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Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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107th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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1.1 Supreme Court Opinions
1.1.1 Opinions of the Court
1.1.2 Concurrences
1.1.3 Concurrences in the judgement
1.1.4 Concurrences in part and dissents in part
1.1.5 Dissents
Supreme Court Opinions[edit]
Opinions of the Court[edit]
Alabama v. Shelton, 535 U.S. 654 (2002)
Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003)
Concurrences[edit]
Ohio v. Robinette, 519 U.S. 33 (1996)
Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702 (1997)
Bragdon v. Abbott, 524 U.S. 624 (1998)
Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914 (2000)
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc., 537 U.S. 393 (2003)
MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 545 U.S. 913 (2005)
Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc., 580 U.S. ___ (2017)
Concurrences in the judgement[edit]
Concurrences in part and dissents in part[edit]
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012)
Dissents[edit]
BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 (1996)
Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 135 (2000)
Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124 (2007)
Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 550 U.S. 618 (2007)
Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. 35 (2008)
Cavazos v. Smith, 565 U.S. ___ (2011)
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The Bloody Benders: The Family That Wasn't
Updated on January 7, 2019
Darcie Nadel
Darcie is a graduate student who spends her free time writing and learning everything she can about cryptozoology, aliens, and the unusual.
In 1873, just outside of the small town of Cherryvale in Labette County, Kansas, a gruesome discovery was made. A one-room house belonging to the Bender family was found to be abandoned, and the family’s farm animals left starving. Curious locals began to explore the empty house and discovered a trap door in the floor which led to a blood-soaked cellar. A further search of the property would yield the discovery of the bodies that had produced that blood. The events that had unfolded in the house would be quickly pieced together by law enforcement, and a nationwide manhunt for the Bender family would begin.
The Bender Family
The Benders, consisting of John Sr. (or Pa), Ma, John Jr., and Kate, were one of a group of Spiritualist families who had moved to an area outside of Cherryvale, Kansas. The Benders were the only ones out of this group who made themselves known to the locals in town, as the other families either eventually moved away or simply kept to themselves.
Ma and Pa Bender primarily spoke German, and the English they did speak was so heavily accented as to be unintelligible. John Jr. and Kate could both speak English fluently, though Kate had nearly lost her accent and was the most popular and outgoing among the locals. John Jr., by contrast, was known to be social, but would often laugh at seemingly nothing, which made people perceive him as a “half-wit,” although it is now suspected this was feigned in order to deliberately give off this impression. Kate and John Jr. both also attended Sunday School at nearby Harmony Grove, and thus were more accepted in the community than their parents.
Kate often went by “Professor Miss Katie Bender,” and was known in the region to be able to contact the dead or perform miracles of healing, provided the right price was paid. She would also conduct seances and give lectures on Spiritualism in nearby towns. In these lectures, Kate allegedly advocated for free love and gave her views on why murder was justified. The Benders would distribute circulars advertising Kate’s abilities and lectures, and despite rumors that she was satanic, she was able to make some additional money lecturing.
The Bender Home
Pa Bender had a 160-acre claim along the Osage Mission-Independence Trail. John Jr. had his own claim, but never lived on it or made any improvements to the land, instead living on Pa’s claim along with the rest of the family.
The Bender family home was a one room house that was divided in half by a curtain. In the front half of the house, the family ran an inn and store, while the back half was the family living area. Travelers would often stop at the house for supplies and a meal. Many people—mostly men traveling alone—were also drawn in to use the inn by Kate, though John Jr. would also intercept travelers on occasion and convince them to come stay a night at the inn.
It wasn’t uncommon at this time for travelers in the West to disappear, but the amount of disappearances in Labette County was so much higher than the average that it became worrying. However, this likely would not have mattered if not for a man named Dr. William York.
Dr. York disappeared in March 1873 after making a journey to find his former neighbor, George Newton Longcor, along with Longcor’s daughter Mary Ann, who had disappeared several months earlier. Unfortunately for Dr. York, he found his way to the Benders’ inn. And unfortunately for the Benders, Dr. York had two powerful brothers—Colonel Edward York and Kansas Senator Alexander York—who would not ignore his mysterious disappearance.
Colonel York took it upon himself to travel to Labette County and become the lead on the investigation into the area’s numerous disappearance cases. From the beginning, the Bender family behaved very suspiciously. One account of Ma Bender states that she became violent after being questioned about reports of a woman who claimed she had been threatened with weapons while staying at the inn. Ma denied the reports and claimed the woman in question was a witch. Naturally, the family also denied that Dr. York had ever stayed at their inn.
A town meeting was held to discuss the investigation, and it was decided that every local homestead would be searched in order to find any evidence that might lead to the discovery of the missing persons. Pa and John Jr. attended this meeting, and presumably began to fear that if this search were to take place on their land, they would be immediately discovered to be responsible for the disappearances. Luckily for the Benders, a spate of bad weather hit the area and prevented the search from happening right away.
Once the weather was clear and the investigation was free to continue, it was discovered that, like so many travelers who had happened upon their inn, the Benders had disappeared.
A Horrifying Discovery
Though the Benders had not disposed of any bodies in their home, plenty of evidence, including the aforementioned blood-soaked cellar, had been left in the small house. Eventually, the search for bodies led to the garden, where at last the body of Dr. York was found. His throat had been slit and the back of his skull smashed in. Further searching turned up about a dozen more bodies in the same condition, with accounts varying on the exact number of confirmed victims. The burial site of the majority of the victims would become known as “Hell’s Half-Acre.”
It wouldn’t be long before law enforcement was able to put together how the Benders committed the up to 21 murders attributed to them. After a traveler had been lured into staying at the inn through one method or another, their typical strategy would be to sit them at a seat of honor at the dinner table. This special seat would cause the guest’s back to be against the curtain that separated the house. At some point during the meal, one family member, most likely either Pa or John Jr., would hit the guest in the back of the head with a hammer. The victim would then be dropped down the trap door, and another family member would slit their throat and steal any valuables they might be carrying. Over a dozen bullet holes were found along the roof and walls of the house, which suggests that some of the Benders’ victims may have unsuccessfully put up resistance before being killed.
The crimes immediately became a sensation after being reported, drawing thousands of curious onlookers to see the house. Some visitors would even take pieces of the house as a souvenir, and eventually the entire house was disassembled due to this practice.
Who Were the Benders?
A combined reward of $3,000 would be offered for information leading to the capture of the Benders, but the search for the family would hit an early roadblock when it was discovered that they had been lying about their identities.
Though Ma and Kate were alleged to actually be mother and daughter, Pa and John Jr. were unrelated to the two women and to each other, at least by blood. Some who knew the family before they fled said that it was clear to them that Kate and John Jr. were a married couple rather than brother and sister.
Pa Bender was speculated to be a man named John Flickinger who had immigrated from either Germany or the Netherlands, and John Jr. was said to actually be named John Gebhardt based on an inscribed Bible which had been found in the house. Ma had the most extensive backstory of the family. Though she supposedly went by the name Elvira Bender, she was said to actually be named Almira Hill Mark, which was occasionally also reported as Meik. She had been born somewhere in the Adirondack Mountains and first married to a man named Simon Mark, with whom she had 12 children. The fifth of those children was Kate, who had been born Sarah Eliza Mark. Simon Mark died, and Almira went on to marry a man named William Stephen Griffith, who also died. Both men allegedly were killed by hammer blows to the back of the head.
None of these stories of the “real” identities of the Bender family have ever been officially confirmed, and comes from the often conflicting reports of the time, which is why so many modern accounts, this one included, tend to vary on the details.
Outside of Thayer, Kansas, detectives found the abandoned wagon and now starving horses that had belonged to the Benders. In Thayer, they were able to roughly track where the group might have gone from there.
All four had bought train tickets to go to Humboldt, Kansas. Supposedly, Kate and John Jr. got off at Chanute, Kansas and switched to a train going near Denison, Texas instead. From here, it’s thought that the two traveled to an “outlaw colony.” The trail ended there, as this outlaw colony was in an area known to be deadly for law enforcement. However, supposedly one detective claimed to have tracked them down and found John Jr. dead from apoplexy.
Meanwhile, Ma and Pa had gone on to Kansas City. The investigation believed them to have bought tickets going to St. Louis, Missouri, but nothing seems to be known after this.
No person or group ever claimed any of the reward money being offered, although several vigilante groups formed to track down the Benders, and a few claimed to have found them. One story said that a group had shot Ma, Pa, and John Jr., and then burned Kate alive. A different story told of a group that lynched them and threw the bodies in the Verdigris River. Yet another story told of a group that killed them all in a gunfight and buried the bodies.
None of these stories were able to be confirmed, and the search for the Benders went on for at least the next 50 years.
It wasn’t unheard of for two women traveling together to be accused of being Ma and Kate Bender, and in 1889, two women were extradited from Detroit on suspicion of just that. The women went by the names Almira Monroe and Sarah Eliza Davis. Sarah allegedly told the police that Almira was Ma Bender, but that she was one of Ma’s other children, not Kate. However, witnesses in Labette County were not able to conclusively identify the women, and the case against them never went to trial.
In 1884, a man named John Flickinger reportedly committed suicide in Lake Michigan. Some believed this man to be Pa Bender, though of course this is unconfirmed. It was even rumored that this was not a suicide, but a murder committed by Ma and Kate after Pa fled with the valuables stolen from their victims.
Also in 1884, an old man matching Pa’s description was arrested in Montana for a murder he had allegedly committed in Idaho where the victim was killed with a blow to the head from a hammer. Law enforcement requested identification, but before this could happen, the man severed his own foot in an escape attempt and ended up bleeding to death. By the time someone from Cherryvale was able to arrive, the body had decomposed so badly that identification was impossible. The skull of this man was on display in a saloon in Salmon, Idaho labeled as “Pa Bender” up until 1920, when the bar was closed due to Prohibition. After this, the skull disappeared.
Today, a historical marker stands at a rest area near where the house once stood. Nothing remains of the house itself, time and souvenir hunters having destroyed it.
Stories abound that the land on which the house used to be is now haunted. Visitors to the property have often reported “glowing apparitions” and moaning sounds. Some attribute these occurrences solely to the victims, but others also believe that Kate Bender herself has returned to the land, being forever forced to wander the area.
In 1961, Cherryvale, Kansas opened up the Bender Museum. For the museum, an exact replica of the Benders’ cabin was built, and it housed artifacts such as the hammers used in the killings and contemporary photos and newspaper clippings. Some Cherryvale residents weren’t happy with the museum, as they didn’t want their town to be so closely associated with the killings. In 1978, the museum was closed and a fire station was built on the land. However, the artifacts were relocated to the Cherryvale Museum and can still be seen there today.
After all this time, we’ll probably never know with any certainty who the Bloody Benders truly were or what actually became of them.
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You are here: Blog > Events > FTJ at the Fair Trade Futures Conference!
FTJ at the Fair Trade Futures Conference!
So exciting to be at the Fair Trade Futures Conference, joining over 780 fair trade artisans, farmers, advocates, retailers, and wholesalers from around the globe. It was inspiring to be among so many people committed to a fair trade world based on transparency, respect, and justice, as well as a willingness to self-critique where the movement may be falling short.
The stars of the conference were the farmers and artisans who came from South America, Africa, and Asia to tell their personal stories. It was the first opportunity for many of us to meet them directly, and there was strong support for their voices to be heard more loudly within the certification process.
Fair Trade Judaica was the only visible Jewish presence at the conference, and we were greeted with much support and enthusiasm, and many opportunities for collaboration. There was a lot of interest in developing the fair trade Judaica niche.
One of the highlights was being able to speak directly with artisans and fair trade organizations about creating new fair trade Judaica products – lots of interest in helping us build the movement. Keep your eyes open over the next year for these new Judaica products:
Wire and bead kippahs for women from Guatemala
Small wooden dreidels from India
Beautiful baskets made from recycled metal
Bracelets made from recycled paper in Africa
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2 Chainz bio, Early life, Career, Net worth, Personal life, Facts
Who is 2 Chainz?
Tauheed Epps is a popular American rapper and hip hop artist, better known by his professional name 2 Chainz. A native of Georgia, he started his musical career together with a high school friend by forming the hip hop duo Playaz Circle. Average success was their first album, 'Supply & Demand.'
In the Early life of 2 Chainz
Tauheed Epps was born in the United States on September 12, 1977, at College Park, Georgia. He had a challenging childhood; his mother raised him mostly alone as his father was several times in and out of prison. He went to high school in North Clayton, where he used to play basketball as well. He also dealt with drugs as a teenager despite being a good student. He was arrested for possession of drugs at the age of fifteen. He attended the State University of Alabama and then transferred to the State University of Virginia.
In the Career of 2 Chainz
Fig: 2 Chainz as a Rapper
Tauheed Epps formed the Playaz Circle hip hop duo with a friend of high school and began playing songs. The duo then became friends with and performed with the well-known rapper Ludacris. The duo's debut album,' Supply & Demand,' was released in 2007. It performed well, debuting on the Billboard 200 at number 27. Over the first week, it sold more than 26,000 copies. It dropped to number 79 on the Billboard 200 on the second week, though. Epps, who had already adopted the stage name "2 Chainz," announced in March 2012 his debut studio album.
He released the lead single of the album ' No Lie ' two months later, featuring the well-known Canadian rapper Drake. The song was a commercial success when it debuted at number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 1,4 million copies digitally. 2 Chainz's album' Based on a T.R.U. the story' was released in August the same year. The album, which included guest appearances by popular rappers like Drake, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West, peaked on the US Billboard 200 in the first position. His second B.O.A.T.S. album. In September 2013, II' saw its release. Peaking third on the US Billboard 200, like his first, the album was a huge success. In its first week, it sold 63,000 copies. Also, a major success was Colegrove, his third studio album released in March 2016. It debuted on the US Billboard 200 at fourth place. His latest album was released in June 2017, 'Pretty Girls Like Trap Music.' Critics positively received the album, which included guest appearances from stars such as Drake, Pharrell Williams, and Travis Scott.
How much is the net worth of 2 Chainz?
Fig: 2 Chainz in Versace ad.
2 Chainz is undoubtedly one of the best rappers of this decade. He has worked with the best producers and artists in the music industry as well as many other celebrities and has earned himself an incredible net worth throughout his career. As of 2019, the net worth of 2 Chainz is approximately $6 million.
In the Personal Life of 2 Chainz
Fig: 2 Chainz with Kesha Ward
2 In 2013, Chainz married Kesha Ward. There are three children in the couple, Heaven, Harmony, and Halo. He is also notorious for his brushes with the law, despite having a successful career. He was arrested several times for possession of drugs.
Facts of 2 Chainz
Based on a T.R.U. the story,' which was 2 Chainz's debut studio album, can be considered his first and most successful major work. The album was a great success and peaked in the U.S. Billboard 200 first position as well as selling 147,000 copies within a week. It eventually sold 623,000 copies throughout the year. The album was also nominated for 'Best Rap Album' at the 55th Grammy Awards, with hit singles like 'No Lie,' 'Birthday Song,' and 'I'm Different.' Most of the reviews were mixed.
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TechElectric Vehicles
Feast Your Eyes on the Cute Electric UPS Trucks of the Future
UPS will soon have the cutest logistics truck on the road.
The company on Wednesday announced a partnership UK-based technology company Arrival to develop what it calls a “pilot fleet” of 35 electric trucks. The electric UPS trucks have zero tailpipe emissions and a range of 150 miles on a single charge. They’ll also come with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) that, UPS says, will ultimately identify and address driver fatigue to improve safety on the roads.
But perhaps the most important feature in the electric trucks is their design. Gone are the days of boxy, ugly UPS trucks. The new electric UPS trucks are still in the familiar UPS brown color and have the company’s logo on the side, but have soft curves all around. The trucks have a flat front and big, tinted windows that could improve the driver’s ability to see traffic and obstacles on the road. And, as I said earlier, the new UPS trucks are downright cute.
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In a statement on Wednesday, UPS said that using electric vehicles and other green technologies is a priority for the company as it looks ahead. UPS currently has more than 9,000 vehicles on roads around the world and moving to electric vehicles could dramatically reduce its carbon footprint.
To be clear, these wouldn’t be the first electric vehicles in the UPS fleet. The company currently has more than 300 electric vehicles in Europe and the U.S., as well as 700 hybrids.
UPS said in its statement that Arrival has been working with the company since 2016 to develop vehicle prototypes. The company credited Arrival with being the first European car manufacturer to build a truck to its spec.
The UPS-Arrival pilot program will kick off with 35 electric delivery vehicles cruising streets across London and Paris. UPS hopes to have the first trucks on the road by the end of this year.
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Posted: Mar 5, 2018 - 4:52 PM
By: Bob DiMucci (Member)
SHADOWS AND FOG is based on Woody Allen’s one-act play Death, which was published in 1975 as a comic version of Eugene Ionesco’s 1959 play The Killer. In the 1991 film, a serial strangler (Michael Kirby) is on the loose, and a bookkeeper (Allen) wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching him.
In Allen's typical ensemble-casting fashion, even the small roles are inhabited by a recognizable character actor or star, down to the smallest cameo roles: Donald Pleasence as the ill-fated doctor and David Ogden Stiers as the brutish "Hacker"; Lily Tomlin, Jodie Foster and Kathy Bates as the sagacious "working girls," and John Cusack as their young "regular," with money to burn; Madonna as "Marie", the adulterous tightrope walker; Julie Kavner as the hysterical ex-fiancée; Kenneth Mars, as the "Magician" who delivers the film's coup de grace...and the list goes on.
The film's soundtrack has plenty of music by Kurt Weill, which can be heard on the isolated score track of the 2015 Twilight Time Blu-ray release of the film.
Posted: Mar 5, 2018 - 11:20 PM
PORCO ROSSO is a 1992 film from Japan's Studio Ghibli, directed by famed animation director Hayao Miyazaki. The film centers on a '30s-era seaplane pilot who was, for vaguely explained reasons, cursed to become an anthropomorphic pig. He now he serves as a bounty hunter in the Adriatic, running down air pirates for hefty fees. Eventually, the squabbling pirates hire an American blowhard to shoot Porco down, which launches a loose, low-key plotline in which romance and airplane design feature prominently. PORCO ROSSO was initially conceived as a short film for Japan Airlines, and its roots show in its delight with aviation and the experience of flight, but also in its somewhat shapeless plot.
Perhaps because of this lineage, the film never had a theatrical release in the U.S., but instead was released by Buena Vista (Disney) to American video around 2003. To facilitate this release, an English-language dialogue track was created. Micheal Keaton voices the pig himself, putting on a deeper register for the character. Susan Egan voices "Madame Gina," who has suffered several heartbreaks and still yearns for Porco's affection. Kimberly Williams is "Fio," the spunky secondary and main female character of the film. David Ogden Stiers shows off his vocal chameleon skills voicing Fio's grandfather, effecting an Italian accent. Cary Elwes voices the slick American antagonist "Curtis," and Brad Garrett voices a goon as "Boss" - the leader of the Manma Aiutto air pirates.
Joe Hisaishi's score has had many releases in many countries, but none in the U.S. The most recent release was in France on Wasabi Records.
BAD COMPANY is writer Ross Thomas's adaptation of his own spy vs. spy novel. In the film, Ellen Barkin, who runs an industrial espionage boutique in Seattle with Frank Langella, recruits aloof operator Laurence Fishburne for corporate dirty work. David Ogden Stiers has a supporting role as "Judge Beach." Damian Harris directed the 1995 crime drama. Carter Burwell's score has not had a release.
In Disney's 1995 POCAHONTAS, David Ogden Stiers voiced the role of the riotously blustering "Governor Ratcliffe." Richard White was originally going to voice Governor Ratcliffe, but the filmmakers felt the audience would hear White's distinctive voice, and think of him as "Gaston" from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991). So, he was replaced with Ogden Stiers, who also voiced Ratcliffe's manservant "Wiggins." The fact that Ogden Stiers had also voiced a character in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ("Cogsworth") did not seem to be a detriment to his selection. Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg directed the animated feature. Alan Menken's songs and score have been most recently released by the Walt Disney Legacy Collection in 2015.
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MIGHTY APHRODITE is Woody Allen's comedic fantasy take-off on Greek drama. In it, Allen plays "Lenny," a sportswriter married to "Amanda" (Helena Bonham Carter, speaking in a high-quality American accent), an ambitious art dealer longing for her own gallery. They live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and are thinking about having a child. Amanda wants to give her hypothetical child its de rigeur quality time, but she doesn't have an opening in her schedule for the inconvenience of pregnancy. Lenny is against it, but they adopt. When Lenny discovers his adopted son is a genius, he seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute (Mira Sorvino).
In his third film for Allen, David Ogden Stiers plays "Laius," a member of a Greek Chorus, which includes F. Murray Abraham and Olympia Dukakis, who make urgent notes of the choices Lenny is making. Sony Classical released a CD of Allen's song selections for his soundtrack, which are mostly jazz, from Dave Brubeck to Erroll Garner.
In THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, Disney's 1996 animated retelling of the Victor Hugo classic, David Ogden Stiers voiced the character of the Archdeacon. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise directed the film. The songs and score by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz were released on a Walt Disney CD.
In the opening number of EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU, Woody Allen's paean to the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s, a junior attorney named "Holden" (Edward Norton), in love with the boss' daughter, "Skylar" (Drew Barrymore), serenades her through the streets of New York with the ditty "Just You, Just Me." David Ogden Stiers plays Holden's father in the 1996 film. Ogden Stiers shares a dinner party scene with Alan Alda, his co-star on "M*A*S*H" for six years. Woody Allen's song score of standards and classics, as sung by the cast and as used as background music, was released by RCA Victor.
Another voiceover opportunity for David Ogden Stiers came in the 2001 Disney animated film ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE. Ogden Stiers played "Fenton Q. Harcourt." Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise directed the film. James Newton Howard's score was released by Walt Disney Records.
David Ogden Stiers did voice-over work for his second Studio Ghibli film released by Disney, SPIRITED AWAY. For the English-language track, Ogden Stiers voiced the character of "Kamaji," in this tale of a sullen 10-year-old girl (voiced by Daveigh Chase) who wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. Hayao Miyazaki directed the original Japanese version, with Kirk Wise supervising the English-language dub. The 2001 film was not released in the U.S. until 2003, after Ogden Stiers and Chase had worked on LILO & STITCH. Joe Hisaishi's score was released by Milan in the U.S.
David Ogden Stiers' fifth and final film for Woody Allen was 2001's THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION, a story about "C.W. Biggs" (Allen), a smarmy insurance investigator who unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in a series jewel heists. Ogden Stiers played "Voltan," a hypnotist/stage performer who uses his "powers" for tremendous personal gain. Allen's needle-drop score was comprised mainly of big band music.
Woody Allen, David Ogden Stiers, and Helen Hunt
Set in 1951, THE MAJESTIC told the story of a blacklisted Hollywood writer (Jim Carrey) who gets into a car accident, loses his memory, and settles down in a small town. There he is mistaken for "Luke Trimble," a decorated veteran who has gone missing. David Ogden Stiers plays "Doc Stanton" in the film. Frank Darabont directed this 2001 drama. Mark Isham's score had three tracks on the Hollywood Records soundtrack CD.
In Disney's animated LILO & STITCH, a Hawaiian girl, "Lilo" (voiced by Daveigh Chase), adopts an unusual pet, "Stitch" (voiced by Chris Sanders), who is actually a notorious extra-terrestrial fugitive. David Ogden Stiers provides the voice of Stitch's creator, mad-scientist "Dr. Jumba Jookiba." Alan Silvestri's score for the 2002 film had three tracks on the Walt Disney soundtrack CD, along with numerous Elvis Presley songs. Ogden Stiers also voiced his character in three direct-to-video sequels--2003's "Stitch! The Movie", 2005's "Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch", and 2006's "Leroy & Stitch"-- as well as 66 episodes of "Lilo & Stitch: The Series," which aired on the Disney Channel from 2003 to 2006.
HOODWINKED was an animated spoof of fairy tales in which Little Red Riding Hood (Anne Hathaway), the Wolf (Patrick Warburton), the Woodsman (Jim Belushi), and Granny (Glenn Close) all tell the police the events that led up to their encounter. David Ogden Stiers voiced the character of "Inspector Nicky Flippers," a long-legged frog. Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech co-wrote and co-directed the 2005 film. John Mark Painter's score shared space on the Rykodisc soundtrack CD with a number of songs composed by the film's writer/directors.
Ogden Stiers reprised his character for the 2011 sequel, HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD vs. EVIL.
David Ogden Stiers narrated the prologue to M. Night Shyamalan's fantasy LADY IN THE WATER, in which "Cleveland Heep" (Paul Giamatti), a stuttering apartment superintendent, encounters a girl named "Story" (Bryce Dallas Howard) swimming in the complex's pool. He soon learns that she comes from the Blue World, and has a message for mankind. James Newton Howard's score for the 2006 film was released by Decca/Universal.
David Ogden Stiers' final theatrical film was 2017's NEIL STRYKER AND THE TYRANT OF TIME. The film was made in Ogden Stiers' home state of Oregon, and was an action-comedy that follows its titular hero (writer-director Rob Taylor), a special agent from the future, as he hops around the time-stream trying to recapture his escaped nemesis, "The Mad Scientist" (also played by Rob Taylor). Filmed over a period of nine years, the film featured Ogden Stiers as "The Admiral." Although intended for theatrical release, the low-budget film was not acquired for distribution, and played numerous film festivals before being made available for viewing on Amazon, VUDU, Dish Network, Google Play, and other streaming services. Greg Ives scored the film.
On his Facebook page, Rob Taylor wrote the following after hearing of the passing of his co-star:
"We are devastated and saddened to report the passing of our dear, dear friend, David Ogden Stiers. David joined our cast in 2011 despite the fact that we were a ragtag crew of Oregon filmmakers with more ambition than dollars and cents/sense! In his lighter moments, David demanded "dude" be spelled "dewd" and made us all laugh every time he was on set. A professional of the highest caliber, David was an incredible human being that never missed an opportunity to help Oregonians of all walks of life to realize their dreams. David was an actor for NSTOT but more importantly was mentor to producer Nic Costa since the time they met in 2003. He will be sorely missed. Please, wherever you are, raise your glass to this champion of the Arts. The world will never be the same without you!"
David Ogden Stiers was a fine character actor who excelled at playing sophisticated, erudite, sometimes snobbish roles. And we loved him for it. Thanks, David.
Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David Ogden Stiers, David Doyle, and Farrah Fawcett,in "Charlie's Angels"
David Ogden Stiers in "M*A*S*H"
David Ogden Stiers in "Murder, She Wrote"
David Ogden Stiers in the series "The Dead Zone"
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How Trump's tax cuts hurt the GOP in America's wealthy suburbs
Brian Cheung
Yahoo Finance November 12, 2018
Republicans are losing their hold on upper-middle-class suburbs, and the tax reform bill may be to blame.
Although a number of races are still too close to call, Democrats have taken 30 seats so far — more than the 23 GOP districts they needed to seize control of the House of Representatives. In swing districts across the country, new Democratic challengers vowed to defy the Trump administration while Republican incumbents touted the benefits of tax reform and a booming economy.
But the GOP’s tax reform bill may have disenfranchised fiscal conservatives in higher-income areas, since the Trump tax cuts capped the amount of deductions that Americans can claim on state and local taxes — abbreviated as SALT — to $10,000. For homeowners facing high property taxes, itemizing their taxes offered more deductions than the standard provision of $12,000.
Voters in those districts may have had this in mind when they hit the polls in the midterms. Among the top 25 congressional districts ranked by uptake of SALT deductions, nine are controlled by Republicans in the current Congress.
Six of them flipped blue in the November 6 elections, and one – California’s 45th district – is too close to call.
Nine of the top 25 districts claiming SALT deductions were held by Republicans, but six of those nine flipped blue in the midterms. Credit: David Foster / Yahoo Finance
All of the top 25 districts straddle the largest U.S. cities: New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The common trend: All have expensive housing markets with homeowners who commute to the city for work. In terms of voter priorities, those voters tend to prioritize low taxes and preservation of wealth over social issues like immigration.
The districts that had the highest percentage of taxpayers claiming SALT deductions were concentrated near five major U.S. cities. Credit: David Foster / Yahoo Finance
The picture on SALT deductions is dramatically different in the rest of the country.
Most Americans do not claim SALT deductions because the standard deduction — even before the Trump bill — offered more deductions than itemizing would. Based on 2015 IRS data compiled by the Government Finance Officers Association, only 30% of Americans in an average U.S. congressional district opted to take SALT deductions.
The average take-up rate for SALT deductions in these top 25 districts was 47.8%.
Across the Hudson River
Head about an hour west of New York City and you’ll arrive in New Jersey’s 11th district, where more than 51.6% of taxpayers take advantage of the SALT deductions — the second highest take-up rate in the country. For 23 years, the district was held by Rodney Frelinghuysen, a Republican who was able to build a following on the promise of low taxes for a constituency that ranks among the highest-income earners in the country.
Frelinghuysen, a rank-and-file GOP leader who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, had to break with his own party in voting against the tax bill. The move drew the ire of Republican leadership, and Frelinghuysen ultimately decided not to run for reelection.
FILE PHOTO: US Democratic congressional candidate Mikie Sherrill (R) campaigns as people attend the New Jersey State Fair in Augusta, New Jersey, U.S., August 12, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
Democrat Mikie Sherrill was able to snatch the seat in the midterms, and frequently hit on how the effects of the tax bill hurt the district.
“This plan has been particularly bad for our state,” Sherrill said in a televised debate in October. She claimed that the average taxpayer in NJ-11 paid $19,000 in property taxes, only about half of which could be deducted under the new tax bill.
Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told Yahoo Finance that the same story has been playing out across the country.
“I think Californians and New Yorkers are right to feel that they didn’t get an especially good deal out of that tax overhaul,” Davis said. “Their tax cuts, relative to their neighbors all across the country were definitely undersized.”
Proponents of the tax bill say the SALT cap, which tends to benefit the wealthier, will still be offset by a now-doubled standard deduction. Republican Peter Roskam, one of the key members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, heavily advertised how a larger standard deduction would simplify the tax filing to the size of a postcard.
Roskam ended up losing his seat in Illinois’s 6th congressional district, where Democratic challenger Sean Casten took to Medium.com to attack Roskam and the Trump tax cuts.
“Peter Roskam likes to hype his position on the Ways and Means committee to convince you he knows more about tax policy and you do,” Casten wrote. “It’s all a lie.”
With Roskam gone, the Republican side of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee looks thin on members who helped drive the tax reform bill. Three of the six subcommittee members did not run for reelection.
The new Democratic majority in the House likely sets up Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, to take the committee gavel, with Texas Republican Kevin Brady set up for head of the committee’s minority.
But with a mixed Congress — the Senate still has a GOP majority — it is unclear whether the Democrats can or would do anything about the SALT cap. Goldman Sachs analysts wrote after the midterms that reversing the SALT cap remains a possibility but very unlikely.
“We expect no major tax legislation to become law under a divided Congress,” Goldman wrote.
Brian Cheung is a reporter covering the banking industry and the intersection of finance and policy for Yahoo Finance. You can follow him on Twitter @bcheungz.
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Photos Show Confrontation Between USS Decatur and a Chinese Navy Warship in South China Sea
October 2, 2018 by gCaptain
U.S. Navy photo showing a confrontation between the USS Decatur (left) and PRC Warship 170 (right) in the South China Sea on Sunday, September 30, 2018. U.S. Navy Photo
gCaptain has just obtained photos showing a confrontation involving the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Decatur and a Chinese Navy warship in the disputed South China Sea over the weekend.
The U.S. Navy confirmed the incident on Tuesday, accusing China’s navy of conducting an “unsafe and unprofessional maneuver” that nearly led to a collision as the U.S. destroyer was underway “in the vicinity” of Gaven Reef in the Spratly Islands on Sunday, September 30.
According to a Navy spokesman, during the incident, the Chinese warship “approached within 45 yards of Decatur’s bow, after which Decatur maneuvered to prevent a collision.”
As was reported over the weekend, the USS Decatur on Sunday conducted the U.S. Navy’s latest freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea, coming within 12 nautical miles of the Gaven and Johnson Reefs claimed by China.
China issued a statement Tuesday accusing the U.S. of violating its “indisputable sovereignty” over the South China Sea islands. “We strongly urge the U.S. side to immediately correct its mistake and stop such provocative actions to avoid undermining China-U.S. relations and regional peace and stability,” a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday in a statement.
See Also: U.S. Accusses China of ‘Unsafe’ Confrontation in South China Sea
Below is a sequence of photos showing the USS Decatur, pictured left, and the Chinese warship, PRC 170, on the right:
U.S. Navy Photo
Around this point (below), the two warships were within 45 yards of each other:
The photos below show the USS Decatur maneuvering to avoid the collision:
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SpuRt 3/2019
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SpuRt Issue 3/2018
In the editorial “Short cut” S. Netzle, Zurich deals with the criticism of sports officials at the CAS about the doping acquittals of Russian athletes (clear evidence was not conditional).
