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Beijing Seeks To Impose New Laws On Hong Kong | Trump Toughens His Stance
May 22, 2020 | US Stocks Review
US stock futures declined on Friday, as tensions heated after China announced plans to impose new national security laws on Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index closed down -5.56%, in its worst day since July 2015, after Beijing introduced measures that would give China more control over security in the semi-autonomous region.
President Donald Trump said the details of China's plan aren't yet known but "if it happens we’ll address that issue very strongly”.
This all risks choking the rally that took stock prices up from their March lows (SPY: +35.10% from 52W Low); spurred by stimulus measures and optimism for a swift global economic recovery.
The S&P 500 (-0.69%) finished lower, with signs mounting that President Trump will toughen his stance on China as a re-election bid.
In corporate news; Alibaba (BABA), Deere (DE) and Foot Locker (FL) will report their latest financial data today.
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China & Politics: China Plans New National-Security Laws for Hong Kong. (The WSJ)
China signaled it will impose new national-security laws on Hong Kong, dealing a blow to the territory’s autonomy as Beijing seeks to stamp widespread pro-democracy protests that have challenged Xi Jinping.
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Pre-Market Movers & News Related Stocks.
Foot Locker (FL): [EARNINGS] Lost 67 cents per share for its latest quarter, wider than the 25 cents a share loss that Wall Street was expecting. The athletic footwear and apparel retailer’s revenue also missed estimates, with comparable sales plunging a wider-than-expected 42.8%. Foot Locker has also temporarily suspended its quarterly dividend.
e.l.f. Beauty (ELF): [EARNINGS] Doubled expectations with quarterly earnings of 10 cents per share. The cosmetics retailer’s revenue also topped estimates. The company said the pandemic has impacted its sales, and it expects continued negative impact until consumers return to normal shopping patterns.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE): [EARNINGS] Fell 7 cents a share short of estimates, with quarterly earnings of 22 cents per share. The enterprise cloud computing company’s revenue also fell short, with HPE’s business impacted significantly by the coronavirus outbreak. The company also unveiled a cost-cutting plan designed to save at least $1 billion by 2022.
Alibaba (BABA): [EARNINGS] Beat estimates on both the top and bottom lines for its fiscal fourth quarter, and topped $1 trillion in gross merchandise volume for the first time in the just-concluded fiscal year. Alibaba benefited from an increase in online shopping due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Palo Alto Networks (PANW): [EARNINGS] Reported quarterly earnings of $1.17 per share, compared to a consensus estimate of 94 cents a share. The cybersecurity company’s revenue also beat Wall Street forecasts, and it said it will benefit from a continued increase in remote working.
Nvidia (NVDA): [EARNINGS] Beat estimates by 11 cents a share, with quarterly earnings of $1.80 per share. The graphics chipmaker’s revenue also beat forecasts. Nvidia gave an upbeat forecast, on surging demand for its chips that are used in data centers.
Splunk (SPLK): [EARNINGS] Reported a quarterly loss of 56 cents per share, a penny a share smaller than Wall Street had expected. Revenue came in short of forecasts, but the maker of data analytics software said it expected stronger demand for its cloud services as more people shift to working from home.
Ross Stores (ROST): [EARNINGS] Reported a quarterly loss of 87 cents per share, surprising analysts who had expected a profit of 3 cents per share. The discount retailer’s revenue also fell short of estimates as the coronavirus outbreak forced it to close stores, but Ross did say it began reopening stores last week.
Deckers (DECK): [EARNINGS] Earned 57 cents per share for its fiscal fourth quarter, well above the 9 cents a share consensus estimate. The maker of UGG boots and Teva sandals posted revenue that came in above forecasts, although it said it is facing challenges due to virus-related store shutdowns. Deckers is not providing guidance for the current fiscal year due to uncertainty surround the pandemic’s impact.
Deere (DE): [EARNINGS] Reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $2.11 per share, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.62 a share. Revenue beat estimates as well. Deere said it expects global equipment sales to fall 30% to 40% this year as the Covid-19 pandemic weighs on demand.
Lululemon (LULU): [NEWS] Reopened more than 150 of its retail locations, with the athletic apparel maker planning to reopen about 200 more stores over the next two weeks. It has instituted a new set of reopening guidelines, including enhanced cleaning, modified hours, and limits to the number of customers in a store at any one time.
Alphabet (GOOGL): [NEWS] Proxy adviser ISS recommended that shareholders vote against executive pay proposals at the Google parent’s annual meeting in June. ISS criticized the proposals as “outsized awards that are not sufficiently performance-based.”
IBM (IBM): [NEWS] Will cut an unspecified number of jobs, the first workforce reduction under new CEO Arvind Krishna, who took over from Ginni Rometty earlier this year. A person familiar with IBM’s plans told The Wall Street Journal that several thousand workers are likely to be affected.
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Find Trails > California > Hanford > Hanford Birding Trails
Hanford, CA Birding Trails and Maps
Looking for the best Birding trails around Hanford?
Find the top rated birding trails in Hanford, whether you're looking for an easy short birding trail or a long birding trail, you'll find what you're looking for. Click on a birding trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
Clovis Old Town Trail
Dry Creek Trail (Clovis)
Goshen Avenue Trail
Lewis S. Eaton Trail
Orange Cove Rails to Trails
Porterville Rails to Trails Parkway
Reedley Rail-Trail
Santa Fe Trail (Tulare)
Santa Fe Trail (Visalia)
St. John's River Trail
Sugar Pine Trail
Vernon McCullough Fresno River Trail
Community support has been integral to the creation of the Clovis Old Town Trail and Sugar Pine Trail, two adjoining rail-trails that link the communities of Clovis and Fresno. Joggers, cyclists,...
CA 5.8 mi Asphalt
The Dry Creek Trail is a mostly level, shady trail that follows its namesake creek in Clovis. The western trailhead connects with the Clovis Old Town Trail and has a small parking lot. The trail...
CA 2.5 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Goshen Avenue Trail follows both W. Goshen Avenue and an active Union Pacific Railroad freight line between Goshen and Visalia, serving as a convenient connection between the two towns. Bordered...
The Lewis S. Eaton Trail is the backbone of the growing trail network central to the planned 22-mile San Joaquin River Parkway. The main trail currently offers more than 5 paved miles through Woodward...
Orange Cove Rails to Trails is a pleasant, albeit short, pathway that runs diagonally through the small city of Orange Cove. The trail passes through James O. Eaton Memorial Park and provides...
CA 1.25 mi Asphalt
The Porterville Rails to Trails Parkway is a short converted right-of-way of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad through the town of Porterville. The arrow-straight trail runs between Walnut and Henderson...
The Reedley Rail-Trail is a multiuse trail built along railbanked right-of-way that provides an alternate route to access some of Reedley's busiest arterial streets. The path largely traverses the...
Tulare's Santa Fe Trail is located in the heart of the Central San Joaquin Valley, one of the most productive agriculture areas in the world. The trail extends east to west across the central portion...
CA 4.5 mi Asphalt, Dirt
Visalia's Santa Fe Trail extends south from the core of the city to its rural agricultural fringes. The northern half of the trail occupies a former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad corridor...
The St. John’s River Trail offers a tranquil atmosphere through a tree-dotted river valley to enjoy. Whether riding your bike or walking the paved trail, you are offered the opportunity to relax and...
Community support has been integral to the creation of the Sugar Pine Trail and Clovis Old Town Trail, two adjoining rail-trails that link the communities of Fresno and Clovis. Joggers, cyclists,...
CA 4 mi Asphalt
The Vernon McCullough Fresno River Trail runs along the dry river in Madera, offering a recreation and transportation amenity for the city's residents and visitors. The trail is divided in two by...
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Good trail with tough street crossings
August, 2020 by new_rhythm1
The trail is in a great location, traveling behind the town, along beautiful farms. There are plenty of old growth trees providing shade on a hot Central Valley day. The only draw back are the numerous street crossings. The ramps down and up the street are covered with the large yellow bumps you see on most walkways. As a skateboarder this makes crossing the streets difficult. Without the bumps this would be a 4 star trail easy.
Good trail
July, 2020 by k_schoepf
I read previous reviews on this trail so was concerned but I tried it. The only part of the trail with the raised cracks not suitable for biking is near the trail head. To avoid this, ride on the street in that section then jump on the trail. This trail connects to the Clovis trail making for a nice long ride. Shady, runs along the water and shaded. Beautiful area. Loved it.
Not for bikes! I was very disappointed.
May, 2020 by alanmaloney
The tree roots have destroyed the asphalt, and it is not suitable for bicycles. Walking would be ok. I wasted a long drive to ride about 100 yard. Terrible trail, never go back!! ¿¿¿¿¿
Industrial Area Trail
March, 2020 by acewickwire
Location: Visalia, CA
Parking: Gravel lot in industrial area, west end of trail.
Trail Condition: Surface is fine and wide enough but not very appealing. Old and gray asphalt with a few old railroad track crossings at an angle…be careful crossing!
Signage: None.
Comments: The first 3 miles or so of the trail are in the industrial area of Visalia. The trail is between active track and busy Goshen Ave. Guessing the track is only occasional used, although a yard engine and a few cars did move along the track (in the industrial area) while we were on the trail. There are several intersection to cross, push button for crossing signal, at least these are spaced a good distance apart and didn’t feel like we were stopping every couple minutes for a cross road. The trail is mostly unappealing, straight and level. It is a rail-trail for sure. We encountered a single walker on the eastern end. This trail ok based trail condition, not pretty but not a bunch of cracks or roots, etc. Wouldn’t do this one again.
Preferred Trail for the Area
Parking: Riverway Sports Park…lots of parking available, nice park.
Trail Condition: Wonderful asphalt trail condition, new. This is a very wide trail, wide enough for a vehicle to easily drive it and some were but not a problem.
Signage: Informational and regulatory signs but no directional signs, which aren’t really needed.
Comments: Started from the western end Riverway Sports Park. This trail is wide and nice new surface, very easy to ride two abreast with plenty of room. A couple of underpasses avoid having to cross any roads, these parts of the trail are concrete and also very wide and nicely done. After the first section of trail of being in the open and construction of a large housing development to the side it then gets into the trees and more shade. All along following beside the dry river bed. While a previous reviewer mentioned a “no-go zone”, there certainly is a part of the trail with many encampments along the river bed, we passed through during the afternoon and certainly felt safe enough. It is an unfortunate condition. If wanting to avoid this part of the trail, start at St. Johns Park off of Ben Maddox Way and travel east. From this park the trail is more scenic with a lot of trees and a few small parks along it. At the eastern end of the trail, the trail makes a small circle and implies start of this trail. We continued east into Cutler Park to the actual end, as mapped on Trail Link. On the trail we encountered walkers and only a couple bikers, this was during the middle of a weekday. Of the two trails we did in Visalia, this is the preferred trail.
Parking: Shopping Center (Yosemite Freeway & Friant Rd). Drove into Woodward Park but decided not to pay the $5 ($3 senior) parking fee. Should have read Parking & Trail Access description closer. Noted some folks park in shopping mall across Friant Rd from the park entrance.
Trail Condition: Excellent wide asphalt pathway. Well maintained.
Signage: Trail is easy to follow without signage, follow white stripe down middle of trail.
Comments: Started at South end, rode to North end and returned. Lots and lots of walkers and few bikers on the trail, nice three day weekend afternoon to get outside. Wonderful views of the San Joaquin River valley and mountains in distance. Of the trails in the Fresno (Clovis) area we rode this one was the best. No busy intersections to navigate, enough curves and small up and down hills to keep this one interesting. Highly recommend this trail.
Busy Intersections
Parking: Shopping Center (Yosemite Freeway & Friant Rd)
Comments: Going West to East the first portion of trail is a nice ride with a couple of underpasses and only one intersection to navigate. There is a gated section in this first portion that is closed at night. This section is a wide old railroad bed with housing on each side and now a bunch of trees along the trail. Nice and quiet section. Once passed this gated area the trail parallels a main street with a number of major intersections, which is a significant detractor. In fact, we didn’t finish the trail after growing tired of navigating the intersections. A few walkers and bikers were encountered on trail. It is evident this trail is a rail-to-trail project. The greenway is very wide, flat and mostly straight. Without the many busy intersections to cross this would be a fine rails-to-trails trail.
Trail Needs Work
Location: Clovis (Fresno), CA
Parking: Costco (Shaw & N. Clovis Ave)
Trail Condition: Satisfactory for most of the trail. Is a wide asphalt pathway. There are portions of the trail that are older with tree roots raising up and causing a bumpy ride. Roots haven’t broken through surface yet. Trail needs work.
Signage: Fairly easy to follow with exception of one park with a fork in the trail. Of course, we chose the straight path which turned out to be the wrong choice. Stopped for quick check of our map and look around to see a busy intersection that needed to be crossed. A portion of the trail has a white stripe down the middle but not all. There is a count station along the trail showing trail usage (bikers and walkers, daily and this year). Nice feature.
Comments: This trail was in combination with the Clovis Old Town Trail (thus reason for parking at Costco). We started from the junction of the Clovis Old Town Trail to the terminus which is a nice park with large parking lot on the north end. Then returned back to the Clovis Old Town Trail. The trail passes through a nice park on the way to the terminus. The park at the terminus has an interesting horse statue made from old rusted mechanical parts. A number of walkers, runners and a few cyclists were encountered on the trail, not overwhelming. According to the trail counter, walkers way out number the bikers. A major intersection must be crossed. A lower rating for this trail was given because of the poor trail condition.
Way Too Many Busy Street Crossings
Signage: Mostly the trail is easy to follow with except through the Old Clovis Town section. Up to that point the trail is wide asphalt with a solid white line down the middle. For about a block the trail becomes sidewalk near a school and Veterans Memorial Building. After that section it returns to the asphalt trail with white stripe. There are a number of great informational signs, little “train station” gazebos, and statues along the trail. There is even a count station showing trail usage (bikers and walkers, daily and this year) in the Old Town Clovis section. (See photo of count station in the Dry Creek Trail photos.)
Comments: We rode this to the point where we thought the north end is and the Sugar Pine Trail begins. Didn’t see any signage that defined the end of one and start of the other. Then on the return south we took the Dry Creek Trail out and back. To finish up rode to the southern end of the trail and back to parking. This trail surface was great and think must be fairly new. A number of walkers, runners and a few cyclists were encountered on the trail, not overwhelming. According to the trail counter, walkers way out number the bikers. A detractor to this trail is the number of major busy intersections that require stopping to wait for a walk signal to cross. The north end of the trail has fewer of these but does have a couple crossing with signaled cross walks requiring the press of a button to activate the warning signals, at least they aren’t at busy intersections. It is evident this trail is a rail-to-trail project. The greenway is very wide and flat. Without the many busy intersections to cross this would be a great rails-to-trails trail.
Bikeway on the trail
October, 2019 by tonygeo
Started from the Riverway Sports Park which was very nice with much greenery for an October day. We hit the trail and as expected this newly paved trail made its way into the surrounding desert scenery. How wonderful to have such a trail in this town. There are several options to side trails along the way. Now for the bad news... the no go zones. Sprawling homeless encampments all along the St John riverbed, laundry hung out on the trail benches to dry, garbage can rummaging all along the trails. Ride at your own risk
Extension!
September, 2019 by bobmichalk
The west end of this trail was recently extended to reach Highway 63. Visitors can park in the Riverway Sports Park and walk to the trail head.
Beautiful Longboarding Trail
January, 2019 by christensen-lisa
This is a beautiful trail and perfect for longboarding. There are plenty of small hills to learn on if you want to experience a bit of speed. There is enough to work with, level wise to keep you learning and improving until your ready to take your skating to another level. The sunsets in this park have been extraordinary. Warning though, people don’t always get out of your way if you’re going fast, when they are on the wrong side of the road. Watch out for people and dogs that hate wheels. Otherwise it’s beautiful and perfect!
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Scientists Develop a Super-Strong Wood That Completely Reflects the Sun's Heat
Christian Cotroneo
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Christian Cotroneo is the social media editor at Treehugger. He is a founding editor at HuffPost Canada, and former writer at The Dodo and Toronto Star.
The new super compressed wood is nearly nine times stronger than its natural counterpart. University of Maryland
We're living in a super materials world.
There's a new kind of plastic that can be recycled endlessly. Even cardboard has been re-invented to be stronger and more flexible. And let's not forget the extraordinary potential of graphene, a super material that promises to make everything from cleaner drinking water to invincible condoms.
So it shouldn't come as a surprise that scientists have taken a long, hard look at wood — and found even that stalwart of human civilization could use a little tinkering.
Researchers at the University of Maryland have re-designed the material to make it entirely impervious to visible light, while only absorbing the slightest levels of near-infrared light.
Translation? Rather than absorbing sunlight, the new wood could bounce it right back into the environment. In effect, homes made from this material would be able to prevent virtually all heat from seeping indoors, potentially easing our reliance on air conditioning in summer months.
Increasingly hot summers have led to an increased reliance on air conditioners. Alex Marakhovets/Shutterstock
“When applied to building, this game-changing structural material cools without the input of electricity or water,” noted Yao Zhai, one of the study authors, in a press release.
We know that air conditioning saves lives, especially in climates where heat takes a deadly toll on air quality. But we also know that as we dial up the AC, we also dial up demand on fossil fuel-burning power plants. And emissions from those plants stir up an atmospheric cocktail that can be just as toxic.
"Reducing human reliance on energy-inefficient cooling methods such as air conditioning would have a large impact on the global energy landscape," the researchers note in the study abstract.
To make that kind of "cooling" wood, scientists used hydrogen peroxide to strip away the lignin, a support element in the cell walls of trees. That process exposed only the wood's cellulose, which is a powerful building block of plants and trees. It's also incredibly impervious to the sun's energy.
Cooling buildings in the summer is a massive drain on electrical grids. DavidSch/Shutterstock
What's more, the lignin-free wood allows heat produced indoors to escape. That's because indoor heat occupies a slightly different wavelength than your garden variety sunlight — a wavelength that doesn't get repulsed by the new wood variant. So by day, the sun's heat is kept at bay, and at night, indoor heat dissipates into the environment, although the team admits this could be an issue when it comes to actually retaining heat indoors.
Another benefit to wood made entirely of cellulose? It's incredibly strong. In a previous study, researchers noted that cellulose nanofibers outperform steel and spider silk as the "strongest bio-material" on Earth.
The University of Maryland team claims the new wood packs a tensile strength of around 404 megapascals, or more than eight times that of natural wood. That puts it somewhere in the neighborhood of steel.
"Wood has been used for thousands of years and has emerged as an important sustainable building material to potentially replace steel and concrete because of its economic and environmental advantages," the authors note.
That kind of strength, in addition to the insulation factor, could make the new wood a solid candidate for transforming the concrete and steel jungle of a city into something closer to a real jungle.
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The business began when founder Carl Heinrich Knorr experimented with drying seasonings and vegetables to preserve their flavour and nutritional value. He set up a factory in 1838, producing the first Knorr product – which was called ‘Erbswurst’ or ‘Soup Sausage’ – a quick supplement for industrial workers. In 1873 Heinrich Knorr also dried soups which were sold in shops across continental Europe. By 1885, pre-cooked foods were developed.
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News McGrath expands Illawarra footprint with an office in Thirroul
McGrath expands Illawarra footprint with an office in Thirroul
| Jul 31,2020
The real estate group, McGrath Estate Agents, has reaffirmed its commitment to the Illawarra region announcing the opening of a new office in Thirroul.
It is under the auspices of its longtime franchise partner, the McCarthy/Sutherland Shire & Illawarra Group led by Patrick McCarthy.
John McGrath said McCarthy and his team had established their south coast market presence over eighteen months ago.
"So opening in Thirroul will be a value-add to their community of buyers and sellers alike.
“Thirroul itself offers low density beachside living that is increasingly appealing to both Sydneysiders wanting an escape as well as those who are attracted to his wonderful lifestyle, amenity, and its proximity to Sydney and the regional cities of Wollongong and Canberra,” Mr McGrath added.
Last December Jeremy Hodder, joined the group and will now be partnering with Vanessa Denison-Pender, former director of One Agency Thirroul, to open the new office.
Vanessa has been in the industry for 17 years and has been a principal in the area for eight years.
Mr Hodder believes that the affordability of the area is particularly attractive and in reach of first home buyers and empty nesters as well as the WFH commuter.
McGrath Thirroul speciality suburbs include Thirroul, Austinmer, Wombarra, East Corrimal, Coledale, Towradgi, and Bulli.
“The out of area migration from Sydney is becoming increasingly popular," Vanessa said.
Thirroul is only 80kms from the south of Sydney and many more people are becoming comfortable with this commute to put themselves in a better financial position.
“Since the onset of COVID-19, we have experienced a large number of enquiries from Sydney not only for relocation opportunities but also for investment options, this includes weekenders and beach holiday homes”.
With an average median house price for Thirroul is $1,225,000; Vanessa Denison-Pinder has achieved some sales results in the last six months including:
11 The Grove Austinmer – A street record for a 4 bedroom home sold for $2,925,000
21 The Grove Austinmer – A 3 bedroom home sold for $1,600,000
28 The Waves Thirroul – A street record for a 5 bedroom home sold for $1,465,000
686 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Coldale – A Beachfront 4 bedroom home sold for $2,410,000
Recent sales by Jeremy in the last six months include:
10a Toxteth Avenue, Austinmer – Brand new 3 Bedroom home sold for $2,350,000
3 The Breakers, Thirroul – A 4 bedroom home sold for $2,325,000
347-349 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Clifton – Set a new suburb record for Clifton sold for $3,375,000
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Our new logistics centres are built and managed to the highest international sustainability standards. We have been systematically upgrading all our existing logistics platforms, introducing eco-efficient lighting, improving insulation, installing sophisticated climate-control equipment, supplying bicycles and electric vehicles for internal transport, and using renewable energy sources. In fact, we generated more than 47 million kWh of our own renewable energy at our logistics centres in 2015 alone.
We work with our suppliers to standardise packaging, using more sustainable materials, and reusing cardboard boxes, hangers and alarms in our shipments, recycling them when they can no longer be used. Each cardboard box that we use to send our garments to our stores can be used up to five times. By increasing our packing density per shipment we were also able to cut 2.3 million kilometres of road transport and 185,700m2 of cardboard packaging in 2015.
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The transportation and distribution of our products is undertaken entirely by external contractors – but we still play an active role in trying to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions involved. We have developed a tool to measure emissions based on different means of transportation in line with international standards laid down in the GHG Protocol, so that we can track progress, and we offer improvement plans for our distributors to make reductions.
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01/10/19 Plug In Digital
Bury Me, My Love (NS)
Inspired by real events and imbued with themes of love, hope and migration, Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety. The title of the story-driven interactive fiction comes from the Syrian goodbye phrase that roughly means “Take care, and don’t even think about dying before I do.” This phrase takes on a deeper meaning as players take on the role of Majd, who is forced to stay behind and can only able to communicate with his wife through their smartphones. By reading instant messages and choosing response options, players help Nour overcome the hardships she will encounter, with the story featuring multiple endings. Bury me, my Love can be played in real-time, with messages arriving in intermittent intervals, sometimes stretching for hours. A fast-track option, which allows the story to be played without pauses, is available as well.
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02/23/18 Phantom 8 Studio
Past Cure (PS4)
By Jackson Newsome 26th Feb 2018 | 3,343 views
Past Cure plays more like a prototype than a finished product.
Phantom 8 Studio bills Past Cure as a game comprised of action, horror, stealth, and thriller gameplay elements from a third-person perspective. You play as Ian, a protagonist with special mind powers who remembers little of his past. While the promise of varied gameplay may be true, Past Cure never quite reaches its full potential and spreads itself too thin.
Perhaps if the developers had chosen one or two genres and stuck with them, they could have spun something special out of the game’s psychological thriller foundation. Instead, what is left are several gameplay mechanics that fail to innovate and a narrative crippled by stilted English dialogue and voiceover work that reminded me of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 film, The Room, which, while humorous, is an unflattering reference point for the serious tone of Past Cure’s narrative.
Put simply, Past Cure suffers from avoidable poor game direction. This oversight is clearest with regard to the game’s cut scenes. Although I understand the studio’s ambition for a AAA-grade narrative, the game’s story could have been told more effectively and beautifully with 2D panels – à la the original Max Payne – given its limited budget. This slight change would have spared gamers from stiff animations and unfortunate voiceover work.
Otherwise, the gameplay itself is relatively functional – not counting the numerous glitches I encountered during my playthrough (more on that later). Gunplay, melee attacks, and traversal work as you would expect, even with the protagonist’s added time manipulation and astral projection abilities, although I caution you against expecting much depth. You won’t find unique weaponry (e.g. explosives) or especially clever use of Ian’s mind abilities, particularly in the first half of the game.
Instead, prepare for mowing down the same two-or-three enemy character models with the same two-or-three guns until you are close to the game’s finale. Fortunately, stealth sections and puzzles are serviceable and seem fair in their design, but the gameplay rarely extends beyond what you see near the onset. In Past Cure, what you see is what you get – for almost the entire duration of the game.
I will, however, credit Past Cure for its second half. The final three chapters truly improve upon what came before. The game’s generally slow pacing increased, puzzles were cleverer, and the penultimate chapter alluded to the psychological horror game that Past Cure never became. Furthermore, the environments were more tightly crafted and less obvious in their reuse and reapplication of game assets. Phantom 8 crafted detailed environments that look right at home on modern hardware and challenge perceptions of how an indie game should look. With additional gameplay refinement and work on character models in future projects, I could imagine them further combatting the notion that indie game development is limited to two dimensions.
It should also be acknowledged that I encountered a myriad of glitches and technical oddities throughout my playthrough, both before and after the patch released near launch. I experienced two complete game crashes to the PlayStation 4 dashboard, subtitles that didn't match the cut scene dialog (which spoiled narrative reveals), ambient noise and music that had distracting gaps before looping, one instance of gunshot sound effects failing to trigger, and, in the fourth chapter, NPCs whose bodies slipped across the floor as if it was greased. Luckily, Past Cure is forgiving and boasts frequent checkpoints or else I may have been forced to replay entire sections of the game due to some of these bugs. For what it's worth, a representative for Phantom 8 assured me there would be further updates to address issues plaguing the current release.
At best, Past Cure plays like a prototype for a better and more focused game. Its approach is to offer gamers several slices of various genres and playstyles without doing any one thing very well. If I had to choose my favorite “slice,” I would recommend that the developers try their hand at a strictly survival horror game, as these moments stood out as the strongest even if they weren’t particularly scary or fully realized. Even still, Phantom 8 impressed me with their ambition and technical prowess. Some of the environments are rendered so well that it is hard to imagine this game was designed by such a small team. If nothing else, Phantom 8 changed my perception of what indie developers can accomplish, and I recommend that gamers keep an eye out for their future projects. But, as it stands now, Past Cure is overpriced and has too many flaws, including basic technical issues, for me to recommend it to anyone.
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Readying our Terrestrial Network for the Australia Singapore Cable
Vocus Communications is in the process of upgrading our core domestic infrastructure to support the early customer demand for Australia Singapore Cable (“ASC”), as the project’s ready for service date draws closer.
The planned upgrade is designed to deliver an additional 8TBps of capacity across the country, predominantly between Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.
“We’re expecting immediate network activity when the ASC is ready for service,” says Vocus Head of International Luke Mackinnon, “so this upgrade is critical to ensuring we keep ahead of demand and continue to provide the most advanced and intelligent network for our customers.
“The ASC project includes two new POPs in Singapore, replacing the existing POP. It will also add diversity and multiple hand off options, in Equinix SG1/SG3 and STT/Globalswitch. An entirely new POP for Christmas Island is a first for Vocus and will deliver the island’s first ever terrestrial connection providing massive capacity uplift for the community.”
The ASC team is currently attending the PTC Conference in Hawaii, meeting customers and securing further orders in advance of RFS. A number of agreements are already in place with key customers.
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The Bride Wore Simone Rocha for Her New York City Secret-Garden Wedding
By Thessaly La Force
Photo: Hannah Thomson
We asked our two friends, both illustrators, to help with the invitation. Joana Avillez drew the peach, the branch, and the leaves. The handwriting was Ilya Milstein’s. I told Joana how much I liked the plant drawings by Ellsworth Kelly. I wanted something that felt simple, youthful, and easy.
It is inevitable when planning a wedding in New York City that one considers the location more than any other variable. I had visited the New York Marble Cemetery—located on Second Avenue between 3rd and 4th Street in the East Village—once before, for a fashion presentation. Of course, if you have ever walked through the East Village, you can’t miss glimpsing these strangely green, manicured gardens, nestled between buildings and guarded behind black metal fences. But, still, I’ll never forget the first time I entered it—I’ll never forget the feeling of walking through the open gate, then down the narrow corridor, which felt like a driveway or alleyway, all asphalt and bricks, until emerging in this open, beautiful expansive garden the size of an entire city lot. The long grass brushes your feet. You look up and just see the sky. It felt like discovering a secret garden smack dab in the middle of the city chaos. New York City has such few open spaces—and it was that sensation of transporting you somewhere neither cramped nor overly familiar that I wanted for our wedding. But I didn’t really think twice about it until I had settled on where to have the reception and dinner, at the home of Israeli artist Izhar Patkin—just down the street.
I had met Patkin through a friend, a dancer and writer, who often stayed at Patkin’s Lower East Side home and studio when visiting Manhattan. To enter Patkin’s house, one walks through a grimy vestibule, then through a small courtyard with rainbow glass doors, until emerging into the building, or compound really, composed of interconnected rooms centered around a outdoor courtyard, strung with garden lights, and filled with lush green potted plants and trees. A red spiral staircase takes you up to a sprawling leafed roof deck that must be almost a quarter of the city block—or it feels like it. Its sense of privacy and its eclectic personality—Patkin’s artwork is hung throughout the place, a playful dog named Poo runs free, pewter Moroccan tables are scattered throughout—made a lot of sense to me in that I didn’t feel bound by convention and I wanted to celebrate with an evening that felt far away from the commotion of a city.
And so various decorative touches were brought in to transform both spaces for the wedding. I asked the floral artist Emily Thompson to create a kind of centerpiece in Marble Cemetery (the garden is eclectically planted with whatever the gardener chooses), so she and her team created a bounty of fresh fruit that hung from a giant bower decorated with dark purple and green grapes, apples, and other decorative flowers. Thompson also gave bunches of nearly wilted, full-bloom dark peonies to Anat Sror, of Dishful Catering, who created a Moroccan feast for the dinner: a sumptuous mezze platter for the first course; couscous, meat tangines, grilled salmon, and more for the dinner. Sror added a sense of humor and dense beauty to the night: baby pineapples and big tropical floral centerpieces dangled from each table. The table settings were done by two friends of ours, both illustrators: Joana Avillez and Ilya Milstein, who also helped to create the invitation (inspired loosely by Ellsworth Kelly’s plant drawings). The cake, by Betsy Thorleifson of Nine Cakes, echoed the invite—a confection iced in broad yellow buttercream brushstrokes, topped with the most exquisite sugar peony flowers and green leaves.
As for the actual day—I can do my best to remember, but it really is just a blur. I know it was overcast but not sweltering, and the rain that threatened to fall never came. I got ready with my sister and best friend Sue Chan at the Standard High Line, and we had our makeup done by Ai Yokomizo. His parents walked him down the aisle together, then mine did the same. I wore Simone Rocha, blue glittery kitten-heeled Miu Mius, and in my hair, a pearl headpiece by Jennifer Behr, and pearl Sophie Buhai earrings. Will wore a suit made by the New York tailor Paul Marlow. Our friend, Stephanie Jenkins, strummed a guitar and sang Cat Power’s “Sea of Love.”
The ceremony was officiated by a good family friend of Will’s, Françoise Mouly, and poems were read by two of our closest friends, Nadja Spiegelman (who is Françoise’s daughter) and Thomas Gebremedhin: “The Wedding Vow” by Sharon Olds and “Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara, respectively. Our rings were custom made by the lovely jeweler Gillian Conroy, who I cannot recommend enough if you want something beautiful and exquisite, but without any of the pomp and intimidation normally surrounding the jewelry-buying experience. Though perhaps the Olds poem, if frankly sensuous, best reflected the spirit of the day. A line reads: “In truth, we had married / that first night, in bed, we had been / married by our bodies, but now we stood / in history—what our bodies had said, / mouth to mouth, we now said publicly, / gathered together, death.” Afterward, Stephanie and her brother led all our guests down the street to Patkin’s house, playing their instruments like a New Orleans procession, and after toasts from my father and Will’s mother, plus more from two other good friends, the celebration continued into the night.
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Spartacus (1960)
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The history of slavery in America is a source of sorrow and shame to all of us.
Slavery in Rome doesn’t seem so terrible at first glance.
For some enslaved ancients, life wasn’t all bad. Slaves were teachers, professionals, and skilled artisans. It was common for slaves to earn their freedom.
For millions of others, however, the experience of slavery was unimaginably unpleasant.
By the time of the late Republic, Roman food was grown on huge plantations owned by absentee aristocrats. The work was done by chained slave gangs. They slept together in tightly packed underground cages. Disease ran rampant. Life for slaves working in Roman mines was even more ghastly.
The film begins in approximately 75 BC, with Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) slaving in a North African mine. His physique and fighting spirit catches the eye of a slave trader, who brings him to Italy to become a gladiator.
Believe it or not, gladiator school is a huge promotion over the mines. But Spartacus is not exactly grateful. Before too long, he overthrows the school by force.
Director Stanley Kubrick takes three leisurely hours following Spartacus’s march around southern Italy, liberating slaves everywhere he goes and thumbing his nose at the Roman establishment.
The problem with this movie is simple: Kirk Douglas’s lackluster performance. As a slave, Spartacus seethes with rebellious rage. As a freedman, he goes soft. You simply don’t believe that this boring guy led history’s greatest slave rebellion. Every time he’s on camera, cheesy music plays on the soundtrack and I considered hitting fast forward.
In contrast, Spartacus’s adversaries are funny and entertaining. The Roman characters are so intelligent and interesting that it seems to contradict the film’s pro-slave message.
The real star of “Spartacus” is Laurence Olivier, who plays Crassus. Crassus was a real estate tycoon and the richest man of his time.
Crassus is an unexpectedly three-dimensional villain. In one famous scene, Crassus makes a convincing defense of bisexuality to his slave as he hits on him. The slave (Tony Curtis) is unconvinced, and promptly runs away to join the rebels.
The curse of the Roman Republic was that great men like Crassus weren’t content with mere riches and luxury. Aristocrats craved dignitas, which could only be achieved by winning elections or on the battlefield.
At one point, Crassus turns to his young protégé Julius Caesar and calmly observes that he is more frightened of Caesar than Spartacus. And, of course, he is right to be. Ambitious patricians and their armies of loyal soldiers were a clear and present danger to the Republic.
“Spartacus” shows us how the Republic fell. Only a few generations later, Romans were willing to accept a tyrannical Emperor for life because they were so sick of self-assertive Senators and their rampaging private legions.
“Spartacus” has some good characters and some substance. But it doesn’t come together into a coherent or focused finished product.
The movie’s main message – that slavery is inherently evil – is both poorly argued and completely obvious. Stanley Kubrick later disowned the film, claiming that the studio edited it poorly without his input.
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Washington State Department of Health announces COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan
Dayton General Hospital prepares
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The Pfizer vaccine must be stored in ultra-cold freezer units or temporarily in the thermal packaging used for shipping.
DAYTON-The Washington State Department of Health expects to receive and distribute 62,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to 17 sites across 13 counties, beginning this week.
According to DOH, the state should receive another 222,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, and 183,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine, by the end of Dec., with regular shipments beginning in Jan.
About 190 organizations across the state are enrolled as COVID-19 vaccine providers. The majority of enrolled facilities are hospital and medical clinics, including Dayton General Hospital.
Cheryl Pell, the pharmacist at Dayton General Hospital, said it is still unknown whether DGH will be among the first to receive vaccines.
"When we do receive them, they will be offered to those individuals who are classified as Phase 1a, per guidance put out by the DOH," Pell said.
According to DOH protocol, vaccines in Phase 1a will be made available to high-risk workers, in health care settings, to highest risk first responders, and residents and staff in long-term care facilities. DOH estimates around 500,000 people in Washington will be eligible for the vaccine in phase 1a.
Pell said DGH is prepared to receive and store the Moderna vaccine because it doesn't require ultra-cold refrigeration.
The vaccine made by Pfizer needs to be stored at ultra-cold temperatures. Locations that do not have ultra-cold storage capacity can store the vaccine in the special thermal shipper the vaccine comes in.
"We are working on obtaining an ultra-cold freezer, at this time," said Pell. "This will ensure that we can keep both products refrigerated per manufacturer guidelines."
According to DOH, it will take a number of weeks for the state to receive sufficient vaccine for everyone eligible in Phase 1a. As additional doses are expected in January, other priority groups can be targeted.
In this first phase of vaccination distribution, DOH will only be sharing the names of counties receiving vaccine, and the number of doses each county will receive. As the program is expanded to future phases, DOH will share details about where vaccine is located and let communities know how and where to get it.
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Bingley Five Rise Locks01274 433678work Industrial HeritageBingley Five Rise Lock staircase, the steepest lock staircase in Britain, is the most spectacular feature of the Leeds and Liverpool canal. It is situated about half a mile north of Bingley Railway Station, about 17 miles north west of Leeds and 12 miles south east of Skipton.
The locks open directly from one to another, with the top gate of one forming the bottom gate for the next.
The Bingley Five Rise Lock was opened in 1774 and has a total fall of 60 feet. The locks are a Grade 1 listed structure and have been awarded a Red Wheel plaque by the Transport Trust.
Beck LaneBingleyWest YorkshireBD16 4DSUnited Kingdom53.856531600000-1.837838900000http://www.canalrivertrust.org.uk
Bingley Five Rise Locks
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Bingley Five Rise Lock staircase, the steepest lock staircase in Britain, is the most spectacular feature of the Leeds and Liverpool canal. It is situated about half a mile north of Bingley Railway Station, about 17 miles north west of Leeds and 12 miles south east of Skipton.
Amenites are all to be found in the cafe which is situated at the top of the locks.
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Nearest train station: Bingley Railway Station
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Shock as Catterick Garrison veteran recovery centre closes
A CHARITY which is vital in the rehabilitation of wounded and sick soldiers and veterans has announced its recovery centres will close.
Help for Heroes has today announced a major restructure in order to protect its recovery services from the devastating financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The closure of the recovery centres will result in 142 job losses, including a number at Phoenix House in Catterick Garrison.
Over recent months the military charity, which relies on public donations for 97 per cent of income, has suffered hugely from a loss of income with all planned face-to-face fundraising events and activities since April either cancelled or postponed.
The charity, which provides recovery support to the wounded, injured and sick Armed Forces community, anticipates a 30 per cent reduction in regular income over the coming years with the ongoing economic recession.
This financial hit, coupled with a significant surge in demand for its recovery services during the height of the pandemic, meant the charity felt it had no choice but to review its service delivery and put 142 staff roles are at risk.
The charity will continue to focus on face to face community and digital services and will not be operating out of Phoenix House Recovery Centre in Catterick Garrison for the foreseeable future.
The charity believes moving towards a more community and digital-focused approach to delivering support will mean the charity can most effectively reach the wounded veterans and families that need support, regardless of their location, in a more cost-effective way.
Veteran on the Parachute Regiment, Jimmy Holborn, from Sunderland, has experienced the power of Phoenix House first hand, after recovered from the physical and mental effects of two parachuting accidents and serving in Iraq.
He said: “The thing that worries me most is the veterans. I benefitted massively from going into Phoenix House and I know so many others that do too.
“As well as the big events you can get involved in, like the Warrior Games, the most important part of what the centre offered was the sense of community.
“You could go to the centre from Monday to Friday and sit next to other veterans and talk about anything and everything. You feel normal in the company of other veterans – for a veteran, that is the only time you do feel normal.
“For respite it was like an amazing hotel; for courses it had the best classrooms; and the mental health facilities were all behind closed doors so you felt safe in your therapy sessions to say what you needed to say.
“You can also feel very tired and upset after a session, so it was good to be able to have a cup of tea and chat with someone else before you went home.
“At one point, I would never have been able to speak on the phone for my therapy, so I do worry about veterans currently needing the service.”
Mr Holborn is organising his own version of the Highland Games for veterans, for information search Wounded Highlanders on Facebook or Instagram.
Melanie Waters, CEO, said the decision was extremely tough but the charity had a responsibility to ensure that the lifelong support promised to the men and women who suffered life-changing injuries or illnesses as a result of their service could continue against the backdrop of the pandemic.
She said: “In 2007, we made a promise on behalf of the nation to provide lifetime support to wounded veterans, and their families, and we are striving to keep that promise.“The crisis has had a devastating impact on the whole UK charity sector, with lasting consequences, and it has hit us hard.We expect these changes to have a positive impact on our ability to protect our services and support for the long term, which is incredibly important.We are not stopping any services but will be providing the same first-class recovery services in a more cost-effective way.”
“The continued Covid-19 restrictions mean that wounded veterans have a greater need for support to be available closer to home, in their communities and online.
“We remain absolutely committed to our wounded and their families and will continue fighting for, and changing the lives of, those we support for as long as they need it.”
Help for Heroes was quick to adapt its support in March, despite having to furlough nearly 40 per cent of its staff for up to seven months, and has continued to deliver virtual and remote support through its fellowship, welfare, clinical, grants and psychological wellbeing services ever since.The charity is working closely with MoD to ensure that all centres continue to provide core recovery activities for wounded, injured or sick service personnel during lockdown and beyond.
Veteran and Help for Heroes Ambassador Rob Shenton added: “Help for Heroes Recovery Centres are based in military communities, but the veteran community is spread much wider than those centres.
“These changes will mean the charity can have a deeper reach to where veterans need the most help. Help for Heroes are my fourth emergency service in some respects. They started providing support when most thought it was not needed and the systems couldn’t cope. The truth was it was so desperately needed and still is to this day and beyond. These changes will help the charity continue to provide that support to veterans like me in the future.”
Former editor of The Northern Echo, Peter Barron, spearheaded a campaign to raise £100,000 for the recovery centre, originally designed to fund a performing arts centre for veterans.
He said: “It was a privilege to host events at Phoenix House, including the fashion show which was an amazing showcase, not just of the facility but also the spirit of the people there.
Demand for support rose significantly during lockdown with a 33 per cent increase in new people coming forward for support with their mental health in May and June 2020 compared to the same period last year, as well as nearly 30 per cent more new referrals into the charity’s physical health focused service.
To donate and give much needed support helpforheroes.org.uk/donate-online.
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THE Government said a further 1,280 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Friday, bringing the UK total to 87,295. The Northern Echo | Teesside …
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A GROUP of MPs have called upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ensure the North is given the support it needs to recover from hardship exacerbated by lockdown – including a call to move government departments to the region. The Northern Echo | Teesside …
Covid: Darlington, Durham and Teesside’s most searched homeschooling questions compared
MATHS questions dominate searches by parents home schooling in Darlington, Durham and Middlesbrough, with Sunderland parents unsure what a normal heart rate is. The Northern Echo | Teesside …
Local councillor criticised after it’s discovered he’s been living in France
A MIDDLESBROUGH councillor who is living in France has received backing after a councillor lodged a complaint about him living abroad. The Northern Echo | Teesside …
Ruby, 11, has tumour removed during Covid pandemic, saving her life
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THE Government said a further 1,280 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Friday, bringing the UK total to 87,295.
Cannabis using motorist is jailed after being caught twice in a month
A MOTORIST has been jailed for failing to give police a blood specimen for analysis when he was caught driving after taking drugs.
Teesside hospital trust preparing to treat DOUBLE number of covid patients
A STRETCHED hospital trust is preparing to treat double the number of covid patients it cared for during the first wave last year.
Taskforce says blast furnace on Redcar's former SSI site should be dismantled
The Teeswork Heritage Taskforce has been looking at how to preserve Teesside’s history of iron and steelmaking
£20,000, laptops and SIM cards: How North-East tech stepped up to help kids during Covid
SCORES of businesses have responded to the needs of vulnerable children forced to learn from home after the latest round of Covid restrictions saw schools shift to remote teaching.
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‘Carlos Tevez Will Not Go On Strike’ – Puppet Master Kia Joorabchian
By Chris Wright
Despite not getting his way after submitting a written transfer request over the weekend, Manchester City’s homesick wastrel Carlos Tevez will not be going on strike to force an early Eastlands exit, according to his ‘advisor’ (read: ‘nefarious puppet-master’) Kia Joorabchian.
In a lengthy interview with the Daily Telegraph, Joorabchian stood his ground over Tevez’s attempted coup:
“I want to be clear that Carlos has never said he is not going to play or train or be professional. So those rumours are rubbish. He will play if picked and 100% do his best. He always gives 100%.
“It’s been said City will sue for a breach of his contract but on what grounds? All he’s done is simply request a transfer. No-one is saying if Carlos leaves he should go for free. Everyone knows City have to be compensated.”
Joorabchian also admitted that he sympathises the City supporters’ ire:
“Of course we understand the fans aren’t happy. Carlos is a big player, a very important one and they will be surprised by what’s happened. They probably weren’t aware of Carlos’ feelings for the last six months and will be confused.
“Anyone who has met Carlos and got to know him realises he is no-one’s puppet. Every big decision is made by him.”
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Pep Guardiola extends Man City contract until 2023
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Warmbier’s parents speak about son’s captivity in North Korea in first sit-down interview
by: Kelley King
CINCINNATI (AP) — The parents of a young Ohioan who was detained in North Korea for more than a year and died soon after being released said Tuesday he was “jerking violently,” howling, and “staring blankly” when he returned home on a medical flight.
Fred and Cindy Warmbier appeared on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” morning TV show amid an escalating war of words between the Trump administration and North Korea. A North Korean official has claimed President Donald Trump has, in effect, declared war, which the White House denied.
“North Korea is not a victim. They’re terrorists,” he said. “They kidnapped Otto. They tortured him. They intentionally injured him. They are not victims.”
The parents described
the condition his family found him in when they went aboard an air ambulance that arrived June 13 in Cincinnati. They said Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student, was howling, making an “involuntary, inhuman sound,” ″staring blankly into space jerking violently,” and was blind and deaf with his head shaved. Fred Warmbier said his mouth “looked like someone had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged his bottom teeth.”
Fred Warmbier said Otto’s mother and sister ran off the plane at the initial sight of him.
“We weren’t prepared … no mother, no parent should ever have gone through what we went through,” Cindy Warmbier said. She said it was “inexcusable” that her son had been alone in captivity for so long with no one to comfort him. She said she “got it together” and stayed with him after his arrival.
President Trump tweeted about the family’s appearance, calling it “a great interview” and that: “Otto was tortured beyond belief by North Korea.”
Fred Warmbier also said Otto had a large scar on his right foot and a high fever.
He died less than a week after returning at University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Doctors there said he arrived in a state of “unresponsive wakefulness” and had suffered a “severe neurological injury” of uncertain cause.
North Korea has denied mistreating the youth, sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in March 2016 for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. He was arrested that January as he prepared to leave the country after visiting as a tourist.
by Lane Ball / Jan 16, 2021
SCIOTO COUNTY, OH (WOWK) - As more and more questions regarding the COVID-19 vaccines surface, Ohio residents will no longer have to worry about finding a location.
The pandemic has certainly not made life any easier, but the state of Ohio is making convenience a priority. As we move toward a new chapter of getting through these tough times, knowing where to get a vaccine is a hot subject.
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - With God's Grace leaders say they're serving more than 300 people in the Miami Valley since opening December 17th.
Families can sign up to shop at the store and get three meals a day for five days.
by Aliah Williamson / Jan 16, 2021
WESTERN OHIO (WDTN ) -January 1 marks a new year and a new opportunity to order your favorite girl scout cookies. Girl Scouts nationwide will start selling cookies, but with a pandemic, there will be some adjustments to the door-to-door sales and public cookie booths.
"The girls are really learning how to innovate their cookie business this year. Some of them are working on making business cards or having little door hangers," explained Katie Maskey, product sales manager for Girl Scouts of Western Ohio.
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HealthWatch: Managing Back to Work Stress During COVID
by: Connie Fellman
COLUMBUS, Ohio. (Ivanhoe Newswire)— When the World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic in March, many Americans sheltered in place, working remotely whenever possible. Since then, some have returned to the office, but many have not and as COVID cases continue to climb there is growing stress surrounding a return to the workplace.
Some of us may welcome a return to an in-person workspace after months of being at home. But what you left months ago is most likely not the routine you’ll be returning to.
K. Luan Phan, MD, a psychiatrist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center explained, “Now they’ve got to re-shift again. And it’s not going back to the normal workplace, it’s going back to a modified workplace.
Dr. Phan is an expert in behavioral health. He says uncertainty over a long period of time creates unhealthy levels of stress. He says to alleviate anxiety, employers should create a return to work plan that outlines safety precautions. Those may include daily temperature checks, keeping workspaces more than six feet apart, providing face coverings and meeting one-on-one instead of in groups. Dr. Phan also says the physical ways we used to show co-workers support are no longer appropriate.
Dr. Phan elaborated, “We shake hands, we give hugs, we give high fives and ultimately with a face mask on, we can’t express our emotions in a way that we typically would.”
Dr. Phan says workers will need to verbalize support for each other instead, as we reconnect in a new workplace environment.
Dr. Phan says right now, it’s important to not let your guard down. It’s normal to relax once you get into a familiar setting. Continue practicing good hand hygiene and keep hand sanitizer and wipes nearby. And don’t go to work if you don’t feel well.
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HealthWatch: Delirium or Dementia – Know the Difference
by Connie Fellman / Jan 15, 2021
ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- More than five million people in the U.S. are living with dementia. It affects attention, memory, and judgement. However, in the hospital dementia is commonly misdiagnosed as delirium. A mistake that can delay treatment to slow the progression of the disease. There are ways you can distinguish between dementia and delirium and get the help your loved one needs.
More than seven million hospitalized patients in the U.S. will experience some form of delirium every year. Forty-five percent of those patients will have persistent delirium at discharge and 26 percent will experience delirium three months after being in the hospital. When delirium lasts that long, could it be something else?
HealthWatch: Here Comes The Sun -The Link Between Vitamin D and COVID-19
ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Vitamin D is an important nutrient that helps your body absorb calcium. But studies show about 40 percent of Americans don’t get enough of the vitamin. And, new research is suggesting low vitamin D levels may affect a person’s chance of getting COVID-19 and recovering from it.
It’s known as the sunshine vitamin. Vitamin D helps keep your bones and immune system strong. Now, researchers are finding this vitamin may also be linked to COVID-19. “There appeared to be worse outcomes in COVID patients who have low vitamin D levels,” said Dr. Ivan Castro, MD, who practices Internal Medicine at Private Health MD.
HealthWatch: Superfoods to Supercharge Your New Year
ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Fifty-one percent of Americans made a new year’s resolution to eat healthier in 2020, but only eight percent of people actually stuck to their new year goals. Now for 2021, we have some superfoods to keep your diet supercharged for the new year.
Coconut oil, matcha, chia seeds, quinoa … the list of fad superfoods to come in and out of fashion over the last couple of years goes on and on.
Colder air arrives late next week
Packers heading back to NFC Championship game after win over Rams
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Slingmedia™ is a company that provides technology to manage audio and video playback systems. It is the leading firm in this genre, with its primary product marketed as the Slingbox®. The company itself is owned by Echostar Corporation™, which purchased it in 2007 for $380 million US Dollars (USD).
Slingboxes allow users to stream TV shows.
The Slingbox® was designed to meet the consumer need to access TV and media files from remote locations via an Internet connection. Blake and Jason Krikorian, who wanted to view the 2002 Major League Baseball season while traveling, are considered the original developers of this requirement. They created Slingmedia™ to address this need.
There has been widespread concern regarding the legal implications of Slingmedia™ products since they were first introduced. The technology effectively allows viewers to circumvent the location restrictions common to sporting and other events and view programming outside of the broadcasting area, with no time delay. To date, these concerns have not resulted in any legal action, and may have actually spread the product information into the popular media.
