LIMBO ROCK
30. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - CRAWFISH
31. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS - A QUIET TEAR (Lagrima Quita)
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Telangana Government introduces Third-Party Inspection & Certification for installed Boilers for use in the State for rapid industrialization; supersedes previous Order
Telangana Government introduces Third-Party Inspection...»
by Anum Ahmed | Nov 11, 2020 | Manufacturing, OPS, Telangana | 0 comments
With a view to improve Ease of Doing Business in the State of Telangana and owing to the recommendation of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, regarding introduction of third-party inspection & certification of installed boilers for use, the Labour Employment Training & Factories (Lab-I) Department, Government of Telangana (“Department”), in a Notification dated 7th November, 2020 has introduced the Third-party inspection and certification for installed boilers or which will be installed in future for use in the Telangana State by granting exemption from the operation of sub-sections *(3),(4),(5) & (6) of Section 8 of the Boilers Act, 1923.
The present Notification has been issued superseding the Order No. G.O. M.S. 11 dated 7th March, 2019.
In this regard, the Department has authorised the Boiler Operation Engineer (BOE) under the Boiler Operation Engineers Rules, 2011 with the following qualifications:
1. Graduate in Mechanical / Production / Power Plant / Metallurgical engineering from a recognized institution.
2. Minimum 5 years of experience in the field related to boilers.
The Boiler Operation Engineer can inspect the boilers and issue a certificate for such period as prescribed by regulations subject to the procedure and conditions prescribed here under:-
1. Incase of Renewal of Boiler Certificate:
• When a certificate for use of the installed boiler ceases to be in force, the owner of boiler has to apply for the Renewal of Boiler Certificate at least (15) days before expiry of certificate through TS-iPASS (or) www.tsboilers.cgg.gov.in website by selecting the Boiler Operation Engineer (BOE) from the list available in the application.
• The management has to pay Rs.1000/- upto 200M2 Rating Boilers and above 200M2 Rating Boilers 25% of the Boiler Renewal fee as per Annexure-II for the processing of the Application of the Boilers Department.
• On receipt of an application, the Boiler Operation Engineer must inspect the said boiler within (15) days from the date of the receipt in such manner as prescribed by Indian Boiler Regulations, 1950(IBR).
• After the completion of boiler inspection, the Boiler Operation Engineer has to login to www.tsboilers.cgg.gov.in website with his user id and password and shall fill the online inspection report.
(a) If he satisfied that the boiler and the boiler components attached thereto are in good condition he will generate the online certificate for such period as prescribed by the Indian Boiler Regulations, 1950. After generation of the online certificate, the Boiler Operation Engineer must sign the certificate either physically or digitally and same should be uploaded in the website.
(b) If he has not satisfied that the condition of the boiler or boiler component, or both does not confirm to the standards prescribed by regulations, he should refuse to issue such certificate and shall issue a notice with the reasons recorded in writing as per Annexure I and the same shall be uploaded in the website that the boiler is not fit for use further, following which the owner of the Boiler shall immediately stop the operation of the Boiler.
After that the Boiler Operation Engineer must within 48 hours of making the inspection, inform the owner of the boiler in writing that the repairs to be carried out and the same shall be uploaded in the website.
2. Incase of repairs:
• In case of repairs, the owner of boiler has to follow section 4F of the Boilers Act, 1923 and Regulations 392 & 392A of the Indian Boiler Regulations, 1950 and Rules framed thereunder.
• After completion of the boiler repair, the boiler will be re-inspected by the Boiler Operation Engineer and the Boiler Operation Engineer shall follow the same procedure as prescribed above.
• In order to take the Aging effect on Boilers, Boiler Operation Engineer shall follow Regulation 391 A of Indian Boiler Regulations, 1950 while giving inspection report and while issuing certificate. If any change in working pressure of boiler is required as per Indian Boiler Regulations, 1950, then the Certificate of Boiler shall be submitted for counter signature to the Director of Boilers, Telangana State, Hyderabad.
3. Incase of any accident:
• If any accident occurs to Boiler or connected boiler component, the owner or person in charge of boiler shall report the same in writing to the concerned Boiler Inspector within 24 hours of the accident as per the provisions of the Boilers Act, 1923 and Rules & Regulations framed under the Act.
• It will be the responsibility of the Owner of the Boiler to run and maintain the Boiler as per provisions of the Boilers Act, 1923 and rules & regulations framed thereunder.
• Owner will also be responsible for any violation of the provisions of the said Act, rules and regulations framed thereunder and liable for punishment as per the provisions of the Boilers Act, 1923.
1. Applicability-
This Notification will be applicable to such boilers having the safe guard system for protection against over pressure, low water level, flame failure, etc., for prevention of accidents as per the provisions of the Boilers Act, 1923, Rules and Regulations framed thereunder.
2. This Third-Party Inspection & Certification of installed boilers is optional for owner of Boiler. Boiler owner can apply either to Boiler Operation Engineer as per this Notification or to the Telangana Government Boiler Inspector or to competent person as per Indian Boiler Regulations, 1950, for inspection and certification of installed boilers and connected boiler components during use.
*Section 8 of the Act deals with Renewal of certificate:
(3) When a certificate ceases to be in force, the owner of the boiler may apply to the Competent Person for renewal thereof for such period as may be prescribed by regulations.
(4) On receipt of an application under sub-section (3), the Competent Person shall, within fifteen days from the date of such receipt, inspect the boiler in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations
(5) If the Competent Person is—
(a) satisfied that the boiler and the boiler components attached thereto arc in good condition he shall issue a certificate for such period as may be prescribed by regulations.
(b) of the opinion that the boiler or boiler component, or both does not conform to the standards prescribed by regulations, it may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, refuse to issue such certificate:
Provided that no certificate shall be refused unless the Inspecting Authority had directed the owner of the boiler or the boiler component, or both in writing to carry out such modifications or rectifications as it deems necessary and the Competent Person is of the opinion that inspite of such direction the owner of the boiler or boiler component, or both did not carry out the direction:
Provided further that the Competent Person shall, within forty-eight hours of making the examination, inform the owner of the boiler or boiler component any defect in his opinion and the reasons therefore and shall forthwith report the case to the Chief Inspector.
(6) The Competent Person may for the purpose of inspection under this section charge such fee as may be prescribed by regulations:] Provided that where the Chief Inspector refuses to renew a certificate, he shall forthwith communicate his refusal to the owner of the boiler, together with the reason therefor.
Source: Labour Employment Training & Factories (Lab-I) Department, Government of Telangana
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Coronavirus: Reopening
Disneyland Pushes Back Opening
Updated June 24, 2020 7:59 PM
An employee cleans the grounds behind the closed gates of Disneyland on March 14, the first day the park was closed. (David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)
Disneyland and its neighboring Anaheim theme park, California Adventure, will not reopen July 17 as the entertainment giant had planned.
Disney announced the change tonight, but did not say when its new target date for reopening will be.
Here's what we do know: What they're blaming it on. Disney officials are saying in a statement:
"The State of California has now indicated that it will not issue theme park reopening guidelines until sometime after July 4. Given the time required for us to bring thousands of cast members back to work and restart our business, we have no choice but to delay the reopening of our theme parks and resort hotels until we receive approval from government officials. Once we have a clearer understanding of when guidelines will be released, we expect to be able to communicate a reopening date."
They are going to open downtown Disney shopping district on July 9. But there's a story behind this, and the story behind this is that cases in California are surging, with more than 7,000 coronavirus cases reported on Tuesday.
Disneyland employees say they don't feel safe going back to work. In fact, seven unions representing 17,000 workers wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom saying that they were worried and saying that the state should not give Disney approval to reopen the Anaheim parks. This all comes as Orange County officials revealed very high rates of COVID-19 cases in areas near the parks, information that Anaheim's city manager said county officials had tried to keep secret, according to the Voice of Orange County.
And at the same time, The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Disney's live action Mulan, which was scheduled to open in late July, also might be postponed. So Disney is shuffling a lot of things right now.
MORE ON DISNEY
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— John Horn
Trump's Latest Immigration Bans Target Certain Workers, Green Card Applicants
Immigrants await their turn for green card and citizenship interviews at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in New York. (John Moore/Getty Images)
President Trump this week issued a proclamation that expands and extends restrictions on legal immigration that were first set in place in April. At the time, he issued a 60-day ban on most would-be immigrants sponsored for legal residency by relatives in the U.S., except for the spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens. That ban was set to expire this week.
His new proclamation continues to bar these green card seekers, and places new restrictions on several types of non-immigrant work visas. The impact of these bans -- now both set to last until the end of the year -- will reverberate past their expiration dates, immigrant rights groups in Southern California predict.
Trump's Latest Immigration Bans Are Supposed To Last Through End Of Year, But Impact Could Last Much Longer
— Josie Huang
LA Moves Ahead With Plans For Unarmed Responders On Some 911 Calls
Updated June 25, 2020 9:44 AM
Los Angeles Police Department officers patrol an L (Gold) Line station. (Courtesy L.A. Metro)
The Los Angeles City Council today took a step toward creating a “crisis response plan” to replace LAPD officers with unarmed service providers for some emergency calls.
The five-member Ad Hoc Committee on Police Reform approved a motion asking city staff to create a plan and study similar models elsewhere, like one in Eugene, Oregon. The plan can now go to the full city council for a vote. It’s one of a flurry of council motions responding to ongoing protests over police use of force and community safety.
Supporters say that a "one-size-fits-all" approach of sending armed police to respond to every 911 call introduces potential violence to black and brown communities -- and that professionals trained to deal with mental health issues, substance abuse or homelessness would be more effective for non-violent calls.
Councilmembers John Lee, Gil Cedillo and Paul Koretz voted for the motion but raised concerns about funding and questioned if the city is moving too quickly or drastically to cut law enforcement resources.
Councilmember Herb Wesson, who helped introduce the measure, pushed back on critics.
“I understand… that this makes you feel a little uncomfortable,” Wesson said. “Well, welcome to being black. Welcome to being uncomfortable.”
Early this week, the council’s Budget and Finance Committee endorsed cutting $133 million from the police department’s budget. The full council is expected to vote on the cuts next week.
The planned downsizing falls far short of the “People’s Budget” model presented by Black Lives Matter-LA and other community groups last week. That model calls for a near complete defunding of LAPD resources in favor of social services, housing and other community safety alternatives.
'Defund The Police'? What To Expect From Today's City Council Budget Committee Meeting
LA Budget Committee Approves $133M In LAPD Budget Cuts; Funds To Be Used To Limit Municipal Employee Furloughs
— Libby Denkmann
Monsanto Agrees To Pay $550 Million To Clean Up Ocean And River Pollution
Scenes from a Monday morning at Malibu Surfrider Beach. (James Bernal/LAist)
Decades ago, cancer-causing chemicals known as PCB's made their way from factories and electrical equipment into West Coast rivers and the ocean. On Wednesday, chemical giant Monsanto agreed to pay $550 million to help clean up the damage.
Monsanto starting making PCB's in the 1930s. But even after they were banned in the mid-'70s, the chemicals continue to damage fish and people.
Five years ago, Los Angeles County and Long Beach joined about a dozen other governments in several states and sued Monsanto, demanding it pay to reduce the PCB pollution.
The city and county will each get $7.5 million from the settlement. But more than 2,500 other local governments named in the class action lawsuit could eventually get a share.
5.8 Magnitude Quake Triggers Rockslide In Eastern Sierra
An early earthquake warning alert issued to people as far away as Los Angeles (Screenshot/Jacob Margolis)
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck just south of Lone Pine, California at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday morning.
The amount of the damage across the area is still unclear.
The Whitney Portal, about three miles from Lone Pine, is closed due to rockslides near the main parking lot. According to the Inyo Sheriff's department there are currently no known injuries.
Community residents reported buildings shaking around them.
"I looked front and back because I thought a truck hit my building, it hit so hard," said Geoff Brackney, owner of Lone Pine Sporting goods, who grew up in the area. "Never had anything hit the building like that."
"I took off running. This building was built in the thirties. I wasn't going to stick around to see how it was going to damage this thing," he said.
Within a half hour, he said he and his employees had cleaned up the store, picking up small items like bugspray and sunscreen that'd fallen to the ground.
Just two days ago the area experienced a 4.6 magnitude earthquake, now considered a foreshock to today's event.
We just had a M5.8 south of Lone Pine in the Owens Valley. It is the same location as the M4.6 two nights ago. That is now considered a foreshock
— Dr. Lucy Jones (@DrLucyJones) June 24, 2020
An earthquake early warning was received by people in Los Angeles, with those as far south as Orange County and as far north as Sacramento, also potentially getting a heads up.
As of 11:40 a.m., there was a four percent probability that an earthquake larger than 5.8 could strike the same area some time in the next week, per the the U.S. Geological Survey. The aftershock forecast will continue to change as time goes on.
Just last year nearby Ridgecrest experienced a 6.4 magnitude foreshock on July 4, which was quickly followed by the mainshock, a 7.1 magnitude quake on July 5.
This is a developing story.
THE BIG ONE IS COMING. GET PREPARED
We don't want to scare you, but the Big One is coming. We don't know when, but we know it'll be at least 44 times stronger than Northridge and 11 times stronger than the Ridgcrest quakes last year. To help you get prepared, we've compiled a handy reading list
Your Guide To Surviving The Big One
For Earthquakes, Forget The 'Go-Bag.' Here's How To Prepare
How To Not Get Life-Threatening Diarrhea After A Major Earthquake
10 Earthquake-Related Questions To Ask Your Landlord Immediately
Listen to KPCC's Podcast The Big One: Your Survival Guide
— Jacob Margolis
LA Increases Coronavirus Testing Capacity After Appointments Fill Up
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the city will immediately scale up testing from 7,700 tests a day to 13,000 tests starting tomorrow (across the seven current city test sites).
The announcement came today as part of the mayor's semi-regular updates on the city's response to COVID-19. It was a response to increased need this week, when testing appointments filled up for several days.
Garcetti added a reminder that those with health insurance can access testing through their health care providers and some CVS pharmacies, free of charge. By law, insurance companies cannot charge a copay, deductible or fee for the coronavirus test.
"But we know a lot of people rely on the city and county testing sites, which is why we want to scale that up immediately."
He added that the city is also working with private insurance companies to cover more of the cost of testing, so it doesn't come out of taxpayer's pockets.
DIFFICULTY SIGNING UP FOR TESTS
The city has recently been the target of a flood of complaints on social media from residents who say they couldn't get an appointment for a test.
Some people say they sign up for a test for several days days, even though health officials have consistently encouraged people without symptoms to get tested.
But the message has been mixed.
Last week, county health officials said they would allocate fewer appointment times for people without symptoms, advising these individuals to contact their doctors instead. Today, Garcetti appeared to reverse course, saying city officials have realized how much people depend on the city and countywide testing sites.
Health officials say next-day appointments are available at four COVID-19 testing sites in the city of Los Angeles, including Dodger stadium.
To sign up, visit covid19.lacounty.gov/testing.
RISE IN INFECTIONS
The mayor said that although the county reported only 1,260 new COVID-19 cases today, it was just days ago that the city saw "some of the largest numbers we've seen since this started."
For more perspective, Garcetti said, one out of every 400 people in L.A. County has been or currently is infected with the coronavirus. The total number of cases is now just under 90,000 in the county, with over 3,000 deaths.
He said that hospitalizatoins have now reached 1,515, which is above recent averages of about 1,350 to 1,450. However, they're still below our peak of over 1,900 in April.
MORE INFECTIONS AMONG YOUNGER AGE GROUPS
The mayor said that the rate of infection is on the rise among younger Angelenos between the ages of 18 and 40 years old. He said 40% of new infections are in this age group. A month ago they accounted for 33%.
He urged people in this age group not to forget that 18-40 year olds are not immune to the disease and that some have died from it.
"Younger people are deciding maybe they're over COVID-19. Or statistically since they're less likely to die from it, that they can now violate some of the public orders that we have to [not] get together in big groups. [Or maybe they are] just done with the physical distancing and wearing of masks."
He urged people in this age group to get tested.
MORE ON CORONAVIRUS IN LA:
Your No-Panic Guide To All The Changing Rules In LA
Your No-Panic Guide To Mental Health Help During The Pandemic
— Gina Pollack and Jackie Fortier
Ballot Measure To Overturn State Ban On Affirmative Action Moves Forward
Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, gives her support for ACA 5 before Wednesday's vote. (Screen shot from California Legislature live stream)
California voters will be asked to scrap the state’s 24-year old ban on affirmative action at the ballot box in November.
The state Senate today ratified Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5 (ACA5) in time to get it before voters in the Nov. 3 election. ACA 5 would allow for consideration of race and gender in public education and public hiring and contracting by overturning Proposition 209, which was passed by voters in 1996.
"We've seen enough," said Sen. Steve Bradford, D-Gardena. "It's time to do the right thing. It's time to end the racism that exists in California."
Diamond Bar Republican Sen. Ling Ling Chang said that ACA 5 amounted to legalized racism, and drew parallels with Legislature's support of the Chinese Exclusion Act which discriminated against Chinese immigrants into the 20th century.
"The problem with ACA 5 is that it takes the position that we must fight discrimination with more discrimination," Chang said.
She referred to an anti-ACA 5 petition created by some Chinese American activists that as of Wednesday afternoon had drawn nearly 132,000 signatures.
Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, countered that now many more millions of people than those who signed the petition would have a chance to weigh in on affirmative action.
The amendment needed a two-thirds vote to pass. It got 30 votes — or three-quarters — with Jim Wilk a Santa Clarita Republican, crossing party lines to vote in support.
The measure, authored by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, passed the Legislature's lower body on June 10.
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California May Ask Voters Whether To Restore Affirmative Action In Government, Universities
Newsom: As California's Coronavirus Numbers Rise, Our Behaviors 'Are Putting People's Lives At Risk'
Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered an update on California's response to the coronavirus, as well as acknowledging today's 5.8 earthquake in Central California. He recommended that people download the state's MyShake app so they can get an early warning of earthquakes in their area.
You can watch the full press conference above or read more highlights below.
CONSEQUENCES FOR COUNTIES NOT ENFORCING RESTRICTIONS
The governor said there will be consequences for counties that flaunt the rules they've agreed to with the state in order to reopen their businesses. There is $2.5 billion in the state's new budget that won't go to those counties, Newsom said.
"If they decide, 'You know what? Even though the numbers are going up, we're done. We've got this, and we're just going to dismiss these new rules and regulations,' we're going to attach some considerations and consequences to that," he said.
Newsom said he doesn't expect counties to dismiss the rules. Still, he said the state funding will be evaluated on a monthly rather than annual basis.
LATEST CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS: RECORD CASES, RISING POSITIVITY RATE
Particular concern remains in 11 counties — including L.A. County, due to the size, scope and scale of the disease here, Newsom said.
Case numbers are rising, from 4,230 positive tests Sunday, to 5,019 Monday, to 7,149 Tuesday. Newsom said more tests lead to more positives, which means that number can be misleading.
The number Newsom recommended watching is the percentage of people whose tests come back positive. That rolling two-week average is currently up to 5.1% for the state — and up to 5.6% over the past week. The peak in the early days of COVID-19 testing was 40.8%, but it was down to 4.6% two weeks ago and has dipped even lower, Newsom noted.
COVID-19 hospitalizations are also increasing — there's been a 29% increase in hospitalizations over the past two weeks, from 3,177 hospitalizations to 4,095 yesterday. Currently 8% of the state's hospital beds are in use for coronavirus patients.
The number of COVID-19 patients ending up in the ICU is also rising. It's up 18% in the past two weeks, from 1,073 to 1,268 in that timespan. About 30% of the state's capacity is being used, Newsom said. There are currently 4,034 ICU beds available, and 11,529 ventilators.
There were 52 deaths in the last 24 hours, and 65 people died in the prior reporting period, Newsom said.
FIGHTING RISING NUMBERS WITH BETTER HABITS
Newsom called for Californians to improve our physical and social distancing habits due to a rise in California's coronavirus numbers. He stressed the importance of practicing physical distancing, whether it be during kids' playdates or events with family and friends.
"It is our behaviors that are leading to these numbers, and we are putting people's lives at risk," Newsom said.
Newsom noted that more young people are being affected by COVID-19 and that they can spread the virus to those who can't handle it, such as the elderly and those with preexisting conditions — including fellow young people.
"There is a sense that a lot of young people are — well, they're young, so you feel a little bit more invincible. But respectfully, often that can be a selfish mindset," Newsom said.
The governor stressed the need to practice physical distancing as people start to do things like invite family or friends over.
"When you're having a barbecue, and you want to say, 'You know what? I miss ya,' to your neighbors, your friends, not just your family members. And you invite them over, and you say 'All right, we're going to do our best to practice physical distancing.' And all of a sudden, two cousins see each other, and they run and hug, and you say 'Boys, you've got to practice social distancing.' And they then run away with the soccer ball, and all of a sudden, you're back having a conversation," Newsom said.
The governor noted the ongoing protests against racism and police brutality. If you're in one of those crowds, he said, wear a mask. And if you're 65 or older, or you have underlying health conditions, you should stay home.
"Look at these numbers, and ask yourself, do you feel safer going out today than you did a few months ago, based upon an unprecedented number of people now that are working around with this virus, and the likelihood so many of them are asymptomatic, and are within just a few feet of where you are?" Newsom said.
Besides stressing the importance of wearing a face covering, the governor emphasized the need for thorough hand washing, including under the fingernails.
When not at home, Californians should minimize their time indoors with multiple people, Newsom said, and move as many activities as they can outdoors. He also advised against going into crowds — for those who do, he underlined the need to wear a mask.
The governor said we're still in the first wave of the pandemic. He said we will get through this and there will be a vaccine, and we will be able to get back to the way things were — though there will be modifications so that something like this doesn't happen again.
DEATH THREATS AGAINST HEALTH OFFICIALS
Newsom also addressed death threats that local health officials have faced, offering an apology and thanks to health directors who have been threatened, including those who've had to quit their jobs over those threats.
"There's no nobility in [threats]. You're not a bigger person because you threaten someone else — you're a weaker person," Newsom said.
Street Safety
Whats Next For LA's Temporary Slow Streets Program? Maybe Permanence
(Courtesy Joslyn Treece)
L.A.'s Slow Streets program launced last month as a temporary step to give people more outside space to safely use amid stay-at-home orders. In participating neighborhoods, LADOT workers place signs to indicate certain residential streets are closed to cut-through traffic and urge drivers to slow down and share the road.
Now, L.A. City Councilmember David Ryu wants the city to study what it would take to make the Slow Streets program a permanent fixture in communities that want it.
Ryu filed a motion today, asking LADOT and other city officials to begin a feasibility study on expanding the program to develop "a permanent network of Slow Streets to enable wider access to open spaces for all Angelenos." He said in a statement:
"Since the start of the Slow Streets program, we have seen Angelenos find greater enjoyment and a closer connection to their neighborhood. People are getting outside, the streets are safer for kids and families -- I don't see why we wouldn't make this permanent."
There's A Plan To Make LA's Slow Streets Program Permanent
CORONAVIRUS: ECONOMIC FALLOUT
UCLA Economists Say California’s Pandemic Recovery Will Take Years
Updated June 24, 2020 12:43 PM
Published June 24, 2020 12:40 PM
Many businesses have reopened but with reduced hours, staff and income. (Chava Sanchez/LAist)
In a new forecast published today, UCLA economists predict the U.S. is entering a “depression-like crisis” as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and unemployment levels in California will remain high for years to come.
The retail and leisure and hospitality sectors have taken the brunt of layoffs so far. With tourism to California down and consumers fearful of going back to old habits, workers in those fields could take the longest to recover.
UCLA economist Jerry Nickelsburg said:
“Those two sectors are low-income sectors, so it creates an additional problem in that these are folks that are the least capable of making it through without a great deal of suffering.”
UCLA Economists Say We're In For A 'Depression-Like Crisis'
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School Police Reform Fails At Marathon LAUSD Meeting
Published June 24, 2020 9:00 AM
LAUSD board member Mónica García (upper right) presents her resolution to cut school police funding during the board's June 23, 2020 meeting. (LAUSD screenshot)
After an 11-hour meeting that included hours of impassioned testimony, the board of the L.A. Unified School District could not reach a consensus three resolutions related to school police.
Most of the public comments came out in favor of a resolution by board member Mónica García, which called for reducing funding for the school police – first by 50%, then 75%, and eventually 90% by the 2023-2024 school year, and redirecting the money to “the highest need schools in support of African American students.”
“I do believe that we have the best school department in the country,” she said. “That is not enough.”
The other resolutions were brought forward by board members Jackie Goldberg and George McKenna. McKenna’s called for a committee to look closely at school police policy and practices, and received positive comments from school police supporters.
Presenting his resolution to the board, McKenna, a former principal, largely praised the L.A. School Police and urged against a "reactionary" vote.
The student-led organizing group Students Deserve encouraged supporters of defunding school police to gather outside of LAUSD’s headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.
We'll have more on this story here on LAist and further discussion of the board meeting today on the public affairs shows AirTalk and Take Two on 89.3 KPCC.
LAUSD Board Considered Three Resolutions To Reform School Police. None Of Them Passed.
— Carla Javier
Morning Briefing: Sex, Bribes And City Hall
An FBI agent carries a case from the Boyle Heights home of Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar on Nov, 7, 2018. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
It’s the year of stunning events, and in L.A., we can tack on one more: as Angelenos were being priced out of their homes and the city’s homelessness crisis was exploding, City Councilman Jose Huizar was allegedly accepting bribes from big developers in the form of flights on private jets, casino chips, prostitutes and more.
Huizar was arrested yesterday after a years-long FBI investigation, with U.S. Department of Justice officials saying that he ran a “criminal enterprise” through City Hall, funneling money through family members, taking lavish trips to Las Vegas and welcoming campaign contributions.
In seized documents, an executive involved in Huizar’s scheme marveled at the "truly amazing" accomplishment of minimizing affordable units in an Arts District complex.
The charges are very similar to those faced by former City Councilman Mitch Englender. If true, they mean that as some of their constituents were losing roofs over their heads, at least two of L.A.’s elected representatives were actively, callously exacerbating the process in exchange for their personal gain.
Keep reading for more on what’s happening in L.A. today.
Coming Up Today, June 24
A million Angelenos have lost their jobs to because of the pandemic. So far, those households have been protected from losing water, gas or electric service, even if they don’t pay their bills. But when COVID-19 protections ease, some new policies from utility companies might help erase some of that pandemic debt. KPCC’s Sharon McNary has more.
President Trump recently extended and expanded his restrictions on legal immigration, originally initiated in April. Along with refusing many green card seekers, reports Josie Huang, the new restrictions also target certain guest workers, including those with H1B visas.
Corruption At City Hall: L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar was arrested by FBI agents today, following an FBI investigation into a "pay-to-play" scheme tied to land development.
Policing The Police: The L.A. County Board of Supervisors called for an independent investigation into a Sheriff's deputy's fatal shooting of 18-year-old Andres Guardado in Gardena, after protests on Saturday (and Sunday I think). Black Lives Matter-L.A. co-founder Melina Abdullah spoke to Airtalk’s Larry Mantle about what defunding the police might look like in the city of angels.
Mexico Earthquake: A 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit the Mexican state of Oaxaca mid-morning Tuesday, but information about its aftermath has been slow to trickle into L.A.’s Oaxacan community.
Money Matters: Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, some high school students have been faced with choosing between their online studies and their jobs. L.A. City and County officials voted to add an additional $100 million and $30 million, respectively, to rent relief programs.
Coronavirus Updates: Santa Ana and Anaheim have the highest coronavirus infection rates in Orange County, which has seen a 50% increase in infections since last week. Unions that represent some 17,000 Disneyland employees are expressing their concerns about Disney reopening its parks, hotels and outdoor mall.
“Hollywood, The Sequel” is LAist Studios’ latest podcast mini-series. Host John Horn explores how the film industry will look, now that the pandemic has stopped production in its tracks. Meanwhile, the industry’s power structure is being challenged by the new and growing social justice movement. Kerry Washington shares her thoughts in episode one.
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Juan Constantino, 17, has been around his brother's dad's locksmithing business since he was little. He recently tried to convince his mother to let him help support the family by dropping out of high school and working full-time. She said no.
(Chava Sanchez/LAist)
Headlines: June 24, 2020
LA Will Explore Non-Police Response To Some 911 Calls
Californians To Vote on Affirmative Action In November
Newsom: Our Behaviors 'Are Putting People's Lives At Risk'
Morning Briefing: June 24
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Enrich the customer shopping experience by using location-based advertising
Marketers and advertisers have a massive opportunity to engage consumers based on their location data derived directly from their mobile device.
Last year, the number of worldwide smartphone users exceed 2.5 billion. And this has contributed to the rise of location-based services. LBS provide information to mobile users about their geographical proximity to different businesses and improve the product discovery process via mobile devices.
According to LBMA 2017 Global Location Trends Report, 25% of marketing budgets are spent on location-based marketing and over 50% of brands are using location data to target customers.
Technavio’s market research reports that the global location-based advertising will develop at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40% from 2016 to 2021.
Recently, Facebook also introducing a location-based ad tool that allows advertisers to target users based on their offline activities including visits to brick-and-mortar stores, in-store purchases, and calls to businesses. The release of the tool reflects the growing number of companies emphasizing location based-advertising services.
Regarding the effectiveness of location-based advertising, a recent study on 3,644 different coupon promotions offered by more than 3,000 stores located in a large Western European concluded that:
1. The sorting offers by distance dominates random sorting. Also, not providing the exact distance information can increase advertising effectiveness since distance information makes transportation costs more salient.
2. More precisely, geographical distance has a negative impact on consumers’ coupon response behavior. Increasing the distance by one kilometer decreases the probability of choosing a coupon from 4.6 to 19.4 percent.
3. In terms of the trade-off between distance and discount, increasing the discount by one percentage point has the same effect as decreasing the geographical distance in the range between 732 and 118 meters.
4. The display rank has a negative and significant effect on the choice of coupons. Decreasing the display rank between 0.070 and 0.094 units has the same effect on coupon response as increasing the discount by one percentage point.
Next, we present you two case studies of successful location-based advertising campaigns.
Release More Happiness - enrich the customer shopping experience by using location-based advertising
To increase the sales of its Lacta brand, Mondelēz developed a campaign called "Lacta: Release More Happiness" that impacted users who were at the critical place for buying chocolates: supermarkets. Using contextually-aware location data, the campaign targeted customers in the buying moment via smartphones.
Mondelēz bet on a fully mobile campaign because it was the best way of getting close to the target population during the entire shopping process in a supermarket.
The campaign sought to impact users inside selected supermarkets. The users were divided into two groups. The first group was comprised of users who were inside one of the selected supermarkets, who were shown ads that stimulated Lacta chocolate purchases. The second group were users of the Meu Carrinho ("My Cart") app in selected supermarkets, who received push notifications inviting them to share their favorite Lacta chocolates. Upon clicking the ad, the app user was redirected to his or her smartphone camera, in order to photograph their favorite chocolate. After the photo was uploaded, image- recognition technology identified which chocolate was photographed and the user would receive a dessert recipe using that chocolate.
In just 17 days, more than 81,000 people visited one of the selected supermarkets. More than six million impressions were generated, and 21,000 people visited chocolate aisles in the selected supermarkets. Three hundred forty-eight recipes were generated. The ads were clicked on around 120,000 times.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/183730551
BMW Driving Moments That Matter- the winning formula for increasing visits- “Time + Location + Message”
BMW used a location-based mobile strategy to send consumers to local dealerships. This nationwide hyperlocal campaign allowed the brand to communicate with consumers at a time and place when they would be receptive to BMW's messaging.
BMW chose to leverage mobile for this campaign so that it could reach the target audience while they were on the go and in the vicinity of a dealership. BMW knew that its location-based partners could help to identify when its target audience members were in the proximity of a local dealership by using geo-location services.
In order to reach KPIs related to increasing dealership visits, the brand decided that the winning formula was “Time + Location + Message.” Its creative spoke to the emotional experience of automobile purchasing at a time and location when the target would be more likely to be motivated to visit the dealership.
BMW started with a broad targeting strategy focused on finding and learning about the target audience and then refined its real-time programmatic media buys to optimize toward the audience that was most receptive to its messaging. Throughout the life of the campaign, BMW continued to optimize based on learnings and key insights of what mobile apps consumers were using and their evolving behavioral patterns when they shopped for a new car.
The results of the campaign showed success beyond expectations. The campaign generated a 112.8 percent lift in physical dealer visits, equating to 334,548 incremental visits.
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May 15, 2003 /0 Comments/in Autism, Autism Prevention & Treatment, Bodywork Approaches, Seizures, Seizures Families Speak Out, Seizures Prevention & Treatment, Z-Evergreen, Z-Evergreen Articles /by Guest Author
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A mother who sought craniosacral therapy to help her son with autism shared her experience with ACN Latitudes. We asked the practicing physician, Dr. Richard MacDonald, to give us more information on the approach he used.
Mother of Zachary
I often recommend craniosacral therapy to parents of autistic youngsters. We tried many approaches, and while they all had value, this provided the greatest breakthrough for our son. Zachary is our third child, and had been a normal, responsive baby. After his first DPT and polio vaccines, he had a series of seizures. The doctor told us not to worry, that it was a reaction to the pertussis in the DPT, and a follow-up inoculation with just diphtheria, tetanus, and polio would be safe. We were nervous about it but followed the doctor’s instructions, getting the second dose at 8 months. For 24 hours afterwards, Zachary slept; then when he awoke, we realized he was not focusing as he used to and he didn’t respond to sound. We took him to the doctor; after evaluating Zachary he informed us that we had probably just never noticed our son was deaf!
We were devastated by the change in Zachary. He no longer recognized family members, could not swallow food as he used to, did not track things visually, could no longer hold an item in each hand, and ignored sounds. A test later confirmed that Zachary could hear, but he was not processing the information. A psychologist gave the diagnosis of “severely autistic.”
I went on the internet and learned about approaches including dimethylglycine, vitamin B6, and body brushing. These clearly helped Zachary over the next year, but we were still desperate when we went to Dr. Richard MacDonald for craniosacral treatments.
At the first session Zachary was crying and kicking, and we had to hold him on the treatment table. (We were used to this-we had to restrain him everyday just to get his clothes and shoes on!) At first we were concerned that Zachary was being hurt, but we soon realized that the treatments were very gentle in nature. Amazingly, about halfway through the session, Zachary lay still and started to “coo.” At the end of the treatment, he sat up and let us put his shoes on. He has never needed to be restrained since.
The changes after each successive treatment were obvious. It is my impression that this type of cranial therapy provides a release in the brain area that can be beneficial to many autistic children. We have had treatments every 3 or 4 weeks for the past 1½ years. He is also on nutritional therapy.
Zachary is now 3½. He was recently evaluated by a psychologist and is no longer considered autistic. Though he receives language therapy, he has no other delays. Zachary responds emotionally and physically like a normal child! We are grateful for our good fortune.
Dr. Richard MacDonald
I have specialized in osteopathic manipulative management for 33 years and have worked with autistic children and their families during the last 10 years.
Symptoms of autism can emerge from multiple sources: overt dysfunction in the central nervous system, food and/or chemical intolerance, biochemical deficiencies, depressed or faulty immune system responses, external influences such as DPT immunizations, and cranialsacral dysfunctions.
A multi-therapeutic program seems to be most beneficial for these youngsters and can include:
Behavioral retraining/modification
Craniosacral therapy and SomatoEmotional Release as developed by John Upledger, DO; Cranial Osteopathy
Diagnosis and treatment of food, chemical and environmental intolerance
Biochemical rebalancing through vitamin and other nutrient supplements, homeopathic medicine, and/or Chinese herbs
Speech/language therapy as warranted
Consistent love and affection from families and caretakers
My expertise is in the craniosacral field. Our approach involves a 20-40 minute, multi-hands-on interaction, with one or more experienced assistants. We look at our interaction with the child as that of a helper, assistant, or facilitator in the child’s healing process.
The most common somatic dysfunctions that we work with are: lumbosacral compression, occipito atlantal compression, frontal compression, and sphenobasilar compression. Medial compression of the bilateral temporal bones is also a common finding. The most consistent finding is the contraction of the cranial membrane system. Release of that membrane contraction is the key to beginning a therapeutic response.
The emotional response of the child during treatment needs to be monitored, and experience plays an important role here. The child is not asked to control their reactions in any way, nor does the therapist seek to distract the child from the reaction. Therapists who can provide an energy of unconditional love typically find sessions result in more favorable and rapid response.
We see a reduction in fear expressed by the child during the course of treatment; this is generally followed by an increase in affection and a decrease in destructive behavior. The treatments appear to generate an integrated response from the central nervous system, the endocrine system, and the autonomic nervous system. Having the opportunity to witness changes in autistic children such as Zachary has been a privileged experience.
2013 Update: Dr. Richard MacDonald has retired; More information on craniosacral therapy here.
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https://lebronwire.usatoday.com/2019/04/01/lebron-james-shares-grieving-feelings-over-murder-of-nipsey-hussle/
LeBron James shares grieving feelings over murder of Nipsey Hussle
LeBron James, like many around the country and all of Los Angeles, is in a state of grieving following the murder of rapper, businessman and philanthropist Nipsey Hussle on Sunday night.
James reflected on Instagram earlier this morning about his conversations with Hussle and reflecting on how he made LeBron proud.
Just spoke with you the other day on text bro! Telling you how proud I was of you and how I was gone get you to more Laker games next season. Been A Stand Up dude from Day 1. May you rest in PARADISE Young King 👑‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ This One Hurts Big Time!
A post shared by LeBron James (@kingjames) on Mar 31, 2019 at 5:42pm PDT
Even later in the day, James admitted that he was unable to shake the heavy feelings that Hussle’s death has brought.
❤️ so heavy today! Can’t shake it. Long Live Nip! 🙏🏾👑
— LeBron James (@KingJames) April 1, 2019
James was far from the only Laker to express his sadness. Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma said that Hussle was one of his idols.
That TMC means something different and real to me. Nip became my favorite rapper in high school. not getting recruited like a lot of my friends I found someone that inspired me……nip….that motivation that grind really helped my work ethic explode. All them late nights and early mornings I was in the gym listening to nip. Fast forward to being in La I was lucky enough to befriend one of my idols and get to know him for the past two years.This a sad day forreal. s*** really is a big reason why I’m where I’m at because of the motivation and hustle…that dude was speaking to me all them years. One time for my dawg 🙏🏽😢 #TMC #Marathon
A post shared by Kyle Kuzma (@kuz) on Mar 31, 2019 at 5:39pm PDT
Hussle has received an outpouring of support from fans of his music but Hussle’s death was even more hurtful one because of his work in the community, such as creating co-working spaces and a STEM-center for inner-city kids in South Los Angeles.
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other subredditsDJMixwell
Rape Alluding Andy back at it again but retract within 10 seconds.
DJMixwell |[score hidden]written 20 minutes ago ago
This one is tricky. I get the perspective that because he used the word, conceivably he could be racist.
But like, if we disect it, what makes someone racist? Isn't it simply discrimination based on race/the belief that one race is superior to another?
In the case of saying the N word in private, you can't really determine that he's also discriminating against black people. So long as his actions in general have no bias one way or the other, in that he treats all people equally. he wouldn't call a black person the N word. He doesn't deny the effects of systemic racism in America, or subscribe to right wing "pull yourself up by your boot straps" "they're all criminals" type mentality. He seems to very much be in favor of policy that seeks to relieve racial inequality.
Saying bad words doesn't necessarily make you a certain type of person, even though a certain type of person is virtually guaranteed to say those bad words. It's like not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles.
All publicity is good publicity. Seems to be the philosophy he's applying anyways. It's clicks. Whether you love him or hate him, people are looking him up and watching the videos to see what all of this is about.
DJMixwell |3 pointswritten 30 minutes ago ago
Huh? Just because the kid still has one parent raising them doesn't mean the other parent didn't abandon them? You can look up all the different studies on how kids raised by single parents fare compared to kids raised with two parents. Sure, to his credit he makes some effort to go see his kid any time he's in town, but like, Destiny certainly isn't raising that kid by any stretch of the imagination.
Hasan was live for 42% of the whole year
DJMixwell |0 pointswritten 1 hour ago ago
I just took the number I got here
But also, depending on how we want to compare the numbers, Hasan will also pay tax on his millions, in the highest income bracket, and living in CA his state + federal tax would be just over 50% no? So if Hasan earns 3m let's say, he only takes home 1.5m. we can compare pre-tax or post tax but the result is virtually the same. My point stands. Comment OP said Hasan makes more money in a year than the average person would see in several lifetimes, which isn't quite true. In a year he makes about as much as one could accumulate in a single lifetime.
why did she made only 500$ ?? LMAO
DJMixwell |1 pointwritten 2 hours ago ago
Yeah most people don't, I'm sure. We can get interaction and intimacy with real people. Friends, crushes, partners, whatever. So I'm sure it can be hard to imagine that someone could be so down-bad, and so completely socially inept, that they would resort to paying for human interaction on a monthly subscription. But like, OF creators are making millions right now, so the proof is in the pudding.
DJMixwell |0 pointswritten 2 hours ago ago
Arguably much easier in some non-american countries. The median salary for the US is just shy of like 50k USD. While In Sweden it's just shy of 65k. In general Nordic countries make way more money than the US. In Canada the average is 55k.
Dr. K misunderstands what a D colon emote is
DJMixwell |10 pointswritten 11 hours ago ago
Yeah they spam it when something mean/rude happens because they're big sad? :( Is small sad, D: is big sad? :O is gasp. I'll die on this hill. I grew up on T9. We didn't have emojis. D: is big sad.
It goes:
:'( crying
D: big sad
D': wailing sad.
DJMixwell |2 pointswritten 11 hours ago ago
Completely different model. The free content you get on twitch is virtually exactly identical to the paid content, in that any specific audience is all watching the same streamer, who's interacting with the same chat. Even still, you find the people trying to form some kind of bond w/ their favorite streamers by being regular donators. That recognition when they read their username is what they crave. They want to feel like the streamer knows them. Sure, as a free viewer you can try and yell into the void and post in chat. There's like a 1 in 1,000,000 chance your msg gets noticed. If it does, good for you. Streaming is also far more personal at its base level than porn. Even if you're just a random chatter, you're still part of the greater hivemind that is 'Chat'. You're still part of the content/interaction in a way. Especially when streamers have their chat on screen. It's live, it's happening right this instant, and you can feel like you have some effect when shroud asks for advice and you join the chorus of people chatting NO THE OTHER WAY.
OF, that specific person you want to interact with is behind a subscription. Sure, I can go watch Riley Reid get railed any time I want, and that works for me. But there's zero interaction, zero personal connection, real or perceived. You're just watching the same video from 4 months ago watched by 4m other people. And you won't find fukn Sara from your hometown posting her nudes for free. (I mean, depending on popularity, they may wind up on a leak site, but y'know, odds are they won't). Or you won't find your favorite cosplayer's paid custom personalized msgs w/ nudes. That kind of personalized content, the actual recognition / interaction is what they're paying for. You could try and slide in their DMs, but you won't get far. Same 1:1,000,000 chance they actually interact with you.
Ehhh if you get a half decent job, conceivably you could make 1 mil every 10-20 years depending on how much you make, and whether or not you're using your companies' RRSP matching. So if a streamer like Hasan makes anywhere between 3-5 mil pre tax, I'm sure many will have earned that much in their lifetime. You might never see anywhere near that number in your bank account all at once, but if you had a tracker for total lifetime earnings like the stats screen in a videogame, I'm sure something close to that number would be in there.
