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Charlotte's Plaza Midwood: A Neighborhood In Flux
By Reuben Jones Charlotte
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As Clifton Castelloe walks through the neighborhood he's called home for around two decades, he can't help but think about the changes.
“There used to be a lot more diversity when we first moved here. Gentrification has changed a lot,” Castelloe says.
Castelloe is the president of the Merchants Association in Plaza Midwood. In the past few months restaurants, a bar, an ice cream shop, and other businesses have shut down.
“We were literally forced to move by the new developer,” says Cindy Perumal, who's the owner of Cindy's Uniforms.
Perumal shut down the business she's owned since 1993 at the end of November. Her lease was up.
“I don't have a place to go to, so I'm moving everything to storage, so maybe after two, three months we'll open it in a new location,” she says.
Perumal's one of numerous businesses in the Central Square shopping center leaving. Some are choosing to go while the developer is redoing the space to create a more walkable shopping experience.
However, Plaza Midwood as a whole is becoming familiar with changes.
New restaurants and apartment complexes populate the constantly changing neighborhood. Yet, Castelloe says the neighborhood has maintained it's character for the most part.
Sladjana Novakaiac, the co-owner of Nova's Bakery, says the 24-year-old business is closing later this month.
“It was coming. We were going towards the retirement. COVID just brought it to speed,” Novakaiac says. “The older generations are going towards the retirement, closing their businesses...I hope the newer and younger people can come in and bring new [blood].”
Castelloe hopes that new blood stays local.
“What we're really trying to fight for is opportunities for small businesses to still have the capabilities to afford their lease rates...there's nothing like Plaza Midwood and we want to hopefully keep it that way,” he says.
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9 Country Songs for Graduation
Barbara Tremblay Cipak
Barbara has spent over forty years writing poems, lyrics, and sayings for cards, and interpreting the meanings and messages in song.
List of Country Songs for Graduation
9 Outstanding Country Songs for Your Graduation Playlist
Graduating can be summed up in two ways, either you're moving on or your shifting gears...and you guessed it...there are a number of country songs with lyrics that describe just about any situation involving growth and change.
In your search for graduation songs you're going to find a few common song recommendations like My Wish by Rascal Flatts and I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack. Both of these songs are incredible, and the lyrics are ideal to celebrate growth and change. However, this collection not only includes these two standards, but also 7 additional less conventional song choices that you can add to your celebration playlist.
List of 9 Graduation Songs
"If It Gets You Where You Wanna Go" by Dallas Smith
"We Laughed Until We Cried" by Jason Aldean
"I Was Here" by Lady Antebellum
"So Close Now" by Eli Young
"Long Live" by Taylor Swift
"See You When I See You" by Jason Aldean
"My Best Days are Ahead of Me" by Danny Gokey
"I Hope You Dance" by Lee Anne Womack
"My Wish" by Rascal Flatts
1. "If It Gets You Where You Wanna Go", by Dallas Smith
Album: Jumped Right In
Born in 1977, Dallas is a Canadian Country Music Artist from British Columbia. 'Jumped Right In' was released in 2012 and it includes his other very popular hits, 'Jumped Right In', 'Nothing But Summer', and 'What Kind of Love'.
This song is upbeat and filled with inspiration in both music and lyrics. If you're looking for a song that delivers hope with a little more fun and excitement rather than emotional reflection, then be sure to listen to this tune.
In your search for just the right graduation song, the lyrics encourage and remind Graduates that it's up to them to chase their dreams...and whatever that dream is, all that's needed is their own will to get there. Add it to the playlist for a dance or just use it as a theme song for the entire celebration.
Essential Lyrics:
If you wanna go back, if you wanna move on
If you wanna get lost, if you wanna go home
If there's a will then there's a way to get there
If you wanna stay close, if you wanna go far
Go on ahead and follow your heart
One thing I know is we're all going somewhere
2. "We Laughed Until We Cried" by Jason Aldean
Album: Relentless
You'll find '"Laughed Until We Cried" on Jason Aldean's 2007 album 'Relentless'. It turned out to be his 5th single to chart on Billboard Hot Country in the USA.Writers of the song are Kelley Lovelace and Ashely Gorley.
The music is moving, and combined with the sentimental lyrics may cause you to remember important markers in your past thus making it an ideal choice for Graduation.
Although the words speak about memorable moments in our life .. ranging from youth to our own family, it has a way of drawing us into remembering whatever recent milestone we're passing or going through. The lyrics make us reflect upon our paths already chosen, while at the same time deliver a sentimental message to the youth just starting out.
Goin' through my closet the other day
I found an old yearbook, flipped right to the page of that senior trip
Down there on that Panama strip
We all started yelling when we smelled the beach
Just couldn't wait to try our fake ID's
We only had a few days
And a whole lot of memories to make
3. "I Was Here" by Lady Antebellum
Album: Act of Valor
You'll find 'I Was Here' by Lady Antebellum on a compilation album called Act of Valor which includes 9 additional inspirational songs by various country artists. Their song was also included on the AT&T Soundtrack for the 2008 USA Summer Olympic Team. The lyrics are certainly ideal for Olympians.
If you're looking for lyrics that shout inspiration and purpose, then this is the song. When we're just starting out we tend to feel this urge to leave our mark; we want to do something different, make a contribution and be remembered. As we age our aim is still the same but our desired reward may change.
As our young Graduates walk up to the podium to receive their degrees or diplomas, the lyrics to this song serve as a reminder to all those witnessing their milestone, that these young people are the next generation of contributors and without a doubt we want them to find their place in this world and achieve their dreams.
What a joyous occasion it is to watch our children grow in knowledge and most of all to enter the next chapter of their life with a sense of themselves and what they can do.
I wanna do something that matters
Say something different
Something that sets the whole world on it's ear
I wanna do somethin' better, with the time I've been given
And I wanna try to touch a few hearts in this life
And leave nothin' less that something that says I was here
4. "So Close Now" by Eli Young Band
Album: Level
A choice song for the graduate attending school away from home. The words speak about leaving the town you've been in and heading out to chase your dreams. The truck is loaded and although it's hard to leave, it's time to pursue the path you've been destined to take.
The music is sentimental and reflective in nature. If you're looking for a touching, less traditional country song for graduation, this one fits the bill.
You'll find 'So Close Now' on Eli Young Band's 2005 Album 'Level'. The album features 11 terrific songs in total.
I am so close now to walking away
About to walk a path I've gotta take
I am packing up heading out
I can't sleep I'm dreaming way too loud
I'm so close now, so close now
to getting out
5. "Long Live" by Taylor Swift
Album: Speak Now
With a repeating guitar riff and a strong drum beat in the chorus, Long Live is a power anthem song about celebrating moments of accomplishment in life.
If your graduation playlist needs a song that everyone can loudly sing to, then you'll want to add this one.
I said remember this feeling
I passed the pictures around
Of all the years that we stood there on the sidelines
Wishing for right now
We are the kings and the queens
You traded your baseball cap for a crown
When they gave us our trophies
And we held them up for our town
And the cynics were outraged
Screaming, "this is absurd"
6. "See You When I See You" by Jason Aldean
Album: My Kinda Party
This song is about not wanting to say goodbye. It's an ideal graduation song in that it acknowledges it's time to move and life is changing. Although change is hard to take, it's time to move forward, and the phrase 'see you when I see you' is easier than goodbye.
See you when I see you
Another place, some other time
If I ever get down your way
Or you're ever up around mine
We'll laugh about the old days
And catch up on the new
Yeah I'll see you when I see you
And I hope it's some day soon
7. "My Best Days are Ahead of Me" by Danny Gokey
Album: My Best Days
If you're looking for an upbeat positive song that isn't dripping in sentiment, then you'll want to choose this one. The music and lyrics are happy and filled with hope about what's ahead in life. There's eagerness about the next chapter, no matter your age, and best of all, after you hear it you're almost motivated to start a new project as well!
Age is nothing but a number
Sometimes I have to wonder
What does it really mean
But hey I'm still putting it together
I keep getting better
If I keep getting better
I can be whatever I want to be
My best days are ahead of me
8. "I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack
Album: Sons of the Desert
You can't help but sing-a-long to this one. The music and lyrics reflective nature will bring a tear to your eyes.
It's a message from mom about her hopes and dreams in this life for her kids. As life challenges them, she 'hopes they dance'. You've probably heard it, as it's a country classic. If you haven't, be sure to listen to the words, and keep a tissue handy.
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances, but they're worth takin'
Lovin' might be a mistake, but it's worth makin'
Don't let some Hellbent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin' out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
9. "My Wish" by Rascal Flatts
Album: Me and My Gang
The best song for a graduation is 'My Wish'. The lyrics wish the graduate accomplishes all they want in this life. It's a thoughtful send off filled with hope and positive energy. If the song you're seeking to honor the graduate needs an upbeat motivational tempo, this is the best pick.
My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold,
And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
© 2014 Barbara Tremblay Cipak
If you have a favorite Graduation Song, feel free to post it here!
Nancy Carol Brown Hardin from Las Vegas, NV on June 24, 2014:
Gosh I wouldn't know where to start. All I know is I cried my eyes out when my daughters graduated, and probably wouldn't have heard the music anyway! But you have some great selections here, inspiring and encouraging. Thanks for sharing.
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2022 Ford Bronco Updates Interior Pricing Pics
Blue-Oval happens to provide the latest 2022 Ford Bronco SUV, which should be the flagship choice for many products from the same division. These future sporting releases have leaked pictures on the internet, and you can be aware the device is compliant. For starters, the all-new Sports Model designs will be based on the standard unit, and this will lead to a lot of updates, which should change this at the crossover to make it look more attractive.
In addition to this release, the producer also legally stated that it should focus on Bronco’s standard, Baby Bronco, along with pick-up. As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, everything is hanging. Therefore, we cannot file a final claim once this design first appears. However, people assume it will be introduced one day in the next year.
2022 Ford Bronco redesign
The first thing, the latest 2022 Ford Bronco, will be the most popular SUV that looks as good as a standard SUV. We now have several single spy photos and even from their website there is the same classic Bronco-esque top view. Oddly enough, the manufacturer has also applied the same headlights we see in the recently spied on Bronco.
These new versions will definitely receive this ST treatment, which means many cues of sporty design and a lot of technical advancement under the bike. Like many Bronco units, these sports can be run on the same program that supports the recently redesigned Escape version. Most importantly, thanks to this foundation, the newer combination is a little stronger.
2022 Ford Bronco 4 Door Sport Interior 2 Door
2022 Ford Bronco interior design
This 2022 Ford Bronco interior has never really been revealed. This team remains the biggest secret at the moment. Every wedding photographer who captured the designs mentioned that the entire interior was included. Therefore, we can think of one thing big time. Most people expect a sportier, more modern interior compared to the typical design. However, each model will provide a modern cabin with many quality supplies, which is without a doubt. The summary of popular devices will likely be much longer, and you’ll even find quite a few optional devices available for your consideration.
For the latest information, this Blue Oval provides two-sector weather management, heated along with cooled entrance seats, hot controls, remote operation and wifi prompts along with passive access method. Since every Ford car will be installed alongside the latest technicians inside, this sporty model can definitely be Apple CarPlay and Android Mobile Phone Automotive, as well as a Wi-Fi hotspot focused on recording.
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2022 Ford Bronco engine
Several of the latest headlines reveal the must-have 2022 Ford Bronco two-engine variant. According to many rumors, the number one ambition is the 1.5-liter EcoBoost that powers this Escape product. Once we talk about it, any product can reveal the exact same software. This same Escape drivetrain tends to deliver 180 horsepower along with 177 pounds of toe. So you can expect to get the same numbers or maybe the same numbers about the Bronco.
The following engine can also be seen within the well-known Escape unit. This engine could also be EcoBoost inline-4. However, it is even better. This includes a 2.0-liter, which produces 250 horsepower and up to 275 lb. The drivetrain under the 2022 Ford Bronco 5 clearly delivers a lot less pounds. Each version will probably use the exact same eight-speed automatic transmission.
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2022 Ford Bronco price and release date
That amount of the upcoming2022 Ford Bronco might be too late to count today just because this version is still in production. However, in many expert speculations, it may cost a bit more compared to the Escape version. This means that the design bill will be paid in approximately $ 27,000. The Blue Oval sport unit will be available in Significant Flex, Offshore Banking and even Badlands. However, most people currently cannot use the specific case once this version has been released. The problem, besides the Coronavirus, is not soothing immediately, along with the first outbreak that will likely hit the road this year.
The 2022 Ford Bronco Sport is Ford’s legendary assembly car, and it is said that it will be returned next year in crossover or SUV form. From the design, the 2022 version of the Ford Bronco Sport has a very outdated design, box and shape.
2022 Ford Bronco Sport Engine
This 2022 Ford Bronco Sport SUV has two variants, two or four doors can be selected, and the roof and door can be removed to compete with its Jeep Wrangler competitors. Reportedly, this car still uses a Twin Turbo V6 engine and a four-cylinder Turbocharge engine, which still looks very capable off-road.
That’s because the 2022 Ford Bronco was deliberately brought back with amazing off-road capabilities. We hope to be able to provide more information upon the Bronco’s arrival later.
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2022 Ford Bronco Sport Specifications
Engine: 2.3-liter turbo 4-cylinder gas
Horse Power: 310 hp at 5,500 rpm
Torque: 350 lb-ft tq at 3000 rpm
Driving: four-wheel drive
Number of doors: 2 doors and 4 doors
Information: Sync4, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and WiFi hotspot.
Audio: B&O Sound System
What’s new in the 2022 Ford Bronco Sport?
The 2022 Ford Bronco Sport is likely to rival some of its predecessors who hold the very popular off-road mainstay. The new box face looks more futuristic and modern in retro style. So far there has been no official statement from FORD about what the improvement of this latest generation Ford Bronco SUV will be. But we’ll give a small review of what we collect.
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The use of the engines in the 2022 Ford Bronco Sport still seems bewildering. But some news has been reported: The Ford Bronco Sport reincarnation will include a Jeep Wrangler or Ford F150, a 2.3-liter turbo engine or a 2.7-liter twin. A V6 turbo engine is available on the Ford F-150. .
It appears that the 2022 Ford Bronco Sport will be powered by a seven-speed manual gearbox and accompanied by an off-road crawler gears. Ford also doesn’t deny that the Ford Bronco will soon have a hybrid engine.
2022 Ford Bronco Sport Interior
The interior design of the 2022 Ford Bronco Sport remains a mystery. The latest generation Ford Bronco Sport is expected to have a more luxurious cabin with the latest features and premium materials. Some of the features offered with the 2022 Ford Bronco Sport include mood lighting, dual-zone climate control, front seats with heating and cooling functions plus a heated steering wheel, passive entry functions, remote start functions, and some wireless charging.
On the load and storage side, the 2022 Ford Bronco Sport looks casual and has plenty of room. Not only cargo space, passenger space also looks great with wide and clear space.
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2022 Ford Bronco Sport Exterior
The 2022 Ford Bronco Sport still maintains its old look, the trunk shape mixed with very simply designed round lights. It has a very contrasting roof color that is reminiscent of the Ford SUV of the 1960s.
The buckle strap exterior design increases visibility of the front and rear side windows so that the body panels are not shared with the related Escape and have the same dimensions.
Among the many images circulated in various media, the 2022 Ford Bronco Sport was inspired by the Ford F-150, which gave a bold look ready for a rugged and muddy road experience. Metallic accents dominate the color on this SUV, and contrasting colors abound, like the Jeep Renegade.
2022 Ford Bronco Sport fuel consumption
There has never been an official test and release regarding the efficiency of using the latest generation Ford Bronco Sport fuel. However, the presence of the latest generation Ford is expected to increase fuel consumption and compete with various competitors.
2022 Ford Bronco Sport Information
For ride comfort and passengers in the cab, the 2022 Ford Bronco Sport includes several informational features, such as Ford’s new Sync4 software in the dashboard that controls the large touch screen in the center of the Bronco’s dashboard.
Some of these features enable updates that can connect wirelessly to cloud and smartphone users. The 2022 Ford Bronco Sport infotainment system also supports a number of modern infotainment features, including Apple Car Play, Android Auto and Wi-Fi hotspots. It looks like this SUV will also include a B&O audio system for enjoying the music in total comfort.
2022 Ford Bronco Sport Safety
Neither the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) nor the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) have tested a 2022 Ford Bronco Sport for safety levels and crash tests. But in the meantime, the 2022 Ford Bronco Sport will definitely offer Driving Assist technology as standard. In addition to the ability to drive, many other features are expected in the latest generation of Ford Bronco Sport, such as adaptive cruise control, automatic emergency braking, and lane maintenance.
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2022 Ford Bronco Sport Price
2022 Ford Bronco Sport has yet to make an official release about the price and type to be launched. But this SUV will mainly be available in different versions, including the Bronco Sport two-door and four-door versions.
The latest generation Bronco Sport will also offer several engine options and will be priced in the Wrangler’s price range of over $ 32,000.
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2014 Le Mans 24 Hours LMP1 Review
After previewing all four class competing in this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, now seems an appropriate time to subsequently review all four classes how they fared in a thrilling 2014 Le Mans 24 Hours. The 24 Hours kept race fans glued to the race throughout, with changeable conditions teaming with uncharacteristic unreliability to provide a classic Le Mans. Like with the previews, I’ll go through each class individually, starting with the highest class, LMP1.
Audi Sport Team Joest:
#1 Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro: Tom Kristensen/Loic Duval/Lucas Di Grassi/Marc Gene
For the No1 Audi, this race provided all the extremes this great race can provide. After initially looking quick, a monumental accident in first practice at the Porsche curves rendered Loic Duval unable to race. Audi quickly drafted in reserve driver Marc Gene from the Jota Sport LMP2 team, and set about rebuilding the car. The mechanics worked flat out to get the car qualified the next day, and the team’s confidence grew as the race drew closer. After running solidly early on, the team capitalized on other’s misfortunes to snatch the lead when the leading Toyota faltered in the early morning hours.
From here the team were set for a fairytale victory. However, Le Mans proved how cruel it can be as the car suffered a misfire at around 9am, which forced the car into the pits for 4 laps of repairs, subsequently ending it’s chances of victory. From here the team followed the sister No2 entry in 2nd to the flag after Porsche’s dramatic late demise. Considering the state of the car on Wednesday evening, 2nd is a terrific result for this team, yet anything other than a win for Audi drivers at Le Mans is a disappointment.
#2 Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro: Marcel Fassler/Benoit Treluyer/Andre Lotterer
For all three Audi cars, the 24 Hours week got better the further along we got. Initially in practice and qualifying they appeared to lack the pace of Toyota and Porsche, a concern for the race. Whilst some discounted Audi based on their qualifying pace, the team did what they do best, and provided a relatively trouble free run.
Just as the team were getting comfortable in the lead, after the demise of the leading Toyota, the team were forced to pit in the early hours of the morning with a failing turbocharger, the team lost 20 minutes and dropped to 3rd. From here all 3 drivers drove flat out, and allied with problems for the cars ahead, were able to re-claim the lead for good at around mid morning. From here it was fairly comfortable, as the remaining Porsche challenge crumbled, leaving an Audi 1-2 to the finish. This is the trio’s 3rd win in 4 years, a truly remarkable achievement for this highly talented trio.
#3 Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro: Oliver Jarvis/ Marco Bonanomi/ Filipe Albuquerque
Before the event started, the #3 Audi had already been discounted as a challenger for victory by some people, who pointed to the driver line-up and the fact this not a full season entry as justification for their viewpoint. After qualifying however, they were proved wrong as this Audi was the fastest of the 3 in qualifying going into the race. The team were hoping this car’s usual bad luck would not repeat itself this year, yet the couldn’t of been more wrong.
With only a few hours gone in the race, the rain showers began with heavy intensity, at which point the slow travelling #3 Audi was rear ended by the #81 GTE Am Ferrari, subsequently eliminating both as they were both unable to hustle their cars back into the pits for repairs. A very sad end to what promised to be a great run for this #3 Audi crew, who must surely be asking which spiritual God they offended with the amount of bad luck they have in the 24 Hours.
Toyota Racing:
#7 Toyota TS040 Hybrid: Alex Wurz/Stephane Sarrazin/Kazuki Nakajima
For Toyota and especially this #7 entry, the 2014 Le Mans 24 Hours is the ultimate example of one that slipped away. In the pre-race build-up Toyota were more than comfortably justifying their pre-race favourites tag as this car claimed pole. Nobody appeared to be able to match their pace during the race, with the #7 entry leading from the start and building over a 2 minute lead on the chasing pack by the early hours of Sunday morning, despite spending longer in the pits.
This car’s dream run was brought to a sudden halt however as the car lost drive coming out of Arnage in the 9th hour. Despite frantic contact between driver Kazuki Nakajima and the team, the electrical problem could not be fixed and the car was forced to retire. For Toyota this was a heart breaking moment as no manufacture has worked so hard to win this race. Toyota will surely come back stronger in 2015 and they might just finally claim the Le Mans 24 Hours victory they so badly crave.
#8 Toyota TS040 Hybrid: Anthony Davidson/Nicolas Lapierre/Sebastien Buemi
The second Toyota also suffered a greatly unlucky run in the 24 Hours, as their car was eliminated from realistic victory contention within the first few hours of the race. The #8 car was caught out in the same conditions as the #3 Audi. Although driver Nicolas Lapierre gave the car considerable contact in the very difficult conditions, the team was able to mend the car for it to continue, unlike the #3 Audi.
From here the team simply drove flat out and hoped for the best, with the pace they were able to show in the remaining hours proving an ultimate what if statement. Their pace was remarkable as they were the only car to be able to consistently lap in 3m26 laps during daylight conditions. With others misfortunes and their startling pace the car salvaged the final podium spot, after the demise of Porsche in the final few hours. This team will surely come back in 2015 even more determined to claim victory after this year.
Porsche Team:
#14 Porsche 919 Hybrid: Romain Dumas/Neel Jani/Marc Lieb
For the Porsche outfit, 2014 was always pencilled in as a learning year for this new team, with any competitive results being a bonus for them. During the race, the car was running well above predictions as it mixed it with the Toyota’s for the lead. The team’s great run was dampened however with two separate fuel pressure problems, leaving the car well behind the leaders.
The car continued circulating at an impressive pace, before in the cruellest fashion possible, mechanical problems forced the car into the garage with only 3 hours remaining, where it would remain until the end.For this team the pace they showed will provide huge encouragement, expect this team to be seriously challengers when they return to Le Mans next year.
#20 Porsche 919 Hybrid: Timo Bernhard/Brendon Hartley/Mark Webber
Incredibly, the #20 had an even more impressive Le Mans 24 Hours than the sister car. This entry showed they meant business by claiming provisional pole on Wednesday, thanks to a stunning lap from Brendon Hartley. Although they slipped back on Thursday, they went into 24 Hours reasonably confident of a good result. From the start the team ran under the radar, capitalising on other’s misfortune to climb the leader board.
Sensationally, after the problems for the #1 Audi on Sunday morning, this promoted the #20 Porsche into a fairy tale lead with only a few hours remaining. From here however this slipped out of their grasp as the charging #2 Audi was able to reclaim the lead an hour later. Soon after, things got even worse as the #20 was forced into the garage with a broken anti-roll bar. This halted their run and in a final twist of cruel fate, the car was not classified as a finisher after it failed to complete the final lap in the set time. Again huge positives can be taken from their run and expect them to be on the podium next year.
Rebellion Racing:
#12 Rebellion R-One-Toyota: Nicolas Prost/Nick Heidfeld/Mathias Beche
For the Rebellion team things went according to expectations mostly, with the only major surprise being the relatively faultless run they had in the 24 Hours, considering it was only the second race for a car short on testing miles too. The car’s paced compared to the other LMP1 entries may have worried them, as they finished 14 laps behind the next LMP1 entry ahead of them.
The team did however benefit massively from the misfortunes of others, as they climbed the charts to eventually finish a brilliant 4th overall. The team will be thrilled with this result, with the team’s only concern going into the 2015 24 Hours will be the overall pace of their LMP1 entries, although for now they can celebrate an excellent result for this privateer outfit.
#13 Rebellion R-One-Toyota: Dominik Kraihamer/Andrea Belicchi/Fabio Leimer
The #13 entry proved to be the slightly slower of the two Rebellion racing entries, although this is not a major surprise considering the relative driver line-up’s of the two cars. This car was hoping for a steady run in the 24 Hours, ;although unlike the sister team entry, this car was unable to achieve this. The team suffered terrible luck as an engine problem side lined the car after only several hours. The team will be hoping to come back a lot stronger in 2015 as they aim to bring more pressure to the factory entries.
There’s the first of my Le Mans 24 Hours reviews. The other class reviews will be posted in the next few days. Once again huge thanks to http://www.Motorsport.com for their amazing photos, please feel free to visit their site if your interested.
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India to play Syria, DPR Korea and Tajikistan in 2019 Intercontinental Cup
The Indian football team won the first edition of the Intercontinental Cup and will look to defend its title in July this year.
India last played in the AFC Asian Cup in January. - AIFF MEDIA
All India Football Federation confirmed the participation of Syria, DPR Korea, and Tajikistan for the second edition of the Hero Intercontinental Cup from July 7-17.
The Blue Tigers come into the competition as the defending champion, having won the inaugural edition in June last year after defeating Kenya in the final, courtesy a brace from the tournament top-scorer, Sunil Chhetri. New Zealand, and Chinese Taipei were the other two teams in the fray.
AIFF general secretary Kushal Das mentioned that the forthcoming Intercontinental Cup will be an “acid test” for the Blue Tigers ahead of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers which kick-offs in September this year.
"The AIFF and their partners FSDL have finalised an annual calendar for the men's national team. In June, the national team is scheduled to participate in the King's Cup in Thailand where we play Curaçao in our first match, and then either Vietnam or Thailand. These matches will hold us in good stead for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers starting in September,” he stated.
“I need to thank the respective Football Federations of Syria, Tajikistan, and DPR Korea for agreeing to come over for the four-nation event,” Das added.
All the four teams will be playing each other in a round robin phase, with the top two teams qualifying for the final.
The venue for the tournament will be decided shortly.
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One of the many running meta gags in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is how the ol’ webhead is going to release his own Christmas album. Well, that joke is now a reality, thanks to Sony, which just dropped A Very Spidey Christmas EP.
Naturally, the album features an assortment of the film’s multiple Spider-Men, from Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) singing “Joy to the World” to Peter Parker (Jake Johnson) calling for a sing-a-long with “Deck the Halls”.
Star Chris Pine, whose Spider-Man is a little harder to explain, is on double duty, singing “Spidey-Bells (A Hero’s Lament”) and “Up on the House Top”, the latter of which segues brilliantly into Norman Osborne’s (Jorma Taccone) spoken word retelling of “The Night Before Christmas 1967”.
Like the movie, which we recently named one of the top 25 films of 2018, it’s hilarious. Stream the whole thing below and consult artwork and tracklist shortly after.
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05. Jorma Taccone – “The Night Before Christmas 1967 (Spoken Word)”
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Nicolet, Oldenburg work to advance welder training
Nicolet College is working with the Oldenburg Group to advance welding skills training both at the college and on the shop floor of the heavy manufacturer just west of Rhinelander.
Nicolet recently significantly expanded its welding program to take in additional students and has hired top welders from Oldenburg to teach the additional class sections on a part-time basis.
To advance the skills of workers at Oldenburg, a Nicolet instructor travels there to teach advanced blueprint reading.
“The welding students at Nicolet and workers at Oldenburg are the ultimate winners of this cooperative arrangement,” Brigitte Parsons, dean of Trade and Industry at Nicolet, said.
She noted that the full-time welding instructors at Nicolet have extensive experience working in private industry, but it is always a plus for students to learn from a variety of professionals from the field.
“Each one brings their own unique set of skills to the classroom,” Parsons said. “In doing so, students will be exposed to a wide range of talents which will make them that much more well-rounded when they enter the work force.”
Oldenburg Lake Shore plant manager Scott Sedlacek said the company places a premium on continuous skills development for current workers as well as those preparing to enter the workforce.
“It’s an arrangement that advances the skill sets of both future workers and those already on the job,” Sedlacek said. “In the end, it’s an arrangement that benefits everyone. Workers get the skills they need to be valuable employees and companies get the trained workforce they need to be productive, efficient and profitable.”
Oldenburg recently was awarded a $40 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build a variety of major components for Navy ships. These include aircraft elevator systems, mooring equipment, cargo elevators, cranes and bulkhead closure systems.
As these components enter production, the company expects to hire additional welders, machinists and fabricators, Sedlacek said.
Parsons noted that Nicolet’s welding program is an excellent place for students to learn the foundational skills necessary to enter the field.
“By hiring quality instructors with extensive real-world experience and working closely with manufacturers like Oldenburg, Nicolet students get the training they need to enter the workforce and be successful in their careers,” she said.
Nicolet also recently started an accelerated welding program that gives students the opportunity to complete the traditional one-year diploma program in as little as seven months.
Fall semester classes at Nicolet start Aug. 26 and Parsons encouraged anyone interested in training for a career in welding to enroll promptly.
More information about Nicolet’s welding program is available at nicoletcollege.edu or by calling the college’s welcome center at (715) 365-4493 or (800) 544-3039, ext. 4493; TDD (715) 365-4448.
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By Zinkie Aw- 2015-10-22 2016-01-04
While most people think of street photography as shots of buskers, street hawkers or the homeless, Zinkie Aw has a different philosophy. She shares with us her perceptions on street photography and tips for aspiring photographers. (Report by Natalie Koh)
What is street photography? To some, it's a simple photo along a pathway or road - preferably with a human standing in the middle of it. To others, it's taking street photos of buskers, street hawkers or the homeless - you know, people on the streets.
But to street photographer Zinkie Aw, street photography is so much more than that. Not all street photographs have to be portraits; neither must they be candid.
"I think it all depends on what you want to convey," she shares.
Instead, when she's on photography assignment she looks out for two things. First, the story behind the shot. Second, how it "reflects your unique personality, perceptions of the world, personal tastes and preferences and role as a visual storyteller".
Naturally, each of her photographs tells a unique story, often bringing out the unexpected in the everyday scenes.
"I love the spontaneity it gives to my daily chores. On days where I have street walks, it feels like a treasure hunt sometimes," she quips. "You never know which corner presents an opportunity for you to have that chuckle with your photo caption - and then you immortalise that moment."
She often packs the Canon EOS 5D Mark III and the EF 35mm f/1.4L USM lens for street work. In crowded spaces, she sometimes brings along the EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM lens for its wide angle advantage.
Ask Zinkie for advice she might have for aspiring photographer, and she cites her favourite quote by Cartier-Bresson: "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."
"To many, photography may seem glamorous or fun, but we often do not see the commitment and work behind ‘successful’ photographers. I say ‘successful’ in quotes because each lensman defines success differently," Zinkie explains.
Next, she says that apart from creating "nice-looking visuals", photographs ought to resonate with others and communicate some sort of wisdom. "This wisdom is up to us to invent - it could be lighthearted, tame, loud or philosophical. It all depends on the image-maker."
Finally, she advises: "Go meet fellow photographers and mentors for critique sessions. It really helps a lot to know what you stand for, who you are and what you really want to do."
Zinkie Aw
Zinkie's work has been widely published and featured online. She has exhibited in the Dali International Photography Exhibition (2015), Singapore International Photography Festival (2014), Milan Image Art & Design Fair (2014), and Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris exhibition (2013). Zinkie also does corporate events photography and portraiture work, alongside involving herself in education and outreach programmes.
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This Week In Golf: Jordan Spieth Soars To Total Victory In Tour Championship
Filed Under:FedExCup Playoffs, Henrik Stenson, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, PGA, Pro Golf, Ron Patey, This Week In Golf, ThisWeekInGolf, Tour Championship
Jordan Spieth (Photo Credit: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
By Ron Patey
Jordan Spieth kept the faith, then left the field in his shadow. On Sunday he shifted into cruise control to win the Tour Championship, the FedExCup and the No. 1 spot in the Official World Golf Rankings.
On a day when the Pope thrilled throngs and the Earth blotted out a super moon during a total lunar eclipse, Spieth’s deep belief in his early-season game plan paid off. Created with the help of his coach Cameron McCormick and caddy Michael Greller, it had led to wins at the 2015 Masters and U.S. Open. But the 22-year-old Texan, who became the youngest player ever to win the FedExCup, had been in a bit of a dip during the playoffs. Despite missing cuts in The Barclays and Deutsche Bank Championship, he and his team dug deep during practice sessions the week before the BMW Championship, placing T13 in that event and regaining some momentum heading into East Lake.
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Three superb rounds of 68, 66 and 68 on the 7,300-plus yard, par-70 Atlanta-area track gave Spieth a one-shot edge on Sweden’s Henrik Stenson as they arrived at the first tee for the final round. The lead had extended to two shots by No. 17, but Spieth wasn’t quite home and dry. Stenson then shanked his approach and missed a bogey putt to make it unofficially official: Spieth would be taking home two trophies. The win adds the $10 million in FedExCup bonus cash to Spieth’s $12 million-plus 2015 total. His breakout season set a new PGA Tour record.
Although Stenson blinked at 17, he bounced back mightily by making a massive 57-foot putt for birdie at the final hole to finish the Tour Championship T2 withNew Zealand’s Danny Lee and England’s Justin Rose. The putt put an extra $1.3 million in Stenson’s savings account and boosted the 2013 FedExCup champion into second place in this year’s final standings.
Jason Day of Australia, who finished third, entered the Tour Championship as the No. 1 FedExCup points player thanks to an amazing and dominating run. Down the stretch, Day posted four victories over the course of six events. At East Lake, however, the Aussie played merely decently, ending up T10. He just couldn’t muster the pinpoint firepower he’d unleashed in triumphs at the BMW Championship, The Barclays, the PGA Championship and the RBC Canadian Open to grind his way closer to Spieth. While his five wins on the season tie Day with Spieth for most on the PGA Tour in 2015, Spieth’s two major victories and outstanding efforts in the Open Championship at St. Andrews (T4) and PGA Championship at Whistling Straits (solo second to Day) are going to land the Dallas, Texas native the Player of the Year honor.
Americans Rickie Fowler and Bubba Watson filled out the FedExCup’s top five. Fowler, coming off stellar performances winning the Deutsche Bank Championship and closing T4 at the BMW Championship, scuffled with a 74 on Sunday to slide from third into fourth. Watson held firm in fifth after carding a steady 4-under 276 total at East Lake.
Ron Patey covered the golf industry for 21 years as a special sections editor with Sun Media. During the past five years, Patey has been a golf writer for Examiner.com.
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Film Review: Deathsport (1978)
May 17, 2019 by Talking Pulp in Film Review, Reviews and tagged 1970s, 1978, action, Allan Arkush, David Carradine, drama, film, motorsports, New World Pictures, review, Roger Corman, sci-fi, sports, thriller
Also known as: Death Race 2050 (Germany)
Release Date: April, 1978
Directed by: Allan Arkus, Roger Corman, Nicholas Niciphor
Written by: Nicholas Niciphor, Donald E. Stewart, Francis Doel
Music by: Andy Stein
Cast: David Carradine, Claudia Jennings, Richard Lynch
New World Pictures, 82 Minutes
“As much as I would enjoy killing you here tonight, I will enjoy watching you die more in the Deathsport tomorrow.” – Ankar Moor
Man, despite being a fan of this film’s style, this was a real challenge to get through, even at just 82 minutes.
Maybe part of the problem was that it had three directors. Also, it was trying to capitalize off of the cult classic Death Race 2000 and was intended to be a follow-up to it but switching out cars for motorcycles. It definitely fails at being anything close to the greatness of Death Race 2000 and another similar film also starring Carradine, Cannonball.
I think the biggest reason as to why this doesn’t have the charm and coolness of those other two films, is that this one wasn’t directed by Paul Bartell. And I think that is most apparent in the dryness of this film and it’s complete lack of clever humor and endearing spirit.
Put out by New World and Roger Corman, this was a bargain basement production. But it was also mired in production issues beyond the budgetary constraints.
The film looks cheap. In fact, it looks cheaper than Death Race even though it was made much later in the same decade. But maybe the clusterfuck of a production just didn’t have the wherewithal to get the best bang for the buck, as Paul Bartell did and as Corman usually does.
The acting is really bad, even for New World Pictures standards. Plus, the action sequences are bizarre and riddled with more mistakes than a typical Corman production.
While the film has an interesting visual style that isn’t too dissimilar from Death Race, it has really bizarre weapons, like transparent swords and these handheld spotlight things that vaporize people.
This also has one of the strangest bits from any Corman production. There are two scenes that feature a naked woman dancing around these suspended silver rods. Then the rods start shocking them, as they dance around, yelping in pain as an old fascist dweeb laughs in amusement.
Deathsport was a real disappointment. Granted, I didn’t go into it expecting it to be on the level of the rare gem, Death Race 2000. However, I had hoped that some of that spirit would’ve made it into this film. It didn’t.
Pairs well with: Death Race 2000 and Cannonball.
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A Sneak Peek At The New Celebrity Edge Ship
A Future Queen Of The Sea. Credit: Celebrity Cruiselines
A blanket of fog wrapped around the soon-to-debut Celebrity Edge on a recent September morning in the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France. It layered mystique onto the hulking vessel, Celebrity Cruise’s first new ship in six years.
Ahead of Edge’s November debut, Forbes Travel Guide was among the first to get a look onboard. We saw why it’s built such buzz: the first ship to be completely designed in 3D, Edge reimagines the traditional stateroom blueprint; some big names envisioned the design; and it features an impressive cantilevered multi-use space that functions as everything from a pop-up restaurant to an embarkation platform.
Here’s what has us most excited for Edge’s inaugural sail.
The Grand Plaza. Credit: Jennifer Kester
“The culture at Royal Caribbean and Celebrity is we have to push the envelope, whether that’s food or architecture,” said Richard D. Fain, chairman and CEO of Royal Caribbean, Celebrity’s parent company.
Fain told us that he and his team toured the world’s grand hotels and some other destinations to figure out what they liked and didn’t like. “The idea that the chandelier can control the room came from Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris’ exploding chandelier,” he said.
Fain found similar inspiration at Van Cleef & Arpels in Paris. “The idea that a stairway can be sexy, that was new to us.”
These details made their way onto Edge, where a curvy white staircase leads up to the spa, and a chandelier serves as the focal point in the ship’s central gathering spot.
The Pendulum. Credit: Celebrity Cruiselines
“How ships are designed is one of the ways to make people comfortable and feel like they are in a special place,” said Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, Celebrity Cruises president and CEO.
To bring Edge’s design to another level, Lutoff-Perlo sought out unexpected candidates who primarily worked in hotels. “What’s important to me isn’t that they are world-renowned, but that they are connected to our brand’s dream.”
One of the firms recruited for the undertaking was Paris-based Jouin Manku, which did Le Bar and Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, both striking spaces in Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris.
Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku conceived The Grand Plaza, the nucleus of Edge. “We wanted to make a space that was slinky and sexy,” Manku said. “The vision was: how do you take the foundations of the glamour of a ship and bring it to the 21st century?”
The result is a stylish, modern and minimal space spanning three decks. The showstopper is the sculptural light installation. The funnel-shaped piece hovering over the Martini Bar is composed of 765 blades illuminated by LED strips that change color (and along with it, the room’s ambiance).
Tom Wright of WKK, who designed the distinctive sail-shaped Five-Star Burj Al Arab Jumeirah, worked on the ship’s exterior spaces. In the main pool area, the British architect added “The Prism,” an oversized, ever-changing LED installation hovering over the bar. It sits near two white martini-glass-shaped hot tubs that are suspended 22 feet above the 75-foot lap pool.
Rooftop Garden. Celebrity Cruiselines
Wright also created the Rooftop Garden, a playful space with plants, sinuous teak benches and sculpted trees that illuminate at night and offer a perch for a guitarist or other serenading musician.
Among the restaurants, three-story Eden stands out. In the aft, the eatery/bar/cooking class venue offers a nearly 7,000-square-foot glass wall — that’s more outward-facing glass than any other room at sea. The space makes you feel like you’re in the Garden of Eden, with shades of green infusing everything from the leaf-like ceiling tiles and the emerald mermaid scale wall, to Milan designer Patricia Urquiola’s “Library of Plants” and hanging plant pillars.
Shows also will see an upgrade with an immersive theater-in-the-round surrounded by 10 oversized projection screens.
The Stateroom. Credit: Celebrity Cruiselines
The Staterooms
While the suites and sumptuous villas (two-story structures with their own plunge pools) weren’t ready for our tour, we did get to peek inside one of the 1,467 staterooms by London interior designer Kelly Hoppen. The gray and white staterooms adopt a modern, sleek vibe, but their key new feature is what Celebrity calls the Infinite Veranda.
Instead of a balcony affixed to the outside of the room, it is part of the interior space here. With the press of a button, you can section off the veranda with doors and another button slides the floor-to-ceiling window down for some fresh air. Or opt to open the doors and use the veranda as part of the air-conditioned room. This indoor-outdoor stateroom design — a first in the ocean cruising world — allows for 23 percent more space than Celebrity’s Solstice Class.
In the bathrooms, the more spacious showers look like they are covered in white marble, but it’s a lighter porcelain tile (weight is obviously a concern for ships). They come stocked with C.O. Bigelow toiletries in a fresh lavender-peppermint scent.
The Solarium. Credit: Celebrity Cruiselines
The Magic Carpet
When you first glimpse Celebrity Edge, one of its most distinguishing features pops on the starboard side of the navy and white vessel: the bright orange Magic Carpet.
The world’s first cantilevered venue at sea, the Wright-designed Magic Carpet is the size of a tennis court and weighs 90 tons. It moves 13 stories along the exterior of the ship, depending on need. At its highest point on deck 16, the Magic Carpet turns into a pop-up dinner spot; it expands the pool deck on 14; it adds alfresco dining space to fifth-deck restaurants; and on deck 2, it serves as a tender platform.
Accommodating up to 100 people, the space itself is a great place for lounging with its gray-and-white-striped sofas, yacht-like feel, bar and an area for live performances.
You’ll want to grab a seat during Edge’s first season to the Caribbean (the following campaign spotlights European cities such as Rome and Barcelona) for front-row ocean vistas.
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434. S. L. in Occupation
Last post was about my father in the closing days of WWII. After his wounds had healed, he was returned to his unit, now in occupied Bavaria.
How he felt about the German soldiers he fought, he never did say. In his stories, he never shot them — just scared them a bit. Somewhere along the line he had ditched his M1 Garand for a Thompson sub-machine gun with a broken stock. He carried it (he said) one handed by the pistol grip; in combat he pulled the trigger and recoil sent the muzzle swinging up and to the left, with a spray of bullets that sent the enemy sprinting for cover.
It was a good, clean story for the wife and kid, but once he almost slipped in the middle of telling it. Comfort and humor almost got swamped by blood and truth. He changed the subject. There is no doubt in my mind that, like a million other WWII veterans, he only told what his audience could bear to hear.
His feelings about German civilians were quite clear; these were his kind of people. Bavaria was a long way from the seats of power, and these were farmers and poor shopkeepers. He hated Nazis, and German generals, and politicians, but he liked the local people and they liked him. So did their daughters.
My father was handsome young man, full of life, full of fun, and he had money. The young German men were gone. They had gone to war and were now dead or in Allied POW camps. The German civilians were hungry. As I read between the lines of his stories, my father kept several families fed, in exactly the same way my grandfather kept several families of out of work townsmen fed with produce from his farm during the depression.
My father’s feelings for his Bavarian Germans were conditioned by his childhood. These were working people, like his own family and friends, and like the German settlers that lived around Owasso, Oklahoma where he was raised.
He fell in love with a German girl and they planned marriage, but he discovered that to marry her, he would have to reenlist and remain in Germany two more years. He was a homesick farm boy, ready to feel the Oklahoma dirt beneath his feet again, so he left his German girlfriend and came home. A year later he married. A year after that, I was born.
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Georgia, quarantine regime introduced in Lentekhi municipality
Quarantine regime has been declared in the Lentekhi Municipality of Georgia due to detected cases of coronavirus, said Adviser of the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Chikovani.
“Lentekhi district will be controlled by the forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense. Thermoscreening of the population has begun, every person will be checked. These measures have shown positive results in Bolnisi and Marneuli. All food will be provided to the municipality. The main goal of these quarantines is to stop the spread of coronavirus. All citizens should follow the recommendations to protect themselves and their loved ones”, Chikovani said.
Today four cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Lentekhi municipality. All four patients are delivered to Tbilisi today.
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Forest Hills is a diverse neighborhood of the Queens borough, just under 10 miles from Midtown Manhattan. If you have kids and live in the area, you don't have to make the trek into the city to entertain the brood. Forest Hills has a handful of exciting places to spend an afternoon or a full day, offering everything from outdoor sports and adventure to movies and indoor craft activities.
Swimming and Tennis
The West Side Tennis Club (foresthillstennis.com) usually is a members-only venue, but it does offer swimming lessons for kids during summer. The club takes on youngsters 3 years old and up to teach them the basics of swimming. Kids who know how to swim can enroll and learn new strokes and improve their technique. Tennis lessons also are available for children throughout the year, including after-school sessions. This program provides kids with the basics of the game, from USPTA-certified staff.
Forest Park (nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/vt_forest_park/vt_forest_park.html) is the third-largest park in Queens, stretching more than 500 acres and through five neighborhoods. The park offers a huge variety of activities to keep kids busy. Horseshoe pitches, handball and basketball courts and playgrounds are all available to the public. If the kids are keen skaters, the park also has a skating area. Horse riding paths are located throughout the park and visitors can rent horses from nearby private stables. A historic carousel is one of the attractions while visiting.
For a special treat in Forest Hills, organize a day out at the movies. The neighborhood has two cinemas, the UA Midway Stadium 9 and the Cinemart Cinemas. The UA Midway is a short walk from the 7 train on Queens Boulevard, offering all the blockbuster movies, including 3D films. Cinemart Cinemas is along the Q54 bus route on Metropolitan Avenue and features a small cafe where families can enjoy a pizza meal or ice cream before or after a movie. Cinemart also specializes in kids parties and offers a couple of party packages to celebrate birthdays.
Painting and Crafts
Get creative with your kids at the Plaster Party Place (plasterpartyplace.com) on Metropolitan Avenue. Children get the opportunity to choose their own plaster item to decorate and take home. Prices include paints, and the use of brushes, smocks and table space. Events are held regularly, such as a kids movie and bingo night, plus painting specials on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as of publication. Parties also can be organized here and include goody bags and make-your-own ice cream sundaes. Walk-in guests are welcome for painting but reservations are required for parties.
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The University of Dallas Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business has received national recognition for several rankings and awards, including designations for top MBA, DBA and online master's programs.
The honors include rankings from several prestigious organizations applauding UD’s academic success and leadership.
“Our faculty have done an outstanding job identifying and meeting the needs of our current students and the ever-changing needs of our community,” said Gupta College of Business Dean Brett J. L. Landry. “We’re committed to staying at the forefront of business education, and we’re honored to receive recognition for our efforts so far.”
Earlier this year, UD earned a No. 13 spot on Top Management Degrees’ list of the "Top 25 MBA Programs in Texas 2017,” placing the MBA program among the top five private school MBA programs in the state.
The college also received recognition for three online programs, signaling the university’s ability to adapt to the shift in online educational offerings. Online MBA Degrees listed the college of business as a “Top 50 Online MBA Programs in Information & Technology” (2017) and “Top 50 Online MBA Programs in Accounting” (2017). Value Colleges also rated the college as one of the “Top 50 Best Value Online Master's in Accounting Degrees” (2017).
For the second year in a row, the University of Dallas was also named one of the “Forbes Best Value Colleges 2017.”
On the international level, CEO Magazine recognized the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program as one of the premier DBA programs in the world based on accreditation, quality of faculty, geography and global standing.
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Solar storm produces X-ray auroras on Jupiter
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Auroras eight times bigger than the ones on earth are being produced in X-ray by the solar storms.
by Jose Juan Gutierrez (article) and Parasshuram Shalgar (video)
21 May 2016 at 22:30 21 May 2016 at 22:30
Eight times brighter than normal
Charged particles (solar wind) are producing X-ray auroras at Jupiter´s poles. The shiny lights are eight times more brilliant than normal and several hundred times more energetic than the auroras seen on earth. This event, which was observed using NASA´s Chandra X-ray Observatory, is one of the first attempts made at observing Jupiter´s auroras coincident with an interplanetary coronalmass ejection (ICME).
Highly charged particles
The sun is constantly ejecting high energetic particles in all directions. The density, temperature and speed of this particles varies and may scape the sun´s gravity when they’re highly energetic.
This occurs during coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which is when the solar wind may reach the planets and other cosmic bodies.
What are auroras?
Auroras are natural displays of lights that are seen at high altitudes on planetary bodies. On earth, they are produced at the poles of the planet. They occur when the solar wind interacts with charged particles in the magnetosphere, disturbing them and precipitating both the solar wind and magnetospheric plasma towards the upper part of the atmosphere; once there, these particles interact with the atoms and molecules ionizing or exciting them; thus, creating displays of colorful light.
Jupiter´s auroras
Jupiter has a magnetic field that is more intense than the one on earth. The auroras on Jupiter are produced by the solar wind and become more intense during intense CMEs.
Coronal ejections send Jupiter’s magnetic field boundary significantly inward. The auroras on Jupiter are thought to be caused by sulfur and oxygen ions interacting with the solar wind at the edges of its magnetic field.
A recent publication at the Journal of geophysical research on 22 March 2016 states that interaction of ICMEs at the boundary of Jupiter´s magnetosphere originates X-ray auroras on the planet.
Scientists reported that during 11 hours of observation in 2011 in coincidence with a predicted ICME. They discovered that a hot spot of X rays that pulsed with a periodicity of 45 minutes before the arrival of the ICME incremented in periodicity to 26 minutes after the arrival.
They think that by studying aurora variations, they may be able to know more about Jupiter´s magnetic field and how the sun´s effects act upon it.
A good understanding of these interaction is important for understanding other processes ocurring on Jupiter´s surface and in space.
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Post by RTH10260 » Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:44 pm
I dearly would like to return the tweet about "shithole countries" to individual-1, alas I "don't do" Twitter....
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The Guardian: Strongmen review: a chilling history for one nation no longer under Trump
Ruth Ben-Ghiat delivers a superb examination of how close the US came to fascism – and how it has propped it up before
This terrific history of strongmen since Mussolini makes it clear that despite a horrific pandemic and massive economic disruption, ordinary democratic Americans have more to be thankful for this Thanksgiving than ever before.
Comparing the gruesome, granular details of the reigns of Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, Gaddafi, Pinochet, Mobuto, Berlusconi and Erdoğan to the acts and aspirations of Donald Trump, New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat makes a powerful argument that on the scary road to fascism, America just came perilously close to the point of no return.
Almost everything Trump has done has come straight from the authoritarian playbook. Every dictator, for example, has built on the accomplishments of his predecessors.
“Just as Hitler watched Mussolini’s actions carefully,” Ben-Ghiat writes, “so did Gaddafi learn from Lt Col Gamal Abdul Nasser’s 1952 overthrow of the monarchy in Egypt.” Then in the 1980s and 90s, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich served as models for Europeans looking for “a more radical form of conservatism”. Gingrich’s 1994 Contract with America was echoed a year later by the Front National, with its “contract for France with the French”. Berlusconi’s Contract with Italians followed six years later.
In Egypt, Nasser hired “former Nazi propagandists for their expertise in antisemitic messaging”. In Zaire, from 1965, Mobutu Sese Seko’s media handlers reimagined Leni Riefenstahl’s image of Hitler descending from the sky by opening the television news each night with a picture of the dictator’s face, hovering up in the clouds.
The parallels between Trump and his role models are endless. Ben-Ghiat writes of “watching Trump retweet neo-Nazi propaganda, call for the imprisonment [of Hillary Clinton] and lead his followers in loyalty oaths at rallies seemed all too familiar”– and how it filled her “with dread”.
Before the Putin-Trump bromance there was Putin and Berlusconi, grinning at each other from Zavidovo to Sardinia. The way Trump talked about Mexicans was hardly different from Hitler’s words about the Jews or Berlusconi’s about Africans. The Italian media mogul and prime minister was himself just a pale imitation of Mussolini. In the pre-war period, he was responsible for the deaths of 700,000 Libyans, Eritreans, Somalis and Ethiopians.
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Post by Lani » Thu Nov 26, 2020 7:23 pm
Good article. Thanks.
I sent the link to two friends who were surprised when I said Trump was attempting a coup. One of those friends is a Black man who grew up in the south. He doesn't think Trump was pushing for a coup. He thinks Trump is promoting a race war, and he sent me this link. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... -politics/
It's both, and more.
Post by Addie » Mon Nov 30, 2020 10:59 am
New York Times - Jochen Bittner: 1918 Germany Has a Warning for America
Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century.
HAMBURG, Germany — It may well be that Germans have a special inclination to panic at specters from the past, and I admit that this alarmism annoys me at times. Yet watching President Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign since Election Day, I can’t help but see a parallel to one of the most dreadful episodes from Germany’s history.
One hundred years ago, amid the implosions of Imperial Germany, powerful conservatives who led the country into war refused to accept that they had lost. Their denial gave birth to arguably the most potent and disastrous political lie of the 20th century — the Dolchstosslegende, or stab-in-the-back myth.
Its core claim was that Imperial Germany never lost World War I. Defeat, its proponents said, was declared but not warranted. It was a conspiracy, a con, a capitulation — a grave betrayal that forever stained the nation. That the claim was palpably false didn’t matter. Among a sizable number of Germans, it stirred resentment, humiliation and anger. And the one figure who knew best how to exploit their frustration was Adolf Hitler. ...
By the time of the Treaty of Versailles the following year, the myth was already well established. The harsh conditions imposed by the Allies, including painful reparation payments, burnished the sense of betrayal. It was especially incomprehensible that Germany, in just a couple of years, had gone from one of the world’s most respected nations to its biggest loser.
The startling aspect about the Dolchstosslegende is this: It did not grow weaker after 1918 but stronger. In the face of humiliation and unable or unwilling to cope with the truth, many Germans embarked on a disastrous self-delusion: The nation had been betrayed, but its honor and greatness could never be lost. And those without a sense of national duty and righteousness — the left and even the elected government of the new republic — could never be legitimate custodians of the country.
In this way, the myth was not just the sharp wedge that drove the Weimar Republic apart. It was also at the heart of Nazi propaganda, and instrumental in justifying violence against opponents. The key to Hitler’s success was that, by 1933, a considerable part of the German electorate had put the ideas embodied in the myth — honor, greatness, national pride — above democracy.
Agreed. It's both
Lani wrote: ↑Thu Nov 26, 2020 7:23 pm Good article. Thanks.
Post by Addie » Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:42 pm
The Guardian: Decline and fall: what Donald Trump can learn from the Roman emperors
A lot of men have probably wished for four more years. A little under that time after assuming absolute power, Gaius Caesar was dead, assassinated by the men who were paid to protect him. We more usually know him as Caligula: a man who revealed himself to be every kind of monster soon after becoming emperor of Rome.
It probably wasn’t his depravity that did for Caligula, however: if our sources are to be believed, sexual deviance was pretty much par for Roman emperors. Abusing so much power must have been irresistible. Perhaps the reasoning was that when you’re a star, they let you do it. The real problem for the men surrounding him was his unpredictability. At the time of his death, he was pondering giving high political office to Incitatus, his favourite horse.
As the imperial biographer Suetonius tells us, Caligula was fond of teasing the chief of the Praetorian guard, a man named Cassius Chaerea. And Chaerea eventually bit back, stabbing Gaius in the neck. Other guards piled in and Gaius was soon dead of multiple stab wounds. More bodyguards then appeared on the scene and killed some of the assassins and various innocent bystanders. When an autocrat goes down, it seems, the damage can be indiscriminate.
Intriguingly, the emperor’s habit of issuing erratic and deceitful communications meant that many people didn’t believe it when the news of his death was announced. They thought it must be a story Caligula had released himself, to find out what people thought of him. The assumption of falsehood had been embedded into Roman society in a surprisingly short time: you could judge the condition of the times from this, Suetonius adds, rather wearily.
The last few weeks in US politics have looked, to a classicist on the other side of the Atlantic, like an unnervingly familiar story wearing golfing clothes instead of a toga. How do you remove the most powerful man in the world from the position that bestows that power on him if he doesn’t want to lose it? The US constitution is full of checks and balances to make sure a president isn’t a king and that his power has limits. But that is how the Roman principate began too.
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Post by p0rtia » Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:46 pm
I'll tell you what 45 can learn from the Roman emperors:
No matter where you go, there you are!
Post by RTH10260 » Fri Dec 04, 2020 6:19 pm
the soon to be ex-45 reading history books Did they golf down there in the shithole country that is now Italy
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what thWimp can learn from the Roman emperors: Memento Mori as a reminder to not succumb to hubris
Post by Addie » Sat Dec 12, 2020 2:18 pm
DW: Austria Seizes Guns Destined For German Right-Wing Militia
Far-right extremists planned to set up an armed militia in the southern German state of Bavaria, Austrian investigators say. The weapons seized included Kalashnikovs and Uzis. Austrian police have seized dozens of weapons and 100,000 rounds of ammunition that were partly destined for building up an extremist far-right militia in Germany, Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer announced on Saturday.
Authorities found 76 semi-automatic and automatic weapons, 14 handguns, more than 100,000 rounds of various calibers, as well as six hand grenades and various types of explosives during raids this week. The Kurier newspaper reported that the weapons included Kalashnikovs, Skorpions and Uzis.
Vienna's police chief Gerhard Pürstl described the haul as the largest in decades and said the weapons were to be used to set up an armed extremist group in the southern German state of Bavaria. Five suspects have been detained in Austria, including a man who was already known to authorities for his far-right activities. Local media said he was once suspected of being connected to a letter bombing campaign that rocked Austria in the 1990s.
Arrests in Germany too: Two people have been arrested in Bavaria, leading investigator Michael Mimra said. Investigations are also ongoing in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia.
Post by Addie » Sun Jan 10, 2021 7:18 am
New York Times - Timothy Snyder: The American Abyss
A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next. ...
People believed him, which is not at all surprising. It takes a tremendous amount of work to educate citizens to resist the powerful pull of believing what they already believe, or what others around them believe, or what would make sense of their own previous choices. Plato noted a particular risk for tyrants: that they would be surrounded in the end by yes-men and enablers. Aristotle worried that, in a democracy, a wealthy and talented demagogue could all too easily master the minds of the populace. Aware of these risks and others, the framers of the Constitution instituted a system of checks and balances. The point was not simply to ensure that no one branch of government dominated the others but also to anchor in institutions different points of view.
In this sense, the responsibility for Trump’s push to overturn an election must be shared by a very large number of Republican members of Congress. Rather than contradict Trump from the beginning, they allowed his electoral fiction to flourish. They had different reasons for doing so. One group of Republicans is concerned above all with gaming the system to maintain power, taking full advantage of constitutional obscurities, gerrymandering and dark money to win elections with a minority of motivated voters. They have no interest in the collapse of the peculiar form of representation that allows their minority party disproportionate control of government. The most important among them, Mitch McConnell, indulged Trump’s lie while making no comment on its consequences.
Yet other Republicans saw the situation differently: They might actually break the system and have power without democracy. The split between these two groups, the gamers and the breakers, became sharply visible on Dec. 30, when Senator Josh Hawley announced that he would support Trump’s challenge by questioning the validity of the electoral votes on Jan. 6. Ted Cruz then promised his own support, joined by about 10 other senators. More than a hundred Republican representatives took the same position. For many, this seemed like nothing more than a show: challenges to states’ electoral votes would force delays and floor votes but would not affect the outcome.
Yet for Congress to traduce its basic functions had a price. An elected institution that opposes elections is inviting its own overthrow. Members of Congress who sustained the president’s lie, despite the available and unambiguous evidence, betrayed their constitutional mission. Making his fictions the basis of congressional action gave them flesh. Now Trump could demand that senators and congressmen bow to his will. He could place personal responsibility upon Mike Pence, in charge of the formal proceedings, to pervert them. And on Jan. 6, he directed his followers to exert pressure on these elected representatives, which they proceeded to do: storming the Capitol building, searching for people to punish, ransacking the place.
Of course this did make a kind of sense: If the election really had been stolen, as senators and congressmen were themselves suggesting, then how could Congress be allowed to move forward? For some Republicans, the invasion of the Capitol must have been a shock, or even a lesson. For the breakers, however, it may have been a taste of the future. Afterward, eight senators and more than 100 representatives voted for the lie that had forced them to flee their chambers.
Post by Uninformed » Sun Jan 10, 2021 9:44 am
Unsurprisingly “theatrical” but a good message to propagate. Never thought Arnold Schwarzenegger could be a role model.
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Post by pipistrelle » Sun Jan 10, 2021 9:46 am
Uninformed wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 9:44 am Unsurprisingly “theatrical” but a good message to propagate. Never thought Arnold Schwarzenegger could be a role model.
For him, it was understated and low key.
Post by Addie » Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:20 am
WaPo: Wealthy bankers and businessmen plotted to overthrow FDR. A retired general foiled it.
The consternation had been growing in the months between Franklin D. Roosevelt’s election and his inauguration, but his elimination of the gold standard in April 1933 infuriated some of the country’s wealthiest men.
Titans of banking and business worried that if U.S. currency wasn’t backed by gold, inflation could skyrocket and make their millions worthless. Why, they could end up as poor as most everyone else was during the Great Depression.
So, according to the sworn congressional testimony of a retired general, they decided to overthrow the government and install a dictator who was more business friendly. After all, they reasoned, that had been working well in Italy.
How close this fascist cabal got, and who exactly was in on it, are still subjects of historical debate. But as the dust settles after the pro-Trump attack on the U.S. Capitol, and as it becomes clearer how close lawmakers came to catastrophe, the similarities to the Business Plot are hard to ignore. ...
Smedley D. Butler was a highly decorated Marine Corps general who had received the Medal of Honor twice. He was beloved by his men before his retirement, and more so afterward when he spoke in support of the Bonus Army’s fight for early bonus payments for World War I service.
“He was wildly popular and was an outspoken critic of fascism and Mussolini at a time when there was really an impulse toward that throughout the world, including in the United States,” Denton said.
Given his opposition to fascism, Butler might not seem like a good fit for the job of coup leader, but his support from veterans was more important to the Wall Street plotters. At the time, there were many more veterans than active-duty service members; if someone could summon them as a force of 500,000 to march on Washington, the government could fall without a shot being fired.
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Post by Volkonski » Wed Jan 13, 2021 12:22 pm
In 1933-
Security for the inaugural events had been tightened, following the Miami assassination attempt
on Roosevelt, which had resulted in the death of Mayor Cermak of Chicago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/politics ... istory.pdf
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
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Post by AndyinPA » Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:10 pm
IIRC, Preston Bush, father and grandfather to two presidents, was among the plotters.
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine
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Post by Suranis » Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:27 pm
AndyinPA wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:10 pm IIRC, Preston Bush, father and grandfather to two presidents, was among the plotters.
There has been accusations on those lines about Prescott Bush for years, but no real evidence of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
Business Plot
In July 2007, Scott Horton, an American attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, had an article published in Harper's Magazine claiming that Prescott Bush was involved in the 1934 Business Plot, a failed plan by some of America's wealthy to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[23]
However, no evidence from the source material of the congressional report, or from news reports at the time, make any mention of Bush's involvement.
The difference between the Middle Ages, and the Age of the Internet, is that in the Middle Ages no-one thought the Earth was flat.
Suranis wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:27 pm
Post by Addie » Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:33 am
Just Security: Ousted Autocratic Presidents and Their Backers in the Legislative Branch
What Other Countries Can Tell the United States About the Road Ahead
Any hope that the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol would generate such a backlash that the president and extremist forces aligned with him would lose their political potency has eroded in the days since. Some of the most revealing signs of that come from within the building they attacked: the votes that same night by 147 Republicans in Congress to embrace Trump’s lies and reject the legitimate victory of President-elect Joe Biden, and the vote on Wednesday to impeach Trump, when 197 of 211 Republicans in the House of Representatives stuck by their man.
The willingness of these duly elected U.S. legislators to prop up President Donald Trump despite his election loss echoes patterns in countries caught in the widening global net of authoritarianism over the past three decades.
The actions of autocrats and hardliners in power or out in countries from Hungary to Colombia, from the Philippines to Sri Lanka to Russia, Belarus, Italy, and on to Chile, carry lessons that illuminate what might lie ahead for the United States, as Trump leaves office by Jan. 20. In each case, the autocrat often relies on and wields influence over hundreds of complicit members of national legislatures, regardless of whether the authoritarian leader is in power or has been ousted, sometimes to return again to office or help install his chosen successor down the line. ...
“Even if a coup fails,” Samarajiva commented, “it still damages your government.” ...
Immediately following the attacks on the Capitol, an open question was whether the members of Congress who had planned to contest Biden’s win would still do so when the Joint Session reconvened. The only Republican defections came from senators, not members of the House, noted William A. Galston, a senior fellow who holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program.
“Many members of the House come from districts where the grassroots support for Trump is particularly strong, particularly among those Republicans who are most likely to participate in party primaries,” Galston said. “So the most fervent and most participatory portion of the party is now squarely in Trump’s camp, and they can leverage their influence through the primary process and the fear that legislators have of being `primaried.’”
Post by AndyinPA » Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:44 am
I can see the call for bringing tp to justice, but I still think a well-placed cardiac event is the best answer.
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Chongqing-Shanghai-Boston and Chongqing-Shangqing-Seattle transit will commence on December 11 and 12.
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Chinese Carrier, Hainan Airlines, adds two new routes, linking Chongqing-Shanghai to Seattle and Boston. The move is set to expand Hainan’s long-haul network in the US alongside its already operating routes in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Toronto, and more cities in North America.
In 2017, Hainan seeks approval from US authorities to introduce flights from Jiangbei International Airport in Chongqing to Los Angeles and New York due to the relaxed US-China visa requirements which increased the demand for travel between the two countries.
Its latest route addition of flights to Boston and Seattle aims to promote and widen relation in education, science, tourism, and a vast array of business fields. Hainan Airlines expansion offers a high level of convenience to travelers entering and exiting Asia and North America.
The Chongqing-Shanghai-Boston and Chongqing-Shanghai-Seattle flights will commence on December 11 and 12 where flights are on its peak due to the holiday season. All flights will be serviced by Hainan’s luxurious and high-tech aircraft which is the Boeing 787-9.
Hainan Airlines currently operates 16 routes across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Chongqing, one of the five central cities in China, is a densely populated municipality and leaders of manufacturing and transportation hubs in the country. Chongqing services over 32 million annual passengers based on its 2015 records.
With these new routes, passengers can expect more traveling option and package ticket prices that will diversify their choice for travel, at the same time, increase trade and relation between the two countries.
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Sport Football EPL wrap: Arsenal seven points clear
6:01am, Dec 1, 2013 Updated: 8:43am, Dec 1
Aaron Ramsey scored twice against his former club as Arsenal beat Cardiff City 3-0 on Saturday to move seven points clear in the Premier League.
Ramsey broke the deadlock with a fine first-half header and after substitute Mathieu Flamini added a late second, the Welshman completed victory in stoppage time to take his tally of league goals this season to eight.
The win elevated Arsene Wenger’s side seven points above nearest rivals Liverpool and Chelsea, both of whom play on Sunday, as well as Everton, who climbed to fourth place by beating Stoke City.
“It shows you how much Aaron Ramsey has improved,” said Arsenal manager Wenger.
“We came here two or three years ago and he had a nightmare here in a cup game, which shows you how much improved he is as a player.
“When you play first (before your rivals) you can only do your job and see what happens after. But if you do your job well, you can relax.”
Barcelona loanee Gerard Deulofeu produced a dazzling individual display as Everton crushed Stoke 4-0 to move level on points with Liverpool and Chelsea.
The 19-year-old Spanish forward opened the scoring on the stroke of half-time, exchanging passes with Steven Pienaar and then Gareth Barry before slamming a shot past Asmir Begovic at his near post.
Seamus Coleman added a second early in the first half from Deulofeu’s left-wing cross, before Bryan Oviedo – a replacement for the injured Leighton Baines – made it 3-0 with a crisp 25-yard drive.
On-loan Chelsea forward Romelu Lukaku sealed victory with a 79th-minute tap-in from an Ovideo cross.
On Deulofeu, Everton manager Roberto Martinez said: “It was the most satisfying individual performance that we had, because he had to wait for so long to get his chance.”
Newcastle ended the day a point behind Everton in fifth place after Moussa Sissoko scored a spectacular 25-yard winner in a 2-1 victory at home to West Bromwich Albion.
The France midfielder’s 57th-minute thunderbolt, after visiting captain Chris Brunt had cancelled out Yoan Gouffran’s headed opener, gave Alan Pardew’s side their fourth consecutive league victory.
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Third-bottom Fulham are now three points adrift of safety, after second-half goals from Mohamed Diame, Carlton Cole and Joe Cole saw them slump to a fifth straight loss in a 3-0 defeat at London rivals West Ham.
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Daily Mail readers’ vile, racist attacks on Malala for winning the Nobel Peace Prize
Daily Mail, human rights, international, race
(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!)
Sometimes Daily Mail readers show their true faces – and they’re as ugly and vile as you would expect them to be.
Here are just a few of the nasty and downright racist comments in the Daily Mail today after it was announced that Malala had won the Nobel Peace Prize:
“Send her back home.”
“How come she’s still here?”
“The UK taxpayer has been stumping up the bill for her to fly around the world.”
“Sick of hearing about her.”
“A joke. She has been awarded a Noble Prize for stopping a bullet?”
“I just find her annoying.”
“Why is she still here?”
“Living off the taxpayer.”
“Praise some British kids for a change.”
Remember, these comments are about a little girl who was shot at point blank range by the Taliban for wanting to go to school and – despite still being a target for assassination – is still willing to speak up for a girl’s right to education.
Sometimes I’m ashamed of my own country…….
Here are screen shots of just a few of the comments from the Daily Mail article – if you can bear to wade through them:
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166 thoughts on “Daily Mail readers’ vile, racist attacks on Malala for winning the Nobel Peace Prize”
I would agree Tom…you are hopelessly naïve!
Never mind just listen to the blues! 🙂
And I threatened FF I wld not be making any more comments..
The Blood Moon cut me up eva so bad ya see!
‘They’ have let me out now…..:)
Must we share the same air & sunlight as these trolls?
Freedom of speech has been replaced by freedom to speak ignorance & mindless hate.
That’s not political,
That’s mental illness……
steven said:
Thanks Tom. Horrific read but so important to remind yourself what we are up against.
The comments under the Daily Mirror post on FB are even worse
ladyfreebird750 said:
The thought that we have to breathe the same air as some of the people who comment on stories in the Mail is depressing to say the least. They seem to be people with the smallest brains, least compassion and a total overdose of mean spirited inhumanity. And they have all turned to UKIP.. is there a form of correlation there do you think?
I happen to think some of the comments are quite justified, jumping on the politically correct wagon rather than think for yourselves is as bias as race hatred and xenophobia.
e.g. Mark 25 yorkshires comment hits the spot!
marsha atkins said:
And to think some people are under the illusion that UK is a tolerant place to live.
callie said:
I’m sat with my mother (84) who just said at least half of those comments. But last night she did ask why people are always killing over ‘different versions of a sky fairy’, so she’s not always wrong.
Bollards said:
Looks like the Kippers have been busy, at least they have some opposition on the Mirror site.
basstubes said:
I am ashamed today and appalled by this. I wonder what their politics are and how they justify their rancid attacks?
No, but you are trying to humiliate the elderly – see two can play at your game.
Elaine M said:
Whoa! The true putrid bile comes out now! This is what festers under the surface in the hearts and minds of many people in this country who are stuck in their narrow little worlds, filled with resentment and hatred of all people considered ‘other’. UKIP and the unprecedented amount of media coverage showered on this shameful excuse for a ‘political’ party gives credibility to these ugly views. Opinions like those spouted in the Daily Mail in response to a young woman’s recognition for her courage, for surviving and speak outing, are no different to those of the Taliban and ISIS. Shame on you people so lacking in compassion and imagination.
What is this ALL people considered ‘other’ about?
I have never heard such dramatical, over exaggeration in my life, I don’t care what party the commenters belong to, they have a right to question what is going on in their own country.
Shame on you for trying to deny them that right!
The reply was to Elaine M., who clearly has an over active imagination.
Susan Fairweather said:
I’m ashamed of the sheer illiteracy of those daft comments… very embarrassing but maybe it shows the calibre of those who made them
By howling at the Moon!
Wise old Dog.
Wot ,loike me?
I have done seen it all! 😦
Where is my knight? 🙂
Wot about my human rights?
Yes a lot of a Daily Mail readers seem to have bizarre, disgusting views.
victedy said:
they are Nazis the LOT of them, how many people would do what Malala did at her age and STILL DEFY THEM AFTER GETTING SHOT!
Horselover Fat said:
Reblogged this on My Little Underground and commented:
Daily Mail readers are scum. This is well known. Every now and then (or every week) they confirm this.
This is what Mail readers think of Malala winning a Nobel Peace Price . Forget about compassion or admiration about a girl who stood up to a fascistic regime and nearly died because of it. No, now we’re looking after her in the UK and we’re ‘better together’ you have bitter racists attacking her for being browner than they are.
Fuck the Mail. Fuck their readers. They’re scum. Malala has done more to help the world in her short life than any reader of the Daily Mail.
Reblogged this on markcatlin3695's Blog and commented:
Some people haven’t got the brains they were born with, these people are pathetic. …..
Alnus Glutinosa said:
Poor Malala, there is no shortage of hate for her, she was being slagged off on Nihal’s programme on BBC Asian Network too. One caller said she hadn’t been shot in the face at all and that she was a stooge.
Others speculate she works for Teh West & Israel.
Dumbasses abound.
futureindoubt said:
Othering, differentiating people based on the perceived group they belong to in order to create imbalanced power structures emphasizing a superior and inferior between the groups. See for this example whatever Malala’s achievements are, is void to these people because she is part of or perceived to be in groups considered “the other” from the superior norm. She is in effect being dehumanized because she is an immigrant, a Muslim and perceived to be a benefit scrounger.
A6er said:
Reblogged this on Britain Isn't Eating and commented:
Absolutely appalling!
I never fail to be disgusted by the Daily Fail and its readers
Dan Delion said:
Sadly, standards have fallen since our politicians discovered the ‘benefits’ of deceitful spin (WMD) and allowed Bullingdon Club behaviour to become acceptable in the upper reaches of Westminster.as an exemplar for the rest of us (PMQ).
What an absolute shower they all are – exterminate the lot! Exterminate!… exterminate!…. exterminate!…..
uppitymonkey said:
Reblogged this on uppitymonkey and commented:
This kind of bile needs to be shown more. Disgusting views shared openly in the comments section of a disgusting paper.
Peter Coleman said:
When The Daily Mail is your window on the world. is it any wonder that the view from your window is warped? I pity these people who are too hard of thinking to come up with a view of their own and rely instead on the fear mongering and racist propaganda they have drip. drip, drip fed to them by Paul Dacre’s band of Muppets from hell. Ironically these people with their shiny white brainwashed minds probably all sing along to John Lennon’s “Imagine”, because it’s a lovely song. Well perhaps not sing, but at least “Baaaaaa”. tunefully.
What’s even more depressing is, those messages are now top of the ‘best rated’ list. All that’s worst about humanity on the internet is displayed there, sadistic trolls, warped politics, jealousy etc- as said, I’m ashamed to be part of the human race sometimes.
PressNotSorry said:
Reblogged this on Press Not Sorry and commented:
The Mail comments section is as toxic as ever. Disheartening.
mark25yorkshire said that Malala should be sent back to Pakistan. Do you agree with that?
Shameful Bigots!
John Lewis said:
Just about every day there is an article in the in the DM that screams something like. “Bloody thirsty, burqua wearing halal eating MUSLIM woman parks in disabled parking space at Tesco” When a young woman takes a courageous principled stand in very dangerous circumstances the DM mention that she a muslim in the final paragraph
That is a load of codswallop too, you have been swallowing too much political correctness text at university.
If she is the ‘other’ from the superior norm, why is she receivintg first class medical treatment and education in Britain?
‘others’ here in their own country are put on second class waiting lists, denied of benefits and perceived to be scroungers by their own media and politicians.
We don’t need the taliban, we have the establishment.
Next war venue INDIA!
That is how the Indian Psychiatrists in this country can cage and medicate anyone who has any opposition to what government is dictating we should swallow as facts in our own country.
Only daily mail readers swallow the crap about the colour of peoples skin or benefit scroungers, that is if it is not largely made up posts.
It’s about time we started listening to opposition to mainstream thinking, it’s mediocre,even the do gooders only spout what they are taught by university lecturers, they can’t think for themselves.
Georgina said:
Just a list of people who will never win the peace prize with clearly written statements as to why.
crabramblings said:
I’ve read this a couple of times now and have NO IDEA what you are trying to say.
Beautifully put 🙂
Sheenagh Pugh said:
If the elderly are wrong and racist they should be called on it, just as you would a young person. I’m 63, btw…
Louise Roe said:
Why Oh why are racist, bigoted, slap-able DM readers all so illiterate? The spelling in those horrific, scary comments is awful. They’re in dire need of educating, in so many senses of the word.
Marsha, apparently you can’t see the stupidity of your statement. In Pakistan Malala was shot in the head for her opinions, and in the UK she got some nasty online abuse. You’re a complete idiot (obviously!) but surely even you can see the difference……
Or perhaps they’re in dire need of “education”?
Arthur Foxake said:
Winter is coming (I’m from the north)
crabramblings – You are not alone in thinking that… and the final part of Ms Fawkes last sentence appropriately describes herself!
Alan Jones said:
Blame UKip and the Tories for this, because they have been fuelling this kind of nationalistic mind-set among those impressionable members of British society for a while now. Those Bastards(Politicians) have an agenda that benefits them, and certainly does NOT benefit the British people. Unfortunately the average man and women will be unable to see this blatant manipulation because they will be blinded by a contrived hatred for anything Non-British. WAKE UP BRITISH PEOPLE, YOU ARE BEING MANIPULATED BY THE WORST OF HUMAN TRASH. Remember the worst monsters hide behind a broad smile and an expensive suit.
true, but callie was implying that her elderly mother was away with the fairies of a religious kind.
She was therefore insulting and humiliating her mother and the religious.
Sky fairies would be much preferable to the athiest earth fairies dictats.
Celticrose said:
Not all the comments are like these despicable people. I see you haven’t included any of the positive comments from Daily Mail readers. As with all forms of reporting there is good and bad in every community. I read the DM and I think this young teenager is wonderfully inspiring and well deserving of the award. This is not the last we will be hearing of this very brave young lady.
crabramblings
Time you got some real education then!
tunefultony said:
Why do the so-called Taliban have a problem with education for illiterate youngsters in Pakistan? Just like, why do IS gangsters want to ban music, which is a world cultural asset to many races? It all beggars belief why such groups would be so bigoted and irrational. I think Malala is a brave girl and lucky to survive being shot in the head, but awarding her the Nobel Peace Prize seems somewhat bizarre, because on that rationale they should also have awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Ronald Reagan (who got shot) and before that to John F. Kennedy, posthumously, (who got shot and killed).
That is why I argued with most lecturers and was even called incorrigible.
If her life is not in danger, YES.
But I suppose you are going to argue that her life would still be in danger?
“It all beggars belief why such groups would be so bigoted and irrational.”
Tunefultony – Just wondering… do you believe in a god too? If so, which one?
Ms Fawkes – Please tell everybody what these “athiest earth fairies dictats” are……
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How would you know, you’re the most ignorant to the real world person on here.