Slingmedia™ offers a range of products surrounding the single requirement but with additional features. The Slingbox® has a fairly simple design. The unit is inserted into the standard audio video system. Audio and video signal inputs connect directly to the unit from the media source, such as the satellite receiver or cable box.
The TV or amplifier cables are connected to the Slingbox®, so that the signal is effectively routed through the Slingbox®. A wireless card built in to the unit allows it to stream the video and audio signal it is receiving to the Internet. Each Slingbox® has a basic operating system and an Internet Protocol (IP) address. The user types in his IP address, user name and password from anywhere in the world with Internet access and views real time TV programs. The same access can also allow the user to view saved media files.
The functionality provided by Slingmedia™ products allows users the flexibility to watch their favorite TV shows or media from anywhere in the world, at their convenience. As Slingmedia™ becomes more familiar with its market, additional products and features are being developed. For example, the ability to access a central repository of media events at any time is a popular feature, which reduces the storage capacity requirements for the individual customer. The growth of Slingbox® and related products has been fueled by the growing movement in media and entertainment away from the standard TV model to Internet driven, consumer controlled media. Although the Internet has proven very popular, many entertainment firms are struggling to find a way to make it profitable.
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Detection of primary malignancy and metastases with FDG PET/CT in patients with cholangiocarcinomas: Lesion-based comparison with contrast enhanced CT
Youssef Elias, Aladin T Mariano, Yang Lu
Department of Radiology, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Yang Lu
Department of Radiology, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Science System, 1740 West Taylor Street, Chicago - 60612, Illinois
The current National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guidelines consider the role of 2-deoxy-2- 18 F-fluoro-d-glucose positron emission tomography/computer tomography (FDG PET/CT) in the evaluation of cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) as "uncertain," and have recommended contrast enhanced computed tomography (CECT) but not FDG PET/CT as a routine imaging test for CCA workup. We set out to compare the diagnostic performance of FDG PET/CT and CECT in patients with CCA. The retrospective study included patients with CCA who underwent FDG PET/CT and CECT within 2-month interval between 2011 and 2013 in our hospital. Lesion-based comparison was conducted. Final diagnoses were made based on the composite clinical and imaging data with minimal 6-month follow-up. A total of 18 patients with 28-paired tests were included. There is a total of 142 true malignant lesions as revealed by the 6-paired pre-treatment and 22-paired post-treatment tests. On a lesion-based analysis, the sensitivities, specificities, positive predictive values (PPVs), negative predictive values (NPVs), and accuracies of PET/CT and CECT for detection of CCA were 96.5%, 55.5%, 97.2%, 50.0%, 94.1% and 62.2%, 66.7%, 96.7%, 10.0%, 62.5%, respectively. FDG PET/CT detected more intrahepatic malignant and extrahepatic metastases; and had significant higher sensitivity, NPV, and accuracy than CECT, while similar in specificity and PPV. No true positive lesion detected on CECT that was missed on PET/CT, and none of the false negative lesions on PET/CT were detected on CECT. Six patients had paired pretreatment tests, and FDG PET/CT results changed planned management in three patients. Our data suggest that FDG PET/CT detect more primary and metastatic lesions and lead to considerable changes in treatment plan in comparison with CECT.
Keywords: Cholangiocarcinoma, contrast enhanced computed tomography, diagnostic performance, 2-deoxy-2- 18 F-fluoro-d-glucose positron emission tomography/computer tomography, lesion-based comparison
Elias Y, Mariano AT, Lu Y. Detection of primary malignancy and metastases with FDG PET/CT in patients with cholangiocarcinomas: Lesion-based comparison with contrast enhanced CT. World J Nucl Med 2016;15:161-6
Elias Y, Mariano AT, Lu Y. Detection of primary malignancy and metastases with FDG PET/CT in patients with cholangiocarcinomas: Lesion-based comparison with contrast enhanced CT. World J Nucl Med [serial online] 2016 [cited 2021 Jan 16];15:161-6. Available from: http://www.wjnm.org/text.asp?2016/15/3/161/167605
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is an aggressive malignant neoplasm that arises from the cancerous biliary duct epithelium. It accounts for 3% gastrointestinal malignancies. [1],[2],[3] There have been various classifications based on the pathologic and radiologic appearance of cholangiocarcinoma. Based on their location, cholangiocarcinoma can be classified into intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ECC), which include perihilar and distal bile duct cancers. According to the American Cancer Society, [4] about 2,000-3,000 people develop cholangiocarcinoma each year in the United States. Though extrahepatic is more common than ICC, the incidence of ICC has increased. [3] In the United States, the age-adjusted incidence of ICC has increased by 165% from 0.32/100,000 in 1975 to 1979 to 0.85/100,000 in 1995 to 1999. [5],[6] A 2002 analysis based on the mortality data from 22 countries in the World Health Organization databank, reported an increasing trend for mortality from ICC in most countries. [7]
Cholangiocarcinoma poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge as it is both rare and nonspecific in clinical presentation. And cholangiocarcinoma often remain symptomatically indolent until later stages. Treatment options dependent on tumor size and location, extent of bile duct involvement, invasion of adjacent critical vasculatures, and presence of distant metastases. To date, surgical resection continues to be the most effective treatment of CCA. Negative resection margins achieved with major hepatic and regional lymph nodes resections are associated with improved outcome. [1],[2],[3],[4] For patients with proximal CCA, which includes hilar and ICC, who underwent surgical resection with R0 margins (defined as absence of microscopic disease involvement in any resection margin) have a 5-year survival rate of 20-45%. [5],[6],[7],[8],[9] For patients with ECC who underwent resection with R0 margins, 5-year survival rates ranged 20-54%. [6],[10],[11],[12],[13] These relatively low 5-year survival rates further underscore the aggressive nature of cholangiocarcinoma and the importance of early detection and proper staging.
Imaging plays a role in accurate diagnosis, characterization, localization and staging of CCA, and assessment of tumor therapy response. An ideal imaging test for CCA should help in both detection and staging disease, thus helping in preparation for advanced surgical procedures and other nonsurgical treatment planning. Routine clinical workup in diagnosing CCA include contrast enhanced computed tomography (CECT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess the involvement of the liver, major vessels, and regional lymph nodes, to help determine tumor respectability. Other imaging modalities, including 2-deoxy-2- 18 F-fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computer tomography (FDG PET/CT), have been increasingly used in the clinical practice. Although the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) acknowledged that there have been emerging evidence for FDG PET/CT in diagnosing and staging of cholangiocarcinoma patients, it only recommend CECT or MRI, but not FDG PET/CT, in the routine clinical workup in the latest NCCN Guideline. [8]
The aim of this study is to compare the lesion-based efficacy and accuracy of FDG PET/CT and CECT in identifying primary cholangiocarcinoma lesions and distant metastatic lesions.
This institutional review board approved retrospective study included all patients with biopsy proven cholangiocarcinoma who underwent FDG PET/CT and CECT between January 2011 and December 2013 at our institution. The patients with gallbladder cancer were excluded from our study, whereas those who underwent FDG PET/CT and CECT within a the last 2 months were included. All patients had a follow-up for at least 6 months after imaging.
Imaging protocols
FDG PET/CT imaging
The FDG PET examinations were performed on a GE Discovery 690 FDG PET/CT scanner (GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI) using a standard protocol. Patients fasted at least 4 h before scanning and had a blood glucose level <200 mg/dL at the time of FDG injection. Dedicated PET/CT scans from the skull base to the upper thighs were obtained 60-90 min after intravenous (IV) injection of 0.37-0.481 MBq of FDG. CT parameters were as follows: 120 kV, 120 mAs, pitch 0.813, 16 × 1.5 mm collimation. The PET parameter: Was as follows 3 min bed/position.
CECT imaging
All scans were obtained by using a GE CT scanner (GE Healthcare, Wisconsin) with 16 or 64 detector rows. Patients were scanned in the supine position with acquisition parameters at 120 kVp and 250-500 mAs. A standard collimation of 16 × 0.75 mm was used, with a gantry rotation speed of 0.5 s and a pitch factor of 1.15. Patients received IV injection of 80 mL of Omnipaque-350 contrast at 3.5-4.5 mL/s via an IV access, followed by 40 mL saline flush. CT images in the portal venous phase were acquired 70 s post injection and 15 min for the delayed phase. Coronal and sagittal reformats were performed at 2.5-mm slice thickness from the original acquired data. Images were interpreted on a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) terminal.
Imaging evaluation
The acquired FDG PET/CT and CECT images of each patient were independently assessed on a dedicated AW PACS workstation (GE Healthcare, Wisconsin). Independent review results were compared with the original reports. A lesion was considered malignant by CECT if it demonstrated any combination of two or more of the following characteristics: The lesion was hypoattenuating, demonstrated enhancement on portal venous or delayed phase scans, caused distortion of normal anatomic architecture, caused obstruction or dilatation of the biliary tree, or was associated with adenopathy FDG. FDG PET/CT images were retrospectively analyzed using a combined qualitative and quantitative method: Focal FDG avid soft tissue and osseous lesions with obvious higher-than-liver background FDG avidity in at least two consecutive slices were determined as positive lesions, and the lesions' SUVmax were recorded. FDG avidity was correlated with corresponding CT abnormality. Distinction between postoperative changes and malignant lesions was based on clinical context, the length time interval after surgery, and follow-up imaging studies.
All charts were reviewed and at least 6 months of clinical follow-up were tracked to determine the presence or absence of cholangiocarcinoma. The lesion-based final diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma was determined by consensus of all imaging physicians using a composite of all clinical, pathological, and imaging information during the follow-up period. For each eligible patient, the positive lesions on CECT and FDG FDG PET/CT were scrutinized and counted.
Lesion-based analysis
To investigate how FDG PET/CT vies against CECT in identifying primary cholangiocarcinoma tumors and regional and distant metastasis, a lesion-based analysis was conducted. In this method, each paired CECT and FDG PET/CT study was independently analyzed and all lesions consistent with cholangiocarcinoma or metastasis were counted. A true positive lesion represented any primary cholangiocarcinoma tumor or metastatic lesion that met the imaging criteria at the follow-up examination and/or was confirmed by surgery or biopsy. A false positive lesion corresponded to a lesion that met the imaging criteria but subsequently proved to represent a nonneoplastic process either by tissue sampling or by resolution on subsequent imaging. True negative lesions were lesions that met the imaging criteria for cholangiocarcinoma but were predicted to be caused by another etiology, while false negative lesions were lesions missed by either FDG PET/CT or CECT and identified by the other modality and subsequently shown to represent cholangiocarcinoma or related metastasis.
Bayesian statistical analysis was performed to determine the overall sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and accuracy were calculated as the evaluation of diagnostic performance. Differences in assessment between PET-CT and CECT were tested for significance using MeNemar's test or Fisher's exact test. Statistical analyses were performed using Statistical Analysis System (SAS, North Carolina) software, version 9.2. A P value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
During the study period (January 2011-December 2013), a total of 18 patients diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma underwent FDG PET/CT and CECT within a 2-month interval. This cohort was comprised of 10 males and 8 females (56% and 44%, respectively) with a median age of 57 years (range 28-78 years). Fifteen of the eighteen patients underwent image guided biopsy at our institution that yielded a diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma, while the remaining three patients were diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma at an outside facility and were transferred to our institution for further management. Nine patients had ICC, another nine had ECC; out of these nine patients, three presented with perihilar (Klatskin tumor). Of the 18 total patients were included in our study, a total of 28 paired FDG PET/CT and CECT studies were obtained between January 2011 and December 2013. Among these 28 paired studies, 6 were prior to initiation of treatment, remaining 22 were after initiation of treatment. Five patients had two paired studies; one patient had three paired studies, one patient had four paired studies, for the remaining eleven patients, each had a single paired FDG PET/CT and CECT study. Treatment for these 18 patients included liver transplant, chemotherapy, radiation, endoscopic and percutaneous biliary stent placement, transarterial chemoembolization, and catheter directed Yttrium-90 radioembolization (Y-90 RE) treatment and a combination of these treatments. Posttreatment FDG PET/CT studies were performed for the purpose of restaging and follow-up.
Lesion-based analysis [Table 1] of the 28 paired studies yielded 138 true positive, 4 false positive, 5 true negative, and 5 false negative lesions identified by FDT PET/CT. For CECT, 89 true positive, 3 false positive, 6 true negative, and 54 false negative lesions were identified. FDG PET/CT identified a total of 50 hypermetabolic lesions that were undetected by CECT. Of these 50 lesions, 31 were intrahepatic lesions [Figure 1] and [Figure 2], 1/31 was deemed as false positive lesion from focal hypermetabolic activity related to inflammation after the biliary catheter placement; 10 were regional and distant lymph nodes but 3/10 were deemed as inflammatory change; and 9 osseous metastasis [Figure 3]. There were three low attenuation liver lesions on posttreatment CECT was not detected on PET/CT, and were deemed as posttreatment necrosis based on the follow-up images. There were five lesions not detected by FDG PET/CT (false negative lesions) that proved to be metastatic lesions. None of these five lesions were detected on CECT. Three of these were non-FDG-avid mesenteric subcentimeter to borderline sized lymph nodes that were shown to be positive for metastasis after surgical resection. The other two lesions were subcentimeter osseous metastasis in vertebral bodies that were indistinct due to background FDG-uptake within the bone marrow, and missed on CT component of PET/CT and CEACT. Upon retrospective analyses, these two sclerotic lesions slightly progressed on both CECT and CT component of PET/CT, but didn't show any higher-than-background FDG avidity. The two lesions were retrospectively deemed as bone metastases, with resolution beyond PET resolution. Taken altogether, none of the true positive lesions identified on CECT was missed on FDG PET/CT, and none of the false negative lesions on FDG PET/CT were detected on CECT.
Figure 1: FDG PET/CT detected more intrahepatic lesions than CECT (a) CECT only detected one conglomerate mass in the left lobe liver (arrow), (b-d) FDG PET/CT (B: CT, C: PET, D: Fused PET/CT) detected the same left lobe lesion (short arrows) and more lesions within the right lobe liver (long arrows)
Figure 2: Patient with early recurrent cholangiocarcinoma detected on FDG PET/CT but not on contrast enhanced CT(CECT) (a) Follow-up CECT performed 3-months after the Y-90 radioembolization (Y90-RE) showed low attenuation, central necrotic left lobe lesions in the region of Y-90 RE, deemed as post-treatment change, (b-d) PET/CT (B: CT; C: PET; D: Fused PET/CT) obtained within 1 week after CECT detected a small focal FDG avid lesion at the peripheral edge of Y-90 RE (arrows), suggestive of early recurrence and was confirmed on follow-up images
Figure 3: Patient with metastatic cholangiocarcinoma detected on FDG PET/CT but not on contrast enhanced CT (CECT) (a) PET/CT MIP image showed multiple hypermetabolic intrahepatic foci and several bone metastases (arrows) (b) CECT only detected the conglomerate right lobe primary lesion in the liver (arrow) (c-e) PET/CT (C: CT; D: PET; E: Fused PET/CT) detected both the primary right lobe lesion (long arrows), and 3 additional small intrahepatic malignant lesions (short arrows). Furthermore, CECT (F, J) failed to detect the bone metastases in the sacrum (F) and left acetabulum (J); while PET/CT (G,K: CT; H,L: PET; I,M: Fused PET/CT) clearly demonstrated the FDG-avid bone metastases (arrows)
Table 1: 2×2 Tables of the lesion-based analysis of imaging modalities
Of the six patients from the pretreatment CECT and FDG PET/CT studies, three had a change in management plan based on the results of the FDG PET/CT. All the three patients had CECT before FDG PET/CT, one with Klatskin tumor, the other two with ICC. Based on CECT findings, these three patients were initially planned to have either transplantation (for the two patients with ICC), or adjuvant chemoradiation postsurgical resection (for the patient with Klatskin tumor). As FDG PET/CT identified more intrahepatic malignant lesions [Figure 1], and lymph node and osseous metastases [Figure 3], these patients became nonsurgical candidates and received chemotherapy trial instead.
In terms of lesion-based diagnostic performance [Table 2], FDG PET/CT has significantly higher sensitivity of 96.5% (138/143) compared to that of CECT (62.2%) (89/92) (P < 0.0001). Although CECT had greater specificity of 66.7% (6/9) as compared to 55.5% (5/9) for FDG PET/CT, there is no statistical significant difference between the two modalities. The PPV for FDG PET/CT and CECT were very similar (97.2% and 96.7%, respectively). The NPV and accuracy of FDG PET/CT and CECT were 50.0% and 94.1%, versus 10.0% and 62.5%, respectively. The FDG PET/CT had significant higher NPV and accuracy over CT, with P < 0.01 [Table 2].
Table 2: Diagnostic performance of the imaging modalities
For patients with CCA, accurate identification of all primary and metastatic lesions is critical for optimal clinical management, such as candidacy for liver transplantation based on the Mayo Clinic protocol, [14],[15],[16] comprehensive resection of the disease, [5],[17],[18] and adjuvant chemo- and radiotherapy to regional metastases. Imaging plays an important role in the accurate detection and characterization the tumor extent, assessment of tumor resectability, and evaluation of treatment response.
Though not intensively published, data have been accumulating showing that FDG PET/CT has similar accuracy as CECT in diagnosing primary tumor in patients with cholangiocarcinoma, and may be advantageous in detecting regional lymph node and distant metastases, thus aiding in the multidisciplinary management of cholangiocarcinomas. [9],[10],[11],[12],[13] However, the latest NCCN guidelines still think "the role of PET imaging has not been established in the evaluation of patients with cholangiocarcinoma." [19] As NCCN Guidelines are widely recognized and used as the standard for clinical policy in oncology by clinicians and insurance payers, we set to add the database of FDG PET/CT in evaluation of CCA, through summarizing our institutional experience in a lesion-based comparison between FDG PET/CT and NCCN-recommended CECT.
In this restrospective study, we compared the lesion-based efficacy and accuracy of CECT and FDG PET/CT in staging and follow-up of patients with CCA. For the 18 consecutive patients with biopsy proven cholangiocarcinoma included in our study, we found that FDG PET/CT detected more disease than CECT, which directly affected the management of three out of six patients who had pretreatment FDG PET/CT. In comparison to CECT, FDG PET/CT identified more intrahepatic, lymph node and distant metastatic lesions [Figure 1] and [Figure 3]. There were no positive lesions detected on CECT that were missed on FDG PET/CT, and none of the false negative lesions on FDG PET/CT was detected on CECT.
Several studies have shown the effectiveness of FDG PET and PET/CT in confirming the diagnosis and staging CCA, particularly for detecting regional lymph node and distant metastases in patients with CCA compared to CECT and MRI. [18],[19],[20],[21],[22],[23],[24] In a patient-based comparison study, Petrowsky et al. [25] reported that FDG PET/CT and CECT provided a comparable accuracy for the primary ICC (N = 14) and ECC (N = 33). All distant metastases (12/12) were detected by PET/CT, but only 3/12 by CECT (P < 0.001). FDG PET/CT findings resulted in a change of management in 17% of patients deemed resectable after CECT workup. Slightly different to their report, our lesion-based comparison study indicates that FDG PET-CT showed no significant difference in specificity and PPV compared to CECT for diagnosing malignant lesions. However, FDG PET-CT revealed significantly higher sensitivity, NPV and accuracy over CECT in determining the extent of malignant disease. Thus, FDG PET/CT has an overall significant better diagnostic performance than CECT in our patient cohort with cholangiocarcinoma. In our study, 12 out of the 18 patients underwent treatment prior to being evaluated with FDG PET/CT, which correlates with a more advanced disease status. It is possible that our patient population, as a cohort, had a greater tumor burden than that evaluated by Petrowsky et al. Our data also suggested that, as shown in [Figure 2], FDG PET/CT is advantageous in detecting early recurrence/metastasis in posttreatment patients.
As FDG PET/CT could detect occult metastasis and characterize indeterminate lesions, [26] it can have a major influence on clinical decision-making, usually resulting in changing of management plan in 10-30% of the patients. [17],[21],[22],[25],[27] Although our study is limited by the small number of patients with FDG PET/CT prior to treatment, our data indicate that FDG PET/CT directly influenced management decisions in three out of six patients who were evaluated prior to initiation of treatment. In all three of these patients, distant regional and distant metastasis were identified by FDG PET/CT that were not detected by CECT.
Our study adds to the growing body of data supporting the advantageous utility of FDG PET/CT in pretreatment planning and staging, as well as in restaging and detecting subtle, occult recurrent and metastatic lesions, in patients with CCA.
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Kim JY, Kim MH, Lee TY, Hwang CY, Kim JS, Yun SC, et al. Clinical role of 18F-FDG PET-CT in suspected and potentially operable cholangiocarcinoma: A prospective study compared with conventional imaging. Am J Gastroenterol 2008;103:1145-51.
Lee SW, Kim HJ, Park JH, Park DI, Cho YK, Sohn CI, et al. Clinical usefulness of 18F-FDG PET-CT for patients with gallbladder cancer and cholangiocarcinoma. J Gastroenterol 2010;45:560-6.
Moon CM, Bang S, Chung JB, Park SW, Song SY, Yun M, et al. Usefulness of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in differential diagnosis and staging of cholangiocarcinomas. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2008;23:759-65.
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Piping hot pizza delivered to your door is usually a good thing, but not if you didn’t order it. (Black Press file photo)
Lower Mainland woman tries to unravel mystery of unwanted food deliveries
Someone with an unknown phone number has been sending orders to Amber Gibbons’ home for weeks
Eric Welsh
Sep. 16, 2020 12:45 p.m.
Normally, getting a piping-hot pizza from a local restaurant delivered to your door is a good thing, but not if you didn’t order it and don’t want to pay for it.
That’s what Chilliwack’s Amber Gibbons has been dealing with over the last month as a parade of unwanted food orders have shown up at her house.
The orders are all made from a 778 phone number that she doesn’t recognize, and this person has sent just about every restaurant in town to her address.
It started a month ago.
While Gibbons and her husband were at work, two restaurants tried to deliver food. Gibbons was home a couple nights later when a pizza showed up. Three minutes after that person left, another delivery arrived.
“I heard a knock on my door and thought it was the same guy, so I went all the way downstairs and sure enough it was a different guy, from Dominos,” Gibbons recalled. “And I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’”
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Gibbons asked the Dominos person for the phone number attached to the order, and bingo, it was the same mysterious 778 number she’d discovered on a previous order.
“I looked in my phone. I looked in my son’s phone. Nobody knows this phone number,” she said.
Gibbons started dialing Chilliwack restaurants, asking them to not take orders from that number.
“And while I was on the phone with Jim’s Pizzeria, that phone number called in to make a $70 order to my address,” Gibbons said.
All of the orders have been in the $70 to $100 range and on one busy night there were four delivery people from four different restaurants knocking on her door.
“I was trying to wrack my brain to figure out which restaurants hadn’t come here yet,” she said. “One of them was Demetre’s Pizza, and sure enough, just a couple days ago Demetre’s showed up at the door.
“Whoever it is is smart enough to not order from Skip the Dishes or something where you have to pay ahead of time. They are literally ordering from every restaurant in Chilliwack where you can pay at the door.
It got to the point where Gibbons phoned the RCMP.
‘They said, ‘I know it’s a pain in the ass for you, but you’re not really the victim here,” Gibbons said. “It’s the restaurants that are losing the money, and if they want to call in a complaint, they can.”
A couple restaurants told Gibbons they will do exactly that, and she is wondering if anyone else has experienced the same problem.
“Honest to God, I don’t have enemies, so I don’t know why this is happening,” she said. “I thought about putting the phone number on Facebook because he may be ordering food to other addresses. But I have no idea.”
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How To Claim Back Your Brand On Twitter
Safeguarding intellectual property on social media is a concern shared by many brands and individuals. Impersonations and trademark violations are rather commonplace in the digital world, especially for celebrities and popular consumer brands.
Even if you are a small to mid-sized business who has just ventured into social media marketing, you should check to make sure that your brand has not already been claimed or misused by a third party. Worst case scenario, if you do find someone impersonating you or your brand or using your trademark logo, graphics or text, you can report it to the concerned social media network.
For example, in 2015 we searched the 'The Apollo' on Google which appeared as the first search result for the brand name.
Whereas in Twitter, the brand name is claimed both as a Twitter handle and a Twitter profile name by a third-party unrelated to the brand, as shown below:
This means that if someone who has been to the restaurant tweets to the brand using the handle @theapollo or if someone searches for the profile name The Apollo on Twitter, they will be led to a different profile altogether. Thus, the brand may miss out on all the tweets addressed to them.
In this post, we'll discuss steps to take when your brand is impersonated or your trademark is used illegally on Twitter. Twitter is one of the largest social media networks and has many top brands that engage with their customers on a regular basis, and they have strict policies against any profile found to violate their intellectual property publicly.
Why Should You Claim Your Brand On Twitter?
There are no restrictions on users, fans or even those who want to create a negative reputation for your brand on any social media platform, including Twitter. Action will be taken against the violation of using your trademark, brand name, logos or images, but only if you report them. Most businesses often ignore these fake profiles or misleading account names that bear resemblance to their trademark. Here are a few reasons why you should regularly check for misuse of your trademark on Twitter and why you should do something about it.
As you see in the image above, the brand name Search Engine Land has been used on three occasions. This is bad news for your brand for the following reasons:
Novice users could get confused about which is the original brand page and might end up following the fake ones.
Not all users of Twitter know that the blue verified badge next to a Twitter account handle is an indication of a verified Twitter account.
You could be losing followers to fake accounts.
Furthermore, if people use your brand name in mentions by using @brand, but you are actually '@brand101' then you could also miss vital engagement with your followers.
Duplicate or fake profiles can give out the wrong message to your brand. They may even create a negative social media reputation for your brand.
If you don't want to be one of those brands that lose a few valuable customers in the digital noise because of lack of investigation of your duplicate and misleading social media presences, we suggest you take some concrete steps towards claiming back your brand.
Claim Back Your Trademark On Twitter
If you are a brand based in the U.S and you have registered your trademark at the US Patent and Trademark Office or have any other patent for your brand, you can claim it in case it is being misused by unauthorized individuals or groups.
Twitter Trademark Violation Criteria
Twitter defines trademark violations in the following ways:
When your trademark in the form of business name, logo or other trademark-protected materials is used in tweets to mislead people. In this case, the action taken by Twitter would be to suspend the account and inform the account holder.
When an account is using your trademark materials and confusing users unintentionally. In this case, the action taken by Twitter would be to inform the faulty account holder to clear up any confusion. Twitter may also provide you with a new username with your trademark.
If your trademark is faultily used on Twitter's promoted tweets in the form of text, links, images, other embedded media, background, profile photo, profile header, bio and website that misleads users without any affiliation with your business or brand.
Criteria Not Taken Into Consideration In Twitter Trademark Violation
And it excludes the following actions under trademark violations:
Using a trademark in a way that is completely unrelated to the associated brand's product or service is not a Twitter trademark violation. So, for instance, if our Twitter handle is @woorank and someone else uses @_woorank for completely different set of tweets unrelated to our brand, it is not a violation. When it comes to usernames, Twitter offers them on a first-come first-served basis and will take no action it is claimed at a later stage (unless of course the content delivered misleads your customers or followers).
Some business trademark may be search keywords. Say for example, your brand is called 'HairCare' and someone else happens to use the same keyword in their Twitter ads that is relevant to their content, it is not a violation of your brand.
Filing a Trademark Violation Report
To report a violation you don't need to have an account on Twitter; you just need to be an owner of a registered trademark. If the violation you want to report fits in the criteria described above, you need to provide Twitter with the following information:
The trademark word or image being violated, that includes trademark registration number and registration office.
A link to the trademark record or to the registration office website.
Your company email address.
If you represent the trademark owner, you have to provide documents of authority to act on the trademark owner's behalf.
To report the violation all you need to do is go to Twitter support forum for reporting a trademark issue and fill a form that requires all the information listed above.
Taking Over An Inactive Account
Twitter will act on a case of impersonation only if the account in question is using your brand logo, name or images and misleading the users. This is how Twitter defines impersonation. Take a look at Twitter's Impersonation Policy.
What if an account has taken your brand's username but has no updates and no tweets? It has clearly been inactive, hence it is not misleading users intentionally. Although it may be a case of username squatting, getting Twitter to take an action on such an account may not be as easy as it is for Trademark infringement accounts (discussed above).
Inactivity can be based on a combination of tweeting, logging in and the date an account was created, according to Twitter's inactive account policy.
So, even if your impersonator (the owner of your trademark username) logs in rarely to the account, the account may not be considered inactive. That means if they aren't misleading your users, you may have to settle for an alternative username that either contains an abbreviation, an underscore or numbers to the existing account name.
Twitter has given the provision to report an account for impersonation, but you cannot just complete the form on the page and expect to claim the inactive account. Let's give you a few quick steps to take over an inactive account using your brand as username.
Step 1: Required Proof Of Impersonation
To report an account for impersonation, you need to gather enough proof for your claim. So, whether it is a description used on your website or a behavior unique to your brand being impersonated, take screenshots or links to claim the impersonation.
You can also show any images from your website or content that is being used by the account in concern. And if there are any past tweets in the account before it went inactive, that has been a reason to mislead your brand followers, you can collect that proof too.
Step 2: Proof That Authenticates The Brand Name To You
You need to have a website and an email with your brand name that proves that the username you are reporting is indeed your brand. So, if for instance, you want to claim an inactive account on Twitter with the username @woorank, you need to have a website called woorank.com and an email such as yourname@woorank.com.
NOTE: If you are not the brand owner and you are claiming the brand on behalf of the owner you will have to reproduce necessary documentary evidence that you have the authority to claim the brand.
Shown below is the slot on the Twitter's report an account for impersonation form that asks for the company e-mail address.
Step 3: Create A Dummy Account
The report for impersonation form asks for a existing Company Twitter username, if applicable.
If you do not have an alternative username already it is recommended that you create a dummy account with a username that may contain a number or an underscore or some additional text. If Twitter does transfer your branded username on the inactive account to you, it becomes easier when you have an existing account to merge it over.
Step 4: Report The Impersonation With Twitter
Complete the report for impersonation on Twitter by initially choosing the option 'I am being impersonated', as shown below:
Fill the form with relevant information and make sure to give as much information as you can.
Step 5: Wait For Twitter Team To Follow Up
As soon as you submit the form you will receive an auto-response email from Twitter on your official branded email. You must then wait for a little while to get the email from a human representative on the Twitter Trust and Safety Team. Based on the claim, the action taken will be duly notified via email.
Have you experienced duplicate or misuse of your brand name on Twitter? What steps have you taken to claim back your brand?
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Cruise news / What A View: Our top five sailaway ports
What A View: Our top five sailaway ports
There’s no greater feeling than sailing into a new port for the first time – and these five stand out as the best sailaway ports cruising has to offer
I have, quite literally, cruised around the world and although I’ve not visited every cruise port, I’ve certainly called on my fair share.
Some are better than others, but there are a small few that stick in my mind as being a little extra special.
These are ports that not only offer incredible excursions ashore, but some of the most impressive scenes for arrival and departure that you are ever likely to see – sometimes the view from the ship is the best view of them all.
Here are my top five sailaway ports:
I sailed in and out of Sydney for the first time earlier this year and it was unbelievable.
We see hundreds of images online of ships coming and going, and they are fabulous, but there’s nothing quite like seeing it for yourself.
The Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge offer the kind of photographic opportunities they invented the camera for.
Of course, the prime berth in Sydney is at Circular Quay where you’re right in the heart of it all, but if you are unlucky enough to be berthed in White Bay, don’t worry, you’ll certainly be the lucky one when your ship sails directly beneath the Harbour Bridge.
New Orleans, USA
NOLA is one of the most vibrant places on earth.
There’s never a dull moment here and the same can be said about arriving and departing.
This epic port tempts you at the mouth of the Mississippi and you’ll traverse this for several hours before civilisation once again comes into focus. Slowly but surely, houses will come into view, the occasional public building and water tank, and then, the city itself.
It’s a tempting view at any time of day but sailing away from New Orleans at night is something very special, especially during Mardi Gras.
I am sure anyone who has had the pleasure of sailing away from Venice will agree that it is one of the most breath-taking experiences you can ever have on a cruise.
The view across the city from the ships top decks is priceless and that final glimpse of such recognisable sites like the Bridge of Sighs and St Mark’s Basilica will be imprinted in your memory forever.
As the sun sets, you’ll wave goodbye and snap dozens of photographs because there’s always one more prime shot to add to the collection when you’re sailing away from Venice.
What makes this journey so special? The Stockholm Archipelago.
As the city skyline disappears into the distance, you’ll soon be admiring the natural beauty of the archipelago, which is made up of around 30,000 islands, rocks and islets, all the way from Oregrund in the north to Landsort in the south.
It is stunning and one of the biggest highlights of any Baltic cruise that calls to the city.
It takes several hours to sail the archipelago, so pull up a comfortable chair, order your favourite cocktail and enjoy watching the world go by.
New York. The city where dreams are made and one of the most impressive sailaway opportunities presents itself.
Although the sailaway is spectacular, it’s really the arrival that gets the heart racing, especially if you’ve embarked upon a tradition transatlantic crossing with Cunard.
Arriving during the early morning hours, the Statue of Liberty glows bright as she welcomes you to US shores.
Soon after, the Manhattan skyline comes into view and you know you have finally arrived.
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Action delayed on unemployment benefits
July 21, 2011 By Andrew Beckett
Democrats speak to reporters outisde the Senate (PHOTO: Ting-Li Wang)
The state Senate has adjourned its session until next week, leaving a bill that extends federal unemployment insurance benefits for another 13 weeks in legislative limbo. At issue is an amendment from the Assembly that restores a one-week delay in the start of benefits. The Senate had voted to repeal the delay in its version, which Democrats argue provides help for the newly unemployed at a time when it’s needed the most.
Senate Democratic Leader Mark Miller (D-Monona) on Thursday accused Republicans of playing political games with the unemployed and called on leadership to “step up” and help families with mortgages to pay and children to feed.
Republicans argue the delay could save the state up to $51 million a year and does not impact the overall long-term benefits the unemployed can receive. Miller says it takes money away from those who have just lost their jobs and still have bills to pay.
In a statement, Senate Republican Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) questioned whether Democrats would support the Assembly version of the bill if the Senate came in to take a vote. Miller would only say his members will have to “confront whatever comes before us.”
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State Department’s Visa Interview Waiver Two Year Pilot Program
Foreign national students in F-1, J or M status have some welcome news: On January 19, 2012, as part of President Obama's initiative to reduce wait times for visas for certain travelers, the State Department announced a new two year Nonimmigrant Visa Interview Waiver Pilot Program. At present, the DOS has confirmed only that F-1, J and M students have been added to the list of visa applicants for whom Consular Officers may waive the visa interview. As a result, such students who have received a previous visa may be able to renew their visas without an interview, thus avoiding uncertainty in wait times. In relevant part, they must meet the following eligibility requirements in order for a Consular Officer to consider waiting the interview requirement:
(a) the applicant was not previously refused a visa;
(b) the visa is in the same classification as previously granted;
(c) the visa being renewed expired over 12 months but less than 48 months of the expiration of the previous visa;
(d) the applicant does not otherwise require a Security Advisory Opinion; and
(e) there is no evidence that the applicant may have failed to comply with U.S. immigration laws in the past.
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Higgins gets ACC honor, Tigers await FSU time
by: Pete Yanity
Clemson’s Tee Higgins (5) dodges the tackle of North Carolina’s Chazz Surratt (21) to score the team’s final touchdown during the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)
(WSPA) – Clemson wide receiver Tee Higgins received the ACC Wide Receiver of the Week award Monday.
The award came following his six catches for 129 yards and the game-winning touchdown Saturday at North Carolina.
The Tigers have also learned that their next game on October 12 against Florida State will kick off at either 3:30pm or 7:30pm.
The final determination will be made by Sunday.
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Etienne officially declares for NFL Draft
CLEMSON, S.C. (WSPA) - Clemson's all-time leading rusher Travis Etienne officially declared for the NFL Draft on Friday.
In a post to social media, Etienne stated "As I take this next step of my journey, I hope to continue to show the younger generations that if you believe and dedicate yourself, you can achieve. Forever a Tiger."
Ross announces return to Clemson next season
by Pete Yanity / Jan 14, 2021
Wide receiver Justyn Ross announced via Twitter Thursday night that he'll return to Clemson next season instead of going pro.
Ross, who missed his junior campaign this past fall due to a spinal injury that required surgery, had the option to jump to the NFL, where he's potentially a first round draft choice.
Clemson HOF golf coach Larry Penley to retire after ’21 season
by Clemson Athletics, WSPA Staff / Jan 14, 2021
CLEMSON, S.C. (Clemson Athletics/WSPA) - Clemson Hall of Fame Men’s Golf Coach Larry Penley announced Thursday that he will retire at the conclusion of the 2021 spring season.
Penley has been the head coach of the Tigers since the 1983-84 academic year, with this year marking his 38th leading the program, the longest tenure by a Clemson head coach in any sport.
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Shirakiopsis elliptica (Hochst.) Esser
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John Ball's cottage, Vumba
By roadside, Vumba road before the Essex road turnoff
Synonyms: Sapium ellipticum (Hochst. ex Krauss) Pax
Sapium mannianum (Müll. Arg.) Benth.
Common names: Jumping-seed tree (English) Mugarahwirite (Shona) Munyeredzi (Shona)
Small to medium-sized tree. Leaves elliptic, oblong or lanceolate, 4-14 cm, leathery, dark green above, paler below; margin toothed or scalloped; 2-4 glands present on the margin near the base. Petiole shallowly grooved on top. Flowers in terminal, catkin-like spikes, yellow. Fruit c. 10 × 7 mm, 1-2-lobed, crowned with the persistent styles, reddish-brown when ripe.
Notes: The status of the record from the Central Division is discussed in Note 1.
Derivation of specific name: elliptica: elliptic, oblong with rounded ends
Habitat: In and along the margins of evergreen forest.
Flowering time: Nov - Apr
Worldwide distribution: Throughout most of tropical Africa to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution: C,E
Growth form(s): Tree, shrub over 2 m.
Insects associated with this species: Sevenia boisduvali boisduvali (Food plant)
Images last updated: Monday 26 February 2007
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 149. as Sapium ellipticum (Includes a picture).
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 468. (Includes a picture).
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 49. As Sapium ellipticum
Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 20. As Sapium ellipticum
Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 253. As Sapium ellipticum
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 43. as Sapium ellipticum
Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 324 - 325. As Sapium ellipticum
Schmidt, E., Lötter, M. & McCleland, W. (2002). Trees and shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park Jacana, Johannesburg, South Africa Pages 294 - 295. as Sapium ellipticum (Includes a picture).
Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 25. As Sapium ellipticum
Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 89. as Sapium ellipticum
Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Dowsett-Lemaire, F., Congdon, C., Branch, B., Collins, S., Curran, M., Dowsett, R,J., Fishpool, L., Francisco, J., Harris, Kopp, M. & de Sousa, C. (2012). Mt Mabu, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London Page 73.
Other sources of information about Shirakiopsis elliptica:
Flora of Malawi: Shirakiopsis elliptica
Flora of Mozambique: Shirakiopsis elliptica
Flora of Zambia: Shirakiopsis elliptica
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Shirakiopsis elliptica
African Plant Database: Shirakiopsis elliptica
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Shirakiopsis elliptica
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Shirakiopsis elliptica
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Shirakiopsis elliptica
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Shirakiopsis elliptica
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Shirakiopsis elliptica
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network): Shirakiopsis elliptica
iNaturalist: Shirakiopsis elliptica
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Shirakiopsis elliptica
JSTOR Plant Science: Shirakiopsis elliptica
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Shirakiopsis elliptica
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Shirakiopsis elliptica
Plants of the World Online: Shirakiopsis elliptica
Tropicos: Shirakiopsis elliptica
Wikipedia: Shirakiopsis elliptica
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2021). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Shirakiopsis elliptica.
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Tense times at America’s Cup
The weather adds to the pressure. Matthew Sheahan reports
An approaching cold front, weak though it was, provided enough high cloud cover to prevent the sea breeze developing sufficiently. At just past 4pm the race committee pulled the pin and postponed racing for the day.
The decision was surely a relief to the crews who had been watching the wind speed and direction fluctuate wildly since arriving on the race course. As blue patches of sky opened up the land would heat and draw in air off the sea, the beginning of a sea breeze. But the blue sky never opened up enough to build a decent stable sea breeze. The last thing either team needed was a lottery on what could have been the last day of the America’s Cup.
Had the weather played ball, today could have been the biggest and most dramatic day of the 32nd America’s Cup, there was certainly plenty of tension and excitement around the harbour as thousands of people lined the canal out to the race course area to see whether Alinghi could nail just one more win, or whether the Kiwis could get their Cup hopes back on track by outsmarting their opponents.
“We went out expecting to race and looking forward to racing but we were happy with the decision because we didn’t want to race in very variable conditions and now we are just going to get ready for Tuesday,” said Grant Simmer, Design Team coordinator of Alinghi, who had had to sit out some quiet weather aboard Australia II in 1983.
“In ’83 we had to wait quite a lot in quite light conditions and we had to win 3 straight as well which was a difficult position for us. But its not a big deal to wait a couple of days – we have been getting ready for this for three or four days for this so we can wait a day.”
Emirates Team New Zealand tactician Ray Davies felt similar.
“I think the race committee made the right decision today. It looked pretty good when we first went out there but the breeze really fell apart as we led up to the start,” he said.
So tight has the racing been so far, that either scenario was possible in what is surely the most exciting America’s Cup since 1983.
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Tomorrow is an off day with racing due to resume on Tuesday which, at present looks to be a good solid sea breeze day with 14-16 knots on the forecasts.
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Home Ousmane Dembele keen on Premier League move
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Ousmane Dembele could push for a move away from Barcelona in the January transfer window, according to the latest reports from Spain
Brought in from Borussia Dortmund in 2017 for £112m plus add-ons, the pacey winger has never managed to live up to expectations at the Camp Nou.
Often criticized for his unprofessional behavior of the pitch, the 22-year-old has struggled to establish himself as a regular under Ernesto Valverde.
Dembele had to deal with the fact the club wanted to insert him in a deal to bring Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar back in the summer, although the whole operation collapsed eventually.
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Also, after the arrival of Antoine Griezmann, the France international has seen his first-team opportunities quite limited, and a potential winter departure seems to be on the cards.
As reported by the Spanish outlet, El Desmarque, Dembele is tempted by the prospect of playing in the Premier League, with Manchester City looking to lure him away from La Liga.
Pep Guardiola is a known admirer of the former Rennes man, and Leroy Sane sidelined by an injury, the Spaniard is ready to accelerate his interest in January.
Although Dembele registered just two league starts this term, Barcelona will reportedly ask for at least £86m to release him.
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It’s entirely possible to attempt to demand civil rights through identity politics. We can make these distinctions between oppressor and oppressed and use this as a basis to demand concessions from privileged groups. But this is not the only way to pursue a civil rights agenda.
We used to talk about civil rights in an entirely different way, from the perspective of citizenship. When we criticized racism, we criticized it on the grounds that it denied citizens rights and opportunities to which they ought to be entitled as citizens. Importantly, when we talked about what people are due as citizens, this cut across sub-national group identities. If all citizens are entitled to the vote, or to healthcare, or to education, or to some minimal living standard, we are committed to defending the rights and opportunities of everyone in our society regardless of what other groups they might identify with. Citizenship transcends narrow sectional identities.
When the left opposes identity politics, it does so not because it doesn’t care about civil rights, but because it wants to pursue those rights by appealing to what we are all owed as citizens rather than to what some groups are owed because of oppressed status. The language of citizenship transforms civil rights from a zero sum game into a positive sum game, in which we are expanding the benefits of citizenship for all of our people rather than transferring benefits from some privileged group to some oppressed group. This makes it easier to create broad, solidaristic coalitions in which civil rights are pursued concurrently with other kinds of benefits for groups identity politics regards as privileged. This spirit is embodied in the left wing politics of the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, in which civil rights were pursued alongside workers’ rights and the war on poverty. Much was accomplished during that period for all of our citizens, though there is still much left to do. It’s a lot easier to get white guys to buy-in when we encourage them to think of themselves as fellow citizens rather than as members of a privileged identity group which is being challenged, especially when we ensure that they benefit from our policies alongside everyone else.
In contrast, when the right opposes identity politics it is often practicing it, albeit in a different way. Many on the right believe that the civil rights movement largely eliminated group oppression, and they think the contemporary civil rights movement is engaged in what they call “reverse racism”, seeking to oppress and expropriate formerly privileged groups to reverse the relationship of privilege and oppression that has prevailed historically. Bee confuses this right wing politics, which denies the legitimacy of the grievances of disadvantaged groups, with the left wing effort to ground civil rights in a broader narrative of what it means to be a citizen.
The sad thing today is that identity politics has become so ubiquitous as a way of thinking about and pursuing social justice that it now appears many people, including Bee, are no longer capable of conceptualizing alternative frameworks for understanding political groupings."
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Close Reading vs. Big Picture Reading Strategies
In this lesson, learn about two different approaches to reading a work of literature- big picture strategies and close reading strategies. Discover how these two perspectives can be put into practice through examples from the play 'Romeo and Juliet.'
Close Reading and Big-Picture Reading
Remember the Sesame Street sketch where everyone’s favorite fuzzy blue character, Grover, demonstrates the difference between the concepts near and far? Grover runs close to the camera, arms flailing, and screams, ‘Near!’ and then he runs far away from the camera, yelling, ‘Far!’
Grover provides us with a good visual to represent what we will cover in this lesson. Big-picture reading and close reading are two ways of looking at a work of literature. They use varying strategies to provide different kinds of information about a text.
One type approach to reading, big-picture reading , is the ‘far’ view. Seeing things from a distance allows us to make generalizations, and see patterns and overarching themes we can use to describe a work of literature as a whole.
Close reading is the ‘near’ perspective. It’s an up-close look at literature, shining a light on the small choices made by the author, including word choice, character actions, and symbolic objects.
Just as Grover remains Grover regardless if he is near or far away, looking at the big picture and the smaller details in a work of literature doesn’t change what the novel, poem or play is about. We just focus on different things due to our perspective.
Close-Reading Strategies
Close reading requires us to take a deeper look at the choices authors make at the word, sentence and paragraph level. Readers must become detectives, investigating things like repeating sounds, word choices and figurative language, and their effect on the text.
Let’s use the first few lines of Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, as a model for some close-reading strategies. First, the text:
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
First, you may have noticed those two pairs of rhyming words: dignity/mutiny and scene/unclean. Close reading means noticing those end rhymes, but also making the connection to how meaningful those two pairs of words are to what we know is going to happen to Romeo and Juliet.
The ‘dignity’ of the ‘two households’ of the Montagues and Capulets is about to give way to ‘mutiny’ as Romeo and Juliet decide to go against their families and cause even more of a beef between them.
The rhyming pair ‘scene/unclean’ also foreshadows or hints at all the murder and death that is to come in the story. A close-reading might also make note of the fact that plays are made up of ‘scenes.’
Let’s recount the specific strategies I used there. First, I noticed the rhyme scheme and the specific words used to make those rhymes. Then I thought about how those words were important to the story of Romeo and Juliet and made the connections very clear.
Close-reading is ultimately about taking note of small details and tying them back to what the work of literature is about. I could have also looked closely at the dialogue between two characters or what the description of a house in a novel might represent.
Big-Picture Reading Strategies
Big-picture reading strategies take a much wider view than close-reading strategies. With big-picture strategies, we take the poem, play or novel as a whole, thinking about elements that wind through the entire work.
One big-picture strategy is to examine the author’s overall message and how he or she delivers that message. For example, Shakespeare is obviously trying to say something about family grudges with ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ All the miscommunications and misfortunes that befall Romeo and Juliet, and their families, are compounded into a full-blown tragedy. In the end, though, the two families are united in their grief.
Another big-picture strategy is to look at how the author handles a big question like fate versus free-will. We learn within the first few minutes of the play how it will end when Shakespeare writes, ‘A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.’ So is it fate that they meet, fall in love and die, or are Romeo and Juliet directly responsible for what happens to them?
Like individual brush strokes, recurring small details add up to paint a larger picture. Shakespeare makes many references to fate throughout ‘Romeo and Juliet’; mentions of stars, fate and bad omens contributes to a larger approach on the part of the playwright. In this way, the smaller examples taken from close-reading can be used as evidence to develop a big-picture view.
For example, before attending the ball where he meets Juliet for the first time, Romeo predicts that, ‘Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date.’ While Romeo and Juliet go around cursing the stars they were born under, they don’t seem to take much responsibility for their choice to get married in secret.
Big-picture reading and close-reading strategies are two ways of looking at a work of literature. Big-picture reading strategies focus on larger themes or recurring details, like mentions of fate or free-will. Close-reading strategies look at the small details in a story, poem or novel and how they connect to the larger story being told. Strong readers use both big-picture and close-reading strategies to examine literature for the author’s intent.
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Why they love to hate GP
Girijababus impatience with the lefts timidity before royalty may carry a deeper meaning.
FROM ISSUE #151 (27 JUNE 2003 - 03 JULY 2003) | TABLE OF CONTENTS
Girija Prasad Koirala moved out of Baluwatar nearly two years ago when he still had a majority in parliament and his parliamentary party. For nine months, he's been at the forefront of the movement to preserve the gains of the Jana Andolan. Yet most of us think the kangresi patriarch is primarily responsible for the current state of the nation (Nepali Times/Nepalnews.com Inernet Poll #150). We must be real angry.
What is so nauseating about the man that we can't even give him the respect a senior citizen deserves? The realisation that no monarchy-constitutional or absolute-has room for two dynasties? Koirala's all-in-the-family demeanour where real power rarely flows along the most democratic party's organisational chart? The dubious fund-raising tactics kangresis couldn't have adopted without his concurrence?
Koirala's worst critics praise his strong organisational skills. Not enough of his supporters ponder how he still has them in his eightieth decade on the planet.
Candour sets him apart from the crowd. Koirala's celebration of the restoration of multiparty democracy as a victory for the panchas as well was only the beginning. He was the first prominent politician to acknowledge that political parties were too busy trying to overthrow the panchas to think up a way of doing things better. He regretted having thrown the zonal commissioners along with Panchayat bath water. A prime minister battling to restore law and order could forget his anchaladhish-inflicted tribulations to appreciate the administrative sturdiness of the office.
By pitting Govinda Raj Joshi against Ram Chandra Poudel in Tanahu, Bal Dev Sharma Majgaiya against Khum Bahadur Khadka in Dang and Ram Sharan Mahat against Arjun Narsingh KC in Nuwakot, Koirala bred factionalism in a party complacent in its exceptionalism. Handled properly, intra-party warfare could have fostered democratic competition right down to the district level.
Surya Bahadur Thapa may have conceived the broader democratic alliance, but Koirala gave it a context. (Would the RPP ever have been able to publicise the platform in such a big way?) Most of us jeered when Koirala said the Nepali Congress' 113 MPs amounted to nothing. With the entire lower-house membership having come to naught, the joke's on us.
Many Nepalis who agree with Koirala's message can't quit suspecting his motives. With an eye on his legacy, couldn't he be genuinely concerned about the country this time. Consider some of Koirala's post-October Fourth moves. The man has gone to over 60 districts railing against the perils of royal assertiveness. Of the major post-1990 players, he's come the closest to acknowledging his mistakes, with the strict proviso that the rest accept their full share. After Sher Bahadur Deuba's boys hurled those projectiles on home turf, Koirala maintained a dignified silence until he called his former prot?g? for an update on his health. Deuba's presence at the palace meeting rankled Koirala not because of the intrusion. He still can't figure out who's shielding whom. (Remember what we were discussing around this time last year?)
Why didn't Koirala expose the "grand design" in an early-morning address to the nation on 2 June, 2001? Because, he says, he wanted to avoid further turmoil. Doesn't sound like a bad reason. How many column inches did that assertion get in the papers?