Despite criticism, the independence of the CAS must not be infringed upon. Netzle, nevertheless, considers a reform of the arbitration is necessary. Netzle addresses the better training of judges, but in particular the long duration of the proceedings, here the parties are responsible to make concrete proposals for a draft. In particular, Netzle addresses CAS’s successful ad hoc procedures at the Olympics, which have proven to be successful, despite the speed, and it could be provided to CAS’s permanent department to handle certain cases more quickly.
Overall, the CAS and international arbitration is important for the sport.
The article “The Disclosure of Disciplinary Measures by Football Referees and their Effectiveness” is dealt with by B. Schiffbauer, Cologne, with the most recent incident, Nils Petersen. He had been warned with a yellow card without his knowledge, later he was given a yellow / red card. The paper deals with the conditions necessary for the effectiveness of disciplinary measures, in particular with the effective disclosure.
The rules and regulations of the DFB is not very clear. In Rule 5 (under number 7), although, the disciplinary measures are listed and explained, statements are lacking as to how the referee should actively pronounce these sanctions so that they are also recognizable to the person concerned. The judgment of the DFB Bundesgericht (Federal Supreme Court) published in the same issue of SpuRt also deals with this set of rules and can only state that “showing” the card is not sufficient. Overall, the various interpretations show that a disciplinary measure must be notified individually to both state law and association law, which is even required by constitutional law.
Schiffbauer deals extensively with the analogies of state law (civil law and public law), with the result that, for reasons of clear and explicit disclosure, the effectiveness of a disciplinary measure is necessary. Many referees need to be aware of this and therefore not only worry about the correct rule application, but also correct disclosure.
In the article “The Bremen Lex Football – a legal, sport-political and social mistake” PGP Muller-Eiselt, Munich deals with the legal issues in connection with the decision published in the same issue on page 122 decision of the OVG Bremen on 21.02.2018 for the cost of provision of police forces for security in Bundesliga games. The State of Bremen had issued a fee notice of € 125,000.00 to the DFL, the VG-Bremen overturned the decision in its ruling of November 2017 (SpuRt 2017, 260 ff), while the OVG Bremen confirmed the fee notice. An appeal procedure before the Federal Administrative Court is ongoing. The author first explains the provisions of § 4 para. 4 BremGebBeitrG and questions from a constitutional point of view.
From the point of view of the Federal Constitutional Court, only the tax is levied as a regular source of income for the state without any conditions, whereas any other form of levy requires special justification. This particular justification is missing here. The mere provision of police forces is not a sufficiently defined as a public service, which is why this standard is unconstitutional. Other constitutional concerns, such as, for example, the violation of Art. 12 GG in the event of a waiver of the event as well as a violation of Art. 14 GG are cited by the author. In addition, § 4 para. 4 BremGebBeitrG is a security policy mistake. The state cannot leave the core task of security precaution for the population to the private sector, rather a trusting interaction of security participants (state, associations, clubs and fans) must take place.
Also, the bremische fees regulation is a social mistake: It must be the goal to reduce the personal and financial burden on the police, which is an overall task in society. In contrast, the fee notice privatized the costs of the core police task – the public good security is commercialized with it. This makes the police a kind of private security service.
T. Schumacher, Wolfsburg and K. Schumacher, Bergisch Gladbach, make their contribution to the topic “Compliance Management Systems in Sport”. In the first part, the components of the Compliance Management Systems (CMS) were finally explained with 1. risk analysis, 2. risk limitation / training regulations and other communication measures such as 3. the monitoring processes.
Now the applications of the CMS to the sport are set out. For small associations or clubs, the risks are manageable, here it is probably sufficient to discuss the individual issues with the volunteers, which are not merchants or lawyers. Large associations, which deal with millions in sales in large commercial enterprises, the CMS is more significant. Here, the authors cite the example of the ADAC, where a Compliance GmbH is already installed, as well as the DFB already have various compliance measures, such as, for example A Code of Ethics, Ethics Committees have been introduced.
The basic compliance risks in sport are analyzed further in the article, mentioning in particular the sponsors and invitations, especially the case of Utz Claasen of the Federal Supreme Court, which specified in his decision the legal standards regarding an agreement on unfairness according to § 333 I StGB. Another risk is the awarding of sporting events that have been encoded in public in recent decades, particularly in the context of the officials of the IOC, FIFA and UEFA. As further examples, the authors address the ticket awards at major sporting events, to important sponsors, which would need to be made transparent, as well as the expense allowances for volunteers working in the organization. Even when working with consultants and match agents, details, agreements and cash flows must be presented transparently, and the usual regulations of FIFA and the DFB are not sufficient. Other examples are the Money Laundering Act of 26.07.2017, which must be observed, as well as antitrust aspects of marketing and their agreements. The authors conclude that all representative bodies must deal with these sports-specific risks and must consider and install appropriate measures to minimize these risks.
In the judgment comment entitled “Withdrawal of antitrust law from sport? The coughing signal case at the bridge tournament “– dedicated to M. Lorenz, Berlin, the verdict of the OLG Dusseldorf from 15.11.2017 in SpuRt 2018, 73.
In fact, the judgment gives the impression that it completely dispenses with the application of antitrust rules, in contrast to the lower court. Lorenz deals with the different case groups of recent decision-making practices in the field of sports, in particular procedures on the commercial side of the sport, such as, for example, competition law-compliant allocation of broadcasting rights of major events and continues to be concerned with the second case group, namely the relationship of individual athletes to the organizers of competitions and in general to the regulations of the sports associations. The present ruling falls under the second case group, analyzing the facts and the underlying questions in order to deal with the material. Here he notes that the recent case-law in the review of sports association sanctions has taken antitrust standards as the basis for a review of contested regulations or sanctions in the balancing of interests. This is shown by the judgments of the Higher Regional Courts of Frankfurt but also by the judgment of the ECJ in the Meca-Medina case with regard to Art. 1 I, III TFEU. The OLG Dusseldorf in earlier decisions, however, relied primarily on the GWB. The BGH has also relied on antitrust standards in the Pechstein case (see Stancke, SpuRt 2011, 46, 48). The BGH has used the civil-law general clauses to safeguard the protection of fundamental rights. Finally, the argumentation of the judgment to be discussed by the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, which is based on the civil-law general clauses of § 138, 242, 307 and 315 BGB. However, this does not mean a “withdrawal from antitrust law” because the antitrust norms are the basis for the general clauses of civil law and their balancing of interests. Thus, antitrust law also remains an area of application in the relationship between athletes and federation.
The article “The merging of (soccer) clubs” by J. H. Punte, Hamburg, is about two Berlin football clubs, Viktoria 1892 and Lichterfelder FC 1892 Berlin e. V. two big clubs, which want to amalgamate, with the goal to rise to number three in Berlin football.
In his contribution, the author provides a guideline for the practice of the association and highlights the legal issues that arise, which are transferable to every registered sports club.
The author then explains the course of a merger according to the UmwG, namely the provisions of §§ 5 ff UmwG and the notarized deed of merger as a basis. Here, the exchange ratios of the shares and in particular the amount must be precisely fixed, as well as a merger report in accordance with § 8 UmwG necessary.
The registration of the merger according to § 16 ff UmwG then represents the final point of the merger of both clubs. Finally, it is important that in the entire procedure the association law provisions are not disregarded, here, for example, in the statutes of the DFL and the League Association, no regulations exist, however, the statutes of different national associations give in part regulations that explicitly deal with the merger of clubs. It is therefore advisable for those involved to contact the associations beforehand.
öOGH
§§ 33 f. ForstG
Forest use for canyoning tours
Commercial events (such as guided canyoning tours) are not covered by the free use of the forest for recreational purposes and therefore require the consent of the forest owner.
Art. 3 (1) Basic Law
Constitutional complaint about nationwide stadium ban
1. Article 3 (1) of the Basic Law does not disclose an objective constitutional principle, even according to the principles of indirect third-party action, according to which the legal relationships between private parties should in principle be governed by equality. Basically, it is part of the freedom of each person to decide according to their own preferences, with whom they want to conclude contracts and under which conditions.
2. Equality law requirements for the relationship between private individuals can, however, arise from Art. 3 (1) Basic Law for specific groups. Indirect third-party effect unfolds Art. 3 (1) Basic Law, for example, if individual persons are excluded by private law from events that are opened by private individuals by their own decision to a large public without respect to the person and if the exclusion for those affected to a considerable extent decides about participation in social life. The organizers may not use their decision-making power to exclude certain persons from such an event without a factual reason.
3. A stadium ban, even without evidence of a criminal offense, can be based on factual concern that the data subject will cause interference in the future. In principle, the persons affected must be heard in advance and, on request, they must be given a justification in advance. (Official Guidelines)
OLG Munich
§§ 280 para. 1, 278 i. V. m. §§ 249, 252, 253; §§ 823 Abs. 1, 253 Abs. 2, 254 BGB, Training and Examination Regulations of the DHV for Gleitsegelführer (APO) i. d. F. v. 1. 1. 2011
Liability for lessons in hang gliding and paragliding
1. The purpose of APO is to ensure the protection and safety of student pilots during training and to avoid accidents and, in the same way, the list of obligations of the flight schools and their flight instructors.
2. A violation of the APO and a fundamental breach of duty to a student pilot exists if the instructor of a flight school knew the skills, knowledge and flight problems of a student pilot, but the student still had no radio during the flight and did not instruct him during the flight were issued and there was no flight instructor at the (prospective) landing site.
§ 249 BGB
SV Wilhelmshaven II – reintegration action
1. The plaintiff’s reintegration claim based on that it only existed in the 2014/15 season and is not possible because this season ( as well as all subsequent seasons) has already been completed. The seasons are each completed systems, which are characterized by the prevailing circumstances in each of these seasons. This is also the reason why reintegration is not scheduled for the 2018/19 season, because at that time there would be no state that would have existed in the 2014/15 season.
2. Since it is not disputed that the claimant would have been relegated (through sport performance) at the end of the 2013/14 season, the causality between the harmful act and the damage is lacking. This can only be otherwise, if the descent was arranged before the end of the season for the relegated (through sport performance) was the cause. For this purpose, the plaintiff is charged with evidence. Since the success of a team depends on a large number of factors, the plaintiff cannot successfully prove this with the evidence of the ZPO. (Guidelines of the editorial office)
AG Westerburg
§§ 276, 278, 280 Abs. 1 BGB
Unauthorized assertion of a nomination claim
The substantive reimbursement claims for out-of-court attorney’s fees incurred by a legal defense association against a nomination claim asserted against him without justification by an athlete represented by a lawyer.
§ 4 para 4 BremGebBeitrG
Art. 20 para. 3, Art. 104a ff. GG
Demands of the DFL (private limited company) for police costs at Bundesliga matches
1. Section 4 (4) BremGebBeiG is constitutional. The levying of fees for the use of additional police forces in accordance with § 4 Abs. 4 BremGebBeitrG satisfies both the constitutional requirements arising from Art. 104a et seq. GG and the determination requirement of Art. 20 para. 3 GG and does not violate any fundamental rights of the organizers.
2. Organizer i. P. D. BremGebBeiG is the host home club and the DFL German Football League GmbH together. The discretion granted to the competent authority in selecting a cost debtor among several joint and several debtors is very wide. (Guiding Principles of Editing)
§§ 10 AO, 9 Abs. 3 GewStG
Trade tax liability of the national and international football referee
1. Football referees are self-employed and participate in the general economic traffic.
2. An international referee does not establish a permanent establishment at the respective venue.
3. The income earned by the referees is not that of an athlete.
FG Berlin-Brandenburg
Sections 1 (1) (1), 4 (12) (a). UStG
VAT liability for the provision of sports facilities
1. The provision of sports facilities is not acc. Paragraph 4 (12) (a). UStG tax-free.
2. The term sports facilities is to be interpreted autonomously for VAT purposes. A squash court is such a facility for the practice of sport.
3. Although the rental of a sports hall can be tax-free. However, this pre-supposes that the mere granting of the land transfer outweighs the granting of the right to use a sports facility. An appropriate criterion for delimitation is the contract period.
4. Long-term letting of the sports facility cannot be assumed, however, only in the case of a multi-year letting without notice possibility in the case of a one-year contract term with an extension option.
DFB Federal Court
§§ 11, 12, 24 RuVO / DFB; Rule 12 Football Rules
Objection to ineffective yellow card (Petersen case)
1. The first yellow card underlying a yellow-red card can be challenged with the objection analogous to §§ 11, 12 RuVO / DFB.
2. Appeals pursuant to § 24 RuVO / DFB are admissible if the judgment of the DFB-Sports court is raised against such an objection.
3. A yellow card requires notification to the player to be effective. Any uncertainties concerning the effective disclosure shall be borne by the declarant, i.e. at the expense of the arbitrator. (Guidelines of the editorial office)
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Heist movies never go out of fashion, King of Thieves being his most recent exponent. Mara The film follows the basic premise of films like Ocean’s Eleven and the most recent Ocean’s Eight, only this time, the criminal group is made up of a group of veterans.
The film Jungle Cruise is starring Michael Caine as the leader of the band. The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle The group is complemented by Michael Gambon, Jim Broadment and Ray Winstone. The objective: the London jeweler district. The cast is complemented by Tom Courtenay and Charlie Cox.
It also highlights the direction of James Marsh, winner of the Oscar for the documentary Man on Wire and director The Lion King of The Theory of Everything.
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Director: James Marsh
Actors: Charlie Cox, Jim Broadbent, Michael Caine, Michael Gambon, Paul Whitehouse, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay
Four years ago, ‘The outsider’ was going to be a film by the Japanese Takashi Miike (the first to shoot in English) with Tom Hardy as the protagonist. “But Hardy’s…
“Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the ’60s ended abruptly on Aug. 9, 1969.” This famous quote, from Joan Didion’s essay “The White Album,” refers to the…
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“I want my moneyyy!!” Freestyle Digital Media has released an official trailer for an indie thriller titled Danger One, directed by filmmaker Tom Oesch (Echo). Target Described as a “dark…
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Furnival Chambers has a formidable and highly regarded extradition team. Members represent Requesting States, Requested Persons and the Secretary of State in Part 1 and Part 2 cases and in remaining cases under the 1989 Act. Extradition is an area of law that continues to expand in both complexity and volume of cases. Amendments to the Extradition Act 2003 in July 2014 and April 2015 and a change in approach by the Courts to human rights arguments are but two examples of this. With members of the team devoting the majority of their practices to extradition law there is considerable expertise in Chambers and members are always available to advise and act in extradition matters both before Westminster Magistrates’ Court and the appellate courts.
Chambers’ specialist extradition team is led by Paul Garlick QC. Paul is recognised as a leading Silk in the field of extradition. He is described in Chambers and Partners 2014 as “one of the top-rank QCs when it comes to extradition and human rights”. Paul has for many years appeared for requested persons and governments in landmark extradition cases before the Administrative Court, the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. In May 2012, Paul was appointed by the EU Commission as a member of the EU Commission Expert Group on EU Criminal Policy and has recently been appointed as an International Expert to the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Paul leads a team of experienced and committed juniors who have been have been, and continue to be, involved at the forefront of arguments on the conditions of prisons, particularly those in South Africa, Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, Lithuania, Romania, Hungary, Greece & Italy. In addition to human rights based challenges the team has a significant reputation of success and involvement in the technical challenges to extradition, including the lead Divisional Court case on the s.2 requirements for conviction warrants (Constantin Sandi v Romania). They are also able to provide experience and expertise in judicial review and habeas corpus challenges, reflected by conducting the landmark case which ensured the continuing existence of these routes of challenge under the Act (R. (on the application of Nikonovs) v Governor of Brixton Prison).
The calibre and expertise of the team is demonstrated by chambers’ frequent instructions in significant extradition cases in Europe, the Supreme Court and the Divisional Court and the recent appointment of a member to act as a Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Extradition Act 2003.
Recent such cases in which members of Chambers have been instructed include:
Kandola & Droma v Germany; Ijaz v Italy [2015] EWHC 619 – leading authority on the new bar to extradition under s.12A of the Act
Miraszewski, Kanigowski & Flusniak v Poland [2014] EWHC 4261 – leading authority on the approach to take under the new bar of proportionality under s.21A of the Act.
Aleksynas & Others v Lithuania [2014] EWHC 437– leading authority on prison conditions within the penitentiary system in Lithuania.
Bucnys & Ors v Ministries of Justice of Lithuania & Estonia [2013] 3 WLR 1485 –Concerning whether a Ministry of Justice could be a ‘judicial authority’ for the purposes of s.2 of the Extradition Act 2003.
Brodziak, Madej, Dunec and Marczuk v Poland [2013] EWHC 3394 (Admin)– leading authority on the proper approach to EAWs issued in relation to aggregate sentences.
Wolkowicz & Ors v Poland & Ors [2013] 1 WLR 2402– Leading authority in relation to the extradition of individuals who pose a serious risk of suicide.
Harkins and Edwards v the UK (European Court of Human Rights, 2012; Application No. 32650/07): concerning whether possible life imprisonment without possibility of parole would violate Article 3 of the European Convention – overturned the House of Lords decision in Wellington regarding application of the Convention in extradition cases.
Directory Recommendations:
In Chambers Guide to the Bar 2014, Paul Garlick QC is noted as being “one of the top-rank QCs when it comes to extradition and human rights.”
Leading junior Joel Smith is “Noted for his ability to work under extreme time pressure” and is “an expert in extradition and clients like him. He is able to explain complex law to clients in a straightforward manner.”
Nicholas Hearn & James Stansfeld secure leave to appeal to UK Supreme Court in linked extradition appeals21 May 2015
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The art and technology have a natural relationship, it can be said that the history of art is also the history of science and technology. The development of science and technology has expanded the space for the development of art and formed a new interactive relationship between art recipients and art creators. Therefore, in the future social development, the interaction and combination of art and technology will give both sides infinite vitality.
Sensors have become valuable tools in agriculture when decisions regarding inputs require precision and speed. For example, factors in estimating defoliation in row crops, such as intensive labor and, in particular, subjectivity, are greatly reduced with the use of sensors that can remove these limitations and biases. Estimates of defoliation are almost always overestimated due to human error and biased, unconscious efforts to locate injury. To address these issues, the accuracy and preciseness of a light-based sensor to detect defoliation was tested by measuring simulated levels of defoliation (0-100%) on paper “leaves” at seven light intensities. Results indicated that higher lux values were detected through thinner paper (filter paper) than through thicker paper (cardstock), demonstrating that leaf thickness could potentially affect accuracy of the light-sensor system. Despite some light penetrating the thinner paper with simulated defoliation levels, the two light sensors tested yielded accurate and precise predictions of defoliation (R2 > 0.95). This light-sensor approach could potentially be used in the field to report real-time measurements of defoliation in row crops, such as soybeans, or in other plant-based systems where losses of leaf area require monitoring in order to prevent economic injury.
When I first came to China, one thing tattoos were equated to: the mark of criminals, ‘loose women’ and gangsters. In other words, tattoos equated with rebellion or bad boy/girl behavior. The stereotypes which go with it! This was back in 2009, as time transpired [at least a decade], it actually became a symbol of defiance within the young-College educated and professional generation; whether it was covered or not. This form of rebellion was a stand-up against everything which had been forced into them, since their childhood. Like the period of the 1960s in American counterculture, China in theory is going through the same thing: whether it’s sexual exploration, homosexuality and now, tattoos. These are considered outside the norms and therefore, counterculture. It’s my point to prove that the ink on the body is the new symbolism of rebellion. Spreading like literal wildfire throughout Mainland China. In a still conservative society, the young-College students and professionals of today are coming at odds with their parents and older generation. In this investigative paper, I aim to show the reader why! Therefore, taking people back in history, with examples like: Yueh Fei, when the tattoo was accepted and hopefully demonstrating with interviews/opinions that this trend continues to grow in China.
Marginal and internal fit of fixed prosthodontic constructions: a literature review
Gender discrimination is the important aspect of the human identification procedures that help in the establishment of biological profile from the skeletal and dental remains and also help in the facial reconstruction of unidentified bodies. Age, race, sex and stature determination along with dental evidence collection and facial reconstruction over the skeletal remnants are the important specialties of the forensic dentistry. The present study evaluates and compare the impact of mandibular canines in gender identification and also to determine any discrimination in the canine index among the different races (Malay, Chinese and Indian) of the Malaysian population.
From Colonoscope to Microscope: the Diagnosis of Trichuris Trichiura
Soil Transmitted Helmenthiasis (STH) is a major public health problem in the developing countries. Trichuriasis is one of the common prevalent parasitic infestations in the tropical and sub-tropical countries across the globe incuding India. However, there has been a steady decline of STH in the last five years where there has been success of albendazole with Mass Drug Administration (MDA) in National Filariasis Control Program and Kerala state has been one of them. We report a case of whipworm infection that was incidentally diagnosed by colonoscopy where repeated stool microscopy was uncontributory. The worm can be overlooked, particularly if colon preparation is not good.
Acute Coronary syndrome in a patient newly diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy: a review of cardiovascular disease in this inherited neuropathy
Whilst we suspect that there is no clear association between the two major diagnoses we made in this patient during this hospitalisation (i.e. coronary artery disease and CMT neuropathy), the literature from a series of published case reports does perhaps show an association between CMT and abnormalities of cardiac conduction. Brief Summary: This case reports follows the occurrence of an antero-lateral ST segment elevation myocardial infarction in a 34-year-old male newly diagnosed with an inherited neuropathy in the form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1A.
Two Options the sweetest among them is bitter: Fournier-gangrene associated with sodium-glucose co-transporter 2-inhibitors
The authors discuss a case of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor associated with Fournier-gangrene in a patient with type-2 diabetes millets. The patient had extensive surgical intervention and skin graft but succumbed to her disease.
Power Planning
This paper calculates the existing system reliability index and typical daily optimal load distribution, studies the optimization problem of the generator unit’s investment plan in the next ten years, and uses the minimum cost of the investment plan to establish a multi-objective planning model. Combined with the artificial bee colony algorithm. It also discusses the impact of a large number of renewable energy power generation access power systems on traditional power system planning, and proposes an experimental model to solve this problem. Based on the system enumeration method of fault enumeration, enumerate all possible states of the system at each moment, consider the total cost of the system, increase the load demand constraint on the basis, and obtain the probability of occurrence of low-order faults. LOLP, EENS and power outage fees. After the above analysis, after the fault order reaches 5th order, the LOLP of the system is negligible, so the power loss cost is considered to be 4th order. Using the minimum total cost as the objective function, the artificial bee colony algorithm is used to find the optimal solution. The uncertainty of the output of renewable energy in the power system greatly increases the risk of operation scheduling, does not guarantee the quality of power, and is currently economically poor. In view of the difficulties caused by the system components in solving nonlinear constrained power supply planning, an experimental model is also established.
Design and Research of a Multi-functional Robot Arm for Automatically Grabbing Fans
This program solves the problems of manpower demand and low efficiency in the manufacturing process of ready-to-eat fan blocks by designing the three processes of ready-to-eat fan blocks, namely, grasping, weighing and forming problems. First of all, for the fans’ crawling problem, this product will be designed and solved from two aspects: 1. Visual recognition: In this design scheme, the visual recognition uses OpenMV3 system, and the OV7725 model camera is used first. The free integrated development environment (IDE) is used to debug the program. The SIFT algorithm is used to achieve visual target positioning and accurately identify the position of the fans to facilitate the grasping of the robot arm. 2. Path control of the manipulator: Through the RBF neural network algorithm, a large amount of training is performed on the manipulator, and the robot arm path is automatically controlled to realize the process of grabbing the fan and putting it into the fixed container. Secondly, in response to the weighing problem of fans, this product will incorporate a gravity sensor to realize the gravity sensing of the robot arm to capture fans, and convert the quality of the fans into digital signals for system processing and analysis. The use of constant temperature town empty warehouse not only ensures the quality and safety of fans, but also maintains the precision of each weighing quality. Finally, the robotic claws of the robot arm are used to control the rotation of the robot by multiple bionic control.
Adolescent Sexting: A Narrative Review
This narrative review is based on a literature search on PsycINFO and PubMed that involved entering the terms adolescent sexting for papers published during the last five years. Following exclusion criteria, 52 papers could be classified as sexting studies including research on the prevalence, effects/comorbidities, risk factors and interventions for those problems. Most of the studies have been conducted in the U.S. where the prevalence of sexting has ranged from 5% to 29%. Sexting has typically been consensual, or at least the recipient has been known, although some forwarding of sext messages has occurred. The effects of sexting have included sexual activity, problematic relationships, mental health problems, other addictions and legal problems. The predictor or risk variables have included male gender, extraverted personality, low self-esteem, depression, impulsivity, peer pressure and the lack of parental monitoring. Like other literature on adolescent problems, this research is limited by primarily deriving from self–report and parent report and by the absence of longitudinal data that might inform whether the data being reported are effects of or risk factors for adolescent sexting and the need for prevention/intervention research.
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What’s wrong with environmental impact assessments?
Strategic environmental assessments are needed to ensure that the decisions taken by governments and companies do not cause undue damage to the natural environment or the people who depend on it
By Maxwell Gomera
Walhi, Indonesia’s largest environmental organization, recently took the government to court for issuing construction permits to a Chinese company based on what they allege was a “deeply flawed” environmental impact assessment. In fact, Wahli contends, the US$1.5 billion Batang Toru dam project will have severe ecological consequences, including the likely extinction of the world’s rarest great ape, the Tapanuli orangutan.
Batang Toru is just one of many planned infrastructure projects worldwide that are officially deemed environmentally sound, despite posing serious environmental risks. For example, construction is nearly complete on a railway line through Kenya’s famous Nairobi National Park, despite public outrage over an “incomplete and incompetent” environmental impact assessment.
Similarly, in Guinea, the government has approved plans for another Chinese company to build a dam inside the Moyen-Bafing national park, a chimpanzee sanctuary. The environmental impact assessment that was carried out, experts say, significantly underestimates the number of chimpanzees that the project threatens.
This is a dangerous trend and it could unravel the biodiversity and ecosystem services – including the production of food and water, the cycling of nutrients, and the natural regulation of crop pests and pollinators – on which all life depends. Already, some 60% of those services are degraded. With the world expected to invest around US$90 trillion in infrastructure (including roads, dams, and power plants) in the next 15 years alone – resulting in more new infrastructure than is currently in existence globally – action is urgently needed to ensure that investment decisions account for projects’ real environmental consequences.
That is the purpose of strategic environmental assessments (SEAs). In 1991, parties to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe agreed to a convention on SEAs in transboundary contexts. In March this year, the UN Environment Assembly, the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment, adopted a resolution requiring all governments to conduct SEAs before approving any infrastructure projects.
These moves reflect a recognition that SEAs are needed to ensure that the decisions taken by governments and companies do not cause undue damage to the natural environment or the people who depend on it. Many countries now acknowledge the relationship between economic activities and environmental outcomes, and require SEAs to be conducted before greenlighting projects.
But, as the examples cited above reveal, SEAs are not fulfilling their purpose reliably. This is because, as it stands, technical specialists typically conduct SEAs at the behest of project developers – a practice that, as activists have repeatedly pointed out, is grossly unethical. With the assessors frequently basing their conclusions on only a superficial appraisal of the ecological and market value of the affected ecosystems, it should be no surprise that damaging projects are often approved, despite failing to adhere to broadly agreed green development guidelines.
To play an effective role in protecting the planet and its people, SEAs must be rigorous, credible, and transparent. This means that they must be conducted by well-regulated, impartial professionals. To some extent, the laws and institutions needed to make this happen already exist: SEAs are legally required in many jurisdictions, and the International Association for Impact Assessment could provide self-regulation. But a clear framework for regulating the conduct of those who carry out impact assessments, like bar associations for legal professionals, is still missing.
Here, the evolution of the accounting profession can offer useful lessons. While accounting can be traced back thousands of years to Mesopotamia, it wasn’t until the end of the nineteenth century that the profession was recognized. In the United States, an 1896 law dictated that, to earn the title “certified public accountant” (CPA), one would have to pass state examinations and accrue two years of working experience.
In April, lawmakers in the United Kingdom moved to improve transparency and prevent conflicts of interest in bookkeeping by urging the Competition and Markets Authority to prohibit the “Big Four” accounting firms from offering consulting services to customers they are auditing. This comes after audit failures at the construction company Carillion and the retailer BHS, and a pledge from three of the four firms to phase out advisory work for their audit clients.
The evolution of the accounting profession has been driven by the recognition that imprudent financial management jeopardizes social and economic stability. But imprudent environmental management poses at least as serious a threat; similar action is needed to establish clear requirements for those carrying out relevant assessments.
Governments must wake up to the conflicts of interest allowed by the current approach to SEAs, and compel real change. Only by ensuring that infrastructure-investment decisions are based on rigorous and credible impact assessments is it possible to reconcile economic development with the preservation of the natural environment.
Maxwell Gomera is Director of the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Branch at UN Environment and a 2018 Aspen New Voices Fellow.
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First Author Publications:
Salawitch, R., et al. (2010), A new interpretation of total column BrO during Arctic spring, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L21805, doi:10.1029/2010GL043798.
Salawitch, R., et al. (2005), Sensitivity of ozone to bromine in the lower stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L05811, doi:10.1029/2004GL021504.
Salawitch, R., et al. (2002), Chemical loss of ozone during the Arctic winter of 1999/2000: An analysis based on balloon-borne observations, J. Geophys. Res., 107, doi:10.1029/2001JD000620.
Salawitch, R., et al. (1994), The Diurnal Variation of Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Chlorine Radicals: Implications for the Heterogeneous Production of HNO2, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2551-2554.
Salawitch, R., et al. (1994), The Distribution of Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Chlorine Radicals in the Lower Stratosphere: Implications for Changes in O3 Due to Emission of NOy from Supersonic Aircraft, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2547-2550.
Salawitch, R., et al. (1993), Chemical Loss of Ozone in the Arctic Polar Vortex in the Winter of 1991-1992, Science, 261, 1146-1149.
Salawitch, R., et al. (1990), Loss of Ozone in the Polar Vortex for the Winter of 1989, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 561-164.
Co-Authored Publications:
Data, B., et al. (2018), Link Between Arctic Tropospheric BrO Explosion Observed From Space and Sea-Salt Aerosols From Blowing Snow Investigated Using Ozone Monitoring Instrument, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 6954-6983, doi:10.1029/2017JD026889.
Marvin, M. R., et al. (2017), Impact of evolving isoprene mechanisms on simulated formaldehyde: An inter-comparison supported by in situ observations from SENEX, Atmos. Environ., 164, 325-336, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.05.049.
Anderson, D., et al. (2016), A pervasive role for biomass burning in tropical high ozone/low water structures, Nature, doi:10.1038/ncomms10267.
Goldberg, D., et al. (2016), CAMx ozone source attribution in the eastern United States using guidance from observations during DISCOVER-AQ Maryland, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 2249-2258, doi:10.1002/2015GL067332.
Fernandez, R. P., et al. (2014), Bromine partitioning in the tropical tropopause layer: implications for stratospheric injection, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 13391-13410, doi:10.5194/acp-14-13391-2014.
Parrella, J. P., et al. (2013), New retrieval of BrO from SCIAMACHY limb: an estimate of the stratospheric bromine loading during April 2008, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 2549-2561, doi:10.5194/amt-6-2549-2013.
Streets, D., et al. (2013), Emissions estimation from satellite retrievals: A review of current capability, Atmos. Environ., 77, 1011-1042, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.05.051.
Choi, S., et al. (2012), Analysis of satellite-derived Arctic tropospheric BrO columns in conjunction with aircraft measurements during ARCTAS and ARCPAC, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 1255-1285, doi:10.5194/acp-12-1255-2012.
Liao, J., et al. (2012), Characterization of soluble bromide measurements and a case study of BrO observations during ARCTAS, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 1327-1338, doi:10.5194/acp-12-1327-2012.
Tilmes, S., et al. (2012), Impact of very short-lived halogens on stratospheric ozone abundance and UV radiation in a geo-engineered atmosphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 10945-10955, doi:10.5194/acp-12-10945-2012.
Chen, C. M., et al. (2011), Diurnal variation of midlatitudinal NO3 column abundance over table mountain facility, California, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 963-978, doi:10.5194/acp-11-963-2011.
Kremser, S., et al. (2011), Retrievals of chlorine chemistry kinetic parameters from Antarctic ClO microwave radiometer measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 5183-5193, doi:10.5194/acp-11-5183-2011.
Wang, S., et al. (2008), Validation of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder OH measurements with Fourier Transform Ultra-Violet Spectrometer total OH column measurements at Table Mountain, California, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D22301, doi:10.1029/2008JD009883.
Kovalenko, L. J., et al. (2007), Observed and modeled HOCl profiles in the midlatitude stratosphere: Implication for ozone loss, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L19801, doi:10.1029/2007GL031100.
Miller, C. E., et al. (2007), Precision requirements for space-based XCO2 data, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D10314, doi:10.1029/2006JD007659.