I recall years back of an african doctor who received the nobel peace prize for his work and could have flogged both himself and his wares in the western world for a fortune, but decided to go back to his own poverty stricken country to save the sick and dying there for no financial reward.
No, I meant the “they can’t think for themselves” part!!!
If you think her life is NOT in danger in Pakistan then you are a complete f*cking idiot. So do you STILL agree with mark25yorkshire?
Ms Fawkes…… Whooosh!
…and what was his name?
You are more qualified than me to answer your own question on fairies, according to you I am bias.
Google nobel peace prize winners and find an African doctors name, I found this in a copy of a readers digest years ago, so obviously it must be true!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/11155900/Naomi-Campbell-congratulates-malaria-on-winning-2014-Nobel-Peace-Prize-twice-on-social-media.html
It seems her supporters are illiterate too!
Chris Berger said:
Let’s not let is pass either that these comments were moderated. For the avoidance of any doubt, that means they were looked at and deemed acceptable for publication.
That was the part I was answering dumb, dumb, you only argue with people you don’t agree with, therefore I was thinking for myself.
“you only argue with people you don’t agree with”
Of course!!!!!!! You really ARE a complete f*cking idiot, aren’t you?
Yet again the only argument you can come up with is your own pathetic homophobia!!!
Try again…… what does “athiest earth fairies dictats” mean? You said it but you don’t seem to have a clue what your own words mean!
“I found this in a copy of a readers digest”
Ha ha ha! – You really are a complete f*cking idiot, aren’t you?
I think this may be what you want…
http://graphics.occupydesign.org.uk/#1178/daily-mail-free-zone
We may rightly think that the selection of DM comments above are so wrong on so many levels. We must realise that this poison has been pumped out by the neo-cons in Westminster and their supporters, including the press and the BBC (sadly), and that the only losers are the masses. Even the BBC has given so much air time to UKIP that people often think they have loads of MPs (also highlighting the ignorance of the voters, too.) Ignorance is the friend of the neo-cons & fascists & eugenicists.
The 1920’s and 1930’s saw much the same, with much the same outcome, in Germany, and 1950’s Stalinism in the USSR. It’s text-book classic propagandist techniques of the fascists. My fear is what happens when these types have been wound up too much for their own incoherence to bear?
Wow said:
Yes, it was the doctors old copy which he had left on the table in his surgery’s waiting room.
You don’t let astonishing ignorance get in the way of your racism, homophobia and bigotry, do you?
tuneful
what about pope john paul the second, he got shot and should have at least been offered the award, even if he would have gracefully refused it.
No. Happy?
I’ll give you a clue, their dictats are enshrined in the politically correct manual.
Karen Mutch said:
What a load of moronic ill educated drivel Daily Mail readers come out with. Makes me ashamed to be British
Like the gutter press, you would have us believe that there are boagey men lurking in every country forever and a day.
She has been praised for her bravery, it’s time to show it again and see if there is still a threat.
Fink, tell your friend Florence, zebedee is waiting for her at the puppet stall.
Answer the question plainly …… mark25yorkshire said that Malala should be sent back to Pakistan. Do you agree with that or not?
No. Sickened.
People who are confident in the morality and rationality of their views are always capable of expressing them plainly.
I’ll try again – What does “athiest earth fairies dictats” mean?
Ms Fawkes – Do you seriously think anybody who gets shot, even if they are directly responsible for the sexual abuse of countless children, should get an award?
Genghis said:
WOW, a blog post mocking the Daily Mail for the bigotry of its commenters and ending up with its own bigoted comments.
Guy fawkes go to bed!
You do not have to take medication for anxiety or depression, like a lot of kids do today ……
Just keep popping the pills 🙂
A lazy man’s guide to the universe.
My fave place 😦
Are you a cold man?
We fuking know Winter is f…. coming!
I saw the most divine bear at the market today and Well you know wot a woman finks about fuuurrrr! How much I asks the trader with a compliant look on me face. £20 to you….Yes!!! I am now warm at night 🙂 I got a good imagination…ain’t I ?
You again…ain’t ya gone to bed ?
Is that really true?
Or is it cooked?
I mean for fun if ya know wot I mean.
I simply have reached an age of not believing in any thing any more.
I prefer it that way 🙂
Cough,cough! ‘They’…….. are the backbone of this country! 🙂
How Sir…is the filthy lucre?
I have just wasted valuable time!
That’s advertising for you 🙂
For Gods sake Tom!
Do something please….
I need to go fly my kite 🙂
Mail readers are the dregs of this country.
I think a lot of people are sickened by your faux socialist compassion and insults.
Are we talking about the gay paedophile priests in the catholic church or are we talking about a mother who allowed her young daughter to front up to the taliban and get shot?
Robert said:
Bad enough these assholes were heard once, please don’t spread their stupidity before a larger audience.
Fair play to you. But have you thought of changing to a less vile newspaper?
I was replying to your sycophantic post about ‘Pope Saint’ John Paul II, and others with the same delusions.
Go back to your troll hole, Guy
Guy Fawkes – this may be hard for you to understand but they don’t offer Nobel Peace prizes to people because they’ve been shot. Though who knows? You keep shooting yourself in the foot so you may be in luck next time round.
And when you refer to Malala’s mother as <> is that really your idea of fair comment? Just asking.
i’m afraid there are a lot of delusional people out there and that is not counting those like you who think they are normal and qualified to call others idiots and delusional.
You’re a joke!
Hi Guy Fawkes. Earlier in this thread I questioned your belief that being shot is the qualification for getting the Nobel Peace prize and I also asked you whether you think your comment about Malala’s mother being in some way to blame for her getting shot was fair. Your response is to say that I’m a joke.
I don’t think you’ve really quite answered my point. 🙂 I look forward to your next irrational side-stepping reply as I could do with another laugh.
I accidentally “liked” you tunefultony – ooops. Is there an undo?
BTW – Did you accidentally “post” here. also? Your views are straight out the DM selection highlighted in the article
What are your views on the winners for medicine, astrophysics or mathematics, or literature? Perhaps you & Guy Fawkes could debate those with the (sledgehammer) insights you have brought to the Malala award……(elsewhere?)
Is it fair comment to accuse the pope of something gay paedophiles did, he did what you would do with gay people, defend and support those he thought were in the right until they were found guilty.
I can’t see an egotist like you shooting yourself in the foot, if you were doing a selfie you would make sure you hit your face, showing us all what a wrong thinking face as well as mind looks like.
There isn’t a reply button higher up to respond to your further comments on my post. But I must admit the power of your argument has completely convinced me. You suspected me of thinking I’m normal and you’re delusional and I now realise I had it completely the wrong way round and that its you that’s delusional and me that’s normal. Thanks Gay Fuwkes, the gift that just keeps giving. 🙂
PS Gay Fuwkes: You seem to be under the impression I said something about the pope and gay priests and you go on to tell me what my views on that would be. That was somebody else. There’s not just one person out there thinking you’re an idiot, you know. I think you may have shot yourself in the foot AGAIN. But then, that’s what you do.
Funk and his flunky crabtree if they don’t offer peace prizes to people who get shot then why did the Indian school girl get one.
How did she create peace?
Crabramblings if that is not a troll of the fink variety I don’t know what is?
I’m going nowhere, someone has to bring the likes of you down a peg or two, oops have I shot myself in the foot again by insulting Pegs.
Hi again Gay Fuwkes. You just wrote: Funk and his flunky crabtree if they don’t offer peace prizes to people who get shot then why did the Indian school girl get one.
Firstly, when you think I must be a flunky of someone else who disagrees with you, you’re just giving away glimpses of your essentially paranoid worldview, which I admit is quite entertaining for us all. Could I possibly be getting under your skin? 🙂
Secondly, I’m guessing here but I imagine that the Nobel prize committee didn’t think “Ooh, there’s an Indian girl who has been shot – let’s give her the Peace prize.” My hunch is that it’s something to do with risking her own life to campaign for the right to education for girls in societies and parts of the world that think that ignorance is preferable to education.
Based on my own experience, I suggest there is a connection between education and the generation of peace and tolerance, but I can understand how you might see that very differently.
And much as it’s been nice chatting to you, I notice that the sun is now up and I wouldn’t want your whole trollness being turned to stone. You had a lucky escape last time that it was just your brain that got shone upon.
So, reluctantly, byebye!
Ms Fawkes – “Is it fair comment to accuse the pope of something gay paedophiles did, he did what you would do with gay people, defend and support those he thought were in the right until they were found guilty.”
Come off it!!! The Pope knew perfectly well that countless priests and nuns had been abusing children for many decades. This was DELIBERATELY kept hidden and ALLOWED to continue.
Not only are you disgustingly racist and homophobic, you are defending institutional paedophilia now!
Someone else who disagrees with you Ha, Ha!
You have to invent these sock puppets to disagree with me. It’s funny but telling me to get back to my troll hole implies that I got under your skin, we trolls eat the likes of you for breakfast.
Malala wants education so she can emigrate to a good job in uk, or be used by the capitalists in her own country as cheap labour.
crabramblings – In case you don’t know, Ms Fawkes thinks that everybody who disagrees with her is actually Tom Pride using multiple ‘sock puppet’ names.
Fink you’re style of writing is like a footprint or a fingerprint, you couldn’t disguise it if you tried and I can see you have tried with you hi’s and yo’s ha! ha!
[Guy – I’ve warned you before about accusing commenters on this site of being my sock puppets. Carry on with this nonsense and you will be the first person I have banned from this site. Now please stick to discussing politics – criticise me by all means but leave other commenters out of your paranoid delusions and obsessions with me.] – TOM
Seems a bit rough. I doubt that Marsha was attempting to suggest that intolerance is as bad in the UK as it is in Pakistan.
Paul – I think that’s EXACTLY what Marsha was suggesting. Of course if I’m wrong then she can respond and explain what she did mean, but I bet she doesn’t…
You do realise, Guy, that all you’re doing here is giving everybody who reads the comments section the strong impression that you are a crazed, inarticulate moron, right?
Paul – Just a little correction… Ms Fawkes is a crazed, bigoted, racist, homophobic, inarticulate moron.
Well said Fink’s puppet master. You couldn’t ban a more REAL person from your site.
You want alternative lifestyles providing nobody has an alternative point of view!!
What can be more deluded than a right wing blogger pretending to be left wing.
“Stick to politics”, says Hans Christian Pride, with his red riding blood stories.
Stop cutting corners when talking about the deluded!
To stave off the winter freeze, bears need their thick fur coats much more than you need their fur coats …. QED…. This is not a matter of imagination, it’s ethical humane choices.
Roses are red, right? Violets are blue; If you don’t believe this, then I’ll put you in my stew….
Alnus: I find your comment to be rather… sticky!
Ms Fawkes – You have STILL not answered the question – Do you agree with mark25yorkshire that Malala should be deported from the UK and sent back to Pakistan?
It’s a simple yes or no answer, so even you should be able to manage that.
Fuk ethics if I need to eat I kill
If I need to be warm I wear fur
Called common sense.
In other words…do you want to be hunted or would you rather hunt?
Since I have answered the question, it stands to reason that you obviously cannot read. Yes or No answers are for morons like you!
LIAR – Like everybody else you wear fabrics and turn up the heating.
You seem to be the only poster Alnus who has sussed out that this was an international psy-op to discredit the Taliban so that Obama can perpetrate more drone strikes on innocent Pakistanis. Malala moved her feet and walked to the stretcher…try doing that if you been shot both in neck and head by a gun at close range!
I neither hunt, as a perfectly humane choice, nor do I fear being hunted; Because what comes around, goes around; If you maltreat someone (includes animals) they’re gonna maltreat you [see: Eric Clapton song: Further On Up The Road — check it out on Youtube]; if you kill bears and wear their fur, someone will come along and hunt you down and kill you and then wear your skin…. Every humane-choice person knows that there are a thousand ways of keeping warm, apart from killing bears, so I suggest you go to your market, buy a Persian carpet, wrap yourself inside it, and take a magic carpet ride while smoking your hallucinogenic drugs….. Good Luck.
No, you have not answered, but even if you had, why would you be so afraid to repeat it?
The answer IS a simple yes or no…… Deport Malala OR not deport Malala. It’s so f*cking simple that even you should be able to understand it.
You could also add an explanation if you like, but because your ‘explanation’ is simple racism then you don’t have the guts to say so.
Thanks, Florence, for accidentally liking me… I am indeed quite likeable when you really get to know me 🙂
Malala Yusufzai is an NWO stooge…. fancy getting a Peace Prize at age 17! — But then, the originator of the Peace Prize, Doctor Nobel, invented Dynamite and Barry Obama got one recently for mass murder in Pakistan’s Swat valley — where Malala comes from….you couldn’t make it up…
I am surprised frankly that that Albanian lady ‘Mother Teresa’ got her 1979 Peace Prize without having been shot in the head! — I am also surprised that Mahatma Gandhi missed out on HIS Peace Prize even though he properly qualified! 🙂
You too should be in the running, Florence, for your distinguished work in the filthy hospitals of the Crimea 🙂
Good bye T-Ff- et al
I am not coming out to play no more.
Am tired…..
Fink why don’t you go and play with Tom, because I’m sure he has better things to do with his hands.
He is so pissed off because someone has called him out as a puppeteer.
If I want to answer anytime it will be to the puppeteer not his puppets.
Pennie – Nobody becomes tired of saying what they really think to be true, until the day their mind finally fails and life itself becomes a burden. For some people it’s the compilation of their own lies and evasions which become an intolerable burden at an early age……
Hey Gay Fuwkes, you’ve already had it explained to you that there’s more than one person in this universe who can tell that you’re just a paranoid idiot. They are not all Tom Pride. I agree with a lot that he blogs but not everything and I have better things to do with my time than to be someone’s glove puppet. You really are a very silly person.
Bye bye now
Even if you are not worked by Tom you are still all fucking puppets for the political class, spouting political correctness parrot fashion.
Crabramblings – “You really are a very silly person”
You are SO wrong! That implies that Ms Fawkes is just a harmless idiot. I fundamentally disagree with you. Disgusting bigoted people like Ms Fawkes are FAR from harmless. If vicious morons like her had their way then people would be imprisoned for being homosexual or bisexual, and “coloured people” would be deported. We should all vehemently oppose such disgusting views EVERY time we see them. To dismiss them as “silly” is nearly as bad as supporting them.
Indeed, we are on the same page, but I include bigoted, racist, and homophobic under the crazed category. It’s less specific, but it saves time.
No Robert, I disagree. I think we should highlight their immorality and stupidity before the largest possible audience.
Paul – Ha ha! Agreed. I just like to be a little more descriptive!
It’s not one or the other. Malala has nothing to do with the mistreatment of the working class but the perception of her group identity has everything to do with the comments degrading her and relying on stereotypes. Her care is/was paid by the Pakistani government as their services are inadequate and she can’t go back home as the Pakistani state is very dangerous for anyone outspoken, their own security forces have been heavily infiltrated by fundamentalist extremists so any guard assigned to protect her could very well end up being the one to kill her. I think it’s very pathetic to be jealous of a teenage girl who was almost murdered. Stop falling for the divide and conquer bullshit. Everyone should be treated with respect as individuals and free from dehumanizing abuse, just because one group is treated badly is not a free pass to treat another group like dirt. If we send Malala and all the other immigrants home, it isn’t magically going create a new utopia and make the elites suddenly softhearted.
Lastly,I’ve “been swallowing too much political correctness text at university?” Oh really? Oh wait, yeah I remember, ‘Political Correctness’ class was lodged in between ‘Indoctrination to Cultural Marxism’ and ‘How to be a Do Gooding Bleeding Heart Liberal’.
Please inform me:
A) What, precisely, do you think is “mainstream thinking” as taught by university lecturers?
I would like you to site actual theories and studies and tell me your informed criticism of such research.
B) What oppositional thinking should “we” be listening to instead?
Please share examples or how else are “we” going to know. Please illustrate how those arguments hold up compared to what you consider “mediocre mainstream thinking”?
No matter which way you look at these puppets, they either have a hand or a foot up their arse, no wonder they are so anal retentive that the shit comes from their mouths!
Gay Fuwkes: There’s only one potty mouth I can see around here and that’s you.
angiew1943 said:
The Taliban has repeated that she will be killed if she returns……is that what you want to happen? If so, you truly are an ignorant jerk…..makes me ashamed to be classed as a British citizen with you.
Katherine said:
You don’t understand the right of freedom of speech at all unfortunately. The freedom to say something does not come with a right not to be criticised for it. I don’t see anyone calling for a ban on opinions; they are criticising the opinion.
They don’t have a problem with educating youngsters, they have a problem with educating girls. And they have a problem because they are vile and violent misogynists.
I bet the people of Andalucia wish they could force the idiot Melanie to go back where she came from.
terence said:
I couldn’t agree more – you are sensibly refusing to go along with MSM pc-driven conditioned thinking. I really believe there is a lot of good sense -particularly with bizarre way Nobel prizes are granted- as well as crap in opinions expressed by Daily Mail readers but the Left are conditioned to think anyone who doesn’t share their politically correct opinions is mentally defective – it’s quite horrifying what Leftwing feminist education has done to dumb down the public’s right to free expression. Please do continue to express your ideas fearlessly in the certain knowledge hey are shared with appreciably more people than the general media would have you believe.
Gary said:
I certainly agree that those are rather disparaging comments on the subject. But characterising that as racism is such an utter failure to understand the conservative mindset. Race has nothing to do with it. They’re being idiotic because they’re attacking something/someone who will actually help create the kind of world they’d prefer. But they’re really not being racist. And liberals need to try a lot harder to understand why reactionary conservatives have these kinds of views. The excuse of “racism” has become synonymous with “they’re just wrong, that’s all you need to know” and that’s just not good enough.
Language like yours is totally unhelpful and bigoted -what has any of this to do with Nazis?- it’s also absurd to claim as you do in capitals `and still defy them after getting shot’ when in truth she has lived within the safety of Britain since being shot which doesn’t take much courage to `defy them’ from there. By all means support the girl but base your support on soundly sensible statements.
She most certainly is defying them! She might be in England now, but she is still in danger from supporters of the Taliban, yet continues to tell them to put their ideology where “the sun don’t shine!
If we’re to believe the authorities we are all under threat from the Taliban in Britain and we all respond by telling them to get lost -should we all receive Nobel Prizes for that? The more likely explanation for all this artificial adoration is that the pc-riddled Western governments are seeking as many Madonnas as they can find to place on pedestals and expect the rest of us to worship at their feet, these Daily Mail comments are from people who can see through their game and resent being asked to play it.
Terence, you advised victedy to
“base your support on soundly sensible statements”
and then the next minute you are saying stuff like
“The more likely explanation for all this artificial adoration is that the pc-riddled Western governments are seeking as many Madonnas as they can find to place on pedestals and expect the rest of us to worship at their feet.”
Errm…. What?
Quite, it was more of a passing comment that serves to extend the discussion into areas not perhaps immediately relevant to this narrow subject so I’ll simply say that we live in an age that seeks to supplant the male as the dominant gender with the female -the all-pervasive instrument used being political correctness the effect of which is perversely to turn all our accepted social values topsy turvy- part of that process is to portray the female with grotesquely exaggerated positive gifts and virtues while depicting the male as extolling wretchedly negative qualities: note how the media invariably illustrate any positive subject with females and negative with males. They powers that be also endeavour to re-write history so anything of a positive constructive nature in the past must be seen as having a prominent female input, arguing the female has been deliberately written out of history by biased males, while at much the same time they depict the female as the perennial victim telling us that she was not allowed to participate in any positive activity by the dominant male: thereby seeking to derive benefit from simultaneously adopting both albeit contradictory claims. Regarding this discussion -a girl shot in Pakistan for campaigning for girls to have a right to schooling and thereafter settled in Britain being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize- I thus said might best be understood against that wider background.
Okay… Well, thanks for your courteous and extended reply, Terence. But as another bloke all I can say is that we must be living in different universes. I’m reluctant to generalise about the sexes but all I see is men [a lot of them millionaires from privileged backgrounds] in power, in government, running the media, editing and owning papers like the Mail, the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph, and perverting the truth to suit their own agendas, namely the pursuit of power, wealth and privilege.
Thanks also for your reply – as you see the discussion opens up and extends even further from the original core subject so I think it’s better to leave it here. Let’s agree that all are welcome to their own opinions of what gave rise to this situation.
Aha! The truth comes out! Terence is a woman-hater, pure and simple, LOL!
Yep, Terence, I agree I think we’d better agree to differ. Our perceptions of the world are so different that I’m quite mystified to be honest. But at least we didn’t descend into abuse (which I sometimes find tempting! 🙂 ). Just one comment though. I’ve noticed that PC seems to have become a right-of-centre term of general abuse, like ‘do-gooder’ before it (which also perplexes me when I consider the alternative).
I have difficulty with the equation ‘PC = a BAD THING’ as the alternative to PC seems to be ‘political incorrectness’ or the licence to bully, stigmatise, marginalise, abuse and suppress.
This is the sort of simplistic statement to be expected of females who by the nature are so subjective they see everything from a very personal view-point – in truth I own not to being overly fond of the female of the species although `hate’ is such a profound emotion that it gives my dislike of the gender far too much significance – sorry but my feelings are far more prosaic than that, they simply incline me to put distance between myself and the opposite gender and everyone is happy with the outcome.
Good for you Terence! Stay out of our way! LOL!
“This is the sort of simplistic statement to be expected of females who by the [sic] nature are so subjective they see everything from a very personal view-point”.
Good grief. Judging by that, it’s YOU who is the master of the simplistic statement, Terence! 🙂 But thanks for clarifying that you’re not a woman-hater, just a woman-disdainer and ignorer. As if that’s an OK position from which to pontificate on human nature.
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'Marxism Has Become Big Business in America': BLM Co-founder Lands Warner Bros. TV Deal
Leah Barkoukis
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Source: Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
Black Lives Matter indoctrination has already entered some classrooms and now, it’s going to become even more prominent in entertainment.
The “trained Marxist” co-founder of the organization, Patrisse Cullors, landed a deal with Warner Bros. Television Group “to create original programming that raises Black voices on streaming services and traditional TV channels,” the Los Angeles Times reported last week.
“Black voices, especially Black voices who have been historically marginalized, are important and integral to today’s storytelling,” Cullors said in a statement. “Our perspective and amplification is necessary and vital to helping shape a new narrative for our families and communities.”
She continued: “As a longtime community organizer and social justice activist, I believe that my work behind the camera will be an extension of the work I’ve been doing for the last twenty years."
Children and families will be among the target audiences.
The multiyear agreement, announced Thursday, represents Cullors’ first overall production deal with a Hollywood studio. Building on her political activism, the Los Angeles native plans to work with the studio to develop scripted dramas and comedies, docuseries and animated programming for children, young adults and families. (LA Times)
The group has been open about its goal of disrupting the "Western-prescribed nuclear family structure" and only recently deleted a page from its website discussing this radical belief, among others.
As Dinesh D'Souza noted, "Marxism has become BIG BUSINESS in America."
Marxism has become BIG BUSINESS in America https://t.co/qayIrkdphT
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) October 19, 2020
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by Stephanie Annis
Special to the Las Vegas Business Press
For Jonathan Fornaci, technology has been a life-long interest. But on a visit to Las Vegas, it was his passion for yoga that altered his career path.
Today, Fornaci is one of three major shareholders of TruFusion LLC. He serves as chief operating officer of the fitness business that he says is changing the entire fitness experience by making better use of technology, variety and ceremony.
His partners are Martin Hinton, who is responsible for developing the creative programs offered through TruFusion, and Michael Borden, who is well known for founding Switch Communications in Nevada.
Hinton has 25 years of experience developing unique fitness workouts, including one for firefighters on the beaches of Hawaii.
Fornaci is from San Francisco and holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. His extensive experience with corporate expansions — including Straw Hat Pizza and Rita’s Italian Ice — made him a good fit for TruFusion.
Fornaci believes the TruFusion culture is unique in the industry. He describes it as “a culture of embrace,” both supportive and warm. It’s working, Fornaci says, pointing to maxed-out TruFusion classes and a growing franchise business. He reports eight franchises have been sold in Nevada, with at least two to open before the end of the year. Lawyers are working on the documents for additional franchises in California, Florida and Utah.
The original Las Vegas TruFusion Studio (8575 S. Eastern Ave.) employs 72 and there are 18 in the corporate office.
“Vegas will always be the corporate HQ,” Fornaci said. “TruFusion was founded here and the essence of the concept, the team and instructors all come from Las Vegas and it is important that we maintain that cultural strategic advantage so we will always be in Las Vegas.”
Q. What is TruFusion?
A. TruFusion is a new concept in health and fitness. They brought together a number of different genres into this one studio. The whole concept here is bringing together disciplines you would never think of and making all that very ceremonial. All of our classes, no matter what you do, have a ceremonial aspect.
We do hot pilates, hot yoga; there’s a class going on soon called hot booty yoga which is a blend of yoga and Polynesian dance. We do barre, hot barre, like ballet barre classes, TRX, TRX kettle bell battle rope class. We combined all those different genres together. In these classes, you’ll burn 600-800 calories an hour. If you want to do a Paleo diet, we have a nutritionist on staff.
Q. How did you become involved?
A. I was out here visiting a friend of mine and he said ‘you gotta come to this new studio’ because I work out a lot. I do yoga in San Francisco and I do all these different forms of working out.
Q. How did you combine technology and business to expand a number of different companies — not only TruFusion but also companies like Straw Hat Pizza to Rita’s Italian Ice?
A. I spent my first 15 years in technology. There’s no business that you can do without the use of technology. I was always fascinated. I got my degree in physics, so I like technology a lot. But technology for technology sake is boring; there’s no benefit. You can implement it and use it to really advance business. Like for us, we’re doing so much with technology that we’re rolling out with TruFusion.
We’re developing mobile apps so that you can track everything about your workout. You can challenge your friends, see your daily progress, all the calories.
Q. What technology do you see most businesses failing to optimize?
A. Understanding how it affects the end user. If the technology is really cool but has no benefit to you or me, then it’s a waste of time. That’s what I’ve seen a lot. Focus on what the customer needs.
Q. How does TruFusion change the fitness industry?
A. Bringing together so many disciplines … In a week, we do over 200 different classes. The nice thing is you’re not going to get bored; you’re going to have a huge focus on overall fitness of the body.
When you go into our classes, you have somebody that is actually guiding you through everything. We’re not doing anything that’s going to harm you. I think that’s the biggest thing, people get injured all the time (in traditional gym settings). You’re not going to get harmed from the yoga.
We have so many restorative classes that if people are doing stuff we say, “Hey listen you’ve done three different classes in the last couple days, let’s do a restorative class.” To me that’s the biggest thing that differentiates us from everybody else. You can come here, have one membership, and get a complete work out. You’re not going to get bulked up, (have) injuries to your muscles … here you’re not going to have those issues.
Q. As the chief operating officer what numbers do you watch regularly?
A. The two numbers would be memberships and income; but for me it’s the memberships.
This studio is almost completely maxed out. We can’t take any more members — which is a great problem to have but still it’s a problem. People are wait listed. We are adding classes until 10-11 o’clock at night.
Q. What should investors know about the potential of TruFusion as a franchise?
A. In the franchise world, if you’re making 10 to 12 percent income off your gross, you’re doing fantastic. Last year, this business made 26 percent. This year, year to date, we’re at 32 percent.
From a franchisee’s perspective… they’re investing between $500,000 and $800,000. In your first year, you have 100 percent of your cash out. If you’re being conservative and you’re doing $3 million a year; you’re pulling out 25 percent of your gross. That’s pretty great business.
– See more at: http://businesspress.vegas/small-business/jonathan-c-fornacichief-operating-officer-trufusion#sthash.HVNjiHs9.dpuf
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Press Conference: LGBT Advocates and Allies to Declare on Thursday That the Values Voter Summit Misrepresents Christianity and Has a Harmful Agenda For the Nation
Wayne Besen October 08, 2013
WHAT: On Thursday, a coalition of mainstream Christians and progressive advocates will hold a media conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to take back the mantle of religion from anti-LGBT extremists. They will offer a different, more enlightened vision for the future of America – one where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. The media event will take place one day prior to the annual Values Voter Summit, the annual conference that is organized by America’s most virulent hate groups and anti-LGBT activists.
The Values Voter Summit’s featured speakers include individuals who send the message that LGBT people are unworthy, morally and spiritually broken, and a danger to society. This message literally drives many LGBT teens to believe that taking their own lives is better than growing up gay.
WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013
National Press Club, Washington, D.C. (529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor)
Murrow Room
10AM EDT
The Very Rev. Gary Hall, Dean, Washington National Cathedral
Michael Keegan, President, People for the American Way (PFAW)
Frank Schaeffer, author, “Sex, Mom, & God”
Brent Childers, Executive Director, Faith In America
Wayne Besen, Executive Director of Truth Wins Out, co-founder of The NALT
Christians Project
John and Catherine Shore, Co-Founders, The NALT Christians Project
Andy Lang, Executive Director, United Church of Christ Coalition for LGBT Concerns
Vivian Taylor, Executive Director, Integrity USA
Additional Speakers TBA
BACKGROUND: This is National Coming Out Week. At Thursday’s media conference, NALT Christians will step out to proclaim that people can be both pro-LGBT and fully Christian. An acronym coined by Dan Savage, NALT, stands for “Not All Like That” — meaning that not all Christians are anti-LGBT. Last month, NotAllLikeThat.org was launched. An immediate sensation (written about in TIME, The American Prospect, The Washington Post, Leonard Pitts’ syndicated column, and others) it is a website whereon, through their YouTube videos, LGBT-affirming Christians share their belief that there is nothing anti-biblical or sinful about being LGBT. One NALT video went viral, with more than a quarter of a million views in one week.
On Thursday, several prominent LGBT people and allies will release NALT videos: Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal Bishop; Jay Bakker, minister and son of Jim and Tammy Faye; Mel White, former ghostwriter for the late Rev. Jerry Falwell and Rev. Pat Robertson; award-winning gospel singer Ray Boltz; Randy Roberts Potts, the grandson of Oral Roberts; Justin Lee, founder of the Gay Christian Network; and author Frank Schaeffer, whose father, Francis, was a founder of the modern religious right.
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Stripe launches Treasury to let its customers offer checking accounts & other business-banking services. How big do you think this will be?
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I think it would be pretty big and pretty big for dual side of marketplaces and remove a lot of the friction. Um, that dolly it was It was a really interesting challenge both from a technical perspective as well as a regulation perspective because you had a customer charging you, you know, you charge them to say, $100 in Braintree processes that $100 you know, in every I think three days they would drop, you know, those funds into our account in our bank account. And I think that was SBB, right? And so it's like, OK, Braintree charges. It goes to SPB sitting in your bank account. Now you want to pay out your driver's, you're the supply side of your business. And, you know, we tried, ah, company that acquired by stripe that worked pretty well, but they did a ch and they actually fronted the money because a ch takes about two or three days to move through the system and they'd front that money as basically as a service, which was genius on their part, a ton of risk. But, you know, they made it work enough that stripe acquired them and so that was a genius model. But that was too risky for most businesses. And so then you had, you know, the PayPal's of world, which was okay. Now go get them all sign up for PayPal accounts. We have to do, hold the whole thing. And then strike came along with the service saying like, Hey, we're actually not going to take the money from the customer and put it in your bank. We're gonna take the money from the customer and basically hold it in escrow, wait for you to tell us the job's done and then we're going to give you your cut and give the driver their work. It's a really interesting approach, because now you have the money kind of perfectly following all the regulation Lukes there, um, as well as really making sure you have all the technical components. Super easy in case there's a refund or damage claim. Whatever, maybe. And so what super interesting about this now is that you're kind of taking that one step further and providing your supply side with, you know, potentially just an actual bank account or checking services or whatever, and then you have the business and then you have your customers. And so what's so powerful about that suicide marketplaces instead of dealing with, you know, three effective vendors, three different a PS, three different timelines. Her delays arises. You can apply your business rules right on top of the stripe ecosystem and do what you need to do that drives the most valuable for your your users. So I think that is gonna have a really powerful impact on the industry. So I'm pretty bullish on this with that being said, I do think the you know, this market size, this is gonna be pretty small, but they're probably a couple of really big hits in this area. That lida innovation. I'd keep my eye out on dual side of marketplaces first, but interested to see where this goes.
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Projects by the Umstead Coalition
Learn more about many of our projects and events to support Umstead State Park below.
PHOTO & ILLUSTRATION CONTESTS
The Annual Photo Contest - Catch the Spirit of William B. Umstead State Park” feature photography of the Park, its structures and nature, so get out your cameras, pick out your best shots and submit an entry to our contest. Entry categories:
Footprints: people doing Park activities
Stories in Stone: remnants and structures of the Park history
In the Wild: Park flora and fauna
Youth: Age 16 and under
The Annual Illustration Contest - Catch the Spirit of William B. Umstead State Park” showcase some of the wonders of Umstead State Park using graphic illustrations.
Winners are featured in an annual calendar and Exhibit at the Park Visitor Center.
The deadline for the 2021 contest is June 27, 2021. View Past Winners>>
New Book! The Mushrooms of Umstead State park
We're excited to announce that a new book about mushrooms in Umstead State Park is now available for purchase online ($49).
The Mushrooms of Umstead State Park is a mushroom photo-book with up to date (as of publishing) scientific names and relevant details of morphology. This book is intended as a basic guidebook to orient interested folks in identifying the wild and varying fleshy fungi of Umstead State Park and the surrounding Piedmont region from a long time naturalist (mycology and entomology) and PhD. With some 400 author shot photos of specimens all existing in Umstead State Park, Raleigh, NC.
You can purchase a Kindle edition on Amazon or you can purchase a PDF version via The Umstead Coalition.
Note: All proceeds go to the author, Geoff Balme, to cover his costs to product this amazing work.
Solar Panels for the Umstead State Park Visitor Center
The solar panels have been installed! We strive to make William B. Umstead State Park a place that people can come and learn how to make the environment in which they live cleaner, healthier, and more natural. And to practice what we preach, we wanted offset some of the electricity we use with power from the sun.
The 5kw solar photovoltaic (PV) system not only produces electricity for the Visitor Center and helps reduce our dependence on energy derived from fossil fuels, but also provides an educational component for the public to learn about renewable energy.
A small wall mounted tablet delivers real time solar energy production data to visitors and allows park staff to educate the public about the system and the benefits of solar power. Southern Energy Management, a local B-corporation with nearly 1000 solar installations under their belt, was our partnering contractor.
Butterfly Wildflower Gardens
We installed two butterfly wildflower gardens to provide habitat or “Monarch Way stations for migrating Monarch butterflies. William B. Umstead State Park is the migration route of the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).
Two small sites selected for the butterfly wildflower gardens are along the most popular walking route from the parking lot to the bathhouse and picnic areas. High visibility to the majority of visitors will enable encouragement to create Monarch butterfly habitat in their yards as well.
The installation of the Monarch butterfly gardens was concurrent with the forest rain garden installation and entirely installed by volunteers.
Forested Rain Gardens / Bioretention Areas
We installed innovative stormwater BMP of forested bioretention cells (rain gardens) within a 210 space parking lot median at William B. Umstead State Park.
The parking area that drains to the stormwater control measure is 1.3 acres, of which 1 acre is impervious.
This project will result in several environmental and user benefits, including: reduced runoff volume and intensity of stormwater runoff due to the infiltration into special soil media we will install in the medians.
The native trees and shrubs will provide much needed shade in the hot, steamy parking lot. The shade will also reduce the thermal impact to the downgradiant streams.
Forested Rain Garden
Site location and Design Schematics
Cedar Ridge Trail is Open with Rerouting
The Cedar Ridge multi-use trail at William B. Umstead State Park is now open again with upgrades and re-routing. The 1.4-mile gravel trail did not currently meet the standards of other multi-use trails in the park.
The repairs and re-route bring the trail up to current multi-use trail standards using sustainable trail construction standards including grade reversals, rolling dips, water turnouts to minimize erosion, and granite screenings to the top surface. Improved ditching will be added in some sections and bench cuts were used for sections that are re-routed.
This project was made possible by a grant through the Umstead Coalition from the NC Recreation Trails Program with match assistance from The Umstead Coalition, volunteers, the Umstead 100, Carolina Godiva Tract Club, NC Road Runners Club, Great Outdoor Provision Company and Park staff.
See the Cedar Ridge Reroute Concept Map and Trail Grade Reversal Technique.
Triangle I-40 Bikeway (along I-40)
The Triangle I-40 bikeway will connect the Trenton Road Greenway to RDU Forest and Davis Drive (RTP- Triangle Park Center). This missing link would enable bike/ped connections from downtown Raleigh to RDU and RTP. It will enable connections to many of the area's major greenways, including: Black Creek, Reedy Creek, House Creek, Rocky Branch, Walnut Creek, American Tobacco Trail, Crabtree Creek, and the Neuse Greenways. In addition to the regional/national East Coast Greenway and NC 2 (Mountains to Sea) and US 1 (Carolina Connection) bike routes.
AND, the Triangle Bikeway would serve as a vital connection to the RDU Forest trail system at Lake Crabtree County Park, RDU Airport, and Umstead State Park via the Old Reedy Creek Road Corridor.
More information and status: Triangle I-40 Bikeway
US70 Entrance Improvement
Umstead State Park Exchange of Land will improve US 70 entrance and enable additional lands for Umstead State Park. The Umstead Coalition is in full support of the transfer of lands and funds to improve the entrance at US70, as well as securing funds for much needed Park lands that are contiguous to our Park. We requested Conditional Uses on the rezoning request that prohibit commercial heavy truck usage on the land across US70 (this request was only partially included). We have also requested vegetative buffers along US70 (this request was approved by Raleigh City Council).
This is the perfect opportunity for Umstead and the RDU Airport to work together. We can use these funds to help provide RDU with funds and purchase the critical Odd Fellows Tract from the RDU Airport.
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NAR to adopt new Code of Excellence and embark upon Realtor ratings
(Housing) NAR’s Board of Directors meeting has just ended, and four policy recommendations were approved, including a new Code of Excellence and a path toward standards for Realtor ratings.
Lani Rosales, COO + News Director
Raising the bar in real estate
As part of their effort to contribute to raising the bar in real estate, the National Association of Realtors’ Board of Directors (BOD) just passed policy recommendations to implement a new Code of Excellence (COEx), seeking to “increase professionalism through increased training and recognition of competencies that consumers value,” such as proficiency with property data, privacy of consumer information, advocacy of property rights, and technology. They also debated controversial topics such as implementing Realtor ratings and increasing standards for licensure.
The Realtor of the Future Leadership Team Proposal included the following five policy proposals:
Implement an aspirational Code of Excellence – approved with amendment
Mandatory biennial education, testing on COE, COEx – approved with amendment
Realtors will have the most comprehensive data – approved with amendment
NAR should implement Realtor ratings – approved with amendment
Increase standards of entry into profession – was not addressed with the BOD
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Lani is the Chief Operating Officer at The American Genius - she has co-authored a book, co-founded BASHH and Austin Digital Jobs, and is a seasoned business writer and editorialist with a penchant for the irreverent.
National Associaton of Realtors CEO Dale Stinton retiring, now seeking successor
ICANN teams up with trade group for first ever top-level domain tied to a member database
NAR CEO reacts to News Corp. acquiring Move, Inc. [exclusive]
NAR wins rights to their second top-level domain, .realestate
Pending home sales picking up, still down from 2013
Austin tops the list of best places to buy a home
When looking to buy a home, taking the long view is important before making such a huge investment – where are the best places to make that commitment?
Looking at the bigger picture
(REALUOSO.COM) – Let us first express that although we are completely biased about Texas (we’re headquartered here, I personally grew up here), the data is not – Texas is the best. That’s a scientific fact. There’s a running joke in Austin that if there is a list of “best places to [anything],” we’re on it, and the joke causes eye rolls instead of humility (we’re sore winners and sore losers in this town).
That said, SelfStorage.com dug into the data and determined that the top 12 places to buy a home are currently Texas and North Carolina (and Portland, I guess you’re okay too or whatever).
They examined the nerdiest of numbers from the compound annual growth rate in inflation-adjusted GDP to cost premium, affordability, taxes, job growth, and housing availability.
“Buying a house is a big decision and a big commitment,” the company notes. “Although U.S. home prices have risen in the long term, the last decade has shown that path is sometimes full of twists, turns, dizzying heights and steep, abrupt falls. Today, home prices are stabilizing and increasing in most areas of the U.S.”
Click here to continue reading the list of the 12 best places to buy a home…
Average age of houses on the rise, so is it now better or worse to buy new?
With aging housing in America, are first-time buyers better off buying new or existing homes? The average age of a home is rising, as is the price of new housing, so a shift could be upon us.
The average home age is higher than ever
(REALUOSO.COM) – In a survey from the Department of Housing and Urban Development American Housing Survey (AHS), the median age of homes in the United States was 35 years old. In Texas, homes are a bit younger with the median age between 19 – 29 years. The northeast has the oldest homes, with the median age between 50 – 61 years. In 1985, the median age of a home was only 23 years.
With more houses around 40 years old, the National Association of Realtors asserts that homeowners will have to undertake remodeling and renovation projects before selling unless the home is sold as-is, in which case the buyer will be responsible to update their new residence. Even homeowners who aren’t selling will need to consider remodeling for structural and aesthetic reasons.
Prices of new homes on the rise
Newer homes cost more than they used to. The price differential between new homes and older homes has increased from 10 percent traditionally to around 37 percent in 2014. This is due to rising construction costs, scarcity of lots, and a low inventory of new homes that doesn’t meet the demand.
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Are Realtors the real loser in the fight between Zillow Group and Move, Inc.?
The last year has been one of dramatic and rapid change in the real estate tech sector, but Realtors are vulnerable, and we’re worried.
Why Realtors are vulnerable to these rapid changes
(REALUOSO.COM) – Corporate warfare demands headlines in every industry, but in the real estate tech sector, a storm has been brewing for years, which in the last year has come to a head. Zillow Group and Move, Inc. (which is owned by News Corp. and operates ListHub, Realtor.com, TopProducer, and other brands) have been competing for a decade now, and the race has appeared to be an aggressive yet polite boxing match. Last year, the gloves came off, and now, they’ve drawn swords and appear to want blood.
Note: We’ll let you decide which company plays which role in the image above.
So how then, does any of this make Realtors the victims of this sword fight? Let’s get everyone up to speed, and then we’ll discuss.
1. Zillow poaches top talent, Move/NAR sues
It all started last year when the gloves came off – Move’s Chief Strategy Officer (who was also Realtor.com’s President), Errol Samuelson jumped ship and joined Zillow on the same day he phoned in his resignation without notice. He left under questionable circumstances, which has led to a lengthy legal battle (wherein Move and NAR have sued Zillow and Samuelson over allegations of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and misappropriation of trade secrets), with the most recent motion being for contempt, which a judge granted to Move/NAR after the mysterious “Samuelson Memo” surfaced.
Salt was added to the wound when Move awarded Samuelson’s job to Move veteran, Curt Beardsley, who days after Samuelson left, also defected to Zillow. This too led to a lawsuit, with allegations including breach of contract, violation of corporations code, illegal dumping of stocks, and Move has sought restitution. These charges are extremely serious, but demanded slightly less attention than the ongoing lawsuit against Samuelson.
2. Two major media brands emerge
Last fall, the News Corp. acquisition of Move, Inc. was given the green light by the feds, and this month, Zillow finalized their acquisition of Trulia.
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Roger Weighs In
On March 31, 2008 By MikeIn army, going pro, navy football
Last week you saw a brief piece from South Bend regarding Army’s pro sports pipeline. Now the Dallas Morning News is weighing in, but with an added twist; they got Roger Staubach’s two cents on the subject. So what does Roger have to say about it?
“When I went there [USNA], I knew what the deal was,” Staubach said. “When I left high school, I wasn’t thinking I was going to play pro football. But today if you’re thinking that way, it would be nice to have an option like Army has. If Army has it, Navy should be able to compete with it as well.”
“It’s a complicated issue,” Staubach said. “But I think it’s good for the service academies if you have athletes that can compete at a higher level – and can still give back to the service – that they can find a compromise that allows them to play professional athletics. It’s worth the effort to look at it and try to figure it out.”
I don’t suppose it should be a surprise that a service* academy graduate who played pro football would be in favor of a policy that allows service* academy graduates to play pro football. Something that bothers me, though, is that there hasn’t been any real examination of all these supposed benefits that the Army at large stands to gain from this. Well, outside of this pipsqueak blog, anyway. Supporters say “great PR!” without getting much of a challenge. It’s kind of annoying. It’s almost a sport among service* academy fans to mock the Florida States and Miamis of the world over their lax standards for athletes. But as far as I’m concerned, Army is no different now.
Loose Change, 3/28/08
25 thoughts on “Roger Weighs In”
Did you mean to define the * after “service”?
thebirddog
It’s from an earlier post.
Wait, now I’m supposed to have to remember old posts? What is this, a novel?
Reading blogs is getting way too hard.
Parent of 2008 Recruit
There is no one more qualified to speak on this issue than Roger Staubach so his comments were of great interest to me. As you may recall from an earlier post, I favor having a contingency plan for a recruited athlete who while at the academy proves himself accomplished enough to compete at a higher level. (The operative word here is recruited.) Anyway, my son and I are headed back for the Spring Game and very excited about the season ahead. Go Navy!
I don’t see how Roger is any more qualified to speak on Naval Academy policy than anyone else. Given his circumstances and the bias that comes with them, I would argue that he is less so.
Why differentiate between recruited and non-recruited athletes. David Robinson was barely recruited and look how he ended up. What about the walk-on that grows 3″ and puts on 40 lbs and becomes an all-American?
And why limit it to sports? What about drama? Glee club? What if a Mid tries out for, and makes, American Idol? What then?
Actually, there was a Marine on American Idol just last year……………..
to birddog:
Let’s just agree to disagree, shall we? On another note, on your recommendation I just finished reading David Claerbaut’s “Recruiting Confidential” which in turn has led me to John Fienstein’s “The Civil War.” Good stuff, so thanks for expanding my literary horizon!
We can agree to disagree, but it’s going to be hard for you to bite your tongue with some of the posts I have planned…
GoalieLax
i don’t see how roger is qualified…after all he served his required time before going pro…if anything he’s the model for why we shouldn’t do this thing army is doing…the guys can do their service then go pro
An enlisted Marine on American Idol does not equal a Midshipman from the Naval Academy on American Idol.
usnamom
I’m agreeing with GoalieLax, Birddog and Navy86 on this one.
Army is setting a bad precedent. The only reason a Midshipman should come to the Academy is to serve their country as a Navy or Marine Corps Officer and if they get to play football on top of that, that’s wonderful. I don’t want to see kids start seeing the Service Academies as a pathway to professonal sports without having to serve at all. That’s not what going to Navy (or Army or even Air Force) is or should be all about.
fighterjock
If you are looking for a path to pro football (or any other sport), you shouldn’t be looking at the service academies. And the academies can complain all they want that the commitment incurred there makes them less competitive in the recruiting arena, but the goal of the service academies is not and should not be to turn out the most heisman trophy winners or pro football players. They have a different mission and it’s one they should take pride in. Students need to understand that the academies have a separate mission and a separate mindset and they can get on the bandwagon or get left behind, it’s up to them. No matter what, Army is setting a horrible precedent.
goat7ed
Parent, sword cuts both ways…if the recruit doesn’t pan out or quits the team, is that reason to revoke the free education? Quitting or getting cut at other colleges results in loss of scholarship (in other words., no reason for them to keep you there). Fortunately, since Navy’s mission is producing Navy and Marine Corps officers, and not sending folks directly into the NFL, the education still costs the same…promise to serve upon graduation.
There is a contingency plan in place at the DoD level for athletes that excel.
With heartfelt apologies to the birddog for not being able to bite my tongue, I would just like to say that you people expect too much. You want to win the CIC trophy every year and go to a bowl game. Beating Notre Dame once in awhile is nice and a top 20 ranking would be the icing on the cake. And you want to do it all with players that nobody else wants. Can we please have a reality check!?!?!
My son’s role model right this minute is Caleb Campbell NOT Kyle Eckel who got himself kicked out of the Navy for conduct unbecoming an officer in order to fulfill his NFL dreams. How nice would it be to think that a coach (Paul Johnson) could achieve his dream (a National Championship) while at Navy? I’m sorry but at the moment I like my fantasy world a little bit better than yours.
Uh, we seem to have accomplished all of that without letting players out of their obligations. That IS reality.
Is it THAT hard to believe that we have bigger priorities than football at our school?
I prefer my reality to your fantasy world.
You are right. Navy did win a National Championship in football…….in 1926! I stand corrected.
I was referring to the “reality check” of bowl games, CIC Trophies, and beating Notre Dame.
If you want a national championship, you’ll need a lot more than the NFL. That’s the reality check.
Given that all three SA’s have players “nobody wants”, it is not unrealistic to have the CIC trophy as an expectation every year. The 4-4-4 scheduling philosophy and proactive bowl work done by the AD has made a bowl game a viable, though not guaranteed, realistic goal. The arrangement with Notre Dame has allowed us to give our players at least one opportunity to face the 5 star recruits and potential NFL prospects. It presents a “are you bigger than yourself” challenge. With any challenge you would hope to overcome it. Would we like to win more than every 43 years? Yes. Would I like to compromise our mission to do so? No. And with the number of close calls over that 43 years, we seem to be competetive in meeting the challenge with the current set up.
Caleb Campbell, and any other SA student, is not so much a role model, IMO, for what they are doing, but for what they have chosen to do. Campbell has done nothing but adhere to the standards of a demanding school. Should he avoid meeting his post-graduation commitment, I would probably continue to admire his athleticism, but hold him in the company of Eckel and Tomlinson when it comes to integrity.
football dad dan
Well said goat7ed … It’s a sad day when one’s measure of college football success falls nothing short of a National Championship, … so do whatever necessary to recruit those kind of players that might deliver one.
Go Navy!!! … Beat Army!!!
Salty Sam
“My son’s role model right this minute is Caleb Campbell NOT Kyle Eckel”
Your son needs better role models. We have a bunch of SEALS and Marine with the Medal of Honor. You might want to start there. Wasn’t Caleb Campbell the tuff guy who baited Adam Ballard about breaking his leg? Guess who got the short end of the 38-3 drubbing?
I think parent08 has jumped the shark. You were doing just fine until you started all this National Championship baloney. It’s time for you to get a reality check
it’s not going to happen at USNA…not until there is a mandatory draft and the NFL starts capping salaries at 500k a year for the best players….
oh, and we’ll need to drop our admission standards so we can get the fast-but-dumb-as-a-brick athletes who just make the SAT cut…
and the mandatory classes will have to change…I mean you can’t really expect super athletes to come and take 4 semesters of calc, 2 of physics, electrical engineering, thermo, etc…so we’re going to need to create a new academic department that allows for people to major in sports management or physiology
oh yeah, and we’ll also need to make sure they don’t have to go through plebe summer, because we can’t risk pissing off some 5-star recruit with all the yelling and belittlement that goes on freshman year…not to mention we can’t risk them losing weight
heck, while we’re at it, let’s drop the requirement for people to do all four years…can you imagine if we could get some of those JuCo guys to come in a juniors and play for two years after they packed on the weight and got good enough grades at a community college?
and I think your son’s role models should be that of men like Blecksmith and Zembiec…not some guy at army who could forgo his commitment
why doesn’t this have the rolley-eyes smiley?
(1) It was Jordan Murray, not Caleb Campbell, who allegedly was gunning for Ballard’s leg
(2) Regardless of what one thinks of Army’s policy, I don’t see the need to slam Campbell & Tolson. The policy is the issue, not the individuals doing what they’re told they’re allowed to do. Not sure I see the integrity issue there.
Agree with goat7ed.
As for Campbell, the entire Army defense had Ballard’s number written on their eye-black patches, Campbell included. Glad it went to 38-3.
Salty Sam got it right on the role model comment — you will find the names of football players in Memorial Hall, but we revere those names for acts off of the football field.
I love it when we beat Army, but I’d rather lose as Navy than as a Florida State wannabe.
Finally, as to Roger, I sincerely respect him. But as a poster on another board put it, his opinion on this issue is about as relevant as Michael Jordan’s opinion on what underwear one should buy.
“As for Campbell, the entire Army defense had Ballard’s number written on their eye-black patches, Campbell included.”
So what’s your point? That he was looking to injure AB? That he should be smeared with someone else’s stupid comments? That his “integrity” should be equated with others held in low regard by many such as goat7ed?
As far as I (or you, I suspect) know, per goat7ed’s own words, “Campbell has done nothing but adhere to the standards of a demanding school.”
I think Army’s policy is as asinine as everyone else here. But how is this the fault of Campbell (and Tolson)? Because they didn’t refuse the opportunity afforded them?
Until someone presents words/actions from these individuals worthy of ridicule, I don’t think it’s fair to attack them with the same vehemence as the policy itself. Role models? I don’t think so. But cheapshot artists with questionable integrity? C’mon guys.
Dave Prosser
There is a new link on the NavySports.com site entitled “Hypocrisy at West Point”. It makes some very strong statements against the current program at USMA.
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V2 | Issue 37 | 2.22.13
The CyberWire Daily Briefing for 2.22.2013
By The CyberWire Staff
NBC's website was hacked yesterday, serving visitors a helping of Citadel banking malware, but the infection was quickly detected and removed. Contaminated urls appear to be eclipsing botnets as the most common vehicles for cyber attacks. The waterholing attack Apple sustained offers another recent example.
Official Kyrgyz sites are defaced with the message (in Russian) "We are against racism." The attacks are thought related to Kyrgyz/Uzbek tensions.
China and the US continue to swap accusations of cyber provocation, and Chinese protestations of innocence remain unconvincing: circumstantial evidence can after all be solid, and to argue that professional soldiers would be too professional to misbehave in social media is a fantasy out of a 1990 techno-thriller. Australian media raise the alarm over their country's vulnerability to similar attacks—recall that Australia has been caught in the middle of a Sino-American dispute before, most recently during Congressional investigation of Huawei. Speaking of Huawei, the Chinese company says it welcomes the US Administration's new strictures on security: they're committed to doing good business in international markets.
CSO interviews Triumfant on "advanced volatile threats," but not all are convinced these represent something new, being perhaps better thought of as advanced persistent threats with sophisticated obfuscation.
US acquisition officials are now authorized to discuss the effects of budget sequestration with business as agencies plan to conserve cash by delaying contractor payment. Even under looming Federal austerity, Maryland increases cyber jobs.
Pennsylvania State University opens an intelligence-training red cell.
Today's issue includes events affecting Australia, China, European Union, Finland, India, Iran, Republic of Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States and Uzbekistan..
Cyber Trends
Identity fraud in US reaches highest level in three years (CSO) Merchants and banks, however, absorbed much of the losses, according to Javelin Strategy and Research
China, South Korea, Taiwan most infected computers (Bizcommunity.com) The anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security details an extremely interesting year of data theft, social networking attacks and cyber-warfare
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. : Check Point Uncovers Hidden Security Risks on Enterprise Networks (4-Traders) Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today issued its 2013 Security Report, uncovering major security risks that impact organizations worldwide. The new report examines top security threats, risky web applications that compromise network security, and loss of data caused by employees unintentionally. Most importantly, the report provides security recommendations on how to protect against these threats
25 percent of DDoS attacks in 2013 will be application-based (Help Net Security) Twenty-five percent of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that occur in 2013 will be application-based, according to Gartner. During such incidents, attackers send out targeted commands to
Malicious URLs eclipsing botnets as malware distribution leader (Help Net Security) McAfee Labs revealed that sophisticated attacks originally targeting the financial services industry are now increasingly directed at other critical sectors of the economy, while an emerging set of new
Security is top reason why IT adopts single sign-on (Help Net Security) Security is the number one reason why IT professionals implement single sign-on (SSO) and identity and access management (IAM) technology, according to new research from Symplified
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White House develops new trade secret strategy (Cyberwarzone) The White House has come up with a new strategy to combat what it says is a wave of trade secret thefts from China and other countries. The report lists threats to corporate intellectual property from cyber attacks and more conventional methods of economic espionage. As critical technologies have advanced, criminals have adapted accordingly
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The Best Reason Yet for Facebook To Stop Filtering Messages (Slate) When Anna Lamb-Creasy's son Rickie went missing in January of this year, she called hospitals and jails to see if he had turned up. One place she didn't immediately search for answers? Facebook
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Technologies, Techniques, and Standards
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How to Handle Java to Minimize Security Risks (eSecurity Planet) As Java has become a favorite tool of hackers, some experts are advising folks to disable it in browsers. What should business users do? Oracle's Java technology has become a favorite target of hackers and malware writers over the past few years. In response, the company has released Java updates with increasing frequency
Avoid The Attack Attribution Distraction (Threatpost) Plenty has been written this month about attack attribution, but, really, if your network is under siege, how often does the "who" matter as much as the "how," "what," and "where"? It seems that knowing who the actor is behind a network intrusion matters little to a bank, restaurant or retail chain. You just want them off your gear, and you want your stuff put back where it belongs
RIAA Says Google's Anti-Piracy Search Algorithm Is Bogus (Wired) The Recording Industry Association of America said Thursday that Googles algorithm change to lower rankings of sites with high numbers of copyright-infringing removal notices has had no demonstrable impact on demoting sites with large amounts of piracy. The sites we analyzed, all of which were serial infringers per Googles Copyright Transparency Report, were not demoted in any significant way in the search results and still managed to appear on page 1 of the search results over 98 percent of the time in the searches conducted, the RIAAs report said
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The Enemy Within (The Economist) Ships lie uselessly at anchor and lay-offs loom as deep Congress-imposed spending cuts look ever more likely to go ahead
Defense Policy Chief Outlines Furlough Preparation (GovExec.com) James Miller, Defense undersecretary for policy, sent an email on Wednesday to the policy team outlining plans for adequate staff coverage if sequestration takes effect on March 1 and employees are furloughed
Pentagon To Slow Contractor Payments To Boost Cash Reserve (DefenseNews.com) The U.S. Defense Department will slow payments to prime contractors in the coming week in an attempt to increase its on-hand cash as defense spending cuts loom
Pentagon Buyers Authorized To Discuss Budget Cuts With Industry (Reuters.com) The Pentagon's top weapons buyer on Thursday authorized Defense Department purchasers and program managers to begin talking to industry partners about plans for implementing $46 billion in budget cuts on March 1 and what impact it may have on business
Interview With Deputy Defense Secretary Carter (MSNBC) Thursday morning interview with Ashton Carter, who discusses the sudden, steep personnel and program cuts that the Pentagon would have to make under sequestration
Pentagon Fears Drastic Cuts With Lack Of Spending Bill (USA Today) Congress' failure to pass a spending bill for the Pentagon appears to be causing almost as much concern as the automatic spending cuts that loom March 1, according to an internal Defense Department document obtained by USA TODAY
Maryland Expands on Success Attracting Cyber Jobs (ClearanceJobs.com) Despite all the talk of federal budget cuts in the national capitol region, the state of Maryland is now prime hunting ground for security cleared veterans. This news comes from two fronts. Last week, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley offered up several initiatives to boost the state's job market, one of which calls for a greater push to promote jobs in the region's cyber security businesses. The need for qualified personnel is at an all time high, and O'Malley is looking to make sure Marylanders fill those openings
VanRoekel: Convergence of cloud computing, big data creating opportunities (FierceGovernmentIT) The intersection of cloud computing and big data gives government agencies opportunities in areas such as DNA sequencing and national security, said speakers at a National Institute of Standards and Technology workshop
DHS launches cybersecurity career website (FierceGovernmentIT) The Homeland Security Department announced Thursday creation of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies, a website containing information about cybersecurity careers, education, and training information. NICCS is meant to be "a comprehensive, single resource to address the nation's cybersecurity knowledge needs," DHS said
Accenture-HP Team Wins Visa Data Exchange System Project (Executive Biz) A team comprising of Accenture, Morpho and Hewlett-Packard has won a $93 million contract to maintain the European Commission's visa data exchange system
Check Point RSA Conference Sessions Zero In on Targeted Malware Attacks and Critical Infrastructure Security (MarketWatch) Check Point Security Evangelist to Present on Tues., 2/26 and Check Point Fellow, IPv6 Co-Founder to Present on Thurs. 2/28. Check Point(R) Software Technologies Ltd., the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced their speaking sessions at RSA Conference 2013. Check Point representatives Tomer Teller and Bob Hinden will be presenting this year, focusing on advanced malware detection and smart grid security, respectively
Huawei Welcomes the USs Cybersecurity Executive Order (Softpedia) Huawei says it welcomes US President Barack Obamas cybersecurity executive order. The company, which has recently been named a threat to the national security of the United States, says the initiatives proposed in the new policy are in line with its own vision on information sharing and collaboration. Huawei representatives say they support the order that aims at enhancing the resilience of critical infrastructures while promoting civil liberties, privacy, security and business confidentiality
Security Patches, Mitigations, and Software Updates
iOS passcode bug slated to be fixed in iOS 6.1.3—for real this time (Ars Technica) The second beta of iOS 6.1.3 reportedly fixes this security hole. The recent release of iOS 6.1.2 may have brought Exchange fixes for some, but to the surprise of security experts, the zombie passcode bypass bug that keeps popping up has yet to be fixed. Apple apparently plans to address that bug in an upcoming release of iOS 6.1.3. The company issued a second beta of iOS 6.1.3 to developers on Thursday, as noted by 9to5Mac, which addresses this lock screen bug in addition to bringing Maps enhancements for Japan
Cyber Attacks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
NBC website hacked and distributes malware - here's what happened (Naked Security) The latest high-profile organisation to fall victim to cybercriminals is the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), one of the so-called Big Three television networks in the USA. NBC's website was "owned" and used as a go-between in a campaign to infect online visitors automatically. Fortunately, the malevolent content on the site was up only briefly, limiting the harm that was done. But researchers at Dutch security company SurfRight managed to grab samples of some of the malware on offer during this time
Malware 'Police Virus' Accuses Users Of Illegal Activity (RedOrbit) On Thursday PandaLabs, the anti-malware of Panda Security, announced that it had released new data that found that cases of the so-called "Police Virus" are
Tumblr, Twitter and Pinterest users warned after Zendesk support site hack (Naked Security) Hackers have broken into Zendesk's systems, and accessed the email addresses of Tumblr, Twitter and Pinterest customers who had attempted to get support
Many companies likely affected by compromise of popular iOS developer forum (CSO) iPhoneDevSDK administrators confirm that the site was compromised and hosted a zero-day exploit in January
Apple cyber attack investigation shifts from Chinese to eastern European hackers (O'Grady's Power Page) Per Bloomberg, while earlier reports suggested hackers who targeted Apple emanated from China, investigators now believe the criminals are instead based out of Eastern Europe. The attacks on Apple, Facebook, Twitter and others are now linked to
Technology Site's Owner Discusses How Cyber attack into Apple and Facebook happened (TopNews Arab Emirates) Owner of iPhonedevsdk, Ian Sefferman, asserted that the cyber-attack that ended on January 30, 2013 was caused by the vulnerability in a Java plug-in. He discussed the details of how the cyber attack happened which breached into security
Cyber attack on the Kyrgyz governmental websites (Journal of Turkish Weekly) In the 20th of February, official websites of Kyrgyz Republic's Interior Ministry, The State Property Control Committee, the Air Bishkek airline and some other official online city guides were hacked. The important point of the event was the message in
Telecom Customers No Longer Compromised After Cyber Attack (Scoop.co.nz) On Saturday Telecom cancelled the existing passwords of approximately 87,000 accounts that were sending spam after a cyber attack. Since then more than 65,000 users have changed their passwords. The balance has been identified by Telecom as having
Mandiant report on Chinese cyberespionage used as bait in spear-phishing attacks (ITWorld) Attackers are using fake versions of a recently released report about a Chinese cyberespionage group as bait in new spear-phishing attacks that target Japanese and Chinese users. The report was released Tuesday by security firm Mandiant and documents in great detail the cyberespionage campaigns conducted since 2006 by a hacker group known as the Comment Crew against more than 100 companies and organizations from different industries. Mandiant refers to the group as APT1 (Advanced Persistent Threat 1) and claims in the report that it's likely a secret Shanghai-based cyberespionage unit of the Chinese Army -- the People's Liberation Army (PLA)
Australia vulnerable to cyber attack (ABC Online) Exposure of China's cyber hacking activity has delivered a wake-up call to governments around the world, including
U.S. and China exchange hacking claims (Voice of Russia) A US cybersecurity firm says it has evidence the Chinese government is behind years of hacking attacks on US corporations, organizations and government agencies. Mandiant claims cyber attacks come from a building in Shanghai run by the People's Liberation Army. But China's Defence Ministry today said the report was groundless and insisted it does not engage in hacking
The Art of Cyberwar (Slate) If Beijing was going to threaten the United States with a cyberattack, how would it do it? The New York Times' front-page report this week that the Chinese army is hacking into America's most sensitive computer networks from a 12-story building outside Shanghai might finally persuade skeptics that the threat of "cyber warfare" isn't the fevered fantasy of Richard Clarke, the producers of Die Hard 4, or the generals at the ever-growing U.S. Cyber Command. Alas, it's real. But what is the threat? Few of those in the know believe that some fine day, out of the blue, China will zap the programs that run our power grids, gas lines, waterworks, or banking systems, sending our economy--and much else--into a tailspin. Even if the Chinese could pull off such a feat with one keystroke, it's hard to imagine what they'd accomplish, especially since their fortunes are wrapped up with our own
China Denies U.S. Hacking Accusations: 6 Facts (InformationWeek) Mandiant report says that an elite Chinese military hacking unit is responsible for launching APT attacks against U.S. businesses. Chinese government cries foul. Security firm Mandiant this week published evidence that it said ties the Chinese government to a six-year campaign of hack attacks that have compromised 141 businesses across 20 industries. Washington-based Mandiant's 74-page report covers only one of the dozens of cyber-espionage groups around the world, including more than 20 in China, that the company said use advanced persistent threats (APTs) -- including spear-phishing attacks -- to compromise their targets. Mandiant refers to the group in its report as "APT1"
Private US firms take major role vs. cyberattacks (Yahoo) When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to U.S. computer networks, he didn't have to consult with American diplomats in Beijing or declassify tactics to safely reveal government secrets. He pulled together a 76-page report based on seven years of his company's work and produced the most detailed public account yet of how, he says, the Chinese government has been rummaging through the networks of major U.S. companies. It wasn't news to Mandia's commercial competitors, or the federal government, that systematic attacks could be traced back to a nondescript office building outside Shanghai that he believes was run by the Chinese army
The Road To Hell Is Authenticated By Facebook (Dark Reading) OAuth allows us to log into many sites using familiar credentials, from Twitter, Facebook, Google or Microsoft. The main author of the original OAuth 1.0 spec says these giants took it and made OAuth 2.0 a monstrous, complex and insecure mess that has already brought us significant vulnerabilities
Advanced volatile threat: New name for old malware technique? (CSO) AVTs are not widespread -- yet -- because 'APTs are working just fine,' says Triumfant CEO. But they could one day start a cyberwar, he said. There is something worse than advanced persistent threats (APT) out there -- a stealthier attack vector called advanced volatile threats (AVT), says one security company. But several other security experts said while any kind of successful attack technique is a concern, AVT is just a new name for an old problem
IBM crash highlights cloud risks - Internet NZ (New Zealand Herald) A two-day outage to IBM's $80 million data centre in Auckland this week highlights the "rare" risks involved with being based in the cloud, says Internet New Zealand. Businesses and schools reliant on the data centre were left stranded between Monday 3am and Wednesday 10am after a fault at the state-of-the-art facility in Highbrook, South Auckland. One east Auckland school was unable to access its internal management system in the same week as it hosted a visit from the Education Review Office (ERO)
Anonymous hack of the Federal Reserve a just protest (Oklahoma Daily) Anonymous is one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented organizations in the world. One reason for this is it isnt actually an organization, nor even a well-defined group of people. Another reason is the constant stream of fear-laden news reports of its activities
Donald Trump has his Twitter hacked by 'lowlives' (Naked Security) An impossibly coiffed real estate mogul's Twitter account starts posting hip-hop lyrics. Do *you* take enough care of your social media accounts?
Red Cell Lab offers realistic terrorism lessons for future intelligence analysts (Penn State Live) In the Red Cell Lab, students battle biases to improve intelligence. Whether intelligence analysts are trying to predict the next moves of an insurgent group or determining how to best deliver aid after a hurricane, an excess of information can often cause just as many problems as a lack of it. Red Cell Analytics Lab, a laboratory in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, uses cutting-edge technology and the latest analysis to turn information into intelligence during fluid, complex situations that are as timely as today's headlines
Grad students to use innovative tech grant (Albuquerque Journal) A $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation will pay for 18 graduate students in an innovative technology program at University of New Mexico's Anderson School of Management, according to a news release. The five-year grant will fund scholarships for students studying cyber security and information assurance, an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the management of information security
Net security vital for andheri companies: Sameer Saxena (Economic Times) The Information Assurance and Homeland Security Academy is trying to bridge the demand-supply gap of cyber security professionals. Sameer Saxena, head of the academy, under the Mahindra Special Services Group, shares his plans with ET
Litigation, Investigation, and Enforcement
EU's Probe Into Google's Search & Advertising Practices Could Be Resolved After The Summer (TechCrunch) The European Union's two-year long antitrust probe into Google's search practices may be resolved after this summer, according to a Reuters report. The news agency quotes EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, telling a conference today: "We can reach an agreement after the summer break. We can envisage this as a possible deadline
GAO: Census Bureau systems at risk due to lack of security controls (FierceGovernmentIT) Despite taking steps to protect its computer systems and data, the Census Bureau is not effectively implementing appropriate information security controls to protect those systems, concludes a Government Accountability Office report
Design and Innovation
Why libraries should be the next great startup incubators (Quartz) Co-working spaces are often treated today as a novelty, as a thoroughly modern solution to the changing needs of a workforce now more loyal to their laptops than any long-term employers. But the idea is actually as old as the public library
A grand paradox makes private equity puzzling (Quartz) Two weird things are happening in the private equity (PE) world. On the one hand, there's about $100 billion capital that was raised in the years leading up to the financial crisis but not invested. With five years or so to use that "dry powder"—a period that for many funds is up at the end of this year—they are jumping to make investments before they have to return money to investors. And investors, disappointed with the recent lackluster returns in PE, may not want to put more money in. That could be the reason why 24% fewer funds successfully closed fundraising rounds in 2012 than did in 2011
Can America code its way to more factories? (Quartz) One of the simpler stories we tell about the global economy involves still-industrializing markets taking over much of the world's manufacturing, while advanced economies provide the design, software architecture and innovation. It's a useful framework, but it doesn't take into account innovation coming from emerging markets, and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't account for the ways that making software can help make physical things
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RSA USA 2013 (San Francisco, California, USA, February 25 - March 1, 2013) RSA Conference continually evolves program offerings to meet the ever-changing needs of our delegates in the dynamic infosec industry.
Nullcon Goa 2013 (Bogmallo Beach Resort, Goa, India, February 26 - March 2, 2013) An international information security conference that will feature speakers and training. Topics include security and politics, vulnerability elimination, Android hacking, SCADA and smart grid penetration testing, and more.
NRO Winter Way Forward Conference (Chantilly, Virginia, USA, February 28, 2013) This annual event will provide an increased awareness, understanding and support among the IT workforce by focusing on the NRO IT Way-Forward in terms of the NRO IT Sub-Portfolio Roadmaps. Exhibitors will gain valuable networking time with conference attendees and all NRO personnel.
TechMentor Orlando 2013 (Orland, Florida, USA, March 4 - 8, 2013) Celebrating 15 years of educational events for the IT community, TechMentor is returning to Orlando, Florida, March 4-8, for 5 days of information-packed sessions and workshops. Surrounded by your fellow IT professionals, you will receive immediately usable education that will keep you relevant in the workforce. TechMentor track topics include:Windows PowerShell and AutomationCisco and Networking Infrastructure Windows Server Management Windows Client Management Cloud and Virtualization Identity, Access Management and Security Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting Mobility and BYOD Messaging and Collaboration.
Business Insurance Risk Management Summit (New York City, New York, USA, March 5 - 6, 2013) The annual Risk Management Summit, now in it its fourth year, provides attendees with focused insight via specific, timely general sessions and strategic, thought-provoking discussions with peers and industry leaders.
CanSecWest 2013 (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 6 - 8, 2013) CanSecWest, the world's most advanced conference focusing on applied digital security, is about bringing the industry luminaries together in a relaxed environment which promotes collaboration and social networking. The conference lasts for three days and features a single track of thought provoking presentations, each prepared by an experienced professional and talented educator who is at the cutting edge of his or her field. We give preference to new and innovative material, highlighting important, emergent technologies, techniques, or best industry practices. It will feature a bigger, enhanced Pwn2own.
e-Crime Congress 2013 (London, England, March 12 - 13, 2013) The e-Crime Congress is designed to meet the needs of key stakeholders and decision makers who are responsible for designing and coordinating information security and risk management strategy, safeguarding digital assets and sensitive information, protecting customers, defending against internal or external threats and responding to incidents.
CTIN Digital Forensics Conference (Seattle, Washington, USA, March 13 - 15, 2013) Speakers include experts and published authors in the field of digital forensics and cybersecurity. Topics include; Mobile Device Forensics, Internet Forensics, Physical Memory Analysis, Open Source Tools, Data Carving, Registry Forensics, Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard, Triage and Live Forensics CDs, and more.
IT Security Entrepreneurs' Forum (ITSEF 2013) (Palo Alto, California, USA, March 19 - 20, 2013) Supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Science and Technology, ITSEF 2013 aims to connect the ecosystem of the entrepreneur: industry, government, and academia. The conference will advance innovation, lead change and build trusted global collaboration models between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats.
The Future of Cyber Security 2013 (London, England, UK, March 21, 2013) Cyber Security and the Citizen 2013 is a one-day conference and exhibition for senior decision-makers of central and local government organisations, NGOs and major private sector enterprises.
SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit (Washington, DC, USA, March 22, 2013) Conventional network defense tools such as intrusion detection systems and anti-virus focus on the vulnerability component of risk, and traditional incident response methodology presupposes a successful intrusio…Network defense techniques which leverage knowledge about these adversaries - known as cyber threat intelligence - can enable defenders to establish a state of information superiority which decreases the adversary's likelihood of success with each subsequent intrusion attempt…The goal of this summit will be to equip attendees with knowledge on the tools, methodologies and processes they need to move forward with cyber threat intelligence. The SANS What Works in Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit will bring attendees who are eager to hear this information and learn about tools, techniques, and solutions that can help address these needs.
AFCEA Belvoir Industry Days 2013 (National Harbor, Maryland, USA, April 2 - 3, 2013) The purpose of this event is to inform the IT community about the recent successes and the forward-thinking opportunities that the Department of Defense and the Department of the Army have developed.
CSO40 (Braselton, Georgia, USA, April 2 - 3, 2013) The CSO40 Security Confab + Awards will honor and share the critical viewpoints of today's leading CSOs, CISOs and security executives at the nation's leading CSO thought leadership conference.
Cloud Connect Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, California, USA, April 2 - 5, 2013) Cloud Connect returns to Silicon Valley, April 2-5, 2013, for four days of lectures, panels, tutorials and roundtable discussions on a comprehensive selection of cloud topics taught by leading industry experts.
An Evening in Cyberspace: Supporting Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Leaders (National Harbor, Maryland, USA, April 6, 2013) UMUC is pleased to present An Evening in Cyberspace: Supporting Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Leaders. Join us for this special black-tie event to support the next generation of cybersecurity students. The evening will feature a reception, dinner, keynote and entertainment.
Cyber 1.3 (, January 1, 1970) Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, USAF, commander, 24th Air Force, and commander, Air Force Network Operations, will discuss the global strategic implications that relate to the cyber domain at the Space Foundation national conference Cyber 1.3, to be held Monday, April 8th, at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cyber 1.3 is a full-day conference that takes place immediately before the official opening of the 29th National Space Symposium. The conference includes a networking breakfast, a luncheon and concludes with a networking reception, co-sponsored by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. Government Executive Media Group is a Cyber 1.3 media co-sponsor.
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INFILTRATE 2013 (Miami, Florida, USA, April 11 - 12, 2013) INFILTRATE is a deep technical conference that focuses entirely on offensive security issues. Researchers focused on the latest technical issues will demonstrate techniques that you cannot find elsewhere.
Information Tech Expo Series - Hawaii (Oahu, Hawaii, USA, April 12 - 19, 2013) This 6-series showcase will feature stops at 5 DoD locations and 1 Intel Center on the island of Oahu. Celebrating 20 years of these expos is a true testament to the government and military's readiness to learn from and work with industry partners. .
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basic definitions of geometry - ms. talhami ... 1 basic definitions of geometry labeling: now, let's
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Basic Definitions of Geometry
Labeling: Now, let's take a look at how figures are labeled in geometry, and the meanings of these labels. This information should sound familiar. Lines:
Lines are traditionally labeled by expressing two points through which the line passes.
Lines may also be labeled with a single scripted letter, and referred to by that name.
Closed Figures:
When drawing rectangle ABCD: the letters must follow, in order, around the outside of the figure. You may start at any vertex point.
When drawing rectangle ABCD: you may label in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction around the outside of the figure.
When drawing rectangle ABCD: you may NOT label "across" the figure as shown here. This is not rectangle ABCD. (It is rectangle ACBD.)
∠ABC or ∠CBA
Angles are labeled by specifying 3 points, with the center point being the vertex of the angle. This angle is NOT ∠BAC.
∠A
Angles may be labeled with a single letter at the vertex, as long as it is perfectly clear that there is only one angle at this vertex.
∠A or ∠
Angles may be represented by a single lower case letter or by a Greek letter, as long as it is clear which angle is being referenced.
∠1 and ∠2
Angles may also be represented by numbers, as long as it is clear to which angle the number applies.
Congruent angles are angles that have the same measure.
∠ABC ≅ ∠DEF the angles are congruent
m∠ABC = m∠DEF the measures of the angles are equal Bisector of an angle is a ray whose endpoint is the vertex of the angles and that divides that angle into two congruent angles. Classifying Angles According to Their Measures
§ An Acute angle is an angle whose degree measure is greater than 0 and less than 90o § A Right angle is an angle whose degree measure is 90o § An Obtuse angle is an angle whose degree measure is greater than 90 and less than 180o. § A Straight angle measures 180o.
Triangles:
or any other three letter combination of A,B and C will apply to this triangle.
When using letters to refer to the sides of a triangle, it is customary to label the sides as small case letters. Across from the vertex labeled capital A will be the side labeled small case a, and so on.
A right triangle is designated with a "box" drawn in the location of the right angle.
Never assume that diagrams are drawn “to scale” Notations(The figure vs its measures)
There are notations that refer to the actual geometric figures, and there are notations that refer to the measures (sizes, lengths) of the figures.
The bar over the letters means you are referring to the segment itself (the actual physical segment).
The letters, without a bar on top, refer to the length of the segment from point A to point B.
The angle symbols,
, mean you are referring to the angle itself (the actual physical angle).
The m in front of the angle notation refers to the measure of the angle labeled A, B and C (with vertex at B).
By definition, the term congruent means "having equal length or measure".
Segments are congruent. Angles are congruent. Triangles are congruent. The congruent symbol is used when referring to the actual physical entities (diagrams).
When referring to a length or measure, the equal sign should be used. You speak of numbers as being equal (or not equal).
(Triangles are not referred to as being "equal", since they are not numbers, and we do not speak of the measure of a Δ.)
Undefined Terms: There are three words in geometry that are not formally defined. These words are point, line and plane. While these words are "undefined" in the formal sense, we can still "describe" these words.