It was a little jarring to see Koirala chairing a special session of the dissolved parliament at the Royal Nepal Academy days after he went to the Supreme Court to bypass the CIAA. In retrospect, maybe we missed the connection. The post-October Fourth fight is a political one. Koirala's battle with the CIAA is constitutional.
His demand that the army be brought under the elected government's control had started sounding devoid of national-security sensitivities. Given the timing, it looked like a shrewd move to deflect the generals' ire at the kind of slogans being raised on the streets.
But, then, who was the first non-ex-pancha to come out in defence of the troops' right to unrestricted movement? If Koirala and the commander-in-chief can see eye to eye on national issues, not all hope is lost.
Each time Koirala comes back from Biratnagar, Kathmandu politicos know he has something up his sleeves. His impatience with the communists' timidity before royalty may have a larger meaning. Koirala probably read last week's poll saying that only one in 20 Nepalis blame Madhab Kumar Nepal for the country's mess. He certainly knows that the UML general secretary served nine months in power with the official designation of deputy premier. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. By the way, how does Koirala feel about us?
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- {{Template}}An '''art intervention''' is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience or venue/space. It has the auspice of [[conceptual art]] and is commonly a form of [[performance art]]. It is associated with the [[Viennese Actionism|Viennese Actionists]], the [[Dada]] movement and [[Neo-Dadaists]]. It has also been made much use of by the [[Stuckism|Stuckists]] to affect perceptions of other artwork which they oppose, and as a protest against an existing intervention. + {{Template}}
+ An '''art intervention''' is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience or venue/space. It has the auspice of [[conceptual art]] and is commonly a form of [[performance art]]. It is associated with the [[Viennese Actionism|Viennese Actionists]], the [[Dada]] movement and [[Neo-Dadaists]]. It has also been made much use of by the [[Stuckism|Stuckists]] to affect perceptions of other artwork which they oppose, and as a protest against an existing intervention.
Although intervention by its very nature carries an implication of [[subversion]], it is now accepted as a legitimate form of art and is often carried out with the endorsement of those in positions of authority over the artwork, audience or venue/space to be intervened in. However, unendorsed (i.e. illicit) interventions are common and lead to debate as to the distinction between art and [[vandalism]] . By definition it is a challenge, or at the very least a comment, related to the earlier work or the theme of that work, or to the expectations of a particular audience, and more likely to fulfil that function to its full potential when it is unilateral, although in these instances, it is almost certain that it will be viewed by authorities as unwelcome, if not vandalism, and not art. Although intervention by its very nature carries an implication of [[subversion]], it is now accepted as a legitimate form of art and is often carried out with the endorsement of those in positions of authority over the artwork, audience or venue/space to be intervened in. However, unendorsed (i.e. illicit) interventions are common and lead to debate as to the distinction between art and [[vandalism]] . By definition it is a challenge, or at the very least a comment, related to the earlier work or the theme of that work, or to the expectations of a particular audience, and more likely to fulfil that function to its full potential when it is unilateral, although in these instances, it is almost certain that it will be viewed by authorities as unwelcome, if not vandalism, and not art.
- + == See also ==
+ *[[Contemporary art]]
+ *[[Appropriation (art)]]
+ *[[Art and dementia]]
+ *[[Art vandalism]]
+ *[[Banksy]]
+ *[[Classificatory disputes about art]]
+ *[[Conceptual art]]
+ *[[Found art]]
+ *[[Installation art]]
+ *[[Performance art]]
+ *[[Pierre Pinoncelli]], [[Taking a hammer to a urinal, 2006]]
+ *[[Salon des Tree]]
+ *[[Stuckist demonstrations]]
+ *[[Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi]]
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An art intervention is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience or venue/space. It has the auspice of conceptual art and is commonly a form of performance art. It is associated with the Viennese Actionists, the Dada movement and Neo-Dadaists. It has also been made much use of by the Stuckists to affect perceptions of other artwork which they oppose, and as a protest against an existing intervention.
Although intervention by its very nature carries an implication of subversion, it is now accepted as a legitimate form of art and is often carried out with the endorsement of those in positions of authority over the artwork, audience or venue/space to be intervened in. However, unendorsed (i.e. illicit) interventions are common and lead to debate as to the distinction between art and vandalism . By definition it is a challenge, or at the very least a comment, related to the earlier work or the theme of that work, or to the expectations of a particular audience, and more likely to fulfil that function to its full potential when it is unilateral, although in these instances, it is almost certain that it will be viewed by authorities as unwelcome, if not vandalism, and not art.
Appropriation (art)
Art and dementia
Art vandalism
Classificatory disputes about art
Pierre Pinoncelli, Taking a hammer to a urinal, 2006
Salon des Tree
Stuckist demonstrations
Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi
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With viewership down, controversy at an all-time high, the comish on the hot seat with Jerry Jones, and Papa Jones asking why it can sell America’s favorite food during football season, it is time the NFL examine its product and perception. Here is my advice for the NFL
Get out of the Business of Controversy:
With the wave of NFL players that have taken to kneeling as a form of protest against police brutality and racial and social injustice, the NFL finds itself defending a narrow island between those who advocate for free speech and those that have deep reverence for the flag, the national anthem, and all of the people that have died for our freedom. The NFL looks like it has just decided to punt. It has not really addressed the players’ (and their advocate’s) concerns nor has it really shown action to the millions of fans that would like to see the national anthem returned to its former form of full standing attendance.
Advice: Take a stand and show it by your actions. Being in the middle means you don’t care and don’t care to make a difference on these increasingly important social and patriotic issues. The league could be patriotic and address player concerns by making investments, but its chosen not to do that.
Respect and Take Women Seriously
The NFL, especially through its players, is tied to violence against women. Players commit crimes against women and it gets covered up. Next, many teams have cheerleaders, yet in recent years we learned that these talented and hard-working women are paid next to nothing or even nothing. Wow! If the work and output are not valuable, then shutdown the cheerleading squads and get them off the cameras. Otherwise, pay them for the professional work that they do. This is, of course, that same league that has mostly relied on part-time referees to carry out its business. Pay people for their work, including the women!
Advice: Every guy has a mom and most have a wife, and many have daughters and sisters, so it is not just good ethics, but good business to think of all these women as fans and friends of the league. Make players sit when they commit crimes and when they harm and abuse women. A few weeks of pink socks is not real reverence for the women in our lives.
NFL Play Causes Bodily Injury (and Brain Trauma)
It is sad to read about the many cases of NFL veterans that have become crippled and even sadder to hear some talk that have lost their senses and brain-power to the ravages of NFL play. The NFL has to acknowledge the damages they cause. In many communities (including mine), high school and pee-wee leagues are unable to form because parents and youngsters fear the game itself. Indeed, perception is reality in this case. Even if the NFL hides behind some statistics, the perception is now that football harms brains. The NFL cannot win in that argument. It should do more to show it cares for those harmed in the past and to show how it will create a safe and inviting league for the future.
Advice: Change the emphasis on head hits. It is the only way to ensure safety.
Cities are Not Your Banks
Although many lower-tiered cities would still give up leg, arm, and brain to land an NFL franchise, the reality is that many cities have not seen the purported economic value. Sure, about 53 high-paid players will bring their salaries and spending to the community. But really, almost everything else is a service job that operates during or around the 8 home games a year. The benefit to cities is no longer as large as it was once seen to be. Look at the NFL move to Los Angeles. It does not involve municipal funding. Rightfully, so. Would a few scores of athletes really move the LA economy? No. Many small cities see the TV recognition as a big boost, but I suspect more cities are jaded by what happened to St. Louis. Build it. They will come. Then, the will leave. Really, who wants to be the next St. Louis or San Diego? It is much better to give tax dollars to lure Amazon or the next Facebook data center. That brings lots of jobs and a boost to the economy that last more than 8 games a year, each of which is only 3 hours long. Cities have more issues than funding a half-a-billion-dollar field for 8 home football games – just 24 hours of action and even less of play time. Pay for your own stadiums, NFL.
Advice: Get out of public funding models. It hurts too many people and does not bring beneficial economic impact. If you want to help communities, use your influence to uplift them, not sink them with debt. Write your own bonds – there is a hedge fund that would love NFL bonds.
Evolve the Game with New Scoring Options
Many plays in the NFL are just boring. Some are very dangerous and boring (like kickoffs). These are not good for NFL development or the excitement of the game.
Moving the PAT out has made more games interesting by resulting in more missed PATs and then more 2 point conversions, as needed to catch-up. That turned out to be a bigger change than most people expected. How about a 4-point field goal at distances over 55 yards? I’ve always thought the distance for a two-point conversion is too short. If a couple of yards is enough for 2 points, well how about a three-point conversion from say the 35 yard-line? A team could really rally back if he could get 9 points after a TD and a long conversion.
Also, can punts be made more interesting? Most are violent plays that result in a 3 to 8-yard return (except for the many that are not caught or are fair-caught). It is boring and dangerous and people on TV only see the punt and catch. The rest of the blocking and fielding is mostly missed. Punting could be replaced by free kicking. Could a team free kick instead of punt? Punts must be really dull for players too. Run to the punter, then run back to block, all for a few yards. Most punts are 35-45 yards. It is a strange and uninteresting way to turn over the ball. Maybe the league could even allow the team to throw the ball instead of punting. It is how we “punted” in school yard play. There were no blocks and returns were super exciting. Blocked punts are rare, super dangerous, and really not that memorable (except the one in New Orleans).
Other places that need innovation include, making penalties within 20 yards really count. Why should a penalty be half the distance to the goal line? You messed up at a bad time; make it count! Take the full yardage all the way to the goal line. I’d also like to see more clarity on what is pass interference. It seems like most anything goes now. And speaking of cornerbacks, if they can’t tackle, then let’s be more realistic in what constitutes being down (Tony Romo was right about Deion, btw). Cornerbacks just hit receivers or push them out of bounds. Again, boring. Teach proper tackling or change what is down.
Can we make a kick-off an offensive play? In CFL ball, un-returned kicks give a point to the kicking team. How about we do something like that? Get rid of the touchbacks and force teams to return the ball. If you don’t return it, ok, give up a point. It would certainly change the nature of a kick-off.
On kickoffs, it would be great to see a new form for the “on-sides” kick. What if a team could drop kick or even punt the kick-off? With so much parity in the game and so many games going down to the last few possessions, it seems only fair to allow teams to “play.” Here is a crazy one: if you want the ball after a score, you can have it, at your own goal line. No need for an on-sides kick, you just have 99+ yards to go and make the other side take it away from you. It would involve more skill and strategy than the unpredictable bounce of an oval ball on an on-sides kick. It would add a lot more drama to the game, too.
Advice: bring new scoring options to the game. Increase the chances for comebacks. Revisit punts, kickoffs, and on-side kicks. These have monotonous outcomes and add feel more like golf than strategic plays.
Nostalgia Counts…Get Back to It!
Nearly every team has tinkered with its uniform in a way to make it worse. The Packers, Cowboys, Raiders, Bears, and Giants are a few that come to mind with uniforms that have kept their roots and are still great. These are some of the most popular jerseys, too and each as a simple two-color scheme. Look at some of these next generation uniforms. Really, what is the Miami dolphin doing? It looks like a downward dog pose from yoga. Can a dolphin even flex like that? And Tampa Bay’s awful numbers. That was supposed to be an improvement. Who comes up with these things? The two-tone Jaguar helmets were plain silly. Does anyone get a two-tone anything? Weird.
Nostalgia is king. Gen X wants to be a kid again. Millennials want something old and authentic because, well, it is real and being real is best enjoyed when everyone around you is fake. NFL, get with the program. Flashy unis might seem cool, but people remember their team in the jerseys of their youth and especially the jersey of winning seasons. Bring some discipline to jerseys and uniforms. Encourage throwbacks and bring back more of the old. Or better yet, just go back to the old uniforms. Let’s do it, like it is 1984 all over again. And, the one-color jerseys on Thursday night football look like some kind of sick cult-sleep over gone wrong. I’m not into that stuff and watch college ball on Thursdays. At least they don’t look like they are in pajamas. Get a real uniform.
Advice: Celebrate the past and people’s childhood. Everyone wants a fairy tale. Be part of that.
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In most modern FRP applications, composites are usually seen as a practical solution for industries looking to create structures that are strong, lightweight, durable and easy to build. Sometimes, though, composites can help designers achieve a deeper artistic goal. In an increasing number of buildings all over the world, architects are turning to FRP to accentuate what makes a certain place special. That was the case for Abin Chaudhuri, who led a two-year project to create and install FRP façades for an elementary school and its neighboring secondary school in the Newtown area of Kolkata, the capital of India’s West Bengal state.
The Savitri Educational Foundation, which founded The Newtown School, reached out to Chaudhuri’s design firm, Abin Design Studio, while the school was already under construction. Chaudhuri described the framework for the buildings as “rather generic,” with six floors of classrooms, laboratories and other facilities surrounding the school’s central courtyards.
The project’s previous architect had struggled to come up with a façade that could simultaneously stay within the client’s design parameters while also being innovative. Abin Design Studio’s challenge was to work within these parameters to design façades that took air circulation, ventilation, classroom layout and environmental concerns into consideration.
“The first step was to create an identity for the school. Our approach was to create a screen that wraps around the buildings and unifies them visually,” says Chaudhuri. “The facade not only provides shade to the classrooms from the harsh sun, but also lends the school a distinct identity.”
From a distance, each façade looks like a complex Rubik’s Cube® of letters and mathematic symbols. The letters and symbols were used to create a custom stencil for the façade. As Chaudhuri explains, the team wanted the structures to feature a graphic, yet relatable aesthetic for the young children.
“We intended for the central courtyards of the buildings to merge with the play area, creating a seamless connection between [the] junior and senior school,” says Chaudhuri. “Due to [an administrative] restriction, this ground level connection was not possible. However, the screen was created with a strong character so that its continuous application across the buildings by itself would prove to be a unifying element.”
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Eurovision Song Contest 2013 – Semi-Final 2
May 17, 2013 by oskyldig·0 Comments
As always the Swedes know how to make an entrance, with this theme and variations-esque type of entrance act where the Eurovision anthem is played and then variations of it along with a lot of other dancers fills the stage. But what happens when a bunch of BMX bikers and Skateboarders take their place/ They start making an artistic impression on the stage which turns into a giant keyboard and iPhone/Android Device.
Latvia – PeR
When pop songs begin with the refrain, I can only fear that it will be overplayed and heard far too many times. But then changes everything and turns into a couple of white boys rapping, which automatically loses my interest. Even dressed in silver and black sequins and having a lot of skin showing with their pasty-white bodies, isn’t enough to keep me interested. When we are called “European Peeps” I just get a little bit sketched out. Over-all I think the song is catchy, but is lacking so much more that I look for in an effective entry. I guess the only novelty of this performance was the crowd surfing, and the force being with us… or something.
San Marino – Valentina Monetta
❗ Personal Favourite
After a dismale fiasco entry last year, Valentina returns to us to prove that she actually is a serious singer with a serious song. It’s a powerful ballad in Italian, which usually garners bonus points because lots of people like Italy, but this one really flopped to expectations. The San Marinese delegation was disgusted and blames everything about politics, but in all fairness San Marino sent a really good entry this year and suffered the wave of the East, as it usually happens. I mean really, after the ballad turns into a dance song, there is the classic wardrobe change and we jump into a typically awesome Eurovision type song with lots of key changes (don’t we all love that!?).
F.Y.R. Macedonia – Esma & Lozano
I’ve said it before, but when you get a couple of singers together to sing a dramatic song with decent voices and there is a fat woman who’s singing, you know it’s never over. What makes this one better than others? Perhaps that Esma is a very well established Romani singer, you know… gypsy. Didn’t know they were in Macedonia, but cool; and she’s wearing a massive red dress while this clean-cut sexy man serenades us in a ethnic-crossover-pop-dance song. In all fairness it kind of reminds me of something that would be at a wedding for dancing purposes and has enough ethnicity to really draw me in. Solid vocals, slightly boring presentation, but extra points for gypsies dressed in red. Too bad the Balkans got shut out this year.
Azerbaijan – Farid Mammadov
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This year the land of fire gives us a solo singer with a Western dressed look mixed with the ethnic East, and a glass box with a dancer stuck inside it. It was really interesting to watch the uniqueness and creativity that some countries can put into their entries, and while he sings to us with the typical Soviet accent in English. I think that the performance was a little over the top in terms of dramatics and loses points in that regard, and with a refrain a little too loud for the rest of the song, I can see the appeal for it’s qualification, but I don’t really like it. Azerbaijan really is a sure qualifier year-in and year-out, so even with strange or lackluster entries they are still in the final.
Finland – Krista Siegfrids
With the Pink/Katy Perry feeling this Ding-Dong classic about marriage is something in my eye between a serious pop song and a parody. I know that the Finnish delegation was really giving it their all, and this year I think they hit the mark with the song, but missed the mark with the presentation. It’s just a bit too mocking and over-the-top? It’s going to be a radio-hit for sure in Scandinavia, so thumbs up for that one, but really it went a bit overboard. With dramatic girl on girl action at the end raises question of this was more of a political commentary on gay-rights and there for shock factor. I’m not convinced that Western Europe cared, but I can see the East being all freaked out. It’s really not a huge deal, love is love, right? But maybe it had something to do with the following day being the International Day Against Homophobia. Either way, coolbeans!
Malta – Gianluca
I was really on the fence about this one for several reasons. The song is awesome if I listen to it with my eyes closed, but when I open my eyes to see the singer and the band I kind of think it’s a disaster. It’s one thing to be smiley, but it was so far over the top from Gianluca that I don’t even know what to say. He looks like a 80 year old Chinese Man because his face is pulled so tight from smiling. Apart from that the simple indie song that really people can relate to, was sold to the audience in what I consider to be a surprise finalist qualification. Meanwhile, we will be okay, and so will Malta but I’m not sure how it will fare in the final. Deserving to be there, but may be tragic as usually most people forget about Malta.
Bulgaria – Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankulov
The ethnic styled singing and professional drummers from Bulgaria return from their past entrance in the competition. But what I find is odd, is that I don’t really think that much has changed since they were in the competition before. The songs are very similar in terms of how they sound and what happens on stage, so I’m really at a loss as to what to say other than Elitsa’s voice was as ethnically awesome as usual and sets her apart from the rest of the competition, but the return of Bulgaria’s hopes was shattered this year; in 2007 after a year absence, Bulgaria stormed into the final, but this time it wasn’t to be. Interesting information though, this was Bulgaria’s 2nd rated song in their national finals, the network had a problem with getting the copyrighted rights to the song that won, so they had to go wtih the second best. Maybe that’s why it wasn’t such a success.
Iceland – Eythor Ingi (Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson)
What can we say about Iceland in Eurovision? They are often quite forgotten with awesome songs. With the likes of Paul Oskar in comparison, Eyþór (who’s name was simplified for English Speakers to be “Eythor”) brings us an Icelandic ballad with it’s simplicity and sweetness. With a beautiful stage presence, coastal Icelandic backgrounds, and what I believe to be one of the most beautiful of the Nordic languages, Icelandic language made this song just perfect. He looks Icelandic, it is Icelandic, it’s Iceland screaming out to be heard and seen, and as the song progresses and become more dramatic I think they put their own type of exclamation point on the song. A shock to see in the final, as Iceland usually barely qualifies, but totally deserving as one of this year’s best songs flat out. It should be top-5 if not top-10 in the final, but I wouldn’t put money on it.
Greece – Koza Mostra feat. Agathon Iakovidis
The fact that Greece even attends this competition in the middle of a catastrophic financial crisis is room for concern, but politics aside it’s no surprise that Greece qualifies even with a blah song. Why sing about alcohol being free? It’s kind of nice that Greece doesn’t send a night-club summer hit like they do every year, but this frantic ethnic-pop song misses the boat in my eyes. I can only assume that women vote for manly Greek men that are very short, and wear skirts (or kilts, or whatever they would be called in Greek culture), that wink at you in the camera. It’s that Greek charm at it’s best, that is disconcerting to me. I can confirm vehemently that such charms would never work on me! Sadly for the rest of Europe, they fall victim to it.
Israel – Moran Mazor
Celebrating her 22nd birthday, Moran gave us a simple and strong Hebrew ballad that usually is more successful in the competition. Shockingly it didn’t qualify and I can’t deduce why it didn’t. With an obviously good song, an obviously “out there” look of elegance mixed with nerdy (see massive glasses) sticks in the mind, but didn’t convince televoters. I suspect that the juries gave her top marks but the televoters failed to represent her effectively. That woman had so much diamond-bling on her I’m surprised she wasn’t mugged in the parking lot because between her voice and her dress and accessories, she dazzled figuratively and literally.
Armenia – Dorians
This built for radio song is a bit a surprise for me from Armenia with it’s obvious Western tendencies, a drift away from it’s Eastern roots of recent years. Visually I just had a bit of problems of the look of the singers and band, but it’s a clear qualifier and a feel good pop song that’s smooth and built for being a radio hit. It’s good enough for the final, but do I believe it to be good enough for winning the competition? I don’t think so, but it should be top-10 to say the least. They just need to pray that their background singers don’t go flat like they did in this performance towards the end.
Hungary – ByeAlex
After reading some reviews from some other people of this entry about a month ago I kind of agreed with what they said. Hungary has this tendency to send original quirky songs to Eurovision and I think it does them justice given that it’s a linguistic and cultural separated from the rest of Western and Eastern Europe. And so when we watch these hipsters from Hungary sing a simple quirky pop song, we kind of think of the quirks of Bosnia & Herzegovina who are absent this year. It’s just fun and nice, and I was pleasantly surprised when Hungary was announced as a winner, because quite honestly it wasn’t a bookies favourite. Good job Europe in recognising a good song when you see and hear it.
Norway – Margaret Berger
This song is so far away from what we are used to from Norway. It’s a simple singer, beautifully dressed and looking to be a siren to the straight boys, singing an eletronika-pop song that I’m really surprised was a sell to the rest of Europe. With the intense base and backing instrumentals it’s really intense and doesn’t fit the normal “sucess” formula. However, with it’s qualification it guaranteed the penta-qualification of the Nordic Region. What more can we say than, suck on that, fuck yeah!
Albania – Adrian Lulgjuraj and Bledar Sejko
Breaking away from it’s usual good songs run, Albania sends hard rock this year. As a result of it’s departure from good music, and the utter dismal collapse of the Balkans music in Eurovision, Albania went nowhere. But to be completely fair, this song didn’t deserve any noteworthy mention. The clothing and “look” of the group was dark and emo-ish, and the only noteworthy point would be that it had an “ethnic” flare in the music, but it wasn’t enough even with it in Albanian language.
Georgia – Nodi Tatishvili & Sophie Gelovani
What happens when a country gets desperate to get into the final but not necessarily win? They hire Thomas G:son and then plunk in some national singers to sing the song, butcher the English language, and use a formula Eurovision song like this one. It’s a beautiful song, don’t get me wrong, but it just gets too loud with instrumentation and voice at the end for my liking. Analysts are calling it a “safe” song Georgia, which usually likes to go out on a limb, but after last year’s failure to qualify in the Easternlands of Baku, they revert back to what they think will please, instead of doing what they want to do and people liking them for that. I also think that a repeat performance of Azerbaijan’s song isn’t a good recipe because it looks like a rip-off… just saying.
Switzerland – Takasa
With this group of young and old, officially called Heilsarmee (Salvation Army) performs a song that I don’t really know what to say about. Officially banned from using their name or wearing their religious army’s uniforms, they still push the envelope with their Mormon missionary style outfits. I think it’s kind of a parody, but for some reason Switzerland chose them to represent their people. I don’t know how representative they would be, but their song is decent in the beginning and then loses steam quickly. This may sound very out of line, but really they are an attractive bunch and between Copenhagen and Malmö and their loss, they will find nothing but people throwing themselves at them, which for the men might be awkward as the ghayz have converged on Eurovision as per usual and hot is hot, regardless of orientation. 🙂
Romania – Cezar
This year Romania decided to send an operatic singer to sing a pop-dance song, and dress up in ridiculous Eurovision costumes. Though officially he’s a counter-tenor (male mezzo-soprano or alto) it’s a very strange mixture. Admittedly in the past opera singers have done well in the competition, think of Slovenia, Sweden however this one misses something. They have good dancers and a good stage presence, and he knows how to sing obviously and is bang on, but it’s just not sitting well for me. It’s so weird, but maybe that’s why it qualified. I didn’t expect it to, but for some reason people flocked to it like moths to light. Sometimes different stands out, even if it’s a bit bland. The only thing the act didn’t have was people making out, or crazy costume changes.
So after hearing the songs and seeing the little sketches with Lynda Woodruff and, get this, Edward af Sillén pretending to be a Danish sausage-seller made me laugh. Edward af Sillén is so sexy, even as a sausage-vendor, but enough gushing about him (even though it’s so obviously deserved). During the voting results were being tabulated, Agnes and Darin graced us with their presence, despite their failed attempts at representing Sweden in Eurovision. They put on a great show and had me on the edge of my seat, as they were worthy of winning themselves!
As usual Petra Mede was an amazing host, especially with the historical look at Eurovision history and the dramatic reveal of the qualifying contestants. Twelve points so far to Petra! One moment of note also is as Greece qualified, they zeroed in on a Greek fan, whom I can guarantee got laid that night.
Overall it was an okay evening, with a lot of good songs and a lot of real flops. Lots of ballads, and “ethnic” songs as per usual, but highlights of what I thought are as follows:
1) Hungary – surprise hipsters yo!
2) Azerbaijan – as always… no surprises here!
3) Georgia – safe picks always win, go Thomas G:son
4) Romania – surprise opera counter-tenor dance song.. huh?
5) Norway – elektropop dubstep gorgeous awesomeness power!
6) Iceland – surprise! GO NORDIC REGION GO!
7) Armenia – lots of booing for this one…?
8) Finland – listen to those cheers – girl on girl kissing works!
9) Malta – surprises all around and failed camera kissing!
10) Greece – really? so sad… why you always qualify!?
See you Saturday! (Post updated with pictures and new comments!)
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Ello social network hit by suspected BLOODY DDoS attack
DDoS Attack Specialist DDoS Attacks Defend Against DDoS
Ello, the social network site intended to serve as something of an antidote to ad-stuffed Facebook, was hit by a suspected Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack today.
The outfit, which has gained plenty of press coverage in the past week after employing the classic invite-only marketing trick to lure in more users, said on its status page within the last hour that it had suffered a major front-end outage on its network.
At 16:15 EDT it said:
Investigating – We are undergoing a potential denial of service attack.
Curiously, it came a little over 30 minutes after Ello completed database maintenance of its service.
Ello’s main page carried the following message:
The site is currently unavailable while we conduct some necessary maintenance. Follow along for any updates on our status page.
The site was brought back to life roughly 30 minutes after it went titsup. Ello simply said: “Resolved – ips have been blocked.”
No one had claimed responsibility for the apparent DDoS attack at time of publication.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/28/ello_hit_by_massive_ddos_attack/
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Welcome To Dixon Presbyterian Church
Dixon Presbyterian Church is best described as a family of believers who care deeply about our God, each other, our community and the mission of the church in the world.
We Believe in God – Father, Son & Holy Spirit.
The One true, holy, just, almighty, all knowing, God of love and light, who was and is and is to come, from everlasting to everlasting the designer, creator, redeemer, sustainer and indwelling presence of us all.
We worship together, learn together, play together, pray together, serve together, fellowship around the table together, and we welcome you to join our family!
Pastor Randy Patterson
Dixon Presbyterian Church was organized on February 4, 1944 at Dixon School. Prior to 1944 Sunday School, services and special meetings were held at Dixon School from as early as the teens. At least three churches in the area provided ministers for services in the school during the 1930s and early 1940s, including Shiloh Presbyterian of Grover and First Presbyterian of Kings Mountain.
The church building was constructed in 1948 and 1949 and was dedicated on June 26, 1949. The school building, located across the street, was purchased by the church in 1993 and now serves as the fellowship center.
Sunday morning worship is held at 11 a.m. Sunday School for all ages is held at 10 a.m.
Randy Patterson, Commissioned Lay Pastor, has served as Dixon's pastor since 2004.
The church is conveniently located 2 miles south of the I85-Dixon School Road interchange at 602 Dixon School Road, Kings Mountain, NC near the entrance to Kings Mountain National Military Park and Kings Mountain State Park. We invite visitors who are in the area on Sunday to join us in worship. Come as you are!
We invite all who are without a church home to unite with Dixon. We accept members on profession of faith and baptism, reaffirmation of faith and transfer of membership from another church.
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WHY ECONOMIC RECOVERY ELUDES INDIA
The pandemonic scenario in our country -- indeed on our planet -- is stubbornly refusing to move out of dangerous territory.
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‘One Rupee’ Fine for ‘Contempt of Court’
AFTER delivering a more than 100-page verdict holding Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt of court for two tweets, Justice Arun Mishra and his colleagues finally issued another long judgement to pronounce the quantum of sentence. Prashant Bhushan was asked to pay a fine of one rupee by 15 September or serve a prison sentence of three months along with an embargo of three years on his legal practice.
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The Vikas Dubey Phenomenon: Criminal-Police-Politician Nexus and Encounter Raj Imperil the Rule of Law in Uttar Pradesh
The Vikas Dubey episode marks more than yet another entry in the lengthening list of ‘encounter’ killings in Uttar Pradesh. It illustrates key principles of the dominant model of statecraft in today’s India and explains some important basics of what is popularly called the criminal-police-politician nexus. It points to a new level of criminalization of politics, and crisis and collapse of constitutional governance.
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Political Crisis in Rajasthan: Alarming Signals for Indian Democracy
Volatility continues in Rajasthan about the future of the state government. We will have to keep watching the developments in Rajasthan High Court and State Assembly to know whether the government is able to weather the storm. Regardless of the eventual outcome of the present crisis, what should really be a matter of greater concern is that such a destabilization bid is going on in the middle of a raging epidemic when the entire focus should be on saving the state and the people from the scourge of the novel coronavirus.
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Saffronised Slashing of CBSE Curriculum
In the wake of the extraordinary situation created by the ongoing pandemic, loss of teaching and lockdown, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) was advised to revise the curriculum so as to reduce the course load for the students of from class 9 to class 12. Though the syllabus was slightly revised in April 2020 as well, on July 7, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', the HRD minister, took to twitter to announce the decision to rationalize the sylla-bus by up to 30%, while retaining the core concepts.
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Notes on Migrant Workers: Key Issues and Urgent Tasks
MOBILITY and migration have all along been central to the formation and growth of the working class. From villages to towns, from towns to cities and metropolises - workers have all along been moving and relocating themselves as workers. There are also patterns and levels of migration that can be classified according to distance and duration: inter-district, inter-state and inter-country migration, seasonal and longer-term migration, and so on. But in spite of the pervasive presence of migrant workers, they have remained largely invisible.
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Foil the BJP-JDU Plot to Steal the Bihar Elections
INDIA's Home Minister Amit Shah, who remained invisible for most of India’s prolonged lockdown so far, addressed a digital rally for Bihar on 7 June. Though Shah called it only a ‘Jan Samvad’ or ‘communication with the people’, for all purposes it inaugurated the BJP’s poll campaign for the Assembly elections due later this year. The rally was also part of the Modi government’s mega campaign to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Modi’s prime ministership and pat its own back in the name of what it calls the Modi success story of combating the Covid19 pandemic.
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Impact of Agri-Reform Ordinances on Agrarian Economy
UNION Government has taken a ‘historic step’, though only time will tell whether it’s historic in the right sense of the word. The government at the Centre claims the reforms through three Ordinances it has promulgated have the potential of bringing about a revolutionary change in the lot of the farming community.
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Book your next educational tour and have access to a tour guide, croc feeding demo, as well as animal interaction opportunities.
Bring your family and meet our animal ambassadors, enjoy the natural surroundings and connect with nature.
Scottburgh’s Crocworld Conservation Centre is open for visits
Visitors looking for a fun family day out at an open-air facility will be happy to discover that Crocworld Conservation Centre, on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, is now open to the public (as of Tuesday, 18 August).
“We are delighted to announce that all necessary Covid-19 safety measures are in place and we will be receiving visitors back to the centre this week,” said Martin Rodrigues, Manager of Crocworld Conservation Centre. “Throughout the lockdown period, our essential staff members have been coming into the centre to feed and care for all the animals – much of which we’ve shared with audiences through our digital platforms. We’ve also used this time to upgrade facilities and welcome a number of new animals to the centre. It’s fantastic that we are now able to share all of this directly with the public!”
With Crocworld Conservation Centre an outdoor, nature-based facility observing strict Covid-19 protocols, all visitors can be assured of a safe and enjoyable experience. To accommodate everyone in line with lockdown Level 2 regulations, visitors are urged to note the information below.
Crocworld Conservation Centre Covid-19 protocols
1. It is compulsory for a face mask to be worn at all times.
2. On arrival at the centre, visitors may undergo temperature screening and compulsory hand sanitizing upon entry.
3. Family group social distancing is to be adhered to at all times. This means that all family groups arriving together may remain in close proximity, but groups must ensure social distancing of 1.5m between themselves and other visitors/groups.
4. Crocworld Conservation Centre can permit a maximum of 100 visitors at any given time. The centre is using an accurate counting system, and should there be an overflow, a waiting list will be implemented. Once visitors depart, the same number of visitors will be permitted to enter.
5. Crocodile talks and feedings will take place on Saturdays and Sundays only, at 11am and 3pm. Family social distancing must be adhered to at all times.
6. All animal interactions are cancelled until further notice; therefore, no handling of baby crocodiles will be permitted.
7. The on-site Fish Eagle Café is operational. The restaurant will permit a maximum of 50 patrons at a time.
8. The frequency of cleaning in high-traffic areas takes place regularly, and visitors are requested to refrain from touching exhibits and railings.
9. The safety of all guests is a priority, which means that there might be changes made without prior notice. This could include the closing of the centre for a prescribed period of time.
For more information, visit www.crocworld.co.za or the ‘Crocworld Conservation Centre’ for the latest news. To find out more about Fish Eagle Café’s offerings, visit the ‘Fish Eagle Café’ Facebook page.
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Primary runoff election results
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Ga. School Superintendent looking for student advisors
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012, 7:57am
ATLANTA -- Georgia's Student Advisory Council is now accepting applications for the 2012-13 school year.
The Student Advisory Council reports to State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge to discuss how decisions made at the state level affect students throughout Georgia, according to Georgia Department of Education spokesman Matt Cardoza.
The council will meet twice during the school year -- Wednesday, Nov. 7 and Wednesday, Mar. 6. Applicants must be available to meet on both days.
All Georgia students in grades 9-12 are encouraged to apply.
"I am looking forward to getting to know a new group of student advisors and discuss how our policies affect them on a daily basis," Barge said in a statement. "We want to make education work for all Georgia's students and hearing directly from them is the best way to ensure that happens."
Brian Tam announces campaign for re-election for Forsyth County Board of Commissioners
Submitted by Cumming Home on Monday, January 23rd, 12:43 pm
Cumming - Today, Commissioner Brian Tam announced his candidacy for re-election to the Board of Commissioners, representing Forsyth County’s second district. Beginning his eighth year of elected service to our community, Commissioner Tam’s focus has been on economic development, the enhancement of local health care opportunities and the enrichment of our schools. Read the complete article at the www.CummingHome.com
Military, overseas citizens can e-vote this year
Saturday, January 14th, 2012, 11:02am
ATLANTA -- Georgia's military and overseas citizens will be able to participate in the state's upcoming presidential primary by e-vote starting later this month.
Secretary of State Brian Kemp said those voters can access their absentee ballots electronically starting Jan. 21 for the Mar. 6 election.
Kemp and Georgia National Guard Adjutant General Jim Butterworth will conduct a joint outreach and education effort to promote voting opportunities for military personnel and their families.
Go here for more information: www.sos.ga.gov/mvp.
DULUTH: Gingrich to address Ga. GOP forum
Submitted by Associated Press
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011, 5:28am
DULUTH, Ga. -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is set to speak at a Republican presidential forum in Gwinnett County.
The former House Speaker will address the 7th congressional district GOP in Duluth Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Seventh District GOP Chairman Jason Thompson said the open, town hall-style format will provide Georgians "an up-close and personal opportunity to meet and hear candidates in person, instead of just on television."
Thompson said the group has invited all Republican primary presidential candidates to come for individual sessions before the group and is hopeful more will choose to attend.
Gingrich, a former congressman from Georgia, is trailing frontrunners Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and Rick Perry in public opinion polls.
7 named to Deal's immigration review board
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011, 8:42am
ATLANTA -- Seven people have been appointed to a newly created board to look into complaints about state and local officials failing to comply with state laws related to immigration.
The Immigration Enforcement Review Board was created by the state's tough new law targeting illegal immigration.
Appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal are Americans for Immigration Control spokesman Phil Kent, former Fulton County GOP chairman Shawn Hanley and lawyer Ben Vinson. Appointed by Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle are Dallas Mayor Boyd Austin and Coweta County Sheriff Mike Yeager. Appointed by House Speaker David Ralston are lawyer Robert Mumford and Colquitt County Commissioner Terry Clark.
The board will have the power to investigate complaints, hold hearings, subpoena documents and witnesses, and take disciplinary action.
LOCAL PROFILE: Clayton County Commission Chairman, Eldrin Bell
Thursday, September 1st, 2011, 3:08pm
JONESBORO, Ga. -- Eldrin Bell is a local legend in Atlanta local law enforcement and politics.
Recently, the Where U Live spoke with him about his history in Atlanta and his current position in Clayton County.
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Customer Experience Matrix
This is the blog of David M. Raab, marketing technology consultant and analyst. Mr. Raab is founder and CEO of the Customer Data Platform Institute and Principal at Raab Associates Inc. All opinions here are his own. The blog is named for the Customer Experience Matrix, a tool to visualize marketing and operational interactions between a company and its customers.
MarTech Plot Lines for 2021
“Apophenia” – seeing patterns where none exist – is both occupational hazard and job requirement for an industry analyst. The CDP Institute Daily Newsletter provides a steady supply of grist for my pattern detection mill. But the selection of items for that newsletter isn’t random. I have a list of long-running stories that I follow, and keep an eye out for items that illuminate them. I’ll share some of those below.
Feel free to play along at home and let me know what stories you see developing. Deep State conspiracy theories are out of bounds but you’re welcome to speculate on the actual author(s) of the works attributed to “Scott Brinker”.
Everyone knows the pandemic accelerated the shift towards online media that was already under way. A few points that haven’t been made quite so often include:
- connected TVs and other devices allow individual-level targeting without use of third-party cookies. As online advertising is increasingly delivered through those channels, the death of cookies becomes less important. Nearly all device-level targeting can also include location data, adding a dimension that cookies often lack.
- walled gardens (Facebook, Google, Amazon) face increasing competition from walled flower pots – that is, businesses with less data but a similar approach. Retailers like Walmart, Kroger, Target, and CVS have all started their own ad networks, drawing on their own customer data. Traditional publishers like Meredith have collected their formerly-scattered customer data to enable cross-channel, individual-level targeting. Compilers like Neustar and Merkle are also entering the business. None of these has the data depth or scale of Facebook, Google, or Amazon but their audiences are big enough to be interesting. The various “universal ID” efforts being pursued by the ad industry will enable the different flow pots to cross-pollinate, creating larger audiences that I’ll call walled flower beds unless someone stops me.
- shoppable video is growing rapidly. Amazon seems unstoppable but it faces increasing competition from social networks, streaming TV, and every other digital channel that can let viewers make purchases related to what they’re watching. The numbers are still relatively small but the potential is huge. And note that this is a way to sell based purely on context, so targeting doesn’t have to be based on individual identities. That will become more important as privacy regulations become more effective at shutting off the flow of third-party personal data.
- digital out-of-home ads will combine with augmented and virtual reality to create a fundamentally new medium. The growth of digital out of home advertising is worth watching just because DOOH is such a great acronym . But it’s also a huge story that doesn’t currently get much attention and will explode once people can travel more freely post-pandemic. Augmented and virtual reality are making great technical strides (how about an AR contact lens?) but so far seem like very niche marketing tools. However, the two technologies perfectly complement each other, and will be supercharged by more accessible location data. Watch this space.
- data will become more accessible. That marketers want to be “data-driven” is old news. What’s changing is that years of struggle are finally yielding progress toward making data more available and providing the tools to use it. As with digital advertising, the pandemic has accelerated an existing trend, achieving in months digital transformations that would otherwise have taken years. Although internal data is the focus of most integration efforts, access to external data is also growing, privacy rules notwithstanding. Intent data has been a particular focus with recent announcements from TechTarget, ZoomInfo, Spiceworks Ziff Davis, and Zeta Global.
- artificial intelligence will become (even more) ubiquitous. It seems just yesterday that we were impressed to hear that a company’s product was “AI-powered”. Today, that’s as exciting as being told their offices have “electric lights”. But AI continues to grow stronger even if it doesn’t get as much attention (which the truly paranoid will suspect is because the AIs prefer it that way). Marketers increasingly worry that AI will ultimately replace them, even if it makes more productive before that happens. The headline story is that AI is taking on more “creative” tasks such as content creation and campaign design, which were once thought beyond its capabilities. But the real reason for its growth may be that interactions are shifting to digital channels where success will be based more on relentless analytics than an occasional flash of uniquely human insight.
- blockchain will quiet down. I’ll list blockchain only to point out that’s been an underachiever in the hype-generation department. Back in 2018 we saw it at least as often as AI. Now it comes up just rarely. There are many clear applications in logistics and some promising proposals related to privacy. But there’s less wild-eyed talk about blockchain changing the world. Do keep an ear open, though: I suspect more is happening behind the scenes than we know.
- no-code will continue to grow. If anything has replaced AI as the buzzword of the year, it’s “no code” and related concepts like “self-service” and “citizen [whatever]”. It’s easy to make fun of these (“citizen brain surgeon”, anyone?) but there’s no doubt that many workers become more productive when they can automate processes without relying on IT professionals. The downside is the same loss of quality control and integration posed other types of shadow IT – although no-code systems are more often governed than true shadow IT projects. In addition, no-code’s more sophisticated cousin, low-code, is widely used by IT professionals. It’s possible to see no-code systems as an alternative to AI: both improve productivity, one by letting workers do more and other by replacing them altogether. But a more realistic view is to recognize AI as a key enabling technology inside many no-code systems. As the internal AIs get smarter, no-code will take on increasingly complex tasks, making it more helpful (and more threatening) to increasingly skilled workers.
The pandemic has changed how marketers (and everyone else) do their work. With vaccines now reaching the public, it’s important to realize that conditions will change again fairly soon. But that doesn’t mean things will go back to how they were.
- events have changed forever. Yes, in-person events will return and many of us will welcome them with new appreciation for what we’ve missed. But tremendous innovation has occurred in on-line events and more will surely appear in coming months. It’s obvious that there will be a permanent shift towards more digital events, with in-person events reserved for situations where they offer a unique advantage. We can also expect in-person events to incorporate innovations developed for digital events – such as enhanced networking techniques and interactive presentations. I don’t think the significance of this has been fully recognized. Bear in mind that live events are often the most important new business source for B2B marketers, so major changes in how they work will ramify throughout the marketing and sales process.
- remote work is here to stay. Like events, marketers’ worksites will drift away from the current nearly-all-digital mode to a mix of online and office-based activities. Also like events, innovations developed for remote work, such as improved collaboration tools, will be deployed in both situations. The key difference is that attendance of most events is optional, so attendees can walk away from dysfunctional changes. Workers have less choice about their environments, so harmful innovations such as employee surveillance and off-hours interruptions are harder for them to reject. Whether these stressors outweigh the benefits of remote work will depend on how well companies manage them, so we can expect a period of experimentation and turmoil as businesses learn what works best. With luck, this will mean new attention to workplace policies and management practices, something many firms have handled poorly in the past. Companies that excel at managing remote workers will have a new competitive advantage, especially since remote work lets the best workers choose from a wider variety of employers.
- privacy pressures will rise. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) wasn’t the first serious privacy rule or the only reason that privacy gained more attention. But its enforcement date of May 25, 2018 does mark the start of an escalating set of changes that impact what data is available to marketers and how consumers view use of their personal information. These changes will continue and companies will find it increasingly important to manage consumer data in ways that comply with ever-more-demanding regulations and give consumers confidence that their data is being handled appropriately. (A closely related subplot is continued security breaches as companies fail to secure their data despite best efforts. Another is the continued misbehavior of Facebook and other social media firms and increasing resistance by regulators and consumers. That one is worth a channel of its own.) Marketers will need to take a more active role in privacy discussions, which have been dominated by legal, security, and IT staffs in businesses, and by consumer advocates, academics, and regulators in the political world. Earning a seat at that crowded table won’t be easy but making their voice heard is essential if marketers want the rules to reflect their needs.
- trust is under fire. This is a broad trend spanning continents and stretching back for years (see Martin Gurri’s uncannily prescient The Revolt of the Public, published in 2014), Socially, the trend presents itself as a loss of trust in institutions, the benefits of technology, and credentialed experts in general. In marketing, it shows up as companies voicing disappointment with data-driven analytics and personalization, as consumers not trusting companies to manage or protect their data, as workers' fear that AI systems will harm creativity and codify unfair bias, as widely-noted gaps between what customers want and companies deliver, as “citizen developers” preferring to build their own systems, and as buyers preferring peers, Web searches, social media, and pretty much any other information source to analysts reports.
Trust is the theme that connects all the stories I’ve listed above. Without trust, consumers won’t share their data, respond to marketing messages, or try new channels; governments will push for more stringent privacy and business regulations; workers will be less productive; and all industry progress will move more slowly. The trust crisis is too broad for marketers fix by themselves. But they need to account for it in everything they do, adjusting their plans to include trust-building measures that might not have been needed in a healthier past. The pandemic will end soon and technologies come and go. But trust will be a story to follow for a long, long time.
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Troubleshooting: Strange Name Showing on a Company's Invoice
Learn what might cause an incorrect to show on a company's invoice and how to remove the name.
Written by Pete Zimek
If you see an incorrect name on an invoice, most likely this is because you've got some old extra data in your customer record in QuickBooks.
Novi AMS: Companies are Different Than People
Novi AMS fundamentally treats companies and people as two different types of records. Companies have company names, and people have first & last names. In Novi AMS, you will not find a company record that has a first name, and you will not find a person's record that has a company name on the record itself. Instead, Novi tracks family relationships using separate records that are related to each other. Breaking records out allows for much better reporting and a lot more functionality.
>> Learn more about the QuickBooks customer record vs the Novi AMS member record.
QuickBooks: Customers can be People, Companies, or Both
When Novi AMS creates a QuickBooks customer record, it will have a company name or a first and last name. However, if a record is created within QuickBooks, then there is nothing that Novi can do to stop a well-meaning bookkeeper from adding both company and first/last information. While this may be fine in the short term, having company and first/last name information on a single customer record in QuickBooks can wreak havoc on your transactions.
QuickBooks' "Bill To"
When QuickBooks creates an invoice, sales receipt, or other transaction, it uses all of the information it has to fill in the "Bill to" section. If a company record has a first and last name inside of QuickBooks, then you will see that first and last name applied to the invoice. The same is true of people records. If QuickBooks has data in the company name field, then you will see that company name listed on the invoice.
Since Novi relies on QuickBooks as the system of record for accounting, even transactions created within Novi follow these rules.
QuickBooks Workflow
If your business workflow includes manually adding first/last name information to company records or company names to people records, we highly suggest that you discontinue the practice. This can quickly lead to additional data maintenance costs as people change companies.
Novi AMS has a number of different tools to track and change a person's parent company. We highly suggest that you not track this separately in QuickBooks unless it is by linking two records together.
Initial Connection to Novi AMS
It is quite possible that the reason you're reading this article is due to work that was done long ago in your QuickBooks file. Perhaps you noticed a strange name on a company's invoice or some old company name on a person's invoice.
When we first connect Novi to QuickBooks, we run an algorithm to determine if your customer records are people or companies. However, we do not automatically delete your first/last name or company name data on the off chance that our algorithm is incorrect (it's correct more than 99% of the time, but there still can be a handful of outliers). We also don't want to get in the habit of changing - or deleting - your QuickBooks data without notifying you.
To get a sense of the scope of the problem, you can run a "Customer Contact List" report within QuickBooks. When pulling the QuickBooks report, make sure to add Company Name, Last Name, and First Name to the report. This will allow you to quickly scan your customer list to find records that have extra data on them. Remember, this issue is on the QuickBooks side, so a Novi custom report will not be helpful.
Don't forget to customize the report:
How can I fix this?
All of this means that you may have some manual work ahead of you. If you want to clean up your old QuickBooks data, you'll need to open up individual records inside of QuickBooks and manually delete the data from the fields that you're not using.
Steps for manual cleanup:
Go to the record in QuickBooks Online.
Remove the old contact in the First/Last Name fields, and save.
To see updates immediately in Novi, complete a manual sync.
Do you have 5 extra minutes? Save yourself the trouble in the future and identify other records that may be doing the same thing. Find them quickly by using the QuickBooks Analyzer tool (located in your Association Settings).
Novi has a setting we can turn on for you that would automatically send a Billing Contact's name to QuickBooks Online and add it to the company's record/transactions. If this approach will work well for your member data, then you can avoid manually editing records in QuickBooks Online.
>> Learn more about the setting to automatically add Billing Contact names to Invoices and Sales Receipts for companies.
To enable this setting, reach out to the Novi support team via Intercom.
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The Mystery of The Wheels
The 1961 Corgi Toys Catalogue was the first to illustrate the Bentley Continental. This year was the start of all the exciting 'features' that were being incorporated in many new models. Corgi threw everything at the Bentley - as the catalogue text says: steering, jewelled head lights, ruby rear lights, opening boot, spare wheel, chrome plated radiator and bumpers, special hubs...
Special hubs? The illustration doesn't show anything different - they look like the flat wheels common at the time.
As we know the car appeared with all those lovely features except for the special hubs. It was the star of the show anyway so I, for one, didn't pay any more attention to the difference at the time. It had the shaped hubs but then so too did plenty of other models so I don't think this was the first time they'd been seen, nor would it have been the first with free spinning wheels. Or was it? Could it be that the first occasion when free spinning wheels were made available was, indeed, on the Bentley in April 1961?
We know that examples of most other models released before that could be found with shaped hubs but most were still fixed. Only a few, like the Aston Martin, Morris Mini Minor and Austin Seven would get free spinning wheels but they might well have been rather later than April 1961. We know that Corgi were playing with the idea of making the wheels spin independently at about this time as some 303S and 304S Mercedes re-issues with suspension had the old style flat wheels spinning freely so it is possible that this may have been what they meant when the catalogue was drafted.
Alternatively, there may have been a plan to create a wheel that more closely resembled the classy hubs of the real thing, perhaps with bright chrome. I have no idea. All we know for sure is that the Bentley was the only model ever produced with pale grey tyres!
There was another mystery in the 1963 catalogue, also repeated in The Great Book of Corgi: spoked wheels for the Mercedes 303s, 304S and Aston Martin 309.
The catalogue has quite clear pictures of what look like the spoked wheels used for the Buick Riviera, Chevrolet Sting Ray and others fitted to these models.
It would have been a popular move and one that made a great deal of sense as the spoked wheels were really nicely made and suited models so well. Existing wheels could have been used so there need have been no special new tooling or change in the production process other than adding a box of the spoked wheels to the selections for these lines.
What seems to have happened is that a cast wheel, with a spoke effect design (to be used across the range in years to come), was fitted to later editions of the two Mercedes models. These were discontinued soon afterwards so they're not at all common. The 218 yellow or red Aston Martins had had a crude spoke effect cast wheel only ever found on that model and it was also fixed the the axle and not at all attractive. That was discontinued in 1962, though, and mercifully we never saw those wheels again.
I have never seen any 309 Aston Martin, however, with anything other than free spinning, shaped wheels. I am surprised that they didn't fit the same cast, spoke effect wheels as they used for the Mercedes, especially as they presumably were planning these at the same time. If there ever were any Aston Martins with those cast wheels or spoked wheels then they must be seriously rare. It is not particularly difficult for someone with the right tools to switch the wheels so I am inclined to be a bit suspicious of any I did encounter anyway. But if someone would like to have a go I would love to see one!