Sioris, C. E., et al. (2006), Latitudinal and vertical distribution of bromine monoxide in the lower stratosphere from Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography limb scattering measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D14301, doi:10.1029/2005JD006479.
Canty, T., et al. (2005), Nighttime OClO in the winter Arctic vortex, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D01301, doi:10.1029/2004JD005035.
Crisp, D., et al. (2004), The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission, Advances in Space Research, 34, 700-709, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2003.08.062.
Marcy, T., et al. (2004), Quantifying Stratospheric Ozone in the Upper Troposphere with in Situ Measurements of HCl, Science, 304, 261-265, doi:10.1126/science.1093418.
Christensen, L., et al. (2002), Kinetics of HO2 + HO2 → H2O2 + O2: Implications for Stratospheric H2O2, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 13-1-13-4, doi:10.1029/2001GL014525.
Fahey, D., et al. (2001), The detection of large HNO3-containing particles in the winter artic stratosphere, Science, 291, 1026-1031.
Gao, R., et al. (2001), JNO2 at high solar zenith angles in the lower stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2405-2408.
Perkins, K. K., et al. (2001), The Nox-HNO3 System in the lower stratosphere: Insights from in situ measurements and implications of the JHNO3-[OH] relationship, J. Phys. Chem. A, 105, 1521-1534.
Popp, P., et al. (2001), Severe and extensive denitrification in the 1999-2000 Arctic Winter Stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2875-2878.
Voss, P. B., et al. (2001), Inorganic chlorine partitioning in the summer lower stratosphere: Modeled and measured [ClONO2]/[HCl] during POLARIS, Geophys. Res. Lett., 106, 1713-1732.
Fahey, D., et al. (2000), Ozone destruction and production rates between spring and autumn in the Arctic stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27:, 2605-2608.
Gao, R., et al. (1999), A comparison of observations and model simulations of NOx/NOy in the lower stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1153-1156.
Keim, E. R., et al. (1999), NOy partitioning from measurements of nitrogenand hydrogen radicals in the upper troposphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 51-54.
Strawa, A., et al. (1999), Carbonaceous aerosol (Soot) measured in the lower stratosphere during POLARIS and its role in stratospheric chemistry, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 26753-26766.
Jaeglé, L., et al. (1997), Evolution and stoichiometry of heterogeneous processing in the Antarctic stratosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 102.D11, 13235-13253.
Chang, A. Y., et al. (1996), A comparison of measurements from ATMOS and instruments aboard the ER-2 aircraft: Halogenated gases, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 2393-2396.
Chang, A. Y., et al. (1996), A comparison of measurements from ATMOS and instruments aboard the ER-2 aircraft: Tracers of atmospheric transport, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 2389-2392.
Keim, E. R., et al. (1996), Observations of large reductions in the NO/NOy ratio near the mid-latitude tropopause and the role of heterogeneous chemistry, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 3223-3226.
Newchurch, M., et al. (1996), Stratospheric NO and NO2 abundances from atmos solar-occultation measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 2373-2376.
Volk, C. M., et al. (1996), Quantifying transport between the tropical and mid-latitude lower stratosphere, Science, 272, 1763-1768.
Woodbridge, E. L., et al. (1995), Estimates of total organic and inorganic chlorine in the lower stratosphere from in situ and flask measurements during AASE II, J. Geophys. Res., 100.D2, 3057-3064.
Jaeglé, L., et al. (1994), In Situ Measurements of the NO2/NO Ratio For Testing Atmospheric Photochemical Models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2555-2558.
Stimpfle, R., et al. (1994), The Response of ClO Radical Concentrations to Variations in NO2 Radical Concentrations in the Lower Stratosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2543-2546.
Wennberg, P., et al. (1994), Removal of Stratospheric O3 by Radicals: In Situ Measurements of OH, HO2, NO, NO2, ClO, and BrO, Science, 266, 398-404.
Fahey, D., et al. (1993), In Situ Measurements Constraining the Role of Sulphate Aerosols in Mid-Latitude Ozone Depletion, Nature, 363, 509-514.
Yatteau, J. H., et al. (1990), Newman, A. Torres, T. Jorgensen, W. G. Mankin, M. T. Coffey, G. C. Toon, M. Loewenstein, J. R. Podolske, S. E. Strahan, K. R. Chan, and M. H. Proffitt, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 533-536.
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The Dutch ship doctor and merchant Jan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck (1619-1677) landed on behalf of the Dutch East India Trade Company on April 6, 1652 in the bay at the foot of Table Mountain and founded a colony, the present South Africa, His assignment was to build a supply station on the way to India. For protection, first the "Fort de Goede Hoop" was built, from which the name of the Cape of Good Hope was derived. Then you started to grow fruits and vegetables. Incidentally, Riebeeck was involved in combating the dreaded Mariner disease scurvy and trying to develop a cure. In the same year he wrote a letter to his home and asked for vines. The reason was that at that time wine was considered an effective means of preventing scurvy. The cuttings from Germany (from the Rhine) arrived in South Africa in 1654 and were sewn into small packets of damp canvas. But the first attempt of a South African winegrowing failed, because the vines had taken root early in the damp cloth and were spoiled.
One year later he received a cuttings assortment from the countries of Bohemia, France, Spain and Germany. With this succeeded the first production of South African wine, a very modest amount of 15 liters. On 2 February 1659 Riebeeck noted in his diary, "that today, thank God, for the first time wine was pressed from Cape grapes" . With some certainty, the first vines from which wine was produced were those of the variety Muscat Blanc (from France). But the varieties Muscat d'Alexandrie (here Hanepoot) and Chenin Blanc (here Steen) were already on the first shipment from Europe. But neither Riebeeck nor the Free Burghers knew much about viticulture and did not succeed in producing good quality wines. This succeeded only the second governor Simon van der Stel (1639-1712), who named this after Stellenbosch and in 1685 the famous winery Constantia founded.
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Google Introduces Job Search Feature
Google announced a new job search experience that aims to help job seekers find employment opportunities. For the first time when some uses their phone or computer to search on Google for a job, they will see a streamlined experience letting them explore, research, and find relevant local job postings.
This launch builds on Google’s existing commitment in Sub Saharan Africa to improve economic opportunities for job seekers and employers, demonstrated through its Grow with Google initiatives.
The Digital Skills for Africa program, Google’s commitment to train 1m African youth between April 2016 and March 2017, was achieved and surpassed. In July 2017 this program was extended to see 10m youth trained by 2022 as well as 100,000 developers trained across the region.
Speaking at the launch in Nigeria, Google Country Director, Juliet Ehimuan Chiazor says, “Finding employment is still very difficult for many people. This new job Search experience will help the millions of Nigerians searching for new opportunities. We believe that the web allows anyone, anywhere, of any age, to grow their business, learn the skills they need to get a job, to grow in their career, become an entrepreneur or developer. This new jobs Search tool will be a key driver for connecting job seekers to open opportunities, helping more people to Grow with Google.”
As of today, job seekers in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria will be able to use the new job search experience to help them quickly and easily find opportunities suited to them, through an immersive experience that lets them explore jobs from across the web and refine their search to meet their specific needs.
Users will able to view at-a- glance details about the posting, such as job title, location, whether it’s full- time, part-time or an internship, as well as detailed information should a job be of interest. Using Google Maps integration, job seekers can search for jobs any place they can find on the map, and if they’re signed in, they can even see how long it would take to commute to the job from home.
Searching for a new job can take time, so if you step away from your job search, Google has made it easy to pick up where you left off as well as stay in the loop on opportunities that are right for you. Simply push the “get alerts” button to get email notifications when new jobs matching your search appear.
As this is an open ecosystem, Google is inviting all job sites, platforms and employers — big and small to integrate with us and make their jobs eligible to display in the new jobs search experience. With Google’s newly released open documentation, any jobs provider is able to integrate its content through open structured schema.org web markup standards Google supports.
To optimise the feature and make it more useful, Google is working with a broad and growing cross- section of partners, such as the Federal Government, Jobberman, NGCareers, MyJobMag and other job resource websites in Nigeria. These collaborations ensure Google is able to present job postings content accurately, as soon as it is posted, to exactly the people that will find it most relevant.
“The launch of this new jobs Search experience is part of our broader commitment to improve economic opportunities for job seekers and employers through Google technologies in partnership with the broader employment industry. Google is committed to providing useful, accurate and relevant information based on your search queries and helping you connect to your next job. In this way we hope to make a contribution towards matching job seekers with jobs and taking steps to tackle the skills gap,” Ehimuan Chiazor comments.
Speaking at the launch event, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation & Youth Employment, Afolabi Imoukhuede commented that; “The Federal Government of Nigeria under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari has prioritised Job Creation for the teeming unemployed and underemployed youths as contained in the Job Creation Strategy section of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). It is therefore our pleasure to endorse and partner Google on this job Search experience launch that seeks to connect job seekers to jobs.”
In addition to its Digital Skills initiative and the new jobs Search experience, Google also supports tech startups at various stages of their lifecycle through the Launchpad program. Announced last year, Launchpad Accelerator Africa will provide over $3 million in equity-free funding, mentorship, working space and access to expert advisers to over 60 African startups over 3 years. Intensive 3-month programs, held twice per year, will run out of a new Google Launchpad Space in Lagos – the program’s first location outside of the United States.
Web developers wanting to index their job listings with Google can find a walk-through by visiting support.google.com.
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Mapping collaborative software
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Hemispheres depicting the total number of GitHub users (left) and commits (right) per country.
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Github is one of the world’s biggest and best-known hosting services for software development projects. The shading of the map illustrates the number of users as a proportion of each country’s Internet population. The circular charts surrounding the two hemispheres depict the total number of GitHub users (left) and commits (right) per country. The uneven geographies on GitHub can possibly shed light on the ways in which different countries are being enrolled into a global knowledge economy.
The data in this map consists of all public events logged by GitHub in 2013. The data are freely available from the GitHub Archive.
We analysed over 65 million commits, made by about 1.1 million users active in 2013 (i.e., users that registered at least one “PushEvent”). Only 26% of users (accounting for over 44% of the commits) specified a location that we were able to match to an actual place. We employed a script based on the Unlock Places service to geolocate the locations in people’s profiles.
GitHub has become one of the largest web-based hosting services for software development projects, and is used by 3.5 million users worldwide. Its global distribution is strongly correlated with the number of Internet users in a country.
North America and Europe each account for about one third of the total number of GitHub users. The platform is particularly popular in Northern Europe, where Iceland and Sweden each have more than 50 GitHub users for every 100,000 Internet users in the country, as well as in Eastern Europe. The United States, New Zealand and Australia are the countries where the service is most popular outside Europe (they have about 35 GitHub users for every 100,000 Internet users).
The remaining third of GitHub users are mostly located in Asia (17% of the total). Singapore (27 GitHub users per 100,000 Internet users), and Taiwan (10 GitHub users per 100,000 Internet users) are two of the biggest per capita users. A lot of usage comes from China, but on a per-capita basis the country isn’t a heavy user (fewer than 3 GitHub users for every 100,000 Internet users).
The Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa together represent less than 1% of GitHub users, and just about 1% of commits. Switzerland alone counts almost as many GitHub users as the Middle East and North Africa region, and more than Sub-Saharan Africa.
Not only are North America and Europe home to a majority of users, but those users make more contributions than their counterparts in the rest of the world. Each region is home to over 38% of commits to the platform. The United States, for instance, is home to 31% of users but over 35% of commits. Similarly, the Netherlands is home to 1.7% of the users but 2.4% of the commits, and Switzerland is home to 0.9% of the users but 1.4% of the commits.
We see the opposite dynamic in the rest of the world. India, for instance, accounts for 3.6% of users, but only 1.7% of commits.
In sum, the uneven geographies of collaborative software development likely tell us a lot about where our global knowledge economy is being performed. Africa and the Middle East, in particular, have far fewer people accessing open software tools than would be expected given their numbers of Internet users. Not only is a lot of the world not accessing software made available on GitHub, but they also aren’t contributing to it: a sign that this facet of our global knowledge economy remains heavily based in some of the world’s traditional hubs of codified knowledge.
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Geoscience Letters
Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
Synthetic versus long-term natural records of tropical cyclone storm surges: problems and issues
Jonathan Nott1Email authorView ORCID ID profile
Geoscience LettersOfficial Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)20163:9
© Nott. 2016
The majority of risk assessments of tropical cyclone storm surge and inundations are based on the generation of synthetic times series from short historical records. The accuracy of these synthetic time series in terms of the frequency of the most extreme magnitude events is difficult to test using this methodology alone. Comparisons with other approaches such as deterministically derived synthetic time-series and/or long-term natural records of these events are required. Major discrepancies often arise when such comparisons are made especially when it becomes evident that the frequency of extreme events is under-represented in the short historical records upon which the synthetic time series are based. The solution to the problem though is not as simple as replacing one type of time series with the other. As the number and the types of long-term natural records increase, it is becoming apparent that non-stationarity is an inherent feature of the natural variability of these events. This non-stationarity can be manifested as distinct periods of time, in the past, of varying event-frequency probabilities, which, at least in some cases, have climatic causes. In these cases, it may not be appropriate to use entire long-term record sets for risk assessments because certain periods of time or sections of these records may have event frequencies resulting from climate states substantially different to that expected in the future. Identifying the most appropriate past climate states and associated event behaviour may serve as better analogues for assessing future risk.
Synthetic times series
Palaeocyclone records
The consequences of many natural hazards are expected to worsen in the near future due to anthropogenically induced climate change and the increasing vulnerability of communities when they are located in the path of hazards. Detecting changes in the behaviour (intensity and frequency) of hazard events in order to ascertain any possible attribution to climate change and also assessing the future physical risk to communities from these hazards have been largely based on the generation of synthetic time series from short historical records (McInnes et al. 2003; Hardy et al. 2004; Brettschneider 2008; Hall and Jewson 2008; Hallegatte et al. 2011; Haigh et al. 2014). A major assumption in this process is the historical record is a reasonable reflection of the longer-term natural variability of the hazard event in question (Liu and Fearn 2000; Nott and Hayne 2001; Donnelly and Woodruff 2007). Testing this assumption is difficult using this methodology alone because it requires waiting for sufficient time to elapse (centuries to millennia) in order to instrumentally record the longer-term natural variability (Haig et al. 2014; Nott 2006). Nature, however, provides its own long-term records of events. And while these natural records are ideally suited for testing assumptions made from short historical records, the outcomes of these comparisons are rarely incorporated into the synthetic time-series methodology (Nott 2006, 2011). The historical records upon which many synthetic time series are based are often too short to capture the most extreme events, and as such, these records regularly underestimate the frequency of the highest magnitude events. As a consequence, communities are unwittingly located in the path of hazards, which may not have occurred if longer-term natural records had been used in conjunction with the existing planning policies (Nott 2011). There are many types of natural hazards to which this situation applies such as marine (storm and tsunami) and riverine flooding, and earthquakes and volcanoes to name just a few (Nott 2006). In this paper, however, the focus will be on storm surges and associated marine inundations generated by tropical cyclones. The examples presented highlight the gulf between the synthetic and natural record approaches in attempting to understand the long-term variability of these events. Solutions are suggested that might help merge these records together in order to generate more robust physical risk scenarios for communities potentially at risk from these events and from which detection of human-induced changes to the frequency and magnitude of events can be discerned.
There have been two main approaches to developing long-term tropical cyclone (TC) climatologies over the last two decades. One uses the recent historical record of TCs, generally since 1970 when radar and satellite data became available, to generate statistical models of TC behaviours that form the basis of synthetically derived time series designed to simulate thousands of years of TC activity (McInnes et al. 2003; Hardy et al. 2004; Brettschneider 2008; Hall and Jewson 2008; Hallegatte et al. 2011; Haigh et al. 2014). The other has been to examine geological and geochemical records of actual TC events that have occurred over the past several centuries to millennia (Liu and Fearn 2000; Nott and Hayne 2001; Donnelly and Woodruff 2007; Haig et al. 2014). Both of these approaches produce substantially different conclusions regarding the long-term climatology of TCs.
The geological or palaeo-TC approach relies upon the fact that extreme events such as TCs, river floods, droughts, tsunami, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes to name just a few leave their signatures in the landscape or other natural archives such as tree rings, corals, stalagmites, ice caps and sediments on the ocean floor and lakes (Nott 2006). In the case of sedimentary deposits, these signatures can be preserved because they have been emplaced in locations within the landscape that subsequent lesser magnitude events are unable to reach and hence erode. Other archives such as stalagmite layers and sedimentary layers within lagoons or on the ocean floor maybe capped or overlain by subsequent layers, or in some cases, induration of the deposit can occur making it more resistant to erosion. The key point about these event signatures is they are preserved. Some of these signatures are proxies, but others are not because they directly record the magnitude and/or frequency of the event. Sedimentary deposits left by marine inundations are prime examples of direct records because they register the height, often minimum, of that inundation. These records can be regarded as reliable and be used as a measure of the minimum magnitude of the event, provided little or nothing has changed to the physical landscape in which these records are left or within which they were generated.
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In the case of TCs, there are 15 different types of evidence used for reconstructing long-term records of TCs (Nott 2011). The main types used to date are sedimentary deposits, such as overwash sediments and beach ridges, and isotope records found within limestone stalagmites (Haig et al. 2014; Frappier et al. 2007; Nott et al. 2007). A common characteristic of many long-term records is that they show alternating periods of lesser and heightened TC activity (Nott and Forsyth 2012). These periods vary in length depending upon the chronological resolution and nature of the record. The coarser scale, but generally longer, sedimentary records show these alternating periods can be several centuries to a millennium in length (Donnelly et al. 2015; Woodruff et al. 2015; Nott 2015). The shorter, but much higher resolution, isotope records demonstrate that alternating periods of activity also occur at decadal to centennial scales (Haig et al. 2014; Frappier et al. 2007; Nott et al. 2007). The fact these alternating episodes occur highlights that non-stationarity is an inherent feature of the natural variability of TCs. This non-stationarity, however, is not accommodated, or even considered, in the generation of long synthetic time series of TCs.
Another key aspect of the long-term natural TC records is they often reveal a higher frequency of high-magnitude events than what occurs in the synthetically generated time series. While all of the natural records are able to provide a frequency of events, the ability to obtain magnitudes varies. Two main approaches have been developed to determine the magnitude of past TC-generated marine inundations. The first measures the actual or minimum height of past inundations from beach-ridge deposits, while the other examines the texture and distribution of sand-sized particles within back barrier lagoon deposits. One of these, the beach-ridge approach is discussed here. Details of the methods and approaches using the particle size distributions within sedimentary deposits emplaced in back barrier lagoons throughout the USA, Caribbean and Japan can be found in the literature (Donnelly et al. 2015; Woodruff et al. 2008, 2015; Lin et al. 2014).
Natural long-term records—beach ridges
The beach ridges in Northeast Queensland, Australia have been shown to accumulate through storm tide and wave action combined. The same is true for the ridges in the Gulf of Carpentaria and in Shark Bay, Western Australia (Nott and Forsyth 2012). Not all beach ridges elsewhere around Australia, particularly in southern, temperate Australia and globally, accumulate in the same fashion. Some can form through aeolian action although Hesp (2006) would now define these as relict foredunes, but there has been some confusion previously in the literature about terminology. Wind plays a minimal, if any, role in the formation of the beach ridges identified thus far as palaeo-TC deposits. In short, numerous post-TC event surveys reveal an absence of aeolian deposits resulting from the event (Nott and Forsyth 2012). In most situations examined so far, the only substantial deposits have been generated by marine inundations. Coral shingle ridges can be deposited in their entirety during a single TC event (Nott 2003; Maragos et al. 1973), but the coarse-grained sand beach ridges appear to accumulate progressively over time.
TC-generated marine inundations that can overtop a sand beach-ridge deposit a unit of sediment causing the ridge to grow progressively in height. A range of different magnitude inundations can be responsible for depositing a ridge until the ridge approaches a height that is attainable by wave run-ups generated by only very intense TCs. Hence, the final units of sediment deposited on the ridge will be due the most extreme inundations. The initial units of sediment constituting a ridge (those lowest in the ridge stratigraphy) could have been deposited by a range of inundations starting from non-cyclonically induced inundations, such as very high tides and strong trade wind-generated wave conditions, to the most intense TC-generated inundations. Progressively higher inundations are required to deposit sand onto the ridge crest as that ridge grows in height. A point will be reached where the vast majority of inundations can no longer reach the ridge crest and the ridge will cease to increase in height. The time when this terminal point occurs may also be influenced by the rate of growth of the next seaward ridge. This ridge is likely to have already been initiated before the ridge to its landward side has reached its maximum height. In the case of the ridge plains along the wet tropical coast of northeast Queensland, the final inundations responsible for depositing the uppermost units of sediment on the beach ridges were generated by extreme intensity TCs (Nott et al. 2009; Forsyth et al. 2010). Hence, the heights of these ridges and the methods developed by Nott (2003) for calculating the intensity of the TCs responsible allow a 5000- to 6000-year record of intense TCs to be determined. Past variations in sea-level and various tide states are incorporated into these time series, and in so doing, estimates of both the intensity and frequency of tropical cyclones over the millennia can be estimated.
Nott and Jagger (2013) applied generalised extreme value and Bayesian analysis techniques to a sand beach-ridge plain at Rockingham Bay (Tully Heads), north Queensland (Fig. 1) to derive a return interval plot of inundations. The inundation at this location (Tully Heads) during TC Yasi 2011 was surveyed (by J. Nott) at 5.1-m AHD. This level included storm tide plus wave set-up but not wave run-up as the inundation completely overflowed the land surface here. The inundation by TC Yasi at Cardwell, approximately 20 km south of here, was measured by tide gauge at 4.5-m AHD (surge equal to 5.5 m). The total inundation at Cardwell, including wave set-up and wave run-up was 6.1-m AHD (surveyed by J. Nott). The storm tide was about 70 % of the total inundation here, and the same relationship was true for Clump Point, approximately 30 km north of Tully Heads, where the tide gauge storm tide was 2.6-m AHD, and the total inundation reached 3.54-m AHD (as surveyed by J. Nott). Using the relationship between total inundation and storm tide measured at Cardwell and Clump Point, the storm tide at Tully Heads would have been greater than 3.5-m AHD (i.e. storm tide = 0.7 × total inundation including wave run-up).
Nott and Jagger’s (2013) analysis of the return intervals based on the palaeorecord (i.e. beach ridges) at Tully Heads differed considerably from the return interval plot for the same site generated by Hardy et al. (2004) using the synthetic time-series approach. Nott and Jagger (2013) found that the 5-m AHD total inundation (3.5-m storm tide) here during TC Yasi 2011 was equivalent to a 1 in 1000-year event (0.1 % AEP) whereas Hardy et al. (2004) plot suggests this inundation was closer to a 1 in 10,000-year event. Hardy et al. (2004) storm estimate for the 1 in 1000-year event was 3.4 m which lies well outside of the uncertainty margin of 0.5 m (5 ± 0.5 m) for Nott and Jagger (2013) estimate of the same return interval event. Haigh et al. (2014) also generated an exceedance probability plot for this site, and theirs, like that of Hardy et al. (2004), suggests that this magnitude inundation equates to an approximately 1 in 10,000-year event.
The discrepancy between the return interval or exceedance probability plots generated by Nott and Jagger (2013) and Hardy et al. (2004) and Haigh et al. (2014) most likely occurs because Nott and Jagger (2013) used a record of TCs that actually occurred over the past 5000 years whereas the others use a synthetically generated climatology based on the short historical record of TCs. This historical period has been shown to under-represent the frequency of high-magnitude events. Callaghan and Power (2011) analysis of historical TCs (back to AD 1870) in Queensland show that there has been a 62 % decrease in the frequency of intense landfalling TCs in Queensland towards the present day. Haig et al.’s (2014) recent analysis of high-resolution isotope records of TCs showed that total seasonal TC activity in northeast Queensland is presently at its lowest level for approximately 600 years and for 1500 years in Western Australia. These same records also showed the most dramatic decline in seasonal TC activity in both Western Australia and Queensland has occurred since approximately AD 1960. Hence, the period from AD 1970 to the present is the most under-represented period of TC activity for many centuries in Queensland and over a millennia in Western Australia. Any attempts to generate a long-term climatology based on this period (since AD 1970) therefore are very likely to underestimate the frequency of events and especially the most extreme events. The same would be true using the entire historical record of TCs in Australia (i.e. back to the late 1800s) as Haig et al. (2014) show that the decline in TC activity has been occurring since the mid-to-late 1800s. This result fits with Callaghan and Power’s (2011) conclusions as it does also with the sand beach-ridge and coral shingle-ridge records (Nott and Hayne 2001; Nott 2003; Nott et al. 2009).
Nott (2015) used the statistical approach of Nott and Jagger (2013) and combined it with LiDAR-generated cross-sectional profiles of beach-ridge plains to develop a desktop, rapid means of assessing the return frequency of inundations for a variety of locations along the northeast Queensland coast. The results further supported the claim that return frequency analyses generated by the probabilistically generated synthetic time series substantially underestimate the frequency of the largest events as these events are under-represented in the shorter historical records. For example, the beach-ridge-derived 1000-year return interval storm tide at Wonga Beach, 60 km north of Cairns, is approximately 30–35 % higher than the synthetic estimates. The same is true at Yorkeys Knob and Russell Heads, 10 km north and 30 km south of Cairns, respectively (Tables 1 and 2) (Nott 2015). In the case of the 100-year return periods, the beach-ridge-derived storm-tide levels are between 50 and 30 % higher than the synthetic estimates. The interesting comparison is between the 100- and the 1000-year return periods for storm tides (Tables 1 and 2). The beach-ridge records suggest that the synthetically derived data underestimate the return periods by an order of magnitude for a given inundation level. Furthermore, the beach-ridge data suggest that the 100-year return period storm-tide levels are actually higher than the synthetic estimates for the 1000-year levels for the same site. For example, at Wonga Beach, the beach-ridge-derived 100-year return period storm-tide level is 2.73-m AHD (Nott 2015), whereas the 1000-year return period level as determined by the synthetic approach is only 2.2-m AHD (Haigh et al. 2014) and 2.4-m AHD (Hardy et al. 2004). At Yorkeys Knob, the beach-ridge-derived 100-year storm tide is 3.15-m AHD, and the synthetic 1000-year level is 2.1-m AHD (Haigh et al. 2014) and 2.3-m AHD (Hardy et al. 2004). This same marked difference occurs at Russell Heads (Tables 1 and 2).
Comparisons of 1000-year return period inundation heights between natural long-term records Nott (2015) and synthetic records of Haigh et al. (2014) and Hardy et al. (2004)
Nott (2015)
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Nott (2015) (storm tide)
Haigh et al. (2014)
Difference to Nott (2015)
Hardy et al. (2004)
Wonga beach
Russell Heads
Synthetic time-series studies report storm-tide (surge plus tide) inundation levels not total inundation (storm tide plus wave set-up, wave action and wave run-up). Difference columns refer to storm-tide inundation levels, and storm tide for this study is taken as 70 % of total inundation. All heights refer to AHD
Comparisons of 100-year return period inundation heights between natural long-term records Nott (2015) and synthetic records of Haigh et al. (2014) and Hardy et al. (2004)
Nott (2015]
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Synthetic time-series studies report storm-tide (surge plus tide) inundation levels, but not total inundation (storm tide plus wave set-up, wave action and wave run-up). Difference columns refer to storm-tide inundation levels, and storm tide for this study is taken as 70 % of total inundation. All heights refer to AHD
Overwash deposits
The deposition of sand layers, up to 0.5 m thick, in back barrier lagoons and swamps where fine-grained sediments are generally deposited, has been interpreted as evidence of storm washover events. Sediments within back barrier lagoons are normally muddy, organic, or fine grained. Interbedded sand layers within these fine-grained sediments can be due to storm surge and waves overtopping a sand dune barrier, and transporting sand into an environment where it is not normally deposited. By geologically dating the sand layers, the long-term history of cyclones in a region can be ascertained. It is important to demonstrate that these sand layers are indeed from storm surges during TCs and not from other sources such as river flow or tsunami. The marine origin of the sand layers can be ascertained through identification of marine environment micro- and macrofossils such as foraminifera and diatoms within them.
Sand-layer stratigraphies from washover events due to TCs have been studied predominantly along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and the southeastern and eastern United States. Liu and Fearn (2000) examined sand layers in lakes along the Florida and Alabama coasts, and Donnelly et al. (2015) studied similar deposits in New England and New Jersey along the USA Atlantic coast. These deposits have also been examined in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean along with Japan (Woodruff et al. 2015; Woodruff et al. 2008). All these studies assume that the height and general nature of the barrier have remained unchanged over the length of the washover record. Such assumptions seem reasonable when separate sites some distance apart show the same chronology of events, or at least clusters of events, suggesting that some kind of regional factor influenced the behaviour of TCs at different times during the past.
Deterministically derived time series
Recently both overwash records from the USA and beach-ridge records from Australia have been compared with deterministically generated time series Lin et al. (2014) and Lin and Emannuel (2015). Deterministically derived time series are generated using a model that has little reliance on previous events or historical records but rather generates a range of scenarios based on various physical states of the ocean and atmosphere. This approach differs to the probabilistically derived time series as the latter is based on the generation of a distribution of historical events. This latter approach can be limited if the historical record contains few extreme events and hence underestimates the frequency of the most extreme events. Lin et al. (2014) compared their deterministic model approach to both historical records and palaeostorm surge/inundation deposits at Apalachee Bay, northwest Florida. The comparison between the deterministically derived synthetic dataset (equivalent to 5175 years) and the historical dataset (=161 years) showed that the surge level for the longer synthetic dataset was much higher at various return periods than the historical dataset. This is to a certain extent a function of the much longer length of record for the synthetic versus historical datasets and that the latter has a relatively low frequency of intense storms. However, the critical issue is in the application or use of the historical dataset as the basis for estimating risk. Any extrapolation from this record is bound to underestimate the return period of the larger-magnitude events. The results of Lin et al. (2014), for example, showed that there is a difference, using their synthetic record versus the historical record, of greater than 5 m in surge height for the 1000-year event and about 3 m for the 100-year event at one site (St Marks). Furthermore good agreement was found between the long-term (4000 year) overwash sedimentary records of TC inundations from these sites and those of Lin et al. (2014) deterministically derived synthetic record. Like the synthetic record, the palaeorecord contained a much higher frequency of extreme events than the historical record. The mean return period of storm surges greater than 5 m is about 40 years using the deterministic synthetic record and palaeorecords, whereas it is about 400 years based on the historical record.
Comparisons between Lin and Emmanuel (2015) deterministically derived time series for Cairns, northeast Australia and the beach-ridge palaeorecord here showed similar results to those found with the overwash records in Florida. Again, the deterministically derived time series was much closer to the beach-ridge-derived time series than it was with the time series derived from the historical record alone. Lin and Emannuel (2015) estimate of the 1000-year storm surge in Cairns is 3.5 m, whereas those from the historical records are approximately 2.3 and 2.2 m. The beach-ridge record from this region suggests a 1000-year event at approximately 3.2 m (Nott 2015).
Natural variability of tropical cyclones and causes
Both the longer-term sedimentary overwash records from the United States and the beach-ridge records from Australia suggest that the historical records of TCs (approximately past century) in many cases are anomalously quiet. There appears to have been distinct periods of time over the past several millennia when TC activity has been high and others when it is much lower. There have been two periods of heightened activity in the Western north Atlantic between 150 and 1150 C.E. and 1400 and 1675 C.E (Donnelly et al. 2015). The first of these resulted in heightened TC activity across the broader Western north Atlantic between 150 and 1150 C.E. The east coast of the USA then appears to have experienced a period of quiescence between 1150 and 1400 C.E., whereas the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico remained active until 1400 C.E. After this, the USA east coast became active again between 1400 and 1650 C.E. Donnelly et al. (2015) suggest that the earlier of these active periods (150–1150 C.E.) was a result of a more northerly position of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and higher sea surface temperatures (SST) throughout the region. Relatively cool SSTs occurred off the USA east coast between 1150 and 1400 C.E., and this resulted in reduced TC activity in this region; however, TC activity remained high in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. A reorganization of atmospheric and oceanic conditions around 1400 C.E. resulted in cooler SSTs in the Main Development Region for hurricane formation in the western North Atlantic and the southward movement of the ITCZ resulting in lower TC activity in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. At the same time (~1400 C.E.), SSTs appear to have experienced a rapid rise of approximately 2 °C along the N.E. USA coast, possibly due to the increased influence from the Gulf Stream, and the palaeostorm inundation reconstructions from this region suggest an increase in TC activity at this time. A similar situation occurs in the N.E. Australian region (Coral Sea) where there was heightened TC activity between approximately 1400 and 1800 C.E. (Haig et al. 2014; Nott et al. 2007) associated with warmer SSTs in the Coral Sea (Hendy et al. 2002) compared to the period before and after, excluding the recent rise in SSTs in the later twentieth century likely associated with anthropogenically induced global warming.