POINT • a point indicates a location (or position) in space. • a point has no dimension (actual size). • a point has no length, no width, and no height (thickness). • a point is usually named with a capital letter. • in the coordinate plane, a point is named by an ordered pair, (x,y). While we represent a point with a dot, the dot can be very tiny or very large. Remember, a point has no size.
LINE (straight line) • a line has no thickness. • a line's length extends in one dimension. • a line goes on forever in both directions. • a line has infinite length, zero width, and zero height. • a line is assumed to be straight. • a line is drawn with arrowheads on both ends. • a line is named by a single lowercase script letter, or by any two (or more) points which lie on the line.
PLANE • a plane has two dimensions. • a plane forms a flat surface extending indefinitely in all directions. • a plane has infinite length, infinite width and zero height (thickness). • a plane is drawn as a four-sided figure resembling a tabletop or a parallelogram. • a plane is named by a single letter (plane m) or by three coplanar, but non-collinear,* points (plane ABC).
Collinear points are points that lie on the same straight line. Coplanar points are points that line in the same plane.
Complementary Angles are two angles whose sum is 90 degrees. Supplementary Angles are two angles whose sum is 180 degrees. A Linear Pair are two adjacent angles whose sum is 180 degrees. Vertical Angles are two angles in which the two nonadjacent angles (opposite) formed when two lines intersect. They are always congruent.
Vertical angles are located across from one another in the corners of the "X" formed by two straight lines. In the diagram at the right, lines m and n are straight: ∠1 and ∠2 are vertical angles. ∠3 and ∠4 are vertical angles.
1 – 3 Solve the following 1. x = ______ y = ______
2. x = ______ y = ______
4 – 8 Are the following statements true or false? 4. ∠5 and ∠3 are vertical angles T or F 5. ∠1 and ∠5 are a linear pair T or F 6. ∠4 and ∠3 are adjacent angles T or F 7. ∠4 and ∠1 are vertical angles T or F 8. ∠3 and ∠4 are a linear pair T or F 9. If ∠A and ∠B are supplementary and m∠A = 150o, what is m∠B?
10. If ∠A and ∠B are complements and m∠A = 27o, what is m∠B?
11. If ∠A and ∠B are vertical angles and m∠A = 36o, what is m∠B?
12. If ∠A and ∠B are a linear pair and m∠A = 2x + 8 and m∠B = 3x + 2, what is the value of x?
13. If ∠A and ∠B are vertical angles and m∠A = 7x - 5 and m∠B = 4x + 10, what is the value of x?
14 – 23 Circle True or False 14. ∠1 = ∠4 T or F 15. ∠6 = ∠16 T or F 16. ∠3 = ∠5 T or F 17. ∠4 = ∠5 T or F 18. ∠2 = ∠10 T or F 19. ∠9 = ∠15 T or F 20. ∠12 = ∠14 T or F 21. ∠9 = ∠11 T or F 22. m∠11 + ∠15 = 180o T or F 23. m∠1 + ∠8 = 180o T or F
Angles formed by Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal
m II n and l is the transversal Congruent Angles
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In 1956, when the population of the city and surrounding area numbered about 36,000 and the Intercoastal Waterway had not yet rendered Venice an island, the Women's Club sponsored a two-day art show. Twenty-seven artists displayed 60 works and 250 people attended. This seed grew into "The Art Spirit", Venice-Nokomis Art Association in 1958.
Please click here for a more detailed 6-page history of art and the Venice Art Center.
It is a document written by Cissy Morison circa early 1970's. (The document was not dated.)
The Association sponsored many art-centered activities in the next few years. By 1966 a committee for a permanent gallery had plans drawn by retired architect Charles Mink, leased the southeast corner of Blalock Park, addressed a fund-raising campaign and changed the name to the "Venice Area Art League". Construction was completed by March 1968, when more than 150 paintings and other artworks were displayed.
The Arts Center Today
During the 70's and 80's the Venice area experienced tremendous growth. It became apparent that the original Art Center sorely needed renovation. The name was changed to "The Venice Art Center, Inc." and by 1993 "The Friends of the Venice Art Center" had been created to assist with programs and funding. Following groundbreaking in January 1996, construction was completed by October. With increased classroom space available, a vigorous, supportive membership and new, flexible display galleries, the Venice Art Center proudly carries the aim of the 1958 founders "to stimulate and encourage the appreciation of art" into the future.
The Art Center has an Outreach Coordinator who will arrange to have someone talk to civic groups about the Art Center. To make arrangements contact us at 941-485-7136.
The Art Center's 2014 Annual Report is available for review by clicking here (PDF).
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Don't be so hard on your worst self.
Florida’s Torture Chamber for Delinquent Boys
For 109 years, Florida has sent bad boys to the Florida School for Boys–for things like rape and assault, yes, but also for petty infractions like truancy or smoking in the bathroom, or sometimes because the state wanted an easy solution to a kid with no parents. A long overdue spotlight has been directed onto the school, and with horrifying results: it’s revealed FSB to be less a place of reform and more a place of torture. Kids who are now grown men describe being dragged into a small white outbuilding where they were hog-tied and lashed until their backsides were split open and running blood in rivers. The men recall bits of tongue and lip dried on the pillows on the beds in that building. They recall the smell of death, the blood smeared on the walls, and the superintendents (especially the one-armed man) who administered the whippings. What were they told as the leather tore open their flesh? “It’s for your own good.”
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Sean Price July 2, 2020 Reviews, TV
Bless “Warrior Nun,” it’s an entertaining mess
Warrior Nun (Netflix)
Netflix’s manga-based action show is light on sense but heavy on stylish fun.
There are shows that are fun to watch, and then there are shows that are more fun to try to explain to friends. Netflix’s occult action fever dream, Warrior Nun, is firmly in the latter category. That doesn’t mean it’s not a fun watch. It absolutely is, despite the barely held-together plot and mythos.
Based on the ‘90s manga Warrior Nun Areala by Ben Dunn, the show follows Ava (Alba Baptista), a teenage orphan with a mysterious past, who begins the series dead in a Spanish morgue. Meanwhile, a special Order of gun-toting, martial arts fighting nuns (warriors if you will) secretly trained by the Vatican to fight demons who are trying to bring Hell on Earth find themselves nearby, recovering from a deadly ambush.
During the attack, their leader, Sister Shannon (Melina Matthews), dies after being overcome by a dangerous substance known as Divinium, which is made from fragments of holy relics. It also creates portals to other dimensions, but we don’t need to get bogged down in that here.
Sister Shannon also possesses a very important artifact hidden in her skin, an actual halo taken from an angel, known simply as The Halo. If The Halo gets into demon hands, then it may result in the complete collapse of Heaven and the destruction of Earth. The nuns definitely don’t want that, so when Shannon passes on, one of the sisters takes The Halo out of her body and places it in the nearest human vessel, the previously mentioned Ava. The Halo not only raises Ava from the dead, but also gives her supernatural abilities such as super strength and walking through walls (it’s revealed she was previously quadriplegic by the way).
There are shows that are fun to watch, and then there are shows that are more fun to try to explain to friends.
The show is created by Simon Barry, who specializes in making shows with cult followings that you’ve never heard of but somehow have been on for five seasons, like SyFy’s Continuum and Van Helsing. Warrior Nun has all the makings of another cult show. It’s unabashedly violent and on the nose with obvious but fun Biblical allegory. It’s the TV equivalent of reading a trashy Dan Brown page turner, but if The DaVinci Code was re-written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.
Ava starts the series off similar to Uma Thurman’s The Bride character in the Kill Bill films. A mysterious past, finding herself in possession of a specific set of skills she didn’t know she had, seeking revenge on those who wronged her. Director Jet Wilkinson even throws in a fun visual nod to Tarantino’s love of shooting close ups of feet when Ava wakes up from her death coma.
In her performance though, Baptista plays Ava closer to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy. She’s a teenager that may have the ability to punch demons back to Hell, but she still wants to enjoy being a teenager. She likes to hang out, dance and take ecstasy with a group of young, hip wanderers she befriends, led by a charming love interest named (get ready for the biblical allegory) J.C. (Emilio Sakraya).
Her character also demonstrates the show’s fun nitpicking of the hypocrisies of the Catholic Church. Ava is a strong, independent superhero who also helps out an institution that still doesn’t allow women in leadership positions. There are several moments that are a delight for lapsed Catholics like me, including when Ava tries to make sense of waking up from death by saying “Catholics are a little twitchy about who gets to be resurrected.”
Where Baptista’s performance (and really the show) hits a brick wall is through the use of a misguided voice over. It commits the cardinal voice over sin of saying what we are clearly seeing. Baptista is able to convey Ava’s struggle with the existential dread of coming back to life and gaining holy powers without us needing her to say in a cheesy voice over, “Something has definitely changed. What are you up to God?”
The other misstep the show makes, and it may just be due to Netflix’s budget department, is its complete lack of visual cohesion. A similar show about the battle between Heaven and Hell, AMC’s Preacher, is shot in the austere, sun-drenched mold of postmodern Westerns like Unforgiven or No Country for Old Men, which gives it a visual language to back up its insane premise.
Warrior Nun has no visual point of view except for lighting a bunch of candles in dark rooms and hoping that does the trick. The action scenes are frustratingly dark and lack any kind of inventiveness for a show about nuns that are warriors. It’s general drabness takes the fun out of a show where just a little more cinematic effort could get it over the top. Maybe Simon Barry can convince Netflix to take some of Space Force’s massive budget and send it to a show that may actually benefit from higher production values. Until then, it’s still worth skipping church to watch.
Warrior Nun is now available on Netflix.
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Sean Price was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana before moving to Chicago to pursue improv and sketch comedy. He has written, directed and produced several short films, music videos, and feature length screenplays.
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Repost from VSDVAA: Legislative Update – 2015 Virginia General Assembly
The Virginia General Assembly regular session ended on February 28, 2015. Below is an update on the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance’s (Action Alliance) priorities and other key legislation of interest to our constituency. Legislation that has passed must still be approved by the Governor and may be subject to additional amendments. In most cases, the Governor has until March 29th to act on the legislation. The Governor’s amendments and vetoed legislation will be considered by the General Assembly during the reconvened session in April.
When available, we have noted the Action Alliance’s position on the legislation. For actual votes and language of the bills, please click on the link provided. Please note that we only provided links to legislation that is still active. Unless noted in the law, legislation becomes effective July 1, 2015.
PASSED LEGISLATION AWAITING GOVERNOR’S APPROVAL
Crime Commission—Sexual and Domestic Violence Study
SB1094 (Chief Patron: Sen. Howell)
HB2092 (Chief Patron: Del. Peace; Chief Co-Patron McClellan)
Supported by the Action Alliance. Establishes the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Program Professional Standards Committee and requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to administer its activities by providing technical assistance and administrative support. This Committee is tasked with establishing voluntary accreditation standards and procedures by which local sexual and domestic violence programs can be systematically measured and evaluated with a peer-reviewed process. An Advisory Committee on Sexual and Domestic Violence is also established and has the responsibility for advising and assisting state and local entities on matters related to the prevention and reduction of sexual and domestic violence and to promote the efficient administration of grant funds.
Campus Response
SB712 (Chief Patron: Senator Black; Chief Co-Patrons: Senators Deeds, Saslaw, & Barker)
HB1930 (Chief Patron: Delegate Bell; Chief Co-Patrons: Delegates Albo & Gilbert)
Supported by the Action Alliance.
Requires any responsible employee of a public or private nonprofit institution of higher education who in the course of his employment obtains information that an act of sexual violence has been committed against a student or on campus property or other property related to the institution to report such information to the Title IX coordinator for the institution as soon as practicable. The bill provides several exceptions to the reporting requirements, including when information is obtained through any communication considered privileged under state or federal law, including communications received by licensed health care professionals, counselors, accredited rape crisis or domestic violence counselors, campus victim support personnel, clergy, or attorneys.
The Title IX Coordinator must report such information to a review committee, which shall meet within 72 hours of the receipt of information of an alleged act of sexual violence. The review committee shall include the Title IX coordinator, a representative of law enforcement, and a student affairs representative and conduct its review in compliance with federal privacy laws that protect student privacy. The Title IX Coordinator must disclose information regarding the alleged act of sexual violence, including personally identifiable information, to the law-enforcement agency responsible for investigating the alleged act if the Title IX Coordinator determines such disclosure is necessary to protect the health and safety of the community.
The bill requires the governing board of each public or private institution of higher education to (i) establish a written memorandum of understanding with a local sexual assault crisis center or other victim support service and (ii) adopt policies to provide victims with information on contacting such center or service.
The bill also provides that each institution shall ensure that a victim of an alleged act of sexual violence is informed of (i) the applicable federal or state confidentiality provisions that govern information provided by a victim; (ii) the available on-campus resources and any unaffiliated community resources, including sexual assault crisis centers, domestic violence crisis centers, or other victim support services; (iii) the importance of seeking appropriate medical attention; (iv) the importance of collection and preservation of evidence; (v) the available law-enforcement options for investigation and prosecution; (vi) the available options for a protective order; (vii) the available campus options for investigation and adjudication under the institution’s policies; and (viii) the victim’s rights to participate or decline to participate in any investigation to the extent permitted under state or federal law.
HB1785 (Chief Patron: Delegate Massie; Co-Chief Patron: Delegate Filler-Corn).
Supported by the Action Alliance. Requires that mutual aid agreements between a campus police force and a law-enforcement agency contain provisions requiring either the campus police force or the agency with which it has established a mutual aid agreement to notify the local attorney for the Commonwealth within 48 hours of any investigation involving felony criminal sexual assault occurring on campus property or other property related to the institution of higher education. The bill does not require law enforcement to disclose the victims’ personally identifying information. The bill also requires institutions of higher education that have security departments instead of campus police forces to enter into a memorandum of understanding with a law-enforcement agency and such memorandum of understanding shall contain similar provisions requiring reports to the local attorney for the Commonwealth.
SB1193 (Chief Patron: Senator Norment; Co-Chief Patron Senator Deeds)
Requires the registrar of certain public and private institutions of higher education, or the other employee, office, or department of the institution that is responsible for maintaining student academic records, to include a prominent notation on the transcript of each student who has been suspended for, has been permanently dismissed for, or withdraws from the institution while under investigation for a violation of the institution’s code, rules, or set of standards governing student conduct. The bill provides that any notation due to a student’s suspension shall be removed if the student completed the term of the suspension and any conditions thereof and has been determined by the institution to be in good standing. The bill exempts the Virginia Military Institution (VMI).
Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault/Stalking/Protective Orders
SB941 (Chief Patron: Senator Stuart)/HB2329 (Chief Patron: Delegate Simon)
Supported by the Action Alliance. Provides for the compensation of counsel or a guardian ad litem for the required representation of a respondent in a proceeding for the issuance of a protective order under Chapter 9.1 of Title 19.2.
HB2120 (Chief Patron: Delegate Cline)
Supported by the Action Alliance. Adds strangulation to the list of crimes charged for which there is a rebuttable presumption against admission to bail.
SJ245 (Chief Patron: Senator Favola)/HJ600 (Chief Patron: Delegate Kory)
Supported by the Action Alliance. Designates the month of April, in 2015 and in each succeeding year, as Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Virginia.
SB1187 (Chief Patron: Senator Obenshain)/HB 1928 (Chief Patron: Delegate Bell)
The bill adds to the list of offenses for which an adult convicted of certain offenses must have a sample of his blood, saliva, or tissue taken for DNA analysis. The bill adds misdemeanor violations of §§ 16.1-253.2 (violation of a protective order), 18.2-60.3 (stalking), 18.2-60.4 (violation of a stalking protective order), 18.2-67.4:1 (infected sexual battery), 18.2-102 (unauthorized use of animal, aircraft, vehicle, or boat valued at less than $200), 18.2-121 (entering property of another for purpose of damaging it), 18.2-387 (indecent exposure), 18.2-387.1 (obscene sexual display), and 18.2-479.1 (resisting arrest). Under current law, a sample is taken for DNA analysis from adults convicted of only five misdemeanor sex offenses: (i) § 18.2-67.4 (sexual battery), (ii) § 18.2-67.4:2 (sexual abuse of a child 13 years of age or older but under 15), (iii) § 18.2-67.5 (attempted sexual battery), (iv) § 18.2-130 (peeping), or (v) § 18.2-370.6 (penetrating the mouth of a child under 13 with the tongue). The bill also increases the fee collected for the withdrawal of the DNA sample from $25 to $53. The provisions of the bill apply only to persons convicted on or after July 1, 2015.
SB1417 (Chief Patron: Senator Petersen)
Requires any person licensed by the Board of Counseling and operating in a nonhospital setting to post a copy of his license in a conspicuous place. The posting shall also provide clients with (i) the number of the toll-free complaint line at the Department of Health Professions, (ii) the website address of the Department for the purposes of accessing the licensee’s record, and (iii) notice of the client’s right to report to the Department if he believes the licensee may have engaged in unethical, fraudulent, or unprofessional conduct.
HB1558 (Chief Patron: Delegate Rust)
Allows for the creation of local or regional adult fatality review teams upon the initiative of any local or regional law-enforcement agency, department of social services, emergency medical services agency, attorney for the Commonwealth’s office, or community services board. The bill provides that such teams may review the death of any person age 60 years or older, or any adult age 18 years or older who is incapacitated, who resides in the Commonwealth and who is in need of temporary or emergency protective services (i) who was the subject of an adult protective services or law-enforcement investigation; (ii) whose death was due to abuse, neglect, or exploitation or acts suggesting abuse, neglect, or exploitation; or (iii) whose death came under the jurisdiction of or was investigated by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as occurring in any suspicious, unusual, or unnatural manner. A violation of the confidentiality of the review process is punishable as a Class 3 misdemeanor.
HB1698 (Chief Patron: Delegate Wilt)
Requires each school board, in any case in a questionnaire or survey requesting that students provide sexual information, mental health information, medical information, information on student health risk behaviors, other information on controlled substance use, or any other information that the school board deems to be sensitive in nature is to be administered, to give the parent 30 days’ written notice of the nature and types of questions, the purposes and age-appropriateness of the questionnaire or survey, how such information will be used, who will have access to such information, the steps that will be taken to protect student privacy, and whether and how any findings or results will be disclosed. The bill gives the parent the right to request that an advance copy of the questionnaire or survey be sent to him, to review the document in person at the school, and to exempt his child from participation. Under current law, (i) such written notice only applies to surveys or questionnaires on sexual information and information on student health risk behaviors, (ii) the detailed contents of the notice only apply to information on student health risk behaviors, and (iii) the parent has the right to review questionnaires and surveys but no right to request that a copy be sent to him.
HB2040 (Chief Patron: Delegate Bell)
Supported by the Action Alliance. Increases from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony the penalty for taking a minor, for the purposes of prostitution, into a bawdy place; persuading, encouraging or causing a minor to enter a bawdy place; or taking or causing a minor to be taken to any place for such purposes.
SB1188 (Chief Patron: Senator Obenshain; Chief Co-Patron Senator Edwards)
HB1964 (Chief Patron: Delegate Hugo; Chief Co-Patrons: Delegates Anderson, Rob Bell, and Gilbert)
Supported by the Action Alliance. Creates new felonies for trafficking of persons for commercial sexual activity. The bill provides that any person who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, or otherwise causes or attempts to cause a person to engage in prostitution with the intent to receive money or other valuable thing or to assist another in receiving money or other valuable thing from the earnings of the solicited person from an act of prostitution is guilty of a Class 5 felony. Felonies are increased if such behavior is done by an adult and the person solicited is a minor (Class 3 felony) and if force, intimidation, or deception is used against the person solicited (Class 4 felony). The new crime was added to the definition of violent felony for the purposes of the sentencing guidelines, predicate criminal acts for street gangs, the Virginia Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act, multijurisdiction grand jury, and asset forfeiture and, if a minor is solicited, the Sex Offender Registry. The bill also amends two existing Code sections on receiving money for procuring a person for prostitution and receiving money from the earnings of a person engaged in prostitution to increase penalties if the crime involves a minor.
DEFEATED LEGISLATION
Funding Increase for Sexual Assault Victim Services
Budget Amendments #389 1s (Senator Vogel) & #389 1h (Chief Patron: Delegate Peace)
Employment Protections for Victims
SB 990 (Chief Patron: Senator Lucas)/HB1945 (Chief Patron: Delegate McClellan)
HB1430 (Chief Patron: Delegate Herring)
HB2150 (Chief Patron: Delegate Yancey)
Firearm Restrictions Related to Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking
SB943 (Chief Patron: Senator Favola)/HB 2085 (Chief Patron: Delegate Murphy)
SB909 (Chief Patron: Senator Howell)/HB 2045 (Chief Patron: Delegate Filler-Corn)
HB2328 (Chief Patron: Delegate Simon)
SB1297 (Chief Patron: Senator McEachin)/HB1453 (Chief Patron: Delegate Miller)
HB1902 (Chief Patron: Delegate Lopez)
To learn more about any of these defeated bills, please visit http://lis.virginia.gov/ and click on “Bills & Resolutions” to search by bill number.
If you have questions, please contact Kristine Hall at khall@vsdvalliance.org or 804-377-0335.
About the Action Alliance
The Action Alliance has been Virginia’s leading voice on sexual and domestic violence for 30 years and enhances response and prevention efforts through training, public policy advocacy, public awareness programs, and technical assistance to professionals. To find out more about the Action Alliance, call 804.377.0335, e-mail:info@vsdvalliance.org, or visit us on the web: www.vsdvalliance.org. You may also call the Virginia Family Violence & Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-838-8238 (v/tty).
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Villa Rica gets a new present
By Erin / October 21, 2019
A new Goodwill store opened in Villa Rica, GA, on Oct. 15, 2019 and is located on the Carrollton Villa Rica Highway. This Goodwill feature a new drive-thru where you can drop off clothing donations and has a career center as well. Goodwill now has a total of 14 stores across their 50-county territory that covers parts of West Georgia and East Alabama. Goodwill sees this as an exciting opportunity to expand their stores and to help others in the community.
Many people were involved in taking on this ambitious project such as Julie Bennett, Communications Director of Goodwill. Bennett has been with Goodwill for eight years. Her team put up much of the signage, branding and advertisement for this new Goodwill location.
Photo Credit: Allison Lee
Since Goodwill has done well in surrounding locations such as Carrollton, the company thought that Villa Rica would be an ideal location. Goodwill has had this project in the works for about two years and has carefully negotiated about how this new store should be brought into Villa Rica.
“We look at the availability of donors when choosing a new location,” said Bennett. “We know convenience is important to our customers.”
This new Goodwill will be on the outer edge of Villa Rica, but close enough to the city to fulfill this expectation. Goodwill does offer several services to the public which include donations, career services and job opportunities. This ensures that Goodwill is taking from the community and giving back. Goodwill primarily takes clothing donations, but they also take donations of home decor, jewelry, small appliances and furniture. Goodwill brings in and sells out different kinds of merchandise every day which allows their selections to swap out rather frequently.
Goodwill provides employment readiness training, educational assistance, skill workshops and computer access as some of the many options they have in its career center. There are several companies that hire people through Goodwill and many jobs available at Goodwill itself. It also works with local restaurants, the department of corrections and even police departments to find the best jobs for certain individuals. This new location in Villa Rica will have 15 jobs available for the Goodwill staff.
“I think our goal is to help people move out of poverty and become self-sufficient,” said Bennett. “I think that is an amazing goal for any organization.”
When purchasing items at Goodwill, all of the proceeds contribute to its career centers. Anyone can come in for free and acquire all sorts of career skills and services. This is a vital resource for some and a wonderful place to find almost anything for a decent price. Goodwill truly focuses on aiding people in their struggles and teaching them to become better individuals for themselves.
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ZHANG SIGNS PROMOTIONAL DEAL WITH MATCHROOM
Posted on September 20, 2020 in Latest news // 0 Comments
Zhang Zhilei has signed a promotional deal with Matchroom.
Matchroom’s deal with Zhang sees Eddie Hearn’s promotional outfit appointed as the sole promoter of the Chinese star.
The unbeaten China Heavyweight (21-0 16 KOs) has returned to action in November in Monte Carlo, Monaco with a ten-round win over Andriy Rudenko seeing Zhang pick up the WBO Oriental title for the third time – Zhang now sits at #11 with the WBO and #12 with the IBF as he aims to convert his prolific amateur career in the pro game.
‘Big Bang’ is in New Jersey training for his return to the ring Stateside in November, and the 37 year old giant wants to put his career into overdrive and prove that he is ready to challenge for World titles in the paid ranks.
“I’m very happy to enter into an agreement with Matchroom,” said Zhang. “They are one of the best promoters in the world. I’m the best Heavyweight coming out of China. I just need an opportunity to become the best in the world which I strongly believe that Matchroom is able to provide. With each of us focused on our part, I wish a happy and successful future together.”
“The Heavyweight scene couldn’t be any hotter right now, so this is the perfect time for Zhilei to get back into action and throw his name into the mix,” said promoter Eddie Hearn. “Zhilei is ready to take on all-comers and as he aims for his 22nd win in November, the next step for ‘Big Bang’ then will be to face his fellow top-class contenders and get in position for a World title shot.”
“We are extremely excited about the partnership with Matchroom,” said Zhang’s advisor Terry Lane, from Lane Brothers Boxing. “Zhilei is a world-class Heavyweight and Matchroom is one of the world’s premier boxing promoters. It’s a natural fit, and this puts Zhilei in the mix amongst boxing’s top big-men.”
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Blog Tour: The Lost City by Bestselling Author Amanda Hocking
Posted on July 15, 2020 July 14, 2020 by Benjamin Thomas
THE OMTE ORIGINS
New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking returns to the magical world of the Trylle with The Lost City, the first book in the final Trylle arc.
Nestled along the bluffs of the forested coast lays the secret kingdom of the Omte—a realm filled with wonder…and as many secrets.
Ulla Tulin was left abandoned in an isolated Kanin city as a baby, taken in by strangers and raised hidden away like many of the trolls of mixed blood. Even knowing this truth, she’s never stopped wondering about her family.
When Ulla is offered an internship working alongside the handsome Pan Soriano at the Mimirin, a prestigious institution, she jumps at the chance to use this opportunity to hopefully find her parents. All she wants is to focus on her job and the search for her parents, but all of her attempts to find them are blocked when she learns her mother may be connected to the Omte royal family.
With little progress made, Ulla and Pan soon find themselves wrapped up in helping Eliana, an amnestic girl with abilities unlike any they have ever seen before—a girl who seems to be running from something. To figure out who she is they must leave the city, and possibly, along the way, they may learn more about Ulla’s parents.
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Q&A with Amanda Hocking, author of THE LOST CITY: The Omte Origins, Volume 1
There’s been so much excitement and anticipation for more books in the world of the Trylle and Kanin. What made you decide to revisit those worlds now in The Omte Origins trilogy?
I knew as soon as I wrote Ulla as a small character in Crystal Kingdom (the final book of the Kanin Chronicles) that I was going to write a trilogy about her, but it was just a matter of when. After the Kanin Chronicles, I wanted to take a little break from that world and visit others – which I did with Freeks and the Valkyrie duology. By then, I was so ready to dive back into the world and answer some lingering questions I had left for the Trylle and Kanin.
Why make this the final trilogy?
With the Omte Origins, I feel like I’ve been able to say everything I want to about the worlds. Through the three trilogies, I spent time with all five tribes. Wendy’s mother is Trylle and her father is Vittra, and her story has her visiting both kingdoms. Bryn’s mother is Skojare and her father is Kanin, and her trilogy shows life in the Kanin and Skojare cities, as well as travelling to others beyond that. I won’t say who exactly Ulla’s parents are (that would be spoiling the story) but her journey takes her through the troll kingdoms, with interesting detours through the Omte, Trylle, and Kanin tribes.
What are the most challenging aspects of writing a new trilogy that can be read independently, but is set in a world–the Trylle and Kanin–that you’ve written about before?
The hardest challenge is getting new readers caught up with the world and the lingo without feeling repetitive and boring to longtime fans of the series. I try use this an opportunity to show characters and situations from different angles. The Wendy the audience meets at the beginning of Switched is vastly different Wendy than the that Ulla knows in the Omte Origins. So for new readers, they get introduced Wendy as she currently is, and for repeat readers, they can see who Wendy has become and who she appears to be through the eyes of an average citizen with Ulla.
What’s the most fascinating thing you researched while writing The Lost City?
With the Omte Origins, I really looked back at the course of troll history, and their past has dovetailed with the Vikings and other artic peoples. So I did a lot research on early Vikings and indigenous arctic people, primarily the Inuit and the Sami. My favorite parts were reading their folklore. I even got an Inuit cookbook, and I attempted to make Bannock (a traditional Inuit bread). It did not turn out well, but I blame that entirely on my cooking skills (or lack thereof) and not the recipe.
The “Glossary” and “Tribal Facts” sections at the end of the book are fascinating and really help create a layered, fleshed out world. Was putting those together as much fun as writing the novel?
It was so much fun. It’s been over ten years and nine books (and several short stories), so I have spent a lot time of thinking and doing world-building. I honestly have enough information for a history book about the worlds of the Trylle, but I don’t know there’s a demand for fictional textbooks. The Tribal Facts were actually one of the first things I wrote for the Omte series, because I went through and get myself reacquainted and made sure I had all my important facts straight.
Was your writing routine affected by the stay-at-home orders due to the pandemic?
My routine itself hasn’t been too affected, since I write from home, but I would say that the stress has a negative impact on me, the way it has for many of us that work in creative fields – or any field at all, honestly. My husband has been working from home, and my stepson had been doing long distance learning before summer break, but that hasn’t really changed too much for me. I usually work after they go to bed and stay up late into the early morning hours.
Were there any favorite songs or music you listened to while writing this book?
Yes, definitely! I listen to so much music when I write, and I even have curated playlists to go along with my books on Spotify. open.spotify.com/user/127756215 Some of my favorite songs to write to were “Ella” by Myrkur, “Wild World” by Cat Stevens, and “Delicate” by Taylor Swift. I also listened to a lot of Wardruna, who are this Norwegian band who make traditional Nordic music with historically accurate instruments. For the soundtrack to the Omte Origins, I wanted it be a blend of traditional Nordic music, mellow seventies folk to go with the trolls delayed pop culture tastes, and pop music that gets through with the trendier younger generations of trolls.
Do you think the music you listen to has an influence on the stories? Or do the stories influence the music you choose?
I think it’s both, honestly. When I’m picking songs for the playlist, I definitely choose them based on the kind of emotions I want to feel and the tone I want to set for whatever I’m writing. Sometimes I’ll put particularly romantic songs on repeat when writing a love scene or an angry fast-paced instrumental for a fight scene.
What books or authors are you reading or excited to read lately?
I’m super excited about Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy. It comes out the same day as The Lost City, and it’s about a plus-size teenage girl who discovers that she can fly. I recently read A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Rosanne Brown, and I’m counting down the days until The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna and The Project by Courtney Summers.
Any hints you can share about what’s coming next after The Omte Origins Trilogy?
I’m currently working on a stand-alone fantasy inspired by Greek mythology, but I don’t know when it will be out yet. I’ve got ideas for dozens of projects after that, and I’m working hard (and having fun) getting through them all.
AMANDA HOCKING is the author of over twenty young adult novels, including the New York Times bestselling Trylle Trilogy and Kanin Chronicles. Her love of pop culture and all things paranormal influence her writing. She spends her time in Minnesota, taking care of her menagerie of pets and working on her next book.
Several of her books have made the New York Times Bestsellers list. Her zombie series, The Hollows, has been adapted into a graphic novel by Dynamite. She has published over twenty novels, including The Kanin Chronicles, the Watersong quartet, My Blood Approves series, the Valkyrie duology, and Freeks .
Her next books are the Omte Origins, a trilogy set in the world of the Trylle and Kanin. The first book The Lost City will be out July 7, 2020, and the second book The Morning Flower will be out August 5, 2020.
For more info about her and her books, here are some other places to check out and ways to contact her:
Website: www.hockingbooks.com
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Expeditionary Force Blog Tour: Paradise by Craig Alanson
Posted on March 10, 2020 March 9, 2020 by Benjamin Thomas
About Audiobook #3
Author: Craig Alanson
Narrator: R.C. Bray
Publisher: Podium Publishing⎮2017
Series: Expeditionary Force, Book 3
Synopsis: While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure people that hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been stranded on the planet they nicknamed “Paradise”. The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission, and the UN wants the ship to find out the status of the humans on Paradise. But Colonel Joe Bishop warns that they might not like what they find, and they can’t do anything about it without endangering Earth.
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Good story development in this one. I’ve grown accustomed to hearing Skippy’s snarky remarks on Joe Bishop as they embark on another wacky journey across the universe. R.C. Bray really gets into character “as usual” with several “LOL” moments! The fact that someone can craft something like this is remarkable. The strong narrative and dialogue make you feel part of the adventure.
NARRATOR INTERVIEW WITH R.C. BRAY
Did you find it difficult to “break into” audiobook narration? What skill/tool helped you the most when getting started?
I had two great champions get me through the door: Pat Fraley and Scott Brick. Bringing my years of acting experience to narration impressed them enough to make suggestions, introductions, and continued support. Also, ACX was launched the same time I got into narration. Being able to use that as a means to navigate the process (along with many patient authors, rights holders, and independent publishers), was a godsend. Several of the titles I did via ACX garnered attention from bigger publishers and off I went.
A lot of narrators seem to have a background in theatre. Is that something you think is essential to a successful narration career?
It’s not essential, but it does help.
What type of training have you undergone?
I was a CTA (Communications/Theatre Arts) major in college that performed Off-Broadway and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I also attended the Connecticut School of Broadcasting where, because of my theatre background, I excelled during the voiceover portion. It was my abilities in voiceover that was a catalyst to getting the job at Kaplowe Studios.
How do you manage to avoid burn-out? What do you do to maintain your enthusiasm for narrating?
I keep from burning out by thinking of my past jobs. I don’t ever want to have to go back to doing any of them. The thought of that lights a massive fire in me.
Are you an audiobook listener? What about the audiobook format appeals to you?
I used to listen to them nonstop when I was a commuter.
What are your favorite and least favorite parts of narrating an audiobook?
Unless it’s really brilliant writing, my least favorite part is when I get to the middle and realize I’m only halfway done. My favorite part is being exposed to books I would likely have never picked up.
Is there a particular genre you feel unsuited for? Have you ever declined a project because you didn’t think you were right for it?
I’d love to be suited for children’s/YA novels, but I’m afraid my deep voice doesn’t jibe well with them.
How closely do you prefer to work with authors?
Enough to get certain information but definitely not so much they start to direct. You wrote it, now let me read it.
Who are your “accent inspirations”?
Frank Muller, Paul Michael, Scott Brick
What types of things are harmful to your voice?
No idea. I’m not a vocal warm-up kind of guy. I just go for it. Pneumonia sucks though.
Has anyone ever recognized you from your voice?
No, but after I tell people what I do (only if they ask, I don’t like bringing it up) they inevitably “hear it now!”
About the Author: Craig Alanson
Craig Alanson is a NYT best-selling author. His first audiobook ‘Columbus Day’ was one of five finalists for Audiobook Of The Year 2018 Visit craigalanson.com for FAQs, blog posts, merchandise, etc.
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About the Narrator: R.C. Bray
From an early age Audie, Earphones, and SOVAS Voice Arts Award-winning audiobook narrator R.C. Bray despised reading. Truly hated it with a passion.
And audiobooks? Even worse. Those were for people too lazy to read (not to be confused with those like himself who didn’t want to read to begin with).
R.C. eventually got older and wiser (he was always good-looking) and eschewing his capricious convictions fell head-over-heels with reading. Not just to learn words like “eschew” and “capricious” so he could use them in a bio line, but because someone was actually going to give him money to do it.
Note: R.C.’s gorgeous wife and three beautiful children begged him not to make this his official bio. Clearly he misunderstood.
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About the Publisher: Podium Publishing
Podium is an industry-leading independent audiobook publisher built upon the foundation of successful partnerships with self-published authors and narrators. With deep share of voice in the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Romance, the company has enjoyed quick commercial and critical acclaim, releasing almost 1,300 audiobooks, numerous best-sellers, winning an Audie Award and 13 Voice Arts Awards. Podium is best-known for supporting, nurturing and discovering independent authors and narrators from the U.S. and around the world. The company gained international notice when it took a risk on one-time unknown author Andy Weir (The Martian) and turned his e-book into the largest audiobook seller in the world.
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Expeditionary Force Blog Tour: Columbus Day by Craig Alanson
Posted on February 25, 2020 February 25, 2020 by Benjamin Thomas
Synopsis: Nominee, 2018 Audie Awards — Audiobook of the Year
We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn’t win. And that was the good news.
The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the Native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon came ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There went the good old days, when humans got killed only by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits.
When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. The UN Expeditionary Force hitched a ride on Kristang ships to fight the Ruhar wherever our new allies thought we could be useful. So, I went from fighting with the US Army in Nigeria to fighting in space. It was lies, all of it. We shouldn’t even be fighting the Ruhar; they aren’t our enemy. Our allies are.
I’d better start at the beginning.
An extraordinary story that made me feel transported into the cosmos! In this case, the planet Paradise with the Ruhar and the Kristang alien species. The sheer depth of each chapter is remarkable and almost seems like a story in themselves. Narrator R.C. Bray delivers, of course, adding another level of entertainment. I didn’t know how funny this until I got into it. The interactions between the UN Expeditionary Force and the ancient Artificial Intelligence, “Skippy”, is hilarious. Good springboard for the rest of the series.
INTERVIEW WITH NARRATOR R.C. BRAY
When did you know you wanted to be an audiobook narrator?
When I heard Frank Muller for the first time (The Dark Tower, Book II: The Drawing of the Three). I always thought a narrator just “read” the book. When Frank started doing character voices and acting and just all-around engaging me as a listener, I knew that with my background it’s what I’m supposed to do.
How did you wind up narrating audiobooks? Was it always your goal or was it something you stumbled into by chance?
My last job before becoming a full-time narrator, was as Senior Producer and Voiceover for a company owned by a wonderful guy named Mark Kaplowe who was the voice of HBO, Butterfinger, Zest, and other big businesses in the 90s. When his son was born, he wanted to eliminate traveling into NYC so he could be around him as much as possible. So he combined his love for automobiles and voiceover prowess, and began an ad company for local car dealerships. His big thing was “growing his business” and he loved audiobooks that were related to just that. Since I had a commute of about 45 minutes (both ways) he wanted me to listen to them as well. I listened to countless business audiobooks before I decided to try a fiction title – The Dark Tower, Book I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King seemed like a good, short place to start. George Guidall was an outstanding introduction to audiobooks (Fiction), but it wasn’t until Frank Muller that I actually made an effort to find out more about becoming a narrator.
CRAIG ALANSON
Craig Alanson is a NYT best-selling author. His first audiobook ‘Columbus Day’ was one of five finalists for Audiobook Of The Year 2018 Visit www.craigalanson.com for FAQs, blog posts, merchandise.
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Author Karen A. Wyle releases her new novel: Water to Water
Posted on October 24, 2018 by Benjamin Thomas
Two young Vushla questioned what everyone knew about death. What should they do with the answer?
When the time comes for Vushla to die, they go into the ocean and are dissolved away. Or so Terrill has always believed, and still believes after taking part in his father’s final journey. But when he meets a young Vushlu who lives by the sea, Terrill must confront information that calls this fundamental belief into question. Will the two of them discover the truth? And what should they do with what they find?
*How did you come up with the title for this book? It sounds rather poetic.
–The idea came from a familiar phrase in the English Burial Service: “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”
*What exactly is a Vushla?
–The Vushla (plural — singular is Vushlu) are one of the sentient species on a planet humans haven’t found. They could be described as a cross between a centaur and a tortoise: their general body configuration is that of a centaur, and they are largely covered by many small plates of a hard substance they (and their neighbor species, the Weesah) refer to as armor. The armor is often moved as part of gestures and body language. I envision them as roughly human-sized.
*Tell us how the idea for this book came about.
–That was a first for me. The way Vushla typically meet death came to me as an image in a dream. My husband contributed a key plot twist.
*What is the connection between the Vushla, water, and death?
–As described in the Preface and in the book blurb, when a Vushlu knows it is dying (I use “it” for unidentified Vushla and Weesah, and he or she for individuals of known gender), it tries to get to the ocean, where it swims or wades into the surf to dissolve away. If it dies on the journey, the friends and relatives accompanying it on the funeral journey hire fisher folk (who have custom-made waterproof suits) to carry the body into the ocean.
Whether there are other connections . . . you’ll need to read the book to find out. 🙂
*Was your approach different in writing this book?
The origin — a dream, as I mentioned above — was different. Otherwise, I did what I usually do: wrote a (very) rough draft during National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo or NaNo; put it aside for a month or so; did multiple revisions and editing passes over the next nine months; sent it to beta readers and made more revisions based on their comments; did the final proofread/edits; and published it (as a preorder) on Amazon and Google Play and via Draft2Digital. (The paperback will, I hope, be ready by the release date of October 17th, at least on Amazon. B&N will take a little longer due to a cumbersome proofing process.)
*What comes first the idea or theme?
That’s an interesting question, especially this time around. What thematic concerns inspired that dream? I can’t say for sure. I certainly had both mortality and parent-child relationships on my mind, as my father died a little more than six months before NaNo began. (I don’t remember exactly when I had the dream, but I would guesstimate it was a month or so before NaNo.)
*What was your experience like writing Water to Water?
I can generally keep up with or stay slightly ahead of the pace NaNo requires (an average of 1,667 words per day), and this time was no exception. My confidence in the story fluctuated about as much as usual — which is to say, frequently but not to the point of either ecstatic certainty or profound gloom. I frequently consulted my general science adviser, aka my husband Paul Hager, on various aspects of world-building.
I approached cover design a little differently this time. I’ve most often collaborated with a particular designer, but that collaboration works best when I have some fairly definite starting ideas. This time, the one idea I had felt insufficient. I decided to spring boldly into the red, financially speaking, and invest in a cover from a designer (or rather, a group of designers) I’d long admired, Damonza. I am delighted with the result, which has gotten consistently favorable comment during the book’s Silver Dagger Book Tour (continuing through October 26th).
Karen A. Wyle is the author of multiple science fiction novels, including The Twin-Bred Series: Books 1-3; near-future novels Division, Playback Effect, and Who: a novel of the near future; and YA near-future novel The Link. Her one novel (so far) outside the SF category is afterlife fantasy/family drama Wander Home. She has also published one nonfiction work, Closest to the Fire: A Writer’s Guide to Law and Lawyers, a resource for authors or for anyone interested in understanding more about American law.
Wyle was born a Connecticut Yankee, but eventually settled in Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University. She now considers herself a Hoosier. Wyle’s childhood ambition was to be the youngest ever published novelist. While writing her first novel at age 10, she was mortified to learn that some British upstart had beaten her to the goal at age 9.
Wyle is an appellate attorney, photographer, political junkie, and mother of two wildly creative daughters. Her voice is the product of almost five decades of reading both literary and genre fiction. It is no doubt also influenced, although she hopes not fatally tainted, by her years of law practice. Her personal history has led her to focus on often-intertwined themes of family, communication, the impossibility of controlling events, and the persistence of unfinished business.
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Blog Tour: The Final Enemy by Dan Petrosini
Posted on March 2, 2018 March 2, 2018 by Benjamin Thomas
Synopsis: In the face of a death-defying power, what’s the “new normal”?
Like all reporters, Jack longs for a breaking story but is stuck writing obituaries for a small-town rag. As his frustration mounts, it hits him that no one has died in over three days. Jack’s odd observation becomes something far stranger when he connects a meteorite to the bizarre phenomenon.
Seizing the opportunity, Jack breaks the story and after a struggle to control the meteorite’s power is resolved, a swelling population begins to create havoc. With the survival of the human race hanging in the balance, politicians enact increasingly horrific measures and desperate citizens take matters into their own hands.
Jack’s in a position to not just report the news, but change it, and his decisions and observations creates an epic thriller that pits the potential of human immortality against a force designed to change – or obliterate – humanity itself.
Only one man might stand in its way … the man buried in the obits department.
The Final Enemy is a story of social disintegration as well as a saga of survival. Secret plans, starvation, suicide, and a series of events that spiral the human race into a desperate survival mode evolve from a seemingly singular event and leads to a fast-paced action story that delights with its penchant for the unexpected.
In the Matthew Mather and A.G. Riddle tradition, The Final Enemy is a gripping blend of thriller and science fiction that will prove hard to put down.
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I loved the story concept behind this book. The meteorite that strikes Earth that mysteriously has death defying properties for the entire planet. It was interesting to see the ripple effect it had on society. Apparently the meteorite is blessing to all of mankind. Until the world begins to see the affects of a human race who can live forever.
Narrator performance was overall entertaining. He does do a good job of connecting you to the story. Some of the character voices were pretty funny. The sound quality wasn’t the greatest but not too bad overall.
In your opinion, what are the pros and cons of writing a stand-alone novel vs. writing a series?
As a reader, I was never drawn to series and thus never considered writing one. However, many author groups detail the benefits of a series and now I have three books completed. It’s too early to tell, as book 2 just released and 3 in editors hands, if there is a benefit besides having a fully fleshed main character! That said, I am aching to get back to a new stand alone idea.
What bits of advice would you give to aspiring authors?
The most important aspect I’ve learned is to write consistently. Block time out and start writing. If possible each day but if you can only write a day a week, that’s fine just make sure you do it each week. You will grow as a writer and the words will pile up.
My next novel is in my editor’s hands right now, so it will be out in a few months. Next, I am working on two outlines – one for the fourth book in the Luca Mystery Series and the other a Sci-Fi story.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: DAN PETROSINI
Dan has his own view of the world and culture or lack thereof. He is passionate in his belief that people can realize their dreams if they focus and take action. He actively encourages people to break out and live a the life they want.
Married with two daughters and a needy Maltese, Dan splits his time between South West Florida and New York City, where he was born. Dan teaches at local colleges, writes novels and plays the tenor saxophone in a couple of jazz bands. He also drinks way too much wine.
Dan has an active blog at http://danpetrosini.com and has written seven novels.
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Interview with Jesikah Sundin Author of The Biodome Chronicles
Posted on February 9, 2018 by Benjamin Thomas
Please welcome Science Fiction & Fantasy author Jesikah Sundin
Jesikah Sundin is multi-award winning a sci-fi/fantasy writer mom of three nerdlets and devoted wife to a gamer geek. In addition to her family, she shares her home in Monroe, Washington with a red-footed tortoise and a collection of seatbelt purses. She is addicted to coffee, laughing, and Dr. Martens boots and shoes … Oh! And the forest is her happy place.
Other Interesting tidbits:
Jesikah owns Forest Tales Photography, and boasts a varied background in business administration and marketing, though her heart has always belonged to the arts and sciences. In college, she pursued a degree in geophysics and oceanography. And, as a teenager, she attended a performing arts school for musical theater and opera, performing in several theater productions, while also serving as editor-in-chief of her high school’s newspaper. She is married for over twenty years to her high school sweetheart and raising three awesomely geeky children. When not writing, she’s often found in her garden, hiking, gaming, baking, fangirling over all things Star Wars and Firefly, or attending various conventions in cosplay, notably Comicon and FaerieCon.
Were there any real life inspirations behind your writing?
I’m not sure if you mean “writing” as fellow writers who have inspired me or “writing” as in the stories I write. But, thankfully, the answer for both angles is similar.I read pretty much everything, from westerns to poetry to crime thrillers to the classics to everything in-between. Though, my main book diet is young adult science fiction and fantasy. My brain is author and story alphabet soup at this point. I’ve also lived in two vastly different states, in three vastly different geographical areas, and traveled all over North and parts of South America. These experiences make a great marinade for the imagination. Additionally, I spent my formative years immersed in the liberal arts (dance, opera, theater, competition choir) while studying for a degree in science (geophysics, oceanography, and ethnoscience). The combination? Weird, genre-mash-up stories, that blend the arts and sciences, and explore people, culture, geographies, and their relationship with the environments they find themselves in.
Tell us about the process of turning your book into an audiobook.
Well, it was all rather simple. Sunny did all the hard work and I got to enjoy the fruits of his labor with commentary. Usually I’d see a notice in my inbox that another chapter was ready for review. I’d squeal, plunk myself down in a comfortable spot, pull my book up, read along as I listened to the narration, and take notes of any discrepancies I found, or feedback on how I’d prefer something to be said (emotional notes). That’s pretty much it. A fun process on my end!
Was a possible audiobook recording something you were conscious of while writing?
Ha! No, actually. Never even crossed my mind. LEGACY was originally published in January 2014. It wasn’t until last year that I even considered an audiobook and only because I had so many potential readers comment on social media that they wished my book were in audio format. Anything for my readers 😉
How did you select your narrator?
It was an involved process that included far too many cups of coffee, sacrifices to the Audible gods, and sleepless night wondering if I’d ever find The One. And then I did, which was rather miraculous, as finding The One usually is. I honestly didn’t think I’d contract a voice actor because of the language difficulties narrating LEGACY would present (American and British English, Latin, French, and Japanese) and different point-of-view writing styles (cyberpunk and classical fantasy style). I’m pretty sure I cried oceans of grateful tears when Sunny sent in an audition.
Is there a particular part of this story that you feel is more resonating in the audiobook performance than in the book format?
Oh, the languages and dialects for sure. Sunny Patel’s lovely British accent breathed life into my New Eden Township characters. But I was floored when the written French and Japanese became real. I sort of melt into a puddle whenever I hear him speak Leaf and Oaklee’s lines in French or Fillion’s Japanese dialogue.
Legacy: The Biodome Chronicles
FILLION NICHOLS
Fillion Nichols (born in Dublin, Ireland and raised in Seattle, Washington state) is a hacker in the Anime Tech Movement’s computer underground, even though he is part of the Corporate Elite. At age 17, he is fluent in Japanese, can hack most Smart devices, websites (including government sites), and holographic computer technology. He also writes encryption software algorithms, same as his life-long best friend, Mack. Fillion works the communications night shift at New Eden Enterprises for New Eden Biospherics & Research, the companies responsible for the experiment at New Eden Township.
At age 20, he’ll come into trust majority of a large legal Legacy, an inheritance he resents. But, as he states, it never matters what he wants. Ever. Fillion sees himself no different than a drone, something programmable. Something his father owns to manipulate and use at will. A fate he fears he’ll never escape.
His sister Lynden is 11 months younger than him. The media scrutinizes his every move. When he had attended Academy, he was bullied regularly. For this reason, Mack and Lynden are the only two people Fillion trusts.
He is known for his quick wit and sarcastic humor, analytical/philosophical thinking, rambling thoughts, deep emotions and convictions, guitar playing, and his fondness for whiskey and cigarettes.
WILLOW OAK WATSON
Willow Oak Watson, lovingly referred to as Oaklee by her father or the Daughter of Earth by the community, is nearly 16 years old when the story opens. She was born inside New Eden Township (Salton Sea, California), much the same as others from the second generation. At age 8, she apprenticed with Mistress Katie, the head village spinner and weaver, and became a master spinner and seamstress at age 14.
Her fingers prefer to stay busy, even if to twirl strands of hair when her hands are not otherwise occupied. Quite often, she perches high above her community in the branches of her beloved willow oak tree, humming a merry tune while pondering the world around her. When grieved by offense, she feels the injustice whipping inside of her with gale force winds, earning her the family nickname Hurricane Willow.
Her father, Joel Watson, was the Earth Element, one of four head Nobility positions within New Eden Township. Her mother, Claire Johnston, died from childbed fever when she was 8 years old. Willow has an older brother named Leaf (age 19) and a younger sister named Laurel (age 8).
Willow is best known for her atmospheric personality, poetic tendencies, quick wit, deep and thoughtful emotions, empathy, and her connection to nature.
LEAF WATSON
Leaf Watson, titled the Son of Earth, was the first child born within the walls of New Eden Township. He is the eldest child in the Earth Element house at age 19 and among the oldest members of the second generation. Since a small boy, he has found great pleasure in watching living things grow and flourish. Unlike most from Nobility, he was pushed through a rigorous education, which included additional studies under the tutelage of the village Barrister.
Since age 15, Leaf has acted as First Representative for his father, Joel Watson, who was a head Noble inside New Eden Township. But an unthinkable situation changes everything. An invisible crown of power is bequeathed to Leaf as his father takes his final breaths. This family secret propels Leaf into a position that not only threatens his home but also his way of life. To Leaf, each day seems to unearth new secrets and present new challenges, an overwhelming situation, especially as he is now the legal guardian for his sisters, Willow Oak (age 15) and Laurel (age 8).
Leaf is known for his kind, steadfast, and astute personality, as well as his honorable and gentlemanly demeanor. He is reserved and dutiful, sometimes to the point of self-sacrifice. Although a peace-maker by nature, he would be willing to wage war in order to protect his family.
About the Audiobook
Author: Jesikah Sundin
Narrator: Sunil Patel
Publisher: Forest Tales Publishing⎮2017
Series: The Biodome Chronicles, Book 1
She is from the past, locked inside a world within a world.
He is from the future, haunted by her death.
A sensible young nobleman and his fiery sister live in an experimental medieval village. Sealed inside this biodome since infancy, Leaf and Willow have been groomed by The Code to build a sustainable world, one devoid of Outsider interference. One that believes death will give way to life.
All is ideal until their father bequeaths a family secret with his dying breath, placing an invisible crown of power on Leaf’s head. Now everyone in their quiet town is suspect. Risking banishment, the siblings search for clues, leading them to Fillion Nichols, an Outsider with a shocking connection to their family. Their encounter launches Fillion into battle with his turbulent past as he rushes to decode the many secrets that bind their future together–a necessity if they are all to survive.
Cultures clash in an unforgettable quest for truth, unfolding a story rich in mystery, betrayal, and love.
Are you ready to discover what is real?
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Well does it make any sense to make a public announcement at the El Dorado Ranch developer meeting that for example the electric infrastructure will be completed. The show was held at the Las Caras de Mexico Pavilion at the La Ventana del Mar Golf and Beach Resort. My current thoughts on the latest available information re: completion of the El Dorado Ranch development electric infrastructure - commentary [2/21/2017]: As this story develops, it really comes down to the main character Pat Butler, the developer of El Dorado Ranch. The Home Show, with over 65 exhibitors and a dozen speakers, is indicative of the area’s growth. Legal action options re: breach of contract and/or land fraud in cross border sales, Refunds on land lot purchases in MX - a rocky road, Source: http://activerain.com/blogsview/5054311/buyer-beware-buying-land-lots-in-baja-mexico [ActiveRain real estate discussion site]. Who has the best view on this? Body language and verbal style of Ranch representatives does not give me any confidence this is a slam dunk that electric is going in for sure. But is it any guarantee the electric will be completed for sure. Summers Company is offering to help with some specific problems that include: adjustments of debt, maximizing the use of existing funds on hand, implementing and improving management policies and procedures, preventing insolvency, completing construction on electrical and water infrastructure, and implementing a design finance bill program for condominiums and for home construction. It may not have been clearly stated but the intent was for no assessment in 2018. Any claim can be made and CA Bureau of Real Estate won't help buyers as far as I know once a cross border land lot purchase is made that is a ripoff. And as a result, we would like for the successive settlements to accompany successful plans. To our amazement it indeed was close to the beach and included the promised pool, tennis court, whirlpool and palapa bar catina area, as well as a row of El Dorado shops: El Dorado mugs! Nobody wants to keep getting played for a sucker over and over. These are questions and assumptions some owners at this development are making. Were the original sales proceeds of 9000 lots sold and all the project finance loans squandered and/or converted [transferred] thus making completion impossible when the economy went into a downturn? The story of an expat development in San Felipe, Baja Mexico is like watching a suspense movie where the plot doesn't progress. As more and more people claimed their lots and began development, it became San Felipe’s largest residential and retirement community. Can you please let me know where I can get a status update on the electric infrastructure. He’s building the Light House condominiums with 200 units, restaurant and pool. The lack of trust has grown over the years about any announcement by the developer and/or his associates/agents/supporters that money will come in to finish things. This letter was just sent out to EDR owners: Subject - Golf assessment. The developer Pat Butler out of Colorado and his sales people and his associates out of California have blamed the economic downturn 8 years ago for the lack of any progress completing electric infrastructure to over 1500 land lots purchased for very high prices by buyers mostly from the USA to build houses. Butler is offering 300 Golf and Sea condos at La Ventana del Mar, 240 of which are already completed. These issues have never really been resolved either. Does the developer plan to cash out and run away or sneak way? NOTE: The El Dorado Ranch developer and his sales agents & associates (& supporters) have made the claim over the years that the owners' HOA's at EDR are completely separate and have nothing to do with the business side of EDR or the Ranch [development & sales companies]. Summers' plan calls for the implementation of what we call a grand bargain -- to complete a financial review commission to review the Ranch's finances and budgets and ensure that the Ranch adheres to the plan and continues to implement needed financial and operational reforms. Many of the lots were already taken, and these lucky landholders had posted signs such as ''Earl and Jane Smith of Yakima, Wash., population 2.''. "Great website, nice to have the information saved from a previous visit." Baja’s largest developer, Pat Butler has more projects and ideas than a convention of engineers it seems, including the Marina area and the Embarcadero in San Felipe, and the Estrella del Mar Resort in Mazatlan. I had written about San Felipe in my book Baja Legends and was surprised when a young man approached my Home Show booth and said, "I like what you wrote about my family. My friends had taken the dusty drive into the Highlands after unsuccessfully trying to persuade the Mexican police to send out a search party for us. There’s also the Baja 500, Baja 250 (which begins and finishes in town), other off-road races and much more. After talking to a few EDR owners, I see that there is a lot of skepticism about this latest announcement by the developer about there being a joint venture deal where a new investor guarantees the funds to complete everything at this development. But it's critical the basic electric infrastructure gets done if this residential & resort project moves forward or is stuck in time back when the development stalled. Maybe it was just the hot desert sun, but after a couple of hours we were in the clutches of land fever. Meanwhile the needed project infrastructure such as underground electric utility service to over 1500 dirt lots and a seaside sewage treatment plant remain unfinished which has been the status for years. Some lots featured options such as RV hookups, electricity or septic systems. One El Dorado subdivision contains the western hemisphere’s largest solar and straw bale home community. The company's filing status is listed as Active and its File Number is 201314110021. There needs to be extreme due diligence and extensive homework before making a purchase. Weird. We are having some hiccups. This plan also includes development of an existing relationship with the Mexican government's tourism department so that we can expand the Ranch properties to San Felipe and increase your overall living experience here at the Ranch. This new money infusion would complete all the unfinished obligations that stigmatize this development project called El Dorado Ranch. We've also developed a marketing plan that will exploit the fact that EDR is a 25 year old branded name in California, Arizona and Mexico. Some further observations of mine at this point in time: Another owner I talked to said she asked the developer in an email and the response was no funding is in yet to do the electric. It seems most of it was a federally protected Mexican bighorn sheep preserve. Someone else had draped scrub brush with Christmas decorations. We ranged widely in age, occupations and interests. It’s a unique sort of place, with incredible tides, lots of sun, and lots of gringos – especially in the winter when the snowbirds come to roost. Some crew was out doing some kind of survey in some of the non-electric areas. Conclusion & questions - Again this is my question and will do a follow up article to this article when the answers are found: Why would the EDR developer Pat Butler go ALL IN to peddle a BS story just to buy 30 or at the most 60 days?
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AE4 is a DIDS-sensitive Cl-/HCO3- exchanger in the basolateral membrane of the renal CCD and the SMG duct
Shigeru B H Ko, Xiang Luo, Henrik Hager, Alexandra Rojek, Joo Young Choi, Christoph Licht, Makoto Suzuki, Shmuel Muallem, Søren Nielsen, Kenichi Ishibashi
The renal cortical collecting duct (CCD) plays an important role in systemic acid-base homeostasis. The β-intercalated cells secrete most of the HCO3-, which is mediated by a luminal, DIDS-insensitive, Cl-/HCO3- exchange. The identity of the luminal exchanger is a matter of debate. Anion exchanger isoform 4 (AE4) cloned from the rabbit kidney was proposed to perform this function (Tsuganezawa H et al. J Biol Chem 276: 8180-8189, 2001). By contrast, it was proposed (Royaux IE et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98: 4221-4226, 2001) that pendrin accomplishes this function in the mouse CCD. In the present work, we cloned, localized, and characterized the function of the rat AE4. Northern blot and RT-PCR showed high levels of AE4 mRNA in the CCD. Expression in HEK-293 and LLC-PK1 cells showed that AE4 is targeted to the plasma membrane. Measurement of intracellular pH (pHi) revealed that AE4 indeed functions as a Cl-/HCO3- exchanger. However, AE4 activity was inhibited by DIDS. Immunolocalization revealed species-specific expression of AE4. In the rat and mouse CCD and the mouse SMG duct AE4 was in the basolateral membrane. By contrast, in the rabbit, AE4 was in the luminal and lateral membranes. In both, the rat and rabbit CCD AE4 was in α-intercalated cells. Importantly, localization of AE4 was not affected by the systemic acid-base status of the rats. Therefore, we conclude that expression and possibly function of AE4 is species specific. In the rat and mouse AE4 functions as a Cl-/HCO3- exchanger in the basolateral membrane of α-intercalated cells and may participate in HCO3- absorption. In the rabbit AE4 may contribute to HCO3- secretion.
C1206-C1218
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https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00512.2001
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Ko, S. B. H., Luo, X., Hager, H., Rojek, A., Choi, J. Y., Licht, C., Suzuki, M., Muallem, S., Nielsen, S., & Ishibashi, K. (2002). AE4 is a DIDS-sensitive Cl-/HCO3- exchanger in the basolateral membrane of the renal CCD and the SMG duct. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, 283(4 52-4), C1206-C1218. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00512.2001
AE4 is a DIDS-sensitive Cl-/HCO3- exchanger in the basolateral membrane of the renal CCD and the SMG duct. / Ko, Shigeru B H; Luo, Xiang; Hager, Henrik; Rojek, Alexandra; Choi, Joo Young; Licht, Christoph; Suzuki, Makoto; Muallem, Shmuel; Nielsen, Søren; Ishibashi, Kenichi.
In: American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, Vol. 283, No. 4 52-4, 10.2002, p. C1206-C1218.
Ko, SBH, Luo, X, Hager, H, Rojek, A, Choi, JY, Licht, C, Suzuki, M, Muallem, S, Nielsen, S & Ishibashi, K 2002, 'AE4 is a DIDS-sensitive Cl-/HCO3- exchanger in the basolateral membrane of the renal CCD and the SMG duct', American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, vol. 283, no. 4 52-4, pp. C1206-C1218. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00512.2001
Ko SBH, Luo X, Hager H, Rojek A, Choi JY, Licht C et al. AE4 is a DIDS-sensitive Cl-/HCO3- exchanger in the basolateral membrane of the renal CCD and the SMG duct. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. 2002 Oct;283(4 52-4):C1206-C1218. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00512.2001
Ko, Shigeru B H ; Luo, Xiang ; Hager, Henrik ; Rojek, Alexandra ; Choi, Joo Young ; Licht, Christoph ; Suzuki, Makoto ; Muallem, Shmuel ; Nielsen, Søren ; Ishibashi, Kenichi. / AE4 is a DIDS-sensitive Cl-/HCO3- exchanger in the basolateral membrane of the renal CCD and the SMG duct. In: American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. 2002 ; Vol. 283, No. 4 52-4. pp. C1206-C1218.
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The challenges ahead for Keir Starmer
Lorna Russell
Keir Starmer was elected Leader of the Labour Party on Saturday with a large majority and an overwhelming mandate for change.
His platform was clear and simple: he was the ‘unity’ candidate ready to rebuild the party and take it into power at the next election. His pitch was aimed at Labour’s ‘soft left’ and more closely resembled that of his predecessor’s than some might have imagined, with early pledges to abolish tuition fees, nationalise core industries and introduce a Prevention of Military Intervention Act.
Now that Starmer has won the election, what sort of leader will he be? And, importantly, what does it mean for the business community?
Unity and the path to power
Political parties are rarely successful and rarely win elections when they are divided. Starmer is fully aware that the disunity and infighting that plagued the party under Jeremy Corbyn had a negative contribution to its electoral success, and so he has taken on the difficult task of trying to unify different groups within the party.
His Shadow Cabinet reflects this commitment and is an early indicator that his rhetoric around ‘unity’ is serious. He offered key roles to his two leadership rivals and kept some of Corbyn’s allies in the Shadow Cabinet, including Andy McDonald and Cat Smith, in addition to Rebecca Long-Bailey.
He promoted some ‘moderate’ MPs too, such as Rachel Reeves, Jonny Reynolds and Ian Murray, and maintained some element of continuity by re-appointing Jonathan Ashworth, Luke Pollard, Nick Brown, and Baroness Smith to their roles.
However, most of his appointments were from the ‘soft left’ and were MPs that had served as junior members of Corbyn’s frontbench both quietly and effectively.
Starmer has struck a clever balance here, appointing MPs that had worked under Corbyn, but not necessarily supported him, and that the majority of Labour MPs will be happy to get behind.
The appointment of Anneliese Dodds as Shadow Chancellor is the perfect example here. Starmer could have promoted a more high-profile MP to the role, such as Reeves or Yvette Cooper, but both are more economically centrist than Starmer and could have been divisive appointments.
Instead the new leader chose the comparatively less well-known Dodds for the role, who had quietly built up a reputation for herself as a talented Shadow Financial Secretary. Indeed, John McDonnell was quick to give his successor his “full support” and praise the work she did in his team.
Other notable examples include promotions for Preet Gill, Louise Haigh and Marsha de Cordova.
Although we are only days into Starmer’s premiership, he has thus far tried to make good on his ‘unity’ pledge as well as his promise to work to eradicate anti-Semitism ‘from day one’. His first act as leader was to write an apology letter to the Jewish Board of Deputies, and later in the week he held a follow up call with Jewish leaders, both of which were welcomed by the Jewish community.
In fact, the only candidates for Leader or Deputy Leader not given a role in his Shadow Cabinet were those that didn’t sign the Board of Deputies’ pledge.
While Starmer will inevitably have to navigate coronavirus-related challenges over the next few months, we do expect that the policy pledges that he set out during his leadership campaign will form the basis of his early policy platform.
He has been true to his word thus far.
A Corbyn-lite approach
Starmer wants to focus on economic justice through increased taxes, social justice through the abolition of universal credit and climate justice through the support of a Green New Deal. He believes that “public services should be in public hands, not making profits for shareholders” and supports common ownership of rail, mail, energy and water, he wants to strengthen the trade union movement and workplace rights, and he wants to devolve power to the regions.
In foreign policy, in an indirect attack on Tony Blair, his firm commitment is “no more illegal wars”. He wants to introduce a Prevention of Military Intervention Act, put human rights at the heart of foreign policy, and review all UK arms sales.
These policies reflect many of his predecessor’s manifesto commitments and would not have looked out of place as Long-Bailey’s pledges.
He has also largely kept the structure of the Shadow Cabinet that Corbyn created, even maintaining the position of Shadow Employment Rights and Protections Secretary as a senior frontbench role.
Essentially, Starmer is adopting a Corbyn-lite approach; he is not a return to New Labour.
Therefore businesses looking to engage with the Labour leader and his team will need to be recognise this and tailor their approaches accordingly.
We expect he will be much more open to meeting with businesses than Corbyn was, who only engaged with a trusted select few.
To be successful in engaging with him, businesses will need to demonstrate their commitment to Starmer’s core values; by paying their full share of tax, by having clear net zero goals, and by treating their workforce fairly.
Only then are they likely to be able to influence Labour’s agenda.
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By Mrinali Patel Gupta, M.D.
What Is Retinopathy of Prematurity?
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a disease of the retina that can occur in premature babies. The retina is the thin, light-sensitive tissue that lines the inside surface of the eye. Cells in the retina convert incoming light into electrical impulses. These electrical impulses are carried by the optic nerve to the brain, which finally interprets them as visual images. As an analogy, if the eye is a camera, then the retina is the film of the camera.
ROP, also known as retrolental fibroplasia (RLF), was first described in the mid-1900s. At that time, it was thought that the condition was related to the use of oxygen therapy in newborn, especially premature, babies. Since then, the role of supplemental oxygen in ROP has been disproven. While significant progress has been made into understanding the processes that lead to ROP, the precise mechanisms remain largely unknown.
The normal development of blood vessels in the retina (a process referred to as vascularization) is not completed until a baby reaches full term (40 weeks) in utero. In premature babies, the retina has not fully developed. If retinal vascularization completes outside the uterus (i.e., after the premature birth), the retinal vessels may stop growing, or they may grow abnormally. ROP occurs when these vessels develop in an abnormal way.
For more information for parents of children with ROP, visit FamilyConnect’s guide to ROP.
Who Is at Risk for ROP?
Premature infants are at risk for this condition, particularly those with low birth weight and low gestational age.
As a result, a 2013 consensus policy statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus on ROP recommends the screening of all infants born at less than 31 weeks gestational age; weighing less than, or equal to, 1500 grams at birth; or in whom the neonatal course, in the opinion of the neonatologist, was complicated. The consensus policy statement also clarifies the recommendations for follow-up exams and treatment.
What Are ROP Screening Examinations?
Experts perform screening examinations for ROP by clinically examining the baby, often in the neonatal intensive care unit, but also in the clinic after the baby is discharged home. This may involve placement of a thin metal speculum to keep the eyelids open. The doctor examines the retina using a scope on his or her head (called an indirect ophthalmoscope) and a handheld lens that focuses the image from the retina.
How Does Retinopathy of Prematurity Affect the Retina?
ROP is classified by the part of the retina affected (zone), the degree of involvement (stage), and the appearance of the blood vessels (presence or absence of “plus” disease).
Zone 1 is the most posterior (or most central) retina.
Zone 2 is the intermediate (between the posterior and peripheral) retina.
Zone 3 involves the peripheral (or outer) retina.
The retinal vessels begin to develop in zone 1 and then gradually grow outward to the retinal periphery until reaching zone 3; thus, zone 1 involvement is more severe than zone 3 involvement.
Stage 1: There is a demarcation line between the retina that has achieved vascularization and the more peripheral retina (i.e., the outer edges) that has not yet been vascularized. This indicates incomplete development of the retinal blood vessels, and in most cases, these babies, with time, will complete normal development of the retinal vessels.
Stage 2: The demarcation line is elevated like a ridge.
Stage 3: There is development of abnormal vessels (called neovascularization), which are not healthy, are fragile, and are prone to leaking blood. In addition, these abnormal vessels are often associated with fibrous scar tissue that can contract over time, pulling the underlying retina away from its attachment to the eye, which ultimately results in a retinal detachment.
Stage 4: Retinal detachment occurs. If it does not involve the central retina (called the macula) which is responsible for most detail vision, it is classified as stage 4a. If the macula is involved, then the ROP is stage 4b.
Stage 5: Total retinal detachment, in which the retina in its entirety is detached.
Presence or Absence of “Plus” Disease
Finally, if the vessels of the retina are particularly engorged and tortuous (i.e., twisted), it is described as “plus” disease. Clinicians report presence or absence of plus disease, based on their examinations.
In babies who do have ROP, zone, stage, and presence or absence of plus disease are taken together to classify ROP as mild ROP, Type 1 ROP, or Type 2 ROP.
In most cases, ROP resolves spontaneously as the infant grows and his/her retina develops.
Some infants, however, develop Type 1 or worse ROP and require treatment (see below).
Type 2 ROP does not require treatment, but does require clinical monitoring. The frequency and length of monitoring depends upon the status of the retinal vascularization and ROP.
In some babies, the retinal vessels are not yet fully developed but no abnormalities are noted (i.e. there is no stage 1 or worse findings). This is classified as immature vascularization rather than ROP. ROP may develop at any time, however, until the vessels are fully developed, so these babies, as well as babies with ROP, are followed closely until the vascularization is complete.
Even premature babies without ROP, or premature babies whose ROP resolves or is treated, are at risk for other eye conditions, such as amblyopia, strabismus, refractive error, delayed maturation of the visual system, and other eye disease. As such, they should undergo eye exams as recommended by the eye doctor.
How Is ROP Treated?
When ROP requires treatment, as in Type 1 or worse ROP, the most common treatment is laser therapy to the immature retina. The goal of laser therapy is to prevent the progression of ROP and reverse the growth of abnormal blood vessels that may have developed. Previously, cryotherapy (cold therapy) was also administered, but this is rarely used at present. Laser treatment may be done with or without anesthesia and involves application of laser through the pupil to the retina. No incisions are required.
Laser has been shown to decrease the progression of ROP, but in some infants, despite appropriate laser treatment, ROP progresses and may require additional interventions or may cause unfavorable structural or visual outcomes.
Intraocular Injection
More recently, studies suggest a role for the use of intraocular (within, or into, the eye) injection of a medication (Avastin or Lucentis) for treatment of some cases of ROP, either in lieu of, or in conjunction with, laser therapy. These medications inhibit a molecule called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) which is thought to be implicated in the abnormal vascularization in ROP.
This treatment has been demonstrated to be effective, especially for zone 1 or posterior zone 2 Type 1 ROP, and further studies are ongoing to clarify the ideal timing, dosage, treatment regimen, indications, efficacy, safety, and subsequent followup regimen with this therapy.
This therapy has been shown to decrease the progression of ROP, but in some infants, despite appropriate treatment, ROP progresses and may require additional interventions or may cause unfavorable structural or visual outcomes.
Retinal detachments (stage 4 or 5 ROP) are usually treated surgically through vitrectomy or scleral buckle surgery:
In scleral buckle surgery, a buckle (a silicone sponge, rubber, or hard plastic material) is sewn to the sclera (the coating of fibrous tissue that covers the white part of the eye) to indent it and relieve traction or pulling from the vitreous on the retina. This surgery is performed entirely outside the eye. The buckle remains in place after the conclusion of the surgery.
In vitrectomy, the vitreous is removed to relieve traction or pulling from the vitreous on the retina. The vitreous is a jelly-like substance that fills the inside of the back part of the eye and is attached to the retina. In some cases, the lens of the eye may have to be removed as well. Laser may be applied during the surgery, and some cases of retinal detachment may require both vitrectomy and scleral buckle surgery.
ROP in Later Life
Individuals with ROP are considered to be at higher risk for developing certain eye problems later in life, such as retinal detachment, myopia (nearsightedness), strabismus (crossed eyes), amblyopia (lazy eye), and glaucoma. In many cases, these eye problems can be treated or controlled. Thus, it is important for patients with a history of ROP to have regular dilated eye examinations by an ophthalmologist even after the ROP has regressed.
FamilyConnect’s Guide to Retinopathy of Prematurity for Parents
National Institutes of Health—Retinopathy of Prematurity Information
American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus—Retinopathy of Prematurity
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AT&T, the second largest wireless carrier in the U.S., and Qualcomm, which dominates the market for smart-phone processors, want to give your phone a split identity. The companies are separately adopting technology that can make a smart phone secure enough to keep IT bosses happy, but open enough to allow its owner to install apps or surf the Web.
AT&T will release its version of the technology, called Toggle, for Android phones this year. Someone using a device with Toggle installed taps the home button twice to flip between personal and work modes. The personal mode behaves like a regular phone and is fully under the user’s control. The work mode looks like a separate phone with its own desktop and suite of apps and is secured by a password. Its functionality is constrained by a company’s IT policy; all data stored or created under the work mode, whether e-mail, contacts, or Web downloads, is encrypted and can be remotely wiped if a phone is lost or stolen.
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Ordination of Rev Norman Allred to the Priesthood
Bishop Tom Deenihan, Bishop of Meath, celebrated the ordination of Rev Norman Allred to the priesthood Sunday 20 September in the Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar.
Fr Norman completed the required philosophical and theological studies in the Pontifical Beda College, Rome. Fr Norman is a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, where he worked as a teacher and principal in Saint Joseph`s Secondary Catholic School. After the sad passing of Joanna Mooney, his wife of 24 years, Fr Norman discerned the Lord calling him to the priesthood in 2014. With a life-long love and interest in Ireland, along with a semester of studies undertaken in Trinity College Dublin in 1985, he pursued his vocational discernment and was accepted for studies for the Diocese of Meath in 2016 by Bishop Michael Smith, the then Bishop of Meath.
Bishop Deenihan said,
“Norman has a significant amount of experience as a husband and a teacher which will enrich the life of the parishes that he will work in. The fact that Norman is from America is also an indication of how the Diocese of Meath and other dioceses also are becoming dependant on priests from abroad to work in our local parishes.
Bishop Deenihan continued,
“the Ordination of a man to the priesthood is an opportunity to renew again that invitation and sense of support to others who may be discerning a calling to priesthood and religious life. Parish and family as well as priests and religious have a responsibility to support and encourage those who may be discerning such a vocation.” The diocese of Meath has three other men at various stages of formation for the diocese at present.
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Penobscot Mountain
Acadia Mountain Trail
Beehive Trail
South Bubble Mountain
North Bubble and Conners Nubble
Located along the rugged coast in Maine, Acadia National Park offers a variety of trails that weave their way up, down, and around mountains, through lush forests, and along a granite shoreline, all the while providing panoramic glimpses of the lively Atlantic Ocean. We visited Acadia once before last fall after the Labour Day long weekend and had such a wonderful time (with minimal crowds and pleasant weather) so we planned another visit to coincide with the other shoulder season – the spring.
Day 1: Iron Rung Routes
We left Boston at around 7:30a.m and spent the entire morning driving up to Acadia National Park. We rolled into the “quiet” side of Mount Desert shortly after lunch and got straight down to business. The weather forecast was calling for rain on Sunday so we figured we’d cross off a series of Acadia’s classic iron rung routes. These are not your average trails, but rather they involve a series of iron rungs and sometimes ladders to help scramble up, over, and around large rock faces – sometimes along exposed cliffs. Fun!
The one drawback to hiking in the spring (instead of in the fall) is that a few of these iron rung routes are typically closed between March 15 and August 15 for peregrine falcon nesting. But there are two that are open all year round (weather permitting of course). We first tackled the Beech Cliff Trail (2.9km roundtrip). The hike up the side of Beech Mountain involves climbing a lot of stone steps and scrambling up four strategically placed ladders. The top of the cliff provides sweeping views of Echo Lake, the surrounding forests and the Atlantic Ocean.
After summiting (although technically this trail doesn’t reach the peak of Beech Mountain) we followed the Canada Cliffs Trail back to the Echo Lake parking lot. This part of the path was relatively gentle and doesn’t involve climbing down any ladders.
Afterwards we drove to the not-so quiet side of Mount Desert. We checked into our campsite at Blackwoods Campground and set up our tent. We then headed back out for more hiking along the Beehive Trail (3.2km roundtrip). We hiked this iron rung route before back when we visited last fall. Given that the other iron rung routes were closed and we wanted to get that authentic classic Acadia hiking experience, we figured we’d repeat this hike up Beehive. Especially since this was one of our most memorable hikes from our last visit.
The hike starts off at the Bowl Trailhead right across the road from the Sand Beach parking lot. For the first couple metres the trail winds through a path littered with small rocks to manoeuvre around. The path than branches off at a signpost for the Beehive Trail. Then things start to get interesting. Using the iron rungs as a guide and for support, the trail weaves up and up around the mountain.
It is (strongly) recommended that once reaching the summit, to take the Bowl Trail back to the parking area. After eating a quick snack and enjoying the beautiful views overlooking Sand Beach from above, we continued along the Bowl Trail to view a little pond tucked between the surrounding mountains before descending back down to the roadside parking area.
Once we finished our hike we walked across the road down to Sand Beach. While ocean temperatures are quite frigid all-year round, this little sandy stretch nestled between the jagged granite mountains is one of the most popular attractions in Acadia. We walked up and down the beach and ventured close by the rocks to see if we could find anything interesting. Just seaweed.