Update 9/3/17:
I have just seen this on Ebay.
Interestingly, the seller has not shown the base which always makes me wonder, especially as this is a dealer who should know to include that. He's asking £250 which, if it's genuine, seems very reasonable. Unfortunately, I can't afford that. He has another in better condition but with the cast, spoke effect wheels, at £350. Something wrong there. It ought to be the other way round. Anyway, it looks like the Mercedes may exist.
Labels: Aston Martin, cast wheels, Corgi, Corgi Toys, Mercedes 300SL, spoked, wheel
One of the iconic models in the Corgi collection is the Routemaster London Bus. You'll see thousands of these littered across auction listings, in boxes at fairs and even on some people's shelves at home. Like the real thing, it lasted a very long time. Indeed, as far as I can tell, it is still being produced to this day. For the period I am concerned with, however, there are just a few editions to look for.
The first is the original released in Summer 1964 and bearing the totally appropriate 'Corgi' banners. With jewelled headlamps, suspension and nicely detailed interior, including the louvred window tops and driver and ticket collector, this was Corgi doing what it did best.
A couple of years later, someone had the bright idea of using the banners as real promotion and it seems that Outspan oranges got the first deal and their banners are by far the most commonly encountered and lasted the life of the model in that form. There was a green and cream edition produced for the Australian market but that is very hard to find and sells for huge amounts if any ever do appear.
I think that the very earliest editions didn't have the additional stickers to the left and right of the destination board and that, itself, looks very simple on my example. Maybe they did look like that in those days but my recollection is more aligned with the board that shows a number and more information. I used to think my stickers had fallen off but now I think that's how it was sold. The early Corgi catalogues illustrate a model without the additional stickers and with the simple front board and no side destination board.
After Outspan Oranges came more special promotions for shops and products. These included a Candian issue advertising Red Rose Tea and Coffee, the London Gamages store, Church Shoes, Madame Tusauds, The Design Centre and Cokechu 2d. Some of these were only available late in the model's life so may be hard to find. However, not all owners realise that and you may still see them for a few pounds if you're lucky.
The wheels changed to the cast type at about the same time as Outspan Oranges appeared but I believe you'll find both Corgi Classics with cast wheels and Outspan with normal wheels (although each will be a little scarcer).
Then in around 1971 the dreaded Whizzwheels were fitted to the bus too. That seems just plain silly to me as no child was going to race his London bus along those Whizzwheel tracks and there really was no need to try and compete with other 'Go Faster' competitors when it came to double decker buses! Cost must have been the real reason and, at the same time, a few other changes were made. The Whizzwheels one has a clear plastic staircase in place of the cream and gone are the jewelled headlamps.
The ticket collector lady looks slightly different, as does the driver, but it's not a great difference in either case. I have seen the lady standing in different places on these editions too.
I don't know how long the Whizzwheels version was around and they seem less common than the cast wheel version.
Examples of both the cast wheels and Whizzwheels versions are still available at very modest prices, though.
The one problem I have always had with the double decker bus is its size. It is simply the wrong scale and looks a bit strange next to most of the other models. It appears tiny in sets with a 418 taxi and a comparatively giant-like policeman!
That got sorted rather late in the day when in April 1975, #469 appears in a slightly larger scale.
There are literally hundreds of variations of this one! Corgi really did press the promotion money button now and a pound will buy many of them too. The first, however, is worth getting and that had the Welcome to Britain banner. It is further dumbed down with a plastic base and less detail inside but, in many respects, is not a bad model and you need to put it side by side with its predecessor to see the difference.
Somewhere along the line both the driver and ticket collector get sacked and the later issues are bland affairs with nothing much going for them other than the vast array of different banners and now colours too. As well as a Silver Jubilee edition in 1977, there are all sorts of colours and banners. There are even open top buses with the 469 number! So good luck with that lot if you do decide to keep going with them! This, however, is where I get off!
I much prefer the lovely old 1120 Midland Motorway Express.
Labels: Corgi, Corgi Toys, London. bus, Routemaster
Mixed Grill For The Mini Van
Corgi made a superb job of reproducing the Mini Van and I am surprised that it was only produced for a little more than a year, appearing in December 1964 and discontinued in 1966.
In that short time, however, even this otherwise quite bland model had some variations!
Normally, the grill is all painted and has straight bars and horizontal elements. The ones to look out for are the comparatively scarce grills that have been painted silver and the less easy to find wavy style as made for the Austin Countryman.
I have been able to get a couple with silver grills, and the paint does look original rather than having been added later by someone. They were quite inexpensive but both have a bent rear door. I have also found a good model with the Countryman style grill but this was probably only affordable by reason of the missing rear door! I think it should be fairly straightforward to fit a door sometime once I have found a very cheap wreck that still has one.
As far as I know, all the Mini Vans have Austin badges. I am still checking almost every one I see, though, just in case there is a Morris somewhere. I believe that there is a Morris version of the #485 'Austin' Countryman so it is not totally impossible.
There is great fun to be had checking the badges on all the Minis, in fact. A little while ago this little blue #226 came up at an auction. A collector friend had spotted the Austin badge on what was supposed to be a Morris Mini-Minor (and which was painted in Morris Mini-Minor pale blue and had Morris Mini-Minor on the base)! We were very hopeful at the time that we might get it for a modest, typical #226 price.
Unfortunately, that was not to be and I have since discovered that many people were watching the bids as they soared past the £120 I had considered paying!
Labels: Austin, Corgi Toys, Mini, van
Corgi Toys at 60: the Standard Vanguard III
Just two new models came out in February 1957, the Standard Vanguard III (phase 3) in normal and Mechanical form.
These were not a common sight on our roads at the time. It does bear quite a few similarities at first glance to the Vauxhall Velox and others in that range.
This is the Mechanical 207M, always in a creamy yellow colour. Really quite rare now in decent condition.
The normal version, 207, was the first with two-tone paintwork and the colours are a very pale green and bright red. You'll find two versions of this: one with the red coming down to the bottom of the window line and a less common one with just a red roof.
There are minor shades of pale green some appearing more like a pea green perhaps but really this model has very few variations. Most differences will have been the result of sunlight fading the colours or, often, someone trying to freshen up the appearance!
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Fair showcases rising Korean, international artists
Posted : 2015-10-09 13:42
Updated : 2015-11-24 14:18
By Frank Smith
South Korea shows its growing prominence on the global art scene with the Korea International Art Fair at Coex thru Sunday. Galleries laid out 182 exhibits representing hundreds of artists from 11 countries at the 14th edition of KIAF this year.
To learn more about the artworks a docent hosted tour takes place several times daily in Korean with an English version at 3:30 pm. The show runs until Oct. 11. Hours are 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday and Saturday and 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Sunday. Check www.kiaf.org for more information.
Frank Smith is a Seoul-based freelance journalist and videographer contributing to The Korea Times.
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Of Those Allegedly Discriminating and Of those Felt Discriminated
Is it because the north east people residing out side the region, particularly in New Delhi arming with inferiority complex become touchy, as a fallout of the mindset problem that the mainland Indians are discriminatory in attitude towards the minority North Easterners? (I opted for the term mainland Indians as no other appropriate description isavailable though this term too falls short of giving complete definition with respect to North East India region. There are numerous terms but they will not suit in this particular article. Rather, they may add to communal color) Numerous protests against the sexual assaults on the fairer sex hailing from the Northeast region have been carried out by certain NGOs and student organizations in New Delhi.
Now, what we need to ponder over is the nature of the crime and the circumstances leading to the crime. Effort to identify the domicile of the prey and the perpetrators is necessary. It is also important to note whether the crimes have been the one-way traffic. To begin with, we may ask whether all the incidents of rape and molestation meted out only on girls from the north eastern region. In all these cases of sexual abuse, were all the perpetrators from the mainland Indians? Were there cases where male mainland Indians raped mainland women? We may still ask whether any case or two being reported involving North East men molesting mainland Indian women in New Delhi or elsewhere? Charting out a concrete graph based on this linear of queries is a must to understand the nature of affairs.
In case if the graph happens to indicate that almost all the victims hailed from the North East region and the perpetrators are (nearly) always from the mainland Indians, then it can be a matter of serious concern. If this is the case, one may as well, investigate things even to other spheres of crime taking place whether discriminatory based incidents towards the North Easterners by others really exist. This is merely to confirm whether our judgment has been driven by our emotion.
Also, at the end of the day, the statistics of the total number of sex related crime of the whole country and the same crime on North East women should be compared. As per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports, 20,737 rape cases were registered in the year 2007 while in 2006 the total number of rape cases reported was 19,384 and in the year 2005 18,359 rape cases were registered and 18,233 in 2004 against 15,847 in 2003. The records for the year 2008, 2009 and 2010 are not available at the moment.
Meanwhile, the NCRB reports said rape cases in India jump 678% since 1971. Now, let us take the case of New Delhi where the brouhaha attracts public attention.
According to a paper presented by Mr. Madhu Chandra of North East Support Center and Helpline in a seminar, altogether there have been 8 cases of molestation in the year 2009 in New Delhi on the North East women, two such cases in the year2010 and 15 cases from 2005 to 2008.
Regarding the rape cases on North East women in the national capital, there was just one case in 2009 and from 2005 to 2008 there were two cases.
There have been cases of physical assault on the North Easterners but since this article concentrates on sexual assault details of other nature of crime have not been mentioned. When figures of sexual crime against the girls from the North East region are compared with the overall crime cases of the same nature in the national capital alone, it is not too easy to conclude things on racial discrimination basis. However, it will be wrong to dismiss it as just chance-incidents either before the probe.
(Just note that there have been nearly 300 cases of rape recorded by Delhi police in the first five months of 2010. Regarding these cases, the victims and the perpetrators were mainland Indians).
It is very important to gather the whole circumstances leading to the crime. North Easterners are minority people out there in every Indian city outside the North East region. Any crime involving a North Easterner may send bigger ripples than those incidents without them in a place like Delhi because it always becomes a piece of news when a man bites a dog and not the other way round. It is to say that several violent related crimes take place in a big place like New Delhi in a single day and people have become indifferent to such things except the blasts and firings as they carry global dictum of the term ‘terrorism’. However, a simple crime involving two elements of different racial stock can mean something else altogether. Such a case tends to add communal color and becomes cacophonous all the more. Once a situation where fear psychosis begins to grip among the minority in any society, a usual attitude of your neighbor who hails from outside your community may appear unusual because you begin to read so much on that person. A hunter shoots his colleague mistaken it for a deer because as he waits for the animal his whole concentration focuses on the deer. To any object, for him becomes a deer.
However, it is wrong to give an assumptive conclusion that the sexual molestation and rape cases on the North East women perpetrated by the mainland Indians were never a discriminatory in nature. Before making the brouhaha, first detail the cirscumstances leading to the crime. Cirscumstances are very important materials to confirm whether any crime in question is racial in nature or something else. We may also ask why do the Delhi police had to issue a Dos and Don’ts booklet for the Northeast students in New Delhi? One advice mentioned in the Delhi police booklet asks the Northeast students to avoid cladding revealing dresses and to avoid lonely places and bylanes when scantily clad. Issuing of this booklet speaks volumes. We should have enough common sense to match the occasions we are attending with the dress we use. The bottomline is—let us do our homework first before we take things to the streets. The writer is the editor of Newmai News Network (NNN).
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IMPHAL, May 22 : A public meeting held here today at Iboyaima Shumang Leela Shanglen, Palace Compound has endorsed the demand for enlistment of Meitei/Meetei in Scheduled Tribe (ST) category under the Constitution of India. The meeting organised by the Coordinating Body on Scheduled Tribe Demand Committee Manipur (CBSTDCM) resolved to urge the State Government to take up all necessary initiatives for inclusion in the ST category ahead of the next State Assembly session which is likely in the month of July. The meeting was presided by STDCM president and College Development Council former Director Prof Y Mohendro and Manipur State Human Rights Commission former member RK Rajendra moderated the meeting. Speaking at the gathering, retired IPS officer Sarangthem Manaobi dismissed all objections to the demand for ST status as whimsical. Nonetheless, there is a need to bring an understanding with all the antagonists of the ST status. “We must prostrate before them, if necessary. If they still refuse to support the popular demand or to withdraw their objections, they must be declared as enemies of the people”, Manaobi said. Meiteis were once known for their high level of civilization and valour but now they are reduced to the status of slaves. He went on to ask if there is any Meitei Judge in the Supreme Court, or a General in the Indian Army or an Admiral in the Indian Navy. “Meiteis have now become a punching bag of every community. We are living in the past legacy. The claim that Meiteis enjoy higher social status defies both logic and reality”, he asserted. Meiteis cannot afford complacency just because they are a bigger community in the State and the only way to protect them is through enlistment in ST category under Article 341(2) of the Indian Constitution. There is no harm in enlisting Meiteis in ST category and there would not be any difficulty in removing the community from ST list. It only needs a recommendation of the State Government, Manaobi continued. CAU former Dean Dr Naorem Iboton remarked that the STDCM’s campaign for ST status is rather late. It should have been launched 10/20 years back, he added. The myriad issues plaguing Manipur at present can be reduced only when Meiteis are enveloped with the protective shield of ST status. Meiteis originated as highlanders before they migrated to the valley. The demand for ST status for Meiteis is nothing but ‘restoration to originality’, Dr Iboton asserted. Col (retd) Dr T Hemo maintained that the demand for ST status does not have any inclination to subdue other communities nor does it mean grasping all the opportunities. It is all about giving some dietary supplements to an ailing community. The ongoing demand for ILPS and the campaign for ST status are not contradictory. The two movements can be amalgamated together. He also expressed keen desire to debate the issue with all the antagonists in a constructive manner. Dr Khomdon Lisam questioned as to how Meiteis were included in SC and OBC categories when some people have been claiming that the community was quite advanced. The word ‘Meitei’ is not found anywhere in the Indian Constitution and there is not a single provision to protect their lands and rights. There is no harm for the Meiteis to take the central role in building a Manipuri Nation but the same task can also be done with the ST tag attached to them. He went on to question how a Manipuri Nation can be built while Meiteis are listed in General category and hill people categorised as ST. Dr Khomdon asserted that only the ST status can protect the identity, culture and language of Meitei community. Manipur State Human Rights Commissioner former Member Yambem Laba, STDCM secretary general Col (retd) Laishram Lokendro and MU CDC Director Dr Th Ratankumar too spoke at the meeting. Notably, Iboyaima Shumang Leela Shanglen was packed to full capacity during the meeting.
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ATRPFM against demand to include Meiteis in ST list
apem jagoi May 24, 2016 at 11:07 am 0thIST
“Restoration to originality” is the question here. While people plan for progressive safeguards, demand for ST status which implies retrogression as it is a tag upon the underprivileged which has to be outgrown. Yet if meiteis feel they need to start again as they are marginalized in many ways as perceived, No one may object. But the way it is pushed forcefully is highly unbecoming knowing that it is a matter of legislation. Unfounded emotions and ruckus is being created in the already disturbed state.
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María Carbonell, injured bodies, insurgent gestures
What took its name from a historic battle, the balaclava, a garment that later shrouded in secrecy the heroes of the resistance, and so many movements that fought and continue fighting against the abuse of power, but it also camouflages the identity of bank robbers or rapists, also wrestling attire, has ended up playing a function so little epic as that of sunscreen on the crowded Chinese beaches.
Facekini 2016
The paintings of María Carbonell lead us to reflect on the pilgrimage of symbols: an Asian face covered with a “facekini” among other paintings that show naked torsos painted with protest slogans, or night flashes in which are juxtaposed in unusual way scenes of camping and police persecutions to Femen activists…
Her work leads us to think about the emptying of the iconic meaning, about the stereotyped repetition of the same gestures, but, above all, what Carbonell proposes is to overcome the visual ennui by means of the stripping of the image, the incursion into its deeper layers, decoding them, rescuing the sediment they leave in the passage of time.
1. Maria, in “State of disorder” series you brought together archive images and internet images, journalistic snapshots and visual documents related to eugenic practices, lobotomies … What these medical crimes and historic insurrections have in common?
Lebensborn 2016
In these paintings I started to work on issues as illness, pain, violence… They have as their main subject the human figure, in most cases. We live in an era saturated with images, and this overload of visual information prevents us from having a direct contact with the real facts. When we see images related to the war in Syria, the refugee crisis, xenophobic violence or gender violence, the impact they cause on the viewer is inversely proportional to the speed with which they are reproduced, causing a saturation that collapses our ability to discern and interpret. My idea was to create images that explored the fascination and the abyss between beauty and horror in order to provoke in the viewer some kind of emotion.
The pink eye 2016
In this series there are works dealing with eugenic practices such as Lebensborn, lobotomies such as Stadium 1,2,3 or Howard Dully, and mental disorders such as Untitled. I was interested in showing visually strong images that provoke in the spectator a certain sensation of discomfort, restlessness or astonishment, in order not to remain impassive before the work.
Another aspect to be noted of these works is the pictorial research. Just before starting with this series, I found myself in a moment in which I needed to go beyond the image. This led me to break with my previous work process and to look for another type of images as inspiration source. So, I started working with images taken from the internet that provided me with another type of reading and led me to experiment in the same work with different materials, oils, sprays or enamels. For me, it is very important that there is a balance between the conceptual part and the formal process (painting technique) of the work.
The Jungle 2016
2. This idea of a fragmentary archive or iconographic puzzle run through the paintings series included in “Looking for paradise”. Would the violated body and a frustrated desire be the underlying issues?
Yes, in a sense. Looking for paradise is a project where the phenomenon of migration is examined as survival forms through painting, highlighting the violence that is generated as a cause of displacement or as a consequence of the same act.
All works refer to a violence on the body. The pieces The Protest and Untitled refer to an action carried out in the north of Greece by 7 refugees, mostly from Iran, who sewed their lips in protest after the closure of borders between Greece and Macedonia. In Looking for paradise you can see bandaged hands as a result of the blades on the border fences, Nobody will speak of us when we are dead refers to the idea of loss, to death.
Looking for paradise 2016
They are pieces that seek to generate a dialogue that makes us reflect on a phenomenon that is far from being temporary and that pushes hundreds of thousands of people to risk their own life as the only way to face the future. The migrant is faced with a violence to flee from, a violence that is generated during the migration process, and a violence that has been generated in the place of destination even before his arrival.
In these pieces, the “iconographic puzzle” is also more evident, where fragments of images without obvious relationship to each other are gathered in the same work, so it does not have an immediate reading and to the estrangement that the image produces is enhanced.
3. Already in “Fake” series, you wanted to disconcert the viewer by sense collisions and conflicting emotions, for example showing in the same image a birthday celebration and the idea of death. Only by taking it out of context and interrupting visual expectations, can an image stop being a simulacrum and burst into reality, says Didi-Huberman. Is it like that for you?
A state of disorder 2016
Indeed, I think that the more we try to approach the real through the image, the farther we go. In my work more and more I have been moving away from a type of painting that tries to apprehend the reality we see.
The painting does not return you, in any case, a fragment of reality, the painting shows an illusion of reality, a deception that becomes an appearance of the real. That is why I like to play with opposite elements or scenarios taken out of context and combine them in the same image, thus creating a new reality, a fake that, as Didi-Huberman points out, paradoxically is closer to reality.
Fake was the first project with which I started working using images that were outside of certain established logic, out of context, with the purpose of making the viewer question what he was seeing.
Our body, our fight 2018
In this case, they were images that combined opposing elements like a girl holding a knife or a woman playing with a paper boat. The idea was to combine figures and objects without apparent relation in order to create images that put the viewer in a position to judge what he was seeing. That distancing from the real led me at the same time to become more interested in the creative process of the work, towards a painting where the referent is no longer so important, where I move further away from the image, which has led me to investigate more about the painterly matter itself.
4. It seems as if only with night vision cameras could that underlying reality be apprehended in all things, which gives your images a dense patina with fluorescent mottled, diffuse textures …
In my opinion, the real thing is in all those nuances that occur in the work during the pictorial process, including all the mistakes that are leaving marks and creating textures on the canvas. Without that, a painting becomes meaningless; it becomes only an image, it does not transcend or go beyond itself.
A work has to invite the viewer to approach it, raising questions for reflexion. In the studio, that process of pictorial research, the sum of successes and errors is what makes me enjoy.
What are you looking at? 2016
5. You have participated in the latest edition of ARCO, invited by Javier Díaz Guardiola to the ABC Cultural stand. How was your experience in “Mano sobre mano”? Are you currently preparing an exhibition?
It was an incredible experience. It was the first time I participated in ARCO and doing it twice with Mano sobre mano and with T20 was extraordinary. Both Josep Tornero and I were especially excited to participate in this project, we have been sharing the studio for 13 years but until now we had not done any piece together, so we really wanted to see what came out of that. It was a challenge because in our studio each one has its own space, so we have not experienced until now that physical proximity required to work for four hands. We proposed to choose the same image and work it from the pictorial languages of each one. And although each one of us worked individually, the work turned out to be a mirror, like a conversation between the two images with many points in common. The image we chose was not by chance, we wanted to claim a greater visibility of women in the art world. Greater parity in fairs, galleries, museums and other cultural spaces.
Sin título 2018
I am currently working on a project that revolves around protest actions using the naked body as a claim element. The action of nude bodies has been present in different protests for different reasons, using nudity as a tool for social and political action, but also with an aesthetic and poetic content. At the same time, it seems to me necessary to work with this issue now that we see a lack of freedom and very little tolerance on social networks and from some museums that are censoring works of art in which female nudes appear or any kind of erotic representation. I find it very curious how we are able to censor images related to the human body naked but not others related to acts of violence carried out by human beings.
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The epic saga of Horatio Hornblower, the legendary sea-faring, hero, comes to life in these films based on C.S. Forester's classic novels. Set against the bloody backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Hornblower charts a course for high adventure, following the raw recruit as he battles the French, evades capture, and rises through the ranks of the King's Navy
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Jennifer Garner has sealed a first-look production deal with ABC Studios, reports Variety. She starred for five seasons on ABC’s “Alias” as Sydney Bristow.
The deal covers her Vandalia Films production company, which is looking to get into the TV business. Garner runs Vandalia with Juliana Janes; the duo has a first-look pact with Warner Bros. for feature films.
The duo said they hope to bring feature writers to the TV side and also work with writers they had met during Garner’s stints on “Alias” and “Felicity.”
Garner and Janes said they’re looking toward developing female-driven material such as “Grey’s Anatomy.”
“(ABC Entertainment topper) Steve McPherson and I have a great relationship and have been talking about doing something together for some time now. It’s been over three years since the finale of ‘Alias,’ ” Garner said, adding that she was looking forward “to have the opportunity to get back into television wearing my producer hat.”
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Deuchar (2011) People look at us the way we dress and they think we’re gangsters - bonds, bridges, gangs and refugees - A qualitative study of inter-cultural social capital in Glasgow Deuchar (2011) draws attention to the interplay between Glasgow’s youth (gang) culture and marginalisation of young refugees. The study explores the concept of inter-cultural social capital, based on assertions that those communities who exhibit higher levels of inter-cultural social capital offer optimum conditions for refugee integration. Communities in which higher levels of social bonding and disconnection are displayed are less successful when it comes to conditions for refugee integration as these factors can inhibit inter-cultural integration. It is argued that gang solidarity can even promote intolerance. Deuchar (2011) identifies gang membership, albeit territorial in nature, as providing a platform for ethnic solidarity and consequently racial prejudice. Although a small-scale study, its strength lies in laying a foundation for the exploration of this fascinating area. The authors call for policy that reflects the need to develop social capital within multi-ethnic urban communities, and consider the potential for community initiatives to build inter-cultural cohesion. Read More Visit site £ Refugee Glasgow City Journal article
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Moskal (2013a) Circulating capitals between Poland and Scotland: A transnational perspective on European labour mobility Through examining the complex reality of Polish migration to Scotland, Moskal (2013a) highlights migrant commitment to both Poland and Scotland. This example is presented as a challenge to the concept of the ‘brain drain’ – which the author contends should instead be considered as a circulation of economic, social and cultural capital within a newly shaped European space. Moskal (2013a) highlights the increasingly transnational nature of the European labour market and migrant mobility. The gains and losses that Polish migrants experience (both at home in Poland and in Scotland) as a result of the decision to migrate are also explored. See also Moskal (2013b) for a further study which explores migrants’ use of social, cultural and economic capital and transnational connections, Moskal (2014) which covers a range of concepts including the family, social and cultural capitals. Also see Pietka (2011) which examines the concept of community and Trevena et al. (2013) for a study of migrant mobility. See Lassalle et al. (2011) for a study of Polish entrepreneurs in Scotland. Read More Visit site £ EU Journal article
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Smyth et al. (2010) Social capital and refugee children: Does it help their integration and education in Scottish schools? In this study by Smyth et al. (2010) the authors set out to explore if and how teachers and refugee pupils understand social capital and any subsequent impact it may have on their families and other networks beyond the school environment. The research involved interviews with staff and pupils and observing teaching and learning within one primary and one secondary school in Glasgow and centred on exploring questions related to whether or not the selected schools intentionally develop social capital amongst their pupils from refugee families. In addition, Smyth et al. (2010) ask what forms of social capital are central within the school environment, while also investigating if cultural and economic capitals operate and interact with the development of social capital. The study finds that although teachers interviewed within the selected schools may not necessarily use themselves the term social capital, they were found to be employing a range of practices which enable refugee pupils to build social relationships and networks. Read More Visit site Free Refugee Glasgow City Journal article
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"I want all my fans, past, present, or future, to know that without you, there would have not been any Stompin' Tom."
Stompin'Tom Connors.
This is an interesting night, it seems many people, even back East, are up late tonight. Might be the Newfie moon light, eh?
My personal story about Stompin' Tom is that I saw him only once that I can remember. It was a bar in the Kemptville Hotel, outside Ottawa. I was in my 20s probably. There was a genuine 'hokiness' to it all. It however probably resonated, somewhere deep in my ancestral rural bones. My father and his family were from Shawville, Quebec. I had one uncle and several cousins who worked farms in the area. In that regard, no one is too far from the land or the resources underneath it. We are all miners, farmers and loggers. Woe are we to ever forget or deny that.
Well, Stompin' Tom didn't and won't let us do that!
In some ways, it is a confession how many of his songs, as well as his performances, were viewed by me, and many at the time, as parochial and, well, a tad amateurish. His bands were nondescript; your basic country bar band, drummers replete with bulging guts, and bassists donning hockey or John Deere caps, all awash in and floating on Sudbury Golden Foam.
My early heroes were more sophisticated, Bruce Cockburn to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. Although there is a Canadian aspect to their sound and even lyrics at times, it was not as 'pure' or, in a good way, as working class as Stompin’ Tom. Even as we clapped and sang along, we were never Sudbury miners getting stinko on a Sudbury Saturday Night. In that, the poetry of his songs, at the time, escaped us.
His 'Canadianism' was embarrassing to be truthful, a bit too small-minded.
As a songwriter and performer, one wanted a bigger universe. Thus, one wrote and sang more about saving the world than saving jobs at Inco.
Neil and Joni were living in magical California during the heady Sixties. That is where our drams lay. Fame and fortune wasn’t writing playful folksy ditties about unknown people living in backwater towns of Canada; too close to Don Messer's Jubilee, fiddles, Marg and Charlie, or "Our Pet," Juliette, from which an urban, college-educated generation, with a worldly view, high-tailed it in their bell-bottoms and beads.
Give me Paris, all right, but not the one in Southern Ontario!
No way, I would not break my back picking tobacco in Tillsonberg. Everyone was more interested in lying on the couch after smoking that wacky tobacky stuck on a roach pin. In many ways, too many Canadian writers of song still shy away from naming Canadian places, streets, clubs and so forth in their songs, but have no problem citing New York or Memphis and so forth. We live in fear of making our little enclaves universal. "Not possible" was, and is, the consensus among those writers that mostly toil in obscurity, even in their own country.
Reading some of those famous Stompin' Tom lyrics tonight and reading or seeing the tributes, humbled me. There is an intelligent mind at work in that writing. Tom, arguably, was not as political as was Woody Guthrie, or as witty and ironic as John Prine. Yet, if capturing the daily hardships and pleasures in daily lives is any measure, he certainly makes the grade.
Some say Tom was not a very nice man, behind the scenes, who knows. Maybe at a certain time of his life he may have gone off the rails, a bit. In that, I can assure you, he is not unique in the Canadian song writing fraternity.
Not slick enough for the Nashville country crowd or folkie enough for the folkies, Tom fell and sat between the cracks. I suspect he decided to push on, believing, with a strong conviction, in what he was doing and singing about while he hitchhiked across our home and native land. I returned to the fold, somewhat, with his revival at the hands of Charlie Angus' folk band “The Hard Rock Miners,” among others, such as the “Rheostatics” and “Tragically Hip,” all of whom were not afraid to display their Canadian roots. Stompin Tom thus became a cult figure, even in the college crowd and circuit. The wood on the floor began, banged again. Then, apparently, it was The Ottawa Senators who first started playing 'The Hockey Song' at NHL games, a song they even sing now in hockey arenas in Finland or anywhere else in the world where hockey is played.
One truly wishes more Canadians had as much love of country, its places and people. For better or worse, he wore his Canadian heart and flag, on his sleeve, into the dance halls, bar rooms and ice rinks, in every small town, where his legacy endures.
On my bathroom wall, across from the shitter, is postcard picture of three fishermen from Nova Scotia, standing on a dock, with cigarettes and beer in hand. A friend recently asked me if I knew those guys: "Friends of yours?" he asked. Nope. Just, as I said, a postcard. Those happy looking fellers remind every day, when I'm regular that is, of the hard but good lives that many live. Those happy looking hard working fellers are the people of which Stompin Tom wrote and sang.
Among songwriters and I one, there’s an adage about dying for a great song that will outlive the writer. Many have tried. Few succeeded.
It is a bit sad that Tom had to pass away for Canadians to recognize, fully and truly, his talent. Yet, that is not such a bad thing for Stompin' Tom Connors or us. The torch, as Stompin' Tom wanted, passes to others.
A country grows in its heart and soul by the nature of its myths and mythical personages. To those who may have spoken badly of Stompin Tom, I say, at times like these, please bury your grievances along with the burial shovels and dirt. For tonight more than any other night in Canadian history the man in the moon is indeed a Newfie. Bud the Spud from the bright red mud is rollin' down the highway smiling, while Big Joe Mufferaw, the best man in Ottawa, is paddling in to Mattawa.
In Sudbury, Irish Jim O'Connel, Scotty Jack MacDonald and honky Fredrick Hurchell are getting stinko along with happy German Fritzy there with Frenchy getting tipsy. On the West Coast, a Chaplin spreads 19 roses around in the waters of Burrard Inlet in old Vancouver town, as he remembers, again, when the bridge came tumbling down, when the bridge came tumbling down.
Somewhere in the universe, Tom's spirit is stomping and singing the good old hockey song, while reading "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy."
"Oh the good old hockey game is the best game you can name and the best game you can name is the good old hockey game." As Canadiana, as folk arty, as you can get, Stompin’ Tom Connors has done work and well. Maybe he rest in peace.
Bob Stark is a musician, poet, philosopher and couch potato. He spends his days, as did Jean-Paul Sarte and Albert Camus, pouring lattes and other adult beverages into a recycled mug, bearing a long and winding crack. He discusses, with much insight and passion, the existentialist and phenomenological ontology of the Vancouver 'Canucks,' a hockey team, "Archie" comic books and high school reunions. In other words, Bob Stark is a retired public servant living the good life on the wrong coast of Canada.
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Fauci admits coronavirus vaccines don’t prevent infection
Getting vaccinated for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) could maybe, possibly, reduce some of the symptoms associated with infection, says Anthony Fauci, but recipients should not expect to be protected against actual infection.
America’s top government “doctor” told the media the other day that President Donald Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” jabs are wholly unable to protect recipients against “catching” the novel virus, especially during the first round of injections. They should still get penetrated for the China virus, however, because doing so is good, or something.
“The primary thing you want to do is that if people get infected, prevent them from getting sick, and if you prevent them from getting sick, you will ultimately prevent them from getting seriously ill,” Fauci proclaimed at Yahoo Finance‘s recent All Markets Summit.
“If the vaccine also allows you to prevent initial infection, that would be great. [But] what I would settle for, and all of my colleagues would settle for, is the primary endpoint to prevent clinically recognizable disease.”
Other than spread more disease, it is unclear thus far in what way COVID-19 vaccines might be beneficial. Fauci agrees, which is why he is still pushing the vaccinated to remain socialistically distanced and masked at all times.
Fauci says Trump administration claim that natural herd immunity can be achieved without vaccination is “total nonsense”
Fauci has been having a lot of trouble lately keeping his story straight. Early on, he claimed that only about 60 percent of America would need a WuFlu vaccine in order to eradicate the virus, or maybe just the symptoms, or something. That figure later crept up to more than 85 percent.
When pressed, Fauci admitted that he makes up numbers on the fly based on public opinion polls. The more people that seem willing to get jabbed, the higher Fauci’s “herd” immunity threshold, he confessed.
It will take a little while for the production lines to churn out enough vaccines for everyone, however. There will not be enough vaccine doses for the entire country until around March, he says, which for the time being means that everyone needs to continue living in nonstop fear.
The Trump administration has suggested that perhaps herd immunity can be achieved naturally without the need for China virus jabs, but Fauci says this is “total nonsense.”
According to Fauci, getting vaccinated is the only way out of the “pandemic,” regardless of never having a vaccine end a pandemic before in human history, and the public need not worry because the vaccines are all “safe and effective.”
“One of the things I’m concerned about in the United States is that part of the anti-science translates maybe into anti-vaccine,” Fauci mumbled and whined during another recent interview.
“It would really be a shame if we have a safe and effective vaccine, but a substantial proportion of the people do not want to take the vaccine because they don’t trust authority. That would really be unfortunate if that’s the case.”
When, and only when, a bulk of the population agrees to be injected with Big Pharma chemicals, the country can move towards some semblance of new normality, Fauci insists.
As for a “second wave” of the virus, Fauci thinks the world is still in the throes of the first one. Perhaps he is saying this because it was already shown that there is no “second wave” and the “pandemic” is over – and has been for quite some time.
“No matter how you look at it, it’s not good news,” Fauci threatened, pushing listeners to roll up their sleeves and get ready for injection during the first quarter of 2021.
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Twenty Tamil civilians belonging to five families, fleeing LTTE-controlled areas by a boat, sought the government protection at Pallimunai and Pesalai in Mannar yesterday (11th March 2008).
In one incident, two Tamil families consisting eight (08) persons sought refuge of the government security forces at the Pallimunai Fishing Marshalling Point jointly manned by the Sri Lanka Navy and the Police, yesterday morning around 7.30 a.m.
They had fled LTTE-dominated Vedithaltievu in two "Wallams" (locally made fishing craft) yesterday (10th March 2008) around 9.30 p.m. One Wallam had been fitted with an 8 Horse Power Out Board Motor (OBM) and the other Wallam had been on tow, tied to it. The Wallam which was on tow did not have an engine; yet it had four persons on board.
One family consists of a father of 28, a mother of 27 and two daughters aged 4 and 2. The other family consists of four persons with a father of 26, a mother of 22 and two daughters aged 3 years and just 2 months. The heads of the families are fishermen by profession and one had not forgotten to sneak his precious motor cycle too on board his wallam though it added additional weight slowing down their escapade.
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Azzedine Alaïa’s Return to the Runway
It has been nearly a week since Azzedine Alaïa’s collection closed out the Paris Couture shows and the fashion world is still buzzing about Mr. Alaïa’s breathtaking designs. During a show week that saw Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld delve into the depths of Coco’s mystic, Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci put on a couture clinic and Valentino’s Chiuri and Piccoli take viewers away into a timeless fairytale, it was Mr. Alaïa who rose above the rest with his first runway show in 8 years. While the notoriously shy and some would even say reclusive designer has been busy for these past eight years, creating a shoe line, perfecting his popular crackled patent leather coast and wonderful knit dresses, Mr. Alaïa’s collections had not taken a trip down the runway since 2003. Last week when that self imposed hiatus ended, the standing ovation did not stop until French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand pulled the reluctant designer from backstage to take one final bow.
The collection was everything Mr. Alaïa’s devotees have come to expect from him, extremely intricate and refined in its process yet sublimely simple and startlingly contemporary in appearance. In a couture season that seemed to feature almost exclusively collections that covered a wide range of styles and ideas Mr. Alaïa went in the opposite direction, exploring a handful of extremely developed ideas that he brought closer to perfection then most other designers would have thought possible. His newest concept, the coat-dress, wowed many with its bell shaped flaring created by inverted pleats on the hips, the ridges of which had been filled with natural-colored cord, left exposed and knotted at the end to help define a motif unlike anything seen on a runway before. Crocodile leather pencil skirts with exposed zippers shooting up the leg and around to the rear, Mongolian lamb trims, and brilliant ruffled knitwear that defied the eye’s ability to separate the lines of the dress from those of the wearer all spoke to Mr. Alaïa’s tireless effort to master each idea he works with.
The crowd, which included Donatella Versace, Sofia Coppola and Kanye West could not get enough. “You’re never tired of looking at it because it’s so perfect.” stylist Charlotte Stockdale told a correspondent for the New York Times fashion page. But perhaps the most appropriate sentiment came from a loyal Alaïa customer who was overheard and the end of the show, “There’s everyone else. Then there’s Alaïa.”
July 11th, 2011 | Tags: Best Dressed, Designers, Dresses | Category: Fashion News, Formal Dresses, Runway News, Seasonal Dresses, Winter Dresses
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PMX Store
Anime Swap Meet at the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival 2013
THIS EVENT IS FREE!
ATTN: CCPMG Uncovered Attendees
Did you see Mike Tatsugawa, Todd Whitesel, and Hero TV's Ruel Ferrer's presentation hosted by Myrtle Gail Sarrosa at Crimson Resort and Spa in Lapulapu, Mactan, Cebu? Want more information about Pacific Media Expo? Download our latest media kit here.
PMX 2012 has come and gone!
The next Pacific Media Expo will be held November 8 to 10, 2013, in the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel.
We'll see you there!
Power Rangers are back at PMX and this time from the newest series Power Rangers Samurai! Featured Rangers are Alex Heartman (Jayden/Red Ranger), Steven Skyler (Antonio Garcia/Gold Ranger), Najee De-Tiege (Kevin/Blue Ranger) Hector David, Jr. (Mike/Green Ranger). We are very excited to host them! Let’s give them a big PMX welcome!
Fashion Guest of Honor: Z8 of GRAMM
Fashion Designer Z8 of GRAMM
***Updated 11/6/12***
Due to a health issue, Z8 will not be able to travel to LA for PMX this weekend. Pacific Media Expo apologizes for the inconvenience that this may have caused. We will have additional details soon.
h.NAOTO released the following statement regarding Z8's cancellation:
Due to a recent health issue, Z8 will not be able to travel to LA for PMX this weekend. We here at h.NAOTO apologizes for the inconvenience that this may have caused, and hope there's another opportunity for her to meet everyone in the near future. Thank you for understanding and continue support!
Ryan Stylez
Billboard charting singer/songwriter Ryan Stylez will make a special appearance Pacific Media Expo! Ryan is the voice behind the hit pop single, "This Is The Life". Come meet one of the West Coast's biggest rising Pop Stars and be one of the first to hear his new radio single featuring Ray J! Ryan will appear at a Q&A panel to talk about his music. He will also be signing autographs and taking pictures with fans.
Fashion Guest of Honor: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright
Designer Masumi Kanoh of Baby, the Stars Shine Bright
Pacific Media Expo is excited to announce our Fashion Guest of Honor, Masumi Kanoh, designer for one of the largest Lolita brands, Baby, the Stars Shine Bright! Additionally, Baby, the Stars Shine Bright will bring pieces to sell in our PMX Fashion Boutique, and will be featured in our PMX Fashion Show. Masumi Kanoh will appear at a Q&A panel as well as a special ticketed event. Please check back soon for more details!
Moon Stream at PMX
Moon Stream's Satsuki and Tomo talk about their upcoming appearance at Pacific Media Expo 2012!
Find out more about the Moon Stream VIP Fan Bundle.
Tsuyoshi Nonaka
Pacific Media Expo is pleased to welcome, once more, Tsuyoshi Nonaka as our Mecha Designer Industry Guest. Mr. Nonaka has provided mechanical designs for Mazinkaiser SKL, Shin Mazinger Shōgeki! Z-Hen and DICE.
Music Guest of Honor: Moon Stream
Performing Friday, Nov. 9 and Saturday, Nov. 10
Moon Stream will be live and in concert at Pacific Music Live 12 on Friday, Nov. 9 and Saturday, Nov. 10. Moon Stream will be attending a focus panel, autograph sessions, photo sessions, and more throughout PMX12. The Moon Stream autograph sessions will occur immediately following their concerts.
Anime Guest of Honor: Mamoru Yokota
Panel: Saturday, Nov. 10 1-2 p.m. in LP 2 (Los Angeles A&B)
Secondary Panel: Sunday, Nov. 11 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Demo Workshop: 12-1 p.m. in La Jolla A (LP3)
Pacific Media Expo is pleased to welcome Mamoru Yokota as our 2012 anime guest of honor. Mr. Yokota has been involved with various stages of anime production. He has been a character designer, producer, and animation director who has worked on many popular titles, such as Macross Frontier, Death Note, Air (movie), Kanon, Magical Canan, and Kiddy Grade. He is currently involved in live-action work. In his private life, Yokota's hobbies include walking, reading, cooking, and eating.
Mr. Yokota will be participating in a focus panel and autograph session. This will be his first appearance at Pacific Media Expo.
Way of the Stick and Blade and More
Sunday, Nov. 11
Location: Live Programming 1 (International Ballroom A)
For the third year straight Pacific Media Expo (PMX) will once again be hosting Way of the Stick and Blade: Tournament of Filipino Martial Arts. This premiere Filipino Martial Arts event will be held on Sunday, November 11, 2012 from 9:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton in conjunction with the rest of PMX's events for that weekend. This is the only tournament where you can witness the Filipino Martial Arts of Esgrima, Kali, and Arnis in a fast paced and highly competitive sport format.
Hatsune Miku in Concert
Saturday, Nov. 10, 6:30 p.m.
Vocaloid diva Hatsune Miku will appear in concert at PMX! The 3D virtual performer has been winning the hearts of people all over the world for nearly half a decade. Presented by Vocalekt Visions, Hatsune Miku is starting to take the spotlight all over all over the world.
Admittance to the Hatsune Miku concert is restricted to PMX attendees on a first come, first served basis. There is no additional charge other than PMX membership for this concert. The concert is on Saturday, 11/10 at 6:30pm.
Sunday only!
Madoka Panel at 12 p.m. in Los Angeles A&B (LP2); SkullGirls Panel at 3 p.m. in Los Angeles A&B (LP2)
Voice over actress Cristina Vee returns for her fourth PMX appearance!
Cristina Vee is a Los Angeles based voice over actress and director. Cristina is also known for her popular renditions of anime songs on YouTube and got her first "big break" at an anime convention. Her first roles as a professional actress were Nanoha in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and Louise in The Familiar of Zero.
AMV Contest 2012
Back popular demand, we're happy to announce the return of the PMX AMV Contest. Amaze your friends by showcasing your anime video editing skills! Entertain others with your brand of storytelling!
Video categories will be: Action, Comedy, and Drama.
Madoka Panel at 12 PM in Los Angeles A&B (LP2); SkullGirls Panel at 3 PM in Los Angeles A&B (LP2)
Sarah Williams is a Los Angeles voice actress who works in animation, video games, and commercials. She can be heard as Sayaka Miki in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Ayumi Tokita in Squid Girl, Peacock in the 2D fighting game Skullgirls and Uni in Hyperdimension Neptunia MK2. As a long time fan of anime and video games, Sarah is excited to be attending her first PMX.
LittleKuriboh
Panel Saturday at 12 p.m. in Los Angeles A&B (LP2)
LittleKuriboh (AKA Martin Billany) is the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series and the godfather of the abridged age. He has thus far produced no less than 52 episodes, a spinoff, a prequel, a Christmas special and two movies, creating a cultural phenomenon in Yu-Gi-Oh Fandom. With a mission to revitalize interest in the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise and make it more accessible to Joe Public, LittleKuriboh will continue the original abridged series providing us with priceless entertainment for many years to come.
All-round nice guy and community fan favorite, he is also associated with TeamFourStar (the group behind Dragon Ball Z Abridged, for which he also supplies voices) and has made guest appearances on comic-book video review series Atop the Fourth Wall.
dolldelight
dolldelight is back at PMX 2012 by popular demand! Cyril Lumboy is an Asian street fashion designer originally based in the Philippines. She is known on the internet as dolldelight and has established that as her own brand. She began sewing four years ago starting with headpieces and eventually moving on to making her own dresses. Her work as a designer is now focused on wa-lolita as it is the substyle that best allows her to experiment in the art of mixing prints.
Night Zero Reg Delay
PMX Attendees Night Zero Registration has been delayed to 8 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. (11.08.12)
PMX is Mobile!
You can now find PMX on Guidebook. Schedule, maps, twitter, alerts and more on your iOS and Android devices for free! (11.08.12)
Guest Update
Due to a health issue, Z8 will not be able to travel to PMX this weekend. PMX apologizes for any inconvenience that this may cause. (11.06.12)
Deadline Extended
The deadline for entering CosFest is now Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 11:59 p.m. The rules have also been updated with times and locations. (11.04.12)
The PMX Programming Schedule has been updated. (11.02.12)
Swap Meet Info
PMX Swap Meet information for 2012 has been posted. Signup opens tonight at 8! (11.01.12)
Avatar's Prince Zuko
Actor Dante Basco will be appearing at PMX. Dante will be appearing Sunday and will have a panel and autograph session. (10.31.12)
CosFest Forms
Forms for CosFest participation and judging are now available here. Fill out forms relevant to your entry and bring them to the Cosplay Office. (10.30.12)
Get a head start on the weekend by picking up your badge early! Come join us Thursday night for PMX Night Zero. (10.30.12)
Reiyukai America
PMX welcomes back Reiyukai America. They will be holding a panel and workshops on Friday and Saturday. (10.30.12)
PMX Gaming returns and expands for 2012 with both video game and table top gaming. It will also feature a Go workshop. (10.26.12)
Taiko Workshop
Senryu Taiko will be coming to PMX to hold a panel and have a workshop. Attendees also get a chance to try out the taiko drums. (10.26.12)
Food Trucking
PMX Food Program is pleased to announce The Bun Truck and Truck Norris will be serving at PMX 2012. (10.26.12)
Pocky Room
The Pocky Room is back! Sample the many different flavors of the popular snack food at PMX 2012. (10.26.12)
The programming schedule for PMX 2012 is now available! The schedule will be updated up until PMX, so stay tuned for more updates! (10.24.12)
Power Rangers!
PMX welcomes Power Rangers Samurai, featuring rangers Alex Heartman, Steven Skyler, Najee De-Tiege, and Hector David Jr. (10.23.12)
PMX is pleased to announce Winterland Craft Party with special guest Masumi Kanoh of Baby, the Stars Shine Bright! (10.19.12)
Pacific Media Expo is pleased to announce GRAMM designer Z8 as our second fashion guest of honor for 2012. (10.18.12)
The applications for Way of the Stick and Blade and White Out Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournaments are now available! (10.18.12)
Artists Market Details
Artists Market Signup instructions have been posted! Click here. Signup opens tonight at 8! (10.18.12)
PMX will once again be using Guidebook to provide up-to-date schedules and maps to attendees using Apple iOS or Android devices. (10.17.12)
Pacific Media Expo is pleased to welcome Billboard charting singer/songwriter Ryan Stylez. (10.16.12)
PMX Food Program is back for 2012 and we are happy to announce that White Rabbit, will be serving at PMX 2012. (10.08.12)
$45 Pre-Reg Extended
The October deadline for $45 Full Memberships has been extended to the 15th. Click here. (10.07.12)
Artists Market Info
Signup for tables will open on Thursday October 11th 18th at 8 P.M. Click here for more information. (10.05.12)
PMX is excited to announce our fashion guest of honor, Masumi Kanoh, representing Baby, the Stars Shine Bright. (10.03.12)
Are You a VIP?
The Moon Stream VIP Fan Bundle will go on sale at 8:15 p.m. PDT on Tues., Oct. 2. (09.26.12)
Press Reg is Open!
Please note that Press Policies have changed somewhat this year. Click here for more information. (09.25.12)
Industry Reg is Open!
Please note that Industry Policies have changed somewhat this year. Click here for more information. (09.21.12)
Panel Reg is Open!
Would you like to present a Panel or Workshop at PMX? Click here for more information. (09.20.12)
Nights of Music
The Pacific Music Live will have two nights of concerts featuring Moon Stream, Lolita Dark, Psycho Bando, and Stephanie Yanez! (09.19.12)
Mr. Nonaka Returns
PMX is pleased to welcome back mecha designer Tsuyoshi Nonaka. (09.17.12)
PMX welcomes Moon Stream as music guest of honor. VIP fan bundle will be available. (09.16.12)
M3 Productions returns to bring electronic dance music to PMX. Meet the DJs. (09.16.12)
Welcome Mr. Yokota
PMX is pleased to welcome character designer and animation director Mamoru Yokota. This is his first appearance at PMX. (09.14.12)
CosFest Reg is Open!
CosFest rules have been updated and online registration is now open. (09.08.12)
FMA Returns
The Way of the Stick and Blade returns to PMX. In addition, we will have our first Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Tournament: White Out. (08.17.12)
The Fashion Scavenger Hunt returns! Win prizes by exploring the convention and solving puzzles. (08.15.12)
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Posted on December 27, 2019 by Lee Jay
Japanese art, culture, and ghost stories: The influence of Shinto
Chika Mori and Lee Jay Walker
The endless winds of modernization and technological innovation is relentless in Japan. Hence, the religious dynamics of old Japan is but a ghost of its former self, just like the erosion of Christian influence in nations like the United Kingdom. However, despite the religious visibility of the old world still surviving to a much lesser degree based on religious Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines; the real power of the old world exists within the consciousness.
Of course, unlike Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and other religious and philosophical forces that entered Japan, the faith of Shintoism is indigenous. In this sense, it is the consciousness of Shintoism that seeps through in the shadows of modernity, high-rise buildings, and endless technological innovations.
Therefore, despite Buddhism dominating in powerful religious parts of Japan associated with Kamakura, Koyasan, Kyoto, and a plethora of other parts of this land; it is Shintoism that remains inside the consciousness from a natural point of view. This applies to small little shrines that are a pale shadow of the past – this relates to the reduction in size or being mainly hidden by endless buildings in built-up areas. Of course, you still have major places where Shintoism is firmly visible based on holy shrines of major importance; yet, it is the small little shrines that pop-up in the least expected places in major cities and the countryside alike that inspires the spirit.
Not surprisingly, ghost stories and aspects of art depict mysterious areas related to Shintoism that have been fused within mythology and the rich tapestry of Japanese folklore. In saying this, the majority of art themes emanating inside the rich diversity of ukiyo-e remain outside the world of Shintoism. Despite this, certain areas of Japanese culture and the mysterious underworld within the broad spectrum of ukiyo-e do depict themes that relate to Shintoism.
The marginalization of Shintoism inside the modern religious reality of Japan is factually based on secularization. Yet, Shintoism remains within the soul on New Years Day for the majority of Japanese people; during festivals throughout the country; natural ceremonies for children related to age; and shrines that dot the landscape and mountainside irrespective if the shrine is small or for tourists to pay homage. Similarly, aspects of Shintoism exist in the world of anime to varying degrees, for example, the undertones to Spirited Away and the rich tapestry of Mononoke.