Maybe you're just misunderstanding our basic understanding of language, but when someone is a "full-time" streamer, it means it's what they do as a career, to replace a full-time job. It usually means it's their primary or only source of income, and they don't work another job. Full-time, in streaming, generally doesn't even mean as much as the traditional work week of 40 hours. Often much less for full-time streamers, as many can easily earn more in a month what most earn in a year. Hasan would certainly be in that category. He's got like 25k subs. That's over 50k/month in subs alone, before donos and ad rev, and that's only the affiliate rate for subs, not whatever his specific partner contract dictates.
Full time does not mean "litterally live all the time". Altho Hasan has come about as close to that as nearly anyone ever has. Averaged out, that would be 10 hours every single day, without ever taking any breaks for weekends or holidays or time off. If we have him standard work-week and vacation (~15 days is what I get so we'll go with that) there's 247 working days in 2020, which would work out to 14 hours per working day on average, which is nearly a double shift every single day. But Hasan streams pretty much every day, and doesn't take many holidays, and streamers don't even get holiday pay at 2.5x, they just make whatever they make.
It's not low by any standard, not even full-time-streamer standards. It's very much on the high end.
Also, a full time job absolutely is a lot. If you're getting anywhere near 8 hours of sleep, 50% of your useable hours are spent AT work, and another couple hours are spent getting ready for, getting to, or getting home from work. Well over half your day is dedicated entirely to work, 1/3 is dedicated to sleep (hopefully) and whatever measly scraps are left are for making supper, chores, errands, appointments, gym, etc. If you're lucky, you might get ~2 hours to yourself to do whatever you want, before you have to wind down and get ready for bed and repeat the whole thing again.
DJMixwell |1 pointwritten 13 hours ago ago
Suspension of disbelief? You can see the video on the hub has 4.5 million views. They can at choose to believe photo/video they got was just for them. Especially if it's a very specific custom they tipped for, which conceivably could legitimately go just to them.
There's also no interaction with the free porn just floating around the internet. Heck even on "free" cam sites, the cam girls usually require you tip them for any real interaction. At least on OF if you msg/tip you get a response directly from the person you're sending the message to.
It's great that you or I aren't lonely/desperate enough to resort to OF for that kind of human interaction. But for many I'm sure it's the closest they can get. You might not see the value, but that doesn't mean it isn't there for others.
Noooo gasp is :O
being a degenerate simp
Ah yes, so degenerate. Wanting to see girls naked is such an immoral and abnormal thing. * Laughs in 12 billion dollar porn industry *
Unless you're saying you would get in touch with her again through OF by being like "Hey, remember me from high school?" which would be hilarious.
Can you imagine. If it works, you could have slid into the DMs anyways, I guarantee it. But like 99.5% chance you get perma banned.
They're only getting excited by the money they're making from supporters, not the supporters as the people they are.
Yeah I think that has to be understood by both parties. I mean I'm sure it's not all the time, you can google stories of onlyfans stalkers, seems like it's a growing problem. But i'm sure people are willing to pay for even the simulation of an intimate experience. I'm not going to argue one way or the other if it's healthy, but as long as you understand what you're paying for, if that's what you want, go for it.
Sure, B/C is the only reason I'd buy, and agree, sub for a month after they have like a year's worth of content posted, and then peace out.
But I get why a) has some validity. Some people are lonely, socially awkward, old as fuck, ugly, etc. etc. etc. At that level they provide the same value as escorts imo. Potentially more, for the ones in the socially awkward club tbh.
Haven't paid yet, but I can't deny I've been tempted. Let's be real here, if a girl you knew/had a thing for back in the day was still hot, or by chance got even hotter, and by chance one day had their OF link in their insta bio, you'd absolutely be tempted to pay, just out of curiosity if nothing else. It'd be like the holy grail, to finally get the nudes of that one girl that never sent nudes.
You don't need universal appeal when you can bank on the niche fetish. Sure, it's not a lot of people, but they're also starved for content comparatively. You just have to reach them.
In most cases you're paying for either
a) the interactions / customs, which to the purchaser adds some level of perceived intimacy.
Or b) it's a girl you already know and you want to see them naked.
Or maybe it's just c) some kind of exclusivity. Like, it's a reasonably well known thirst trap or cosplayer posting nude content, and the only way to get it is on onlyfans. Kinda rolls into b) in the sense that it's someone you're already familiar with/a fan of and you want their nude content.
There's definitely value in onlyfans, and I think many of the smaller onlyfans creators are probably leveraging a lot of people from the b) category. Like, reasonably attractive girls start an onlyfans and simps they knew from highschool and uni pay for their nudes.
Destiny got destroyed in this debate
I mean at least in the end, pokimane's stream may have made her look bad, but the receipts didn't lie, and it certainly seems like Fed was still in the wrong. Can chalk it up to poki being terrible at addressing drama/not wanting to get frustrated/cry on stream.
Destiny is a dramafrog, so there's really no excuse. If he's trying to deflect, it's because he knows he doesn't look as good as he thought in all of this.
Destiny Admits to Blackmailing Xintani
How is he right wing? Please elaborate. Because he doesn't hate Capitalism? Please.
His views on social policy are 100% left. Wikipedia isn't always a great source, but the first snipet when you google left wing politics is "Left-wing politics typically involves a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished."
Destiny has made his positions very clear here. Ending racial inequality, public options for healthcare, reducing wealth inequality, equal rights for LGBTQ folk. These are all left-wing policy. FFS he had one of the largest door knocking operations for the democratic candidates for the runoffs in Georgia.
The definition for right wing politics per the same source is as follows ; Right-wing politics embraces the view that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, or tradition.
Which clearly is diametrically opposed to Destiny's politics. If he believed the above, he wouldn't advocate for fixing any social inequalities, he'd chalk them up as the national order of things.
You can argue all you want about destiny being a sociopathic nutjob w/r/t this whole bob7 fiasco. I'd be inclined to agree. But he's made his politics very clear, and the only one who seems to be uneducated in that regard is you.
xQc is enjoying the drama
It also sounds like, based on some of the logs, neither destiny or Melina are good at communicating their issues. Melina isn't good at voicing her issues to Destiny, and destiny isn't good at listening and always defaults to the defensive. Which just becomes circular. Melina is bad at voicing her issues because she feels like Destiny will become defensive. And destiny becomes defensive because of how Melina raise her concerns.
Seems like they need actual counseling instead of getting randos on the internet to moderate their disputes.
Bob7 drops his 40pg counter-manifesto
DJMixwell |6 pointswritten 1 day ago ago
Right, so that begs the question : Are destiny and her really "cool" now? It's all been resolved and it's water under the bridge? Or does their resolution have something to do with whatever destiny might have on her, and she's agreed not to say anything about him, or he goes nuclear? Maybe he does have the receipts to back up her saying she hates sex workers. Maybe the video he has of her is super damning? Who knows.
I mean, even from the few screenshots we have from destiny, it still confirms he's a cold-hearted asshole who will jeopardize someone's career just for the lulz. So much for his core moral tennet of doing the greatest good/least harm for humanity, or whatever he was saying during his vegangainz debate.
I dunno, do I think destiny is the mastermind even manipulator bob7 says he is? Probably not. But he's also not a saint in any of this, it would seem.
xQc wins Myth
DJMixwell |1 pointwritten 1 day ago ago
Also drops only required 4 hours, and each streamer had different drops. XQc had the best one IMO, once people were done with that it was on to the others. So arguably now that drops are done, people might go back to xQc now I think, of all the streamers, his numbers might have been artificially deflated after the first day when everyone went to other channels to get the rest of the drops.
Destiny responds to a twitch streamer that insulted him
LMAO, the only one here acting like an incel or a pedophile is you. this is top quality projection, you should seriously consider a job at AMC.
Edit : imagine deleting your comment. Loool
Lmao, you're clueless. Clearly nobody agrees with you, either. Take the hint buddy, you're wrong.
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Arts & Culture » Performing Arts Sidebar
Teachers' Turns
by Terry Brennan
NATIONAL FACULTY CHOREOGRAPHY SERIES III
at the Dance Center of Columbia College
June 14 and 15
Dance teachers from America's colleges and universities got together at the Dance Center for the "National Faculty Choreography Series III"--and the results reminded me of my best college teachers. These dances were technically strong: physical, expressive, and not marred by academic stuffiness. But like college teachers everywhere, the choreographers sometimes rambled on in long-winded works without much apparent structure. Many of these dances were passionate, others witty, and a few were both. And one dance was sublime--recalling the philosophy professor who taught you how to think.
The American College Dance Festival is an annual week-long occurrence for college students and faculty; its board meeting was held in Chicago this year, and this concert was associated with that event. Woody McGriff, the series coordinator, explained to the audience that 38 dances were submitted; three adjudicators, including Reader critic Cerinda Survant, winnowed them down to just nine.
The most passionate dances explore an inner landscape in solos. Li Chiao-Ping's Passacaglia combines expressive gestures with great power of movement. Chiao-Ping, a compact woman in a short black dress, achieves spectacular images--moving her arm slowly forward as if in water, then repeating the movement with increasing speed until she is frantically throwing her arm and body forward. The sequence resolves with a double turn and an arabesque that slowly melts. The entire sequence has a compelling dance logic and emotional power. But the dance does not tell a story; Chiao-Ping seems to be talking to herself rather than to the audience. She seems caught up in sadness; I sensed an innocence like that of a sheltered adolescent girl overwhelmed by the size of the world outside her home. Passacaglia rambles quite a bit, held together only by the musical structure of Henrich Biber's baroque music and by the strength of Chiao-Ping's emotions.
Martha Curtis explores a less innocent inner landscape in On the Tracks, which centers around trains. Curtis includes a Thomas Pynchon verse in the program: "No one drives the locomotive / No one tends the staring light / Trains have never needed riders / Trains belong to bitter night." Curtis's train is clearly the symbol of death, power, and sex established by Freud and perfected by Hitchcock and film noir directors.
Curtis's movement is more lean and bare than Chiao-Ping's; it does not express emotion so much as embody it. In one moment, Curtis stands in a vertical bar of light, as in the aisle of a train. An eerie siren combines with a repetitive, percussive melody to give a sense of a moving train's click-clack. Curtis moves from one foot to the other, her arm up, as if riding a train standing up. It's not a witty image capturing in movement a common experience--instead Curtis's image is disturbing. Her train has an unstoppable momentum, like a life out of control. Shortly after this, Curtis moves into a horizontal bar of light, making a movement like throwing dice in a game of craps. At the end of the dance, the vertical and horizontal bars of light intersect in a cross, with Curtis at the center, crucified in the glare of an overhead light. The aim of Curtis's imagery is to bring into focus the murkiness of the dark night of the soul; it finally resolves into religiosity.
Sue Cherry is as passionate as Chiao-Ping and Curtis, but moves out of the inner landscape into the terrain of relationships in a duet called What Where. It starts with two women (Cherry and Jean Nelson) standing close to the audience, their costumes and hair dripping wet. As we hear breathing in the music, Cherry lays her head on Nelson's shoulder. They both spin and fall, their bodies leaving wet outlines on the floor, as wordless voices start an echoing chant. The dance, an abstract evocation of intense friendships between women, is held together by repeated movement, by sudden spins and reaching hands. The larger world of relationships that What Where inhabits is welcome after Chiao-Ping's and Curtis's introspection; thankfully, its larger scope does not reduce the clarity or conviction of its emotions.
A thoroughly convincing walk through the terrain of relationships, Stormy Brandenberger's Memories tells the story of a first romance. The girl (Danielle Terese Knoll) chases the guy (Timothy Gimpel), putting her chair down to catch his eye. When he still doesn't notice her, Knoll puts her chair down directly in front of Gimpel and tackles him. He gets away and, moving his chair, sits down again. Again she tries to tackle him, but this time she tackles thin air; she doesn't seem to notice the difference. Knoll seems as much in love with romance as with a man. Such wry details fill Brandenberger's dance, as well as an exact memory of the many stages of a romance. Brandenberger sidesteps cliches gracefully, as when Gimpel steps out of the dance to tell a story about playing with a balloon: he lets it go and catches it again, until he accidentally lets the string slip through his fingers. Brandenberger captures the callousness of young men, who play by pushing a girl away and then pulling her back, as well as the puzzlement of older men looking at their younger selves.
Memories seemed to me to have the clearest intention of the evening. But when Brandenberger talked with critics later, she said that the dance was not about a young heterosexual couple. She created the dance, she said, to represent how memories can attack a person. When the dance was performed with a white woman and a black woman, the audience saw it as a story about race relations. Gimpel's monologue about the balloon was his own story; every dancer who takes the role tells a different story from childhood. Brandenberger claimed that she makes no distinction between men and women in her choreography--no particular movements are a man's or woman's. The clear intention I saw in Memories was my own projection, a story I created out of my own past, cued by the dance's costumes, lighting, and casting. Dances can be remarkably plastic creations, almost Rorschach tests; an audience's beliefs about sex roles and racial stereotypes are often projected onto them. At times contemporary choreographers use this ambiguity to their advantage--and struggle against it when they try to make a clear statement.
As the subjects of these dances moved away from self and relationships toward the everyday world, wit replaced passion. Shane O'Hara's Guzu Guzu (it means "mumbling" in Japanese) starts with five folding chairs, painted white and stenciled with letters, placed in a row across center stage. A woman wearing a red turtleneck and black pants stands on a chair; a man dressed alike sits in the chair next to her. She hoots "Woo, woo," like a choo-choo train, and rocks forward and back in the chair. The speed of her rocking increases until she rockets off the chair; she then declares "I don't." It seems to be visiting hours at the insane asylum, before the invention of Thorazine. Later the man stands up and declares "copy machine" as he makes hand motions mimicking sheets of paper being ejected from a copier; he chortles "typewriter" while slapping his chest with his hands in a way reminiscent of the staccato rhythms of typing. Later, while an M.C. Hammer song plays, the man folds his chair, puts it on his shoulder, and walks offstage, slipping into a ghetto jive walk; suddenly, the chair becomes a boom box that seems to splatter the M.C. Hammer song at the audience. I have no idea what it all means, but the split-second timing of the physical comedy was a pleasure to watch. O'Hara may have been just mumbling to himself, but it was wonderfully entertaining.
Wit can be more difficult than passion. We accept the introspective visions of Curtis and Chiao-Ping without understanding them clearly, and accept O'Hara's nonsense; but when dances claim to make sense in the everyday world, we judge them by the standards of the everyday world. By these standards, Elaine Heekin's and Bruce Walczyk's Plod is a little flat. It starts well--Heekins and Walczyk hide behind venetian blinds set on the stage floor. They open the blinds momentarily, and we see them strike pose after pose. When they come out from behind the blinds, they throw bathroom plungers at the floor. It's a wonderfully witty moment, as the domestic qualities of venetian blinds and plungers connect in the audience's mind. But the moment unravels when Heekins and Walczyk pursue the plunger theme. A slide of a bottle of Mr. Clean detergent is projected on the back wall, as Walczyk crosses his arms to become Mr. Clean. A B-52's song plays, about a woman doing housework who wants a man to treat her mean; and as slides of washing machines and toilet bowls are projected, Heekins and Walczyk become a couple caught in domestic drudgery. This section threatens to become as coy as a Mr. Clean commercial. At the end, Heekins uses a plunger on Walczyk's heart, trying to jump start romance--an image that partially redeems the coyness of the middle section. But the venetian-blind section seemed only marginally related to the rest of the dance, which disturbed me in the same way a hole in the plot of a murder mystery might; it left a slightly sour aftertaste.
The experience of watching Edie Barnes's Glade was more like biting into a delicious-looking hamburger only to find that it's made of soybeans. Glade was made for seven student dancers, to an original new-age space-music score by David Durant. The dancers form clumps in different parts of the stage, all reaching arms or twisted torsos. The clumps re-form into trios and quartets, and fall back into a different clump in another part of the stage. The music and shadowy lighting are vaguely menacing, but the costumes seem to come from a different dance. Glade does not have a discernible subject, and the dancers were not technically strong enough for technique alone to hold my attention.
Wit and passion started to work together in Charles Abraham and Carol Childs's Common Law. Set to a blues song by John Mayall's band, Common Law presents a man (L.D. Burris) and his common-law wife (Childs). Image after image recalls the poverty of dusty southern towns described in blues songs. The dance has the sexual intensity of Delta blues songs too: Burris and Childs kiss; they roll across the floor in an embrace; and Burris lies on top of Childs in a straightforward mime of sex. When he's hurt, she pulls him up--but she wipes her hands first. He carries her on his shoulder as she kicks, trying to escape. In the last image, Burris curls into a fetal position as if wounded, while Childs stands over him, like a tough woman glad to see her rough husband in pain. Abraham and Childs have created a dance with a story we all know, and they tell their story with wit and feeling. In the context of this program, Common Law is an old dance, created in 1982; the dance itself seems a little dusty and old-fashioned, like a history professor lecturing with passion about a society that no longer exists. Meanwhile note-taking students secretly wonder why the professor cares so much.
Shirley Mordine isn't the passionate historian but the philosophy professor who teaches her students how to think. Excerpts from her Five Ecstatic Dances show that Mordine knows an immense amount about pure movement. She knows how to shade a footfall, so that the weight is taken on the outside of the foot; she knows how to make a position of the arm different from any other position of the arm in standard dance vocabulary; she can create the kind of lift where one dancer simply extends his arm and catches another dancer at her waist, then walks a few paces with her frozen in mid-flight. Mordine understands movement on a very deep level. Her professional company have been trained for years in her attention to detail, and they convey her vision well.
Like the philosophy professor who seems able to solve any logical problem but can't quite explain the solution, Mordine has had difficulty composing dances that engage an audience. Pure movement, like pure thought, is an astonishing achievement, but purity separates itself from a workaday world that cannot appreciate the achievement. In Five Ecstatic Dances, made in honor of the birthday of a Chicago woman, Corky Warsawsky, Mordine is able to overcome this separation. She decided this dance should celebrate ephemeral life. Subtle shadings of movement convey the dance's feeling of fragile mortality, bathing it in the elegiac final light of funerals.
The vocal music, by Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, and Samuel Barber, is serious but joyful. The dancers (Ann Boyd, Catherine Wettlaufer Beuhler, Jeffrey Carpenter, Rebecca Keene Forde, Paula Franz, Carl Jeffries, and Daniel Weltner), dressed in peasant costumes, perform with utmost grace the abstract movement, never miming a gesture or an emotion.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/John Weinstein.
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The Complete Deaths New Review (Theater and Comedy) The Short List (Theater) Recommended Image Closing (Theater and Galleries)
When: Nov. 30-Dec. 11 2016
Nicolai Khalezin
Toby (Toby Park) has had enough of "shallow buffoonery." He's decided to get serious and confront his "well-fed bourgeois" audience (us) with not one, not 20, but all 74 onstage deaths in Shakespeare's plays—from poor Matthew Gough, who buys it at the hands of a mob in Henry VI, Part II, to pretty much everybody in Hamlet. Of course, things don't go as planned. The three other members of Brit theater troupe Spymonkey can't take Toby's newfound earnestness, and, besides, they've got agendas of their own: Aitor Basauri wants to work with bubbles, Petra Massey wants to play Ophelia, and Stephan Kreiss wants to play with Petra. The result is loads and loads of shallow buffoonery. At over two hours, the joke goes on too long, but there's plenty of high-quality ridiculousness here, and no compunctions whatever about getting us to laugh at waggling penises or flies crawling up people's noses. —Tony Adler
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Arts & Culture » Performing Arts Review
by Kelly Kleiman
The Good Woman of Setzuan, Stage Left Theatre. The words "religious" and "sweet" are not usually associated with Bertolt Brecht, yet this story of a woman whose goodness threatens to destroy her is both. Brecht combines his own version of the Christ story with Paradise Lost to tenderly assess the costs of living. Without sacrificing Brecht's political perspective, director David M. Schmitz brings out every parallel between the stories--the betrayal, the sacrifice, even the role of the water seller/Baptist in bringing the savior to light. The ideas that poverty makes every absolute debatable and that force and cunning are required to secure the good are familiar from Mother Courage; but here the battle with circumstance seems, if not successful, at least not futile.
As Shen Te, the good woman, and her alter ego the ruthless Mr. Shui Ta, Gina Virgallito is flawless, from her magnificent a cappella soprano to the alteration of stance and tone by which she distinguishes the gentle woman from the shrewd businessman. She's well supported by the rest of the ensemble, especially Mark Nathan as Shen Te's would-be lover, whose failure to fulfill his dream of becoming a pilot recalls both Adam's fall and Satan's exile from heaven. Though Kevin Heckman is a bit over-the-top as water seller Wong, his final rhymed-couplet appeal to the audience is--well, sweet. Ed Reardon's music and music direction are superb, and utterly true to Brecht; standing out among the strong design team is mask designer Santosha Chantal.
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Carole Baskin is not ‘shocked at all’ that she was eliminated on ‘Dancing with the Stars’
by Joyce Eng
Carole Baskin survived last week’s elimination on “Dancing with the Stars,” but you can’t say the judges didn’t pounce to boot her with a unanimous vote when she landed in the bottom two again on Monday. But she does not have her claws out for them.
“I don’t feel shocked at all,” Baskin told “Entertainment Tonight” about her elimination. “The people who stayed on the show can really, really dance, and that’s what the show is all about.”
The “Tiger King” star kept up with her cat theme for the third week in a row, performing a samba with Pasha Pashkov to “Circle of Life” from “The Lion King” (1994) for Disney Night. The judges commended her for her effort, but noted how the dance was too slow to resemble a proper samba and had virtually no rolls. She scored a 12, just one point higher than
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Armed Forces Would Be Inefficient in Border Patrols – Bulgaria’s Defense Minister
Business | January 9, 2015, Friday // 11:59| views
Bulgaria's Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev, photo by YBGNES
Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev has said that the army would be inefficient in operations involving guarding the Bulgarian-Turkish border.
In a Friday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio, Nenchev commented on the proposal for joint patrols of the Defense Ministry and the Interior Ministry at the Bulgarian-Turkish border.
Nenchev underscored that army officials were not authorized to detain people or use weapons at the border.
“The question then arises as to what they shall be doing there. Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry Act states that guarding the border is a responsibility of the Interior Ministry,” Nenchev declared.
The idea for the joint patrols was put forth by Interior Minister Veselin Vuchkov, who suggested that the Bulgarian army could help the Border Police unit of the Interior in the attempts to cope with the refugee influx.
Nenchev assured that the Defense Ministry would fully assist the Interior with equipment and logistics, within the scope of their statutory powers.
He also claimed that it had been a mistake to use the armed forces to build a fence along Bulgaria’s border with Turkey.
Nenchev said that experts were evaluating which properties of the Defense Ministry could be given to the State Agency for Refugees to use them as temporary accommodation sites, adding that ownership of the buildings would most probably be transferred to the Agency.
He said that he expected that the army budget would have to be updated in 2015 due to Bulgaria’s commitments as a NATO member state.
Nenchev explained that Bulgaria had pledged that the army budget would increase gradually at a NATO summit in Wales.
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Councillors propose more 'flexible' transit plan for west London
CTV London
Published Wednesday, November 20, 2019 6:50PM EST
LONDON, Ont. -- City hall's plan to bring Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) to west London may soon face a detour.
Three city councillors want a new plan to be developed that would improve transit in the west end without BRT's controversial bus lanes.
Councillor Steve Lehman drafted the motion along with councillors Josh Morgan and Anna Hopkins.
“The last plan handcuffed us. I want to see us move into the 21st century, and I think this gives us the flexibility to be a little more creative," Lehman says.
The new motion going to the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee includes a list of possible transit improvements to be explored including; extending bus service further west, “queue jump” lanes that let buses get a head start at intersections, and a park and ride location in the west end.
Lehman adds the intent is not to rehash the BRT system’s west route, “Instead of just being good for a 2.5 kilometre stretch of Oxford Street, it could be expanded through all the major corridors.”
Earlier this year council advanced only the south, east, and downtown BRT routes for funding. The decision created uncertainty about the future of the west and north routes.
London received funding for 10 transit projects in the summer, leaving $150.5 million of senior government funding for BRT or other transit projects.
City engineer Kelly Scherr says the cost of work outlined in the new motion could be accommodated within the existing consultant's contract.
“That could include a review of the implementation of the previously proposed west leg. We could also look at some interim solutions.”
Council will reopen the transit debate when the motion is tabled next week.
A revised transit plan for west London would have to be completed by spring to qualify for the next application period for senior government funding.
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Technology | May 18, 2019
10 Jobs We Already Lost To Technology
Oliver Taylor
We are all concerned about robots and artificial intelligence taking over our jobs. However, nobody seems to be worried about the jobs that were taken over by earlier advancements in technology and even modern robots.
A few centuries or even decades ago, some of these professions were mainstream and profitable. They disappeared when some easier-to-use technologies were invented to take over their roles. In rare instances, advancements in technology proved that the profession should not even exist.
10 Gong Farmer
Photo credit: nonfictionminute.org
A few centuries ago, what we consider a bathroom (or toilet in Britain) was called a privy. It was a raised board with a hole in the middle instead of a flush toilet. Users sat there to do their business. Their feces went down the hole into the cesspit below.
The cesspit soon filled up and needed to be emptied. This was the job of the gong farmer.
Gong meant “going,” while farmer was used to refer to the act of “harvesting” the “goings.” The gong farmers entered the tight cesspits where the feces reached their waists. Sometimes, they employed a smaller boy to do the job. The boys scooped the feces into carts for transport to dumps where the waste was converted to fertilizer.
The gong farmers stank a lot, which isn’t surprising considering that bathing was alien to the people of the Middle Ages. They smelled so bad that they were often confined to their homes and only allowed to work at night.
The job was also dangerous. The feces produced poisonous gases that could kill the gong farmers inside the cesspit. However, the handsome pay made up for any humiliation or danger they faced. The job went extinct after sewage pipes and treatment plants crept up in the 19th century. Gong farmers still exist in some parts of the world, though.
9 Knocker Upper
Photo credit: BBC
Decades before the alarm clock went mainstream, people depended on the knocker upper to wake them from sleep. Interestingly, the profession lasted until the 1970s.
The first knocker uppers knocked or rang at the doors of their paying customers. However, they soon discovered that this was bad for business. Neighbors often complained that the noise woke them up. The knocker uppers also realized that they often woke nonpaying clients during the rounds. So the knocker uppers started tapping on the windows of their clients with long poles.
The tap was loud enough to wake the paying client but quiet enough to wake no one else. The knocker uppers did not hang around to make sure that their clients were awake and left after three or four taps. The profession started to disappear as electricity and alarm clocks became common.
Most knocker uppers went out of business in the 1940s and 1950s, and they were extinct by the 1970s.[2]
8 Ice Cutter
Photo credit: historicsoduspoint.com
From 1800 to 1920, people preserved their foods with ice harvested from frozen ponds by ice cutters who used ice axes and, later, handheld ice saws. The industry boomed so well that ice cutters started using large ice saws that required horses to tow.
Most of the ice came from the natural fresh water in the northwest United States between January and February. The work was tedious. Ice cutters worked seven days a week in 10-hour shifts to harvest enough ice before temperatures rose in March. The ice cutters were always at risk of falling into the frozen water.
The horses were not spared from the dangers of the trade, either. They were equally at risk of falling into the frozen ponds. Their dung also contaminated the ice. Most ice cutting businesses even employed a “shine boy” to clean after the horses. The shine boy put the dung into a waterproof wooden sleigh that he always carried along.
The harvested ice was stored in warehouses called icehouses for export to other regions of the US and Europe. The icehouses were built with double walls, raised off the ground, and filled with sand, straw, sawdust, hay, charcoal, bark, and whatever would stop ice from melting. These structures were also located far from trees over concerns that the ice could become damp and melt.
However, the industry was not very predictable because ice could melt or form improperly. It was unusual for ice cutters to record two profitable harvest seasons back-to-back. The winners were the farmers who owned the ponds. They sometimes made more from selling ice from their frozen ponds than they did from peddling their crops. The industry disappeared after the invention of the electric refrigerator.[3]
7 Match Maker
Photo credit: theconversation.com
Centuries ago, match-making companies employed all-female labor forces to make matches. These women were called “matchstick girls.” The job was dangerous and tedious. This was especially true at companies like Bryant and May which paid low wages, overworked workers, had strict regressive rules, and used dangerous white phosphorous in manufacturing its matches.
Matchstick girls at Bryant and May worked 14 hours a day. They were often fined for minor infractions like dropping a match, talking to coworkers, or clocking in late. However, their biggest threat was from the white phosphorous they worked with.[4]
White phosphorous is toxic. It could cause a disease called “phosphorous necrosis of the jaw,” which the ladies called “phossy jaw.” The disease rotted the jawbone. Sometimes, it spread to the brain, causing the sufferer to die a slow and agonizing death. It could only be treated by removing the damaged jaw. However, this could also lead to death.
6 Rectal Teaching Assistant
Photo credit: The Telegraph
While we were immersed in debates over whether robots and artificial intelligence would seize our jobs someday, robots crept behind us and snatched the profession of the rectal teaching assistant.
Medical personnel often diagnose prostate cancer by inserting their fingers into the anus to feel the prostate gland. At one time, they were trained with the rectum of a living human who was called a rectal teaching assistant. Only one man in all of the UK was licensed to become one.
Concerned about the shortage of rectal teaching assistants, scientists at Imperial College London developed a robotic rectum that mimicked a real human rectum. Unfortunately, the creation of the robot meant that the only licensed rectal teaching assistant in the UK lost his job.[5]
The inventors say the robot is better than a human. Cameras inside the robot allow medical personnel to see the internals of the robot rectum on a computer screen. There was no way they could have done that with a human.
5 Human Computers
Photo credit: history.com
The first human computers appeared in 1939 when the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California employed Barbara Canright as a human computer. Canright was responsible for calculating everything from the amount of force required to take an airplane airborne to the amount of rocket propellant required to get a rocket into space.
The complex calculations were done with pencils and paper. Determining the travel time of a rocket took a whole day, and some other calculations could take a week. A single calculation could fill up to eight notebooks. Canright was later joined by Melba Nea, Virginia Prettyman, and Macie Roberts after the US got involved in World War II.
The human computers concentrated their efforts on the space race after the war. They were responsible for the calculations that put the US first satellite in orbit, the Voyager probes into space, the first unmanned rover on Mars, and Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew on the Moon.
The human computers still had the upper hand when NASA started experimenting with mechanical computers in the 1950s. Most people believed that humans were more reliable than machines. However, the humans soon lost their jobs to computers.[6]
4 Pin Boy
Photo credit: thevintagenews.com
A few decades ago, bowling alleys employed young boys called pinsetters, pin spotters, or pin boys to manually reset fallen bowling pins and return the bowling balls to players. The work had low pay and was often part-time. However, it was highly demanding as the boys often worked until midnight.
This started to change when Gottfried Schmidt invented the mechanical pinsetter in 1936. The pinsetter was semiautomatic and still required human intervention. Some bowling alleys did not adopt the mechanical pinsetter and continued using the pin boys. However, the pin boys and the semiautomatic pinsetter soon gave way to fully automatic pinsetters.[7]
3 Lamplighter
The first public streetlights appeared in the 18th century. They used fish oil for fuel and required a lamplighter to light them at night and put them out in the mornings. The fish oil streetlight was later improved, leading to the invention of the gas lamp. However, that also required a lamplighter.
These professionals used long poles to light the lamps at night and extinguish the flames in the mornings. Lamplighters were also responsible for cleaning, maintaining, and repairing the lamps.
The profession started to die off in the 1870s when the first electric streetlamps appeared. Electric streetlights rendered the gas models obsolete in the US. However, the UK was still stuck with gas lamps for several decades because electric lamps were controversial there at the time. Finally, the UK dumped gas for electric lamps.
Critics complained that their lights were blinding, ugly, and too bright for the night. Others pointed out that electricity was expensive. The British Commercial Gas Association promoted gas lamps as the better alternative and deliberately sabotaged the adoption of the electric lamp.[8]
Electric lamps only took over in the 1930s. However, around 1,500 gas lamps still exist in London for historical reasons.
2 Log Driver
Photo credit: fhsarchives.wordpress.com
Long before trains and trucks came along, timber that had been cut down deep in forests was rolled into rivers and left to drift downstream. However, it sometimes got stuck in miles-long logjams that could involve tens of thousands of logs and required dynamite to break up. An entire industry sprang up around escorting the drifting logs downstream and clearing the logjams. The men were called log drivers.[9]
The job was dangerous and tedious. These men often followed the logs in special boats. Sometimes, they even jumped from log to log as the timber drifted downstream. Unlucky log drivers fell into the water and drowned while escorting the logs or trying to end logjams. Some were crushed to death after falling between the logs.
1 Leech Collector
Photo credit: ripleys.com
The leech collector was a brief profession that sprang up and disappeared in the 1800s. At the time, bloodletting was used to drain blood from the body to supposedly cure diseases. Physicians applied leeches to suck blood from their patients.
Leech collectors soon appeared to cater to the high demand for leeches. These jobs were often done by poor women who obtained leeches from ponds and other areas where the creatures were plentiful. The collectors used their legs (the preferred, cheaper method) or those of old horses as bait to attract the leeches.[10]
The women allowed the leeches to suck their blood for around 20 minutes before pulling them off. This was because a full leech was easier to detach than a hungry one. Nevertheless, this often caused injuries that bled for hours and resulted in significant blood loss. But the bleeding attracted more leeches, which was good for business.
The profession started to die out after leeches became scarce. Around the same time, doctors started to doubt that bloodletting really worked. Medical advancements soon proved that the procedure did not work and was actually dangerous. Bloodletting became history, and the leech collectors followed. The winners were the leeches that were saved from extinction.
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Home 24/7 Shanghai FESCO invested into Singapore TG Human Resource Services
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Shanghai FESCO invested into Singapore TG Human Resource Services
Source: Media Outreach
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 16 April 2020 – Shanghai Foreign Service (Group) Co., Ltd) (“FSG”) (www.fsg.com.cn) and TG Human Resource Services Pte Ltd (“TG”) (www.tg-hr.com) are pleased to officiate FSG’s 35% equity acquisition of TG by holding an investment signing ceremony on 30 March 2020. The signing was done remotely, and coordinated among parties in Shanghai, Singapore and Japan.
Present at the ceremony were:
Li Dong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Donghao Lansheng Group, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shanghai Foreign Service
Gao Yaping, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Shanghai Foreign Service
Zhang Zheng, Deputy General Manager of Investment and Development Department of Donghao Lansheng
Yu Liyue, Vice President of Shanghai Foreign Service
Paul Ng, Chairman of TG
Emily Chiang, Director of TG
Wong Poh Swan, Director and General Manager of TG in Singapore
Sato Ruiji, Director and General Manager of TG in Japan
The equity transfer was successfully concluded on 31 March 2020 in Singapore. After the acquisition, TG is now officially renamed FSG TG Human Resource Services Pte Ltd (“FSG TG”).
Since 2016, FSG and TG have had multiple rounds of high-level exchanges and discussions regarding equity investment matter which lay the foundation for this cooperation. After the acquisition, FSG TG will continue to use Singapore as its headquarters, providing professional human resource services such as recruitment, RPO, and flexible workforce. FSG TG will operate in Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Macau, Taiwan, and has plans for future expansion in other countries and regions. The acquisition by, and relationship with FSG, will allow FSG TG to enjoy an integrated industry brand advantage, regional resources, and enhanced capabilities in accelerating deployment and market expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.
At the signing ceremony, Li Dong said, “This is a commemorative moment for FSG and TG, and I am looking forward to FSG TG achieving new milestones. The directors and senior management team has worked diligently to create maximum value for shareholders. I expect FSG TG to have an international vision and local know-how to create an impact to human capital for Chinese companies going international and for Asian companies. I also expect FSG TG to use talents as the most important resource and create a better life for all employees.”
Gao Yaping added, “The cooperation means that FSG and TG are now family. We will face new opportunities and challenges together, and both parties will actively promote management integration, accelerate business integration, to achieve the development goals and growth of FSG TG.”
Yu Liyue said, “FSG TG will focus more on recruitment and flexible employment services to drive new breakthroughs in the Chinese and Asian markets.”
Paul Ng agreed and said, “FSG TG will actively respond to China’s “Belt and Road” initiative and provide value for money recruitment and flexible employment solutions for Chinese “Going Global” companies, Asian multinational companies, and Asian local companies.” Sato Ryuji added “This cooperation will open up new opportunities for the two companies in Asia Pacific, symbolizing the further expansion of the influence of Asia-centric human resources service companies in the global human resources space. In the near future, FSG TG will leverage on the knowledge of both parties to become a benchmark enterprise in the field of human resources in Asia.”
– Published and distributed with permission of Media-Outreach.com.
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India's Tata puts post-pandemic bet on digital, electronics and health
Euan Rocha
FILE PHOTO: N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, speaks at the unveiling of Tata Motors HBX compact SUV at the India Auto Expo 2020 in Greater Noida
By Euan Rocha
(Reuters) - India's Tata Group plans to invest in digital, high-end electronics and healthcare in a post-pandemic world, the $100 billion conglomerate's chairman said on Thursday.
Tata, whose operations span hotels, steel, airlines, electronic goods and technology services, will also place big bets on electric vehicles, renewable energy and battery storage, N Chandrasekaran, who is also known as Chandra, added.
"When you look at trends for the future, definitely there are clear signs you can pick up. Anything that is digital, we're making a big bet on," Chandra told the Reuters Next conference.
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the adoption of technology, changing the way people live, work and consume as well as how companies operate, he added.
Tata has already made public its intent to launch an umbrella app enabling access to all its consumer businesses, Chandra said, in a concept borrowed from China where apps such as Alipay allow everything from hotel bookings to e-commerce. Tata is also building an online business-to-business platform.
The owner of British luxury brand Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is placing big bets on electric vehicles as well as on battery storage and renewable energy for consumer and industrial use.
"We are very serious about electric vehicles," Chandra said, adding that Tata is investing in developing clean technology cars at home through Tata Motors and at JLR.
Automakers are investing in EVs, largely driven by tighter government regulations on polluting vehicles, with Tesla, now the world's most valuable car company, readying plans to launch in India this year.
Chandra said the adoption of technology and shift in consumer and corporate behaviour will lead to the creation of new and shared workplaces closer to where people live.
Meanwhile there will be a higher degree of automation in Indian factories driven by a greater use of artificial intelligence, internet of things or connected devices and data.
With some of these changes unlikely to reverse, Chandra is looking at new opportunities for Tata, particularly as India's economy springs back from damage during the early stages of the pandemic last year.
"I've been quite surprised with the speed with which the economy is recovering and bouncing back," he said, adding that several Tata companies are already recovering losses as demand picks up except in areas like airlines.
COVID-19 has also forced Tata to be more resilient to disruption in the global supply chains it depends on and for Chandra, one way to do this is to be a part of it.
"There are couple of industries we have already identified. One is electronics, high-tech manufacturing, where we've already started the foray and we are developing plans for the future."
Tata also plans to cater to growing demand for medical devices in India and around the world, Chandra said.
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Visakhapatnam development body plans to develop four new layouts – ET RealEstate
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority plans to develop four layouts in four corners of the city in 2021, VMRDA vice-chairman and MD Koteswara Rao said on Thursday.
“Despite our revenue dipping by 60% in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have planned several projects for 2021. Plots would be allotted through auction in the four layouts. The NAD flyover, Visakha valley road, Boney road, Ramanagar shopping complex, and several other projects worth Rs 380 crore would be completed during the year,” he said. He said the Sea Harrier museum would be completed soon.
Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation commissioner G Srijana said the civic body is expecting a better Swachh ranking and targeting a 5-star or 7-star rating in the garbage-free city rankings in 2021. GVMC was ninth in Swachh Survekshan rankings and got a 3-star rating in garbage-free city category in 2020.
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T-shirt Campaign Provides Foster Children with Christmas Gifts
By Brendan Menapace
Amanda Zara created a T-shirt campaign to ensure foster children in the Albany, N.Y., area received gifts this holiday season. (Image via Booster)
An Albany, N.Y., woman wanted to help make sure that foster children in the area received gifts this holiday season. So, Amanda Zara decided to look for ways to set up sponsorships so children could receive gifts.
"It's any impact or any inference I can make, even in just one life, it would mean the world to me," she told ABC News 10. "We created a T-shirt. It's a T-shirt campaign. One T-shirt bought is one child sponsored."
Through a partnership with the Berkshire Farm Center, which specializes in helping children, customers can purchase a T-shirt for $25 (larger donations are accepted).
"For many of us, it's a very happy time of year with friends and family, but for foster children it's the worst time of year, because it's a remembrance of what they don't have," Julie Brennan of Berkshire Farm Center told ABC News 10.
"Friends and family, and even people that would never necessarily donate, I think they like the feeling of giving to something greater than themselves and really being able to make an impact, especially right here in our own backyard," Zara said.
As of Tuesday, Zara already has sold 71 T-shirts.