By the time we finished up we were getting pretty hungry. And cold. Given that the forecast was calling for rain in the early evening, we decided to drive into Bar Harbour and go out for dinner rather than cook something at our campsite. And we’re sure glad that we did as part-way through our meal it started to rain. And it kept raining well into the night. This worked out quite well because the sound of the raindrops splashing on the tent helped mask much of the noise from the neighbouring campsite.
Day 2: Fog, Rain, Midges & Mosquitos
We woke up the morning to overcast skies with the promise of rain on the horizon. Many of the hikes in Acadia involve scrambling over rocks or up iron rungs to reach a submit. So we didn’t have to worry so much about sloshing around in the mud after such a heavy rainfall. We were more concerned that the rocks would be slippery.
We started our morning off at the “quiet side” of Mount Desert and hiked along the St. Sauveur Mountain Trail (6.4km roundtrip). The trail starts off by the Acadia Mountain trailhead across the road from the parking lot and soon splits off into three trails: Acadia Mountain Trail, Man o’ War Truck Road, and St. Sauveur Mountain Trail. These trails all intersect later onwards so you have the option of hiking a longer loop, which is what we planned to do.
The hike along St. Sauveur Mountain was a little uneventful. The trail is fairly gentle and slowly weaves its way leisurely up to the summit. There wasn’t much of a view on account of all the low hanging clouds and fog. On our way back down we took the Valley Peak Trail which intersects with the Acadia Mountain Trail.
The Acadia Mountain Trail (2.9km roundtrip) was much more lively. We approached the summit from the east. And even though this direction is more strenuous on account of all the upward rock scrambles, it sure was a lot of fun. Apparently the views from the summit marker are breathtaking and offer panoramic views overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. All we saw were clouds. Either way, we were pretty satisfied with all the rock scrambles we got to maneuver around and over.
Within the last couple of metres of our hike it started to lightly sprinkle. We wrapped up just in time. And just in time for lunch. We drove down to the Echo Lake parking lot and decided to make lunch there. When we were in the area yesterday for our hike along the Beech Cliff Trail we noticed a covered picnic area that would be perfect for cooking lunch in the rain. Turns out it was just a covered bench by the bus stop. Turns out we didn’t care and just took that space over. To be fair, the bus service in the park had yet to commence and there were only one or two other cars in the parking lot, so we figured it would be fine. We made grilled cheese sandwiches.
The rain let off momentarily soon after we finished eating. We jumped back in the car for a short ride down to the Wonderland Trail (2.4km roundtrip). This gentle path is relatively flat and leads right up to the ocean shoreline. We hopped along the pink granite stones from one tide pool to the next in search of something interesting. Anything interesting. But no dice.
On our way back to the car it started to lightly rain again. It takes about 30 minutes or so to return to the main part of Acadia, so the timing of the showers worked out quite well again. By the time we rolled up to the Bubbles Parking Lot it had stopped raining and the sun was just starting to poke out from behind the clouds. And this all sounds lovely – no more rain and a glimpse of sunlight. Plus there were noticeably fewer hikers out on the trails. But something about that rainfall woke up all the gnats and mosquitos. And they were hungry.
We started along the Bubbles Divide Trailhead up to South Bubble Mountain and veered left at the marker for South Bubble Trail (1.6km roundtrip). The hike up South Bubble Mountain is entirely all uphill, but the trail is well-groomed. Located a bit beyond the marker for the summit you’ll find South Bubble Rock, deposited precariously close to the edge of the cliff by glaciers from the last ice age.
We took a short break up by South Bubble Rock to catch our breath and enjoy the surrounding views. But the gnat-situation was out of control so we couldn’t linger long. We hiked back down the South Bubble Trail and veered right at the marker towards North Bubble and Conners Nubble (5.5km roundtrip).
The hike up North Bubble Mountain was lovely and involved some minor scrambling upwards over rocks. The only downside was that whenever we slowed down, the bugs would narrow in. It was hard to rest and soak in the views overlooking Eagle Lake from the summit. We just had to keep moving.
The bug situation reached its peak along our hike towards Conners Nubble. The mosquitos were easy to fend off by donning our long-sleeved shirts. It just meant that we were now sweating profusely. But the gnats. They swarm your face. There was no defence. We pretty much motored through this final portion of the hike as fast as we could. No breaks. Once we reached the marker summit for Conners Nubble we started making our slow descent down to the Eagle Lake Trail.
This was probably the hardest stretch – mentally. There were lots of smaller rocks and boulders to strategically manoeuvre around. Progress was slow, which meant the bugs had time to catch up. The path hugs the shoreline and eventually intersects with Jordan Pond Carry. This area is quite marshy, but a series of wooden planks were positioned overtop so we were able to breeze through this section. The trail meets back up with the Bubbles Divide Trailhead. We took this back to the parking lot and made a mad dash for the car. We were finally safe from the bugs.
We drove back into Bar Harbour for dinner rather than cook something at our campsite since we didn’t so much feel like eating a side of gnats with our food.
Day 3: Nothing But Blue Skies
We woke up to blue skies and sun. There was a lovely ocean breeze rolling through, which meant there were no signs of the bugs from yesterday. After cooking up some eggs for breakfast, we packed up our tent and checked out of the campground.
We started off strong by hiking up the fifth highest peak in Acadia, Penobscot Mountain (6.0km roundtrip). We parked at the Jordan Pond North parking lot and followed the short trail down to the water. We veered left and walked a couple hundred metres along the Jordans Pond Loop up until the turnoff for the carriage road. There isn’t much signage for guidance. We followed along the carriage road until we found the marker for the Spring Trail. The Spring Trail gently winds through a forest of cedars and pine and meets back up with another carriage road at the end. Once crossing the road, the trail up Penobscot Mountain begins.
Up is the key word. With an elevation gain of 940ft, this hike is no joke. The trail follows a series of stone steps and large boulders up the edge of the cliff face. There are a few iron rungs and wooden handrails for extra guidance. Once you scramble up the cliffs, the trail levels off and gradually ascends up and over granite stones towards the summit marker.
Just beyond the summit marker the trail splits off into two paths. There’s an option to extend your hike (and your legs some more) and summit up Sargent Mountain, the second highest peak in Acadia. Or you can start the descent back down along Deer Brook Trail. We opted for the latter The path itself wasn’t too bad, in large part because it runs parallel to a small creek. And as an added bonus, we could still feel the breeze through the trees, so it helped keep all them bugs at bay.
The trail intersects with the carriage road, which you can continue onwards to get back to the parking lot. Or you can cut across it and continue following along Deer Brook Trail to Jordans Pond for a more scenic hike. We opted for the scenic route. Shortly after crossing the carriage road, we were rewarded with great views of the Deer Brook Bridge.
The Deer Brook Trail ends near the mid-way point around the Jordans Pond Path. We followed the trail south along the western part of the shoreline. The path is relatively flat, which we appreciated after just scaling Penobscot Mountain. The trail features a mix between hiking on a gravel-y type path, a series of wooden planks, and around rocks.
After finishing our hike we hopped in the car and drove back to the “quiet side” of Mount Desert. We stopped at the Echo Lake parking lot and used that covered bench area at the bus stop (the bus service had yet to commence for the season) again to make grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. We then drove up the road to the parking lot for Acadia Mountain.
We hiked up Acadia Mountain Trail (2.9km roundtrip) yesterday, but our views overlooking the Atlantic were obscured behind a thick layer of fog. So we decided to try again today. Plus, let’s be real, the rock scrambles on this trail are pretty legit. We crossed the road to the start of the trailhead. Most hikers approach this trail clock-wise as it’s less strenuous to descend along the granite rocks rather than have to scramble up them. But scrambling up and over the rocks is part of the fun. Challenge accepted.
We started our hike along the Man o’ War Truck Road. It’s a deceptively gentle path along an old road and provided a nice opportunity for us to walk side-by-side. We veered left at the trail junction towards Acadia Mountain. This is when the trail becomes interesting. Soon after a series of super fun rock scrambles begins.
The only downside to hiking in this weather was there were little opportunities to hide in the shade. Especially once you reach the summit marker.
It’s a short walk back down to the parking lot from the summit of Acadia Mountain. We hopped in the car and started the long drive back to Boston. Hopefully one day we’ll be back.
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16 thoughts on “Acadia National Park (in the Spring)”
Great post! You covered a lot of ground in 3 days!
Thanks!! We sure did hike quite a distance over the three days. Life is short. Might as well make the most of every opportunity we get to escape from the city.
Arati says:
Wonderful tour. I appreciate being taken along.
Thanks for following along 🙂
Jennifer Gonzalez says:
What a fantastic trip! I loved all the notes about the hikes.
Thanks! It really was a great trip. We were a little skeptical about visiting in May because the weather and bug situation are always a bit of a gamble that time of year, but it worked out well. Visiting Acadia in any season is always worth it.
Someday I’ll get there!
We finally made it to Acadia in June and spent parts of three days there. We weren’t as active as you but I got plenty of pictures. Let’s hope your post inspires other people to visit.
It’s very easy to take lots of pictures as the scenery is so captivategly charming in Acadia. It really is such an incredible national park. We would return in a heartbeat.
Depending on where in Canada your home base is, a return to Acadia might not be difficult.
We’re thinking of maybe returning later in the fall to enjoy the fall foliage and to hike some of the iron-rung routes that are typically closed in the summer when the peregrine falcons are nesting. There’s something very special about being around the east coast.
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kagould17 says:
A beautiful part of the world. We spent a few days in the area when our 1st son was 2 and our 2nd son had not been born yet. They are now 33 and 30 respectively. Thanks for the memories. Allan
I’ve enjoyed the area so much that I’ve visited here every year for the past three years. I just booked another trip a few days ago to return to Acadia this Spring. I can’t wait. I applaud you on your efforts to continue to travel while with a toddler. That I’m sure added an extra twist to your trip.
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UK Government: “we must seize the opportunity to make the COVID-19 recovery a defining moment in tackling the climate crisis”
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Carbon taxes and more working from home, to disincentivize travel.
Reducing UK emissions Progress Report to Parliament
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all of our lives. Its effects are far-reaching – its implications profound. Our 2019 report to Parliament urged Government to act on climate. “Now, do it” was our call. Twelve months on that remains our emphatic message, but with a new determination: we must seize the opportunity to make the COVID-19 recovery a defining moment in tackling the climate crisis. We say to the Government: “act courageously – it’s there for the taking”.
This report provides important new advice to Government on framing a recovery from Covid-19 that both accelerates the transition to Net Zero and strengthens our resilience to the impacts of climate change, whilst driving new economic activity. It builds on the six key principles for a resilient recovery which we outlined in our letter to the Prime Minister in May. We are pleased to see these principles guiding the growing momentum for a green recovery.
The review, and the response to the pandemic provide an opportunity to strengthen incentives to reduce emissions when considering fiscal changes. Many sectors do not currently bear the full costs of emitting greenhouse gases. Carbon pricing can be used, alongside other policies, to incentivise emissions reductions across the economy. Similarly, changes in tax policy can aid the transition to net-zero emissions. Revenue could be raised by setting or raising carbon prices (or other taxes, such as VAT) for these sectors. Low global oil prices and improved energy efficiency provide an opportunity to offset changes in relative prices without raising consumer bills.
b) Decarbonising transport: getting there sooner and other transport priorities – recommendations for DfT, supported by HMT and BEIS
The COVID-19 pandemic is already changing how people travel, and provides an opportunity to encourage sustainable behaviours such as working-from-home and active travel (e.g. walking and cycling). Some cities are already redesigning streets to encourage walking and cycling instead of car use. Without Government support in these areas there is a risk of lower use of public transport and increased use of cars, in the short-term.
The Government is currently consulting on bringing forward its ‘Road to Zero’ ambition to phase-out the sale of petrol and diesel cars. Our assessment is that the date should be brought forward to 2032 at the latest, as currently planned in Scotland. In the near-term, purchase subsidies should be maintained and planning for a transition to fiscally neutral incentives should begin now, for example through Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) that is more highly differentiated by CO2. Electric vehicle charging infrastructure will also require targeted support to continue.
Separately, a comprehensive framework for decarbonising HGVs, covering financial incentives, regulation and infrastructure is needed for the 2020s and should be planned for now.
Source: https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/reducing-uk-emissions-2020-progress-report-to-parliament/
I suspect if the UK government seriously attempts to impose these policies they will end up with yellow vest riots.
There are vast areas outside London where internet performance makes working from home a struggle. In my opinion the UK government has been breaking promises to upgrade internet performance for decades, so I don’t see why the cash strapped, resource constrained future will be any different.
As for cycling and walking, this might be fine if you live in central London, where there are plenty of late night cafes to break the journey, but outside the Westminster bubble things are very different.
There are a lot of lonely long poor quality roads on the outskirts of cities and in the countryside, which in winter become dangerous slush and ice covered death traps, risky even for automobile drivers, let alone pedestrians or cyclists.
The thought of cycling or walking for miles in such conditions on a regular basis is absurd.
Another giant of science has passed
Now crystal clear: the left is weaponizing science for its benefit
The problem with WFH is that it will hollow out our cities. The services that supplied office workers will disappear and the demand for commercial property could slump resulting in loss of investment in places like London. The UK will degenerate into a 3rd world country sacrificed on the alter of climate change.
“The problem with WFH is that it will hollow out our cities. ”
Why is that a problem?
What’s so great about cities?
What we’re about to see is the productive people moving out of the cities and leaving them to the welfare class. Which is what usually happens as a society becomes too corrupt to survive.
Reply to MarkG
This is the first time I have seen Simon express even the tiniest bit of sympathy for the wealthy.
Joel Snider
Reply to MarkW
Different guy?
Harry Passfield
Too cynical.
Russ Wood
The ‘hollowing out’ of city centres has been a Science Fiction trope off-and-on for maybe 60 years. the usual thing is that the ‘inner city plebs’ are pacified with government issued ‘tranks’ and with lots ‘an lots of televised sport – the more violent, the better.
Typical socialist, other people have to suffer so that they can maintain their lifestyle.
Simon likes cities, so the rest of you blokes must be forced to work in the cities.
I seem to remember him describing himself as wealthy – ‘made a ton of money on the free-market.’
Matt_S
Moving wealth from cities to the country is not going to make Britain a third world country.
Chaamjamal
“The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all of our lives. Its effects are far-reaching – its implications profound”
None more profound than atmospheric CO2 rising unabated right through the profound lockdown, the profound air travel collapse, and the profound crash in oil prices.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/05/18/12479/
Carbon Bigfoot
Reply to Chaamjamal
I would have to say that the WuWHOFlu has seriously damaged, or increasingly damaged the minds of UK politicians and institutionalized educators and Enviro-wackos.
Reply to Carbon Bigfoot
I was eating with some french friends a couple of days ago. One noted that computer models had been found to be totally inadequate and did not correspond to reality. They could not be relied upon.
I replied: this is what I’ve been trying to explain to you for the last ten years about climate. You have now been able to see it in real time in the last 3 months.
He said, ah, I see what you mean.
COVID-19 may well end up being a defining moment in tackling the “climate crisis”.
ALLAN MACRAE
Recently posted:
wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/15/farmers-fear-the-european-green-deal/#comment-3022602
Notice how the global warming cabal have linked the climate crisis AND the Covid-19 flu? How child prodigies like Greta and academics in non-technical fields have spouted DRIVEL like “to tackle Covid-19 we also have to tackle climate change”? Remember this point!
We’ve demonstrated many times that alleged dangerous human-made global warming/climate change is not only false, it is fraudulent!
THE CATASTROPHIC ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING (CAGW) AND THE HUMANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISES ARE PROVED FALSE
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc.(Eng.), M.Eng., January 10, 2020
thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/the-catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming-cagw-and-the-humanmade-climate-change-crises-are-proved-false.pdf
There is a similar high probability that the Covid-19 full-Gulag Lockdown is also a scam. We have experienced many flu epidemics that were more dangerous than Covis-19, with NO lockdowns. Why this flu? Why now? Read my post below for details on Covid-19.
Also, why are Antifa and BLM suddenly exploding onto the scene, trashing downtowns and terrorizing people, allegedly based on the police killing of career criminal George Floyd, who violently abused women? Much better people than Floyd die every day, and nobody cares.
All these scams are related, concocted by the Marxist Dems, and have nothing to do with the climate, the mild Covid-19 flu or USA police violence. These are Democrat planned political events by paid demonstrators, intended to derail the investigations into the attempted coup-d’état of Trump via the Russia scam and the false FBI charges against Lt.-Gen. Flynn, and to steal the election so the treasonous acts of the Obama regime remain hidden.
It’s all a smokescreen to hide the criminal activity of the Dems – Try to focus on the big picture good people – It’s not all that complicated.
PLANDEMIC OR SCAMDEMIC?
IMPORTANT: Everyone should watch this video AND re-post it.
https://youtu.be/X6pzXrEBqR0
The full-Gulag lockdown was completely unnecessary and that was obvious by early-mid-March. I wrote then:
wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/21/to-save-our-economy-roll-out-antibody-testing-alongside-the-active-virus-testing/#comment-2943724
[excerpt- posted 21Mar2020]
LET’S CONSIDER AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH, SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION OF THE ABOVE CONCLUSIONS:
Isolate people over sixty-five and those with poor immune systems and return to business-as-usual for people under sixty-five.
This will allow “herd immunity” to develop much sooner and older people will thus be more protected AND THE ECONOMY WON’T CRASH.
rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/21/end-the-american-lockdown/comment-page-1/#comment-12253
This full-lockdown scenario is especially hurting service sector businesses and their minimum-wage employees – young people are telling me they are “financially under the bus”. The young are being destroyed to protect us over-65’s. A far better solution is to get them back to work and let us oldies keep our distance, and get “herd immunity” established ASAP – in months not years. Then we will all be safe again.
Why did New York have so many deaths from Covid-19? Because New York Governor Cuomo ordered state nursing homes to take in 4,500 patients with Covid-19, the Associated Press reported. These patients infected other nursing home residents, resulting in many more deaths. Cuomo issued the order to nursing homes and other assisted living centers on March 25, 2020 according to AP. He did not reverse that policy until May 11.
Now Democratic Governors are delaying the lifting of the lockdown, to further harm the economy in hopes of defeating Trump in November.
The violent riots over the unfortunate death of career criminal George Floyd were the next act in this saga. Floyd was not a great role model – he had a long criminal record, which included holding a pregnant woman hostage by pointing a shotgun at her belly, but he was all they had – so a false narrative was constructed of what a great guy he was and how all blacks were faced with such horrific police brutality.
Unfortunately, the data did not support that false narrative – in 2019, 1004 individuals were shot and killed by USA police, but only 56 of them were unarmed, and only 15 of those were black (A whole 1.5%!).
washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police-shootings-2019/
It will soon become clear that Antifa are the paid and programmed violent shock troops of the Marxist Democratic Party, and this entire charade was choreographed by the Dems to try to steal the Fall 2020 election.
Reply to ALLAN MACRAE
Once again, I appreciate your discernment, Allan.
People need to watch Millie Weaver’s undercover investigation to see for themselves how Antifa and the climate cultists are connected to the Democratic Party.
Reply to Sommer
Thank you Sommer – Millie is great!
wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/08/ross-mckitrick-this-scientist-proved-climate-change-isnt-causing-extreme-weather-so-politicians-attacked/#comment-2718916
Ever wonder why extremists attack honest scientists who oppose global warming and climate change hysteria? Ever wonder why extremists refuse to debate the science?
It is because global warming and climate change alarmism was never about the science – it was always a smokescreen for the political objectives of the extreme left.
The book “1984”, written by George Orwell in 1949, foresaw a time “when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation”(wiki).
Well here is the REAL “1984”, an interview that year with ex-KGB officer and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, who describes the slow, long-term “ideological subversion” of Western societies. Note Bezmenov’s discussion of ideological subversion. It’s all about manipulating the “Useful Idiots” – the leftists in the West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA&feature=youtu.be
One commenter on the video wrote: “this is f***ing crazy, almost everything predicted by this guy is already happening.”
AOC / KGB.
As I wrote recently:
“The Green movement is really a smokescreen for the old Marxists – and they are the great killers of our age.” – March 11, 2019
Best, Allan
Roger Surf
” why are Antifa and BLM suddenly exploding onto the scene”
I believe that this is a symptom of a Marxist take over of the US Government and its people.
1. Look at the insanity of the Democrat party. Except if they are spear heading a Marxist take over its starts to make sense.
2. Who is financing Antifa and BLM? Check the website of BLM and you will see what sort of financing they are getting!
However both these organisations and others are there only until their communistic financiers what them to be.
However they are useful for scaring the normal population into silence.
3. Look at the Judiciary! Why for instance do top judges suddenly hand down irrational but Marxist decisions? Emmet Sullivan springs to mind.
4. The deep state which is even deeper than Donald Trump realized is really running the show.
5. Democratic Congress are simply ignoring ignoring real issues and are trying to usurp the election results or maybe worse.
Can Trump rely on the US Armed forces to snuff out the current rioting and unrest?
And so it goes on. If Donald Trump either loses the election or somehow doesn’t make it to November I believe we have a successful Marxist Coup on our hands – Just imagine the power of the US forces and installations if that happens?
Reply to Roger Surf
Yes Roger – I agree, malheuresement. Welcome to North Korea.
Europe is already finished – So is Canada; maybe Alberta can be saved – But if the USA goes Marxist-Democrat in the Fall, it is the end of free societies all over the world.
wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/17/california-energy-policies-are-fueling-the-housing-crisis-and-homelessness/#comment-2896389
I agree Petit Barde – the proponents of the CAGW scam are totalitarians and many are Malthusians.
Regards, Allan
WHAT THE GREEN NEW DEAL IS REALLY ABOUT — AND IT’S NOT THE CLIMATE
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., July 19, 2019
wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/20/what-the-green-new-deal-is-really-about-and-its-not-the-climate/
Radical greens have used wildly exaggerated scary stories of runaway global warming and climate change to stampede the gullible, in order to achieve their political objectives.
The absolute lunacy of the Green New Deal and its delusional acolytes is now clear – global warming alarmism and green energy nonsense was never about the climate – it was always a false narrative, a smokescreen for the totalitarian objectives of the extreme left. Once the left controls our energy supply, they control everything in our society – it will be “One Man, One Vote, Once!” – the end of freedom.
THE LIBERALS’ COVERT GREEN PLAN FOR CANADA – POVERTY AND DICTATORSHIP
by Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., October 1, 2019
wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/01/the-liberals-covert-green-plan-for-canada-poverty-and-dictatorship/
A highly credible gentleman wrote me as follows, concerning his recent conversation with an Ottawa insider.
The insider, he said, had been working on an advisory group to the Trudeau government. The group was not formed to discuss policy for the 5 year horizon that governments are usually interested in but to develop policies for the further future, 20 to 40 years out. The implication was that the group had concluded that the present economic model was flawed and had to be replaced. “Unregulated consumerism was unsustainable and people would have to learn to make do with less. The government would have to have more control over people to enforce their austerity and the wealth of developed nations would have to be redistributed to help undeveloped nations.”
Tom Abbott
Yes, he, and we, can.
Loydo
Reply to Tom Abbott
What chance does Trump have against the lizard people? Unless of course he is one.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/how-spot-reptilians-runing-us-government/354496/
Robert Kernodle
There was never a true pandemic in 2019. Rather, a panicdemic is what has happened:
https://hubpages.com/health/All-Cause-Mortality-Implies-2019-Virus-Crisis-Was-Hysteria-Crisis
Now people are trying to use the panicdemic in their favor. Researchers can now write grants to investigate better filtration technology and face-mask design. Manufactures of those filters and masks can now boost production with anticipated higher sales and resultant profit. Lawyers can accept more clients filing lawsuits for damages from lockdowns, consumer bias, etc.
It’s a money-making time of opportunity, so let’s not waste it, scumbags.
“Road to Zero” is an appropriate title for this economy wrecking proposal.
There is no climate crisis.
The idea that this will be embraced by the community is a fantasy.
Post CoVid-19, there are no trillions for what SR15 demands, “unprecedented changes in our lifestyle, energy and transport systems,”effectively a global economic and social revolution.
Reply to Herbert
That’s just what I was thinking when I read “Road to Zero”.
They are so sure of themselves, yet they couldn’t prove that CO2 is a threat if their lives depended on it, and they couldn’t find anyone in the world that could prove it, either. They have failed the basics and are completely oblivious to the fact.
Idiocracy. Mass Delusion.
Many human beings are easily led and misled. The majority of humans may not be misled by this Human-caused climate change narrative, but the political class in the Western Nations certainly is, even the United States. Trump is the only thing standing in the way of the U.S. going the same delusional way as the rest of the Western Democracies. Trump is the only realists of the bunch.
The data manipulation of the Climategate Charlatans has had widespred negative impacts on human life. They are Crimes Against Humanity. One of these days there will be a reckoning.
“Many sectors do not currently bear the full costs of emitting greenhouse gases.”
The Parliament should declare an eternal summer. Also good for bicycles.
nicholas tesdorf
The UK government is keen to direct public attention focused on its mis-handling of the covid-19 crisis toward reclaiming public interest in the fake ‘Global Warming/Climate Change’ scare which lacks public credibility. Unfortunately for the government people’s common sense allows them to discriminate between a real crisis and a fake crisis where nothing has happened in 40 years.
Bloke no longer down the pub
Reply to nicholas tesdorf
The Committee on Climate Change is a cross party Parliamentary group, not a Government committee. Unfortunately for the UK, there are very few MPs, of any party ,willing to point out the errors in the CCC’s claims.
Adam Gallon
Much has been made about the number of days, that the UK’s gone without the need for coal to generate electricity. Not a whisper that on the 17th & 18th of June, we needed some, as gas had maxed out, whilst wind dropped to virtually nothing & a nuclear station had been taken offline, to make way for wind, as the curtailment payments for that, would be less than those for taking wind offline.
That’s when demand is markedly reduced, due to it being summer & reduced industrial & commercial demand from lockdown.
John Doran
Carbon Dioxide, CO2, an entirely beneficial trace gas is demonised & the ignorant call it “Carbon”.
This is stupidity
There are calls for zero “Carbon” emissions.
This is nonsense: animals produce 20 times the CO2 man produces; ~57% of the CO2 in our atmosphere is produced from the warm Pacific ocean. Shutting down the entirety of human industry will make hardly a dent in the CO2 in our atmosphere.
This is stupidity on steroids.
Dr. Tim Ball showed in his 2016 handbook for the layman that the motives of the monsters pushing this fraud are threefold:
A vast depopulation.
De-industrialisation.
A World Totalitarian Govt.
Book: Human Caused Global Warming The Biggest Deception In History
An easy weekend must-read.
A feudal future of Lords & just enough serfs to service them.
Dr. Tim names, among others, George Soros & the Rockefellers as chief among the multi-billionaires pushing this fraud.
JD.
To quit Private Frazer, we’re doomed
We haven’t got a ‘climate’’ Trump
Ron Long
Good posting, Eric, and I am horrified to see my genetic source spiraling into a delusional status. For instance, “carbon pricing” in England against a surge in coal-fired electricity generating plants in China? Who is the winner in that deal? The addition of bike paths has led to more bike-vehicle interactions of the negative sort, and the loser always seems to be the biker. Work from home? I’m a geologist and the saying in my business is “if you want to know the truth you must go to the field and see it”. This even applies to offshore black gold geologists as they need to visit type sections to understand what the geophysics and sequence stratigraphy are trying to tell them. Covid-19 is added to BLM riots in the USA, then blended with Climate Change into one Grand Unified Theory about how only Socialism can save us. Huh? I should pour something in my morning coffee to help me through the day. Stay sane and safe.
Reply to Ron Long
I’m pretty sure geology will be on the banned list, extractive industries bad you know. The handful of greens who are math literate avoid the question of where they will source the insane quantities of refined materials needed for solar panels and wind turbines if there are no extractive industries.
Richard (the cynical one)
But Ron, there’s no need for geologists in the glorious carbon adverse feudal utopia that is being birthed. It will be sunny days, simple homespun sackcloth, no need for bathing, who needs any medical intervention, grow your own barley utter chaotic bliss!
Krudd Gillard of the Commondebt of Australia
Don’t worry, won’t be long before everyone is calling it Santa Covid. (Do you believe in Santa?)
Here is a scene from the near future:
Picture a small house, snow flakes drift down, it’s Yule. Pasted on the front door, we see an impending eviction notice. The camera moves inside. There is no food on the table, all possessions have been sold, the house is bare. On a broken couch what could be three small children huddle under a thin blanket, there are sounds of whimpering. Husband Joe pulls on his threadbare coat against the winter chill and says, “…Honey, I’m just going to have to go out and find some work somehow. We can’t go on like this…”
His loving wife draws closer to his forlorn figure and says, “Oh Darling, you haven’t eaten for days, you are so brave. But what about COVID-19?”
He tenderly embraces her and looks into her moistening eyes as the violins swell in the background and he says,
“F* COVID-19”
And that’s how it’s going to go, folks. The sooner we get there the better because that’s when we will move on from Orwell’s flu.
Chaswarnertoo
Dear Ecomentalists, FOAD!
Serge Wright
Aside from their being no climate crisis, the UK is not even remotely contributing to rising CO2. As noted in the BP energy report flagged here yesterday, CO2 emissions have only risen in developing countries since the late 1970s. The developed world has been a non-contributor to rising CO2 for 40 years and is now only responsible 1/3 of global emissions.
All of which raises the question as to why the developing countries that make up 65% of emissions and are the only group of countries that have been increasing emissions for 40 years, are all exempt from binding cuts and penalties under the climate agreements and therefore continue onward and upwards ?. Of course all readers here know the answer to this question, but it’s never discussed in any MSM run climate change discussion. The very notion that further reducing the small emissions of the UK can make any difference to global CO2 , of which the developing countries add several times the UK’s contribution to the global emissions total each year, is a joke. The worse part of this sick joke is that the entire CC alarmist community knows exactly where the emissions growth is coming from, but deliberately obfuscates the truth for political gain, and all the while supported by indoctrinated politicians intent on helping destory the free world.
Cycling and walking to work, doesn’t it rain nearly every other day in Britain?
Soggy brits with footrot, excellent.
StephenP
Reply to DPP
Back in 1963 in my gap year I bicycled 9 miles to a job in a chemistry lab.
Apart from the wind always seeming to blow in your face and the winter weather being mostly rain or snow or both, one arrived at work needing a shower and fresh set of clothes.
The past months since lockdown have been mostly dry and sunny, with only light winds most of the time.
If the weather had been like the previous two months then I think there would not have been much incentive to walk or cycle to work.
Meanwhile if the CCC want the UK to transfer to electric vehicles, then the government needs to build up strategic stocks of lithium, cobalt, copper, neodymium etc, as stated in a letter from the Natural History Museum to the CCC, the amounts needed will command most of the world’s production for some significant time. ( Buy now before prices go through the roof!)
Patrick MJD
Boris has caved. Goodbye Boris in 2024, or sooner. Trouble is he has an 80 seat majority and can do what he pleases. I found out recently that another Tory, Heath, abrogated political power of the UK to the EU in 1971/2, so it was a done deal even before 1973 and 1975.
Phil Rae
Presumably this is John Gummer aka Lord Debben’s “Committee for Climate Change” who are making this ludicrous recommendation.
Follow the money……….there are several reported conflicts of interest between the committee members’ investments and sensible energy policy for the beleaguered UK.
Steve Richards
Reply to Phil Rae
The smell of corruption is strong in this committee.
Neil Catto
The big problem in the UK is, there is no political party, apart from UKIP (who don’t have any chance of being elected) who have any different proposals. They are all green-washed. The so called conservative government who want to adopt these draconian ideas are de facto socialists.
The facts are, the UK has had no increase or decrease outside natural variation in temperature, pressure, dew point, RH, wind speed, sunshine, rainfall or rainfall duration for 22 years. The relationship between that well known gas CO2 has a slightly negative correlation with temperature. https://www.weather-research.com/weather-and-climate
Why do these people want to destory my country, and why are the MSM promoting this nonsense?
Reply to Neil Catto
I did a lot of door knocking in the UK. The UK people don’t give up easily, that iron headed determination which built the British empire is still there. But the problem with determination is when a determined person is utterly, irredeemably wrong about something, determination can be a curse; they don’t know when to stop digging.
Field Marshall Montgomery used to classify his officers as being enthusiastic or lazy, clever or idiotic.
He said the best officers were the clever, lazy ones, and the most dangerous were the enthusiastic idiots.
Joseph Zorzin
Reply to StephenP
Unlike Patton who wanted his officers to be like mad dogs.
I am intrigued! May I ask for what party or cause?
Redge
True of older generations but the UK gimme generation are too indoctrinated to even understand there are different views
Those people and the MSM are one and the same. They have the same politics and the same destructive goals.
The MSM are not neutral arbiters, they have a leftwing political agenda. That applies to the MSM in all the Western Democracies. They are all in the Leftwing tank. They all serve as propaganda organs for the Left.
The Left would be nothing without their Propaganda Organ. It’s what they use to brainwash people into believing in the False Reality the Left promotes.
“destory” — dehistory is nearer the mark!
David Lilley
Your analysis is spot on. At the ballot box we can choose from mauve socialists (blue + red), scarlet socialists (red + red ) and orange socialists (yellow + red). And they all genuflect before the greens.
The problem is that most people in the UK get their knowledge about climate change from the media and from school.
They are unaware of the case against the CO2 hypothesis.
So they believe that there isn’t a case.
Which means that they don’t have to listen to climate den1ers.
So they remain unaware of the case.
When some prominent figure says that climate change is real and happening now, the impression is given that this didn’t used to be the case – that the climate used to be stable before man started putting CO2 into the atmosphere. No prominent figure corrects this impression and places the current changes into correct historical context . So, for the average “Joe”, it’s only necessary to demonstrate that the climate is changing for the debate to be won by the establishment. Anyone on the other side of the debate must believe that the climate isn’t changing and, as this is demonstrably wrong, they can be dismissed as climate den1ers. It’s difficult to see how to break this roadblock to understanding, especially as the alarmists have an iron grip on the education system.
Malcolm Chapman
I comment from the UK. From a UK perspective, it seems to me that the most immediate practical problem is how we get rid of this foolish and vested ‘Committee on Climate Change’. It represents a shocking breach of democratic process. There are those within the current Conservative Government who have the sense to know that ‘climate change’ is a scam, and I still hope that there may be some with the courage and wit to do something about it. Boris Johnson was once editor of one of my regular weekly reads, the ‘Spectator’, which is one of the few important publications in the UK that has taken a fairly consistently skeptical line on the climate scam. Other previous editors of the paper have been either robustly skeptical (see for example Nigel Lawson, now the most public face of the Global Warming Policy Forum, and Charles Moore), or at least agnostic; the current editor, Frazer Nelson, has written frequently on the subject. I seem to remember that even Boris, in his pre-prime-ministerial days, was a skeptic. My hope is that as the climateers over-reach themselves further and further, it will become a political and electoral relief to call out their stupidity. Surely Dominic Cummings must know that the green stuff, at least as it concerns the climate, is, as the previous prime minister David Cameron had it, ‘crap’
Vincent Causey
Sit back and munch your popcorn. Oh, and it will be hell for the poor people of the UK, but at least they can console themselves that they are paying an indulgence to make up for all that “white privilege”.
Wolf at the door
“It’s there for the taking” – their money ” it’s there for the taking”-Higher taxes,more control,thou shalt, thou shalt not, “it’s there for the taking”
Just Jenn
I want all of these people that believe the world would be better by restricting travel and shoot them back in time to say the Middle Ages. Lets see if they can survive 24 hours in any century besides the 19th or 20th century. Send them back to any time up to Victorian and see if they can survive what they are proposing.
The way forward is not by looking backward.
Walking and biking are great, not going to say they aren’t, but as a means of predominant travel in today’s world? I want to see them lug 2 gallons of milk 20 blocks in the summer and winter or try to ride their bike with enough groceries to feed kids for a week and see how far they’d get.
This is nothing more than the privileged mind running amok. Absolute rubbish! Just because they enjoy fast internet, grocery delivery (oh that would go bye bye too without cars), and other amenities of a modern world does not mean that everyone has that advantage.
We don’t even need to build a time machine—just send them to a place where all their “free” energy ideas are pushed onto people that have no electricity, no cars, and still have to haul their water every single day–and worry about it being clean.
Jeff Alberts
Reply to Just Jenn
Just send them to North Korea. That’s worse than the Dark Ages.
Reply to Jeff Alberts
Or to rural parts of South Africa, where in 26 years the ANC government has still failed to supply clean water. Mind you, they DO have cellphones – but where to charge them?
The control freak left never lets any good disaster go to waste
Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” The corollary to this is, “We need to create some more serious crisis to abuse our opponents.”
Thus, global warming lies, Russian collusion lies, Covid 19 lies, ect., ect.
Reply to Chris Jones
You think Conservative Lord Deben and engineer Baroness Brown are the “control freak left”?
Where does Ghengis Khan fit on your spectrum?
Graham3
We’re in the middle of another Stanford experiment.
“Armed police check holiday let”. (BBC regions/cornwall).
Right-Handed Shark
If you’re in the UK and you haven’t already, sign the petition at:
I would also recommend you email your MP expressing your concerns about committing economic suicide in pursuit of unicorns. I did so a couple of months ago and referenced a few articles here and at the GWPF, he replied saying he would read them “with interest”. I’ve not heard anything from him since, but at least I have let my views be known and he can’t claim that he’s not aware of differing opinions on “the science”.
Reply to Right-Handed Shark
Signed!
Carbon500
Thanks RHS – petition duly signed.
tonyb
There are millions of Brits just waiting for the chance to cycle 40 miles to work, up and down hills in the cold, wet and dark. Millions of them. Probably tens of millions just itching to make the sacrifice for a climate we have so little impact on as our co2 emissions anyway are trifling.
I think they need to be speaking to China
Reply to tonyb
The problem is in a way millions of Britons do think they want this, otherwise they wouldn’t keep voting for politicians who push for it.
The problem is, like in Australia, it does not matter who you vote for the path is set.
Reply to Patrick MJD
Exactly-All the parties merely offer clothes that are the same shade of green
They want it for everyone else. Most people believe that an exception will be made for them.
Which party could they vote for which doesn’t support this nonsense and has any chance of winning an election?
Here is the Political Science lesson for today. The Committee on Climate Change are not the UK Government. They are not even part of the Government. The Government consists of the Prime Ministers and all the ministers he appoints (via the Queen). It is otherwise known as the Executive. Parliament is the Legislature. In the UK the members of the Government must be members of the Parliament (Commons or Lords) but the Executive is not the same thing as the Parliament, let alone a Committee of Parliament. Furthermore, the CCC is not even a Committee of either House of Parliament. It is far from being the UK Government.
Reply to Alba
The Committee on Climate Change is a statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008. This is the legislation which obliges the UK to commit economic suicide by, amongst other things, wrecking the energy generation capability of the country.
The government is bound by the Climate Change Act to achieve certain stated emissions reduction targets and the Committee on Climate Change advises them how to do it and monitors progress. The Committee is very much more than a lobby group. It is difficult to see how the government could ignore their advice. Of course, the ideal solution would be to repeal the Climate Change Act. Instead, we are more likely to see the Pigs (Flying Backwards in Formation) Regulations 2020.
Seizing the opportunity in South Australia-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/big-tesla-battery-expansion-set-to-go-online-within-weeks-boosting-power-output-by-50-per-cent/ar-BB15Xfyn
The first battery cost AUD $90 million and taxpayers are chipping in $23 million to double it despite us being told what a ripper return the first lot got us?
As they say-
“We’re learning not only technically how it works, but financially how it works so in the future the people making these investments will get an understanding of whether they can make enough money to make the investment worthwhile,” [how much graft the pals need to make it completely risk free]
No worries if you’re getting handouts like that and here’s how it works-
“By combining a battery with a wind farm, when the price in the market is very low because there’s a lot of supply and not a lot of demand, rather than keeping the price very low what you could do is store some of the electricity for when the price is higher.”
You can see the fallacy of composition that comprehensive wind and batteries couldn’t all cream off the top like that but the secret is to hop in for your chop early providing FCAS. Nothing like getting paid handsomely to dig holes and fill them in again.
Translation: “Here’s something we can shamelessly exploit.”
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have internet access. Thanks to the so called “renewable” energy, you won’t be able to afford the electricity needed to run your computer. If there is any available electricity in the first place.
So do we start calling UK residents crash test dummies of the new green society?
Where Newton stood on the shoulder of giants, climate “scientists” stand on the piles of COVID dead.
This quote from H.L. Mencken has probably already been repeated many times. But in light of this post about the U.K. govt’s plans to address the climate alarmist narrative, the quote bears repeating yet again:
“..The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary…”
Adamsson
With Brainless Boris in charge nothing is too stupid or too ridiculous
Sorry to say that mental virus has spread across the pond. And China wins again while watching the fallout from a great distance.
So, to sum up, they want to take the would-be recovery, beat, thrash, and torture it, then tie rocks to it and sink it in the ocean.
Good plan.
“we must seize the opportunity to make the COVID-19 recovery a defining moment in tackling the climate crisis”
Yes, and how is a country which does 1% of global emissions going to do that?
Reply to michel
By sacrificing their children to Moloch, obviously.
“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind” ― Robert Oxton Bolton
pigs_in_space
The sort of thing I am reading here, is why I left the UK in the firstplace.
Watching my suspicions being acted out, makes me have some sort of wry satisfaction I was right all along, but unable or unwilling to watch the train crash without whincing.
I can see it starting to happen in my own back yard as well.
I honestly thought with USSR memories too fresh in minds, they might be cured of this illness, but sadly apart from Poland and one or two others…..well they even forced us to adopt the EURO and close Ignalina…
Stargrazzer
WFH was a novelty, but many I speak to are now sick of it, for some it has affected their mental & physical health for the worse, team bonding varies but again novelty has now disappeared; if companies start using it to save office running costs it may well unknowingly (at first) affect their long-term business performance.
Also it depends on motivation, those who live further away from place of work obviously & initially see a benefit to save a few hours travel, some admit they sleep more, but the end up groggy & performance has dwindled. Personally prefer a half-way house, go into office occasionally at least once a week, or for important team reviews/meetings, or as I originally suggested a few years ago to local UK MP before this Covid-19 scenario occurred divide week so surnames beginning A-E Mondays, F to J Tuesdays, K to O Wednesdays, P to T Thursdays, U to Z Fridays WFH (or now flip to go in office)?
Certainly for my job most can be done at Home for now, but contacting colleagues is harder & some don’t reply to email chasers, when we could have walked up to their desk & asked a question, pointed to the screen, I’ve had many I.T./laptop issues and many I talk to are now working longer hours & not at all saving time; HR I suspect are totally unaware of this, and could be a proverbial ticking time-bomb.
The company I work for did a survey, but that was to determine who can WFH (not who wants to).
All this is NOT to save CO2 emissions (the good output of FF burning) but to reduce real pollution and road congestion.
As with all generalisations they don’t work for all situations, just an idea for discussion or pondering….
The Conversation: Restoring UK Marshes and Peat Bogs will Slow Climate Change
Did Climate Change Cause World Heritage Listed Fraser Island to Burn?
Coal Government idiocy nuclear power
German Renewable Energy Insanity: Shutting Down a 5 Year Old Coal Plant, No Plan to Fill the Energy Gap
Coronavirus Government idiocy
State Security, Your Papers Please? UK to introduce “Freedom Passes” for Coronavirus
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Dirty South feat. Anima – I Swear
By Staff Team
Serbian/Australian producer Dirty South has finally delivered his long-awaited single ‘I Swear‘. The track marks Dirty South’s debut on Above & Beyond‘s imprint, Anjunabeats and fan response has been overwhelming so far. The progressive house maestro has managed to cook up an addictive and uplifting score; combining soulful vocals courtesy of ANIMA and showcasing the finer side of dance music. Dirty South has truly outdone himself with this latest offering.
‘I Swear’ first surfaced when the main man played it during one of his live studio sessions. Multiple snippets were also posted on social media as well and it managed to generate a lot of buzz amongst the EDM community. The tune was given an official premiere on the fourth episode of Dirty South’s radio show, Drift Radio. It was immediately evident that the track would be one of the best of 2017.
‘I Swear’ is definitely one for the dance music connoisseurs as he experiments with the deeper side of electronic music. Blissful vocals coupled with lush synths, this track is designed to touch your soul. Perfect for the after hours and main rooms, you can stream/download ‘I Swear’ on your desired platform here or check it out below.
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Airline argues in open letter Canada should ease blanket travel restrictions and quarantines in favour of science-based measures
An Air Canada Boeing 777 departs Vancouver International Airport in August 2019 (photo: Brett Ballah).
Air Canada’s Chief Medical Officer is asking the federal government to scale back international travel restrictions that have seen foreign citizens generally banned from entering the country and 14-day quarantines for those who enter the country.
“The situation is becoming increasingly urgent,” wrote Dr. Jim Chung in a letter addressed to federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Health Minister Patty Hajdu released Tuesday. “Canada has made virtually no change to its quarantine restrictions since mid-March, despite continuing improvements containing the spread of the virus both in our country and in many others. This is severely impacting Air Canada, our customers and employees as well as an overall recovery.”
The federal government has barred all non-essential travel to Canada by foreign citizens, though exceptions are allowed such as for family immediate members and essential travel. Anyone arriving in the country is required to quarantine for 14 days on arrival, in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease.
The national governments of Canada and the United States agreed this week to extend a border closure to non-essential traffic until at least August 21, though it is possible to fly into the U.S. from Canada in most cases. Dr. Chung emphasized he was not asking for those restrictions to be lifted.
“To be clear, given the current challenges in the United States in controlling the virus, we are not proposing relaxing the U.S. border restrictions at this time,” he wrote.
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Dr. Chung urged the federal government to adopt measures used in other countries, such as allowing travel from countries deemed safe, similar to the European Union’s decision to allow foreigners, including Canadians, to enter the bloc.
In the Air Canada proposal, citizens from countries with an infection rate similar to, or better than, Canada’s would be allowed to enter without having to self-isolate. That list would be updated every two weeks. Citizens from countries that don’t qualify for an exemption would have to have a COVID test within 72 hours of departure, according to Air Canada’s plan.
Countries such as Germany, Greenland, and Turkey would qualify for an exemption under the airline’s proposal. Air Canada said other countries in the G20, representing many of the world’s largest economies, have already adopted similar measures.
In the past week, the airline has partnered with Spartan Bioscience to deploy portable COVID-19 testing kits (which still need to be approved by Health Canada) and with the Cleveland Clinic for medical guidance.
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The pandemic has had a devastating impact on airlines, as both of Canada’s major airlines have scaled back their summer schedules by 75% compared to last year. In response, they have stepped up cleaning measures in a bid to reassure nervous passengers. The situation has led to thousands of layoffs in the aviation sector.
Air Canada is part of a coalition of more than 120 business leaders asking Ottawa and the provinces to relax internal and international travel restrictions.
Premiers in Atlantic Canada started along the reopening path in early July, creating a so-called “bubble” where residents could visit any province within the region, though restrictions remain in place for those coming from west of the Quebec-New Brunswick boundary. Manitoba and Canada’s three territories all maintain some level of internal travel restrictions.
There is no easy answer. On Tuesday, British Columbia’s medical health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, said that officials need better information and cooperation from airlines in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
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featuring free excerpts from W.H. Collins's dark, violent, and sexually explicit stories The Initiation and Queen Captured
The Initiation: Chapter 13 – The Rough Cut
Posted by W.H. Collins on March 9, 2014
Only Matt was in the car that picked them up, and Jessica couldn’t help but wonder what had happened to Dylan.
She was still shaky from the humiliating incidents in the store. She couldn’t believe she’d been forced to draw so much unwanted attention upon herself. She reached up and felt the dog collar that was still fastened uncomfortably around her neck.
Matt had seemingly parked as far away as possible, and Jessica had been forced to walk through the Wal-Mart parking lot for dozens of agonizing feet.
Led by Nick, she and Shannon had stepped out into the crosswalk. Several cars had pulled to a stop in order to let the pedestrians pass. Jessica had crossed her arms in front of her, trying not to think about the revealing outfit she was parading.
“Slow down, Jessica,” Nick had warned. “Don’t get in front of me.”
Nick had slowed his own pace down to an agonizing crawl, forcing Jessica to shuffle slowly across the parking lot while several cars slowed down to get a look at her. One car had given her an appreciative honk.
Only a few miles up the road from the Wal-Mart, the car pulled into a seedy-looking strip mall. Jessica scanned the signs, wondering where they could possibly be going and why. Then, her eyes lit on a sign that made her heart skip a beat:
Red Hott Adult Book and Video.
A porno shop. Was that where they were going? She had never been inside such a place, but Jessica imagined a dark, smelly cave full of perverts and child molesters. She shivered. They were going to make her go into one of these seedy little places, make her look at all the smut, and… Jessica’s stomach knotted in on itself… and who knew what else.
The car engine switched off.
“Ok, Jessica,” said Nick. “One last errand to run.”
He leaned over to her across the back seat and slipped a finger underneath the collar, putting uncomfortable pressure against her windpipe.
“You be good in here, and we’ll be out of here before you know it. You know what disobedience will get you.”
He opened the door. Jessica took a deep breath and followed him out of the car.
The interior of Red Hott was neither as dark nor as dirty as she’d imagined. The floors were vacuumed. The shelves were neat. She could almost imagine she was inside a Blockbuster Video store until she looked at the far wall and saw a poster advertising “Anal Cum Sluts III.”
Below the title, the poster featured a naked woman with enormous breasts. Her skin was damp. Her legs were spread. Though she was peering straight at the camera, a seductive expression plastered haphazardly across her face, her left hand was absent-mindedly stroking an absurdly large penis that poked in from off-frame. Jessica looked away with shame.
The store appeared empty until a discreet curtain near Anal Cum Sluts III parted and an employee emerged. He was big man, thick muscular arms criss-crossed with tatooing. He was young, probably under 30, with black hair and dark brownish skin. His long hair was pulled back into a ponytail, counterbalanced by a small tuft of facial hair on his chin.
“Sorry. We’re closing up, guys,” he told Nick, “If you want, we–”
The big guy stopped short when he caught sight of Jessica.
“Oh. It’s you. Your friends are back in the studio. Just head through that curtain there.”
Nick walked up to shake his hand.
“Mr. Erikson. I’m Nick. We talked on the phone.”
“Hey, what’s up, my man. Call me Bear.”
Bear broke out into a big grin as he looked from Nick to Shannon to Jessica to Jessica’s breasts.
“Lemme just lock this door here, and we’ll head back,” Bear offered. “They’ve been showing me some raw footage, but Dylan says you’ve got a rough cut ready, too.”
With growing trepidation, Jessica followed Nick, Shannon and Bear back to the “studio.”
The back room of Red Hott was much larger than expected. The hardwood floor was covered with an expansive oriental rug. Lighting and camera equipment were stacked in one corner, and next to this pile was a big wood table cluttered with video tapes, paperwork, and, to Jessica’s alarm, an array of sex toys: dildos, vibrators, handcuffs, and many other objects that she could not hope to recognize.
At the other end of the studio was a leather couch, where Matt and a skinny older man with a graying moustache and thick eyeglasses were sitting. Matt was standing by a large screen television, attempting to hook something up.
“You guys know Tony,” said Bear, opening up a closet and producing several folding chairs.
“Ah. Niccolai. So good to see you again,” greeted Tony, in a strange, possibly affected, Slavic accent. “And pleased to meet you in person, young lady. Such a gorgeous figure.”
Jessica was offered a spot on the couch, between Tony and Nick. She didn’t dare refuse. The rest of the room’s males arranged themselves, either standing or sitting on folding chairs, so that they could see the television. Nick asked Matt if everything was ready, and Matt nodded.
“Now, this is only a rough cut,” Matt muttered as he clicked away at a laptop that was apparently connected to the big plasma screen.
Jessica dug her nails into her thigh, trying not to tremble at what she feared was coming. She felt as if her chest were about to cave in.
The film started up. As feared, Jessica’s face popped up on the screen. It was at the truck stop, and she was posing against the stucco wall. The smile that Nick had ordered her to maintain seemed surprisingly realistic. As the camera zoomed out, it was revealed that the smiling girl had her shirt off and was standing around next to some old propane tanks, flashing her bra-clad breasts around for the benefit of several onlookers.
Jessica watched with horror as her video-self bent over and puckered her lips coquettishly. The video cut to another scene moments later: Jessica was reaching behind her to unhook her bra. The camera panned over to catch the wide-eyed reaction of the truck stop cashier and then back to Jessica as her beautiful nude tits popped into view.
“Best jugs I’ve seen in a while. First class.” commented Bear.
“Dee nipples have good form. Dark rose coloring. Perfect,” corroborated Tony.
On the screen, two men were now weighing and fondling Jessica’s first class jugs and tugging on her perfect rose-colored nipples. A close-up revealed her nipples to be erect and aroused. In a wider shot, she was horrified to see that she had managed to maintain that same fake smile even while her breasts were mauled by these two strangers. The way it was cut together, it looked like she might be enjoying all the attention!
The scene changed once again, this time to Jessica bent over of Nick’s car, receiving a paddling. The video cut between her shocked face and her jean-clad bottom as she let Nick wallop her ass by the side of a busy highway.
Next, they were back at the truck stop, and Jessica was following Nick over to the picnic bench. When they cut to a shot of her facing Nick and unbuttoning her pants, she had to close her eyes. “Ready, Jessica?” she heard a voice on the video say. “Yes,” came her reply, then the furious flesh-slapping sound of Nick’s hand hitting her ass over and over.
“Open your eyes, Jessica,” Nick said, next to her, “or you’re going to be reenacting this scene sooner than you think.”
Jessica obediently opened her eyes, although her vision was now blurred with tears. On screen, she saw herself bent over Nick’s lap, and she watched as Nick grabbed her panties and yanked them down, revealing her rosy ass cheeks. She saw him continue the spanking on her naked bottom, the supple meat of her ass cheeks jiggling after each fresh blow.
Jessica grimaced as she watched herself waddle away from the bench, her panties around her knees to stand submissively facing the wall.
“M-may I pull up my puh . . . my pants, sir?” she heard herself say.
Suddenly, they were in the VFW. Jessica was on stage swaying to the music. In the dim light of the VFW basement, she seemed like she was a perfectly willing, if untalented, dancer. If there was any reluctance when Jessica took off her top and began fondling her breasts, it was not apparent from the video. Jessica cringed to see herself kneel down in front of a fat, middle-aged man and begin licking the beer bottle he held in front of his crotch.
Then, Jessica was in her panties, crawling up on top of the pool table on all fours where she was surrounded by almost a dozen men. The frame closed in on Jessica’s ass as Nick grabbed her panties and pulled them down to her knees.
“Great shots. Great shots,” raved Bear as, on screen, Jessica’s naked bottom was pummeled with the wooden paddle. Footage of her ass was interspersed with shots of her face, reacting to the spanking. In horrified silence, she watched herself receive ten hard slaps to her nude backside and then continue to kneel there obediently as one of the men slathered her ass with a gooey gel.
By the time the footage had gotten to her allowing three men to cum on her face, Jessica was overcome by despair. The way the video was edited together, it was impossible to tell that she wasn’t a willing participant in all this.
The scene shifted to the hotel room. Jessica was completely naked, laying across the skinny clerk’s lap, receiving another rough spanking. Before long, the spanking dissolved into footage of Jessica facing the camera, grinding her naked butt into the old hotel manager’s crotch while the old man reached around and fondled her breasts.
“Mmmmm,” said Tony, and Jessica could feel him looking at her.
Now the pool: Jessica looking coquettishly at the camera, her tight black dress making her look both seductive and trampy. Jessica on all fours, her panties around her knees, sticking her exposed bottom into the air. Jessica lifting up her dress and spreading apart her shaved pussy.
Finally, the film cut to footage of Jessica sitting on the lounge chair, rubbing herself furiously. She began to arch her back, and little moans escaped her. It looked genuine. It looked as if Jessica, so turned on by everything that had happened to her, by the spankings and the poses and the lap dance, could no longer resist touching herself.
The film came to an abrupt end. It was worse, much worse, than Jessica could possibly have imagined. She knew that she must do whatever it took to ensure that no one ever saw it.
“That was some hot shit,” said Bear. “I think you could get top dollar for that.”
“Top dollar,” Tony echoed.
Jessica became instantly alarmed. Was Nick going to sell the videos of her? After he’d promised not to show them to anyone?
“If your interested,” Bear continued, scratching his goatee with one big paw, “I’ve got some connections. Help you with DVD distribution.”
Jessica turned to Nick, her eyes wild with fear. She knew she had to do something. Step in.
“N-no,” she whispered to Nick, although everyone in the room could hear her, “you promised. You can’t…”
“I think maybe you misunderstood me, Bear,” said Nick, “we’re not interested in selling the movie.”
“You’re not—” Bear was momentarily stunned. “Well, shit, that’s a goddam shame. This here’s a work of art. Be a shame to let is languish. Look, if you don’t want to go the video market route, let’s set up a website with a pay wall . . .”
“We’re not interested in selling the movie,” Nick interrupted him. “Not yet. Like I told Tony, we were just interested in your valuation. If the situation changes . . .” Nick gave Jessica a meaningful look, “You’ll be the first person we call. But for the moment, here’s a thought: We can’t sell you the movie, but maybe you might be interested in being a part of it? . . . Stand up, Jess.”
Oh god, thought Jessica. Nick had repeatedly promised not to let things get “out of hand,” but here in this small room, with five men and one psychotic woman, she felt very, very vulnerable.
Obediently, she rose from the couch. At first it felt as if her legs had turned to jelly, and she wobbled uncertainly as she tried to find a calm pose. She adjusted her chafing dog collar, trying not to think about what might be coming next.
“Shit, man. I don’t know…” said Bear, exchanging a look with Tony.
Nick seemed oblivious of Bear’s hesitation. He walked behind Jessica and put his hands on her shoulders.
“These two people have been very helpful in letting us use their set-up here to screen your film. Aren’t you glad to have had the chance to see it?”
Jessica’s lip trembled. She was mortified to have seen it.
“Don’t worry, that movie’s going to be our secret. But before we move on, I want you to do something, and it might be a little hard for you.”
Dylan snickered at this, but Nick flashed him a look.
“Remember how we taught you to give a blow job back in Millard?”
Jessica looked at him with horror, not knowing what to say.
“You know, with the beer bottle? That wasn’t so hard, right? You’re just going to do the same thing. Only instead of a bottle, I want you to suck on our new friend’s penis.
Jessica’s mind reeled. She looked over to see Bear watching this odd exchange with curiosity. He was a huge man, perhaps a full foot taller than Jessica and several times her weight.
“Obedience, Jess. This is important test. You’re going to walk over to our good friend Bear here, and you’re going to drop down to your knees. Then, you’re going to ask if you can put his cock in your mouth.”
Jessica didn’t protest. She didn’t argue. She just did nothing.
She couldn’t. Her body wouldn’t move, wouldn’t voluntarily place itself in that degrading position. So she just stood, as if waiting for something to save her.
Several agonizing moments of silence passed.
Nick sighed.
“Close your eyes, Jessica.”
“Just close your eyes, Jessica.”
Nick’s voice did not sound angry, but Jessica knew she had made a terrible error. Yet, she couldn’t imagine anything more terrifying that having to put this gargantuan stranger’s penis in her mouth and do… do god knows what with it.
When she’d shut her eyes tight, she heard Nick move away from her and begin whispering with Bear, whose murmurs of assent were the only bits of dialogue she could make out.
“Put your arms behind your back. And open your mouth wide,” Nick ordered.
Jessica began shaking, but she did her best to comply. She heard bodies moving all around her, and it was difficult to keep her eyes shut.
“Wider, Jessica.”
Jessica tried to force her jaw to open wider. She felt Nick reach up and touch her face. He gently pushed her mouth open even further and placed some sort of rubber ball between her teeth. Jessica was confused.
All of a sudden, someone grabbed her wrists from behind and snapped on a set of handcuffs. Jessica opened her eyes in surprise and began to struggle, but two more sets of hands held her steady.
At the same moment that the handcuffs locked into place, Nick forced the ball deeper into her mouth while someone else strapped it around her head. Jessica looked around wildly. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Shannon back away and disappear behind the curtain. Matt had a camera in his hand and was dodging around trying to get a longer shot.
Jessica tried to scream, a high-pitched “Mmmmmmphhhh!” muffled by the ball gag.
“Is this what you want, Jessica?” Nick said to her, his voice suddenly menacing. “Because this is what you’re going to get when you don’t cooperate!”
Jessica had become a scared animal, no longer thinking about the tapes or the pictures or the sorority, simply struggling out of pure instinct. On either side of her, Dylan and Nick held her shoulders firm.
“Over to the table,” Nick ordered.
They dragged her over to table. Bear cleared some of the papers and equipment to make room for her. Roughly, Dylan grabbed her handcuffed wrists and forced her torso down onto the varnished wood surface.
The wind momentarily knocked out of her from being slammed down against the table, Jessica stopped struggling. Her position, her arms wrenched uncomfortably behind her, her breasts crushed against the table by Dylan’s downward pressure on her back, her jaws forced apart by the rubber ball, was painful.
“So you won’t give our friend a blowjob…”
Nick strode to the side of the table, so that Jessica could see him. In his hands, he was carrying what appeared to be a wide strip of leather with a wooden handle.
“Well, we’ll see how long it takes for you to change your mind. Cameras rolling?”
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The Initiation: Chapter 12 – The Wal-Mart
The Initiation: Chapter 14 – The Rougher Cut
Novels (chapters in chronological order)
Queen Captured
The Fall of the Black Queen (Queen Captured)
The Initiation (full novel)
The Initiation 1: Jessica Disgraced
The Initiation 2: Jessica Defiled
Queen Captured – Act III: Knight (scene iii)
Queen Captured – Act III: Knight (scene ii)
Queen Captured – Re-Titled, Available from Amazon
Queen Captured – Act III: Knight (scene i)
Queen Captured – Act II: Bishop (scene iv)
Queen Captured – Act II: Bishop (scene iii)
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Queen Captured – Act II: Bishop (scene i)
Queen Captured – Act I: Pawn
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A father becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s.
Director: Robert De Niro
Actor: Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Taral Hicks, Kathrine Narducci, Clem Caserta, Alfred Sauchelli Jr., Frank Pietrangolare, Joe Pesci
Clover HD
Brothers Jackie and Mickey along with a teen witness Clover find themselves on the run from the city’s most notorious crime boss.
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Director: Jon Abrahams
Actor: Mark Webber, Nicole Elizabeth Berger, Jon Abrahams, Erika Christensen, Julia Jones, Jake Weber, Jessica Szohr, Ron Perlman, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Godere
Final Recourse
Final Recourse HD
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that..
Director: Barbara Stepansky
Actor: Teri Polo, Chazz Palminteri, Tia Carrere, Lucas Elliot Eberl, Matt Socia, Joel David Taylor
Legend HD
Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s.
Country: UK, USA, France
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Director: Brian Helgeland
Actor: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Christopher Eccleston, David Thewlis, Taron Egerton, Chazz Palminteri, Colin Morgan, Paul Bettany, Tara Fitzgerald, Aneurin Barnard
Running Scared BluRay
After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stol..
Director: Wayne Kramer
Actor: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Chazz Palminteri, Karel Roden, Johnny Messner, Ivana Miličević, Alex Neuberger, Michael Cudlitz, Bruce Altman
The Usual Suspects HD
A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lin..
Actor: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Spacey, Suzy Amis, Giancarlo Esposito, Benicio del Toro, Dan Hedaya
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Squadron History
The Squadron known as 1206 Mercian squadron, as it is today, was formed on 14th January 1963 by ex RAF Pilot Terry Jones, known to his friends, and pretty much everyone else in the unit, as 'Jonah'. He was a teacher at Kingshill Secondary School that had such strong links with the RAF that the school was opened by Douglas Bader.
From there it moved to Wittington Barracks and weekly parade nights were held in Paget Block until 1967 when the unit moved to the TA Centre in Lichfield on Frog Lane.
Cherry Orchard became the current home of 1206 during the 1970's and has been here ever since.
From conversations with people who were around at the time we think the squadron pre-dates 1963 as there were 2 squadrons at King Edwards VI grammar school during the 1950's: 1206 and a CCF (combined cadet force) Squadron. However details are sketchy but people think it certainly existed in 1951.
Unless you know different.... Please get in touch if you know anything about the squadron. We are keen to put together a complete history with names of any of the officers or the cadets. If you have any photographs we would love to copy them if you are are able to give us permission.
MORE HISTORY recently received from Paul Mason MBE, BSc
I used to be a member of the Squadron in the late 70’s before I joined the RAF in May 80.
The CO used to be Flt Lt Terry Jones who got promoted to Sqn Ldr and went on to a wing staff job. He was then succeeded by Flt Lt Adams. The CWO was WO Dave Hickie who was succeeded by Mark Brayford. We won the drill competition at Cosford at the same time
One of the reasons was that I saw a photo of WO Dennis Middleton who was also the sqn WO during my time. I am trying to get hold of a copy and will forward it onto you for your archive.
from ex cadet Raymond Ball confirms the first Squadron meeting in 1963....
"I was searching at home amongst some aircraft Photo Albums, I came across a page from the Lichfield Mercury, which my Mother sent to me 25 years ago about the Squadron's 25th Anniversary. I was a Squadron member from early 1964. I have identified myself on the photo."
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Cityscapes / Historical locations
Various Sports
Various forms of Art we have seen in our travels.
National Katyn Memorial in Baltimore Md.
Artist - Andrew Pitynski
Ballerina in White Dress
Ballerina at The Palace Of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Ca.
Ballerina in a Green Dress
Ballerina in a green dress at The Palace Of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Ca
Working Point
The Working Point sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
Norwegian Lady Statue at Virginia Beach, Virginia
On March 28th, 1891 the Norwegian vessel Dictator, needing vital repairs and caught in a storm, ran aground on a sandbar 300 yards from the shore. Present day 37th street in Virginia Beach. The Norwegian Lady stands as a guardian to those memories of the lost and rescued by an early form of the USCG.
Fish out of water in Virginia Beach, Virginia
King Neptune in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Napa Art Walk # 4 after the earthquake.
At the Goodman Library in Napa, Ca. after the 6.0 earthquake 8-24-2014
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SA unlikely to move on Vic, NSW borders
South Australia's transition committee is set to meet again but is unlikely to change coronavirus border restrictions with NSW or Victoria.
The committee will meet on Tuesday to consider the latest in the fight against growing COVID-19 clusters in both Sydney and Melbourne.
At present, SA has a hard border closure in place with NSW with no one from that state allowed to enter unless they are a returning resident, relocating permanently or an essential traveller.
Returning residents or people relocating will still need to quarantine for 14 days and can only make that trip once.
The border with Victoria remains open, though people who have been to any virus hotspots in Melbourne are being asked to get tested.
Premier Steven Marshall says he's not anticipating any immediate changes with the arrangements for Victoria.
He says he has confidence officials there will be able to bring the outbreak under control.
But he says SA will look for 14 days with no community transmission before lifting coronavirus restrictions with NSW.
NSW recorded no new local infections on Monday over the designated 24-hour period for the first time in almost three weeks.
However, two new cases linked to a western Sydney bottle shop have since been registered and will be added to Tuesday's figures.
Victoria reported three new locally acquired cases on Monday while SA said four people who recently returned from overseas had tested positive for the virus.
All four are in hotel quarantine.
Also on Tuesday, the latest round of SA travel vouchers will become available, offering $100 towards accommodation in the centre of Adelaide and $50 for accommodation in the city's suburbs or in regional centres.
Successful applicants having until the end of March to travel.
The first round of vouchers injected $10 million into the local economy and the second round is expected to be popular.
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Rano Raraku (External Slope 07 of 13) : Moai in progress !
Rapa Nui - Easter Island
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Gregory Panayotou
This is an unfinished Moai...Enjoy the work in progress...
Rano Raraku is a volcanic crater formed of consolidated volcanic ash, or tuff, and located on the lower slopes of Terevaka in the Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island. It was a quarry for about 500 years until the early eighteenth century, and supplied the stone from which about 95% of the island's known monolithic sculpture (Moai) were carved. Rano Raraku is a visual record of Moai design vocabulary and technological innovation, where 397 Moai remain. Rano Raraku is in the world heritage site of Rapa Nui National Park and gives its name to one of the seven sections of the park.
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Depart vehicules anciens Quimper
Victorina
Garden near Manolis Kambanakis's house in the town of Sitia (Crete, Greece)
Olaf Nitz
Limburg an der Lahn Kirmes
Lothar Roessling
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele Milano
Seychelles Islette Mahe
More About Rapa Nui - Easter Island
The World : Pacific Ocean Islands : Polynesia : Rapa Nui - Easter Island
Rapa Nui is the most remote inhabited island on earth. You may recognize this place by its common title "Easter Island". The island pokes out of the ocean with one hundred fifty square miles of area, but this is only the tip of a giant extinct volcano rising ten thousand feet from the ocean floor.Easter Island got its Christian name on Easter Sunday in 1722, the day that Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed there. He found the natives in a primitive society engaged in constant war with each other, resorting to cannibalism at times of no other food being available. He was followed in 1770 by a Spanish captain who claimed the island for Spain, in 1774 by Captain Cook of England and in 1786 by a French admiral. The general lack of water, wood and food left them equally uninterested in using Easter Island as a place to resupply their ships.The mysteries of Rapa Nui are these -- how did people get here in the first place, how did they MAKE these gigantic statues, and then how a civilization could have degraded from such a cultural and artistic peak, backwards to a state of poverty and starvation?The standard tale of the people on Easter Island is that overpopulation and poor resource management led them to their own extinction. It's commonly used as a warning to the entire globe, telling all humans not to make the same mistakes on a planetary scale.Another version of the story might include the European introduction of smallpox, venereal disease, slavery and oppressive government as a warning to the entire globe, telling all humans not to make the same mistakes on a planetary scale.In any case, take another look at these images and be happy you have such a nice home planet to live on.Text by Steve Smith.
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AcreTrader.com Launches, Allows Investors to Buy Shares of American Farmland
AcreTrader is democratizing access to the attractive agricultural real estate market by allowing investors to acquire shares of farmland online in just minutes.
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. (Mar. 5, 2019) — AcreTrader, a farmland investing company, officially launches its platform for investors today at AcreTrader.com, allowing individual investors to participate in farmland ownership through a first-of-its-kind online portal.
“Farmland is a highly attractive alternative asset class with historically low volatility and impressive, debt-free returns,” said CEO Carter Malloy. “Unfortunately, aside from buying an entire farm and managing it, the few investment options available aren’t realistic for the majority of investors. Prior to AcreTrader, there hasn’t been an easy way to directly participate in farmland investing.”
AcreTrader has developed enterprise-class technology to eliminate the barriers to entry traditionally associated with owning agricultural real estate. Using proprietary software and processes, AcreTrader identifies farmland and subjects each parcel to a rigorous review before deciding whether it should become an offering on the website. By employing aspects of the crowdfunding model approved under the JOBS Act of 2012, AcreTrader allows investors to buy shares in individual farms for as little as $1,000.
AcreTrader takes care of the ongoing management and administration for each farm acquired. Each share is expected to receive annual cash payments from the farmers renting the land. In addition to this passive income, the underlying value of each share is expected to grow over time as the price of land increases.
According to data from the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries, the combined annual return of U.S. farmland investments averaged 11% to 12% since 1990. Importantly, this investment performance was achieved without using debt, resulting in a much lower volatility profile than comparable assets like commercial real estate.
Despite keeping a low profile while the site was still in development, Malloy and the team at AcreTrader have already received significant interest, closing their first farm offering in February – a leveled rice and soybean farm in the Arkansas Delta.
AcreTrader was founded by Malloy, whose previous experience includes investing for a long/short equity fund and serving as a Managing Director for Stephens, Inc., a large private investment bank. Alongside an experienced internal team, he has assembled a board of advisors who together have decades of experience in financial services and agriculture, managing billions of dollars of revenues and investments.
About AcreTrader
AcreTrader is an investment platform that makes it easy to own shares of farmland and earn passive income, starting with as little as $1,000. Founded in 2018, AcreTrader aims to provide transparency and security to investors, while eliminating the friction and headaches traditionally associated with owning land - handling all aspects of administration and property management, from insurance and accounting to working with local farmers and improving soil sustainability. For more information on how to become a farm investor or to sell your farm through AcreTrader, please visit https://www.acretrader.com.
Joey Bland, an experienced high-value farm broker, joins AcreTrader, who will be a principal broker of the real estate brokerage subsidiary, AT Real Estate.
AcreTrader Hires Principal Broker, Joey Bland
See why 2019 turned out an incredible year for our farmland investing platform thanks to our incredible group of active investors and amazing team.
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Kroger Names Dentsu Aegis Network Team as First Integrated Media Agency of Record
A fresh@dentsu unit, led by 360i, will handle the $180 million account
Kroger spent over $179 million across measured media channels last year. Kroger, Dentsu Aegis Network
By Erik Oster
Kroger has selected a dedicated fresh@dentsu Dentsu Aegis Network unit led out of 360i as its first integrated media agency of record (AOR), following a review.
360i had previously worked with Kroger in a performance capacity and supporting some social media, 360i chief media officer Doug Rozen explained.
“We’re really excited and honored to be working with Kroger in an even greater capacity. They are at an interesting crossroads with consumer behavior right now. They have an amazing path to their transformation, unique data and an understanding of how consumers behave,” he said. “We get to marry that to all the activation possibilities on the media side. Kroger recently announced a partnership with Roku, and we’re excited to look at other possibilities for partnerships.”
The appointment comes a little less than a year after Kroger selected Omnicom’s DDB New York as its first creative agency of record, following a review. In November, DDB New York debuted a new “Fresh For Everyone” brand positioning in its first work for the brand.
“What excites us is how we can bring their new brand proposition to life, how we can make sure that ‘Fresh For Everyone’ is being delivered on, and Kroger’s mission to feed the human spirit is a powerful opportunity,” Rozen added.
Kay Vizon, director of media at Kroger, explained that the review was quite competitive and included incumbents Active and Evergreen, as well as five other agencies. Vizon said the review process kicked off before the pandemic hit the U.S., but once the impact of the coronavirus took effect, the brand realized it would have to upend the process and conduct the review via videoconference.
Vizon explained that the fresh@dentsu team stood out because they “demonstrated the strongest understanding of audience-based media buying and planning, are leaders in the identity space through their M1 [data] platform and demonstrated an ability to activate across media at scale with fully integrated systems to drive competitive advantage for us.”
“They far exceeded our expectations, even with our current scope of work, and understood our vision to feed the human spirit and make fresh food available to all,” she said, also citing fresh@dentsu for the quality of their team, their cultural fit and the “tremendous buying power nationally and locally” Dentsu Aegis Network can provide, which she said will allow Kroger to save on media costs, which it can reinvest in further marketing initiatives.
Vizon described selecting an integrated media agency of record as a “logical next step” for Kroger as it moves further toward more audience-based media buying and planning, something she said has been facilitated by rapid changes to the media landscape in recent years, which allow the brand to more directly engage with customers.
Asked about recent sentiment around the brand suitability of media outlets, including brands boycotting Facebook, she said that Kroger is devoted to values inclusive of all its customers.
“We feel it is the right time to develop a framework to guide media investments to ensure greater diversity and alignment with our principles. We are partnering with the fresh@dentsu team and engaged with Facebook to actively align with our expectations and best practices,” she claimed, adding that Kroger seeks to align with its media partners to combat “racism and injustice” and “Facebook should be no exception.”
Kroger spent over $179 million across measured media channels last year and a little over $38 million in the first quarter of 2020, according to Kantar Media.
Erik Oster
@ErikDOster erik.oster@adweek.com Erik Oster is an agencies reporter for Adweek.
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" Marque Page" is our Book Club section. Every month and a half we we will propose a book to read in French and the Lecture is followed by a Zoom discussion related to the book topics . A Great way to express yourself in French or just listen to what attendees' feelings wants to talk about. The conversation is totally free, all members from any level are welcomed (so don't be shy !) The Discission is animated by our Cultural Director, Randa AL RAHWANJI.
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The title character of The Stranger is Meursault, a Frenchman who lives in Algiers (a pied-noir). The novel is famous for its first lines: “Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.” They capture Meursault’s anomie briefly and brilliantly. After this introduction, the reader follows Meursault through the novel’s first-person narration to Marengo, where he sits vigil at the place of his mother’s death. Despite the expressions of grief around him during his mother’s funeral, Meursault does not show any outward signs of distress. This removed nature continues throughout all of Meursault’s relationships, both platonic and romantic.
Raymond, an unsavoury friend, is eventually arrested for assaulting his mistress and asks Meursault to vouch for him to the police. Meursault agrees without emotion. Raymond soon encounters a group of men, including the brother of his mistress. The brother, referred to as “the Arab,” slashes Raymond with a knife after Raymond strikes the man repeatedly. Meursault happens upon the altercation and shoots the brother dead, not out of revenge but, he says, because of the disorienting heat and vexing brightness of the sun, which blinds him as it reflects off the brother’s knife. This murder is what separates the two parts of the story.
The novel’s second part begins with Meursault’s pretrial questioning, which primarily focuses on the accused’s callousness toward his mother’s funeral and his murder of “the Arab.” His lack of remorse, combined with his lack of sadness expressed toward his mother, works against him and earns him the nickname “Monsieur Antichrist” from the examining magistrate. During the trial itself, Meursault’s character witnesses do more harm than good, because they highlight Meursault’s apparent apathy and disengagement. Eventually, Meursault is found guilty of murder with malice aforethought and is sentenced to death by guillotine. As he waits for his impending death, he obsesses over the possibility of his appeal being accepted. A chaplain visits Meursault against his wishes, only to be greeted by Meursault’s intense atheistic and nihilistic views. In a cathartic explosion of rage, Meursault brings the chaplain to tears. This, however, brings Meursault peace and helps him to accept his death with open arms.
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Efficacy of low-level laser therapy on orofacial pain: A literature review
Haleh Zokaee1, Amir Hossein Akbari Zahmati2, Nadia Mojrian2, Aghigheh Boostani2, Masoumeh Vaghari2
1 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, Dentistry Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
2 Student Research Committee, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
Date of Web Publication 8-May-2018
Haleh Zokaee
Department of Maxillofacial Medicine, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Naharkhoran Blvd, In Front of Edalat 97 Gorgan
DOI: 10.4103/AIHB.AIHB_2_18
Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is a therapeutic approach to treat orofacial pain using a 600–1000 nm laser with a <500 mW power. The efficacy of LLLT is due to the chemical reactions causing an anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect on the affected regions. The aim of this study is to review the effects of low-level laser application on orofacial pain in the English articles released since 2017. Our search keywords were 'low-level laser therapy, temporomandibular disease (TMD), mucositis and orofacial pain'. The most relevant papers were clinical trial, review and meta-analysis articles. 26 out of 243 searched articles were selected from PubMed, Google Scholar and Science Direct and reviewed. Most of the studies reported the positive role of LLLT on orofacial pain relief regardless of their variable procedures; however, the exact mechanism of action still remains unclear. Some studies indicated that LLLT has significantly reduced pain, reduceamount of clicking and both masseter and temporal muscles activityin TMD. As an overall result, it is concluded that LLLT can be served as a therapeutic method for myofascial pain, mucositis and temporomandibular joint disorders and this is due to its analgesic features.