In a sense, Shintoism blends naturally based on the importance of nature and the freedom that exists in this faith because it isn’t based on religious dogma. Hence, the power and influence of Shintoism may be on the wane compared with the past; yet, inside the consciousness, this faith persists during times of hope and renewal. Therefore, the spirit of Japanese identity is still connected with a faith where homage may be more important than being over religious. Also, just like Shintoism existed in the world of art, culture, and mythology in old Japan; the new world of anime and other areas still prevails even if in the shadows.
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Mommy's Best Year in Review: 2018
The year we finished Pig Eat Ball!
I started the game in January of 2013, as a game jam project for the Ouya.
And in 2018, after massive design changes, and growth for the game, we finished our biggest game
yet!
Sit back and put yourself one year ago, and let's look at the wacky details of what Mommy's Best Games was up to in 2018.
A secret is brewing!
We are approved to do a Fig crowd-funding campaign! But we couldn't tell anyone yet.
The soda-pop cans could cause you problems, but you could also solve puzzles with them.
We spent most of this month working hard on polishing up World 4 in Pig Eat Ball.
There are 5 GIANT worlds in Pig Eat Ball.
Each world in the game has many necessary parts:
4 Overworlds
40+ action levels
Mid-boss
4+ NPCs and their puzzles
4+ Disguises in overworld puzzles
Pillbug centerpiece gameplay/puzzle
For this month we were bouncing around, finishing up the NPCs and the bosses. Here's a detailed post I did about how I design each gameplay object to have at least 2 uses/puzzle elements in the game.
Work continued on World 4 "Kitchen Chaos".
And the big news internally was us getting everything ready for the Fig campaign to launch.
The Fig campaign had many tiers and rewards
It takes a long time to create all the art and assets for a crowd-funding campaign! I'm sure you've read that before, but if you're in development, believe it! It will hurt your development productivity on the main game. File this under "marketing time". It's a lot of work.
At the end of the month we launched our Fig campaign!
While development kept happening, there was a lot of "promotion and marketing" work this month.
The Fig campaign continued, and it was hard work asking for money and getting everyone excited to fund it.
I detail my ideas for a nice difficulty curve. It should not be smooth!
I traveled to GDC was selected to give a talk on Level Design and Difficulty Curves. It was very fun, and I loved getting into the nitty-gritty details about design. It takes a long time to get a talk polished and ready for a big show like GDC though! I think I worked on it off and on for a few months! Here's the full talk on the GDC Vault.
Great news this month--the Fig crowd-funding campaign was a success. We hit our goal!
I rested easy for a bit there.
I also showed the game at PAX East in the Indie Megabooth for the first time! That was a good connection to make.
Stylish picture of my PAX East booth
We continue work on World 5.
Turns out we cut a lot from Pig Eat Ball, as it was simply too big already!
There was going to be a World 6! It's about half done. Maybe I'll release it as DLC some day or in a free update.
As we finished up World 5 core work, all the details still left to complete come in to focus.
Localization is a huge amount of work, and I find it to be a pain. I tend to develop in a loose style, adding a new hint, or bit of dialog here or there, to improve the game. That won't fly if you're translating the game to multiple languages! You have to translate all those bits. We had thousands of lines of text to translate for Pig Eat Ball.
We spent a good portion of the money from the Fig campaign on localizing to 5 languages! And now thanks for another deal, the game is also available in Chinese.
"A level called Dead Space :) one of the challenge levels in World 1"
More details to finish in the game include: cut-scenes, and "challenge" clams. Gold "challenge" Clams are to ensure the game has extra tough levels once you beat the main game. I love that feeling a big, full action-adventure game. You've maxed out all your abilities, and now you want a REAL challenge! This month was spent making extra tough levels, and fitting them into all 5 worlds.
We were finishing up Achievements, balancing all level "medal times", and generally playtesting and polishing. Each level has a goal of eating all the balls, but they are also timed, with online leaderboards to give you great replay value. Each level has an amount of time to beat, to get a Silver and Gold medal.
We spent some time balancing all these times this month, and finishing up the challenge levels.
Alpha Pig!
We announce the game has officially hit the Alpha stage, meaning all content is in the game, and now only bugs remain.
It's a mad dash to the finish!
I travel to PAX West again with the Indie MegaBooth and show the game.
The decision is made to limit the initial release to PC/Mac/Linux, instead of also consoles. Keep in mind, this is the first time we've supported Mac and Linux for a Mommy's Best Games release! It is still 3 platforms and takes extra time to support.
Many more bugs were fixed, and on September 28, 2018, we finally release Pig Eat Ball to Steam, itch.io, and Green Man Gaming. Humble Store followed later.
Reviews are coming in...
...and they're loving it!
I'm so happy and excited.
Reviewers are coming into the game cold and loving it. This is amazing!
I continue marketing and outreach for the game.
Some players are getting through the game, and asking for some balance changes.
Early in October we release the first major update, complete with a new Disguise to reward expert players!
We finally end up with an incredible 83% on Metacritic!
I continue to promote the game, but now we switch over the console development.
John Meister and his team at Super Soul, in nearby Lexington Kentucky, work hard to get the framerate up and the load times down for the PS4 and Xbox One versions.
Meanwhile... a secret, new game starts development.
Most of this month was spent to continue optimizing the game.
It takes a lot of work and focus to optimize the game for consoles.
For instance, when the game launched on for home computers, the framerate was generally rock-solid for everyone, 60fps and better.
But for consoles, we had to work hard to get 60fps.
One type of optimization was with the breakable crates, of which some levels have hundreds.
Originally the crates would draw their shadow, then draw the crate. This was found to be slow. So I reworked the art for the crates so they now have the "shadow" built into a single sprite. This allows them to be drawn with one call to the process/graphics card, which is great!
Dozens of optimizations like this, allowed for the good framerate we now have on consoles.
Thank you so much for the support! I'm thrilled to have finally released this massive game.
Stay with me, and please do continue to help cheer us on in 2019, when we'll be bringing Pig Eat Ball to consoles. PS4, Xbox One.. and maybe one more console!
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The Edinburgh Interviews: Seven Questions With… Mark Thomas
August 14, 2016 by Becca Moody 1 Comment
Summarised as “part theatre, part stand up, part journalism, part activism”, Mark Thomas’ latest show The Red Shed is the final instalment of a trilogy of critically acclaimed shows (Bravo Figaro, followed by Cuckooed), which sees him return to a labour club in Wakefield, a place Thomas credits for aiding him in developing his political conscience, as well as his public speaking skills. The satirical television show The Mark Thomas Product ran for six series, and is a prime example of the comic’s passion for influential socialist comedy that encourages action, thus showing the importance of comedy for social development.
To learn more about the man behind the satire, I asked Mark these seven questions…
1) Is it easier or harder to produce political comedy when the political landscape becomes so volatile?
If we were a half decent nation of comedy lovers we would erect a monument to all the topical gags that were cut down in their prime in the great post Brexit war.
2) Do you consider comedy to be an art form?
Yes. Why on earth would I not? Comedy has traditionally been regarded as the bastard child of ‘proper’ theatre but those days are long gone.
3) Do you think comedy has become diluted in recent years?
To be honest, I have not seen as much comedy as I should have done in the past few years, but those I do see are magnificent. Mark Steel, Josie Long, Bridget Christie et al are all very exciting. Diluted? No. TV comedy is a different question and you should never expect too much from TV. Commissioners and channel controllers are generally conservative folk full of fear for their jobs, with little sense of art and history, or indeed public service.
© Tracey Moberley
4) Are you a guarded person?
5) What makes you uncomfortable?
Over heating on tube trains and family get togethers.
6) Do we have true freedom of speech?
Oh man. People can say what they like. But if they incite hatred and physical attack they break the law. People who want freedom of speech so that they can be racist are being irrational. They would not claim a stalker had a right for free speech to say what they want in abusive phone calls, they would or should say that it is harassment and illegal. So how can they claim their desire to abuse and attack other races to be a ‘right’.
7) Do you think we live in a truly democratic society?
Nice question. No, is the answer, not enough democracy. There should be (in no particular order) no royal family, no House of Lords, workers from industry on board of companies, proportional representation, Scottish independence, nationalised banks and no MP allowed to have a second income, open all phone logs and details of meetings for all MPs and ministers, public funding of political parties and no lobbyists.
MARK THOMAS BRINGS HIS SHOW ‘THE RED SHED’ TO THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
THE EDINBURGH INTERVIEWS…
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The Edinburgh Interviews 2017: Mark Thomas says:
[…] Mark Thomas’ most recent show is an exploration of the social and political state of humanity at this point in time. The infamous award-winning satirist examines the unexpected, and often disastrous, events of last year, before laying out well-considered predictions as to where we might now be headed. Thomas will be performing A Show That Gambles on the Future at Summerhall throughout August. […]
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“Tremors 5: Bloodlines” Review
Posted on October 6, 2015 January 13, 2017 by Mark McPherson
Did they really make a fifth Tremors movie? Yes. Did there need to be a fifth Tremors movie? No. Is it even any good? Surprisingly, yes. For being a direct-to-video feature and the latest entry in a dead franchise, Tremors 5 manages to be a rather pleasing bit of campy monster-hunting action. Am I lowering my expectations having spent so much time in the direct-to-video soup? Perhaps, but this is still one of the more enjoyable bowls of both the genre and the series. And sometimes you just want to enjoy a crazy movie about exploding bugs.
The series staple Michael Gloss returns for the role as the mustached gunmen Burt Gummer. Now a seasoned veteran at dealing with the wormy Graboids, Burt now has his own survival television program where he showcases his monster-hunting skills. Such promotion brings with it pushy young brand manager Travis Welker (Jamie Kennedy). Taking the show abroad, Burt accepts an invitation to hunt Graboids in South Africa. But the plot grows thicker as more Graboids are discovered and a greedy black market dealer desires to have these monsters captured alive.
Naturally, Tremors 5 never takes itself seriously. It’d be hard to do so when the type of Graboid our heroes are hunting is designated as an Ass Blaster class, based on the fire it spews from its rectum to launch through the air. True to the campy spirit of Tremors, the script by the original writers maintains a certain level of fun throughout. Burt showcases his usual gung ho attitude with plenty of guns in tow. He’s such an amusing character that the movie actually has enough faith to lock him in a cage and work with very little. The addition of Jamie Kennedy to the cast is solid given that he perfectly inhabits the role of an eager young assistant. He never plays the role up too heavily by acting as a suitable counter to the crusty old Michael Gloss.
The monster hunting is heavy on the computer graphics, but the picture makes due with the best with what it has to offer. The Graboids don’t appear very cheap for such a production and actually look pretty decent in most scenes. There are some sequences that are awkwardly staged as when one unlucky soul is gobbled up by a Graboid launching out of the sand and swallowing before burrowing back. But there are also scenes that easily avoid being laughable as when an Ass Blaster flies off into the night with human prey in its claws.
Plenty of firepower is brought to the party as Burt goes hunting in South Africa. You’ll rarely find a scene where Burt isn’t armed with a trusty hunting rifle. He may not do as much shooting as I’d like, mostly just taking aim for a Graboid kills, but the picture tries to make up for it in the second act with a helicopter armed with missiles that decimates a Graboid nest. The movie at least delivers on the blood and explosions as the grand finale involves a giant burst of bug guts over an entire African town.
Despite some slow spots, Tremors 5 delivers on a genuine sense of fun for another monster romp down the direct-to-video series. There’s a surprising amount of charm in how it delivers on some capable humor for what could have been a tired change of location and smattering of computer graphics. It would be nice to see Kevin Bacon return to the series after all these years, but Michael Gloss seems to do a good job at keeping a certain level of enthusiasm after all these years. After five Tremors movies, he still has all the intensity with his cackling at victories and teeth gnashing at those who hinder his hunt. He owns this series and he knows it, despite the attempt in this movie to spur a passing of the torch. I also really dug the concept for his reality show that would fit in snugly on National Geographic or the Discovery Channel. If the series has a future, I would be more than okay with a Tremors TV series of Burt hunting Graboids around the globe. Could you imagine him running through the streets of Tokyo with a hunting rifle as monsters emerge into crowded intersections?
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Lunacy - 2009 FRC Game
Lunacy is the challenge for the 2009 robotics season. This game involves driving on one-sixth the normal amount of friction, simulating driving on the moon. Each of six robots will have a trailer attached during the game. There will be two alliances of three teams each. Alliances must get cells (pictured below) into opposing the alliance's trailer to score points.
During the autonomous period, robots will begin at launch pads in front of an opposing player. This year, robots may block others to prevent progress as long as they do not entangle one another. Robots may also use cameras to track and score in other robots by using vision targets at the top of the trailers. At the sides of the playing field are outpost stations, where human players known as payload specialists will throw moon rocks into moving trailers. This is also done at the refueling stations, located at the corners of the field.
During the teleoperated (manual control) period, pilots will guide the robots as they attempt to launch moon rocks into opposing trailers. Payload specialists may also throw cells into trailers during this time. Additionally, robots may push loose cells into the refueling stations.
Outpost payload specialists can feed an empty cell into a robot, which will deliver them to the fueling station, where they can be switched for super cells, which are worth 15 points. Only one super cell may be retrieved at a time, and they may only be used during the last 20 seconds of the match. Otherwise, they will be treated as an empty cell.
All images in this article are copyright © 2009 Dave Lavery/Havabanana Productions. All rights reserved.
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Tokushima University ⟩
Graduate School of Health Sciences
Related Site: https://portal.medsci.tokushima-u.ac.jp/Plone
New Professors
Health Sciences ( 45 persons )
Nursing Sciences ( 24 persons )
Haku, Mari
Professor (by-work) Iwasa, Yukie
Professor (by-work) Kishida, Sachi
Professor (by-work) Kondo, Kazuya
Professor (by-work) Mori, Kenji
Professor (by-work) Okahisa, Reiko
Professor (by-work) Okuda, Kikuko
Professor (by-work) Tanioka, Tetsuya
Professor (by-work)
Tomotake, Masahito
Professor (by-work) Yasui, Toshiyuki
Professor (by-work) Chiba, Shin-ichi
Associate Professor (by-work) Hashimoto, Hiroko
Associate Professor (by-work) Imai, Yoshie
Associate Professor (by-work) Matsushita, Yasuko
Associate Professor (by-work) Minagawa, Takako
Associate Professor (by-work) Tanaka, Yuko
Associate Professor (by-work)
Yasuhara, Yuko
Associate Professor (by-work) Takebayashi, Keiko
Associate Professor (by-work) Bando, Takae
Assistant Professor (by-work) Ito, Hirokazu
Assistant Professor (by-work) Kondo, Aya
Assistant Professor (by-work) Kuwamura, Yumi
Assistant Professor (by-work) Takahashi, Aki
Assistant Professor (by-work) Yokoi, Yasuko
Assistant Professor (by-work)
Biomedical Information Sciences ( 14 persons )
Haga, Akihiro
Professor (by-work) Ikushima, Hitoshi
Professor (by-work) Morita, Akinori
Professor (by-work) Otsuka, Hideki
Professor (by-work) Sakama, Minoru
Professor (by-work) Yoshinaga, Tetsuya
Professor (by-work) Kohno, Satoru
Associate Professor (by-work) Nishihara, Sadamitsu
Takao, Shoichiro
Associate Professor (by-work) Tominaga, Masahide
Associate Professor (by-work) Kanazawa, Yuki
Assistant Professor (by-work) Kojima, Takeshi
Assistant Professor (by-work) Nishiyama, Yuichi
Assistant Professor (by-work) Sasaki, Motoharu
Medical Laboratory Sciences ( 7 persons )
Endo, Itsuro
Professor (by-work) Hosoi, Eiji
Professor (by-work) Kataoka, Keiko
Professor (by-work) Aki, Kensaku
Associate Professor (by-work) Tominaga, Tatsuya
Associate Professor (by-work) Yamashita, Michiko
Associate Professor (by-work) Sakurai, Akiko
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Flight from Destiny (1941) Vincent Sherman, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn
After philosophy Professor Todhunter is told he has 6 months left to live, he is barred from teaching by his college so there won’t be a scandal if he drops dead in class. Discussing a hypothetical man with 6 months to live with a group of friends, Todhunter asks each what he’d do in his last 6 months. One says he’d commit a “social murder” kill someone who is not a criminal but without whom society would be better off. The professor obsesses on the idea and actually comes across a situation involving two of his friends where he thinks it would be a good idea to act on his obsession.
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Conservative group hits Shaheen with new web ad, microsite
Home » Politics » Conservative group hits Shaheen with new web ad, microsite
Posted By John DiStaso on Aug 5, 2014 | 0 comments
CONCORD – The conservative advocacy group Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire today launched a new web ad and microsite criticizing Sen. Jeanne Shaheen for “profiting from her vote” for the $787 billion stimulus program in 2009.
The Boston Globe reported in June that while Senator Shaheen strongly backed federal funding for breast cancer research, her husband, William, was an adviser to a California startup, Ultrawave Labs, Inc., that was developing new imaging technology to detect breast cancer. William Shaheen received stock options in the firm valued at between $1,000 and $15,000 in 2009, the year the stimulus bill passed. Sen. Shaheen supported the stimulus bill.
That same year, Ultrawave received $78,000 in federal stimulus funding, and, according to the Globe, the company paid a Washington lobbyist to promote its interests in the U.S. House and Senate.
The Shaheen campaign said the stock option had never been exercised and denied that there was a conflict between William Shaheen’s advisory role with the company and Sen. Shaheen’s vote for the massive stimulus program.
The issue has since faded from the U.S. Senate campaign. But Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire is now trying to revive it with a video entitled “Jack in the Box” and a microsite, WhyIsSheHiding.com.
The ad charges that while the $787 billion stimulus “may not have done you any good, Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s business interests made out out to the tune of $78,000. No wonder she doesn’t want to talk about it whenever the subject…pops up.”
The microsite shows numerous videos in which Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire approached Shaheen for commentary on various issues, including federal spending, the Affordable Care Act, town halls and a federal gas tax hike.
“What’s worse than career politicians, like Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who supported the $787 billion ‘stimulus’ plan that did little for New Hampshire? That her own business interests benefited from it. In fact, they did so to the tune of $78,000,” said group spokesman Derek Dufresne. “There certainly are a lot of reasons why Senator Shaheen might want to avoid her constituents, but it is time our state’s senior senator stops hiding and starts answering for years of failed leadership.”
The Shaheen campaign did not respond to a request for comment on the Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire criticism.
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Another NC Publication Turned into a Book — Sharon McCartney’s Amazing Metanoia
Click on the image to go to the publisher’s page.
I am a little slow on this. Putting the magazine out is one thing. But then there is keeping up with the GOOD NEWS.
Sharon McCartney is probably the poet (along with Sydney Lea) we have published most often in NC. McCartney poems published here were picked for Best Canadian Poetry in both 2012 and 2013. Then in November, 2014, we published a long poetic sequence called Metanoia, which has just now (April) been turned into a gorgeous, small book and published by Biblioasis.
Here’s a teaser from the Biblioasis book description:
T.S. Eliot and Tennessee Ernie Ford, Buddha and Jesus, Jung and Heidegger. Love, solitude, obliteration, the ocean and a sad neighbor who feeds pigeons. Metanoia is an aphoristically narrative poem that engages all of these, a book-length meditation on transformation, enlightenment, on opening one’s eyes. McCartney’s work evinces that journey, the junket into the self.
PRAISE FOR METANOIA
“So much is revealed in so few words … It’s a book that feels light, but its delivery is heavy, and worthy of contemplation … McCartney is merciless in exposing vulnerability, but also builds an intimacy integral to Metanoia’s achievement.”—Quill & Quire, starred review
The book includes a lovely acknowledgement:
Metanoia originally appeared, in a slightly different version, in the November 2014 issue of Numéro Cinq. Sincere thanks to Douglas Glover and everyone at Numéro Cinq.
A couple of informal observations:
This isn’t the first book we’ve published in the magazine. We just did Sam Savage’s Collected Poems last month. We also published a complete novel by Robert Day as a serial. And Pat Keane’s essay (also last month) is essentially a book-length piece.
Sharon McCartney is something else, a poet with a personal vision who, in work after work, digs deeper into the exposed tissue of her own soul.
The best news of all: We have more Sharon McCartney poems coming in the June issue.
5 Responses to “Another NC Publication Turned into a Book — Sharon McCartney’s Amazing Metanoia”
Sydney Lea says:
Congratulations to Ms. McCartney, whose eccentric (in the most honorific sense that word can possibly suggest), so keenly observed and deftly rendered, has been impressing me since I first encountered it in NC. Brava.
I meant, of course, “whose eccentric….poetry….: etc.
Sharon McCartney says:
Susan Gillis says:
Metanoia was my introduction to NC. What a wow of an introduction! And now a book — great to see a place for the long poem both on the web and in print. Congrats, Sharon!
Thanks very much, Susan! I’m glad that you found your way to NC through Metanoia.
Update: The NC Hack New Hire at Numéro Cinq — Carolyn Ogburn Joins the Masthead as a Contributor
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Explain that in this activity students will find out how water flows over land in different parts of the united states and into these large bodies of water. The atlantic ocean is on the edge of the u s. Major ports and cities. 64 000 000 sq mi 165 000 000 sq km.
In fact florida received 105 million. Found in the western hemisphere the country is bordered by the atlantic ocean in the east and the pacific ocean in the west as well as the gulf of mexico to the south. Use this united states map to see learn and explore the us. At 32 million square miles the atlantic ocean is the second largest body of water in the world.
The southern ocean was delineated by land based limits the continent of antarctica to the south and the continents of south america africa and australia plus broughton island. Cities on the atlantic ocean include boston new york city jacksonville and miami. Accra dakar abidjan tangier. South pacific gefs listings.
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Tropical atlantic surface map. There is less ambiguity about the southern boundaries of the atlantic ocean although the name southern ocean has been given to the waters surrounding antarctica. 8 486 m 27 841 ft. Give each student a printed map of the united states and crayons or colored pencils.
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RNA-guided gene drives for inheritance bias in yeast: Safe, responsible genome editing
DiCarlo JE, Chavez A, et al. (2015) Safeguarding CRISPR-Cas9 gene drives in yeast. Nat Biotechnol, 33 (12):125–1255.
Citation summary: Read about how a group of researchers use gBlocks Gene Fragments and novel precautionary measures to responsibly investigate Cas9-based eukaryotic inheritance bias of gene drives.
Gene drives are genetic elements that persist in populations regardless of the effects they have on an organism’s reproductive fitness. Gene drives spread and are maintained through inheritance bias, a strategy commonly used by many organisms in nature. Most often, an inheritance-biasing gene functions by cleaving a homologous chromosome, which induces the cellular repair process to copy the gene and insert it into the damaged chromosome through homologous recombination. This mechanism, known as “homing”, has been well documented in S. cerevisiae, where the gene I-SceI encodes an endonuclease that cuts a gene encoding an rRNA subunit of the S.cerevisiae mitochondria.
While natural endonuclease homing systems like that in I-SceI are extremely efficient (I-SceI is correctly copied 99% of the time), it has been difficult for scientists to apply the mechanism to sequences with research applications. However, due to the recent advances in CRISPR-Cas9 technology, scientists can now target sequences with extremely high precision using guide RNA (gRNA) molecules. This ability raises questions as to whether Cas9 can, and should, be used to bias inheritance in eukaryotic organisms. In this paper, the authors investigate the feasibility of lab-driven eukaryotic inheritance bias. They accomplish this by building synthetic, Cas9-based gene drives in S.cerevisiaeand measuring gene drive persistence through wild populations.
Importantly, this paper explains why including proper safeguards in gene drive experiments is necessary to control the potential impact of gene drive-containing organisms on natural ecological systems. To support this notion, the authors outline easy-to-use molecular confinement methods, and urge scientists to use them in future gene drive studies.
They first built a gene drive construct targeting ADE2 by replacing the endogenous ADE2 gene with a gRNA that targeted the wild-type ADE2 gene. They then mated these haploid, modified yeast to wild-type haploids in the presence and absence of the Cas9 plasmid and selected for diploids. They measured the persistence of the gene drive by observing the color of the resulting diploids, and used subsequent diploid dissection and sequencing to verify the colorimetric data.
Finally, the group mated haploids containing the ADE2 gene drive to 6 phylogenetically and phenotypically diverse native S. cerevisiae strains. In these crosses, they quantitatively measured the efficiency of gene drive copying with qPCR.
In these experiments, the authors were required to build numerous gene drive constructs. All of the constructs in this research were synthesized using IDT gBlocks® Gene Fragments.
Following the first cross (ADE2-gene drive containing haploids x wild type), nearly 100% of S. cerevisiae diploid colonies were red when Cas9 was present. This indicated highly efficient persistence of the ADE2 gene drive, which successfully cut the native ADE2 gene copy inherited from the wild-type parent. The scientists proceeded to sporulate the diploids and examine their haploid progeny. They found a perfect 4:0 ratio of red:cream haploids in all 18 dissected diploids, confirming that all copies of the native ADE2 locus were disrupted. They also sequenced the 72 haploids (derived from the 18 diploids) and discovered that all haploids contained intact ADE2 gene drives with no additional mutations.
The group observed similar results when they examined the persistence of the "cargo" gene, URA3. URA3 allows yeast to grow in the absence of uracil. They crossed in cis haploids containing URA3 with wild type and found that all of the progeny grew normally on uracil-deficient media, indicating that both the gene and gene drive were efficiently copied. Again, the scientists dissected 18 diploids and found that all sporulated haploid cells were red, confirming successful persistence of the ADE2 gene drive.
As with the previous experiments, the authors saw extremely high efficiency when haploids containing the ADE2 gene drive were crossed with phylogenetically diverse S. cerevisiae strains. qPCR confirmed that over 99% of the diploid chromosomes contained the gene drive regardless of wild-type parent.
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Upon its creation, I intended this blog to be all fluffy, fun, "look at the cool things I'm doing" kind of stuff. Super positive and all that. Obviously, there's a bit of a thing going on that is putting plenty of spanners in all kinds of works, so I will instead make a post with a more serious tone, but it's still positive, so not much of a departure from the original goal.
I was inspired a few months ago by a video from a favourite YouTube creator of mine, Sean Tucker. He made a video detailing how protecting the highlights is important in photography and twinned that idea with how we should approach life. If you're familiar with photography, protecting the highlights is literally about controlling exposure so you don't have a blown-out highlight that you can't fix. But Sean goes on to a more philosophical interpretation in which he uses the term as a way of saying that we should take care of the good memories, the positives in life, the highlights. It's important to realise that there is good when things seem to be quite the opposite, and it's important to recognise and preserve those good moments.
There is a second part to this philosophy, which is to respect the shadows. Again, photo stuff, recovering shadows, creating/reducing contrast, etc. But it's, of course, referring to how dark times are something we shouldn't simply ignore, but should look at in another way that has a positive spin.
Dark times are something our brains are wired to focus on, we have evolved to learn from our mistakes and so our mind and memories will give those mistakes a higher ranking when trying to figure a way out of a bad situation, creating an endless cycle of negative thoughts that can be one overwhelming. It's impossible to block those memories out, and in my experience, you should not try to ignore those memories. Attempting to shut them out is not healthy, and to allow them to overtake us is also not a good thing. Personally, I find that to respect those memories, realising that I have gotten over bad times before, I learned from our mistakes is the best thing to focus on when things aren't going my way. Usually, for me it's financial issues that trigger a cycle of negative thoughts, as the related stress and self-pity from bad financial choices swim around my mind. So in light of current events, I would urge others to keep preserving the highlights, however small they may be, and if darkness creeps in, acknowledge it, realise why it's there, that you have gotten past before and will again, and go back to those highlights.
I do have some highlights in the distance that I'm focussing on right now, but that's for another day. For now, wash your hands, look out for each other and only take what you need.
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Pennsylvania church stages “fake” kidnapping of youth group to teach about religious persecution
by Jen on Mar 28, 2012 • 10:31 am 89 Comments
Teenagers at the Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church in Middletown, Pa., were surprised when they attended a youth group meeting at the church on March 21 and were ambushed by what seemed to be real kidnappers.
Adults, including an off-duty cop, brandished weapons and put bags over the heads of the children, ages 13 through 18, and forced them into a church van. The group was driven to the home of an assistant pastor, who was presented before the group with a seemingly bloodied and bruised face, according to Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo.
One of the adults used a real AK-47, though the gun was unloaded, Chardo said.
The church leaders who organized the fake hostage situation later told law enforcement that the event was meant to be a lesson to the children on how Christians are persecuted in places around the world, but the “educational” event may actually constitute a crime, Chardo said.
How in the world do you plan this sort of thing without considering that it may legitimately terrify and emotionally abuse these children? Is teaching about religious persecution really more important than protecting your children from harm? I guess I shouldn’t expect anything more from people who emotionally abuse children with threats of hell and damnation.
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Rabidtreeweasel says:
I’m not advocating the actions, but in a quick comparison how different is this from the gay cure camps or the deprogramming/boot camp religious centers? This is actually a common practice. So common the kids involved usually have no context to think it’s at all wrong. I don’t know that it’s strictly legal, and maybe this incident will help shine a light, but it’s been over looked by authorities since at least the early 90’s when I went through it
Also, do you have any links? Those readings sound useful and would be much appreciated.
That’s pretty crappy treatment too! The experiences I described were what the most “devoted” members of our group went through. General membership was usually short lived. People either left due to the intense pressure to become more involved or opted in to the missionary program.
Children in the US have little rights. Remember that the US is the only country besides Somalia that hasn’t ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, precisely due to the pressure of religious fucktards who fear about the “right” to inflict physical and mental abuse on their brood
The “holy fuck” at the beginning pretty much says it all. Seriously…what the hell is wrong with these people?
smrnda says:
First off, if I decided to take a fake or unloaded gun to work and brandish it to just *show for their own good* how unprepared my co-workers were to the threat of a workplace shooting I would imagine I’d be in jail or a psychiatric facility.
The only difference here is a power differential; these are kids and our laws take a very hands-off view to what goes on in residential facilities for children and youth, particularly ones run by religious groups. You can look up lots of terrible stories, Hephzibah(sp?) House for girls in Indiana is a pretty horrible place.
It is similar to other ‘tough love’ type camps, but that doesn’t make it right; I think all people running such psychologically abusive and manipulative programs need to be put in jail. The whole deal is that once a person decides that the suffering, horror, abuse and degradation is for your own good in terms of character or ‘spirituality’ and you happen to be a minor, you have few rights. Lots of abusive programs limit contact with the outside world, which also means that when kids report abuse it’s obviously and by design of the sick people who run those programs not going to be in a timely fashion so that it can be investigated.
As far as this being a real kidnapping, if I bring a fake gun and rob a bank, it’s still a crime even if I go back later without the ski mask and say ‘just kidding! here’s the money back!’ they busted out guns (not necessarily fake but not loaded) and actually transported kids from one location to another. Regardless of intent, I can’t think of any way that it’s not a crime.
I’m hoping that the girl who was just invited along sticks it to them and presses charges. I think she’d have a pretty strong case. Since she’s not an official cult member she’s likely not brainwashed.
Speaking of that, wouldn’t something like this clue you in that the adults in the religion are just nuts?
phatone says:
What a bunch of sick fucks.
kick the pastor in the balls, repeatedly, with size 12 doc martens. Maybe then he will realize the error of his ways ;)
Bleeder says:
I’m not going to say there’s a big difference…. but the AK-47 may be one legally useful difference when it comes to getting a prosecution here versus the prior status quo indifference to boot camp/cure camps.
Richard Wade says:
This is astonishingly, mouth-falling-openly, mind-bogglingly STUPID! Is there a word for far more stupid than an idiot? I don’t think there is a village desperate enough to take one of these drooling, a-hyucking, guffawing mega idiots in as one of theirs.
Where in the world are these kids going to need to have had this experience? Are they going to Somalia or some other anarchic place? Do they need to practice resisting interrogation and torture as if they’re CIA agents? What twisted action movie fantasy are these macro idiots playing out? I think they just want to instill a strong persecution complex in the kids, thinking it will bolster their dedication. A contrived attitude of being the martyr is a cheap substitute for a positive, constructive faith and self-image. I hope that after the trauma wears off, these kids realize they’ve been abused and never go back.
If the parents were not informed and the kids were not warned, then the parents should sue the bejesus out of that pastor and that church. Sue it until not one brick stands upon another. If the parents were informed, but the kids were not warned, then the parents are even BIGGER ULTRA IDIOTS than anyone else involved.
benjaminsa says:
I guess I shouldn’t expect anything more from people who emotionally abuse children with threats of hell and damnation.
You should expect exactly this sort of behaviour. 0 crticial thinking skills, and a lifetime of being told that the best people obey unquestionably and faithfully makes this possible. You have to question the rationality and sanity of someone who picks up an automatic weapon, preparing to scare little children, and doesn’t have that little voice that goes ‘ahem, maybe this is a bad idea…’ and next weekend they go back to exactly these sorts of lessons. fuck.
Andrew Hall says:
It’s amazing no one got hurt.
nemothederv says:
The church leaders who organized the fake hostage situation later told law enforcement …….
“later told law enforcement” I can see it now.
“No officer we were just kidding. No, really. You wont take my word for it? I’m a pastor.”
What state of mind would you have to be in that would make this seem like a good idea?
Svlad Cjelli says:
Indeed. And pointing a gun at someone is always either reckless or willful endangerment. No exceptions, ever.
Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead says:
Don’t they teach the rules for gun safety to cops anymore!?
It’s ALWAYS loaded…always. Unless it’s in pieces on a work bench it is presumed to be loaded. Even if you’ve just checked; it is loaded
NEVER point it at anything you do not intend to shoot. If you think you can point an unloaded gun at something see previous point.
Zuche says:
Everything is insane when viewed from the outside. That’s why comedy is a viable profession.
How would that be helpful?
Every few years a similar situation comes to light. This event was stupid, cruel, dishonest, and traumatizing to the kids, but not all that unusual. In my mind that’s the worst thing about it–this sort of stuff seems to happen fairly frequently. I don’t know who thought it up or why it was considered a good idea.
I can only hope that the kids learned the right lesson–that their preachers rely on deception and threats because they have nothing else.
treefrog says:
What kills me is that this wasn’t the 1st time:
Lanza said the church has conducted similar events at least twice before, adding that “there was much thought given to the safety aspect.”
bubba707 says:
Yeah, safety aspect….. until they get a few that believe in fighting back with whatever weapons come to hand, like a kick in the balls or perhaps a heavy object to the head of a “kidnapper”. Wonder what would have been the result if a kid took that AK from the deputy and brained him with it.
Azkyroth says:
…and they won’t see it as vindication from on high if they aren’t?
You’re smarter than that. You figured out how to post a comment, after all.
So it’s win-win for them either way
bm says:
I knew churches did stupid stuff, but this is just idiocy. Those poor kids. I’d be all over these people until they had to shut their doors. Unbelievable.
Avicenna says:
Way to create artificial persecution. Maybe we can teach their women the value of women’s rights by treating them like afghan women…
Oh right. That’s moronic. Picking up Christian Persecution is to ignore all the people persecuted by Christians themselves. Martyr culture is highly irritating especially when there is no reason for your martyrdom.
How would it NOT be helpful? These fools believe staging a kidnapping is a good thing to do to kids, that traumatizing them is just fine. What would have happened if several of the kids fought back? How much injury to these kids would you call acceptable? An off duty deputy using a real AK is ok with you? This is acceptable for a person entrusted with law enforcement? 10 years in the crowbar hotel is getting off light.
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sunsangnim says:
I love the Waldo analogy!
John Horstman says:
Ditto; it looks like “[terrifying] and emotionally [abusing] these children” was exactly the point. As much as some of these folks like to use teh childrenz as a rationalization for various bigotries, they frequently don’t act in ways promoting the best interests of children (corporal punishment, opposing public assistance programs for children born into poverty, coercing their behavior with tales of hellfire and damnation, trying to force schools to lie to them, etc.).
“Point at” including “point in the direction of”. Bullets penetrate.
It is always. Until we pull the rug harder.
Did you catch any? Were they scary or friendly ones?
Damn, it’s like reverse necromancy.
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Posted By: Todd Kominiak November 22, 2016
Kanye West. Kim Kardashian. Justin Bieber.
You know who they are. If you watch the news at all, you’ve seen a report about something one of these or countless other A-list celebrities said on Twitter.
During the recent presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton and president-elect Donald Trump made news with a spirited volley of tweets. Trump’s staffers even went so far as to revoke the billionaire candidate’s Twitter access during the final hours of his improbable run to the White House.
Having won the election, the president-elect is at it again—tweeting about everything from recent cabinet appointees to post-election protests to late-night sketch comedy shows.
Whether you use social media or not, it’s impossible to understate how much technology has changed how we communicate. Anybody with a smartphone can reach more people faster, and in more locations. The only limit—how fast our thumbs can type.
But, for all its advantages, Twitter and other forms of social and mass communication have also created their share of challenges. Ideas and information are routinely taken out of context. Rumor is often billed as fact. Users literally talk “@” instead of “with” each other.
These realities were on full display during this year’s presidential campaign. And they’ve become painfully obvious in other places too. Our schools are no exception.
Hardly a day goes by without a new headline.
Parents upset at lack of communication
Parents say superintendent not listening to concerns
Teachers frustrated by lack of input
The news is not surprising to business consultant Susan Steinbrecher. In the race to have our voices heard, Steinbrecher says Americans have forgotten how to have meaningful conversations—and to use actual words to get things done.
“Authentic, two-way communication is a lost art,” writes Steinbrecher for Inc magazine. “Our interactions have become relegated to short, digital bursts of texts, emails and tweets… This has led to a breakdown in interpersonal communication.”
Where a great number of schools and school districts excel at getting messages out, far fewer focus on the importance of inbound or two-way communication.
Steinbrecher suggests four ways to make communication more authentic and impactful. While these approaches were developed with the workplace in mind, they’re also helpful when thinking about how schools communicate.
Enhance your community’s self-regard
Does your community have a sense that you respect and value their support and opinions?
If not, you’re starting your conversations off on the wrong foot.
Steinbrecher recommends getting to know the people who you communicate with. In one-on-one conversations, this is easy. But you can’t have personal exchanges with every student and parent in your school system. Town halls and school surveys are useful exercises, especially when the goal is to gather information and ideas from a large group.
Showing respect for your school community by listening to their stories and concerns is often the first step to a productive dialogue.
Actively listen
There’s a huge difference between saying that you plan to listen, and actually listening.
Do you make changes based on the feedback you receive from your community online, in-person, or via social media? Do you make a concerted effort to show your community that you’ve taken their concerns into account? Are you doing something useful with all that information you are collecting?
If the answer is no, then you might have heard what your community had to say, but you’re not listening.
Respond with empathy
Empathizing and agreeing are not the same, says Steinbrecher:
“You don’t have to agree with a person to empathize with them—but you do need to listen, come to understand and respect their viewpoint, even if it is vastly different from your own.”
You’re not going to agree with every word your community says. And that’s a good thing. They aren’t going to agree with you either.
The real value of these interactions lies in the diversity of opinions. Use feedback to illuminate different sides of the debate, and use those perspectives to make better, more informed decisions.
In the end, always show empathy for different viewpoints. Explain how you arrived at your decision. A clear reason and explanation—one that takes other viewpoints into consideration—can go a long way toward allaying community concerns.
Invite as much participation as you possibly can into your conversation, says Steinbrecher.
The best, most productive conversations are often the ones that never end. This is especially true when it comes to schools and communities.
When you launch a new initiative based on community feedback, what steps do you take to ensure it’s having the desired effect?
Constantly ask for feedback from your community and adapt your strategy accordingly.
What steps do you take in your schools to ensure community conversations are authentic and meaningful—and that they go both ways? Tell us in the comments.
Want more ideas about how to promote meaningful conversations with the members of your school community? Bookmark our Engagement section.
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Company chief Paul Kosasa said he put three of his stores with the distinctive blue and white alphabet logos in Las Vegas, in part, because so many people from Hawaii are attracted to the desert city referred to by many as the "ninth island."
More people from Hawaii moved to Nevada from 1995 to 2000 than the combined populations of the islands of Lanai and Molokai, and the equivalent of half the Hawaiian population travels every year to and from Las Vegas.
Coming to Las Vegas "can be like a reunion," Kosasa said. "You see people you haven't seen in a long time."
Indeed, when 200 transplants from Maui, Lanai and Molokai gather every two years from their adopted homes in California, Washington, Oregon and Minnesota, they rendezvous at an aging downtown Las Vegas hotel.
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1798 Born in Paris. 16 rue de Tracy, near the Porte Saint-Denis. Father a master printer; mother, Angélique-Constance Millet, from a well-to-do peasant family in Renwez (Ardennes).
1808 Father imprisoned for debt.
1808-09 Works in his father’s printing shop.
1812-18 Student at Collège (now Lycée) Charlemagne.
1815 Death of his mother.
1816 Baptised. Wins three prizes in the Concours général, a national competition for students in the penultimate and final classes of colleges and lycées.
1817 Baccalauréat. Assistant teacher at Institution Briand.
1818 Licence.
1819 Doctorat ès Lettres.
1821 Passes Agrégation, a competitive examination that entitles those who have passed it to teach in public institutions of higher education.
1822 Professor of History at Collège Sainte Barbe in Paris.(1822-1827)
1824 Marriage to Pauline Rousseau (20 May); birth of daughter Adèle (28 August). Encouraged by his teacher, Victor Cousin, undertakes to translate Vico’s La Scienza nuova.
1825 Makes the acquaintance of Edgar Quinet through Victor Cousin. Tableau chronologique de l’Histoire de France.
1826 Applies for chair at École Normale. Tableau synchronique de l’Histoire Moderne.
1827 Apppointed Professor of Philosophy and History at École Normale. Principes de la Philosophie de l’Histoire (his translation of Vico). Précis de l’Histoire Moderne, vol. 1.
1828 Travels to Germany. Appointed tutor to the Princesse de Berry, grand-daughter of Charles X, the last Bourbon king. Précis de l’Histoire Moderne, vol. 2.
1829 Birth of Michelet’s son Charles.
1830 Travels in Italy. July Revolution. Charles X flees and Louis-Philippe assumes the throne. Michelet appointed Head of the History Section of the Archives Nationales. Also appointed tutor to Princesse Clémentine, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe.
1831 Introduction à l’Histoire Universelle. Histoire romaine, vols. I, II.
1833 Précis de l’Histoire de France. Histoire de France, vols. I, II (until 1270).
1834-35 Serves as substitute professor at the Sorbonne for François Guizot, who had been appointed Minister of Education.
1834 Travels to England.
1835 Mémoires de Luther.
1837 Travels to Belgium and Holland. Histoire de France, vol. III (1270-1380).
1837 Origines du droit français.
1838 Appointed Professor at Collège de France. Gives up his position at the École Normale. Elected to Académie des Sciences morales et politiques. Visits Venice.
1839 Visits Lyon. Death of Pauline.
1840 Establishes a relationship with Mme Dumesnil; becomes colleague of Polish Romantic and national poet Adam Mickiewicz on latter’s appointment to Chair of Slavic Literature at Collège de France. Travels to Belgium. Histoire de France, vol. IV (1380-1422).
1841 Edgar Quinet appointed Professor of Languages and Literatures of Southern Europe at Collège de France. Michelet, Quinet and Mickiewicz close colleagues and friends. Procès des Templiers, vol. I. Collection de documents inédits sur l’histoire de France. Histoire de France, vol. V (Joan of Arc).
1842 Death of Mme Dumesnil. Travels to Germany.
1843 Michelet resigns from his position as tutor to the royal princesses. His daughter Adèle marries his favorite student, Alfred Dumesnil, the son of his former lover. Travels to Switzerland.
1843 Les Jésuites, written in collaboration with Edgar Quinet.
1844 Histoire de France, vol. VI (Louis XI).
1845 Clerical campaign directed against Michelet’s teaching at Collège de France.
1845 Du prêtre, de la femme et de la famille.
1846 Death of Michelet’s father, who had lived with him since the death of his mother in 1815. Le Peuple.
1847 Histoire de la Révolution française, vols. I, II.
1848 Michelet’s course at Collège de France suspended on charge of fomenting revolutionary unrest. Revolution of February 1848. Michelet’s course reinstated in triumph in March. Athénaïs Mialaret arrives in Paris with intention of being Michelet’s disciple. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte elected President of France’s Second Republic in December.
1849 Marriage of Michelet and Athénaïs Mialaret.
1849 Histoire de la Révolution française, vol. III.
1850 Birth and death of the Michelets’ infant son, given the name Yves-Jean-Lazare.
1850 Histoire de la Révolution française, vol. IV.
1851 Anti-government demonstrations among students at Michelet’s lectures. Michelet’s course suspended. Coup d’état of Napoleon, who becomes Napoleon III.
1851 Procès des Templiers, vol. II.
1851 Histoire de la Révolution française, vol
1851 Histoire de la Révolution française, vol. V.
1852 Michelet refuses to swear oath of allegiance to Napoleon III and is dismissed from his positions at the Collège de France and at the Archives Nationales.
1853-54 The Michelets go into exile in Italy (Nervi, Genoa, Turin).
1853 Histoire de la Révolution française, vol. VI.
1854 The Michelets return to Paris but are henceforth frequently absent from the capital—both in the French provinces and abroad, chiefly in Switzerland. Légendes démocratiques du Nord. Les Femmes de la Révolution.
1855 Death of Michelet’s daughter Adèle.
Histoire de France, vols. VII (Renaissance) and VIII (Reformation).
1856 Histoire de France, vols. IX (Wars of Religion) and X (The League).
L’Oiseau. (First of several highly successful books on topics of natural history. Having no official post, Michelet now has to earn a living from his writing).
1857 Histoire de France, vol. XI (Henri IV).
1857 Histoire de France.
1858 Histoire de France, vol. XII (Louis XIII).
1858 L’Amour.
1859 La Femme.
1860 Histoire de France, vol. XIII (Louis XIV).
1861 La Mer.
1862 Death of Michelet’s son Charles, who never amounted to much and to whom he was never close, Histoire de France, vol. XIV (Louis XIV).
La Sorcière.
1863 Histoire de France, vol. XV (Regency of Duc d’Orléans).
1864 La Bible de l’Humanité.
1866 Histoire de France, vol. XVI (Louis XV).
1867 Histoire de France, vol. XVII (Louis XVI).
1868 La Montagne.
1869 New Prefaces for Histoire de France and Histoire de la Révolution.
1870 Franco-Prussian War. The Michelets move to Italy. Michelet suffers attacks of apoplexy in Pisa and Florence. The couple visit Switzerland, then move to Hyères in the South of France, near the Mediterranean.
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1871 La France devant l’Europe.
1872 Histoire du XIXe siècle, vol. I.
1873 Histoire du XIXe siècle, vol. II.
1874 Death of Michelet at Hyères.
1874 Histoire du XIXe siècle, vol. III.
1876 Michelet’s remains transferred to Paris and buried at Père-Lachaise
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The end of Djokovic’s 43-match winning streak
Posted on June 4, 2011 by Voo de Mar
Roger Federer ousted Novak Đoković in the semifinal at Roland Garros in four sets yesterday, breaking an impressive streak of the Serb consisted of 43 matches won in a row. Due to loss, Djokovic didn’t secure himself the number 1 spot in the tennis hierarchy next Monday, he was also one win away from tying John McEnroe’s record of the most consecutive wins to open a year… “It was best five months of my life, my tennis career,” claimed Djokovic, “I cannot complain. It was definitely an incredible period. It had to end somewhere. I knew it was coming. Unfortunately, it came in the bad moment. It was a big match today. But look, it’s the sport. I will keep on working hard. I tried to motivate myself. It’s a big match, and I tried to think about the first point of the third set, the new match is starting. And I think I played well… I was serving for the fourth set, and he played couple of really good points. So he deserved it.” The Serb has still a chance to overcome one record – the most winning matches in a row in ‘Masters 1000’ tournaments – he needs to win his another tournament at this level (probably Montreal) and get three wins in Cincinnati (on the assumption no-one gives him a walkover).
Djokovic’s 43 [46] winning matches in a row:
2010: Davis Cup: Simon 6-3 6-1 7-5; Monfils 6-2 6-2 6-4;
2011: Hopman Cup: Golubev 4-6 6-3 6-1, Hewitt 6-2 6-4, Bemelmans 6-3 6-2;
Australian Open: Granollers 6-1 6-3 6-1, Dodig 7-5 6-7(8) 6-0 6-2, Troicki 6-2 ret., Almagro 6-3 6-4 6-0, Berdych 6-1 7-6(5) 6-1, Federer 7-6(3) 7-5 6-4, Murray 6-4 6-2 6-3; Dubai: Llodra 6-3 6-3, F.Lopez 6-3 2-6 6-4, F.Mayer 7-5 6-1, Berdych 6-7(5) 6-2 4-2 ret., Federer 6-3 6-3; Indian Wells: Golubev 6-0 6-4, Gulbis 6-0 6-1, Troicki 6-0 6-1, Gasquet 6-2 6-4, Federer 6-3 3-6 6-2, Nadal 4-6 6-3 6-2; Miami: Istomin 6-0 6-1, Blake 6-2 6-0, Troicki 6-3 6-2, Anderson 6-4 6-2, Fish 6-3 6-1, Nadal 4-6 6-3 7-6(4); Belgrade: Ungur 6-2 6-3, Kavcic 6-3 6-2, F.Lopez 7-6(4) 6-2; Madrid: Anderson 6-3 6-4, Garcia-Lopez 6-1 6-2, Ferrer 6-4 4-6 6-3, Bellucci 4-6 6-4 6-1, Nadal 7-5 6-4; Rome: Kubot 6-0 6-3, Wawrinka 6-4 6-1, Soderling 6-3 6-0, Murray 6-1 3-6 7-6(2), Nadal 6-4 6-4; Roland Garros: De Bakker 6-2 6-3 6-1, Hanescu 6-4 6-1 2-3 ret., Del Potro 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-2, Gasquet 6-4 6-4 6-2
The longest winning streaks in the Open era (at least 30 wins):
# I suggest an alternative version of the streaks in brackets
49 [35] – Bjorn Borg (1978) *
46 [50] – Guillermo Vilas (1977) **
44 – Ivan Lendl (1982)
43 [46] – Novak Djokovic (2010-11) ***
42 – John McEnroe (1984)
41 [31] – Roger Federer (2006-07) ****
36 [18] – Jimmy Connors (1975)
35 [28] – Connors (1974) *****
35 [48, 41] – Borg (1979-80) ******
35 – Thomas Muster (1995)
35 – Federer (2005)
32 – Rafael Nadal (2008)
31 – Rod Laver (1969)
31 – Borg (1979)
31 [35] – Lendl (1985) *******
30 – Connors (1978)
* During the streak Borg gave two walkovers thus his streak doesn’t appear officially which is unjust in my opinion because a walkover isn’t count neither as a win nor loss; to be precise – giving a walkover you lose a tournament, but you don’t notch a defeat to anyone
** Vilas won an exhibition tournament in Rye (August ’77) – four additional wins
*** Djokovic won three matches at the Hopman Cup ’11
**** Federer after 31 consecutive wins was beaten at Kooyong in an exhibition tournament
***** Connors during the streak in ’75, just like Borg gave two walkovers, one year before one walkover
****** Borg during the streak won three tournaments recognized by ATP but I’ve got my doubts because those tournaments had an “invitational” status, other tournaments of this kind (like Kooyong or Antwerp aren’t recognized by ATP)… During the streak again he gave two walkovers, therefore you can find info that in the period he won 41 consecutive matches not 48
******* Lendl during the streak won also an exhibition tournament in Antwerp – four wins
The longest winning streaks to open a year:
41 – Novak Djokovic (2011)
23 [31] – Bjorn Borg (1980) ******
22 – McEnroe (1985)
The longest winning streaks in ‘Masters 1000’ tournaments:
29 – Roger Federer (2005-06)
19 – Pete Sampras (1994)
18 – Rafael Nadal (2005 & 2010)
Matches that ended the six longest winning streaks:
October 2, 1977 (Aix en Provence, F): Vilas l. Ilie Nastase 1-6, 5-7 ret.