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CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY Volume 54, Number 1 JANUARY 1990 The Unity of Scripture RobertD.Preus ................................ 1 Sixteenth-Century Lutheran-Calvinist Conflict oh the Protevangelium KenSchurb ................................... 25 Homiletical Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Indices to Volume 53 (1988) Author Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 TitleIndex .............................. 69 Scripture Index to the Homiletical Studies. . . . . . . . . . 73 SubjectIndex ................................. 75 Sixteenth-Century Lutheran-Calvinist Conflict on the Protevangelium Ken Schurb Since the second half of the sixteenth century Lutheranism has taken a dimmer view of Calvinism than Calvinism has taken of' it, largely due to the different perspectives each has on the concept of "evangelical church." In the Calvinist mind, there is one reformed (evangelical) church over against Rome, and within it one can find various "tendencies." To classic Lutheranism, the Church of the Augsburg Confession teaches the Gospel in truth, while Calvinism does not. Hence, while confessional Lutheranism acknowledges that there are Christians among the Reformed, it nonetheless insists that the theological issues which set Calvinism apart from it cut to the very heart of the Christian faith and are divisive of fellowship. This difference in perspective can be traced to the first half of the sixteenth century. Lutherans flatly refused to let "sacramentarians" sign the Augsburg Confession. At Mar- burg Luther had taken a hard line on the theological matters which impinged on the Gospel, and he saw all doctrine as related to the Gospel. Though Luther made one or two favorable remarks about Calvin, there is evidence that he eventually wondered whether the eloquent Frenchman harbored sacramentarian views - and therefore presumably would have been subject to all the standard strictures.1 If data on Luther's views on Calvin are in short supply, we do not lack places to turn for Calvin's assessment of Luther. He expressed it on several occasions and thereby provided much of the paradigm for his spiritual heirs. "Luther, for him, was not an oracle but a pathfinder: a pioneer, in whose footsteps we follow and whose trail has to be pushed on further. We hurry on, still today, in the path he opened up." Calvin taught that Protestants all stood beneath an overarching unity of thought (that consensus existed among the anti-Roman reformers "in tota pietatis summa'? and that this umbrella encompassed sufficient space for legitimate development. The sacraments made for an obvious area of divergence, but even there Calvin was convinced that he had maintained Luther's fundamental concern. Thus, Calvin and his followers were amazed and miffed at the criticisms they drew from Lutherans 26 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY in the second half of the century, to say nothing of refusals of church fellowship.2 If there had been any place where Lutheranism may have taken a more relaxed view of Calvinism, it easily could have been the field of biblical exegesis. For neither Luther nor Calvin insisted that interpreters must agree with each other concerning every detail of a text. Both allowed a certain freedom in exegesis. But how much? Calvin said his Lutheran opponents were overly restrictive; they thought This paper contrasts classic Lutheranism's exegesis of a noteworthy Scripture passage with that of classic Calvinism. It will conclude that the two traditions indeed used divergent exegetical approaches, that the differences over which they clashed at the end of the century were essentially the same as those which already existed between Luther and Calvin, and that the differences had hermeneutical and doctrinal import. Thus, the conflict between the positions was basic and unavoidable. The passage in question is the protevangelium, Genesis 3:15: (15a) I will put enmity between you and the woman, (15b) and between your seed and her seed; (15c) he shall bruise your head, (15d) and you shall bruise his heel.4 The main issue which came to the fore in Lutheran-Calvinist debate was this: who or what was the "seed" of the woman? I. The Conflict in Germ: Luther and Calvin A. Luther By the time Luther began lecturing on the protevangelium in 1536, he had already told his students that the curse upon the serpent "contains whatever is excellent in all Scripture." Yet, he noted, this text "was not expounded by anyone carefully and accurately, so far as I know." Even among the venerable ancient bishops, sound of doctrine and life, "there is no one who adequately expounded this passage." As for "more recent" interpreters, he criticized their Vulgate-inspired changes of the masculine pronoun ipse to the feminine ipsa, which set up Mariological understandings of the verse ("she will bruise your head"). He also complained about the Sixteenth-Century Conflict 27 allegories by which even Augustine and Gregory had explained the pa~sage.~ To Luther, the comfort of Genesis 3:15 first consisted in that God did not proclaim the same punishment on Adam and Eve as He had on the serpent. Rather, He established a conflict between them and their great enemy. "Moreover, the main point of the comfort is this: Although this enemy fights with cunnings and treacheries, the seed will be born who will crush the head of the serpent." Luther maintained that Adam and Eve viewed this text as a Messianic promise pointing to a Man by whom the devil's head would be crushed, his tyranny broken. This Messianic figure would be God, as Luther went on to emphasize against the Mariolatrous Vulgate rendering. He remarked, "They say that by giving birth to Christ, Mary has destroyed all the power of Satan. If this is true, does not the same honor belong to all other women who preceded Mary in the same line?" Luther wanted nothing to take the "glory of our redemption and deliverance" away from Christ.6 So he was adamant about the Seed's identity. He para- phrased the curse on the devil: "You have corrupted the flesh through sin and have made it subject to death, but from that very flesh I shall bring forth a Man who will crush and prostrate you and all your powers." Yet, he observed, the curse remained vague enough that its very form vexed the devil: due to it "he suspects all mothers of giving birth to this Seed, although only one woman was to be the mother of this blessed Seed." Eve had thought her first-born son was the God-Man who would crush the devil's head.7 Luther also noted that God referred to the Seed of the woman. Countless women gave birth in Old Testament times, but "their seed could not in truth be called the Seed of the woman, but rather the seed of a man. But what is born from Mary was conceived by the Holy Spirit and is the true Seed of Mary. ... This meaning Isaiah is the first to point out when he says that a virgin will give birth." Thus, the protevangelium implied that the Messiah would be conceived without the involvement of a man.8 The most striking aspect of Luther's exposition is his insistence that the woman's Seed could be none other than the Christ. Luther's position on Genesis 3:15 should further be clarified along two lines. First, he has been misunderstood as contra- 28 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY dicting himself when he admits that "seed" could refer to "all individuals in general." In so speaking, however, Luther was merely observing how God mocked the devil by promising a "Seed" who, as far as could be known from the promise, might be born to any woman. The reformer pronounced this expression "an amazing instance of synecdoche." He repeated that "God wanted to make all women suspect to Satan." As Luther explained the promise, all women would come under demonic suspicion, not because each of them or each of their offspring was somehow messianic, but rather because any woman could perhaps be the one who would bear the one Seed, the Christ. Similarly, God wanted His people "to expect this salvation from all who gave birth, until the real one came." The word "Seed" pointed to only one person, the Messiah, and Luther held that the first recipients of the first gospel understood it in just this way.' Secondly, Luther occasionally and in passing depicted Christians attacked by Satan with phaseology from Genesis 3:15. As far as I have been able to determine, he did not directly call Christians the woman's seed, even when he did predicate of them the kind of enmity with the devil and his seed which the protevangelium attributed to the Seed of the woman (and, after all, to the woman herself as well). For example, after quoting Genesis 3:15 in his sermons on John, he went on to say, "This is the very enmity Christ is speaking about here [in the sermon text] when He says that His Christians will be excommunicated and put to death." Moreover, Luther did not cast Christians themselves in the role of defeating the devil; Christ did that as the Seed who "has crushed and still crushes the serpent's head, although we must run the risk that he, in turn, will bite us in the heel."1° When Luther spoke of Christians as subject to the same hatred as the woman's Seed, he did so to underscore the sufferings which they had to endure in this life. And he made such suggestions not when the protevangelium formed the chief subject at hand, but rather when it came up incidentally in other discussions. In these cases, the reformer was trying not to interpret the text but to apply it. In his major expositions of the verse, as in most of his passing references to it, Luther clearly identified the Seed as Christ alone. Even the few exceptional statements just noted contain nothing which directly conflicts with this identifica- Sixteenth-Century Conflict 29 tion. It is significant that, in the Lutheran-Calvinist conflict between Hunnius and Pareus later in the sixteenth century, both sides took Luther's words in his lectures on chapter 3 of Genesis as representative of his position-as, in fact, they were. B. Calvin When Calvin reached the protevangelium in his Genesis commentary, he declared, "I regard this simply to mean that there should always be the hostile strife between the human race and serpents, which is now apparent ... man abhors them." Calvin saw this as the meaning of 15b, and he also detected the idea in 15c. "They shall be troublesome to each other," he summarized. Yet humans retained the upper hand in this struggle since they could inflict the more serious injury.11 But Genesis 3:15 described more than strife between two species of physical creatures. "We must now make a transition from the serpent to the author of this mischief himself; and that not only in the way of comparison, for there truly is a literal anagogy ...[ est enim vere literalis anagoge]." God's final object was to punish the true culprit, the devil. Calvin further noted that this curse-saying would have brought but small consola- tion to people if it involved serpents but not Satan. Thus, "God here chiefly assails Satan under the name of the serpent" so that people would be wary of Satan and struggle against him with confidence. Satan loomed as the enemy of all men. Genesis 3:15 showed that enmity between the devil and humans would reach beyond the first generation. Calvin took the expression concerning the woman's seed to mean that hatred would extend "as widely, indeed, as the human race shall be propagated." God singled out the woman for mention because she succumbed to deception first.12 Like Luther, Calvin criticized Rome's feminine rendering of the pronoun in the next clause, calling it a token of the "ignorance, dullness, and carelessness" which prevailed under the papacy, even among scholars. Continuing with his own exegesis, Calvin said: There is, indeed, no ambiguity in the words here used by Moses; but I do not agree with others respecting their meaning; for other interpreters take the seed for 30 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY Christ, without controversy; as if it were said that some one would arise from the seed of the woman who should wound the serpent's head. Gladly would I give my suffrage in support of their opinion, but that I regard the word seed as too violently distorted by them; for who will concede that a collective noun is to be understood of one man only? Calvin saw "the woman's seed" as a general reference to Eve's offspring, adding that his explanation reflected the perpetual nature of the conflict described in verse 15. But there remained one more phase in his exposition. Since "experience teaches that not all the sons of Adam by far arise as conquerors of the devil, we must necessarily come to one head, that we may find to whom the victory belongs," Christ. Hence, St. Paul could rightly direct his readers to Christ by writing about the seed of Abraham (Galatians 3:16). In the Messiah "the human race, which Satan was endeavoring to oppress, would at length be victorious." Calvin concluded that the church would especially share in the power of its Head to overcome the devil (Romans 16:20).13 In sum, Calvin identified the woman's seed, in the several parts of his interpretation, as (1.) all men (as against snakes), (2.) all men (as against the devil), and (3.) Christ as the Champion of all men (and, by extension from Christ, the church). He arrived at Christ because "experience teaches" that all do not conquer Satan; yet, inasmuch as the passage did promise victory over the devil, there had to be "one Head" in whom the race would conquer. Having introduced the "headship" concept, which comes not from Genesis 3:15 but from New Testament passages on Christ and His church, Calvin went on to say that Christ shared with His people the power to overcome the devil. Luther, as indicated earlier, at times spoke of Christians as subject to the enmity which the Seed of the woman should expect from the devil and his seed. Luther's focus in such contexts, however, was on the sufferings of Christians, not on their victory. In these incidental statements he offered no theological rationale, such as "headship," to include Chris- tians among the woman's seed, as Calvin did. At any rate, Luther's great thrust remained that there was but one Seed of the woman. In this emphasis he differed from Calvin. Sixteenth-Century Conflict 3 1 The contrast between Calvin's view and Luther's, as set forth in their respective commentaries, becomes most apparent when one considers intentionality. Luther thought God intended in Genesis 3:15 to predict the coming of one person, the Seed. Calvin could say that God wanted to predict victory, but the details of the report were sketchy. It stood to reason that God Himself would have to intervene; hence, the verse had an indirect Messianic character. But Calvin arrived at this Messianic significance in part because of a lesson learned from the experience of generations who failed in the struggle with Satan. Calvin gave no indication that Adam and Eve, who lacked such experience as they stood naked before God, could have come to the Messianic meaning. 11. The Conflict Joined: Hunnius versus Pareus In 1593 Aegidius Hunnius (1550-1603) published a polemical work called Calvinus Judaizans ("Calvin the Judaizer"), in which he criticized Calvin for having assumed weak positions in his exegetical writings on prooftexts commonly cited to support the doctrines of the Trinity and the deity of Christ. Calvin's explanations of the passages so weakened the Biblical basis for these two crucial Christian teachings, Hunnius contended, that they came uncomfortably close to expositions which one might expect from people who were not Christians at all, like Jews or Arians. Hunnius carefully indicated that he did not accuse Calvin of completely rejecting Christianity, but he urgently contended that Calvin opened the window and prepared the way for the basic convictions of Arianism, for example, to enter the picture.14 Calvinist Old Testament scholar David Pareus (1548-1622) quickly replied to Hunnius in an occasional piece. Later, in 1609, he set forth an interpretation of Genesis 3:15 in his Commentary on Genesis.15 Pareus affirmed that the passage "undoubtedly contains the first Gospel concerning the overthrow of the Satanic kingdom. . .through Christ the Mediator." However, he continued, the brevity and obscurity of its figurative speech have rendered it a difficult verse, not only among those who are hostile to the Gospel (e.g., Jews), but also among Christians.16 Hunnius in turn attacked Pareus in a 1594 book aptly called Antiparms and again in 1599 with Antipareus Alter. Though much longer than Calvinus Judaizans, this new two-part 32 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY assault had the same basic arrangement as the earlier work. It dealt with Pareus' (and Calvin's) expositions of passages on the Trinity and the deity of Christ. As in Calvinus Judaizans, Hunnius cited Calvin often, and now he added lengthy quotations from Pareus as well. In the preface to Antipareus Hunnius complained about the manner in which his Calvinist opponents, while inveighing against the Arians, had in their own way compromised the teaching that Jesus is God. They always seemed to say that the plain sense of Messianic prophecy did not pertain to Christ, or not to Him alone. The exposition of Genesis 3:15 provided Hunnius his first detailed example. If Calvin had not totally overthrown the passage, he had weakened it as a sedes doctrinae by taking "seed" as collective. Further, Hunnius accused Pareus of missing the point when he defended Calvin against charges of Judaizing by attempting to show that Calvin did not Judaize either in his life or in his faith. Pareus had noted that Calvin in fact criticized the Jews. But Hunnius insisted that the issue at hand was Calvin's exposition of prophecy, which stood out as more Jewish than Christian by way of its concession^.^^ Hunnius' criticism of Calvin's exegesis had a twofold thrust. The Lutheran scored Calvin for saying the simple sense of the text denoted a battle between men and snakes, and he further objected to Calvin's reading of "seed" as collective. His two- pronged attack set the stage for the ensuing debate, which can be summarized under these two headings: A. Men and Snakes Hunnius began his chapter in Calvinus Judaizans on texts concerned with the deity of Christ with Genesis 3:15, "the first promise of the Gospel of them all." Originally spoken by the preincarnate Christ Himself in Eden, subsequently expounded more fully by the prophets, these words served the church of all ages ("omnium seculorum & aetatum ecclesia") as a brief reminder of the Messiah's human nature and of His suffering to carry out His redemptive work. Hunnius said, "By this Gospel our first parents and their pious and faithful posterity sustained themselves and by faith in that sweetest promise the fallen were saved."lx It would amount to a concession to the devil himself, Hunnius continued, if one would think God only aimed his curse at Adam and Eve or at the natural serpent. Moreover, Sixteenth-Century Conflict 33 "if the Gospel promise concerning the coming Messiah is not set forth by the dominical discourse, it further follows that neither the first people nor the fathers of the primaeval world had any clear Gospel; that would be inharmonious with everything a Christian ... understands."lg Hunnius quoted Calvin's Genesis commentary and observed that it depicted verse 15 as a reference to the natural serpent and to hatred between men and serpents. He warned that such a view opened a crack to the Jews, who said the passage meant only that and no more.20 For his part, Pareus insisted that the literal sense of Genesis 3:15 involved no obscurity. It indicated there would be a "perpetual variance" between the serpent and Eve and also between their respective offspring, serpents and men. Men would win this fight because God has arranged matters so serpents cannot reach any higher than to attack their feet. Pareus thought that "we neither ought to repudiate this literal sense, nor are we able to do so,'' especially since God directed other curses against the serpent, and humans have in fact experienced enmity with snakes. However, Pareus said the word "He" later in the verse denoted a single seed and formed a clue that the straight- forward sense would not exhaust the passage's meaning. To recognize only the simple sense, he went on, would in effect have been to have taken a stand with the Jews: dwelling on the serpent as the enemy and ignoring man's more serious plight. "Therefore a mystical sense must be reached and seen, by which God promises men victory over the devil himself."21 Like Calvin, then, Pareus began with a "literal" interpreta- tion which said that Genesis 3:15 predicted a conflict between people and snakes. He moved on rather quickly, however, to a Messianic exposition of the "mystical sense," impelled not only by the need to have a champion of mankind who could successfully do battle with the devil (as Calvin said), but also by two reasons which reflected Hunnius' concerns: (1.) the necessity of avoiding a Jewish (a non-Messianic, even non- Satanic) interpretation, and (2.) grammar, namely, that the word "He" referred to an individual. In Antipareus Alter, Hunnius was not satisfied, however, with this kind of exegesis. He continued to complain that 34 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY Calvin reduced the struggle of Genesis 3:15 to humans versus snakes, and he criticized Pareus' willingness to defend Calvin's "impious gloss."22 B. The Number of "Seed" Here lay the heart of the conflict. In Calvinus Judaizans, Hunnius drew particular attention to "how audaciously" Calvin claimed that the word "seed" should not be interpreted individually, and thus that he could not join with those who saw in it a direct prophecy of Christ. "Listen, apostle Paul," Hunnius wrote sarcastically, "after so many years one has been found in the midst of the assembly of the Christian Church who might drive a note of absurdity against your exposition, in which you most clearly explain the collective noun 'seed' concerning the one man Jesus Christ." Then Hunnius quoted Galatians 3:16, the Pauline text which he had in mind: "Now the promises were made to Abraham and his offspring. It does not say, 'and to offsprings [seminibus],' referring to many; but to one, 'and to your offspring [semine],' which is Chri~t."~' Hunnius said that Calvin was wasting effort when he finally arrived at his analogical interpretation of the protevangelium. By that time he had blunted the passage and overturned the fundamentum of the evangelical promise. And regardless of Calvin's exposition, which included mere people among the seed, Hunnius maintained that it was the work of the Son of God alone to grind the devil's head (1 John 323). Hunnius therefore complained that Calvin had distorted Romans 16:20 when he claimed that the power to crush the devil had been granted to believers. Besides, Hunnius added, if Calvin thought the whole church possessed such power, why did he object so strenuously to the Vulgate rendering of verse 15? After all, Mary was "an exceedingly noble member of the church." Should not she have been able to crush the In his analysis Pareus fastened on 15b as an indicator that hostility between the woman and the serpent would not come to an end with Eve's death; it would instead be passed along to her offspring. Frequently, he asserted, the Hebrews used the term "seed" collectively, as in God's promises to Abraham to be his God and that of his seed, or to give the land to his seed, or to multiply his seed. In other places the word referred to an individual, as in Genesis 4:25,22:18,15:3, and 2l:l3. In the case Sixteenth-Century Conflict 35 at hand, Pareus continued, the "seed of the serpent" consti- tuted a collective name for all families of devils. It also meant reprobate people, whose leader is the devil (John 8:44; 1 John 3:8,10). Against this group God opposed "the seed of the woman, that is, the posterity of Eve, as many as are not of the seed of the serpent that is, the entire church of elect men in the world." Pareus maintained that here "the seed of the serpent [is taken] collectively; I do not know whether any reason permits the seed of the woman to be taken individu- ally." Furthermore, God said enmity against Satan would be transferred from the woman to her seed; and indeed we know it did reach all Eve's pious sons, the elect of the Old and New Testaments.25 Pareus' last argument is formally invalid, for Genesis 3:15 did not say that the seed alonewould hate the devil. Otherwise, it is noteworthy that Pareus reasoned chiefly from the context: If the serpent's seed was collective, the seed of the woman should also be collective. So while he differed with Calvin on the precise nature of the collectivity (Calvin said it was the human race while Pareus said it was the electz6), Pareus insisted that the "seed" in 15b was collective, not individual. Pareus disagreed with Calvin again when he came to 15c, for he thought that the word "He" was a definite reference to Christ. There would be no final victory, Pareus said, until the action of 15c took place, namely, that Christ Himself would come and defeat the devil. He observed that there was an athnach under the word zar'ah, just before 15c, and concluded that God placed it there so readers would not confuse this portion with what preceded it.27 But then he added, surpris- ingly, that " 'He' should certainly be read as the seed; or 'He' as Christ." Was Pareus now recognizing that the "Seed" of l5b denoted Christ alone? Not really; a few lines later he clarified his thought by stating that the "He" of 15c denoted "the Seed of the woman, that is, a certain one from among this seed, as if he goes forth from the midst for battle, an athlete and hero more robust and strong than the devil, certainly Christ."28 Thus, while Pareus favored a distinction between 15b and 15c and maintained that "the woman's seed" in 15b remained collective while "He" in 15c was singular, he tacitly admitted this much overlap between the two expressions: "He" was the Seed (singular) in that He was the great champion from among the seed (collective). 36 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY In his commentary Pareus listed reasons why, in 15c, "the Seed of the woman is not to be understood collectively as before, but individually. . .concerning Christ": 1. The word "He" was used instead of a repetition of the noun "his seed." Thus, God separated this portion of the verse from what preceded it. Pareus conceded the weakness of this argument by itself, but he urged that it be considered together with the others. 2. The Septuagint rendered "He" with the word autos. 3. Opposed to the Seed in 15c stood not another seed, as in 15b, but the serpent himself, an individual. 4. The word conterereor, more generally, the idea of the fight and the mode of victory suggested a single entity. 5. It took divine strength to crush Satan's reign (Zechariah 3:2, Romans 16:20). But the one prophesied would be both the Seed of the woman and God. 6. God sometimes spoke individually of Christ as "seed" (Galatians 316,"' 1 Chronicles 17:ll [in which the seed was Christ; Solomon was not involved]; see also Isaiah 9:6). 7. Genesis 3:15 attributed to this seed the proper office of the Christ, namely, to break the power of Satan (Psalm 68:19, Psalm 110:6). David, Joshua, and Samson were only types; Christ was victor over Satan directly. 8. The New Testament showed the fulfillment of this promise in Christ alone (1 John 3:8, John 14:30, Luke 10:18, John 12:31, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55, Hebrews 2:14, Revelation 20:2). Pareus claimed that he personally held to "the received interpretation" of the individual Seed of the woman. To his mind, the pronoun "He" designated this individual seed; on this point, he disagreed with Calvin. Yet he maintained that Calvin's adversaries had maliciously twisted the Frenchman's opinion and that Calvin's interpretation was not new, since it had the support of old auth~rities.~~ Furthermore, Pareus said Calvin did not overturn the foundation of the promise, for its certainty rested not in the subject (presumably "He" in the last part of the verse) but in the predicate ("will crush your head"). The Jews cannot deny this point, Pareus averred, for no one but Christ could do that work. So Calvin did lead to Christ, he concluded, albeit by a somewhat different approach Sixteenth-Century Conflict 37 than others used. Moreover, Pareus pointed to a difference between the collective interpretation which Calvin adopted and that of the Jews. "Calvin so refers to the human race that he nevertheless teaches that necessarily it would have to come to one head, which is Christ." And he was preceded in his view by Chrysostom, Eucherius, Procopius, and Augustine. No one is without error. If Calvin had made a mistake here, he was in good company.31 Pareus cited the work of some of the expositors, ancient and recent, who had taken the woman's seed as collective. Chrysostom and Procopius both used Luke 10:19 as a parallel passage to Genesis 3:15, though in different ways: Chrysostom to allude to the victory promised in Genesis 3 without giving any details on how the victory would be won; Procopius to urge divine discipline upon Christians so they would live as the seed of the woman.32 Among more recent exegetes, Pareus named Brenz and Marbach and even quoted Luther's Genesis 3 lectures: "The seed of the woman sounds in general concerning all individ- uals and nevertheless concerning only one indi~idual."~~ In reality, of course, Luther's words did not support the collective interpretation, as was shown above. When he referred to all individuals, he was affirming that there was only one Seed, but the devil had no advance knowledge from Genesis 3:15 about when and where He would appear. Interestingly, Pareus made no appeal to the exceptional statements of Luther which we examined earlier. A work like On the Councils and the Church, in which one of these assertions occurred, was hardly obscure. The point is that, even in these exceptional state- ments, Luther did not directly designate Christians as the "seed." Pareus was convinced he had to do precisely that, on the basis of 15b. He also, in a way similar to Calvin's, wanted to draw Christians in with Christ as part of the "He" of 15c: "Because it is said concerning the head, it pertains by participation to the whole body." Pareus argued from analogy. Satan bit Christ on the heel, but since Christ was the Head, His death pertained to the whole body. So Christians suffer and die with Him, and by virtue of His victory they would daily fight sin, death, and Satan, and win. "Therefore under this Seed, which is Christ, all the faithful are also contained." Pareus listed several reasons for this view: (1) The head and 38 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY the members are all from one (Hebrews 2:ll); (2.) Christ has seed (Isaiah 53:lO); (3.) Satan bites the heel not only of Christ but also of all the faithful; (4.) victory over Satan is distributed from the head to all the members according to Romans 16:20.34 Hunnius began his lengthy treatment of Genesis 3:15 in Antipareus Alter with general arguments for his interpreta- tion. If the protevangelium were not about the overthrow of Satan's kingdom, the great seducer would have gone unpun- ished. If it had not included a promise of the Messiah, Adam and Eve would have been left in terrors of conscience with no promise; they needed the consolation which could come only from the Gospel, not from the Law or from the ability to step on snakes. Given the enormity of the redemptive task, the "Seed" who would accomplish it could only be Christ, even if the fruit of His work pertained to great numbers of people.35 Hunnius called attention to Pareus' two basic reasons for his collective interpretation of "seed." First, Pareus said it was a collective noun which could be used of individuals, but in Genesis 3:15 it was set in opposition to the (collective) seed of the serpent. Second, Pareus noted that enmity against Satan pertains to all men; thus, he went on, the promise of victory pertained to all.36 In response to the first reason, Hunnius pointed out that even Pareus could cite instances of an individual use of "seed" (e.g., Genesis 4:25, Genesis 21:13). He added that it appeared to be a rule in the Scriptures that wherever "seed" clearly meant the Messiah it should be taken individually instead of collectively. He cited Genesis 22:18 (the promise contained there, he said, was repeated in Genesis 26 and 28), 2 Samuel 7:12-14, Galatians 3:16, 19, and Hebrews 2:16. Later in his treatment Hunnius defended the application of Galatians 3:16 to Genesis 3:15 at some length. The same Seed which had been the subject of the promise in the garden became the subject of the promise to Abraham. Both prophecies referred to great blessings which only God can provide. Against Pareus' initial suggestion that Galatians 3:16 did not deny that the seed was collective, Hunnius rhetorically asked why Paul should concede the collective meaning just when he was opposing the one to the many. And Paul was not talking about external blessings when he urged the unity of the Seed; rather, he was dealing with the promises of redemption, which was solely God's work.37 Sixteenth-Century Conflict 39 Against the idea that the "seed" of the serpent encompassed a group and therefore that the woman's seed should also have been collective, Hunnius again responded that the work of the latter (crushing the devil's head) could only be God's work. Since there is but one God, the Seed in question was the Seed of the woman, not the man. Yet if "seed" had been collective, males would necessarily have been involved. Hunnius turned to Pareus's second reason and declared that confusion of questions leads to fallacies. "For it is not asked whether the promise of victory over Satan ought to be extended to all ... but it is asked: Who is it who is about to give this victory? ... This one truly is Christ alone ..." Hunnius was pleading for a distinction between the work of redemption and its fruit. He reiterated this plea later, in response to Pareus' rhetorical question, "Does not the church crush Satan in Christ?" Since the predicate in Genesis 3:15 was limited- crushing the devil's head belonged exclusively to someone with divine power-the subject must likewise have been so limited, and the Seed of the woman must be Christ, not Chri~tians.~~ After answering Pareus' claims, Hunnius resumed his attack. According to Pareus, the Jews said the seed of the woman signified the human race, but not Christ. "The Jews do not draw this conclusion," Hunnius corrected. "The conclusion of their argument is that it [the seed] is not therefore only Christ. For the Jews do not doubt that the Christ ought to be of the human race."39 He also chided Pareus for his willingness to appeal to Galatians 3:16 against the Jews without simultaneously realizing that this passage dismantled his and Calvin's interpretation of "seed" in Genesis 3:15.40 Hunnius added that he was unimpressed with Calvin's partners in exegetical error, even if they included Chrysostom and Procopius. However, he said neither of them bore the same guilt as Calvin; they had not formally set forth Calvin's rule that "seed" must be collective, "nor do they accuse the Christian interpreters who take the 'seed' without controversy as Christ of 'violent distortion.'"41 Hunnius recognized that Pareus had his disagreements with Calvin, but they gave him little cause for celebration. In fact, he pressed his case against Pareus in much the same way as he had criticized Calvin in the first place. Again, the burden of his argument for the singular "Seed" rested on Galatians 40 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 3:16 and on the analogy of faith, namely, that only God can defeat the Two, if not three, underlying premises informed Hunnius' position: (1.) that it was inconceivable to proclaim the Gospel of victory over Satan without identifying the Victor over Satan; (2.) that this Gospel was the only message capable of uplifting people defeated by sin and the devil; and (3.) that to interpret verse 15 as a prophecy of the battle which people wage against the devil would have cast it as Law, not Gospel. Hunnius seems to have had the last consideration in mind when he objected to Calvin's (and Pareus') concluding claim that the church, too, crushed the devil's head. 111. The Conflict Assessed: Lutheran-Calvinist Differences A. The Number of Senses Calvin and Hunnius agreed that the protevangelium would have offered no real comfort to Adam and Eve if it had merely indicated that they would be able to step on snakes, but the inferences which the two sides drew from this realization differed vastly. To Calvin it suggested the existence of a second sense in which he should explain the passage; his champion Pareus even spoke explicitly of a mystical sense besides the literal sense. But Hunnius concluded that the genuine sense of the verse had to involve something other than men versus snakes. His presupposition, so obvious to him that it went unexpressed, was sensus literalis unus est. For a Lutheran like Hunnius, the Messianic sense of this passage was the "literal" sense, the one sense God intended in the prote~angelium.~~ B. The Con text Pareus established the number of "seed" from the context as he compared the seed of the woman with the seed of the serpent. He apparently found it difficult to believe that the passage meant the collective seed of the serpent should oppose a single Seed of the woman. Yet that was exactly what Hunnius (like Luther) said. While there would be symmetry in a prophecy about a battle between the collective seeds of the serpent and of the woman, the Lutherans felt no compulsion to preserve such symmetry for its own sake. They did not advocate an interpretation that "fit the context" at the expense of other considerations. Sixteenth-Century Conflict 41 C. Experience and Reason A related subject is the role of appeals to experience in Calvinistic exegesis. As they interpreted Genesis 3:15 both Calvin and Pareus explicitly reasoned on the basis of experience-the former to reach the "one Head," since all men obviously do not conquer Satan; and the latter to identify "all Eve's pious sons" as her seed, because it is apparent that hatred for the devil has spread to them all. Calvin and Pareus might have tried to establish these premises on the basis of Bible passages, but they did not. Even if they had, however, it is still important to note the ways in which they employed these items of information in their arguments. Calvin took the failure of the seed (all men) to defeat the devil as an opportunity to draw the New Testament concept of Christ's headship into his discussion of Genesis 3:15. Pareus, as noted previously, constructed a faulty syllogism from his insight. But in neither case was it clear, from the Lutheran viewpoint, that such reasoning was at all appropriate. Calvin mixed distinct biblical themes with the result that one mitigated the other. Pareus attempted to reason from effect to cause (namely, that since the elect of all ages have hated the devil, therefore they must be the seed described in Genesis 3:15) without a clear word that God willed that and only that effect. In this respect Lutheran-Calvinist exegetical differences on Genesis 3:15 parallel more celebrated controversies between the two groups, as in the case of Lutheran objections to the Calvinist use of experience and reason in discussions of predestination. 11. The Use of the New Testament If Hunnius appeared rather satisfied with his case concern- ing "seed," this was largely due to the authority on which he rested it. Important as all other factors might have been, the testimony of Galatians 3:16 settled the matter for him. Lutherans routinely regarded New Testament interpretations of Old Testament texts as correct and binding.44 Hunnius simply assumed this principle; he took pains to show that Galatians 3:16 genuinely applied to the woman's Seed as well as to the Seed of Abraham, but beyond that he maintained that the text spoke for itself. He did not dismiss Calvin's reference to Romans 16:20 because he objected to explaining Old Testament passages on the basis of the New Testament. 42 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY Rather, he observed that the verse said God would subdue Satan, not that the church would (as Calvin claimed). Since ~utherans recognized only one sense of the text, they held that the same meaning obtained in Old Testament times as in New Testament times. Luther and Hunnius were confident that Adam and Eve and their offspring, no less than they themselves, understood Genesis 3:15 as a description of the Messiah's person and work. On the Calvinist side nothing. quite compares with this attitude. Certainly, Calvin and Pareus were aware of Gala- tians 3:16, but they regarded it as, at most, one factor among many to be considered in expounding Genesis 3:15. In any case, it is not clear that Calvin thought the New Testament interpretation of an Old Testament passage was necessarily the only correct one.45 E. The Approach to the Old Testament Heinrich Bornkamm characterized Luther's approach to the Old Testament by saying that, while the reformer recognized the presence of many christological prophecies there, he also recognized the import of Old Testament history as such: "Thus even the events of Israelite history attained a significance for the believer; they were not just transparencies for a higher future e~ent."~Vo be sure, Luther regarded Genesis 3:15 as a direct Messianic prophecy. The point which can be made here, however, is that his exposition did not turn subsequent history into a "transparency," as the Calvinist approach was wont to do. For Luther, the protevangelium did not point to a general human fight with the devil as a picture of what Christ would eventually do, or even what He would do preeminently well. Rather, the passage foretold the decisive battle which God alone could win over Satan and which He would win in the Messiah. F. Doctrinal Implications The previous portions of this summary of Lutheran- Calvinist differences have been devoted mostly to hermeneut- ical issues. In this last part, however, we focus on a point with direct doctrinal significance: though Hunnius insisted that the battle against Satan in Genesis 3:15 could only be fought by the Messiah, Calvin and Pareus each held in his own way that the battle was also that of men against the devil. Thus, the Calvinists included the Law as part of the "first Gospel." Sixteenth-Century Conflict 43 Perhaps Pareus' disagreements with Calvin struck Hunnius as something of an improvement, but in the overall soteriology of Genesis 3:15 Hunnius held that the basic difficulty remained, even with Pareus. For Pareus still viewed the protevangelium as a mixture of Law and Gospel, while for the Lutherans it was pure Gospel. Here too we encounter a classic and characteristic difference between the two traditions: "Both acknowledge that the chief article of the Christian faith is the forgiveness of sins: the Lutherans consider it the whole content of the Gospel, while the Reformed consider it the principal content of the Conclusion It comes as no surprise that Lutherans and Calvinists tried to repristinate the views of the magisterial reformers also in exegesis. Though Pareus did not adhere to Calvin's view in the strict way that Hunnius repeated Luther, he refused to concede that there was anything doctrinally objectionable about Calvin's exposition. He reasserted the two aspects of it which Hunnius had singled out for attack. His willingness to defend Calvin while disagreeing with him over the "He" of 15c illustrates the Calvinistic opinion that there were many ways to walk the path. Given the polemic between Hunnius and Pareus, their allegiance to Luther and Calvin points further, to a less common conclusion: that the fundamental differences between these two conflicting schools of thought were rooted in their very beginnings. There never had been a unified Protestant approach to biblical interpretation. Historically, this observa- tion forms evidence against the idea of a great, originally or essentially united evangelical church. Dogmatically, it can help to explain how theologians with deep commitments to Scripture as the source of theology could set forth such disparate versions of the biblical message. 1. See Brian A. Gerrish, "The Pathfinder: John Calvin's Image of Martin Luther," The Old Protestantism and the New (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 31-32; 286-287, n. 53. Luther made these statements at table: "Sic Calvinus de re 44 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY sacramenta occultat suam sententiam. Sic sein irr und konnens nicht reden. Quia veritatis oratio simplex est," WATr 5, 51 (#5303); "Calvinus est vir doctus, sed valde suspectus de errore sacramentariorum," WATr 5,461 (#6050). See Gerrish, pp. 39, 41,46, et passim. Gerrish, p. 41. This is the RSV translation. LW 1,183,184 (WA 42,137,138). LW 1,190-92 (translation somewhat revised; WA 42,142-44). As late as 1520, in the Babylonian Captivity, Luther was willing to speak of the protevangelium as a prophecy of a woman who would crush the devil's head. See WA 6,514 (LW36, 39). LW 1,193 (WA 42,144). See LW 1,241-42 (WA 42,179) and LW 15, 319-23 ( WA 54, 71-75). LW1,194 (WA 42,145). I, W 1, 195-96 ( WA 42, 146). The American Edition footnote referring to Luther's use of the word "synecdoche" says, "in this (.itst., thr species is used for the genus" (LAW 1, 195, note 42). But this is thr opposite of 1,uther's point; the editor assumed that thr intended sense of "seed" in verse 15 is collective, and the f'igurativr aspect therefore consists in that the word can also dt.nott. an individual. Instead, Luther said the intended sense in this passage was individual. Note that Luther's position was reasserted in FC-SI), V:23. WA 46,19-20 (LW24,319), WA 50,653 (LW41,178); also see WA 43, 468 (LW5, 58). Corpus Reformatorum 51, 69-70; translated in John Calvin, Commentaries on the First Book of Moses called Genesis, volume 1, tr. by John King (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1948), pp. 167-68. King translation, pp. 168-70; CR 51. 70-71. King translation, pp. 170-71; CR 51,71. Regarding the church's victory over the devil, Calvin quoted Romans 16:20. See Aegidius Hunnius, Calvinus Judaizans, Opera Latina, Tomus Secundus (Frankfurt-am-Main: Impensis Iohan. Iacobi Porsij Bibliopolae, 1608), col. 636f. It is hard to determine which was the work where Pareus first tried to defend Calvin from Hunnius' Calvinus Judaizans. According to one source, it was Clypeus Veritatis Catholicae de Sacrosancta Trinita te (Realencyklopadie fur protestan tische Sixteenth-Century Conflict 45 Theologie und Kirche, s.v. "Pareus, David"), but it also could have been Calvinus Orthodoxus de Sacrosancta Trinitate: & de Aeterna Christi Divinitate. In neither case have I been able personally to consult the work in question; I have had to rely (with results quite sufficient for present purposes) on key Pareus quotations in Hunnius' later writings or on Pareus' Commen- tarius in Genesin, which includes a less polemically-charged summary of arguments against Hunnius and even mentions him by name. The commentary is in Pareus' Opera Theologica Exeg-etica, Pars Secunda, compiled by John Philip Pareus (Frankfurt: John Rose, 1647). Pareus, Commen tarius, p. 101. Aegidius Hunnius, Antipareus, Opera Latina, pp. 697,701. Hunnius, Calvinus Judaizans, col. 654. Ibid. Ibid., col. 655. Pareus, Commentarius, p. 102. Hunnius, Antipareus Alter, Opera Latina, col. 932. Hunnius, Calvinus Judaizans, col. 655. Ibid., col. 656. Pareus, Commentarius, p. 102. In Antipareus Alter Hunnius chided Pareus for being unable to make up his mind, since at one point he said the woman's seed was the human race; col. 937. Pareus, Commentarius, pp. 102-103. Ibid., p. 103. Again, Pareus was inconsistent. In his first response to Hunnius he ventured to say that Galatians 3:16 did not deny the collective nature of the "seed"; it simply meant that while many offspring might follow to Abraham according to the flesh, the promises were attached to only one, to Christ; see Antipareus Alter, col. 941. Pareus, Commentarius, p.104. Ibid. Unlike the Jews, Pareus contended, (1.) Calvin took the enmity of which verse 15 spoke to include that which exists between Satan and us; (2.) Calvin would indeed say more about Christ than he would say about a mere man; and (3.) Calvin affirmed that crushing the serpent's head was the victory of Christ over the devil. 46 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY Chrysostom's Homily 17 on Genesis is translated in Thomas P. Halton, et al., gen. eds., The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, 74 vols. (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1986), volume 74: St. John Chrysostom: Homilies on Genesis 1-1 7, tr. by Robert C. Hill, pp. 237-38. Procopius of Chza's Commentarii in Genesin is quoted in Tibertius Gallus, In terpreta tio Mariolog-ica Protoevangelii (Genesis 315) Tem- pore post Patristico usque ad Concilium Tridentinum (Rome, 1949). pp. 7-8. Pareus, Commentarius, p. 102; on Luther, see the text at note 14 above. Pareus, Commentarius, p. 104. Hunnius, An tipareus Alter, cols. 930-31. Ibid., col. 933. Hunnius, AntipareusAlter, cols. 933-34,941-42 (compare the text at note 35 above). Ibid., cols. 934,944,935. Ibid., cols. 935. Ibid., col. 936. Ibid., cols. 939-40. Hunnius found support for the claim that only God could defeat Satan in 1 John 3:8. Again he echoed Luther, who in 1527 commented thus on that passage: "Here you have the fulfillment of the first sermon of the gospel. The seed of the woman had to be born to destroy the works of the devil"; LW 30, 272 (WA 20, 705). Karl Holl said Luther broke new hermeneutical ground by not equating spiritual understanding of a text with an allegorical explanation of its meaning; "Luthers Bedeutung fur den Fortschritt der Auslegungskunst," Gesammelte Aufsa tze zur Kirchengeschich te, sixth ed., 3 vols. (Tiibingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1932), volume 1: Luther, p. 556-58. The Lutheran Confessions and the period of orthodoxy followed Luther's idea that the "literal" sense of a text was the native sense intended by the author, not necessarily a non-figurative sense. See Ralph A. Bohlmann, Principles of Biblical Interpretation in the Lutheran Confessions, second ed. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1983), pp. 86-87, and Robert D. Preus, The Theology of Post- Reformation Lutheranism (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1970), pp. 321-22, 326. This study of Genesis 3:15 shows that it is only partially correct to conclude, "In consonsance with Sixteenth-Century Conflict 47 the principle of the one sense of Scripture Calvin, like Luther, flatly denied the Catholic doctrine of multiple senses," as does Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), p. 119. 44. See Preus, pp. 333-35. 45. For example, Calvin indicated that the evangelists did not understand a figure in Psalm 22 and departed from the native sense as they applied it to the events surrounding the passion of Christ. See CR 75,416. 46. Heinrich Bornkamm, Luther and the Old Testament, tr. by Eric W. and Ruth C. Gritsch (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969), p. 259. 47. Herman Sasse, Here We Stand, tr. and rev. by Theodore G. Tappert (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938), p. 121 (emphasis original). The Law and Gospel issue should be raised whenever Calvinist hermeneutics are discussed, including Calvin's typology. To Calvin, a type was like a charcoal sketch while its antitype resembled a finished painting; he said the Law revealed the former while the Gospel revealed the latter. In this scheme, type and antitype can become a vehicle by which to confuse Law and Gospel, which according to Calvin only differ from one another in the clarity of their manifestation. See Lewalski, p. 119. Her entire fourth chapter is quite informative, but unfortunately it treats Luther only in his earlier exegesis. The Rev. Ken Schurb is pastor of Peace Lutheran Church, Berne, Indiana. 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2019 Forward First Collections Reviewed #1 – David Cain’s ‘Truth Street’
July 11, 2019 July 30, 2019 martyn crucefix contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, creative writing, New British Poetry, poetry, political poetry, writing Ales Adamovich, Charles Reznikoff, David Cain, David Duckenfield, Felix Dennis award, figurative language, Forward First Collections, Forward Poetry prize, Hillsborough Disaster, Isabel Galleymore, Jay Bernard, Norman Bettison, poetry of witness, Raymond Antrobus, Smokestack Books, Stephen Sexton, Svetlana Alexevich
As in the previous four years, I am posting – over the summer – my reviews of the 5 collections chosen for the Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for best First Collection. This year’s £5000 prize will be decided on Sunday 20th October 2019. Click on this link to access all 5 of my reviews of the 2018 shortlisted books (eventual winner Phoebe Power), here for my reviews of the 2017 shortlisted books (eventual winner Ocean Vuong), here for my reviews of the 2016 shortlisted books (eventual winner Tiphanie Yanique), here for my reviews of the 2015 shortlisted books (eventual winner Mona Arshi).
The full 2019 shortlist is:
Raymond Antrobus – The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins)
Jay Bernard – Surge (Chatto & Windus)
David Cain – Truth Street (Smokestack Books)
Isabel Galleymore – Significant Other (Carcanet)
Stephen Sexton – If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin Books)
David Cain’s first book confronts its readers with questions about how we might witness traumatic events, about truth (and its distortion by the authorities and the media), about the language and forms of poetry. On 15 April 1989, during the opening minutes of the FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool, 96 men, women and children died in what remains the most serious tragedy in UK sporting history: the Hillsborough Stadium disaster. Thousands more suffered physical injury and long-term psychological harm. For almost thirty years the survivors and the families of the dead had to campaign against the police, government and media who blamed the supporters for the tragedy. Eventually, in 2016 a second inquest ruled that the supporters were unlawfully killed due to failures of the police and ambulance services.
David Cain’s Hillsborough poem is dedicated to the 96 people who died and is wholly composed from testimonies heard at the inquest. Cain has said: “My ambition throughout has been for the work to listen to the resonances held in the collective memory of that fateful day, hear the poetry found in the hearts of the people who lived through this terrible experience, and try to weave these testimonies into a singular voice. Focusing on everyday life and language, grammar uncorrected, every line of the poem is drawn from over two hundred and sixty days of formal evidence.”