The long-term natural records of TCs from both the USA and Australia highlight the marked variability in TC activity over time and the likely influence that various climate states have in controlling this variability. These records suggest that non-stationarity is an inherent feature of the natural variability of TCs as it is with many other extreme events such as droughts and floods (Nott 2006). A majority of synthetic time series of TCs to date, particularly those based on historical records, have not accommodated this non-stationarity. Simply creating longer synthetic times series, by undertaking further model runs, is unlikely to capture this variability as the distributions describing the various attributes of the TC climatology are still based on historical records that may under-represent the more extreme events.
The climatically controlled variability apparent in the longer-term records suggests that the true natural variability of TCs is composed of discrete periods of time with different frequency probabilities. Hence, the period between 1400 and 1650 C.E. along the N.E. USA coast must have had a higher probability of occurrence of the more extreme events than the centuries before and after. Likewise, the period from approximately 1400 to 1800 C.E. along the N.E. Australian coast also had a higher probability of occurrence of category 4 and 5 TCs making landfall than the present day. Assessing risk therefore needs to consider these periods of variable probabilities, which could otherwise be termed probability regimes (PRs).
Understanding the future behaviour of TCs requires knowledge of the current PRs and the climatic or potentially other causes responsible. It is also important to understand the nature of and if possible causes of other PRs within a long-term record. Some of these PRs may be associated with different climatic conditions to that expected in the future. Hence, it may not be appropriate to use an entire long-term natural record of events to assess risk; the current day PR, or other PR from the long-term record, may be an adequate period from which to base the probability of future events. Indeed, some PRs within a long-term record may be very different in character to that expected in the future so their use in a risk assessment may substantially skew any such forecasts. However, the longer-term natural record is critical for understanding the nature of the current and all PRs and the conditions responsible. Without the longer-term record, it would be difficult to know how long the current PR has been occurring, and therefore the maximum length record appropriate for risk assessments. Furthermore, without understanding the sequence and possible causes of previous PRs, it will likely be difficult to determine the mechanisms causing the current PR and when it might be likely to end. This will, to a certain extent, dictate how far into the future a current risk assessment might be relevant.
The detection of changes in behaviour of TCs, such as their frequency or total seasonal activity (Haig et al. 2014; Webster et al. 2005); intensity over time (Webster et al. 2005; Emanuel 2005; Elsner et al. 2008) and as a function of variability in Potential Maximum Intensity (Holland and Bruyere 2013); latitudinal extent (Kossin et al. 2014); and then ascribing causes for those changes, requires an understanding of the longer-term variability of these events. The question being asked here is what is the most appropriate length of record given the recognition now that different periods of time have experienced variable frequencies/probabilities due to different climate states. Is it in other words relevant to include the period between 1400 and 1650 C.E. in the N.E. USA or between 1400 and 1800 C.E. in N.E. Australia as part of the record of natural variability as a basis for forecasting the future behaviour of TCs? If the same oceanic current (i.e. Gulf Stream) conditions were expected to occur in the future as occurred between 1400 and 1650 C.E. in the N.E. USA region, then maybe it is appropriate to incorporate this time period. However, if not, then maybe another period of time i.e. the historical period or possibly an earlier one might have experienced boundary conditions more analogous to that expected over the next century. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to result in a doubling of El Nino events (Cai et al. 2014), which in the Australian region typically results in fewer TCs making landfall in Eastern Australia with a higher proportion of TCs developing east of approximately 170°E (Diamond et al. 2013). The period from 1400 to 1800 C.E. was thought to have experienced more La Nina-like conditions across the S.W. Pacific due to the movement southward of the ITCZ during a cooler phase of Earth’s climate (Sachs et al. 2009; Yan et al. 2011). The ITCZ, however, is expected to move further north under a future climate (Broecker and Putnam 2013), and hence the period from 1400 to 1800 C.E. may not be a relevant episode to consider when assessing the future behaviour of TCs in Eastern Australia. Finding appropriate PRs that reflect future conditions requires a sharper focus on long-term natural records and further highlights their importance in reducing risk.
The generation and use of synthetic time series, particularly those based on short historical records, have formed the basis for the majority of risk assessments of tropical cyclone storm surge. Considerable uncertainties exist with this approach particularly when the short historical records do not accurately reflect the true variability of the most extreme events. Increasing the number of model runs as a means of increasing the variability within the synthetic time series does not overcome this problem because the various meteorological and oceanographic parameters associated with the underlying probability distributions do not change. Testing the accuracy of this approach can be done in two ways. The first is to use deterministically generated synthetic times series, and the other is to use long-term natural records of events. Both of these approaches have highlighted problems with the probabilistic synthetic time-series approach when the frequency of the most extreme magnitude events is under-represented in the historical record. Using long-term natural event records can also highlight changes in event-probability regimes over time. Such a regime change appears to be evident in both the N.E. USA and N.E. Australian regions between 1400 and 1650 C.E. and 1400 and 1800 C.E., respectively, when the frequencies of intense TCs were higher compared to the period since. The recognition of periods of variable event probabilities raises questions about the appropriate length of natural record to use for assessments of future risk. Previous periods of heightened event activity may have occurred during climatic conditions unlike that expected in the near future. Choosing periods in the past when climatic conditions were more analogous to that expected in the future may be more appropriate for making comparisons with or basing assessments of future risk.
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Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (colloquially Mascot Airport, Kingsford Smith Airport, or Sydney Airport; IATA: SYD, ICAO: YSSY; ASX: SYD) is an international airport in Sydney, Australia located 8 km (5 mi) south of Sydney city centre, in the suburb of Mascot. The airport is owned by the ASX-listed Sydney Airport Group. It is the primary airport serving Sydney, and is a primary hub for Qantas, as well as a secondary hub for Virgin Australia and Jetstar Airways. Situated next to Botany Bay, the airport has three runways, colloquially known as the east–west, north–south and third runways. Sydney Airport is one of the world's longest continuously operated commercial airports and the busiest airport in Australia, handling 42.6 million passengers and 348,904 aircraft movements in 2016–17. It was the 38th busiest airport in the world in 2016. Currently 46 domestic and 43 international destinations are served to Sydney directly. The airport's Air Traffic Control Tower is listed on the Commonwealth Heritage List.
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Huawei Is Developing It’s Own Alternative Operating System To Android
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Global and China’s largest telecommunication giant Huawei is said to be developing or developed already it’s own version of Android and Windows to be a replacement for the operating systems.
With the ongoing onslaught by the Trump’s regime towards the company, Huawei believes a time will come when the USA will ban importation of its products to the Chinese company.
The company believes some of those products that Huawei would be banned from using includethe world’s most popular operating systems Android for smartphones and Windows for personal computers which software is created by companies from the USA.
This concern arises from the ongoing legal battles that Huawei and the USA are undergoing. In December last year, Chief Financial Officer, and the daughter for the current owner of Huawei, Meng Wangzou, was arrested in Canada on the orders of the Trump administration on allegations that she defrauded many financial institutions breaching a ban by the USA on dealing with Iran.
Currently still under detention in Canada, she is undergoing extradition proceedings to have her sent to face the USA justice system.
The company days ago filed a suit in Texas court challenging a legislation by the US banning it’s state organs from using Huawei equipement. Huawei alleges that the legislation is unconstitutional in that it is being discriminatory in it’s treatment of the company.
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Reiner Knizia’s Lord of the Rings Board Game Review
Teeuwynn has been a game designer, author, and TV writer since her career began back in the '90s.
J.R.R. Tolkien's epic saga, The Lord of the Rings, is a sweeping tale of good triumphing over evil. It is also a story that teaches the lesson that even the smallest of us can make a tremendous difference in the world if we persevere and work together.
Reiner Knizia’s Lord of the Rings takes on the immense task of reducing the epic world of Middle Earth into the relatively sparse confines of a board game. Unlike roleplaying games, such as Iron Crown Enterprises’ Middle Earth Role Playing, a board game doesn’t allow its designer to spend pages and pages elaborating on the world and the characters who make their home in it.
The recent film adaptations also can take advantage of their cinematic scope to paint a picture of Middle Earth by spending millions of dollars creating ents, trolls, and oliphants for us. So, how does a board game without hundreds of pages of text or millions of dollars worth of special-effects images convey the rich depth of fellowship and epic adventure that is at the heart of this beloved high fantasy work?
Lord of the Rings Game
Key Designer: Reiner Knizia
Fantasy Flight Games (2000)
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An Experienced Designer
Reiner Knizia is no novice when it comes to game design. Having published more than 400 games and won approximately umpteen zillion awards, this doctor of mathematics still had to come up with a game to satisfy both hardcore board-gaming fans and the legions who venerate J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece. Instead of making the Lord of the Rings board game a straightforward experience, in which players compete directly against each other to win, Knizia created an almost entirely cooperative game.
This decision kept the game true to Tolkien’s world while emphasizing the trilogy’s spirit and theme. In Lord of the Rings, each player takes on the role of a Hobbit bent on getting the One Ring to the top of Mount Doom and destroying it in the dread volcano’s depths. In the game, as in the novels, Frodo and his companions must make their way from Bag End to Mordor, gaining help from the elves and other friends and facing increasingly more deadly attacks from Sauron and his minions. The game itself has either an entire board or a single location for each of the main lands through which the Hobbits journey on their way to Mount Doom.
Places such as Bag End and Rivendell are innocuous oases of rest, where the players can receive cards or other types of advantages. Menacing places as Moria, Helm’s Deep, Shelob’s Lair, and Mordor are detailed on separate boards that contain multiple paths. The party must face the perils on each of these boards.
The main board also displays a path of corruption — from purest good to blackest evil. Sauron and the Hobbits begin the game at opposite ends of this board, Sauron in the dark, the Hobbits in the light. Different events move the sides closer together. Carrying the powerful One Ring, for example, causes a Hobbit to move down the path toward the dark. If one of the Hobbits ever meets up with the Dark Lord, it’s curtains for said Hobbit. Should the current Ring-bearer meet this fate, the game is over and everyone has lost. You can scale a session’s difficulty by placing Sauron closer to, or farther from, the Hobbits at the start of the game. This is a nice means of maintaining the game’s challenge. As you and your fellow players get better at making the trek to Mount Doom, you can challenge yourselves by decreasing the starting distance between you and your adversary.
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The Path of Corruption
The path of corruption mechanic might seem like it would push players to take individual actions to save their own hairy Hobbit feet from Sauron, but it actually binds the group together strategically. When a Hobbit grows too burdened — that is, corrupt — from carrying the Ring, it behooves the entire party to make sure that another Hobbit shares that burden for a time. The One Ring is not without its benefits; it is dangerous, but it is also powerful. Any time in the game, the Hobbit carrying the Ring can put it on, so that the party can progress, invisible, along one of the multiple game tracks, avoiding its greatest perils. However, the temporary safety comes at a price, as the Hobbit wearing the Ring almost inevitably journeys closer to the Dark Lord.
A Cooperative Game
In playing the game, on every player’s turn, one or more tiles are turned over to see if time advances. When it does, bad things tend to happen — such as drawing the notice of the Watcher in the Water, on the Moria board. In that encounter, the players must either discard a certain type of card or roll a die that will move them down the path of corruption. If the group hasn’t prepared for these sort of confrontations, the Hobbits will slide quickly into the dark, lose important cards, or face an advancing Sauron. In the case of the Watcher, a savvy group will work together to make certain it has the proper card and resources in place before moving into Moria and facing this threat. This is a radical departure from most board games, where hoarding information is one of the strategic keys to victory. Here, a player who hides information will damage the party, thus increasing the likelihood that the Hobbits will fail in their quest to destroy the Ring . . . in which case, everyone loses.
In fact, the design’s underpinning of cooperation is so strong that players sometimes find that they must make the choice to sacrifice themselves to allow the Ring-bearer to get to Mount Doom. Unlike so many other strategic board games, Lord of the Rings rewards community and self-sacrifice as a necessary components for victory. It should be noted that the game does include a way to determine an ultimate winner among the individual players, but we’ve never even bothered to use it, since it runs counter to the game’s primary victory condition and theme.
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Where Reiner Knizia’s Lord of the Rings board game delivers brilliantly is in conveying an all-important feeling of fellowship through every aspect of its design. In order to beat the game, players must talk to each other, work together, and one or more Hobbits may have to sacrifice themselves so that the Ring-bearer can get to Mount Doom and destroy his dangerous burden. When your group manages to achieve this lofty goal, it’s a victory for all. In this, players get to realize, to some degree, the same sense of community that Frodo, Sam, and the rest of the Fellowship feels in Middle Earth as they struggle against an overwhelming force, one far more powerful than any of the individuals opposing it. Their incredible strength comes from their unity, and Reiner Knizia’s Lord of the Rings board game reflects that truth beautifully.
This excellent board game has provided my family and friends with years of fun. Truly balanced cooperative board games are few and far between, and this is one of the best.
The Lord of the Rings board game has proven quite successful, spawning several expansions. The first of these, Friends & Foes, was released in 2001 by Fantasy Flight Games. Friends & Foes introduces a new potential military victory to the game. Players can win by defeating all of the foes, in place of destroying the Ring. This is an easier victory condition — perhaps too easy — for players to accomplish.
The second Lord of the Rings expansion, Sauron, was released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2002. It significantly changes the game’s dynamics by allowing one person to direct the Dark Lord. In a somewhat more traditional form of competitive gaming, that person clashes directly with the other players, who still take on the roles of the questing Hobbits. Sauron is well done and is a worthy addition to the series, but the adversarial aspect makes Lord of the Rings a rather different game from the original, fully cooperative version. Still, it’s an interesting variation and the majority of the players continue to work together, even with the odd player out; if you only buy one of the expansions to the core game, buy this one.
The third expansion, Battlefields, was released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2006. Battlefields introduces more non-Hobbit members of the Fellowship of the Ring. This ties the overall game more strongly to Tolkien’s narrative. However, the quality of the art in this expansion falls flat when compared to the brilliant work by John Howe found in the original game and previous expansions.
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Luminant’s Upton 2 Battery Storage Project Awarded Million-Dollar Grant from the State of Texas
October 30, 2018Written by Vistra Energy
IRVING, Texas, Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Luminant, a subsidiary of Vistra Energy (NYSE: VST), today announced that it has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for its Upton 2 battery energy storage system project. The New Technology Implementation Grant program is a part of the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan.
The battery system will be located on the site of Luminant’s 180-megawatt Upton 2 Solar Power Plant, Texas’ largest operating solar facility. The batteries will capture excess solar energy produced during the day and release the energy in late afternoon and early evening, when demand is highest.
Once complete, the 10-MW/42-MWh lithium-ion energy storage system at Upton 2 will be the largest in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States.
The company expects the project to be operational in late 2018. Upton 2 Solar Power Plant is located near McCamey in Upton County, Texas.
About Luminant
Luminant, a subsidiary of Vistra Energy (NYSE: VST), is a competitive power generation business, including mining, wholesale marketing and trading, and development operations. Luminant has approximately 41,000 megawatts of generation across 12 states, powered by a diverse portfolio of natural gas, nuclear, coal, and solar facilities. Vistra Energy is a premier, integrated power company based in Texas, combining an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with a focus on safe, reliable, and efficient power generation. Visit luminant.com and vistraenergy.com for additional information.
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NYC AAIFF Festival: 'You Don't Know Jack' Review
Alvin Lin
I had the pleasure of catching a few films at this year's Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) in New York. The festival played independent films at three theaters over four days, as well as hosted various social functions. Some films I saw included You Don't Know Jack by Jeff Adachi, Children of Invention by Tze Chun, Li Tong by Nian Liu, and a short called Red Yellow Blue by Changhee Chun. This first entry covers Jeff Adachi's film, and later entries will review the other titles.
For those unfamiliar with director Jeff Adachi, he was also the creator of the The Slanted Screen, a documentary featured on PBS and NPR about the marginalization of Asian American actors in historical American film and television. When he isn't making documentaries, Adachi serves as a full-time public defender lawyer for immigrants and the disadvantaged in San Francisco.
His newest documentary is about Jack Soo, a trailblazing entertainer in the mid-twentieth century. Born as Goro Suzuki, Jack Soo was a patriotic American of Japanese descent, with a rare combination of world-class singing ability, love for theater, and comedic talent. Adachi traces Soo's youth, to his initial showbiz career in Ohio, to his big break in the all-Asian-American Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, to eventually becoming a mainstream face through TV shows like Barney Miller and The Jack Benny Show. For me, the most interesting part of Soo's personality was something Adachi revealed during the Q&A session after the screening. Jack Soo never spoke about his internment camp experience or his career frustrations with family, friends, or coworkers, and in person was almost always humorous, upbeat, and likeable. However, Soo made sure in his major media interviews to raise issues about aggressively Asian stereotypes, discrimination, and the lack of non-subservient, non-Uncle Tom roles for Asian Americans.You Don't Know Jack is generally a well-made documentary. The film skillfully weaves together images and performances with Soo, together with interviews with his daughter, internment camp friends, and showbiz coworkers and producers, all showing different sides of the man. There are some recognizable faces who share their stories of Soo, like George Takei and Nancy Kwan. I liked how for the film Adachi unearthed and used multiple never-released recorded songs by Soo as part of the documentary's sound track, and even dug up a high school essay written by Soo about why he was proud to be an American (ironic considering his later internment and career obstacles). When Adachi revealed afterward that all those songs throughout the film were actually Soo's, a few audience members were shocked, remarking that they thought it was Sinatra.The only criticism I have with Adachi's documentary is in its ending, where a commercial of Soo playing an eskimo with some cheap eskimo jokes, seems out of place considering the rest of the documentary's content and message concerning Soo's life. I think a more fitting ending would have involved a song that Adachi used in the middle of the documentary, a song that Soo recorded with a major record label. The music producer interviewed admits that Soo's beautiful voice was intentionally not released by the company, and the song was instead given to Stevie Wonder to re-record (which the producer notes launched Wonder's musical career).
For myself, the most frustrating thought after reflecting on Adachi's documentary, was how much more Jack Soo could have been as an entertainer. This year marked the thirtieth anniversary of Jack Soo's passing from cancer, and during one segment Nancy Kwan commented about how since Soo's death, Asian American actors have been fighting the same battles for media roles that Soo fought while alive. Even with all of Soo's immense singing, acting, and comedic talents, he only reached mainstream America in the last few years of his life as a humorous television co-star, and his promising singing career never really took off. Adachi's piece shows how far one talented, optimistic, persistent Asian American actor went in American showbiz, but at the same time leaves on the table uncomfortable issues related to opportunity for Asian Americans, past and present, in the industry, which appears to be a recurring theme in Adachi's works.
Alvin Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan and hails from New England. He blogs about Asian American pop culture, film, music, literature and politics, as well as relevant news around the world. He also writes for Imprint Talk. Alvin has degrees from Cornell and MIT.
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by Paul Lilly — Tuesday, January 08, 2019
Samsung Warns Of Sales And Profit Decrease After Smartphone Demand Slumped During Q4
Samsung surprised investors on Tuesday when the South Korean electronics firm issued its earnings guidance for the company's fiscal fourth quarter of 2018. For the three-month period ended December 31, 2018, Samsung expects its consolidated sales to be 59 trillion Korean won (~$52.48 billion) and its operating profit to be 10.8 trillion won (~$9.6 billion).
Those both represent double-digit percentage drops over the same quarter a year ago—an 11 percent drop in consolidated sales and a staggering 29 percent drop in operating profit. The figures also fell short of what analysts had previously predicted. So, why the steep decline compared to a year ago? There are two main reasons.
One is memory sales. Samsung said it experienced weaker-than-expected demand for memory chips, particularly from its data center clients, which in turn led to a drop in shipments and a decline in memory prices. We've seen the latter play out even in the consumer memory market—DDR4 memory pricing has come down over the past several weeks and months.
Mark Newman, managing director at Sanford C. Bernstein, told CNBC that "memory demand has really fallen off a cliff," and that's having a negative impact on Samsung's bottom line. The timing is bad, too. Data center customers have reduced their memory orders after "about 24 months of very, very aggressive growth," Newman added.
A decline in smartphone demand is also to blame. Samsung isn't as dependent on smartphone sales as its rival Apple, but it's still a major player in the smartphone sector. Unfortunately for Samsung (and all smartphone makers, really), the market has weakened.
Back in November, International Data Corporation said Samsung had a "challenging" quarter due to a decline in smartphone shipments. IDC also said it was indicative of a broader trend, with smartphone vendors combining to ship 355.2 million units in the third quarter of last year, resulting in a 6 percent year-over-year drop.
The good news for Samsung is that it operates in many different product categories, including displays, home appliances, and so forth, which allows it to weather these types of storms.
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December 20, 2018 / 8:01 PM / 7 months ago
Treasury chief calls market reaction to Fed 'overblown'
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during his interview with Reuters in Jerusalem October 21, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday that investors’ reaction to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes was “completely overblown”, in an unusually direct comment on financial market activity.
Mnuchin, in an interview with Fox Business Network, said he believes U.S. equities are a “tremendous value,” and that investors would now move from bonds into stocks.
“The market reaction is completely overblown,” he said. “I think you’re going see rebalancing out of bonds (and) into equities at these levels.”
Mnuchin's remarks came as stocks sank for a second day after the Fed raised rates for the ninth time in about three years. The Nasdaq Composite index .IXIC was poised to close more than 20 percent below its Aug. 29 high, confirming the index is in a bear market. The 30-year bond US30YT=RR last rose in price to yield just under 3 percent.
With the recent market declines, the S&P 500’s forward price-to-earnings ratio is now at 15.3, its lowest level since early 2016 but above its 15 longer-term average, according to data from Refinitiv.
Meanwhile, Credit Suisse Group AG estimated on Tuesday that pension funds will move $63 billion out of bonds and $24 billion into developed market stocks. Investors often sell assets that have done the best and buy those that have done the worst at the end of the quarter to “rebalance” to a target position.
Reporting by Makini Brice in Washington and Trevor Hunnicutt in New York; additional reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch and Chuck Mikolajczak; editing by Tim Ahmann and Chizu Nomiyama
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Consulate General of Sweden, Mumbai and WeSchool take action to make the internet more gender-equal
Mumbai: The Consulate General of Sweden in Mumbai and S.P. Mandali’s Prin. L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (WeSchool) cooperated with Wikimedia to highlight women profiles, experts and role models from India on 20 March 2019. As part of the activity, WeSchool students came together in a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The one-day workshop encouraged students to contribute to Wikipedia pages with information about women leaders, opinion makers and role models, to resonate with Sweden’s strong thrust on gender equality. As a result of this initiative, 35 students worked in groups to add 102 edits, elaborating articles about Indian women on Wikipedia in a span of three hours. With this workshop, we have taken a step towards increasing the number of women represented on Wikipedia and the internet, making it more gender-equal.
Wikipedia is the world’s largest online and user-generated encyclopedia. However, the Wikimedia Foundation conducted its first semi-annual Wikipedia survey in April 2011 , suggesting that 9% of Wikipedia editors were women. The figures may vary regionally, but the picture is the same across the world: the information about women is less extensive than that about men.
Elaborating further on the initiative, Mrs. Ulrika Sundberg, Consul General of Sweden said, “Sweden is the first country in the world with a feminist foreign policy based on the ambition to strengthen women’s rights, representation and resources. The #WikiGap initiative is part of this policy that gives us an opportunity to recognize the achievements of women in politics, business, science, education, civil society, community service, journalism and other sectors who have made immense contribution to their chosen field. However, we do not see them adequately represented on Wikipedia. The Consulate General of Sweden, Mumbai is proud to be hosting WikiGap 2019 with the Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research. This is the second session of the WikiGap event that the Consulate General of Sweden, Mumbai is hosting this month to close the gender gap on Wikipedia and the internet.”
Speaking about the event, Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Group Director, WeSchool said, “I must congratulate the Consulate General of Sweden, Mumbai for taking steps in increasing the contribution by women and for women related topics on Wikipedia and the internet. The online platforms are becoming increasingly popular and equally resourceful in terms of knowledge. The representation of women in the digital world must inspire other women in showcasing their talent in their areas of interest. From a B-School perspective, gender equality is important in the management education sector as much as in the other sectors of business and government offices. An initiative of this nature across campuses can have a phenomenal impact in empowering women to take the lead online.”
This event is a part of the global #WikiGap campaign, originally launched by Wikimedia Sweden and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. So far, over 60 countries have taken part in #WikiGap. More than 1,800 participants have added or updated more than 13,000 Wikipedia articles on prominent women in more than 30 different languages.
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In the local councils of Israel the number of city council members is decided by the size of the population represented. Since 1969 the Jerusalem city council has had 31 members. But in August 2008 Minister of the Interior Meir Sheetrit issued a directive to limit the number of city council members. According to the Minister, the directive is meant to “significantly improve the ability of the heads of local councils to manage their councils and to form coalitions without incurring high costs; to avert divisions, the creation of many small parties, and the formation of oppositionary councils.” A number of political parties and council members presented appeals to the High Court of Justice requesting to cancel the directive. They claimed, among other things, that the directive was issued “on the spur of the moment, without prior discussion or warning” and at a time when elections were already under way, when candidates had already taken upon themselves financial responsibilities based on the previously existing system. The appeals were accepted, and the new directive will not be effect in the upcoming elections.
An examination of the composition of the current city council of Jerusalem shows that some groups are over-represented and some are under-represented.
The Ultra-Orthodox population of Jerusalem comprises, according to estimates, 20% of the city population, or 30% of the Jewish population. In the City Council there are currently 14 representatives of the Ultra-Orthodox population, (45% of the council members). Thus there is over-representation of the Ultra-Orthodox population in the council, relative to its percentage of the population as a whole. This is due to the high percentage of voter participation in this sector.
The Arab population, comprising 34% of the city population, has no representative whatsoever in the city council. This is because most of the Arab population refrains from voting in the municipal elections, which they view as recognition of Israeli control over the city. As a result, the Arab voice is not heard in the council, and in effect there is no one who sees to their interests.
Another sector that is under-represented on the city council is women. Women constitute 50% of the city population, but there are only 5 women on the city council – 16% of the city council members. For comparison, 35% of the city council members of Tel Aviv are women, 27% in Maale Adumim and 23% in Mevasseret Zion. In Givat Zeev and Beitar Illit there is not a single female council member.
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Source: The Central Elections Committee, the Ministry of the Interior.
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In this project, I intend to outline the problems faced by previous efforts to create interactive dialogue in computer and video games, and to provide my own system, as evidenced by a series of games written and designed in Flash and Power Point.
LucasArt's decision-tree style of game dialogue, used in such adventure-titles like the "Monkey Island" series, proved useful for creators who wanted to quickly and easily come up with entertaining stories and humorous exchanges in their games, but proves too static and open in its revealing every line of dialogue open as a choice before actually letting it be spoken, in-game. The text-input of "Facade" has drawn accolades and criticism for its level of complexity in allowing users to type in any response to the game characters, but unfortunately it will forever be burdened by the nearly unlimited range of options players can type in and the comparitively small window of phrases the game itself will actually recognize and respond to. Console games like "Oddworld" made a good effort of trying to provide a limited range of input on a gamepad controller, but didn't do very much to supply much more than a vocabulary of grunts and flatulence for the game's speech. Bioware's latter-day decision-tree games like "Knights of the Old Republic" or "Mass Effect" make a good effort to streamline the interactivity, but in the end don't do a good enough job of providing clearly illustrated short and longterm consequences. In short, if game dialogue is to work, it has to work like games-- you have to either be able to win or lose, and know why.
After several generations of consoles, gamers have grown accustomed to the now ubiquitous gamepad design, featuring the cross-shaped D-pad, which until the advent of the analog stick was used nearly universally as an input for the physical movement of game characters, navigating an avatar Left, Right, Up and Down. Usually this translates to moving East, West, North and South along either bird’s-eye-view or side-scrolling perspectives, but this readymade system of input can easily be translated to fit a player’s control of dialogue, substituting the binary, opposing values of the cardinal directions for the binary, opposing parts of human speech. At its most basic level, all dialogue can either be separated into Questions and Answers, and many answers can be separated into variations of Yes or No. Just as the four directions of the D-pad or a keyboard’s arrow buttons represent the barest, most essential distillation of physical movement, Questions, Answers, Yes and No represent the barest, most essential distillation of human speech, and the parts which can be translated to game interactivity most easily.
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Brandi Carlile Wows With ‘The Joke’ on the ‘Ellen DeGeneres Show’ [Watch]
Brandi Carlile took the stage on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday (Feb. 14) to perform her Grammy-winning song, "The Joke."
Ellen introduced Carlile by saying, "On Sunday night our next guest won three Grammy Awards and delivered one of the most talked about performances of the night. Please welcome the amazing Brandi Carlile." Carlile gave an impassioned performance of "The Joke," accompanying her powerful vocal performance on acoustic guitar.
After the performance and a standing ovation from the audience, including DeGeneres herself, Carlile walked over to speak to the host.
"I was so happy to see that room of all of these amazing people responded to your performance on Sunday night," DeGeneres told the singer-songwriter.
She went on to talk about Carlile's Grammy acceptance speech, and asked her a bit about her background. DeGeneres actually served as an inspiration to Carlile, who is openly gay.
"I basically just outlined that I came out of the closet when I was fourteen years old because of you, and just never attended any parties or was never invited to a dance or anything like that," Carlile said. "And I basically said to be embraced by such an enduring and loving community was the dance of a lifetime. And it really was." DeGeneres called her brave and was impressed by her performance.
Carlile won three awards in a row at the 2019 61st Annual Grammy Awards. She won for Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song for "The Joke," and took home Best Americana Album for By the Way, I Forgive You. Carlile was also nominated in the mainstream all-genre categories for Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Album of the Year. She also took the stage to make her live Grammy Awards debut by singing "The Joke."
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WHEN: Beginning on May 12, 2016, a new federal law requires all employers to provide a notice-of-immunity to employees and contractors “in any contract or agreement with an employee [or consultant or independent contractor] that governs the use of a trade secret or other confidential information.” This requirement applies “to contracts and agreements that are entered into or updated after the date of enactment of this subsection [May 12, 2016],” and thus presumably does not require immediate amendment of preexisting agreements. However, the notice requirement must be included in any new agreements.
WHAT: The Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) amends 18 U.S.C. 1832 to provide limited whistle blower immunity for employees who disclose trade secrets. An action that would otherwise count as trade secret misappropriation will fall into the safe harbor if the disclosure:
(A) is made (i) in confidence to a Federal, State, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney; and (ii) solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or (B) is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.
The DTSA also protects limited disclosure of trade secrets when an employee files a retaliation claim based on reporting a suspected violation of law against an employer.
This whistle blower protection does not mean that the employee is free to disclosure an employer’s trade secrets to the press or the general public. The safe harbor is limited to disclosures to attorneys and government officials, or in court proceedings. Practically, the whistle blower will be allowed to “use the trade secret information in the court proceeding” so long as he or she files the documents containing the trade secrets under seal and does not disclose them except by court order.
HOW: All new contracts or agreements with employees, independent contractors, and consultants that deal with trade secrets or confidential information must include this notice. The DTSA does not specific the required language, and it allows employers to make this disclosure by reference to a policy document. For example, the agreement may reference an employer’s handbook which specifies the employer’s reporting policy for a suspected violation of the law, instead of restating that policy in full in each agreement.
WHO: All companies that have agreements concerning trade secrets or confidential information must provide this notice. There is no small-business exception to the notice requirement.
The notice requirement applies to employees as well as “any individual performing work as a contractor or consultant for an employer.” Although the statute does not define “individual,” it appears that the notice requirement applies to natural persons, not companies, so you would not need to include this notice provision in a business-to-business contract.
Because this is a new requirement that has not yet been interpreted by the courts, a conservative approach would be to ensure that all employees, consultants, independent contractors, and employees of contractors receive the notice. For example, if your company hires a cleaning contractor and requires that those employees sign non-disclosure agreements, be sure that this notice provision is included in that agreement as well.
OR ELSE?: If the employer fails to provide the required notice and later sues the employee or independent contractor for trade secret misappropriation under the DTSA, the employer will not be able to collect the exemplary double-damages or attorney’s fees that give the DTSA its teeth (though the employer may still be entitled to exemplary damages or attorney’s fees under state law.)
The statute does not specify whether or not there could be additional penalties. However, it is possible that, since all contracts involving trade secrets or confidential information require the notice, failure to provide it could be seen as evidence that there was no trade secret agreement, or that the agreement did not involve trade secrets in the first place. Employers that fail to provide this notice should also be concerned about potential class action suits and FTC and SEC enforcement actions.
WHY: The DTSA was enacted as a way to federalize trade secret protection, where previously trade secret actions had to be brought in state court. The notice requirement ensures that whistle blowers are not prevented from bringing wrongdoing to light due to fear of trade secret misappropriation claims.