September 9, 1978 (US Open, F): Borg l. Jimmy Connors 4-6, 2-6, 2-6
February 19, 1982 (La Quinta, F): Lendl l. Yannick Noah 3-6, 6-2, 5-7
June 10, 1984 (Roland Garros, F): McEnroe l. Ivan Lendl 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 5-7, 5-7
March 11, 2007 (Indian Wells, 2R): Federer l. Guillermo Canas 5-7, 2-6
June 3, 2011 (Roland Garros, SF): Djokovic l. Roger Federer 6-7(5), 3-6, 6-3, 6-7(5)
Here you can find more detailed info about the longest streaks in the Open era.
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3 Responses to The end of Djokovic’s 43-match winning streak
statsman says:
great staff, thx
Wanaro Evernden says:
Borg WO against Gerulatis and Nastase on this year (1978) he win two time against this players.
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Fitness in COVID-19: BeDriven Fit Factory
Darnell Green, certified personal trainer and owner BeDriven Fit Factory, in Bessemer sanitizes equipment. (Marvin Gentry, For The Birmingham Times)
By Erica Wright
Those who have resolved to work out and become more healthier in 2021 will find a new world awaiting them at area gyms and fitness centers. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, in-person classrooms, dining, shopping, workplaces, family gatherings, and more have been disrupted—and gyms are no different. The Birmingham Times recently spoke with area trainers about fitness in a COVID-19 world.
At BeDriven Fit Factory, things look a little different since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
“When people come here, we take their temperatures as soon as they walk through the door,” said BeDriven owner Darnell Green, who has been a certified personal trainer since 2015. “We also require people to wear a mask when they work out, [so] we’ve scaled our workouts back a little bit. … It’s different to have people actively do an intense workout with masks versus walking on a treadmill or elliptical machine. We want to make sure everyone is OK, but we require masks when anyone comes in to work out.”
In addition, Green sanitizes the facility after every class; equipment used during workouts is sanitized by each participant in the class. He also makes hand sanitizer and wipes available throughout the gym and reminds clients to wash their hands frequently.
Green, 30, who began training clients in 2013 before becoming certified and developing BeDriven in 2015, offers one-on-one personal- and group-training sessions. He currently has 102 clients—or partners, as he calls them—and is the only trainer at the facility.
Be Driven opened in April 2019, and one year later COVID-19 shut down nearly everything. One thing Green did have in place before the pandemic, however, was online training and a Facebook group for all of his partners.
“We would go on Facebook Live at times for people who would normally go to class, [so] if they missed [a session], they could come back later to watch it and still get their workout in,” he said. “Going forward, we’ll always be able to train people virtually, but we already had that in the works prior to the pandemic.”
When COVID-19 restrictions that had closed gyms, bars, hair salons, and other businesses were lifted in June, Green reopened and made sure to follow guidelines set by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the state of Alabama.
“We keep the classes at nine people, so there is a good people-to-trainer ratio and people are not all on top of one another,” said Green, who plans to move into a new facility, also in Bessemer, in the first quarter of 2021. “Before the pandemic, there were more than nine participants per class, but now we cap session sizes in order to socially distance and adhere to the guidelines.”
Marcie Pruitt, 48, has been training at BeDriven since March 2020.
“I would go to other gyms, and I was like, ‘Wait a minute. Why am I not still seeing what I want to see?’ I would put in the work, but I was leaving the gym and not seeing any results,” she said.
Pruitt was pleased by what she found at BeDriven.
“With a lot of trainers, you can call or text and not get a response. The moment I texted [Green], he immediately got back with me, and I could tell he was interested [in working with me],” Pruitt said. “He took time and told me I could come in and try it out first. He also explained what was offered … and that I could go at my own pace. … After getting into [BeDriven], I’m losing weight and feeling better about myself.”
The pandemic has not caused business to slow down for Green, and he expects to see growth in the new year.
“It’s picked up more in-house because people really appreciate the fact that [BeDriven] is a small gym, so they know who is coming in and they can see me actually cleaning and wiping things down,” said Green.
BeDriven is located at 2550 Five Star Pkwy. Suite 104, Bessemer, AL 35022. For more information, contact Darnell Green at darnell@bedrivenfitness.com on Instagram at bedriven_fit_factory or big.drive_, and on Facebook at Bedriven Fit Factory.
Darnell Green, certified personal trainer and owner BeDriven Fit Factory, in Bessemer. (Marvin Gentry, For The Birmingham Times)
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Disney announces layoffs of 32,000 jobs in the first half of 2021
The 32,000 layoffs this time include the 28,000 layoffs previously announced.
Recently, Disney announced that it will lay off 32,000 employees in the first half of 2021, mainly involving theme park employees. The number of layoffs this time has risen from the company’s announcement of layoffs of 28,000 in September, mainly due to the limited customer base for Disneyland due to health incidents.
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May 14, 2011 / Burgo / music documentaries
Vic Chesnutt Documentary, “It Is What It Is” [VIDEO]
Michael Stipe has just announced that he is executive producing a new documentary on his late friend Vic Chesnutt.
According to REMhq:
Michael has signed on to executive produce plan9films Vic Chesnutt project It Is What It Is–a 90-minute plus concert documentary filmed in Canada during Vic’s last tour.
“Vic was one of the landmark artists and writers of our time,” said Michael. “The opportunity to extend his particular brilliance to a wider audience was the impetus to jump onboard this project.”
All I can say is, this is going to be a very, very difficult film to watch.
Below, you can watch an unmixed clip from the project, filmed in November 2009, just one month before Vic died of an apparent suicide.
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Demons (1985)
‘Demons’ is a ridiculously entertaining piece of atmospheric gory schlock with a cheesy B movie charm and a very smart premise making it impossible for most hardened horror fans to ignore. Many of that said fandom hail the film as Lamberto Bava’s masterpiece, which really is not saying much looking over the director’s body of work. However, credit is due where credit is due and this is the one the son of legendary auteur Mario Bava will be remembered for - a somewhat bright spot that shines out of his filmography that is eclipsed by his late great father’s shadow. While by far no way the great example of genre cinema that its fanbase would have you believe, it is easy to see why it has garnered such a loyal strong following that has given it its cult classic status.
Randomly chosen a load of people is invited to a free movie screening at a newly renovated theatre. The film turns out to be a horror about people becoming demons and just as this happens onscreen, the audience starts to turn into horrifying demonic creatures themselves.
Set in Germany the movie opens on a moving underground train in Berlin where we are introduced to one of the story’s protagonists female lead Cheryl (Natasha Hovey). Seeing the reflection of a half metal masked man (Michele Soavi) staring at her from the window opposite her seat as the train goes through a tunnel she becomes understandably agitated especially considering he is nowhere on board. Getting off at her destination, she finds that the mysterious man with the half mask indeed exists and is seemingly stalking her. When Cheryl gets to the top of the escalator, he meets her but to her relief he hands her a complementary cinema ticket for a showing that very night at a recently renovated theatre The Metropol. After getting another ticket off him assuming that his costume is part of the film’s promotion she meets her friend Kathy (Paola Cozzo) outside the station and the two students decide to ditch the class they were due to attend to go to the free screening.
When they get there, we meet the rest of the audience in the theatre’s lobby that are a diverse assortment of characters. There is a tough guy pimp accompanied by two of his prostitutes, a blind man and his niece, an emotionally abusive husband and his suffering wife, a pair of young lovers and Cheryal and Kathy meet George and Ken (Urbano Barberini & Karl Zinny respectively). George is the male lead here taking a liking to Cheryl with his friend Ken keen on Kathy.
There is testament to some shoddy writing here and during the following sequence depicting the screening of the movie, as emphasis is put upon the theatre’s suspicious looking usherette (Nicoletta Elmi). It is obvious that the screenplay written by Bava Jr., Dario Argento (also the producer here), Franco Ferrini and Dardano Sacchetti was setting up this character to be a major antagonist in being behind it all with the camera focusing on her knowing facial expressions in her reactions to the unsuspecting cinemagoers. Although after her appearance during the film’s showing this is all immediately forgotten about. It could perhaps be a possible red herring to give the viewer something to think about but in the end, it is just pointless and adds nothing of worth to the screen time.
One of the pimp’s lady workers Rosemary (Geretta Geretta) takes off the lobby’s display of props a similar but whole metal mask to that of Cheryl’s train stalker which is hanging off the foot of a suit of armour sitting on a motorcycle. Trying it on something inside the mask scratches her face when she takes it off. Inside the darkened auditorium, the movie shown is a horror feature itself telling the story of the misfortunes of two young couples that discover the grave of the prophet Nostradamus after breaking into a cemetery. The grave is actually empty though except for a book written by the seer himself and the exact same mask that Rosemary had put on. As one of the young men (Soavi again) tries on the mask the other man of the group reads from the book about whoever puts on the mask becomes a demon. As Michele Soavi’s character takes off the mask he cuts himself just as Rosemary did and just as this happens on screen her own cut begins to bleed.
Feeling ill, she goes out back to the ladies room where the scratch bursts and out comes horrible green pus and she transforms into a ghastly fanged demon. When her friend fellow hooker Carman (Fabiola Toledo) comes in to see if she is okay Rosemary attacks her and affects her as well. Eventually getting away from Rosemary, Carmen rips through the cinema screen transforming into a demonic creature before the very eyes of everyone. So begins a night of bloodthirsty terror as many more become infected and the uninfected try to find a way out now that suddenly all the exits have been bricked up. There is a sub-plot injected into the proceedings as a gang of punks run into a bit of bother with police outside. Coming across The Metropol, they break in to escape and unknowingly let out one of the infected after they go inside only to become infected themselves. These scenes only serve the purpose to set up the ending.
‘Demons’ was an obvious attempt to break into the American horror film market with its on sleeve influence of Sam Raimi’s superior ‘The Evil Dead’ and its ill-fitting 80’s rock soundtrack with a touch of the questionable choice of Go West added into the mix. Yet Lamberto Bava opts for an unknown badly dubbed Italian cast instead of known American actors portraying characters about as deep as a kiddies swimming pool delivering lines of clunky dialogue that either falls into the groan inducing category or the so bad it is good cheesefest kind that makes us unintentionally laugh out loud. The pimp Tony (Bobby Rhodes) has a bunch of gold nuggets including -
“Come on grab her legs and help me throw her over the stall! Come on what you waiting for?”
George replies: “I won't give you a hand! Christ she's dead... Leave her alone!”
Tony comes back with: “You ain't worth shit! How do you know she's really dead?”
Although these expected Italian horror shortcomings are heavily on display - bad acting, wafer thin characterization, dialogue so bad that it becomes hilarious with the equally poor dubbing, the usual lack of logic - it is very hard not to like Bava Jr.’s most famous directorial achievement. It is the signature stamp of horror from the boot shaped country to favour atmosphere and gore over everything else. Lamberto Bava might not be the masterful executer of stylistic mood as his father was but he still manages to build an effective dreaded atmosphere to emphasize upon the helplessness of the survivors’ plight against the horde of the demonised.
It also lacks the soul that went into making ‘The Evil Dead’ but the movie has a clever life imitating art premise aided by Bava Jr. showing off dynamic techniques behind the camera harking back to his giallo roots with fast cutting between the filtered cinematography of inspired camera angles. Of course, the main showcase here is the gallons of gore expertly poured out by the excellent SFX work. I will leave these set-pieces spoiler free for anybody who has yet to see the film but I will just say that ‘Demons’ is one of the ultimate experiences in fulfilling gorehound’s fantasises. Claudio Simonetti’s infectious musical score, which starts out upbeat but descends into eeriness by the end of the movie makes up for the lousy rock soundtrack to which we are also subjected to. Although to be fair these songs of 80’s tackiness just add to the party mood of the film but just seem out of place in certain scenes.
Despite its flaws ‘Demons’ is a delightful beer n' pizza flick and its DVD case should make for a permanent beer mat at the end of your well-worn in sofa.
*** out of ****
Dave J. Wilson
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Labels: 1985, Dario Argento, Demons, Lamberto Bava
DrunkethWizerd 31 May 2012 at 23:39
Bravo! Great fucking article my fiend. That was some excellent reading... though, may I say, that any reading about Demons is well worth it.
Dave J. Wilson 1 June 2012 at 00:16
Thanks, mate. It is a good time flick.
Drew Grimm Van Ess 5 July 2012 at 04:30
Good review! I agree with you 100%. As a movie its terrible but it has entertainment value.
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Dave J. Wilson 5 July 2012 at 09:30
Thanks, mate. I rate 'Demons' as one of the very best guilty pleasures in horror. And will do.
Kev D. 16 July 2012 at 14:27
Man, this was a fun movie to watch. I actually remember seeing the box in a video store when I was a kid, and it freaking me out. I wish I could go back and tell my child-self that it turns out it's a comedy.
http://www.zombiehall.com/2012/03/demons.html
Dave J. Wilson 16 July 2012 at 19:19
Thanks, mate. It is one helluva good time.
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JORI HULKKONEN Interview
July 5, 2011 / electricityclub / Comments Off on JORI HULKKONEN Interview
JORI HULKKONEN is one of Europe’s most highly regarded electronic music producers.
One of 2010’s best albums, ‘Origin’ by VILLA NAH is one of his co-productions. Although he released his first album ‘Selkäsaari Tracks’ in 1996, he first came to the world’s wider attention as ZYNTHERIUS with TIGA on their 2001 electro cover of COREY HART’s ‘Sunglasses At Night’ which became a massive club hit.
In 2005, he collaborated with JOHN FOXX on ‘Dislocated’ as part of his fifth solo album ‘Dualizm’. This also featured Jerry Valuri on the track ‘Lo-Fiction’ and led to the formation of their duo PROCESSORY and the release of a self-titled debut in 2007.
Up for the odd spot of artistic mischief, he assembled THE ACID SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, an experimental avant-garde techno ensemble of nine fellow conspirators each controlling Roland TB-303 Bassline computers, all conducted and mixed by Hulkkonen while operating various Roland drum machines. Described as “performance art meets acid house”, the collective famously supported KRAFTWERK on their Helsinki date in 2009.
As well as undertaking remixes for CLIENT and ROBYN among many, in 2010 he released his seventh solo album ‘Man From Earth’ which featured VILLA NAH and again Jerry Valuri who sang on two songs including the brilliant title track which made The Electricity Club’s Top 30 songs of that year. Never one to stand still, together with DJ Alex Nieminen, he has just released a cover version of NEW ORDER’s ‘Subculture’ under the moniker STOP MODERNISTS. The original track saw the Factory Quartet at the start of their Italo inspired sub-PET SHOP BOYS imperial phase so this rework appropriately enough features none other than Chris Lowe on lead vocals.
But it’s PROCESSORY that is JORI HULKKONEN’s main focus at the moment. The new album ‘Change Is Gradual’ is a more synthetic and collaborative effort than its predecessor with hints of a lo-fi gothique and the reclusive Valuri’s anguished vocals providing a foreboding atmosphere over the retro-futuristic instrumentation.
Perhaps initially less dance oriented than his better known work, this is an ambitious 18 track neo-concept album in three acts. And as the title suggests, there is a progressive escapist vibe running throughout. Album opener ‘Young Italians’ has strong moody overtones filled with grainy Emulator strings. ‘Farewell, Welfare’ is creepily dystopian and built around some gloriously weird noises while the collections highlight ‘Take Me To Your Leader’ actually concocts some very introspective moods at The Finland Stationbut nothing has been proved.
‘Recovery Measures’ bleeps up the pace and is more readily accessible. But on the more downbeat side ‘Human, Unfortunately’ could be a eulogy from ‘Blade Runner’ and this minimal wave continues with closing numbers ‘In The Unlikely Event Of An All Life Erasing Gamma-Ray Burst, This Is The Soundtrack’ and ‘Adaptation For Survival’. These are spacey takes on the similarly apocalyptic themes explored on MUSE’s three part ‘Exogenesis Symphony’. With the album now released, JORI HULKKONEN kindly spoke to The Electricity Club about ‘Change Is Gradual’ and his varied musical adventures.
You have recorded under a variety of guises; as yourself, ZYNTHERIUS, ACID SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, KEBACID, DRUMMAN, STOP MODERNISTS and PROCESSORY. Another person who had as many identities as this is fellow producer Stuart Price. What made you decide to wear so many hats?
Originally, when I signed my debut album followed by an artist contract with the French label F Communications in the mid 90s, it was agreed that I may still release music on other labels, but not use the name I would use on F Comm. And as I decided early on to work my artist albums under my real name, it was only natural to develop pseudonyms for music on other labels. And as I worked with many different labels, I always tended to come up with a new name. To date I think I’ve recorded under about 20 different names.
ACID SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA had the honour of supporting KRAFTWERK in the summer of 2009. How did it feel to support the mighty Kling Klang foursome? Any stories about that event?
The whole visual side of the ASO is lending heavily from the imagery of KRAFTWERK, so getting the opening slot for them was pretty amazing. Ralf Hütter told me after the show he was very impressed by the whole concept and our performance, making the experience a truly exceptional one.
When did PROCESSORY come into being with Jerry Valuri?
I’ve known Jerry for 15 years, and even before ‘Lo-Fiction’, which was recorded in 2004, we experimented with his vocals. Jerry had never done any singing before so it was a long learning curve. I think the first record released with Jerry’s voice is Man From Solaris which was released on 12″ vinyl in 2001. In 2002 it was included on my album ‘Different’ which featured another song with Jerry, ‘Four Seasons, Four Loves’.
‘Lo-Fiction’ was the first proper song thing where Jerry wrote his vocals and lyrics on top of a musical idea I had. We were both going through on a very deep phase with THE SMITHS. After the success of the song – but more importantly because it being a very cool experience for both of us – we decided to start working on an album As it was a proper collaboration, we didn’t even consider doing the album as a JORI HULKKONEN record, but we wanted to create its own little universe. Our self titled debut album was released in 2007.
So what makes PROCESSORY different from your last solo album ‘Man From Earth’ which also featured Jerry Valuri on two tracks?
The two tracks on ‘Man From Earth’ with Jerry were both written by me, Jerry just re-sang my vocals as I’m not such a great vocalist. Same thing with the VILLA NAH collaboration on that album, ‘Re Last Year’.
The idea with PROCESSORY, although I do all the final mixes, is to bounce ideas back and forth, musically, lyrically and thematically. So it’s a real collaboration, whereas on JORI HULKKONEN records, I’m a dictator who doesn’t negotiate.
‘Change Is Gradual’ is divided into three parts. What was the idea or thought behind this?
Two reasons. First of all, it’s very long record, pretty much the maximum length of a CD. We felt that dividing it into three parts maybe makes it more accessible. Secondly, the album took about one year to record. There were three phases we went through and that’s roughly the partition you have. Originally we wanted to make a slow, dark album, which is the first part, mixing a variety of influences from new age to dub.
The second part features more traditional pop songs, which I was kind of against initially, as I didn’t want the record to sound too much like the VILLA NAH album I had produced earlier that year. But the songs took their own direction and became something totally different. The last part is more based on productional ideas leaning towards dance music, lending to Detroit techno and disco and generally have a more upbeat vibe to them. After recording everything, we thought maybe we should release three separate mini-albums but eventually came up with this three part solution.
Which would you say are the key tracks on the ‘Change Is Gradual’ album and why?
Tough, it’s still too close, I could probably answer this better in a few years, but ‘Trickle Down’ was the first track we recorded for the new album and it laid down some basic directions.
‘Take Me To Your Leader’ and ‘Non-Aggression Principle’ are probably my favourite songs on the album at the moment, they both turned out exactly as I wanted plus the album closer ‘Adaptation For Survival’, that kind of sums up the vibe of the whole album.
Do CD and vinyl versions of the album have same tracks?
‘Change Is Gradual’ is available only on CD and digital, then there will be a series of three 12″ vinyl EPs that feature both originals from the album but also remixes by the likes of AEROPLANE, HERCULES & THE LOVE AFFAIR and CFCF
You also co-produced VILLA NAH’s ‘Origin’. How did you meet Juho and Tomi?
In 2008, a friend of mine had seen them live and gave me the link to their MySpace page thinking I might like it. They had the demo versions of ‘Daylight’, ‘Ways To Be’, ‘Envelope’ and ‘Emerald Hills’ up there and I was instantly hooked.
I’d spent so much time listening to these songs on MySpace that when we started working on them later in 2009 in my studio, changing them felt somehow wrong. So those particular songs didn’t change that much from the demo stage.
At the time in 2008, I was organizing a small weekender festival in Helsinki and I booked them to play there. Also at the show were the guys running the Keys Of Life label. We were all totally blown away by their performance so the plan of recording an EP that I’d produce was made the same night.
One thing that was quite striking about ‘Origin’ was that it was dance influenced but very sparse and not ‘in-your-face’ like most club recordings. What was the main thing that you believe you brought to VILLA NAH’s album?
There was a lot of material to begin with. The guys had written a lot of songs in the previous couple of years, so someone outside their songwriting duo having a fresh pair of ears was crucial in picking a group of songs that would make a good album. Secondly I brought in options. I would hear potential in a certain song that could be fulfilled with a different approach; a good example being All The Days which was quite different when we started work on it.
How do you assess VILLA NAH’s potential as a synthpop act in the 21st Century?
It all depends on them really, what they want to do. They have a lot going on for them though; great songwriting, a very good debut album to build on and definitely not least, Juho’s magical voice.
Many people internationally first became aware of you via TIGA & ZYNTHERIUS’ cover of ‘Sunglasses At Night’ in 2001. How was that song chosen to be covered and what was it like to be swept along by the Electroclash movement of that time?
As with most things, it was all very accidental and not very planned at all. I was in Montreal promoting my new mix CD ‘Helsinki Mix Sessions’ released on TIGA’s Turbo label in 2000, and we just had some spare time to mess around in TIGA’s home studio.
We tried a few cover versions including ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, ‘Small Town Boy’ and ‘When Doves Cry’ before trying ‘Sunglasses At Night’. I’d originally found the song back in ’84 on a 12″ called ‘West End Sunglasses’, a megamix of COREY HART’s ‘Sunglasses’ and the original version of PET SHOP BOYS’ ‘West End Girls’, and the synthline just felt very cool to use with the 808 beat. It took us a couple of months before re-listening to what we’d done and sending it off to DJ HELL. We weren’t really expecting that much of the whole thing. I’m glad I used a pseudonym for that release as even though I loved a lot of the music that was around and connected with Electroclash, the whole scene felt a bit distant to me.
You’ve continued to occasionally produce / co-write with TIGA on his solo albums. It is good that you still work together but was a permanent partnership never really a possibility?
After ‘Glasses’, we actually started work on a TIGA & ZYNTHERIUS album and it was very close to being finished, titled ‘The Strings That / Us’. Eventually we concluded that keeping T&Z as a one hit wonder was a lot better – and cooler – alternative though so we agreed on focusing our solo careers, with some songs of those sessions ending up on our albums, such as ‘Dying In Beauty’ on my ‘Dualizm’ album, and Highschool on TIGA’s Sexor. Because we do work together pretty well as songwriters, we’ve tried to get in a studio at least once year and actually we’ve accumulated quite a few unreleased songs that have never made it on either of our albums.
You collaborated with JOHN FOXX on two tracks ‘Dislocated’ from ‘Dualizm’ and ‘Never Been Here Before’ from ‘Errare Machinale Est’. How did you first come to be working with him?
I believe it was around the time JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON’s album ‘Crash & Burn’ came out, I got in touch with John’s manager Steve Malins.
JOHN FOXX’s ‘Metamatic’ is one of my all-time favourite albums and for me it was a fantastic opportunity to get a chance to work with one of the people who had shaped my musical world.
‘Dislocated’ was written by me, with John and the sound of ‘Metamatic’ in mind, whereas ‘Never Been Here Before’ was a co-write, sounding more contemporary club music.
Would you like to do a full collaborative album like the JOHN FOXX & THE MATHS project ‘Interplay’?
We’ve talked about further collaborations, and yes I’m sure more music will be coming sometime in the future from us in one form or another.
And you have also recorded a cover version of NEW ORDER’s ‘Subculture’ with PET SHOP BOYS’ Chris Lowe on lead vocals?
The idea of re-recording ‘Subculture’ by NEW ORDER is something I’d considered for a long time. In fact, my first cover version of the song goes back to 1990. The idea was to take what me and STOP MODERNISTS partner Alex Nieminen felt was an underrated song, make a late 80s deep house interpretation and bring some extra twist with having Chris on the vocals.
It’s very hard – impossible, actually – to explain how important this record is to me. PET SHOP BOYS have been the most important musical influence for me, and to be part of the official PSB canon in way completes a circle that started in the mid 80s when hearing ‘West End Girls’ for the first time and deciding “that’s what I want to do”
Where do you stand on the balance between using vintage and modern equipment. Do you have any particular favourite synthesizers or devices that are important elements to the JORI HULKKONEN sound?
I love hardware, and I love vintage synths and drum machines, but at the same time I love new technology and software and follow what’s going on in there.
I think using old machines but then mixing and manipulating in a virtual environment gives you the best of both worlds, and that’s where I’ve been at for the last ten years. I don’t think I have any trademark synths. Seems over time that when I work with a new piece of equipment, hardware or software, I always end up trying to make them sound the same!
Have you had any formal musical training or are you self taught?
Self taught – that was the one thing that got me into electronic music, the idea that you could do everything by yourself, in your bedroom with no real musical education. It felt truly radical.
You have done remixes for many acts. Has there been a particular one that has stood out for you which has been personally a great artistic success?
I think ‘This Boy’s In Love’e by THE PRESETS is a 10 out of 10 remix on my standards. It’s difficult to say why but somehow everything just clicked when I was making it and it still sounds fresh.
What projects are you working on next?
There’s plenty of stuff that I’m working on, as an artist, producer and remixer. The next release I have lined up is another collaboration album, this one I did with Via Tania from Sydney, Australia. We’re called THE TANIA & JORI CONTINENTS and our album is called ‘Continent One’. It’ll be out this summer on the Australian label Other Tongues. It’s a mix of synth and chamber pop. Tania has the most amazing voice.
Is there anyone else you’d be interested in working with?
Yes, and I’m working on it!
The Electricity Club gives its sincerest thanks to JORI HULKKONEN
Special thanks also to Tapio Normall for his valued assistance and contribution
PROCESSORY ‘Change Is Gradual’ is released by Sugarcane Records
‘Subculture’ by STOP MODERNISTS featuring Chris Lowe is released by Keys Of Life Records
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Dorf on Law
Law, Politics, Economics, and More from Michael Dorf, Neil Buchanan, Sherry Colb, Diane Klein, Eric Segall, and (Occasionally) Others
The Sisyphean Task of Assessing Ryan's VP Debate Performance
-- Posted by Neil H. Buchanan
About twenty minutes into last week's Presidential debate, when the Romney strategy of brazen dishonesty and false moderation had become clear, I had the sinking realization that I had to brace myself not just for another 70 minutes of that assault on Americans' intelligence. I also had four and a half hours of it yet to come, with one VP debate and two more Presidential debates still on the schedule. The only good thing that I can say now is that we have reached the halfway point in this farce. The end cannot come soon enough.
It is by now utterly beside the point to try to "score" the debates. Paul Ryan's performance last night was so devoid of truth that it is impossible even to try to describe what he was doing as "arguing." Even when he was not following Mitt Romney's strategy of simply repeating flat-out lies, his responses to Vice President Biden's arguments were even more dishonest than the lies that Ryan had started with. Ryan might as well have said something like, "We will find a magic ring that will make everything work out as we say it will," and when Biden replied, "There are no magic rings," Ryan would have said, "Well, that's because Obama hid the key to the invisible box that contains the clues that tell us where to find the map to the Mountain of the Ring Makers -- and he did this bad thing by raising their taxes."
Yes, I suppose that counts as "arguing" in the sense that Hypothetical Ryan did not merely repeat that they will find the magic ring, but instead tried to "explain" why it seems difficult to find the magic ring. To call that effective argumentation, however, would simply be to credit child-like fantastic thinking. Piling new lies upon old lies is not debating.
So it is clearly time for me to give up that ghost. The debate format, which was always somewhat of a joke, has now been completely degraded. The political commentators (whom I have, once again, not listened to or read in the time since last night's debate ended) have surely decided which side won the night on the basis of some mysterious and ever-changing definition of "sounding Presidential," or whatever. Even though blogging makes me a pundit of sorts, I am pleased not to know how to play this content-free game of ignoring substance entirely.
What to do instead? Ryan provided such a rich smorgasbord of lies and delusional thinking that it would take ten blog posts simply to try to unsnarl them all and even to begin to explain why he is so completely wrong. In this post, therefore, I will simply offer a short list of observations, including a bit of back-seat driving on what Biden could have said at various points in the debate.
-- The Chutzpah of Fake Bipartisanship: In an odd homage to President Obama's worst strategic decision of his Presidency, the Romney/Ryan people have made it clear that their polling says the same thing that Obama has always believed, which is that the people who decide elections want to see bipartisanship. Thus, in the most jaw-dropping parts of the debate, Ryan continued to push the prepared talking point that Obama has been unwilling to work with Republicans, and Romney and Ryan would be able to reach across the aisle. This included repeating the revisionist history about how well Romney worked with a Democratic-controlled legislature in Massachusetts.
More to the point, however, Ryan tried to turn his party into the wronged victim of Obama's supposed partisanship. Never mind that the leaders of his party continually opposed things that they once supported (such as the creation of a deficit-reduction commission), whenever Obama began to support them. Never mind that those leaders simply announced, point blank, that their central goal was to prevent Obama from succeeding as President. None of that mattered, because in Ryan's world the lockstep party-line voting in Congress is somehow Obama's doing.
Biden had a moment or two where he punctured some of Ryan's more ridiculous claims. He did, for example, beat back Ryan's claim that the current version of Romney's Medicare plan is bipartisan, noting that the Democrats who tried initially to work with Republicans to craft a "centrist" plan -- which, in today's Washington, generally means building a law around Republican orthodoxy, with a dollop of progressivity thrown in around the edges -- have all given up and walked away. What remains is entirely Tea Party Republicanism. Biden knew his facts, and he pushed back hard against Ryan's attempts to make Obama seem uninterested in finding nonpartisan approaches.
(As an aside, if I were to try to play the punditry game and guess how Biden's performance was being assessed, I could easily play by the non-rules of the game and call him "forceful and commanding" or "irritable and condescending." Who knows? I will say that I do not fault Biden for failing to hit every possible target. My back-seat driving here is very much a matter of trying to make sense of nonsense with the benefit of a bit more time, not a statement that Biden should have done any of these things.)
-- Death Panels, Again: As in the Presidential debate, the Romney/Ryan strategy included scaring people with the idea that the Affordable Care Act includes panels of "unelected experts" who will be empowered to force doctors not to do what people need to get better. Obama had tried to explain in his debate that the Independent Payment Advisory Board can do no such thing. Biden simply used the opportunity to compare Ryan unfavorably to Sarah Palin. Amazingly, this worked, at least in the sense that Ryan dropped all of the death panels talk for the rest of the debate. His initial comments were notable, however, in that he added to the nightmare scenario by commenting that the people who will serve on the board do not even have to be doctors, raising the ante in this completely absurd attack line on one of the most important aspects of the health care law.
-- Scaring People is Bad, Unless We Are the Ones Doing It: The death panels canard is even more insane when one remembers another Ryan theme for the night, which was that the Obama/Biden attacks on the Republicans' Medicare plans reflected a deliberate strategy of scaring people. Taking a quote from Obama in 2008 out of context, Ryan returned repeatedly to a defense that boils down to this: "Saying bad things about us is wrong, because that's just scare-mongering." So, apparently Ryan and Romney can say anything at all, and propose policies that would genuinely harm people, but anyone who points this out is not playing fair. Biden never responded to this, even though it is as mockable as anything else Ryan said all night (which is really saying something).
-- Ryan Runs Away From His Record: Romney clearly put Ryan on the ticket because he needed to shore up support from his extremist base. Ryan would not even bother to defend his own budget plans, even though Biden at least twice pointed out that those plans were both passed in the House and endorsed by Romney. Ryan continued the complete flip-flop by which he presents his policies as friendly to the middle class, attacking Obama's cost savings on Medicare as an attack on recipients. Ryan has so much credibility among his base that no one takes him seriously on this. Everyone knows that Romney will do what Ryan and his paymasters want on economic policy, which is to off the "moochers" that Romney and Ryan scorn (who are also known as "the 47%").
-- The Zinger That Wasn't: Speaking of the 47%, Ryan's most obviously canned moment was when he drew a laugh from the crowd by trying to defend Romney's disgusting attacks on the people who supposedly pay no taxes, by saying that Biden (of all people) knows what it is like to say something unfortunate. I have no doubt that the people on Fox loved this, because they have been pushing even the most innocuous Biden misstatements as "gaffes" for the last four years. And, to be sure, Biden has had some truly embarrassing moments that he would surely like to take back. When Ryan tried to play on Biden's reputation for inapt phrasing (to be polite about it), it should have put Biden on the defensive.
Instead, Biden smiled and responded without hesitation: "But I always say what I mean." Less effective was his follow-up, where he stumbled over the line, "If you believe that Romney's comments were a matter of unfortunate phrasing, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you." Notwithstanding how one views Biden's response to the attempted zinger, it continues to amaze me that the best the Romney/Ryan people can come up with to defend Romney's comments is that that were poorly phrased. This was not a matter of listening to someone having something inoffensive to say, but saying it in a way that inadvertently caused offense. Romney's comments were only "poorly phrased" because they were so unvarnished. Ryan has been pushing this idea that it was all a matter of being misunderstood for a month now. It is even less believable today than when he first pushed it.
-- Revisionist History on the Debt Ceiling Debacle: Ryan's most deeply dishonest line of argument, however, was surely in his depiction of the "fiscal cliff" and its reductions in defense spending as somehow Obama's fault. Just a quick review: (1) In March 2011, Republicans in Congress pass a budget that requires increasing the debt ceiling, (2) Within months, they refuse to increase the ceiling unless Obama abandons the just-passed budget and agrees to more cuts in social programs, or they will let the country default on its obligations, (3) The Republicans agree to a law that involves automatic cuts in domestic discretionary and defense spending. Now that those automatic cuts are set to take effect, it is somehow Obama who wants to cut defense spending. Biden, whose most effective moments were surely when he pointed out that many defense cuts had been approved by military leaders, never quite pushed back on this as hard as he could.
Trying to analyze all of this nonsense is bad for the soul. The onslaught of shameless dishonesty from Romney and Ryan is so relentless that we run out of synonyms for "lying." Whatever it was we saw last night, and whoever is deemed to have won, it was not a debate. It was not even a discussion. It was one man lying repeatedly, and another man choosing which lies to expose. The end cannot come soon enough.
Posted by Neil H. Buchanan at 8:00 AM
Paul Scott said...
One bit of truth that finally came out was that Ryan admitted the ticket has no plan, has no details at least, for "eliminating loopholes."
I thought that was surprising (not the lack of details, but the admission). I hope Obama is able to capitalize on it, because until last night it has always been "we have a plan, but it is a secret." Now it is, "We have a (likely unworkable) framework and we will work with the new congress to figure out details."
Neil H. Buchanan said...
Quite so, Paul. And one thing that I did not mention is that the Romney/Ryan people have always been very detailed on the tax cuts. It's definitely "my way or the highway" on tax increases for the rich, for example. So much for "It's always better to show up at negotiations without specifics"!
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contemporary graphic design definition
From 1891 to 1896, William Morris' Kelmscott Press published some of the most significant of the graphic design products of the Arts and Crafts movement, and made a lucrative business of creating and selling stylish books. Buy CONTEMPORARY GRAPHIC DESIGN by (ISBN: 9783822852705) from Amazon's Book Store. Previously, most advertising was word of mouth. Contemporary design comes from a spirit of individualism and international influences, from Kenzo to Gehry. If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. Graphic design definition, the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect. Graphic designers create and combine symbols, images and text to form visual representations of ideas and messages. of the Postmodern graphic design genre, and then examines contemporary graphic design to understand how it shares similarities of the Postmodern graphic design genre. More than 52 years passed before London bookseller Benjamin Harris received another printing press in Boston. Aldus Manutius developed the book structure that became the foundation of western publication design. After all, the two terms are often used interchangeably even though there are some distinctions. Vector Seamless Pattern. They share many elements, theories, principles, practices, languages and sometimes the same benefactor or client. Some designers across the world use CorelDraw. He showed his prowess by running an ad in his General Magazine and the Historical Chronicle of British Plantations in America (the precursor to the Saturday Evening Post) that stressed the benefits offered by a stove he invented, named the Pennsylvania Fireplace. 2 0. Two of the first ads were for stolen anvils. Although he lacked artistic training, Frank Pick led the Underground Group design and publicity movement. [23] The main job titles within the industry are often country specific. Strategy is becoming more and more essential to effective graphic design. What Contemporary Design Is Not. The profession of industrial designer was born from this movement. [8] One of them was a Thanksgiving poster that was finished in 1985. About. Jones McClure, 2010-14. [4] The initial use of the Boston News-Letter carried Campbell's own solicitations for advertising from his readers. But photography makes you apply these ideas in real-world settings. While Art Deco was flashier, Mid-Century Modern opted for more minimalistic and timeless design touches, though the latter did retain some of Art Deco’s standout features, such as its treatment of angles and lines. One is a specific historical design period with a guiding philosophy and identifiable characteristics. Printing" The Silk Road Foundation. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Nearly all of the popular and "industry standard" software programs used by graphic designers since the early 1990s are products of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Maybe you’re a student contemplating the next step in your journey. [6], During the first half of the ninetieth century, there were diverse styles that were used by various graphic designers. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. They can include graphic designer, art director, creative director, animator and entry level production artist. These printed announcements were followed by later public registers of wants called want ads and in some areas such as the first periodical in Paris advertising was termed "advices". Some advertisements ran for 10-20 lines, including color, names, varieties, and sizes of the goods that were offered. Whether it’s an ad, a GIF social media post, brochure, flyer etc. As of 2017, median pay was $48,700 per year. Contemporary Graphic Realism. Page design has always been a consideration in printed material and more recently extended to displays such as web pages. This practice was termed "squis" or "pin up" posters, in approximately 1612, becoming the first form of print advertising in Europe. The main distinction between graphic design and art is that graphic design solves a problem as well as being aesthetically pleasing. A definition of communication design with examples. Getting a logo design through crowdsourcing being one of the most common. They designed buildings, theater sets, posters, fabrics, clothing, furniture, logos, menus, etc. In Mainz Germany, in 1448, Johann Gutenberg introduced movable type using a new metal alloy for use in a printing press and opened a new era of commerce. This article lists the most common or popular graphic design styles. In 1638 Harvard University received a printing press from England. Graphic designers create and combine symbols, images and text to form visual representations of ideas and messages. Performance & security by Cloudflare, Please complete the security check to access. Graphic design is applied in the entertainment industry in decoration, scenery and visual story telling. Contemporary art can be defined as works that have been produced since World War II up to the present day, and reflects what is currently in style. Graphic design definition is - the art or profession of using design elements (such as typography and images) to convey information or create an effect; also : a product of this art. The Mercury and William Brooker's Massachusetts Gazette, first published a day earlier. Aside from technology, graphic design requires judgment and creativity. Unlike purely visual textures, tactile textures are those … Some graphic design tools such as a grid are used in both traditional and digital form. Critical, observational, quantitative and analytic thinking are required for design layouts and rendering. In 1849, Henry Cole became one of the major forces in design education in Great Britain, informing the government of the importance of design in his Journal of Design and Manufactures. Beginning in the 11th century, longer scrolls and books were produced using movable type printing, making books widely available during the Song dynasty (960–1279).[5]. He discovered the use of leftover pages and used them to announce the books and post them on church doors. In advertising, the ultimate objective is the sale of goods and services. Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger; Paul Rand, who took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of corporate identity, a subset of graphic design. The image or layout is produced using traditional media and guides, or digital image editing tools on computers. Each print is an original, technically known as an impression. In comparison to one of the dominant and influential movements of Modern Art, Abstract Expressionism, Contemporary Art seems to lack that shared idea and expression, since the time that the Contemporary art is created is the time of constant questions, re-evaluations, and … Retrieved May 31, 2008. Graphic design proper really began after the invention of the printing press in 1440, but the roots of visual communication stretch all the way back to caveman times. Modern graphic design is extremely diverse, and takes many different forms. Graphic designers can work within companies devoted specifically to the industry, such as design consultancies or branding agencies, others may work within publishing, marketing or other communications companies. Companies, Startups, Small businesses & Entrepreneurs have all benefitted a lot from design crowdsourcing since it helps them source great graphic designs at a fraction of the budget they used to spend before. The third was for real estate in Oyster Bay, owned by William Bradford, a pioneer printer in New York, and the first to sell something of value. In "Babylon, artisans pressed cuneiform inscriptions into clay bricks or tablets which were used for construction. Here you can download file Contemporary Graphic Design (25) PDF. Contemporary Graphic Design Definition. A single print could be the product of one or multiple techniques. By applying visual hierarchy and page layout techniques, designers use typography and pictures to meet users’ specific needs and focus on the logic of displaying elements in interactive designs, to optimize the user experience. First launched by Ken Garland in 1964, it was re-published as the First Things First 2000 manifesto in 1999 in the magazine Emigre 51[15] stating "We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication - a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. This area of graphic design requires practitioners to understand physical installations that have to be manufactured and withstand the same environmental conditions as buildings. The post-World War II American economy revealed a greater need for graphic design, mainly in advertising and packaging. Johnston redesigned the Underground sign and logo to include his typeface on the blue bar in the center of a red circle. The Tate defines Contemporary art as: “Term loosely used to denote art of the present day and of the relatively recent past, of an innovatory or avant-garde nature. The first Underground station signs were introduced in 1908 with a design of a solid red disk with a blue bar in the center and the name of the station. In France and England, for example, criers announced products for sale just as ancient Romans had done. From colors to typeface, everything you need to know to thrive in the graphic design world is right at your fingertips. Graphic design definition is - the art or profession of using design elements (such as typography and images) to convey information or create an effect; also : a product of this art. Workers perform specialized tasks, such as design services, publishing, advertising and public relations. Adding Splashes of Vivid Colors . During the 17th-18th century movable type was used for handbills or trade cards which were printed from wood or copper engravings. Modern furniture design, which was heavily influenced by the modern art movement, is defined by that period of time and it will never happen again. Communication design is the design of things that express information, data, emotion, culture and aesthetics. These documents announced a business and its location. Many designers thought post modernism was just … Just like various types of arts, graphic design also varies from one culture to another and is especially influenced by the culture, norm of life and history of a country. An example of a divergent task is generating alternative designs for a poster. Or, you’re an award-winning graphic designer that’s staring at a blank computer screen, breaking out in a cold sweat. The Egyptians developed communication by hieroglyphics that used picture symbols dating as far back as 136 B.C. Graphic design is applied to everything visual, from road signs to technical schematics, from interoffice memorandums to reference manuals. Bradford published his first newspaper in 1725, New York's first, the New-York Gazette. If the executor is merely following a solution (e.g. We believe in a hands-on, flexible approach to design, maintaining a print workshop as part of our practice. His invention is still sold today and is known as the Franklin stove. This beautiful use of negative space in the poster for The Lobster perfectly symbolises … [citation needed], During the Tang Dynasty (618–907) wood blocks were cut to print on textiles and later to reproduce Buddhist texts. Ben Mingo is a graphic and interactive designer from California. Learn how texture can be a powerful element in balancing a design and evoking emotional responses or provoking thought. An essay about the design culture which is specific to the Netherlands. If you’re looking for inspiration for a graphic design project, there’s no better way to motivate yourself than to see good design in action. [7] However, the latter part of the century would showcase designers using these existing styles as a conceptual framework to expand their own styles. [22] While other designers find the limitless choices from digital design can lead to paralysis or endless iterations with no clear outcome. CorelDraw is a vector graphics editor software developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. Today graphic design has penetrated into all aspects of modern life. He organized the Great Exhibition as a celebration of modern industrial technology and Victorian design. ‘The graphic design illustrates and makes tangible the various working processes.’ ‘There is more going on in media design and graphic design there.’ ‘Many of the same basic principles of graphic design apply to design in any medium.’ He uses his portfolio quite well to showcase how good… Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using illustration techniques. 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ThyssenKrupp – Hubris Begets Nemesis
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
While I do not deny my role as a polemicist, as a rule I am not motivated by revenge. It is difficult, however, not to appreciate the hand of Nemesis in the inexorable slide of that supremely hubristic organisation that is ThyssenKrupp, towards the edge of the abyss.
When we first started researching ‘The Thyssen Art Macabre’ in the 1990s, Manfred Rasch, then Thyssen AG’s corporate archivist, accused me of forging our letter of introduction from Heini Thyssen and refused to co-operate with us.
But we were in the privileged position of being granted access to private family archives not yet under his control, and thus retrieved all the information we needed.
The corporate arm of the Thyssen family, initially in the form of Thyssen AG and subsequently ThyssenKrupp, not only continued to refuse to co-operate with either myself or Caroline Schmitz, but once our research had been completed, our book written, translated and published, this policy was replaced with public accusations against us of ineptitude, lack of professional qualification, ‘sex and crime’ journalistic practices and sensationalism.
This did not prevent ThyssenKrupp commissioned and thus potentially prejudiced academics from using the results of our research extensively, with little or no credit or reference to us in their claimed, independent series of history books.
In her role as researcher and translator of documentary evidence, Caroline, who is German, understandably found their behaviour unacceptable. As an Englishman, I appreciated the irony in the fact that while they used every opportunity to discredit us, during the same period the Thyssen organisation’s management has been almost constantly subject to charges of dishonesty and corruption, resulting in convictions and payments of many hundreds of millions of Euros in fines and lost business.
But while we gained some degree of satisfaction from revealing the details of the Konzern’s dishonesty, we would both have preferred to have received corporate and familial recognition of the legitimacy of our work.
To this end, a few years ago, I wrote a conciliatory letter to Heinrich Hiesinger, CEO of ThyssenKrupp from 2011 to July 2018. But Mr Hiesinger, who had promised to tackle Thyssen’s corrupt corporate culture prior to his resignation and the inheritance of his positions by one Guido Kerkhoff, did not honour me with a personal reply. Instead he authorised a member of his public relations team to dismiss us and refer us arrogantly to their ‘independent’ historiographers; the same academics whose books we are in the process of reviewing on this website and who continue to cast dispersions on our work.
Meanwhile, ThyssenKrupp has continued to suffer, not only as a result of its business inefficiency, but also from the apparent continuation of its corporate dishonesty, to the point where it now seems quite possible the organisation might shortly cease to exist in any form even vaguely resembling that German industrial icon it once was. It is a situation which sadly will have a devastating effect on the corporation’s loyal workforce, who have also been betrayed by their management.
‘The Thyssen Art Macabre’, meanwhile, will probably continue to be bought and read globally and accepted, without corporate hindrance, as a legitimate history of the Thyssen family and their industrial and socio-political past.
The goddess Nemesis (photo copyright NadezhdaGazuriCherniak.com)
Meine Rolle als Polemiker will ich nicht abstreiten, doch im Regelfall ist Rache nicht meine eigentliche Motivation. Recht schwierig ist es allerdings, im stetigen Abrutschen der äußerst anmaßenden Firma ThyssenKrupp, nicht etwas die Hand der Nemesis zu goutieren.
Als wir in den 1990er Jahren anfingen, ‘Die Thyssen-Dynastie’ zu recherchieren, warf mir Manfred Rasch, damals Unternehmensarchivar der Thyssen AG, vor, unser Empfehlungsschreiben von Heini Thyssen gefälscht zu haben und weigerte sich, mit uns zu kooperieren.
Doch wir hatten das Privileg, private Familienarchive einsehen zu dürfen, die noch nicht unter seiner Kontrolle waren und konnten so alle Informationen abrufen, die wir benötigten.
Der Unternehmensbereich der Thyssen-Familie – zunächst die Thyssen AG, später ThyssenKrupp – weigerte sich nicht nur, mit mir oder Caroline Schmitz zusammen zu arbeiten. Sobald unsere Recherche vervollständigt war und unser Buch geschrieben, übersetzt und veröffentlicht, ging er zu der Strategie über, uns öffentlich Unfähigkeit, einen Mangel an professioneller Qualifikation, ‘sex and crime’ Journalismus und Sensationalismus vorzuwerfen.
Dies hielt die von ThyssenKrupp beauftragten und daher möglicherweise befangenen Akademiker nicht davon ab, die Resultate unserer Recherche in einer angeblich unabhängigen Serie von geschichtlichen Büchern ausgiebig zu verwenden, mit wenig oder keiner Nennung oder Referenz zu unserer Arbeit.
In ihrer Rolle als Researcher und Übersetzer schriftlicher Belege fand Caroline, die Deutsche ist, dieses Verhalten natürlich inakzeptabel. Als Engländer stach für mich die Ironie der Tatsache hervor, dass das Management der Thyssen Organisation, während es uns ständig zu diskreditieren versuchte, selbst fast permanent mit Vorwürfen der Unredlichkeit und Korruption konfrontiert war, welche in Verurteilungen und Zahlungen von vielen Hundert Millionen Euros in Strafen und entgangenen Geschäften resultierten.
Doch während wir eine gewisse Satisfaktion darin fanden, die Unredlichkeit des Konzerns bloß zu stellen, so wäre es uns doch lieber gewesen, vom Unternehmen und der Familie eine Anerkennung der Legitimität unserer Arbeit erhalten zu haben.
Daher schrieb ich vor einigen Jahren einen konzilianten Brief an Heinrich Hiesinger, Firmenboss bei ThyssenKrupp von 2011 bis Juli 2018, der bis zu seiner Abdankung und Ablösung durch Guido Kerkhoff daran festhielt, die korrupte Unternehmenskultur bei Thyssen in den Griff bekommen zu wollen. Eine persönliche Antwort erhielt ich von ihm nicht. Vielmehr beauftragte er ein Mitglied des Public Relations Teams uns abzutun und in arroganter Manier an die ‘unabhängigen’ Geschichtsschreiber zu verweisen; die gleichen, deren Bücher wir seit 2015 auf dieser Webseite rezensieren, und die unsere Arbeit weiterhin diskreditieren.
Währenddessen ist ThyssenKrupp auf stetigem Krisenkurs, nicht nur als Folge wirtschaftlicher Ineffizienz, sondern auch, wie es scheint, wegen einer trotz allem fortgeführten unternehmerischen Unredlichkeit, die es nunmehr wahrscheinlich erscheinen lässt, dass die Organisation bald nicht mehr in irgendeiner Form existieren wird, die auch nur annähernd an die deutsche Industrie-Ikone erinnert, die sie einmal war. Es ist eine Situation, die leider auch eine verheerende Auswirkung auf die treue Belegschaft der Firma hat, die ebenfalls von ihrer Geschäftsleitung verraten worden ist.
Unterdessen wird ‘Die Thyssen-Dynastie’ vermutlich weiterhin weltweit gekauft und gelesen werden, und ohne Hemmnisse von unternehmerischer Seite als legitime Geschichte der Thyssen Familie und ihrer industriellen und sozio-politischen Vergangenheit akzeptiert sein.
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Book Review: Thyssen in the 20th Century – Volume 4: ‘The Thyssens. Family and Fortune’, by Simone Derix, published by Schöningh Verlag, Germany, 2016
Reviewing this book is a huge aggravation to us, as so much of it has been derived from our groundbreaking work on the Thyssens, published a decade earlier, for which the author grants us not a single credit. It is surprising that Simone Derix does not have the respect for professional ethics to acknowledge our historiographic contribution; especially since she stated in a 2009 conference that non-academic works, whilst creating feelings of fear amongst academics of losing their prerogative to interpret history, are taking on increasing importance.
Ms Derix herself is not the fearful type of course, though somewhat hypocritical. She appears to be preemptively obedient and committed to pleasing her presumably partisan paymasters, in the form of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Alas, she is clearly not the smartest person either; writing, for instance, that Heinrich Lübke, Director of the August Thyssen Bank (he died in 1962), was the same Heinrich Lübke who was President of Germany (in that position until 1969).