Cain also cites the work of Charles Reznikioff and Svetlana Alexievich as models. The former, an Objectivist poet, developed work from court records and explored the experiences of immigrants, black people and the urban and rural poor in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Testimony, 1965). He went on to use a similar technique in Holocaust (1975), based on court testimony about Nazi death camps during World War II. Similarly, Svetlana Alexievich’s books trace the emotional history of the Soviet and post-Soviet experience through carefully constructed collages of interviews. Her work owes much to the ideas of Belarusian writer, Ales Adamovich, who felt that the best way to describe the horrors of the 20th century was not by creating fiction but through recording the testimonies of witnesses.
The colloquial plainness of the language (for the most part) of the Hillsborough testimonial material is clear from the start as the scene is set:
There was men, women, children.
There was lots of families there.
They were very happy.
Lots of people eating chips, milling around.
Many of the pieces have this same staccato rhythm, often end-stopped and Cain always lays out the lines with double spacing between. This works well. It gives the sometimes bland and cliched language a bit of the white space of poetry, giving the reader extra time and I think what we do with that time is add in our knowledge of the testimonial nature of what we are reading. These are not ‘composed’ words in the usual sense (about which we might quibble) but witness statements. Here are other lines before the tragedy unfolds:
I sat there reading my programme, mooching about.
Watching the world go by.
It was all happy.
It was a nice sunny day.
It’s an established cliché of (Romantic) poetic theory that people tend to reach for/create figurative language under pressure of emotional experience and that such moments make for powerful writing. In Cain’s edited versions this is borne out on some occasions. As the swelling crowd gathers outside the stadium, people are already being crushed against walls:
I ended up face blank stuck against the brick wall
A bit like rubbing yourself against a piece of solid sandpaper.
horrible sharp
nothing nice or rounded or polished
In another piece, the crowds now funnelling into the ground through the opened exit gates are described as “like sand into an egg timer”. Moments later, another witness struggled to describe fans now pouring onto the already crowded terrace:
The scene reminded me of pictures on television in the nature programmes.
Molten lava
Molten lava flowing down a hillside from an active volcano.
like a wave.
In this latter case, what is moving is less the image itself but the evident struggle to find a fitting comparison. The testimonies here tend to reach for cliché rather than startling figurative language but it is in the nature of the witnessing act that these are still deeply moving accounts in our awareness of their truth. (How often have we been told as writers that our self-conscious wish for novelty or reaching after effect is damaging to our work).
As the men, women and children are suddenly crushed into the barriers by the press of fans behind, any thoughts we might be having about modes of expression evaporate. Unnamed voices bear witness to events. A son tries to protect his father being crushed against the railings, cradling him against the pressure. But a surge means his arms buckle, he’s twisted to one side, no longer able to shield his father: “That is the last time I had my father alive”. Another voice ends up in the small gym beneath the stadium which is being used as a make-shift sanctuary for the dead and injured. Also there is a young St John’s Ambulance volunteer, “A young lass, 14 or 15, longish blonde hair”. The poor girl, while in shock herself, is trying to help those around her and the narrative voice is equally full of compassion for the girl: “I just put my arm round her and said, // ‘You’re a kid. // You should not be seeing this.’”
As much as the horror of broken bones, suffocation and trampled bodies, it’s these powerful acts of compassion – the wish to protect, to help, to shelter others and, when people are found to be already dead, to show them some respect –which are built through the sequence. They are contrasted with witness accounts of the slow, insensitive, sometimes appalling responses of the authorities. Though there are a few reports of “Police and fans alike” trying to help, these are outweighed by incompetence, lack of training and worse. The fans being crushed in the caged areas ought to have been released, the gates onto the pitch opened, but:
We hadn’t any instructions.
We turned and we tried to find out who’s got a key.
We were saying to the sergeant,
‘Who’s got a key?
Who’s got a key?’
For critical minutes, police regarded the event as a pitch invasion. Fans kicking down pitch-side billboards to use as improvised stretchers were threatened with arrest for vandalism. Later, as families were being asked to identify the dead, they were pulled back from any physical contact with the bodies: “’Sorry, he’s the property of the coroner now. // You can’t touch him’”.
David Cain
While we probably feel for almost all those thrown into an utterly unprecedented situation – the poorly trained individual’s recourse to rigid protocols – Truth Street squarely blames the media and the higher ranks of police. The role of The Sun newspaper’s subsequent reporting is well known. One witness is haunted by the thought that his actions on the day – taking out a dead man’s wallet to lay it on him so that he can be identified – might have been misconstrued, or photographed, as him “looting the dead”. Later, the press pack burst into a room where relatives “are trying to find out what’s happening to [their] loved ones”. They want their scoop.
Equally shocking are the testimonies which show the police inquiry trying to establish a narrative of drunkenness and disorder amongst the fans. Even as a dead relative is identifying a body, “The very first question asked was what had I had to drink today”. Another statement-taking pursues the same line: “did I have owt to drink? // did I see any fighting? // did I see anybody drunk?” And as we now know, this line of inquiry, this cover-up, was sanctioned from the top. The section ‘Norman Bettison’ is an account given to the inquiry in which the then Chief Inspector admitted to being asked “to pull together the South Yorkshire Police evidence for the inquiry // and we’re going to try and concoct a story that all of the Liverpool fans were drunk”. This internal review group tried to control media coverage, producing a 30 minute film narrated by Bettison himself that was shown to MP’s, which reiterated the claims of drunk, violent and ticketless fans breaking down the turnstiles, causing the disaster.
In fact – as Cain’s sequence shows – what was being covered up was the original decision of Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield to open the exit gates at 2.47pm. One of his officers spoke to the inquiry: “I was quite shocked // It was totally unprecedented. // It was something you just didn’t do”. This was what caused the inflow of fans – “like sand into an egg timer”. Only at the second inquiry, did Duckenfield revise his earlier false statements: “I didn’t say, // ‘I have authorised the opening of the gates’”.
Cain’s book ends with a roll call of the dead, giving their names and ages. He titles it, ‘Hold your head up high’ and is a good a way of concluding as any. But, immensely moving though the sequence is, I’m left with the desire for more. Such is the nature of this form of testimonial or witness account – there can be no natural ending point to such traumatic events. This is also why the opening of Truth Street feels very awkward – a scene is being set in the way (fiction) writer’s do. Reznikoff’s Testimony eventually grew to 500 pages over two volumes. Cain’s powerful work has been cut to the standard size of a volume of poetry. But its power is undeniable; in reviving, memorialising and bearing witness to individual Hillsborough voices, this book is a unique contribution to contemporary British poetry.
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April 27, 2020 May 10, 2020 Max Frances
Scotched, On the Rocks
As I pour myself another Dettol on the rocks, I’m reflecting on where we go from here.
To be frank, it’s a toughie given that boofing a cocktail of methamphetamine, LSD, and ketamine wouldn’t have got us to a conceptualisation of the present milieu. There’s so much mayhem in the world right now that Kim Jong-Un has reportedly wrenched himself away from the Pearly Gates in order to have one last crack at it all.
The Prime Minister has now popped back to Number 10, and it was magnificent to see his Churchillian performance in which he said precisely nothing. Or at least that he wasn’t intending to vary the current roadmap, which he is not prepared to divulge. Or he is simply not prepared. It’s one of those.
As it stands, he does not wish to reveal our exit strategy from the lockdown, presumably because her wants to outwit the virus. You can almost see President Trump sagely nodding in approval. It is clever, after all.
And Boris is no intellectual slouch himself – though he did manage stretch Cicero in his quotation of ‘salus populi suprema lex esto‘ (‘the health of the people will be the highest law’) which has tested the patience of purists who have pointed out that ‘salus’ refers to political health and security. I guess they’ve not heard of poetic licence. And we’re all running somewhat low on our humour reserves at the moment.
Well, at least he managed to test patience as has indeed been promised, so we can chalk something up.
The charlatans of the popular press lunged forward to pull apart the Ciceronian repartee, but not to pull him up on his interpretation of ‘salus’ (they wouldn’t have spotted that, being marginally dimmer that a low-wattage lightbulb). No, they’d picked up on traits attributed to Cicero (as if they’d know) and let their own dishevelled moggy out of the bag by demonstrating that when you cut and paste from Wikipedia, you are at the mercy of an unqualified author as well as your own asininity.
All very ironically ultracrepidarian of them. They’d be better off following the noble (or is it Nobel?) Trump or joining me for a double Domestos and lime.
But back to Boris and his next steps. Apparently, continuing as we are will now consolidate our success in battling coronavirus. Wow, 21,000 people dead and a shafted economy with still no end in sight. You might remember one of the medical head honchos setting forth that limiting the death toll to under 20,000 would be a success. Looks like the bar has now been moved. Well. that’s post-fact UK for you.
If you include those checking out in homes, care establishments, and other institutions – not to mention those who died in hospital but who did not meet the Government’s reporting criteria for inclusion in the data – you can double that figure and then add some. It’s in the region of 45,000 tickets that have been punched.
Still, as they say, ‘One death is a tragedy. One million, a statistic’.
Once we re-open, and the furlough money stalls, watch how many businesses vamoose into the sinkhole. Substantial debt, plus a decreasing market, and a requirement to reach profit from a standing start.
I moreover fear for all those businesses who will have been dipping into that deferred VAT pot. Come the end of the year, that will have yielded a large and urgent debt. And we all know how little leeway HMRC accord when monies are owed. By 2021, it’ll be everyone for themselves and some very short memories.
If today’s tub-thumping told us little, yesterday’s daily debacle told us loads.
The triumphalist revelation that levels of shoplifting have been slashed reflected a desperate bandwagon jump for a government gagging for some positives. Most of the shops in the UK have of course been closed for the last six weeks.
I’m afraid that there won’t be any good news from this caper. Only bad, or worse news.
Same again please, landlord.
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On This Day In METAL History – June 18th… From JIMI HENDRIX To TREMONTI
Posted in classic rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, rock music with tags classic rock, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, metal odyssey, rock history on June 18, 2015 by Metal Odyssey
On June 18th, 1967 – The super legendary Jimi Hendrix with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, performs at the Monterey International Pop Festival. At the end of his performance, Jimi Hendrix set on fire his Fender Stratocaster; this would become one of the most iconic moments in Rock History. Whoa! A special thank you to Metal Buddy Jay, for the heads up on this one!
On June 18th, 1977 – Foreigner had their hit single, Feels Like The First Time, ranked at #4, on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. Holy macaroni! This hit single is featured on the debut and self-titled album from Foreigner, released in 1977.
On June 18th, 1988 – The great Van Halen had their hit single, Black And Blue, ranked at #34, on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. Yup. This hit single is featured on Van Halen’s eighth studio album from 1988: OU812.
On June 18th, 1988 – The fabulous Lita Ford had her hit single, Kiss Me Deadly, ranked at #12, on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. Hot damn! This hit single is featured on Lita Ford’s third and self-titled studio album from 1988.
On June 18th, 2015 – Cauterize, the second studio album from Mark Tremonti’s band, Tremonti, has debuted on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart at #40. Holy guacamole! Wolfgang Van Halen is the bassist on this album.
On June 18th, 2015 – Ozzy Osbourne’s Memoirs Of A Madman is ranked at #7, on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. This greatest hits collection was released back in the Fall of 2014. Long live Ozzy!!
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KEV MOORE Of WITCH CROSS – Reveals What Album He Cannot Live Without!
Posted in classic rock, classic rock albums, classic rock bands, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, Heavy Metal, Music, rock albums, rock music, rock music news with tags album you cannot live without, classic rock, Deep Purple, deep purple burn, hard rock albums, kev moore on July 22, 2013 by Metal Odyssey
Kev Moore
This post marks the first of (hopefully) many features that showcase musicians and the album they cannot live without. Every music lover has that one album they cannot live without! I would think, anyways! Metal be thy name.
The only parameters I’ve asked from each gracious participant is that they not choose an album of their own and they can answer in as many words as they would like. Our first participant is Kev Moore! Kev has a Rock ‘N Roll resume that is exceptional, is a multi-instrumentalist and is the lead vocalist/songwriter for the legendary Witch Cross.
Here’s Kev Moore’s album he cannot live without, in his own words:
Way back in the hazy days of the early 1970’s, barely a month went by without a band releasing an album of note. They were the times. Rock music was gaining momentum, approaching perhaps one of several peaks from a commercial standpoint, unknowingly about to crash and burn upon the rocks of insipid disco and punk, the latter ironically fuelling the NWOBHM and a whole new era. But as the 70’s dawned, the giants were already walking among us. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, releasing masterworks one after the other. As I look back through time’s kaleidoscope, I marvel at my good fortune to have been born into this era of Rock creativity.
But the album that I cannot live without, at the time, marked a sea-change, a huge gamble for the band concerned. It introduced a singer to the world that, up until that moment had sung only part-time, worked in a boutique in the Industrial north of England, and whose only publicity photo was one of him as a boy scout, which he duly sent to the group in question. It is to his eternal credit that he seized the opportunity given to him and never faltered when thrust into the limelight, and to the band’s credit that they recognised something in this raw, untested vocalist. This five piece supergroup were not just replacing their frontman however, they also needed a bassist. They were huge, and replacing two-fifths of the band was a decision not to be taken lightly.
The bassist they settled on, although having three albums and some American touring under his belt, was far from a household name himself however. But he was possessed of something else. One of the greatest voices in rock. When combined with his fluidity, his virtuosity, his feel, on the bass, it was an irresistible combination for me as a young 16 year-old drummer. The drums were gone. From that moment on, I was a bass playing vocalist. Something I still am, almost forty years later. This album – BURN by DEEP PURPLE and their bass player/singer GLENN HUGHES, changed my life forever, and it is therefore THE album I simply cannot live without.
Don’t get me wrong, Coverdale impressed me – as a twin vocal attack, no-one, but NO-ONE has ever come close. But Glenn’s soaring screaming harmonies, his soulful vocal sections, a magnificent counterpoint to The Cov’s Blues wail, coupled with his fluid, driving bass runs, stole my heart. “That”, I declared to an otherwise empty living room, “is what I want to do.” It is quite simply the reason I am a professional musician to this day, and I’m grateful that I’ve had the opportunity to meet Glenn on several occasions, the first of which gave me the chance to tell him so.
The album itself is a masterpiece. Comprising just 8 tracks, one of which is a fairly throwaway instrumental, it is still nevertheless one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Because the previous seven tracks just hit you over the head. There is no pause for breath. The title track is surely one of the openers of all-time. It absolutely takes no prisoners. the band is on fire – as if to say, “think we made a mistake? think again!” Both vocalists are magnificent, Paice is a drum solo all over the track, but never overshadowing it, Blackmore’s machine gun riff is unstoppable, Glenn’s bass weaves in and out with ease and the late Jon Lord sprinkles classical magic over the whole shebang. It is simply awesome. You barely have time to draw breath before the Vanilla-Fudge inspired riffage of ‘Might just take your life’ grabs you by the throat. Coverdale wails and moans, the whiplash crack of the snare, then Glenn’s bass is all over it. Coverdale owns the verse, Blackmore’s counterpoint guitar subtle…then Hughes’ harmonies lift us into the Chorus. It’s glorious stuff. Coverdale and Hughes bring a swagger and boogie to the band that wasn’t there before. Hughes then takes over vocals, wonderfully contrasting Cov, and the song soars because of it. Lordy fires up the Hammond, and we’re off…what’s not to love?
A honky-tonk piano drags us into “Lay Down, Stay Down”, Blackmore and Hughes doubling another classic riff while Coverdale and Hughes trade the vocal line by line. Other bands of the day must’ve hung their heads in despair when they heard these two big guns firing. Their vocals blend superbly on the choruses, greater than the sum of their parts. Paice is all over the track, jazz-influenced fills, the band is really swinging. Something all the best rock drummers can do. The tone of Ritchie’s guitar on the solo is to die for, no hundred notes a minute here, just an amazing SOUND. Then we’re into Side 1’s closer, ‘Sail Away’. Probably one of my favourite riffs of all time, it is funk-laden rock monster, with a deep-throated Coverdale setting the scene, the higher-octane Hughes taking it on to another level. the song is full of menace, it is superb stuff. Hughes’ bass pops and shimmies all over the chorus, he owns it. It should be illegal; for one guy to have this much talent. Thank God he conquered his demons and can still share it with us.
You could be forgiven for thinking they’d shot their bolt with a side one like that, but flip it over and you’re kicked in the teeth with ‘You Fool No-one’, perhaps one of the greatest duets you’ll hear this side of heaven, for that’s what it is. It might rocket along like freight train, propelled by Paice’s incredible rhythm track, but it’s still a duet. When Glenn sings “Gonna make you live to regret it!” you know you would sell your own Grandmother to sing like that.
“What’s Goin’ On Here” just exudes joy, you can hear a band on fire, long before the rot set in, revelling in their abilities. In a song full of star turns, Jon Lord’s glorious saloon bar piano is top of the bill in this one, I just break into a huge grin every time the solo kicks in. This is quintessential, good-time rock’n’roll.
The instrumental A200 aside, the closer for me is ‘Mistreated’. This is where Coverdale, from the grim industrial town of Middlesboro in the North of England, growing up in the shadow of local hero Paul Rodgers of Free, finally gets the appropriate showcase to sing his blues. And boy, does he sing them. This one of the great modern blues songs. Just think for a moment….to be surrounded by the likes of Blackmore, Lord and Paice, and one of the great vocalists in Hughes, how intimidating must it have been to deliver that song? He nailed his colours to the mast that day. The interplay between Blackmore’s guitar and Coverdale’s vocal is sublime.
Burn is an album I have played regularly, without fail, since the day I bought it back in ’74. I know every note, every nuance. It is in my DNA. It is the reason I am a working musician. It is a masterpiece, and hell no, I cannot live without it.
WITCH CROSS
* For more info on KEV MOORE: Moore: Music
* For more info on WITCH CROSS:
Facebook: Witch Cross
http://www.witchcross.dk
LONG LIVE KEV MOORE.
LONG LIVE WITCH CROSS.
LONG LIVE DEEP PURPLE.
TOKYO DRAGONS “Give Me The Fear” – This Hard Rockin’ Album From 2005 Is: Stone’s METAL Pick Of The Day!
Posted in classic rock, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, hard rock bands, Heavy Metal, Music, news, rock music, rock music news with tags classic rock, hard rock albums, rock music news, stone's metal pick of the day, tokyo dragons, tokyo dragons give me the fear on February 26, 2013 by Metal Odyssey
STONE’S METAL PICK OF THE DAY!
TOKYO DRAGONS – They came from London, England. They played in-your-face, denim and leather wrapped, good-times Hard Rock. Their debut album Give Me The Fear was released back in 2005, via Escapi Music. This band certainly packed 100% Heavy Rockin’ potency and Give Me The Fear is 100% proof, to my middle-aged and Metal scorched ears. Tokyo Dragons was their name and how I wish they were still in the Hard Rock game!
Apparently, Tokyo Dragons is no longer a band. From what I’ve read, Tokyo Dragons disbanded back in 2008; just after releasing their sophomore album Hot Nuts. With no official website or facebook page existing for this band, the alternative source for information is reading about their career biography on Wikipedia. Now that’s an unfortunate thing.
What I do know is what I hear and Give Me The Fear is an amazing experience of Hard Rock bliss upon my senses! This debut from Tokyo Dragons could have easily been titled: Psyche-You-Out-Of-Your-Hard-Rockin’-Party-Lovin’ Mind! ALL 11 songs on Give Me The Fear are high-octane and pedal to the metal! This is an album that can be enjoyed by both Classic Rock and Hard Rock fans alike; with the 80’s Heavy Metal crowd undoubtedly included!
There’s so many memorable riffs and hooks on Give Me The Fear that it’s flat-out insane! Guitar driven to the maximum and lead vocalist/guitarist Steve Lomax sounds like a seasoned superstar of the Hard Rock world. To me, Tokyo Dragons were (very likely) feeling and sharing some legitimate Hard Rockin’ chemistry as a band, when they recorded their debut; it’s such a damn shame they’re no longer around.
I landed Give Me The Fear on CD this past weekend; finding a used copy at a store called Buybacks Entertainment. For $2.99, I couldn’t have spent my money any wiser! Due to Give Me The Fear, I’ve been transported from being unfamiliar with Tokyo Dragons to being a fan of their heavy music. Tokyo Dragons played some blue-collar, kick-ass Hard Rock. ‘Nuff said.
In my most honest opinion, Tokyo Dragons wasn’t any copycat band. Fans of AC/DC to Cheap Trick (with Helix, Fastway and Motörhead fans in-between) can all find something to savor from Give Me The Fear. I know I’m savoring every moment, each and every time I listen to this album. Now if only Tokyo Dragons would reunite… that would be Hard Rock news to celebrate. Metal be thy name.
Give Me The Fear – Track Listing:
What The Hell
Get ‘Em Off
Do You Wanna?
Come On Baby
Johnny Don’t Wanna Ride
Teenage Screamers
Burn On
Rockin’ The Stew
Chasing The Night
TOKYO DRAGONS:
Steve Lomax – lead vocals & guitar
Phil Martini – drums & vocals
Mal Bruk – guitar & vocals
Ade Easily – bass guitar
* In the liner notes of Give Me The Fear, it reads: “Tokyo Dragons welcome aboard Mathias Stady on Bass Guitar.”
LONG LIVE THE HARD ROCKIN’ LEGACY OF TOKYO DRAGONS.
Heavy Rockin’ Blasts From The Past: Paul Stanley, Covered Call and Thunder – 3 Albums You Must Know About!
Posted in classic rock, classic rock albums, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, Heavy Metal, Music, rock albums, rock music, rock music news with tags classic rock news, hard rock albums, heavy metal news, Paul Stanley, rock music news, scott coverdale, southern rock albums on January 2, 2013 by Metal Odyssey
ROCKIN’
BLASTS FROM
THE PAST!
Metal Odyssey’s Scott Coverdale Reports:
Here are three Pre 2012 Albums you should check out! Throughout 2012 I was fortunate to get my hands on lots of great music both new and old. Listed below are 3 standout albums that eluded me during their original year of release. For all the Hard Rock/Metal fans out there, do yourself a favor and treat yourself to some truly great music!!
Paul Stanley – One Live Kiss
This live album from Paul Stanley came out in 2008. I have to admit, that I’ve never been a big KISS fan. There are many of their songs that I do like, only I’ve always felt that they’re a bit over the top as a band. Anyway, a few months ago I was curious to hear how Destroyer (Resurrected) was going to sound. When I typed KISS onto my iTunes account, all the KISS albums displayed and this Paul Stanley album caught my eye. I sampled a few tunes and thought it wasn’t half bad. I did a little research and discovered that this Live album is only available on iTunes or DVD. I made the purchase! Man O’ Man, does this album Rock!!! It’s a great mix of Classic KISS and solo Paul Stanley.
Covered Call – Money Never Sleeps
Money Never Sleeps came out in 2009. Just like the Paul Stanley album, I stumbled upon this Covered Call album on iTunes and gave it a sample. I really liked what I heard and bought it! When I listen to Money Never Sleeps, many of the songs remind me a lot of the good ones Bon Jovi put out in the 80’s and 90’s. My favorite songs are, Til’ the End, Nothing at All and What about Us.
Thunder – Robert Johnson’s Tombstone
Robert Johnson’s Tombstone came out in 2006. I really dig this album, it’s (kind of) a Southern Hard Rock album recorded by a band that doesn’t get enough credit here in the States. If you like the Jammin that Southern Rock offers you won’t be disappointed with the song Don’t Wanna Talk about Love, which is probably my favorite song on Robert Johnson’s Tombstone.
In my humble opinion, if you’re looking to spend a few Christmas dollars on yourself this new year, any one of these albums surely won’t disappoint!
* For more info on the bands listed above, click on the links below!
Paul Stanley: http://www.paulstanley.com
Covered Call: www.coveredcall.se
Thunder: http://www.thunderonline.com
COVERDALE.
‘Re-Machined A Tribute To Deep Purple’s Machine Head’ – Album Releases On September 25th!
Posted in classic rock, classic rock albums, classic rock bands, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, Heavy Metal, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags classic rock, Deep Purple, hard rock albums, heavy metal news, machine head 4oth anniversary, re-machined, rock music news on September 9, 2012 by Metal Odyssey
Superstar-filled tribute to one of the greatest Classic Rock albums of all time! Available on CD September 25!
2012 is the 40th anniversary of the release of Deep Purple’s landmark album Machine Head. In recognition of Deep Purple’s influence, and that of the “Machine Head” album in particular, some of rock music’s biggest names have each contributed a version of their favorite track on the album to create “Re-Machined – A Tribute To Deep Purple’s Machine Head”.
1) Smoke On The Water – Carlos Santana & Jacoby Shaddix
2) Highway Star – Chickenfoot
3) Maybe I’m A Leo – Glenn Hughes & Chad Smith
4) Pictures Of Home – Black Label Society
5) Never Before – Kings Of Chaos (Joe Elliott, Steve Stevens, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum)
6) Smoke On The Water – Flaming Lips
7) Lazy – Jimmy Barnes with Joe Bonamassa
8) Space Truckin’ – Iron Maiden
9) When A Blind Man Cries – Metallica
10.) Highway Star – Glenn Hughes, Steve Vai, Chad Smith, Lachlan Doley
Check out the making of Re-Machined on our YouTube page!
Pre-order the CD now!
Stone Says: What a grand album and band, in all the history of Rock ‘N Roll! Re-Machined certainly is a celebration of an iconic band, album and Heavy Rock sound! Machine Head is an album that shall forever live on for generations! Metal be thy name.
If you’d like to read my piece on Deep Purple’s Machine Head, click on the link below!
DEEP PURPLE – “MACHINE HEAD” A Once In A Lifetime Hard Rock Album
(Source: Eagle Rock Entertainment)
SOUNDGARDEN ‘Down On The Upside’ – This Album Stood By Me, During A Lonely Print Sales Career
Posted in classic rock, grunge, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, Music, rock albums, rock music, rock music news with tags chris cornell, classic rock, down on the upside, grunge, hard rock albums, rock music news, soundgarden on August 23, 2012 by Metal Odyssey
SOUNDGARDEN – The fifth studio album and platinum selling Down On The Upside was released back in November of 1996, via A&M Records. Already super fond of Soundgarden, I bought this album (on cassette) back in 1996 and still own it to this day. Last weekend I finally upgraded my ownership of Down On The Upside to CD. I bought it at Super Walmart for $5 (U.S.). Whoa! What took me so long to upgrade this Soundgarden classic? I can’t even answer that question myself. File that question in Stone’s mystery folder and carry on my wayward son.
Back in 1996 I was a traveling printing salesman. Yes, you read that correctly. I need to correct that, I was a traveling printing salesman whore. Why use the word whore? Well, my customers treated me like shit regardless of my stellar customer service; while the various owners I worked for only gave a shit about my contacts and how much money they were worth. As a printing salesman, my self-image was at an all-time low; existing for the sole purpose to make someone else a ton of money, while making corporate print buyers look like winners of the week.
Why have I brought up this part of my past, in the middle of a very cool Soundgarden post? The reason is simple. Down On The Upside got me through (at least) three years of a profession that drained my spirit, while driving around all of New England. I’m serious about that. That Soundgarden cassette was my best friend on many, many lonely drives while being a white-collar punching bag.
I remember once, a jack-ass V.P. of my biggest client bellowing aloud, as I entered the room: “here come’s just another slimy salesman.” What an asshole that guy was. A genuine narcistic scum bag. Nice greeting to start my day, with a customer I essentially sacrificed my soul for. That dumb ass had an “I’m an ABBA fan” written all over his face every time I saw him as well.
I remember leaving the building of that customer, on that God forsaken day, shaking my head in disgust. Once I started up my Ford Contour, I slapped in my Down On The Upside cassette and cranked up Pretty Noose… then Rhinosaur… then Zero Chance… and Soundgarden had me snickering all the way down the overstuffed highway to hell… or next disloyal customer, if you will.
Believe me, there were many other cassettes in my Contour while I served time as a printing salesman. Too many bands and titles to mention. It’s just that this Soundgarden album kept me afloat and had me realizing that it was Rock ‘N Roll that poured through my veins and soul… and not some stupid ass print-sales career. Whatever Soundgarden did with tweaking their musical nuances on Down On The Upside, they did it with a mystical wand.
From the very first time I heard Soundgarden, I recognized an attitude in their sound that beckoned me to become a fan. Is it Chris Cornell’s vocals? Can it be Kim Thayil’s guitar tones? The totality of Soundgarden’s sound is so unique, I never could even classify them as a “Grunge only” band. Hell no. There’s no question that Soundgarden did originate from the birth place of Grunge and pioneered an entirely new Rock movement. At the end of my Metal day, this band has and always will kick my ass with their hard and heavy Rock style and that’s all that matters to me.
It feels F’n grand to get this (silly) part of my life off of my chest today. No matter how I slice it, I can relate segments and experiences of my life to Rock ‘N Roll… and how it has and will forever save my Rockin’ soul. Thank you Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron. Metal be thy name.
* For more info on SOUNDGARDEN, click on the links below!
http://www.soundgardenworld.com
LONG LIVE SOUNDGARDEN.
JACKYL “Best In Show” – FUN Has Returned To Hard Rock Once Again, Courtesy Of JACKYL!
Posted in Hard Rock, hard rock albums, Heavy Metal, Music, rock and roll, rock music, rock music news, southern rock with tags best in show album review, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, heavy metal news, jackyl, jackyl best in show, southern rock on August 3, 2012 by Metal Odyssey
JACKYL – On July 31st, 2012, Georgia’s very own JACKYL released their 7th studio album, Best In Show, via MIGHTY LOUD / Fontana Distribution. Jesse James Dupree and his band have once again put the FUN back into Hard Rock. JACKYL’s southern fried attitude and flavor reigns supreme on Best In Show and I honestly LOVE this album more than their 2010 studio album: When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide. (And I really appreciated that last album from this band too).
The songs lyrics on Best In Show are FUN to listen to and I couldn’t expect any less from JACKYL. Couple this with a total impact of ass kicking Hard Rock and Best In Show has already earned its reservation on Metal Odyssey’s “Best Hard Rock Albums Of 2012” list. JACKYL has recorded an album that is a 100% escape from my (silly) worries over bills, warm beer, a crappy economy and lousy service at any McDonalds drive-thru window. Whoa.
Top to bottom and side to side, Best In Show is a SOLID reason as to why JACKYL is still around after 20 years playing Heavy Rock ‘N Roll; the kind of Rock ‘N Roll to piss off your elitist neighbors that have never waved to you. I ran into my elder Metalhead hermit buddy, up in the remote woods of North/Central Pennsylvania late yesterday. He told me: “Stone, they just don’t make ’em like that JACKYL band anymore… All-American and blue-collar Hard Rock never surrenders.” I commented back to him: “Metal be thy name, you are so F’n right.”
My favorite song among favorite songs on Best In Show is: Golden Spookytooth. The thumpin’ and stompin’ Rock ‘N Roll that JACKYL plays is as refreshing to my ears, as a pot of home-made mashed potatoes is to my stomach. Down-home Hard Rock is JACKYL and they’ve brought it in heaping piles with Best In Show. Their cover version of Cover Of The Rolling Stone is damn cool stuff. (This song was originally recorded and made famous by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show).
Better Than Chicken is a KEEPER of a song. Metal as my witness, this song has erased any dumb-ass and downer mood I could potentially be in for the next couple of years. Sample this new JACKYL online, seek-it-out and BUY IT! That’s it. This JACKYL review is over now. I gotta go and run some F’n errands while I crank up Best In Show in the car… and nuthin’ will get under my skin cause JACKYL has set me Rockin’ straight… again.
* There is a hidden 12th track. A Cover of It’s Tricky by RUN-D.M.C. It’s a cool good-times, party till dawn sing-a-long song; 1part Rap, 1 part Rock ‘N Roll. I dig it. As Lenny Wolf of Kingdom Come would say: “It is what it is.”
JACKYL:
Jesse James Dupree – vocals & guitar
Roman Glick – bass
Jeff Worley – guitar
Chris Worley – drums
BEST IN SHOW – Track Listing:
Encore (It Makes My Bic Dig Her)
Horns Up
Golden Spookytooth
Cover Of The Rolling Stone
Walk My Mile
Favorite Sin
Better Than Chicken
Don’t Lay Down On Me
* For more info on JACKYL, click on the link below!
http://www.jackyl.com
LONG LIVE JACKYL.
WINCHESTER REBELS “Private Angel” – Stone’s Metal Pick Of The Day!
Posted in Hard Rock, hard rock albums, hard rock bands, Music, rock albums, rock music, rock music news with tags hard rock albums, hard rock bands, private angel, rock music news, three sheets to the wind, winchester rebels on July 21, 2012 by Metal Odyssey
WINCHESTER REBELS – They’re from Santa Barbara, California. They play memorably cool Hard Rock and are as relevant as the F’n oxygen we’re all breathing in today. In other words, Winchester Rebels are one credibly talented band to catch onto. They’re song Private Angel is Stone’s Metal Pick Of The Day. Metal be thy name.
Private Angel is a slick and Hard Rockin’ song from Winchester Rebels’s debut album Three Sheets To The Wind. Give a listen to Private Angel below… crank it up LOUD for maximum Hard Rockin’ and psyche-you-out vibes!
WINCHESTER REBELS:
Nick Hunt – vocals
Nick Fitzgerald – guitar
James Longoria – guitar
John Livergood – bass
Barry Carter – drums
Buy Winchester Rebels debut album “Three Sheets To The Wind”
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/three-sheets-to-the-wind/id471258639
* Three Sheets To The Wind was released on October 13th, 2011.
* For more info on WINCHESTER REBELS, click on the links below!
http://www.reverbnation.com/winchesterre…
http://twitter.com/#!/WinchesterRebel
http://www.youtube.com/user/winchesterre…
http://www.myspace.com/winchesterrebels
LONG LIVE WINCHESTER REBELS.
Some “Comeback Albums” Should Go Back Home; While Others Are Welcome To Stay
Posted in classic rock, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, Heavy Metal, heavy metal albums, heavy metal news, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags black 'n blue, classic rock, comeback albums, hard rock albums, heavy metal albums 2012, heavy metal news, rock music news, sledge leather on May 21, 2012 by Metal Odyssey
Dud Exhibit A: Sledge Leather – Imagine Me Alive
Let’s face it, not every band that hibernates for a number of years (or decades) is going to have a successful comeback. (I’ll get back to this momentarily). I have written numerous album reviews that involve successful comebacks. At least I think they were successful. Trixter and Mr. Big have both released above amazing comeback albums, in my Metal opinion. Tyketto really surprised and psyched the living daylights out of me, with their new (and memorable) comeback album: Dig In Deep.
My open letter to any past successful band and/or musician thinking about recording a comeback album includes some realistic thought. With the Rock, Hard Rock and Metal markets saturated with bands of all generations, all vying for the same money and audiences; many very good new album releases do get lost in the shuffle, regardless if they kick ass. Therefore, a “comeback album” has to consist of unreal quality music with unreal memorable songs. Using smoke and mirrors while resting on laurels doesn’t work anymore. Period. Without quality songs and non-rusted musicianship, any comeback album will fall flat on its face.
Dud Exhibit B: Black ‘n Blue – Hell Yeah!
A once famous “name” isn’t a guarantee of fortune and fame. Lita Ford found that out back in 2009 with her comeback studio “effort” called: Wicked Wonderland. The once popular 80’s Hard Rock band Black ‘n Blue released a mammoth dud with their comeback album from 2011: Hell Yeah! Whoa, it’s a dud. Here in 2012, we have Sledge Leather making a magical comeback. Their new album, Imagine Me Alive, is not that good. As a matter of fact, it sounds like it was slapped together in 3 or less days. Structurally, the songs on Imagine Me Alive lost me and It’s all a complete mess.
I will be the first to admit, in recent years, with the 80’s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal resurgence, many old school bands have Rocked my face off with their comeback albums. Hello KISS and Whitesnake. Then you have the Doobie Brothers and Iron Claw releasing albums of 100% Rockin’substance; both of their comeback albums I still can’t get enough of. Anthrax released an unbelievably grand comeback album with Worship Music; plus they play unquestionably kick-ass live today as they did during the 80’s.
Not all comeback albums are pretty and yet many are gems. Sample songs on the internet and read a few album reviews before you make a comeback album purchase. Metal be thy name.
LONG LIVE GRAND COMEBACK ALBUMS.
Aerosmith – Permanent Vacation: Released 24 Years Ago Today, August 18th, 1987
Posted in classic rock, classic rock albums, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, metal odyssey, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags 1987, aerosmith, classic rock, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, Heavy Metal, metal odyssey, permanent vacation, rock music news on August 18, 2011 by Metal Odyssey
AEROSMITH – Back on August 18, 1987, Aerosmith had their ninth studio album, Permanent Vacation, release on Geffen Records. That was 24 years ago my fellow Rockaholics. Where were you 24 years ago? Were you born yet? Were you lost in the farthest region of the Amazon Rain Forest? Maybe you were like me, sleeping until noon everyday and partying until six in the morning. I couldn’t live like that now! Hell, as that ultra-classic Aerosmith song goes: Dream On.
Despite whatever you may have been doing, wherever that may have been, this Aerosmith album made quite the Hard Rock impact on MTV and FM radio back in 1987. I can recall seeing the music video for Dude (Looks Like A Lady) for the first time, all those years ago. I was semi-interested. It’s not a bad song, still it’s not Mama Kin either. I remember vividly the teary eyed ballad Angel being played on every FM Rock station every five minutes back then too. (Or so it seemed). Yuck.
Rag Doll. Once this song first hit my eardrums I was grimacing. I couldn’t figure out how Aerosmith could go from Sweet Emotion to sweet annoyance so swiftly. Yuck again. Hangman Jury is no better either. Overall, this is my least favorite Aerosmith album from their unquestionably legendary discography. Sure, Permanent Vacation has sold multi-million copies worldwide since it’s release date. Mainstream appeal back in 1987 resulted in overexposure, which equates to the masses wanting to run out and buy, just as it happens now in the Rock music world.
Heart’s Done Time, Magic Touch and Permanent Vacation are three songs on this album that I truly like. So all is not lost when it comes to Permanent Vacation being my least favorite Aerosmith album. I’ve always adored the heavier and harder sound that Aerosmith was and is so famous for. Would I recommend this album to a buddy? Nope. I would say buy the digital songs that you like individually instead.
Two years later, in 1989, Aerosmith released their tenth studio album Pump. I always gravitated toward Pump, really digging that album to this day. One thing is for certain, Aerosmith did catapult themselves into the Rock n’ Roll stratosphere with Permanent Vacation. Trust me, I will forever be an Aerosmith fan, nothing beats the classics this band churned out during those influential 70’s. When it comes to Permanent Vacation, I was and still am one of those fans who just wasn’t buying into the fast food approach that this album represented towards the song.
Aerosmith:
Steven Tyler – vocals, piano, harmonica
Joe Perry – lead guitar
Brad Whitford – rhythm guitar
Tom Hamilton – bass
Joey Kramer – drums, percussion
* Permanent Vacation was produced by Bruce Fairbairn.
Permanent Vacation – Track Listing:
Heart’s Done Time
Simoriah
Dude (Looks Like A Lady)
Hangman Jury
Girl Keeps Coming Apart
I’m Down
* For more info on Aerosmith, click on the link below:
AEROSMITH – Official Website
LONG LIVE AEROSMITH.
FOOLS FOR ROWAN – Twisted. Tied Up. Tangled: Steady Rockin’, Alternative and Absolutely Can’t Miss!
Posted in alternative rock, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, melodic rock, metal odyssey, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags alternative rock, erin mullins, fools for rowan, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, heavy music, melodic rock, metal odyssey, modern rock, rock albums, rock music news, twisted tied up tangled album on June 6, 2011 by Metal Odyssey
FOOLS FOR ROWAN – They’re hip. They’re now. They’re Steady Rockin’ and Alternative. They’re a Modern Rock band that will eventually be more famous than they could ever probably imagine. They’re: FOOLS FOR ROWAN. Let me say this, this band isn’t foolin’ around with their contagious and legit Alternative-Rock meets Hard Rock sound and style. Originating from the grand and Rock historical city of Nashville, Tennessee, this five piece is commercially accessible while still bestowing a blue-collar appeal. Fools For Rowan released their debut album Twisted. Tied Up. Tangled back in 2009, via Lava Lamp Records and it is a can’t miss of it’s genre.
It’s very difficult for me to not be impressed by the vocals of Erin Mullins, she is a show stealer. Erin’s range is head turning and she comes across as so damn natural that it’s scary. Nothing sounds forced as I listen to Erin sing on this entire album. Just a true vocal talent is she. Not to overlook the rest of this band that makes Fools For Rowan sound so inventively Rockin’, this young group of musicians sound as if they’ve been together for a decade.
As I listen to Twisted. Tied Up. Tangled, I hear a vocalist and band that doesn’t seem to hold nuthin’ back. When Fools For Rowan are playing full-tilt with Tangled, Burnt Around the Edges and Living Dangerously, they’re high octane energy to let it all Rock is infectious. Metal be thy name. There are ballads on this album and they showcase Erin’s provocative crooning skills, she could probably make a pissed-off copperhead snake transform into vapors… yeah, she’s that good. No and Dead are two well written ballads that don’t light up the sappy meter, both fit right into the diverse Rockin’ mix I hear on Twisted. Tied Up. Tangled.
If forced to choose my favorite song from this album, then that song is: It’s Alright. I cannot help being reminded of the legendary Joan Jett as I listen to Erin Mullins vocals on this Rockin’ and boppin, free groovin’ strewn song. Rachel Brandsness on lead guitar and Ryan Harrison Nanney on rhythm guitar both dish out some creative licks that are guaranteed not to go unnoticed. A refreshing Rock sound and originality sure does go a long way, Fools For Rowan have both qualities.
Fools For Rowan have created quite an impressive sound, incorporating Rock and Hard Rock with a blend of Alternative stylings. Rock fans who want to catch onto a band that is rising faster than a thermostat in the deep South, in the middle of July, should take notice here. I sincerely look forward to witnessing Fools For Rowan continue their climb on the ladder of Rock ‘n’ Roll success.
* Take a look and listen to Burnt Around the Edges below:
FOOLS FOR ROWAN:
Erin Mullins – vocals
Rachel Brandsness – lead guitar
Ryan Harrison Nanney – rhythm guitar
Aaron Elliott – bass
Jordan Cullen – drums
Twisted. Tied Up. Tangled – Track Listing:
Burnt Around the Edges
Take Me Down
Light Me Up
I Don’t Have the Strength
Isn’t It Enough
Burnt – Remix
* For more info on FOOLS FOR ROWAN, click on the links below:
FOOLS FOR ROWAN – Official Website
FOOLS FOR ROWAN – Official facebook Fan page
LONG LIVE FOOLS FOR ROWAN.