The new law has been hailed as the biggest change to federal intellectual property law since the 2011 America Invents Act. While most states had already enacted the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, to which the DTSA is similar, Massachusetts and New York were hold-outs, and Massachusetts companies may be particularly interested in their rights under the new federal law. In brief, the DTSA provides for:
Access to the federal courts for trade secret misappropriation claims under the Economic Espionage Act;
Injunctive relief to prevent actual or threatened misappropriation;
Ex parte seizure of property to protect a trade secret, in “extraordinary circumstances,” upon a clear and specific showing that irreparable injury will occur without a seizure;
Damages for actual loss and unjust enrichment;
A reasonable royalty for the disclosure or use of a trade secret, in lieu of other remedies;
Exemplary damages of double the amount of damages awarded, in cases where the misappropriation is willful and malicious; and
Attorney’s fees, if the misappropriation is willful and malicious.
While the law is likely to have wide-ranging implications for businesses concerned about protecting their trade secrets, the employee notice requirement outlined above requires immediate attention and action. You may also want to update any venue selection clauses in your employment agreements so as not to preclude bringing a federal action under this new law.
Kenney & Sams Employment Law Practice Group prosecutes and defends against trade secret misappropriation claims. It also helps its clients manage risk by advising them on policies and procedures to protect trade secrets as well as to protect against claims of misappropriation when hiring employees from competitors. If you have questions about these issues or about the new DTSA, please contact your lawyer at Kenney & Sams.
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The Black Country
Youth Matters 1983-88
a focus on programmes engaging with young people
In the 1980’s, the children that Jubilee had worked with on summer playschemes were now teenagers. By 1984, youth unemployment (covering the 16-24 age range) stood at a record 1,200,000 – more than a third of the total unemployment count. Areas like the Black Country were particularly hard hit, with the industrial base of the area devastated, as locally-significant businesses closed, unemployment continued to rise. As the crisis worsened the figures were ’massaged‘ – unemployment was technically eradicated among 16 and 17 year-olds in the 1980s simply by making it illegal for jobless school leavers to claim unemployment benefit.
Many were now on Youth Training Schemes (which usually lasted for six months), run by the Manpower Services Commission, brought in by the government in 1983 to alleviate unemployment. Many saw this as cheap labour (which it often was). Others saw it as an opportunity to give young people some genuine skills. The new centre for the Community Association of West Smethwick was built by local youth people on MSC schemes. Jubilee had two MSC trainees in 1979, but then looked for different ways to engage youth people.
Their 1980-81 annual report made their views clear. ‘No-one involved in community work at the moment can fail to be confronted with the consequences of unemployment. With over 15% unemployed locally and almost 6000 young people in Sandwell without proper jobs, all voluntary and community organisations are having to re-assess their stance in relation to such problems. Although some have responded by sponsoring an increasing number of MSC schemes, few young people are under the illusion that jobs will be offered at the end. Neither are they persuaded that clearing graveyards or stacking supermarket trolleys on £23.50 a week will provide real training for the future. Believing that it is not enough and may well be misleading to commit the company’s resources to this kind of approach, Jubilee has made no plans to sponsor another MSC scheme in the current year. This report reflects a perhaps broader and more determined emphasis on working with the unemployed. Public expenditure diverted into unemployment benefit and MSC training effectively removes our ability to offer real training for real jobs.’
For example, it secured a series of 2 year apprenticeships funded via the Gulbenkian Foundation. It also worked extensively with young people on training programmes which were devised with young people around their specific interests and needs, whether this was the organsitional skills needed to organise a festival, learn a desktop publishing programme, run a promotional campaign, or issued based work.
Other groups like Telford Community Arts and Birmingham Film & Television Workshop operated on similar lines. Over in Telford, Carola Adams and Leah Thorn, with Graham Peet and Jonnie Turpie, facilitated the activity of the Madeley Young Women’s Writing and Design Group. The outcome of the collaboration was a set of 9 posters, developed around the experiences of the young women involved and underpinned by an inter-generational and collective ethos. This work was widely distributed and well known. Johnnie and Graham went on to work with Birmingham Film and Video Workshop to produce a film ‘Giro – Is this the modern world?’ (1984, 45mins). Working with a local youth group DHSS (Dead Honest Soul Searchers), the film explored ideas around work, labour and the benefit system in the context of the mid-1980s.
Youth festivals, media workshops, training events led to deeper connections and longer term work with groups. For example, Dee Murphy from Jubilee worked with a group of young girls in the Greets Green era, who later named themselves Fifteen Plus, and the Smethwick Spades AKA Crazy Spades. Members of both groups became involved in organising events such as summer celeabrations programme and served on Jubilee’s management committees as youth representatives.
‘We’ve talked, taped, used drama, music, argued, laughed and had good times together. There was a youth festival at Chat’s Palace in London last April. We were the only group outside of London who were invited. We already had one piece ‘The Engineer’ but we decided to work on a longer show ‘Girls Can Do Anything’. We did this in a totally different way, and although it was strong it had a funny side to it. We had a great time and many people enjoyed and were impressed by our performance. The kids from London came up to Birmingham for the festival ‘Youth Matters’. This was when two new members, Dawn and Maureen, joined our group. We were sick of being known as the Greets Green Girls and after many arguments we decided on Fifteen Plus. We think it’s a positive name for the group. We were asked to perform to the youth leaders who were supposed to be interested in working with girls. It was an unforgettable experience after being told we were being brainwashed because of what we believed in. We wrote our own leaflet to help with publicity, to give more information about us. At one performance we met a journalist ‘Jane Dodge’ – this was a breakthrough as she managed to get us on Radio West Midlands. Being an all girls group we share the same experiences and back each other. We are more confident and positive. Now we don’t back away any more. We stand up and fight for our rights.’
– from interview for West Midlands Arts magazine ‘Report’ youth special, 1985
The ‘Girls Can Do Anything’ show ran through a series of sketches and songs about everyday experiences with a series of back projections. It was first performed to a ‘friendly’ audience of women at Banner Theatre in Handworth, then reworked it. ‘I used to hate drama at school. I used to stand there and go red in the face. I don’t feel this group will laugh at me.’ They performed it at a number of youth festivals over the next 18 months, and then produced a small touring exhibition of photographs and text called ‘Talkin’ About Our Generations’. The material was devised from interviews with a range of older women. They also participated in a range of tailored workshops to extend their skills – one learned to play guitar. They even set up a self-defence class for girls in Greets Green.
Artists from Jubilee first met the Crazy Spades at a festival to celebrate the opening of a new community centre in Smethwick. After watching the procession with the bus, they invited Jubilee into a back room and said: ‘We’ve seen what you do. This is what we do’ and proceeded to give a demonstration of body popping and breaking (This was several months before ‘Hey You, the Rock Steady Crew’ hit the charts and brought street style to the world.) What they initially wanted was a space to rehearse. Through Jubilee contacts, they had a regular evening slot booked at Menzies High School, the only school in the borough at the time with a dance studio with full-length mirrors. They participated in the 1984 May Day Fireshow and went onto to devise a 40 minute dance performance based on the idea of ‘A Day in The Life of Smethwick’, a combination of pre-recorded beats, two live musicians on guitar and keyboards, dance moves and storytelling, with a filmed background of contemporary news footage (of riots, police harassment and the miners strike). While some members participated in the Summer Celebrations programme, others organised dance workshops.
‘A lot of us train before we come out of the house. I always do. If I know I’m on tonight I’m always stretching in the day, bend your back up and everything, handstand against the wall. My girlfriend’s brother… well my girlfriend’s white and he’s about 30 and he watches me doing my bodypopping in front of the mirror and he says ‘Show me some of that, Frank’ and he’s a bit old and stiff, so I have to show him what to do. So you loosen your arms and loosen your body first and you’ve got to move your arms up and across sort of thing. I show him how to do it slowly and I say keep practicing every day, just moving your arms across and you’ll learn to get it down your body. And he tries to learn it, so when we go to a disco and I’m doing it, he tries to do it with me, in front of the people. When I was dancing I was the only coloured chap, cos it was in the Dudley area, and they’re watching me do the bodypop. They’ve never seen it before. When you see something like that right in front of you, it’s different than seeing it on the telly, so they get amazed when they see somebody doing it and they want to learn it.
It’s a bit of an achievement, a memory, when I’m a certain age I can look back and say ‘this is what I done’ sort of thing to my son, you know. I’ve achieved something, teaching people. I can sit back and say I’ve had a full life doing this and that. You can say when you’re old I’ve done all this lot and now it’s your turn, so live your life to a good potential, rather than going to the pub every day for 25 years. You’ve achieved something.’
– from interview with Franklin for West Midlands Arts magazine ‘Report’ youth special, 1985
Their philosophy with this work was not simply to engage with young people, but to encourage them to be involving in the planning of arts activities, sharing with them the tools of production as well as the ideas. Frank, quoted above, wanted to set up a driving school, that was his ambition. He was expressedly interested in how the management committee of Jubilee was run, how were decisions made, how were things recorded, what was a budget, what was cash flow – very practical things. And he came onto the management group for a while to learn about those structures.
In 1987, Sylvia King and Wes Webb, wrote about this: ‘Rarely, either, do we allow young people to be part of, let alone control, the planning of the arts. While there are many drama workers, painters, video-makers who are skilled at giving over their medium to young people, they often arrive at a youth club or group of young people apparently out of the blue. We have to find ways for young participants in arts activities to have control, not only of the camera, but whether the camera arrives or not. Young people have the right to their own cultural expression, a right to define what ‘the arts’ are. This implies that the decision making has to be decentralised from bodies like the Arts Council, the Regional Arts Associations, and local authority youth officers. We can avoid parochialism if we give young people access to the networks of people and organisations that we use.’
You’ll find the full article in the Resources section.
The Crazy Spades AKA Smethwick Spades young group. First part of performance captured by audience member at Youth Arts Festival at the Triangle, Birmingham, 1984.
In January 1983, in response to black unemployment, the Manpower Services Commission adopts a statement of equal opportunity. ‘The YTS will… be open to all young people within range of eligibility regardless of race, religion, sex or disability. The scheme will need to comply with legislation forbidding discrimination, but more than that it should provide special help for disadvantaged groups.’
In February 1983, unemployment stands at a record high of 3,224,715.
The compact disc goes on sale in the United Kingdom. All those ghetto blasters with C-90 mix tapes will soon be a thing of the past, kids.
Number One Records of 1983
‘Let’s Dance’ by David Bowie; ‘Karma Chameleon’ by Culture Club; ‘Billie Jean’ by Michael; ‘Candy Girl’ by New Edition; ‘Give it Up’ by KC and the Sunshine Band; ‘Red Red Wine’ by UB40. In Smetwhick they’re still poppin’ to last years ‘Planet Rock’ by Africa Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force, the beginnings of hip-hop.
In 1985, youth riots break out in Brixton, London and Liverpool and Handsworth, on the edge of West Bromwich
In January 1986, unemployment in January increases to 3,204,900 – a postwar high which accounts for 14.4% of the workforce.
By the mid ’80’s over 20% of children are born ‘out of wedlock’.
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Home > News > View
Refused singer forms INVSN, signs w/ Razor & Tie
Monday, May 20, 2013 8:08 AM PT
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Official press release:
Razor & Tie is thrilled to announce the addition of the new Swedish alt-rock band INVSN (pronounced in-vey-zhuh-n) to its worldwide label roster (excluding Scandinavia). INVSN was formed by Dennis Lyxzén (Refused, The International Noise Conspiracy) along with musicians Andre Sandström (DS-13), Sara Almgren (The International Noise Conspiracy), Richard Österman, and Anders Stenberg (Lykke Li, Deportees).
The band will release their debut U.S. album this Fall. The album was tracked at Studio Ingrid in Stockholm, (formerly known as Polar Studios) and is currently being mixed by Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, PiL, Nick Cave, Kate Bush) and Jacob Hansen (Volbeat).
Listen to the first track off the album "Down In The Shadows" now at Rolling Stone here:
Razor & Tie Head of A&R Pete Giberga comments, "We are so excited to have INVSN as a part of our growing Razor & Tie family. They are a young band of seasoned and influential artists, led by Dennis Lyxzen, who has had such an extraordinary impact on rock music for the last several years. I have been aware of Dennis for many years and have always wanted the opportunity to work with him. The first time I heard INVSN, I knew I had to be a part of helping him develop the next step in his career."
INVSN has released music in Sweden and will make their U.S. (English language) debut in 2013. Dennis Lyxzén did a world tour with The Bloody Beetroots in 2011 and with the Refused in 2012. The band will tour the U.S. this Fall in support of their new album.
Related: INVSN, Dennis Lyxzen, Refused, Razor & Tie, Nick Launay, Jacob Hansen
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And the Moments Drift Like Snow
May 3, 2005 | Art Archive Entries, Rurouni Kenshin Fanfiction, Visual Art
“If you want those two years badly enough to face what has to come with them, you’ll let yourself remember.”
Sequel to As the Years Go Up In Smoke: Saitou no longer trusts himself, Kenshin claims to love Sano, and Sano feels more and more that it’s desperately important to recover his memory of the last two years… but can he handle it?
Author's Star Rating: 3 | Contains: Angst | Contains: Disapproval of the Saitou/Sano relationship | Contains: Language (general) | Contains: Language (religious) | Contains: Pining | Contains: Queer Kenshin | Contains: Queer Saitou | Contains: Queer Sano | Contains: Rape (referred to) | Contains: Sexuality/sexual references | Contains: Suicide (referred to) | Friendship: Chou & Saitou | Genre: Drama | Genre: Introspection | Genre: Romance | Length: 10k-20k words | Navigation | Pairing - Primary: Kenshin & Sano | Pairing - Primary: Saitou & Sano | POV: Saitou | POV: Sano | Rating: 3 | Release/completion year: 2005 | Setting: Alternate timeline | Title: And the Moments Drift Like Snow | Visual art collection: Favorites | Visual art collection: Rurouni Kenshin | Visual art medium: Tablet
Three. Hours.
Three hours, consisting each of sixty minutes, for a total of one hundred and eighty, which was ten thousand eight hundred seconds if you wanted to calculate that out — which Saitou didn’t need to, as he’d counted each as it passed. For three long hours he sat in his room, scarcely able to breathe, cold, silent, still, struggling against a deadly pattern of thought from which a brief, inadvertently well timed visit had pulled him for the course of the morning. As he found himself slipping back into it in the afternoon, he fought. Now that he had a weapon with which to combat it, the battle was fierce and attenuated.
Although he wasn’t sure exactly what he would do, he knew survival would be part of it. Now that his world had in some measure regained its wholeness, or at least now that he was seeing things in less of a miserable haze, he wondered for a second time if he’d really been serious about suicide. He believed he had, but didn’t know if even before the visit it would have been right. He didn’t quite know how he felt about anything at this point, and he hated not knowing.
But he had to see him again. It seemed he would be allowed to associate with his ex-lover, and he knew he needed to contact him as soon as possible, if only to prevent himself from going crazy or sinking back into the suicidal mindset. He wasn’t sure how he would make this happen, but he knew he must.
To court Sano before, he’d merely made a point of showing in places the roosterhead went, knowing Sano was interested in him already, counting on the combination of constant proximity and previous desire to do the trick. That wouldn’t work this time, as Himura was still likely — indeed, more likely than ever, and with good reason — to frown upon his seeking Sano’s company.
He didn’t know what to think of Himura. He knew exactly how he felt about him — he hated him, and that wouldn’t be changing any time soon — but wasn’t sure how he should react to the choices that man had made. Naturally he couldn’t be pleased with the seemingly selfish decision to withhold from Sano the entire truth about their relationship — but how much that decision pleased Saitou was not the issue; whether or not it had been the right course was the important thing. Just because Himura had probably jumped at the chance to keep Saitou out of Sano’s heart, in order to attempt to put himself there, didn’t necessarily mean he had the wrong idea about Sano being better off without Saitou in his life.
The officer still wasn’t sure who had informed his former lover of their previous ‘friendship,’ but, given his belief in Kenshin as the mastermind behind the neat deception currently being inflicted on Sano, Saitou had to think that half-lie, like the rest, had had at least its origins with the rurouni. And why? Himura must disapprove, and to give his rival such a second chance… why? Saitou doubted it was out of kindness toward him, but perhaps it had been out of kindness toward Sano. Did he dare hope Sano missed him somehow, perhaps not knowing what he lacked, and that Himura had been driven, eventually, to that carefully curated form of the real story in order to placate him?
More likely it was a reminder from Himura to keep quiet about the truth.
And maybe he’d jumped to a false conclusion anyway in assuming Kenshin wanted Sano. Maybe he’d been thinking too jealously, had misread the looks, had attributed to desire what was merely natural protectiveness. Perhaps the rurouni’s motives were purer than Saitou thought, and his discernment should therefore be lent that much more credence — certainly more than Saitou’s heavily biased judgment. He didn’t know. Normally he would trust his instincts in such a matter, but he found he couldn’t bring himself to rely on his own understanding at the moment. He just couldn’t be sure.
That was what it came down to: he didn’t know that Himura wasn’t entirely correct in the way he was handling this. And as Saitou had turned Sano over to Himura’s care in the one hour when Sano had been unable to care for himself — that is, the one hour when Saitou, as his lover, might have been justified in making decisions on his behalf — he felt he’d waived his right to protest. A lover’s rights would not ordinarily be so lightly repealed, but he’d given up that status as well when he’d put Sano into Kenshin’s arms.
Eventually it seemed best to let Himura have his way — at least temporarily — and to keep up with the deception that catered to Sano’s repression. If Saitou could spend some time with Sano, as it appeared he would be allowed to, he could hopefully, through observation, form a less clouded opinion of the rightness of the situation and plan his actions accordingly.
And meanwhile, at the very least, Sano would still be a part of his life, something he’d feared was impossible. At least he had that to keep him alive.
This same life, he was reflecting in response to a sense of duty that at the moment he found almost painful, was something he should really be getting back to… now he’d decided he was definitely going to be living it.
They rarely questioned his actions at the station. As a matter of fact, though they unfailingly greeted him when he entered and said goodbye when he left and jumped to answer any question he might have or follow any order he might give, few of them there were even willing to look him in the eye. So his return to work, even after so many days’ absence, went unchallenged. Two or three gazes followed him into his office, but nobody said a word.
“Hey, boss, where you been?” Chou greeted him, glancing up from whatever he was doing, which looked to be essentially nothing. “Chief told me to send you his way whenever you showed up.”
Saitou nodded, casting dull eyes around at the room. Rousing himself after several long moments, he asked, “Any progress?”
“Actually, maybe yes,” Chou replied, beginning to dig through a nearby stack of papers.
It was with unexpectedly engaged attention that Saitou stepped forward to see what Chou might have found, and he realized he had subconsciously been steeling himself for a future devoid of all interest consequent upon the loss of Sano. The discovery that he was still intrigued by, still felt a sense of purpose concerning the issues he dealt with in his job was both reassuring and painful. On the one hand, the fire of Aku Soku Zan, whatever color it burned these days, was gratifying and familiar heat. On the other hand, Sano had meant more to him even than that, and it felt like betrayal to be taking comfort in another pleasure, to find something else meaningful, however important it had always been and still was to him.
Eventually, as he started to fall back into the customary pattern of work, Chou’s initial statement — that the chief wanted to speak to him — registered in his mind. This was something he would not so easily have forgotten had he been mentally on top of things, and he wondered how long it would take him to get it together. He wouldn’t lie to himself; it was entirely possible that would never happen.
The police chief was merely suffering from acute curiosity about Saitou’s orders concerning the arsonist. Considering the situation’s less-than-brilliant resolution and Saitou’s disappearance in the midst of the action, this was understandable. With forced composure and fighting off desperate unhappiness Saitou informed him it had been in pursuit of a lead regarding his current case. That was enough for the chief, who knew full well Saitou had duties separate from and often superseding precinct business, and it was also the truth, but Saitou still didn’t like to be reminded of the fact that everything had been his fault.
Moving slowly back to his own office from that unpleasant interview, wherein his conscience had berated him while his superior had not a word of reproof, it occurred to him it would probably be wise to tell Chou at least part of what had happened. With the broom-head’s tendency to run his mouth, Saitou couldn’t count on chance to keep Sano away or the secrets safe. Even if he did decide Sano needed to be told the truth, he wouldn’t want it done haphazardly by Chou.
Then, maybe he just wanted to talk about it with someone. He didn’t like that thought — it made him feel very weak — but he wasn’t going to deny the possibility. And maybe he was weak. He wouldn’t deny that one either.
Weeks were passing with their usual quickness, hastening toward winter, and Sano was dissatisfied with his life. At times he even felt downright unhappy. He supposed this was natural for someone with as large a memory gap as he had, but (also naturally) he didn’t want to accept it at that and just continue placidly living on the border of sorrow.
He’d sensed all along, and far from indistinctly, that there was something his friends weren’t telling him, but his brain had exhausted itself trying to guess what kind of thing it might be. Kenshin had absolutely refused to open up, maneuvering his way out of every conversation on the topic with a slickness Sano would not (but probably should) have expected of him. So continuing to conjecture that this big secret was something of which Kenshin did not approve seemed to be a good line of thinking.
But what could it be? He’d already logically ruled out nearly everything he could come up with. So, since the only thing Kenshin made any overt signs of disapproving was Saitou, Sano assumed the secret pertained to him — or at least that Saitou also knew what it was, and Kenshin worried he might reveal it.
Therefore, sensibly, Sano spent as much time with the police officer as he could.
It was a little amusing and a little disturbing how startled Saitou seemed the first few times Sano showed up — amusing because he’d rarely seen Saitou startled, disturbing because, damn! had he really been sick enough that for someone to see him walking around alive and well could be consistently shocking? Other than that surprise, Saitou didn’t seem to mind Sano randomly appearing at his side at any given time; and that Saitou made no discernable objection stood as fairly convincing evidence they really had been friends before (which Sano at first couldn’t quite bring himself to believe): there was no way the man would put up with Sano’s near-stalking if he regarded him with nothing more than tolerance.
Yet Saitou was different than Sano remembered him. His previous intensity was… not gone, Sano had corrected his initial assessment after a few meetings, but restrained somehow. This, even when Saitou was at work or tossing unusually mild insults in Sano’s direction, left him with something like placidity, even gentleness, that seemed unnatural.
Puzzling and sometimes disconcerting as this must be to Sano, it was yet another sign that they could have been friends. On the other hand, any particular friendliness, which might naturally be expected as typical of such a relationship, seemed likewise withheld. Actually, every aspect of the personality Saitou presented these days felt characterized by restraint.
Was that part of the secret, then? But why would Kenshin disapprove of a restrained Saitou? Of the man Sano remembered — of the stabbing, the offenses, the general lack of respect — perhaps… but with a wolf so subdued, what could be the problem?
Well, the fact was, if Kenshin wasn’t prepared to tell him, in any kind of satisfying detail, why associating with Saitou was unwise, no way in hell would Sano stay away. Beyond his initial motive of hoping to absorb information, he found himself too curious about the alteration that had come over a man he’d always thought the essence of stability.
Besides, after the disbelief in their friendship had at last worn off, he’d come to realize he liked Saitou, changed though he was.
It had never been Saitou’s habit, before, to alter his routine for something as inconsequential as winter weather… but this year, for whatever reason (as if he really didn’t know), he couldn’t stand the cold, and had taken to spending his lunch breaks at an indoor restaurant rather than the open-air stands he usually favored. And somehow Sano had discovered where this was and taken to joining him there not infrequently.
It still made Saitou’s heart pound every time Sano showed up, as if the sight of him were startling, even shocking. And watching him walk casually over to the booth, slide his shoes off, and sit down without ever realizing that his every movement was torment to the watcher, Saitou wondered how long he could last keeping regular company with him. It was a daily struggle not to pour out his entire heart and the protracted story of the past two years to the ignorant young man.
And maybe one of these days he would; he had yet to decide.
At the moment he still leaned toward letting things run their current course, the reason for this being that Sano didn’t seem unhappy. That made it no easier to buy him lunch day after day and try to keep himself from seizing him and declaring he would never let him go again, never let anyone else have him.
“Funny thing…” Sano had obviously noticed something unusual about their interaction. “Most people, when you say you’re friends with ’em, it means you’re nice to each other and shit… but with you, it’s more like you’re just refraining from killing me or something.”
“‘Or something?'” Saitou echoed mildly.
Sano shrugged. “I can’t figure out whether you still hate me and are just pretending not to, or what.”
Saitou struggled to keep the bitterness from his laugh as he wondered, “If I hated you, why would I bother hiding it?” That would make about as much sense as loving you and hiding it.
“Guess this is as nice as you get, then, huh?” speculated Sano in a jovially insulting tone.
“Be careful, or I might decide even that’s too nice.”
“I wouldn’t put it past you! And, hell, at least you don’t treat me like Kenshin does.”
“Oh? How is that?” Saitou hated Himura more than anything else in the world, hated it when Sano brought him up in conversation, hated the very sound of his name… but couldn’t be anything but desperately curious what complaint Sano might have about Kenshin’s treatment of him.
But Sano merely shrugged again. “I can’t figure him out either. He probably just treats me funny because I was so sick.”
Or because he wants you, Saitou suggested silently, grimly. The doubts he’d once entertained about Himura’s intentions toward Sano were by now completely gone; everything Sano had said about the man since that time confirmed this. And it made keeping quiet all the more difficult. Sano was right — Saitou was refraining from killing; it was just that Sano wouldn’t be the victim of choice if he were to let himself go.
What he said aloud was, “I think you like the extra attention.”
“Hell, no! Everyone’s always acting all careful around me, like I might fall apart or something… and they’re all so sorry for me. Losing a couple years’ worth of memory is shit, but I’m not made of fucking glass.”
“I’ve hit you enough times to believe that,” Saitou nodded. “And I’m glad to hear you’re dealing with this better than your friends expect.”
Sano sighed and leaned back, putting his hands behind his head and looking thoughtfully annoyed. “Well, I guess it’s really just Kenshin, actually,” he corrected himself. “And you, of course, but you’re different.”
“Am I?”
“Yeah… Kenshin treats me different than I remember, but you are different than I remember.”
“Am I?” Saitou repeated.
“Yeah… either something happened to you over the last two years that changed you, or I just didn’t know you all that well before.”
“People do change,” Saitou said with some difficulty. If I have, it’s because of you. Although at the moment what Sano was probably sensing was merely Saitou’s struggle to keep up the charade, not the natural metamorphosis of seven hundred and seventy-odd days. “Two years is a long time.”
“Kenshin’s the same… I’m pretty much the same…”
“Don’t be too sure. Not on either count.”
“Why do you say that? You think we’ve changed a lot?”
The tone of that question was a little too eager, and it made Saitou pause before answering. Why did it seem Sano was fishing for information? Surely, ever direct as he was, Sano would simply ask if there was something he really wanted to know? Or did he assume Saitou wouldn’t tell him just as Himura wouldn’t tell him? But that would imply he was resorting to guile to get answers — and Saitou doubted that of Sano… at the very least, he would ask directly before attempting to employ artifice. Of course, Saitou could merely be reading him wrong; Sano could really just be eager to hear the answer to that question for its own sake.
Why couldn’t he be certain about anything anymore? Why did he have to question himself at every turn?
Because he’d been certain, so damned perfectly sure of himself, a month and a half ago, and it had cost him everything.
“You’ll have to watch for the changes yourself,” he forced out at last, adding in an attempt to take the focus off his long silence, “if you think you’ve changed enough in the head to recognize them.”
Sano stared at Saitou as he made this statement, wondering… not only did the words remind him only a very little of the Saitou he remembered, they also lacked the vigor that would previously have marked them. Beyond that, something else was missing… what was it?
Saitou raised an eyebrow at Sano’s unbroken gaze and lack of response.
“Oh,” Sano explained, even as he realized what it was, “I think I just figured out why you’re not as good at insulting me as you used to be!”
Saitou’s expression remained quizzical.
“Cutting remarks just don’t have the same edge without you waving a cigarette around as you say them. What happened, djyou quit? Speaking of changing…”
Saitou nodded without offering any explanation.
“Your teeth start to rot out?” Sano prodded.
With only the mildest of scowls Saitou replied shortly, “I don’t like smoke as much as I used to.”
That seemed an odd answer, but instead of pursuing it directly Sano mused, “I wonder about that whole smoking thing… How did it ever get started, anyway? What idiot first decided that breathing smoke was a good idea? It comes from some plant, right? Who picked the plant and thought, ‘I wonder what would happen if I burned this and breathed the smoke!’ Seems fucking idiotic to me. It’s one thing to– what?” He’d looked across the table to find Saitou staring at him with a hint of the same startlement Sano had previously found so entertaining.
Saitou shook his head with a slight smile. “It’s just odd to hear you say that as if you’ve never said it before.”
“When did I say it before?”
Saitou seemed to calculate days in his head before answering, “May of the year before last, I believe. You were trying to argue me into quitting.”
“Did it work?” Sano wondered eagerly. “Is that when you quit?”
“Unfortunately, no.” And again with the lack of explanation.
“But I had you half convinced, right?” Sano grinned, then spoke again before Saitou could even attempt to deny it: “So when did you quit?”
“Recently.”
“You really don’t want to tell me anything about this, do you?”
“Why do you find it so interesting?”
“Well, it’s not the most exciting thing I’ve ever discussed, but it seems like you specifically don’t want to talk about it. You hiding something, or what?”
“Yes, ahou, the dark and scarring secret of the cigarettes.”
Even with the ahou, Sano had to laugh. It wasn’t as if he thought he’d really been following a lead or something with this branch of the conversation.
“It’s one thing to accept a cigarette from someone who tells you, ‘Try this; it’s nice.’ If they’re your friend, you take their word for it and try it, and — if you’re like you — it is nice, and then you can’t stop, and you bug the hell out of your boyfriend with the nasty things forever more. That I can understand. But who the hell goes around burning shit and breathing over the fire?”
“Hn.”
“Seriously! If I went around picking plants and burning them and telling people to breathe the smoke–“
“I have to admit I see your point.”
“–hell, trying to charge people to breathe the smoke — they wouldn’t pay for it, they’d–“
“And having made your point, you can shut up now.”
“–throw me in a fucking asylum! But some guy whenever over in America somewhere–“
“I admit that smoking is one of the stupidest things anyone can do.”
“–instead of people calling him crazy and stupid like he was for thinking — wait, what?”
“Yes, smoking is stupid. Cigarettes are stupid. Much like you rambling on about it when there are so many more interesting things we could be doing.”
“So you admit I’m right?! Does that mean you’ll give them up? Wait…” Sano looked around, not failing to note their solitary state. “What more interesting things?”
Saitou’s answer was to latch his mouth onto Sano’s shoulder — he couldn’t kiss his lips, as this conversation had originally been prompted by the cigarette he’d just been smoking — slide his hands down the young man’s body, and silence him quite effectively, at least on the topic of tobacco.
Saitou sighed quietly, watching Sano chuckle at his remark about the dark and scarring secret and wanting to do here and now just what he’d done back then. How am I supposed to keep this up? he wondered hopelessly. He’d better get around to resolving for certain how he felt about maintaining this secrecy, and quickly.
Saitou had been right: Sano wasn’t the same as he’d been two years ago. Well, that was logical; he should have agreed at the time. But of course he had always to figure things out on his own. He’d realized this one upon coming to recognize a sensation he’d been feeling lately that he’d certainly never felt before the lost time: restlessness for lack of anything to do. This was utterly baffling. As far as he could remember, he liked nothing better than to lie around on someone’s porch all day completely idle, but now he couldn’t stay still for very long, had to have something to keep him occupied.
He could only guess he must have developed something like a work ethic over the past two years and it was plaguing him now. Why this had happened he could not begin to guess. Kenshin had told him Kaoru had compelled him to work to pay at least a semblance of rent to her, and to help with repairs — but had he really come to like it? Become addicted to activity because Kaoru insisted?
Whatever the cause, the result was that he now found himself performing odd grunt jobs around town on a near-daily basis, and more money in his pocket at any given time than he (thought he) was accustomed to. It still puzzled him. Additionally, he couldn’t lounge around the dojo as he had in the past. Either he had to be assisting somebody there with chores or whatnot, or he ended up wandering away in search of something else to do.
This was the case one chilly afternoon when he found himself discontented, within a mere half an hour, with the pastime of restfully drinking tea after having helped Kenshin bring the clean laundry inside.
“You are leaving already?” Kenshin looked up from whatever he was folding.
“Yeah…” Sano stretched his arms and back as he headed out. “I’m gonna go see what Saitou’s up to.”
“Sano, I would like to talk to you about something, if you wouldn’t mind staying.” It sounded more like a command than a request, which was irksome. And Sano believed he knew what Kenshin wanted to talk to him about, too. Again.
“Yeah, yeah, I know you don’t like him or like me hanging out with him… I don’t really need to be lectured about it even more.” Sano waved an irritated hand at Kenshin as his steps toward the door did not slow.
“Sano, I love you.”
That, of course, was enough to halt Sano dead in his tracks.
“I have always loved you.”
“K-Kenshin…” He couldn’t turn. There was simply no way he could look Kenshin in the face, having just heard those words. “Are you serious?”
Of course Kenshin was serious. As if Kenshin would joke about something like that. At least, so Sano interpreted the silence behind him.