But Ms Derix’s intellectual shortcomings are much more serious than simple factual errors, which should, in any case, have been picked up by at least one of her two associate writers, three project leaders, four academic mentors and six research assistants. She is in all seriousness trying to convince us that research into the lives of wealthy persons is a brand new branch of academia, and that she is its most illustrious, pioneering proponent. Does she not know that recorded history has traditionally been by the rich, of the rich and for the rich only? Has she forgotten that even basic reading and writing were privileges of the few until some hundred and fifty years ago?
At the same time, contrary to us, Derix does not appear to have had any first hand experience of exceptionally rich people at all, particularly Thyssens. Her sponsorship, earlier in her studies, by the well-endowed Gerda Henkel Foundation, was presumably an equally ‘arm’s length’ relationship. Rich people only mix with rich people, and unless Derix got paid by the word, there is no evidence that she ever in any way qualified for serious comment on their modus operandi.
What is new, of course, is that feudalism has been swept away and replaced by democratic societies, where knowledge is broadly accessible and equality before the law is paramount. Yes, her assertion that super-rich people’s archives are difficult to access is true. They only ever want you to know glorious things about them and keep the realities cloaked behind their outstanding wealth. To suggest that this series is being issued because the Thyssens have suddenly decided to engage in an exercise of honesty, generously letting official historians browse their most private documents, however, is ludicrous. The only reason why Simone Derix is revealing some controversial facts about the Thyssens is because we already revealed them. The difference is that she repackages our evidence in decidedly positive terms, so as to comply with the series’ overall damage limitation program.
Thus, Derix seems to believe she can run with the fox and hunt with the hounds; a balancing act made considerably easier by her pronouncement, early on, that any considerations of ethics or morality are to be categorically excluded from her study. The fact that the Thyssens camouflaged their German companies (including those manufacturing weapons and using forced labour) behind international strawmen, with the benefit of facilitating the large-scale evasion of German taxes, is re-branded by Derix as being a misleading description ‘made from a state perspective’ and which ‘tried to establish a desired order rather than depict an already existing order’. As if ‘the state’, as we democrats understand it, is some kind of devious entity that needs fending off, rather than the collective support mechanism of all equal, law-abiding citizens.
It is just one of the many statements that appears to show how much the arguably authoritarian mindset of her sponsors may have rubbed off on her. The fact that academics employed by publicly funded universities should be used thus as PR-agents for the self-serving entities that are the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Thyssen Industrial History Foundation and the ThyssenKrupp Konzern Archive is highly questionable by any standards, but particularly by supposedly academic ones. Especially when they claim to be independent.
In Derix’s world, the Thyssens are still (!) mostly referred to as ‘victims’, ‘(tax) refugees’, ‘dispossessed’ and ‘disenfranchised’, even if she admits briefly, once or twice in 500 pages, that ‘in the long-term it seems that they were able always to secure their assets and keep them available for their own personal needs’.
As far as the Thyssens’ involvement with National Socialism is concerned, she calls them ‘entangled’ in it, ‘related’ to it, being ‘present’ in it and ‘living in it’. With two or three exceptions they are never properly described as the active, profiting contributors to the existence and aims of the regime. Rather, as in volume 2 (‘Forced Labour at Thyssen’), the blame is again largely transferred to their managers. This is very convenient for the Thyssens, as the families of these men do not have the resources to finance counter-histories to clear their loved ones’ names.
But for Simone Derix to say that ‘from the perspective of nation states these (Thyssen managers) had to appear to be hoodlums’ really oversteps the boundaries of fair comment. The outrageousnness of her allegation is compounded by the fact that she fails to quote evidence, as reproduced in our book, showing that allied investigators made clear reference to the Thyssens themselves being the real perpetrators and obfuscators.
Yet still, Derix purports to be invoking German greatness, honour and patriotism in her quest for Thyssen gloss. She alleges bombastically that the mausoleum at Landsberg Castle in Mülheim-Kettwig ‘guarantees (the family’s) presence and attachment to the Ruhr’ and that there is an ‘indissoluble connection between the Thyssen family, their enterprises, the region and their catholic faith’. But she fails to properly range them alongside the industrialist families of Krupp, Quandt, Siemens and Bosch, preferring to surround their name hyperbolically with those of the Bismarck, Hohenzollern, Thurn und Taxis and Wittelsbach ruling dynasties.
In reality, many Thyssen heirs chose to turn their backs on Germany and live transnational lives abroad. Their mausoleum is not even accessible to the general public. Contrary to what Derix implies, the iconic name that engenders such a strong feeling of allegiance in Germany is that of the public Thyssen (now ThyssenKrupp) company alone, as one of the main national employers. This has nothing whatsoever to do with any respect for the descendants of the formidable August Thyssen, most of whom are, for reason of their chosen absence, completely unknown in the country.
In this context, it is indicative that Simone Derix categorises the Thyssens as ‘old money’, as well as ‘working rich people’. But while in the early 19th century Friedrich Thyssen was already a banker, it was only his sons August (75% share) and Josef (25% share), from 1871 onwards (and with the ensuing profits from the two world wars) who created through their relentless work, and that of their employees and workers, the enormous Thyssen fortune. Their equal was never seen again in subsequent Thyssen generations.
Thus the Thyssens became ‘ultra-rich’ and were completely set apart from the established aristocratic-bourgeois upper class. They could hardly be called ‘old money’ and neither could their heirs, despite trying everything in their power to adopt the trappings of the aristocracy (which beggars the question why volume 6 of the series is called ‘Fritz and Heinrich Thyssen – Two bourgeois lives in the public eye’). This included marrying into the Hungarian, increasingly faux aristocracy, whereby, even Derix has to admit, by the 1920s every fifth Hungarian citizen pretended to be an aristocrat.
The line of Bornemiszas, for instance, which Heinrich married into, were not the old ‘ruling dynastic line’ that Derix still pretends they were. The Thyssen-Bornemiszas came to be connected with the Dutch royals not because Heinrich’s wife Margit was such a (self-styled) ‘success’ at court, but because the Thyssens had important business interests in that country. Thus Heinrich became a banker to the Dutch royal household, as well as a personal friend of Queen Wilhelmina’s husband Prince Hendrik.
The truth is: apart from such money-orientated connections, neither the German nor the English or any other European nobility welcomed these parvenus into their immediate ranks (religion too played a role, of course, as the Thyssens were and are catholics). Until, that is, social conventions had moved on enough by the 1930s and their daughters were able to marry into the truly old Hungarian dynasties of Batthyany and Zichy.
But until that time, based on their outstanding wealth, this did not stop the brothers from adopting many of the domains of grandeur for themselves. Fritz Thyssen, according to Derix, even spent his time in the early 1900s importing horses from England, introducing English fox hunting to Germany and owning a pack of staghounds. He also had his servant quarters built lower down from his own in his new country seat, specifically to signal class distinction.
These are indeed remarkable new revelations showing that the traditional image put out by the Thyssen organisation of bad cop German, ‘temporarily’ fascist industrialist Fritz Thyssen, good cop Hungarian ‘nobleman’ Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza is even more misleading than we always thought.
Truly lamentable are Derix’s attempts to portray Fritz Thyssen as a devout, christian peacenik and centrist party member. And so are her lengthy contortions in presenting Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza as the perfectly assimilated Hungarian country squire. She does, however, report that Heinrich’s wife had stated he did not speak a word of the language, which does not stop Felix de Taillez in volume 6 writing that he did speak Hungarian. ‘If you can’t beat them, confuse them’ was Heini Thyssen’s motto. Clearly, it has also become the motto of these Thyssen-financed academics.
Meanwhile, Derix’s book is the first work supported by the Thyssen organisation to confirm that Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza did retain his German (then Prussian) citizenship. She also does venture to state that his adoption of the Hungarian nationality ‘might’ have been ‘strategic’. But these gems of truthfulness are swamped under the fountains of her gushing propaganda designed to make the second generation Thyssens look better than they were. This includes her development of August Junior’s role from black sheep of the family to committed businessman.
On the other hand, the author still fails to explain any business-related details on the much more important Heinrich Thyssen’s life in England at the turn of the century (cues: banking and diplomacy). How exactly did the family come to be closely acquainted with the likes of Henry Mowbray Howard (British liaison officer at the French Naval Ministry) or Guy L’Estrange Ewen (special envoy to the British royals)? A huge chance of genuine transparency was wasted here.
Derix also fails to draw attention to the fact that the August Thyssen and Josef Thyssen branches of the family developed in very different ways. August’s heirs exploited, left and betrayed Germany and were decidedly ‘nouveau riche’, except for Heinrich’s son Heini Thyssen-Bornemisza and his son Georg Thyssen, who really did involve themselves in the management of their companies.
By contrast, Josef’s heirs Hans and Julius Thyssen stayed in Germany (respectively were prepared to return there in the 1930s from Switzerland when foreign exchange restrictions came into force), paid their taxes, worked in the Thyssen Konzern before selling out in the 1940s, pooling their resources and adopting careers in the professions. Only the Josef Thyssen side of the family is listed in the German Manager Magazine Rich List; but for unexplained reasons Derix leaves these truly ‘working rich’ Thyssens largely unmentioned in her book.
Fortunately, Derix does not concentrate all her efforts in creative fiction and plagiarisation, but manages to provide at least some substantive politico-economic facts as well. So she reveals that Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza was a member of the supervisory board of the United Steelworks of Düsseldorf until 1933, i.e. until after Adolf Hitler’s assumption of power. This, combined with her statement that ‘Heinrich seems to have orientated himself towards Berlin on a permanent basis as early as 1927/8 (from Scheveningen in The Netherlands)’ pokes a hole in one of the major Thyssen convenience legends, that of Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza having had his main residence in neutral Switzerland from 1932 onwards (i.e. conveniently from before Hitler’ assumption of power; having ‘left Germany just in time’); though this does not stop Derix from subsequently repeating that fallacy just the same (- ‘If you can’t beat them, confuse them’-).
Fact is that, despite buying Villa Favorita in Lugano, Switzerland in 1932, Heinrich Thyssen continued to spend the largest amounts of his time living a hotel life in a permanent suite in Berlin and elsewhere and also kept a main residence in Holland (where Heini Thyssen grew up almost alone, except for the staff). His Ticino lawyer Roberto van Aken had to remind him in 1936 that he still had not applied for permanent residency in Switzerland. It was not until November 1937 that Heinrich Thyssen and his wife Gunhilde received their Swiss foreigner passes (see ‘The Thyssen Art Macabre’, page 116).
Derix also readjusts the old Thyssen myth that Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza went their separate ways in business as soon as they inherited from their father, who died in 1926. We always said that the two brothers remained strongly interlinked until well into the second half of the 20th century. And hey presto, here we have Simone Derix alleging now that ‘historians so far have always assumed that the separation had been concluded by 1936’. She adds ‘despite all attempts at separating the shares of Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, the fortunes of Fritz and Heinrich remained interlocked (regulated contractually) well into the time after the second world war’.
But it is her next sentence that most infuriates: ‘Obviously it was very difficult for outsiders to recognise this connection’. The truth of the matter is that the situation was opaque because the Thyssens and their organisation went to extraordinary lengths and did everything in their power to obfuscate matters, particularly as it meant hiding Fritz Thyssen’s and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza’s joint involvement in supporting the Nazi regime.
Amongst the Thyssens’ many advisors, the author introduces Dutchman Hendrik J Kouwenhoven as the main connecting link between the brothers, who ‘opened up opportunities and thought up financial instruments’. He worked from 1914 at the family’s Handels en Transport Maatschappij Vulcaan and then at their Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart (BVHS) in Rotterdam from its official inception in 1918 to his sacking by Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza during the second world war.
The asset management or trust company of BVHS was called Rotterdamsch Trustees Kantoor (RTK), which Derix describes as ‘repository for the finance capital of the Thyssen enterprises, as well as for the Thyssens’ private funds’. She does not say when it was created. ‘Its offices and all the important papers that Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza had lodged (at RTK) were all destroyed in a German aerial bombardment of Rotterdam on 14.05.1940’, according to Derix. To us this sounds like a highly suspicious piece of information.
Of the files of BVHS she curtly says that ‘a complete set of source materials is not available’. How convenient, especially since no-one outside the Thyssen organisation will ever be able to verify this claim truly independently; or at least until the protective mantle of Professor Manfred Rasch, head of the ThyssenKrupp Konzern Archive, retires.
Derix alludes to ‘the early internationalisation of the Thyssen Konzern from 1900’, ascribing her knowledge of its bases in raw material purchases and the implementation of a Thyssen-owned trading and transport network to Jörg Lesczenski, who published two years after us (and whose work, like that of Derix herself, was backed by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation). But she leaves cross-references aside concerning the first tax havens (including that of The Netherlands) which were set up in the outgoing 19th century, conveniently referring this area to ‘research that should be carried out in the future’.
Derix names the 1906 Transportkontor Vulkan GmbH Duisburg-Hamborn with its Rotterdam branch (see above) and the 1913 Deutsch-Überseeische Handelsgesellschaft der Thyssenschen Werke mbH of Buenos Aires (by the way: to this day ThyssenKrupp AG is a major trader in raw materials). She also states that American loans to the Thyssen Konzern started in 1919 via the ‘Vulcaan Coal Company’ (failing to mention that this company was based in London).
According to Derix, August Thyssen began transferring his shares in the Thyssen companies to his sons Fritz and Heinrich in 1919, first those of Thyssen & Co. and from 1921 onwards those of the August Thyssen smelting works. She then adds that existing Thyssen institutions outside of Germany were used in order to carry out this transfer.
From 1920 onwards, Fritz Thyssen began to buy real estate in Argentina. Meanwhile, the Thyssens’ Union Banking Corporation (UBC), founded in 1924 in the Harriman Building on New York’s Broadway, is described solely in the language of the ‘transnational dimension of the Thyssens’ financial network’ and as being ‘the American branch of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart’.
We had already detailed in our book how Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, via Hendrik Kouwenhoven, set up in Switzerland the Kaszony Family Foundation in 1926 to lodge his inherited participations and the Rohoncz Collection Foundation in 1931 to place art works he bought as easily movable capital investments from 1928 onwards. Now Derix writes that the Rohoncz Foundation too was founded in 1926. This is astonishing, since it means that this entity was set up a whole two years prior to Heinrich Thyssen buying the first painting to find its way into what he called the ‘Rohoncz Castle Collection’ (despite the fact that none of the pictures ever went anywhere near his Hungarian, then Austrian castle, in which he had stopped living in 1919).
The timing of the creation of this offshore instrument just proves how contrived Heinrich’s reinvention as a ‘fine art connaisseur and collector’ really was.
Derix even freely admits that these Thyssen family foundations were ‘antagonists of states and governments’. However, just like Johannes Gramlich in volume 3 (‘The Thyssens as Art Collectors’), she too leaves the logistics of the transfer of some 500 paintings by Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza into Switzerland in the 1930s completely unmentioned, including the fact that this represented a method of massive capital flight out of Germany. The associated topics of tax evasion and tax avoidance stay completely off her academic radar; ignoring our documented proof.
In another bold rewriting of official Thyssen history the author states that the Thyssen brothers frequently acted in parallel in their financial affairs. And so it was that the Pelzer Foundation and Faminta AG came to be created , by Kouwenhoven, in Switzerland, on behalf of Fritz Thyssen and his immediate family. (Derix is hazy about exact dates. We published: 1929 for Faminta AG and the late 1930s for the Pelzer Foundation).
Derix points out that these two instruments also allowed secret transactions between the Thyssen brothers. She adds enigmatically that ‘Faminta protected the foreign assets of the August Thyssen smelting works from a possible confiscation by the German authorities’, whilst withholding any reference to a time scale of when such a confiscation might have been on the cards (is she suggesting a possibility prior to Fritz Thyssen’s flight in September 1939, i.e. anytime during the period 1929-1939?).
At the same time, in the 1920s, Fritz and Amelie Thyssen established a firm base in the south of the German Reich, namely in Bavaria – far away from the Thyssen heartland of the Ruhr – which Derix brands as a fact which has ‘so far been almost completely ignored by historians’. Of course, not only was this most royalist of German states close to Switzerland, but it was also, at that time, the cradle of the Nazi movement. Adolf Hitler also much preferred Munich to Berlin.
All the family’s financial instruments, meanwhile, continued to be administrated by Rotterdamsch Trustees Kantoor in The Netherlands. ‘These new Thyssen banks, companies, holdings and foundations created since the 1920s were connected to the Thyssen industrial enterprises (in Germany) through participations’, Derix continues.
These enterprises etc. were also supportive of the rising Nazi movement of course, such as when their Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart around 1930 demonstrably made a loan of some 350,000 RM to the Nazi party, at a time when both Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza had controlling interests in BVHS.
According to Derix, it was starting in 1930 that Heinrich Thyssen sold his shares in the United Steelworks to Fritz while Fritz sold his Dutch participations to Heinrich and as a result Heinrich Thyssen alone was in control of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart from 1936 onwards.
Specifically, it was a Thyssen entity called Holland-American Investment Corporation (HAIC) which facilitated Fritz Thyssen’s capital flight from Germany. According to Derix, ‘(in the autumn of 1933, the Pelzer Foundation acquired) shares in HAIC from Fritz and therefore his Dutch participations which were pooled therein. This was done in agreement with the German authorities who knew of HAIC. But in 1940, the Germans found out that there was a considerable discrepancy between the 1,5 million Reichsmark of Dutch participations held in HAIC as had been stated and the actual, true value, which turned out to be 100 to 130 million RM.’
This is staggering, as the modern day equivalent is many hundreds of millions of Euros!
Considering that Heinrich’s wife stated that he had taken some 200 million Swiss Francs of his assets into neutral countries, this would mean that, together, the Thyssen brothers possibly succeeded in extracting from Germany the cash equivalent of close to the complete monetary value of the Thyssen enterprises! This is not, however, a conclusion drawn by Simone Derix.
One begins to wonder what there was actually left to confiscate from Fritz Thyssen once he fled Germany at the onset of war in 1939. Derix admits that his flight happened not least because he preferred to complete his self-interested financial transactions from the safety of Switzerland, with the help of Heinrich Blass at Credit Suisse in Zurich.
Although we had managed to unearth several leads, we did not know that the real overall extent of the Thyssen brothers’ capital flight was quite this drastic. For Simone Derix to point this out on behalf of the Thyssen organisation is significant; even if she fails to draw any appropriate conclusions, as they would most likely be at odds with her blue-sky remit.
Truly, and in the words of the far more experienced Harald Wixforth no less: for these ‘mega-capitalist(s) (…) the profit of their enterprises (i.e. their own) always assumed far greater priority than the public’s welfare’.
Needless to say that we await Harald Wixforth’s and Boris Gehlen’s volumes on the Thyssen Bornemisza Group 1919-1932, respectively 1932-1947 with great interest.
In this readjusted official light, Derix’s admission that Fritz and Amelie Thyssen’s ‘expropriation’ in late 1939 ‘did not directly result in any curtailment of their way of life’ no longer comes as any surprise.
The author also finally reveals for the first time official departure details of Fritz Thyssen’s daughter Anita, her husband Gabor and their son Federico Zichy to Argentina. Apparently they travelled from Genua, sailing on 17.02.1940 on board the ship Conte Grande, bound for Buenos Aires. In order to provide her with befitting financial support, shares in Faminta AG had been transferred to the Übersee-Trust of Vaduz shortly beforehand, of which Anita Zichy-Thyssen, a Hungarian national, was the sole beneficiary.
Derix then states that by April 1940, Fritz Thyssen ‘used his political knowledge on the German Reich and the German armaments industry as an asset that he could use in exchange for support for his personal wishes’. But what exactly were those wishes? The hubristically delusional Fritz obviously thought he could get rid of Hitler as easily as he had helped him get into power. For this, he was prepared to share German state secrets with French Foreign Minister Alexis Leger and Armament Minister Raoul Dautry in Paris. But for Derix, rather than being anything as contentious as active treason or an expression of power, his behaviour is nothing more than an ultra-rich man’s legitimate right to express his elevated lifestyle choices.
While all previous Thyssen biographers, apart from us, have purported that Fritz and Amelie Thyssen suffered tremendous ‘excrutiations’ during their time in concentration camps, Derix confirms our information that they spent most of their German captivity in the comfortable, private sanatorium of Dr Sinn in Berlin-Neubabelsberg. She writes that they were kept there ‘on Hitler’s personal orders’ and ‘on trust’, though Fritz and Heinrich’s personal friend Hermann Göring, during his post-war allied interrogations, stated that their privileged treatment had been down to his initiative. After Neubabelsberg, they were taken to different concentration camps, but Derix is now forced to admit that they enjoyed ‘a special status’ which is retraceable ‘for each and every location’. Which makes one wonder, why German historians previously felt the need to misrepresent these facts.
Derix’s list of Fritz Thyssen’s allied, post-war interrogations is particularly noteworthy. It illustrates the seriousness in which he was considered to have been guilty of (albeit blue collar) war crimes, which should have been punishable by incarceration:
In July 1945 he was taken to Schloss Kransberg near Bad Nauheim, namely to the so-called ‘US/UK Dustbin Centre for scientists and industrialists’. In August, he went on to Kornwestheim before being taken, in September, to the 7th Army Interrogation Center in Augsburg.
Derix also vagely asserts that Fritz Thyssen was interrogated at some point ‘in 1945’ by Robert Kempner, chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials.
Thyssen suffered a collapse and had to go into medical care. He was taken to the US prisoners’ camp of Seckenheim, then to Oberursel. His health deteriorated. From April to November 1946 he went through various hospitals and convalescent homes between Königstein (where he made a surprise recovery) and Oberursel. From November 1946 onwards, he was at the Nuremberg follow-up trials as a witness (one presumes in the cases of Alfried Krupp and Friedrich Flick amongst others), while receiving continuous hospital treatment in Fürth.
On 15.01.1947 Fritz Thyssen was released to join his wife Amelie in Bad Wiessee. This was followed by his German denazification proceedings in Königstein, where he and Amelie lived at the sanatorium of Dr Amelung. In that court, as befitting his insincere character, Fritz Thyssen described himself as penniless.
Meanwhile, according to Derix, Anita Zichy-Thyssen made contact with Edmund Stinnes, who lived in the US and his brother-in-law Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz, a close collaborator of US-secret service chief Allen Dulles. In the spring of 1947, ‘hoping to facilitate exit permits for her parents to go to America’, she met former US-senator Burton K Wheeler in Argentina, who travelled to Germany in 1948 ‘in order to help Fritz Thyssen out of his denazification problems’. It is certainly an aspect of high-level influence which we documented even more intensively, but which, astonishingly, Johannes Bähr in volume 5 (‘Thyssen in the Adenauer Period’) of the series has totally rejected.
Another Thyssen who should have had problems with his denazification, but didn’t, was Heinrich’s son Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza.
While his brother Heini Thyssen went to the German school in The Hague, Stephan had boarded at the Lyceum Alpinum in Zuoz, Switzerland, where most pupils were from German speaking Switzerland, The Netherlands and the German Reich, respectively were Germans living abroad. Consequently, the school ran three houses named ‘Teutonia’, ‘Orania’ and ‘Helvetia’. After studying chemistry in Zurich and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he became an assistant at a research laboratory of the Shell Petroleum Company in St Louis. He then wrote his dissertation at Budapest University and began working in natural resources deposit research.
Since 1932, whilst living in Hanover, Stephan worked for Seismos GmbH, a prospecting company founded in 1921 by Deutsch-Lux, Phoenix, Hoesch, Rheinstahl and Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG. Derix writes: ‘From 1927 Gelsenkirchener, which belonged to the United Steelworks founded in 1926, was the main shareholder, holding 50% of the shares. This means Seismos came under Fritz Thyssen’s part of the family inheritance. (…) In the 1920s, prospecting groups of Seismos worked for oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell or Roxana Petroleum in Texas, Louisiana and Mexico, looking for Oil. (…) Its radius then extended to the Near East, South-Eastern Europe and England’.
In 1937, Seismos was bought for 1.5 million RM by Heinrich Thyssen and incorporated into his Thyssensche Gas- and Waterworks. During the war, according to Derix, the company was ‘involved in the exploitation of raw materials in the (Nazi) occupied territories (…) During their withdrawal from the Eastern Ukraine during the 1943 tank battle of Kursk they had to leave behind much equipment’.
So, of no little importance for a company which so far, in Thyssen-backed histories, had been portrayed, if at all, as being of little consequence.
And not for the secretive Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza either, whose son Heini Thyssen shortly after the war would get his Swiss lawyer Roberto van Aken to lie to the US visa application department thus: ‘From the advent of the Nazis’ rise to power, and particularly from 1938 onwards, Dr Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza’s (…) corporations were directed with the definitive purpose of minimising the Nazi armament efforts’ (The Thyssen Art Macabre, page 207).
It is, if anything, in that same obfuscating spirit that Derix still conceals the fact that the Seismos company moved its headquarters from Hanover to the Harz mountains during the war, where the Nazis’ weapons of mass destruction program (V-rockets) would come to be based.
Derix reveals that Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza was a member of the Nazi Aircorps and confirms he was a contributing member of the SS. Nazi officials apparently declared Stephan Thyssen’s political stance to be ‘beyond all doubt’. But Derix cannot bring herself to even mention, let alone detail his additional involvement with another company, namely Maschinen- und Apparatebau AG (MABAG) of Nordhausen, also in the Harz.
We had already established that Stephan Thyssen had become chairman of the supervisory board of MABAG in the early years of the war. This company, in conjunction with IG Farben, ‘had built a vast network of caves and tunnels in the Kohnstein mountain near Nordhausen equipped with tanks and pumps (…). From Februar 1942, Armaments and Munitions Minister Albert Speer recommended all possible support for the development of rockets. This represented massively ambitious armaments manufacturing plans and a great deal more work for MABAG, who, under the control of the Wehrmacht, were now also producing turbo fuel pumps for V-rockets’ (The Thyssen Art Macabre, page 160).
We had speculated that Stephan’s position of chairman of MABAG must have been due to a major investment made by his father Heinrich. While Simone Derix entirely fails to address any aspects of this topic, the lawyer and historian Frank Baranowski has unearthed a highly important document and explains on his website:
‘In 1940, the Deutsche Petroleum Konzern, following a change in their management, divested itself of all its works which did not fit into their framework of petroleum and coal extraction, including MABAG. Deutsche Bank negotiated the transfer of the share capital of 1 million Reichsmark into various hands. The majority was acquired by the solicitor and notary Paul Langkopf of Hanover (590,000 RM), which was most likely done on the orders of a client who wished to remain anonymous. Smaller share parcels were held by the Deutsche Bank in Leipzig (158,000 RM) and in Nordhausen (14,000 RM) as well as by Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza in Hanover (50,000 RM). On 14.09.1940 MABAG elected its new supervisory board: Director Schirner, Paul Langkopf, Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Leipzig bank director Gustav Köllmann. (MABAG came to see itself as a company entirely geared to the production of armaments, …..including grenades, grenade launchers …….and turbo pumps for the A4-rockets)’.
It just so happens that Paul Langkopf was a professional whose services had been engaged by various members of the Thyssen family over the years. It can be presumed with near certainty that the ‘anonymous’ shareholder was Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. The secrecy of the transaction fits his style completely. And while Baranowski’s and our views on the use of forced labour by MABAG differ, his evidence is another indication towards the fact that Heinrich was definitely 100% pro-Nazi during the war, even while he was apparently retiring from the world, far away in his Swiss safehaven, pretending to have nothing to do with anything.
The great Simone Derix, meanwhile, prefers to concentrate on relatively trivial revelations such as the fact that Stephan’s mother Margit also lived in Switzerland with her second husband, the ‘germanophile’, ‘antisemitic’ Janos Wettstein von Westersheimb, who lost his job at the Hungarian embassy in Berne when the war turned in 1943. Apparently, she lobbied ‘for Stephan to be allowed out of Germany (after the war) via Heinrich Rothmund, who during the war had been responsible in large parts for the anti-Jewish asylum policies of Switzerland’.
Finally Simone Derix covers two other important topics in her book – as did we, albeit to a different degree -; namely: 1.) The Thyssens’ pre-war London gold deposits and their fate during, respectively after the war and 2.) the removal of the Thyssens’ and Dutch royals’ share certificates from the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam to the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin during the war, and their return to Rotterdam after the war, through an illegal act by a Dutch Military Mission, code named ‘Operation Juliana’. We will analyse the coverage of those topics more adequately in our reviews of Jan Schleusener’s, Harald Wixforth’s and Boris Gehlen’s forthcoming volumes.
In both matters, members and associates of the Thyssen family played questionable roles, using their high-level (diplomatic and other) positions, to help the Thyssens play off one host nation against another, in their pursuit of limitless personal advantage. Simone Derix only takes her critical analysis as far as to say that these interferences allowed smaller states such as The Netherlands or Switzerland to pressurise victorious powers of the second world war in order to safeguard their own national interests in the Thyssens’ fortune.
While our book has been called a possible ‘handbook for revolution’, Derix describes hers as ‘a model showing the way concerning the central, investigative strands for a history of the infrastructures of wealth’. She evokes the driving forces of ‘jealousy’ à la Ralf Dahrendorf, by the general public towards the super-rich, while ignoring the concept of ‘anger’ at their selfish sense of perennial legal immunity, as described by many such as Tom Wohlfahrt.
Simone Derix’s writing style is very clear and during her book presentation at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich, the suave voice of the specially engaged Bavarian Radio reader made the passages sound like high literature, marinated in integrity. However, this academic, who was introduced to the audience by Professor Margit Szöllösi-Janze as ‘elite researcher’, definitely arrogates to herself a greater authority in broadcasting historical judgements than she is currently entitled to.
At the subsequent podium conversation with the historian and journalist Dr Joachim Käppner of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Derix rejected the concepts of power and of guilt unequivocally on behalf of the Thyssen family. In doing so, however, she had to be coaxed by Käppner repeatedly to focus her extremely hesitant flow of answers, which gave every impression, nevertheless, of having been pre-agreed.
Let’s hope Simone Derix does not remain the only contributor of the series to formulate answers to these important questions – But with more honesty, hopefully, if not greater independence from the questionable role of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
Fritz Thyssen and Hermann Göring in Essen, copyright Stiftung Ruhr Museum Essen, Fotoarchiv
Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza and Hermann Göring at the German Derby, 1936, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Batthyany-Clan, ca. 1930s, third from left Ivan Batthyany, husband of Margit Thyssen-Bornemisza, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Hendrik J. Kouwenhoven, general representative of Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, copyright Stadsarchief Rotterdam
Three Thyssen brothers in harmony: from left Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, August Thyssen Junior, Fritz Thyssen, Villa Favorita, Lugano, September 1938, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza with his wife Ingeborg, Hanover, ca. 1940s (Foto Alice Prestel-Hofmann, Hanover), copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Thyssen Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart Rotterdam, Year End Report 1929, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Thyssen Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart Rotterdam, Supervisory Board and Management Board 1929, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Thyssen Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart Rotterdam, Bank Counters, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Thyssen Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart Rotterdam, 1929, Reception Room, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
Thyssen Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart Rotterdam, 1929, Steel Vaults, copyright Archive David R L Litchfield
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Sacha Batthyany’s Great-Aunt’s Mother Casts the Die in Hating Jews and Cursing Communists
Six Weeks Under The Red Flag Being the thrilling experiences of a well known Hungarian lady during the revolution of 1918-1919
by Baroness T. B. de Kaszon
Published in 1920 in The Hague by W. P. van Stockum & Son
(free pdf-File, click here)
I am reproducing this facsimile as a reflection of the author’s social and political values of this period and in this location, but mainly as an example of her anti-Semitism (see pages 7/11/16/17/23/25/27/31/ 32/37/73); for the lady in question is the Baroness Margit Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszon, the wife of the German industrialist and banker, Heinrich Thyssen, and mother to their son ‘Heini’ Thyssen.
Originally the product of the union between the American Louise Price and the Hungarian Baron Gabor Bornemisza, she mysteriously adopted the name Gabriele in this book; her real name being Margit.
The title Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza was the result of quite a remarkable piece of social engineering; her husband, having been adopted by her heirless father, acquired a Hungarian title, and purchased a castle and estate to go with it. (Originally called Rohoncz, as a result of the Treaty of Trianon it became part of Austria in 1920, renamed Rechnitz and remained in the ownership of the Thyssen family.)
Her daughter Margit married into the Batthyany family, who had originally owned Rechnitz castle, and it was this Margit who hosted the party in 1945 during which 180 Jews were murdered as after-dinner entertainment.
It was Margit Batthyany‘s great-nephew Sacha Batthyany who wrote the book ‘What’s That To Do With Me?‘ (english title: ‘A Crime in the Family‘), in which he also expressed his opinion of Jews and communists and adopted a similarly flexible, though less theatrical, attitude towards the truth; particularly concerning the Rechnitz massacre.
Many years later Margit Thyssen-Bornemisza’s other daughter ‘Gaby’ Bentinck (pictured on page 48, on the right) admitted to me that their escape from the castle in 1918/9 had involved nothing more dangerous than being driven to the station by their chauffeur, from where they caught a train to Vienna.
A self-indulgently fantastical, highly disturbing manifesto
Margit Thyssen-Bornemisza nee Bornemisza, mother of Margit Batthyany nee Thyssen-Bornemisza, great-great-aunt by marriage of Sacha Batthyany
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Göring & Thyssen – Partners in crime
Hermann Göring – Friend, banking client and protector of the Thyssen family and corporate fortune, seen here with Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in relaxed, equestrian circumstances in 1936 (photo copyright strictly Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo)
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Book Review: Thyssen in the 20th Century – Volume 2: “Forced Labour at Thyssen. United Steelworks and Baron-Concern during World War Two”, by Thomas Urban, published by Schöningh Verlag, Germany, 2014.
If there is one subject within this series of academic treatises on the Thyssens’ companies, politics, personal wealth, public relations and art collection(s), where sensitivity and openness would have been essential, it is this particular one, as the appalling conditions under which foreigners (Soviet nationals, French, Dutch, Belgians, etc.) were forced to work in Thyssen industries during WWII, and in the manufacture of arms and ordnance particularly, reflect so clearly the inhuman excesses of Nazism. In view of its importance we make no apology for the length of this review.
30 years after Ulrich Herbert’s ground-breaking work on forced labour and seven years after the publication of our book, the Thyssen family has until now remained one of only a few adamantly refusing to address this part of their history. Instead, it has always claimed to have remained largely uninvolved in the manufacture of arms and ordnance and the use of forced labour. It has also claimed not to have supported Hitler or to have stopped supporting him at some point. It has even gone as far as putting itself on one level with the victims of the regime, by saying that it too had been persecuted and expropriated.
Additionally, the Thyssen-Bornemisza branch of the family claimed to be Hungarian and thus have nothing whatsoever to do with Germany. But those were all fake claims designed simply to divert attention away from the facts. And macabrely it was this „cosmopolitan“ side of the dynasty which was particularly supportive of the Nazis, through finance and banking, the construction of submarines and V-rocket-parts and a personal relationship with the SS and high-ranking Nazis. Over 1,000 concentration camp prisoners died in Bremen, building the „Valentin“ bunker where Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza’s Bremer Vulkan shipyard was planning to increase production to 14 submarines per month to secure a desperate final German victory in view of Hitler’s looming defeat.
In view of their overarching industrial and financial power and privilege, Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza had an overwhelming responsibility to behave with due respect towards their fellow men. In this we believe they failed as a result of their relentless greed, financial opportunism and amoral arrogance. Of all the Thyssen heirs, only one, GEORG THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA, is now seemingly agreeing to admit responsibility by supporting this project. But these flimsy 170 pages with their incomplete index (only personal, not corporate, which makes it so difficult to examine and analyse) only go a small way in rectifying the official record, and do not meet the standards of an international perspective.
Thomas Urban refuses to accept the legitimacy of our book and still sees fit to state that until the beginning of the 21st century forced labour within the Thyssen history remained „unnoticed“. In reality the subject appears to have been hidden intentionally, as far as possible, in order to fend off unwelcome publicity and possible compensation claims alike. It is also why the Thyssen-Bornemisza side of the family was hidden from academic research (the extent of which Dr Urban describes as „surprising“), until the publication of our book in 2007.
When Michael Kanther wrote on forced labour specifically for August Thyssen Hütte in 1991 it seems he could not publish until 2004, and then for the series “Duisburger Forschungen”. And ten years later, of the great plethora of Thyssen enterprises, only a handful are now admitted to have been guilty, namely the shipyards Bremer Vulkan and Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft, the Walsum coal mine and the August Thyssen Hütte smelting works.
Press- and Rolling Works Reisholz and Oberbilker Steelworks are mentioned only furtively but not their involvement in the building of V-rockets or any co-operation with MABAG (Maschinen- und Apparatebau AG) of Nordhausen, where Heinrich’s son Stephan Thyssen-Bornemisza worked with the SS and some 20,000 concentration camp victims died. It is noteworthy, however, that the technical director of Press- and Rolling Works Reisholz, Wilhelm Martin, is said to have installed, „in his function as counter-intelligence commissioner“, a „political combat patrol“ out of Thyssen staff, which „in case of unrest amongst the staff was to be put into action using so-called manslayers“ – apparently its only known occurence in the whole of the Nazi armament economy – which is an astonishing admission to make.
As German workers were sent off to be soldiers, they were replaced by a total of 14 million foreign workers, including women and children, over the period of the war, and, at Thyssen enterprises, these worked at ratios of between one and an astonishing two thirds (at Walsum mine, as we first reported) of total staff. According to the size of the Thyssen enterprises, in all anything up to several tens of thousands of forced labourers would have been working there, yet Dr Urban does not even attempt to put a total figure on it. Instead, the pathetic blame game to the detriment of Krupp continues to the point where the description „forced labour“, as used continuously in this book, suddenly turns into „slave labour“ as soon as the name Krupp is mentioned. Meanwhile, the fact that at Thyssen in Hamborn they are now said to have produced much bigger quantities of grenade steel than at the Krupp works in Rheinhausen is lost in the small print.
At August Thyssen Hütte and the Mülheim Thyssen works, belonging more to the Fritz Thyssen sphere of influence, whose power was not as obliterated by his privileged wartime captivity as these official Thyssen publications still want to have us believe, a „high mortality“ amongst Soviet POWs is said to have existed. But actual figures do not go beyond eight or less deceased in each of a few events described by Dr Urban.
Because of race ideology, apart from concentration camp prisoners, Soviet POWs were treated worst, even to the point where, in view of the high risk of sabotage, according to Dr Urban, Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza’s Bremer Vulkan shipyard kept them at first in a barbed wire cage where others looked upon them „as on apes in a zoo“. (This information came from a 1980 Bremen school project and was acquired by Dr Urban from Dr Rolf Keller of the Lower Saxony Memorial Sites Foundation in Celle). Yet despite such disturbing manifestations of racist extremism, acts of humanity by the local population towards prisoners had taken place, as our editor Ulli Langenbrinck at Asso Verlag Oberhausen told us many years ago, for the simple reason that they had to work together under dangerous circumstances (in mines and on blast furnaces for instance) and therefore it was better to be considerate towards men on whom your life may depend.
Sadly, Thomas Urban has the nerve to suggest such recollections could be mere reflections of post-dated convenience and one wonders whether he has ever stopped to imagine what it would have been like to work under such conditions of racial, ideological and national discrimination, aggravating the already challenging tasks. Conditions that were in place because of the directives of megalomaniac politicians and equally megalomaniac industrialists, and yet which the people on the ground could plainly see were self-defeating. Surely it did not take the sight of actual concentration camp prisoners to get demoralised, as Dr Urban says was suggested at the time, and of which he argues only 75 are certified to have worked at Bremer Vulkan proper (this being a more palatable figure than the 1,000 fatalities mentioned above). The alienation of having to speculate about the fate of your own members of the „masterrace“ fighting in a distant land while the „subhuman“ enemies produced their weapons and amunition back home would have been an insane situation that was quite demoralising enough – and for both sides!
At the other end of the scale, the Thyssens, who in the past have been very „economical“ with their historic record, are getting nothing short of kid glove treatment, revealing a continued mentality of sympathy and subservience that goes beyond anything to be expected from a so-called independent academic commission. Even a reviewer from Duisburg-Essen University, Jana Scholz, seems to question why the right thing has not been done, namely to lay the responsibility solidly at the Thyssens’ feet. Instead, camp guards, foremen and managers are being blamed for the use and treatment of forced labourers, men such as Wilhelm Roelen or Robert Kabelac, and one wonders what their families must think of it. Particularly in the case of Roelen, since a movement has gathered against his memory in the Ruhr, after it was established that over 100 Soviet POWs died under his watch at Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza’s Walsum coal mine. Significantly, none of the managers’ families have been interviewed. And neither has anyone from the Thyssen family.
In another review Jens Thiel, who as an expert in medical ethics should know better, in all seriousness wonders whether it is still worth trying to „gain academic merits“ through working on the subject of forced labour. He goes on to praise the „sober“ descriptions in this book. But what is sober about the image of starving Russians eating raw fish killed by bombs, after diving into the ice-cold river in the middle of winter to retrieve them, eludes us. Or about that of locals remembering seeing, as children, hand-carts being driven out of Thyssen works with arms and legs hanging out by the sides, so that they were left obsessing whether the people contained therein were alive or dead.
Or that of gallows being erected at the Thyssen works „Zehntweglager“ camp in Mülheim (ruled over by a particularly sadistic father and son team of commanders) and adolescent Soviets being hanged there for theft „in the presence of a Gestapo man and an SS-non commissioned officer“ in apocalyptic scenarios – again witnessed by local children. All three descriptions being derived from personal interviews Dr Urban has carried out with eye witnesses and which are one of the few saving graces of this book. The book also describes other victims at Thyssen works being shot dead, including women, for instance for stealing foodstuffs.
Although the book does not dwell on this, there can be no doubt that Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza lived lives of privilege on the prodigious fruits of their father’s demented genius. They were both harking back to a world-view which was that of themselves as feudal overlords ruling over their personal fiefdoms. They were determined to oppose workers rights decisively (be they foreign or german) and that is why they supported fascism, including Admiral Horthy’s rule in Hungary. It is also why they financed their SS-occupied castle Rechnitz in Burgenland where Heinrich’s daughter Margit Batthyany led her own private wartime terror regime and participated in an atrocity on over 180 Jewish forced labourers in March 1945, which to this day remains unmentioned in any official Thyssen publication.
The Thyssen managers passed down this autocratic rule as they faced the simultaneous war-time challenges of meeting essential victory targets and delivering owners’ profits. They directed the saying „if you don’t do as you are told, Farge (a local Bremen work education camp) is nearby“ at german workers as well as foreign labourers. But the latter were always much more disadvantaged because the Nazis implemented the Führer principle throughout, turning any German into the boss of any foreign co-worker. Also, foreigners had to do heavier, more dangerous work and received worse rations and accommodation and insufficient air raid shelters. At a big air raid on the Hamborn Thyssen works on 22.01.1945, of the 145 dead 115 were POWs. In the case of foreigners camps at the Thyssen-Bornemisza mine at Walsum, a visiting state doctor and a Nazi party leader in 1942 were so horrified at the unbearable hygienic conditions that they ordered the Thyssen management to take immediate remedial action.
The profitability of the Thyssens’ war-time production, and ship building in particular, is mentioned but Thomas Urban says that verifiable figures are „not available“. But some of these figures are contained for instance in the minutes of the board meetings held quarterly in Flims, Davos, Lugano and Zurich (not just „Switzerland“ – in other words Heinrich was not too ill to travel around, he just did not want to leave Switzerland once war had started; simply for reasons of comfort rather than being “anti-Nazi”) with four participants (Baron Heinrich, Wilhelm Roelen, Heini Thyssen and Heinrich Lübke, Director of the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin – the two latter being played down by Urban). And the minutes were not taken by some anonymous „private secretary“ but in all probability by Wilhelm Roelen, which explains why copies are both in the corporate and private archives. We feel sure that the ThyssenKrupp Archives, respectively those of the Thyssen Industrial History Foundation, contain further relevant information about profitability – for instance in the files of the estate of Dr Wilhelm Roelen – but which for some reason are not being released.
It is also said in this book that no Thyssen enterprise during the Nazi period took over an „aryanised“ Jewish enterprise. But in reality Heinrich’s horse-racing stable Erlenhof near Bad Homburg had been bought for him in November 1933 by his entity Hollandsch Trust Kantoor from the estate of Moritz James Oppenheimer, a Jew who had been forced into liquidation and was later murdered – a very inconvenient date, when the official line has been and still is to say that Heinrich lived in Switzerland from 1932 onwards, i.e. from before Hitler’s assumption of power.
The author tries to make a point in Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza’s defence saying he did not take part in events at his works where Nazi party officials were present. But while Heinrich might not have left Switzerland after 1938 (he died there in 1947), his son Heini admitted to us that he returned to Germany in the middle of the war in 1942, when he travelled to Landsberg Castle for his grandfather’s 100th birthday celebrations, at which Nazi functionaries also took part (photographs of the event exist). After which he was allowed to travel back to Switzerland completely unhindered. But this remains unmentioned here, presumably in an attempt to minimise the record of Heini Thyssen’s war-time corporate embroilment.
Meanwhile, Thomas Urban has the audacity to allege that it is „not very likely“ (not exactly an academic approach!) that Heinrich’s contact with Hermann Göring went any further than their common interest in horse racing and that his distance from the regime was „likely not to have been only geographical.“ Instead Heinrich is praised for being able to „direct his companies from Switzerland“ as if, in this particular context, that was something to be admired. For such a crucial point, Dr Urban’s haphazard assessment of the Thyssen-Göring relationship is in fact an obscene remark to be made by this German academic and deeply offensive to the memory of the victims and to all people dedicated to the establishment of historical truth.
The banking contacts between the two men personally and with the regime in general via Heinrich’s August Thyssen Bank in Berlin (which was subsequently incorporated into BHF-Bank), his Union Banking Corporation in New York, his Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam and others have remained unmentioned so far in this series. We presume they are to be included in Simone Derix’ book on the family’s wealth and identity, due out in 2016, or in Harald Wixforth’s tome on the Thyssen-Bornemisza Group (publication date unknown).
It might be said to be understandable that the Thyssens would have denied their links with Nazi leaders in the past and also that their war-time managers would have argued thus in order to circumvent post-war allied retribution. But it is unforgivable that an academic project in 2014 continues in the same vein of skimming over the most crucial parts of the Aufarbeitung of the Thyssen history. And it is also unclear why Dr Urban has to remain so hazy about important issues such as the remuneration of forced labourers. While he mentions it, he does not give any details about it whatsoever, which is unforgivable.
Time and time again Dr Urban mentions problems with source materials and a deriving impossibility to treat the subject with the necessary substance and certainty. His statement „quite a high proportion of forced labour“ in the Thyssens’ building material enterprises around Berlin „can be assumed“ is unacceptable, because the archives in question are said to be „still being put together“, which, 70 years after the end of the war seems an incredible statement to make, even if it is one we have heard many times before during our research into the Thyssen history.
When Bremer Vulkan went bankrupt in the late 1990s neither the Thyssen Bornemisza Group nor ThyssenKrupp felt it necessary to take on its archives. Instead, these were left to a „friends’ association“ („Wir Vulkanesen e.V.“) which managed to destroy crucial files, including wartime staff records and thus documents concerning forced labour, under „data protection considerations“. Only after that purge did the files reach their current location at the Bremen State Archives. And at Flensburger Schiffsbaugesellschaft, according to management, „all files which were not subject to prescribed storage periods were completely destroyed“. The archives of the Walsum mine are also said to be „extremely incomplete“, which considering what a fastidious technocrat its head Wilhelm Roelen was, is either unlikely, due to wartime damage, or indicative of a wilful destruction of incriminating evidence.
And so it has remained to individual slave labourers themselves, who have had the courage to come forward with their own real-life stories (and which have been picked up by various German historians and local – sometimes even school – historical projects securing evidence, who have acted truly independently from any Thyssen entity) to paint the most truthful pictures of forced labour at Thyssen.
When the Dutchman Klaas Touber in 1988 wrote to Bremer Vulkan (whose honorary chairman was Heini Thyssen) to ask for a compensation of 3,000 Deutschmarks for his forced work effort during WWII, he was rejected and told the company „could not discover any concrete facts (…) that justify an obligation for us to provide compensation“. He was informed the company was bankrupt and if they paid him anything it would set a precedent and „all the other people who experienced the same thing at the time“ would want paying also and Bremer Vulkan „would not be able to do so“. This at a time when Heini Thyssen was putting his art collection up for sale, suggesting it might be worth up to two billion dollars. Klaas Touber, who weighed only 40 kg at one point while at Bremer Vulkan, had retained a life-long psychological trauma from his detention, particularly as a compatriot, who had come to his defence during a canteen brawl, had been killed at the Neugamme concentration camp. (Evidence sourced by Dr Urban partly from Dr Marcus Meyer, head of the Memorial Institution „Valentin“ Bunker of the Bremen Regional Centre for Political – the late Klaas Touber had been very involved in remembrance and reconciliation – and partly from a publication by the State Organisation of the Association of People Persecuted by the Nazi Regime / Bremen Association of Anti-Fascists e.V.).
Perhaps the most devastating and simultaneously most spirited story is that of Wassilij Bojkatschow. When he was 12 years old his village in Bielorussia had been taken by the Germans and both his father and grandfather killed. At the Thyssen works of Deutsche Röhrenwerke AG he was used for the most dangerous job, that of defusing unexploded bombs. In 1995 he wrote his memoirs and in 1996 travelled to Mülheim and met with the mayor and local people who had collected money for his and his wife’s visit. He described many traumatic experiences but also remembered „many examples of human feeling and kindness“ from German co-workers and locals. As it seems, he did not even ask for any monetary compensation. (Evidence sourced by Dr Urban from the annual report of the town of Mülheim).
In 2000 a Ucranian woman, Jewdokija Sch., wrote in a letter to the Bremen State Archive: „The work (at Bremer Vulkan) was very very hard. I worked as a welder, 12 hours a day, in wooden shoes, totally exhausted from hunger! In 1944 already I looked like a ghost“.
After its merger, ThyssenKrupp AG joined the German Industry Foundation Initiative in 2000 which was funded to pay compensation to former forced labourers. Related files are said to be closed to academic research for another 30 years, according to Dr Urban. What he does not mention is that it is unknown whether the Thyssen Bornemisza Group has ever contributed to any compensation payments.
Poignantly, the next volume in the series is about the Thyssens’ art collection(s), which was the primary tool used by the family to launder their sense of guilt and hide their incriminatory wartime record behind a veneer of cultured so-called „philanthropy“. Something that worked supremely well in the affluent years of the German economic miracle and beyond, when the art market sky-rocketed from one price hyperbole to the next, and the shine of the glamorous art world seemed to wipe away any concern about or even memory of the source of the Thyssen fortune.
Dr Thomas Urban, another Thyssen-funded academic, this time from the Ruhr-University in Bochum
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Rewriting History – Thyssen in the 20th century: Still an overall exercise in vindication or whitewash, with a good number of obvious omissions – but admittedly featuring the occasional, important and sometimes puzzling admission.
It has taken seven years since the publication of our crucial book about the Thyssens (in the Asso Verlag publishing company of Oberhausen/Ruhr) for the first instalment of the „official“ Thyssen response to appear, in the form of the first in a series of eight books, co-financed by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the newly formed Thyssen Industrial History Foundation; orchestrated by the malevolent Prof. Manfred Rasch, chief archivist of ThyssenKrupp AG, whose prejudice is manifest in the fact that while our book is often referred to, it is never credited.
Prof. Rasch even manages to deny our existence by claiming that the late Baron Heini Thyssen-Bornemisza failed in his ambition to commission an authorised biography.
In 2014/5, following numerous delays, three volumes of the series have appeared: “The United Steelworks under National Socialism”, “Forced Labour at Thyssen” and “The Thyssens as Art Collectors“. We will review all three over the coming weeks.
The authors of the books are all, somewhat surprisingly, junior academics with no or limited previous knowledge or practical experience of their subjects and described as „independent historians“, who are said to be „closing the gaps“ in research concerning the history of the Thyssen Family, ThyssenKrupp AG and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Group.