Keywords: Headache, low-level laser therapy, mucositis, temporomandibular disease
Zokaee H, Akbari Zahmati AH, Mojrian N, Boostani A, Vaghari M. Efficacy of low-level laser therapy on orofacial pain: A literature review. Adv Hum Biol 2018;8:70-3
Zokaee H, Akbari Zahmati AH, Mojrian N, Boostani A, Vaghari M. Efficacy of low-level laser therapy on orofacial pain: A literature review. Adv Hum Biol [serial online] 2018 [cited 2021 Jan 16];8:70-3. Available from: https://www.aihbonline.com/text.asp?2018/8/2/70/232017
Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) as a novel prophylactic and therapeutic method is the application of emitted light in the 600–1000 nm spectrum range (red to near infrared), with irradiance of 5 mW/cm 2 to 5 W/cm 2 and as little power as 1 mW up to 10 W, with pulsed or continuous beams, and the treatment time of 30–60 s per point.[1] Anti-inflammatory activity, analgesic effect, anti-microbial activity, contributing to wound healing acceleration and bone deposition are the basic effects of low-level laser applications.[2] Although the mechanism of low-level laser action is not elucidated, there are some information showing the effects of low-level lasers on inflammatory responses, which relieves its analgesic and wound healing effects; it is believed that the anti-inflammatory effect of low-level lasers is derived from the proven ability of lasers to limit the release of inflammatory mediators such as bradykinin, histamine and especially, prostaglandin during inflammatory responses.[3] The analgesic effect of low-level lasers is related to the inhibition of Aδ and C fibers, which slows conduction velocity, reduces amplitude of compound action potentials and suppresses neurogenic inflammation.[1],[4] Furthermore, by stimulating collagen metabolism and fibroblast proliferation,[5] LLLT acts as a therapeutic agent in wound healing. Despite many studies on low-level laser application in musculoskeletal disorders, oral and maxillofacial regions for LLLT are not well documented and are limited till now. The purpose of this narrow review is to find an overview on the effects of low-level lasers on orofacial complications by discussing its positive or negative efficacies studied in available articles since 2017.
Effect of Low-Level Laser Therapy on Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder can be defined as the pain in the TMJ and its peripheral area which can lead to mandibular functional limitations or clicking while moving.[6] Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) is a common disorder and has two main causes including: myofascial and articular fossa.[7] However, its absolute aetiology of onset still remains undisclosed; it is a multifactorial problem. These are some of the most important major predisposing factors: Muscle pain or spasm and capsule inflammation or damage that caused by unbalanced occlusion, parafunctional habits such as trauma, bruxism or teeth clenching, stress and anxiety or intra-articular disk abnormalities are the major predisposing factors.[8],[9] Several treatments are proposed for TMD: noninvasive treatments include physical therapy, medication therapy (analgesics and muscle relaxants) and invasive treatments such as surgical procedures.[7],[10] According to recent studies, LLLT can also be an effective approach to treat this problem.[11],[12],[13],[14],[15],[16] Our study on the effect of LLLT on TMDs consists of eight articles performed since 2017. All of the studies did not report the exact quantity of LLLT effect on pain reduction, sign and symptom elimination and maximal mouth opening (MMO) improvement in hTMJ and masticatory muscles.
Marini et al. conducted a random, double-blind study on patients with TMD (disc displacement without reduction and osteoarthritis) evaluating the efficacy of super pulsed LLLT (SLLLT) in adjunction to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs therapy. Individuals were divided into three groups. First group was exposed to SLLLT using a diode lasers [gallium-aluminum-arsenide laser (910 nm, 400 mW, 2 weeks, totally 10 sessions)]. Second group received ibuprofen 800 mg for 10 days twice a day and third group (Placebo) received sham laser. Baseline and post-treatment evaluation consisting of Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) (to assess pain intensity), maximal mandibular opening (MMO) (to assess mandibular function) and magnetic resonance imaging was performed to all of the groups. Regarding to mean VAS, the SLLLT group showed a significant lower pain score in comparison to the drug group after 5th day of study. Results also confirm the superiority of SLLLT on MMO improvement. They concluded that SLLLT can be an efficient treatment to reduce the clinical signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis and TMJ disc displacement without reduction.[11]
De Santillana et al. evaluated the effectiveness of active and passive low laser therapy for pain management in arthrogenic TMD in a random, placebo-controlled study. Thirty arthrogenic TMD patients suffering from bilateral TMJ arthralgia were assigned into two groups: active LLLT group (which/who) received diode laser (gallium-aluminum-arsenide, 905 nm, 125 mw) and passive group. Each patient's TMJ pain values were compared using VAS at baseline, 3, 6, 9 and 12 days after four sessions of treatment and the ANOVA test was used to compare intergroup differences between right and left TMJ in active group. Results showed a more considerable pain reduction in passive group at the end of the study in comparison with the active group and results also indicated a high level of pain relief in left TMJ active group.[12]
Salmos-Brito et al. designed a study with the aim of assessing the LLLT effectiveness on pain intensity reduction and MMO in patients with acute and chronic TMD (32 acute and 26 chronic) and all of them received LLLT using thera laser (gallium-aluminum-arsenide, 830 nm, 40 mW) in five points around the painful TMJ and condyle region, and after twelve sessions of laser application, they suggested that LLLT can be applied as a supplementary treatment for pain intensity reduction and MMO improvement in both acute and chronic group. However, patients in acute group experienced better results.[17]
Ahrari et al. assessed the efficacy of LLLT on myogenous TMD in a random, double-blind placebo-controlled study. The study was done using a diode laser (50 mW, 810 nm, 1500 Hz) for 4 weeks, totally twelve sessions. After four phases of assessment, it was indicated that there was a significant improvement in MMO and a decrease in pain symptoms in laser group in comparison to the placebo group in all the phases of evaluation. They concluded that LLLT can be an effective treatment for pain reduction and MMO improvement in patients suffering myogenic TMD.[13]
Seifi and Vahid-Dastjerdi designed a case report study to determine the effect of LLLT on severe TMJ clicking relief in a 14-year-old orthodontic girl complaining dental malalignment and improper jaw relation. After fixed appliance removal, in a recall session at 6th month of retention phase, she received LLLT using a diode laser (808 nm, 70 mw, 60 s). Clicking disappeared immediately after laser application and there were no signs of recurrence 4 months later. They concluded that LLLT can be served as an adjunctive protocol with orthodontic treatment to eliminate clicking.[14]
Shinozaki et al. evaluated the efficacy of LLLT on masticatory muscle pain in woman suffering from temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD). An infrared diode laser (gallium-aluminum-arsenide laser 790 nm, 40 mw) was applied to TMJ and temporal muscle. Masseter and temporal muscle activity was assessed using electromyographic (EMG) and baseline and post-treatment assessments were done. Results suggested immediate relaxation of both muscles. Assessments showed a significantly higher reduction of electrical activity of masseter muscle immediately after the treatment. They demonstrated that LLLT can immediately reduce both masseter and temporal muscles activity. However, temporal muscles expressed a higher activity.[18]
Da Silva et al. designed a random, double-blind study to assess the severity of signs and symptoms in patients treated with adjunctive low-level laser. The treatment was done on patients suffering intra-articular TMD for more than 6 months using an infrared laser with these settings (Group-I: 52/5 J/cm 2, 780 nm, 70 mw, 30s per point, Group-II: 105 J/cm 2, 780 nm, 70 mw, 40 s per paint, Group-III (Placebo): J/cm 2, 780 nm, 70 mw, 30 s per point) for 5 weeks, totally ten sessions on nine points. The laser shots were on 9 sites. These sites consist of five condylar and four muscular. Baseline and post-therapy assessments using VAS and palpation indicated a statistically significant reduction of painful symptoms and increase of the mean MMO for Group-I and Group-II group. However, Group-II group responded better to the treatment.[15]
Venezian et al. performed a random, double-bind placebo-controlled study to evaluate the effects of LLLT on pain reduction and EMG activity in TMD patients suffering myofascial pain. A diode laser (gallium-aluminum-arsenide 780 nm, 50–60 mw, 25–60 J/cm 2) was applied to the masticatory muscles of the control group. VAS technique and EMG activity assessments were evaluated and compared between the groups. The symptoms reduced significantly in both groups regarding to the pain at palpation although the pain returned after 30 days in 60 J/cm 2 subjects in comparison with 25 J/cm 2 dosage. There were no significant changes in EMG activity between two groups after the treatment. Finally, they confirmed the positive effect of LLLT on pain reduction.[16]
Effect of Low-Level Laser on Oral Mucositis
Mucositis is the inflammation of mucosal membranes, which mostly occurs as a side effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Oral mucositis is a major problem for head and neck cancer (HNC) and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients receiving chemotherapy and radiotherapy, resulting in pain, dysphagia, weight loss, depression, higher risk of infection, decreased quality of life and increased healthcare costs.[19],[20] According to the recent studies, all HSCT or bone marrow-transplanted patients, treated with high-dose chemotherapy, develop varying severity of oral mucositis, and it is also considerable that up to 80% of patients receiving radiotherapy for HNC and also 90% of paediatric patients treated for cancer develop oral mucositis.[21]
Despite application of many agents as therapeutic or prophylactic, there is no common consent on oral mucositis prevention and treatment. In recent decade, however, LLLT was considered as a new preventive and therapeutic agent for oral mucositis induced by chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In this review of articles, from 18 analysed articles on the use of LLLT in orofacial complications, twelve were human studies,[22],[23],[24],[25],[26],[27],[28],[29],[30],[31],[32],[33] one was animal study,[34] one literature review and meta-analysis [35] on the usage of LLLT in oral mucositis. The wavelengths used as therapeutic agent include 830 nm (GaAlAs),[24],[29] 660 nm (InGaAl),[28],[33],[34] 670 nm (GaAlAs),[27] 632.8 nm (He-Ne)[26] and an AsGa diode laser.[31] According to these studies, the application of LLLT in therapeutic field was reported effective. Furthermore, the wavelengths used as prophylactic agents include 660 nm (InGaAl),[22],[30] 630 nm (diode laser)[25] and a GaAlAs.[24] In two studies,[22],[30] LLLT reported to be effective in the prevention of oral mucositis induced by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, According to these articles, LLLT can be effective agent in prevention and treatment of oral mucositis induced by chemotherapy and radiotherapy. LLLT can be suggested tool for reducing oral mucositis severity and even in some cases, prevention of oral mucositis in patients receiving chemoradiotherapy.
Effect of Low-Level Laser on Orofacial Pain
Orofacial pain as a general term includes any pain in the mouth, jaws and face derived from many reasons. This category of pain is defined as a pain localised to the region above the neck, in front of ears and below the orbitomeatal line, as well as 'pain within the oral cavity; including pain of dental origin and TMD'.[36],[37] It is estimated that 22% of general population in the US and 7% in UK suffer from some forms of facial pain at some points.[38] The most basic etiologic classification of oral pain is as following:[39]
Primarily somatic, arising from musculoskeletal or visceral structures
Primarily neuropathic, which occurs as a result of abnormal or damaged pain pathways
Primarily psychological, which is rare.
Therefore, other aetiologies such as dentoalveolar, mucosal diseases, bone pathology, sinusitis, salivary glands, vascular pains, referred pains from eyes, ears, intracranial or heart and other reasons such as chronic idiopathic facial pain, atypical odontalgia, central post-stroke pain and cancer are the extensive subsets of the classification mentioned before. Considering the extensive range of aetiologies, there are different therapeutic options for orofacial pains. Among these options, LLLT is a new one. From the analysed articles about the usage of LLLT in orofacial complications, four studies on the use of LLLT as a treatment for orofacial pain were included. From these four, three of them manoeuvred on the somatic pains [12],[40],[41] and one, on persistent idiopathic facial pain and neuropathic pain.[42] The therapeutic wavelengths are 905 nm,[40] 780 nm (GaAlAs),[41] 830 nm (GaAlAs)[42] and a GaAlAs laser.[12] According to two of these studies,[12],[41] LLLT was an effective treatment in somatic pains. In other two studies,[40],[42] however, no significant differences in pain relief was reported.
According to what has been mentioned before, it can be concluded that LLLT especially diode ones can be useful in pain reduction, maximum opening improve and sounds elimination in TMDs. Furthermore, mucositis can be prevented or treated by prophylactic applications or empiric usage. LLLT would hopefully have analgesic pain effect especially in those with inflammatory aetiology in background. Of course, more research needs to be done on the LLLT effects on oral and maxillofacial structures due to extend laser application because of its multipotential capabilities.
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Silver: 49ers impressed with Wolf and Gutekunst interviews
Jan 8, 2017 at 11:21 AM • --
According to Michael Silver of NFL Media, the San Francisco 49ers were impressed by Green Bay Packers executives Eliot Wolf and Brian Gutekunst. Both interviewed with the 49ers on Thursday.
The 49ers were very impressed with Packers execs Brian Kutekunst & Eliot Wolf after their respective GM interviews...
— Michael Silver (@MikeSilver) January 8, 2017
Two of the 49ers' top choices to replace ex-general manager Trent Baalke were unavailable to interview. New England Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio declined to interview with the 49ers and a request to interview Kansas City director of football operations Chris Ballard was denied by the Chiefs.
Eliot Wolf, the son of former NFL general manager Ron Wolf, joined the Packers as a pro personnel assistant in 2004. He became assistant director of pro personnel in 2008 and assistant director of player personnel in 2011. In 2015, Wolf became the director of player personnel and in March of 2016, he was promoted to director of football operations with the Packers.
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Gutekunst is the Packers director of player personnel, a position he was promoted to at the same time as Wolf's latest promotion. He has been within the Packers' player personnel department for 18 years, serving as a scout and eventually the director of college scouting.
h/t to Patrick Tulini for the find.
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The 5G security zodiac: 12 key considerations for implementing 5G
By Russ Mohr 05 November 2020
Russ Mohr, head of North American sales engineering at MobileIron, reveals the risks we should consider as we enter a new period of unprecedented speed and connectivity in the 5G era.
(Image credit: MobileIron.)
2020 has been a pivotal year for 5G. In a world where almost all work is done remotely, we have never been hungrier for the low latency and higher speeds the technology promises. Today, 5G is trickling into almost every organization on the planet — but when that stream widens into a raging river, will you be prepared? What are the security implications of 5G on your organization? The 5G Security Zodiac attempts to lay out the risks we should consider as we enter a new era of unprecedented speed and connectivity.
1. The Legacy
While it’s true that 5G is the most secure cellular protocol developed to date, we are still years away from “standalone” or pure 5G New Radio (NR) networks. Today, 5G is almost always accompanied by nearby 4G and even 3G networks, and the non-standalone version of 5G allows devices to fall back to the older protocols. These older protocols aren’t as secure as 5G, and there are kits available that allow dabblers to build IMSI-catchers, which can do things like determine the location of a caller, see who they are calling, and when...or worse.
2. The 5G Core Network
When it isn’t our own infrastructure, we don’t often think about the bits and bytes as they move around the core of a network, but we should. The 5G Core is packetized, virtualized, and can run across public and private cloud networks. Your data will transit 5G virtualized networks in the Core, and you may not know what equipment your data is transiting, or who is running it. Of course encryption of data-in-transit is always a best practice, but these days, it’s mandatory.
3.The Towers
In the 5G world, towers aren’t always towers — sometimes they are small cells. The fastest 5G signals are Millimeter Wave (mmWave) or Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC). These signals don’t travel far and they need high density deployments. They also don’t travel well through concrete, human bodies, rain, or anything else. There will be an order of magnitude for more 5G transmission systems than we saw in 4G, and presumably, there will be some rogue cell phone towers and small cells too, hiding in plain sight in a sea of 5G infrastructure.
4. Private 5G
Your company may have warehouses, distribution centers, or assembly lines that choose to deploy private 5G networks. Those devices may benefit from URLLC’s low latency and high speeds, and very often you will be purchasing private 5G networks from a carrier. Providers can carve up dedicated 5G slices with different characteristics — for instance, you might need a network with 20 milliseconds delay and 2 Gbps download speeds. Ask your provider about the underlying equipment running your private 5G network. Do they have a good track record when it comes to security? How often is the software and underlying OS updated? Making sure the private network is secure will likely be a shared responsibility.
5. The Protocol
"In 2019, students from the University of Iowa and Purdue developed a tool called 5G Reasoner that found 11 vulnerabilities in the 5G protocol."
Russ Mohr, MobileIron.
When 5G is running in its purest state and hasn’t fallen back to protocols with known vulnerabilities like 3G and 4G, there can still be risk. In 2019, students from the University of Iowa and Purdue developed a tool called 5G Reasoner that found 11 vulnerabilities in the 5G protocol. While some attacks can knock a device off the 5G network to one using older protocols like 4G that may have more vulnerabilities to exploit, others allowed attackers to determine location, launch MiTM attacks, and hijack paging channels. Of course, the 3GPP governing body can address 5G vulnerabilities, but leading vendors like Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei must adapt the new specifications and release new software updates. Even after new code is available, the carriers that own the equipment must complete testing and roll out the software to their towers and small cells — which can take anywhere from months to years.
6. The 5G Edge
One of the touted aspects of 5G is Multi-Access Edge Computing, or MEC. With MEC, we move compute power closer to the edge so that we can capitalize on what low latency 5G technologies — like mmWave — bring to the table. For instance, with Vehicle to Everything (V2X), you may wish to control a self-driving car that needs to respond to a developing situation to avoid an accident in 10 milliseconds. If the application and the compute are closer to the endpoint on the 5G network, we can increase our response time. Amazon, for instance, is migrating Elastic Computing (EC2) to the edge with their AWS Wavelength product, which co-locates a data center in a Verizon facility. But, we should be asking ourselves — do we need to go to extraordinary means to protect the data and applications that live there?
7. The Endpoint
It’s certain that we will see 5G grow, especially as we reach economies of scale with 5G chipsets and we open up low to medium end phones to 5G experiences. Consumers will have 5G devices, and they will be handling company data on them, which is a given with every worker now working from home. Presumably we should do something to protect this data transiting unknown 5G and WiFi networks.
We’ll also see 5G chipsets in laptops, which might even lead to faster speeds than your home WiFi. Carriers that have made a significant investment in spectrum, 5G base stations, fiber, and everything else that connects them, will monetize this work and expand their reach into the desktop world. We should imagine a world where the challenge of finding good Wi-Fi for a laptop no longer exists.
"Whether it be a “smart” thermostat with a password of “Password123” or a smart sensor in a corn field, many of these devices will ride the 5G network."
And, of course, IoT devices. Whether it be a “smart” thermostat with a password of “Password123” or a smart sensor in a corn field, many of these devices will ride the 5G network — and they won’t be secure. Many purpose-built IoT devices will reach EOL on updates (sorry, no upgrade is currently available for your toaster) yet they will continue to run long after we’ve forgotten about the companies that built them. They may be running long-neglected and susceptible legacy protocols, or running Linux variants, which will be very useful landing points to launch attacks from — and not just to burn the toast.
8. The Trusted Carrier
Not all carriers are equal — at least according to the US Department of State. The US has handpicked some carriers that use equipment from trusted supply chains. Does your company have an acceptable use policy when it comes to mobile networks or roaming? Will your company treat all 5G carriers as trustworthy? Will you implement policies designed to protect employees and their data when they join untrusted networks?
9. The Supply Chain
The news has prominently featured the supply chain. In the UK, Huawei has been banned from 5G networks by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and their equipment must be removed from production networks by 2027. Huawei in particular has been accused of implementing back doors to intercept data in telecom networks. Does your company have a policy about trusted vendors?
10. The Backhaul
All this high speed wireless bandwidth is going to need to be funneled back to edge and core networks from an immensity of base stations and small cells. They will need new fibre, and in some cases, wireless backhaul. How are these assets protected by the 5G provider? Can they be a launching point for the ultimate Man-in-the-Middle attack (MiTM)?
11. The Workforce Diaspora
Homebound employees are going to see greater choice when it comes to broadband connections. In some cases, 5G will become the primary pipe to the home. How will your company secure employee networks? There are many vendors building 5G routers that can be deployed to residences. Will those vendors run a current version of the 5G protocol that addresses vulnerabilities as they arise? What other vulnerabilities might be present in those routers? And, will your company consider using 5G backhaul for branch offices or in your headquarters? Will you or the 5G provider own and maintain this equipment?
12. A Sea Change in User behavior
"Connecting to an enterprise network via a WAN or corporate WiFi network is going to become an unnatural act."
As 5G becomes more ubiquitous and end-users shift to remote work and cloud services, connecting to an enterprise network via a WAN or corporate WiFi network is going to become an unnatural act. The 5G connections are faster, and the services we are using don’t live behind the company firewall. Traditional approaches to protect data behind a firewall will no longer be effective.
According to a Booz Allen report, we may also see more people using 5G hotspots as their primary connection to the internet. 5G hotspots will expose new risks, beginning with poor password management, but also caused by overdependence on ubiquitous chipsets like Qualcomm. For example, in 2018 Meltdown and Spectre allowed for exploits on many common Intel chipsets, and more recently Apple had a similar issue with T2 security chips commonly found on Macs.
We Need a Better Mousetrap
As you can see, there are a lot of risks, including many that aren’t touched upon in the 5G security zodiac. However, you shouldn’t panic. With every advancement comes with a host of security risks, but there are approaches we can take to secure our organizations.
By far the best strategy for mitigating risk is Zero Trust — an approach to 5G security in which you must never trust and always verify. Most of the components described in this article fall outside of any company's domain, but by taking a comprehensive Zero Trust approach on what we can control — the endpoints, the applications, the edge networks we own, and encrypted transport — we can begin to ensure the sanctity of our data as we navigate the 5G security zodiac.
Russ Mohr
Russ Mohr is a 20 year industry veteran and the Head of North American Sales Engineering at MobileIron, where he has worked for nearly nine years. He lives in downtown NYC with his wife Kerrie, a practicing psychotherapist, and their dog Reina. He is a regular speaker at industry events and frequently publishes industry articles, blogs, white papers, and podcasts. Follow Russell’s twitter handle @rmohr to stay updated about the latest mobile technology developments or find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/russmohr.
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St. Louis EventsIn addition to its many cultural and historic landmarks, this destination hosts a number of outstanding festivals and events that may coincide with your visit.
From early January to mid-February, Soulard Mardi Gras shakes St. Louis out of its winter doldrums with colorful parades, a wiener dog derby, a Creole food fair and more. Soulard neighborhood restaurants and bars participate in the Cruzan Rum Taste of Soulard , another popular February event where you can sample signature culinary creations, many of the Cajun and Creole variety.
St. Louis warms up to spring with the St. Louis Storytelling Festival in early May, when both professionals and amateurs celebrate the art of tale spinning. Presentations of The Bard's plays are given during the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis , held at Forest Park from early May to late June. These free outdoor performances include dance, music and a plot synopsis.
May also celebrates another art form at the Art Fair at Laumeier . On Mother's Day weekend nearly 150 artists travel to Laumeier Sculpture Park to sell their works among the park's outdoor sculptures. You'll see a range of media, including clay, paper, wood, jewelry, glass and photography. Musical performances and art demonstrations enhance the festive atmosphere.
Fourth of July festivities send sparks flying during Fair Saint Louis in Forest Park , held over the July 4 weekend. The celebration attracts huge crowds of revelers with big-name entertainment, an air show, a parade and fireworks.
Festival of Nations at Tower Grove Park is an August favorite. For 2 days St. Louisans honor and celebrate the city's ethnic diversity as the park becomes a showcase for traditional music and dance performances, fashion, craft displays and cuisine representing dozens of ethnic cultures.
Several events close out the summer, beginning in late August or early September with the 3-day Japanese Festival , held at the Missouri Botanical Garden. This time of year also brings the 2-day Big Muddy Blues Festival at Laclede's Landing. The Mississippi river provides a backdrop for performances by blues bands and other artists. In the suburb of Clayton, the Saint Louis Art Fair attracts artsy types for 3 days of art and entertainment. The Great Forest Park Balloon Race takes place in mid-September.
Soulard Oktoberfest , held in mid-October, is a celebration of German heritage that includes hearty fare like bratwurst, schweinshaxe and strudel, live music on four stages, dancing and a beer tent. There are also crowd-pleasing contests for bratwurst eating, stein holding and the strongest barmaid.
The Christmas holiday season kicks off in late November with Winter Wonderland in Tilles Park, which features thousands of twinkling lights.
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Moonrise Hotel
6177 Delmar Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63112
Red Roof PLUS+ St. Louis-Forest Park/Hampton Ave.
5823 Wilson Ave. St. Louis, MO 63110
Best Western Plus Parkway Hotel
1900 Homer M Adams Pkwy. Alton, IL 62002
Members save 5% or more and earn Honors points when booking AAA/CAA rates!
Hilton St. Louis Airport
10330 Natural Bridge Rd. Woodson Terrace, MO 63134
The sales tax rate in the city of St. Louis is 8.49 percent. The city's lodging tax is 14.9 percent and there is a rental car tax of 7.82 percent.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, (314) 747-3000; Missouri Baptist Medical Center (Town and Country, Mo.), (314) 996-5000; St. Alexius Hospital, (314) 865-7000; St. Anthony's Medical Center, (314) 525-1000; Saint Louis University Hospital, (314) 577-8000.
I-270 and Riverview Dr. St. Louis, MO 63138. Phone:(314)869-7100
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
Hertz offers discounts to AAA members; phone (314) 426-7555 or (800) 654-3080.
The Amtrak terminal, (800) 872-7245, is at 430 S. 15th St.
The Greyhound Lines Inc. terminal, (800) 231-2222, is at 430 S. 15th St.
Cab companies include St. Louis County Cab & Yellow Cab, (314) 991-5300 or (314) 993-8294; and Laclede, (314) 652-3456 or (314) 403-7000 (to request a taxi via text message). All cabs in St. Louis are on the meter system. Base fare is approximately $2 to $3.50 for the first mile, with a rate of $2 to $2.50 per mile. The base fare goes up $1 for each additional passenger. A fuel surcharge of at least $1 also is added to the fare, and there is a $4 surcharge for airport pick-ups.
Metro, the public transportation system—which includes MetroBus, the MetroLink light-rail train and the Metro Call-A-Ride para-transit van service—transports passengers throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area. The base bus fare is $2; $1 (ages 5-12, ages 65+ and customers with disabilities). Exact cash fare is required. A MetroLink one-ride ticket is $2.50; $1.25 (ages 5-12, ages 65+ and customers with disabilities). A 2-hour system pass (with transfers) is $3; $1.50 (ages 5-12, ages 65+ and customers with disabilities), or $4 from Lambert Airport. Weekly and monthly passes also are available. For route information, current fares and hours of system operation contact MetroTransit Information Mon.-Fri. 7-7; phone (314) 231-2345, or (618) 271-2345 in Illinois.
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The Stage Show
with Michael Cathcart
Michael Cathcart
First published Mon 5 Feb 2018, 3:58pm
Audio Episode
Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair — the extended interview
Two of Australia's most celebrated actors, Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair join us in an extended version of our conversation from the Sydney Theatre Company, where the lights were back on and they were appearing together in Angus Cerini's new play, Wonnangatta.
Broadcast Tue 12 Jan 2021, 10:05am
| Updated Tue 15 Dec 2020, 2:58pm
A hit Australian musical revived and the Noongar language in the spotlight
We delve into two uniquely Western Australian First Nations productions at the 2020 Perth Festival: Jimmy Chi and Kuckles' Bran Nue Dae and Hecate, Yirra Yaakin's Noongar language adaptation of Macbeth.
Broadcast Tue 5 Jan 2021, 10:05am
| Updated Tue 15 Dec 2020, 11:43am
Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part II)
Continuing our celebration of his 90th birthday, we delve into the later work of Stephen Sondheim — composer-lyricist of some of the most well-regarded and inventive musical theatre ever made.
Broadcast Tue 29 Dec 2020, 10:05am
Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part I)
To mark his 90th birthday, we delve into the work of Stephen Sondheim—composer-lyricist of some of the most well-regarded and inventive musical theatre ever made.
As we bring this devastating year to a close, we assess the damage the pandemic has inflicted on the performing arts, find silver linings and chart the road to recovery.
With us to retrace some of 2020's key moments are performer Nadine Garner, leaders from Global Creatures, the Melbourne Theatre Company and Yirra Yaakin, and experts in arts accessibility and education.
| Updated Mon 14 Dec 2020, 2:48pm
Pamela Rabe's path from the Yukon wilds to Helpmann glory
When Pamela Rabe moved to Australia from Canada, she quickly became one of our most celebrated actors. The three-time Helpmann Award-winner will next year feature in The Last Season at Sydney Festival and The Cherry Orchard at Belvoir.
Also, Sunshine Super Girl traces the triumphs — and trials — of Evonne Goolagong's rise to sports stardom and we meet a long-serving usher at Arts Centre Melbourne for whom the arts offered joy during difficult times.
Broadcast Tue 8 Dec 2020, 10:05am
| Updated Mon 7 Dec 2020, 1:17pm
Band of outsiders — a new take on Oklahoma!
In 1943, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! was groundbreaking, tackling heavy themes and integrating story, song and dance in a way that redefined musical theatre. Director Richard Carroll searches for new themes and ideas in this classic work at Black Swan.
Also, ahead of this year's International Day of People with Disability, we touch base with members of Back to Back Theatre and premiere two new performances, and Opera Queensland artistic director Patrick Nolan shares the Best Advice he was ever given.
| Updated Mon 30 Nov 2020, 4:16pm
'It was not proper for a boy to do ballet' — David McAllister's struggle to the top
David McAllister's sheer determination as a dancer took him to the top of The Australian Ballet's roster and then the company's artistic directorship. Moving on after 20 years at the helm, he reflects on his life as a dancer and as a leader.
Also, writer and performer Moira Finucane shares what's on her Top Shelf and historian of theatre architecture, Alistair Fair, explains how and why theatre design has changed so much in the last hundred years.
Broadcast Tue 24 Nov 2020, 10:05am
Nancye Hayes — fearless in the footlights
For 60 years, Nancye Hayes has been a mainstay of the Australian stage, starring in the Australian premieres of shows like Sweet Charity and Chicago and championing new work and young artists. She joins us to reflect on a life spent treading the boards.
Also, we meet a group of Melbournians who spent their Friday nights in lockdown on Zoom delving into Greek tragedies. We log on with them and discover how these 2,000-year-old plays are strangely resonant with life in 2020.
The deep roots and spreading branches of Indigenous performance
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers and creatives are finding mainstream audiences as never before. To mark NAIDOC Week, we revisit conversations with three prominent Indigenous artists: Rachael Maza, artistic director of Ilbijerri Theatre Company, and Stephen Page, artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, with his hugely talented son, Hunter Page-Lochard.
| Updated Mon 9 Nov 2020, 3:39pm
Why democracy needs theatre
With all eyes on US politics, we visit one of their most enduring democratic institutions: New York's Public Theater. Besides developing hit shows like Hair, A Chorus Line and Hamilton, The Public makes work by, for and about the citizens of New York.
Also, the operatic adaptation of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is revived by State Opera South Australia and we check in with two Victorian dance schools who have held on through the lockdown but fear that more challenges lie ahead.
Broadcast Tue 3 Nov 2020, 10:05am
| Updated Thu 5 Nov 2020, 8:45am
The story thief
Scottish playwright Kieran Hurley has built a career telling stories about himself and those around him, but his play Mouthpiece, now at Queensland Theatre, questions the ethics of putting these stories on stage and calling it 'art'.
Also, we hear how a run-in with police inspired a new radio play featuring Osamah Sami and Rowan Freeman and Erin Brannigan guides us through more basics of dance literacy as we watch work by Ros Warby and Vicki Van Hout.
Broadcast Tue 27 Oct 2020, 10:05am
| Updated Mon 26 Oct 2020, 3:17pm
How OzAsia's director went from chook farmer to change maker
In the 1980s, Annette Shun Wah was at the cutting edge of Australian radio and television and was one of the first Asian Australians to host her own show. Now Annette is empowering a new generation of creative Australians.
Also, Marta Dusseldorp and Ben Winspear launch their new company with a production of Angus Cerini's The Bleeding Tree in Hobart and we learn how to think like William Shakespeare.
| Updated Mon 19 Oct 2020, 12:21pm
'I didn't know any better' — how David Lang redefined opera
Composer David Lang's operas take us to unexpected places — an opera that is too quiet to hear, an opera for 1000 singers and a rewrite of Beethoven's Fidelio. His opera Love Fail will have its Australian premiere online for the Yarra Valley Opera Festival.
Also, how did a fake musical set in a supermarket become the most talked about show of 2020? When Daniel Mertzlufft posted a 40-second TikTok video of an act one finale to a non-existent musical, nothing had prepared him for what came next.
| Updated Fri 9 Oct 2020, 3:13pm
Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair side by side on stage
Two of Australia's most celebrated actors, Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair join us from the Sydney Theatre Company where the lights are back on and they're appearing together in the new play Wonnangatta.
Also, Vidya Makan brings together 101 black, Indigenous and other artists of colour in her song I Need You to See Me and the axe begins falling on arts courses around the country in the wake of the pandemic.
Broadcast Tue 6 Oct 2020, 10:05am
| Updated Mon 5 Oct 2020, 10:19am
Opening doors — why this director wants her debut to mean more
Since launching to stardom with The Sapphires, Shari Sebbens has become a mainstay of the Australian stage and screen. Now making her directorial debut at Griffin, she has high hopes for what it might mean to other aspiring theatre-makers.
Also, Opera Queensland bring us An Aria a Day and voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson helps us to channel our inner politician.
Broadcast Tue 29 Sep 2020, 10:05am
| Updated Mon 28 Sep 2020, 10:36am
The theatrical making of Malcolm Turnbull
In court or in parliament, Malcolm Turnbull carried an air of showmanship. His memoir, A Bigger Picture, reveals that he actually comes from a long line of theatre people: a writer and performer mother, a vaudevillian grandfather and a Tony and Oscar-winning cousin.
Also, we remember playwright and director Aidan Fennessy with his friend and collaborator Matt Cameron and find out how to write a showstopper with Mathew Frank, composer of a new musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career.
| Updated Mon 21 Sep 2020, 4:08pm
'The stage was my lifeline' — how the arts emboldens young people
Youth arts organisations foster the talents of Australia's brightest performers and creatives, but how inclusive are they? Tariro Mavondo is a performer and poet who recently became co-artistic director of Western Edge Youth Arts with a bold vision for change.
Also, Kate Hood shares the Best Advice she was ever given as an able-bodied actor and as a wheelchair user and Dr Erin Brannigan from UNSW guides us through some basics of how to watch and appreciate contemporary dance.
The man who lives with Shakespeare
Sir Jonathan Bate has spent much of his life living with William Shakespeare — he's dedicated his career to better understanding the work of the Bard. Now the British academic is asking how Shakespeare's work might help us to save the planet.
Also, we hear an extract from Elena Kats-Chernin's new work for Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' 100th birthday and find out how Brisbane-based company The Good Room craft crowdsourced submissions into complex and emotional theatre.
Broadcast Tue 8 Sep 2020, 10:05am
| Updated Mon 7 Sep 2020, 4:58pm
Animal Farm in the age of Trump
Van Badham is a courageous and funny Australian playwright who, since searching for the humanity of trolls in Banging Denmark at the Sydney Theatre Company, has now adapted George Orwell's Animal Farm for Black Swan in Perth.
Also, we speak with Palawa writer Dylan Van Den Berg about the limitations — and surprising benefits — of developing his play Milk on Zoom with the Street Theatre in Canberra.
| Updated Mon 31 Aug 2020, 4:12pm
Do the critics make or break a Broadway show?
Ben Brantley, the New York Times' chief theatre critic since 1996, reflects on his lifelong love of theatre, Broadway's unprecedented shutdown, and the perception that a Times review can make or break a show.
Also, cabaret icon Ali McGregor hosts an online variety show where you call the shots and we meet a woman intimately familiar with Belvoir St Theatre's history and design: her father drew the blueprints!
Broadcast Tue 25 Aug 2020, 10:05am
| Updated Thu 27 Aug 2020, 1:16pm
A 'border boy' breaks the boundaries of dance
Thomas E.S. Kelly proves that you can be built like a rugby player and be a contemporary dancer. From a childhood committed to sport and dance, Kelly is emerging as one of our top dancers and choreographers.
Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson on how to effectively use our voices within and beyond our COVID-19 bubbles, and we touch base with Carriageworks, Brisbane Festival and the Malthouse.
The suburban dreaming behind Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre
Belvoir Artistic Director Eamon Flack, who last year led the company to a staggering 13 Helpmann Awards, tells us about his journey to the helm of this beloved theatre company and how they have responded to the pandemic.
Also, as the Darwin Festival forges ahead with a "homegrown" line-up, we visit the historic Brown's Mart Theatre with artistic director Sean Pardy as part of our Small Stages series.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Wildhorn
We revisit some highlights from our time as theatregoers, including our encounter with the 'critic proof' Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn.
Also, Anthony Warlow performs, Bangarra dancer Beau Dean Riley Smith shares his Top Shelf and we pay tribute to dance educator Athol Willoughby.
Broadcast Tue 4 Aug 2020, 10:05am
| Updated Thu 30 Jul 2020, 1:56pm
The unusual choreography of dancer Shelley Lasica
Shelley Lasica grew up in a home filled by modern dance, thanks to her pioneering mother Margaret. For thirty years Shelley has gone on to push the boundaries of what contemporary dance is and where it can be staged.
Plus, the State Theatre Company of SA brings a new Decameron, written for the age of COVID-19.
And could you be moved, amused, entranced by the performance of a robot actor?
Broadcast Tue 28 Jul 2020, 10:05am
| Updated Tue 28 Jul 2020, 3:03pm
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Female backpacker hikes on colorful tundra along McHugh Creek, Chugach State Park, Southcentral Alaska, Autumn
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'Tramps at sea' by Lawrence Tibbetts - Music Sheet Cover, lyrics and music by Herbert Stothart, Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, sing by Lawrence Tibbett - his favorit concert songs. An illustration with a photo of Lawrence in a picture frame in the middle of the cover. Date: circa 2001
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US Secretary of the Army John McHugh speaks during a ceremony inducing Army Chaplain Emil Kapaun posthumously into the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon April 12, 2013 in Arlington, VA.
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 17th Aug, 2015. Photocall The Garden-Sound as a part of Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Garden-Sound performance in Traverse Theatre from 18 Aug 2015 - 30 Aug 2015. Pictured Alan McHugh and Pauline Knowles. writer and director Zinnie Harris. Credit: Pako Mera/Alamy Live News
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 17th Aug, 2015. Photocall The Garden-Sound as a part of Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Garden-Sound performance in Traverse Theatre from 18 Aug 2015 - 30 Aug 2015. Pictured Alan McHugh and Pauline Knowles. writer and director Zinnie Harris. Credit: Pako Mera/Alamy Live Newshttps://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-edinburgh-scotland-uk-17th-aug-2015-photocall-the-garden-sound-as-86469754.html
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Calgary, Canada - October 7th, 2012: View of Calgary from McHugh Bluff Park Alberta Canada
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[Sandstone sculpture by Tommy McHugh]
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March 20, 2016 - Greg McHugh attending 'Jameson Empire Awards 2016' at Grosvenor House Hotel in London, UK.
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Gary: Tank Commander AKA Greg McHugh
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Old historical mural on the Montaque-McHugh building in downtown Bellingham, Washington. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Moy, County Tyrone, Ireland. 15th April, 2017. Irish Country Singer Lisa McHugh in concert in the village of Moy in County Tyrone. Mark Winter/Alamy Live News
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Hollywood, California, USA. 29th November, 2018. Caitlin McHugh Stamos, John Stamos at the World Premiere of Disney's 'Mary Poppins Returns' held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, November 29, 2018. Photo by Joseph Martinez / PictureLux Credit: PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive/Alamy Live News
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Berlin, Germany. August 7th 2013. The game between Böckermann / Urbatzka (GER) and Kapa / McHugh (AUS) ended in victory for the Germans 2-1 (21-15, 16-21 and 19-18) in the final set had 6 mach-point to Germany. Credits: Gonçalo Silva/Alamy Live News.
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Omagh, Northern Ireland. 03/06/2017 - Northern Ireland comedian Terry McHugh plays the Sproule Arts Centre
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Dennis McHugh arrives to enter the Big Brother house at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
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Azar Lawrence: Azar Lawrence: Mystic Journey
By CHUCK KOTON
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Elvin Jones, pianist McCoy Tyner and trumpeter Miles Davis. During this period in the 1970s, Lawrence also released several critically acclaimed recordings, including Bridge Into The New Age (Prestige, 1974) and Summer Solstice (Prestige, 1975).
So rapid an ascent to the peak of the jazz world may, at times, have led Lawrence to wonder how he could be playing with these giants. But teaching and instilling confidence in youth is the role of the elders in any true community, and so one day Tyner reassured Lawrence: he told the young man that he belonged in such company because he could not only play the hell out of the horn, but because he "felt the same way about the music as John (Coltrane) did."
In 2010, some 30 years after he last took his own jazz band into the studio, Lawrence is making up for lost time. He announced his return with Speak The Word (Zarman Productions, 2008), his first studio recording as a leader since 1976. Next, he offered his profoundly felt thanks to those spirits who came before him with Prayer To My Ancestors (Furthermore Recordings, 2009). Now, Mystic Journey finds Lawrence looking back to the future, as he reunites with several old friends while simultaneously moving forward with the addition of two members of his current East Coast band.
Deserving of special mention is the illustrious, Philadelphia-born drummer Rashied Ali, who passed away not long after the completion of this recording. Ali, known primarily as a free jazz player from his collaborations with saxophonist John Coltrane during the mid 1960s, reveals just how hard he can swing as he propels the band with fiery rhythms.
Joining Lawrence in the horn section are two more old friends—trumpeter Dr. Eddie Henderson, who brings his vibrant and explosive sound to the recording, and alto saxophonist Gerald Hayes, brother of jazz drummer Louis Hayes, who Lawrence first met while still in High School in Los Angeles. Their relationship bore fruit when Hayes, on flute, performed on Lawrence's Summer Solstice, 35 years ago.
Lawrence's connection with the rest of the rhythm section may be of a more recent vintage, yet musically, it is just as intimate and potent. He first heard and played with Benito Gonzalez, the young and ascendant Venezuelan pianist, when he jammed with him a few years ago at a Kenny Garrett gig in Los Angeles. Months later, the two met again in New York and Gonzalez came aboard for Lawrence's East Coast gigs. In addition to his fiery piano work, Gonzalez's horn arrangements prove invaluable to the session, to which he also brought three tunes. Finally, Essiet Essiet, an in-demand bassist on the New York jazz scene, joined up with Lawrence and, like Gonzalez, has become a regular member of his quartet.
Mystic Journey opens with the title tune, a Lawrence original. Playing ferocious tenor from the first note, the saxophonist establishes the recording's hard-driving, riveting intensity. Ali, holding nothing back, drives the band like a train conductor high ballin' it out of the yard. Gonzalez's thick chords and pulsating rhythms reveal a distinctly Tyneresque influence on the music.
Gonzalez also adds a little Latin flavor to "Summer Solstice," the title tune from Lawrence's second recording. After a brief bass intro, the horns enter, stating the melody in unison and delivering that big sextet sound. In this solar celebration, all the horns solo. Lawrence leads the way, again on tenor, while Henderson paints his solo with the brighter hues of his musical palette. Altoist Hayes, playing with burning passion and invention, amplifies the tune's upbeat spirit. All the while, the rhythm section is swinging its collective butt off.
Lawrence plays soprano on Gonzalez's "Quest," the instrument's exotic sound perfectly suited to evoke the mystery and enchantment of this spiritual exploration. Henderson, on flugelhorn, blows gentle, playful tones suggesting these weary travelers may, at last, have found respite in a desert oasis. Paying tribute to John Coltrane's influence on his musical development, Lawrence—back on tenor and with just the rhythm section—blows warm, lush tones on Jimmy McHugh's ballad, "Say It Over And Over," recorded so memorably by Coltrane on Ballads (Impulse!, 1962).
The band gets to really stretch out on McCoy Tyner's "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit," a modal classic Lawrence often performed as a member of the pianist's band. Ali's "Adrees" surprises with a waltz tempo, though it swings harder than any tune penned by the waltz king, Johann Strauss. The CD closes with "Starting Point," another burning, straight-ahead tune by Gonzalez. The pianist's insistent line opens the tune, answered in unison by the horns before Lawrence comes roaring in triumphantly on tenor. Henderson— confident, precise and hip as ever—takes the next solo. Gonzalez dances his fingers over the ivories, Essiet plucks the bass strings relentlessly and Ali cooks, before the horns return to take the tune out.
The return of Azar Lawrence to the mainstream jazz scene is one of the most gratifying developments in recent jazz history. His rededication to his musical gift, evidenced by the seven- hour days he apparently devotes to practicing scales and playing long tones, has not only allowed him to resume the journey towards his destiny, it has given the jazz world what, in a way, is a "new" master of the saxophone. His compelling sound and volcanic performance, so poignantly captured on Mystic Journey, reveals an artist at the peak of his musical powers.
Tracks: Mystic Journey; Summer Solstice; Quest; Walk Spirit; Talk Spirit; Say It Over Again; Adrees; Journey's End; Starting Point.
Personnel: Azar Lawrence: tenor and soprano saxophones; Eddie Henderson: trumpet, flugelhorn; Gerald Hayes: alto saxophone; Benito Gonzalez: piano; Essiet Essiet: bass; Rashied Ali: drums.
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Title: Azar Lawrence: Mystic Journey | Year Released: 2010 | Record Label: Furthermore Recordings
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Johnny worries when his grandfather doesn't return home from checking his trap line. The elderly Indian has packed ample supplies on his snowmobile, but has stayed out far too long in the plummeting temperatures of the Alaskan winter. Only readers know that he has caught his leg in his own trap, several feet from his supplies, and is unable to free himself. Chapters alternate between his predicament, and Johnny's failed attempts to raise concern among his family. As the old man progressively uses every technique he knows to stay alive - from creating a rabbit snare from a shoelace to fending off wolves with a newly made cedar spear, this suspenseful page-turner shows that the old man's survival is a race against time.
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Did stone age people farm?
Yes, since the Neolithic era is part of the stone age. Back in the Paleolithic, they hunted and gathered food.
What did people do in the new stone age?
In the old stone age they began to use stone for tools. In the middle stone age they began to use fire,and farm. In the New stone age they began to build communities.
How is life in the Old Stone Age different from life in the New Stone Age?
in the old stone age, early humans didn't yet know how to farm. they survived by hunting and gathering. in the new stone age, people learned how to farm so they didn't hunt or gather as much.
What is the difference between old stone age and new stone age?
old stone age is the time before prehistory and the new stone age is the time during civilization and the time after history In the Old Stone Age, people hunted and gathered food. In the New Stone Age, people learned how to farm and grow crops.
If they did not farm what did they do in the old stone age?
how did surplus effect the new stone age
What is another name for the Neolithic Age?
the New age when people learned how to farm Actually its the New Stone Age.
How did the new stone age differ from the old stone age?
During the old stone age they hunted and gathered.During the new stone age they farm
Did the houses change Stone Age to bronzeage?
Early stone age people were hunter gatherers, they did not live in houses. Later in the stone age people did begin to settle down and farm, and the transition from stone to bronze did not, of itself, drive a change in house design.
What are 4 thing people did in the new stone age but not in the old stone age?
4 things people did in the new stone age and not in the old stone age is: 1. Farm 2. Develop into early cities 3. Bring water into the cities using irrigation 4.Have a centralized government and social classes
Did new stone age farm?
yes everybody farm since forever
What are some of the advancements and achievements of the stone age?
During the stone age people learned to make fire, being nomads and hunter gathers, the most important thing was that they learned how to make tools out of stone and to farm.
When did the new stone age start?
The new stone Age began when our ancestors started to farm and plant crops
How was life in the old stone age different from life in the new stone age?
in the old stone age, people didn't know how to farm. they survived by hunting and gathering; they were hunter-gatherers. people in the new stone age learned how to plant crops and how to tame wild animals and breed them. animals helped In hunting a lot. hope this helped :)ih
How old did the stone age people get?
how people trade in the old stone age
Was there ever a stone age?
NO, the stone age is when people used stone tools
What happeneed when stone age people died?
When Stone Age people died,people carried on with their
What came after the stone age people?
The stone age was followed by the bronze age.
What people were wearing in the stone age?
people wore animal skin in the stone age
How did life change between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages?
The Neolithic Age is the end of the Stone Age. People in the Paleolithic age did not live in permanent housing. People in the Neolithic age began to settle down in permanent structures and farm.
Did stone age people have tools?
Yes, they were made out of stone, that was why it was called the stone age.
How did people survive the old Stone Age?
The people of the old stone age hunted and farmed.
Who did the old stone age people live with?
Mostly other old stone age people.
How did the stone age people dress?
the stone age people dressed in animal skins and hides
Why do you call it the stone age?
People call it the Stone Age because of the about of stone tools at the time.
What continent did age stone people live on?
Well, I sincerely doubt the stone age was alive, but stone age people lived on all of them except for Antarctica.
Before learning to farm what were people?
Before learning to farm, people were hunters and gatherers. It was around the end of the Stone Age when humans first started to learn farming. Farming was less labor intensive and people began to form communities.
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How does the witch punish rapunzel?
The witch cuts off Rapunzel's hair.
The witch punishes her as trying to cut Rapunzel's hair but Rapunzel won't let the witch cut her hair off
How did the witch in Rapunzel die?
The witch in Rapunzel died by falling from the tower to the ground (pretty high!)
How does the witch find out Rapunzel is pregnant?
Traditional story Rapunzel is complaining that her clothes are getting to tight around the middle.
Characters of Rapunzel?
It depends on which version of the story Rapunzel you read but for the most part the main characters are Rapunzel, the Prince, and the evil witch who locks Rapunzel in the tower.
What is the conflict in Rapunzel?
The conflict is that the witch wants to keep Rapunzel in the tower and the prince wants her to go with him.
Who imprisoned Rapunzel in the tower?
The witch that was her parents' neighbour.
Who is the evil character in Rapunzel?
The Witch, she doesn't have a name.
What was the name of witch in Rapunzel story?
what is the wichez name in rupunzl
How did Rapunzel get away from the tower?
Rapunzel was planning to climb out of the tower with pieces of silk that the prince brought her, but the witch figured out the plans and stuck her in an isolated place
What is the plot of Rapunzel?
There's a woman and her husband who live next to a witches house. The woman becomes obsessed with some lettuce growing the witches garden, and convinces her husband to climb the wall and pick it. The witch catches him and forces him to give her his daughter, who she named Rapunzel. She locked Rapunzel in a tower, and every morning she made Rapunzel "let down her golden hair" so she could climb up it. One day a prince heard Rapunzel singing, and instantly fell in love. He saw how the witch climbed into the tower and did it himself. He continued to visit Rapunzel secretly, until one day Rapunzel gave it away. The witch moved Rapunzel to a distant prison, but the prince looked for her and found her, and they both lived happily ever after!
Why do you think the witch locks rapunzel in the tower?
Because she's an overprotective woman who doesn't trust men around the beautiful, innocent Rapunzel. Instead of teaching her how to say "no" to a man, she locks her away to keep her from meeting men. In the original version of Rapunzel, the prince gets her pregnant during his visits, and Rapunzel gives the game away to the witch when she wonders aloud why her clothes have gotten so tight.
Who rescued Rapunzel from her tower?
Rapunzel never really got rescued from the tower. The witch put her in an isolated place after figuring out Rapunzel's escape plan, and the prince found her
how many planets are there in the galaxyWhat are all the Disney moviesWhy is there a movie of Rapunzel why is it called Tangled?
The movie Rapunzel is about a girl that lives in a castle with her parents but One Night in old witch took Rapunzel back to her Tower
Where did Rapunzel's name come from?
Before Rapunzel was born, her mother had cravings for rapunzel, a type of lettuce. The family was poor, so her father stole rapunzel from the witch next door. The witch caught him, and gave him the lettuce, but in exchange, demanded the baby as soon as it was born. The father, horrified and in shock, didn't know what to do, and took the lettuce and ran away. When the baby was born, the witch stole her away, and named her after the lettuce that she'd been traded for.
What is the story repunzel about?
it is about a king and queen who had a baby but witch took it the rapunzel is a girl who was stolen by witch she was always trapped in castle the prince came to rescue but the witch pushed the prince off and prince got blind from cactus rapunzel was kicked out she found prince dying but her tears cured the prince the end but this is a stupid question.
What is Rapunzel all about?
It's always been my opinion that "Rapunzel" is about the consequences of parenting in the wrong way. Rapunzel's birth mother doesn't care for her enough -- she gives her away to satisfy a craving! Rapunzel's foster mother overprotects her and micromanages her life. I think she wants to keep Rapunzel an innocent little girl forever. When Rapunzel reaches puberty the witch shuts Rapunzel up in a tower to prevent all contact with men, similar to a modern overprotective parent who refuses to let their children learn anything about sex in a misguided attempt to keep them virginal. In the original Grimm, Rapunzel gets pregnant by the prince and the witch discovers it when Rapunzel innocently wonders why her clothes are getting tight. The witch feels betrayed, whacks off Rapunzel's hair and sends the prince tumbling from the tower into thorns that blind him. There's no more need for the tower, and the witch disappears from the tale. Much later, the lovers reunite in the forest and Rapunzel's tears cure the prince's blindness.
What did the witch give Rapunzel's mother exchange of her baby in the story Rapunzel?
The witch just let Rapunzel's mother have all of the rampions growing in her garden, if they gave her the child that they wanted.
Why was Rapunzel locked in a tower?
Because if she was locked up in a tower, no hansome Princes could reach her. Or that's what the Wicked Witch thought. But Rapunzel used her hair as a rope, so a hansome prince could save her.
What are the characters called in Rapunzel?
Well there is the young man and woman. They are Rapunzel's parents and aren't given a name. there is Mother Gothel. She is the enchantress/witch who took Rapunzel from the man and woman. Rapunzel is the child the and woman have, and she is the main character in the story. She is named after the flower the man stole for the woman, the Rampion. The prince, which Rapunzel falls in love with, is not given a name. And finally there is the 2 children Rapunzel gives birth to in the story. In some stories they are twins and others they are just a boy and a girl
How old was Rapunzel?
Rapunzel was twelve years old when the witch locked her in the tower, but she was probably older when the prince found her. The story doesn't tell us how old exactly. You can read the original story (an English translation) in the link below.
What is the basis of Rapunzel?
Question: 1 What is the story rapunzel about? 2 What are the characters in rapunzel? 3 Why did Rapunzel throw down her hair? 4. How does isolation relate to rapunzel? 5. Where does rapunzel live?
What is the name of the person who imprisoned Rapunzel in the tower?
Mother Gothel in most stories, which means godmother. in others, she is just an enchantress or a witch
Who was locked up in a high tower by a witch?
As far as cartoon movies go, there was Rapunzel and sleeping beauty...and I guess technically Fiona from shrek
Why was Rapunzel in the tower?
rapunzel was in the tower because before she was born, her father climbed into the witches garden for some vedgetables for her pregnant wife. But the witch caught him, so he promised her anything if he let himgo. In turn the witch let him gather as much food as he wanted, but as soon as the baby was born, she took her and locked her in a tower for safe keeping. Hope this answer was ok x
Who is the hero in Rapunzel?
Rapunzel is a great hero.
When was Rapunzel created?
Rapunzel was created in 1812.
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Cole and Dylan Sprouse
The Suite Life on Deck
What is the suite life on deck movie about?
Be the first to answer!
When is a new episode of suite life on deck coming out?
I know there is a movie of the Suite Life on Deck coming out March 25.
What is the name of the songs in the suite life movie?
the ending song on the suite life on deck movie is maybe baby
When will the Suite Life On Deck movie premiere?
The Suite Life movie premiered on March 25th, 2011 on the Disney Channel.
How many episodes of Suite life on deck are left?
There are 2 episodes and a movie. if you want to be sure type in 'the suite life on deck episodes'
What are they going to do after The Suite Life on Deck Movie?
They will make the suite life graduation. (it is already been showed)
When did the suite life of Zack and Cody come out?
2005. It finished in 2008 when the suite life on deck premiered. The suite life on deck finale was in 2011. The movie was released a few weeks later.
What is Better life from the Suite Life on Deck?
There is not rely a Better life on the Suite Life On Deck.
Who is she character the movie?
If your talking about who plays Wendy Wu in the movie....... its Brenda song, from suite life on deck.. and suite life of Zak and Cody
Can you be on the suite life on deck?
No. The Suite Life on Deck had it's season finale.
What is the website for suite life on deck?
The website for The Suite Life on Deck is disneychannel.com/suitelifeondeck
How many episodes of suite life on deck are there?
There are 71 episodes of The Suite Life on Deck.
Is the suite life on deck close to ending?
The Suite Life on Deck has officially ended.
Is the suite life on deck a godly show?
No, the suite life on deck is not a godly show
Will Debby Ryan be returning to suite life on deck?
The suite life on deck is over
What is the duration of The Suite Life on Deck?
The duration of The Suite Life on Deck is -1440.0 seconds.
What are Dylan and Cole Sprouse going to do after the suite life on deck?
They are going to make a movie called The Suite Life on Deck Movie, which premieres Friday, March 25, 2011. At 7 or 8 o'clock.
Why is Maya not in the suite life on deck movie?
Yes, Maya did appear on Suite Life on Deck before the movie, but the director probably started shooting the movie before Maya joined. They can't shove Maya in the movie last second.
Will there be a new season of the suite life on deck?
No. Not exactly suite life on deck is DONE OVER.
What is the newest episode of the suite life on deck?
the newest episode of the suite life on deck is graduation
What is the next suite life on deck?
Never. The Finale Of Suite Life On Deck Aired Already.Sorry
Who play the teacher on the suite life on deck?
The teacher on the suite life on deck is Emma Tutweiller
When was The Suite Life on Deck created?
The Suite Life on Deck was created on 2008-09-26.
Phil Lewis from suite life on deck?
Yes he is It developed from Suite life of Zack and Cody to when they moved on a boat, Suite life on deck.
What is the next episode after the Twister Suite life on deck?
The next episode after twister is either snakes on deck or prom night but the last episode is graduation and after that comes the movie "Suite Life On Deck: Two For the Road"
Does Jonas sing suite life on deck?
No. The Suite Life on Deck opening theme song, "Livin' the Suite Life" was sung by Steve Rushton.
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Vote Now 2020 Nominees Telstra ARIA Music Teacher Past Winners About
2015 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra | Nominated artists revealed
2015 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra | Nominated artists revealed Courtney Barnett wins ARIA Award for Best Cover Art and leads the nominations Tame Impala front man, Kevin Parker wins two ARIA Awards for Producer Of The Year AND Engineer Of...
Courtney Barnett wins ARIA Award for Best Cover Art and leads the nominations
Tame Impala front man, Kevin Parker wins two ARIA Awards for Producer Of The Year AND Engineer Of The Year
An Australian music awards first – Twitter live vote for Best Australian Live Act
With just seven weeks until the 2015 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) today announced the nominees in all categories, with the winners to be announced at The Star, Sydney on Thursday, November 26, 2015.
The 2015 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra are supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency Destination NSW, Telstra, The Star, David Jones, Qantas and PPCA, and will be broadcast on TEN on Thursday, November 26.
ARIA Chairman and Chairman & CEO of Sony Music Entertainment Australia and New Zealand & President, Asia, Denis Handlin, AM said “On behalf of the ARIA board, congratulations to all of today's winners in the Fine Arts and Artisan categories. It is a truly excellent group of artists and creative contributors that we celebrate today and an outstanding achievement to win an ARIA Award for their particular genre or craft. Each of the nominees and winners truly demonstrate the influence and creativity of Australian music. I would also like to congratulate all of the nominees announced today for the ARIAs on 26 November and we look forward to celebrating a wonderful night of awards, music and performances at The Star Sydney.”
ARIA Awards were presented to the recipients of three ARIA Artisan Award categories (Producer Of The Year, Engineer Of The Year and Best Cover Art) and four ARIA Fine Arts Awards categories (Best World Music Album, Best Jazz Album, Best Classical Album and Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album) at the Nominations Event – they became the first of many artists to be acknowledged by their peers for their creative contributions over the last twelve months.
Highlights of the ceremony included Courtney Barnett who won her first ARIA Award in the Best Cover Art category and secured eight nominations in total, making her the most highly nominated artist at the event.
Kevin Parker from Tame Impala added to his ARIA Award collection by winning both Producer Of The Year and Engineer Of The Year ARIA Awards for his work on the band’s latest #1 ARIA album, ‘Currents’.
ARIA Chief Executive Officer, Dan Rosen, added “2015 has been another stellar year for Australian music with 14 Australian artists reaching the top of the ARIA Charts and the likes of AC/DC, Courtney Barnett, Iggy Azalea, Tame Impala and Vance Joy featuring strongly on charts and festival stages around the world. This success is celebrated today with the winners of the Fine Arts and Artisan Awards and the announcement of the nominated artists for the 2015 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra. We can’t wait for the ARIA festivities to begin.”
NSW Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres said, “Congratulations to the ARIA Awards Fine Arts and Artisan category winners and to each of the nominees announced today. The NSW Government, through Destination NSW, is proud to have secured Sydney as the home of the ARIA Awards and we look forward to welcoming this year’s nominees and the Australian music industry to Sydney in November.”
In an Australian Awards show first, Twitter Australia will be giving fans the opportunity to vote exclusively in the Best Australian Live Act category. Fans can start voting for their favourite Australian Live Act now by heading to Twitter using the following hashtags:
#ARIAS5SOS, #ARIASCOURTNEYBARNETT, #ARIASGANGOFYOUTHS, #ARIASHERMITUDE, #ARIASHILLTOPHOODS, #ARIASNICKCAVE, #ARIASPAULKELLY, #ARIASSHEPPARD, #ARIASTHEPREATURES, #ARIASVANCEJOY
The 2015 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra will again give Australian music fans the chance to have their say in who takes home an ARIA Award, with four publicly voted awards: Song Of The Year, Best International Act, Best Australian Live Act and Best Video. For more information on the 2015 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra publicly voted awards, visit ariaawards.com.au/public-voting
Stay tuned for further announcements of performers and presenters for the 2015 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra in coming weeks, including the full program of events for ARIA Week, which is back bigger and better in 2015. Featuring the Electronic Music Conference (EMC), the popular ARIA Masterclass, and curated showcases by triple j Unearthed, Sony Music Australia, Warner/UNFD/Maniacs, MGM & The Music and more to be announced, ARIA Week ensures that music fans and venues around Sydney are going to be spoilt for musical choice in the lead up to the 2015 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra.
2015 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra | Thursday, November 26, 2015
The Star, Sydney | Broadcast on TEN
#ARIAS
GENERAL PUBLIC TICKETS: On sale 9.00am on Monday, October 12, 2015 from www.ticketek.com.au
THE 2015 ARIA AWARDS CONNECTED BY TELSTRA
NOMINATION LEADER BOARD
EIGHT NOMINATIONS
It was Courtney Barnett’s moment to shine at the 2015 ARIA Nominations Event where she accepted her first ARIA Award for Best Cover Art for the Top 5 ARIA album ‘Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit’. The album, which went #10 on the Billboard Album Charts and #13 on the UK Album Charts, secured nominations in the following categories: Album Of The Year, Best Female Artist, Best Independent Release, Best Rock Album, Breakthrough Artist and the publicly voted categories for Best Australian Live Act and Best Video for the song, ‘Pedestrian At Best’ which was directed by Charlie Ford. ‘Pedestrian At Best’ has been named by Rolling Stone, Spin Magazine, Mashable and Entertainment Weekly as the best song of 2015.
SEVEN NOMINATIONS
Hermitude
Electronic duo, Hermitude celebrate seven ARIA Award nominations with their #1 ARIA Album, ‘Dark Night Sweet Light’ being nominated in the following categories: Album Of The Year, Best Group, Best Independent Release as well as the publicly voted categories for Best Australian Live Act and Best Video for ‘Through The Roof’ Featuring Young Tapz directed by Kess Broekman-Dattner. The album was also nominated in two Artisan Awards categories: Producer Of The Year for Luke Dubber and Angus Stuart and Engineer Of The Year for Mitch Kenny.
Vance Joy’s star continues to rise both locally and internationally. His Platinum-selling #1 ARIA Album, ‘Dream Your Life Away’ and Platinum-selling single ‘Georgia’ have garnered Joy seven ARIA Award nominations including Album Of The Year, Best Male Artist, Best Independent Release, Best Pop Release and three publicly voted categories for Best Australian Live Act, Song of the Year and Best Video (directed by Luci Schroder) for ‘Georgia’. Vance Joy’s single ‘Riptide’ set a record on the ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the single to have spent the most weeks in the Top 100 in ARIA Charts’ history.
SIX NOMINATIONS
After winning Best Rock Album and Album Of The Year ARIAs at the 2013 ARIA Awards for their album ‘Lonerism’, Tame Impala’s winning streak continues in 2015 with Kevin Parker taking out both the Producer Of The Year and Engineer Of The Year ARIA awards in the Artisan Awards categories for Tame Impala’s #1 ARIA Album, ‘Currents’. The album is also nominated in the following categories: Album Of The Year, Best Group, Best Rock Album and Best Pop Release for their single ‘Let It Happen’.
FIVE NOMINATIONS
Gang Of Youths
Gang of Youths’ debut album ‘The Positions’ debuted at #5 on the ARIA Album Chart in May 2015. As well as earning them Feature Album on triple j, FBI and Triple M, the album has also scored ARIA Award nominations in the following categories: Best Rock Album, Breakthrough Artist and the publicly voted category, Best Australian Live Act. Nathan Johnson was nominated for Best Artwork and Adrian Breakspear and Peter Holz were nominated in the Engineer Of The Year category for their work on the single, ‘Radioface’.
Brisbane singer songwriter, Jarryd James’ double-platinum #2 ARIA single, ‘Do You Remember’ has secured the talented newcomer five ARIA Award nominations in the following categories: Best Male Artist, Breakthrough Artist, Best Pop Release, Best Independent Release and the publicly voted category, Song Of The Year.
FOUR NOMINATIONS
Daniel Johns
Vocalist, composer, guitarist, pianist and producer Daniel Johns released one of the most anticipated debuts this year in Australian music ‘Talk’ which reached #2 on the ARIA Album charts. The album was launched with two sold out shows at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Vivid Festival where Daniel was hailed as one of the most exciting artists in the country. Daniel Johns has received four ARIA Award nominations including Best Male Artist and the publicly voted category, Best Video for the single ‘Aerial Love’ that was directed by Lorin Askill. The album also received nominations in the Artisan award categories for Best Cover Art (Daniel Johns, Aref and Peter Salmon-Lomas) and Producer Of The Year (Daniel Johns and Damn Moroda) for the single ‘Preach’.
THREE NOMINATIONS
Conrad Sewell
Conrad Sewell’s Platinum-selling, ARIA #1 single, 'Start Again' has reigned in three ARIA Award nominations for the talented singer songwriter including: Best Pop Release, Breakthrough Artist and the publicly voted category, Song Of The Year.
Flight Facilities' Gold-selling, #3 ARIA debut album 'Down To Earth' featuring Brisbane's Emma Louise, New York's soulful comedian Reggie Watts, rapper Bishop Nehru, Melbourne's Owl Eyes, and Australia's national treasure Kylie Minogue has received three ARIA Award nominations in the following categories: Album Of The Year and Best Dance Release, as well as Timothy Lovett being nominated for Best Cover Art.
Lee Kernaghan
2015 marked the 100th Anniversary of the ANZAC’s landing at Gallipoli. In honour of this landmark occasion, former Australian of the Year and music legend, Lee Kernaghan, teamed up with a host of local artists and musicians to create the ARIA #1 Album, ‘Spirit of the Anzacs’, which held the top spot on the ARIA Album charts for four consecutive weeks. The album is nominated in three categories including: Best Country Album and the publicly voted Best Video for ‘Spirit Of The Anzac’s’ directed by Duncan Toombs. Long-time producer and collaborator Garth Porter received a nomination in the Producer Of The Year category.
Paul Kelly Presents The Merri Soul Sessions
Multiple ARIA Award winner and ARIA Hall Of Fame Inductee, Paul Kelly’s latest album ‘Paul Kelly Presents The Merri Soul Sessions’, a soul album featuring the likes of Clairy Browne, Vika and Linda Bull, Dan Sultan, Kira Puru and himself has secured three nominations in the following categories: Best Adult Contemporary Album, Best Independent Release and the publicly voted, Best Australian Live Act category.
The Preatures
2013 ARIA Award nominated rock band, The Preatures’ debut album, ‘Blue Planet Eyes’ has garnered the group three ARIA Award nominations: Best Group, Best Rock Album and the publicly voted Best Australian Live Act category.
After scooping 4 ARIA Awards in 2014, Sia returns in 2015 with three nominations for her double platinum single, ‘Elastic Heart’ in the following categories: Best Female Artist, Best Pop Release and the publicly voted category, Song Of The Year.
The Waifs
One of Australia’s most loved touring bands, The Waifs returned in 2015 with their seventh album, ‘Beautiful You’ which has earned them three ARIA Awards nominations for Best Blues And Roots Album, as well as Nick Didia being nominated in the Artisan Awards categories for Producer Of The Year and Engineer Of The Year.
TWO NOMINATIONS
5 Seconds Of Summer – Best Group and Best Australian Live Act(publicly voted category), Alison Wonderland – Best Dance Release and Best Video (publicly voted category), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra – Best Classical Album and Engineer Of The Year, Meg Mac – Best Female Artist and Breakthrough Artist, Megan Washington - Best Female Artist and Best Adult Contemporary Album, Peking Duk – Best Dance Release and Song Of The Year (publicly voted category),Shane Nicholson – Best Country Album and Best Video (publicly voted category), The Veronicas – Song Of The Year (publicly voted category) and Best Video (publicly voted category)
ONE NOMINATION
#1 Dads - Best Male Artist, AC/DC – Best Group, Allan Browne Quartet – Best Jazz Album, Amy Dickson – Best Classical Album, Baby et Lulu – Best World Music Album, Barney McAll – Best Jazz Album, Beat The Drum – Celebrating 40 Years Of triple j – Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album, Bondi Hipsters – Best Comedy Release, Born Lion – Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album, Buddy Goode – Best Comedy Release, C.W. Stoneking – Best Blues And Roots Album, Calvin Harris – Best International Artist, Catherine Britt – Best Country Album, Christine Anu – Best World Music Album, Citizen Kay – Best Urban Album, Dead Letter Circus – Best Rock Album, Delta Goodrem – Best Video (publicly voted category), Ed Kuepper - Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album, Ed Sheeran – Best International Artist, Flume – Best Video (publicly voted category), Foo Fighters – Best International Artist, Genevieve Lacey / James Crabb – Best World Music Album, Giggle and Hoot – Best Children’s Album, Grace – Song Of The Year (publicly voted category), Grigoryan Brothers – Best Classical Album, Gurrumul – Best World Music Album, Guy Sebastian – Best Male Artist, Hayden James – Best Dance Release, Hiatus Kaiyote – Best Urban Album, Hilltop Hoods – Best Australian Live Act (publicly voted category), Hozier – Best International Artist, Iggy Azalea – Song Of The Year (publicly voted category), In Hearts Wake – Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album, James Bay – Best International Artist, Jessica Mauboy – Best Female Artist, John Farnham and Olivia Newton John – Best Adult Contemporary Album, Joseph Tawadros – Best World Music Album, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Best Jazz Album, King Parrot – Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album, Mark Ronson – Best International Artist, Marlisa – Song Of The Year (publicly voted category), Marlon Williams – Best Blues And Roots Album, Matt Okine – Best Comedy Release, Meghan Trainor – Best International Artist, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra / Nigel Westlake - Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album, Mustered Courage – Best Country Album, Nathaniel – Song Of The Year (publicly voted category), Nick Cave – Best Australian Live Act (publicly voted category), Northlane – Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album, Oh Mercy – Best Adult Contemporary Album, One Direction – Best International Artist, Opera Australia - Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album, Paul Grabowsky – Best Jazz Album, Play School – Best Children’s Album, Pond – Best Cover Art, Rhys Muldoon – Best Children’s Album, Ronny Chieng – Best Comedy Release, Rüfüs – Best Dance Release, Sally Whitwell – Best Classical Album, Sam Moran – Best Children’s Album, Sam Smith - Best International Artist, Sammy J & Randy – Best Comedy Release, Sarah McKenzie – Best Jazz Album, Seth Sentry – Best Urban Album, Sheppard – Best Australian Live Act (publicly voted category), Szymon – Best Adult Contemporary Album, Tamara-Anna Cislowska – Best Classical Album, Taylor Swift – Best International Artist, The Black Sorrows – Best Blues And Roots Album, The Meeting Tree – Best Urban Album, The Water Diviner (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album, The Wiggles – Best Children’s Album, Thy Art Is Murder – Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album, Tim Rogers & The Bamboos – Best Blues And Roots Album, Troy Cassar-Daley – Best Country Album, Tuka – Best Urban Album
FINAL FIVE NOMINEES
Winners to be announced Thursday, November 26, 2015 at The Star Event Centre, Sydney
Telstra Album Of The Year
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records/Remote Control)
Flight Facilities - Down To Earth (Future Classic)
Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks)
Tame Impala – Currents (Modular / Universal Music Australia)
Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away (Liberation Music)
Best Adult Contemporary Album
John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John - Two Strong Hearts (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Megan Washington - There There (Mercury Australia / Universal Music Australia)
Oh Mercy - When We Talk About Love (EMI)
Paul Kelly presents The Merri Soul Sessions - Paul Kelly presents The Merri Soul Sessions (Gawd Aggie Recordings / Universal Music Australia)
Szymon –Tigersapp (EMI / Eloper Music)
Best Blues And Roots Album
C.W. Stoneking - Gon' Boogaloo (King Hokum Records / Caroline Australia)
Marlon Williams - Marlon Williams (Caroline Australia)
The Black Sorrows - Endless Sleep (Head Records)
The Waifs - Beautiful You (Jarrah Records / MGM)
Tim Rogers & The Bamboos - The Rules of Attraction (Warner Music Australia)
Giggle and Hoot - Hootastic Tunes (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Play School - Favourite Things - Songs and Nursery Rhymes from Play School (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Rhys Muldoon - Perfect Is The Enemy Of Good (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Sam Moran - Play Along With Sam: BOO! (6 Degrees Records / MGM)
The Wiggles - Rock & Roll Preschool (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Best Comedy Release
Bondi Hipsters - Fuhck The Bahnks (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Buddy Goode - Songs To Ruin Every Occasion (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Matt Okine - Live at the Enmore Theatre (Century Entertainment)
Ronny Chieng - Chieng Reaction (Century Entertainment)
Sammy J & Randy – Live (Head Records)
Catherine Britt – Boneshaker (Lost Highway Australia / Universal Music Australia)
Lee Kernaghan - Spirit Of The Anzacs (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Mustered Courage - White Lies and Melodies (Lost Highway Australia / Universal Music Australia)
Shane Nicholson - Hell Breaks Loose (Lost Highway Australia / Universal Music Australia)
Troy Cassar-Daley - Freedom Ride (Liberation Music)
Best Dance Release
Alison Wonderland – Run (EMI)
Hayden James - Something About You (Future Classic)
Peking Duk - Take Me Over feat. SAFIA (Vicious Bitch / Universal Music Australia)
Rüfüs - You Were Right (Sweat It Out / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Best Female Artist
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records / Remote Control)
Jessica Mauboy - Can I Get A Moment? (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Meg Mac - MEGMAC EP (littleBIGMAN / Inertia)
Sia - Elastic Heart (Inertia Recordings)
5 Seconds of Summer – LiveSOS (EMI)
AC/DC - Rock Or Bust (Alberts / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)
The Preatures - Blue Planet Eyes (Mercury Australia / Universal Music Australia)
Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album
Born Lion - Final Words (FOUR|FOUR / Universal Music Australia)
In Hearts Wake – Skydancer (UNFD)
King Parrot - Dead Set (EVP Recordings / Rocket Distribution)
Northlane – Node (UNFD)
Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War (UNFD)
Best Independent Release
Jarryd James - Do You Remember (Jarryd James Music / Dryden Street Limited)
Paul Kelly presents The Merri Soul Sessions - Paul Kelly presents The Merri Soul Sessions (Gawd Aggie Recordings)
Best Male Artist
#1 Dads – Nominal (Pieater / Inertia)
Daniel Johns – Talk (Eleven / EMI)
Guy Sebastian - Tonight Again (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Best Pop Release
Conrad Sewell - Start Again (300 Entertainment / Warner Music Australia)
Tame Impala - Let It Happen (Modular / Universal Music Australia)
Dead Letter Circus – Aesthesis (UNFD)
Gang of Youths - The Positions (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Best Urban Album
Citizen Kay – Demokracy (Asphalt Records / MGM)
Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon (Flying Buddha / Sony Music Masterworks)
Seth Sentry - Strange New Past (High Score Records / Inertia)
The Meeting Tree - R U A Cop (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Tuka - Life Death Time Eternal (EMI)
Breakthrough Artist presented by PPCA
Meg Mac - Never Be (littleBIGMAN / Inertia)
PUBLICLY VOTED AWARDS
Best Australian Live Act
5 Seconds Of Summer - Rock Out With Your Socks Out Tour (EMI)
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit Album Tour (Milk! Records / Remote Control)
Gang of Youths - Gang of Youths National Tour (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light Tour (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)
Hilltop Hoods - Cosby Sweater Australian Tour (Golden Era Records / Universal Music Australia)
Nick Cave - Nick Cave Australian Tour (Bad Seed / Kobalt Label Services)
Paul Kelly presents The Merri Soul Sessions - Paul Kelly Presents The Merri Soul Sessions Tour (Gawd Aggie Recordings / Universal Music Australia)
Sheppard - The Bombs Away Tour (Chugg Music & Empire Of Song / MGM Distribution)
The Preatures - The Cruel Tour (Mercury Australia / Universal Music Australia)
Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away Tour (Liberation Music)
Best International Artist
Calvin Harris – Motion (Columbia / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Ed Sheeran – X (Atlantic UK / Warner Music)
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways (RCA / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Hozier – Hozier (Columbia / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
James Bay - Chaos And The Calm (Universal / Universal Music Australia)
Mark Ronson - Uptown Special (Columbia / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Meghan Trainor – Title (Epic Records / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
One Direction – Four (Syco / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour (Capitol / EMI)
Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine Records / Universal Music Australia)
Prad Senanayake for Alison Wonderland - U Don't Know feat. Wayne Coyne (EMI)
Charlie Ford for Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian At Best (Milk! Records / Remote Control)
Lorin Askill for Daniel Johns - Aerial Love (Eleven / EMI)
Anthony Rose for Delta Goodrem – Wings (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Clemens Habicht for Flume - Some Minds feat. Andrew Wyatt (Future Classic)
Kess Broekman-Dattner for Hermitude - Through The Roof feat. Young Tapz (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)
Duncan Toombs for Lee Kernaghan - Spirit Of The Anzacs (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Filmery for Shane Nicholson - Secondhand Man (Lost Highway Australia)
Luci Schroder for Vance Joy – Georgia (Liberation Music)
Matt Sharp & Daniel James for The Veronicas - You Ruin Me (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Grace - You Don't Own Me feat. G-Eazy (RCA / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Iggy Azalea - Trouble feat. Jennifer Hudson (Mercury Australia / Universal Music Australia)
Marlisa - Stand By You (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Nathaniel - Live Louder (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Peking Duk - Take Me Over feat. SAFIA (Vicious Bitch/Universal Music Australia)
The Veronicas - You Ruin Me (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Vance Joy – Georgia (Liberation Music)
FINE ARTS AWARDS | ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015
WINNER: Tamara-Anna Cislowska - Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Amy Dickson - Island Songs (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Brandenburg Celebrates (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Grigoryan Brothers - This Time (Which Way Music)
Sally Whitwell - I Was Flying (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Best Jazz Album
WINNER: Barney McAll – Mooroolbark (ABC Jazz / Universal Music Australia)
Allan Browne Quintet - Ithaca Bound (Jazzhead / MGM Distribution)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Quarters! (Flightless / Remote Control)
Paul Grabowsky – Solo (ABC Jazz / Universal Music Australia)
Sarah McKenzie - We Could Be Lovers (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album
WINNER: Various Artists - Beat The Drum - Celebrating 40 Years of triple j (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Ed Kuepper - Last Cab To Darwin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra / Nigel Westlake - Paper Planes (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Opera Australia - Bliss (Brett Dean / Amanda Holden / Peter Carey) (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Various Artists - The Water Diviner (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Universal Music Australia)
WINNER: Gurrumul - The Gospel Album (Skinnyfish Music / MGM)
Baby et Lulu - Album Deux (Independent / MGM)
Christine Anu - Island Christmas (Social Family Records / Universal Music Australia / The Orchard)
Genevieve Lacey / James Crabb - Heard This and Thought of You (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Joseph Tawadros - Truth Seekers, Lovers and Warriors (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
ARTISAN AWARDS | ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015
WINNER: Kevin Parker for Tame Impala – Currents (Modular / Universal Music Australia)
Virginia Read for Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Brandenburg Celebrates (ABC Classics / Universal Music Australia)
Adrian Breakspear and Peter Holz for Gang of Youths – Radioface (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Mitch Kenny for Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)
Nick Didia for The Waifs - Beautiful You (Jarrah Records / MGM)
Producer Of The Year
Daniel Johns and Damn Moroda for Daniel Johns – Preach (Eleven / EMI)
Luke Dubber and Angus Stuart for Hermitude - Dark Night Sweet Light (Elefant Traks / Inertia Music)
Garth Porter for Lee Kernaghan - Spirit Of The Anzacs (ABC Music / Universal Music Australia)
Best Cover Art
WINNER: Courtney Barnett for Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Milk! Records / Remote Control)
Daniel Johns, Aref and Peter Salmon-Lomas for Daniel Johns - Talk (Eleven / EMI)
Timothy Lovett for Flight Facilities - Down To Earth (Future Classic)
Nathan Johnson for Gang of Youths - The Positions (Verge / Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Bjenny Montero for Pond - Man It Feels Like Space Again (EMI)
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At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black hole hides within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas. When astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study this cloud in more detail, they made an unexpected discovery that could explain why supermassive black holes grew so rapidly in the early Universe.