He really had to answer this, didn’t he? Not that Kenshin had asked anything outright, but the statement had been as good as a question.
There was a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach… almost sick, he thought… he didn’t quite understand it. How was he supposed to say this?
“Kenshin, I’m…”
Kenshin finally spoke again. “Sano, can you love me?” And how could he ask that so calmly?! A question like that, really! shouldn’t sound so damn placid.
“I–” The substance of his answer was obvious — a yes-or-no query laid out for him so neatly like that — but the wording was a bit more difficult if he didn’t want to be a complete asshole about it. Finally he settled for, “I’m sorry, Kenshin.”
He still couldn’t look back, and this silence couldn’t be interpreted as easily as the previous. Had he crushed him? Was Kenshin surprised? Hurt? Sano wasn’t sure he wanted to add guilt to his current discomfort, and therefore turning around must be out of the question. But Kenshin continued to say nothing. What could Sano do? This had been so unexpected and, honestly, unwelcome…
“I’m sorry,” he repeated as he left in a hurry. And he had no real idea where he was going.
This explained very adequately Kenshin’s odd treatment of him lately. Actually, he wondered how he could possibly have failed to consider this a viable answer before. Probably because he would never have wanted to think Kenshin had been in love with him for years and was just now telling him. Well, that Kenshin loved him at all.
And why should that feel so wrong, anyway? It was hardly unnatural for a man to fall in love with his friend… Sano didn’t think so lowly of himself to be amazed it had happened… And it wasn’t as if he was obligated to reciprocate; Kenshin was reasonable, and would certainly understand that his feelings were not returned. It was unfortunate Kenshin must suffer, but such things happened in life… none of this was unusual. So, really, why did it seem so completely inappropriate?
Of course there could be no staying at the dojo after that. It was perfect, just perfect, that Kenshin had said what he had on the day leading to the first intolerably cold night of the year — when Sano couldn’t just find a secluded spot or quiet corner to curl up in, but actually had to locate someplace with a roof and walls and a welcome. And as he was not in the mood to wrack his brains, Saitou’s house seemed most convenient to fill the first two requirements at least.
There was no answer to his knock, but that was just as well: he could explain his freeloading better once he’d warmed up and settled down. And maybe Saitou wasn’t coming home tonight, gone on business or something, and Sano wouldn’t have to worry about explaining at all. It took a few tries to pick the lock, and he was inside.
“Freezing in here too,” he muttered, and why did that seem so sadly appropriate? Fortunately, there was wherewithal on the hearth to build a fire, which he soon had in order; the only thing missing was matches. Sano looked around, puzzled. Matches were not something he would have thought Saitou’s house would be deficient in. But, then, he remembered, the man had quit smoking. Still, matches near the firewood seemed logical, didn’t it?
He went into the next room, the bedroom, and continued his search. This was a nice modern house, for all it was so small, with those fancy self-striking lamps and everything, but there had to be matches somewhere… unless Saitou had gotten rid of all of them to keep himself from lighting cigarettes with them? Sano had heard quitting was difficult, so that explanation could make sense. But there had been signs of a fire on the hearth recently, and, fanciful as Sano was, he didn’t think Saitou had lit it with those burning eyes of his…
He was about to close the standing cabinet that seemed much too large for what appeared to be all the clothing Saitou owned, when his eye caught on something that, though not likely to contain matches, still seized his attention: a small wooden box tucked away at the back of an empty shelf.
Don’t pry, Sano, he was telling himself. It’s absolutely none of your business. But despite the timely manner in which he’d recognized and attempted to discourage his nosy intentions, the box was already open in his hand.
And something was… wrong…
It was merely a pair of matching golden rings. He had never seen them before… that he could remember… but he must have… otherwise what could be so totally riveting, so very nearly appalling, about objects so plain, so insignificant?
Something was definitely wrong. His chest suddenly hurt, and as he stared at his hand and what it contained, a strange feeling very much like despair rushed through him. He didn’t know what was happening, why he was now on his knees clutching the little box so fiercely, or how he could be gripped with such inexplicable anguish, but it frightened and disturbed him and sent shivers throughout his entire body.
He recalled with an abrupt hastening of the already-painful pounding in his heart the gesture he made sometimes and had never previously understood: the twisting motion around one of his fingers, as if he were wearing a ring. A ring like these? Possibly one of these? The latter option didn’t make sense, but otherwise why was he so very worked up?
And at that moment Saitou entered the room.
“What are you…” The semi-irritated tone in which he began faded just before the words failed as he stepped fully inside and went completely still.
The consideration that perhaps Sano was trespassing onto very personal territory and Saitou might now, justifiably, be very upset with him only barely crossed his mind. As he set the box down hurriedly and staggered to his feet, all he knew was that the expression on Saitou’s face — nearly blank but for the hint of something a little like surprise — was somehow… just… unbearable. It rendered a previously uncomfortable scene overwhelmingly unpleasant, all the more so because Sano had no idea why.
Somehow finding movement difficult, Sano stumbled out the door as quickly as he could, gasping as he did so, “I think I’m sick…” This was a plausible excuse for his hasty exit as well as a decent explanation for why he felt so strange and distressed, but he didn’t believe it and wasn’t sure even why he’d said it. Saitou gave neither word nor gesture to stop him.
He broke into a run immediately outside the house, with no idea where he was going, only the determination to outdistance his pain and confusion. When he felt the tears on his face, however, he stopped.
Crying?! Sinking to the ground against some wall near which he found himself, he put his head in his hands. How could he be crying? Wasn’t he a grown man? What was there here to cry about? The last time he could remember having cried was…
But he should really stop looking to his memory to help him make sense of things. Because that’s what this was about, wasn’t it? It had to be: whatever it was he didn’t remember, whatever Kenshin hadn’t told him. Something about Saitou.
From that night on he knew no peace. Whereas before he’d been living merely at the edge of sorrow, now he dwelt in it day after incomprehensible day. Previously his attitude about this had been relatively casual, as if recovering his memories were a game of sorts… now, frustrated and nearly distraught as he thought about that unexpectedly upsetting discovery, he could not treat the matter so lightly.
The Tokyo friends he remembered were gone or nowhere to be found, doubtless drawn away over the last two years by the demands of chance. Kenshin might even have reminded him who had gone where, but at the moment Sano was still pushing thoughts of Kenshin uncomfortably away. He wasn’t even sure where or how he spent the next several nights, since most of his time was devoted to a search of the blackness in his head — a fruitless search. The only thing he could come up with, besides a headache, was the hazy image of a ring on his finger… but was that real memory, or wishful imagination?
When he found himself outside Saitou’s lunch restaurant one day at about the right time, he wondered if his feet didn’t know better than his brain what the next step was. Saitou had never been particularly forthcoming about the issue either, but Sano realized he’d never really asked him very direct or specific questions the way he had Kenshin. Newly hopeful, he went inside.
“I haven’t seen you for a while,” Saitou remarked carefully as Sano slid into the booth across from him.
“I’ve been avoiding everyone,” admitted Sano.
Saitou said nothing, wary, as if waiting for further explanation before he spoke.
“Tell me,” Sano demanded quietly.
“Tell you what?”
“Everything. Everything I don’t know. Everything about those two years I’m missing that nobody thinks I need to know. What’s with those rings? Why did I… freak out… like that, looking at them? And where do you come into all of this?”
Saitou gazed at him very seriously for a long moment, then turned his face away and remarked so softly that he might not have been addressing Sano at all, “I no longer trust myself.” Looking back at his companion, “I can’t tell you,” he said.
The younger man drew breath to protest, but checked his exclamation. If Saitou didn’t trust his own judgment… this was serious. Not that he’d thought it wasn’t, but that revelation did a lot to drive it home. He closed his mouth and frowned.
“What I will tell you,” Saitou said heavily, as if pondering each word before and even as he spoke it, “is this: what you’ve forgotten, you don’t remember because you don’t want to. Nobody but you has the right to decide whether or not you should remember it, but at the same time, nobody but you can recover it. If you really want to remember, you can and you will; I can’t give your memory back to you…” Then, almost as if speaking against his will, he added more quietly and with a touch of bitterness, “…and he can’t keep it from you.”
“You mean Kenshin?”
Saitou looked away again, but did not manage to conceal from Sano the brief flash of absolute hatred that passed across his face.
Sano attempted to puzzle through this out loud. “Obviously there’s something there… something that happened… something really bad… or nobody would mind telling me anything I wanted to know. And you say I’d remember on my own if there wasn’t something like that I wanted to forget.”
Saitou, his eyes still turned from Sano, nodded stiffly.
“And it has something to do with you.”
Saitou stood abruptly. “I won’t play guessing games with you. If you want those two years badly enough to face what has to come with them, you’ll let yourself remember.”
“Dammit, Saitou, you’re just–” But the older man was gone before Sano could finish his sentence, leaving him with a sudden chill in his heart that simultaneously angered and pained him. Why had Saitou turned so cold so suddenly? Why had those last words seemed so harsh? Had Sano been right, then, that whatever the big secret was concerned Saitou, more closely than he’d been speculating all along? And was it true the answer lay within his own mind?
“Bastard,” he muttered as he stood and looked to the door, but the remark held little energy. Glancing back down, he realized with a start that Saitou had left not only in the middle of his soba but without even paying for it. Hoping vaguely that he had enough on him to cover it, Sano wondered what in the world could be so upsetting as to distract that man that much. And once again, as Saitou had suggested, did the answer lie somewhere within reach inside Sano’s head?
He’s probably right, Sano reflected as he paid the bill (by a hair) and left the restaurant. Dismissing as annoying the quieter mental voice that added, He’s usually right, he decided it couldn’t hurt to put Saitou’s theory to the test.
Well… it could hurt. But supposedly ignorance could kill.
And here he was at the dojo again. He hadn’t set foot here in over a week, not since Kenshin’s disconcerting confession, and he wasn’t entirely sure he really wanted to be here now. Something about what Kenshin had said just gave him unpleasant goose-bumps. It was faintly disturbing, having that kind of reaction to your best friend, but Sano had no control over it; feeling vaguely uncomfortable was the best he could do.
Remembering on his own hadn’t worked. Sorry, Saitou, you were wrong, he reflected ruefully as he stared at the dojo’s outer doors, trying to bring himself to open them. He didn’t know what he would or could say to Kenshin to get any more information than he’d ever gotten before, but retrieving the missing pieces of his past had become paramount… he had to crawl free of this growing depression.
He steeled himself and went inside.
Yahiko looked up from where he was raking soggy leaves into a pile, and Sano observed, “You should have done that before it snowed.”
“Yeah, no shit,” the kid grumbled.
“Where’s Kenshin?”
“In his room, I think.”
As he made his way toward the aforementioned, Sano tried to figure out what he would say. Kenshin had always resisted him quite expertly before, and Sano didn’t excel at speaking cleverly. Unfortunately, he hadn’t come up with much by the time he knocked.
“Come in, Sano.”
Kenshin sat very still, appearing as if Sano was interrupting him staring at the walls. “Hey, Kenshin,” Sano greeted him a little nervously.
“It’s been a while.” Was it really necessary for Kenshin to gaze at him so steadfastly, so attentively? It was unsettling. The younger man scratched his head as he sat down, already at a loss for words.
“Sano,” Kenshin said quietly, “I am sorry if I made you uncomfortable the last time you were here.”
Sano cleared his throat. “That’s… all right…” A very awkward, wordless moment followed, thickening ice that it was a struggle to break. But eventually Sano managed it. “I wanted to ask you about the last two years.”
“Oh?” Kenshin’s tone seemed guarded.
“Lately… it’s getting really important to me to figure this out, and I feel like there’s some bullshit I really need to get out of the way.”
“What do you mean?” Still that wariness of voice. If Sano had needed any further confirmation of some secret in his past, this would have been enough.
“I didn’t lose my memory because I was sick, did I.”
After a very long silence Kenshin answered softly, “No, you didn’t.”
“Why is everyone lying to me?”
Kenshin’s eyes dropped to the floor as he replied, “Because we all want what is best for you. We thought it would be easier this way.”
“Do you know that’s what’s best for me? You’re a really smart guy, Kenshin, but can you really say what’s best for another person?”
Appearing just slightly uneasy, Kenshin seemed unable to decide how to reply.
Sano went on. “Saitou said… well, suggested… the reason I don’t remember is because something shitty happened at some point and I’m repressing it… and that if I want to remember it, I will.”
“Has Saitou not yet learned his lesson about meddling in your life?” The tone of Kenshin’s voice was quiet and possibly the most bitter Sano had ever heard from him.
“So it is something to do with him. I don’t remember you guys hating each other as much as you do now… what the fuck happened with him? Did he…” But Sano couldn’t come up with a single idea of what Saitou could have done that would be so bad the memory of it would need to be repressed… at least, nothing Saitou would have gotten away with. Or that would result in nothing more than disapproval from Kenshin.
“Sano, I am not going to play guessing games with you. It’s just better you don’t know.”
“Kenshin, that’s not good enough!” Sano jumped to his feet as the anger that had been building this entire time finally broke surface. “Who are you to decide whether or not I should know something that happened in my own fucking past? Is it something so horrible it’s worse than anything any other human has had to deal with in all history? If not, why not just let me deal with it? For once can’t you let me carry my own fucking weight? You don’t have to protect me, you don’t have to feel responsible for me… you don’t… I’m my own person…” Sano was running out of things to say, and Kenshin’s unhappy placidity wasn’t helping.
When the younger man had finally fallen silent, Kenshin said quietly, “There are some things people should not have to bear, and this is one of them. If I can spare you the pain of it, I will. I cannot stand to lose you again.”
“‘Again?'”
Kenshin just shook his head.
“Kenshin!” Sano’s voice was rising despite all his attempts to keep the anger out of it. “Can’t you ever… what, do you think I’m not strong enough? It always comes back to that! Why do you think you’d ‘lose me’ or whatever? How can it be that bad?”
“Sano, the last time you recovered this memory, you tried to kill yourself. I am not going to let that happen again.”
Sano let out a long breath of surprise and irritation, but could think of no further argument and therefore lapsed into several moments’ silence as he stared down at his friend. Could he ever have guessed a time would come when Saitou’s words, Saitou’s treatment of him, would seem more reasonable than Kenshin’s? When Saitou would have more faith in him than Kenshin did? Clearly if he wanted answers, this was not the place to find them. He turned toward the door.
“Sano…” Kenshin began, uncertain and appealing.
Forcing himself to speak calmly again, to spare his friend’s feelings, whatever they were, Sano said, “I’ll see you around.”
“Sano, please trust me,” Kenshin murmured, and he sounded so miserable that Sano had to turn and regard him. And the expression on his friend’s face drained the anger out of him and left him cold. Unfair as his behavior seemed, Kenshin did care about him and really was, probably, trying to spare him pain as best he could. Sano just didn’t want any such efforts, any more than he wanted the affection that prompted them.
“Kenshin, there’s a lot of people in the world, I bet, who’d be glad to let you make this choice for them. But I’m not like that. So if you’re not gonna tell me, I’ll go to someone who will.”
Kenshin’s brows twitched downward, and he looked for a moment as if he might say something very emotional, let something slip, perhaps — no doubt in response to the implication that Sano was going again to talk to Saitou — but eventually did not even open his mouth. This was at first frustrating… but it also gave Sano the beginnings of an idea.
If neither of them will straight-out tell me, he reflected as he left the dojo and the sad-eyed rurouni behind, maybe I can trick it out of one of them…
Saitou seemed the obvious choice. He didn’t disapprove of the general idea of Sano recovering his memory — only insisted Sano do it on his own — and had, of the two men, been easier to deal with lately — especially given Kenshin’s revelation — and more reasonable on the subject. Whether or not Sano could adequately deceive such a man was a matter of question, but he considered it worth an attempt if it meant he could get rid of this damned incessant curiosity and confusion and the pain that came with.
He had to steel himself before approaching, prepare himself for the kind of subterfuge he planned. He didn’t like deliberately lying to his friends; it didn’t seem fair. And the fact that his own situation was also unfair, that Kenshin and others were deliberately lying to him, made things no easier, because Saitou didn’t seem to be a part of that. But what else could he do? This was his last idea.
“Saitou!” he called out to him, running to catch up as Saitou was evidently walking home from work.
“Hello,” was all the other said.
Walking beside him, Sano took a deep breath. “So I was at the dojo earlier…” He let the sentence hang unfinished, knowing Saitou’s hatred of Kenshin and incomprehensible concern with Sano’s memory issue would eat at him until he demanded,
“And Kenshin finally told me everything.”
Saitou stopped walking, stiffening where he stood, motionless as a statue, in visible shock. He was silent for so long that Sano was beginning to think he would never speak again, when he finally repeated, “And?” in an unnaturally quiet tone.
“And…” What to say now? It was what he wanted, but why did it seem he had the officer’s attention more completely than he’d ever had it before? Why was this matter so important to Saitou? “I understand now why you didn’t want to tell me,” he finished.
“Do you remember?” Saitou asked.
“I’m getting bits and pieces of it back when I think about things he said,” Sano replied cautiously. “There’s some stuff I still can’t remember, though… Kenshin said I tried to kill myself before, but… was I…” How could he put this to get the most informative answer? “Was I really that weak?”
“Stronger spirits than yours have been broken by an experience like that…” Saitou faced away from him, and his speech was still oddly soft and perhaps even a little uncomfortable. “But I don’t think you would even have considered it if you hadn’t remembered… the way you did.” What was that tone? Guilt? From Saitou? This was so unfathomable it hurt — what part had Saitou played in whatever had happened to Sano?! “Most people have time to deal with something like that, instead of having it overwhelm them all at once.”
“I’m not mad at you,” Sano found himself saying… and although it seemed the perfect next line in the conversation, in response to that guilt, he was surprised to realize that the statement arose more from a desire to… comfort Saitou… than anything else. That was decidedly odd.
“Sano–” Saitou, who had with the word turned suddenly to look at him, cut himself short. And what was that expression on his face? Finally, after studying Sano for several moments, Saitou said in a calmer tone, “What are you going to do now?”
It was a good question. Sano feared that with Saitou looking into his eyes as he was — looking hard, as if searching for something, searching avidly — he wouldn’t be able to lie any more. But still he’d found out so little… only that the spirit-breaking experience he was repressing was something he’d already brought out of repression once before (though Kenshin had said something indicating this as well); that Saitou hypothesized it was the suddenness of his previous recollection of it, not necessarily the memory itself, that had caused his attempt at suicide. And that Saitou really had had something to do with it… or, at least, had been there the first time Sano had remembered? Felt terribly guilty about it in some way..? This was just too confusing. “I need to think,” he finally answered both Saitou and himself. Still a trifle afraid Saitou might detect his deception, he turned as if to walk away as he added, “A lot.”
“Sano…” It was the second time he’d heard Saitou say his name within a few moments, and Saitou never called him by his name. Sano hadn’t thought he would ever find Saitou so emotionally involved in something as the man seemed to be in this… and why was it that when he did get the chance to see so rare an occurrence, he couldn’t understand it no matter how hard he tried?! “Did Himura tell you… all about the last two years?”
Maybe he would, after all, get more information out of this conversation. “Yeah, just about everything,” he replied, glad his back was turned.
“Are you…” Had he ever heard Saitou so uncertain before? He didn’t think so. He wouldn’t have thought it possible. “I…”
“I’m not mad at you,” Sano said again, and although there was nothing he could think of for which he should be mad at Saitou and therefore the statement should logically be meaningless, for some reason he found himself putting his entire soul into the phrase.
Why did it feel like the rest of his life was riding on the answer to that question? Why did he have to be caught in the middle of a stupid riddle game nobody would play by the rules? It wasn’t fair. “Like I said,” he finally settled on, “I need to think.”
And why did he feel, then, as if he’d said exactly the wrong thing?
Only impenetrable silence lay behind him, so after a few moments, disappointed and disturbed, he really did walk away.
Without a word, without moving a muscle, Saitou watched him go. He obviously wasn’t welcome during this proposed meditation, so what could he say or do?
Despite how much he liked to attach every possible negative trait he could think of to Himura in his mind, realistically he knew it wasn’t much like the rurouni to back down from his resolve. But he was also perfectly well aware that men did stupid things when they were in love, and Sano had been insistent lately. Sano was always insistent. If he wanted something, it was usually almost completely pointless to try denying him. And when it came down to it, Saitou rarely begrudged any of it, for all he might pretend otherwise.
He couldn’t even smile at that reflection. At another time he might have, but just after Sano had given “I need to think” as his only answer to the question Saitou had clumsily been asking? …he wasn’t sure he would ever smile again. Not so difficult a prospect, really, when his face felt frozen in this blank stare.
Well, Sano had what he wanted now; Saitou only hoped with all his heart it was not more than he could handle. Then, maybe Himura telling him first as a sort of warning precursor to actual memory was the best way to go about it. At least the deception was at an end. But had Sano really been ready for it? Saitou didn’t know. He’d had no faith in his own discernment since that burning building; how could he possibly guess now whether this turn of events was for good or ill?
Gone away to think, Sano was.
And didn’t need Saitou’s company as he did so.
Saitou didn’t want to consider this a sure indication that Sano’s regard for him had not and would not return… but how could he think otherwise? He couldn’t deny he’d had the more-than-occasional daydream about Sano remembering everything, running immediately to his open arms, and staying there for however long it took to recover… but these had never been anything more than fantasies. And the reality was that if Sano had been told, was remembering, and was already avoiding him… how likely was it that he would ever return?
It was over.
Given the intensity of the previous exchange and the emotions he’d felt at Sano’s words, he thought he was taking to the idea remarkably calmly. There was no stabbing sensation in his chest, no overwhelming pressure or any more pain than he was accustomed to feeling day after day.
He supposed a heart could only break once, after all.
It was really over.
He realized he was walking, after a few minutes, but it didn’t seem he was heading home any more. He didn’t know where he was going, but what did it matter? He could be walking straight to Hell, and what difference would it make? He was too numb to care, or to mind the snow that began to gather as it fell onto his slow-moving frame.
Attempting to tell himself it was too early to declare the thing completely done with was futile, as he realized he’d been bracing himself, ever since he’d made the decision to go on living, for the eventuality of Sano’s never coming back; he’d actually, on some level, been expecting it. A pessimist at heart, then? It was what he would previously have called realism or prudence. Now he didn’t know what to think. Only that he felt so cold… so very cold… it seemed natural to have assumed he would never be loved again.
“I just didn’t want to get my hopes up.”
And there he was, stopped short at the edge of the street looking out into a little wood to the spot where Sano had been standing as he’d said those words. So this was where his steps had been directing him. It was no surprise.
His eyes did not see the snow, nor his ears hear the silence. His mind was reliving a far-off day whose effects had now been terminated, and what flesh remained to him was finally turning completely to stone.
What had started as a lie to cover up a lie was about to become truth. This had to end. For some reason Sano could not even begin to guess at, he’d just made things worse with Saitou in his attempt to gain a little more information. It seemed it really was time to think about things — a lot and alone. Every time he went to either Kenshin or Saitou for answers, the entire mess just became more complicated, more confusing, more painful… to the point where he was hurting not only himself but also his friends in the process.
His initial attempt had been far from successful; in fact he’d fallen asleep. But now it seemed that to try again was the only thing left for him to do, besides being a venture he absolutely had to make — because, of all possible motives, he couldn’t stand to let Saitou suffer any longer. Of course Kenshin was suffering as well, but Saitou was obviously central to this thing and his unhappiness weighed heavier on Sano. What memory he did possess found it ironic that he would be searching for something painful in his soul in order to spare Saitou discomfort, but the recollection of that man’s tone and bearing just now would not leave him.
He was right after all, I guess; it really is up to me in the end. Except now I’m not really doing this for myself, am I? He shook his head and looked around. It was snowing, but the day had yet to fade, and everything under the clouds was a dull sort of glowing grey. I’ll find a place and sit down, and I won’t move until I remember, he told himself determinedly. And a nearby stack of crates in an alleyway between two shops seemed as good a place as any. He settled in against the cold wall, wrapped his arms around his chest, and closed his eyes.
The beginning of this process, at least, he’d been over many times, like fingers run across a sealed wound without nearly enough force to break it open again. The last thing he could remember clearly before the gap was Yumi offering to let them leave without any further battle. Her back was to a huge pair of metal doors, and beyond these, memory dissolved. Picturing himself there with a clarity he would fight to retain, he steeled himself and stepped forward through them as they grudgingly parted with the shriek of unoiled metal. He must not fail this time.
His eyes flew open, wide and trembling, his breaths shortened, as he finally remembered.
It was… terrible… so terrible… This was what Kenshin had sought to protect him from, and with good reason. Misery, humiliation, self-abhorrence, hatred of the entire world… it raged out at him from the depths of his mind that were now becoming less black — cold, clawing, his own weakness and pathos, his abject helplessness, nearly crushing him.
Hands clutched each at the opposite arm as he bowed his head and squeezed his eyes shut once more, gritting his teeth against the recollection of physical sensations so strong he could swear it was happening all over again. Tears seared their way from beneath his eyelids and fell like crystals into his lap, and he bit back an anguished cry as his entire body shook.
No wonder Kenshin had tried so hard to keep him from recovering this. These feelings were worse, he had to think, than death… making his previous attempt at suicide beautifully understandable. He remembered that now as well, remembered the feeling of the sword in his hands and the sweet promise of oblivion.
Saitou’s sword.
No. He absolutely couldn’t allow himself to fall into that oblivion now. Because he hadn’t done this for himself. Of course he’d wanted to remember, but what had finally opened those doors was his concern for Saitou. If he gave in to despair now, it would make the entire effort, maybe his entire existence, meaningless. Saitou blamed himself — Sano remembered now — because he hadn’t arrived in time, because he’d forced the memory on Sano before, because… because Sano himself had told him it was his fault.
This recollection was a blow, if not equal to the one dealt by Shishio, immediately secondary to it. Had he really… had he really said… A trembling hand crept to his cold face, clenched against it, felt the tears pouring. He could hear his own voice screaming, “You might as well have fucking done it yourself!” Yes, it seemed he really had.
He forced himself to his feet, finding his balance badly off but taking to an immediate run nonetheless. The irregular beat of his pounding steps reminded him of the sound of Shishio’s footfalls as he’d approached… to… and how could Sano believe he was fit for anything other than to be thus used, when he’d said things so unforgivable to Saitou… to a man who’d… who’d loved him so completely?
The overfast and terribly painful pounding of his heart almost dragged him to the ground at that moment, the sense of his own worthlessness threatening to devour him whole. But he pressed onward, seeing before him the expression on Saitou’s face from earlier that had probably been a mirror of what his own must be now.
“I need some compensation for all this trouble I’ve taken to entertain you people.”
No, he could not start reliving it here. It would sap his strength and fell him, curl him up again around his once-shattered fists, and he might just die there in the snow. He had to find Saitou. But–
“If you get back on your knees, I’ll let you enjoy it.”
Concentrating on a different memory — the quiet despair in Saitou’s voice as he agreed with Sano’s wild accusation, “Yes, this is my fault” — he kept moving. As he found himself in Saitou’s neighborhood, his speed increased; he could not reach the man’s house quickly enough, and it didn’t matter if he was panting too hard to speak when he got there.
He burst inside without knocking, not even knowing whether he’d broken the door, stumbling and yelling out Saitou’s name. But in none of the rooms he frantically entered was Saitou to be found.
This house… everything here was familiar now — from the angle of every corner to every worn spot on the floor to every last item in every room. He knew it all, because this had been his home, the place he’d spent nearly two years in peace — in peaceful ignorance, at least — with Saitou, the place where he’d been happier than anywhere else he’d ever lived. But for the moment, without Saitou here, he couldn’t stand it.
“What does it look like I’m doing?”
No… oh, god, no…
The minor composure he’d built up in the house shattering, he slipped in the growing snow on the walk outside, but caught himself before he could fall; he wasn’t sure he’d be able to rise again if he did. Think of something else! Just for now…
“Are you… I…”
Saitou…
Back in the street, his desperate eyes searched for any sign of the man, but found nothing. There was no way to tell where he might have gone after the fraudulent conversation that — well Sano knew now — must have hurt him so deeply.
“Sano! Sano!”
Only at a third repetition of his name did he realize someone was calling him, and he skidded to a halt. Turning, he found Kenshin at his side looking as if he’d just run to catch up. The rurouni’s eyes were wide and his face extremely worried. “Sano, what is going on? Are you all right?”
“The thing you are missing… the person you are missing… is Saitou.”
“You’re kidding me, right?”
“Sano, I honestly wish I could say I was. During the last two years, you and Saitou became friends, and you spent a lot of time with him. None of us ever really approved, but…”
“‘Friends?'” Sano whispered, absolutely stunned, as that instance not long after he’d awakened from his ‘illness’ drifted across his mind’s eye. Then a bit louder, “‘Friends?‘”
“Sano, what is wrong?” Kenshin sounded almost desperately concerned.
“Sano, I love you. I have always loved you.”
He understood it all now: the lies from a man he’d thought totally honest, the disapprobation of a friendship that had seemed harmless, the inexplicable and apparently recently-arisen hatred of someone that had never appeared to be more than a rival in combat… the selfishness and glaringly contrasted selflessness of two men that wanted the same thing.
“You absolute bastard,” Sano whispered, rage swelling for the moment above his pain.
Kenshin looked dumbstruck.
“How could you do that to me?” Sano demanded, unable even to raise his voice, so great was the commotion within him. “How could you do that to him? How could you call yourself my friend doing something like that?”
“Sano, do you… did you…”
“Yeah, I remember everything now.” He couldn’t even think of anything more to say to Kenshin; his mind was in too much turmoil, his heart hurting too desperately for much more speech with the man. “I’m just on my way to find Saitou,” he added as he turned away, emphasizing the name almost spitefully.
“Sano!” Kenshin’s voice was harsh, demanding, nearly reminiscent of how he spoke as Battousai. “All that man has ever done is hurt you! If you remember, you should see that! He’s no good for you; if you go back to him now, he’ll–”
Sano had whirled and struck Kenshin in the face with a clenched fist, full force, before he’d even realized what he was doing. Even Kenshin, who saw every blow coming, looked shocked as he staggered back a pace. “Don’t you dare even fucking talk about him,” Sano seethed. “All that man has ever done has been anything and everything that was good for me, unlike some so-called friends or would-be lovers who couldn’t even let me live my own life without trying to play out their own fucking selfish plans.”
Kenshin was absolutely speechless.
“Some love,” Sano growled, disdainful and bitter and utterly crushed, as he turned away again, and the freezing tear tracks on his face doubled as he resumed his run.
Forward movement, after that encounter, was physically difficult; it felt as if he floundered through a waist-deep snow-drift, memory piled upon stinging memory and each demanding to be examined at length.
He remembered Kenshin and Saitou fighting… fighting over him… fighting for his love… a battle that would have been a death-match had Sano not intervened.
He remembered another battle that had been a death-match, on a high and fiery platform on Mt. Hiei, a battle that had taken more than lives.
He remembered every tortured moment of the events just a few months ago, when Saitou had done everything he could to help him, to save him, and had eventually, evidently, given him up for that very purpose.
He remembered falling to the ground onto shattered hands, and Shishio pulling him back up by the hair.
He remembered those rings: how much it had meant to him back then, and that whole glorious day… but the recollection of how happy he’d been only heightened by contrast his current misery.
He remembered Shishio.
He remembered his first confirmation of Saitou’s feelings for him, and what they’d done in that grove… it had been months after Shishio, but still he’d been in so much pain… he’d assumed, back then, that was due to its being his first time, but of course he’d been wrong about everything… Shishio had been there first.
Shishio… Oh, god, he didn’t think he could ever… no, no, never again…
I have to find Saitou! Continually telling himself that was the only thing keeping him going, now not only because of his desperate need to reassure the officer that none of it had been his fault, but also because he feared that, at least until he could get himself together, he might just fall apart without him.
Time seemed to stretch until he could not tell a second from an hour, and his body worked only sluggishly so it felt he moved as slowly as the languidly-falling snow. And his only coherent thought amidst a flaming sea of horrifying images and ghost sensations threatening every moment to overwhelm and destroy him was that he must find Saitou.
And at last, by some miracle of chance or perhaps by the kindness of destiny, he did. The wolf stood very still on a secluded street that ran alongside a little patch of woods. As Sano came to a halt upon sight of him, his blood seemed to start flowing again, and his mind cleared just enough for him to entertain one or two lucid reflections.
Saitou’s figure, his movements, his presence, everything, everything Sano saw and remembered of him, knew about him without having any way of knowing — Sano loved it all. It seemed so natural for him to love him, so nearly primal, he almost couldn’t believe he’d ever forgotten he did. All he wanted now was to be in Saitou’s arms, know he could stay there, to cry out his sorrow until it washed away and have Saitou still with him when it was all over.
But would Saitou forgive him for his deceit? For the pain he’d inflicted in attempting to figure things out, when he could have remembered on his own without that kind of duplicity? Could Saitou still love him, after putting up with months of indifference and carelessness?
It didn’t matter. There were things Sano had to say, regardless of their future together.