CAVO “BRIGHT NIGHTS DARK DAYS” – ROCKS HARD WITH A MODERN EDGE
Posted in hard rock albums, hard rock bands, hard rock music, hard rock songs, heavy metal music, metal odyssey, Music, Rock, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music, rock music news with tags bright nights dark days album review, cavo hard rock band, cavo my little secret song, cavo rock band, current hard rock music, hard rock albums, hard rock bands, hard rock bands 2010, hard rock music, hard rock songs, melodic rock bands, melodic rock music, metal odyssey, modern rock music, Music, rock album reviews, rock music on July 7, 2010 by Metal Odyssey
CAVO – Upon listening to the opening track, Champagne, one would be lent to believe CAVO is going to blast through Bright Nights Dark Days with reckless Hard Rock abandon. Um, wrong. CAVO does electrify with Champagne, this song is one to play at maximum potential and has all the ingredients to “pump-up” the party. This is the chart topping single that has catapulted CAVO into the Rock stratosphere of popular music, which also appeared on their 2008 EP aptly titled – Champagne. Only this is a band that delves deeper into an all around Modern Rock sound, allowing some thick maturity to seep forth from their music and lyrics. Bright Nights Dark Days is a thorough listen into what a Rock band can accomplish, when song writing and lyrics are looked upon conscientiously.
It’s always a grand achievement when a Rock band can show their different levels of Hard and Heavy sound, while not coming across as being too darn diversified for their own liking. CAVO has assembled 11 songs on their major label debut album that sincerely gives them a true Rock identity. I like to steer away from the Post-Grunge label that has been given to CAVO here and there… I’d rather label CAVO as a Rock/Hard Rock Band that mingles with a flare for Modern sound. In a sophisticated way. To simplify things, CAVO Rocks.
CAVO is not the second coming of CREED, nor are they a commercial/bubble gum ready band for the Nickelodeon Network. CAVO is already carving out their very own Rock legacy only one year in since their major record label debut. This band has grasped that fine balance between Rock’s mainstream accessibility and Hard Rock hallelujah, while making their songs sound and feel like the now. CAVO has obviously tasted and experienced quite a bit of success since this album has been released, with another huge hit – Let It Go being included on the soundtrack for – Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. Let It Go is a powerful song, with it’s total Rock vibe and memorable chorus, I can understand why this song was picked for a blockbuster movie soundtrack.
I hear a genuine emotion that resonates from the vocals of Casey Walker. Casey Walker never comes across as pre-fabricated when he sings on this album, he comes across as really feeling the song’s respective musical and lyrical message. Cry Wolf and Ghost are two excellent examples of what I mean. Ghost is as personal a song can be lyrically and Casey Walker has a natural born talent to convey some moving emotion through his vocals. One listen to My Little Secret and it is quite clear as to how inspiring this lead vocalist sounds, taking a ballad that could have been turned into sappy city and instead Casey Walker makes this song a riveting listen.
Musically, CAVO comes across loud and clear as being one Rock solid unit. This is not a band that was born overnight, almost a decade in the making is CAVO. With numerous new Rock and Hard Rock Bands evolving within the last several years, it’s the bands that make quality songs and albums that stand out to my ears. CAVO should appeal to fans of Creed, of course, yet fans of Nickelback, Papa Roach, Pop Evil, Daughtry and even Saliva, (to name a few), should easily embrace their Rock & Hard Rock sound and songs. CAVO seems to be off to an incredible start with Bright Nights Dark Days, I honestly look forward to what this band delivers in the future.
* For more info on CAVO, you can freely click on the links below!
CAVO – MySpace Music Page
CAVO – Official Website
* Bright Nights Dark Days was released on August 11, 2009, on Reprise Records.
CAVO Are:
Casey Walker – vocals
Chris Hobbs – guitars
Brian Smith – bass
Chad LaRoy – drums
Track Listing For CAVO – Bright Nights Dark Days:
My Little Secret
We All Fall Down
Over Again
* Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen soundtrack was released on June 23, 2009 on Reprise Records. Let It Go by CAVO is track #3 on this soundtrack.
BONHAM – “THE DISREGARD OF TIMEKEEPING” FROM 1989 REVISITED!
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BONHAM – It was sometime in 1989, I was a student in College and the debut album from Bonham was released, The Disregard Of Timekeeping. I first heard of this album courtesy of some FM radio station that played the single – Wait For You. (Note: The 2:09 intro – The Disregard Of Timekeeping is a track in and of itself, yet it belongs attached as a necessary segue to Wait For You). Upon hearing both this psyched up intro and Wait For You, I knew I extremely needed to buy this Bonham album. I picked up The Disregard Of Timekeeping as a CD in ’89 and have never grown tired of it since.
I never listened to the overpaid and supposed professional Rock Music critics who took cranky shots at Bonham and this album. Man, have I grown tired of hearing the same old criticisms about Bonham… one being that they were a Led Zeppelin rip off band and secondly, that drummer Jason Bonham could never be like his legendary father, the late John Bonham from the ultra iconic Led Zeppelin. Many of the criticisms I have read over the years about Bonham were/are not only unnecessary, they are just plain cruel. I knew back then, as I know now, that I will listen to what moves me and makes my Metal & Hard Rock soul happy. Metal be thy name.
WARNING: The following paragraph may be deemed too sentimental for some hardcore Metal and Hard Rock fans. Regardless, music is also about emotion and it can affect your life and invoke great Metal memories.
Going back to Wait For You, this song was THE song for my girlfriend and I, back when I was at College. It was OUR song! That girlfriend, well, she is now my unreal great wife. We still listen to this song together and make some flirty glances at each other while it Rocks on. (Sorry for the sappiness, sometimes it happens here on Metal Odyssey).
Playing To Win is another Hard Rockin’, Heavy Hittin’ and riveting song that plays out at 6:55, not long enough in my Metal opinion. I simply cannot find one trace of Led Zeppelin copycat in this song… that must really piss off those old and constipated professional Rock music critics. Guilty is as steadfast and hard drivin’ of a Hard Rock song as they come. Very melodic, very memorable and uh, very great is this song. Cross Me And See plays out better than many of the Hard Rock songs that are currently supposed to be “great” in 2010… and this is a deep album cut. Look out… I can almost hear those pissed off professional Rock critics, from days gone by, screaming with their dentures falling out after that last sentence!
Bonham jumped on board that 1980’s Hard & Heavy train and took my ears and memories along for the ride. Again, any Led Zeppelin comparisons are just a waste of time for me. How many young bands are out there today, that sound like Motley Crue or Nickelback? There are hordes aplenty! Comparisons and influences can never be avoided, when it comes to any Rock & Roll discussion.
I will forever listen to this Bonham album and be a better Metalhead for it. Um, HardRockHead for it. This is as legitimate a Hard Rock album, as it is a commercial Heavy Metal album, in my Metal opinion. Jason Bonham can take a Metal bow for having created this band when he did. As the ol’ Metal saying goes… let the music do the talking. The Disregard Of Timekeeping does just that, only it roars with a genuine Hard Rock and mainstream Heavy Metal sound that evokes positive emotion… for me.
Back on March 16, 2008, Daniel MacMaster, the lead vocalist for Bonham passed away, at age 39. When I first heard of this sad news then, I thought to myself… too damned young, a tragic loss. The passing of Daniel MacMaster leaves a void to the world of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. Daniel MacMaster’s voice can forever be enjoyed by fans of the past, present and future, through the music he has left us all. I know I am one of those fans.
BONHAM, as they appeared on The Disregard Of Timekeeping:
Daniel MacMaster – lead vocals
Jason Bonham – drums, percussion
Ian Hatton – lead & rhythm guitars
John Smithson – bass, keyboards, violin
LONG LIVE THE MUSIC OF BONHAM!
Rest In Peace, Daniel MacMaster.
CHARM CITY DEVILS “LET’S ROCK-N-ROLL” VIDEO… IT ROCKS!
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CHARM CITY DEVILS – This Hard Rock Band from the “Charm City” of Baltimore, Maryland caught my Metal attention last Summer of 2009. Their debut album – Let’s Rock-N-Roll was released on May 26, 2009. I have continued to listen to this album, quite regularly, since I bought it last Summer. Charm City Devils delivers American Hard Rock the Old School way… with foot stomping rhythms and melodic moments aplenty, Lets Rock-N-Roll is an album that flows along like a kickin’ keg party that ends too fast. There’s nothing ultra fancy about the Hard Rock Music of Charm City Devils… just blue collar and Hard Rock N’ Roll!
I blabbed about how much I like this album from Charm City Devils, with many more details, on October 18, 2009. There are those certain bands, that I just need to remind the world about more often, on Metal Odyssey. Charm City Devils is definitely one of those bands. Check out my past post on them, if you like, by clicking the header below:
Charm City Devils “Let’s Rock-N-Roll” – A Charming Hard Rock Album
I checked out Charm City Devils, last night, (Friday night), at the Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with Ryo Vie from The Rock and Roll Guru by my Metal side. Simply put, Charm City Devils ROCKED. I’ll have a few more cool details about this Charm City Devils concert, in the coming week… the headlining band that came out after Charm City Devils, well, they kicked some serious Metal butt! Stay tuned!
I hope you enjoy this Let’s Rock-N-Roll video and song from Charm City Devils as much as I do!
Now… crank this mutha up LOUD and Let’s Rock-N-Roll!!!
METAL ODYSSEY’S TOP TEN HARD ROCK ALBUMS OF 2009
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Welcome to Metal Odyssey’s 1st Annual Top Ten Hard Rock Albums list! This list is for Hard Rock albums released in 2009. These albums are my favorites that I listened to most consistently this past year, while hearing the best in overall musicianship and songs. For sure there are Hard Rock albums released in 2009 that I have passed over, (time and money plays a factor). *Please note the links throughout this list, navigating you to a more detailed review, that I have written for past Metal Odyssey posts during 2009, regarding the respective album.
#10 – CHICKENFOOT – CHICKENFOOT
The more I listened to this Supergroup lineup of Sammy Hagar (lead vocals), Joe Satriani, (lead guitar), Michael Anthony, (bass guitar) and Chad Smith, (drums), the more it dawned on me… I was probably more star struck at the initial release of this album, (June 5, 2009), than I am in December, 2009. Don’t get me wrong, I really, really like Chickenfoot. This album takes me back to the late ’80’s Hard Rock vibe of Van Hagar, uh, Van Halen, plus the songs remind me of good time Summer days. For me not to have these guys in my Top Ten of Hard Rock Albums for 2009 – would be an insult to myself. This Chickenfoot album I will without question, listen to time and again… especially during the Summer months. For more stuff I wrote about Chickenfoot on May 1, 2009, click on the heading below:
Watch out Metal & Hard Rock fans – Chickenfoot is coming!
#9 – MADINA LAKE – ATTICS TO EDEN
Yeah, sure, there is some slight Pop in the music of Madina Lake, with an overlying style of Alternative Rock, still… the hard edge heard inside the inner linings of the songs, on Attics To Eden, is what still lures me in. Madina Lake convinced me, that they give a damn about song writing and lyrics, not caving in to being too hard or too soft at the same time. Call me corny, Madina Lake created one heck of an inspiring album, with Attics To Eden. My detailed review I posted on August 13, 2009, can be yours by clicking you know where – below:
MADINA LAKE – “Attics to Eden” is an Alternative Rock detour to take
#8 – PAPA ROACH – METAMORPHOSIS
Jacoby Shaddix makes this album so appreciable for me, with his vocals not overpowering the band, instead they distinguish the individual songs heard on Metamorphosis. Papa Roach is not a band trying to be something they are not… instead Papa Roach mixes Rock styles into a menagerie of hard and at times, heavy songs on this album. Papa Roach may have given a nod to some decades old, retrospective melodic heaviness, yet still kept the relevancy factor at full throttle. O.k., I’m guilty of calling the most accessible song on Metamorphosis my favorite… Lifeline more than rivets me, it lifts my spirits high. I posted just how much this album thrilled me, on April 7, 2009… click below to see what I blabbed.
Papa Roach “Metamorphosis” – leave your stress behind!
#7 – DOMMIN – EP
Sure, this is just an EP from DOMMIN, subsequently titled – EP, nonetheless, it had such an impact on me that it made my Top Ten Hard Rock Album List. Kristofer Dommin has quite the vocals and can write some catchy, moody and dark songs. There are four songs on EP, in my Metal opinion they are dynamite. I am really looking forward to the complete studio album from DOMMIN, Love Is Gone, to be released on February 10, 2009. On October 19, 2009, I let everyone in the world know, just how thrilled I am about EP… check out what I ranted and raved about by clicking below:
DOMMIN – “E.P.” Has Me Hooked
#6 – FOREIGNER – CAN’T SLOW DOWN
The album title for this 2009 version of Foreigner is extremely fitting for founding member Mick Jones. Kudos to Mick for not slowing down at all. The Foreigner brand and band is at the top of their Hard Rock game musically, making an album that should not only catapult this current Foreigner lineup but spotlight the Hard Rock history of this band as well. Foreigner has been a mainstay band for me since the late 1970’s, following my heart is not what I am doing here… this is a very good album. Kelly Hansen fits right in with Foreigner, he even sings the bands classics like they were intended for him. I could never compare him to Lou Gramm, there forever will only be one Lou Gramm. It doesn’t hurt that Jeff Pilson is the bass guitarist with Foreigner either. I definitely recommend this album, Foreigner 2009 is not an anomaly, they are for real… just as they ever were.
#5- WOLFMOTHER – COSMIC EGG
Yes, I am a Wolfmother believer, one who could not wait for them to release their sophomore album. Cosmic Egg is NOT a carbon copy of the debut Wolfmother album, instead the songs take on a more melodic and streamlined sound. There is definitely MORE happening on this second album from Wolfmother, with song structure and production seeming to take on a prominent role. The songs on Cosmic Egg sound beefier than that of it’s predecessor. Wolfmother carries on with their psychedelic whomp on Cosmic Egg, carrying over the Old School riffs and chops that remind me of the early to mid 1970’s Hard Rock world. I may never know for sure, if there are those Old School Hard Rock influences coming into play with Wolfmother, regardless, this album never ceases to send sensory shock waves of heavy glee through me, with each listen. Simply, a super all around Hard Rock album.
#4 – THE MARS VOLTA – OCTAHEDRON
Call it my insatiable appetite for Progressive Music… Progressive Hard Rock 101 = The Mars Volta. There are layers and whirlwinds of musical innuendo to be heard on Octahedron. Could anyone familiar with The Mars Volta have expected anything substandard? Never. It will most likely take me another fifty listens to this album, to finally come close in hearing every piece of music, that radiates from within it’s unreal great core. The Mars Volta could go into a time machine and make relevant Rock and Roll, Rock or Hard Rock in any of the past six decades. Octahedron is not math Rock… it is genius and Progressive Hard Rock. The Mars Volta have done their homework in Progressive Rock history and appreciation, now I am forever appreciating this band and Octahedron. Oh, yeah, I did praise The Mars Volta up and down, on July 7, 2009. Just do a quick click below to read what I mean:
The Mars Volta “Octahedron” – A Progressive Hard Rock mind pill
#3 – CHEAP TRICK – THE LATEST
Cheap Trick. I became a lifelong fan of this band a long time ago, in a very expensive state called Connecticut, far, far, away. The album opener Sleep Forever is what grabbed me emotionally from the onset, a somber intro/prelude to a Cheap Trick bevy of Rock and Roll delight. Cheap Trick has maintained their elite status in the history of Rock Music… for me and I’m convinced many others as well. The Latest is just that – the latest great blend of Rock and Hard Rock Music from a band that DESERVES TO BE IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME. On July 26, 2009, I was blogging away as to how enormously great this new Cheap Trick album is… lookie below and click away to read it!
Cheap Trick “The Latest” is their latest great album
#2 – CKY – CARVER CITY
During the early half of 2009, I found it easy to slap the Metal label on CKY. Then, upon my listening to Carver City on numerous occasions, I decided this band is in fact, a Hard Rock Band to my ears. I never professed to be a music genre genius… just a music genre blabber. Yes, CKY can and has proven the excellent ability to play very, very, heavy, (Old Carver’s Bones, for example), yet songs such as A #1 Roller Rager and The Era Of An End solidifies my belief as CKY being Hard Rock. Carver City is as muscular with great songs and invitingly macabre as any album I could possibly wish for. I willingly became a CKY fan in 2009, prompted by this unreal great album. I really laid it on thick as to why CKY and Carver City made me so ecstatic… yes I did… on May 21, 2009 and if you want to, check out the details I blabbed by… uh, huh… clicking the heading below.
CKY “Carver City” is diverse, macabre Metal at it’s finest
Here is the front cover to CKY – CARVER CITY… spooky scene there, one of my favorite covers of 2009.
Here is the back cover of CKY – CARVER CITY… again, very spooky, this stuff I can’t get enough of.
#1 – LYNYRD SKYNYRD – GOD & GUNS
Upon my very first listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd – God & Guns, I realized I was listening to something very special. An American Rock Music icon… survivors, Southern Rock legends… Lynyrd Skynyrd. When choosing a #1 album, for me, it is all about total song quality. ALL 12 songs are a journey into a world of Southern Hard Rock musicianship at it’s upmost finest. Yes, this album does dabble in Country Rock with Unwrite That Song and That Ain’t My America… and why shouldn’t Lynyrd Skynyrd go in that direction if they so choose? This great band is deserving of creating any damn song they want, they have earned it. Trust me, this is an album that will be appreciated by skeptics and critics more for it’s total sum than it’s parts… ten, maybe twenty years from now. The Hard Rock parts are all there to be heard, with Southern Rock and Country Rock roots swirled into the mix. God & Guns is patriotic and I am proud to be an American. Long live Lynyrd Skynyrd. Metal Odyssey applauds this band for creating God & Guns.
Don’t hesitate to read my fully detailed review on God & Guns, I bellowed through my blog just how much this album means to me on October 2, 2009:
LYNYRD SKYNYRD – “GOD & GUNS” IS ALREADY A SOUTHERN ROCK CLASSIC
Thank you for visiting Metal Odyssey and checking out my Top Ten Hard Rock Album List for 2009!
*Be sure to also check out these fellow Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Music blogs for their Best Of Lists for 2009, they are fabulous blogs all… believe me, it is worth the time, plus it’s darn good fun:
Heavy Metal Addiction — http://heavymetaladdiction.com/
All Metal Resource — http://allmetalresource.com/
Bring Back Glam — http://bringbackglam.squarespace.com/
Hair Metal Mansion — http://hairbangersradio.ning.com/
Hard Rock Hideout — http://hardrockhideout.com/
Heavy Metal Time Machine — http://metalmark.blogspot.com/
Imagine Echoes — http://www.imagineechoes.com/
Layla’s Classic Rock — http://laylasclassicrock.blogspot.com/
Metal Excess — http://metalexcess.com/
The Metal Minute — http://rayvanhornjr.blogspot.com/
Rock Of Ages — http://rockofages.wordpress.com/
The Ripple Effect — http://www.ripplemusic.blogspot.com/
Where Have You Gone, UGLY KID JOE? Come Back!
Posted in classic rock, Hard Rock, hard rock bands, Heavy Metal, heavy metal news, metal music, metal odyssey, rock music, rock music news with tags classic rock, Hard Rock, hard rock albums, Heavy Metal, heavy metal albums, Metal News, ugly kid joe on September 22, 2009 by Metal Odyssey
Back in October of 1991, Ugly Kid Joe released their debut EP – As Ugly As They Wanna Be. 1991 was a year smack in the middle of the Grunge Music invasion… Ugly Kid Joe didn’t seem to care in the least. The mix of Hard Rock, Funk Metal and Heavy Metal had me more than interested in Ugly Kid Joe, I bought As Ugly As They Wanna Be and it served me right – back in 1991. Parodies aside, I could care less about what the titles of Ugly Kid Joe’s albums were making fun of… it was the funky heavy grooves of their songs that mattered most to me. Everything About You was a song that sounded unlike anything I was into back then, (Thrash, Death, Speed and mainstream Heavy Metal was what I was used to). When I first heard Everything About You, the first bands that came to mind that I was familiar with, in the Funk Metal genre, was Living Colour and Anthrax when they did I‘m The Man. White Zombie for certain had some Funk happening in their Metal back then too, yet this Ugly Kid Joe was not the dark side of heavy Funk either. This band was not as flamboyant as Faith No More, there seemed to be more of a street level accessibility to Ugly Kid Joe back in 1991-92.
Ugly Kid Joe made the funk in their heavy come out and smack me offside the head. Metal Music be my saving grace, I became hooked by Ugly Kid Joe, both by their music and persona. 1991 and 1992 were turning points with Metal Music, so many great Metal Bands were still around and largely ignored by the mainstream media… Ugly Kid Joe busted onto the scene and was very hard to ignore, in my Metal opinion.
Obviously the freshness of Ugly Kid Joe caught on with MTV and FM radio, it had to. Ugly As They Wanna Be and America’s Least Wanted (from 1992), both sold over 2 million copies each, this Ugly Kid Joe sound really caught on, an undisputed Metal fact indeed. Ugly Kid Joe was not just about putting the funk into Heavy Metal, no sir. Their cover version of the legendary Black Sabbath’s classic Sweet Leaf exemplified their fondness for the heavier side, all the while paying tribute to their Heavy Metal influences. Ugly Kid Joe was not the refined and glamorous Hair Metal Band nor were they an extremely pissed off Extreme Metal Band. This was a band that was not even in the middle for they were so unique.
What Ugly Kid Joe brought to the masses was a mixture of Heavy Metal genres, almost as if they grabbed ahold of the very best of what these genres possessed and intertwined them all into their very own sound. To the best of my Metal memory, Ugly Kid Joe was not a copy cat band and no other Heavy Metal Band followed after, that sounded like Ugly Kid Joe either. (Maybe there was, I just never heard of them and they never lasted very long).
In 1992, I bought America’s Least Wanted and could not have been happier about it. Listening to Ugly Kid Joe cover the late Harry Chapin classic Cat’s In The Cradle only solidified the diverse musical nature of this band. I was astonished as a Metalhead back in 1992… here is Ugly Kid Joe, covering songs from Black Sabbath to Harry Chapin. Cool. I had bought a Harry Chapin greatest hits album in the late ’80’s, (keeping it a secret amongst my Metalhead buddies), yet Ugly Kid Joe made it known to the Metal world they dug Harry Chapin – I realized then that music is one big connected family.
I really look back on the first two Ugly Kid Joe albums with the utmost Metal fondness, this band was different, a Heavy Metal band that was fun without ever displaying any artificial pose to their music or appearance. Menace To Sobriety was released in 1995, followed by Motel California… I gave both albums their justified listens and due, yet I still uphold the first two Ugly Kid Joe albums as their finest moments.
The Metal bottom line is this, with all of the revivals going on in the Heavy Metal genres, especially with reunions and reunion tours, it would be cool to once again see and hear Ugly Kid Joe. It is not my intent to say that Ugly Kid Joe was the best thing since light beer, rather they were a cool band to choose from the Heavy Metal buffet… and still are. So many bands from the 1980’s and 1990’s are huge again, making albums and touring… Ugly Kid Joe would most likely be quite the hit with this new generation of kids that are just getting into Hard Rock and/or Heavy Metal. The Ugly Kid Joe look and sound is all around, as I meander around in public, (especially the Malls) in 2009. This now vintage band would fit right in today… what once was old is new again – yet this is only my Metal opinion… and I am sticking to it.
Ugly Kid Joe:
WHITFIELD CRANE — vocals
KLAUS EICHSTADT — guitar
DAVE FORTMAN — guitar
CORDELL CROCKETT — bass
SHANNON LARKIN — drums
Seether – “Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces” is awe inspiring Hard Rock
Posted in Album Review, cool album covers, current hard rock albums, current hard rock music, current hard rock songs, essential hard rock albums, essential rock albums, Hard Rock, hard rock album review, hard rock albums 2007, hard rock drummers, hard rock guitarists, hard rock music 2007, hard rock music this decade, hard rock songs, hard rock vocalists, Music, Rock, rock album reviews, rock music, rock music vocals, rock vocalists, seether rock band, Vocals with tags Album Review, current hard rock albums, current hard rock music, dale stewart bass guitarist, finding beauty in negative spaces album, hard rock album review, hard rock albums, hard rock music, john humphrey drummer, Music, Reviews, Rock, rock music, seether, seether 2007, seether hard rock albums, seether hard rock band, seether rock band, shaun morgan vocalist on July 3, 2009 by Metal Odyssey
Seether is a Hard Rock band that does not need any plastic Hollywood music awards to be told they are damn great. The fans know. The music of Seether tells the whole story… of just how sensational Hard Rock songs are written. “Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces” is an album that should be a required musical manual for any up and coming Hard Rock band. Seether has proven to me, that lyrics are very, very, important in Heavy Music. Shaun Morgan, in my Metal opinion, encompasses many musical gifts… his vocals, guitar skills and the song writing that leaves me in awe. Lyrically, this is one of the best albums I have ever listened to in my lifetime. Couple these tremendously inspiring lyrics with Hard Rock music that is maximized by it’s hardness and mesmerizing grooves, well, you have yourself an instant classic. Shaun Morgan for me, is a vocalist that I listen to so intently, that the music at times becomes a backdrop. (This is by no means, an insult, it is just that Shaun Morgan’s vocals are so searing, they take hold of my attention and leave me zoned out on his voice and lyrics). I have to listen to Seether and say to myself, o.k., I am going to pay more attention to the music this time around, when I do it is like a double dose of Hard Rock music and Hard Rock vocal exhilaration.
“Rise Above This” is a song that has hit me in such a right way. I lost my sister four years ago, man do I miss her. Since this song came into my life, well, It just seems to say exactly how I feel about missing her. My sister left to go to heaven at age 43, there was way too much more that I wanted to do with her and say to her. I never had a chance to say goodbye to her, this is my song that encourages me it is alright. I am ecstatic that there is a band like Seether and a vocalist/lyricist like Shaun Morgan that can combine Hard Rock with real lyrics recognizing true humanity. “No Jesus Christ” is probably the heaviest song on this album, it basically calls a deceitful person out, a song that just about anyone who is not a backstabbing, evil entity, can relate to. “Fake It” is the single greatest song to commemorate all of the scum bag, plastic people of this world, who cannot find their own identity and try their best to be nothing but despicable chameleons. I raise my fist and say hooray to Seether and Shaun Morgan for knowing that crappy people make great subject matter for Hard Rock songs! “Six Gun Quota” is a song about self inflicted destruction – of both body and soul. This song rocks, despite the honest to goodness gray subject matter.
The popularity and record sales of Seether are for a measurable reason. This band connects to me, it is only logical Seether connects to an unknown many others. Fans of Seether already know this, yet I need to tell new, prospective fans, that “Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces” is not your run of the mill Hard Rock album written with the premise to just party hard and pick up chicks. The music found here is of substance and quality Hard Rock, it is also story telling that mixes in a menagerie of human emotions and trials.
Seether as they appear on “Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces”: Shaun Morgan on guitar & lead vocals, Dale Stewart on bass guitar & backing vocals and John Humphrey on drums.
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Clinical features and outcomes in spontaneous intracranial hypotension: A survey of 90 consecutive patients
E. Mea, L. Chiapparini, M. Savoiardo, A. Franzini, G. Bussone, M. Leone
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico "C. Besta"
Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is a rare disabling condition whose main clinical manifestation is orthostatic headache. We analysed clinical characteristics in relation to time to resolution in 90 consecutive patients diagnosed with SIH at our centre between 1993 and 2006. After excluding 7 patients lost to follow-up, the remaining 83 cases were divided into four groups: Group A (53 cases) with progressively worsening orthostatic headache; Group B (3 cases) with severe acute-onset orthostatic headache; Group C (9 cases) with fluctuating non-continuous headache, of mild severity, that, in 33% of cases, did not worsen on standing; Group D (18 cases), 5 with a previous history of headache, 14 with orthostatic headache, and 10 with altered neurological examination. Complete symptoms and neuroradiological resolution occurred during follow-up in Groups A, B and D, but was longer in Group D probably in relation to more severe clinical picture with altered neurological examination. However, after a mean of 52 months (range 24-108), none of the nine Group C patients had MRI indicating complete resolution. The main characteristic of Group C related to incomplete resolution was delayed diagnosis. These preliminary findings suggest that early diagnosis of SIH correlates with better outcome, further suggesting that patients with a new headache that may worsen on standing or sitting should undergo MRI with contrast to expedite a possible SIH diagnosis, even if the pain is relatively mild.
Neurological Sciences
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Mea, E., Chiapparini, L., Savoiardo, M., Franzini, A., Bussone, G., & Leone, M. (2009). Clinical features and outcomes in spontaneous intracranial hypotension: A survey of 90 consecutive patients. Neurological Sciences, 30(SUPPL. 1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-009-0060-8
Clinical features and outcomes in spontaneous intracranial hypotension : A survey of 90 consecutive patients. / Mea, E.; Chiapparini, L.; Savoiardo, M.; Franzini, A.; Bussone, G.; Leone, M.
In: Neurological Sciences, Vol. 30, No. SUPPL. 1, 2009.
Mea, E, Chiapparini, L, Savoiardo, M, Franzini, A, Bussone, G & Leone, M 2009, 'Clinical features and outcomes in spontaneous intracranial hypotension: A survey of 90 consecutive patients', Neurological Sciences, vol. 30, no. SUPPL. 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-009-0060-8
Mea E, Chiapparini L, Savoiardo M, Franzini A, Bussone G, Leone M. Clinical features and outcomes in spontaneous intracranial hypotension: A survey of 90 consecutive patients. Neurological Sciences. 2009;30(SUPPL. 1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-009-0060-8
Mea, E. ; Chiapparini, L. ; Savoiardo, M. ; Franzini, A. ; Bussone, G. ; Leone, M. / Clinical features and outcomes in spontaneous intracranial hypotension : A survey of 90 consecutive patients. In: Neurological Sciences. 2009 ; Vol. 30, No. SUPPL. 1.
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Carrier IQ: Your phone's secret recording device
By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech December 1, 2011: 6:28 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Carrier IQ is a piece of software installed on millions of mobile phones that logs everything their users do, from what websites they browse to what their text messages say.
No, it's not part of some great Orwellian plot; it's a diagnostic tool that carriers say plays a crucial role in helping them assess and troubleshoot their networks. But the recording app, which flew under the radar for years until security researchers drew attention to it recently, is setting off red-alert privacy and security alarms.
It's also spotlighting how little customers -- and, sometimes, the carriers and manufacturers themselves -- know about what goes on under the hood of their data-stuffed mobile devices.
Reports about Carrier IQ's hair-raisingly detailed tracking capabilities began swirling in the tech press several months ago and gained steam after Android developer Trevor Eckhart posted an analysis of the software's data logs.
But on Monday, Eckhart followed up with a 17-minute YouTube video showing how the software secretly runs on his HTC EVO 3D Android phone and logs every key press, every text, and the full URL of every website he visits. It recorded that data even from websites that use security encryption designed to prevent that kind of tracking.
Then word began spreading about just how ubiquitous Carrier IQ's software is. It's on an estimated 150 million mobile devices.
AT&T (T, Fortune 500) and Sprint (S, Fortune 500) confirmed to CNNMoney that handsets on their networks run Carrier IQ's software and transmit information from it back to them. T-Mobile, which was not immediately prepared to comment, also uses Carrier IQ to monitor devices on its network, researchers say.
Verizon Wireless (VZ, Fortune 500) says it doesn't use Carrier IQ's software. It also claims that it doesn't run anything similar, though Verizon's rivals all disputed that, insisting that modern networks can't operate without these kinds of diagnostic tools.
Researchers have found the software on multiple devices running Google's (GOOG, Fortune 500) Android operating system.
Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) also confirmed Thursday to CNNMoney that the software is running on some of its mobile devices, but the company says it stopped supporting it in the latest version of iOS and will completely eliminate Carrier IQ from all iPhones and iPads in an upcoming software update.
What the logging tool does: Carrier IQ -- and several of its major customers -- say its software is being misunderstood.
Carrier IQ says the core purpose of its tool is to uncover broad trends across a network. Its software can help carriers find out where calls are dropping and why, and zero in on device glitches. If a specific handset line from HTC, say, has a battery life problem, Carrier IQ's software will help surface the problem.
Sprint, for example, said it uses Carrier IQ to root out network problems.
"We collect enough information to understand the customer experience with devices on our network and how to address any connection problems," Sprint said in a prepared statement. "We do not and cannot look at the contents of messages, photos, videos, etc., using this tool. The information collected is not sold and we don't provide a direct feed of this data to anyone outside of Sprint."
But as Eckhart's video and other security investigations have illustrated, Carrier IQ is logging a shockingly extensive cache of data.
In response, Carrier IQ issued a statement saying that it doesn't "record," meaning it doesn't actually transmit to the carriers or anyone else, most of the information it stores on phones.
It's a technical but meaningful distinction. Sprint and AT&T said that they do not and cannot collect the kinds of detailed information that the Carrier IQ software tracks on the phone.
Independent security analyst Dan Rosenberg has studied Carrier IQ's software and several wireless providers' user of it. As he puts it: "People need to recognize that there's a big difference between recording events like keystrokes ... and actually collecting, storing, and transmitting this data to carriers, which doesn't happen."
He added: "After reverse engineering Carrier IQ myself, I have seen no evidence that they are collecting anything more than what they've publicly claimed: anonymized metrics data."
Still, he didn't let Carrier IQ off the hook completely. There are significant privacy concerns -- which both Carrier IQ and its customers seem to have overlooked -- associated with having a big chunk of personal data stashed on your phone.
Rosenberg called that software design approach "pretty bad."
Christopher Soghoian, a cyberprivacy researcher and fellow at human rights organization Open Society, echoed that view.
"Carrier IQ doesn't seem as nefarious as incompetent, but that may not be enough to allay the legitimate concerns of the public," he said. "There would be huge issues if this data were transmitted to a carrier, but even if not, it presents huge concerns. This would be a gold mine for a hacker."
Soghoian thinks that Carrier IQ has far more access and stores much more information on phones than it should.
Yet users are essentially powerless to stop it. The software is so buried in the device's operating system that the average consumer can't possibly delete it, and doing so would void the phone's warranty.
"It's not reviewed by Google's security team, it's not audited, it may not get regular security updates, and you really don't want one app to have all that information," Soghoian noted.
Google insisted that Carrier IQ is installed at the manufacturer and carrier level. A company spokesman said it had no involvement with the software's appearance on its Android devices.
One thing is clear: This mess isn't over. What began as a wonky technical issue is becoming the subject of widespread public scrutiny.
Senator Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, fired off a letter to Carrier IQ on Thursday demanding answers. Franken said he is "very concerned" by reports that the software "is logging and may be transmitting extraordinarily sensitive information."
He's far from the only one with those concerns.
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Movies That Made Us: Se7en
Commentary, Movies That Made Us
Nick Rogers April 1, 2018 June 26, 2020
To be published only if and when the moods and movies strike us, Movies That Made Us is an occasional look at films that led us all here and still make us wonder about where we’ve yet to go.
Editor’s Note: Nick Rogers originally wrote this piece in January but is publishing it to coincide with the new availability of Se7en on Netflix. Are his Christmas decorations still up? That’s for you to decide. After all, it is supposed to snow today.
It’s impossible for me to dissociate my feelings about Se7en from the first time I experienced it — barely 16, alone, on a rainy and chilly September night after driving to the Lindo Theatre in Freeport, Illinois. So I won’t even try.
They had only three auditoriums in this town of about 25,000, and although Se7en was a wide release, I was amazed I didn’t have to drive 60 miles to see it (as I was perfectly willing to do). I had seen the perfunctory trailers rattling off the seven deadly sins in a rapid-fire scroll. I liked Brad Pitt. I enjoyed Morgan Freeman. I knew Gwyneth Paltrow from Flesh and Bone. I had zero idea Kevin Spacey was involved in any capacity. I wonder now whether Se7en would have fallen victim to crib death were it released 20 years later. That ending became a sometimes very-funny joke to spoof but at the time, it was hardly everywhere as it would be now. Ditto for The Blair Witch Project a few years later, which was clearly not real … but was it? Maybe just a little bit? Se7en was the first movie to make me appreciate shrewd withholding.
To watch it now seems so stunningly obvious. John Doe goads David Mills rather specifically on what he’ll notice about the big finish. It was hardly the first film I had seen with an unhappy ending or in which the bad guy “won.” I wasn’t thinking of those things as it unfolded. I was knocked back. It was the first time I felt like either of these notions in a movie rattled how I saw the world.
I was certain I would be far from that town two years later, on my way to great things in college and beyond, telling people the dream was to write for Rolling Stone someday. Most of those things still happened. I hadn’t faced significant obstacles then. I’d freely admit I haven’t still. Setbacks, sure, but certainly nothing that forever altered a trajectory to where I am now or wanted to be. Big things don’t have to include Rolling Stone. The closest I ever came to changing my life in an altogether unexpected way was applying to a job in middle-of-nowhere Alaska out of desperation. They had a combination Chinese-Mexican restaurant and a Subway. They did not have any theaters that would show Se7en. They did not have theaters.
Thankfully, I got a job elsewhere that allowed me a forum in which to ferret out my thoughts on films. Has there been a bad guy in my life besides what I perceive to be my own obsessions and occasional laziness? Not at all. But Se7en was the first movie to impart a vigilance against them lest they settle in to corrode or utterly consume the good in the way Doe’s plan does that within Mills.
I rarely have physical reactions to films. I don’t cry much. It’s not a badge of honor or shame. Just is what it is. Goosebumps are generally it, although I recently kicked a seat-back at Daddy’s Home 2 and I openly sobbed alongside my wife years ago when Big Fish reminded us all over again about the grandparents we loved and lost. Se7en was among the first such physical responses, too.
Its gut-punches are bookended by credit sequences unlike any I had ever seen. To be fair, NO ONE had ever seen anything like its opening credits. John Doe doesn’t show his face for 90 minutes but the credits emphasize the magnitude of what Mills and Somerset are up against and the hubris of Mills’ assumption that this will be an open-and-shut case in terms of closure and culture. I’m sure there were many movies before whose end credits spooled from top-down, but I’d never seen that before. It added to the way the world felt knocked upside down. As the ambience of “The Heart’s Filthy Lesson” — a Bowie song, of course a Bowie song, for when is there NOT a Bowie song applicable to all corners of our condition — gave way to the martial assault of its pounding-heart percussion, I started to shake as others gathered their things. Neither violently nor uncontrollably, and I was able to get up just fine once the credits were over. But my legs felt heavy on the walk back to my car and my mind the same on the way home.
Se7en is also what formed my preference for a long drive with just my thoughts after a movie — ideal in that first job when I had to drive 90 minutes back after reviewing one of them. Going to movies alone is one of my favorite things. I watch Se7en now and look back on that drive home in my older brother’s first car, handed down to me. A red Camaro. Coche del Amor, as a friend of mine called it. There was never any love made in it, at least not by me. The two things I remember most about that car were its uselessness in snow and sitting in it driving home from Se7en — the teenage realization of the magnitude of corruptibility, fallibility and the grace not all of us are fortunate enough to find in falling prey to them. For we all fall prey to them and yet we press on. To watch it then was the fear of what could test me. To watch it now is the fear that I’ve not yet been tested and wonder how much harder it could be after 23 additional years of frailty.
Today, I watch it from my large couch, complemented by the glow of Christmas lights we haven’t yet taken down because my wife and I like to keep them up on nights like tonight where it’s a new year but the same old snow and chilliness. She is not here. I rarely watch movies like this when she’s around. She may have seen it at some point before we knew each other. She’d have just turned 15. Did she sneak off with friends to see it? Did it rattle her in the same way it did me? I’ve never asked. I probably should. Again, as I always do, I watch it alone, as I did all those years ago — and I’m thrown back into the mindspace of that kid in the Lindo Theatre and thrown flat all over again.
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TV Ad War to Boost Florida Legalization Bid?
The heated gubernatorial battle in Florida could give efforts to legalize medical marijuana this November a huge boost, albeit unintentionally.
Current Gov. Rick Scott is looking to spend $100 million in television advertising for his re-election bid, while his opponent could shell out as much as $50 million to reach voters via TV, according to the Miami Herald.
Strategists believe the spending war will drive up the price for all political commercials ahead of the November election, including those that support or oppose medical marijuana.
The legalization effort, which is being funded in part by Orlando attorney John Morgan, now has a distinct advantage in this regard: It has $20 million in TV ad time reserved.
The opposition, on the other hand, might not be able to afford many (if any) television spots in the current climate. A spokesperson for the opposition groups Drug Free American Foundation and Save Our Society From Drugs said described the anti-medical marijuana campaign as “word of mouth” and “a grass-roots effort.”
“In an environment such as that, message-penetration can be challenging for anyone who doesn’t have a lot of money,” Kyle Roberts, president of Smart Media Group, a political ad-buying firm, told the Herald.
Medical marijuana advocates also have another advantage: According to the most recent poll, 78% of Floridians currently support legalizing MMJ.
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4 comments on “TV Ad War to Boost Florida Legalization Bid?”
liz allen on March 13th, 2014 - 5:12pm
We need help in Delaware. Gov. Jack Markell has not moved one iota to bring us our medical dispensaries. We have many NORML people here who need help to get our legislature on board.
dan o on March 14th, 2014 - 10:20am
A senator in North Carolina is drafting a bill to legalize medical cannabis. Families moving from NC to Colorado for their children to get cannabis treatments.
Taxes and tourism wouldn’t hurt either.
Tudo on March 17th, 2014 - 2:47am
While I think the medical cannabis petition leaves much to be desired, it’s I guess better than nothing for many people and I will support with money and vote whoever offers the most free laws regarding cannabis in fla and leave with our investments, selling our properties and relocating our business to the west coast of the usa.
Meanwhile the democratic party of California wrote into it’s platform the belief that cannabis should be legal for any reasons to adults in California. Hopefully the democratic party will make this part of the national platform. That includes you too Fla.
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Anthony Rizzo won’t be disciplined for sliding into Austin Hedges
By Bill BaerJun 20, 2017, 6:02 PM EDT
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Earlier, Craig wrote about Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo‘s slide into Padres catcher Austin Hedges last night, which violated Rule 7.13. Padres manager Andy Green called the slide “fairly egregious,” “disheartening,” and “a cheap shot.”
There was a possibility that Rizzo could have received punishment from Major League Baseball, but he won’t. CSN Chicago’s Patrick Mooney reports that Rizzo spoke to Joe Torre, MLB’s chief baseball officer, and learned he would face no punishment.
As for the possibility the Padres may take justice into their own hands on Tuesday, Rizzo said, “I can’t control what they do.”
Hedges wasn’t a fan of the slide. Per MLB.com’s A.J. Cassavell, the catcher said, “It was a bad slide. I clearly gave him the plate. He went out of his way and got me pretty good.” Hedges is expected to miss a day or two to deal with the after effects of the collision with Rizzo.
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Home / Headline News / BLEEKER Make Their Return With Inspiring “James Dean” Music Video
BLEEKER Make Their Return With Inspiring “James Dean” Music Video
Music Existence August 24, 2018 Headline News, Music Video Leave a comment
Toronto-based trio Bleeker have returned with their latest single, “James Dean” from their forthcoming EP, Problems, due out this fall. The official music video was directed by Jeff Scheven (TV On The Radio, Givenchy, Diamond Rings).
Produced by Dave “Sluggo” Katz (Katy Perry, Neon Trees) and mixed by Tony Hoffer (Beck, M83, Phoenix), “James Dean” sees Bleeker in a state of growth, showcased by amplifying alternative anthems with stadium-sized spirit. Powered by airy synths and a sweeping refrain, “I just want to be like James Dean, runnin’ wild, young and free”, the song’s rebellious energy mirrors the titular subject.
“It has a real Americana feel,” singer Taylor Perkins explains of the song, “That was the vibe. Everyone goes through really hard times. Life weighs down on all of us. The chorus is meant to uplift and encourage you to dream a little bit.”