“Thanks to the spectacular resolution of ALMA, we measured the movement of gas in the inner orbits around the black hole,” explains Violette Impellizzeri of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), working at ALMA in Chile and lead author on a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal. “Surprisingly, we found two disks of gas rotating in opposite directions.”
Supermassive black holes already existed when the Universe was young, just a billion years after the Big Bang. But how these extreme objects, whose masses are up to billions of times the mass of the Sun, had time to grow so fast, is an outstanding question among astronomers. This new ALMA discovery could provide a clue. “Counter-rotating gas streams are unstable, which means that clouds fall into the black hole faster than they do in a disk with a single rotation direction,” said Impellizzeri. “This could be a way in which a black hole can grow rapidly.”
NGC 1068 (also known as Messier 77) is a spiral galaxy approximately 47 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Cetus. At its center is an active galactic nucleus, a supermassive black hole that is actively feeding itself from a thin, rotating disk of gas and dust, also known as an accretion disk.
Previous ALMA observations revealed that the black hole is gulping down material and spewing out gas at incredibly high speeds. This gas that gets expelled from the accretion disk likely contributes to hiding the region around the black hole from optical telescopes.
Impellizzeri and her team used ALMA’s superior zoom lens ability to observe the molecular gas around the black hole. Unexpectedly, they found two counter-rotating disks of gas. The inner disk spans 2-4 light-years and follows the rotation of the galaxy, whereas the outer disk (also known as the torus) spans 4-22 light-years and is rotating the opposite way.
“We did not expect to see this, because gas falling into a black hole would normally spin around it in only one direction,” said Impellizzeri. “Something must have disturbed the flow because it is impossible for a part of the disk to start rotating backward all on its own.”
Counter-rotation is not an unusual phenomenon in space. “We see it in galaxies, usually thousands of light-years away from their galactic centers,” explained co-author Jack Gallimore from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. “The counter-rotation always results from the collision or interaction between two galaxies. What makes this result remarkable is that we see it on a much smaller scale, tens of light-years instead of thousands from the central black hole.”
The astronomers think that the backward flow in NGC 1068 might be caused by gas clouds that fell out of the host galaxy, or by a small passing galaxy on a counter-rotating orbit captured in the disk.
At the moment, the outer disk appears to be in a stable orbit around the inner disk. “That will change when the outer disk begins to fall onto the inner disk, which may happen after a few orbits or a few hundred thousand years. The rotating streams of gas will collide and become unstable, and the disks will likely collapse in a luminous event as the molecular gas falls into the black hole. Unfortunately, we will not be there to witness the fireworks,” said Gallimore.
This research results appeared in the Astrophysical Journal as “Counter-rotation and High-velocity Outflow in the Parsec-scale Molecular Torus of NGC 1068” by V. Impellizzeri et al. The research team was composed by Violette Impellizzeri1,2, Jack F. Gallimore3, Stefi A. Baum4, Moshe Elitzur5, Richard Davies6, Dieter Lutz6, Roberto Maiolino7, Alessandro Marconi8,9, Robert Nikutta10, Christopher P. O’Dea4, and Eleonora Sani11.
1 Joint ALMA Observatory, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile
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Artist impression of the heart of galaxy NGC 1068, which harbors an actively feeding supermassive black hole, hidden within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas. ALMA discovered two counter-rotating flows of gas around the black hole. The colors in this image represent the motion of the gas: blue is material moving toward us, red is moving away. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello.
ALMA image showing two disks of gas moving in opposite directions around the black hole in galaxy NGC 1068. The colors in this image represent the motion of the gas: blue is material moving toward us, red is moving away. The white triangles are added to show the accelerated gas that is expelled from the inner disk – forming a thick, obscuring cloud around the black hole. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), V. Impellizzeri; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello.
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The end of ‘Google questions?’, behavioural interviews rule
Denise Taylor
In the Sunday Times I read that Google is going to stop asking the teaser questions at interview such as “How many piano tuners are there in the world?”
The article was based on a more extensive article in the New York Times.
There are a whole heap of these sorts of questions asked at interview and they are meant to test deep thinking.
Some interview are also used at Oxford and Cambridge University but do they test deep thinking? Here are some more examples
If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?
If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!)
Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?
How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President, People Operations at Google said “How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart” he told The New York Times.
When I used to work for Royal Mail as interviewers and assessors we would ask questions at interview to see how a candidate would think. Interview questions such as how to move a distribution hub from Manchester to Liverpool or to get the candidate to talk through how to implement a change to driving on the right instead of the left hand side of the road.
But we also used behavioural interviewing. This is where the interviewer asks questions about how the candidate would respond in a particular situation. Occupational Psychologists and other experienced interviewers use these questions as past behaviour is a good indicator of future performance.
This article then moves on to discuss unconventional recruitment techniques such as extreme interviewing and describes Campbell Mithun, an advertising company based in Minneapolis, whose application process was to be in the form of 13 Twitter messages designed to find ‘digitally savvy, creative thought leader’s. But this is about finding candidates, not about the interview.
I’ve heard of an interviewer ask a candidate to shock him, and he threw a chair out the window.
As an occupational psychologist I’ve personal experience of recruitment, being assessed over dinner, and asking for mineral water when I was applying for a job with a water company was probably not a great move. We were also given a large ring binder full of data to read over night. Skimming through took me till 01.00 and I’m still not sure if I should have stayed up all night.
I was also interviewed for a role within a Police Force and the consultant Psychologist sat at the top of a long board room table. When I entered and sat at the table near him he asked me why I didn’t sit at the other end of the table. Because then we would have to shout I answered, which seemed odd and he spent more time telling me about his latest book than asking me questions, and more importantly listening to my answer.
I didn’t get either job, nor did I want them.
And that’s important, when we go for a job interview it’s a two way thing, it is just as important that we, as candidates also get a good vibe about the company and feel like it will be the type of company we want to work for.
The bigger article is well worth reading. Google did what few companies do, a validation study. As a recruitment consultant we never know about the longer term outcome, did the person turn out to be a success, yes they passed their probation period, we hope, but over 3 years or more were they a success? Of course to do this properly we should also take on people who fail the selection process but I’ve not known an organisation do that.
The article also says that GPAs don’t predict success. In the UK graduate recruitment will often put a filter of having a 2.1 or above, but this is mainly to manage the numbers and to aid short listing.
Working on assessment centres as an experienced interviewer, and as a senior manager and project leader I’ve found it is the personal qualities that will be more helpful in predicting success. I want people with drive and determination, resilient to bounce back from disappointment and to put in some effort to try and do something new rather than to keep seeking guidance.
Back when I gained my degree from the Open University, (1988!) having studied part time over 8 years, this was a great example to discuss and showed drive, resilience, commitment and excellent time management.
Google are looking for people who can figure it out, other companies will have different criteria and for some jobs you need your vocational qualification such as to be a chemist, a Quantity Surveyor, an Occupational Psychologist. But there’s still much more. These qualifications just get you to the gate.
Details on how to answer competency based questions in an interview via the links below.
Published On: June 24th, 2013 / Categories: Interviews, Job Search / Tags: Behavioural Interviews, Google questions, interview, interviews /
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Renegade Kenny Powers Campaign Launches
New behind the scenes video. What’s funnier than millions of views, a 1256% increase in Facebook fans, and a 250% increase in online sales? The second installment – Foot Locker’s “Kenny Powers T & A Sweepstakes” – Launches Today.
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(Westlake Village, CA) July 15, 2011 – On the heels of its widely successful 2010 TUBES™ training footwear campaign, California Sports Company K•SWISS has elevated the plot this season in a new campaign featuring Kenny Powers, the fictional character played by Danny McBride in HBO’S hit series “Eastbound & Down.” In the new campaign Powers is dissatisfied with just being an athlete endorser for the brand. He anoints himself CEO in an effort to take over “basically the whole sports world” taking K•SWISS and TUBES™ training footwear to the next level.
“Kenny Powers has definitely helped trumpet the assets of TUBES training footwear in an irreverent and unique way,” said Chris Kyle, vice president of marketing at K•SWISS. “With this new chapter of our campaign, we’re pushing the limits of how traditional sports companies market, and hopefully making a lot of people laugh in the process. At the end of the day, the campaign is meant to connect with the young male audience with our product in a meaningful, original and completely entertaining way – that’s our goal.”
In the new campaign, created with agency partner 72andSunny, Powers’ mission as CEO is to change the sports world from being “so safe and lame ass” to “being more gonzo” by any means necessary. He retools senior management, enlisting a wide range of elite and entertaining professional athletes including: Kansas City Chiefs’ Quarterback Matt Cassel as chief marketing officer, San Francisco 49ers Linebacker Patrick Willis as the vice president of carnage, America’s Toughest Trainer and wellness coach Jillian Michaels as director of community outreach, U.S. 50k record holder Josh Cox as chief super long distance runner officer, and wrestling superstar Rey Mysterio as director of security. The campaign also features the return of former MMA World Champion Urijah Faber as the chief operating officer, and MMA fighter and UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon “Bones” Jones heading up human resources.
Targeting young, athletically-minded males, the original campaign also includes cameo appearances by Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban and Film Director and Producer Michael Bay.
“Not only does Kenny resonate with our audience but so does the idea of being the big boss-man and running your own company,” said Matt Murphy, creative director at 72andSunny. “Every kid dreams of running the candy store. It’s just that this particular candy store has All-Pro NFL players, the world’s top fighters, and some harpoon guns.
The campaign launched nationally with a 90-second TV spot during ESPN’s 19th Annual ESPY awards on July 13, 2011 at 9 p.m. EST. Throughout the summer original content will air on TV, the web and in-theaters nationwide. Additionally, the campaign will be supported in print media, a robust digital/interactive campaign, including a mobile tagging sweepstakes, and in-stores displays at more than 500 Foot Locker stores where TUBES are sold. A sweepstakes powered by Microsoft Tags, appropriately named “Kenny Powers T &A Sweepstakes” (for TUBES & Apparel), will be available exclusively at Foot Locker stores from July 15 – August 15, 2011, supported by 15-second TV spot and print ads. When the Tag is scanned by mobile phone, consumers will unlock access to sweepstakes entry and a trove of Kenny Powers’ multi-media entertainment including: Kenny Powers ringtone, Kenny Powers soundboard, a digital shoe tour of TUBES, and additional video content. The sweepstakes will award three grand prize packages of K•SWISS gear for a year.
Outside of attracting thousands of new fans to the social media sites, the campaign earned a Webby nomination nod in the Comedy: Individual Short or Episode category. All activations lead up to the debut of “Eastbound & Down” Season 2 on DVD, Blu-Ray™ and Digital Download August 2, 2011.
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The Divine Attributes by WGT Shedd
The Attributes of God and the Doctrine of God
Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79-85. Twesten: Dogmatik, II. ii. Nitzsch: Christian Doctrine, | 65-75. Hodge: Theology, I. 368-439. Van Oosterzee: Dogmatics, I. 251-272. Martensen: Dogmatics, § 46-51. Strong : Theology, IV. i.
The Divine Attributes are modes either of the relation, or of the operation of the Divine essence. They are, consequently, an analytical and closer description of the essence. “Every divine attribute,” says Nitzsch (Doctrine, § 67), “is a conception of the idea of God.” The terms “conception” and “idea” are here employed as in the philosophy of Schelling. As the general and undefined idea is reduced to the form of the particular and definite conception, so the general Divine essence is contemplated in the particular attribute. The attributes are not parts of the essence, of which this latter is composed. The whole essence is in each attribute, and the attribute in the essence. We must not conceive of the essence as existing by itself, and prior to the attributes, and of the attributes as an addition to it. God is not essence and attributes, but in, attributes. The attributes are essential qualities of God. Hence Augustine, the Schoolmen, Calvin and Melanchthon say that “divinae virtutes sunt ipsa essentia.” Turrettin (ln. v. 7) remarks that “attributa dei non possunt realiter differre ab essentia, vel inter se tanquam res et res.”
The Divine attributes are of two classes, according as they denote a passive relation of the essence, or an active operation of it. 1. The essence considered as passively related to itself, is self-existent and simple; as passively related to duration, is eternal; to space, is immense; to number, is one. Self-existence, simplicity, eternity, immensity, and unity are not active operations of the Divine essence, but inactive relationships of it. Eternity, immensity, unity, and simplicity, and the like, are not modes of energizing but of existing. 2. The essence considered as in action yields attributes of a second class. When, for example, the Divine essence is contemplated as simply energizing, this is omnipotence; as cognizing, this is omniscience; as adapting means to ends, this is wisdom; as energizing benevolently or kindly, this is goodness. These attributes are the Divine essence, whole and entire, contemplated in a particular mode of external operation.
The Divine attributes are objective and real, and not merely man’s subjective mode of conception. We cannot say that we conceive of God as omnipotent, omnipresent, wise, good, and just, but that in fact he is not so. These attributes are objectively real, because the entire Divine essence is in them. The essence is not phenomenal and unreal, consequently the attributes arc not. In proportion as speculation has been engaged with the Divine essence while neglecting or denying the Divine attributes, it has been pantheistic; because it has occupied itself with a subject without predicates, a substance without properties. The Monad of gnosticism and the Absolute of pantheism are examples. These are mere mental abstractions, like the unknown quantity of algebra.
The difference between a Divine attribute and a Divine person is, that the person is a mode of the existence of the essence ; while the attribute is a mode either of the relation, or of the external operation of the essence. The qualifying adjective “external” is important; because the internal operation of the essence describes a trinitarian person. When the Divine essence energizes ad intra, the operation is generation, or spiration, and the essence so energizing is the Father, or the Son; but when the Divine essence energizes ad extra, the operation is omnipotence, or omniscience, or benevolence, etc. A trinitarian person is a mode of the essence; a divine attribute is a phase of the essence.
Several attributes may be grouped under a general term. Wisdom and omniscience fall under the head of the understanding. They are cognitive attributes, involving perception only. Goodness and mercy fall under the head of the will. They are voluntary attributes, in the sense that their exercise is sovereign and optional. Such attributes, consequently, are phases of the Divine understanding and will. In Scripture, all the attributes are sometimes summed up under the term “glory” (Sofa). “The heavens declare the glory of God,” Ps. 19 :1. Sometimes, however, the context shows that a particular attribute is meant, as in Rom. 6:4, where Christ is said to be ” raised by the glory of the Father.” “Glory” here denotes the divine omnipotence. Compare John 2 :11.
The number and classification of the Divine attributes is attended with some difficulty, and has led to considerable difference of opinion among theologians. Some reckon self-existence, immensity, simplicity, eternity, and the like, among the Divine attributes; others do not. Nitzsch (Christian Doctrine, § 66) denies that infinity, eternity, and immutability, are properly denominated attributes.
The Divine attributes have been classified as incommunicable and communicable; natural and moral; immanent or intransitive, and emanent or transitive; positive and negative; absolute and relative; active and passive. The incommunicable attributes are those that belong to God exclusively, so that there is nothing resembling them in a created spirit. They admit of no degrees, but are Divine by their very nature. Such are self-existence, simplicity, infinity, eternity, immutability. The communicable attributes are those which are possessed in a finite degree, more or less, by men and angels. Such are wisdom, benevolence, holiness, justice, compassion, truth. It is with reference to these, that man is said to be created in the image of God, Gen. 1: 27; and to be made partaker, by regeneration, of a divine nature, 2 Pet. 1:4; and is commanded to imitate God: “Be ye holy, for I am holy,” 1 Pet. 1:16. That they cannot bo in a creature in an infinite degree is proved by Matt. 19 :17: “There is none [infinitely] good but one.” The natural attributes belong to the constitutional nature, as distinguished from the will of God. Such are self-existence, simplicity, infinity, eternity, immutability, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence. Wisdom is sometimes assigned to the natural, and sometimes to the moral. The moral attributes are truth, goodness, holiness, justice, mercy, etc. The immanent or intransitive attributes are those whicb do not go forth and operate outside of the Divine essence, but remain internal. Such are immensity, eternity, simplicity, self-existence, etc. The emanent or transitive attributes issue forth and produce effects external to God. Such are omnipotence, benevolence, justice, etc. The positive attributes are those which belong in a finite degree to the creature. The negative are those from which all finite imperfection is negatived or removed. The absolute attributes express the relation of God to himself; the relative attributes express his relation to the world. Among the former are simplicity, self-existence, unity, eternity. Among the latter are omnipotence, omniscience, etc. The active attributes involve the idea of action: for example, omnipotence, justice, benevolence. The passive attributes involve the idea of rest: for example, self-existence, immensity, eternity, etc.
We adopt the classification of incommunicable and communicable attributes. The Westminster Shorter Catechism, Q. 4, favors this arrangement, by mentioning first, three of the incommunicable attributes; which are followed by communicable attributes that are qualified by the former: “God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.”
The Self-existence of God (aseitas) denotes that the ground of his being is in himself. In this reference, it is sometimes said that God is his own cause. But this is objectionable language. God is the uncaused Being, and in this respect differs from all other beings. The category of cause and effect is inapplicable to the existence of a necessary and eternal Being.
The Simplicity of God denotes that his being is uncompounded, incomplex, and indivisible: “a most pure spirit, without parts.” Simplicity does not belong to angels and men. They are complex, being composed of soul and body: two substances, not one. They are not unembodied and mere spirit. The angels, like the redeemed after the resurrection, have a spiritual body, which does not mean a body made of spirit, but one adapted to a spiritual world. A spiritual body belongs to the world of extended form, not of unextended mind. The simplicity of the Divine being is not contradictory to the trinity of his essence, because trinity does not denote three different essences, but one essence subsisting in three modes. The trinitarian distinctions no more conflict with the simplicity of the essence, than do the attributes. The essence is not divided into either hypostases, or attributes. The whole essence is in each person, and in each attribute. The theory of external emanation is incompatible with the simplicity of the Divine essence. A substance which by efflux of particles can flow out into new forms, like rays from the sun, is compounded and complex. When it is said, in Rom. 11: 36, that ” all things are of him ” (ef avrov), it is not meant that the universe is an effluent portion of the Divine essence, but that it originates from him as its creator. When it is said, in Acts 17: 28, that man is the offspring (ye’vo?) of God, it is not meant that man participates in the Divine essence, but possesses a nature similar to that of God.
The Infinity of God is the Divine essence viewed as having no bounds, or limits. And since limitation implies imperfection, the infinity of God implies that he is perfect in every respect in which he is infinite. If knowledge in any being has bounds, it is imperfect knowledge; if holiness has degrees or limits in any rational spirit, it is imperfect holiness. Yet finite holiness is real excellence, and limited knowledge is real knowledge. The finiteness of holiness does not convert it into sin; neither does the limitedness of knowledge convert it into error, or untruth. The imperfection or limitation of the finite relates not to quality, but to quantity. Infinity is a general term denoting a characteristic belonging to all the communicable attributes of God. His power, his knowledge, his veracity is infinite. It also characterizes the being of God, as well as his attributes. His essence is infinite. In this respect, infinity is like eternity and immutability. These latter, like the former, pervade the essence and all the communicable attributes. The Westminster Shorter Catechism, Q. 4, defines God to be a Spirit who is “infinite, eternal, and unchangeable,” first in his essential ” being,” then in his ” wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.” The Divine infinity is taught in Job 11:7-9. “Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? It is as high as heaven, what canst thou do? deeper than hell, what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.”
The Immensity (in mensum) of God is his essence as related to space. The Divine essence is not measurable, because not included in any limits of place. “The heaven of heavens cannot contain thee,” 1 Kings 8: 27; 2 Chron. 2: 6; Jer. 23: 24. God’s immensity is spiritual, having no extension of substance.
By virtue of God’s immensity, he is Omnipresent. Immensity and omnipresence are thus inseparably connected, and are best considered in reference to each other. Omnipresence has respect to the universe of created beings and things; to space as filled. Immensity has reference to this, and to what is beyond; to space as void: the ” extra flammantia moenia mundi,” of Lucretius (De Natura, I. 74). God is said to be beyond the universe (extra mundum), not in the sense that there are spaces beyond the universe which he fills by extension of substance, but in the sense that the universe does not exhaust his immensity, or is equal to it. “God’s immensity,” says Schleiermacher (Glaubenslehre, § 53), “is almighty immensity which determines or conditions space itself, and all that exists in space.”
The presence of mind is wholly different from that of matter. Spiritual substance is present, wherever it is present, as a complete tclwle at every point. The human soul, for example, is present as a unity and totality at every point of the body. It is not present as the body is, partitively, or by division of substance. God, also, as the infinite Spirit, is present at every point of space as a totality. He is not present in the universe by division of substance, but as a unity, simple and undivided. This is taught in the dicta: “The soul is all in every part;” “God is a circle whoso centre is everywhere, and circumference nowhere.” Omnipresence is taught in Ps. 139 : 7 sq., “Whither shall I go from thy presence ?”; Jer. 23 : 23 sq.; Is. 61 :1; Acts 17:24.
The Divine omnipresence means rather the presence of all things to God, than God’s presence to all things. They are in his presence, but he is not in their presence. When it is said, Jer. 23 : 24, ” Do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord,” the language is tropical If God were literally contained in the universe, the universe would be more immense than he is. “Nothing contains thee, but thou containest all things,” says Anselm (Proslogium 19). (a)
omnipresence of God is not like the presence of a material body in a locality. This excludes the presence of another body; but God’s presence does not exclude that of matter. “God,” says Augustine (De diversis quaostionibus, I. 20), “is not at some particular place (alicubi). For what is at some particular place is contained in space; and what is contained in some space is body. And yet because God exists and is not in space, all things are in him. Yet not so in him, as if he himself were a place in which they are.” (b) The Divine omnipresence is not like the presence of a finite spirit embodied in a material form. The soul of man, though not standing in the same relation to space that matter does, is yet not everywhere present, but is confined to a certain place; namely, the circumference of the body. “In quo loco est animus? credo equidem in capite: et cur credam, afferre possum: sed alias: nunc ubi sit animus, certe quidem inte est.” Cicero, Tusc. Quaest. I. 3. (c) Tho omnipresence of God is not by extension, multiplication, or division of essence. He is all in every place, similarly as the soul is all in every part of the body. The whole essence of God is here, is there, and everywhere.
God is said to be “in heaven,” “in believers,” “in hell,” etc., because of a special manifestation of his glory, or his grace, or his retribution. In this reference, sinners are said to be ” away” from God, and God from them. Some theologians have taught a ” specialis aproximatio essentiae divinae ad substantiam credentium,” upon the strength of John 14: 23: “We will come unto him and make our abode with him.” But this is unnecessary. “The essential presence of God is the same everywhere; the influxive declarative presence of God is special, and otherwise in one place than another.” Bates: On Heaven.
Some Socinian and deistical writers deny God’s omnipresence as to essence, and assert only a presence by operation from a distance. Newton seems to refer to this in a scholium at the end of the Principia: “God is one and the same God always and everywhere. He is omnipresent, not by means of his energy (virtus) alone, but also by his substance; for energy cannot subsist without substance.” The pagan acknowledged the Divine omnipresence. “Jovis omnia esse plena,” says Aratus. Virgil remarks that” deum ire per omnes terras tractusque maris, coelumque profundum.” Compare also Seneca: De Benevolentia, I. 8.
The Eternity of God is his essence as related to duration. It is duration without beginning, without end, and without succession. Gen. 21: 33, “The eternal God.” Is. 57: 15, “The One that inhabiteth eternity.” Ps. 90 : 2, “From eternity to eternity, thou art God.” Ps. 102 : 26-28; Is. 41: 4; 1 Tim. 1:17, ” The King eternal.” 1 Tim. 6 :16, “The Lord of lords who only hath immortality.” Rev. 1: 8, “I am Alpha and Omega.” The French version of the Scriptures renders Jehovah by l’Eternel.
Eternity is different from immortality, or simple endlessness. The schoolmen denominated the latter sempiternitas and aeviternitas. This is duration with succession, and has a beginning, but no end. Eternity considered as without beginning is described as a parte ante; as without ending, as a parte post. But the terms ” before ” and “after,” in this description, are tropical. They bring in the notion of time and succession, by which to explain; so that this definition is by quantity, not by quality. Locke’s definition of eternity as “infinite time, without beginning and ending,” is inadequate, because it makes eternity to be a species of time. The omission of successionlessness, in this definition, is fatal to accuracy. Eternity with succession is like immensity with extension, and omniscience with contingency. Some have defined eternity as the ” timeless,” the “supra-temporal,” in order to distinguish it in kind from time. Says Schleiermacher (Glanbenslehre, § 52), “we must negative from God, not only all limits of time, but time itself.”
That clause in the -definition of eternity which represents it as without sequences and succession, defines it according to quality. The schoolmen explain by saying that God, by reason of his eternity, has a simultaneous possession of his total duration. The creature comes into possession of his total duration gradually, and piecemeal. The whole of the Divine knowledge and experience is ever before the Divine being, so that there are not parts succeeding parts. The image that represents eternity is the ocean; that which represents time is the river. “The eternity of God’s existence,” says Edwards (Will, IV. viii.), “is nothing else but his immediate, perfect, and invariable possession of the whole of his unlimited life, together and at once. It is equally improper to talk of months and years of the Divine existence, and mile-squares of deity.” Says Aquinas (Summa, I. x. 4), “eternitas est tota simul; in tempore, autem, est prius et posterius. Ergo tempns et eternitas non sunt idem.” Says Boethius (De Consolatione, V. iv.), “eternitas est mensura esse permanentis, tempus vero est mensura motus.” Says Hooker (Pol., V. Ixix.), ” only God hath true immortality or eternity, that is to say, continuance wherein groweth no difference by addition of hereafter unto now.” Says Smith (Existence of God), “an infinitely comprehensive mind hath a simultaneous possession of its own never-flitting life; and because it finds no succession in its own immutable understanding, therefore it cannot find anything to measure out its own duration. And therefore the Platonists were wont to attribute aut>v or eternity, to God; not so much because he had neither beginning nor end of days, but because of his immutable and uniform nature.” Compare King: Origin of Evil, I. iii.; Locke: Understanding, II. xiv. 10; Anselm: Proslogium, 19.
In Scripture, the eternity of God is denoted by the term “to-day.” Ps. 2:7,” To-day have I begotten thee.” The eternal generation of the second trinitarian person is here described by the present alone, to the exclusion of the past and the future. This is the particular element in time which is best fitted to express the nature of the successionless, and the unchangeable. The instant is a point of time, and has no sequences. Hence eternity has been defined as an “eternal Now,” or an “universal Present.” Kant regards time as a form of the understanding; that is, as the manner in which the finite mind thinks, by reason of its finiteness. Similarly, Berkeley (Principles of Knowledge, § 98) defines time to be the succession of thoughts in the human mind. If this definition be accepted, then there is no time for God, because there is no succession of thoughts in his mind. Tho form and manner of God’s consciousness is totally different in respect to succession, from that of man’s consciousness. He does not think sequaciously as man and angel do. “My thoughts are not as your thoughts,” Is. 55 : 8.
The instantaneous vision, and successionless unchanging consciousness of the Divine omniscience, in comparison with the gradual view and successive increasing knowledge of the creature, have been thus illustrated. A person stands at a street corner, and sees a procession passing, whose component parts he does not know beforehand. He first sees white men, then black men, and lastly red men. When the last man has passed, he knows that the procession was composed of Europeans, Africans, and Indians. Now suppose that from a church tower he should see at one glance of the eye, the whole procession. Suppose that he saw no one part of it before the other, but that the total view was instantaneous. His knowledge of the procession would be all-comprehending, and without succession. He would not come into the knowledge of the components of the procession, as he did in the former case, gradually and part by part. And yet the procession would have its own movement still, and would be made up of parts that follow each other. Though the vision and knowledge of the procession, in this instance, is instantaneous, the procession itself is gradual. In like manner, the vast sequences of human history, and the still vaster sequences of physical history, appear all at once, and without any consciousness of succession, to the Divine observer. This is implied in the assertion that God “declareth the end from the beginning,” Is. 46 :10; and that “known unto God are all things from the beginning of the world,” Acts 15 :18. Both extremes of that unlimited series which make up the history of the created universe, together with all the intermediates, are seen at ouce, by the eternal Creator of the universe. Says Charnocke (Eternity of God), ” though there be a succession and order of things as they exist, there is no succession in God in regard to his knowledge of them. God knows the things that shall be wrought, and the order of them in their being brought upon the stage of the world; yet both the things and the order, he knows by one act [of knowledge]. The death of Christ was to precede his resurrection in the order of time; there is a succession in this; both at once are known by God; yet the [one] act of his knowledge is not exercised about Christ as dying and rising at the same moment; so that there is a succession in things, when there is no succession in God’s knowledge of things.” Man knows a succession successively; God knows a succession instantaneously, and simultaneously. God sees the end from the beginning, and hence for him there is no interval nor sequence between the end and the beginning. Man sees the end from the end, not from the beginning, and hence there is an interval and sequence, for him, between the two.
Not only is God’s act of knowledge eternal and successionless, but his act of power is so likewise. God creates all things from eternity by one act of power, as he knows all things from eternity by one act of knowledge, and as he decrees all things from eternity by one act of will. As we must employ the singular, not the plural, when we speak of the eternal decree, so we must when we speak of the eternal causation. There is one eternal all-comprehending decree, and one eternal all-creating cause. For God, there is no series in his action any more than in his cognition, or in his purpose. God’s energy as the cause of the creation is one and successionless, like his decree; the creation itself, as the effect of this eternal cause, is a successive series. The cause is one; the effect is many. The cause is eternal; the effect is temporal. For the Divine consciousness, the creation of the world is not in the past, and the destruction of the world is not in the future. God is not conscious of an interval of thousands of years between the act by which he created the heaven and the earth ” in the beginning” (Gen. 1:1), and the act by which he created man on ” the sixth day ” (Gen. 1: 26), because, in this case, one would be older than the other, and thus only one of them would be an eternal act. God’s causative energizing in both instances was eternal, and therefore simultaneous; but the effects of it were successive and temporal. It is impossible for the human mind to comprehend, or even to conceive of this. But it is necessary to postulate it, in order to maintain the Divine immutability and omniscience. Neither of these attributes can be established, if it be held that God’s consciousness respecting his exertion of power is successive like that of man or angel. Should we define God’s eternal causation as an endless succession of creative volitions, then God’s consciousness of his future creative volitions is in the future, like that of man and angel. This is fatal to omniscience, when the consciousness relates to cognition; and fatal to immutability, when the consciousness relates to action. If the Divine will, like the human, energized successively through the six days of creation, so that in the Divine consciousness the Divine willing on the first day preceded the Divine willing on the second, and the Divine willing upon the third followed that upon the second, then God, like man and angel, is conscious that two days are longer than one, and three days longer than two; which is contrary to the statement that “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day,” 2 Pet. 3:8; and to the affirmation that “a thousand years in his sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night,” Ps. 90 : 4. The volition by which God created “the heaven and the earth” (Gen. 1:1) is eternal, but the heaven and the earth are not eternal. If the matter of the earth was originated ex nihilo (say) twenty million years ago, this matter is now exactly twenty million years old. But the Divine volition that originated it is not exactly twenty million years old. The created effect can be measured by days and years, but the creative cause cannot be.
Eternity implies perfection and completeness; time implies imperfection and incompleteness. An eternal being, and an eternal consciousness, never improve and never deteriorate; a temporal being and consciousness is continually experiencing one or the other. A creature increases in knowledge in certain directions, and loses knowledge in others. He acquires information and he forgets. The Creator has infinite knowledge at every instant, and neither learns nor forgets. “The duration of everything must of necessity be agreeable to its nature; and, therefore, as that whose imperfect nature is ever flowing like a river, and consists in continual motion and changes one after another, must needs have accordingly a successive and flowing duration, sliding perpetually from present into past, and always posting on toward the future, expecting something of itself which is not yet in being, but to come; so must that whose perfect nature is essentially immutable, and always the same, and necessarily existent, have a permanent duration, never losing anything of itself once present, as sliding away from it, nor yet running forward to meet something of itself before, which is not yet in being.” Cud worth: Intellectual System, I. v. It follows, therefore, that there is no evolution, or development in an eternal essence and consciousness. Evolution is change, by the very definition. Development is a transition from one mode of existence and experience to another. If there be evolution in a consciousness, then the consciousness is mutable, successive, fractional, and incomplete; if there be no evolution in a consciousness, and it is without succession, then the consciousness is immutable, simultaneous, omniscient, and complete.
This characteristic of an eternal being and consciousness is enunciated in the scholastic dictum: “Dens est actus purissimus sine ulla potentialitate.” There is nothing potential or latent in the deity, as there always is in created and finite natures. “Necesse est id quod primum ens, esse in actu, et nullo modo in potentia,” says Aquinas, Summa, I. iii. 1. One fatal error in the pantheistic conception of God is, that it attributes potentiality to him. It maintains that God is capable of evolution, and that he is endlessly passing through a process of development. This obliterates the distinction between the Infinite and the finite, by ascribing to the former a characteristic that belongs only to the latter. Tlie Infinite cannot be the perfect, if the pantheistic postulate be true. For if the Infinite being is passing from lower to higher modes of existence and of consciousness, as finite being is, absolute and immutable perfection cannot be attributed to him. Moreover, since evolution may be from the more perfect to the less perfect, as well as from the less perfect to the more perfect, it follows from the pantheistic theory, that the Infinite being may tend downward, and become evil. See Shedd: Theological Essays, 134.
The all-comprehending and unchanging consciousness of God excludes memory. This can belong only to the finite mind. As there is nothing past in the consciouness of God, there can be no such act in him as that of recalling the past to mind. He neither remembers nor forgets, in the literal sense, because the whole of his knowledge is simultaneously and perpetually present. And this whole, or sum total, of omniscience, includes all that which for the creature is included in past, present, and future time.
The term ” eternity ” is sometimes emploj-ed in a secondary signification, to denote the future world in distinction from this; as when it is said that a deceased man has gone into eternity. In this case, eternity does not denote successionless existence, but the spiritual existence of the next life. Men and angels cannot have the unchanging eternal consciousness of God. Every finite mind must think, feel, and act in time. Time is the necessary form of the finite understanding. This is one of the elements of difference between the Infinite and the finite.
“Immediate are the acts of God, more swift
Than time, or motion; but to hnman ears
Cannot without process of speech be told,
So told as earthly notion can receive.”—Mn/roN.
Augustine upon this point errs, in attributing a successionless intuition to the beatific vision of the saints and angels. In the heaven of heavens, ” the inhabitants,” he says (Confessions, XII. xiii.), “know all at once, not in part, not darkly, not through a glass, but as a whole, in manifestation, face to face, not this thing now, and that thing anon, but all at once, without succession of times.” God understands the finite form of cognition, though it is not the form of cognition for him. He knows that for the creature there is an interval between events, but this does not imply that for him there is an interval. lle perfectly comprehends man’s knowledge by sensation, but this does not prove that he himself has sensation. “He knoweth our frame, and remembereth that we are dust,” but he has no such personal consciousness of frailty.
The idea of an existence and consciousness without sequences and succession is difficult even to entertain, much less to comprehend. There is nothing analogous to it in human consciousness, which is wholly successive. Hence the idea of the Divine eternity as without evolution, and change, is even more baffling to human intelligence than is the idea of triunity. The former is a greater mystery than the latter. The notions of paternity, filiation, and procession, enable the human mind to seize upon the doctrine of the trinity, but there are no corresponding points of contact in the doctrine of the Divine eternity. For this reason, some theologians define eternity as infinite time, and deny that it is without succession. They assert that there are sequences and intervals in God’s consciousness, as there are in that of men and angels. This was the opinion of Clericus. But greater difficulties follow from the denial, than from the affirmation of a consciousness without succession in God. It is certain that God is omniscient and immutable; but he can be neither, if his mind is subject to the same categories of time and space with the created mind. For both are associated. A creature of time is also a creature of space. A finite spirit cannot be omnipresent. It is embodied, and therefore must exist in a local iry. “The eternity of God,” says Schleiermacher (Glaubenslehre, § 52, 54), “is to be conceived as omnipotent eternity, that is, as that which in God determines and conditions time itself, with all that is temporal. God is fidaiXev< ; rav alwvcov, 1 Tim. 1:17.” Similarly, Augustine (Confessions, XL xiii.) denominates God “fabricator tempornm.” Schleiermacher objects to the separation of the attribute of eternity from that of omnipotence, when it is defined as merely the relation of God to duration; in that it represents him as merely existing passively, whereas he is intrinsically active and energizing. The remark that there is nothing analogous in human consciousness to the successionless consciousness of the Supreme being, perhaps needs some qualification. Those who have been brought to the brink of the grave, and then brought back, speak of a seemingly instantaneous survey of their whole past life. The following from Frances Kemble Butler’s liecords of Later Life is striking. She is describing her experience during a fearful storm at sea. “As the vessel reeled under a tremendous shock, the conviction of our impending destruction became so intense in my mind, that my imagination suddenly presented to me the death-vision, so to speak, of my whole existence. I should find it impossible adequately to describe the vividness with which my whole past life presented itself to my perception; not as a procession of events, filling up a succession of years, but as a whole—a total—suddenly held up to me as in a mirror, indescribably awful, combined with the simultaneous, acute, and almost despairing sense of loss, of waste, so to speak, by which it was accompanied. This instantaneous involuntary retrospect was followed by a keen and rapid survey of the religious belief in which I had been trained, and which then seemed to me my only important concern.” In all this, however, there is really a succession and a series; only it is so exceedingly rapid as to seem simultaneous.
The Immutability of God is the unchangeableness of his essence, attributes, purposes, and consciousness. Immutability results from eternity, as omnipresence does from immensity. That which has no evolution and no succession, is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. Malachi 3 : 6, “I am Jehovah, I change not;” Ps. 102 : 26, “The heavens shall perish, but thou shalt endure;” James 1:17, “With whom is no variableness (irapdXKayq), neither shadow of turning.” Immutability belongs to the Divine essence; God can have no new attributes. It belongs also to the Divine will; his decrees are unalterable. The Socinians Crellius and Vorstius deny this latter; asserting that God can will what he once nilled, and nill what he once willed. This is contradicted by Scripture. Numbers 23:19, “God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man that he should repent;” Is. 46:10, ” My counsel shall stand ;” Ps. 33:11, “The counsel of the Lord standeth forever;” Ps. 110:4, “The Lord hath sworn and will not repent;” 1 Sam. 15: 29, “The Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent;” Heb. 6: 17, “Whereby, God, willing to show the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath.” Immutability also characterizes the Divine consciousness. Nothing new is added to it, and nothing old is subtracted from it. Infinite knowledge is a fixed quantity, and so is an infinite experience. God is immutable because: (a) His being is from himself, and not from another. (5) He cannot change for the better, nor for the worse. (c) All causes and reasons for change are wanting, viz.: dependence upon another, error of mind, inconstancy of will and purpose. The act of creation ex nihilo made no change in God. It did not affect his own eternal essence; and his will and power to create were the same from eternity. Emanation ad extra would make a change in the essence. This is the outward effluence of substance, and diminishes the mass from which it issues. Incarnation made no change in God. The Divine essence was not transmuted into a human nature, bnt assumed a human nature into union with itself.
God is said to repent. Gen. 6:6,” It repented the Lord that he had made man upon the earth ;” Jonah 3:10, “God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them.” This means no change in his attributes and character, but only in his manner of treating men. “Repentance in God is not a change of will, but a will to change.” If God had treated the Ninevites after their repentance, as he had threatened to treat them before their repentance, this would have proved him to be mutable. It would have showed him to be at one time displeased with impenitence, and at another with penitence. Charnocke (Immutability of God) remarks that “the unchangeableness of God, when considered in relation to the exercise of his attributes in the government of the world, consists not in always acting in the same manner, however cases and circumstances may alter; but in always doing what is right, and in adapting his treatment of his intelligent creatures to the variation of their actions and characters. When the devils, now fallen, stood as glorious angels, they were the objects of God’s love, necessarily; when they fell, they were the objects of God’s hatred, because impure. The same reason which made him love them while they were pure, made him hate them when they were criminal.” It is one thing for God to will a change in created things external to himself, and another thing for him to change in his own nature and character. God can will a change in the affairs of men; such as the abrogation of the Levitical priesthood and ceremonial; and yet his own will remain immutable, because he had from eternity willed and decreed the change. In like manner, promises and threatenings that are made conditionally, and suppose a change in man, imply no change in the essence or attributes of God. “If that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them,” Jer. 18: 7-10. Ko change is made in God, as there is in the creature, by his knowledge. A creature increases his knowledge, and experiences a change intellectually. But God’s knowledge is a fixed quantity, because it is infinite. He knows everything from everlasting to everlasting, and at each instant, and there is no more than everything. He knew before it came to pass, that Christ would be crucified upon Calvary. When that event occurred, it made no change in his knowledge. He was no better informed than he was before. He was no more certain of the crucifixion after the event, than he was before it, because he had decreed that it should take place. He could not have foreknown that it would take place, unless he had predetermined that it should. If God does not first decide that an event shall happen, he must wait and see whether it happens in order to any certain knowledge; and this would make a change in his knowledge.
God is an intelligent being, and knowledge is one of his communicable attributes. “God created man after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness.” Shorter Catechism, Q. 10. The Divine essence considered as cognizing gives the attribute of Omniscience. 1 John 3: 20, “God is greater than our hearts, and knoweth all things;” John 21:17, “Lord thou knowest all things;” Acts 15:18, “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world;” Ileb. 4:13, ” All things are naked and opened (rerpa^(tj\iafieva) unto the eye of him with whom we have to do;” Rom. 11: 33; Matt. 6 :32; 1 Kings 8 :39; Ps. 139:1-16; Isa. 46 :10; Ezek. 11: 5.
The Divine knowlege is (a) Intuitive, as opposed to demonstrative or discursive; it is not obtained by comparing one thing with another, or deducing one truth from another; it is a direct vision. (5) Simultaneous, as opposed to successive; it is not received gradually into the mind, and by parts; the perception is total, and instantaneous. (c) Complete and certain, as opposed to incomplete and uncertain. The Divine knowledge excludes knowledge by the senses, gradual acquisition of knowledge, forgetting of knowledge, and recollection of knowledge.
God’s omniscience, from the creature’s point of view, is foreknowledge; but it is not foreknowledge from God’s point of view. The Infinite mind comprehends all things in one simultaneous intuition, and, consequently, there is for it no “before,” or “after.” Says Charnocke (God’s Knowledge), ” God considers all things in his own simple knowledge as if they were now acted; and therefore some have chosen to call the knowledge of things to come, not prescience, or foreknowledge, but knowledge; because God sees all things at one instant.” Says Owen (Vindiciae, V.), “God knows all things as they are; and in that order wherein they stand. Things that are past, as to the order of the creatures, he knows as past; not by remembrance, however, as we do; but by the same act of knowledge wherewith he knew them from all eternity, even before they were.” But this knowledge of everything simultaneously and at once, is for the finite mind equivalent to knowing before the event. Foreknowledge, strictly taken, implies an interval between the knowledge and the event. Had the Ninevites not repented, Nineveh would have been destroyed in accordance with the prophecy of Jonah. Forty days would have elapsed between Jonah’s foreknowledge of the event, and the event itself. A series of occurrences and experiences would have intervened, and become gradually known by Jonah. But this is not true of the Divine mind. God is not conscious of an interval of several thousand years, between his knowledge of Christ’s crucifixion and the occurrence of the crucifixion. For God, Christ was crucified from eternity, and the event was known and real to him from all eternity. Omniscience excludes both foreknowledge and subsequent knowledge. In this reference, Augustine (De diversis quaestionibus, II. ii. 2) says: “What is foreknowledge but the knowledge of the future. But what is future to God? For, if the divine knowledge includes all things at one instant, all things are present to him, and there is nothing future; and his knowledge is knowledge, and not foreknowledge.” Says Charnocke (God’s Knowledge), ” the knowledge of one thing is not, in God, before another; one act of knowledge doth not beget another. In regard of the objects themselves, one thing is before another; one year before another; one generation of men before another; one is the cause, and the other is the effect; in the creature’s mind there is such a succession, and God knows there will be such a succession; but there is no such order in God’s knowledge; for he knows all those successions by one glance, without any succession of knowledge in himself.”
God has a knowledge of all things that are possible, in distinction from things actual. He knows all that he can do. This is denominated scientia simplicis intelligentiae. It is knowledge that is confined to the Divine understanding, and never causes an act of the will. The things that are possible and known as such, are never made real. Charnocke (God’s Knowledge) explains it as the knowledge not only of the possible, but as speculative in distinction from practical knowledge. “God knows evil not with a practical knowledge, so as to be the author of it, but with a speculative knowledge so as to understand the sinfulness of it: or a knowledge simplicis intelligentiae, of simple intelligence, as he permits it, not positively wills it.” God has a knowledge of what is conditionally possible, that is, of those events which have never come to pass, but which might have occurred under certain possible conditions. This is denominated scientia media, or conditionata. For example, God knows that if a certain person should live to middle life, he would become exceedingly vicious and wicked. He prevents this by an early death of the person. Biblical instances are, Matt. 11: 21-23 (the repentance of Tyre and Sidon; of Sodom and Gomorrah); 1 Sam. 23 : 5-14; Jer. 38:17-20.
The doctrine of scientia media has been employed to explain the imputation of Adam’s first sin to his posterity. This sin is imputed because God foreknew that each one of the posterity would have committed it, if he had been placed in Adam’s circumstances. But upon this theory, any man might be charged with any sin whatsoever; for God knows that there is no sin which he would not commit, if strongly tempted and not kept by divine grace. Furthermore, upon this theory, sin is imputed, in the order of nature, before it is committed. Socinus denies that God has foreknowledge of man’s free acts. Owen: Vindiciae, V. Cicero (De divinatione) contends that prescience and free will are incompatible; and since free will is necessary to responsibility, this must be retained and foreknowledge given up. Augustine examines Cicero’s views, in De Civitate, V. ix.
Wisdom is a particular aspect of the Divine knowledge. 1 Tim. 1:17, ” God only wise.” It is the intelligence of God as manifested in the adoption of means to ends. The Hebrew D2n; and the Greek aocj>6s, primarily signify skilful, expert. It is seen: 1. In creation. Ps. 19 :1-7; “The heavens declare the glory of God;” Ps. 104 :1-34, ” O Lord, how manifold are thy works; in wisdom hast thou made them all;” Job 38 : 5, “Who hath laid the measures thereof?” 2. In providence. Ps. 33 :10, 11, « The Lord brought the counsel of the heathen to nought;” Rom. 8:28, “All things work together for good.” 3. In redemption. 1 Cor. 2:7; Rom. 11:33, “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!” Eph. 3 :10, “The manifold (irokinrolKiXo<;) wisdom of God.” The wisdom of God is called ” the foolishness of God” (1 Cor. 1:25), in order to exhibit its infinite superiority to human wisdom. The lowest degree of Divine wisdom, so low as to be called folly in comparison with the highest degree, is wiser than men. Wisdom is represented as a trinitarian person, in Prov. 8, and is the same as the Logos of John 1:1.
Wisdom implies a final end, to which all secondary ends are subordinate. This end is the glory of God. Rom. 11:36, “To him are all things.” Says Leighton, “As God could swear by no greater, he swears by himself; so as he could propose no greater end, he proposed himself.” The glory of God means such a manifestation of the Divine perfections as leads creatures to worship and adore. Adoration is the highest act of a creature, and the revealed excellence of the Creator is the object that elicits it. The essential glory of God, that is, his glory as it exists per se, is not intended in this definition. This is the same, whether there be a creation or not; whether there be worship or not.
The happiness of the creature cannot be the final end of God’s action. There would be no wisdom in this case, because the superior would be subordinated to the inferior. This would be folly, not wisdom. It would be a mal-adaptation of means to ends. The end would be made the means, and the means the end. The infinite would exist for the finite. Moreover, happiness from its very nature cannot be an ultimate end, because to seek it is to fail of getting it. “He that finds his life shall lose it.” To seek holiness as an ultimate end is to attain it. To seek holiness results in happiness, but not vice versa. Happiness is the effect, and holiness is the cause. Hence the command is, “Be ye holy,” not, “Be ye happy.” Another proof that happiness is not an ultimate end like holiness, is the fact that there are many kinds of happiness, but only one kind of holiness. Happiness depends upon the attainment of an object that is different from itself; and the objects are various: such as wealth, pleasure, fame, in the lower eudaemonism; and knowledge, culture, and virtue, in the higher. But holiness does not depend upon securing an object different from itself. A man is happy, only when he has obtained wealth, or fame, or culture, or something that is other than happiness itself. But a man is holy, not by obtaining wealth, fame, or culture, or something other than holiness, but by obtaining holiness itself. Consequently, holiness can be an ultimate end, but happiness cannot be. Yet, the moral perfection of the creature cannot be regarded as the final end of God’s action, though this is a higher view than the preceding. The creature in any aspect cannot be regarded as the last end, any more than the first cause of all things. The finite will cannot be an ultimate end for the infinite will. The creature must say, “Not my will, but thine be done.” Similarly, a finite nature or being cannot be an ultimate end for the infinite being.
The Power of God is the Divine essence energizing, and producing outward effects. It is the Divine activity ad extra. The immanent activity of the essence ad intra, as seen in the trinal distinctions and their intercommunion, does not come under the category of the Divine power. For this is necessary and constitutional activity. It is not optional with God to be triune. Eternal generation and spiration are not, like creation, providence, and redemption, acts of power, in the sense that if God so please they need not be performed. The Divine power is optional in its exercise. God need not have created anything. And after creation, he may annihilate. Only when he has bound himself by promise, as in the instance of faith in Christ, does his action cease to be optional. It cannot be said that God may keep his promises, or not, as he pleases.
The Divine power is Omnipotence. Ps. 115 : 3, ” Our God is in the heavens; he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased;” Rev. 4:8,” Holy Lord God Almighty ;” Gen. 17 :1, “I am the Almighty God.” Omnipotence is called the ” word” or “command” of God. Ps. 33 : 6, ” By the word of the Lord the heavens were made. He commanded and it stood fast.” This denotes the greatness of the power. Creation requires only God’s fiat. The Divine power is not to be measured merely by what God has actually effected. Omnipotence is manifested in the works of the actual creation, but it is not exhausted by them. God could create more than he ha?, if he pleased. He can do more than he has done, should it be his will. He could have raised up children to Abraham from the stones in the bed of Jordan; he could have sent in aid of the suffering Redeemer twelve legions of angels.
The Divine power is limited only by the absurd and selfcontradictory. God can do anything that does not imply a logical impossibility. A logical impossibility means that the predicate is contradictory to the subject; for example, a material spirit, a corporeal deity, a sensitive stone, an irrational man, a body without parts or extension, a square triangle. These are not objects of power, and therefore it is really no limitation of the Divine omnipotence to say that it cannot create them. They involve the absurdity that a thing can be and not be at the same time. A logical impossibility is, in truth, a nonentity; and to say that God cannot create a nonentity, is not a limitation or denial of power. For power is the ability to create entity.
Again, God cannot do anything inconsistent with the perfection of the Divine nature. Under this category, fall the instances mentioned in Heb. 6:18, “It is impossible for God to lie ; ” and 2 Tim. 2 :13, “He cannot deny himself ; ” and James 1:13, “God cannot be tempted.” God cannot sin: (a) Because sin is imperfection, and it is contradictory to say that a necessarily perfect Being may be imperfect, (b) God cannot sin, because he cannot be tempted to sin, and sinning without temptation or motive to sin, is impossible. God cannot be tempted, because temptation implies a desire for some good that is supposed to be greater than what is already possessed. But God cannot see anything more desirable than what he already has; and his understanding is infallible, so that he cannot mistake an apparent for a real good. All such cases, when analyzed, will be fonnd to imply something contradictory to the idea and definition of God. If it could be supposed that God is capable to be tempted and to sin, it would prove that he is not infinite. God is not able to die, to see corruption (Acts 2 : 27), to become non-existent. This would be finite weakness, not almighty power. Says Augustine (De Symbolo, I. i.), ” God is omnipotent, and yet he cannot die, he cannot lie, he cannot deny himself. How is he omnipotent then? He is omnipotent for the very reason that he cannot do these things. For if he could die, he would not be omnipotent.” Again he remarks (De Civitate, V. x.) that “the power of God is not diminished when it is said that he cannot die, and cannot sin; for if he could do these things, his power would be less. A being is rightly called omnipotent, from doing what he wills, and not from suffering what he does not will.”
A question arose among the schoolmen in regard to the Divine omnipotence, and some of them asserted the absolute omnipotence of God, in the sense that he could do whatever could be conceived of, either logically or illogically; whether good or evil; whether self-contradictory or not.1 They separated the natural from the moral attributes, and asserted the possibility of a conflict between them. Their view of God implied that his natural attributes are more central and ultimate than his moral and ethical attributes; that might in the deity is more fundamental and absolute than right. But the moral attributes are as central and controlling in God as the natural, and it is impossible to conceive that in his most perfect being, bare power can be divorced from wisdom and holiness, and trample them under. Shedd: History of Doctrine, II. 301304.
The manifestations of the Divine power are seen: 1. In Creation. The peculiar characteristic of this exertion of power is, that it originates ex nihilo. The miraculous is the same kind of exercise of omnipotence. The miracle is creative from nothing. Rom. 4:17, “God calleth those things which be not, as though they were.” Isa. 44 : 24; Gen. 1:1. 2. In Providence; by which what has been created is preserved, evolved, and controlled. Heb. 1 : 3, “Upholding all things by the word of his power.” The omnipotence of God exerted in the act of creation is denominated potentia absoluta. In this instance, there is no use made of anything that is in existence. It is the operation of the First cause alone. The Divine omnipotence exerted in providence is called potentia ordinata. In this instance, there is use made of existing things. God in providence em
> Des Cartes asserts this. “God did not will that the three angles of a triangle should be equal to two right angles because he knew it could not possibly be otherwise. But because he willed that the three angles of a triangle should bo necessarily equal to two right angles, therefore this is now true; and so on of other things. Nor is there any need to inquire how God from eternity oould have made it true that twice four should not be eight, for I confess that this cannot be understood by us.” Des Cartes: Besponsiones, § 6. In other places, however, Des Cartes “reasoned more correotly,” says Cudworth, IL 533. TegK’s Ed.
ploys the constitution and laws of nature which he created for this very purpose. The First cause uses second causes previously originated ex nihilo. God causes the warmth of the atmosphere by the rays of the sun, and not by an exertion of absolute omnipotence. All evolution belongs to the province of God’s potentia ordinata. 3. In Redemption. 1 Cor. 1: 24, ” Christ is the power of God.” Rom. 1:16, The gospel is ” the power of God.” Is. 53 :1, “Messiah is the arm of the Lord.” Ps. 80 :17, Messiah is “the man of thy right hand.”
The Holiness of God is the perfect rectitude of his will. The divine will is in absolute harmony with the divine nature. Isa. 6:3,” Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.” Isa. 57:15; Ex. 15:11; Ps. 89:35; 145 :17; Amos 4: 2; Rev. 4:8; 15 : 4. God’s word is holy, Rom. 1: 2. His promise is holy, Ps. 105 : 42. His sabbath is holy, Isa. 58 : 13. His people are holy, Isa. 62 : 12. His residence is holy, Isa. 57:15. His angels are holy, Rev. 14:10.
Holiness in God cannot be defined in the same terms in which holiness in man or angel is defined, namely, as conformity to the moral law. The moral law supposes a superior being whose love and service are obligatory upon the inferior. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself,” is no law for God. The moral law is the rule of conduct only for finite beings, who are subjects of the divine government. The words,” thou shalt,” and “thou shalt not,” are inapplicable to the Infinite One. Holiness in God must, consequently, be defined as conformity to his own perfect nature. (.The only rule for the divine will is the divine reasonjS and the divine reason prescribes everything that it is befitting an Infinite being to do. God is not under law, nor above law. He is law. He is righteous by nature and of necessity. The trisagion teaches this truth. God is the source and author of law for all other beings.
The Divine holiness is expressed: 1. By law given to man; 2. By feelings in the Divine nature.
1. God’s holiness is manifested: (a) In the moral law. (5) In physical laws, which appear in the course and constitution of nature, and secure happiness to virtue, and connect misery With vice. (c) In mental laws. Peace of conscience, upon obedience, is the most exquisite enjoyment; remorse of conscience, upon disobedience, is the most exquisite torture. (d) In positive laws. These spring not from the constitution of nature, or of the human mind, but are enactments by the arbitrary will of God. Such are the law of the Sabbath, and the Levitical law.
The moral law is the most important and clearest of the expressions of the Divine holiness. It is drawn out analytically in the ten commandments. These contain two divisions or tables, relating to man’s duty to God, primarily, and to his fellow-man, secondarily. The sermon on the mount is a revised edition of the decalogue, and constitutes the legal basis of the new covenant, as the decalogue did of the old. Christ in the sermon interprets and spiritualizes the ten commandments. This progress in the revelation of the moral law explains the temporary allowance, under the old economy, of some evils that were prohibited and abolished under the new; such as slavery and polygamy. These were tolerated among the chosen people, “because of the hardness of their hearts” (Matt. 19 : 8); that is, because the existing condition and circumstances of the people made their immediate abolition impossible. Toleration is not approval, but the very contrary. It implies that the thing endured is intrinsically wrong. No one tolerates what is intrinsically right. Slavery and polygamy were not legalized and sanctioned by the decalogue, though they were permitted temporarily under the theocracy.
2. Holiness is expressed in the Divine feelings respecting right and wrong. The elder theologians describe it as an attribute of will, in this reference. Turrettin (III. xiv. 1) says: “To the will of God pertain those attributes (virtutes) which denote his perfection in disposition and action.” They are comprised under justice and benevolence. God as delighting in purity is holy. Ps. 11: 7, “The righteous Lord loveth righteousness.” Ps. 35 : 5, “The Lord loveth righteousness.” Ps. 37 : 28; 99:4. God as abhorring evil is holy. Jer. 44 : 4, ” O do not this abominable thing which I hate.” Ileb. 1:13.
Holiness occupies a place second to none among the communicable attributes. “If any,” says Charnocke, “this attribute hath an excellency above the other perfections of God. There are some attributes of God which we prefer because of our interest in them, and the relation they bear to us: as we esteem his goodness before his power, and his mercy whereby he relieves us, before his justice whereby he punisheth us; so there are some that God delights to honor because of their excellency. Where do you find any other attribute trebled in the praise of it? ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.’” Holiness is the quality which man is most particularly commanded to possess: Lev. 19 : 2, “Ye shall be holy, for I am holy.” Compare 1 Pet. 1:1416. It is the attribute which God singles out to swear by. Ps. 89 : 35, “Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie to David.”
Holiness is a general term denoting that quality in God whereby he is right (rectus) in himself, and in all his actions. This is implied in the Hebrew p^s, which means straight; and the Greek SiWto?, which means exactly right (aequus). But right is determined in its manifestation, by the character of the person towards whom it is manifested. What would be right towards an obedient creature, would be wrong towards a disobedient one. This brings to view the attribute of Justice, as a mode of holiness.1 In the
1 Owen: On Divine Justioe. Edwards: Satisfaction for Sin, JL
Westminster Larger Catechism, Q. 7. after describing God as ” most holy,” it is added “most just.”
Justice is that phase of God’s holiness which is seen in his treatment of the obedient and the disobedient subjects of his government. It is that attribute whereby he gives to everyone what is due him. The notion of debt or obligation necessarily enters into that of justice. Sin is indebtedness to law. Matt. 6 :12, “Forgive us our debts.” Cicero (De Finibus, 23) defines justice as “animi affectns suum cnique tribuens.” The element of indebtedness, together with that of retribution and penalty, is eliminated from the attribute in the Socinian soteriology. Justice, in this theory, is employed in the loose and general sense of moral excellence. “There is,” says Socinus (Prelectiones Theologicae, c. 16), “no such justice in God as requires absolutely and inexorably that sin be punished. There is, indeed, a perpetual, and constant justice in God, but this is nothing but his moral equity and rectitude, by virtue of which there is no depravity or iniquity in any of his works.”
The attribute of justice is abundantly taught in Scripture. Dent. 32: 4, “All his ways are judgment, a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.” Ex. 20 : 5, “I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children.” Ex. 34:7, “The Lord God will by no means clear the guilty.” Job 8:3; 34 :12; Ps. 145:17; Dan. 9:14; Matt. 10:28; Rom. 2:6-10.
Rectoral justice is God’s rectitude as a ruler, over both the good and the evil. It relates to legislation, or the imposition of law. God, both in rewarding and punishing, lays down a just law. The reward and the penalty are exactly suited to the actions. Job 34: 23, ” For he will not lay upon man more than right.” Ps. 89:14, “Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne.” Distributive justice is God’s rectitude in the execution of law, both in reference to the good and the evil. It relates to the distribution of rewards and punishments. Rom. 2:6, God “will render to every man according to his deeds.”
1 Pet. 1:17, “The Father without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work.” Isa. 3 :10, 11, ” Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him. “Woe unto the wicked 1 it shall be ill with him.” Distributive justice is twofold: (a) remunerative justice; (b) retributive justice. 1. Remunerative justice is the distribution of rewards both to men and angels. Ps. 58 :11, ‘■ Verily there is a reward for the righteous.” Deut. 7: 9, 12, 13;
2 Chron. 6:15, “Thou hast kept with thy servant David my father, that which thou hast promised him.” Micah 7: 20; Matt. 25 : 21, “Because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things.” Matt. 25: 31; Rom. 2:7; Heb. 11: 26; Jude 6*
Remunerative justice is the expression of the divine love (ijvyairrj), as retributive justice is of the divine wrath {opytf). It proceeds upon the ground of relative merit only. The creature cannot establish an absolute merit before the creator. This is taught by our Lord in Luke 17:10, “”When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants;” and by St. Paul in 1 Cor. 4:7,” What hast thou that thou didst not receive; why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?” and by God to Job, 41: 11, “Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.” According^, the Westminster Confession, VII. i., affirms that ” the distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their creator, yet they could never have any f ruition of him as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God’s part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.”
Absolute merit, as distinguished from relative, supposes an independent relation and agency between two parties, like that between man and man. One man does not create and uphold another man, while the one is serving and obeying the other. But this is the state of the case, when man serves and obeys God. Creation, preservation, and redemption all preclude that independent agency by which one party brings another under obligations to him, and establishes an absolute merit or indebtedness. Consequently, the exercise of remunerative justice by God is pactional and gracious. It results from a previous covenant upon his part. The reward of a creature’s obedience is in consequence of a Divine promise. No primary and original obligation rests upon the Creator to recompense for services rendered by a creature whom he has made from nothing, and continually upholds in existence. A soul that is created holy cannot demand from its maker, at the instant of creation, a reward for being holy upon the ground of an absolute indebtedness on the part of its maker. Because God has originated the powers and capacities of a creature from nothing, he is entitled to all the agency of these faculties without paying for it; as the artificer of a watch is entitled to all the motion of the watch, without coming under obligation to the watch. Even this comparison is inadequate; for the maker of the watch did not create the materials out of which it is made. But God creates the very substance itself out of which man’s faculties of mind and body are made. All that strict justice would require on the part of God, in case a creature should continue in the holiness in which he is created is, that he should not cause him to suffer. That he should go further than this, and positively reward him for being and continuing holy, is gracious treatment. If the creature’s holiness were self-originated and self-sustained, instead of concreated and sustained by God, then the merit would be absolute, and God would owe the reward by an original and nncovenanted obligation. Not only are the being and facnlties, by which the obedience is rendered, created and upheld by God, but the disposition rightly to employ them is due to the Holy Spirit. David expresses this truth in 1 Chron. 29:14, ” But who am I, and what is mj people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.”
But though no primary and original obligation rests upon the Creator, to reward a creature made from nothing, and continually upheld and helped in the service which he renders, yet he can constitute a secondary and relative obligation. He can promise to reward the creature’s service; and having bound7 himself to reward obedience, his own word establishes a species of claim. Obedient man, or angel, may plead the Divine promise as the ground of reward. God desires to be reminded of his promise, and is honored when the creature trusts in it implicitly. And ” if we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself,” 2 Tim. 2 :13. In the words of Witsius (Covenants, I. i. iv.), ” God by his promise, has made himself a debtor to men. Or, to speak in a manner more becoming God, he was pleased to make his performance of his promise a debt due to himself. To this purpose, Augustine, Sermo 16, speaks well: ‘God became our debtor, not by receiving anything, but by promising what he pleased. For it was of his own bounty that he vouchsafed to make himself a debtor.1″ The Scripture representations agree with this. In Rom. 6 :23, the recompense of obedience is denominated a “gift” (xupiajja); while that of disobedience is called “wages” (oyfriovia). Sin is the solitary action of the will unassisted by grace; but holiness is the action of the will wrought upon by God. Again, the reward of obedience is denominated an ” inheritance:” Acts 20 : 32, ” To give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” Eph. 1:11, 14, ” We have obtained an inheritance.” Col. 1: 2, “The Father hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.” But an inheritance is not the payment of a debt, in the strict sense of the word. It results from the parental and filial relations, and not from those of creditor and debtor. Yet, as an inheritance may be called the reward of filial obedience, so the blessedness of the future state may be and is called the reward of Christian obedience here upon earth.
Since God and redeemed man are two distinct agents, there is a personal quality in man’s obedience whereby it is truly rewardable. When God rewards a believer for his severe struggle with a bosom-sin, he does not reward God’s struggle, but man’s. Though the struggle was started, helped and made successful by the Holy Spirit, yet it was, after all, a human, not a divine conflict with sin. This is rewardable, and when God rewards it, he does not reward himself but his creature. Paul teaches this in saying, “I live.” There is a personal and human quality in the holiness and the obedience. But that this may not be so exaggerated as to imply that the personal and the human has been independent and self-sustaining in the holiness and obedience, and that God has thus been brought under the absolute obligation of a debtor to a creditor, he adds, “Yet not I, but Christ which liveth in me.” That the reward of obedience is gracious is still more true in the case of redeemed man. Here, there has been positive disobedience and ill-desert. The gospel promise of reward, in this case, is made not only to a creature, but to a sinful creature.
The rewards for obedience are: 1. Natural. God so constitutes man and nature that virtue has happy consequences: (a) Peace of conscience: 1 Pet. 3 : 21, “The answer of a good conscience;” (5) Worldly prosperity: 1 Tim. 4:8,” Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is.” 2. Positive. These are the rewards bestowed in the future life, which far exceed the merely natural operations of conscience, and earthly good. They consist principally in a special manifestation of the Divine love and approbation. John 14: 23; Matt. 25 : 34-40; Ps. 16 :11, “In thy presence is fulness of joy.” Ps. 17:15, “I shall be satisfied when I awake in thy likeness.”
Retributive justice (sometimes denominated punitive, vindicative, or, in the older English, vindictive, avenging, or revenging, L. C. 77) is that part of distributive justice which relates to the infliction of penalty. It is the expression of the divine opyq. In a sinless world, there would be no place for its exercise, and it would be comparatively an unimportant aspect of the general attribute of justice. But in a sinful world, retribution must hold a prominent place; and hence in the Christian religion, which is a religion for a fallen race of beings, retributive justice comes continually into view. Hence when justice is spoken of without any qualifying word to show that some other aspect of the attribute is meant, punitive justice is intended. Passages of Scripture which present it are: “Rom. 1: 32, “The judgment of God is, that they which do such things are worthy of death.” Rom. 2:8,” Who will visit tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil.” 2 Thess. 1:8,” The Lord Jesus shall be revealed in flaming fire, taking vengeance (iKSiieqaiv) on them that know not God.” Acts 28 : 4, ” Vengeance (Sucrf) suffereth not to live.” Rom. 12 : 19, “Vengeance (e7coY/er7<rt?) is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.”
Retributive justice is expressed: 1. In the commandment that is given with a penalty attached to it. Gen. 2:17, “Thou shalt not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge; in the day that thou eatest thou shalt surely die.” Gal. 3 :10, “Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the law to do them.” Deut. 27 : 26. Ezek. 18 : 4, “The soul that sinneth, it shalt die.” Rom. 6 : 23, “The wages of sin is death.” The moral law expresses the mind and intention of the lawgiver. 2. In the actual infliction of the penalty threatened. Both are requisite. The former without the latter would evince want of veracity; want of power; or vacillation.
There is an important difference between remunerative and retributive merit, or between the merit of holiness and the demerit of sin. While the former is relative, the latter is absolute. If a disobedient creature were disposed to do so, he could demand the recompense due to his transgression of the moral law, as something that is strictly due to
* him. Divine justice is originally and necessarily obliged
* to requite disobedience, but not to reward obedience. God does not covenant to punish sin, as he does to recompense holiness. The requital in the case of transgression is not pactional and by promise, but necessary. The reason of this is, that sin has the creature for its ultimate and sole efficient. Unlike holiness, sin does not rnn back to God as its author. When obedience takes place, the Infinite will works in the finite will, both to will and to do. But when disobedience takes place, the finite will works alone. In the act of sin, man is an original and unassisted, though not unsupported author. He performs an act that is analogous to the Divine act of creation ex nihilo. It is true that the faculties of the creature by which sin is committed are created and upheld by the creator. God sustains the being of man or angel, in and during the very acting of sin. But the wrong agency is the creature’s alone. God does not cooperate in the act of transgression, and hence its demerit is absolute and not relative.
At this point we notice the doctrine of the Divine concur8us. A distinction has been made between an action and the vicionsness of an action. The first is called the ” material ” part of the action, and the latter the ” formal” part. God, it is said, concurs in the material, but not in the formal part of sin. “Every action is good by a physical goodness, as it is an act of the mind or hand, which have a natural goodness by creation ; but every action is not morally good: the physical goodness of the action depends on God, the moral evil on the creature.” Charnocke: On Holiness, 499. The objection to this distinction between a ” material” and a ” formal” part of sin is, that the material part of it is not sinful. Sin is a compound of guilt and innocence, according to this analysis and definition. But sin is simple, not compound in its nature. It is evil and only eviL To define it as a composition of tbat which is good in itself with that which is evil, is illogical. The following illustration which Charnocke (Holiuess, p. 500) gives, will illustrate this. “Two judges are in joint commission for the trial of a malefactor, and both upon proof of his guilt condemn him. This action in both, considered as an action, is good; for it is adjudging a man to death whose crime deserves such a punishment. But this same act, which is but one joint act of both, may be morally good in one judge, and morally evil in the other: morally good in him that condemns him out of an unbiassed consideration of the demerit of the crime; and morally evil in the other who hath not respect to this consideration, but is moved by some private animosity against the prisoner, and a desire of revenge for some private injury he has received from him. The act in itself is the same materially in both; but in one it is an act of justice, and in the other an act of murder, as it respects the principle and motive of it in the two judges.”
Upon examining this case, it will be found that what is called the ” formal ” part of sin is in reality the essence of it; and what is called the ” material” part of sin is no part of it at all. The sin in the instance of the sinful judge, as Charnocke says, is in the principle and motive of his act of passing sentence. This principle and motive is the selfish disposition of the man; which is simply the inclination or self-determination of his will. This inclination, and this alone, is the viciousness and guilt in the case. Whether the judge actually passed the sentence verbally or not, would make no difference with the fact of his selfishness and sin in the sight of God. This internal action of the will, seen in the self-moving inclination and disposition, is the wickedness of the man. To add to it the action of the physical faculty of the tongue in speaking the sentence, is to add nothing that essentially belongs to the idea and definition of sin. To distinguish, therefore, this bodily and physical part of man’s agency, in which God confessedly concurs, as evidence that God concurs in the act of sin itself, is not to the purpose. The real question is, whether God concurs and co-operates in that internal action of the will which is the real malignity and wickedness in the case supposed. Did God work in the revengeful judge to will, is the question. Did he ” concur ” in his malignant disposition? The answer to this question must be in the negative.
Retributive justice is an attribute whose exercise is necessary, in case there be transgression of the moral law. God cannot lay down a law, affix a penalty, and threaten its infliction, and proceed no further, in case of disobedience. The divine veracity forbids this. He has solemnly declared that ” he will by no means clear the guilty,” Ex. 34: 7. If the penalty is not inflicted, it is not “impossible for God to lie,” Heb. 6:18; and it is untrue that ” the Lord hath sworn and will not repent,” Ps. 110:4. Hence, in every instance of transgression, the penalty of law must be inflicted, either personally or vicariously; either upon the transgressor or upon his substitute. The remission of penalty under the Divine administration is not absolute, but relative. It may be omitted in respect to the real criminal, but, if so, it must be inflicted upon some one in his place.
At this point, the possibility of the vicarious satisfaction of retributive justice requires a brief notice. The full discussion of the topic belongs to the doctrine of Atonement. See Vol. II., p. 451. The exercise of justice, while necessary in respect to sin, is free and sovereign in respect to the sinner. Justice necessarily demands that sin be punished, but not necessarily in the person of the sinner. Justice may allow of the substitution of one person for another, provided that in the substitution no injustice is done to the rights of any of the parties interested. This principle was expressed by the schoolmen in the statement, “impersonaliter poenam necessario infligi omni peccato, eed non personaliter omni peccatori.” In the words of Turrettin (III. xix. 4), “duplex jus oritur circa poenae inflictionem; aliud necessarium et indispeusabile respectu peccati ipsius, aliud vero liberum et positivuin respectu peccatoris.”
This agrees with the intuitive convictions of man. “The profound and awful idea of substitution meets us in the religion of the early Romans. When the gods of the community were angry, and nobody could be laid hold of as definitely guilty, they might be appeased by one who voltunarily gave himself up (devovere se). Noxious chasms in the ground were closed, and battles half-lost were converted into victories, when a brave citizen threw himself as an expiatory offering into the abyss, or upon the foe.” Mommsen : Rome, I. xii. Mommsen adds that the compulsory substitution of the innocent for the guilty, human sacrifice by force, was not allowed in the early Roman commonwealth. There was, moreover, no formal provision for this substitution in the legislation of the Romans. This substitution was the action of popular impulse, and of the voluntary decision of the individual. Some assert that the substitution of penalty is impossible, and cite in proof the passages: Gen 2:17, “In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die;” and Ezek. 18 : 4, 20, “The soul that sinneth it shall die.” In these passages, the verb, not the pronoun, is the emphatic word. They teach the same truth with Rom. 6 : 23: “The wages of sin is death.” If, in these texts, the emphasis is to be laid upon the pronouns “it” and “thou,” so as to make the Divine declaration to be, that every individual who transgresses shall himself suffer the penalty of transgression, and that no other person shall suffer it vicariously for him, then the salvation of a sinner is impossible. For nothing could occur but the execution of penalty upon the actual transgressor. No exercise of mercy could take place in the universe of God. Such an interpretation admits of no alternative, and every soul that sinned would die. But that this cannot be the explanation intended to be put upon these threatenings, is proved by the fact that not every soul that has sinned does suffer the penalty threatened. The implied meaning of these texts, therefore, is, that “in the day thou eatest thereof, thou or thy redeemer shalt die; the soul that sinneth, it, or its surety shall die.” Sin must be punished personally, or else vicariously. “It may be objected,” says Edwards (God’s Sovereignty), “that God said, If thou eatest thou shalt die; as though the same person that sinned must suffer; and, therefore, Why does not God’s truth oblige him to that? I answer, that the word then was not intended to be restrained to him that in his own person sinned. Adam probably understood that his posterity were included, whether they sinned in their own person or not. If they sinned in Adam, their snrety, those words, ‘If thou eatest,’ meant, ‘If thou eatest in thyself, or in thy surety.1 And therefore, the latter words,’ Thou shalt die,’ do also fairly allow of such a construction as, ‘Thou shalt die, in thyself, or in thy surety.1”
The demand of retributive justice is, that sin be punished to the full measure and degree announced in the law. “The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,” Rom. 1: 8. The Divine displeasure expressed in punitive justice is not aimed against the person as such, and distinct from his sin. “God,” says Charnocke (Holiness, 473), ” is not displeased with the nature of man as man, for that was derived from him ; but with the nature of man as sinful, which is derived from the sinner himself. God hates only the sin, not the sinner; he desires only the destruction of the one, not the misery of the other.” God loves the person as such. The immortal nature of man is precious in his sight. Divine justice has no angry spite against anyone’s person. Consequently, if its claims can be satisfied by a suffering endured by another person, properly qualified, there is no feeling of animosity against the sinner’s person, to prevent the substitution. It is true that justice is not obliged to accept a substitute. It can insist, if it pleases, upon the infliction of the penalty upon the actual criminal. But neither is it obliged to refuse a substitute. Justice is not tied up, by anything in its own nature, to the infliction of the law’s penalty upon the identical person of the sinner, to the exclusion of any other person whatsoever.