However, as the authors were commissioned, funded and assisted in their research by the same people, commercial organisations and related foundations, there can be no way in which they could be accurately described as „independent“ and such a claim is at best misleading and at worst fraudulent.
In the case of the major investor, in what often appears to be little more than an academic hagiography, it should be remembered that the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung was started by Amélie Thyssen, who had joined the Nazi party in 1931 – two years before her husband Fritz Thyssen – and who never publicly recanted or displayed any regret for her support of Adolf Hitler.
One also wonders why senior academics of proven knowledge and ability were not won over to deal with this important and sensitive program. One has to assume that it was either because the juniors were more „malleable“ or because more senior academics were not prepared to risk damaging their own reputations while polishing the Thyssens’ tarnished history.
Of course for the project’s supervising professors Margit Szöllösi-Janze (Munich University) and Günther Schulz (Bonn University) the lines of academic whoring must be extremely blurred, as so many general academic research projects in Germany in the past 55 years have been funded by this same Fritz Thyssen Foundation. It must be incredibly difficult to emancipate oneself from this ever primed sponsorship pump.
By contrast, when we visited the archives of ThyssenKrupp AG in 1998, not only did Manfred Rasch accuse us of forging our letter of introduction from Heini Thyssen, but he was also offensively un-cooperative and purported to have nothing to do with the history of the Thyssen family, who he spoke of derisively and said that „his“ archive contained no material that related to them. So the question is: what has changed for him to now be a contributor to such a project?
Presumably, it was the publication of „The Thyssen Art Macabre“ and the resulting adverse publicity in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, as this appears to be the point in time when his, the family’s and the corporations’ academic program of damage limitation was conceived.
Guido Knopp, the éminence grise of German historiography, has said in one of his popular television programs that „our generation is not responsible for what happened under the Nazis, but we are responsible for keeping the memory alive of what happened“.
In light of the Thyssen story, this begs the question: how are we supposed to adequately research and remember the history of the Nazi period if people like the Thyssens sit on evidence for 70 years and reveal it only to a selected few under privileged, academic criteria, thus keeping it very much outside the perception of the general public?
The result of such an opaque approach to Aufarbeitung can only be an exercise in vindication and in this series, as with so many books supported in the past by the Thyssen organisation, there is plenty of that. And if not in fact, then in conjecture.
But as far as we can see there are also now important admissions being made, presumably in order to retain a modicum of credibility, or perhaps at the insistence of the more forward thinking members of the team. This fact vindicates the time and effort we expended in producing the first honest portrayal of the Thyssen family and its activities.
We are delighted that our book has had the intended effect, namely to force the organisation to depart from the old official version of events which refused to admit anything that could be considered negative and only ever represented the Thyssens in a light of selfless heroism and untarnished pride, particularly manifest in a claimed rejection of Nazi ideals.
Recently a 94-year-old German former Auschwitz camp administrator, Oskar Gröning, who had not been directly involved in the killings, was sentenced to four years in prison. He showed deep remorse and apologised for his involvement, not something often displayed by his co-accused, if ever.
It felt like a concerted effort to present an image of Aufarbeitung which is a new, more open and honest way, and one that is explicitly sympathetic with the victims. Or maybe Mr Gröning is just a very enlightened individual.
In addition to Gröning’s statement, the public prosecutor commented that far from being just about individual crimes, Auschwitz was very much about „a system“, and that „whoever contributed to that system was responsible“.
The Thyssens contributed in many ways and much more than many others to the Nazi system, for instance by helping to arm Hitler’s troops to the point where the Nazi terror regime could be implemented over much of Europe. Their descendants, who have profited and continue to do so, from their forefathers’ (and mothers’) ill-gotten gains, have far more reasons than the German general public today to apologise and certainly to remember.
The question is: will they ever make a comparable statement to the one Oskar Gröning has made?
And more importantly: if not, why not?
"He who pays the piper calls the tune". The eternal sponsor, Amelie Thyssen (copyright Fritz Thyssen Foundation)
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The Thyssens’ Poisoned Chalice
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
It was recently announced that the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid has suffered a loss of some 4.5 million Euros during 2014. Considering the fragile state of Spain’s economy and the fact that, contractually, they are not permitted to capitalise on the value of the collection by selling any of the pictures, it was bad news.
But worse was to come. For it was also revealed that the total legal costs of defending a claim by surviving members of a German Jewish family against the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum for the return of a picture painted by Camille Pissarro that they claim to have sold under duress to the Nazis in 1939, and which was subsequently procured by the Thyssen family before being sold on to the Spanish nation, has now reached 1.3 million Euros.
Heini Thyssen and his father had always used their art collection as a smoke screen behind which they could hide the fact that much of their fortune was the result of profits earned fuelling and arming the Third Reich and supplying it with banking facilities.
One of the unfortunate effects of such a restitution claim is that it reminds people of the Thyssens’ Nazi past and the fact that it is the Spanish people who are being obliged to fund the protection of the Spanish ‘investment’ as well as the defence of the Thyssens’ name, who in turn have not exactly been forthcoming in contributing to the coffers of the Spanish tax authorities.
And while the American lawyers are representing the Cassirers on a contingency basis, which avoids the family having to make any contribution to costs, the plaintiffs remain all too aware that every time they mount another appeal (which they are doing at this very minute), the Spanish legal fees, for which there is no ultimate profit which they can be offset against, continue to mount. As do the Museum’s losses. Thus there must come a time when the Spanish will be obliged to ‘take a view’ and hand the picture back.
To us it has always been clear that this collection would one day reveal itself as a poisoned chalice for the host country. The Cassirer claim, if successful, could open the gates to further claims against the museum, as there is no shortage of paintings in its holdings with questionable provenances, a fact that the Spanish failed to identify by independent verification before they committed to buy. The potential for a major eclat is intrinsic to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The only question is: how long will it take to unravel?
On 4th April 2016 Mark Kochanski commented:
In a recent court brief the Foundation contends that the plaintiffs (the Cassirers) ”continue their campaign to tarnish the Foundation’s image with “red flags” to suggest actual knowledge of the 1939 taking or, at the very least, a level of negligence that warrants punishment.” The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has tarnished its own image by knowingly hoarding Nazi looted art in violation of the Washington Conference Principles and the Terezin Declaration. This is shameful and the “Baroness” needs to be held to account.
Camille Pissarro: "Rue St Honore, apres-midi, effet de pluie" (1897).
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Hellions Album Tour @ The Triffid, Brisbane
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by Jack Walsh
I entered the Triffid’s back door and prepared for the night’s quietest set, the opener. Well when DREGG are opening for you, it’s safe to say it won’t be quiet. I passed through the security and doors to see a healthy crowd all there to see the Melbourne weirdos, DREGG. I’d seen the band before, but not for some time, and looking back it’s obvious I was not ready for what was ahead. A set similar to that of The Wiggles on acid took place that night but I definitely wouldn’t want my money back.
Crowd favourite “Sorry Daddy” popped like the cork from a bottle. It was clear that they knew exactly what they were doing. The theme of being true to one’s inner self was present, even being talked about between songs. DREGG are definitely ambassadors for self-expression and it was nice to see their platform being used to spread positive messages.
One last laugh from the set came from something most fans had been discussing. Since the release of the bands new track, “Hyperbole”, fans have been pretty quick to notice a mispronunciation. Rather than the correct ‘hi-per-bully’, the song features the phrasing ‘hyper-bowl’. “This next song is called Hyperbole, or otherwise known as Hyperbole.” Don’t get me started on the irony of writing a mispronunciation, it was just too funny to skip over. DREGG left feeling the room buzzed and ready for an evening of fun. It was quite a spectacle seeing the sheer growth the band has undergone in the past year. While it may not have been a room packed to the rafters, it was one bursting with energy. Long live the DREGG.
A man has to refill sometimes. The first half of Yours Truly was spent by me stocking up on beverages. I think we’re all familiar with the size of bar lines. I did, thankfully, get to see the Sydney pop-punk quartet rip the place apart. One of my big take outs from the set was just how clean, crisp, and straight up crazy vocalist, Mikaila Delgado’s performance was. A perfect showcase of this balance between incredible talent and fantastic mixing was the song “Delusional Paradise”.
Yours Truly had a new item to push, as we all do, their new EP Afterglow. This didn’t stop them from staying real however as they still busted out some older songs. The night had felt almost like a ‘best of’ by showcasing a wider catalogue of the band’s music. For all you keen readers, that’s going to be a theme for the rest of the evening. The crowd was again an energetic bunch, bouncing from one side of the Triffid to the other. I was still impressed with the love all the supports were getting.
As I found to be the case with Yours Truly, the new songs were getting bigger and better reactions. The newer songs genuinely did sound better live as well. The band closed out the set with their hit “High Hopes” and it was easily the most movement I’d seen so far. Another step closer to the night’s headliners and it had again felt like a headline set in itself.
As far as releases go, the Brisbane gang, Young Lions have been relatively quiet since their 2017 album Mr. Spaceman (which boasts a 10/10 here at Depth Magazine). That’s not to say that Young Lions haven’t been busy. Already this year the group have multiple tours lined up, including shows at The Big Pineapple Festival. With the exception of their 2018 single, “Help.”, the band have really just doing themselves for a while. The impacts of this were pretty evident when an almost full Triffid stood there waiting for the show to begin.
I was interested to see quite a hefty amount of songs from the band’s first album, Burn. The night’s greatest hits sessions had continued. The torch had been passed through the acts and now to Young Lions. Towards the end of the set, singer Zach Britt jumped the barricade and continued his performance from the crowd. A feat quite common in the hardcore scene, but at a venue like the Triffid, it’s surprising to see a vocalist pull that off.
Young Lions busted out a classic, “Burn the Money” and the only way I can describe it is mental. Hands were flying and people were pushing. It was the perfect mood to keep kicking on. The crowd had well and truly loosened up by this point. They’d just had three phenomenal performances and weren’t very far off the finale. Young Lions wound down, but the crowd did not; they were thriving. The band said their goodbyes and left, but the punters stayed as they knew what was just around the corner.
I’ve seen many big bands play the Triffid, but I’ve never seen the walls shake like they did for Hellions. The boys from Sydney took the stage and the crowd roared. Without a second wasted, they kicked off with “Rue”. I took a deep breath and enjoyed my last few moments before the sea of cheering fans swept me away. Familiar faces from over years of Hellions shows greeted me; from 20 people gigs all the way to sold out shows. The sense of community is what makes Hellions real to a lot of people. I was instantly taken back years to the first time meeting all these fellow patrons. We’d all shared songs and memories. Along with a gathering of veteran fans, there was an intake of fresh faces. A new era of fans were being inducted to the Hellions family, who will one day reminisce with other familiar faces to them. It’s poetic really.
As I hinted at before, the band’s set stretched as far back as their 2013 debut Die Young all the way to their latest album Rue. The catalogue was massive! I still have no idea how they jammed so many songs into a 70 minute set. It was clear by the end that everyone could go for another 70 as the vibe was electric. They continued blowing the roof off the repurposed airplane hangar with “Blueberry”, featuring superbly silky vocals from guitarist, Matt Gravolin.
During the set, the band took a few minutes to share some important thoughts. Drummer, Anthony Caruso talked about support networks and the struggles in battling mental health. They invited fans to reach out and be there for each other as we’re all one big family. Arms went around shoulders and pleasantries were shared amongst friends. I failed to find anyone who wasn’t respecting the message and sharing some love.
As hits rolled on, like Indian Summer’s fan favourite “Nottingham”, bodies floated on the crowd above and tribes of dance took over. The floor began to grow slippery as drinks found their way to the ground. ‘I remember the Triffid having carpet’ I thought to myself as my feet slid out from under me. Piles of bodies continued to go down through the set, but for each fallen man there were three people there to aid. It took me back to the community centre days of Hellions; places like Byron Bay’s YAC with hard wood floors. It felt just as intimate as those tight knit shows but with hundreds of fellow listeners.
We were now in the thick of it and hits of a bygone era were coming from left, right and centre. Along with the hits were some special shout outs from vocalist, Dre Faivre. ‘This one is for the Gaffneys’ he said, leading into one of the night’s biggest moments, “Penultimate Year”. The crowd went wild as people clambered on top of shoulders and fans rushed to the front. Next up was Opera Oblivia’s “25” and in the spirit ‘This one’s for Jack’ (a shameless self-plug at very best). Last but not least, as the band played the opening few notes to self-titled track “Hellions”, Dre gave the most important dedication: ‘This one is for you Brisbane, if you guys had a theme song then this would be it!’ The reception was deafening, and the pit was madness. I can still feel the effects of those flying elbows. This night was all about paying tribute; to the fans, to the music, to the memories and the band members.
If you’ve been up to date on Hellions news lately, you’d probably be aware of the upcoming departure from Matt Gravolin. This was one of the final shows in Hellions traditional format, as he is a founding member of the band. Following the chaos of the set’s second-last song “Thresher”, we were reminded of this bittersweet fact from Josh Campiao, the band’s rhythm guitarist. Gravolin went on to make a speech about how lucky he felt to be a part of Hellions, to be supported by such caring fans and to be given a platform to share such personal thoughts. ‘I couldn’t think of a better way for this to come to an end for me.’ Fans cried out their love for Gravolin and he appeared to take in the set’s last few moments. A smile crept across his face and they marched into the show’s last song.
The night’s final dedication was one that hit heavy in the hearts of everyone. ‘This one’s for Wob’ Dre said. The crowd laughed, clapped and cheered, a monumental send off. The band ripped into “Smile” which garnered an overwhelming response. If the Triffid could house fireworks, there would have been plenty at that moment. I spent the next few moments toppling upside down over the barricade in a feeling of pure joy. I returned to the family of fans I had waiting for me and we sung the night away. Looking around, I could see numerous other groups doing the same. As Matt so lovingly put it, I too couldn’t think of a better way for this to come to an end.
[Photos courtesy of Rowan Donohue]
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A fan of music and an even bigger fan of his opinions, Jack Walsh is a resident content creator of Depth Magazine. He is currently studying a Creative Writing degree and hopes to someday be writing for Rolling Stone. [Enjoyed the read? Shout Jack a beer.]
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Creative Coup d'etat...Maybe?
Like all great, or once-great properties that have come before it, Star Wars has been seized by the mechanisms of commerce and vicissitudes of time. Disney, the ubiquitous merchant of magic, which for some is now an unbecoming title—well, the magic part at least—is the new owner of that cherished timespace. While its current profile inspires neither uniform applause nor outright derision, Disney's capacity for magnificence is uncontested. With a catalog of films that stretches as far back as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length traditional animated feature in motion picture history, Disney has demonstrated time-and-again an ability to sustain feelings of wonder and awe, and a primal adeptness in the management of story and fantasy. These statements spotlight a reputation that is owed primarily to its founder, Walt Disney, a brilliant visionary who carved a lineage that is steeped in fantastical ambition. Well, what is more fantastical and ambitious than a continuation of the original Star Wars Trilogy? How about an actual continuation of the Star Wars Trilogy!?
In an swift, calculated motion, Disney has purchased Lucasfilm, doling out a reported $4,050,000,000 (that's $4 billion folks, which, for dramatic effect, I wrote numerically to underline the fact that this is an enormous expenditure). For those keeping count, Marvel, Pixar, the Muppets Studio, and now Lucasfilm all seek capital refuge under the corporate umbrella of the media industry's largest conglomerate. Do I really need to illuminate its other holdings?
This sudden acquisition surprises virtually everyone. Lucasfilm's co-chair Kathleen Kennedy, who some may recognize as a frequent producer on Spielberg's many blockbusters (Jurassic Park for instance), will transition as President of Lucasfilm, surprising no one. She has been Lucas' heir apparent for quite some time. The biggest surprise; however, is reserved for the company's flagship property. Yep, Star Wars.
According to most media accounts, including The Hollywood Reporter and Slashfilm, preparations for a Star Wars: Episode VII have begun in earnest with a slated release date for 2015. Holy Han Solo that's some exciting news! Ms. Kennedy is identified as an executive producer while the pinata of fanboy derision himself, George Lucas, will be relegated perhaps wittingly to a "creative" consultancy role.
The depths of indignation that have surrounded Mr. Lucas in the second-half of his career will likely never dissipate. And while I would argue that the degree of antipathy of which his name has been associated has been in many cases mere irrational contempt, just another instance of an important figure of yesteryear unduly maligned, the root of criticism directed at him has been perfectly warranted; the prequels were an abomination, almost uniformly terrible in fact, and poorly executed changes to the original trilogy have justifiably sustained fans' appetites for Lucas' head on a platter. The revelation, therefore, that Lucas' role in the sequels will sufficiently disintegrate is extreme cause for celebration. But what form this celebration takes and to what degree it grows is subject to the next stage of development. Who dares direct this holy grail of cinematic properties? One thing is certain: Whoever carries the mantle will inherit untold mountains of expectations, but even Lucas himself can acknowledge that a trajectory keenly less reliant upon his megalomania is most advantageous for the franchise: "It's now time for me [Lucas] to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers." I agree. Yes, I emphatically agree, sir.
From what I've been able to divulge in my preliminary investigation, Disney has actually acquired "extensive treatments for the next three movies (Episodes VII-IX)." The deal also includes every morsel of Star Wars-related content from comic books to novels. Now no one outside the hierarchical sphere of Disney can attest to what direction Episode VII ultimately takes. I doubt even Disney's corporate brain trust even knows at this point. Deductive reasoning though does allow us to pinpoint a chronology that commences some time after Return of the Jedi.
The Internet has erupted with extensive discussions concerning this most scrutinized of acquisitions. But obligations have curtailed my participation. Details that I have been able to grasp suggest a timeline for Episode VII that continues a few decades after the climactic events of Return of the Jedi. This route preserves a recognizable continuity to the original story. My presumption is that one need not consume every infinitesimal parcel of Star Wars paraphernalia or be an aficionado to understand the rudimentary functions of the universe. Every man, woman, and child has likely seen the original trilogy. If not, off with your heads.
Within this logistical framework, the reconstruction phase in the post-Empire world has undergone its course. The Jedis have reassimilated; the wisdom of the central characters having been successfully imparted onto the successive generation. Luke, it is widely presumed, morphs into an Obi-Wan-like figure, which is Lucas vernacular for a premier Jedi knight. Han's leadership capacity, we suspect, grows more significant while the fates of R2-D2 and C-3PO likely resume unperturbed. Conflict almost invariably necessitates moral and philosophical disputes. As underpinnings of any dramatic narrative, I expect these dimensions to be integrated shrewdly. With most principle actors still enjoying the fruits of mortality, character reprisals can also be expected. The mythology of Darth Vader must persist in some fashion. And I for one can never diminish the likelihood of a love interest. Romance is a frequent dramatic catalyst even within the galactic confines of a space opera.
Star Wars Episode VII, now finally usurped from the waning creative grip of Mr. Lucas, is an enterprise I can wholly endorse. But I have one major directive aimed squarely at the creators. Forgo an unseemly reliance upon CGI and exorbitant, tertiary special effects, which has effectively bankrupt the creative potency of the franchise and instead steer a commitment to good old-fashioned storytelling. Eschewing CGI altogether is not smart, but prudence is a virtue. The galaxy I fell in love with as a kid depicted an environment that was enchanting, visceral, and above all, flawed. Digital perfection dilutes some of this primordial appeal. If nothing else the godawful prequels affirm this message.
I hold strongly to a belief that I realize is entirely impractical. Executives and their handsome investments which galvanize the film industry are not exclusively beholden to the bottom-line—of course commerce dictates they ought to be, but to individuals across the world whose imaginations are nurtured, and in many cases derived from the creative bursts of inspiration that George Lucas himself once harnessed in the making of Star Wars during a time, long, long ago. And apparently, in a galaxy, far, far away. Yep, that's a pedestrian way of saying that the corporate, automaton Lucas-of-today is a shell of the scruffy Lucas-of-1970's lore. Cinema is art. Lucas once championed this notion. If commercial solvency is the only objective nourishing the industry, what hope is there for the next generation of young moviegoers who desperately yearn for their own seminal Star Wars experience? Well, that time is now firmly affixed on the calendar and the opportunity for magic once again within reach.
Finally, plans call for Episodes VIII and IX as well as new incarnations to be completed every two-to-three years. In other words, this could be the beginning of a beautiful new relationship, motivated by shared pleasures and responsibilities, or it could be a tainted reminder of a terrible ex, stifled by selfish needs. Don't fuck it up, Mouse Men.
P.S. For the sanctity of the original trilogy and for proof that the corporate world is still capable of good, please I urge those in the influential channels of power at Disney to release, unedited and devoid of unnecessary cosmetic enhancement, the original Trilogy. Hooray for common sense if Disney makes this happen!
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Labels: Film News, Film Views, Star Wars
Could go either way. I agree the last trilogy was awful and if we just keep Lucas away from the next three movies, they might have a chance.
I still have the original trilogy on VHS and I'm hanging on to them!
FilmMattic November 2, 2012 at 9:08 PM
My thoughts exactly. I tend to hew closer to the glass half full mentality. But of course anything is possible as nothing concrete has really been established. What talent is corralled to make this new trilogy a reality is most important. Studio interference or lack thereof is also significant. Art thrives when it's cultivated honestly without needless distraction.
How I missed this, I haven't a clue. So I apologize for being late to the party as it were. I am not happy that Princess Leia is now a Disney Princess, but somebody for the love of God, has to atone for the unholy mess that compromised the prequels. I have hated that Lucas could not be bothered to turn those films over to a director protege of his that had a hungrier, less fat cat vision. Imagine if he had let Robert Rodriguez direct. There would not have been an Uncle Tom er Jar Jar character nor would the repugnant and lifeless Hayden C been cast as Anakin. I mean Darth Vader, the most feared villain in the galaxy is nothing more than a whiney teenaged brat who knocked up his girlfriend? Give me a big effing break. And finally, Lucas would not have been allowed to eff with his own mythology. According to Jedi, Leia remembers her mother, how can that be if Padme dies in childbirth as so ridiculously portrayed by Portman in Sith? Worst death scene ever and she, of the Academy Award for Best Actress.
But do I want a nightmare of oversaturation to rival the toys and other junk? Hell no. Sorry to rant but I feel like Lucas has utterly laid waste to my childhood, first with the unending tinkering of the original films, then with these odious prequels. You know, I still own the original VHS and in the victory scene on Yavin, Luke calls Leia Carrie when he hugs her.
Okay, rant over. I feel like I've left a blazing, blackened trail across your blog. :)
One more thing, LOL, how do you put Sam L in THREE films and not once let him do his thing? Are you kidding me?
FilmMattic November 8, 2012 at 12:50 AM
Wow! Now I know how to unleash the vixen of vitriol :)
Mention Lucas or Star Wars and what will follow is a spectacular condemnation of all that was very, very wrong about Lucas' despicable handling of a property that even common sense assured us was immune from criticism. Well, as we know common sense lost. In the era forever known to us as "Lucas the megalomaniac and spendthrift savage of CGI," we were cruelly dealt a hard lesson in the affairs of overindulgence, obstinance, egotism, and arrogance. The prequels were a failure on virtually every level. Our opinions on this matter coincide beautifully.
But where we diverge ever so slightly is in our optimism for a future incarnation of Star Wars that, far from being a life-sucking demon, actually impresses. The prequels already destroyed the sacrosanct mythology of the original trilogy. Logic promises us a scenario in which the new trilogy out-classes the godawful Prequels. That is precisely when our viewing experience hit rock bottom and there is no way said level can be revisited. I think.
Now, I do not for one second predict that Episode VII delivers on a level consistent with the original trilogy. That is impossible. But I do at least harbor some hope for a rekindling of that galactic magic.
And we both wholeheartedly agree that a merchandising bonanza is completely amateur. But if it ensures less interference with actual filming, I'll happily concede the trade-off. Well, maybe begrudgingly.
Thanks for your excellent rant :)
Haha! Restraining Sam Jackson, who is the most badass MOFO on the planet, has to be about the dumbest decision a director can make. Well, at least in the context of Star Wars. We're not talking about hard-hitting dramas here, Lucas.
LMAO! You know how to take vitriol very well on here. It's great that you provide the environment for such passionate discussion. I keep telling you, you need to teach. You would do wonders for the future generations. Heck, whatever you turn your passions to, we will benefit.
"Not talking about hard-hitting dramas here, Lucas." How true. I should not have held my expectations that high. ;)
When you say it like that, merchandising in exchange for less intereference on filming would work.
I'm a tough shell to crack, lol. In all fairness, your rant grew from such an honest and thoughtful reservoir of emotion and intellect that I simply could not dismiss the veracity of your sentiments. Your Star Wars fandom is genuine. I trust your insights unconditionally.
And thanks for such a resounding endorsement. I'll cherish your approval :)
My God, what a narrow minded person you we're. Have you wondered if perphaps if the so called god-awful prequels could inspire any new generation of filmmakers and moviegoers into the franchise? Your comment is nothing more that typical old fart whinery, and a lack of respect to the people who worked in these films. Lucas didn't ruined you anything, he didn't went into your house and destroyed your VHS copies of the original trilogy.
FilmMattic April 13, 2013 at 11:00 PM
@ Yonathan
Before you let the incendiaries fly, you may want to actually read what I have written. I clearly dismissed the notion that treating Lucas as some kind of Antichrist is "irrational contempt." In the world of criticism, reading is fundamental.
Craig Edwards November 20, 2012 at 12:45 AM
I'm hoping this works out well. A director is about to be announced. I immediately threw out Sam Raimi, JJ Abrams, Martin Campbell, and Kenneth Branagh as names I wouldn't mind seeing announced. Brad Bird would have been okay, too. I do not care to see Anthony Hemingway's name in there. I know Anthony - great guy - but not a Star Wars director.
I also hate the prequels much less than you guys. Phantom Menace was pretty meh, and the other two had cringe moments, but parts II and III also had some cool stuff. I've worked directly for George Lucas AS A DIRECTOR - not an easy task to accumulate on your resume if you aren't native to England - and I've never subscribed to the "how many ways can we bash him today?" mode of thinking. Case in point - fans SCREAM for years for him to turn Star Wars over to someone else. The SECOND he does he's bashed brutally both for doing it; and for turning it over to Disney. The man literally cannot win. At least he has all those stacks of money to absorb the tears. Ha!
FilmMattic November 20, 2012 at 9:11 PM
I share your optimism, Craig. And I quite enjoyed your initial speculations. I think Raimi and Abrams would be excellent stewards responsible for jumpstarting the new generation of Star Wars. They both proved as much with Spiderman and Star Trek respectively. Campbell is a wise pick, too. I love the way he's shaped the modern trajectory of the Bond franchise, particularly Casino Royale, which I hold in great esteem (enjoyed a recent rewatch, too!). I would be less inspired by Branagh's participation, but I do not doubt that he would engineer something of a heightened dramatic bent. Hemingway ought to be removed from consideration, this much we agree. Bird would also be a terrific candidate. In terms of directing inspired work, he's four for four.
You're one of the few who values the prequels more appreciably than I, but I don't begrudge you. They're not unadulterated trainwrecks.
So you've worked with George? That's amazing. Do share your stories. I'm struck with infinite curiosity :)
And I tend to agree with your final assessment of the galactic curator, Mr. Lucas. He is not a villain. He is not responsible for "raping childhoods" or mass extermination. He's not a tyrant. He's simply an ordinary man who channeled his myriad inspirations into something extraordinary. It lead to something momentous. Untold wealth and power befell him. From there, his career devolved into a relentless quest to recapture an ostensibly impossible magic. He failed. And the effort, far from being heroic, was mostly commercial (perhaps that's a big reason for the venomous tenor of the rampant criticism). Essentially he couldn't manage the Empire. But he deserves considerable praise for his formative work. Star Wars remains a treasure trove of science fiction and fantasy. That much is owed to Lucas.
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Hello Forward Flashers! I just wanted to let you know that I have posted my first recap on the TV Addicts Blog for The Event. I definitely enjoyed the pilot and look forward to its potential! Fringe will get the recap treatment later this week as well. And I plan to comment on a variety of other shows as they air so that we can discuss them. Come check it out, follow me on twitter and sign up for email updates on the new site so you don't fall out of touch! Thanks for your continued readership as always! See you over there!
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FlashForward: Season 1 Episode 22 - Future Shock
Well, Future Dwellers, that's it! That's all we're getting. The show that had so much potential ends with some pretty good closure but with a future wide open of possibilities. The episode itself, I'll admit, was very contrived to get them in the right situations at the right time. But, seeing the little changes that happened here and there were pretty interesting. And the setup for next season was just enough to keep us intrigued of what they could do! Unfortunately, we will never see that come to fruition. Oh well, we tried right? It won't stop me from doing a tiny bit of a dive into this episode for old time's sake. So let's do it!
Future Shock continued right where the last episode left off. It was the majority of April 29th and everyone was about as far as they could be from fulfilling their FlashForward visions. But as we inched closer in this episode, everyone was where they were supposed to be. And the 2 people that didn't have visions were together witnessing the start of the next round! So let's dive right back into where we were!
Disclaimer: I apologize, ever since the LOST finale I have been having technical difficulties with posting pictures to my blogs. I apologize for not having any screenshots in this finale post!
Bryce/Keiko/Nicole
When we last left off, Bryce was chasing after Keiko who was heading to the airport, and Nicole was feeling sorry for herself for not telling Bryce about knowing Keiko was in town. We continue that story an hour and change from 10pm.
I loved the scene between Bryce and the receptionist at the immigration center. How she was reading a romance novel so Bryce talked about his flashforward of DESTINY in LOVE. And then she ends up conning him out of 100 dollars because "she had it in her pocket in her flashforward." That was a good time! It may have been the biggest laugh this show ever had. Certainly better than Mark calling everyone cupcake!
Bryce runs into Nicole outside after he gets a contact phone number for the infamous restaurant he is supposed to meet Keiko in. Bryce breaks Nicole's heart and tells her that he loves this woman he never has met. He is even wearing the clothes that he was wearing in his flashforward without even thinking about it. Crazy.
Nicole lets him go and then heads off into the night, worried that some man is going to drown her. Ahhh she does get run off the road (or she was driving on the wrong side or something) but she swerves right into a body of water and begins to drown! But instead of being drowned by someone, she is SAVED by someone! The man? I think his name was Ed or something? He had a flash that he saved her but he thought he may have been too late. I'm sure this would have been a love interest for Nicole in season 2. Too bad we won't be seeing anymore!
Then there was Keiko. Keiko's mom gets MVP of the night for having a change of heart at the airport and helping Keiko get away. She smacks one of the cops or security people with her bag and Keiko runs off. Yes, contrived...but who cares. I laughed!
Bryce had to fight to get inside the restaurant that was having a private party for Flash Day. But the waitress recognized Bryce as Keiko's man. How? I have no idea! And then Keiko gets out of a cab with 7 minutes until 10pm and runs to the restaurant, getting there just in time and finding Bryce. Ahhh FATE, crazy when it works out, right?
So, things were looking pretty bleak for this story. Aaron, Tracy and Khamir were all where they were supposed to be in their FlashForward, but Tracy appeared to be dead. Yeah, but this is TV! Of course Khamir decided to check for a pulse 5 minutes later and there still was one! Tracy is saved and Aaron's Flash comes true just like it's supposed to. YAWN
Simon, Demetri and Janis
Okay, so we continue onward to NLAP with this unlikely trio. Apparently the key to everything will be Simon's phone. They get close to a security guard and some how activate his phone and they can get through all of the crazy security doors.
Meanwhile, Janis is having some pregnancy issues and collapses. Well of course! She needs to be at a hospital by 10pm! And she is. An ambulance takes her and the doctor there was waiting for her since they saw each other in the FlashForward. Long story short, Janis finds out that the baby IS okay during those 2 fateful minutes. But there is a difference. It's a boy, not a girl! Ahhh the future is unwritten, just like Doc Brown told us in the cheesiest scene of the Back to the Future Trilogy!
Meanwhile Simon and Demetri carry onward to the main computer room or whatever. Simon hands over the QED ring to earn Demetri's trust. The 2 men that did not have flash forwards are now working together to prevent the next blackout. Yep, no success on that one. They go right through 10:00 and the computer activates remotely and begins to fire up the accelerator at the time that Mark figures out (we'll get there). Simon and Demetri both decide to not wear the ring as they want to see their futures. So much potential there! But alas, we will never see it. \
Olivia/Charlie, Lloyd/Dylan
This may have been the most contrived of all of them. Olivia and Charlie were on the beach trying to be as far away as possible from making the vision come true. Lloyd and Dylan find them there because of their respective security detail. Lloyd convinces Olivia to come back for the betterment of the world.
They get back the house. Dylan is craving that crazy cookie that he gets in his flash.
Lloyd decides to keep his shirt on this time, but they are eventually summoned to the bedroom. Why? Because DYLAN wrote the formula on the mirror! (Congrats to Crackpot Jack of the Jay and Jack podcast. Very impressive)
But now Lloyd needs to figure it out. And of course this triggers Olivia to not fight her fateful night and she wants to kiss Lloyd! Definitely a stretch but whatever! At least it was different enough that she didn't go as far with it as they had in their FLASH. Not sure if they had prior to this night or not though. We've just seen a lot of smooches!
Anyway, Simon sends the text because he knows he is supposed to. It is some inside joke of a formula that used to be Lloyd's email signature or something like that. But this triggers something for Lloyd and then he calls Mark and somehow figures out that the next blackout is going to be in April of 2010. Well considering it's the 29th, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out it's going to be in the next 26 hours! (but Mark still has to move some rope around in in a time bombed building to pinpoint the exact time! But we'll get there)
Meanwhile...10:00 comes and goes and Olivia moves Charle away from the door when Vogel announces that Mark is dead. Of course, it was also a figure of speech and not a confirmation. He was just assuming Mark would be dead because he ran into a building ready to blow.
Mark, Stan and FBI Situation
So Mark was still in prison lockup for a drunken brawl. Wedeck bails the man out. I guess he was going to take him home or something, but instead they get a call to the FBI HQ with a bomb threat. Stan tells Mark to sit in car and talk to Aaron on the phone. He does for a second but then sees Hellinger and has to get out and talk to him.
Hellinger says that the building is a dead end, but Mark is not listening. Hellinger gives the nod to his men dressed as SWAT guys and they put their plan into motion.
Mark sees Vogel on the way in and sends him to the Benford house to watch over his family. (Ahh everything conveniently tying together!)
Mark then heads in. (meanwhile the SWAT guys kill the real SWAT guys and then put on their crazy masks and we see they are the 3 Starred tattooed guys.
The crazy gunfight then begins! Wedeck and Vreede move into the building to get Mark or protect Mark.
Mark is in his office and sober. He's right where he's supposed to be, but he is ready. He gets the fateful call from Lloyd, but instead of all the 8 ball talk they get right to business. Mark finds Gabriel's journal and starts putting the strings where they are supposed to be and identifies 10:14pm as the next blackout. CONVENIENT ONCE AGAIN!
Then the masked men come in and all hell breaks loose. Of course, Mark is ready to take them all on and we see a pretty crazy gun fight. Mark getting the upper hand each time. It was cool, I'm not gonna lie!
Stan and Vreede are doing some gunfighting of their own. And Stan ends up in the bathroom! YAY! He goes into his fateful stall and ends up shooting the guy that comes in after him. NICE.
Mark then sees there are very few minutes left until 10:14. He calls Wedeck and they're able to get a global alert out to minimize casualties. Mark also gets a call off to Olivia and tells her to keep Charlie safe and that he loves them both. He fully expects to die. He kills the last man after him with a "WHAT DID YOU SEE" lame line (Kate's "I saved you a bullet" line was so much better on LOST!! But duhhh so was the show!). Then Mark runs out the window towards a helicopter and the next blackout happens!
FlashForward Part 2
Well, is there even any sense in speculating on any of this? We saw various visions and they were all pretty tough to place. We saw shots all around the globe of people collapsed again. And in the forward flashes we see 2 dates. One is in 2011 and one is in 2015. Did they see visions for all of this? The biggest thing we catch is a glimpse of an older Charlie (we think) that is excited because "they found him" While they are blacked out, that crazy BAD LADY that recruited Janis has one of the QED rings on and takes Janis away. We also see the FBI building blow up and we have no idea where Mark is.
Does Mark disappear from his family for 5 years? Is that who the HIM was? Was that even Charlie in the flash or was it someone Charlie saw in 2011? It definitely was left pretty vague, but there were tons of possibilities looking at a nearby date and another date further into the future. But alas, we'll never know where they would have went with it because ABC decided to make THIS episode....
THE END!!!
And that's all they wrote folks, LITERALLY! I apologize if it seemed like my heart wasn't in these last couple of recaps. It really wasn't! I really did enjoy the show. Even if it never matched up to the impossible expectations it had to capture the entire LOST crowd, it was still a great thriller of a show and had so much future potential. But, maybe it was meant to be. If you try TOO hard to recapture the magic of LOST, chances are it's not going to work. It just kind of has to happen. I enjoyed FlashForward for a show on its own, not because of its attempt to be like LOST. But, not many shared our feelings for it.
There will be another show one day that will capture our imaginations. It won't be LOST, but it will be something. And I might just be there to talk about it. I thank you all for joining me on this little experiment. There possibly will be experiments in the future. So be sure to follow me on Twitter or keep up with any posts I make here or on my other blogs about any future plans. Maybe I'll create some consolidated Blog site so that you don't have to look for my stuff in different places. I just need a good NAME for the site! But that's another story. Seriously, thank you very much. I'm glad I wasn't the only one that gave this one a shot. But, with that said, it's time to say goodbye.
Hope you enjoyed my ramblings and I'll catch you after the next blackout!
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Naturalistic Art
Non-traditional art, about which a few words must be said here, embraces the classical art of antiquity and the Renaissance, and continues up to the nineteenth century which, reacting against academicism, gives rise to impressionism and analogous styles; this reaction rapidly decomposes into all sorts of perversities, either “abstract” or “surrealistic”: in any case, it is of “subrealism” that one ought to speak here. It goes without saying that worthwhile works are to be found incidentally both in impressionism and in classicism—in which we include romanticism, since its technical principles are the same—, for the cosmic qualities cannot but manifest themselves in this realm, and a given individual aptitude cannot but lend itself to this manifestation;1 but these exceptions, in which the positive elements succeed in neutralizing the erroneous or insufficient principles, are far from being able to compensate for the serious drawbacks of extra-traditional art, and we would gladly do without all its productions if it were possible to disencumber the world from the heavy mortgage of Western culturism, with its vices of impiety, dispersion, and poisonousness. The least that one can say is that it is not this kind of grandeur that brings us closer to Heaven.
This culturism is practically synonymous with civilizationism, and thus with implicit racism; according to this prejudice, Western humanity proves its superiority by the “Greek miracle” and all its consequences, and thus by the anthropolatry—it is not for nothing that one speaks of humanism—and cosmolatry which characterize or rather constitute the classicist mentality.
As we have mentioned on other occasions, what must be blamed in artistic naturalism is not its exact observation of nature, but the fact that this observation is not compensated and disciplined by an equivalent awareness of that which transcends nature, and so of the essences of things, as happens for example in Egyptian art; in all sacred arts it is the style which indicates a mode of inwardness and corrects such outwardness, contingency, and accidentality as the imitation of nature may involve; we would even say that an awareness of essences to a certain extent compromises or retards, if not a sufficient observation of outward things, at least their exact expression in graphic terms, although—and one must insist on this—there is no incompatibility in principle between exact draughtsmanship and contemplativity, the latter conferring on the former the imprint of inwardness and essentiality.
In conformity with the Platonic principle that like attracts like, Plotinus states that “it is always easy to attract the Universal Soul … by constructing an object capable of undergoing its influence and receiving its participation. The faithful representation of a thing is always capable of undergoing the influence of its model; it is like a mirror which is capable of grasping the thing’s appearance.”
This passage states the crucial principle of almost magical relationship between the conforming recipient and the predestined content or between the adequate symbol and the sacramental presence of the prototype. The ideas of Plotinus must be understood in the light of those of the “divine Plato”: the latter approved the fixed types of the sacred sculpture of Egypt, but he rejected the works of the Greek artists who imitated nature in its outward and insignificant accidentality, while following their individual imagination.
This principle does not prevent a heavenly influence manifesting itself incidentally or accidentally even in an image which is extremely imperfect—works of perversion and subversion being excluded—through pure mercy and by virtue of the “exception that proves the rule.”
A perfect equilibrium between a noble naturalness and an interiorizing and essentializing is a precarious, but always possible phenomenon. It goes without saying that essentiality or the “idea” takes precedence over observation and the imitation of nature. To each thing its rights, according to its place.
Stylization permits a maximum of naturalism where it is able to impose on it a maximum of essentiality; in other words, a summit of creative exteriorization calls for a summit of interiorizing power and consequently demands a mastery of the means whereby this power may be realized. In the majority of cases art stops half-way and there is nothing wrong in this, since concretely there is no reason why it should go further; traditional art perfectly fulfills its role; art is not everything, and its productions do not have to be absolute. But this is independent of the principle that sacred art must satisfy every sincere believer; it fails in its mission if its crudeness, or on the contrary its superficial virtuosity, leaves unsatisfied or even troubles believers of good will, namely those whom humility preserves from all intolerance and worldly acrimony.
We have already remarked that there is a relative but not irremediable incompatibility—an incompatibility of fact and not of principle—between the spiritual content or the radiance of a work of art and an implacable and virtuosic naturalism: it is as if the science of the mechanism of things killed their spirit, or at least ran the grave risk of killing it. On the one hand we have a treatment that is naïve, but charged with graces and diffusing an atmosphere of security, happiness, and holy childhood; while on the other hand—in classical antiquity and from the Cinquecento onwards—we have on the contrary a treatment that is scientifically executed but the content is human and not heavenly—or rather it is “humanistic”—and the work suggests, not a childhood still close to Heaven, but an adulthood fallen into disgrace and expelled from Paradise [see ills. 91 and 92].
Naturalism in art violates tradition because it is unaware that style is a providential discipline proceeding from a genius at once spiritual and ethnic and developing according to the laws of organic growth in an atmosphere of contemplative piety that has nothing individualistic or Promethean about it. It violates the nature of things because, in painting, it treats the plane surface as if it were three-dimensional space, and the immobility of the surface as if it could contain movement; and in sculpture, naturalism treats inert matter as if it were living flesh, and then as if it were engaged in motion, and it sometimes treats one material as if it were another, without regard for the soul of each substance, and so on.2 To paint is to re-create a vision by adapting it to the plane surface and, if there is movement, by reducing it to its essential type; to sculpture is to re-create a vision by adapting it to inanimate matter, or to a particular kind of matter, and likewise reducing it, if there is movement, to a particular phase that is as it were static. At the same time it consists in re-creating the object rather than copying it, or in copying it while re-creating it in accordance with an inner vision at once traditional and personal, or in accordance with the life that we project into it by virtue of our knowledge, or again, in accordance with the life that it projects into us by virtue of its ontological and Divine content.
Here it is important to point out that one of the major errors of modern art is its confusion of art materials: people no longer know how to distinguish the cosmic significance of stone, iron, or wood, just as they do not know the objective qualities of forms and colors. Stone has this in common with iron that it is cold and implacable, whereas wood is warm, live, and kindly; but, while the cold of stone is neutral and indifferent like that of eternity, iron is hostile, aggressive, and ill-natured, and this enables us to understand the significance of the invasion of the world by iron.3 The heavy and sinister nature of iron requires that in its use in handicrafts it should be treated lightly and with fantasy such as one sees for instance in old church screens which resemble lacework [see ill. 93]. The nature in iron ought to be neutralized by transparence in its treatment, for this does no violence to the nature of this metal but on the contrary confers legitimacy on its quality of hardness by thus turning it into account.
The reproach of “naturalism” cannot properly be leveled merely at a capacity to observe nature; it concerns rather the prejudice which would reduce art simply and solely to the imitation of nature. A more or less exact observation of nature may quite well coincide with art which is traditional, symbolical, and sacred, as is proved by the art of the Egypt of the Pharaohs or that of the Far East; it is then the result, not of a passionate and empty naturalism, but of an objectivity which is fundamentally intellectual. The spiritualized realism of Chinese landscape painters has nothing in common with worldly aestheticism.
As for simple lack of physical observation, which as such is independent of any symbolical intention, we would add that, where it is conditioned by the requirements of a particular collective soul, it is an integral part of a style and so of a language which is in itself intelligent and noble; this is something quite different from the technical clumsiness of some isolated artist. Complete naturalism, which reproduces the chance variations and accidental aspect of appearances, is truly an abuse of intelligence such as might be called “luciferian”:4 it could not, therefore, characterize traditional art.
The whole of the so-called “Greek miracle” amounts to a substitution of reason alone for intelligence as such; apart from the rationalism which inaugurated it, artistic naturalism would have been inconceivable. Extreme naturalism results from the cult of “form,” of form envisaged as something finite and not as “symbol”; reason indeed regulates the science of the finite, of limits, and of order, so that it is only logical that an art which is directed by reason should share with reason itself a flatness refractory to all mystery. The art of classical antiquity is often compared to the brightness of full daylight; it is forgotten that it also has the “outward” quality of daylight, which lacks any aspect of the secret and the infinite.
In the Middle Ages a religious man could pray in surroundings where everything testified to a homogeneous spirit and to an intelligence supernaturally inspired; he could also pray before a blank wall. He had a choice between the ever truthful language of precious forms and the silence of rough stones. Happily for him he had no other choice.
There is something in our intelligence which wants to live in repose, something in which the conscious and the unconscious meet in a kind of passive activity, and it is to this element that the lofty and easy language of art addresses itself. The language is lofty because of the spiritual symbolism of its forms and the nobility of its style; it is easy because of the aesthetic mode of assimilation. When this function of our spirit, this intuition which stands between the natural and the supernatural and produces incalculable vibrations, is systematically violated and led into error, the consequences will be extremely serious, if not for the individual, at all events for the civilization concerned.
Would a child want its mother to change countenance every day? Would a man want to rearrange his home every day? A sanctuary is like the outstretched arms of a mother and like the intimacy of a home, and the soul and the intelligence must be able to rest in it.
Nothing is more monotonous than the illusions of originality found in men who have been inculcated from childhood with an exaggerated respect for “creative genius.”
We must never lose sight of the fact that as soon as art ceases to be a pure and simple ideography—which is perfectly within its rights, for how should the decorative element of art be banned when it is everywhere in nature?—it has a mission from which nothing can make it deviate. This mission is to transmit spiritual values, whether these are saving truths or cosmic qualities, including human virtues.
Nothing can be better fitted to influence the deeper dispositions of the soul than sacred art. Profane art, on the contrary, even if it be of some psychological value in the case of souls of inferior intelligence, soon exhausts its means, by the very fact of their superficiality and vulgarity, after which it can only provoke reactions of contempt; these are only too common, and may be considered as a rebound of the contempt in which sacred art was held by profane art.
But let us return to the errors of naturalism. Art, as soon as it is no longer determined, illuminated, and guided by spirituality, lies at the mercy of the individual and purely psychic resources of the artist, and these resources must soon run out, if only because of the very platitude of the naturalistic principle that merely calls for a superficial copying of nature. Reaching the extreme limit of its own platitude, naturalism inevitably engendered the monstrosities of surrealism. The latter is but the decomposing body of an art and in any case should rather be called “infrarealism.”
The agreement of a picture with nature is legitimate only insofar as it does not abolish the separation between the work of art and its outward model; without such separation the former loses its sufficient reason, for its purpose is not merely to repeat what already exists; the exactness of its proportions must neither do violence to the material—the plane surface in the case of painting and the inert material in the case of sculpture—nor compromise the spiritual expression;5 if the correctness of the proportions is in accord with the material data of the particular art while also satisfying the spiritual intention of the work, it will add an expression of intelligence and so also of truth to the symbolism of the work. Authentic and normative art always tends to combine intelligent observation of nature with noble and profound stylizations in order, first, to assimilate the work to the model created by God in nature and, secondly, to separate it from physical contingency by giving it an imprint of pure spirit, of synthesis, of what is essential. It can definitely be said that naturalism is legitimate insofar as physical exactness is allied to a vision of the Platonic Idea, the qualitative archetype; hence, in such works, the predominance of the static, of symmetry, of the essential.6
As regards beauty in naturalistic art, it does not reside in the work as such, but solely in the object that it copies, whereas in symbolic and traditional art it is the work in itself that is beautiful, whether it be abstract or whether it borrow beauty in a greater or lesser degree from a natural model. It would be difficult to find a better illustration of this distinction than that afforded by a comparison between so-called classical Greek art and Egyptian art: the beauty of the latter does not, in fact, lie simply and solely in the object represented, but resides simultaneously and a fortiori in the work as such, that is to say, in the inward reality that the work makes manifest. The fact that naturalistic art has sometimes succeeded in expressing nobility of feeling or vigorous intelligence is not in question and may be explained by cosmological reasons that could not but exist [see ill. 102].
What is normal is that a human being should seek his center of inspiration beyond himself, beyond his sterility as a poor sinner: this will force him into making ceaseless corrections and a continuous adjustment in the face of an external norm, in short, into changes which will compensate for his ignorance and lack of universality. A normal artist touches up his work, not because he is dishonest, but because he takes account of his own imperfection; a good man corrects himself wherever he can.
The work of an artist is not a training in spontaneity—talent is not something that is acquired—but a humble and instructed search, either assiduous or joyously carefree, for perfection of form and expression according to sacred prototypes which are both heavenly and collective in their inspiration. Such inspiration in no wise excludes the inspiration of the individual but gives it its range of action and at the same time guarantees its spiritual value. The artist effaces and forgets himself; all the better if genius gives him wings. But before all else his work retraces that of the soul which transforms itself in conformity with a divine Model.
1 Apart from his sonnets the human greatness of Michelangelo appears chiefly in his sculpture, in works like the Moses and the Pietà, and that apart from any question of principles or style. In his painting and architecture this greatness is as if crushed by the errors of the period; it gets lost in heaviness and pathos or in the cold gigantism that also characterizes the statues and which is a dominant mark of the Renaissance. With the impressionists the academic spirit fell into discredit; one would gladly believe that this was due to a slightly deeper understanding, but such is not the case, for an unforeseeable change of fashion was enough to call everything once again into question; moreover the academical spirit has already been revived within surrealism, though always in the climate of the oppressive ugliness characteristic of that school.
2 In a stylized painting, an icon, for example, or a Vishnuite miniature, the absence of three-dimensional vision and of movement does not trouble us, for the painting presents itself as such and not as a substitute for the objective world; it is not merely this or that, it is above all a painting. In naturalistic art, on the contrary, the objective accuracy of the drawing and the subtlety of the shading intensify the absence of space and movement: the figures are as though congealed in an atmosphereless void. In statuary, where inert matter and immobility create an analogous impression, the contrast between model and copy becomes intolerable and confers something spectral upon the work. Naturalism partakes of the nature of delusion and magic, but the reaction against it, since it comes from below, gives rise to much worse and strictly perverted aberrations, with the exception of a few works, or categories of works, which however do not form a school.
3 The accumulation in Christian churches and places of pilgrimage of gross and harsh ironwork cannot but impede the radiation of spiritual forces. It always gives the impression that heaven is imprisoned.
4 This abuse of intelligence is extremely characteristic of modern civilization. Many things are taken to be superior—as indeed they are if considered in artificial isolation—which are in fact merely hypertrophic; artistic naturalism is just that, at any rate when taken as an end in itself and when it consequently expresses nothing more than the limitations of form and of the accidental.
5 The ostentatiously human perfection of classical or academic art has in reality nothing universally convincing about it: this was noticed long ago, but only in order to fall into the contrary excess, namely, the cult of ugliness and of the inhuman, despite a few intermediary oases, certain impressionists, for example. The classicism of a Canova or an Ingres no longer convinces anyone, but that is no reason for acknowledging only Melanesian fetishes.
6 In this connection Egyptian art is particularly instructive; other examples of this coincidence of “natural” and “essential” can be found in Far-Eastern art and also in the admirable bronze and pottery heads found among the Yorubas of Ife in West Africa which are among the most perfect works of art to be found anywhere [see ills. 97, 98, and 99].
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