Consisting of brothers Taylor (vocals) and Cole Perkins(guitar) and Mike Van Dyk (bass), Bleeker are confidently embracing a grandiose vision, projecting their punk spirit, fashion-forward presentation, and raw soul onto the widescreen. Their Five Seven Music debut, Erase You, achieved a coveted Juno Award nod in the category of “Breakthrough Group of the Year” as they infiltrated Canadian and European television. Not only did their breakthrough smash “Highway” hit #1 on radio in Canada and Top 10 in the United States, but it also generated a staggering 12 million Spotify streams and 1 million YouTube views in under a year. The track was also featured on the Travel Channel and NHL programming, among others. Tastemakers such as AXS and Examiner, and more touted them as they shared the stage with the likes of The Struts, Death From Above, and The Darkness.
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David Dvorin
Emmy-nominated composer, guitarist, author, and educator, David Dvorin has had his concert music performed in numerous new music and multimedia festivals around the United States and Europe. Versatile in both electronic and acoustic music mediums, he has written for and collaborated with such notable artists as Terry Riley, the California E.A.R. Unit and the Kronos Quartet.
In addition to producing several CDs and DVDs of his compositional work, David is active as a performer on both guitar and electronics. Some of his current performance projects include leading the Space Age Jazz-inspired quartet, Flounder, his chamber-jazz duo, Pull-String with violinist Matej Seda, and the electro-acoustic duo, Zap! with multi-reeds player Randy McKean, all of which also serve as vehicles for David’s original compositions.
Regarded internationally as an expert on Apple’s Logic Pro software, his textbook, Logic Pro X: Advanced Music Production, now in its fourth edition, has been adopted by educational institutions worldwide, and is the basis for Apple Computer’s certified training. David has also served as a professional consultant to music technology companies such as Native Instruments and Apple Computer.
David has been on the faculty at California State University, Chico since 2006, teaching composition, electronic music and recording arts. In addition to his teaching and artistic activities, he is also the Artistic Director for the annual New Music Symposium, which showcases the work of young composers and brings acclaimed contemporary composers and performers to the North State area of California.
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Policy & Advocacy Center Newsletter
FGN News: December 2015
Policy & Advocacy Center Newsletter Issue • December 2015
This has been a busy month in Washington, with a quick two-session conference approving a bipartisan framework to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act on November 19. The House of Representatives jumped right in to approve the compromise bill on December 2, and the Senate took up the bill on Wednesday morning voting to approve 85-12. The bill then headed to President Obama’s desk where he signed it into law this morning before a group of education stakeholders, including our own executive director, JoAnn Bartoletti!
Director of Advocacy Amanda Karhuse and Associate Director of Advocacy David Chodak have also been busy visiting state associations to provide advocacy training and their expert knowledge of federal education policy. Amanda recently visited Alabama, and David traveled to New Mexico. Email Advocacy Coordinator Sophie Papavizasif you are interested in bringing the NASSP advocacy team to your state association’s event. We would love to meet Federal Grassroots Network members in person at future conferences.
This month you should also be sure not to miss an exciting opportunity to add your voice to the federal education conversation by applying for the U.S. Department of Education’s Principal Ambassador Fellowship. Applications are due Monday, December 14. The fellowship is an opportunity to serve as a voice for school leaders in making policy decisions at the federal level. NASSP was a strong advocate for the program and encourages its principal members to apply.
This Month’s Top Advocacy Issues
ESEA
As described above, the Every Student Succeeds Act (S. 1177), the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), has passed both the House and Senate in historic votes and was just signed into law by President Obama. More in-depth information about the provisions of the bill, which will replace No Child Left Behind and the ESEA waivers, is available now on the School of Thought blog. Thetext of the conference report was released on November 30, and NASSP, working with the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the American Federation of School Administrators, released a letter in anticipation of the House vote on S. 1177 urging passage and noting the provisions of greatest importance to school principals.
New Professional Standards for Education Leaders
The Council of Chief State School Officers recently released the new Professional Standards for Educational Leaders after approval by the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA) last month. NASSP Executive Director JoAnn D. Bartoletti, who serves as chair of NPBEA, was quoted in an Education Week articleabout their release. The 10 standards describe what effective school leaders should be able to know and do to lead high-achieving staff, schools, and students in the 21st century. We hope that states will use them to design development opportunities and support for new and experienced principals alike.
We are racing towards a government shutdown, as the federal budget resolution signed by President Obama in October expires December 11. With little time left before that date and many unresolved issues, there has been talk of an extension until December 18. Policy riders concerning Planned Parenthood and the Syrian refugee crisis could also be attached to the appropriations bill, preventing President Obama from signing it into law. Also on the agenda for Congress are a Highway Trust Fund bill, tax extenders, and another attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which could all prevent lawmakers from meeting their deadline.
The budget deal raised the caps on funding that lawmakers are allowed to appropriate towards discretionary programs for FY 2016, preventing sequestration and steep cuts to many departments, including education. The Labor-HHS-Education appropriations subcommittee has been given an allocation of $161.96 billion, but we do not know where education stands. The Committee for Education Funding, of which NASSP is a member, sent a letter to House and Senate appropriations leadership in partnership with health and labor advocacy groups, expressing concern about the number allocated to the subcommittee and the critical programs possibly at risk.
“The bottom line is that investments in good principals are a particularly cost-effective way to improve teaching & learning.” NASSP
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Over the last decade, NASSP has worked as a member of Advocates for Literacy, a coalition of over 65 organizations that support comprehensive birth through grade 12 state-led literacy plans targeting struggling students who attend schools with low-performing English language arts assessment scores. We are very proud to note that the coalition’s flagship policy, the Literacy Education for All, Results for the Nation (LEARN) program, was incorporated into Title II, Part D, of the ESEA reauthorization. LEARN authorizes a comprehensive literary program to provide every child from birth through grade 12 with high-quality literacy education. The program will support high-quality professional development for teachers, teacher leaders, principals, and specialized instructional support personnel to improve literacy instruction for struggling readers and writers, including English language learners and students with disabilities.
Thank you to the hundreds of members who sent messages through the Principal’s Legislative Action Center in support of ESEA reauthorization. Now that the compromise bill has made it through, consider sending a message of thanks to any of your members of Congress who supported the bill. Visit the action center to see how your representative and senators voted and to use our forms to contact them.
In this Month’s Principal Leadership
Be sure to read Associate Director of Advocacy David Chodak’s article in the December issue of Principal Leadership magazine on his experience working on Capitol Hill, and the importance of legislative advocacy.
Advocacy Updates on School of Thought
Visit NASSP’s School of Thought blog for weekly advocacy blog posts and the latest education legislation news. NASSP Board Member Brad Seamer shared his experience advocating for principals and schools on Capitol Hill in a blog post for NASSP titled “Meeting with Elected Officials: An Obligation to Advocate for Education.” As chair of the board’s advocacy committee, Mr. Seamer is a seasoned education advocate. In his blog post, he offers his perspective on why advocacy is an important responsibility for all school leaders.
All FGN members are invited to write a guest blog post for School of Thought-just email Advocacy Coordinator Sophie Papavizas with your idea. You can also subscribe to the blog to receive an email whenever a new post is published.
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RURÔNI KENSHIN: KYÔTO TAIKA-HEN – Naoki Sato
Rurôni Kenshin: Kyôto Taika-Hen (Rurôni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno) is the second film in the ongoing Rurôni Kenshin series of period action movies telling the story of the “romantic swordsman” Himura Kenshin, directed by Keishi Ohtomo, and starring Takeru Sato and Emi Takei. Following the events of the first movie, Kenshin has settled into a new life with his wife Kaoru and his other friends, when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, who like Kenshin is a former assassin, has been betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. Despite suffering grievous injuries, Makoto survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru’s wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
Naoki Sato has scored all three of the Rurôni Kenshin films, which began with Rurôni Kenshin – Meiji Kenkaku Roman Tan in 2012. The music is rooted in contemporary action stylings, despite the historical setting of the film, but Sato’s creativity is such that they never really feel anachronistic, instead giving energy and drive to Kenshin’s adventures. This score is a combination of orchestra, subtle electronics, traditional Japanese instrumentation, and voices, resulting in a powerful, enjoyable work which fans of modern action music should enjoy immensely. The opening cue, “Overcoming Fate”, builds from a moody, almost liturgical-sounding opening featuring a Miserere Latin chant, eventually emerging into a Christopher Young-style theme full of stately drama and portent. The tolling bells are a nice touch, especially when they combine with the soulful, searching string writing.
As the score develops it progresses through multiple different emotional styles. “New Style” is romantic, but just a little melancholy; “Destiny” revisits the ghostly vocal work and emotive string writing of the first track, offset by some dark, Vangelis-style synth chords; “Reverse Blade Snow Expert” has a warm, lyrical quality, again with strongly emotional string writing, and “Heavenly Light” is a haunting, abstract track for a massed section of what sound like hichiriki Japanese oboes, played with massive amounts of reverb to give them an enveloping, overwhelming sound.
The action music has a kinetic, percussive style, with cues like “Fanaticism” jangling the nerves with its frenetic rhythms, “Kyoyume” making excellent use of a koto Japanese dulcimer, and the superb “Kyoto” exploding into a flurry of slashing string rhythms accompanied by a colorful bed of regional Japanese instrumentation. “Those Who Defend” is a defiantly contemporary cue with more than a hint of Daft Punk about it, and “Disturbance” enters Hans Zimmer territory via the ‘horn of doom’, but the standout is the title track, “Kyoto Inferno”, which again begins with voices, before exploding into a macho, driving, almost dance-music style piece with a delicious rhythmic core and a hint of heavy metal. The finale, “Warutakumi’s Purgatory’, is one of those wonderfully vibrant fully-orchestral stingers – all brass fanfares and huge crescendos – that sets up the third film perfectly.
Buy the Rurôni Kenshin: Kyôto Taika-Hen soundtrack from the Movie Music UK Store
Overcoming Fate (6:37)
New Style (2:26)
Fanaticism (2:40)
Kyoyume (3:13)
Destiny (4:07)
Kyoto (1:30)
Reverse Blade Sword/Memories (2:34)
Those Who Defend (3:57)
Scene of Carnage (2:50)
Reverse Blade Sword Expert (4:09)
Heavenly Light (3:52)
Kyoto Inferno (3:14)
Disturbance (1:33)
Darkness Flows (1:44)
Lightning (2:16)
Warutakumi’s Purgatory (0:56)
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Categories: Reviews Tags: Film Score, Naoki Sato, Reviews, Rurôni Kenshin: Kyôto Taika-Hen
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Yeah, another FB+Oculus thread, but hold the rage
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Post by realyst2k » Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:35 am
Sorry, another one of these threads, but I felt we needed more where the positive was extolled rather than simply provided as a comment to a dump of negativity.
It's amazing(though I suppose, depressingly not surprising) how hyperbolic the whole internet has been since the Facebook announcement.
Okay, I'll admit, it initially knocked the wind out of me. I think that's natural as I'd be amazed if ANYONE not on the inside saw this coming.
However, I did what so few people on the internet appear to ever do: read up on it.
Anyone claiming they want "Oculus to fail" because of this or that "VR is now dead" should please, and I say this as respectfully as I can, calm down and take a breath or bugger off.
*takes breath*
Anyways, as Oculus was previously, using only Kickstarted funds, there is no way they could have mass marketed this device in the way most of us would have wanted them to. So they sought investment. And they found it. A number of wealthy venture capitalist threw in money, sensing the investment opportunity. This allowed Oculus to court the likes of Carmack away from Id, build hype at a number of trade shows, consult with Valve, share details and tech at conferences, build DK2 and develop new tech to make the thing far more palatable and practical.
Major problem, of course, is most of the money they were burning through was not theirs. I'm not talking about KS money, I imagine most of that went into the manufacture and shipment of the DK1 and the initial round of trade show appearances.
Nah, most of the money belonged to a number of VCs. These people, in the end, had the leash. They were letting Palmer do his thing, Carmack do his code, etc... because it was currently working. But make no mistakes, any of these people had the ability and right to derail the whole thing if seen fit.
Now, with the Facebook deal, Facebook buys off all these angel investors. They no longer have any say. Facebook has wisely seemingly decided to let Oculus run itself independently. This means that Oculus is now technically a more independent company than they had previously been.
Beyond the consolidation of multiple overlords with multiple ulterior motives, we now have the one overlord who's taking a long view. People claim that the match is terrible because Facebook(the site) is slowly dying. It likely is, however, that's what makes this investment work. Facebook is likely branching out to secure themselves, hedging against the possible(nay likely) demise most social media sites before it have eventually succumbed to, in much the same way that Apple moved to digital media sales and consumer hardware, or how Google is investing in everything from space exploration to wearable AR kit.
If that is the case, the odds they'd tangle too deeply in what already was seeming like a good investment are severely mitigated.
Now, lets look at some other benefits the sale will bring:
* Oculus can now custom order hardware made specifically for the Rift rather than rely on cellphone leftovers. This is HUGE.
* Despite we knowing lots about this and it being popular on tech and game blogs, it's amazing how few people out there, even among those who count themselves as gamers, know about it. The exposure will be massive.
* Zuckerberg has a storied history, some of it rather...creepy. But he also tends to be a futurist. I honestly don't think he's that disaligned with Oculus' views.
* This may lead to subsidies in supply management. That is great news.
* Of all the companies rumoured to buy Oculus, let's face it, Facebook has the cleanest track record of all of them(yes, Google is included in this math).
Until we see any evidence of Facebook destroying things, we can't assume they will. We should watch and see. Neither Palmer nor anyone at Oculus have been shown to be idiots. Haven't they earned our trust by now?
As an aside, anyone jumping ship to Sony for 'ethical' reasons obviously doesn't remember half a million rootkit infected computers, the attempt to destroy the mp3 and the mp3 player market, the contributions to HDCP, the proprietary tie-in practices, the PSN security fiasco, the crackdown on any website showing a HEX string and the twisted tale of George Hotz, among others in Sony's rather long history of unethical behaviour.
Anyone wishing Google would have bought them appear to forget Google's acquisition track record.
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Re: Yeah, another FB+Oculus thread, but hold the rage
Post by Tone » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:10 am
But the big question remains the same as it was on day one: what's the business model? I'm not saying there isn't one, but I've not seen anyone take pencil to paper and show numerically how a $2B+ valuation is justified. Some suggest FB will derive revenues from in-HMD advertising, but given the level of risk on this acquisition FB needs 20%+ ROI per year, $400m in added profit per year. That's something like 10m helmets, each producing $40 of advertising revenue (assuming zero costs... unlikely.)
The point is: for VR to have some sort of mass adoption it needs to be profitable in the long run. Don't know if I'm blind or not, but I'm not seeing it.
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Post by mayaman » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:17 am
You think people are being negative just to be negative? C'mon now, there are serious, and I mean SERIOUS concerns raised about this entire situation. One of the main ones being that the purchaser of the tech doesn't even have a viable product of any sort themselves and rely completely on ads and obtrusive tracking in order to turn a profit.
Its akin to Ford Motor Company selling out to Johnson and Johnson talcum powder company so that Johnson and Johnson can have control of the new car scent industry. WTF. What does facebook have any clue about any of this other than to turn it into an ad generating system, tracking, etc.
We all hope our fears are unfounded but if you follow history at all you'll know that they will take this technology and morph it into something that benefits FACEBOOK, not the gamer.
You say people being critical are being naive? Its actually the other way around. In the end, Facebook looks at this as a tool to grow their business. Last I checked, Facebook wasn't in the business of creating compelling games or entertainment.
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Post by V8Griff » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:27 am
The point you make about them not having a viable product is probably one very good reason to buy Oculus in the first place to quickly acquire some physical product.
Also yes it's $2bn in total but the cash that's changed hands is *only* $400m which isn't an over the top valuation for a company that has nearly $100m invested in it in one way or another and has pretty good prospects.
The few that are slamming this, and in the main they are a loud minority, would for the most part probably have never contributed anything of worth to the VR community so their loss is minimal. Once they've got bored with ranting and jump on some other bandwagon where they can feel betrayed and self righteous about something else then Palmer and the Oculus team can get back to doing what they do best creating something worthwhile.
To be honest I think the fact that Palmer took the time to answer posts and deal with some serious abuse on Reddit last night shows he does care and as far as I'm concerned it shows his integrity is intact.
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Post by 3trip » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:40 am
mayaman wrote: You think people are being negative just to be negative? C'mon now, there are serious, and I mean SERIOUS concerns raised about this entire situation. One of the main ones being that the purchaser of the tech doesn't even have a viable product of any sort themselves and rely completely on ads and obtrusive tracking in order to turn a profit.
Bad analogy, the future of online social interaction is VR, lucky has even talked about making such programs before! Besides the tech needed for a good VR social app, will make for good VR gaming! Low persistence, high fps, low latency etc. a virtual environment is a virtual environment! Both kinds of software needs the same type of hardware!
Post by realyst2k » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:42 am
...the purchaser of the tech doesn't even have a viable product of any sort themselves and rely completely on ads and obtrusive tracking in order to turn a profit
Right, so how do they go about fixing that? Right! Invest in an alternative business model! Seriously, just because their revenue to date is based on tracking and ad revenue does not mean all future investments are for the same. They very well could be setting themselves up for money in both hardware sales and licensing.
But the big question remains the same as it was on day one: what's the business model? I'm not saying there isn't one, but I've not seen anyone take pencil to paper and show numerically how a $2B+ valuation is justified.
I don't suspect the business model will change much, at least in the short term. They put a bet they could sell 2B worth of hardware, licensing and publishing deals. That's about it.
And come on, guys. Do you really expect "in-HMD advertising?" The Rift, in the end, is a computer display. It'll only have "in-HMD advertising" if the game/application in question has it.
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Post by Ryuuken24 » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:43 am
I think people should have confidence in the product, not the people behind it, because people can be corrupted and bought off but, if the product has real power to change the world and a foundation of new tech can be build upon it, it will stand true.
Notch is kind of an idiot for not backing the hardware if he believed in it, if he did, I don't think he does. What was he waiting for to add support for it, after almost one year of usage, just excuses. He has some odd principle against Facebook, which is run by people but, he should have stayed loyal to Oculus Rift not Oculus, they can suck it. We're all just people but, not companies, they're a business looking for a profit.
In reality, the only thing I see there being a 'social media a la Facebook' bleed-through is if they develop or help develop a VR Second Life like thing. Not my cup of tea, but hardly a bad thing for VR in general.
Ryuuken24 wrote: I think people should have confidence in the product, not the people behind it, because people can be corrupted and bought off but, if the product has real power to change the world and a foundation of new tech can be build upon it, it will stand true.
I think too many people put too much stock in Notch as some kind of prophet. To his credit, he's done lots of philanthropy and is probably a really cool guy. But he also backed the OUYA: Hardly a massive success story. The guy has one good game out(in Java....blech) and I do wish him continued success. But I hardly think he's be-all end-all of the next big thing.
And again, to his credit, based on what I've read of him, I doubt he'd think of himself as a prophet either.
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Post by MSat » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:56 am
Facebook's bread and butter is obviously facebook.com, but that doesn't necessarily mean that any new project or company they acquire has to further that end. It's diversification, and it's probably wise for them in the long run. It's probably safe to think of it as similar to how XBox isn't used as a platform to serve Windows and Office. This VR thing might just end up being huge, so it could be quite a good investment, especially since it's still early to get their foot in the door for what amounts to be a drop in their bucket of cash.
Post by JonR » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:57 am
Tone wrote: But the big question remains the same as it was on day one: what's the business model? I'm not saying there isn't one, but I've not seen anyone take pencil to paper and show numerically how a $2B+ valuation is justified. Some suggest FB will derive revenues from in-HMD advertising, but given the level of risk on this acquisition FB needs 20%+ ROI per year, $400m in added profit per year. That's something like 10m helmets, each producing $40 of advertising revenue (assuming zero costs... unlikely.)
Short-term it's the same as Oculus had, sell VR goggles. In the long term, it's to start providing various ad-driven VR services. Due to the acquisition of Oculus, Facebook is now in a position where they can both provide the service, as well as the required hardware, while profiting from both. The services would be filled with your regular Facebook goodness, advertisement and datamining and what not, but as long as Facebook services isn't the only thing you can use your goggles for, I don't see a problem with that.
Facebook bought Oculus to try and salvage a demographic they are losing in droves. That is the bottom line.
mayaman wrote: Facebook bought Oculus to try and salvage a demographic they are losing in droves. That is the bottom line.
Facebook bought Oculus to make money, that's the bottom line.
Great Ars Technica writeup:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/03/w ... ebook-era/
FR3D
Post by FR3D » Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:48 am
The money earns Palmer and his co funders only.
So the 2.3billion $ are NOT for developing a better rift or custom panels.
Palmers words are worthless now, because he is just another employee of Zuckerberg now.
Zuckerberg has to spend additional billions of dollars if he really wants to develop custom panels.
the oculus rift company has not more cash than before and the old 'boss' Palmer has not the last word regarding all important decisions.
so things are getting worse ...
i'm loving the rift the same way i'm hating FB - so what should i do now ???
best regards ...
best regards FR3D
FR3D wrote: The money earns Palmer and his co funders only.
FR3D wrote: Palmers words are worthless now, because he is just another employee of Zuckerberg now.
FR3D wrote: the oculus rift company has not more cash than before and the old 'boss' Palmer has not the last word regarding all important decisions.
FR3D wrote: i'm loving the rift the same way i'm hating FB - so what should i do now ???
Nothing different whatsoever. Nothing's really changed, at least not yet and there is zero, and I mean zero, indication this will change anytime soon.
Another good writeup at Polygon:
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/26/554934 ... st-for-now
OzOnE2k10
Post by OzOnE2k10 » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:17 pm
Some great points in your first post, @realyst2k.
I'm looking to reserve judgement about this until we learn more of the details.
It can only really be a good thing for VR, as long as Facebook leave Oculus completely alone to get on with things as they originally intended.
I am wondering how they could possibly get their own "custom" LCD / OLED panels made though?
It would take FAR more than $2 Billion to start any sort of manufacturing, so I'm guessing it would be more a case of getting an existing panel manufacturer involved?
Think about the amazing optics and tracking they could now get made though.
The CV1 could give a real other-Worldly experience like nothing we've even seen before.
Not to mention VERY low-latency high-refresh 4K panels, and obviously a lot of AR stuff added.
That's where I think it's really headed, and that's what makes the most sense for Facebook - Augmented Reality.
They are basically looking to integrate the whole social media thing into AR, so that with their face recog stuff (face.com), it will then tag people in real-time.
Messaging will work similarly to Google Glass, the "goggles" will shrink right down, virtual cinema might take off, and all sorts of stuff is possible now.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a FB shill by any means, and I'm still a bit disappointed by the buy-out.
I was hoping that Oculus would be able to go it alone for a LOT longer than this, and they seemed to be doing very well by themselves.
(especially with super-brains like Carmack on board.)
It would have made more sense if nVidia or someone similar had bought Oculus, but then I'm sure we'd still get plenty of outcry about it. lol
So there's a question - if nVidia or AMD could have fronted the cash to buy Oculus outright, would people still been quite so negative?
Remember, almost all of the initial tech advances in the World come from the military, including VR, so it could have been worse. :p
(well, if you're on the Internet at all, you're already being spied on by multiple entities, so I wouldn't loose sleep over the Facebook thing.)
OzOnE.
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Post by realyst2k » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:27 pm
OzOnE2k10 wrote: Some great points in your first post, @realyst2k.
OzOnE2k10 wrote: I am wondering how they could possibly get their own "custom" LCD / OLED panels made though?
Obviously, that was speculation(though Palmer did say something to that effect on Reddit as well). My take on it is they now have the 'credit' required to sign a deal with OLED manufacturers for long-term supply relationships. Something that would have been impossible with their previous situation. Again, pure speculation on my part/
OzOnE2k10 wrote: Not to mention VERY low-latency high-refresh 4K panels, and obviously a lot of AR stuff added.
*drool*
OzOnE2k10 wrote: That's where I think it's really headed, and that's what makes the most sense for Facebook - Augmented Reality.
Interesting thought, using VR development to further AR development. Would seem to be one of the likeliest crossovers with Facebook's existing products.
OzOnE2k10 wrote: I was hoping that Oculus would be able to go it alone for a LOT longer than this, and they seemed to be doing very well by themselves.
I think that's where the initial gut-punch got me. It feels as if the 'experiment' of the plucky company which rose from Kickstarter resulted in "yet another large corporate buyout", though in retrospect, it likely wasn't realistic to believe otherwise given the ambitions.
OzOnE2k10 wrote: Remember, almost all of the initial tech advances in the World come from the military, including VR, so it could have been worse. :p
[target acquired, missile dispatched]
Post by FR3D » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:28 pm
OzOnE2k10 wrote:
OH yes , Intel, AMD or Nvidia would have been a great partners of oculus.
None of my friends (all german engeneers) use or like FB. So my guess is -"the less educated the more use of FB".
( but these people are not firm in computing or VR )
Post by ss248 » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:31 pm
Are you kidding? Iribe and Palmer will sure use this billions to buy custom panels for company they don't even own.
It's like when Westwood and Bioware was acquired by EA all over again.
They will be just fine, guys! EA just owns them! They can keep developing independently otherwise!
Zuckerberg is not so stupid to turn the Rift into Facebook VR immediately. Wait two-three years. Noone will able to stop him.
Nice new account btw.
Post by MSat » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:32 pm
Time to make those super high res wafer-based CMOS micro LED displays
Post by mayaman » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:35 pm
JonR wrote:
LOL you just said what I said, or am I missing something. Trying to save their meat and potatos demographic would bring them money would it not? Its a fact that Oculus is losing teens and 20 somethings at a record pace, far greater than they are recruiting them.
Oculus is their try to get them back.
So basically you just verified what I said.
By all means, if OVR manages to develop an eye tracking system for foveated rendering and CV1 in Brigade i would never mind if OVR now is named Oculus Facebook.
Post by JonR » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:38 pm
ss248 wrote: Are you kidding? Iribe and Palmer will sure use this billions to buy custom panels for company they don't even own.
Are you kidding? Facebook will surely invests 2 billion to buy a company, yet won't invest in panels to make their investment work.
It's like when Instagram and Whatsapp was acquired by Facebook all over again.
Zuckerberg is not so stupid as to think that you'd have to make the Rift locked down for it to work as a Facebook service device. There's no reason for him to, as a open device isn't mutually exclusive to a Facebook device. The opposite in fact.
mayaman wrote:
You're making a definitive statement on how they're going to make money, something we're in no position to do reliably. The assumption that Facebook will use the Rift to bolster their traditional Facebook model is a bit silly in my opinion, because the two aren't really compatible if you ask me. I'd wager that Facebook will use the Oculus to launch their own VR services, branching in to new territory. I don't see how they could use the Oculus to try to convince people that don't want to to use traditional Facebook.
You're making a statement on how they're going to make money, something we're in no position to do reliably. The assumption that Facebook will use the Rift to bolster their traditional Facebook model is a bit silly in my opinion, because the two aren't really compatible if you ask me. I'd wager that Facebook will use the Oculus to launch their own VR services, branching in to new territory. I don't see how they could use the Oculus to try to convince people that don't want to to use traditional Facebook.
Huh? Obviously they are going to go in a different direction than traditional facebook format, its a VR headset. I thought people here had common sense enough to put 2+2 together.
Facebook will destroy Oculus. It will be molded and formed into a vehicle to distribute ads, track users for advertising purposes and to collect data. That is what Facebook does and that is their only stream of revenue. You think they bought Oculus to create compelling entertainment? Why would they do that? That costs money, money they have already outlayed in order to obtain this technology.
They will mold Oculus into a vehicle to do what facebook does now, just in a shiny new wrapper. you can kiss the dreams of the Rift being what it was. Thats gone.
Aside from your bile-spewing, please address my [citation needed] with a citation rather than just more "They'll do this because I KNOW they will! Praise my precognition!"
ss248 wrote: It's like when Westwood and Bioware was acquired by EA all over again.
Yeah, except this is a software company buying an unrelated hardware company as opposed to a competing game company buying their competition...and that the medium is different(games vs hardware/software)...Exactly like it, except nothing like it except the words "acquired" and the use of "software".
ss248 wrote: Zuckerberg is not so stupid to turn the Rift into Facebook VR immediately. Wait two-three years. Noone will able to stop him.
a) So what? By then we'll have a VR headset.
b) How does one turn what is effectively a computer monitor into Facebook-the-page? Seriously, people are saying this everywhere. Exactly how on Earth is this supposed to work, pray tel?
ss248 wrote: Nice new account btw.
I have about 50 posts and started the account shortly after backing the Rift on Kickstarter. I'm neither a senior nor do I post that often(and leave large gaps) but if you're implying I'm a shill or something, I'm a rather precognitive one, aren't I? Grow up.
That write-up on Polygon was very good too btw.
It outlines the fact that people initially started raving about the iPod / iPhone / iPad, and anything else that had a half-eaten Apple on the back.
And then when Google wanted to get into the mobile OS market, many people were sceptical. Now they hold a massive market share, and are very popular.
Personally I don't like Apple as a company, and my only phone for about 18 months was an iPhone 3, so I'm not completely ignorant of their products.
It's more about a company's ethics and past form, and the way they try to force more purchases of Apps and tie you into only THEIR music store or whatever.
I never wanted to use Facebook for many years until I discovered some great retro computing groups on there about two years ago.
Now I check for Facebook updates almost every day, and have made some great friends on there who I hope to meet up with for a beer soon.
The recent "poor choices" of Google when it comes to YouTube have made me wary too, but that kind of panned out OK in the end (kind of).
So, the Polygon article put it well when it said not to be too negative about a buy-out by a large corporation this early on.
While the Facebook acquisition may not make complete sense yet, remember that Google started off as just another search engine (back when Altavista, DogPile, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo were still popular. hehe).
Now Google IS search for a large majority of PC and mobile users around the World.
I certainly still set my browser home page to Google, and I've been using Chrome exclusively for about a year now.
The future of this investment could be amazing, and the face recognition buy-out does suggest a lot of AR stuff on the horizon.
Let's pray that Zuckerberg (and his "heavies") don't squash our VR dreams by forcing adverts or by stopping Oculus doing what they do best - ie. creating kick-ass hardware and software solutions that will continue to amaze anyone who tries them.
I now wonder what the VR devs, and the big game companies who invested into Oculus are thinking now?
Here are a few opinions, and they seem mostly positive so far...
http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/25/554758 ... s-reaction
Facebook / Oculus on CNN right now. This is weird. lol
mayaman wrote: Facebook will destroy Oculus. It will be molded and formed into a vehicle to distribute ads, track users for advertising purposes and to collect data.
mayaman wrote: That is what Facebook does and that is their only stream of revenue. You think they bought Oculus to create compelling entertainment? Why would they do that?
You're predicting the future based on an assumption of behaviour which would be rather stupid. I don't like Zuck much either, but give him some credit. If Facebook's ONLY income is from a source most predictions and trends are predicting will be harder to maintain in the future, isn't it far more likely acquisitions such as this are aimed at diversifying the portfolio? But fine, obviously, like a cartoon villain, a company can only do one thing ever for it's entire lifespan. It's why Nokia is still making rubber boots and IBM wooden calculator boxes.
mayaman wrote: That costs money, money they have already outlayed in order to obtain this technology.
Wouldn't shoehorning the Rift into something it obviously isn't cost even more money?
Currently enjoying my Nintendo playing cards.
realyst, you should be more like your name. No one is saying they're a cartoon villain, but precedence speaks VOLUMES! Precedence of such acquisitions and mergers usually end up with a empty husk of the purchased company, picked at like vultures on the plains of Africa. Or, the end product neutured to serve its new masters.
Thinking otherwise to me is not very "realystic"
Post by realyst2k » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:00 pm
mayaman wrote: realyst, you should be more like your name. No one is saying they're a cartoon villain, but precedence speaks VOLUMES! Precedence of such acquisitions and mergers usually end up with a empty husk of the purchased company, picked at like vultures on the plains of Africa. Or, the end product neutured to serve its new masters.
Note my liberal use of [citation needed]. We have zero precedence of a gigantic social networking company buying a virtual reality startup. "Acquisitions" is one heck of a large umbrella with which to extrapolate future trends.
Seriously, find me one relevant example of this happening that has more in common than "I've seen a company buyout destroying a smaller company." I've seen people hit by cars. Not every car is destined to hit a pedestrian.
And again, I may be totally off base in my optimism. The future may indeed be grim. Fact is, however, we don't know this yet.
We have to see how this plays out before we declare absolutes in what is an unprecedented buyout.
Post by JonR » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:04 pm
The precedence in the case of Facebook is Instagram and Whatsapp. Where are their empty husks or neutered products?
Post by mayaman » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:06 pm
Hope you're right realyst, really do. But I've been in business now in corporate America for 25 years. I've been a part of 5 mergers or acquisitions and every time, the company that was bought was gutted to suit the needs of the purchasing company. Now my industry is not gaming, but the model still applies.
We'll see, I'm not optimistic.
Post by ss248 » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:13 pm
realyst2k wrote: I have about 50 posts and started the account shortly after backing the Rift on Kickstarter. I'm neither a senior nor do I post that often(and leave large gaps) but if you're implying I'm a shill or something, I'm a rather precognitive one, aren't I? Grow up.
Today: Mar 26, 2014
Nice "shortly after" (7 months +) then.
I see people keep bringing up Instagram and Whatsapp.
The difference is that facebook bought them for userbase. And that was not so long ago, they don't have time to screw good-working project yet.
But data mining already in place and ads coming to instagram pretty soon.
Facebook bought Oculus not for userbase.
There are two points of view going around when someone is telling people not to freak out
It's not possible to use the Oculus Rift for Ad/Spying purposes
You're fool.
I trust Facebook not to use the Oculus Rift for Ad/Spying purposes
I'm tired of this bullsh*t already. I'm out.
ss248 wrote:
ding ding ding
Bingo on the not enough time to screw things up.
Post by Tone » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:18 pm
A bit of dissonance: The acquisition PR leads one to believe that the Zuck deal came out of the blue in the last couple of weeks. Somehow doesn't ring true when you realize that one of the major VC investors, Marc Andreessen, also sits on the board of directors of Facebook. Gets a bit incestuous when Marc A snags a big chunk of Mark Z's $2B. This also seems to clarify just why Marc A put $75m into Oculus. Did the Facebook deal really come out of thin air?
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If a grandchild does bring the virus home, grandparents of color are at higher risk than their white counterparts, experts say.
As of 2018, the U.S. had 51 million seniors, with 3.3 million, or 6%, living with at least one child between 5 and 18, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study. The situation is far more prevalent among communities of color: 19% of Asian and Pacific Islander seniors live with a school-age child, 17% of Hispanics, 13% of American Indian or Alaska Natives, and 11% of Black people. Just 4% of older whites live with a school-age child.
"I think there hasn't been a lot of attention to the ripple effects on older people who may live in the same household," said Tricia Neuman, one of the report's authors.
People of color are already at greater risk from the virus because they're more likely to be essential workers who can't work from home, among other factors, Neuman said. They more often live in multigenerational households because of cultural norms, sharing expenses or getting help with child care.
That could become more prevalent as COVID-19 clobbers the U.S. economy. Living with extended family increased during the Great Recession in 2009, according to Jaia Peterson, deputy executive director of Generations United, an advocacy group focused on intergenerational issues.
Malia Letalu lives in a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in Santa Clara, California, with her husband, four children — ages 9, 5, 2 and 3 months — and her mother and stepfather. Letalu, who is Samoan and Filipino, decided to live with her parents a few years ago so she could help if they got sick. They're in their mid-60s and have several health conditions between them, including diabetes and heart disease.
But Letalu won't separate them from her oldest kids if school transitions to both remote and in-person learning later this year.
"I guess you could say it's for emotional reasons," Letalu said. "If there really was a possibility of exposure at the school ... then I would definitely social distance them and quarantine them inside. I would also take us all to go get tested."
Yoma Villalobos, whose parents live with her in Phoenix, worries about big changes at home if the virtual lessons for her 12-year-old and 9-year-old sons at the start of the school year become a mix of in-person classes.
If that happens, she will have them shower and change clothes when they get home from school. The boys hate wearing masks, but Villalobos thinks they might use them if it meant protecting their grandparents, who they kiss and hug each morning.
"We're such a close family. For us, eating together is our thing," said Villalobos, who's Latina. "If we were to change our dynamic, that changes the whole family."
Being in the same house can make it tempting to bend the rules on social distancing or wearing masks. Peterson of Generations United advises families to agree on what rules to stick to and find unique ways to connect.
"I also believe when something happens, and families get creative ... those can be some of the strongest memories for children and positive memories," Peterson said.
Grandparents who are primary caregivers potentially face a more dire situation. Chris Svaldi, 71, helped raise her 8-year-old grandson and got permanent custody of him two years ago. He will return to his private Catholic school in Montrose, Colorado, on Aug. 24, with fewer than 10 students so they can practice social distancing, Svaldi said. Still, she's pushing COVID-19 worries to the back of her mind.
"I can't allow myself to go there because if I do, I struggle a little bit with anxiety," said Svaldi, who's white. "It would affect the way I raise him, and I don't want him to be a kid who's afraid of everything."
It's crucial for "grandfamilies" like Svaldi's to be prepared for the worst, whether it's COVID-19 or some other calamity, Peterson said. With grandparents raising grandchildren, there can be legal matters at stake, too. They may be the last option before foster care. Plus, COVID-19 is probably already on children's minds.
"It's better to be open about it so that children have a chance to ask questions and know there's a plan, versus if there's any hesitancy to talk about it because they don't want to bring it up," Peterson said.
Robinson, the grandmother in Phoenix who's Latina, reminds herself that being separated from her granddaughter by doors or walls is better than being separated by a hospital.
"I would never want my loved ones to be in that situation," Robinson said. "I'd rather just listen to her laugh out there than having to go through something like that."
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The University Scholars program at Stony Brook is holding a massive Book Drive throughout local school districts in Suffolk County, and the group is set to kick off an on-campus collection beginning Monday, March 23. The goal is to collect and then donate as many books as possible to poverty-stricken areas on Long Island and abroad, while simultaneously working with high school and middle school students to develop their leadership skills. The drive has collected more than 3,000 books already.
You can help by donating books of any genre, any reading level, and in any condition, from early readers to literary classics. Collection boxes will be placed in the Library, Stony Brook Union, and Student Activities Center; and are also available in the Scholars-designated residence halls in each Residential Quad. Any books that are unwanted or damaged will be sent to the charity Better World Books. If every student, faculty and staff member contributed just one book, there would be thousands of books to share with families in need.
With a quarter of a million students in Suffolk County alone, there are still areas where books are absent. Particularly where poverty levels are high, families cannot afford to purchase books for their children. The group is focusing its efforts on the Wyandanch School District, with a poverty level among the highest in Suffolk County at 18.3 percent. The books will be brought to this area, and families will be able to peruse the collection and take whatever books they want, free of charge.
Reading is an essential mode of communication, education and enjoyment that is positively correlated both with high school and college graduation rates. In providing books to underprivileged areas, the University Scholars students hope to increase graduation rates from high school and increase the chance that students will receive a college degree.
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The African Education Watch (AEW), a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) has appealed to the Government to enact flexible policy that will make re-entry of school girls, who would wish to continue schooling after delivery, easy.
This, it said would help encourage teen girls who got pregnant along the way to feel free to return to school after having their babies in order not to cut short their goals, aspirations and ambitions.
The observation popped up at the Central and Western Regional launch of the COVID-19 back to school Monitoring Report on school girls who got pregnant during the pandemic.
It was organized by the AEW with CareLove Charity Foundation as implementing partners and funded by Actionaid and Light Children, Ghana.
The AEW, whose sole interest is centered on quality education for Africa, said there were few challenges with the Government’s re-entry policy which needed to be amended to arouse the interest of such girls in getting back to school.
Identifying these challenges, Mr. Ebenezer Ansah, a friend of the Foundation, said the centralized computerized school placement system for first year of the Senior High School (SHS) students was too rigid to admit such girls.
This was because a unique code, valid for the three year duration of the SHS would have expired before the girls got to the final year.
Such girls, Mr Ansah said, had to go back to sit for another Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) with their mates going ahead of them which sometimes discouraged them to continue schooling.
Mr. Pius Dzinyela, The Vice Chairman for Ghana National Association of Education Campaign Coalition enumerated poverty, social media influence, peer pressure, lack of sex education, as prominent issues contributing to pregnancy among girls of school-going age, adding that modernization was two-edged sword with the disadvantaged side negatively affecting the youth.
“As much as we fight for human right, we should not suffer for it, let’s instill discipline in them for they are young and exuberant and lets be role models ourselves,” he stated.
Mrs. Martha Jonah, The Executive Director of CareLove Charity Foundation, an NGO on Governance, Health and Education, said the Government should reconsider the re-entry policy and adequately amend it.
She suggested that there should be some sanctions against such girls and eventually be admitted again with flexible conditions.
Mrs Jonah further encouraged girls to make their education a priority and make the nation proud with their excellent performance as they serve at key positions in future.
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COVID-19: Extending gap between coronavirus jab doses creates small risk of ‘escaped mutant’ variant – Whitty
The UK’s top scientists have defended the decision to delay second vaccine doses – although admitted there is a slightly increased risk of an “escaped mutant” version of the virus emerging.
Both the Oxford/AstraZeneca and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines are administered in two doses and should be given in as short a time as possible, but rapidly rising COVID-19 cases in the UK have prompted decision-makers to delay the second dose to within 12 weeks of the first.
This means more people can be given their first dose – and have some amount of protection – in a shorter space of time.
However, some experts have warned spacing out the doses could impact long-term protection and even increase the risk of an “escaped mutant” variant which could be resistant to the vaccines.
Asked in a Downing Street briefing whether delaying second doses could increase the risk of the virus mutating, England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty admitted it was a “real worry but quite a small real worry”.
He explained there was a “balance of risk” that decision-makers had to take between getting more people vaccinated more quickly and the risk of further mutations.
“By extending the gap [between doses], we are going to over the next three months essentially double the number of people who can be vaccinated,” he said.
Professor Whitty said scientists predict people will be offered “quite a lot more than 50%” protection after a first vaccine dose, which would be enough to keep the pandemic under control.
He said there is a “theoretical risk that it could lead to an increased risk of an escaped mutant”, but experts including SAGE and the regulatory body MHRA had agreed the risk was “sufficiently small”.
Modellers believe spreading the UK’s supplies of the vaccines for three months could save up to 6,000 lives, and experts have said maximising the number of people with partial immunity should reduce the number of severe COVID-19 cases and help the burden on hospitals.
Viruses often adapt themselves to continue spreading, and vaccination can put pressure on the virus to keep evolving – leading to potential mutations.
At the same time, the more a virus is circulating and the more people it infects, the more chance it has to mutate.
The issue has been raised by former World Health Organisation (WHO) director Anthony Costello, who wrote on Twitter: “If we assume that over the next 12 weeks 12-20 million people get one dose of a vaccine and are told or believe it gives 90% protection what % will actually go for a second jab?
“We might assume second dose coverage is at best 70%. That means between 4 and 6.7 million people might have fading protection.
“Will the risk of creating a vaccine resistant mutant in this group of people, which could spread rapidly to 7 billion people around the world, outweigh the benefits of 6000 deaths prevented.”
Florian Krammer, a microbiology professor at the Icahn School of Medicine, also tweeted: “If virus circulation is low, the 12 week window might not be a big problem.