In the sphere of human life, a refusal to admit a substitution of one person for another, in the only case in which. substitution is allowable, viz., in commercial law, would look like malice, and would require explanation. Should a creditor refuse to receive the complete vicarious payment of a debt from a friend of the debtor (though this would involve no difficulty for the debtor, who could of course take his friend’s money and pay it in person, yet), it would evince a malignant and spiteful feeling of the creditor towards the person of the debtor. It would look as if, besides obtaining the full satisfaction of his claims, he desired to injure him, or in some way to vex and worry him.1 But in the Divine sphere, the suspicion of personal animosity, in case of a refusal to permit a vicarious satisfaction of justice, could not arise, because of the absolute perfection of God. “As for God, his way is perfect,” Ps. 18 : 30. And had the Supreme Judge permitted no substitute for man the guilty, it would be necessary to assume that there were good reasons for the procedure. The reasons might be unknown, and perhaps unknowable. But the reason certainly could not be, that the Eternal Judge feels hatred towards the body and soul of a man, as that particular man. There is no malignant feeling in God towards the person of even the most wicked and devilish transgressor. God is not a respecter of persons in any sense. He has no prejudice for, or grudge against, any one of his creatures; and if the complete satisfaction of justice can be secured by a vicarious
1 Compare what Cicero (De Officiis, Lib. L 10) says concerning a “malicious interpretation ” of law.
endurance of penalty, he has no such ill-will towards the sinner’s person, in distinction from his sin, as would prevent him from accepting it, in case there were no reasons in his own mind why he should not. On the contrary, he loves the person, the immortal spirit, of the transgressor; as he has abundantly evinced in the gospel method of mercy. It is, however, to be carefully noticed, in case there be substitution of penalty: 1. That the substituted penalty must be a strict and full equivalent. Justice is inexorable upon this point. Here, the necessary nature of the attribute appears. 2. That the person substituted be able to render complete satisfaction, and be himself no debtor to law and justice.
The sovereignty and freedom of God in respect to justice, therefore, relates not to the abolition, nor to the relaxation, but to the substitution of punishment. It does not consist in any power to violate or waive legal claims. These must be maintained in any event. “Fiat justitia mat coelum” is an intuitive conviction. The exercise of the other attributes of God is regulated and conditioned by that of justice. God cannot exert omnipotence unjustly, or benevolence, or mercy. The question, ” Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?” (Gen. 18 : 25), must be answered affirmatively. It follows, then, that the sovereignty of God in respect to retributive justice, consists in his power and right to satisfy its claims in more than one way. He has a choice of methods. He may inflict the full amount of suffering due to sin, either upon the sinner, or upon a proper substitute. He may require the complete satisfaction of justice from the transgressor, or he may provide it for him vicariously. Divine justice may smite the guilty man, or it may smite the man who is God’s “fellow,” Zech. 13 : 7. It is free to do either; but one or the other it must do. God is not obliged either to accept or to provide a substituted penalty, and in case he does either, it is grace and mercy towards the actual transgressor. These two particulars, of permitting substitution, and providing the substitute, furnish the answer to the question, ” Where is the mercy of God, in case justice is strictly satisfied by a vicarious person?” There is mercy in permitting another person to do for the siuuer what the sinner is bound to do for himself; and still greater mercy in providing that person; and greater still, in becoming that person.
The Socinian view of retributive justice denies its necessary nature. “There is no such justice in God,” says Socinus, “as requires absolutely and inexorably that sin be punished, and such as God himself cannot repudiate. There is indeed a perpetual and constant justice in God; but this is nothing but his moral equity and rectitude, by virtue o’f which there is no depravity or iniquity in any of his works.” Prelectiones Theologicae, XVI. This makes retributive justice to be an effect of the Divine will; and not an immanent and necessary attribute. Indeed, Socinus (De Servatore, I.) expressly asserts that justice, in the popular (vulgaris) signification, as opposed to mercy, “dei qualitas non est, sed tantum effectus voluntatis ipsius.” It would follow from this, that the moral law together with its penalty is a positive statute, like the ceremonial law. And as God abrogated the latter, so he could abrogate the former, by an act of arbitrary will. Accordingly, in respect to the necessity of the satisfaction of justice, Socinus remarks: “Divinae justitiae, per quam peccatores damnari meremur, pro peccatis nostris neque Christum satisfecisse, neque ut satisfaceret, opus fuisse, arbitror.” But if justice is an attribute at all, of the Supreme being, it must be essential, like all the other attributes. It can no more be an effect of God’s optional will, than his omnipotence can be. An effect or product need not be at all, provided the efficient or producer so pleases.
The history of doctrine shows a difference of opinion in respect to the absolute, or the relative necessity of retributive justice. The question was raised by some of the schoolmen, whether the satisfaction which Christ makes to Divine justice for the sin of man is necessary per se, or only because God so willed it. Schoolmen like Hales, Bonaventura, and Aquinas, adopted the latter view, in opposition to Anselm’s positions in his Cur Deus homo? These theologians took an erroneous view of the divine omnipotence, whereby this attribute is made superior to all others. “In contemplating the Divine power as absolute,” remarks llales, “we conceive of a certain energy (virtus) in the deity that is abstracted from the rest of his nature, and transcends all limitations; and with respect to this form, the divine power cannot have limits set to it (non est determinare).” But it is as impossible and inconceivable, for the divine power to act in isolation from all the other attributes, as it is for the divine omniscience, or for the divine benevolence to do so. Benevolence cannot act without power; and neither can power, in so pei-fect a being as God, act without wisdom or justice. This theory ultimately resolves the deity into mere blind force.
Still, the motive, in some instances, was a good one. There was fear of limiting the divine omnipotence. Twisse, the moderator of the Westminster Assembly, affirmed only the relative necessity of retributive justice, in opposition to the powerful reasoning of Owen, who maintained its absolute nature. Magee (Atonement, I. 191) adopts relative necessity. Bespecting such instances, Turrettin (III. xix. 9) remarks, that although both parties are agreed as against the tenets and positions of Socinus, yet the doctrine of the absolute necessity of justice is much the most consonant with the nature of God, and the language of Scripture, and more efficacious for the refutation of Socinianism (ad haeresim illam pestilentissimam jugulandam). The Remonstrants asserted the relative necessity of retributive justice. In their Apologia they say, that ” to affirm that the avenging justice of God is so essential to his nature, that by virtue of it, God is obliged and necessitated to punish sin, is very absurd and very unworthy of God.” See Witeius: Apostles’ Creed, Dissertation IX.
No one of the Divine attributes is supported by more or stronger evidences, than retributive justice. 1. The testimony from Scripture is abundant. To the passages already cited, may be added, as only a part of the great number of texts, Ex. 34: 7, ” God will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children.” Ps. 11: 6, “Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest.” Matt. 18: 8, “It is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, than to be cast into hell-fire.” Jude 7, ” Suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” Luke 12 : 5, ” Yea, I say unto you, fear him who hath power to cast into hell.” 2 Thess. 1:6, “Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you.” Heb. 2 :2, “A just recompense of reward.” 2. The testimony from the human conscience, and the consent of all nations alluded to in Hom. 2:14, 15, “Their conscience bearing witness, and their thoughts meanwhile accusing.”1 3. Sacrifice among pagan nations, and the Jewish system of sacrifices, teach retributive justice. The first is universal, and implies that divine justice requires satisfaction by expiatory suffering. The second was an arrangement for eliciting the consciousness of guilt, and preannouncing its pacification through the suffering Messiah. Heb. 10:3, “In those sacrifices there is a remembrance of sins every year.” * 4. The remarkable provision made in the gospel for the vicarious satisfaction of retributive justice, evinces the reality and importance of the attribute.
» See Plato: Republic X. 614-621; Phaedo, 118,114; Gorgias, 523-527. Tacitus: Annals, VL vi.; XIV. x.; XV. xxvi. Lewis: Plato contra Atheos, Appendix LIX. Tholuck: On Heathenism. Owen: On Divine Justice. Shedd: Theological Essays, 284-293.
9Magee: Atonement (Human Sacrifices; Propitiation as held by Jews and Heathen; Universality of Sacrifice). Owen: On Divine Justice, IV. Smith: Christian Theology, 443-445.
Retributive justice is retrospective in its primary aim. It looks back at what has been doue in the past. Its first object is requital. A man is hung for murder, principally and before all other reasons, because he has transgressed the law forbidding murder. He is not punished primarily from a prospective aim, such as his own moral improvement, or for the purpose of preventing him from committing another murder, or for the purpose of deterring others from committing murder. It is true that moral improvement may be the consequence of the infliction of the penalty. But the consequence must not be confounded with the purpose. Cum hoc, non ergo propter hoc. The criminal may come to see and confess that his crime deserves the punishment, and in genuine unselfish penitence may take sides with the law, and go into eternity relying upon that great atonement of Christ which satisfies retributive justice for his sin; but even this greatest benefit of all, is not what is aimed at in man’s punishment of the crime of murder. For even if there should be no such personal benefit as this attending the infliction of human penalty, the one sufficient reason for inflicting it still holds good, viz., the fact that the law has been violated, and demands the punishment of the offender for this reason simply. Only upon this view of justice, is the true dignity of man maintained. When he is punished because, as a rational and free being, he has responsibly violated the law, there is a recognition of him as a person endowed with free will. But if he is seized and made to suffer for the benefit of others, he is treated like a chattel, or a thing that may be put to use. “The nature of ill-desert and punishableness,” says Kant (Practischer Vernunft, 151, Ed. Rosenkranz), “is always involved in the idea of voluntary transgression; and the idea of punishment excludes that of happiness in all its forms. For although he who inflicts penalty may, it is true, also have a benevolent purpose to produce by the punishment a beneficial effect upon the criminal, yet the punishment itself must be justified first of all as pure and simple requital and retribution: that is, as a kind of suffering that is demanded by the law, without any reference to its prospective beneficial consequences; so that even if no moral improvement and no personal advantage should accrue to the person from the punishment, he must acknowledge that righteousness has been done to him, and that his experience is exactly conformed to his conduct. In every punishment, as such, justice is the very first thing, and constitutes the essence of it. A benevolent purpose, it is true, may be conjoined with punishment; but the criminal cannot claim this as his due, and he has no right to reckon upon it. All that he deserves, is punishment; and this is all that he can expect from the law which he has violated.” The same view is taken of the retrospective aim of justice by Muller, in his lucid discrimination between chastisement and punishment. Doctrine of Sin, I. 244 seq. The opposite view, that punishment is prospective in its primary purpose, and aims only at reformation, was maintained by the Greek sophists. Protagoras is represented by Plato as saying, that ” no one punishes the evildoer under the notion, or for the reason that he has done wrong; only the unreasonable fury of a tyrant acts in that way.” Protagoras, 324. Plato (Laws, X. 904, 905) holds that punishment is retributive. Cicero (De Legibus, I. 14) contends that virtue has regard to justice, not to utility. Grotius defines penalty, as ” the evil of suffering inflicted on account of the evil of doing.” Coke, Bacon, Selden, and Blackstone explain punishment by crime not by expediency. Kant, Herbert, Stahl, Hartenstein, Rothe, and Woolsey (Political Science, II. viii), define punishment as requital. Beccaria and Bentham found punishment on utility and expedience. Penny Cyclopaedia, Article, Beccaria. Paley notices the difference between human punishment and divine. In the former, there is a combination of the retributive with the protective and reformatory, but not in the latter. Moral Philosophy, VI. ix.
If the good of the public is the chief end of punishment, the criminal might be made to suffer more than his crime deserves. If he can be used like a thing, for the benefit of others, there is no limit to the degree in which he may be used. His personal desert and responsibility being left out of view, he may be made to suffer as much, or as little as the public welfare prescribes. It was this theory of penalty that led to the multiplication of capital crimes. Tbe prevention of forgery, it was claimed in England, required that the forger should be executed; and npon the principle that punishment is for the public protection, and not for exact justice and strict retribution, the forger was hanged. But a merely civil crime against property, and not against human life, does not merit the death penalty. Upon this theory, the number of capital offences became very numerous, and the criminal code very bloody. So that, in the long run, nothing is kinder than exact justice. It prevents extremes in either direction: either that of indulgence, or that of cruelty. Shedd: Endless Punishment, pp. 118-140.
Commutative justice implies an exchange of values between two parties, wherein each gives and receives in return. This species has no place in reference to God; for “who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?” Rom. 11: 35.
Public or general justice, is a distinction invented by Grotius, for the purpose of meeting certain Socinian objections to the Anselmic doctrine of strict satisfaction. It is a relaxed form of justice, by virtue of which God waives a full satisfaction of legal claims, and accepts a partial satisfaction in lieu thereof. Analyzed to its ultimate elements, “public justice ” is benevolence, not justice. Justice is the exact distribution of reward or of punishment. Anything therefore that is inexact, is in so far unjust. Too much or too little suffering for a crime is not pure justice. Says the younger Edwards (Against Channcey, ch. IV.), “general or public justice is an improper use of the word justice; because, to practise justice in this sense is no other than to act from public spirit, or from love to the community; and with respect to the universe, it is the very same with general benevolence.” Giotius agreed with Socinus, and both of them agreed with Duns Scotus, in making punitive justice optional, not necessary. Grotius held that punishment could be waived and not inflicted, if God s0 decided. It is not necessary that sin be punished with such a punishment as strictly, and fully corresponds with the guilt. An inferior penalty may be inflicted, or even no penalty at all, if God s0 determine. What then was the difference between Grotius and Socinus? It was this. Socinus asserted that when God decides to waive legal claims, he need not do anything to guard against the evil consequences of so doing. lle can release the sinner from all punishment, and let the matter drop there. Grotius, on the other hand, though agreeing with his opponent that God can dispense with penalty altogether, yet maintained that he cannot do it with safety to the universe, unless he gives some expression to his abhorrence of sin. This he does by the death of Christ. When God remits penalty by this method, he guards against the abuse of his benevolence; which abuse Socinus made no provision for in his system. According to Grotius, the substituted sufferings of Christ are not a strict equivalent for the penalty due to sin, but an accepted equivalent, as when a creditor agrees to take fifty cents for a dollar, in the settlement of a commercial debt.
Grotius applies the principles of commercial justice to the doctrine of Christ’s atonement. He employs an illustration from the Roman commercial law, as presented in the Pandects of Justinian. Commercial justice can be satisfied by word of mouth. If a creditor calls a debt paid, it is paid; and the release is denominated ” acceptilatio,” or acquittance by word of mouth. Commercial justice has no further demands to make, when the creditor has said that the debt is paid. In like manner, if God will say that the moral law is satisfied by an inferior penalty, it is satisfied; and if he should say that it is satisfied with no penalty at all, it would be satisfied. There are no claims standing against the sinner, because the claims being of a positive, not a necessary nature; being constituted by the optional will of God; they can be abrogated by the same almighty will. Socinus (De Servatore, IIL i.) argues “that God is our creditor. Our sins are debts which we have contracted towards him. But a creditor can by an act of will surrender his claim, without making any legal provision for so doing.” This abolishes the distinction between commercial and moral indebtedness, and assumes that the claims of justice and government, like those of a pecuniary creditor, have no necessary quality, but are voidable by an act of will. A pecuniary creditor can abolish his claim by a volition, but a magistrate cannot so abolish a moral claim. Shedd: History of Doctrine, II. 347 sq.
The Goodness of God is the Divine essence viewed as energizing benevolently, and kindly, towards the creature. It is an emanent, or transitive attribute, issuing forth from the Divine nature, and aiming to promote the welfare and happiness of the universe. It is not that attribute by which God is good; but by which he does good. As good in himself, God is holy; as showing goodness to others, he is good or kind. The Septnagint renders aits by yjpr\trrbs = useful. “Good (xpr7oro?) art thou, O Lord, and thou doest good,” Ps. 119 : 68. In Rom. 5: 7, holiness is designated by Sucatos, and kindness by ayaSo<;: “Scarcely for a righteous (Sbccuo<:) man will one die; yet peradventure for a good (dyaS6<;) man, some would even dare to die.” In Luke 18 :19, the reference is to benevolence, not to holiness: “None is good (dyaS6s), save one, that is God.”
Goodness is a special attribute with varieties under it. 1. The first of these is Benevolence. This is the affection which the Creator feels towards the sentient and conscious creature, as such. Benevolence cannot be shown to insentient existence; to the rocks and mountains. It grows out of the fact that the creature is his workmanship. God is interested in everything which he has made. He cannot hate any of his own handiwork. The wrath of God is not excited by anything that took its origin from him. It falls only upon something that has been added to his own work. Sin is no part of creation, but a quality introduced into creation by the creature himself.
God’s benevolent love towards his creatures, considered as creatures merely, is infinitely greater than any love of a creature towards a creature. No earthly father loves his child with a benevolence equal to that which the Heavenly Father feels towards his created offspring. Luke 6:35, “The Highest is kind (^p^oro?) unto the unthankful and to the evil.” Matt. 5:45, “Your Father which is in heaven maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” Disobedience and ingratitude deaden and destroy the benevolent feeling of man towards man, but not that of God towards his creatures. Sinful men are the objects of God’s providential care, as well as renewed men. Even Satan and the fallen angels are treated with all the benevolence which their enmity to God will admit of. God feels no malevolence towards them.
The benevolent interest which God as a creator takes in the sentient creature, as the product of his omnipotent power, is illustrated by the following from Aristotle. “The benefactor loves him whom he has benefited, more than he who has been benefited loves the benefactor. The workman loves his own work, more than the work loves the workman. All men feel greater love for what they have acquired with labor; as those who have earned their money love it more than those who have inherited it. Mothers are more fond of their children than fathers are; for the bringing them forth is painful. Parents have greater love for their children, than children have for their parents.” Ethics, IX. vii. Upon this principle, the benevolent affection of God towards his creatures is greater than that of creatures towards each other. God’s compassionate love is more tender than that of an earthly father or mother. Ps. 27 :10, “When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” Men are commanded to imitate the Divine benevolence as the highest form of this affection. Matt. 5 :44: “Love your enemies, do good to them that hate yon; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Compare Plato: Republic, I. 33. Montaigne: Essays, VI. viii. (Of the Affection of Fathers).
God’s benevolent interest in the sentient creature, and his care for its welfare, is proportioned and suited to the nature and circumstances of the creature. (a) It extends to the animals: Ps. 145 :16, ” Thou opeuest thine hand, and suppliest the desire of every living thing.” Ps. 104:21, “The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.” Compare the whole psalm. Job 38:41, “Who provideth for the raven his’ food?” Matt. 6 : 26, “Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.” Ps. 36 : 6, ” Thou preservest man and beast.” (5) It extends to man. Acts 14: 17, “He left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven.” (c) It extends to sinful man. Matt. 5 :45, “He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good.” Acts 14 :17, “He suffered all nations to walk in their own ways, nevertheless, filling their hearts with food and gladness.” Neh. 9 :17, “But thou art a God slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.”
The Divine benevolence varies in its degrees, in accordance with the capacity of the object to receive it. The brute experiences all of it that he is capable of. As he is physical only, he can receive from his creator only physical good. Man is both physical and mental; and receives both physical and mental good. Sinful man is deprived of a full manifestation of the Divine benevolence, only by reason of his sin. God manifests to the sinner all the benevolence that he is qualified to receive. He sends him physical and temporal good: rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling his heart with food and gladness ; but he cannot bestow upon a sinful and hostile man his approving love, and fill him with heavenly peace and joy. The Divine benevolence, therefore, is infinite. It is not limited in its manifestation by anything in itself, but only by the capacity and characteristics of the creature.
The chief objections to the doctrine of the Divine benevolence are the following: 1. The permission of sin. 2. The existence of suffering here upon earth. 3. The slow progress of redemption. Respecting the first, it is to be observed that the permission of sin has cost God more than it has man. No sacrifice and suffering on account of sin has been undergone by any man, that is equal to that which has been endured by incarnate God. This shows that God is not acting selfishly, in permitting sin. At the very time that he permits it, he knows that it will result in an infinite sacrifice on his part. Respecting the second, it is to be said, that the suffering of both animals and man is often greatly exaggerated. The ” struggle for existence” in the animal world is not so great as Darwin and others represent. The majority, certainly, survive. If they did not, the species would diminish, and gradually become extinct. But the fact is, that generally they are steadily increasing. And in the human world, there is no struggle at all for existence. Men do not feed upon one another. The amount of enjoyment, in both the animal and the human world, is greater than the amount of suffering. “The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord,” Ps. 35 : 5. “After all( it is a happy world,” said Paley. See his proof, in his Natural Theology, XXVI. “It is manifest,” says King (Foreknowledge, II.),”that though good be much mixed with evil in this life, yet there is much more good than evil in nature, and every animal provides for its own preservation by instinct or reason, which it would never do, if it did not think or feel its life, with all the evils annexed, to be much preferable to non-existence. This is a proof of the wisdom, goodness, and power of God, who could thus temper a world infested with so many miseries, that nothing should continue in it which was not in some measure pleased with its existence, and which would not endeavor by all possible means to preserve it.” Furthermore, it must be remembered that in the human world suffering is the effect of sin. Most of the suffering among mankiud comes from poverty and disease; and these are due very greatly to the two vices of intemperance and sensuality. And finally, pain is not an absolute evil for man, unless it is hell-pain. All suffering except that of eternal remorse and despair may be a means of good to him. Respecting the third objection, the success of redemption must be estimated at the end of the process, not at the beginning, or in the middle of it. Thus estimated, the great majority of the human family are redeemed by Christ.
2. Mercy is a second variety of the Divine Goodness.. It is the benevolent compassion of God towards man as a sinner. This attribute, though logically implied in the idea of God as a being possessed of all conceivable perfections, is free and sovereign in its exercise. Consequently, it requires a special revelation in order to establish the fact that it will be exercised. As omnipotence is a necessary attribute of God, and yet its exercise in the creation of the universe is not necessary but optional, so, though mercy is a necessary attribute, its exercise is not also necessary. “The goodness of the Deity is infinite,” says Charnocke (Goodness of God), “and circumscribed by no limits; but the exercise of his goodness may be limited by himself. God is necessarily good in his nature; but free in his communication of it. He is not necessarily communicative of his goodness, as the sun of its light; which chooses not its objects, but enlightens all indifferently. This were to make God of no more understanding than the sun, which shines not where it pleases but where it must. He is an understanding agent, and hath a sovereign right to choose his own subjects. It would not be a supreme, if it were not a voluntary goodness.”
Accordingly, the fact that the attribute of mercy will be exercised towards sinful man is taught only in the written revelation. Indeed, this constitutes the most important and principal part of the teaching of inspiration. In the very first communication made to the fallen pair, there was a promise on the part of God, to show mercy in and by the “Seed of the woman:” the Son of man, the incarnate God, Gen. 3 :15. And in the yet more explicit revelation made to Moses on the mount, in connection with the giving of the law, “Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful (Dirn tender, compassionate), and gracious (‘pan, showing kindness), long-suffering, a”nd abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,” Ex. 34: 6, 7. To quote all the proof-texts for this attribute, would be to quote the bulk of both the Old and the New Testament.
Grace is an aspect of mercy. It differs from mercy, in that it has reference to sinful man as guilty, while mercy has respect to sinful man as miserable. The one refers to the culpability of sin, and the other to its wretchedness. The two terms, however, in common use are interchangeable. Grace, like mercy, is a variety of the Divine goodness.
Both mercy and grace are exercised in a general manner, towards those who are not the objects of their special manifestation. All blessings bestowed upon the natural man are mercy, in so far as they succor his distress, and grace, so far as they are bestowed upon the undeserving. Matt. 5 :45, “He maketh his sun to rise upon the evil.” Ps. 145 : 9, “The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works.” Fs. 145:15, 16,” The eyes of all wait upon thee.”
This general manifestation of mercy and grace is in and by the works of creation and providence. It is also seen in one aspect of the work of redemption. Men who are not actually saved by the Divine mercy, yet obtain some blessings from it. (a) The delay of punishment is one; namely, the pretermission {irdpeat,<;) of sin, in distinction from its remission (a^eo-t?). Rom. 3 : 25. God’s forbearance and longsuffering with a sinner who abuses this by persistence in sin, is a phase of mercy. This is ” through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” It is made possible by it. Without Christ’s work, there would have been instantaneous punishment, and no long-suffering. This is also taught in 1 Pet. 3:20, ” The long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah.” (b) The common influences of the Holy Spirit are another manifestation of mercy in its general form.
Special grace and mercy are exercised only in redemption, and towards those whom God is pleased to fix upon. Eph. 1: 4-6, “According as he hath chosen us in him, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted (i^apiraaev) in the Beloved.” Rom. 9:15, “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
The Truth or veracity of God, is that attribute of his nature by virtue of which he performs what he has said. Num. 23 :19, ” God is not a man, that he should lie.” It is seen: 1. In revelation. 1 Pet. 1: 25, ” The word of the Lord endureth forever.” Ps. 100 : 5, ” His truth endureth to all generations.” Matt. 5 :18, “One jot or tittle shall not pass from the law till all be fulfilled.” 2. In redemption. Heb. 10 : 23, “He is faithful that promised.” Heb. 6:17, “God willing [desiring] more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his council, confirmed it by an oath.” 1 Cor. 1:9,” God is faithful, by whom ye were called.” 2 Tim. 2 :13, “He abideth faithful; be cannot deny himself.” 3. In retribution. Heb. 3 :11, “So, I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.” Compare with Heb. 4:1 seq.
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Mexico Just Shut Down a Lot of Sawmills in its Massive Monarch Butterfly Reserve
It’s also a United Nations World Heritage Site.
by Erik Shilling September 21, 2016
A female monarch butterfly. (Photo: Kenneth Dwain Harrelson/CC BY-SA 3.0)
Every winter, millions of monarch butterflies from the eastern part of North America migrate south to a forest in the middle of Mexico, where they see out the season until fall comes.
The forest, which was first discovered in the 1970s, is officially called the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, and has been a protected site in Mexico since 1980. But ever since then—and likely before—the forest has remained threatened by illegal logging.
On Tuesday, Mexican authorities announced steps towards fighting that threat, in the form of the closure of seven sawmills that had been operating illegally in the reserve, according to the Associated Press.
The closures come around two months ahead of the butterflies’ arrival and amid a wider crackdown on illegal logging in the area.
The total preserve is some 215 square miles, or about the size of Chicago. But a smaller, core area of the zone is where officials have focused their efforts, almost cutting in half the amount of illegal logging there from 2015 to 2016, according to the AP.
All of which is good news for the monarchs, who need all the help they can get. Their populations have declined massively in the last 10 years, and scientists still aren’t quite sure how—or if—they can be saved.
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MBDA brings MESKO into global missile supply chain
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Kielce, Poland. 07 September 2019. MBDA, partnered with MESKO S.A. to bring the Polish firm into its global missile supply chain. Contracts from MBDA to MESKO S.A. were signed today at MSPO 2019 in Kielce, Poland.
The scope of work includes components within multiple missiles including the CAMM air defence missile family and the Brimstone strike missile.
Warren Devine, MBDA Head of Industrial Co-Operation Poland, said: “These contracts validate our assessment that MESKO can provide quality missile components to MBDA’s exacting standards whilst enhancing our global competitiveness. MESKO will become a valuable part of MBDAs supply chain and a strong partner for deep cooperation.”
The contracts between MBDA and MESKO S.A., a PGZ company, follow on from the signing of a strategic co-operation agreement between MBDA and PGZ on missiles in February 2017. Since then, detailed assessments have been undertaken between both parties, which recognise the benefits and strengths of co-operation between each other.
Gabriel Nowina-Konopka, Vice CEO of Mesko S.A. said: “Today’s agreement confirms our capabilities in manufacturing and delivering advanced missile systems. We are now included in the supply chain of components for one of the largest global manufacturers, and we are working on expanding this partnership on other ambitious projects.”
CAMM and Brimstone are also offered to Poland for the Narew and Tank Destroyer programmes. In addition to global supply chain opportunities, MBDA’s co-operation with PGZ involves unprecedented depth of missile technology and know-how transfer to Polish industry.
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Pierre Mauboussin
“A goldsmith in light aviation” Jean Liron, Aviation Magazine, 1967
Pierre Mauboussin on the left, Charles Fauvel at his side, in front of the PM-X.
In 1928, Pierre Mauboussin, then technical director of the eponymous jewelry business directed by his father in Paris, teamed up with engineer Louis Peyret to design and manufacture the PM-X, a high-wing single-seater. Piloted by Charles Fauvel, the future father of flying wings, the PM-X broke several international records.
In 1930, the PM-XI adopted the same two-seater side-by-side formula and barely more powerful engine. René Lefèvre conducted two raids with it, to Madagascar and Saigon.
In 1931, the PM-XII inaugurated a low-wing formula in tandem. These planes will be powered by a variety of engines, from Salmson to Regnier via Pobjoy and Minié.
Pierre Mauboussin had his planes manufactured at Letord in Paris, Zodiac in Puteaux, Breguet in Vélizy and Couzinet in Levallois. In 1936 he joined forces with Fouga to manufacture his planes inAire sur l’Adour.
During the Second World War he met Robert Castello, an engineer at Dewoitine and an amateur designer of gliders: together they designed and produced the series of “CM” gliders.
In 1949 the CM8R13 “Sylphe” was the first glider powered by a reactor, supplied by Joseph Szydlowski’s company Turbomeca.
In 1951 they designed the CM-170 “Magister”, the first school jet aircraft, of which more than 800 copies were produced.
In 1958 Potez bought Air Fouga: Pierre Mauboussin became its director.
He retired in 1967.
In the early 1930s, Pierre Mauboussin entrusted his planes to Hélène Boucher and Maryse Hilsz to break several records and participate in competitions, including the 12 Hours of Angers.
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What Do You Know About Your DNA?
You may think you know all there is about DNA, but this simple yet surprisngly informative videos will enlighten and amaze! What Do You Know About Your DNA? video, science, informative, DNA A beautiful animation and a simple explanation of what the building blocks of life are made of...
A Fascinating Look at How Your Body Makes DNA!
These DNA molecular visualizations were created as a resource to help teachers all around the world teach what the actual mechanism for building DNA in the cells really looks like.
The Many Dangers and Pitfalls Of Home Ancestry DNA Tests
Various private genealogical DNA companies have been offering and advertising these exact exciting services, at relatively low prices, too. But are they safe? Are they even effective?
How Much Do You Know About Your DNA?
You may think you know all there is about DNA, but this simple yet surprisngly informative videos will enlighten and amaze! How Much Do You Know About Your DNA? video, science, informative, DNA A beautiful animation and a simple explanation of what the building blocks of life are made of...
Curious About Your Ancestry? This is How DNA Testing Works
, this video seeks to dissect and explain the true nature of human DNA and ancestry. With such a heavy rise in interest in DNA testing, it’s important to know what are the factors that could affect not only the make-up of your DNA but also those that can affect the process of testing as well.
Murder Mystery: Killer Volunteers His Own DNA!
There are an array of suspects, and a most incredible solution: the killer, after twelve years of freedom, amazingly volunteers his own DNA along with the rest of his community.
These Brothers Must Have Talent Written in Their DNA
You've never heard a twin act like this before. These brothers, the brothers Johnson, are both so talented and sing so well together it is clear they were born with a single voice, split in two for..
An Eco-Friendly, DNA-Shaped Building Is Going Up In Taiwan
A skyscraper like no other is being constructed in the capital of Taiwan, Taipei – it’s shaped like the double helix pattern of human DNA, and will purify the bustling city’s air once it’s completed.
Why Your Genetic Code Has Traces of Ancient Viruses
The Origins Story of Viruses and How They Can Alter Our DNA nature, human, DNA, evolution, viruses, genetics, origins, ancestors, scientific explanations, PBS Eons Scientists find traces of ancient viruses in our DNA all the time.
First US Embryo to be 'Edited'; Rise of Genetic Changes!
Led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov from Oregon Health and Science University, this involved changing the DNA of a large number of one-cell embryos with the gene-editing technique CRISPR.
WATCH: The Next 1,000 Years of Human Evolution
Human Evolution Over the Next Millennium video, science, fascinating, health, DNA, watch, evolution, genetics, tech news, hypothetical It looks like immortality is going to be the biggest change we experience in our evolution over the next 1,000 years...
How Do Vaccines Actually Work and How Do They Protect Us?
How Vaccines Actually Work history, virus, immune system, medicine, infection, DNA, epidemic, vaccines, smallpox The history and medical evolution of vaccines and how they affect our immune system
This Advanced Test Offers Priceless Info about Your Health
In essence, this microbiome test is also a stool test, but what makes it special is that by using an advanced DNA and/or RNA sequencing, it can give a more accurate picture of the microbes, fungi, parasites and viruses in an individual's gut, as well as measure pH levels and analyze enzymes.
Meet This 71-Year-Old Woman Who Feels No Pain Or Anxiety
The 71-Year-Old Woman Who Feels No Pain Or Anxiety health, news, pain, DNA, anxiety, unique, painkillers, amazing story, resistance, mutation, Jo Cameron While news explode with stories on the opioid epidemic, there are unique individuals like Jo Cameron, completely resistant to pain & anxiety
8 Little Known-Facts about Neanderthals
They had a number of different health issues Image source - Wikimedia Commons A recent study evaluated pieces of human DNA that trace back to Neanderthals and it was found that they had a higher risk of blood clots, strokes, depression, skin lesions, a penchant for nicotine addiction and even malnutrition
10-Minute Test Can Detect Cancer Anywhere in Your Body
The researchers, from the University of Queensland, found a unique DNA structure that appears to be common to every type of cancer they tested for. This includes prostate, lymphoma and various types of breast cancer. Cancers aren't so straightforward to diagnose.
These Technologies Can Change All Our Futures!
Biofuels have increased in popularity because of rising oil prices and the need for energy security. ( Wikipedia ) DNA Sequencing is the process of determining the precise order of nucleotides within a DNA molecule.
Joke: The Old Switcheroo...
George showed her his genealogy DNA test results. No match for any of his relatives, and strong matches for a family who lived the other side of the city. Perturbed, his mother called her husband. "Honey, George has done a DNA test, and... and...
One Blood Test Will Detect 50 Cancers With 93% Accuracy
The combination of computational technologies and DNA testing is the key.
Scientists Discover the FIRST Animal That Doesn’t Breathe
The DNA of h. salminicola has been sequenced in a recent study at Tel Aviv University, in which researchers tried to understand how the parasite can possibly survive in an oxygen-free environment.
Science News: Genetic Bandages?
While DNA is the blueprint of life, it has a cousin - RNA. RNA is like the builder that uses DNA as guidance. RNA carries the info from DNA and decides what genes will be expressed in the body.
New Test Discovers Cancer Months Before it Appears!
[related_articles] The test works by detecting free-floating mutated DNA, which has been released into the bloodstream by dying cancer cells.
New Blood Test Screens for 20 Cancers With 99.4% Accuracy
The blood test is based on cutting-edge genetic research that attempts to detect the genetic changes that happen to their DNA when a person is suffering from cancer.
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Biology Quiz: What Do You Know About Viruses?
Animals Plants Bacteria Other viruses It can infect all the above True or False: Without viruses humans wouldn't exist It seems that about half of human DNA came from viruses True False The best weapon against viruses are...
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Hilarious: Standing Before the Pearly Gates...
In front of them, stands a guardian angel. As the man approaches, the angel greets him and warns him it is not so easy to get in heaven. There are some criteria before entry is allowed. For example, was the fellow religious in life? No? The guardian angel told him that's bad. Was he generous?
This Stand-Up Routine is as Funny as They Come!
This thick accented Scottish comedian has a great dry delivery that will have you cracking from the first line to the end of his stand-up, we challenge you not to grin hugely as Kevin Bridges delivers a row of deadpan jokes as he tells stories and delivers killer one liners!
Elton John’s Hits Absolutely Stand the Test of Time
“I dressed more on the humorous side because if I was going to be stuck at the piano for two hours, I was going to make people look at me," the musician said in an interview with W magazine.
These Phone Stand Ideas Are Nothing Short of Awesome
There are many companies and stores out there that will happily sell you a phone stand, but why bother buying one when you can make one all by yourself?
Funny Stand-up: Women Overthink, Men Underthink!
For those of you who don't know, Russell Peters is a Canadian comedian and actor, and is the first comedian to ever get a Netflix special for his Stand-Up routine. He lives in Los Angeles. In this routine, he's going to tell you what he thinks the biggest problem between men and women is...
These Words Reminded Me That You Will Always Be With Me
I came across this poem the other day, and it reminded me of someone very close to me who had passed away some years ago. Grieving the loss of a loved one is never easy, and even though so many years have gone by, I still hope and wish he was here with me today.
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How to Create a Nifty Portable Stand for Your Phone!
But don't fear, here's a great and easy way to make your own tablet or smartphone stand in no time at all. Make a Stand For Your Phone in 1 Minute Flat tips, video, phone, guide, DIY, stand Here's a great and easy way to make your own tablet or smartphone stand in no time at all.
Do You Know What All These Acronyms Stand For?
It stands for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , or the Italian automobile factory of Turin in English. 2.
Funny Stand Up: Why Teens Are God's Revenge
In this hilarious stand up he talks about God's revenge against the people - Teenagers!
The Terracotta Army Stands Silent, In Wait For You...
This led the emperor to spend 11 years building an entire underground city, within stand thousands of clay statues of soldiers and servants who await his command. The cave is spread over an area of 16,300 square meters and split into three main areas.
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This Dance Performance Deserves a Standing Ovation
Meet Barbara Peters, an incredible ballet dancer that recently performed at the British dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing and swept both the jury and the audience off their feet, so much so..
21 Incredible Places to Stand and Just Admire the View...
Of course, if I had been walking along any of THESE places, I might still be standing there. admiring the gorgeous view.
Funny Stand Up: Can't Argue With Wife Post Surgery!
Jim Gaffigan is one of the funniest stand-ups in the world, an achievement even more salient due to the fact that he also has a pretty clean act, with no rudeness or sexually explicit material.
These Easy DIY Xmas Wreaths Will Make Your House Stand Out
Looking for a way to make your Christmas decorations stand out this year? Step away from the inflatable snowman and opt for these beautiful, one-of-a-kind wreaths. We guarantee that they will make your house the envy of the neighborhood. 1.
These Are the 7 Oldest Cities on Earth that Still Stand
Related Articles: 7 Digital Recreations of Ancient Ruins 14 Ancient Theaters of Greek Roman Antiquity 15 Ancient Buildings You Can Enter Today 8 Engineering Marvels Of The Ancient Eastern World These Are the 7 Oldest Cities on Earth that Still Stand history, ancient, Greece, cities, temples, China,
Gorgeous Houses that Stand Alone Against the White of Winter
The stand as lonely testaments to their rigidity and perseverance in the face of Mother Nature’s wrath. Such brave soldiers they are, holding their post, guarding their inhabitants with unrelenting determination. They prove that your home is indeed, your castle. 1. Victorian Beauty Source 2.
Let Me Amaze You Today...
Let me show you a few things to justify that claim, they certainly amazed me! Unbelivable Memory. This is actually a painting, not a photo. From flight to the moon in 66 years. One day on Earth. An incredible sculpture Our Solar system in real relatvie sizes.
These Handy Stand Mixer Tips Made A Massive Difference...
My brand-new stand mixer is an important part of my kitchen, and now that I've read these handy tips, I love it even more! Take heed of this advice and you'll be cooking up a storm in no time! 1. Use your mixer - a lot Defects often show up quickly with new electronics.
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Mother Cries As Son Stands Up For the 1st Time in 28 Years
After 28 years of struggle and a never-before-seen combination of 4 bone-breaking surgeries performed by a passionate and brilliant team of doctors at Shenzhen University General Hospital, Li Hua is able to stand straight with his head held high, and his mother’s hopes for her son’s future now reignited
These Weird Facts About the World Definitely Stand Out...
There’s an endless list of weird facts about this world, but there’s no doubt in my mind that the 11 you’re about to learn really stand out! Do you know why female deer respond to the cries of a human baby, or why a long-dead Pharaoh needed a passport to travel through France?
Joke: Nah, Not For Me
"Let me introduce my son, Mike.." says the plant manager. "Let me guess" the salesman replies with a bitter smile: "An only child?" Joke: Tried it Once... joke A sales representative stops at a small manufacturing plant. He presents a box of cigars to the manager as a gift.
These Potatoes Will Definitely Make Your Dish Stand Out
It's fair to say that a holiday meal is not complete without some fantastic side dishes, and twice-baked potatoes definitely fit into this category. Taste is, and always has been, the most importan..
Always A Woman To Me - Beautiful!
Always A Woman To Me - Beautiful! video, ad, beautiful, women, girl stuff This may have started as a commercial, but despite it, the end result is one of the most tender and beautiful videos we've seen all year.
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the-dragons-bard
The Dragon's Bard (MM)
by Sophie Martin
Before the Great War 1
Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Heat Rating: Sextreme
22 Ratings (4.5)
Fantasy Paranormal Shape-shifter Alternative (M/M, Gay)
[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Fantasy Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, HEA]
Brennan the Bard hates his life. Being a Bard is something he was forced into, not chose for himself. His life takes a dramatic turn when he gets kidnapped and dumped in the territory of the most feared dragon in existence.
Marngh’k’a’Drkhsh is known to humans as Dark Terror for a reason. He is the scariest of all dragons, even those of his own kind steer clear of him. While on a routine flight he discovers a human in the middle of his territory. Instead of killing the annoying creature he decides to make him a part of his treasure.
Being a part of a dragon’s treasure wasn’t in Brennan’s plans and neither was being attracted to the creature that can take on a human form at will, yet that’s exactly what happens.
From one heated encounter to another these two very different men have a decision to make – should they let the relationship grow or sever the bond?
A Siren Erotic Romance
Buy eBook: $3.99
Cover Art by Harris Channing
First time I have read anything by Sophie Martin. I read a lot of MM paranormal and other MM stuff. I buy a ton of Siren books but I have my favorite authors and I am always a little gun shy about purchasing from a new author without a compelling reason. I have had a few let downs with some very sub-par writing when I bought new to me authors. But I took a chance with this one and I was glad I did! I enjoyed it enough to purchase the next one in the series.
Overall it's pretty well written. I think if I could criticize anything it would be the author's use of modern day slang terms. That pulled me out of the story from time to time, but it also made it relatable, so I gave myself permission to not let that bug me. I liked the creativity and I liked the characters very much. It's a bit of a reach that a character in this setting would say some of the things she wrote but hey, it's fantasy so why not?
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STORY EXCERPT
Brennan blinked and took a look at his surroundings. He seemed to be in some kind of meadow. As he looked around, he noticed the meadow was nestled in a valley at the foot of a huge mountain. Brennan frowned, not remembering any mountain near Lord Aegis’s castle. He looked to the other side and saw a narrow path leading into the woods. Brennan pushed himself to a seating position and examined the path closer. It had hoof-prints, so it meant that had to be where they brought him from. But where was he, exactly? There weren’t any mountains in the Northern Territory of the kingdom. The only ones he was aware of lay in the Dragons’ Lands…
“They wouldn’t!” Brennan gasped and swore under his breath. He knew the young nobles wanted to get rid of him, afraid he would ruin the prospective marriage and the joining of two powerful families, but surely they wouldn’t be so dumb as to dump him in the Dragons’ Territory. A whooshing sound brought his attention to the mountain looming above him.
“Fuck!” These assholes actually did it! The morons risked not only their own lives and Brennan’s life by dumping him there. They risked a war with dragons, a war humans could in no way win.
Humans weren’t the most powerful species in this world. On the contrary, they were probably the weakest of sentient beings. There were forces much more powerful than them, one of the strongest being dragons. Only by a sheer luck and tons of diplomacy did humans manage to carve a territory to call their own. The Kingdom of Daria. They only survived by abiding to rules given to them by supernatural species living in lands surrounding them.
Dragons were the most feared supernatural creatures. Humans whispered stories of huge beasts and what they could do. There was no consensus about their abilities, but all inhabitants of Daria agreed that the worst thing that could happen to the kingdom would be angering the dragons.
The territory closest to Daria’s northern border belonged to the most feared beast among them all. While humans knew next to nothing about dragons, there were several of them that were well known and aroused terror in faint human hearts. It came from times when humans lived in small groups and did not have their own kingdom. They would sometimes encroach on this or that dragon’s territory and the beast would hunt them down.
Being in the dragon’s territory uninvited and without previous announcement and the dragon’s consent was the worst crime a human could commit. Dragons were not known for their patience when it came to humans, and the beast that inhabited the huge mountain at the foot of which Brennan lay was even shorter-tempered than most. His name in dragon-tongue was impossible for humans to pronounce, so they called him the Dark Terror.
That dragon was one of the oldest and meanest creatures to inhabit the world. Humans told tales about him, and it was believed that even other dragons feared him. He was known to single-handedly wipe out whole villages and fight and defeat dozens of skilled warriors. He was the reason why no human would venture close to the Dragons’ Lands border, and Brennan sat at the threshold of his den!
“Those idiots, those complete morons, brought me into the middle of Dark Terror’s territory,” he whispered in disbelief and shook his head. He knew the lordlings weren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, but still, to risk everything just to get rid of one Bard…
Well, Brennan wasn’t just any old storyteller, his father, Bran the Bard, was well known and valued by the king and the wealthiest and most powerful noblemen. Hell, he’d even married a daughter of the scariest warrior in the land, the king’s right hand, Dirk the Brute. Brennan’s whole family was well-respected and well-connected. They would raise hell if anything happened to Brennan while in lord Aegis’s land.
Did the idiots plan to tell his family that Brennan wandered into Dragons’ Lands of his own accord? Was that their plan to get rid of him while appearing innocent to Brennan’s family? If so, they were stupider than he thought. No one who knew him would believe Brennan stupid enough to risk going into Dark Terror’s territory, the least of all his family, but that wasn’t the problem here. No, the biggest mistake of the fools was going into said territory at all.
Brennan heard that whooshing sound again, followed by a loud roar. He quickly bade farewell to his life while praying that his family lived through what happened next, because if there was one thing he remembered from all the stories his father forced him to learn, it was that the Dark Terror knew no forgiveness. Trespassing on his territory equalled declaration of war in the dragon’s book, and Brennan was becoming casus belli right that moment.
ADULT EXCERPT
“What are you doing?” the dragon asked in a growly voice.
“Pleasuring myself,” he answered, still watching the dragon-man through his half-lidded eyes.
“Pleasuring…”
“Yes. Remember our conversation on how humans feel pleasure while breeding?”
“Well, we can give ourselves similar pleasure when there is no one to breed with.”
“Really?” The dragon’s eyes sparked with interest.
“Yes, really,” Brennan said, never stopping the slow stroking moves. Now that the dragon joined him, his cock was almost painfully hard. It was as if his body didn’t get the memo about Mar being a dangerous beast. It reacted whenever the dragon-man was close. Brennan felt an almost painful need for the man-beast.
“Show me!” It was order, plain and simple. Brennan gestured for the dragon to come closer and he did. As soon as Mar was seated right next to him, Brennan reached over and took the dragon’s fat prick in his other hand.
“You need to stroke it, just like that,” he said, at the same time showing what he meant. The dragon groaned. “Feels good?” asked the Bard, releasing Mar’s dick. “Go on, try it yourself.”
The dragon did and Brennan drank in the sight with greedy eyes. The dragon-man was gorgeous. With his eyes closed as he concentrated on the pleasure he felt, Mar looked absolutely stunning. Brennan was entranced with the sight as he kept stroking his hard cock, timing his pulls with Mar’s. Suddenly, the dragon’s eyes shot open. There was a feral light in them as he growled.
“Show me more. You said it is better with another person. Show me!” Brennan was thrilled at the need he heard in the dragon’s voice.
“I will, but let’s go the nest. It will be more comfortable there.”
Mar shot to his feet at that, giving Brennan the perfect view of his washboard abs. Tiny droplets of water ran down the dragon-man’s chest, making Brennan nearly swallow his tongue.
“Come!” Mar ordered, stretching out his hand to the Bard. Brennan obeyed, hurrying to take offered hand and let himself be dragged after the man-beast. It was as if every dream Brennan ever had of being with a man was finally coming true. Mar in his human form was an incarnation of Brennan’s every lustful thought. Before he realised it they were in the nest, Mar pushing him down on soft furs still with that glint in his eyes. “Show me!”
“Okay,” was the only thing Brennan managed to say as he pulled the dragon-man closer. He grabbed the back of Mar’s neck and pulled the big man into a kiss. The man-beast was reluctant at first, clearly unsure of what he should be doing. Brennan licked along the seam of Mar’s lips and the dragon opened to let him in. Brennan delved his tongue in and teased Mar’s own. After a brief moment of hesitation, the dragon’s tongue moved against Bard’s own, starting a sensuous dance. Fingers tangled in hair, pulling the two men closer. Breaths mingled, tongues danced and teeth clashed in the best kiss of Brennan’s entire life. When he came up for air, he panted, looking into the dragon’s entrancing eyes.
“More,” the dragon said, “I want more!”
Brennan grinned and licked his lips. “I’ll give you more,” he said and pulled the man-beast in for a second round. As they drowned in another heated kiss, Brennan’s hands snaked down Mar’s body until he could grab the tight, muscled ass. He pulled them closer, feeling their erections grind together. He pulled out from the kiss and instructed the dragon. “Take both our dicks in hand.” The dragon-man obeyed, encircling both their hard shafts with that huge hand of his. “It would help if we had some oil, but we’d have to do without.”
“Oil?” Mar interrupted with a question.
“Yeah, it feels so much better when your cock is slick with some oil.”
“No problem.” The dragon grinned wildly and suddenly Brennan was surprised with a cool slickness coating his dick.
“What? How?”
“I’m a dragon, remember?”
“I couldn’t possibly forget,” the Bard answered. “But let’s enjoy ourselves for now. You can start moving your hand like before,” he said and delved in for another kiss. The dragon obeyed and started jacking both their shafts. Strong pulls felt heavenly and before he realised, Brennan was close to coming.
“Shit, I’m close,” he warned the dragon.
“Close? Close to what?” Mar asked, but Brennan was too far gone to answer. He felt tingling along his spine, heat pooling in his balls as they drew closer to his body. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes, his face contorting in an expression of pure bliss. He was unaware of the dragon watching him closely in amazement as Brennan’s dick shot a full load of cum, the hot stickiness pooling between them.
“Fuck!” he shouted as he came. When he finally managed to pry his eyes open, the dragon-man was watching him with an unreadable expression. Brennan gazed down and saw not only his, but Mar’s cock softening as well. “Umm, did you…uh…did you come?” He braved a question.
“Come?” The dragon’s voice was as unreadable as his expression.
“Yeah, you know, did you come when I did?” Seeing the blank look in dragon’s eyes the Bard forced his brain to work. “When my dick shot out seed, it is what we call ‘coming’ It is the pinnacle of our pleasure. So, did you?” Brennan was starting to feel uneasy. He suddenly remembered it was a dragon he was talking to. A dragon who had no idea of what it meant to be human.
“Yes. Yes I did,” Mar answered, then paused before adding, “Let’s go to sleep now.”
“Um, yeah. You know, it would be a good idea to clean up before that. It is really uncomfortable if it dries out on your skin. Itchy and all.” He gestured to their mixed essences.
“Right,” the dragon said, and when Brennan blinked they were both clean again. “Now, let’s sleep,” Mar stated and pulled Brennan closer, spooning behind him. The Bard frowned, but obeyed. He didn’t know what he expected from the dragon. He guessed there were worse things than an easy dismissal of what had happened between them. With a heavy sigh, Brennan closed his eyes and let himself be pulled into a dark abyss of sleep. He was unaware of the dragon’s glowing eyes watching him with a strange intensity and the deep frown marring the creature’s otherwise perfect features.
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Brand Growth September 08th, 2017
Embracing Culture To Drive Brand Growth
by Emmanuel Probst
Brands can no longer stand out by solely relying on clever ads and effective media placements. They must also be relevant in the rapidly evolving culture of consumers. Brands that become iconic do so by co-creating culture through fashion, music, film, sport, food, drink, art and design. Conversely, brands that don’t align with culture go unnoticed at best, or at worst, offend their audience with out-of-touch campaigns that translate into PR nightmares.
This makes the role of marketers a lot harder, as they cannot only focus on what they control (advertising). They must also understand and embrace culture, which is mostly driven by their audience. Unlike retargeting and other lower-funnel tactics, embedding a brand in culture is a long-term strategic endeavor.
Below is set of three guidelines that can serve as a foundation for the development of your brand’s cultural strategy.
1. Embedding Brands Into Culture
The spirit and beer category is particularly challenging for marketers as consumers’ preferences evolve rapidly from one generation to another. Also, differentiating on taste alone can be very hard, especially as spirits are often mixed with other ingredients. Would you be up for a blind test between Smirnoff, Tito’s and Belvedere vodka, once mixed in a Bloody Mary?
Spirit and beer producer Diageo has developed a sharp competitive advantage by aligning their premium brands with their target consumers via culture and entertainment.
When Diageo wanted to evolve its messaging to men, it carried out in-depth cultural analysis and talked to DJs, sociologists and magazine editors about this audience. The research brought to light 15 personality types that men aspired to. These became valuable yardsticks for Diageo’s marketing.
2. Evolving A Legacy Brand For The Current Generation
Becoming an icon for a generation of consumers is no easy task, but staying iconic for the next generation is even harder.
Speaking at Mediapost’s Brand Marketer Insider Summit, Anthony Abernathy (North America Brand Marketing Director at Jordan Brand) described how Nike had to rebrand its Michael Jordan line of products for a generation of young athletes that have never seen Michael Jordan play. Instead of relying on pictures and footage of Michael Jordan’s perfect shots, Nike articulated its campaign around pictures of champions in preparation. Indeed, research showed that today’s audience was not responding to picture-perfect advertisements, but rather wanted to understand and experience what it takes to become Michael Jordan. Based on its understanding of today’s teens training world, Nike expanded its brand in an authentic way by promoting the real training rigor that distinguishes all champions.
3. Reviving A Legacy Brand
Brands that are out of touch with culture can decline as fast as they once grew. Lego became hugely successful with its bricks and “minifigures” in the 80’s…and courted bankruptcy in 2003. In a first attempt to survive, the brand started producing bigger bricks, based on the assumption that players thought Lego bricks were too small.
By doing so, Lego focused on the functional aspect of its product while ignoring its cultural environment. Right after launching its bigger bricks, Lego sales plummeted by 30%.
The turnaround came when ethnographic research revealed that people were willing to spend time and efforts using small bricks to build things that were culturally relevant. Lego partnered with franchises such as Star Wars and Harry Potter and became an immediate success. Children started using Legos to tell stories and make culture through Lego mini figures, firehouses, police stations, homes and cities. In 2014, Lego became a larger part of popular culture through the release of The Lego Movie. It became an instant box office hit, grossing over $450 Million worldwide. Lego recently expanded on its ability to not only embrace but also make culture, with the release of Lego Batman and upcoming release of Lego Ninjago.
Diageo, Nike and Lego illustrate why implementing a cultural strategy is crucial to the health, growth and even survival of a brand. As discussed previously, marketers are often consumed by lower-funnel tactics and metrics. While web analytics and other behavioral metrics offer valuable insights into the consumer journey, one should never lose sight of their brand’s ability to engage with and even influence culture.
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Low gilt yields mask UK election fears
10 April 2015 By Swaha Pattanaik Follow @swahapattanaik
British bond prices might suggest investors are phlegmatic about the too-close-to-call ballot. Yields are actually lower than at the start of 2015. But tepid demand at auctions and declines in foreign holdings tell a different story. Many who have a choice are eschewing gilts.
Britain saw the weakest demand for its government debt in six years at an auction of conventional gilts on April 8. Investors bid for 1.19 times the 4.0 billion pounds ($6 billion) of 2.0 percent gilts maturing in July 2020 on offer from the UK Debt Management Office, the least since March 2009.
British 10-year bond yields were at 1.61 percent on April 10. That compares with 1.75 percent at the beginning of the year and the record low of 1.33 percent set on Jan. 30.
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Longitudinal single cell profiling of regulatory T cells identifies IL-33 as a driver of tumor immunosuppression
Amy Li, Rebecca H. Herbst, David Canner, Jason M. Schenkel, Olivia C. Smith, Jonathan Y. Kim, Michelle Hillman, Arjun Bhutkar, Michael S. Cuoco, C. Garrett Rappazzo, Patricia Rogers, Celeste Dang, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Le Cong, Michael Birnbaum, Aviv Regev, Tyler Jacks
1David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
2Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
3Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Rebecca H. Herbst
4Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
David Canner
Jason M. Schenkel
5Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Olivia C. Smith
Jonathan Y. Kim
Michelle Hillman
Arjun Bhutkar
Michael S. Cuoco
C. Garrett Rappazzo
Celeste Dang
Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen
Le Cong
6Departments of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
Michael Birnbaum
Aviv Regev
7Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
For correspondence: tjacks@mit.edu aregev@broadinstitute.org
Tyler Jacks
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) can impair anti-tumor immune responses and are associated with poor prognosis in multiple cancer types. Tregs in human tumors span diverse transcriptional states distinct from those of peripheral Tregs, but their contribution to tumor development remains unknown. Here, we used single cell RNA-Seq to longitudinally profile conventional CD4+ T cells (Tconv) and Tregs in a genetic mouse model of lung adenocarcinoma. Tissue-infiltrating and peripheral CD4+ T cells differed, highlighting divergent pathways of activation during tumorigenesis. Longitudinal shifts in Treg heterogeneity suggested increased terminal differentiation and stabilization of an effector phenotype over time. In particular, effector Tregs had enhanced expression of the interleukin 33 receptor ST2. Treg-specific deletion of ST2 reduced effector Tregs, increased infiltration of CD8+ T cells into tumors, and decreased tumor burden. Our study shows that ST2 plays a critical role in Treg-mediated immunosuppression in cancer, highlighting new potential paths for therapeutic intervention.
The recent clinical success of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) highlights how targeting mechanisms of immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment may be an effective therapeutic strategy (Makkouk and Weiner, 2015; Soria et al., 2015). However, only a subset of patients responds to immune therapies, suggesting that an improved understanding of other immunosuppressive mechanisms is needed for effective treatment.
One major mechanism of immunosuppression is posed by CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs), which are thought to play a dominant role in impairing anti-tumor immune responses (Tanaka and Sakaguchi, 2017). Tregs are critical for maintaining peripheral immune tolerance and preventing autoimmunity (Josefowicz et al., 2012; Sakaguchi, 2011). Characterized by their expression of the transcription factor Foxp3, Tregs can inhibit adaptive immune responses through the production of inhibitory cytokines, direct killing of cells, competition with other T cell subsets for antigen or other substrates, and suppression of antigen presentation (Caridade et al., 2013; Savage et al., 2013; Vignali et al., 2008). Tregs are associated with poor prognosis in several cancers, including lung adenocarcinoma, which accounts for 40% of NSCLC (Fridman et al., 2012; Petersen et al., 2006; Shang et al., 2015; Shimizu et al., 2010; Suzuki et al., 2013). In mouse models, Treg depletion can enhance anti-tumor immunity (Bos et al., 2013; Joshi et al., 2015; Marabelle et al., 2013), and antibodies directed against CTLA-4 act in part by depleting Tregs in the tumor microenvironment (Simpson et al., 2013).
While curbing Treg function in tumors is an attractive therapeutic avenue, it is important to specifically target the tumor Treg cell population to avoid systemic and potentially lethal autoimmune reactions. Tregs have considerable phenotypic diversity, which may help inhibit tumor-associated cells in different settings. Functional diversity within tumor Treg populations may impact tumor immune responses, such that effector Tregs promote tumor growth (Green et al., 2017), whereas poorly immunosuppressive Tregs contribute to enhanced anti-tumor immunity (Overacre-Delgoffe et al., 2017; Saito et al., 2016). This functional diversity may be reflected in their transcriptional programs. Specific transcriptional profiles have been associated with Tregs in distinct tissues and inflammatory contexts, which are related to their tissue-resident functions (Arpaia et al., 2015; Burzyn et al., 2013; Cipolletta et al., 2012; Feuerer et al., 2009; Kolodin et al., 2015; Kuswanto et al., 2016). In human tumors, Tregs have a distinct program that may be shared across cancer types, and is associated with clinical outcome (De Simone et al., 2016; Magnuson et al., 2018; Plitas et al., 2016).
Inducible, autochthonous models of cancer are ideal for studying mechanisms of tumor tolerance because they recapitulate the longitudinal development of tumors and the immunosuppressive features of the endogenous tumor microenvironment better than transplanted, more “foreign”, tumors (Dranoff, 2011). Our group has previously developed a model of lung adenocarcinoma in which activation of oncogenic K-rasG12D and loss of Trp53 are driven by intratracheal delivery of a lentivirus expressing Cre recombinase (KP: LSL-KrasG12D, p53fl/fl) (DuPage et al., 2009; Jackson et al., 2005). By using lentivirus that also expresses firefly luciferase fused to chicken ovalbumin (Ova) and the antigenic peptide SIYRYYGL (Lenti-LucOS), we can program tumors to express known T cell antigens that can be used to monitor tumor-specific T cell responses (DuPage et al., 2011). Prior studies using this model have shown that T cell infiltration of Ova-expressing tumors delays tumor growth, but the number and activity of anti-tumor cytotoxic CD8+ T cells (CTLs) decline over time. The development of immune tolerance towards the tumor is partly due to the expansion of lung-resident Tregs that express various markers of effector activity and terminal differentiation (Joshi et al., 2015). Treg depletion results in massive infiltration of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells into the lungs, suggesting that Tregs actively suppress anti-tumor immune responses. Since Treg-depleted animals succumb to systemic autoimmunity, a strategy targeting features of lung tumor-specific Tregs is required to minimize self-directed cytotoxicity.
Here, we map the phenotypic diversity of CD4+ Tconv and Treg cells throughout tumor development in the KP model using scRNA-Seq. While Tconv subsets were stable over time, Treg heterogeneity changed with tumor progression. At early time points, Tregs were less differentiated and expressed genes associated with interferon signaling, while mice with advanced disease had a greater proportion of effector Tregs. Analyzing these data, we identified ST2 as a potential mediator of the accumulation of effector Tregs during tumor development. Indeed, Treg-specific ablation of ST2 increased CD8+ T cell infiltration of tumors and reduced tumor size while avoiding systemic autoimmunity. Our high-resolution characterization of Treg heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment thus allows us to define refined and effective ways to target Treg function in cancer.
CD103 and KLRG1 mark an activated, heterogeneous population of lung tissue Tregs
We have previously demonstrated that tumor development in the KP model is associated with the expansion of lung-infiltrating Tregs, a large proportion of which express CD103 (integrin aE) and killer cell lectin-like receptor 1 (KLRG1), which have been associated with Treg effector activity and terminal differentiation, respectively (Beyersdorf et al., 2007; Cheng et al., 2012; Huehn et al., 2004; Lehmann et al., 2002; Sather et al., 2007). We characterized the heterogeneity of the Treg population in KP mice with advanced disease. While Treg cells in the draining lymph node (dLN) were predominantly CD103+KLRG1−(double-negative, DN) or CD103+KLRG1−(single-positive, SP), nearly 40% of lung Tregs from late-stage, tumor-bearing KP mice were CD103+KLRG1+ (double-positive, DP) (Figure 1A). DP Tregs in late-stage, tumor-bearing mice had increased expression of genes associated with enhanced Treg cell activity, including GITR, CD39, and PD-1, compared to SP and DN Tregs (Joshi et al., 2015). We therefore hypothesized that these Treg subsets may have distinct tissue and tumor-specific transcriptional programs.
Figure 1. Effector lung Tregs from tumor-bearing KP mice bear similarities to activated tissue Tregs while demonstrating considerable heterogeneity
A. Experiment overview. Top: KP, Foxp3RFP mice were sacrificed at 20 weeks p.i. Bottom: RNAseq was performed on CD103−KLRG1−(DN, black), CD103+KLRG1−(SP, blue), and CD103+KLRG1+ (DP, red) Treg cells isolated from tumor-bearing lungs, SP and DN Treg cells from the draining mediastinal lymph node (msLN), and DN Treg from one spleen as control. B. Gene expression differences (KPLungTR signature genes, |z-score| > 3, |fold change| > 2, Methods) between lung (left, gray) vs. msLN/ spleen (right, black) Tregs (columns). C. 45 gene signature (43 up-regulated, 2 down-regulated) distinguishing DP lung Tregs (red) from other populations (black and blue) (Methods). D.Heterogeneity of CD69 and PD-1 expression among Treg subsets. Representative flow cytometry plots (left) and average cell proportions (right, 3 experiments, each with n=5-6 mice) of CD69 and PD-1 expression among DN, SP, and DP Tregs. Populations shown are i.v.negCD8−CD4+Foxp3+. Error bars: SEM.
To identify such a program, we bred KP mice to Foxp3 reporter mice to facilitate isolation and manipulation of Tregs from tumor-bearing mice. Using a previously-described method (Anderson et al., 2012), mice were injected with antibody prior to sacrifice to label intravascular cells and distinguish tissue-infiltrating populations. We profiled DP, SP, and DN Tregs isolated from the lungs of tumor-bearing KP-Foxp3RFP mice at 20 weeks post infection (p.i.) with Lenti-LucOS by bulk RNA-Seq (Figure 1A, Methods). We also profiled SP and DN Tregs from matching mediastinal lymph nodes (msLNs) and DN Tregs from the spleen of one tumor-bearing mouse for comparison.
The most significant distinction in the data by Independent Component Analysis (ICA) was between lung-infiltrating and peripheral Tregs (Figure S1A). A 284 gene signature strongly distinguished lung-infiltrating Tregs (“KPLungTR signature genes”, Methods, Figure 1B, Table S1), which we confirmed by quantitative RT-PCR (qPCR) of Pparg1, Nr4a1, Areg, and Gata1expression (Figure S1B). This KPLungTR signature was enriched for signatures of other tissue Tregs, including Tregs in visceral adipose tissue (VAT), colonic lamina propria, and wounded muscle (Figure S1C, Table S2). Genes upregulated in the KPLungTR signature also included activation, differentiation, and growth factor signaling genes (Figure S1D), consistent with prior reports that Tregs promote tissue repair (Arpaia et al., 2015; Burzyn et al., 2013). Notably, the signature was enriched for orthologs of genes induced in human colorectal cancer (CRC) and NSCLC-associated Tregs (De Simone et al., 2016) (Figure S1E), suggesting that lung Tregs in human cancer and the KP model have a common “tissue Treg” phenotype.
Several lines of evidence further suggest that the DP population is activated. First, genes upregulated and downregulated transiently in activated Tregs were differentially expressed in DP vs. DN Tregs (Figure S1F), which may reflect antigen exposure of this Treg population in the tumor microenvironment (van der Veeken et al., 2016). Second, genes upregulated in DP Tregs vs. all other Tregs in tumor-bearing lungs (Methods, Figure 1C) were associated with T cell activation and putative Treg effector functions (e.g., Nr4a1, Cd69, Il1rl1, Areg, Srgn, and Fgl2). Notably, Cxcr3, which has been associated with a T-bet+ Treg phenotype specialized to counter Th1 inflammation (Koch et al., 2009; Levine et al., 2017), was downregulated in DP Tregs vs. SP and DN Tregs (Figure 1C). The DP Treg phenotype may thus represent an effector cell state different from Cxcr3+T-bet+ Tregs.
While the DP subset of lung Tregs may be particularly active and an attractive target for immunotherapy, PD-1 and CD69 expression across DN, SP, and DP Tregs revealed considerable heterogeneity within each subset (Figure 1D). In particular, 52% of DP Tregs expressed PD-1 and 68% expressed CD69. We thus turned to more fully characterize the variation within Tregs in the tumor microenvironment.
scRNA-Seq reveals heterogeneity within tumor-associated CD4+ Tconv cells
We sought to characterize patterns of heterogeneity in tumor-associated CD4+ T cells over time to contextualize the diversity of Treg responses in relation to their Foxp3-CD4+ T cell (Tconv) counterparts. By scRNA-seq we profiled 1,254 Tconv and 1,679 Tregs sorted from the lungs and msLN of non-tumor bearing KP-Foxp3GFP mice and tumor-bearing mice at weeks 5, 8, 12, and 20 after tumor induction with Lenti-LucOS (Figure 2A,~4 mice per timepoint).
Figure 2. Single-cell RNAseq reveals a distinctive lung CD4+ T cell signature and Tconv diversity that is stable throughout KP tumor development
A.Overview of longitudinal experiment. KP, Foxp3GFP mice were harvested at the indicated weeks after tumor induction with Lenti-LucOS. 1,254 Tconv (i.v.neg,Thy1.2+CD4+Foxp3−) and 1,679 Tregs (i.v.neg,Thy1.2+CD4+Foxp3+) cells from lung and msLN were single-cell sorted and profiled by plate-based scRNAseq. B. Shared and lung tissue-specific gene expression program includes genes shared by Tconv and Tregs, and genes unique to each. Genes (rows, row-normalized) differentially-expressed (Methods) between cells (columns) from lung (purple, teal) vs. msLN (pink, light blue) for both Treg and Tconv. Left black bars indicate whether a gene is significantly differentially expressed for Treg and/or Tconv. Bottom: Each cell’s score (y-axis) for its expression of the corresponding lung and LN signatures, which are different for Treg and Tconv. Color indicates whether a cell was sorted as a Treg or Tconv, and tissue of origin. C. Lung and msLN cells span a phenotypic continuum, with lung cells showing particular diversity. Diffusion component embedding of all cells (dots), colored by sorted identity and tissue of origin (top left), or by z-score of the lung (bottom left) or msLN (bottom right) signatures as in B. Top right: distribution of diffusion component (DC) scores for cells from each of the four sorted populations, showing greater range of scores for lung cells. D-F. Lung Tconv subsets expressed programs associated with naive/ central memory T, Th17, Th1, Th9, and NKT17 cells. D. Two-dimensional force-directed layout embedding of the first four diffusion components of all lung resident Tconv cells (Methods), with cells colored by expression z-score for the indicated gene module, or by timepoint after tumor induction (bottom right). E-F. Left: Representative flow cytometry plots demonstrating naive/ central memory (E, top), Th1 (E, middle), Th17 (E, bottom), and Th1/Th17 (F, T-bet+RORγt+) CD4+ T cell populations. Right: Corresponding barplots showing the percentage (y-axis) of the indicated Tconv (i.v.negCD8−CD4+Foxp3−) subset throughout tumor development (x-axis) across 2-3 experiments (dot: one mouse). Error bars: SEM. ***p<0.001, Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. NS: non-significant.
The tissue-specific expression program partitioned into genes shared by lung infiltrating Tconv and Tregs, and genes uniquely upregulated in each (Figure 2B, Table S3). For example, lung-infiltrating Tregs expressed high levels of Il1rl1, Cxcr4, Areg, and Klrg1, while Tconv cells expressed Cd44, Ccr4 and Itgb1 (Figure 2B). Genes from the KPLungTR signature and from a recently described trajectory of tissue-resident Tregs (Miragaia et al. 2017) were both differentially expressed in the scRNA-seq profiles (Figure S2A).
Both the lung and msLN cells spanned a phenotypic continuum, with the lung cells showing particular diversity (Figure 2C, S2B, DC1 p < 10−13; DC2 p < 10−16, Levene’s test). The spectrum of cell states was apparent when scoring for the expression of lung Tconv or Treg signatures, and when cells were arranged along diffusion components that describe their tissue-specific expression program (Figure 2C). Both Tregs and Tconv in the msLN expressed genes associated with a naive or central memory phenotype, including Lef1, Sell, and Ccr7 (Figure 2B, S2C). Conversely, cells were more activated in the lung (Figure 2B). Subsets of lung Tconv and Treg cells that scored highly for the msLN signature also expressed genes associated with TCR signaling, including Nr4a1 and Junb, suggesting that they may be recently activated (Figure 2C, S2C). Lung-infiltrating Tconv and Treg cells that scored highly for the respective lung signature may represent cells that were more tissue-adapted or localized to a particular region of the lung.
Lung Tconv subsets remain in stable proportions throughout tumor development
Lung Tconv subsets expressed programs associated with different CD4+ T cell subsets, including naïve T, Th17, Th1, Th9 and NKT17 cells (Methods, Figure 2D-E), whose proportions remained largely stable over time. Within Th1 cells, a subset expressed Eomes and Gzmk, which may reflect cytolytic function, and Cxcr3 and Ccr5, which promote antigen-specific CD4+ T cell recruitment to lungs during respiratory virus infection (Kohlmeier et al., 2009) (Figure S2D). Some of the Th17-like cells expressed Zbtb16, a marker for NKT cells, and also scored highly for a gene module that includes genes associated with natural killer T17 (NKT17) cells, such as Blk and Gpr114 (Figure S2E) (Engel et al., 2016). Furthermore, these cells had lower expression of CD4 than other Tconv (Figure S2F) and did not express TCR chains associated with γδ T cells (Table S5). We found little evidence of Th2-like cells, despite their role in lung inflammation in other settings (Walker and McKenzie, 2018), but did observe a small population of Th9-like cells expressing Il9r, Il4, and Il1rl1, which have been implicated in driving anti-tumor immune responses (Végran et al., 2015) (Figure S2G). Finally, we identified a population that scored highly for both the Th1 and the Th17 modules. We validated the presence of cells expressing both RORγt and T-bet (Figure 2F); such cells have been described as a plastic, Th17-derived population in other pathogenic states (Lee et al., 2012, 2009; Wang et al., 2014). The overall expression of the gene modules associated with these Tconv subsets showed subtle variation over time by scRNA-Seq (Figure S2H-I), but the relative cell proportions measured by flow cytometry remained stable during tumor development (Figure 2E-F).
A RORγt+ Treg population is present throughout tumor development and may have shared clonal origin with Th17 Tconv cells
Lung-infiltrating Tregs expressed several gene modules with similar features to those in transcriptional signatures of previously-described Treg subsets (Figure S3A). For example, Module 18 includes genes that characterize a resting, or central, Treg (rTreg) phenotype, such as Sell, Ccr7, and Tcf7 (Campbell, 2015; Li and Rudensky, 2016), whereas Module 13 identified a Treg population expressing Rorc and Il17a (Figure 3A, S3A), reminiscent of Th17-like Tregs (Tr17), a subset with immunosuppressive activity directed at Th17 responses (Kim et al., 2017). We validated this population by flow cytometry and found that RORγt+ Tregs comprise roughly 10% of lung-infiltrating Tregs throughout tumor progression (Figure 3B). The Tr17-like cells represented a distinct state among lung Tregs and the expression of Tr17-associated genes was inversely correlated with the expression of genes previously identified in lung-resident Tregs, including KLRG1 (Figure 3C-D). Additionally, whereas Ccr6 expression within the Tconv was restricted to Th17 cells (Figure 2E), Ccr6 was expressed in multiple Treg subsets (Figure S3B), consistent with previous findings (Yamazaki et al., 2008), which may result in the localization of different Treg subsets to common sites in the lung.
Figure 3. A Th17-like Treg population is present throughout tumor development and may have shared clonal origin with Tconv cells
A-B.Cells expressing a Tr17-like program are present throughout tumor development. A. Two-dimensional force-directed layout embedding of the first six diffusion components of all lung-derived Tregs where each cell (dot) is colored by the normalized average gene expression (z-score) of the genes in module 13, which represents Rorc+ Tregs (left) or by timepoint after induction (right). B.Left: Representative flow cytometry plot demonstrating RORγt+CCR6+ Tregs(i.v.negCD8−CD4+Foxp3+). Right: Percentage of Tregs that are RORγt+CCR6+ (y-axis) across tumor development (x-axis) across 2-3 experiments. Error bars: SEM. NS: non-significant, Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. C-D.Tr17-like and Treg programs are inversely correlated. C. Two-dimensional force-directed layout embedding of all lung-derived Tregs as in A, with each cell (dot) colored by normalized average gene expression (z-score) of the genes upregulated in lung vs. msLN Tregs (as in Figure 2B). D. Left: Representative flow cytometry plot of Treg (i.v.negCD8−CD4+Foxp3+) expression of RORγt and KLRG1 (left). Right: Percentage of Tregs that are RORγt+KLRG1+, RORγt+KLRG1−, and RORγt−KLRG1+ across tumor development (x-axis) across 2-3 experiments (dot = one mouse). Error bars: SEM. E.Shared clonotypes between Treg and Tconv are predominantly in Tr-17 like and Th17-like cells. Two-dimensional force-directed layout embedding of lung-resident Tregs (left, as in A) and Tconv (right, as in Figure 2D) with each cell colored by clonal analysis. Grey: not clonal at our resolution or no TCR was reconstructed. Black: cells that share a TCR with at least one other cell. Color: Shared clones between Treg and Tconv, with numeric identifiers.
Remarkably, shared clonotypes between Treg and Tconv cells were predominantly Tr17-like and Th17-like cells, respectively. Specifically, based on paired-chain T cell receptor (TCR) sequences of profiled cells (Figure S3B, Methods, Table S5), 12 TCR clonotypes were shared across Treg and Tconv cells. Indeed, dedicated TCR profiling of Tregs and Tconv from KP mice with advanced disease showed that ~5% of Treg clones were shared with Tconv on average in advanced disease (Figure S3C). Of the 19 Tregs and 20 Tconv cells belonging to the 12 TCR clonotypes shared between Tconv and Treg, the Treg cells were predominantly of the Tr17-like phenotype (13 of 19 Tregs had a z-score > 1.5 in the Tr17-like Module, hypergeometric p-value < 10−5, Figure 3F, S3D). The Tconv cells were also predominantly of the Th17 phenotype, although this was not a significant enrichment . 67 out of 178 identified Tconv clones were of the Th17 phenotype (hypergeometric p = 0.68), of which 8 were clonotypes shared with Tregs, (Figure 3F). Thus, Tr17 differentiation may reflect a shared clonal origin with Th17 cells.
An effector-like Treg phenotype becomes predominant during tumor development
In contrast to Tr17-like cells, where a program was expressed by a fixed proportion of cells during tumor development, other Treg programs changed in prominence throughout tumor development (Figure 4A). For example, there was decreased expression of Modules 1, 3, 8, and 9, which mark cycling cells, after 8 weeks (Figure 4A), corresponding to a decline in Ki67 expression on Tregs (Figure 4B). Two other programs also changed over time, reflecting an interferon response and a T effector program (Figure 4A).
Figure 4. An effector Treg phenotype becomes dominant during tumor development
A. Changes in prominence of cycling, interferon-stimulated, and Treg effector programs with tumor development. Linear regression analysis of module expression z-scores as a function of time since tumor initiation, where non-tumor bearing lung is the reference for the timepoint covariate. Dot plot shows for each module (row) and timepoint (column) the coefficients of the timepoint covariate of the regression (color), and the percentage of cells with a z-score > 1.5 (dot size). Brown/ blue: increased/ decreased expression over time compared to non-tumor bearing lung. B. Treg proliferation peaks early in tumor development. The percentage of Ki-67+ Tregs(y-axis) throughout KP tumor development (x-axis) from 2-3 experiments (dot = one mouse). Error bars: SEM. ***p <0.001, Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. NS: non-significant. C-E.An interferon and an effector program peak early and late in tumor development, respectively. C-D. Two-dimensional force-directed layout embedding of all lung-infiltrating Tregs (as in Figure 3A) colored by normalized signature z-score for the IFNstim_TR modules (C, Modules 6 and 23) and the Eff_TR modules (C, Modules 12 and 21), or timepoint after tumor induction (D). E. Percentage of Tregs expressing the indicated protein (y-axis) throughout KP tumor development (x-axis) from 2-3 experiments (dot: one mouse). Error bars: SEM. **p<0.01, ***p<0.001, ****p<0.0001, Tukey’s multiple comparisons test.
The interferon program (“IFNstim_TR”) was characterized by the expression of Modules 6 and 23 (Figure 4C), which included many interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) downstream of either type I or II interferon (IFN) signaling, including Stat1, guanylate binding protein genes (GBPs), type I interferon-specific genes (e.g., oligoadenylate synthetase family members), and IFNγ-specific genes (e.g., Irf1, Irf9) (Der et al., 1998). 28 genes from the IFNstim_TR program were significantly downregulated by Tregs during tumor progression (Figure S4B). IFNγ promotes a Tbet+CXCR3+ Th1-like Treg cell population that can suppress Th1 responses (Hall et al., 2012; Koch et al., 2009, 2012). Neither Cxcr3 nor Tbx21 are IFNstim_TR genes, but IFNstim_TR expression was correlated with Tbx21 expression (Figure S4C). Moreover, the program was enriched for genes expressed by lymphoid tissue Tregs and genes downregulated in DP Tregs (Figure S4D), which include Cxcr3. IFNstim_TR expression may thus reflect recent arrival to the lung, consistent with its presence early in tumor development.