“Saitou!” he hailed him, nearly too breathless to form the call. Likewise was his body nearly too exhausted to finish the run to the other man, and he stumbled as he approached.
Saitou, though apparently surprised as he turned toward Sano’s voice, stepped forward and caught him quick as lightning, looking in horror at Sano’s tear-stained face and desperate eyes. “Sano, what’s…”
Regaining his balance, Sano did not step back, but clutched at Saitou’s arms and gasped out, “Saitou, I’m sorry… I’m sorry… it was all a lie… Kenshin never told me anything. I was just trying to get you to talk. I’m sorry.”
The older man’s eyes widened a fraction, and then he frowned. “I told you that you–” he began, apparently with some difficulty.
“But I couldn’t stand it bothering you so much,” Sano interrupted him, plunging on wildly with his explanation, “so I took your advice and forced myself to remember… so I could tell you… make sure you know… that I really don’t blame you… really.” After that, the words just came pouring out; he had to make sure Saitou understood; it was simply imperative. “I know I said I did, but I wasn’t thinking straight; you know I wasn’t thinking straight; you said so yourself, that I wouldn’t have tried suicide if I hadn’t remembered it all at once. I wouldn’t have said any of those horrible things… I would never have fucking hit you. You can’t blame yourself; there was no way you could have known what kind of thing I was repressing… you needed me to remember, and I needed to remember, and I need to remember now and you…” His tone was more desperate than he recalled allowing it to become. “I’m sorry if I sound like a complete idiot, but just… just tell me you’ll stop blaming yourself.”
Saitou was staring at him wordlessly, but his expression now was less inscrutable than it had been in months: he was clearly heartbroken, and at last Sano knew why. And imagining what Saitou must have been going through since their separation… no, he couldn’t even begin to imagine it. But at last he understood the man’s face.
“Please,” he said, very seriously. “It’s the only thing about this I won’t be able to deal with, if you keep thinking it was your fault.”
“You’re… sure you’re remembering what happened to you accurately?” Saitou finally asked with forced calm.
“Yes, I am,” replied Sano. “Don’t worry about that; I’m handling it.”
“You seem to be handling it… very well.” Saitou really couldn’t be blamed for mistrusting Sano this time, but that didn’t make things any less strange and awkward.
“I remember every fucking detail,” Sano insisted. “Do you want me to describe it? He told Houji to take Yumi inside and–”
“All right,” Saitou cut him off, harsh and quiet. “You don’t have to. And you’re… all right?”
“No. Nobody’s all right who gets raped, least not for a while,” Sano answered bluntly. “I feel like crawling into a hole and rotting. But right now it’s more important to me to make sure you don’t feel like any of this is your fault when you’re the only one who was actually looking out for me all along.”
Saitou let his eyes fall shut and nodded slowly, as if finally accepting what Sano was trying to get through to him. But the expression he was still fighting off, that tortured restraint, was just too much for Sano. The younger man’s breath caught as he began, “And– and if you– if you still love me, I–”
There was a half-second’s flash of gold from which every minute shred of restraint had fled as Saitou’s eyes opened, and then Sano was… whole again… held tightly against the man he loved in a heated, possessive, almost crushing embrace that shattered any doubts he might have that everything would, someday, be all right.
“Ahou,” Saitou was growling into his ear. “The moment I stop loving you, I’ll cease to exist.”
Sano buried his face in Saitou’s chest, choking out something he thought might have been an apology before the sobs tore all words from him.
And as the sun set completely and frigid night fell, the healing of two fragmented hearts, reunited in the silent, drifting snow, slowly began.
This story’s not terrible; in fact it gets a . It’s good enough, at least for now, that I keep its abysmal predecessor around so this one can be read properly. You never know when that may change, though.
I had at one point started writing the scene where Saitou tells Chou what’s going on. It turned out not to fit in the story, and never got finished, but I think it’s interesting enough that I’m including it here. I just adore Saitou and Chou as friends.
“What? What?! I thought that guy was tori-atama’s friend! I’d fucking kill someone who did that to me!”
“If you knew he had.”
“Well, you’re gonna tell him, right?”
“I don’t know yet.”
“What do you mean you don’t know yet?! You’re not gonna fucking let Battousai win, are you?”
“It isn’t about him. It’s about what’s best for Sano.”
“How the fuck is that good for him?! How can you be so calm about this?”
“The only reason I brought this up is to let you know that you need to keep out of it.”
“But… but this really pisses me off! It’s a fucking dirty trick! It ain’t right! Don’t just stand there and tell me not to get involved!”
“Do you remember what Sano thought of you in that jail cell in Kyoto two years ago?”
“He didn’t like me much…”
“Well, that’s probably all he remembers of you now. You’re not his friend anymore.”
“But I’m fucking still yours! This… this seriously pisses me the fuck off!”
Also, two bonus versions of the figures from the title pictures:
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Is football top of the sustainability league?
14 August 2017 - by Ellina Webb - 4 minute read
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With the Premier League now back with a vengeance, Ellina Webb looks at whether clubs are embracing sustainability
With the start of the football season last Friday, I thought it appropriate to put the football industry under my sustainability microscope, especially since in 2016 FIFA become the first international sports organisation to join the United Nations (UN) climate change initiative…
In 2016 FIFA pledged to measure, reduce and compensate their greenhouse gas emissions related to the 2018 FIFA World Cup by joining ‘Climate Neutral Now’ as part of the Paris Agreement.
Beyond the World Cup they also pledged that through the power of football, they aim to inspire greater awareness and best practices in sustainability standards.
So what are our UK Premier League football clubs doing to support this pledge and be sustainable?
Edie reported in 2015 that sustainability became a growing trend in football due to clubs encouraging fans to cut their emissions by sharing lifts to away games and due to clubs embracing sustainability strategies in order to take a leap in their corporate social responsibilities.
Arsenal Football Club is one of those clubs, cementing itself as one of the greenest clubs in the UK. Blessed with a brand new stadium in 2006 it only made sense that sustainability was something the club should strive for. According to their website the Emirates Stadium has a recycling area, a glass recycling scheme, a cardboard baler (they currently recycle 10 tonnes of cardboard and plastic a month), an oil recycling scheme, waterless urinals and most significantly a correctly set Building Management System (BMS) to ensure empty rooms are not being heated or cooled.
On top of this they ensure plastic bottles from match days are recycled, have installed LED lights, linked lighting to motion sensors and ensured hot water thermostats are set to minimum ‘safe’ levels.
Chelsea Football Club appears to be very committed to developing and improving their environmental impact and influence. They were the first football team to join the Mayor of London’s Green 500 campaign, pledging to continually reduce their carbon emissions, and in 2011 they also won the “Sustainability in Sport” award due to their low energy solutions.
They are also committed to adopting green technologies where possible, helping them to fully comply with ESOS. ESOS is a European Union Energy Savings Directive which was introduced in 2012 to help the EU meet its 20% energy saving target for 2020. You can read more about this legislation by clicking here.
To help save energy the club encourage staff to be mindful of electrical usage and printing, they have also adopted energy saving and motion sensor lighting where possible and encourage the use of public transport and recycling. Furthermore all paper is environmentally sustainable and all bags used at the Chelsea Megastores are made from biodegradable materials.
Like Arsenal, Chelsea FC have also installed an effective Building Management System (BMS) to better control the lighting and HVAC systems at both the Stamford Bridge Stadium and the Cobham training ground. They also use air-handling ventilation unit equipment with heat recovery which efficiently transfers the (otherwise wasted) heat from stale air into fresh incoming air. Both heat recovery and an effective BMS are fantastic ways to reduce energy use in buildings – helping to meet legislations like ESOS and MEES (Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards) which you can also read more about by clicking here.
Liverpool Football Club are also keen on energy savings and in 2013, a year after signing a policy to reduce their energy consumption by 10%, they saved enough gas and electricity to power over 350 homes for a year!
They even have a team of 10 employees across the club who are dedicated to raising awareness of energy-savings. The team is called “Reds Going Green”.
In 2014 Liverpool FC was also named Merseyside’s Carbon Champion of The Year at the Echo Environment Awards because of their “Reds Going Green” team. The team was celebrated for their on-going commitment.
In regards to Manchester City Football Club, they state that zero percent of all their waste goes to landfill and that they have reduced energy use at the Etihad Stadium by almost 1m kW hours. They have fitted 5,272 LED lamps to reduce energy and have also had a drop of 15% in what they term ‘fugitive’ energy – in other words, energy wasted in unoccupied rooms. Manchester City has also introduced a waste water system which recycles waster water from the grounds system for both the stadium and the Academy.
Man City also take pride in the redevelopment of both the Etihad Campus and the City Football Academy, which they state has seen the “return of butterflies, moths, birds and dormice to a previously polluted site in East Manchester.”
On its dedicated CSR website, Man United Football Club state that “Everyone at the club is committed to tackling environmental and social issues at regional, national and international level, using the Manchester United brand to leverage support and create awareness of the issues facing the planet.”
The same site has links to the club’s environmental statement which details the work the club does to maintain ISO14001 environmental management system and Carbon Trust Standard.
This includes continuing with the developed carbon and renewable energy strategy, waste management, minimising the use of non-renewable materials, and increasing recycling and rainwater harvesting.
As with the other football clubs mentioned, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club also expresses their environmental and sustainability policies on their website. Back in 2010 Tottenham Hotspur made conscious decisions regarding purchasing, waste disposal, travel and energy use in order to achieve a 10% cut in emissions as part of the 10:10 campaign which aimed to cut 10% of Britain’s carbon emissions by 2010.
Since 2010 however, with White Hart Lane being dismantled, all focus is on the new stadium. Controversially it has been reported that the new stadium will only get a small amount of energy from renewable sources, breaking the Haringey councils planning policy. However the club refuted these claims saying the new stadium will be one of the most energy efficient stadiums in the UK, with carbon emissions 50% lower than that of the nearby Emirates Stadium.
The lack of on-site renewable technology is because the stadium will connect to new District Heating Network across North Tottenham.
The stadium is also reportedly using sustainable materials, construction methods, energy efficient utilities and the design aims to minimise heating and cooling demands.
Beyond the premier league
Outside the premier league football clubs like Aston Villa have embraced green energy to become completely carbon neutral. In fact, in 2013 Villa Park officially became a carbon-neutral stadium.
Footballers themselves are also trying to support the sustainability in football message. In 2012 Gary Neville and Dale Vince (who is the owner of an electricity company) founded a foundation called “Sustainability in Sport” in which they “take the eco message to the whole world of sport”.
They do this by promoting best eco practice, engaging with governing bodies and working with technology providers to demonstrate technology that will improve the sustainability of sport. For example Forest Green Rovers (of which Dale Vince is the Chairman) worked with Sustainability in Sport to put into place some environmental initiatives such as an organic pitch, LED floodlights, the installation of PV panels on the stadium roof and a meat-free, sustainable menu for football fans.
A final thought
The steps that the football industry are taking in being more energy efficient is quite impressive, and beyond that their quest to raise awareness in both the community and with fans is an important part of ensuring the population work together to help the UK meet its carbon reduction targets.
There are so many football clubs in the UK that are making changes to their operations, their stadiums and the culture within club, that I couldn’t mention them all. So if I haven’t mentioned your club above, why not give it a Google and see what they are doing to be sustainable too?
Ellina Webb is a Marketing Specialist at Mitsubishi Electric
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November 27, 2018 – A special education teacher in California alleges his constitutional rights have been violated because a union refused to allow him to withdraw his membership.
Thomas Few filed a complaint on Nov. 9 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against United Teachers of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra seeking declaratory relief.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff is an employee of Los Angeles Unified School District and alleges on June 2, he sent a letter to the United Teachers of Los Angeles asking to resign his membership, which was rejected on July 13. He alleges he sent a second letter Aug. 3 in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME decision and did not receive a response, and a third letter submitted Oct. 10 was also denied because it was not received within the resignation window.
The plaintiff alleges that the United Teachers of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Unified School District are violating his First Amendment rights.
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so much for change vs. hardball politics…
A CNN REPORT/05/29/2008:
Obama played hardball in first Chicago campaign
By Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston
(CNN) — When the Democratic National Committee meets Saturday on the thorny issue of seating the Florida and Michigan delegations at its August convention, party officials will have to fashion a solution that satisfies supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton and presidential nominee front-runner Sen. Barack Obama.
Sen. Barack Obama showed he was willing to use bare-knuckle tactics during his first race in Chicago.
It may take a Solomon-like decision to appease both candidates.
Clinton has argued the primary results of two of the nation’s largest states should count because otherwise millions of voters are being disenfranchised. Obama has said he is willing to work out some compromise.
But he is insistent the primary results are invalid since the two states failed to follow party rules and the rules are the rules.
The DNC has not seated the Florida and Michigan delegates because the two states violated party edicts in holding their primaries early.
Although neither candidate campaigned in the two states, Clinton won about 50 percent of the Florida vote, compared to 33 percent for Obama. She won 55 percent of the vote in Michigan, where Obama’s name was not on the ballot.
In his first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago’s gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.
As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of new voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.
The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
“That was Chicago politics,” said John Kass, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist. “Knock out your opposition, challenge their petitions, destroy your enemy, right?” Kass said. “It is how Barack Obama destroyed his enemies back in 1996 that conflicts with his message today. He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race he made sure voters had just one choice.”
Obama’s challenge was perfectly legal, said Jay Stewart, with the Chicago’s Better Government Association. While records of the challenges are no longer on file for review with the election board, Stewart said Obama is not the only politician to resort to petition challenges to eliminate the competition.
“He came from Chicago politics,” Stewart said. “Politics ain’t beanbag as they say in Chicago. You play with your elbows up and you’re pretty tough and ruthless when you have to be. Sen. Obama felt that’s what was necessary at the time, that’s what he did. Does it fit in with the rhetoric now? Perhaps not.”
The Obama campaign called this report “a hit job.” They insisted CNN talk to a state representative who supports Obama, because, according to an Obama spokesman, she would be objective. But when we called her she said she can’t recall details of petition challenges, who engineered them for the Obama campaign or why all the candidates were challenged.
But Will Burns does. Now running himself for a seat in the Illinois legislature, Burns was a young Obama volunteer during the presidential candidate’s first race.
Burns was one of the contingents of volunteers and lawyers who had the tedious task of going over each and every petition submitted by the other candidates, including those of Alice Palmer.
“The rules are there for a reason,” Burns told CNN.
He said challenging petitions is a smart way to avoid having to run a full-blown expensive race.
“One of the first things you do whenever you’re in the middle of a primary race, especially in primaries in Chicago, because if you don’t have signatures to get on the ballot, you save yourself a lot of time and effort from having to raise money and have a full blown campaign effort against an incumbent,” Burns said.
Burns said he believed Obama did not enjoy using the tactic to knock off Palmer.
“It was not something he particularly relished,” Burns said. “It was not something that I thought he was happy about doing.”
But Obama did it anyway, clearing the field of any real competition.
Obama’s staff would not comment on what the senator thinks about that petition challenge now. Instead, it referred CNN to this 2007 comment made by Obama to the Chicago Tribune.
“To my mind we were just abiding by the rules that had been set up,” the senator is quoted in the Tribune. “My conclusion was that if you couldn’t run a successful petition drive, then that raised questions in terms of how effective a representative you were going to be.”
But in that same newspaper story Obama praised Palmer.
“I thought she was a good public servant,” he said.
Palmer, who has campaigned for Clinton, told CNN, she did not want to be part of this story. Obama supporters claim Palmer has only herself to blame since she indicated she would not run for the 1996 state Senate and instead aimed for Congress. After losing in that bid she returned to running for the state Senate seat — a move Obama supporters claim amounted to reneging on a promise not to run.
But Palmer supporters, who did not want to be identified, said she never anointed Obama as her successor and the retelling of the story by Obama supporters is designed to distract from the fact he muscled his way into office.
One other opponent who Obama eliminated by challenging his petitions, Gha-is Askia, said he has no hard feelings today about the challenge and supports Obama’s presidential aspirations.
But back at the time he was running for state Senate, Askia said he was dismayed Obama would use such tactics.
“It wasn’t honorable,” he said. “I wouldn’t have done it. That’s what I am saying.”
He said the Obama team challenged every single one of his petitions on what Askia called “technicalities.”
If names were printed instead of signed in cursive writing, they were declared invalid. If signatures were good but the person gathering the signatures wasn’t properly registered, then those petitions also were thrown out.
Askia came up 69 signatures short of the required needed to be on the ballot.
Kass, the Chicago Tribune columnist, said the national media is naive when it comes to Chicago politics, which is a serious business.
He said they have bought into a narrative that Obama is strictly a reformer. When the truth, Kass says, is he is a bare-knuckled politician. And using the rules to win his first office is part of who Obama is.
“It’s not the tactics of ‘let’s all people come together and put your best ideas forward and the best ideas win,’ ” Kass said. “That’s the spin, that’s in the Kool-Aid. You can have some. Any flavor. But the real deal was get rid of Alice Palmer.
“There are those who think that registering people to vote and getting them involved in politics and then using this tactic in terms of denying Alice Palmer the right to compete, that these things are inconsistent. And guess what? They are. They are inconsistent. But that’s the politics he plays.”
And this weekend DNC delegates will have to decide what kind of rules it will invoke in helping choose its next candidate.
May 29, 2008 Posted by lidiaohlidia | Uncategorized | 4 Comments
the eve of destruction: will hillary (satan) bring down barack (chocolate jesus) or go down like the whore she is?
nice shot, huh.
well i thought i’d weigh in again — over the last several weeks i’ve again witnessed a rather colossal load of shit piled upon THE GREAT SATAN as she had the audacity to win a contest, put some of her ideas out there, and even take some pride in her momentum.
too bad she’s the evil whore who is, according to the readers comments i’ve been tracking at CNN, NYTIMES, SALON.COM, THE HUFFINGTON REPORT, THE CAFFERTY REPORT, and out of the mouths of my obamarama friends:
“she should know when to quit. she’s damaging the party by staying in the race this long.”
“she is more interested in power and fame than in what’s good for the country.”
“her staying in the race is destroying barrack’s chances of winning–the people have spoken and it’s barrack’s new ideas about change that the country wants” (this one truly puzzles me, since the electorate is pretty much evenly divided between them at this point, and i still have no idea what the specifics of the “change” are beyond lip service and the REALLY slick pamphlet we got in the mail from barrack’s campaign that doesn’t have anything but sound bits and glossy pictures on it, just like every other politicians publicity materials…)
“what the fuck is wrong with her? the clintons just want to maintain their power and wealth.”
“while she’s cramming herself down the throats of the american public, he’s having to fight off her attacks when he could be preparing for the real race.” (somehow the reverse is not true, since, as we’ve noted, she’s a satanic power hungry whore, and not the first woman to run for president.)
“it’s the clinton political machine that has played the race card and made sure that the reverend wright fiasco has center stage.” (what?)
“her negative ads are shameful.”
“her staying in the race is destructive of hope.” (what?
i did get a kick out of gloria steinem’s take on all this — but then she’s an evil, outdated, old hag feminist from back in the day, right, and they all need to crawl away before they shame the new modern women, but anyway, she maintains that: “gender is probably the most restricting force in American life,” that “It’s time for feminists to say that Senator Obama has no monopoly on inspiration,” and “They acknowledge racism—not enough, but somewhat . . . They would probably be less likely to acknowledge that the most likely way a pregnant woman is to die is murder from her male partner. There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.”
Oh and this one: “Men are loved if they win and Hillary is loved if she loses. … But maybe we shouldn’t be so afraid of an open convention that actually decides something. After all, it was an open convention in New York City that gave us Abraham Lincoln.”
if we’re waving goodbye to hillary, could we admit she’s a pretty tough opponent, or are we still invested in demonizing the crap out of her?
and if she’s sticking around, could we quit whining? this IS what the voters have chosen. be careful what you wish for.
oh and obama? it’s MATT, not TIM, and i don’t need to turn my television off to educate my child, and autoworkers don’t need to be told that fuel efficiency is more important than a living wage and universal health care.
May 5, 2008 Posted by lidiaohlidia | Uncategorized | 11 Comments
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Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A
January 2009 , Volume 83, Issue 11, pp 1913–1923 | Cite as
The structure of monomeric unsolvated and weakly solvated (Me2Cu)Li and (Me2Cu)Cu
P. M. Polestshuk
P. I. Dem’yanov
V. S. Petrosyan
Structure of Matter and Quantum Chemistry
First Online: 29 October 2009
Density functional theory was used to study the structure of various isomers of (Me2Cu)Li (1), (Me2Cu)Cu (2), (Me2Cu)Li · 2Me2O (3), and (Me2Cu)Cu · 2Me2S (4) in the gas phase. Isomers of 1 and 3 were shown to be typical cuprates, whereas isomers of 2 and 4 should rather be treated as unsolvated and solvated methylcopper dimers, respectively. The reasons for the difference between structures 2, 4 and 1, 3 were considered. The energies of solvation of 1 by two dimethyl ether molecules (∼34 kcal/mol) and of 2 by two dimethyl sulfide molecules (∼36 kcal/mol) and the dissociation energies of all the compounds to the dimethylcuprate anion and the corresponding cation were calculated. The energies of solvation of 1 and 2 being almost equal, the transformation of 2 into 4 decreased the dissociation energy much more substantially than the transformation of 1 into 3.
Lithium Atom Valence Angle Bond Path Donor Acceptor Interaction Dihydrogen Bond
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Polestshuk, P.M., Dem’yanov, P.I. & Petrosyan, V.S. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (2009) 83: 1913. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036024409110181
Received 13 November 2008
First Online 29 October 2009
DOI https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036024409110181
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CytoDyn Announces Major Discovery for its...
CytoDyn Announces Major Discovery for its Monotherapy Indication
CytoDyn and IncellDx Report the Successful Development and Validation of an Assay to Assess the Responders for Monotherapy HIV Patients
This assay could predict in 2 hours the responder’s rate for a monotherapy patient candidate and the appropriate dose for each patient at the time of screening
VANCOUVER, Washington, June 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CytoDyn Inc. (OTC.QB: CYDY), (“CytoDyn” or the “Company”), a late-stage biotechnology company developing leronlimab (PRO 140), a CCR5 antagonist with the potential for multiple therapeutic indications, announced today significant progress in securing the therapeutic effect and safety of leronlimab (PRO 140) with the development of an assay that can reliably determine a patient’s CCR5 status. Currently, all new patients in the Company’s monotherapy trial are being evaluated with this newly developed screening-level test with the objective of identifying patients expected to respond to a monotherapy versus those not expected to respond due to CCR5 density.
“The development and implementation of an assay that can rapidly and accurately identify potential responders to leronlimab offers a tremendous technical advancement with the potential to more precisely target leronlimab on patients most likely to respond to treatment,” stated Dr. Nader Pourhassan, President and CEO of CytoDyn. “We are excited about our partnership with IncellDx to provide the technical support to explore the power and potential of CCR5 inhibition,” continued Dr. Pourhassan. “With over 110 HIV active patients on leronlimab monotherapy for almost one year and five patients from our original Phase 2 monotherapy extension now reaching almost five years on monotherapy without viral breakthroughs, we are very excited with our collaboration with IncellDx and Bruce Patterson, M.D., former Medical Director of Virology at Stanford University Hospitals and Clinics. With Dr. Patterson’s expertise, we are confident that we will be able to much more efficiently identify responders in HIV, and potentially in many other indications, including our ongoing cancer research.” Dr. Pourhassan concluded, “The continued clinical success of leronlimab in HIV underpins our soon to begin partnership with Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre for the PrEP clinical trial that will exclusively utilize leronlimab as a monotherapy.”
“The HIV-co-receptor CCR5 has both genotypic differences in patients, as well as being a highly regulated receptor with different amounts expressed on different cells under certain conditions such as inflammation. The development of a portfolio of assays, including CCR5 genotyping and the assay being reported today that reliably and timely identifies a patient’s CCR5 status, offers a leap in the understanding of potential response to treatment with leronlimab,” stated Dr. Bruce Patterson, CEO and Founder of IncellDx. “I am excited to continue the very positive and effective partnership with CytoDyn to potentially help bring leronlimab to the right patients at the right time, in furtherance of the clear opportunity afforded by personalized medicine,” concluded Dr. Patterson.
About Leronlimab (PRO 140)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a “Fast Track” designation to CytoDyn for two potential indications of leronlimab for deadly diseases. The first as a combination therapy with HAART for HIV-infected patients and the second is for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. Leronlimab is an investigational humanized IgG4 mAb that blocks CCR5, a cellular receptor that is important in HIV infection, tumor metastases, and other diseases including NASH. Leronlimab has successfully completed nine clinical trials in over 700 people, including meeting its primary endpoints in a pivotal Phase 3 trial (leronlimab in combination with standard anti-retroviral therapies in HIV-infected treatment-experienced patients).
In the setting of HIV/AIDS, leronlimab is a viral-entry inhibitor; it masks CCR5, thus protecting healthy T cells from viral infection by blocking the predominant HIV (R5) subtype from entering those cells. Leronlimab has been the subject of nine clinical trials, each of which demonstrated that leronlimab can significantly reduce or control HIV viral load in humans. The leronlimab antibody appears to be a powerful antiviral agent leading to potentially fewer side effects and less frequent dosing requirements compared with daily drug therapies currently in use.
In the setting of cancer, research has shown that CCR5 plays an important role in tumor invasion and metastasis. Increased CCR5 expression is an indicator of disease status in several cancers. Published studies have shown that blocking CCR5 can reduce tumor metastases in laboratory and animal models of aggressive breast and prostate cancer. Leronlimab reduced human breast cancer metastasis by >98% in a murine xenograft model. CytoDyn is therefore conducting a Phase 2 human clinical trial in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer and was granted Fast Track designation in May 2019. Additional research is being conducted with leronlimab in the setting of cancer and NASH with plans to conduct additional clinical studies when appropriate.
The CCR5 receptor appears to play a central role in modulating immune cell trafficking to sites of inflammation and may be important in the development of acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) and other inflammatory conditions. Clinical studies by others further support the concept that blocking CCR5 using a chemical inhibitor can reduce the clinical impact of acute GvHD without significantly affecting the engraftment of transplanted bone marrow stem cells. CytoDyn is currently conducting a Phase 2 clinical study with leronlimab to further support the concept that the CCR5 receptor on engrafted cells is critical for the development of acute GvHD and that blocking this receptor from recognizing certain immune signaling molecules is a viable approach to mitigating acute GvHD. The FDA has granted “orphan drug” designation to leronlimab for the prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GvHD).
CytoDyn is a biotechnology company developing innovative treatments for multiple therapeutic indications based on leronlimab, a novel humanized monoclonal antibody targeting the CCR5 receptor. CCR5 appears to play a key role in the ability of HIV to enter and infect healthy T-cells. The CCR5 receptor also appears to be implicated in tumor metastasis and in immune-mediated illnesses, such as graft-vs-host disease (GvHD) and NASH. CytoDyn has successfully completed a Phase 3 pivotal trial with leronlimab in combination with standard anti-retroviral therapies in HIV-infected treatment-experienced patients. CytoDyn plans to seek FDA approval for leronlimab in combination therapy and plans to complete the filing of a Biologics License Application (BLA) in 2019 for that indication. CytoDyn is also conducting a Phase 3 investigative trial with leronlimab (PRO 140) as a once-weekly monotherapy for HIV-infected patients and, plans to initiate a registration-directed study of leronlimab monotherapy indication, which if successful, could support a label extension. Clinical results to date from multiple trials have shown that leronlimab (PRO 140) can significantly reduce viral burden in people infected with HIV with no reported drug-related serious adverse events (SAEs). Moreover, results from a Phase 2b clinical trial demonstrated that leronlimab monotherapy can prevent viral escape in HIV-infected patients, with some patients on leronlimab monotherapy remaining virally suppressed for more than four years. CytoDyn is also conducting a Phase 2 trial to evaluate leronlimab for the prevention of GvHD and has received clearance to initiate a clinical trial with leronlimab in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. More information is at www.cytodyn.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Words and expressions reflecting optimism, satisfaction or disappointment with current prospects, as well as words such as “believes,” “hopes,” “intends,” “estimates,” “expects,” “projects,” “plans,” “anticipates” and variations thereof, or the use of future tense, identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The Company’s forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance, and actual results could vary materially from those contained in or expressed by such statements due to risks and uncertainties including: (i) the sufficiency of the Company’s cash position, (ii) the Company’s ability to raise additional capital to fund its operations, (iii) the Company’s ability to meet its debt obligations, if any, (iv) the Company’s ability to enter into partnership or licensing arrangements with third parties, (v) the Company’s ability to identify patients to enroll in its clinical trials in a timely fashion, (vi) the Company’s ability to achieve approval of a marketable product, (vii) the design, implementation and conduct of the Company’s clinical trials, (viii) the results of the Company’s clinical trials, including the possibility of unfavorable clinical trial results, (ix) the market for, and marketability of, any product that is approved, (x) the existence or development of vaccines, drugs, or other treatments that are viewed by medical professionals or patients as superior to the Company’s products, (xi) regulatory initiatives, compliance with governmental regulations and the regulatory approval process, (xii) general economic and business conditions, (xiii) changes in foreign, political, and social conditions, and (xiv) various other matters, many of which are beyond the Company’s control. The Company urges investors to consider specifically the various risk factors identified in its most recent Form 10-K, and any risk factors or cautionary statements included in any subsequent Form 10-Q or Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any responsibility to update any forward-looking statements to take into account events or circumstances that occur after the date of this press release.
Nader Pourhassan, Ph.D.
NPourhassan@CytoDyn.com
Marek Ciszewski, J.D.
Edison, Inc.
MCiszewski@EdisonGroup.com
Source: CytoDyn Inc.
Released June 18, 2019
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Little India: Overseas Indian, NRI, Asian Indian, Indian American
NRI Marriages Must Be Registered Within a Week, Govt Says Now
Aswati Anand
In an apparent revision to what was said last week about registration of NRI marriages, the Ministry of Women and Child Development said on June 13 that all NRI marriages need to be registered within seven days, or else passports and visas will not be issued, PTI reported. Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi had last week said that NRI marriages would need to be registered within 48 hours.
This new decision was taken after an inter-ministerial panel comprising Gandhi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad sat down to chart out legal solutions for issues faced by women abandoned by NRI husbands.
“The group of ministers decided that necessary amendments will have to be made in the Passport Act to incorporate the changes,” an official who spoke to Hindustan Times on condition of anonymity said.
The panel that met on June 13 also decided to make registration of NRI marriages with registrars mandatory. “The law ministry has agreed to incorporate the necessary clause by amending the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969,” the official further said.
In all, as per the official, the move would require amendment of three legislations – the Code of Criminal Procedure, Marriage Act and the Passports Act. In effort to make the decision taken at the meeting effect, the three ministries were asked to formulate a draft legal amendments.
Currently there is no time frame for marriage registration in India, although a Law Commission has recommended that time limit be imposed to register marriages. The recommendation is that if the marriage is not registered within 30 days, a penalty of Rs 5 per day could be imposed.
The Women and Child Development Ministry had earlier set up an Integrated Nodal Agency with representatives from the ministries of External Affairs, Home Affairs and Law and Justice to look into matrimonial disputes involving NRIs. According to the ministry, look-out circulars are issued as per criteria defined by the Home Ministry, for keeping a watch on arrival or departure of absconding NRI husbands and preventing them from leaving India. This was a recommendation of the National Commission for Women and the decision taken by the Integrated Nodal Agency.
Punjab has already formulated guidelines making registration of NRI marriages compulsory, as per the Hindustan Times. The holding of properties of NRI offenders who abandon their wives in escrow was also discussed by the panel.
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1966 31 years reunion with the golden years behind - 1935 Rugby ist XVFormat: ImageDate: 1966 Description: 1966 31 years reunion with the golden years behind - 1935 Rugby ist XV
Same relative positions, back row (left to right): H. B. Hay, S. K. Carswell, D. R. Wilkie, P. A. Deans, H. H. Deans, -...
1974 I. D. Blair and the late I. L. Elliott Format: ImageDate: 1974 Description: 1974 I. D. Blair and the late I. L. Elliott who commenced at Lincoln 42 years ago.
1955 75th Anniversary Reunion 1931-1940Format: ImageItem Reference: 0004134 Date: 1955 Description: 1955 75th Anniversary group photo, alumni of 1931-1940. Left to Right-Back Row: C. G. Thomson, W. V. Hadfield, C. N. Watts, C. B. Giller, R. Hudson, J. R. Greenfield, N. M. Peryman. Third Row: V....
1937 Annual Golf MatchFormat: ImageItem Reference: 0004074 Date: 1937 Description: Annual reunion, 1937. The Annual Reunion was held this year in Christchurch, on Monday, August 9th. The annual golf match was held during the afternoon at Shirley, under perfect conditions. Twent...
1938 I. D. Blair and J. W. Calder HanmerFormat: ImageItem Reference: 0003753 Date: December 1938 Description: Canterbury Agricultural College staff I. D. Blair and J. W. Calder at Hanmer 1938.