“But if virus circulation is sky high (like right now in the UK), it is not a good idea.”
WHO has recommended that patients should be given the two doses of the vaccines within 21-28 days, but also acknowledged some countries have had to make more difficult decisions.
“While we acknowledge the absence of data on safety and efficacy after one dose beyond the three-four weeks studied in the clinical trials, SAGE made a provision for countries in exceptional circumstances of [Pfizer] vaccine supply constraints to delay the administration of the second dose for a few weeks in order to maximise the number of individuals benefiting from a first dose,” said Alejandro Cravioto, chairman of WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE).
“I think we have to be a bit open to these types of decisions which countries have to make according to their own epidemiological situations.”
Professor Whitty himself suggested the spacing of doses was not ideal, but said the number of vaccine doses available to the UK “constrains” what action can be taken.
In a stark message against a backdrop of rising hospital admissions and deaths, he said: “If we had an infinite amount of vaccine we might have taken a different approach – but we don’t.”
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HARMAY flagship store by AIM Architecture
Since its inception in 2013 as an online retailer in cosmetics, HARMAY‘s operations have gone leaps and bounds. The company’s exponential growth in recent years gained momentum with its foray into brick and mortar retail two years ago by setting up shop in Shanghai, and followed by an outpost in Hong Kong last Spring. And now, HARMAY has expanded yet again, and this time with a flagship store at homebase Beijing.
Situated in Sanlitun, arguably the most fashionable shopping zone in the Chinese capital, the store occupies a 650 sqm. (6,997 sq.ft.) unit spread over two floors of a multi-storey modern structure, and sees a renewed collaboration with AIM Architecture which designed the retailers previous stores. A façade of opaque glass blocks warps around both floors, allowing in floods of natural light. Upon entering the store, shoppers find themselves in industrial-inspired space replete with bare concrete walls and pillars, granite tile flooring, suspended utilitarian lighting and sleek modern interventions.
Part of the ceiling has been removed, and not only increases the sense of spaciousness, but also creates a visual unity between the two floors. Taking centre stage is an elongated conveyor belt-inspired loop which serves as a desk slash display to present a section of HARMAY products. Right in the middle, a spiral staircase is situated which leads up to the second floor. Lining the glass façade are bucket seats in a bright green hue. One floor up, shoppers encounter five themed rooms, each offering a different aesthetic and product line.
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The Sinister Path in its most developed form is concerned with ‘cosmic change’. Thus, it has an order to inflict and instigate real changes, which is necessary to make conscious moves, which aids the Sinister in a certain direction. The Sinister is a force latent within and the tradition of the Sinister evolves because of changing manifestation. All is part of evolution and Nature’s imperative. In order to partake in these changes, there is a need to find the tools necessary to influence cause and effect, known as causality. The techniques and strategies to cause changes are known within the Sinister Tradition as ‘the Sinister Dialectics’. The strategy and its tactics are esoteric and its foundation is in that which is known as ‘Aeonics’. The strategy of Aeonics provides means to study the processes and energies in the Causal and Acausal. It also provides an interpretation of greater events and what is about to happen, which is based on the cyclical law of Universe.
Aeonics and the Sinister Dialectic, are means to evolve and to improve and enhance our existence as individuals and as a collective. The individual or collective are able to create change on both the personal and external, societal level. Initially, the individual must go through a physical and psychological change in accordance with the Sinister. It could in its simple form represent opposition or defiance of the conventional, as being a lower form like heresy. This takes on the adversarial role, as a challenger. On an individual stage, this opposition means a discovery of the psyche. Applying this form to a society, means to disseminate heresy. On the basic level of the dialectic, focus is then set to heresy, to become the adversary, to stand in opposition and defiance. For the individual being, this means to further discover the Darkness present within your own psyche. Thus, it is a catharsis of the individual. Within a society this heresy is gained through the work of larger movements and the opposition through the Sinister idioms.
The Sinister Dialectic is a path towards inner development in both smaller and larger scales. It is also a means to promote the creative change that is vital for evolution. It is different techniques, which are used to achieve Aeonic goals and are used as a deliberate strategy of altering in order to create changes on cosmic scales. The purpose of the Sinister strategy is to use ‘magick’, alteration and provocation in order to transform, gain control and change individuals or events on a significant scale. The practice is to produce and provoke changes to occur within the objective and subjective Universe. This magic is foremost Aeonic and directed to changes on the scale of civilisations, but it is both present in the processes of both Microcosm and Macrocosm, such as the individual mind and being. The alteration of a society is, however, not the change away from a form, but change into, by realising the potential of its inner forms, ideals and determination. This is the development of a society into the stage of Imperium, which is according to the inner flame of its civilisation.
To presence the Dark Gods will ultimately fulfil the destiny of this present Aeon. It will aid to establish the next, which is the presence of Chaos. This will tear apart, bring torment, but also release and liberate. This will sculpture the inner, but hidden potential of the culture or civilisation within that particular Aeon. Through this process, the Dark Gods aid to invert the established and transform the lesser into the greater. This process is according to the Law of Nature, as it is the refining of the original and primal according to the principle of evolution. It is to act according to the Sinister Dialectic, to uphold racial inequality, to praise the concept of war and the ongoing survival of the fittest. These factors will lead to a constantly evolving humanity, recognised as a whole concept and being the creator of a superior definition. To uphold inequality is necessary to achieve the higher levels of the dialectics as it will create hierarchy, which is something far beyond monetary diversity. This means to improve through evolution of both individual and civilisation. Evolution is also something we are able to participate in, by going beyond our own limitations. It is based on the potentials of each being, and collectively, on each race and civilisation. Without the inner potential, it is impossible to evolve into higher being. It is necessary to understand that the striving towards (racial) equality will never produce beings that could advance and fulfil the specific destiny of their own culture. The idea of evolution is hence the idea of striving towards perfection through diversity and constant refining. Through the process of evolution we reach the intuitive stage where we become able to decide and thereby unfold our own destiny. Our past is then exhausted and we take a new place.
The Sinister Dialectic accesses the Acausal, by the dark pathways, or Nexions, and by this also increases the amount of the Acausal presence in the Causal. The Nexions are both psychic and physical, as being within our psyche and being physical places of greater energy, places where the Astral Light shines through. Such places have always been known and were often made into sanctuaries in the past. In a more skilled and developed form, the individual becomes a living Nexion. The Acausal energy is then able to flow through the being in ways appropriate to accelerating evolution. Vindex is such an example of being, that will later be further discussed, which is the pure manifestation of change and works as a physical accelerating force or axis. It is through the process of the Sinister Dialectic, that both the internal and the external world become evolved into its higher forms.
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Returning to normal, or better
by Bishop Michael Olson
Bishop Michael Olson celebrates Mass sine populo (without a congregation) at St. Patrick Cathedral on March 22, 2020. (NTC/Juan Guajardo)
Christ is truly risen from the dead. He has conquered sin and its bitter effects of sickness, error and ignorance, and its most bitter effect — death itself. Christ reigns and is sovereign of His Kingdom that the Church — established by Him — inaugurates into being through the proclamation of His Gospel. We know this through faith and are reminded of it daily through our prayers and through the offering and acceptance of works of mercy at home and in our greater community. The Gospel readings of the Easter season present to us the unmistakable mission given us by Christ to march quickly and confidently into the future to proclaim the Gospel of Christ’s Resurrection with courage in the face of fear and doubt.
The current circumstances of the world in which we live suggest to us that there is much for us to fear about the future. The world of the flesh tells us that Christ doesn’t reign but that COVID-19 reigns with power and intimidation to take our health, to take our lives and those of our loved ones, to wreck our economy, and to take our livelihood — even to take away our faith by preventing gatherings (including Mass and Confessions) of more than 10 people. The world of the flesh tells us to be afraid of the future because things will not be the same — that they will be worse for us.
Yet, we know better. We know that Christ has risen from the dead. We know, like the world of the flesh, that things will not be the same as before. Yet, unlike the world of the flesh, we know that things will not be the same as before — they will be better. We shape the future in living the Gospel with confidence in the present moment. Christ has entrusted us with the mission to be converted and to convert those enslaved in fear by the world of the flesh.
We will go forward with confidence, not returning to what was normal, if by “normal” we meant taking the sacraments for granted, as entitlements of convenience. We will go forward with confidence, not returning to normal, if by “normal” we meant living our lives as if God doesn’t exist in any way that affects how we live our lives and how we care for our neighbors. We will go forward with confidence, not returning to normal, if by “normal” we meant treating the Church as only a place to go and not a vocation of our being in relationship with Christ and with each other in love and service. We will go forward with confidence, not returning to normal, if by “normal” we meant living life looking out only for ourselves as individuals and being indifferent to the suffering of others. It means that when we return to church and the frequent reception of the sacraments — including Penance and Eucharist — we do so with a renewed spirit of gratitude for God’s grace as He changes our lives — soul and body — and not simply a return to a “normal” mindset that treats Penance as a relief valve for guilty feelings, and the Eucharist as a commodity with only private value.
I know how much you miss going to church on Sunday. I want you to know that I miss you too. Your priests miss you. Your neighbors miss you. As we go through this together, our vision at the end of this is a return to the full celebration of the Sunday Eucharist and the other sacraments as Christ intended, but not a return to “normal.” There is light at the end of the tunnel, the light of Christ, “who, coming back from death’s domain, has shed His peaceful light on humanity, and lives and reigns for ever and ever.”
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USA TODAY is keeping track of the news surrounding COVID-19 as a pair of vaccines join the U.S. fight against a virus that has killed 384,000 Americans since the first reported fatality in February. Keep refreshing this page for the latest updates surrounding the coronavirus, including who is getting the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, as well as other top news from across the USA TODAY Network. Sign up for our Coronavirus Watch newsletter for updates directly to your inbox, join our Facebook group or scroll through our in-depth answers to reader questions for everything you need to know about the coronavirus.
In the headlines:
►Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. have hit another one-day high at more than 4,300. The nation’s overall death toll from coronavirus has eclipsed 383,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. It is closing in fast on the number of Americans killed in World War II, about 405,000. The U.S. recorded 4,327 deaths on Tuesday; Arizona and California are among the hardest-hit states.
►California has lifted a stay-at-home order for 13 northern counties with improving hospital conditions, but most of the state’s population remains under tight restrictions in the pandemic. The state on Tuesday lifted the order in the Sacramento region – a rare turn of good news as California pushes through what Gov. Gavin Newsom called its “most intense surge” of the coronavirus.
►Scientists have identified a mutation that may decrease the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. The mutation, first spotted in South Africa two months ago, has since spread to 12 other countries.
►South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said a task team under the African Union has secured 270 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for the continent, the largest such deal for the region. Ramaphosa said the doses will come from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca.
►Recent analysis of late-stage trials found China’s COVID-19 candidate vaccine, CoronaVac, has an overall effectiveness of 50.38%, the Butantan Institute said Tuesday in Sao Paulo, Brazil. While the vaccine meets the threshold for regulatory approval, it’s a disappointing descent from early results that showed it was 78% effective.
►Los Angeles County is asking residents to wear masks at home if they go out for work or to get groceries, the Los Angeles Times reported, as the region nears 1 million virus cases. In addition, the L.A. City Council approved a motion Wednesday instructing city departments to prioritize issuing citations during normal duties to people not wearing masks.
📈 Today’s numbers: The U.S. has more than 23 million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 384,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The global totals: More than 92 million cases and 1.97 million deaths.
📘 What we’re reading: U.S. hospitals are on the brink – but COVID-19 isn’t slowing down. “Absolutely, it’s what we feared,” the chief health care officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges told USA TODAY. Read more here.
As virus rampages through Southern California, many health workers reject vaccine
Even as the coronavirus is running rampant through large swaths of Southern California, a substantial number of health care workers — who are first in line for the vaccine — are rejecting the shots.
About half the hospital workers offered the COVID vaccine in Riverside County, southeast of hard-hit Los Angeles County, have turned it down. With a population of 2.5 million, Riverside County on Tuesday became the eighth county in the nation to exceed 200,000 coronavirus cases.
“Some of them are saying, ‘You know, not yet,’ that they just want to see how things go,” Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari told the Palm Springs Desert Sun. “Some are just not giving any type of reason on why they’re not taking it.”
Operation Warp Speed chief Moncef Slaoui resigns but will stay on through Biden transition
Moncef Slaoui, who has helped lead the Trump administration’s vaccine development effort, is resigning but has agreed to stay on in an advisory role for 30 days to support the transition to the Biden administration.
Slaoui has long said that he would resign as head of Operation Warp Speed around the end of 2020 or early 2021 when he felt like he had contributed as much as he could to the vaccine development. The emphasis has now shifted to distribution and delivery, which is under the purview of General Gus Perna.
Last week, Slaoui said he would stay longer than initially planned to ensure the success of three more large clinical trials underway, testing candidate vaccines from Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and Oxford University and Novavax.
– Karen Weintraub
What will COVID-19 look like in the future? Possibly another common cold, study says
SARS-CoV-2 “could join the ranks of mild, cold-causing … human coronaviruses in the long run,” according to a model developed by Emory University and Penn State University scientists.
The model, published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal Science, compares the deadly virus to four common cold coronaviruses plus the SARS and MERS viruses, which surfaced in 2003 and 2012, respectively.
Researchers determined from the model that if the coronavirus continues to circulate in the general population and most people are exposed to it from childhood, it could be added to the list of common colds.
Study authors concede the model makes some assumptions about the coronavirus and common colds that are not known yet, but a take-home message is “the critical need for broad-scale vaccination may wane in the near term,” said study author Ottar Bjornstad, who teaches entomology and biology at Penn State University.
Some states speed up vaccine distribution while others push back on federal changes
Facing a slower-than-hoped coronavirus vaccine rollout, officials around the nation shifted gears Tuesday to accelerate the elivery of shots to more people. The U.S. government is asking states to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations to people over 65 and others at risk instead of holding back vaccines for a second dose.
The change had immediate effects in New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo expanded the vaccine eligibility requirements to follow the new CDC guidelines. Idaho will implement the guidelines Feb. 1, Gov. Brad Little said. Pennsylvania and New Jersey have also said they’re “immediately” expanding vaccination guidelines to include patients 65 and older.
However, other states are pushing back on federal guidance, citing supply concerns. Rhode Island Department of Health spokesman Joseph Wendelken referenced those in saying the state does not plan to expand vaccinations to people 65 and older. Iowa’s health department said the state may consider adopting new guidelines “once we have reasonable confidence that supply meets the demands of this broader eligibility criteria.”
Hospitals face COVID-19 surge, staff shortages and rising deaths
Four states with the largest share of hospital beds occupied with COVID-19 patients – California, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia – are struggling to keep pace with the unprecedented surge.
In Los Angeles, public hospitals are preparing to shift to crisis mode, and the county has instructed ambulances to not send patients to overburdened hospitals if they can’t be revived in the field. More than two dozen Georgia hospitals have no available beds in intensive care units, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
While public health officials are optimistic widespread vaccination will provide a glimmer of hope this spring, there’s no respite now for doctors and nurses in overburdened emergency rooms and intensive care units.
– Ken Alltucker
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The Detroit issues we’re watching in 2021
Posted on December 28, 2020 by alvarez
We are working towards a better 2021 by exposing and filling the accountability gaps the pandemic has created or worsened in Detroit. The things at the top of our list of concerns are below. Help us keep an eye out. Reach out if you need us or want to talk through a tip or a story. We are looking forward to a brighter and easier 2021 with you!
Real estate speculation: Even as record unemployment means more people are having a hard time paying rent the real estate market in Detroit hasn’t slowed down. The last economic crisis and the tax foreclosures that followed ushered in a boom of speculative buying that has been impossible to untangle from blight and vacancy today in Detroit’s residential neighborhoods.
Next year we expect the lawsuits against some of Detroit’s most notorious real estate speculators to move through the courts after being slowed down by pandemic-related case backlogs. In February, the city filed cases against father and son duo Stephen and Steve Hagerman and Micheal Kelly. Another case against Salameh Jaser was filed but then dropped.
Alex Alsup’s street view project, which you can find @ZugIslander is a necessary visual gut-punch of just how little time it takes a neighborhood to change or even disappear.
The city is suing over what it calls an “invest and neglect business model.” Their argument is that any enforcement tools like blight tickets, fines, and tax foreclosure the city relies on to keep properties in productive use are ineffective because the business model is the public nuisance causing widespread blight.
COVID-19 reinfections: The Michigan Department of Corrections has at least 115 people in their prisons that have tested positive for COVID-19 again more than 90 days after testing positive the first time. Angie Jackson from the Detroit Free Press broke this story that frankly deserves more attention and concern.
Jackson spoke to people who are not COVID-19 “long-haulers” but tested negative in between their two positive tests, and we have had sources reach out to us saying the same thing. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has not yet responded to our questions about what they are doing to confirm whether or not these are in fact, reinfections, saying only, “We are reviewing case and test data to determine information about individuals who have had a positive test 90 days or more from their initial positive test.”
Prison health is public health, y’all. It’s important the state track down these answers and allow us to inform the public, especially as there are few precautions being taken to prevent outbreaks in MDOC facilities.
City Government: For the past few years, a few news organizations along with Citizen Detroit have been collaborating on a program out of Chicago called Documenters. Detroiters can get paid to attend city government meetings, take careful notes, and upload edited versions of those notes where everyone can access them. More civic participation and more citizen oversight of essential services and taxpayer money is a win-win! Here’s a New Year’s resolution you can cross off your list early, sign up to get info about upcoming trainings and events right now.
Keep the lights on: We’re still making our way through the most recent filing in the Michigan Public Service Commissions’ case concerning utility shut-offs during the pandemic. MPSC is now requiring Michigan’s private (but publicly regulated) utility companies to hand over more data about how many customers are getting shut off for nonpayment and how many are getting help through payment plans or state assistance.
The increased transparency is great. Not so great is that MPSC reports people needing help to pay their bills are still having trouble finding it. Last month 1,726 Consumers Energy customers were disconnected because of nonpayment and 2,718 DTE customers were disconnected. Our earlier analysis of 2017 and 2018 shutoff data showed that more than half the customer’s shut off for nonpayment went more than a year before being reconnected.
A Message from Outlier Media
Posted on October 8, 2020 by alvarez
Outlier Media is preparing for some major changes as we look to the future. We are broadening our focus a bit, but we remain dedicated to filling local information and accountability gaps.
When Outlier Media started five years ago, we wanted to build a news service for people who are undervalued by most newsrooms – low-income communities and people of color. Too often, legacy news organizations write only about – but not for – these communities and focus instead on an ideal reader that already has the information and resources they need. That focus makes information and accountability gaps worse for communities that can least afford them.
We wanted to take the basics of good reporting – rigor, clarity, accessibility, and public service – and discard almost everything else about how the news is delivered and to whom. We believed it was possible to deliver good information to the people who need it most – and hold institutions accountable to those communities.
We have been successful in creating Outlier Media as you know it today: A source of news in Detroit tackling critical issues: tax foreclosure, blight, eviction, utilities, and now even COVID-19 and voting. We get the information directly to those who need it with our SMS-based distribution. But in our work, we haven’t been able to tackle the second part of our mission: the accountability gap.
That’s the gap we want to focus on next.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Democracy Fund, we will spend the next few months reporting about how newsrooms can truly hold those in power to account for their actions. Our team wants to better understand what makes accountability reporting successful — and what causes it to fall short. We want to make these practices replicable even by smaller newsrooms driven to do this important work. We think this is a reporting project we simply have to undertake so the work that comes after can have a more likely impact.
That doesn’t mean that Outlier Media is changing the fundamentals. We are keeping our SMS-based information services in Detroit active, and we are developing a new platform that will allow local newsrooms to connect with that pipeline. We also plan to finally get around to building our own publishing platform.
This is not an ideal time to shift from our existing work, but we feel compelled. Our democracy and our communities depend on journalists being able to do high-impact reporting that holds institutions – including media – accountable to their communities. But, we are also seeing a tremendous amount of harm over the past few years that needs to be addressed if we want a future where that harm is lessened. And so, we here at Outlier Media think it’s our job to try to meet this moment.
As we change our focus, our team is also changing. Our beloved data reporter, Katlyn Alo, is joining the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle as a newsroom developer. There, she will continue to work on ambitious reporting projects and grow her skill set. But she isn’t leaving us entirely: Katlyn will be joining our Board of Advisors.
Additionally, we decided not to finalize a merger with the MuckRock Foundation that was announced earlier this year. We are moving forward as an independent organization. MuckRock has moved to a fiscal sponsor support role for Outlier and they remain an important collaborator.
We want to work with a community of practice with aligned values. If you are interested in collaboration, advising us or creating meaningful partnerships we want to hear from you. Send us an email and let’s work together towards a future of accountability for communities who have suffered in its absence.
We expect more change will come. But our dedication to building inclusive, collaborative, public service journalism has not wavered. We look forward to what we can do together.
Are Michigan Prisons Above the Law?
Posted on October 1, 2020 by jjhoran29
Only six states have had more COVID cases in their prisons than Michigan. Why isn’t there more accountability?
By Joey Horan for Outlier Media
Ursula Bolton and her son, Jewaun McClaine, have been advocating for better treatment inside of Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Michigan’s only female prison, since before the pandemic. But they say things have gotten worse since the August publication of Outlier’s investigation on the Michigan Department of Corrections’ COVID-19 response, in which Bolton and McClaine were key sources.
Bolton, who is incarcerated at Women’s Huron Valley (WHV), is still feeling the physical effects of COVID-19. She caught the virus in the prison in April and ended up on a ventilator for three weeks at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Ypsilanti.
Now, it’s the social isolation and bureaucratic hurdles that are making life increasingly difficult for Bolton. Like all of the 35,000 people in the Michigan Department of Corrections prisons, she has not received a visit from the outside world since March 13.
In this heavily surveilled and controlled environment, Bolton works hard to hold MDOC accountable for their treatment of incarcerated people. McClaine does the same from the outside. But both say accountability is difficult to come by.
“I’ve been told my expectations are too high,” Bolton said. “I just want to be treated like a human being.”
“We’re all here to serve time. What I try to get people to understand is when they’re violating our rights, why shouldn’t they pay the penalty just like we are?”
Outlier published an investigation in late August that looked into MDOC’s response to COVID-19. My reporting found that the agency’s measures to stem the spread of the virus were often ineffective, punitive, and in some cases, created chaos and confusion.
Even now, MDOC only requires widespread testing of facility staff — the only way for the virus to enter prisons — when people inside an MDOC facility have already tested positive. For many inmates I spoke to, the medical isolation they were subjected to felt more like solitary confinement than quarantine.
After the publication of the story, Bolton wanted to see her story in print and learn what was happening in other facilities.
I attempted to send the article to Bolton and other sources at WHV through JPay, a prison electronic messaging service, and the mail. The MDOC, which controls communication into its facilities as a safety measure, rejected the article in both cases.
The JPay was rejected, Bolton said, for being a “Danger to Emotional/Mental Health.”
The printed copy of the story was rejected by the WHV mailroom for being a “THREAT TO SECURITY,” according to the return notice I received postmarked September 11.
Jessica Shumate, who is also incarcerated at Women’s Huron Valley and requested a copy of the story, said the rejections were ironic.
“The treatment that the staff gives to us and the way that they bend policy to their benefit isn’t [damaging to emotional and mental health] but a story about the lack of care and poor treatment are [sic].”
Chris Gautz, an MDOC spokesperson, confirmed that Huron Valley officials felt the contents of the article “could threaten the order of the facility.”
“The safety and security of our facilities, and those who live and work there, is of critical importance and prisoners are prohibited from receiving mail that may pose a threat to that security, order, or discipline of the facility,” he said.
Gautz denies there is anything personal in their censorship. “The MDOC does not retaliate,” he said.
But Bolton says she believes prison officials are retaliating against her for speaking to Outlier and for her frequent attempts to hold WHV officials accountable.
“A lot of the attitude around here is that this is prison, nothing’s going to ever change, there’s nothing we can do, but it does matter to me how other women are being treated in here, and I feel like people need to know about it.”
Bolton has a range of complaints related to how she was treated during the COVID-19 outbreak at WHV.
After coming off of the ventilator at St. Joseph’s, Bolton was transferred back to WHV and put into solitary confinement for medical observation for two weeks, even though she was in a state of delirium according to her and hospital records.
The process for Bolton to address that treatment is through MDOC’s official grievance process, which Bolton has tried, only to have grievance after grievance rejected. The latest set of grievances related to her COVID-19 treatment were all rejected because they were filed too late after the problems they described.
“These happened when I was delirious or in the hospital. So there was no way that I could fill this stuff out,” she said. “The whole process is set up for us to fail.”
As a result of filing three rejected grievances in a 30-day window, Bolton cannot file any grievances for three months without the sign off of a prison official.
For every step Bolton takes on the inside, her son, McClaine follows up on the outside. Still, he feels they have exhausted all the resources available to them.
Bolton and McClaine have filed complaints and sent letters to numerous outside agencies about her treatment, including to the Michigan Legislative Council Ombudsman, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, the Board of Medical Ethics, and the governor’s office.
From the big issues to the small, McClaine encounters roadblocks.
For months, he’s been trying to get his mother’s partial denture replaced, which was lost during her transfer to the hospital.
“I’ve contacted the prison, the MDOC, I think the governor’s office three times,” he said. “And she still hasn’t even received the form she needs to get that done. And, you know, that was lost in April.”
McClaine has spoken to several lawyers about suing the state over his mother’s medical treatment.
So far, the lawyers he has spoken to are hesitant to sue the state or the legal costs are too high, McClaine said.
“Right now, the only recourse we have is to really plead with the state for better treatment,” he said.
“Really, all that we can do at this time is to keep trying.”
This article was published originally in our monthly newsletter In the House. You can subscribe here.
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Is prison health public health?
Posted on August 27, 2020 by alvarez
This week Outlier’s Joey Horan published, in Bridge Magazine, an investigation into the Michigan Department of Corrections’ response to COVID-19. He found MDOC is using solitary confinement-like conditions for pandemic control and cutting off family visitation, but they are not engaging in widespread testing of prison staff. These policies mean the COVID-19 outbreaks in Michigan’s prisons are among the worst in the country. Horan spoke to dozens of people incarcerated at three prisons across the state; The Thumb, Huron Valley, and Gus Harrison. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
SA: I want to start from the beginning. Tell me how you started this story.
JH: Two mothers came through the text messaging system, just expressing concern, both not knowing really what was going on inside and not knowing what the response [of MDOC] was. And in the course of my reporting, both of their sons got sick and tested positive for the virus. I heard about a near-riot over COVID test results at Gus Harrison. So then I started talking to more people at Gus who were being punished. From there I started talking to people about instances of solitary confinement being used because people were sick. I also started talking to Lois Pullano who runs the MDOC Family Advisory Board. She had been getting a lot of calls about solitary being used for people who were suspected of having COVID.
SA: You point out in your piece that visitation was shut down in early March as were transfers between prisons. Mass testing of inmates happened but guards still aren’t getting tested unless there is an outbreak-and this is a new policy as of last week. Even though it was not inmates who brought the virus into the facilities you talked to a lot of people who said they felt like they were being punished. People said medical isolation without any possessions felt just like solitary confinement.
JH: When you’re in prison the threat of punishment and loss of privileges hangs over everything you do. That’s just the general thing I need people to understand. The things that you have to live for in prison are your family visiting, the classes you can take, your yard time, your access to the gym, you know. Those things immediately get taken away when you’re not cooperative with officers or in this case, during a pandemic when every movement needs to shut down. And even pieces of property that we think are so insignificant, a little tiny TV that you need to plug headphones in to watch, people save for months or years. If they get moved to a solitary cell for medical isolation and their TV goes missing or it’s broken in the process, that piece of property is so important. These little freedoms that we take for granted have outsized importance in prison. The fear of losing them weighs over every interaction that people have with power in this setting.
SA: So the state is not doing all it can to control the virus in prisons. But really, what would it take?
JH: So most public health experts would say the only realistic way to control the virus from spreading would be a massive release program to reduce population density in prisons. That would require the Governor to suspend Truth in Sentencing. That falls to the Governor and is a whole political minefield. The MDOC really has done everything they can do under current law to release people eligible for parole. So that is number one, relaxing strict sentencing laws. Number two is a regular mass testing program of guards and staff. MDHHS is the agency that can mandate the testing and the terms of the testing but of course, there are budgetary concerns there-so the accountability is with the legislature too and it’s a financial cost. The MDOC was able to do mass testing of prisoners because the National Guard was there to help.
SA: Why wasn’t staff tested at that time?
JH: Exactly. If the national guard is at each facility testing every single prisoner that’s the time to test the guards. The union told me they were not approached by MDOC about testing. But, there was resistance from the union and prison staff to get tested because they were not guaranteed paid leave. At the same time, they were getting extra hazard pay to show up to work.
SA: I know you weren’t able to include the voices and experiences of as many incarcerated people as you wanted to in this story. Why do you think it’s important to hear directly from these people?
JH: The MDOC will tell you what their policies are. Those can look okay, but it’s only from hearing from people that you understand how those policies play out. Even the power that people are supposed to have, the autonomy they are supposed to have within this kind of system is taken away so often. And, people inside these prisons have very little ability to advocate for themselves through the internal grievance system. And it’s just the basic level of humanity when you hear directly from these individuals. People then become-you know-people rather than crimes.
SA: I think it’s easy to get overwhelmed by stories that are about systemic breakdowns at every level. If you’re not connected to somebody who is already incarcerated where are those pressure points for accountability?
JH: The prison code is ultimately determined by the legislature, and who ends up in prison is determined by your local prosecutor. There is a bill that Stephanie Chang just introduced to shine a brighter light on how solitary confinement is used. There are so many organizations working towards transforming prisons so following them and connecting to them lets you know what is happening. The prison is the part that is very closed off but there are a lot of minor political choices that we as citizens make that we might not pay much attention to that are part of this process.
This conversation was published originally in our monthly newsletter In the House. You can subscribe here.
Hiring: Reporter to cover information needs in Metro Detroit in Arabic for Outlier Media (Temporary position)
Posted on July 1, 2020 by candicefortman
Photo by Thomas Martinsen on Unsplash
About Outlier Media
Outlier Media is a news service based in Detroit, Michigan filling information and accountability gaps since 2017. We seek to fill the news needs of low-income residents who make up at least two-thirds of the city but are poorly served by other news outlets. By keeping residents first, we hope to give more than we take and leave people with the information they need to create change in their communities. Outlier is an organization of people who deeply believe you must live your organizational values. We want to work with people who are motivated to use their skills to unlock more accountability, especially in low wealth communities and communities of color.
Outlier is an innovative, collaborative and supportive journalism organization. We are a small shop but have collaborators and supporters all over the city and the country.
Outlier is looking for a quality-driven and creative reporter to help us meet the needs of Arabic speakers in Metro Detroit. This reporter will help respond directly to news consumers through our SMS product, will report original stories and will collaborate on future news products.
Work inside the text message feed to meet news consumers daily information needs
Identify information or accountability gaps from SMS feed and rigorous reporting
Report out and publish work tot help fill accountability gaps
Employment Term:
This is a temporary contract position lasting six months from the date of hire. This position was made possible in part thanks to a grant from the Facebook Journalism Project. As an organization, Outlier is always working to expand our resources so we can grow our team and cover more communities and work with more talented journalists. This position is no exception. If there is an opportunity to expand this role or lengthen the term we will make it happen and remain transparent about your future with Outlier.
Necessary skills and experience
Two years of reporting experience
Fluent in Arabic
Must believe in relentless fact-checking
Ability to work collaboratively and respectfully with individuals and news organizations throughout the community
Applicants must be living in Metro Detroit, but the position will be remote.
To apply, please send the following to sarah@outliermedia.org by 5 p.m. EST, Wednesday, July 29:
Your resume/CV.
A cover letter/statement of interest. Tell us why you are a good fit for Outlier Media. What does journalism at the intersection of poverty, power and policy look like to you?
Links to at least four work samples your consider relevant to this role. This can be written, audio or video.
We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people and people with disabilities.
Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and we want you to be informed about what they are. Make sure to review the federal policies that protect you in this, and all workspaces: Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
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Outlier Media Retools for COVID-19 Response in Detroit
Posted on April 8, 2020 by candicefortman
At Outlier Media we have replaced the SMS system we use for housing info in Detroit to meet your information needs related to COVID-19 in Detroit and the metro area. Text “Detroit” to 73224 to get information to help you make decisions for yourself and your family. If you don’t find an answer in our text system you can always choose option six which will connect you to a local journalists from our newsroom or other local reporters.
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Detroit has housing issues, but residents have ideas for more solutions
Posted on January 28, 2020 by alvarez
Since a blockbuster Detroit News report found Detroiters had their property overassessed by a total of $600 million between 2010 and 2017, frustration has been palpable. Calls for restitution, always familiar, are more frequent and louder. Solutions put forth by city government — new payment plan options and a $250 million bond proposal to demolish blighted homes — have been met with skepticism or turned down as solutions altogether.
Outlier invited residents, advocates, reporters and experts to come together and have a conversation about challenges and frustrations they face with Detroit housing, but with a focus on the solutions they would like to see in their community.
The following is a catalog of what we heard during that session, followed by a list of housing resources the attendees shared. Some of the ideas have been edited for length or clarity.
Quicken Loans should give anyone who qualifies a zero interest home loan if they live in a home for 5 years. Taxes should be forgiven. Anyone who illegally lost their home should be given a Detroit Land Bank Authority home with a zero interest loan.
The biggest home repair need we see is roofs. The cost to repair is very expensive and not met by existing grant or emergency programs.
Retroactive property tax exemptions.
A bond for home repair grants with no income limits because all residents and homeowners will be paying for this bond.
Instead of paying demolition companies $15K to $32K in my neighborhood to demo buildings that could be rehabbed, give families a $20K grant for repairs. Train up citizens through Detroit Training Centers.
Detroit Public Schools should partner with neighborhoods and builders/trade programs to teach housing rehab. Ann Arbor has a similar program. The money from the sale could be re-invested into the program. This can create safe walking routes, more vibrancy, affordable housing and graduates with skills.
We need residents and the government to come together to develop an oversight committee so this never happens again.
There are no consequences. There haven’t been consequences for decades for investors who buy up property, don’t keep it up and buy places again and again. There need to be consequences.
We need restitution. We can’t overlook the tax foreclosure and Hardest Hit Funds being used for demolition. We need restitution before we can do anything else. We’re giving tax breaks to millionaires. Why don’t we have money for restitution?
We should have restitution for individuals who were overcharged and the people who live in the neighborhoods that were decimated by tax foreclosure.
We need to go after the property owners who are putting their assets into LLC’s.
There is a home repair program in Milwaukee that is a zero percent loan. It doesn’t have to be repaid if you pass the home onto descendants. The loan only has to be repaid if you sell it.
We have to find a way to stop the tax foreclosure process or have a moratorium.
We need more public housing and better public housing. There are 90,000 properties already owned by the government, so that can be the solution.
People have gone through a lot of financial trauma and need help and resources for that trauma.
Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Growing Detroit’s African American Middle Class, a report by Detroit Future City
Modern day redlining reporting from Reveal
Reveal’s lawsuit against the Treasury Department to unmask some LLC’s buying up property
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Housing Detroit: A Community Conversation on the Issues and Solutions
Posted on January 10, 2020 by candicefortman
Outlier Media Presents: Aaron Glantz
Posted on November 6, 2019 by candicefortman
Aaron is the author of Homewreckers! How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks,& Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes & Demolished the American Dream. He will visit the Detroit Public Library Main Branch to talk about his book and for a conversation about housing in Detroit moderated by Outlier Executive Editor, Sarah Alvarez.
Homewreckers brilliantly weaves together the stories of those most ravaged by the housing crisis. The result is an eye-opening expose of the greed that decimated millions and enriched a gluttonous few.
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Aaron Glantz is a senior reporter at Reveal who produces public interest journalism with impact. His reporting has sparked more than a dozen Congressional hearings, a raft of federal legislation and led to criminal probes by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission. He is also the author of three books including “The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans.” His work has appeared in a broad range of media outlets, including The New York Times, NBC News, ABC News and the PBS NewsHour, where his work has twice been nominated for a national Emmy Award. He’s been given a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and Online News Association award.
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Gift Ideas for the Visually Impaired
December 6, 2019 Ethan Yun 0 Comments
The holiday season is upon us and there are only 19 days till you’re officially allowed to frantically unwrap all the goodies under the tree.
Upon discovering what this special occasion has given you, some will react with cries of joy while others may lower their faces with signs of anguish.
To avoid spreading disappointment in the festive season of giving, here is OXSIGHT’s list of best gifts for the visually impaired.
OXSIGHT glasses
OXSIGHT PrismTM and CrystalTM are specially designed smart glasses for the visually impaired. With intuitive technology, users have reported being able to see their whole family at gatherings as well as be able to finally appreciate that gorgeous roast turkey at the centre of the table.
OXSIGHT glasses enable users to maintain eye contact with their loved ones with its clear design and avoid eye contact with no-so-loved ones with its attachable shade.
They also come with a variety of accessories allowing the users to customise them to fit their needs.
Also… the launch of a new product in 2020 will bring more Christmas cheer to those with central vision loss.
Pro tip: change modes to highlight objects of interest.
Perfect for: You?
Stand by Me RP by Dave Steele
The Blind Poet Dave Steele shares his life with retinitis pigmentosa through the medium of written poetry. Steele tackles issues connected to family, social life, perception from others, and tribulations that he has had to overcome.
There are 3 books in the series, so this gift will work for both new and returning readers.
Pro tip: read your favourites aloud to turn your party into a sob fest.
Perfect for: literary buffs, the newly diagnosed, the alienated
Watches for the Blind
As a whole, the process of telling the time is almost entirely a visually based task. While it is possible to access services that provide a speaking clock, they are often impractical for general purpose use when speed and efficiency are required.
Watches designed for those with sight loss have come a long way and help improve the ease with which users can tell the time.
There are 2 main types of these watches.
Talking watches are exactly that. They look like regular watches but at the touch of a button, a voice will sound which announces the current time for the user.
Tactile watches, on the other hand, utilise the user’s sense of touch to convey the time. The simple ones look like regular watches, but have have tactile dots which indicate the hours and hands that are touchable. More complex watches use other methods. Eone Bradley watches have 2 ball bearings that move according to the hands of a clock, while the Dot Watch is a smartwatch and displays time (and other info) in braille.
The main downside to these types of watches is their size. Most will be noticeably thicker than regular watches and some may have a larger case diameter.
Pro tip: coordinate with your attire to be cat-walk ready.
Perfect for: techies, the tardy, the fashion-conscious
Nothing brings the family closer together than a board game session.
Those with sight loss may find it hard to join in with some tabletop classics, but fortunately, accessible versions have been made to make family and friends fun inclusive to all.
Most of these games have had braille added to them, while others now have tactile markers to help players differentiate pieces.
Pro tip: better to have cheaters on your team than not.
Perfect for: those with friends and/or family, kids, the competitive
Search “phones for the visually impaired” and you will be bombarded with a plethora of options claiming to make phone operation easier for those with sight loss. And while these options are great, not everyone is happy to trade in style, function, and inclusiveness for improved accessibility.
This is especially the case when modern smartphones do a great job at providing options for those with disabilities.
Perhaps the leader in this field is Apple’s iPhone.
Their Voiceover function can read text and image descriptions, Dark Mode will increase contrast, Magnifier will enlarge anything on screen, and these are just some of the features available for use.
Pro tip: “Hey Siri, call me Thanos from now on.”
Perfect for: all ages, Internet addicts, fans of Steve Jobs
Audiobook Subscription
Book reading has undergone an evolution in recent years. No longer are bibliophiles limited to simply using their eyes to digest written language. They can now experience books in an auditory capacity.
Audiobooks exist mostly in digital form, so simply gifting one to friends or family may be regarded as miserly. Luckily, there are plenty of subscription options on offer.
The only drawback is that subscriptions mean that you will be financially on the hook for a certain amount of time.
Pro tip: obtain login details from the recipient to take advantage of the subscription yourself.
Perfect for: pseudo-intellectuals, book club patrons, lazy students
Treatment for someone with a visual impairment is a more situational gift. Not every condition has a corresponding cure.
Fortunately, medical science is progressing at a rapid pace so, even if there isn’t one now, there may be one in the future.
Laser eye surgery may help those with long- or short-sightedness. Patients can also sign up to take part in the latest clinical trials involving the use of gene therapy or stem cells. While these trials may be quite experimental and have no guarantee of success, they also offer the opportunity to be at the forefront of modern medicine and contribute to the eventual production of a cure.
Pro tip: expectation management is a must.
Perfect for: the impatient, gamblers, “I know a guy”
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Meet the Gods: Osiris
Osiris was the god of death and the afterlife – one of the Egyptians’ most prominent gods. He judged the souls of the dead to determine who was worthy of reincarnation. He was considered a kind, merciful, and loving judge, bringing comfort and protection, not fear, to the people. Osiris (also know as Usir) was also identified with nature’s cycles, such as the Nile River’s annual flooding, and the growth of crops and other vegetation.
In English, the original form of Osiris’ name means Almighty or The Powerful. Osiris is also known as the Lord of Silence, the Lord of Love, and He Who Is Permanently Benign and Youthful.
He was the firstborn child of Geb and Nut, the god of earth and the goddess of the skies, thus he became Lord of the Earth. Isis, another of the first five gods, became his sister-queen and consort, ruling in his absence.
Osiris is typically depicted as handsome, dressed in royal garb, wearing a tall white crown with red feathers on both sides, and carrying a crook (a symbol of Egyptian kings derived a shepherd’s staff) and a flail (a whip or goad symbolic of the king’s power … or an agricultural threshing tool). The story is told that he was born into the world wearing that crown, an atef, symbolizing Ra’s decision that Osiris succeed his father as king. Often his body is seen wrapped in white like a mummy, with only his hands and face exposed – and that skin was green or black. Theories include black representing decay and green representing the crops grown after the Nile River flooded its banks each year. At “8 cubits, 6 palms, and 3 fingers,” that made him an intimidating presence 15 feet and 3 inches tall.
He is credited with civilizing Egypt. Instituting laws, he ended cannibalism, and introduced agriculture, religious teachings, culture, and a vegetarian diet. Everyone was equal, there was an abundance of food, and his kingdom became a paradise. Next he went on a quest to enlighten the rest of the world – eventually reaching India.
Set, his jealous brother, murdered Osiris. Isis found his body, used magic to revive him long enough to get pregnant with their son, Horus the Younger. Another tale has Osiris embalmed, mummified and hidden away. Set found the body and cut it into fourteen pieces and scattered them. Isis once again set out to find her husband, managing to collect all but one of the pieces. The fourteenth – Osiris’s phallus – was lost forever. Isis duplicated each body part with wax, burying them separately with local priests protecting each site thinking it was the real burial site of Osiris.
His body (yes – including the wax phallus) was reassembled, but he would no longer reside among the living. Osiris descended into the underworld and served as Lord of the Dead, becoming the god of the underworld and of the afterlife. It is written that his son, Horus, avenged his father’s death by defeating Set and casting him into the desert and becoming the new king of Egypt.
According to treasuresegypt.com. “He is associated with the mythical Bennu bird (inspiration for the Greek Phoenix) who rises to life from the ashes.” His cult followers worshipped him, praying and making sacrifices, hoping to be guaranteed resurrection into eternal life. Ancient Egyptians worshipped him to assure healthy crops and prosperity.