The T effector program (“Eff_TR”) was characterized by the expression of Modules 12 and 21 (Figure 4C), which were enriched for genes in the DP signature (p-value ≤ 10−25, Figure S4E) and genes upregulated in Tregs from mouse non-lymphoid tissues and human breast cancer, NSCLC, and CRC (De Simone et al., 2016; Guo et al., 2018; Magnuson et al., 2018; Miragaia et al., 2017; Plitas et al., 2016; Zheng et al., 2017) (Figure S4D), confirming the distinct expression profile we had previously identified in the DP Treg subpopulation.
The interferon and effector programs represented independent phenotypes of Tregs within each timepoint but followed opposite patterns over time: expression of IFNstim_TR genes was highest in cells from week 5 and declined thereafter, while expression of Eff_TR genes increased and remained elevated (Figure 4A, D). This temporal transition was also highlighted when testing for individual temporally varying genes: Cxcr3 expression decreased with time, and Pdcd1 and Lilrb4 (Module 21) increased in expression during tumor development (Figure S4F), consistent with down-regulation of Cxcr3 in DP Treg cells (Figure 1D). More generally, Eff_TR genes were upregulated in DP Tregs compared to DN Tregs in mice with late-stage tumor burden, whereas IFNstim_TR genes were significantly downregulated (Figure S4G). We confirmed that protein levels of Cxcr3 decreased, and proteins encoded by Eff_TR genes, including CD85k, CD69, CXCR6, PD-1 and ST2, increased during tumor progression (Figure 4E).
Taken together, our data suggest that tumor progression may be associated with a shift from a Treg cell phenotype specialized for responding to Th1 inflammation to an effector Treg cell population. In particular, we hypothesized that the strong immunosuppression associated with the late-stage tumor environment may be a result of the emergence and stabilization of cells with the Eff_TR phenotype.
ST2 is upregulated on effector Tregs in mice bearing advanced lung tumors
We reasoned that Il1rl1, an Eff_TR gene that encodes the interleukin 33 (IL-33) receptor ST2, may highlight a pathway that could be targeted to alter longitudinal changes in Treg cell phenotype and prevent the accumulation of effector Tregs in advanced tumors. First, Il1rl1/ ST2 levels tracked with the effector Treg phenotype; Il1rl1 is a member of Module 21 in the Eff_TR program and ST2 was most highly expressed in DP lung Tregs (Figure 5A), and its expression in Tregs increased during tumor development (Figure 4D). Moreover, ST2 was expressed by ~40% of lung Tregs vs. ~10% of Tregs in the msLN, and <5% of Tconv cells in the lung in late-stage tumor-bearing mice (Figure 5B). Second, Treg cells from tumor-bearing KP, LucOS-infected mice expressed both the membrane-bound and soluble isoforms of ST2 (Figure 5C); soluble ST2 (sST2) is thought to diminish ST2 signaling through sequestration of IL-33, the only known ligand of ST2 and an alarmin that recruits immune cells to sites of tissue damage (Cayrol and Girard, 2014). Finally, IL-33 was highly expressed in normal lung, and in early and late lung adenocarcinomas in the KP model (Figure 5D). In normal lung, IL-33 was predominantly expressed on surfactant protein C (SPC)-expressing type II epithelial cells (Figure S5). We thus hypothesized that ST2 may be a critical mediator of Treg cell function in the lung tumor environment.
Figure 5. ST2 is upregulated in terminally-differentiated Tregs in lung tumor-bearing mice
A. ST2 is most highly expressed in DP lung Tregs. Representative distributions of ST2 expression on CD103−KLRG1−(DN, grey), CD103+KLRG1−(SP, blue), and CD103+KLRG1+ (DP, red) Tregs isolated from tumor-bearing lungs. B.Lung Tregs are enriched for ST2+ cells in late-stage tumors. Percent ST2+ (y-axis) among lung and msLN Tregs (i.v.negCD4+Foxp3+) and Tconv cells (i.v.negCD4+Foxp3−) (x-axis) from tumor-bearing LucOS mice at week 20 p.i. as measured by flow cytometry. ****p <0.0001, *p <0.05, Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. C.Tregs from tumor-bearing mice express both the membrane-bound and soluble isoforms of ST2. Relative expression (y-axis, 2−ΔΔCt, qRT-PCR, with splenic Treg expression as control) of NM_001025602.3 (left, Il1rl1 transcript variant 1 encoding membrane-bound ST2) and NM_010743.3 (right, Il1rl1 transcript variant 2 encoding soluble ST2) in DP, SP, and DN lung Tregs and SP and DN msLN Tregs (x-axis) (dot: one mouse). Error bars: SEM. ***p <0.001, *p <0.05, Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. D. IL-33 is highly expressed in lung adenocarcinoma. Immunohistochemical staining of tumor-bearing lungs from KP mice at weeks 13 and 22 p.i. with Lenti-LucOS. Two representative images are shown per timepoint.
Recombinant IL-33 treatment increases effector Tregs in tumor-bearing lungs
To determine the effect of IL-33 on the immune microenvironment of tumors, we administered recombinant mouse IL-33 (rIL-33) intratracheally to tumor-bearing KP, Lenti-LucOS-infected mice (Figure 6A). Consistent with prior reports (Kondo et al., 2008; Schmitz et al., 2005), rIL-33 induced significant inflammatory infiltration and epithelial thickening in tumors and throughout the lung (Figure 6B). rIL-33-treated mice had greater numbers of eosinophils (Figure 6C) and CD4+ and CD8+ T cells per lung weight (Figure 6D), although the proportion of tumor-specific, SIINFEKL tetramer-positive cells among CD8+ T cells was unchanged (Figure 6E). We observed similar inflammation in non-tumor bearing wild-type mice treated with rIL-33 (data not shown). CD4+ T cells in rIL-33-treated mice had an increased proportion of Tregs (Figure 6F), of which 64% were DP compared to 34% in PBS-treated controls, with proportionally fewer SP and DN Tregs (Figure 6G). rIL-33 treatment of ST2-deficient mice failed to elicit the same change in the proportion of Tregs, which was similar to that of untreated, wild-type mice (Figure S6). Taken together, rIL-33 administration is sufficient to drive both a major increase in the lung Treg population in general, and to promote an increase in effector Tregs cells in particular.
Figure 6. rIL-33 is sufficient to promote an increase in effector Tregs in tumor-bearing lungs
A. Experimental overview. Recombinant IL-33 (rIL-33) or PBS control were administered to late-stage, tumor-bearing KP mice. All rIL-33 experiments are representative of 2-3 separate experiments, each with n=4-5 mice per group. B-D. rIL-33 induced inflammatory infiltration and epithelial thickening. B. Representative hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained histological images of control (left) and rIL-33-treated (right) lungs at 10X magnification. C. Proportion of eosinophils (y-axis, i.v.negCD45.2+CD11c−/low, SiglecF+) of i.v.negCD45+ lung cells from control and rIL-33-treated mice. Data is representative of 2 independent experiments. Error bars: SEM. ****p < 0.0001, two-tailed Student’s t test. D. Proportions (y-axis, left) and absolute numbers (y-axis, right) of lung CD8+ and CD4+ T cells of i.v.neg cells in control and rIL-33-treated mice (x-axis). Error bars: SEM. *p = 0.01, two-tailed Student’s t test. E. No change in proportion of SIINFEKL tetramer-positive CD8+ T cells. Percentage of SIINFEKL/Kb tetramer-positive cells out of lung i.v.negCD8+ T cells (y-axis) in control and rIL-33-treated mice (x-axis). Error bars: SEM. NS: non-significant, Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. F. Increase in Treg proportions in rIL-33-treated mice. Proportion (y-axis, left) and absolute number (y-axis, right) of Treg cells out of i.v.negCD4+ lung T cells in control and rIL-33-treated mice (x-axis). Error bars: SEM. *p = 0.02, two-tailed Student’s t test. G.Reduced changes in Treg proportions in rIL-33-treated, ST2-deficient mice. Percent of cells (y-axis) that are CD103−KLRG1−(DN, black), CD103+KLRG1−(SP, blue), or CD103+KLRG1+ (DP, red) out of Treg cells from tumor-bearing lungs of control and rIL-33-treated mice. Error bars: SEM. ****p < 0.0001, Sidak’s multiple comparisons test. NS: non-significant.
Treg-specific ST2 is required for the increase in effector Tregs during tumor progression
To test whether ST2 signaling on Tregs was necessary for the development of a robust effector Treg cell response in tumors, we studied the effects of Treg-specific Il1rl1 deletion. We used a modified version of the KP model wherein FlpO recombinase drives expression of oncogenic K-ras and loss of p53 (KPfrt: FSF-KrasG12D, p53frt/frt), which allowed us to use the Cre-lox system to study Treg-specific Il1rl1 deletion. We crossed KPfrt mice to Foxp3YFP-Cre and Il1rl1fl/fl mice to model lung adenocarcinoma development in the setting of Treg-specific ST2 deficiency (Figure 7A). We infected the mice with a lentivirus expressing FlpO recombinase and GFP fused to Ova and SIYRGYYL (FlpO-GFP-OS) in order to induce tumors that would express the same strong T cell antigens as those in the Lenti-LucOS model.
Figure 7. Treg-specific ST2 ablation impairs expansion of effector Treg cells and enhances CD8+ T cell infiltration of tumors
A. Experiment overview. KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre(“Il1rl1WT”)and KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl (“Il1rl1fl/fl”) mice were infected with Lenti-FlpO-GFP-OS. B-C. Changes in Tregs and their subsets in Il1rl1fl/fl mice with advanced lung tumors. B. Percent of Foxp3+ (y-axis, left) and of Foxp3−(y-axis, right) of i.v.negCD4+ lung cells in KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre vs. KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl mice at 24-25 weeks p.i across 3 experiments, each with n=3-5 mice per group. Error bars: SEM. *p<0.05, two-tailed Student’s t test. NS: non-significant. C. Percent of CD103−KLRG1−(DN, black), CD103+KLRG1−(SP, blue), and CD103+KLRG1+ (DP, red) out of Tregs isolated from the tumor-bearing lungs of KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre vs. KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl mice across 3 experiments, each with n=3-5 mice per group. Error bars: SEM. ****p < 0.0001, *p < 0.05, Sidak’s multiple comparisons test. NS: non-significant. D. Expression signature distinguishing Il1rl1WT from ST2-deficient Tregs from tumor-bearing mice. Row-normalized expression (z-score) of select signature genes (rows, Methods) across CD103−KLRG1−(DN, black), CD103+KLRG1−(SP, blue), and CD103+KLRG1+ (DP, red) Tregs (columns, lower color bar) from KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre(gray) vs. KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl (purple) mice. E. Increased CD8+ T cell infiltration in mice with Treg-specific ST2 deficiency. Number of CD8+ cells per tumor area (y-axis) in pooled tumors from KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre and KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl mice across two experiments, with n=4-5 mice per group. CD8 was measured by immunohistochemical (IHC) staining of histological cross-sections of tumor-bearing lungs. Error bars: SEM. ****p<0.0001, Mann-Whitney test. F-G. Reduced tumor burden in mice with Treg-specific ST2 deficiency. Percent of total lung occupied by tumor (F, y-axis) and average tumor size (G, y-axis, μm2) in KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre vs. KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl mice in histological cross-sections of tumor-bearing lungs across two experiments, with n=4-5 mice per group. Error bars: SEM. *p=0.0315 (F), 0.0106 (G), Mann-Whitney test.
Early-stage KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl mice did not differ from KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre mice in the fraction of CD4+ T cells that were Tconv or Treg cells, but late in tumor progression there was a slight reduction in the proportion of Treg cells (Figure 7B and S7A), a significantly lower proportion of DP Tregs, and a higher proportion of SP cells (Figure 7C). Expression profiles of DP, SP, and DN Tregs from KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl and KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre control mice identified an expression signature lower in ST2-deficient vs. wild-type Tregs, where it was highest among wild-type DP Tregs (Figure 7D, S7D). The signature was enriched for KPLungTR and DP signature genes, including Dgat2, Furin and Nfkbia, as well as for genes upregulated by Tregs in human NSCLC (Figure 7E, S7B, C). ST2-deficient Tregs also showed higher expression of some genes, including Itgb1, Il10, Klf6, and Fos (Figure 7E), suggesting that they may adopt alternative phenotypes. Taken together, our data supports the hypothesis that ST2 regulates the accumulation of effector Tregs in the tumor microenvironment over time by promoting the expression of DP signature genes.
Treg-specific ST2 ablation leads to increased CD8+ T cell infiltration and a reduction in tumor burden
Finally, we found that tumors from KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl mice had over 50% higher CD8+ T cell infiltration than tumors from control mice by immunohistochemistry (Figure 7E). KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl mice also had a significantly lower total tumor burden and lower average tumor size compared to control mice (Figure 7F,G), suggesting that greater CD8+ T cell infiltration of tumors may result in better inhibition of tumor growth. Overall, our studies suggest that Treg-specific inhibition of ST2 signaling may result in a less immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment characterized by increased anti-tumor CD8 T cell activity and lower tumor burden.
To identify specific features of Tregs in the tumor microenvironment that can be targeted therapeutically without adversely affecting Tregs in other tissues, we profiled Tconv and Tregs longitudinally in a mouse model of lung adenocarcinoma by scRNA-Seq. We show that Treg diversity undergoes temporal shifts that would be missed in analyses of bulk populations or at a single timepoint. Leveraging these dynamic changes, we identified IL-33 as a critical mediator of effector Treg function in tumors. Although previous scRNAseq studies have defined signatures of Treg exhaustion and activation in human cancer (Guo et al., 2018; Zheng et al., 2017), our study is the first to effectively impair tumor growth by characterizing and perturbing a major pathway responsible for the development of transcriptionally-distinct subsets of Tregs in tumor-bearing lungs.
IL-33 has been shown to promote tumorigenesis through the recruitment of Tregs and other cells in transplant and xenograft models of breast and lung cancer (Jovanovic et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2016, 2017), and mice with Treg-specific ST2 deficiency have impaired growth of a transplantable tumor model (Magnuson et al., 2018). Here, we show in a genetically-defined, autochthonous mouse model of lung adenocarcinoma that loss of Treg-specific ST2 function is sufficient to impair tumor development without provoking systemic autoimmunity. Several therapeutic antibodies directed against ST2 and IL-33 are in preclinical development for the treatment of allergy and asthma. Our data point to the potential value of disrupting ST2 signaling in cancer.
Although ST2-deficient Tregs have been reported to be equally immunosuppressive as their wild-type counterparts in vitro (Schiering et al., 2014), our results suggest that in vitro suppression assays may fail to capture the full spectrum of Treg effector activity in vivo. We observed a slight reduction in lung Treg cell numbers as a result of Treg-specific ST2 deficiency, which may be related to reports that IL-33 can stimulate TCR-independent expansion of Tregs (Arpaia et al., 2015; Kolodin et al., 2015). DP Tregs from KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl mice had lower expression of Eff_TR genes compared to wild-type DP Tregs, suggesting that ST2 may promote the maintenance of the effector Treg phenotype. Indeed, IL-33 has been shown to increase expression of Foxp3 and GATA-3 (Kolodin et al., 2015; Vasanthakumar et al., 2015), transcription factors integral for Treg terminal differentiation. Taken together, ST2-deficient Tregs may adopt an alternate functional state due to loss of IL-33 signaling.
Tregs across multiple tumor types likely have a common transcriptional program that is closely related to that of healthy tissue Tregs (Magnuson et al., 2018). Indeed, the effector Tregs in the KP model express a program similar to that of Tregs in several human cancers (De Simone et al., 2016; Guo et al., 2018), including a TNFRSF9+ Treg population in human NSCLC (Zheng et al., 2017). This similarity may be due to the fact that clinically-detectable tumors are likely to have convergent strategies for evading immune destruction by recruiting highly suppressive Tregs. Tumor-bearing lungs from KP mice also harbor Th1-like CXCR3+ Tregs, which express IFN-stimulated genes and peak early in tumor development, following an opposite temporal pattern from the Eff_TR program. CXCR3 directs Tregs to sites of Th1 inflammation (Koch et al., 2009), which may explain the prominence of the IFNstim_TR program during early tumorigenesis, when CD8+ T cell infiltration of tumors and IFN signaling are most robust (DuPage et al., 2011). Cxcr3 may mark recently-arrived Tregs that have distinct functions from effector Tregs, and temporal shifts in IFNstim_TR and Eff_TR gene expression may reflect Treg adaptation to the tumor microenvironment over time. Alternatively, the decline in Cxcr3+ Tregs during tumor development may reflect cellular turnover and/or the outgrowth of an alternate subset of Tregs due to reduced IFN, and availability of IL-33 ligand. Several reports have described an IFN signature or a distinct population of CXCR3+ Tregs in human tumors, although their functional significance is not well-defined (Halim et al., 2017; Johdi et al., 2017; Redjimi et al., 2012).
Longitudinal profiling in the KP model provides a window into the natural history of effector Treg activity that is challenging to achieve using patient samples. While Tr17-like, CXCR3+, and effector Treg populations have been described previously in human tumors, we have shown that these states exist simultaneously, and their relative proportions vary with tumor development. Future studies may help elucidate the contribution of each distinct Treg subset to tumor immune responses. While Treg transcriptional heterogeneity may pose a challenge for efforts to target tumor Treg activity, we show that loss of Treg-specific ST2 signaling can alter Treg composition and ultimately impact tumor growth. Our study provides proof of concept that pathways that control Treg diversity, maturation, and function may be useful targets for future therapies.
KP, KPfrt, Foxp3GFP, Foxp3RFP, Foxp3GFP/DTR, Il1rl1−/− and Il1rl1fl/fl mice have been previously described (Bettelli et al., 2006; Chen et al., 2015; DuPage et al., 2011; Kim et al., 2007; Townsend et al., 2000; Wan and Flavell, 2005; Young et al., 2011). Both male and female mice were used for all experiments, and mice were gender and age-matched within experiments. Experimental and control mice were co-housed whenever appropriate. All studies were performed under an animal protocol approved by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Committee on Animal Care. Mice were assessed for morbidity according to MIT Division of Comparative Medicine guidelines and humanely sacrificed prior to natural expiration.
For in vivo labelling of circulating immune cells, anti-CD4-PE (eBioscience, RM4-4, 1:400) and anti-CD8β-PE (eBioscience, 1:400) were diluted in PBS and administered by IV injection 5 minutes before harvest (Anderson et al., 2012). Alternatively, anti-CD45-PE-CF594 (30-F11, BD Biosciences, 1:200) was also used for intravascular labeling and was administered 2 minutes before sacrifice.
For rIL-33 treatment studies, 200ng of recombinant mouse IL-33 (BioLegend) was diluted in 50 mL of PBS and administered intratracheally to mice as described previously (Li et al., 2014). Control mice received PBS only.
Lentiviral production and tumor induction
The lentiviral backbone Lenti-LucOS has been described previously (DuPage et al., 2011). Lentiviral plasmids and packaging vectors were prepared using endo-free maxiprep kits (Qiagen). The pGK::GFP-LucOS::EFS::FlpO lentiviral plasmid was cloned using Gibson assembly (Akama-Garren et al., 2016; Gibson et al., 2009). Briefly, GFP-OS was created as a protein fusion of GFP and ovalbumin257-383, which includes the SIINFEKL and AAHAEINEA epitopes, and SIYRYYGL antigen. Lentiviral plasmids and packaging vectors were prepared using endo-free maxiprep kits (Qiagen). Lentiviruses were produced by co-transfection of 293FS* cells with Lenti-LucOS or FlpO-GFP-OS, psPAX2 (gag/pol), and VSV-G vectors at a 4:2:1 ratio with Mirus TransIT LT1 (Mirus Bio, LLC). Virus-containing supernatant was collected 48 and 72h after transfection and filtered through 0.45mm filters before concentration by ultracentrifugation (25,000 RPM for 2 hours with low decel). Virus was then resuspended in 1:1 Opti-MEM (Gibco) - HBSS. Aliquots of virus were stored at −80°C and titered using the GreenGo 3TZ cell line (Sánchez-Rivera et al., 2014).
For tumor induction, mice between 8-15 weeks of age received 2.5 × 104 PFU of Lenti-LucOS or 4.5 × 104 PFU of FlpO-GFP-OS intratracheally as described previously (DuPage et al., 2009).
Tissue isolation and preparation of single cell suspensions
After sacrifice, lungs were placed in 2.5mL collagenase/DNAse buffer (Joshi et al., 2015) in gentleMACS C tubes (Miltenyi) and processed using program m_impTumor_01.01. Lungs were then incubated at 37°C for 30 minutes with gentle agitation. The tissue suspension was filtered through a 100 μm cell strainer and centrifuged at 1700 RPM for 10 minutes. Red blood cell lysis was performed by incubation with ACK Lysis Buffer (Life Technologies) for 3 minutes. Samples were filtered and centrifuged again, followed by resuspension in RPMI 1640 (VWR) supplemented with 1% heat-inactivated FBS and 1X penicillin-streptomycin (Gibco), and 1X L-glutamine (Gibco).
Spleens and lymph nodes were dissociated using the frosted ends of microscope slides into RPMI 1640 supplemented with 1% heat-inactivated FBS and 1X penicillin-streptomycin (Gibco), and 1X L-glutamine (Gibco). Spleen cell suspensions were spun down at 1500 RPM for 5 minutes, and red blood cell lysis with ACK Lysis Buffer was performed for 5 minutes. Cells were filtered through 40 μm nylon mesh and, after centrifugation, resuspended in supplemented RPMI 1640. Lymph node suspensions were filtered through a 40 μm nylon mesh, spun down at 1500 RPM for 5 minutes, and resuspended in supplemented RPMI 1640.
For ex vivo T cell stimulation experiments to detect intracellular cytokines, 0.5 × 105 cells were plated in a 96-well U-bottom plate (BD Biosciences) in RPMI 1640 (VWR) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated FBS, 1X penicillin-streptomycin (Gibco), 1X L-glutamine (Gibco), 1X HEPES (Gibco), 1X GlutaMAX (Gibco), 1mM sodium pyruvate (Thermo Fisher), 1X MEM non-essential amino acids (Sigma), 50μM beta-mercaptoethanol (Gibco), 1X Cell Stimulation Cocktail (eBioscience), 1X monensin (BioLegend), and 1X brefeldin A (BioLegend). Cells were incubated in a tissue culture incubator at 37°C with 5% CO2 for 4 hours.
Staining for flow cytometric analysis
Approximately 0.5-1 × 106 cells were stained for 15-30 minutes at 4°C in 96-well U-bottom plates (BD Biosciences) with directly conjugated antibodies (Table S8). SIINFEKL-Kb tetramer was prepared using streptavidin-APC (Prozyme) and SIINFEKL-Kb monomer from the NIH Tetramer Core.
After staining, cells were fixed with Cytofix/ Cytoperm Buffer (BD). Samples that were destined for Foxp3 or other transcription factor staining were fixed with the Foxp3 Transcription Factor Staining Buffer Kit (eBioscience). Intracellular cytokine and transcription factor staining were performed right before analysis using either the BD Perm/Wash Buffer (BD) or the Foxp3 Transcription Factor Staining Buffer Kit (eBioscience); staining was performed for 45 minutes at 4°C. Analysis was performed on an LSR II (BD) with 405, 488, 561, and 635 lasers. Data analysis was performed using FlowJo software.
Isolation of Treg populations for bulk RNA-Seq
For sequencing of LucOS-infected, KP, Foxp3-RFP mice: 100-200 DP, SP, and DN Treg cells were sorted into Buffer TCL (Qiagen) plus 1% b-mercaptoethanol using a MoFlo Astrios cell sorter. cDNA was prepared by the SMART-Seq2 protocol (Picelli et al., 2013) with the following modifications: RNA was purified using 2.2X RNAclean SPRI beads (Beckman Coulter) without final elution, after which beads were air-dried and immediately resuspended with water and oligoDT for annealing, and 18 cycles of preamplification were used for cDNA. cDNA was then mechanically sheared and prepared into sequencing libraries using the Thru-Plex-FD Kit (Rubicon Genomics). Sequencing was performed on an Illumina HiSeq 2000 instrument to obtain 50 nt paired-end reads.
For comparison of wild-type and ST2-deficient Tregs and CD8+ T cells: 100-200 DP, SP, and DN Tregs or SIINFEKL-tetramer-positive and negative CD8+ T cells were sorted and cDNA was prepared with 14 cycles of preamplification. Nextera library preparation was performed as previously described (Picelli et al., 2013) and sequencing was performed with 50 × 25 paired end reads using two kits on the NextSeq500 5 instrument.
Single-cell sorting of Tconv and Treg populations for RNA sequencing
Tconv (DAPIneg, i.v. neg, Thy1.2+CD4+Foxp3-GFPneg) and Treg (DAPIneg, i.v. neg, Thy1.2+CD4+Foxp3-GFP-positive) cells were single-cell sorted into Buffer TCL (Qiagen) plus 1% B-mercaptoethanol in 96-well plates using a MoFlo Astrios cell sorter. Each plate had 30-100 cell population well and an empty well as controls. Following sorting, plates were spun down for 1” at 2000 RPM and frozen immediately at −80C.
Preparation of scRNAseq libraries
Plates were thawed and RNA was purified using 2.2X RNAclean SPRI beads (Beckman Coulter) without final elution (Shalek et al., 2013). SMART-seq2 and Nextera library preparation was performed as previously described (Picelli et al., 2013), with some modifications as described in a previous study (Singer et al., 2017). Plates were pooled into 384 single-cell libraries, and sequenced 50 × 25 paired end reads using a single kit on the NextSeq500 5 instrument.
Quantitative PCR for validation of RNA-Seq experiments
Quantitative PCR was performed using various primer sets (Table S5). 1ng of cDNA generated using SMART-Seq2 was included in a reaction with 1μL of each primer (2μM stock) and 5μL of KAPA SYBR Fast LightCycler 480 (KAPA Biosystems). Cp values were measured using a LightCycler 480 Real-Time PCR System (Roche). Relative fold-change in expression values were calculated using the following formula: 2(ΔCp(Sample) - ΔCp(Spleen)), where (ΔCp(Sample) = Sample CpGene of Interest - Sample CpGAPDH, and ΔCp(Spleen) = Spleen CpGene of Interest - Spleen CpGAPDH.
Population-level TCR Beta chain sequencing and analysis
For bulk TCR beta chain sequencing, T cells were sorted directly into 250μl RNAprotect buffer (Qiagen), spun down for 1 minute at 2000 RPM, and immediately frozen at −80°C. Samples were sent to iRepertoire (Huntsville, AL) for library preparation and sequencing. TCR sequences were analyzed and compared with VDJtools software (Shugay et al., 2015).
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and immunofluorescence staining
Lung lobes and spleens allocated for IHC and IF were perfused with 4% paraformaldehyde in PBS and fixed overnight at 4°C. Lung lobes and/ or spleen were transferred to histology cassettes and stored in 70% ethanol until paraffin embedding and sectioning (KI Histology Facility). H&E stains were performed by the core facility using standard methods.
For IHC, 5 μm unstained slides were dewaxed, boiled in citrate buffer (1 g NaOH, 2.1 g citric acid in 1L H2O, pH 6), for 5 minutes at 125°C in a decloaking chamber (Biocare Medical), washed with 3X with 0.1% Tween-20 (Sigma) in TBS, and blocked and stained in Sequenza slide racks (Thermo Fisher). Slides were blocked with Dual Endogenous Peroxidase and Alkaline Phosphatase Block (Dako) and then with 2.5% Horse Serum (Vector Labs). Slides were incubated in primary antibody overnight, following by washing and incubation in HRP-polymer-conjugated secondary antibodies (ImmPRESS HRP mouse-adsorbed anti-rat and anti-goat, Vector Laboratories). Slides were developed with ImmPACT DAB (Vector Laboratories). Primary antibodies used were goat anti-IL-33 (R&D, AF3626) and rat anti-CD8a (Thermo Fisher, 4SM16). Stains were counterstained with hematoxylin using standard methods before dehydrating and mounting.
After fixation, lung lobes and spleen allocated for IF were perfused with 30% sucrose in PBS for cryoprotection for 6-8h at 4°C. Tissues were then perfused with 30% optimum cutting temperature (O.C.T.) compound (Tissue-Tek) in PBS and frozen in 100% O.C.T in cryomolds on dry ice. 6μm sections were cut using a CryoStar NX70 cryostat (Thermo), and air-dried for 60-90 minutes at room temperature. Sections were incubated in ice-cold acetone (Sigma) for 10 minutes at −20°C and then washed 3 x 5 minutes with PBS. Samples were permeabilized with 0.1% Triton-X-100 (Sigma) in PBS followed by blocking with 0.5% PNB in PBS (Perkin Elmer). Primary antibodies were incubated overnight. Primary antibodies used were rabbit anti-prosurfactant protein C (SPC) (Millipore, AB3786, 1:500) and goat anti-IL-33 (R&D, AF3626, 1:200). After washing 3 x 5 minutes, samples were incubated in species-specific secondary antibodies conjugated to Alexa Fluor 568 and Alexa Fluor 488, respectively, at 1:500. Sections were then fixed in 1% PFA and mounted using Vectashield mounting media with DAPI (Vector Laboratories).
Immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence tissue section images were acquired using a Nikon 80 Eclipse 80i fluorescence microscope using 10x and 20x objectives and an attached Andor camera. Stained IHC slides were scanned using the Aperio ScanScope AT2 at 20X magnification.
COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS
Bulk RNA-seq data processing and signature analyses
Bulk RNA-Seq reads that passed quality metrics were mapped to the annotated UCSC mm9 mouse genome build (http://genome.ucsc.edu/) using RSEM (v1.2.12) (http://deweylab.github.io/RSEM/) (Li and Dewey, 2011) using RSEM’s default Bowtie (v1.0.1) alignment program (Langmead et al., 2009). Expected read counts estimated from RSEM were upper-quartile normalized to a count of 1000 per sample(Bullard et al., 2010). Genes with normalized counts less than an upper-quartile threshold of 20 across all samples were considered lowly expressed and excluded from further analyses. The dataset was log2 transformed before subsequent analysis.
Unsupervised clustering of samples was performed using a Pearson correlation-based pairwise distance measure.
Signature analyses between bulk Treg cell populations were performed using a blind source separation methodology based on ICA (Hyvärinen and Oja, 2000), using the R implementation of the core JADE algorithm (Joint Approximate Diagonalization of Eigenmatrices)(Biton et al., 2014; Nordhausen et al., 2014; Rutledge and Jouan-Rimbaud Bouveresse, 2013) along with custom R utilities. Multi-sample signatures were visualized using relative signature profile boxplots (Li et al., 2018). Signature correlation scores (z-scores) for each gene are included in Tables S1 and S7. Heat maps were generated using the Heatplus package in R.
Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA)
Gene set enrichment analyses were carried out using the pre-ranked mode in GSEA with standardized signature correlation scores for the KPLungTR signature and default settings using gene-sets from MsigDB v5.1 (Subramanian et al., 2005) and a custom immunologic signatures library of gene sets (Table S2) added to version 4.0 of the MSigDB immunologic collection (c7). Normalized Enrichment Score (NES), p-values and FDR for the custom gene-sets were calculated in the context of the combined c7 v4.0 MSigDB collection.
Network representations of GSEA results were generated using EnrichmentMap (http://www.baderlab.org/Software/EnrichmentMap) for Cytoscape v3.3.0 (http://www.cytoscape.org).
Identification of DP signature
To identify a signature separating CD103+KLRG1+ lung Tregs from other populations we applied ICA to the data prior to log transformation, which allowed us to detect signatures with lower amplitudes of gene expression changes. We detected a signature separating CD103+KLRG1+ lung Tregs from other populations. Genes in this signature with |z-score| > 3 were selected for downstream analysis (75 up-regulated and 31 down-regulated genes). An additional expression level filter was implemented to narrow the list of genes of interest. For upregulated genes, expression in all CD103+KLRG1+ lung Treg samples had to be greater than all but a maximum of 3 other samples (3 out of a total 8 other samples). A similar filtering scheme was employed in the other direction for down-regulated genes. This yielded a total of 43 up-regulated and 2 down-regulated genes in CD103+KLRG1+ lung Tregs (Table S1). This set of genes was used to illustrate gene expression level changes in a heatmap (Figure 1D).
Filtering of genes differentially-expressed in ST2-deficient Tregs
A signature distinguishing ST2-deficient Tregs from wild-type Tregs was identified through ICA (Table S7). To identify particular genes of interest, signature genes (|z-score| > 3) were filtered to include only genes that had an absolute fold change exceeding 1.5x within any of the CD103+KLRG1+ (DP), CD103+KLRG1−(SP), CD103−KLRG1−(DN) sample types between wild-type and ST2-deficient Tregs. These gene lists were then filtered to retain only those genes that appeared in at least two of the three sample types (i.e. up/down-regulated in wild-type or ST2-deficient in at least two of DP/DN/SP comparisons). Genes with opposite directionality across the three sample types (n=5 genes) were dropped. Expression levels of the resulting curated set of 14 genes were visualized using a row-normalized heatmap (Figure 7D).
Pre-processing of SMART-Seq2 scRNA-seq data
BAM files were converted to de-multiplexed FASTQs using the Illumina-provided Bcl2Fastq software package v2.17.1.14. Paired-end reads were mapped to the UCSC mm10 mouse transcriptome using Bowtie with parameters ‘-n 0 -m 10’, which allows alignment of sequences with zero mismatches and allows for multi-mapping of a maximum of ten times.
Expression levels of genes were quantified using TPM values calculated by RSEM v1.2.8 in paired-end mode. For each cell, the number of detected genes (TPM > 0) was calculated and cells with less than 600 or more than 4,000 genes detected were excluded as well as cells that had a mapping rate to the transcriptome below 15%. To further remove potential doublets (mostly of B cells and epithelial cells), we calculated the sum log2(TPM+1) over Cd79a, Cd19, Lyz1, Lyz2 and Sftpc, and excluded any cell that scored higher than 3. We retained only genes expressed above log2TPM of 3 in at least five cells in the whole dataset.
Since we could not sort for Treg for two of the mice (#336 and #338), we had to infer which cells are Tregs from these data. To this end, we trained a random forest classifier for mice for which we have sorted both Tconv and Tregs, using the train function from the caret package in R, based on the expression of the following genes: Foxp3, Ikzf2, Areg, Il1rl1, Folr4, Wls, Tnfrsf9, Klrg1, Il2ra, Dusp4, Ctla4, Neb, Itgb1, and Cd40lg. The labeled data was partitioned into training and test sets. The model has a sensitivity and specificity above 90% in cross validation. We then applied the classifier on the unlabeled data and cells with a probability above 0.6 to be either Tconv or Treg were given the corresponding label. The remaining 4% of cells were discarded as unambiguous.
Identifying tissue-specific gene programs for Treg and Tconv
To identify genes that are differentially expressed between lung and msLN in Treg and/or Tconv, we performed a regression analysis. We focused on the proportion of cells expressing a gene, and hence on logistic regression. We performed logistic regression using the bayesglm function from the arm package in R, including only those mice (# 338, #3642, #3839, #3889) for which we had matched cells from both lung and msLN, as well as for Treg and Tconv, and excluding all genes expressed in >95% or <5% of cells in lung and msLN. We ran the logistic regression with expression data binarized at a log2(TPM+1) of 2 and using the following full model: gene expression ~ genes detected + batch effect + tissue versus a reduced model: gene expression ~ genes detected + batch effect. We corrected for multiple hypothesis by computing an FDR of the likelihood ratio test p-value, and retained genes as differentially expressed between lung and msLN with P< 10−5 and an |coefficient| > 2.
Comparing the extent of cell heterogeneity between lung and msLN
Diffusion components were calculated on a gene expression matrix limited to genes that were differentially expressed between lung and msLN using the DiffusionMap function from the destiny package in R (Angerer et al., 2016) with a k of 30 and a local sigma. In order to be able to compare the variance in distributions in diffusion component 1 and 2 between lung and msLN Treg/Tconv, we downsampled the cells from the lung to the (lower) numbers of cells from the msLN. To test for significant differences in variance in the distributions of lung and msLN Treg/Tconv, we used Levene’s test for the equality of variances on the distributions of the coefficients of the downsampled cells in each of diffusion components 1 and 2.
Identifying gene modules and their time dependence
Gene modules were identified using PAGODA using the scde R package version 2.6.0. (Fan et al., 2016) on the counts table from RSEM after cleaning the data using the clean.counts function (min.lib.size=600,min.detected=5). The knn.error.model function was run using a k of 30, which is much lower than default, but yields statistically indistinguishable results from the default k (# cells / 4). We then ran the pagoda.varnorm to normalize gene expression variance, and the pagoda.subtract.aspect function to control for sequencing depth which then allowed us to run pagoda.gene.clusters which identifies de-novo correlated genes in the dataset. We forced PAGODA to return 100 modules. We identified modules with a significance z.score above 1.96. We removed several highly significant newly identified gene modules consisting of paralog groups with high expression correlation, likely because of multimapping of reads.
Mean module expression was calculated by averaging over the genes in each module of the centered and scaled gene expression table and transforming to a z-score over 1,000 randomly selected gene sets with matched mean-variance patterns. As an initial step, all genes were binned into 10 bins based on their mean expression across cells, and into 10 (separate) bins based on their variance of expression across cells. Given a gene signature (e.g. list of genes in a module), a cell-specific signature score was computed for each cell as follows: First, 1,000 random gene lists were generated, where each instance of a random gene-list was generated by sampling (with replacement) for each gene in the gene-list a gene that is equivalent to it with respect to the mean and variance bins it was placed in. Then, the sum of gene expression in the given cell was computed for all gene-lists (given the 1,000 random lists generated) and the z-score of the original gene-list for the generated 1,000 sample distribution is returned, as in (Singer et al., 2017).
Another module of highly correlated genes identified by PAGODA showed no biological relevance based on gene annotation, but was associated with cells processed on specific dates, suggested they reflect a contamination or batch effect. We scored each cell for this module with the above described method for scoring cells for gene signatures. When testing for differential gene expression over tumor development (described below), we included this batch effect score as a covariate in the regression analysis to control for genes that are correlated with it.
To test if a module’s expression changes over the course of tumor development, we estimated a linear model for each module and compared with a likelihood ratio test a full model: module.activity ~ detected genes + time point to a reduced model: module.activity ~ detected genes. For the time point covariate, healthy lung was taken as reference. We corrected the likelihood ratio test p-values for multiple hypotheses for the number of modules using the p.adjust function computing the false discovery rate in the stats package.
Dimensionality reduction using diffusion component analysis
Diffusion components were calculated on a gene expression matrix limited to genes from modules of interest: modules 1,4,5,14,15 and 21 for Tconv, and modules 1,3,6,8,9,12,13,18,21,23 and 26 for Treg. Gene expression was scaled for Tregs only across all cells. Diffusion components were calculated using the DiffusionMap function from the destiny package in R (Angerer et al., 2016) with a k of 30 and a local sigma. Significant diffusion components identified by the elbow in the eigenvalues were further used for dimensionality reduction to two dimensions. The eigenvectors of the significant diffusion components were imported into gephi 0.9.2 and a force directed layout using forceatlas 2 was run until it converged to get a two dimensional embedding.
Testing for differential gene expression during tumor development
To test whether individual genes change in gene expression over the course of tumor growth, we performed a two-step regression analysis. We focused on the proportion of cells expressing a gene, and hence on logistic regression. We performed logistic regression using the bayesglm function from the arm package in R. Because gender is often confounded with a particular time point in our experiment, we did not include it as a covariate in the model, but did remove all Y chromosome genes from analysis. We also excluded all genes expressed in >95% or <5% of cells in each mouse. We ran the logistic regression with expression data binarized at a log2(TPM+1) of 2 and using the following full model: gene expression ~ genes detected + batch effect + week p.i. (healthy lung as reference) versus a reduced model: gene expression ~ genes detected + batch effect. We identified a threshold for significance by the elbow method, identifying the peak of the second derivative of the ordered fdr distribution of the likelihood ratio test for each time point. To remove significant genes whose signal was driven by only one mouse, we performed another logistic regression using a mixed effect model, accounting for mouse variability: To this end, we added to the significant genes 1,000 randomly selected genes that were non-significant by the initial test to serve as background genes, and performed a mixed effect logistic regression using the glmer function of the lme4 package in R, with the model gene expression ~ tmp + (1|mouse), allowing the intercept to vary by mouse. We combined the elbow method above and the background genes to select an FDR cutoff for significance of 0.01. A gene was classified as significantly varying during tumor development if it passed this FDR cutoff in at least one time point.
T cell receptor (TCR) reconstruction and clonotype calling
TCR were reconstructed using Tracer (Stubbington et al., 2016), run in short read mode with the following settings ‘--inchworm_only=T --trinity_kmer_length=17’. To call shared clonotypes between Treg and Tconv cells, we required all cells of a clone to have identical productive TCRA and TCRB.
Comparison of bulk and scRNA-seq signatures to published signatures
Lists of differentially expressed genes in human cancer Tregs, mouse tissue Tregs, Tr17 cells from mice, and mouse activated Tregs (Table S4) were collected either from the supplementary tables of the relevant publications, or generously provided by the authors upon request (De Simone et al., 2016; Kim et al., 2017; Miragaia et al., 2017; Plitas et al., 2016; van der Veeken et al., 2016).
Analysis of IHC Images
QuPath software was used to annotate tumor and lobe areas (Bankhead et al., 2017). CD8-stained images were standardized to a common set of stain vector parameters. CD8+ cell detection was performed using the PositiveCellDetection plugin with the following parameters: runPlugin(‘qupath.imagej.detect.nuclei.PositiveCellDetection’, ‘{“detectionImageBrightfield”: “Optical density sum”, “requestedPixelSizeMicrons”: 0.5, “backgroundRadiusMicrons”: 8.0, “medianRadiusMicrons”: 0.0, “sigmaMicrons”: 1.5, “minAreaMicrons”: 7.0,“maxAreaMicrons”: 125.0, “threshold”: 0.3, “maxBackground”: 2.0, “watershedPostProcess”: true, “excludeDAB”: false, “cellExpansionMicrons”: 2.0, “includeNuclei”: false,“smoothBoundaries”: false, “makeMeasurements”: true, “thresholdCompartment”: “Cytoplasm: DAB OD max”, “thresholdPositive1”: 0.7, “thresholdPositive2”: 0.4, “thresholdPositive3”: 0.6, “singleThreshold”: true}’);
Scored cells were normalized to tumor area.
Additional statistical analyses
Unpaired, two-tailed Student’s t tests, Mann-Whitney tests, Tukey’s multiple comparisons tests, and Sidak’s multiple comparisons tests were used for all statistical comparisons using GraphPad Prism software.
A.L., R.H.H., D.C., J.M.S., C.G.R., M.B., L.C., A.R., and T.J. designed the study; A.L., D.C., and J.M.S. performed all of the mouse experiments and collection of samples for RNA-Seq in the laboratory of T.E.J.; R.H. performed all computational analysis of RNA-Seq data in the lab of A.R., with help from A.B.; C.D. and M.H. provided technical assistance; C.G.R. conducted TCR repertoire analyses in the laboratory of M.B.; L.C., O.C.S., J.Y.K., and M.C. performed scRNA-seq in the laboratory of A.R., under guidance and supervision from O.R.R.; P.S.R. assisted with cell sorting. A.L., R.H.H., D.C., J.M.S., A.R., and T.J. wrote the manuscript with input from other authors.
T.J. receives research support from the J&J Lung Cancer Initiative. T.J. is a member of the Board of Directors of Amgen and Thermo Fisher Scientific and an equity holder in both companies. He is co-Founder and Scientific Advisory Board member of Dragonfly Therapeutics, a co-founder of T2 Biosystems, and a Scientific Advisory Board member of SQZ Biotech; he is an equity holder in all three companies. His laboratory currently receives funding from the Johnson & Johnson Lung Cancer Initiative and Calico.
Figure S1, related to Figure 1. Characteristics of effector lung Tregs from tumor-bearing KP mice
A. Significant expression signatures identified by ICA. Mixing weight z-scores (color bar) per sample (row) for two gene expression signatures (columns). Signature 1 distinguishes lung populations (DP, DN, SP) from spleen and LN ones. Signature 2 distinguishes CD103+ Tregs from CD103− populations. P-values for these distinctions: Kruskal-Wallis test. B. Validation of expression differences. qRT-PCR of expression of Pparg, Nr4a1, Gata1, and Areg1 (y-axis, 2ΔΔCt values, with splenic Treg expression as control) in DP, SP, and DN lung Tregs and in SP and DN msLN Treg cells. Error bars: SEM. *p<0.05, ***p<0.001, ****p<0.0001, Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. NS: non-significant. C-D. GSEA of enriched functional categories in the KPLungTR signature. C. Test details for gene sets induced (top) or repressed (bottom) in the KPLungTR signature (Methods). D. Network representation of GSEA gene sets (nodes) from the curated collection (c2) enriched in the KPLungTR signature (p < 0.05, FDR < 0.05; in all significant gene sets, the upregulated genes were enriched). Node size: gene set size. Edge thickness: overlap between gene sets (minimum: 50% overlap). Related pathways were manually annotated. E. Signature enrichment for orthologs of genes included in human CRC and NSCLC-associated Tregs. Empirical cumulative distribution functions (ECDFs) of Lung vs LN log2(fold-change) of expression for genes upregulated in CRC and NSCLC Tregs (DeSimone_UP, red) (De Simone et al., 2016) and all other expressed genes (gray). p = 1.137 ×104, two-sided Kolmogorov – Smirnov test. F. DP cells have features similar to activated Tregs. ECDFs of DP vs. DN Tregs log2(fold-change) of expression of genes transiently upregulated (VdWtrans_UP,red), downregulated (VdWtrans_DN, blue) in activated Treg cells (van der Veeken et al., 2016), or all other genes (gray). P-values: two-sided Kolmogorov – Smirnov test.
Figure S2, related to Figure 2. scRNAseq reveals lung CD4+ Tconv diversity in KP tumors
A. Differentially expressed genes between lung and msLN Tregs. Shown for each gene (dot) is its differential expression between lung and msLN Tregs (x-axis) and associated significance on the y-axis, log10(p-value) (logistic regression, Methods). Red/blue genes are upregulated/ downregulated from the KPLungTR signature (left) or upregulated in both skin and colon compared to lymph node (Miragaia et al., 2017) (right), highlighting overlapping genes. B. Lung cells are more variable. Map of the first two diffusion components of Treg and Tconv cells from the lung and msLN, where lung samples were downsampled to equal numbers as in msLN. Histograms: distribution of the cell scores in each diffusion component. C. Naive and central memory gene expression in CD4+ T cells. Diffusion component embedding for all CD4+ T cells (as in Figure 2C) colored by log2(TPM+1) expression (color bar) of Ccr7 and Lef1 (naive and central memory markers), and Junb and Nr4a1 (T cell activation markers). D-E. Cytotoxic, Th1, and NKT17 cell-associated gene expression in Tconv lung cells. Two dimensional (2D) force directed layout embedding of Tconv lung cells (as in Figure 2D) colored by log2(TPM+1) expression (color bar) of Eomes, Gzmk, Cxcr3 or Ccr5 (D, cytotoxic and Th1 cells) or Blk, Gpr114 and Zbtb16 (E, NKT17 cells). F. Cd4 is significantly downregulated in NKT17-like cells. Distribution of log2(TPM+1) Cd4 gene expression (y-axis) of NKT17 cells and all other Tconv of the lung. p < 0.001, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. G. Th1, Th17, and Th9 modules. Smoothed loess distribution of log2(TPM+1) expression (x-axis) of key genes (label top, color code) for the Th1 (green), Th17 (orange), and Th9 (red) modules in cells and the associated activity z-score (y-axis) of each module in these cells. Bold curve: score for module in which each gene is a member. H. Temporal changes. Two-dimensional force-directed layout embedding of Tconv lung cells (as in Figure 2D) colored by timepoint after tumor induction. I.Tconv subsets remain largely stable over tumor development. Distributions of module activity z-scores (y-axis) for each module (label, top). P-values: Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (vs. non tumor-bearing lung).
Figure S3, related to Figure 3. Th17-like Treg population in tumor development.
A. Treg modules are associated with previously-described gene expression programs. Spearman correlation coefficient (color bar) between module (columns) z-scores across cells and z-scores for published signatures (rows, Methods, Table S6) of various Treg states. B. Expression of key Th17 cell-associated genes. Two dimensional force directed layout embedding of Treg lung cells (as in Figure 3C) colored by normalized expression (z-score) of Il17a, Rorc or Ccr6. C. T cell clones inferred by TCR reconstruction. Number of Tconv (left) and Treg (right) cells (y-axis) in each mouse (x-axis) for which we did not identify a TCR (light gray), identified a TCR but not a shared clone (medium gray), or identified a clone (dark gray). D.Validation of shared clonotypes between Treg and Tconv cells. Bulk TCR sequencing results of three replicates, showing the number of identified clonotypes in each subset and overall, and the overlap. We estimated that about 5% of Treg clonotypes are shared with Tconv. E. Tregs that have a shared clonotype with Tconv are enriched for Tr17-like cell. Numbers of Tr17-like cells (green), of Tregs with shared clonotype with Tconv (purple), and the overlap. p < 10−5, hypergeometric test.
Figure S4, related to Figure 4. Effector Treg cells become predominant later in tumor development
A. Different modules pick up on similar signals and are correlated in expression across cells. Spearman correlation coefficient (color bar) between module z-scores across cells (rows and columns). Module correlations with themselves (diagonals) of 1 were set to “NA” and are shown in grey. B. IFN response genes peak early in tumor development. Effect size of differential expression compared to non tumor-bearing lung (color bar, mixed effect logistic regression analysis, Methods) for genes (rows) from the IFN response modules 6 and 23 at each timepoint (columns). C.Association of T-bet with the IFNstim_TR module 23. Shown is the relation (red curve, loess fit) across cells (dots) between the log2(TPM+1) expression (y-axis) of Tbx21 and the z-score of Module 23 (x-axis) in the cell. D. Treg module similarity to previously-described expression programs. Spearman correlation coefficient (color bar) between module (columns) z-scores across cells and z-scores for published signatures (rows, as in Figure S3A) of Treg cellular states. E.Modules 12 and 21 are enriched for genes of the DP UP signature. Number of genes in the union of modules 12 and 21 (blue), the induced genes in the DP signatures (brown), and their overlap. p < 10−25, hypergeometric test. F. Example genes whose expression varies significantly over tumor development. Distribution of log2(TPM+1) expression of selected genes across time (x-axis). P-value: Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. G. DP cells are associated with higher expression of Eff_TR and lower expression of IFNstim_TR genes. ECDF plots of DP vs DN Treg log2(fold-change) in gene expression of IFNstim_TR genes (Modules 6 and 23, red, left) or Eff_TR genes (Modules 12 and 21, red, right), and all other genes (gray). P-values: two-sided Kolmogorov – Smirnov tests.
Figure S5, related to Figure 5. IL-33 is expressed by type II epithelial cells in normal lung.
Representative immunofluorescent staining of healthy, non-tumor bearing lung.
Figure S6, related to Figure 6. rIL-33 treatment of ST2-deficient mice failed to elicit a change in the proportion of Tregs
Representative flow cytometry plots of the percentage of Tconv (Foxp3−) and Treg (Foxp3+) of i.v.negThy1.2+CD4+ cells in wild-type and ST2-deficient non-tumor bearing mice after challenge with rIL-33 or PBS as control. Data are representative of 2-3 mice per group.
Figure S7, related to Figure 7. Impact of Treg-specific ST2 ablation on effector Tregs
A. No change in the fraction of Tconv or Tregs early in tumor development in mice with Treg-specific ST2 deficiency. Percent Foxp3+ (left) and %Foxp3−(right) of i.v.negCD4+ lung cells in KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre (“Il1rl1WT”) vs. KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl (“Il1rl1fl/fl”) mice at 10 weeks p.i. B-D. An expression signature lower in ST2-deficient Tregs compared to ST2-wild-type Tregs is highest among wild-type DP Tregs. B. Standardized signature score (y-axis) of the expression signature distinguishing Il1rl1WT and Il1rl1fl/fl Tregs for each lung Treg subpopulation in tumor-bearing mice (x-axis). Box: 25th to 75th percentiles, whiskers: minimum to maximum. Bar: median. No data point is beyond the limit of lines. *p = 0.02, two-sided Mann-Whitney test. C. Gene sets enriched in the expression signature distinguishing ST2-deficient Tregs. GSEA gene sets (nodes) from the custom immune signature database (custom c7, Methods) enriched in the signature distinguishing ST2-deficient Tregs (p < 0.05, FDR < 0.05; in all significant gene sets. Red: enrichment of upregulated genes. Node size: gene set size. Edge thickness: overlap between gene sets (minimum: 30% overlap). Related pathways were manually annotated. D. Left: differential, log2(fold change) expression (y-axis) and mean expression (x-axis) for each gene (dot) in CD103+KLRG1+ (DP) Tregs from KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre, Il1rl1fl/fl vs. KPfrt, Foxp3YFP-Cre mice. Purple: genes in the DP signature. Blue: Top significantly downregulated genes. Right: Venn diagram shows the overlap between the top differentially downregulated genes in Il1rl1fl/fl vs. Il1rl1WT Tregs (blue) and the DP signature (purple). P < 10−7, hypergeometric test.
We thank N. Joshi, N. Marjanovic, R. Satija, D. Gennert, K. Thai, and C. Jin for thoughtful discussions,and technical advice; S. Riesenfeld for computational advice; J. Park, J. Wilson and N. Cheng for technical assistance with animal experiments; S. Levine at the MIT BioMicro Center for sequencing support; C. Otis and S. Saldi in the Broad Flow Cytometry Core for sorting assistance; G. Paradis in the Koch Institute Flow Cytometry Facility for technical advice on flow cytometry; K. Cormier and C. Condon from the Hope Babette Tang (1983) Histology Facility for histology assistance; L. Gaffney for artwork and advice on figures; A. Rudensky for Foxp3DTR-GFP mice; A. Sharpe for Foxp3GFP mice; D. Artis for Il1rl1−/− mice; D. Mathis for Il1rl1fl/fl mice; K. Anderson, J. Teixeira, M. Magendantz, and K. Yee for administrative and logistical support.
This work was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (T.J. and A.R.), Margaret A. Cunningham Immune Mechanisms in Cancer Research Fellowship Award (A.L.), David H. Koch Graduate Fellowship Fund (A.L.), NCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30-CA1405, an Advanced Medical Research Foundation grant (D.C.), and by the Klarman Cell Observatory at the Broad Institute. A.L. is supported by T32GM007753 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. A.R. is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, SAB member for Thermo Fisher and Syros Pharmaceuticals, and a consultant for Driver Group. T.J. is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, David H. Koch Professor of Biology, and a Daniel K. Ludwig Scholar.
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Aston Villa chairman Steve Hollis issues rallying cry to supporters ahead of crunch Premier League fixtures
Steve Hollis wants the fans to get behind the team and help lead a turnaround in fortunes
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Steve Hollis has called on Aston Villa fans to help drive the club forward in their battle against the drop.
The new chairman spoke passionately about pulling off a second-half-of-the-season turnaround as he met with TV reporters this afternoon.
Speaking on Central News, the new boss of the boardroom said:
“I would just ask all the fans to get behind the club.
“Let’s put the first half of the season behind us and make this second half something special.”
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Villa are eight points off safety and must win half of their remaining games to stand a chance of survival.
Tomorrow they take on Leicester City hoping to build on the midweek win over Crystal Palace that has finally restored some hope among supporters.
Hollis, who went on to say that Villa are not scared of relegation, also insisted that they are not doomed yet.
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“Our job at the top of the board is to put this club onto a proper footing,” he added.
“Whatever division we turn up in next season we will be at our absolute best.
“If it does happen to be the Championship our goal will be to get into the Premier League.
“If it’s the Premier League, our goal will be to be at the top of the league.”
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Away day eases the pressure for Wolves boss
MICK McCarthy today insisted departing home soil in search of the win to cement a play-off berth at Leicester will hold no fears - and might even prove to Wolves' advantage.
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Sunday's trip to the Walkers Stadium to face a Foxes side who Wolves haven't snared in 18 visits looks a tricky proposition, but McCarthy is happier with the prospect of a more open game than a team coming to Molineux to defend.
Wolves have a decent record on their travels this season - albeit without a win in the last four - which McCarthy believes will stand them in good stead.
"Our fans have sold out, we'll have our usual terrific away support, and I think it might be a good game to have away from home," he said.
"It shouldn't be a problem and we've managed to produce a good away record since we picked it up from earlier in the season.
"If it was at Molineux, our last home game needing to get in the play-offs, there's a chance it could have become a real tense and nervy affair.
"A team could have come and sat back, trying to catch us on the break and make us play through them, and it could have got really nervous.
"Leicester have got nothing to be tense about, they will be motivated to try and take the points off us and an open game where we can get the ball and play might suit us."
There remains a hugely relaxed atmosphere at Wolves' training ground this week from a group of players who know their play-off destiny is still in their own hands.
And McCarthy is hoping for a clean bill of health with only a trio of minor knocks to worry about ahead of the weekend.
Jay Bothroyd didn't train yesterday after receiving treatment for a toe injury while Gary Breen (tight hamstring) and Andy Keogh (instep) didn't complete the session.
"But I would expect all three to play," added the manager. "This is the sort of exciting game which players are desperate to be involved in."
Karl Henry meanwhile is back in light training after improvement to his bruised spleen but will more than likely just be topping up his fitness levels ahead of the close season.
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Sir Doug Ellis on Randy Lerner: Former chairman has his say on owner's absence from the club
"It is a pity Randy can’t come over a bit more often. I would like him to do that but that is his choice."
Doug Ellis and Randy Lerner
Sir Doug Ellis has expressed regret that Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner does not have more of a presence at the club.
The president emeritus, who turned 92 on Sunday, claims when he was in charge of Villa he understood football more than the majority of chairmen do these days.
Lerner has been conspicuous by his absence from matchdays at Villa Park in recent years, although the American chairman does visit Bodymoor Heath from time to time.
“It is a pity Randy’s circumstances have changed to such an extent he has to be in the States," said Elllis.
"It is a pity Randy can’t come over a bit more often. I would like him to do that but that is his choice.
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“When chairman I was very much involved with the football side, I’d encourage the players because I used to go into the dressing room after each game.
“Not immediately, I gave them 5-10 minutes for the manager to have some quick words.
“I was a football chairman and as such understood the game a little more than the majority of chairmen these days who haven’t got the background I had.
“I was a trialist at Tranmere Rovers, played in Portsmouth reserves, all the things you do as a youngster if you are football-mad.
“Randy hasn’t professed to say he has a football background. He has people with football know-how instead but things have not worked out.
"It looks a certainty that we are going to get relegated, I can’t see us being saved.”
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The open beta of Jump Force will give players access to the Versus Mode Online, where you can play as any of the 17 characters in the game, fight in five different stage, and to test the online lobby using you're avatar is pre-created.Players will be able to pre-load the open beta on Xbox One and PlayStation...
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In the course of the last few hours, on the occasion of the Jump Festa 2019, Bandai Namco Entertainment has released a new gameplay trailer for Jump Force, the action game 3D fighting game in arenas 3vs3 created to celebrate 50 years of the magazine "Weekly Shonen Jump" and in the course of publication,...
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Jump Force: Izuku “Deku” Midoriya new playable character
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Bandai Namco Entertainment has released the trailer of the story mode, Jump Force, the video game developed by Spike Chunsoft that combines the characters of the most famous manga series, past and present, published in the magazine "Weekly Shonen Jump" of Shueisha:For the first time ever, the heroes...
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Through the first advances were leaked online about the number of February 2019 of V-Jump magazine manga monthly magazine published by Shueisha and is available for purchase in Japan and online stores from December 21, 2018, we learn that in the roster of playable of 3D fighting Jump Force will arrive...
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Jump Force: the first images of the arena of Marineford
Bandai Namco Entertainment, through its social portals, announces that in the first game, fighting game, Jump Force will be available the battle arena inspired by Whitebeard, the iconic headquarters of the Navy in which occurred the equally iconic battle of Supremacy, and where it is consumed, the death...
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Jump Force: Rod (Black Clover) new playable character
Through the first information appeared online about the number 3 of the 2019 of "Weekly Shonen Jump", which is available in Japan from Monday 17 December 2018, we learn that inside the roster of playable characters, Jump Force, the action game 3D fighting game in arenas 3vs3 created to celebrate 50 years...
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Jump Force: new sequences in the tv spot, and details of the pre-order
Bandai Namco Entertainment has released, through the networks, japanese television, a new spot in the video dedicated to the Jump Force, the action game 3D fighting game in arenas 3vs3 that combines in a single great universe of the heroes of Shonen Jump to celebrate the 50 years of the magazine published...
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Two skilled swordsmen join the roster of the Jump Force
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe has unveiled the arrival of two new characters in the roster of JUMP FORCE, Himura Kenshin and Shishio Makoto from the japanese manga series Rurouni Kenshin. Himura Kenshin is a samurai who wanders without a master. In spite of ...Article Two skilled swordsmen join the...
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Jump Force: 2 new playable characters from Dragon Ball
Through the first leaked information online about the number of January 2019, the V-Jump magazine manga monthly magazine published by Shueisha and available from next week in Japan, will reveal that Piccolo and Cell Dragon Ball will be joining the roster of playable characters, Jump Force, the action...
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Jump Force: 2 new playable characters from Kenshin wandering Samurai
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Just off the coast of Japan there is an island called Aoshima, which is also known as "Cat Island." The tiny fishing village is home to more than 140 cats, which roam around napping, playing, and snagging snacks from residents and tourists. They outnumber humans 8 to 1.
The cats were originally brought to the island to kill mice that hung around fishing boats. But as the human population dwindled from over 1,000 to 16, the cats stayed on and multiplied, as they continued to be fed by the remaining locals.
The island has become a bit of a tourist destination, though the residents don't seem to mind, as long as it remains peaceful. And people donate cat food from all over Japan.
"If people coming to the island find the cats healing, then I think it's a good thing," 65-year-old fisherman Hidenori Kamimoto told Reuters in 2015. "I just hope that it's done in a way that doesn't become a burden on the people who live here."
This is what life on Cat Island is like:
Aoshima is a 30-minute ferry ride from the coast, and only has a handful of residents now.
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There are, however, over 140 cats, which outnumber humans by more than 8 to 1, according to AFP.
Tourists have also begun to come to the island to gawk at the cats.
Some of the cats are quite majestic.
Others are intense.
But many are just incredibly cute.
Aoshima is a fishing village, so they inspect the nets.
And chomp down on fish.
They exercise.
And play music.
They guard coolers.
Or sometimes try to steal human things.
They play hide-and-seek.
They rub against things.
And clean themselves.
They make friends.
And rub noses.
They jump around.
They snuggle with other cats.
And snuggle with humans as well.
Sometimes the residents of Aoshima play with them.
But other times they need them to just get out of the way.
But the primary activity for cats on Aoshima is taking naps.
Sometimes they nap with friends.
Or in the foliage.
Or even rolled up in tires.
They can sleep wherever.
Even in places that might look very uncomfortable.
"Who's there?"
"Okay, maybe I'll get up."
"You found my napping spot."
When they aren't napping, the cats roam around the island.
They explore over rocks.
Even in precarious places.
They walk around the docks.
And check out the boats.
Sometimes they stare off pensively into the distance.
"What is the meaning of life?"
"But really, what is the meaning of life?"
They often congregate in packs.
Especially when it's time for a meal.
And when they're gone, they leave behind little footprints.
Goodbye, for now.
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Tag: Save the Date
video recordings: YouTube playlist… redux
Thanks to the efforts of the Downtown documentarists—Don Mount, Kevin Reilly and Scott Friedlander—there’s been a lot of changes to my YouTube channel and playlists since my last announcement almost a year ago. In terms of project specific playlists, I’ve updated the Eris 136199 playlist [watch…], and created one for Metis 9 [watch…]
Categoriesmedia, video recordings, website TagsABC No Rio, Andrew Drury, Belfast, Ben Wright, Bradford Reed, Brooklyn, Catherine Sikora, Chris Chafe, Chris Corrigan, Citizens Ontological Music Agenda, Cork, Dominic Lash, Don Mount, Doug Van Nort, Douglass Street Music Collective, Downtown Music Gallery, Eric Lyon, Eris 136199, Franziska Schroeder, Freddy’s Bar, Gascia Ouzounian, Gerald Cleaver, Gerry Hemingway, Han-earl Park, Ingrid Laubrock, Jack Wright, Jamie Smith, John Hough, Jonathan Goldberger, Jonathan Moritz, Josh Sinton, Justin Yang, Kevin Reilly, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Manuela Meier, Mark Sanders, Michael Evans, Michael Lytle, New York, Nick Didkovsky, Ó Riada Hall, On The Way Out, Out Of Your Head, Paul Dunmall, Pauline Oliveros, Pedro Rebelo, recordings, Save the Date, Save The Date #8, Scott Friedlander, Sean Ali, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Sonorities, Soup and Sound House Concert, Soup and Sound House Concert #12, Swim This, The Stone, Tom Blancarte, UCC, UCC Department of Music, video recordings, Will McEvoy, YouTube
video recordings: YouTube playlist updates
As part of the general house keeping duties, I’ve updated the playlists at my YouTube channel. The ‘Han-earl Park’ playlist, at this time, features performances with Sean Ali, Chris Chafe, Chris Corrigan, Nick Didkovsky, Andrew Drury, Paul Dunmall, Michael Evans, Jonathan Goldberger, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Will McEvoy, Manuela Meier, Jonathan Moritz, Pauline Oliveros, Gascia Ouzounian, Pedro Rebelo, Bradford Reed, Mark Sanders, Franziska Schroeder, Catherine Sikora, Jamie Smith, Doug Van Nort, Ben Wright, Jack Wright and Justin Yang, and videography by Don Mount, Kevin Reilly and John Hough.
And Eris 136199 now has its own playlist.
Categoriesmedia, video recordings, website TagsABC No Rio, Andrew Drury, Belfast, Ben Wright, Bradford Reed, Brooklyn, Catherine Sikora, Chris Chafe, Chris Corrigan, Citizens Ontological Music Agenda, Cork, Don Mount, Doug Van Nort, Douglass Street Music Collective, Eris 136199, Franziska Schroeder, Freddy’s Bar, Gascia Ouzounian, Han-earl Park, Jack Wright, Jamie Smith, John Hough, Jonathan Goldberger, Jonathan Moritz, Justin Yang, Kevin Reilly, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Manuela Meier, Mark Sanders, Michael Evans, New York, Nick Didkovsky, Ó Riada Hall, On The Way Out, Out Of Your Head, Paul Dunmall, Pauline Oliveros, Pedro Rebelo, recordings, Save the Date, Save The Date #8, Sean Ali, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Sonorities, Soup and Sound House Concert, Soup and Sound House Concert #12, The Stone, UCC, UCC Department of Music, video recordings, Will McEvoy, YouTube
thanks: Perkis-Park-Eisenstadt (The Stone, NYC) and Evans-Jensen-Park (DSMC, Brooklyn)
Harris Eisenstadt, Han-earl Park and Tim Perkis (The Stone, NYC, September 7, 2012). Photo © 2012 Tom Djll.
Big thanks to all the performers over the weekend: Harris Eisenstadt, Michael Evans (drums), Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, and, especially for the initial invite to perform at The Stone, to Tim Perkis, one of the very finest computer performers, and one of the few who understands the nuts’n’bolts of musicianship and performance.
Thanks also to Miguel Frasconi for curating the series at The Stone, and to Josh Sinton and Prom Night Records for putting together Save The Date #8 at the Douglass Street Music Collective; and to Kevin Reilly and Don Mount for the documentation. And, nothing to do with my own performances, but I want to mention Tom Djll who, with Andrew Drury (thanks for the transport back home, Andrew!) and Tim, presented borderline genius deconstructions—diabolical combinations of intelligent critique and humorous pastiche—that followed our set at The Stone.
And, as always, thanks to everyone who came to listen and witness real-time music in motion… including the one person in the audience who really did not dig what I was doing… at all %^}
Categoriesgigs, media, video recordings TagsAndrew Drury, Brooklyn, Douglass Street Music Collective, Han-earl Park, Harris Eisenstadt, Josh Sinton, Kevin Reilly, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Michael Evans, Miguel Frasconi, New York, performance, photographs, Prom Night Records, recordings, Save the Date, Save The Date #8, The Stone, Tim Perkis, Tom Djll, video recordings, YouTube
tonight: Michael Evans, Louise D E Jensen and Han-earl Park at the Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn
Tonight (September 8, 2012), at 8:00pm (set: 9:00pm): a performance by Michael Evans (drums), Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (saxophone) and Han-earl Park (guitar) takes place at Douglass Street Music Collective (295 Douglass Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 11217) [map and directions…]. $10 suggested donation.
Categoriesgigs TagsBrooklyn, Douglass Street Music Collective, Han-earl Park, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Michael Evans, New York, performance, Save the Date, Save The Date #8
performance: Michael Evans, Louise D E Jensen and Han-earl Park at the Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn
Saturday, September 8, 2012, at 8:00pm (set: 9:00pm): a performance by Michael Evans (drums), Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (saxophone) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Also performing are Brad Henkel (trumpet) at 8:00pm, and Angelika Niescer Quartet (Angelika Niescer: alto sax; Florian Weber: piano; Chris Tordini: bass; and Tommy Crane: drums) at 10:00pm. Presented as part of Save The Date #8, the event takes place at Douglass Street Music Collective (295 Douglass Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 11217) [map and directions…]. $10 suggested donation.
See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [DSMC page…]
09–06–12: change of set time to 9:00pm.
Categoriesgigs TagsAngelika Niescer, Brad Henkel, Brooklyn, Chris Tordini, Douglass Street Music Collective, Florian Weber, Han-earl Park, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Michael Evans, New York, performance, Save the Date, Save The Date #8, Tommy Crane
performance diary 07-01-12 (Brooklyn, New York)
July 24, 2012 The Backroom @ Freddy’s Bar
Brooklyn, NY 11215 8:30pm Performance by Eris 136199 (Nick Didkovsky: guitar; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Catherine Sikora: saxophones), plus Christine Bard (drums, percussion and electronics), Bill McCrossen (bass) and Mercedes Figueras (saxophones), presented by On The Way Out.
Recommended donation: $10.
[Freddy’s page…]
[facebook event…]
September 7, 2012 The Stone
16 Avenue C
New York, NY 10009 8:00pm Performance by Tim Perkis (electronics), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Harris Eisenstadt (percussion).
Admission: $10 (students 13–19: $5; children <12: free).
[The Stone calendar…]
September 8, 2012 Douglass Street Music Collective
295 Douglass Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217 8:00pm Performance by Michael Evans (drums), Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (saxophone) and Han-earl Park (guitar), plus Brad Henkel (trumpet), and Angelika Niescer Quartet (Angelika Niescer: alto sax; Florian Weber: piano; Chris Tordini: bass; and Tommy Crane: drums) presented as part of Save The Date #8.
[DSMC page…]
late 2012 North America Numbers (Richard Barrett: electronics; and Han-earl Park: guitar) is seeking performance opportunities in North America, late 2012.
Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch!
2013 Europe Seeking performances in Europe, 2013 for the cyborg ensemble of interactive, semi-autonomous, technological artifact and machine musician io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with human musicians Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones). Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch! [Detailed proposal…]
Continue reading “performance diary 07-01-12 (Brooklyn, New York)”
Categoriesdiary, gigs TagsAngelika Niescer, Bill McCrossen, Brad Henkel, Brooklyn, Catherine Sikora, Chris Tordini, Christine Bard, Douglass Street Music Collective, Eris 136199, Florian Weber, Freddy’s Bar, Han-earl Park, Harris Eisenstadt, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Mercedes Figueras, Michael Evans, New York, Nick Didkovsky, Numbers, On The Way Out, performance, Richard Barrett, Save the Date, Save The Date #8, The Stone, Tim Perkis, Tommy Crane
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This Woman Is Making The Cutest Dick Pics You've Ever Seen
NSFW OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE PENISES.
By David Mack
David Mack BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on January 12, 2016, at 2:23 p.m. ET
This is Soraya Doolbaz, an Iranian-Canadian woman who works in New York City as a self-described professional penis photographer.
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Yup. You read that right. She takes photos of dicks for a living.
Facebook: dicturegallery
For example, here's a festive Christmas-themed dick.
This image is graphic
Tap to reveal
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And here's a penis dressed as Kanye West.
Doolbaz told BuzzFeed News she began taking artsy photos of penises some two and a half years ago after she had a sudden ~burst~ of inspiration.
She wanted to make people laugh by taking something many see as dirty and making it funny — maybe even cute.
"Women want to laugh, so I think having a costume or character added to the dick pic takes the vulgarity away, while still getting the point across," she said.
Doolbaz purchases dolls and action figures from stores and then uses the clothes to dress up the dicks.
"I was once in a bidding war online with a bunch of people for a limited edition Fidel Castro doll, a one-of-a-kind collector's item," she said. "I eventually won, took all the clothes off, and threw the doll away."
Her female friends bring their male partners in for the photo shoots as a fun way to "honor their dicks," she said.
In 2014, Doolbaz released her first collection of dick pics, and in September she followed it up with a series titled "Dick-tators of History and Friends."
Here's "Saddong Hussein 'Weapon of Ass Destruction.'"
"Cumrad Stalin."
"Kim Dong-un."
And "Benito Mussoweenie."
There's even a Donald Trump–themed dick pic.
"I don't know what the future holds for my penis photography career," Doolbaz conceded. For now, however, she's selling various penis-themed merchandise on her website, Dicture Gallery, and is also working on a coffee table book.
Listen to an interview with Doolbaz on BuzzFeed's Internet Explorer podcast:
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Fundraising for more hydrophones in Great Bear Sea
Conservation group Pacific Wild hopes to raise money for hydrophone network in Great Bear Sea
Wildlife in the Great Bear Sea. (Photo: Ian McAllister/Pacific Wild)
By Leah Gerber
Conservation group Pacific Wild is teaming up with Sitka, an outdoor lifestyle company, to raise $60,000 to help add to its hydrophone network in what is becoming known as the Great Bear Sea, an area off the central coast of British Columbia.
Sitka launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in April to help raise money for the underwater microphone network and other projects.
“Protecting the acoustic environment in our oceans should be front and centre in our marine conservations,” says Ian McAllister, Pacific Wild’s executive director. “You can protect all the habitat that certain species require, and you can ensure a food source for them, but if these species can’t communicate, then they can't forage, reproduce or survive. It’s no different than expecting a human to try and live a healthy life in a rock concert.”
Marine wildlife such as whales and dolphins make their home in the region, which currently has very little human-related noise pollution. Pacific Wild, however, says proposed liquefied natural gas and oil projects proposed for the area could result in as many as 3,000 tanker ship trips annually through these waters — a development that could pose a threat to these species.
Pacific Wild aims to install two more hydrophones to its network of six this year — one near Hecate Strait and one near Milbanke Sound — to help determine a baseline measurement of what the water sounds like before a possible increase in tanker traffic. The organization has already gathered about 75,000 hours of recordings from across the network. Pacific Wild will use the data to present a case to preserve parts of the region as marine acoustic sanctuaries.
“We’re beginning to get an understanding of these diversity hotspots that are largely based on 365 days a year of acoustic recording,” says McAllister.
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Alcohol & Cannabis
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COVID-19: Industry Leadership Honours
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Andrew Scheer marks final day in Commons as Conservative party leader
Scheer's replacement will be elected by party members later this month
Andrew Scheer
OTTAWA — Conservative leader Andrew Scheer rose Aug. 12 in the House of Commons for what’s likely his last time as Opposition leader and told the MPs dotted throughout the chamber he had a sense of deja vu.
“It looks like my last question period as leader of the Conservative party is just like my first: warm, sunny and the prime minister nowhere to be found,” he said.
Indeed, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on holiday Aug. 12 for the rare summer sitting of the Commons; the next will come after Scheer’s replacement has been elected by party members later this month.
That Parliament continued, albeit in a modified form, in the midst of a pandemic is one of Scheer’s accomplishments in his three years as only the second permanent leader of the party.
He had hoped unseating the majority Liberal government would be an accomplishment as well, but his failure to do so last fall led to his eventual resignation, pending the election of his successor.
Ontario MP Michael Barrett, one of the few MPs to publicly back Scheer during the heated public and private internal party fight after the election, paid him a quick tribute Aug. 12 in the Commons.
“This place is better for his service as leader,” Barrett said.
Commons sittings, committee hearings and the chance to propose improvements to government programs all came from the Opposition’s push for more accountability from the Liberals as they rolled out their COVID-19 response, Scheer had noted during a final news conference this week.
While the Liberals haven’t taken the Tories up on all their ideas, they did agree to some, he said.
“We haven’t missed a beat, we’ve been right there,” he said.
It is perhaps fitting for Scheer that he counts among his legacies the fight to ensure Parliament pushed on.
In addition to being an MP from Regina since 2004, he also served as the Speaker of the House of Commons from 2011 to 2015.
It was after the Tories lost government in 2015, and the subsequent resignation of then-leader Stephen Harper, that Scheer decided to go for the leadership job.
He won in 2017, eking out a very narrow victory over fellow MP Maxime Bernier.
He spent the next two years trying to gain recognition across the country, while shoring up the party’s war chest and policy playbook in order to defeat the Liberal government in the Oct. 2019 election.
“We ended up seeing a bit of a division, a potential division after the last leadership,” said Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux.
“Andrew Scheer came in, he kept this party together, he kept this party united. That’s really going to be his legacy.”
Though the Liberals had been struggling with several scandals ahead of the election, Scheer failed to bring the government down outright, instead holding them to a minority.
The failure was linked in part to Scheer’s personal inability to clearly articulate his position on social conservative issues.
There were also factors that ate away at his credibility — a claim to being an insurance salesman when he never completed the licensing requirements and not disclosing he was a dual American-Canadian citizen.
Some, including Scheer, argued that increasing the Conservatives’ seat count and besting the Liberals’ share of the popular vote was a success.
But the knives came out for Scheer almost immediately after election day.
Among the jabs: party insiders leaked an internal argument over Scheer using party funds to pay for his kids’ private religious schooling, a fact unknown to many of the party’s executives.
Alberta MP Shannon Stubbs said Aug. 12 she didn’t like the way it was all handled, and Scheer deserved better.
“I don’t think he needed to resign,” she said.
Four candidates are in the running to replace him.
Candidates Erin O’Toole and Derek Sloan are both MPs, so could easily slide into the Opposition leader’s seat — and the official residence of Stornoway — if they win.
Neither of the other two, Peter MacKay and Leslyn Lewis, currently holds a seat in the Commons.
Should either of them win, they would likely appoint someone to lead the party in the Commons until they could win their own spot.
While a by-election is looming in the riding of York Centre, thanks to the resignation of the Liberal MP there, neither Lewis nor MacKay’s campaigns have committed to having their candidate run for that seat.
Whomever wins, Scheer has set them up for success, said Chris Warkentin, an Alberta MP who was one of Scheer’s earliest backers for leadership.
“Those of us who are close to Andrew know of his love and passion for his family, our country and our Conservative team,” Warkentin said.
“Our party is united, his family is intact and he will continue to fight to build a better country. That’s a legacy of leadership he can be proud of.”
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