One of the celebrations in his honor was the Great Mystery Festival, in addition to a five-day religious ritual every spring. Activities would include feasting, plays, storytelling and religious services.
Witches I know who call on Osiris do so together with Isis to be the god and goddess present in a ritual.
Lynn Woike
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All my life I have known magic was real. As a child, I played with the fae, established relationships with trees and “just knew things.” In my maiden years I discovered witchcraft and dabbled in the black-candles-and-cemeteries-at-midnight-on-a-fullmoon magick just enough to realize I did not understand its power. I went on to explore many practices including Zen, astrology, color therapy, native traditions, tarot, herbs, candle magic, gems, and, as I moved into my mother years, Buddhism, the Kabbalah and Reiki. The first man I dated after my divorce was a witch who reintroduced me to the Craft, this time by way of the Goddess. For 11 years I was in a coven, but with retirement, I have returned to an eclectic solitary practice. When accepting the mantle of crone, I pledged to serve and teach. This is what I do from my skoolie – a 30-year-old school bus converted into a tiny house on wheels that I am driving around the country, following 72-degree weather, emerging myself into nature, and sharing magic with those I meet. Find me at thewitchonwheels.com, Facebook and Instagram.
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December 8, 2016 Ken Pierce Leave a comment
I awoke to the news this morning that legendary Emerson, Lake and Palmer bassist/vocalist Greg Lake had passed away sometime during the evening before and what a terrible loss for music lovers worldwide this is. 2016 has been a cruel year for music fans with the likes of David Bowie, Glen Frey and even Keith Emerson himself leaving us and there were so many others that I have not listed. Greg Lake was something special to many and Progressive Rock fans first knew him well as being instrumental in the early years of King Crimson where he recorded “In The Court Of The Crimson King” along with many of its other notable tunes like “20th Century Schizoid Man” and “Epitaph”. Personally speaking I was not one of those who followed the Crimson stuff and first heard the golden melodies of his voice on the “Brain Salad Surgery” album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. My Dad had the album and its Giger cover fascinated me so as a younger lad that I began to play it over and over and over again. I was a fan of the band ever since and though I would follow them for many releases afterward I would never get to see them performing in concert. I had always wanted to and hoped that some sort of reunion/farewell would be mapped out but that thought ended when Keith passed and now we only have the countless albums and performances of their material in Carl Palmer’s project.
While I mentioned never seeing ELP in action, I did get to see Lake perform at a couple of special appearances and the first one was with Trans-Siberian Orchestra several years ago where he performed “Karn Evil 9” with them. It was outstanding for sure. Then there was a special invite only event to discuss his “Songs Of A Lifetime” appearances. That photo above was taken by me at the Gibson Guitar studios in NYC where Mr. Lake was doing that and also giving a demonstration of some guitars for select media and friends. It was an incredible experience hearing him perform songs like “Lucky Man” and “Jerusalem” in such a private setting. He even found the time to talk to all of the attendees and take photos with them. I remember thanking him for so many amazing songs which is something I was quite certain he had heard over and over for years. Speaking of the ELP songs, I’ve recently secured copies of the bands remasters and shall be starting to put up thoughts about each of them. Now its even more important to discuss their impact on music and the bands that followed them. Greg Lake was 69 years old at the time of his passing and it would be cancer that took him from us. We thank him for so many incredible musical contributions and for being a truly influential legend of a player and we wish his family, close friends and worldwide fanbase the deepest of condolences. Lake’s passing is a dark moment in Progressive Rock music history for sure. May you Rest In Peace Mr. Lake.
As in the past, this was not a memorial loaded with finer details outside of my own thoughts. All of that stuff is well penned in his Wikipedia entry and I encourage you to read and learn more about Greg Lake and celebrate his music going forward.
Official Website: http://www.greglake.com
Official Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Lake
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Subject : Baptists Subject : Booksellers' advertisements Date range : 1700-1799 Clear All
Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806. (10)
Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806. Church history of New-England. (3)
Booth, Abraham, 1734-1806. (1)
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Truth is great, and will prevail. [Two lines of Scripture texts]
Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806.
On the relationship between church and state in Massachusetts. Signed on p. 36: Isaac Backus. Middleborough, April 20, 1781. "At James Arnold's in Providence, and at Philip Freeman's, in Boston, may be had the author's ...
An appeal to the public for religious liberty, against the oppressions of the present day. [Three lines from Galatians]
Signed on p. 61: Isaac Backus. Errata, p. 62. "Books published by Isaac Backus, Pastor of a church in Middleborough ... The most of these may be had single at Mr. Phillip Freeman's in Union-Street, Boston, and a few setts ...
An appeal to the people of the Massachusetts state, against arbitrary power. [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Signed on p. 8: Isaac Backus, agent for the Baptist churches in this state, by advice of their committee. Boston, April 6, 1780. Booksellers' advertisement, p. 8.
An apology for the Baptists. In which they are vindicated from the imputation of laying an unwarrantable stress on the ordinance of baptism; and against the charge of bigotry in refusing communion at the Lord's table to paedobaptists. / By Abraham Booth. ; [Four lines of quotations]
Booth, Abraham, 1734-1806.
Printer's name supplied by Evans. Error in paging: p. 121 misnumbered 221. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [180].
A letter to the Reverend Mr. Benjamin Lord, of Norwich; occasioned by some harsh things which he has lately published against those who have dissented from his sentiments about the ministry, the church, and baptism. / By Isaac Backus, Pastor of a church of Christ, in Middleborough. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Errata statement and advertisement for books sold by Philip Freeman of Boston, p. 40.
A history of New-England, with particular reference to the denomination of Christians called Baptists. Containing the first principles and settlements of the country; the rise and increase of the Baptist churches therein; the intrusion of arbitrary power under the cloak of religion; the Christian testimonies of the Baptists and others against the same, with their sufferings under it, from the begining [sic] to the present time. : Collected from most authentic records and writings, both ancient and modern. / By Isaac Backus, Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Middleborough. ; Vol. I[-III]. ; [Four lines of quotations]
Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806. ; Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806. Church history of New-England.
Title and imprint vary: v. 2, A church history of New-Engand. Vol. II. Extending from 1690, to 1784. Including a concise view of the American war, and of the conduct of the Baptists therein, with the present state of their ...
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A Fish caught in his own net. An examination of nine sermons, from Matt. 16. 18. published last year, by Mr Joseph Fish of Stonington; wherein he labours to prove, that those called standing churches in New-England, are built upon the rock, and upon the same principles with the first fathers of this country: and that Separates and Baptists are joining with the gates of hell against them. : In answer to which; many of his mistakes are corrected; the constitution of those churches opened; the testimonies of prophets and apostles, and also of many of those fathers are produced, which as plainly condemn his plan, as any Separate or Baptist can do. / By Isaac Backus. Pastor of a church of Christ in Middleborough. ; [Six lines of quotations]
Advertisement for books "Published by the same author, and sold at Philip Freeman's in Union-Street, Boston; and by Thomas Green in Newport."--p. [130]. "Errata."--p. [131].
A door opened for equal Christian liberty, and no man can shut it. This proved by plain facts. : [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Running title: A door opened for Christian liberty. Signed on p. 15: Isaac Backus. Boston, May 10, 1783. Bookseller's advertisement, p. [2].
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Date of publication : 1700 Subject : Keith, George, 1639?-1716 Subject : Society of Friends Clear All
Trepidantium Malleus. (2)
Field, John, 1652-1723. (1)
Keith, George, 1639?-1716. (1)
Phillips, Daniel, d. 1748. (1)
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The Quakers creed containing twelve articles of their antichristian doctrine, for which many have denyed them. Publish'd by some, who have joyned with Mr. George Keith, in the City of London, and did formerly meet with him at Turners-Hall, and in divers parts of the country, as Huntington, Reading, Bedford, and Colchester.
Keith, George, 1639?-1716.
Marginal notes. Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library.
The Quakers complaint against George Keith, humbly presented to the clergy of the Church of England, who have lately receiv'd him into their communion, and suffer'd him to preach in their pulpits With some reasons why the people called Quakers have excommunicated George Keith, &c. clearing them from the aspersions cast upon them by him.
Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C..
The creed-forgers detected in reply to a pamphlet falsely called the Quakers-creed, containing twelve articles / published by some, who have not joyned with Geo. Keith in his pride and contradiction, but testifie against both him, and them that joyn with him therein.
Field, John, 1652-1723.
Attributed by Wing to John Field. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
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Remarks, and animadversions, on Mr. Keith's two sermons, being his first after ordiantion, [sic] preached at the parish church of St. George's Butolphs-Lane, London, May the 12th. 1700. on St. Luke i. 6 Now impartially compared with his former writings, setting George against Keith, and endeavouring to reconcile them, by shewing what he should have said upon the subjest. By W.B. a communicant of the Church of England.
W. B.
Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Proteus redivivus, or, The turner of Turners-Hall truly represented and the abuses and falsehoods of George Keith's fourth narrative, so far as they concern the author, examin'd and detected / by Daniel Phillips.
Phillips, Daniel, d. 1748.
Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
A sober reply to a serious enquiry. Or, An answer to a reformed Quaker in vindication of himself, Mr. G. Keith and others, for their conformity to the Church of England, against what I have written on that subject. By Trepidantium Malleus.
Trepidantium Malleus.
Trepidantium Malleus = Samuel Young. Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
A Serious warning and caution unto George Keith and to many others as also a relation of some expressions from George Keith, concerning his reasons which he then gave, for opposing and exposing the Quakers, when at his place at Turner's-hall : the intention of the publication of which, and more that is in this paper contain'd, is proposed for a publick and general good of all.
Signatures: Reproduction of original in: Friends' Library (London, England)
A second friendly epistle to Mr. George Keith and the reformed Quakers who are now convinced that water baptism is an ordinance of Christ ... / by the reformed Quakers old friend Trepidantium Malleus.
Trepidantium Malleus is a pseudonym for Samuel Young. Imperfect: pages stained and tightly bound with some loss of print. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
A dialogue; between George Keith, and an eminent Quaker relating to his coming over to the Church of England. With some modest reflections on Mr. Keith's two first sermons, preach'd at St. Georges Buttolphs Church on Sunday May the 12th. 1700.
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Record Review: Bill Nelson’s Red Noise – Sound On Sound US CD
Posted on July 2, 2020 by postpunkmonk
Enigma Records | US | CD | 1989 | 7 73384-2
Bill Nelson’s Red Noise: Sound On Sound US CD [1989]
Don’t Touch Me [I’m Electric]
For Young Moderrns
Stop/Go/Stop
Furniture Music
Radar In My Heart
Out Of Touch
A Better Home In The Phantom Zone
Substitute Flesh
The Atom Age
Art/Empire/Industry
Revolt Into Style
Stay Young [live]
Out Of Touch [live]
Wow! It was early in my first flush of Bill Nelson fandom when I sourced a copy of the US Harvest LP of his “Red Noise” album. I had bought his 7″ boxed set and liked everything in it so I wasted no time in checking out any Nelson albums I ran across. While I felt that the preceding album “Drastic Plastic” that Nelson had made in 1978 was the final Be-Bop Deluxe album was a very tasty slice of forward thinking technopop, nothing could have prepared our 1979 ears for the furious assault that this album represented.
From the first bar of “Don’t Touch Me [I’m Electric],” it was apparent that Nelson was out to deliver as many high-voltage jolts with this enervated music as he possibly could. I suspect that he’s heard the first DEVO album by the time that it came to write a follow up to “Drastic Plastic” after the break-up of Be Bop Deluxe following that album and tour. But this album is at times even more frantic that the Akron spuds. The synth patches here were configured for maximum twitch. Listening to this song really was like licking a 9v battery! Most of the drums here were acoustic and played by Nelson at tempos that made me suspect tape manipulation, but Dave Mattacks also guested on some tracks with a mixture of acoustic and synthetic drums. What was available in that market segment in 1978-79 was pretty bleeding edge!
On the next track, the tempo withdrew to a less frantic pace. “For Young Moderns” was a backward glance to Be-Bop’s art rock roots with a winsome melodic hook on the synths that either Nelson and Andy Clark, the only other carry over from Be-Bop Deluxe, played here. But the guitars were content to chug in a Post-Glam fashion even as the lyrics were ultimately forward thinking New Wave.
About half of the songs here were electro-punk ravers, and “Stop/Go/Stop” was there to whip your spine back into shape following the relative calm of “For Young Moderns.” The melodic structures of so many of these tunes feels like a brutal application of jingle forms amped up with way too many amphetamines. Drums were applied in rigid tattoos so that any dancing would probably lead to spasmodic jerks at most. In short, it’s the sound of an old pro effortlessly meeting [and maybe surpassing] the New Breed at their own game.
“Furniture Music” was Nelson co-opting Satie’s concept to ends that sounded nothing like the proto-ambient sounds of that forward thinker, but instead strongly recalled the influence of TVLKING HEVDS “No Compassion,” right down to the delay on the keyboard hook that slithered through the song. “A Better Home In the Phantom Zone” belied the possible origins of it being a Be-Bop Deluxe song that I put down to the complex, stuttering arrangement here where most of the songs were simple and direct in their execution.
After a few slower tempo songs, the delirious “Art/Empire/Industry” let loose with a savage pummeling that harked back to the opener. The rigid tattoos of the early syndrums by Dave Mattacks made my head feel like a punching bag when I listened to this one. And I think that Nelson was really on to something with his penchant for titling these songs with a thread of single words held together with forward slashes. It reflected the brutal cut-up modernism aesthetic he was striving for perfectly.
Then the album ended with the song that my “vanity label” took its name from. Nelson eased up on the twitch factor to take George Melly’s conceit and turn it into a proper pop anthem. This album set a high standard for an established rock star plowing deep into modernism fearlessly. It may be comparable in its time to something like David Bowie making a jungle record with “Earthling” but I have to say that the latter worked in spite of that conceit. But Bill Nelson had no difficulty or embarrassment in plunging far into an electro-punk aesthetic that could be traced back to DEVO, yet somehow managed to equal or better their achievement without breaking into a sweat. His lyrics for these songs were as busy as the music yet had miles of wit to spare. The measure of this 41 year old album’s achievement is the fact that much of this album reflected extremes that were radical for their time and are still radical now.
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12 Responses to Record Review: Bill Nelson’s Red Noise – Sound On Sound US CD
Mel Creighton says:
Oh yeah. I love this record. It is one of those records that I have more than one copy of in my collection. The music and the lyrics are spellbinding. When I listen to this work, I feel “Out of Touch” as he says on the first song on side two.
Yeah Sound On Sound is an underrated classic piece of New Wave brilliance! There are so many times where the New Wave seemed to be a Venn Diagram. Bill Nelson’s entrance into the New Wave arena brought elements of Glam and prog, as well as a bit of the virtuoso into the mix.
I agree with your assessment that Nelson was well aware of the artists staking their claims in this musical New World and took more than a few cue’s from them. The artists I feel he most reminded me of at the moment was XTC.
The John Leckie connection can’t be discounted here, as he worked on their earliest singles and first two albums. In retrospect there are even elements of Magazine to be found on Sound On Sound.
Still one of my favorite pieces of Bill Nelson vinyl among a collection that is literally massive part of my own music collection.
Gerald McBoing-Boing says:
One of my all-time favorite albums, so good to see someone appreciating Bill these days!
I called it “spaz rock” at the time and felt it outdid even XTC’s “White Music” for sheer herky-jerkiness.
Everything Bill did in the 70s and 80s is at least very good but from 79-84 he was *on fire*, and it’s all great including the brilliant ambient stuff found on the “Trials Of Intimacy” box.
Subsequently, he changed his vocal style around the time of the failed BeBop reunion and I lost interest.
jsd says:
I fucking love this album. All of Nelson’s late 70’s/early 80’s vocal stuff is top notch, but this might even be my favorite out of all of it. Still kicks ass all these years on.
Great album-I also have various forms of the singles from it.
I have never been able to get into BBD-believe me I have tried-but have all of Nelson’s 80s work and still love it to bits.
After “Atom Shop” I am afraid he lost me-just perpetual “noodling” and ever-more preposterous song titles whose whimsy factor went off the scale into parody.
The “Cocteau” years are the finest for me,but this and “Quit Dreaming..” were great precursors to the synth-based experimental work.
Ade.W says:
I had seen BBD live around about 74ish supporting Cockney Rebel at the Liverpool Stadium(an old boxing venue). So was a fan from then on. The change of direction that was Electrical Language still gave no indication of the attack of sound on sound. Its a great album, it still sounds great and fresh today, I play it all the time and the B-sides of Furniture Music. As for the 12″ of Revolt into Style, where is the rest of this live set?
For anyone who hasn’t heard “Bill nelson and the Gentlemen Rocketeers live”, I can heartily recommend.
Jeremy Shatan says:
Yes, a total classic. I was thrilled to find a copy for my nephew last year!
Jeremy Shatan – What a fine uncle you are! Alas my nephews are into red neck country music.
Dirk L Holland says:
Here’s hoping that the excellent Bebop Deluxe reissues from Esoteric Recordings continue into Bill’s solo work, at least through Getting the Holy Ghost Across…
Dirk L Holland – Though I admire BBD and have nearly a full set of the late 90s DLX RMs [I still need “Futurama”] I can’t go down the SDLX box for too many artists. I’ve not concerned myself with the BeBopBoxes. I’m pulled towards the Prince canon due to The Vault material being a big selling point that most other artists can’t compete with in terms of Monk-bait®!
I feel weakness looking over Sign “☮️“ the Times, but Lovesexy will crumple me for sure…
Dirk L Holland – I still may make the move for SOTT. I have a few months. Things can happen. If you can believe it, I’ve still not heard “Lovesexy!” I’d like to see just how many of these boxes the Prince Estate would be planning. With dozens of Vault tracks in the periphery, you could probably do this with any of his 80s albums. I’d definitely be there for “Dirty Mind” or “Controversy” but they might not be on the table, owing to the pre-superstar era they inhabit.
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On the final minute, some faculties are planning to reopen for the spring semester
By Maria Meredith Last updated Jan 12, 2021
Some colleges have only a few days left to cancel plans to reopen for the spring semester as Covid cases rise. Others just stop.
Stanford University had planned to bring more students back for the spring semester with a late personal start date. However, the university recently announced that freshmen and second grades will not be able to return to campus after all.
The news came a day after it was reported that more than 40 students had tested positive for coronavirus in the past week, according to The Stanford Daily.
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“The deteriorating circumstances of Covid-19 have now undermined our expectations for the experience we students can deliver,” said President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell in a letter to the community.
Goucher College in Maryland recently announced that it will stay online for the spring while other colleges and universities, including Michigan State, Mississippi State, Nazareth College in New York, and Syracuse, are delaying the start of the semester.
Less than two weeks prior to the start of the semester, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced that elementary school classes would begin January 19, as planned. However, face-to-face lessons don’t begin until February 8th. (The university also had a rocky attempt to reopen it last fall.)
A student studies in an open air seating area on the University of North Carolina campus at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on August 18, 2020.
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Universities across the country and across the board are struggling to get students safely to campus as the public health crisis deepens but dissatisfaction with distance learning rises.
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The United States continues to report record numbers of Covid-19 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University, even if the introduction of the vaccine gains some momentum.
The country currently has an average of 3,239 deaths per day.
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While all injuries are regrettable, not all are compensable. There are at least three ingredients that must be present for a winning case:
First, you need “Liability,” sometimes called “fault.” Liability results from negligent acts or omissions of another, such as someone running a stop sign, or a doctor mistakenly cutting off the wrong leg.
Secondly, a case needs “Damages,” such as injuries, death or lost wages, that were proximately caused–or exacerbated—by the negligent act or omission.
Finally, there is “Collectability.” A judgment against a person or company may be for millions of dollars, but that is not the end. A judgment or claim that cannot be collected, either due to lack of insurance, poverty or bankruptcy, is still essentially worthless.
A strong injury case must have all three. Imagine you do my job, and here are a couple examples to consider, and see if you notice what is missing:
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Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai
As the Nigerian Army (NA) continues to work hard and collaborate with other security agencies towards ensuring national peace and security of citizens, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has solicited the understanding of all, while passionately calling on the media to desist from negative and inaccurate reportage, which are capable of inciting people and breaching the country’s fragile socio-cultural harmony.
Buratai, who is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), spoke during a press briefing on the ‘Conduct of Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL) and Combat Support Arms Training (COSAT) Week.’
Buratai, however appreciated the vital role of the media as formidable partners in promoting peace and national development, saying “hence, NA will continue to partner with our indefatigable Nigerian media in this respect.”
“The NA is continuously making progress towards ensuring the development of this great country. We therefore solicit the cooperation and goodwill of all well-meaning Nigerians to ensure peace, security, and safety of lives and properties. On this note, let me express my sincere gratitude to the media for their cooperation in reporting NA activities. I urge you to give NADCEL/COAST 2019 the desired wide coverage and publicity. I wish to also use this opportunity to call on all Nigerians to show interest and love to their own army as we strive to perform our constitutional responsibilities,” he noted.
The COAS, disclosed that the ‘Nigerian Army Day Celebration’ offers NA the platform to reflect on its performance and celebrate its achievements, as well as highlight military operations as key instruments of national power, unity, integration and development.
He said that COSAT is an important training activity which provides a platform for the combat support arms to reappraise their performance in providing combat support to NA operations.
“Accordingly, NADCEL and COSAT will be held jointly this year tagged as NADCEL/COSAT 2019. This year’s celebration is deliberately designed to focus on NA’s commitment as a professionally responsive force in the discharge of its constitutional roles. The combination of the two events is a novelty which effectively supports NA’s drive towards building of a professionally responsive force. This influenced the choice of our theme for this year’s celebration, which is Professionally Responsive Soldering: A Panacea for Successful Military Operations”. The combined event is scheduled for 28 June – 6 July 2019 in Lagos, 81 Division’s Area of Responsibility,” Buratai added.
The Army’s number one officer, said this year’s event is a deft move directed towards enhancing the Army’s training with particular emphasis on the combat supports arms for enhanced capacity-building.
His words: “This is coming at a time we are actively involved in multifarious operations across the country in which the thorough knowledge of procedures, application of firepower, resource management and actionable intelligence are most invaluable for our success. Meanwhile, this media briefing signals the commencement of this year’s event. It will be followed by sanitation exercises, interdenominational church services, Jumu’at service, medical outreaches in all units and formations, and series of lectures to be delivered by erudite scholars. Other activities lined up for the week-long celebration include commissioning of projects in NA barracks around Lagos, a parade march past, and NADCEL/COSAT dinner”.
Meanwhile in a statement issued by the spokesperson of the Nigerian Army, Colonel Sagir Musa, the Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL) and Combat Support Arms Training Week will hold from Friday 28th June to Saturday 6th July 2019 in Lagos State with the theme “Professionally Responsive Soldiering: A Panacea for successful Military Operations’’.
The statement said: “Activities to mark the event will kick off on 28th June 2019 with a press conference by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai at the Headquarters, Theatre Command, Command and Control Centre in Maiduguri, Borno State. Other activities lined up for the celebration include environmental sanitation exercise to be conducted on Saturday 29th June 2019 in some designated areas within 81 Division Area of Responsibility as well as in all units and formations across Nigeria.
“Accordingly, interdenominational Church Service at St Charles Lwanga Catholic Church, Ikeja Cantonment and all units and formations Catholic and Protestant Churches in all Nigerian Army Barracks on 30th June 2019 and Juma’at Service on Friday 5th July 2019 in all the Mosques across the Nigerian Army formations and units.
“Similarly, there will be an interesting novelty football match between the COAS team and Actors Guild of Nigeria team on Thursday 4th July 2019. While free medical outreaches in some selected communities in 81 Division Area of Responsibility and other Nigerian Army formations and units will be conducted on 3 July 2019.
“The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, will be the Special Guest of Honour during the grand finale slated for Saturday 6th July 2019 which will feature parade/march past in Ikeja Military Cantonment, COAS Commendation Award Ceremony, Exhibition of Infantry Light Armoured Vehicles and dance display by various selected Nigerian cultural troupes, among other activities.”
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Project Looks to Boost Renewable Energy Use at NFPs
A new program is set to be launched in Melbourne, which will enable not-for-profit organisations to install and benefit from renewable energy systems.
Luke Michael | 14 November 2017 at 8:14 am
The project is a collaboration between the Alternative Technology Association (ATA) and the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation (LMCF), who are looking to work with Victorian NFPs to reduce their CO2 emissions while saving money.
NFPs would be provided with a free site feasibility and supplier assessment, to help them “understand the potential for sustainable energy improvements to achieve real economic and environmental savings”.
The ATA said this project would be useful in allowing NFPs with limited resources to invest in renewable energy.
“Finding the most appropriate technology, its sizing and design considerations, and how much it will save is complex and beyond the reach of most NFPs,” the ATA said on its website.
“Struggling with resourcing to deliver their core organisational goals, NFPs typically do not have the time to take advantage of energy management opportunities – despite these opportunities potentially ‘freeing up’ operational funds for better use in core service delivery.”
Through the project, the ATA will complete an assessment of nominated NFP sites, while considering a range of sustainable energy improvements.
They will facilitate a relationship with financing partners to overcome any hurdles with the upfront cost, and also monitor technology performance – examining the money and carbon savings for six to 12 months after implementation.
The project will also provide technology recommendations to ensure lower energy bills and reduced environmental impact.
The ATA and LMCF hope this will “build internal capacity and confidence within NFPs… to continue on their pathway to smarter energy management”.
Damien Moyse, the ATA’s policy and projects manager said: “With the right mix of sustainable energy technologies, not-for-profits can save a lot of money while reducing their carbon emissions.
“Finding the most appropriate technology, its sizing and design considerations, and how much it will save is complex and beyond the reach of most not-for-profits.
“They typically don’t have the time to take advantage of energy management opportunities – despite these opportunities potentially freeing up operational funds for better use.”
Any organisation that is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission or which has tax charity concession status with the Australian Tax Office is eligible for the program.
The program will officially be opened on 17 November.
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What is smaller than a user story but bigger than a task?
We have a "heavy" story that cannot be decomposed into smaller stories. It will span several sprints.
We can decompose the story into tasks all right, but tasks seem to be abstractions that are only a few hours long.
What we need is an abstraction that will drive each sprint - with a well defined deliverable (similar to a story, but internal), points estimation etc. What is smaller than a story, but bigger than a task? How is something like this usually handled?
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On the occasions this has happened with my teams, we look for the smallest testable slices we can make, even if we know we wouldn't release them. For example, we were integrating with a 3rd party and wanted to do single sign on between them and our site. Our story was:
In order purchase products on the 3rd party site
As a registered customer
I want to log in using my existing information
It's kinda hard to break so it still has any customer value but there was a couple of weeks effort needed to get the single sign on to work - far bigger than we'd accept into a sprint.
We ended up with a number of smaller stories which, while quite technical, all had an outcome we could demo to a non-technical product owner. To get there, we looked at what steps the team needed to take to get there technically and identified where there were outcomes that the PO was happy to verify.
We still had a couple of large chunks with no verifiable outcome though. To get round this, we created a web page within our app that would output things like user IDs, user roles etc that are passed to the 3rd party so the PO could see the app was doing something and getting the right information out, even though it wasn't doing anything with the data yet.
We also colour coded the broken out stories that were part of the big story so we made progress of the whole feature visible on our board.
Not ideal but that's the best approach we've managed so far.
What we need is an abstraction that will drive each sprint[.]
This is commonly known as the Sprint Goal. The Sprint Goal is an essential (but often overlooked) component of successful Scrum implementations.
User-Story Sizing
This will cause you pain in the long run. It's very rare that an epic can't be decomposed into right-sized stories, but it can happen if:
You have too many hidden dependencies in your stories.
Your Product Backlog doesn't include sufficient spikes or non-functional requirements as user stories.
Your sprint length is too short to accommodate your expected story sizes.
Your stories include speculative functionality, rather than just the minimum releasable feature needed for a given Sprint Goal.
Your "heavy" story likely suffers from more than of of these problem areas, and I suspect it could be classified as a complex story. In User Stories Applied Mike Cohn says:
Unlike the compound story, the complex story is a user story that is inherently large and cannot easily be disaggregated into a set of constituent stories. If a story is complex because of uncertainty associated with it, you may want to split the story into two stories: one investigative and one developing the new feature.
In other words, such stories can certainly be decomposed, but the proper level of decomposition may first require changes to the way you construct stories or manage the Product Backlog. These changes are definitely worth investigating if the alternative is committing to an epic that ignores the framework's basic iterative principles.
Guidelines for Granularity
This is fine. Granularity is a matter of taste, but here are some widely-accepted Scrum granularity principles:
Tasks should be sized so that they can be "done" or "not done" within one half-day to two business days.
User stories must be sized to fit within a single sprint.
If tasks get much bigger, they become hard to estimate accurately. Make them too small, and they just increase process overhead.
Any given user story, though, must fit within a single sprint before it is accepted. Otherwise, you ignore the time-box principle and fall into the "20% of the story is 80% done" trap.
Use Your Sprint Goals as Story Filters
What we need is an abstraction that will drive each sprint...[towards] a well defined deliverable[.]
This is the primary purpose of the Sprint Goal. Each sprint, the Product Owner and the Team should agree on an over-arching Sprint Goal that captures the spirit of the minimum releasable increment for the sprint. Stories that don't address the Sprint Goal should probably be filtered out or de-prioritized by the Product Owner during Backlog Grooming or Sprint Planning.
Another use of the Sprint Goal is to provide the fundamental measure of success for the sprint. By definition, any sprint that satisfies its Sprint Goal is a successful sprint.
It's also not uncommon to have sprints that don't produce a releasable feature (e.g. sprints dedicated to non-functional requirements, tool-chain or process improvements, or story spikes). In the case of story spikes, for example, a Sprint Goal like:
Review the available literature on the effectiveness of embiggening a Jabberwock.
might be perfectly appropriate. Such a goal is measurable, possibly demonstrable, and most certainly a candidate for rigid time-boxing.
Scrum without Sprint Goals is somewhat akin to flying without an airplane: it might be conceptually simpler to just flap your arms, but you are unlikely to arrive at your intended destination.
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Are you sure you cannot split the story?
If you have for example some story about "user can subscribe to receive weekly emails" , you could split it into something like "system can send emails", "system can register users to receive emails" , and then "user can subscribe", or something like that.
Can't you separate your story in a similar way?
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Let's assume that I can't. I am asking what the methodology is to handle such cases (hypothetical or not). The point is that there are stories at times that will not fit a sprint. – Ziffusion Feb 6 '13 at 12:53
If you can't break it down in order to fit it into a sprint then it's not a story, it's a epic. The hierarchy in Agile should be (in order of decreasing size): Epic > User story > Task. That's both the hypothetical and actual methodology! – Willl Feb 6 '13 at 13:06
What we need is an abstraction that will drive each sprint...
Usually stories are used to drive the sprint. Stories should have clear acceptance criteria so that everyone involved, can understand the state of the story. A story should be accepted by the PO as soon as possible (not at the end of a sprint or in the sprint-review).
Usually each story is broken down into tasks which are roughly between 1h. -1d. With this you can track your sprint tasks-burn-down using a chart. This helps you to recognize patterns like to fast or slow in order to drive your sprint. If you start with 100 tasks for a 2 week sprint you measure each day how many are still open (including brand new ones).
Some very mature teams even do not use tasks, only stories, which they burn down as described by Jeff Sutherland. They have around 100-200 stories which they track in a story-burn-down chart.
Another factor is the bigness of a story. I always make sure stories are estimated (with planning poker or similar) using the so-called Fibonacci range 1,2,3,5,8,13,... Then a let the team choose the upper limit of splitting: usually an 13 or an 8 sized story needs to be splitted (vertically, not like per sw-arch-layer) before it can be worked on in a sprint.
Regarding story splitting strategies see:
http://www.agile-ux.com/2011/04/19/10-strategies-to-split-large-user-stories/
http://www.richardlawrence.info/2009/10/28/patterns-for-splitting-user-stories/
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I'll give you a direct answer: there is nothing smaller than a story but larger than a task.
The good news is, there are almost no story that cannot be broken down.
For example, say your story is "as a user, i want to be able to frobnicate the jimjab", and that's definitely a month of work for several people. What do you do? Likely, doing this requires a database change. So, write a story: "as a developer, i need the database changed so that I can implement the "frobnicate" story.
Maybe you need to improve the test harness so you can validate the jimjams: "as a tester, I need the test harness modified so I can test the "frobnicate" story.
Maybe the superclass of the Jimjam class must be extended: "as a developer, I need the MasterJab class to be extended so I can implement the "frobnicate" story.
Spend quality time thinking about it, and I'm certain you can break your story (which is actually an epic) into sprint sized stories. Tell yourself you can do it, and it will happen.
Bryan OakleyBryan Oakley
If the story is too large to fit into a sprint then it should be an epic. You would then break this epic down into smaller stories and then break these down into tasks. In that way you can spread the completion of the epic over several iterations while always being able to complete the stories that make it up (and therefore hit your sprint goal).
If you can't split the story into parts that are small enough to complete in an iteration then there's a problem with how the story has been written or with the techniques you are using to decompose it. It doesn't matter (in my view) whether the tasks will only take a few hours but if you think these are too small then you could try and bundle a few related tasks together so that you don't feel like you're measuring something that's too small to meaningfully measure.
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WilllWilll
I think if the story is too large to fit in a sprint, by definition it's an epic, rather than probably an epic. – Bryan Oakley Feb 6 '13 at 15:03
True enough. I've edited accordingly! – Willl Feb 7 '13 at 9:32
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Single molybdenum center supported on N-doped black phosphorus as an efficient electrocatalyst for nitrogen fixation†
Pengfei Ou, a Xiao Zhou,ab Fanchao Meng,a Cheng Chen,a Yiqing Chena and Jun Song*a
a Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal H3A 0C5, Canada
E-mail: jun.song2@mcgill.ca
b Institute of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud CH-1015, Switzerland
Ammonia (NH3) is one of the most significant industrial chemical products due to its wide applications in various fields. However, the production of NH3 from the electrochemical nitrogen (N2) reduction reaction (NRR) under ambient conditions is one of the most important issues that remain challenging for chemists. Herein, the candidacy of a series of molybdenum (Mo)-based single-atom catalysts (SACs) supported on N-doped black phosphorus (BP) as the electrocatalyst for the NRR has been evaluated by means of density functional theory (DFT) calculations. In particular, Mo1N3 has been found to chemically adsorb N2, and it exhibits the highest catalytic activity toward the NRR with an ultralow overpotential of 0.02 V via the associative distal mechanism, indicative of catalyzing the NRR under ambient conditions. Additionally, Mo1N3 shows the fast removal of the produced NH3 with a free energy uphill of only 0.56 eV and good stability of NRR intermediates. Moreover, the Mo-based SACs were demonstrated to be more selective to the NRR over the competing hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) process. These excellent features render Mo1N3 on BP as a compelling highly efficient and durable catalyst for electrochemical N2 fixation. Our results provide a rational paradigm for catalytic nitrogen fixation by SACs in two-dimensional (2D) materials under ambient conditions.
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NR02586C
Nanoscale, 2019,11, 13600-13611
Single molybdenum center supported on N-doped black phosphorus as an efficient electrocatalyst for nitrogen fixation
P. Ou, X. Zhou, F. Meng, C. Chen, Y. Chen and J. Song, Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 13600
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR02586C
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East of the Wall – Ressentiment
Translation Loss Records
East of the Wall play some dissonant, progressive post-metal that is heavy on the thick riffs and guitar noodling. The band play some rather abrasive riffs on top of a rather complex rhythm section. The vocals mostly are abrasive throat-tearing yells but they occasionally switch it up with some melodic singing at times.
The leads and harsh sounds, mixed with the vocal sound at times remind me quite a bit of Botch’s We are the Romans album which was an album that is held in high regard to fans of this style of music. They seem to take that idea and push it further with the addition of melodic passages and at times an almost emo quality in a couple of songs without ever ditching the heavy for more than a couple of minutes at a time.
The songs range in lengthy from a couple of minutes to nearly eight. The longer songs are the more epic ones that feature a lot of time changes and experimentation. Overall the album and the sound works for East of the Wall and I could see this album gaining them a lot of fans, and the more melodic songs gaining them a spot on next year’s Warped Tour if they continue down that path. Overall not a bad album at all and one that packs a pretty solid punch. I like the experimentation aspects, but at times the melodic passages are dangerously close to emo.
Progressive post-metal full of harsh dissonant chords with some more melodic experimentation at times that is dangerously close to emo.
Rating:2.5 stars
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Stories: Solo Exhibition
Willie Doherty (Photographer)
Exhibition at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau , Germany of slide installations and videos from the start of Willie Doherty’s career in the early 1990s to the present day.
In his (often large-scale) single- and multi-channel videos, Willie Doherty offers political and aesthetic images of Ireland that challenge widespread misconceptions of pristine natural landscapes as well as biased coverage of the Northern Ireland conflict. The voice over in certain works, for instance, switches identity between offender and victim. Doherty’s concern is not so much to tie down events and interpretations as to pinpoint archetypal features of the conflict. The traces of conflict that the videos capture–for instance deserted and wrecked buildings, or roadblocks–are also always viewed ambivalently, both as provocation for and as the consequence of actions. This shifting of perspectives and roles is in keeping with the reception that Doherty’s often dualistically conceived works invite: perception of them is optimal when one moves around the exhibition space, directing attention at one of two screens then at the other.
Doherty’s works have a remarkable ability to reach out beyond the specifically Northern Irish conflict and deal at a sophisticated level with general topics such as the surveillance of public space, mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, and national and religious conflicts. While Doherty’s stylistic devices are wide-ranging, all of his works share a high degree of suggestive visual invention and also the fascinating ambivalence of what at first sight appears to be unambiguous. A seemingly ominous figure, such as the man with shaved head in Non-Specific Threat (2004), for instance, whom the camera circles to the accompaniment of a voiceover, is both active and reactive, fictional and real, past and future. His words invoke situations ranging from menace to intimacy. The man could be a participant in the Northern Ireland conflict, or he could also be a plain human being–a worker, a student, a sportsman.
It is precisely this productive ambiguity that implicates the viewer at a level that is not only emotional but also intellectual, and reveals that those fears of possible violence and the paranoiac projections vis-á-vis the supposedly strange and unfamiliar are by no means confined to Northern Ireland.
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau
Willie Doherty, Stories at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau , Munich - Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
Duration: 29 Sep 2007 → 6 Jan 2008
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https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/39989/stories/
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Solo Exhibition Arts & Humanities
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Creating Connections: How Path Does Product Development
By Adam Van Fossen
Path is a technology company focused on bringing you closer to the people you care about most. This is reflected not only in their products, but in the collaborative work culture they've created. We sat down with Cynthia, Nate, and Libby from the Path product team to learn more about their approach to product development and how they use Quip on a daily basis.
Path has two core products: Path — an elegant social network for you and your closest friends and family, and Path Talk — a messaging app that enables smart and private communication with people and places (like restaurants and stores). You can download both apps for free on the App Store or Play Store.
At Path, features are conceptualized in an environment that encourages open and collaborative brainstorming. The product team believes that great ideas can come from anywhere, so they do things like hold “open office hours” once a week so anyone can come discuss an idea for a feature or product. It is also not uncommon for hallway conversations to become features, or for an engineer to prototype an idea they have been wanting to build and for it to end up in the next release.
Quip is also an essential part of how Path manages an open but organized product process. Before Quip, the Path team had tried a number of different products to help them publicize the roadmap, build out product specs, and organize product launches. Quip enabled Path to simplify the number of tools they use down to Slack for real-time communication, Quip as their wiki / productivity suite, and Red Pen to discuss mocks. The whole company is organized in a single shared folder on Quip, and they call Quip their “source of truth” for everything that's currently being worked on as well as all past launches and projects.
A Focused and Organized Roadmap
The plan of record for everything that is being worked on — whether it is being spec'd by product, mocked up by the design team, prototyped by the engineering team, or about to be released — is Path's roadmap.
Even with the open flow of ideas at Path, there still is a need to pare down all the potential features to a prioritized list. The underlying strategic vision for the company is carefully considered when deciding which features are to be prioritized and when they should be included in a release. Nate explains, "A few things are really important to us when we think about our product process. Customer feedback plays a huge role as does the effort and impact matrix. We like to weigh the amount of resources needed to build a feature against how important it is to people who use our product and the effect it will have on our key metrics.”
This effort and impact balance is also considered with engineering resources, “We work with engineering to say 'If we are going to build these things, how much time will it take?'. We estimate level of effort in 'days, weeks, and months'.” Nate continues, “Not everything can be high impact / low effort, but the projects that are will move to the top of the roadmap.” This thought process is reflected in the product team's top level roadmap document. The roadmap document exists as a collaborative Quip spreadsheet and is organized by release. The release currently being worked on is at the top of the roadmap document, and below that is the next release (and the one after that). Key info for each feature is outlined in the doc, including who is working on the project, what resources will be required, and links to essential documents.
The team recently released a significant new update, Path 4.3 and Talk 1.3.1. This release includes the ability to use stickers in more ways (like on photos), quickly share photos from countless apps, and more. The product team walked us through the planning process for this release and demonstrated how they formulate a roadmap, write product specs, and coordinate a launch across several teams.
Documenting Feature Development as it Happens
There are different methods for conceptualizing a product feature. At Path, ideas can truly come from anywhere. “We have three different teams dedicated to product development: design, engineering, and product. Designers build mocks, engineers build prototypes,” explains Nate. “But Product Managers typically express themselves with words and numbers — so some features start as a spec.”
Regardless of the genesis of an idea for a feature, it will inevitably be documented by the product managers in the form of a formalized spec. The team has an organized method of writing specs that evolves as the feature does. The spec becomes the source of truth for the product, design, and engineering teams.
The template for a spec has been honed by the product team through experience. It typically includes the most important info on top: what the feature is, who is involved, what the goal is, and what metrics are anticipated to be affected. The spec also contains links to mockups, meeting notes, and info on the next version of the feature.
If you want to try Path's template out for yourself, check out this Quip doc. To copy the template, click the gear menu at the top right of the document and select “Copy”. It will make a copy on your Quip Desktop.
To execute these projects, product and engineering break each feature down into tasks and assign people to work on them. The culmination of these efforts drives toward a release.
Coordinating a Launch Across Multiple Teams
At Path, launches are also planned and executed using Quip. The team has built a template “Launch Document” that has all the appropriate sections to create an organized and efficient launch. “While the spec faces the design, engineering and product teams, the launch document faces the outbound side of the company,” Nate explains. “ It's a plan of record for marketing, PR, legal, customer support — everyone who owns some part of the launch.”
The document is used as a central location for all teams involved in the customer-facing launch. Marketing writes messaging and app descriptions, the PR team works on blog posts, and the social media team works on the content plan for their various channels. Check out this template to see exactly how Path organizes this document. You can make a copy to your Quip desktop to try it out for yourself.
Most importantly, the document also contains a tactical timeline for launch day. Cynthia explains, “Every minute really matters. We use a launch checklist to @-mention everyone responsible for specific tasks. It's for coordination — a big part of our job.” With all teams on board, the launch has the greatest chance to make an impact and do justice to all the hard work put into crafting the release.
A Sum of Its Parts
Path has been using Quip for more than a year to help run their company. At this point, Quip serves both as a source of truth for the most important things currently happening at Path, but also for a historical archive of past launches and discussions. Over time, Quip has become not just a simple place to write documents and work together, but also a wiki where the team can centralize all the information — past and present.
If you want to find out more about how your team can use Quip, drop us a line.
Adam Van Fossen
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