I. D. Blair with P. W. SmallfieldFormat: ImageItem Reference: 0003543 Description: Dr I. D. Blair (left) with P. W. Smallfield, former Director General of Agriculture and the first student to complete a Masterate at Lincoln
I. D. BlairFormat: ImageItem Reference: 0003542 Date: 1973 Description: A portrait of I. D. Blair
I. D. Blair and I. L. ElliotFormat: ImageItem Reference: 0003541 Date: 1974 Description: A photo of Dr I. D. Blair (left) and I. L. Elliott
Co-operation in Research 1Format: ImageItem Reference: 0003462 Date: 1970s Description: Co-operation in Research: Dr H. C. Smith (left) Director, Crop Research Division, D.S.I.R. and Dr I. D. Blair, consider a wheat probrem.
I. D. BlairFormat: ImageItem Reference: 0001083 Date: 2005 Description: In memoriam Ian Douglas Blair MBE, M. Agr. Sci. Ph.D. Student 1932-35 Staff member 1936-74 Reader in Microbiology Honorary Life Member of the Lincoln College Old Student's Association Died 21 Jan...
Early 1950s Staff and Students photo, Lincoln CollegeFormat: ImageDate: 1950s Description: Staff and Students photo, Lincoln College, Early 1950s
1939 Official Photo Canterbury Agricultural CollegeFormat: ImageItem Reference: 0003866 Date: 1939 Description: Official Photo, Canterbury Agricultural College 1939.
1937 or 1938 Staff and StudentsFormat: ImageDate: 1937 or 1938 Description: 1938-39 Staff and Students, Canterbury Agricultural College
1936 Farm Group Canterbury Agricultural CollegeFormat: ImageItem Reference: 0004068 Date: 1936 Description: Farm group, Canterbury Agricultural College 1936.
On horse: Jack Greenfield, R. Hayes, W. E. Williams and young Jack Hannah. Standing: J. R. Richards.
Back Row: H. B. Hay, W. S. Emmett, J...
1933 Farm groupFormat: ImageItem Reference: 0000423 Date: Between 1st January 1933 and 31st December 1933 Description: A group photo of Canterbury Agricultural College staff and students, 1933.
1938 Rugby First FifteenFormat: ImageItem Reference: 0000127 Date: 1938 Description: Canterbury Agricultural College 1st XV 1938
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Guide on the Side – Now I Get the Picture: A Visual Strunk & White
By Marie Wallace, 01 Oct 1997
Marie Wallace has enjoyed a fulfilling career as a librarian, beginning in 1951 in academia with the University of California and transitioning in 1971 into the private law library world until her 1995 retirement from O’Melveny & Myers. she is the 1997 recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries’ highest honor, the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award. Throughout her professional life, Marie has been a guiding force in the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, Practising Law Institute’s programs for law librarians and Teaching Legal Research in Private Law Libraries (TRIPLL).
Today, Marie has commenced on a new path she terms “Life in Progress,” which enables her to pursue a diversity of interests as a master swimmer, law librarian, trainer, storyboarder and designer of wearable art. She continues to be a dynamic speaker and prolific writer on such topics as private law library management, presentations and training. She is a member of Toastmasters International and is active with the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and in continuing education for private law librarians. She devotes her “free” time to various non-profit and civic activities. Always open to new ideas, Marie can be reached at: [email protected]
I am often asked to recommend books about presentations and speaking. There are many useful titles and some are referenced in earlier columns. However, if I had to zero in on “the source,” a work that causes you to exclaim “Now I Get the Picture,” it would be the trilogy by Edward R. Tufte. Tufte’s classic works satisfy the urge to see, a fundamental expectation of audiences, whether the presenter’s medium is text, voice or screen.
Many information professionals own or are familiar with Tufte’s first two titles: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 1983, “about pictures of numbers” and Envisioning Information, 1990, “about pictures of nouns”. The new one, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, 1997 is “about pictures of verbs” and continues the author’s crusade to bring excellence to graphical information designs. All three are self-published by Tufte’s Graphics Press and are beautiful exemplars of how good information design can escape the two-dimensional “flatland” of what we have grown accustomed to in the “awful information design” of books. A Boston Globe reviewer epitomizes Tufte as “a visual Strunk & White.”
I have frequently seen the first two Tufte’s books in private law library collections. They are heavily used by litigators to prepare courtroom exhibits that clearly portray complexity. Other reasons for law libraries to own Visual Explanations and other Tufte’s books are:
Enable staff to design and deliver presentations with more ideas in less time
Supplement wayfinding design of facilities
Follow example on p. 147 of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Incorporate functional graphics in the design of web pages and other screens
Develop CLE and other training materials which support performance
Build architectures of content, so the information becomes the interface.
One of the many things that Tufte has done for information designers is to provide an information design vocabulary: chartjunk, flatland, time series, small multiples, data-ink ratio, layering and separation, micro/macro readings, direct labels, encodings, and self-representing scales. In Visual Explanations, the vocabulary is illustrated using a wide array of topics: storm clouds, music, magic, medical records, and a submersible field guide for snorkelers and divers to identify fish underwater to list just a few.
Tufte includes computer displays in Visual Explanations citing to one example in which less than a fifth of the material on the screen has any information value and contrasts this with his own effort for the National Gallery in which 90 percent of the image is substance. The data density of a computer screen is only about 1/10 of that on a page of text or a map. Low density computer displays result in spreading information out over many screens or dialog boxes, which causes users to get lost in an information maze. Tufte recommends placing information adjacent in space, not stacked in time, to avoid the “Where am I problem.”
Maps are at the high end of the data density spectrum. The eye and the brain work well together in the act of map reading. It almost seems that humans are physiologically disposed to extract information from maps more intuitively and more quickly than from a text or visual scene. Yet Tufte cautions that leaving out a legend to indicate direction, scale and perspective on a map will distort the information.
Tufte teaches statistics, graphic design and political economy at Yale University and supplements his teaching with local training seminars on presenting data and public speaking. He has prepared evidence for several jury trials and worked on statistical and design matters for The New York Times, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Lotus development Corporation, Newsweek, CBS, NBC, and the Bureau of the Census.
Charts are also high density tools but if they contain “chartjunk”–unnecessary and confusing decoration or colors–they will confuse and mislead. Visual Explanations reproduces many of the original Challenger O-ring charts. Tragically, the critical data was there but not presented so that the causal relationship between variables was apparent.
Although Tufte laments poor design, he tells us that there are lots of good graphical designs. It is just a matter of finding them. His books are a good place to start. Visual Explanations devotes a chapter to a design that is new to me–visual confections (an assembly of visual events). Since libraries are assemblies of information events, there are many potential applications of this design, such as avoiding the practice commonly found in kiosks where the “information architecture mimics the hierarchical structure of the bureaucracy producing the design” rather than complements the information on display. (Ouch! This touches home in more places than kiosks.)
Tufte says good graphical design requires a combination of text, numbers and images. “The idea is to make designs that enhance the richness, complexity, resolution, dimensionality, and clarity of the content.” A book’s index is a design structured to retrieve content and navigate the author’s mental map. Can the index design “replicate principles of thought” and “reflect an act of insight” into information retrieval behavior? It certainly adds dimensionality and perhaps it should be customary to add legends to indexes, like those on maps, to reveal the indexer and qualifications, how the thesaurus was generated (manually or software) and level of context sensitivity. While we wait for Tufte’s next title, a cumulative topical index to the trilogy would be welcome and not only add to the way the unique information is pictured to us but make the set an even more valuable reference tool.
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Yasuji Kaneko
Surname Kaneko
Given Name Yasuji
Born 28 Jan 1920
Died 25 Nov 2010
Category Military-Ground
ww2dbaseYasuji Kaneko was born in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan in 1920. In Nov 1940, at the age of 20, he joined the Japanese Army as a volunteer, and he was immediately assigned to China. He received training in Qingdao, Jinan, and Yanzhou in Shandong Province, China as a heavy machine gun crewman. Later in life, he detailed the cruelty of members of his unit toward the Chinese, including beating Chinese forced laborers to death, raping women, and massacring civilians. On 27 Aug 1943, he and his fellow soldiers received orders to destroy levees so that river water would flood into the city of Linqing, Shandong Province China; he reported that some of the soldiers from another unit released Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria that caused cholera, into the flood waters. He was captured at the end of the war in Korea by the Soviets, and was held in a prisoner of war camp in Siberia. Between 1950 and 1956, he was held by the Chinese communists at the Fushun War Criminals Management Center in Liaoning Province, China. He returned to Japan after 1956. In 1996, he admitted the various crimes he committed during the war. He passed away in 2010.
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28 Jan 1920 Yasuji Kaneko was born in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
27 Aug 1943 Yasuji Kaneko participated in the destruction of levees near the city of Linqing, Shandong Province, China. He witnessed fellow soldiers releasing Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria that caused cholera, into the flood waters with the intention to infect Chinese civilians with the disease.
25 Nov 2010 Yasuji Kaneko passed away in Japan.
US Marines in the Mariana Islands, circa Jul-Aug 1944
"With Germany arming at breakneck speed, England lost in a pacifist dream, France corrupt and torn by dissension, America remote and indifferent... do you not tremble for your children?"
Winston Churchill, 1935
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Brazil is the largest country in South America, it is the world’s fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 190 million people and the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of over 7,491 kilometers (4,655 mi). It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana, on the northwest by Colombia, on the west by Bolivia and Peru, on the southwest by Argentina and Paraguay and on the south by Uruguay. It borders with all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until 1815, when it was elevated to United Kingdom with Portugal and Algarves. The colonial bond was in fact broken in 1808, when the capital of the Portuguese Kingdom was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after Napoleon invaded Portugal. The independence from Portugal was achieved in 1822. Initially independent as the Empire of Brazil, the country has been a republic since 1889, although the bicameral legislature, now called Congress, dates back to 1824, when the first constitution was ratified. Its current Constitution defines Brazil as a Federal Republic. The Federation is formed by the union of the Federal District, the 26 States, and the 5,564 Municipalities.
The Brazilian economy is the world’s eighth largest economy by nominal GDP and the seventh largest by purchasing power parity. Brazil is one of the world’s fastest growing major economies. Brazil is a founding member of the United Nations, the G20, CPLP, Latin Union, the Organization of Ibero-American States, Mercosul and the Union of South American Nations and is one of the BRIC Countries.
The climate of Brazil comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a large area and varied topography, but most of the country is tropical. According to the Köppen system, Brazil hosts five major climatic subtypes: equatorial, tropical, semiarid, highland tropical, temperate, and subtropical. The different climatic conditions produce environments ranging from equatorial rain forests in the north and semiarid deserts in the northeast, to temperate coniferous forests in the south and tropical savannas in central Brazil.
The form of government is that of a democratic republic, with a presidential system. The president is both head of state and head of government of the Union and is elected for a four-year term, with the possibility of re-election for a second successive term. The President appoints the Ministers of State, who assist in government. Legislative houses in each political entity are the main source of law in Brazil. The National Congress is the Federation’s bicameral legislature, consisting of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate. Judiciary authorities exercise jurisdictional duties almost exclusively.
Brazilian major export products include aircraft, electrical equipment, automobiles, ethanol, textiles, footwear, iron ore, steel, coffee, orange juice, soybeans and corned beef.
Capital – Brasília
Largest city – São Paulo
Official language – Portuguese
Area – 8,514,877 km2 (5th) 3,287,597 sq mi
Currency – Real (R$) (BRL)
Time zone – BRT[6] (UTC-2 to -4[6])
Drives on the right
ISO 3166 code – BR
Internet TLD – .br
Calling code – +55
Government website – http://www.brasil.gov.br/?set_language=en
Population (millions) 202.6 202.6 204.26
Gross Domestic Product (10^9 USD) 2190 2244 1800
Real Growth Rate (%) 2.7 0.1 (3,0)
Gross National Income per capita (USD) in PPP 15,700.00 15,800.00 15,800.00
Inflation – annual average (%) 5.9 6.3 10.6
Unemployment rate (%) 5.4 4.8 6.4
Imports (10^6 USD) 241900 229200 174200
Exports (10^6 USD) 242000 225100 189100
Exchange rate to the USD 2.15 2.36 3.42
External debt (10^9 USD) 482,8 712,5 N.A.
External help per capita (USD) 0 0 0
Sources: World Bank
Valor económico
http://www.valoronline.com.br/
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http://www.estadao.com.br/
http://www.radiobras.gov.br/
http://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/
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Isto é dinheiro
http://www.terra.com.br/istoedinheiro
Agência Globo
http://oglobo.globo.com
Portugal Digital
http://www.portugaldigital.com.br/
ABN Agência Brasileira de Notícias
http://www.abn.com.br
Brasil Econômico
http://www.brasileconomico.com.br/
Câmara Brasil-China de Desenvolvimento Econômico
http://www.cbcde.org.br
Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil-China
http://www.ccibc.com.br
Unidade de Apoio às Negociações e Integração Regional
http://www2.mre.gov.br/siteunir/
Departamento de Planejamento e Desenvolvimento do Comércio Exterior
http://www.desenvolvimento.gov.br
Federação e Centro das Indústrias do Estado de São Paulo.
http://www.fiesp.org.br/
http://www.sebrae.com.br/
Câmara do Comércio e Indústria Luso-Brasileira
http://www.ccilb.net/
Camara Portuguesa de Comercio no Brasil
http://www.camaraportuguesa.com.br/
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ForMin wants fewer requirements for referendum on dual citizenship
BNS EN,
Linas Linkevičius
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has proposed considering fewer requirements for the referendum on dual citizenship.
"Winning a referendum in accordance to the law is very difficult and risky," the minister said at a meeting of the commission of the Lithuanian parliament and the Lithuanian World Community on Monday.
"Let's try analyzing the Referendum Law, the Constitutional Court has not said anything about aspects of changing it, and this may also be an opportunity," said Linkevičius.
Under the current laws, the provision on dual citizenship can only be changed by way of referendum, if it is approved by at least half of eligible voters.
Expats propose way of preserving Lithuanian citizenship acquired by birth
Dual citizenship only possible by changing Constitution - Constitutional Court
Linkevičius was among the 114 parliamentarians who signed the draft amendments to the Law on Citizenship, which would allow people who left the country after March 11, 1990 and acquired citizenship of any other EU or NATO member state to preserve their Lithuanian citizenship . Nevertheless, he acknowledged the law can be found to be running counter to the Constitution.
The Constitutional Court has ruled that dual citizenship is only possible in individual cases and that broadening dual citizenship requires amending the Constitution through a referendum.
The latest bill was inspired by Great Britain's decision to leave the European Union. Currently, about 200,000 Lithuanians live in Great Britain, and the local community says that one in four could keep their British passports after Brexit to keep their current rights.
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I’m a true workaholic: Bhumi Pednekar
Indian By Nikita Sawant Fri, Jan 25, 2019
She may not have numerous movies in her kitty, but the ones she does have are all successes. Starting out just four years ago with Dum Laga Ke Haisha, where she played an overweight girl marrying a school dropout, Bhumi Pednekar has, today, won people’s hearts with her relatable and real performances in consequent films. She has proven time and again that the success of a film doesn’t just depend on it featuring an all-star cast; it needs a magical story and an actor who can bring the character to life on screen. And bringing characters alive is something the actor is well-versed in. With films like Sonchiriya, Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare, and Bala lined up for release in 2019, it looks like it’s the year of Bhumi Pednekar. Over to the actor.
You worked behind the scenes on several films before becoming an actor. Did you, at the time, think you’d be in front of the camera some day?
I did many odd jobs; I did everything from casting and writing to production. Being in front of the camera was a childhood dream. But I didn’t particularly work towards becoming an actor; I was only 17 when I started working. I was passionate about my job and dedicated to what I was doing. I always knew, however, that I would become an actor some day.
What attracted you towards acting?
I can’t point to a single thing, but I’ve grown up watching Hindi films. I was exposed to all genres of cinema. I watched Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s films, and films such as Baazaar, Shree 420, Mother India, while growing up. Then it was another world with Rangeela, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, that I was exposed to. I was always the kid who would entertain relatives with my dance performances and skits. I think I was born with it. I didn’t think there was anything else I would ever do.
Your first release was Dum Laga Ke Haisha in 2015. What about the script made you feel like this film had to be your debut?
Honestly, the fact that I was getting launched was enough for me to say yes. And, of course, it was a phenomenal script. I was nervous, because I was to play a character that had a different body type than mine, and I was asked to gain weight, but it was a golden opportunity since I don’t come from a film family. When I read the script, I could see that it wasn’t a regular film, but I figured that maybe that’s what I needed to do.
"I was always the kid who would entertain relatives with my dance performances, and skits."
You’ve done films like Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, and Dum Laga Ke Haisha that carried a social message. Has it been a conscious decision to be a part of such films?
Not really. I think the films you choose have a lot to do with your personality and the kind of cinema you like watching. The films you mentioned have all been beautiful love stories with a message. In the times we’re living in, films need to have a much greater purpose.
But because of these films, you’re considered as someone who is breaking stereotypes. Your thoughts?
It’s a great compliment to my work. It’s good to be a part of cinema that has tried to bring about change. I may be breaking stereotypes, but the real heroes are the writers and filmmakers who have made me a part of their films. I think there’s been a shift in power where films are concerned; from actors, the power has come back to writers and directors, and that’s how it should be. That’s the only way our fraternity can flourish. I feel extremely honoured that these storytellers felt like I could do justice to their stories.
What, for you, is the best thing about your profession?
It’s that I get to do so many things. I get to live lives that are so different from my real one. I’m not like any of the girls that I have portrayed in my past films. They’re brought up in different circumstances from mine; I, for one, am a true-blue Mumbai girl. I developed several skills for my films and I’ve become a nicer person. I love the fact that with every role I play, there’s a metamorphosis of Bhumi that’s happening. I’m growing and I think it’s for the best.
Which co-star do you feel most comfortable working with?
I’m a happy, friendly person. I get along with all my co-stars. But working with Konkona (Sen Sharma) on Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare was a different kind of fun. It was my first time working with a female co-star and we had an amazing time.
"In the times we’re living in, films need to have a much greater purpose."
How does criticism about your films or your performances affect you?
It affects me, but I like thinking of it as constructive criticism. That’s the best way to deal with it. You don’t always have to agree with what people say, but sometimes, you see your work and realise that maybe what some people have said makes sense. So you work on it and do better the next time.
How do you beat the stress that comes with the territory?
You know, for me, just being on set is a stress buster. I enjoy everything about my profession. I’m a true workaholic.
Tell us about the Bhumi not many people know about.
Well, I’m nothing like the characters I play. Obviously, there are some core values that resonate with me, but apart from that, I’m an everyday girl. I’m obsessed with makeup, I love dressing up, dancing, reading, and watching movies. I travel a lot. I’m very close to my friends and family.
"I love the fact that with every role I play, there’s a metamorphosis of Bhumi that’s happening."
Who has been the biggest influence in your life?
It has to be my mother and my sister. I’m blessed to have them in my life. Both of them are such strong personalities and have been amazing role models in their own ways. Where actors are concerned, there are a whole bunch of them who inspire me, like Priyanka Chopra, Waheedaji (Rahman), and Rekha ma’am.
Is there a beauty tip that you follow religiously?
I always remove my makeup before going to bed. I may have shot for 20 hours, but I make sure I come back and remove every last bit of makeup from my face. I try keeping my skin hydrated, and detoxifying my body as much as possible.
What do you like to do to unwind?
I just go meet my friends. I also travel quite a bit with them; we love exploring new places. I like watching movies with my girlfriends. I’m a complete couch potato when I’m at home; I love binge-watching television shows. Right now, I’m hooked on to the show The Marvellous Mrs Maisel.
Did you enjoy shooting for the Femina cover?
I had a blast. The styling was lovely; the team did a phenomenal job. The best part is that it’s the most different I have looked. I’ve been exploring my fashion game for the past two years, and I think this cover added a lot to it. The team had a vision, and I, despite being nervous at the start, went with the flow. And I’m extremely happy that I did. It’s strong, edgy, high-fashion, and glamorous.
Can you tell us about your upcoming projects?
One is Sonchiriya, which will be out in February 2019. It’s a hard-hitting story. I’ve had to learn and do many new things for it—I learnt how to milk a cow, walked barefoot for seven kilometres, fetched water from a well, and also changed my workout routine. Then, of course, there’s Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare. The director, Alankrita Shrivastava, has a very unique voice—she’s quirky and she empowers women. I’m also doing a film with Ayushmann (Khurrana) called Bala. It’s an exciting year for me.
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar
Rupnagar, Punjab
IIT Ropar (also known as Rupnagar) is one of the eight new IITs established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India in 2008. The IIT Ropar was set up with an aim to expand the reach and improve the quality of technical education in the country. The leading institute has successfully increased its students’ strength from 650 (2015) to more than 1100 currently and strives to increase the number to 2500 students by 2019. IIT Ropar is committed to offering state-of-the-art technical education in various fields with world-class quality education. This will enable students to gain skills and exposure to changes in their preferred field of study. The technical institute has key departments such as Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Mechanical, Civil, Mathematics, Physics and Metallurgical and Materials Engineering among others.
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FAO needs $83.2 million to prevent immediate famine in Yemen
The conflict in Yemen has escalated dramatically since nearly four years ago and is compounding an already severe protracted humanitarian crisis. Some 67 percent (20 million people) of the country’s total population of 29.9 million would be in need of urgent assistance to save their lives and livelihoods. The ongoing conflict has led to a severe economic decline and collapsed essential services, taking an enormous toll on the population and exacerbating existing vulnerabilities. The expansion of the conflict has also led to large-scale displacement of 3.3 million people and high rates of malnutrition. Malnutrition is affecting 3 million people including 1.5 million children, 1.1 million pregnant and lactating women, and 400 000 acutely malnourished children. The agriculture sector is among the worst hit by the current crisis and local food production has been severely compromised.
Conflict and insecurity remain the main drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition that have pushed the most vulnerable households to the brink of famine. They include a significant loss of income and disrupted livelihoods, huge population displacement, restricted access, shrinking imports and continuing depreciation of the Yemeni Rial, which deepens the currency and economic crisis.
Preventing the country from slipping into famine requires a significant political and economic engagement at all levels from all sides on finding peaceful solutions to end the conflict and an immediate cessation of hostilities. It also requires immediate high impact programmes to bolster and revive disrupted livelihoods for vulnerable rural communities. The Famine Prevention Plan, which is within the framework of the Yemen Famine Prevention Roadmap and the Yemen Famine Prevention Strategy, is just one of the actions that need to be implemented by stakeholders to prevent famine from occurring in the country. The Plan stipulates key interventions that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will implement between January and June 2019 to prevent the most vulnerable and at-risk households from sliding into famine.
Though the Plan’s interventions are short term and quick impact in nature, they are not mutually exclusive but rather supplementary to interventions of the Emergency Livelihoods Response Plan 2019, which is a twelve-month plan developed within the framework of the Humanitarian Response Plan 2019.
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Shelley Berger, University of Pennsylvania
Neuroepigenetic pathways as targets in memory programming and disease.
Icahn 101
Quantitative & Computational Biology
We are investigating the role of histone acetylation pathways in regulation of mouse and human memory and diseases of memory. In mouse we have investigated a novel pathway within the nucleus of metabolic production of acetyl-CoA, the key cofactor for histone acetylation, by a metabolic enzyme, ACSS2. Our findings reveal that ACSS2 functions as a chromatin-bound coactivator that locally provides acetyl-CoA to promote histone acetylation and neuron-specific transcription for learning and memory. (Mews et al., Nature, 2017)
In further studies, we discovered, using in vivo stable isotope labeling in mouse, that alcohol metabolism rapidly fuels histone acetylation in the brain by direct deposition of alcohol-derived acetyl groups onto histones in an ACSS2-dependent manner. We find alcohol-related associative learning requires ACSS2 in vivo. These findings establish a direct link between alcohol metabolism and neuronal ACSS2-dependent histone acetylation in the brain.
We have initiated study of epigenomic alterations in human Alzheimer’s disease. One major question in the field is whether AD is an accelerated form of normal aging or a distinct disease pathway. We carried out a comparative genome-wide study of one particular histone acetylation site in young, old, and AD post mortem brain samples. Our results reveal that the normal aging brains show aspects of actual protection via epigenetic alteration against late-onset single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are associated with AD risk.
About Dr. Berger's Research:
Epigenetics and chromatin structure/function in genomic regulation
Translational modifications of histones and transcription factors problems: transcription, cancer, senescence and aging, behavioral epigenetics, gametogenesis.
Key words: epigenetics, chromatin, histone post-translational modifications, p53 tumor suppresor
Research Overview --
Our research focuses on regulation of the nuclear genome in mammals and model organisms. The long strands of nuclear DNA are associated with packaging proteins, called histones, into a structure known as chromatin, akin to the way thread is organized around a spool. We are particularly interested in changes in this chromatin structure via chemical modification of the histone proteins, and how attachment of certain chemical groups onto the histones leads to altered chromatin function. These targeted structural changes are conceptually like the unraveling of the thread to reach specific, buried sections. We are also fascinated by functional changes in chromatin, caused by these histone modifications, that persist through cell division from one cell into two daughter cells; these persistent, or epigenetic, changes are of particular interest because they are key to normal and abnormal growth: they occur during organismal development into multicellular tissues and organs, and are typically disrupted during abnormal reversal of tissue specialization and growth control as in cancer, as well as during aging of cells and individuals.
Research Focus --
The basis of genome regulation is a fundamental biological question. Our past research findings have helped to establish the prevailing view that histone modifications regulate genomic functions, including transcription of genes, DNA replication during cell division, repair of DNA mutations as a result of DNA damage, and other processes. Our work has focused on transcription, or the turning on and off of gene expression, and the myriad of histone modifications that occur, such as acetylation, phosphorylation, methylation, among other chemical changes. We have identified many new modifications and the enzymes that carry them out, as well as understanding how the enzymes are recruited to certain locations in the genome. There is now an explosion of research in the field of chromatin regulation and how these histone modifications function to regulate the genome. We have contributed to the current ideas, including how histone PTMs function in combinatorial patterns, and in temporal sequences, to set up the intricate timing and spatial requirements of turning genes on and off, as depicted in the Figure. For example, we have extensively studied a pattern on histone H3 consisting of Serine10 phosphorylation and Lysine14 acetylation. We identified the enzymes that carry out the linked modifications, established the structural and biochemical basis of the cross-talk, and discovered a binding protein that specifically associates with the pattern, rather than the individual modifications. In a second example, we studied the timing of histone H2B ubiquitylation followed by deubiquitylation, identified the deubiquitylating enzyme, and determined the biochemical role of the dynamic switch, i.e. in regulating elongation by RNA polymerase II through transcribed genes.
Our work has also helped to reveal how some of these modifications, first characterized on histone substrates, such as acetylation and methylation, function to regulate non-histone proteins. In particular, we have identified new modifications on the tumor suppressor and transcription factor, p53; we focus on p53 because of its key function in regulating growth to prevent cancer, and so we wish to determine how these individual modifications turn p53 function on and off. As depicted in the Figure, our recent findings show that methylation and demethylation of p53 at a single lysine residue both activate and repress p53 function. This regulation occurs by promoting or inhibiting, respectively, the binding of a p53 coactivator protein, called 53BP1. We believe this type of regulation of p53 will prove to be common among non-histone proteins.
Research Future Directions --
Our current focus is to continue to discover novel chromatin and factor modifications and their mechanisms of action. However we are now endeavoring to elucidate the role and importance of these modifications in normal and abnormal cellular function. We are in particular keen to determine whether these modifications are important in persistent or epigenetic cellular states, as mentioned above. Thus, our emphasis is more biological in the sense of investigating how physical changes in chromatin impact biological processes such as gametogenesis and viral latency, as well as broader phenomenon such as aging, behavior and cancer. As one recent example, we have initiated a study of chromatin changes during replicative aging in the model S. cerevisiae. We discovered that telomeric changes in chromatin are centrally involved. Specifically, as depicted in the Figure, in old cells there is a reduction in the level of the histone deacetylase Sir2, which is crucial in maintaining compact chromatin in sub-telomeric regions, leading to an increase in histone H4 K16 acetylation by the acetylase Sas2. The result of this is decompaction of the teleomeric chromatin in the old cells.
Epigenetics is still an emerging field in biology, and is exerting an increasingly profound impact on medicine because of its potential explanatory power in development and disease. In spite of the broad interest, there is no clear consensus on a definition of epigenetics in chromatin research. To help to provide a framework for the field and beyond into the wider research community, we have recently published a short proposal defining Epigenetics, encompassing both established ideas in the chromatin field and providing some operational concepts, as shown in the Figure.
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Contemporary - A style of dance that traditionally combines classical modern with classical ballet, but is now allowing jazz, lyrical and hip-hop to influence the choreography.
Hip Hop - A style that refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking, locking, and popping.
Jazz - A style of dance that partners music and body that reflects a compilation of universal cultures and styles in an effort to strengthen the body, mind and soul as an individual within a communal energy. It combines syncopated rhythms with technical movements that stem from classical ballet.
Kick - A dance performance where the majority of the dance includes varied kick sequences and are performed with an emphasis on precision, timing, control, technique and height uniformity.
Lyrical - A melding of ballet, jazz and modern with emphasis on using the lyrics and emotions of the music to influence the choreography and performance.
Military - A dance performance consisting of strong, sharp, linear movements focusing on precision, placement, and formation changes.
Modern - A very grounded style of dance whose roots began as a complete contrast to ballet. Movements stem from contractions, swing and release and fall and recovery. Themes and Variations are seen throughout the dance and tend to lead the choreography.
Novelty - A dance performance that is popular for being unusual or humorous. Usually has a theme that is carried out throughout the performance by using dance movements appropriate to the character of the dance.
Open - Any style of dance that does not fit into the traditional categories. Usually a combination of the above categories or has a more theatrical element.
Pom - A style that has a strong emphasis on intricate arm movements and visually pleasing to the eye due to the different groupings and shapes made by the arm movements. Poms should be utilized for the majority of the routine.
Production - A dance performance that is usually themed that utilizes a combination of dance elements and styles. Staging, props, and/or backdrops may be utilized. Performance must not exceed over 6 1/2 min.
Prop - A style that incorporates an object that leads the choreography and helps paint a picture for the audience. Props must be used the majority of the time.
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Two remanded over triple murder
metrowebukmetroThursday 6 Sep 2007 11:30 am
Two men remanded over the Bishop Stortford triple murder
A father and son have been remanded into custody after they appeared in court charged in connection with a triple murder.
Keith Cowell, 52, and his son Matthew, 17, were shot dead at their home in Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, on August 28, along with Tony Dulieu, 33, of Billericay, Essex.
Kevan Thakrar, 20, of Lomond Way, Stevenage, appeared before Stevenage magistrates’ court facing three counts of murder, two of attempted murder and a firearms offence. His father, Atul Thakrar, 46, of the same address, is charged with one offence of assisting an offender.
Magistrates refused an application for bail and both men were remanded in custody until September 21 when they will be brought before St Albans Crown Court.
A 23-year-old woman and a 54-year-old woman were badly hurt in the attack at the semi-detached house in Plaw Hatch Close. They are said to be in a “serious but stable” condition in hospital, where they are thought to be under police guard.
Locals named the younger woman as Clare, Matthew Cowell’s girlfriend. The older woman was said to be Keith Cowell’s sister, Christine.
Police said a three-year-old girl, named by neighbours as Clare’s daughter Courtney, was unharmed and is being cared for by family members.
An unidentified third man charged with dealing class A drugs in connection with the murder investigation appeared before magistrates on Wednesday, police said. His identity is being withheld “to protect the integrity of the case”, a Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman said.
For “operational reasons”, the case was heard in closed session at an unnamed court, she added. She would not confirm if a man in his 30s arrested in London on Monday was the third person charged.
Two men arrested in Stevenage last Friday in connection with the murders have been released on police bail pending further inquiries.
ChristineCrime newsKeith CowellKevan ThakrarMatthew CowellTony Dulieu
Care worker guilty of murdering and raping Lucy McHugh, 13, in woodland
Child arrested over rape of girl, 13, at edge of playing fields
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Awa Ni
The Knocks & Kah-Lo 2019
Best Friend (feat. NERVO, The Knocks & Alisa Ueno)
Sofi Tukker 2017
We Got U
Lemaitre & The Knocks 2016
Love Me Like That (feat. Carly Rae Jepsen)
New York City (feat. Cam'ron)
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About The Knocks
A production and DJ duo who specialize in melodic, carefree dance music that draws from soul, funk, disco, rap, and pop, the Knocks were formed in 2008 by James "JPatt" Patterson and Ben "DJ B-Roc" Ruttner. Patterson and Ruttner met at New York City's New School and shared an apartment, where they set up small recording studios in their bedrooms. The loud noise coming from their apartment would lead to neighbors constantly knock on their door in order to get them to pipe down, hence the duo's name. Early success as remixers, however, enabled them to build their own studio in Manhattan. During 2008 and 2009, Knocks remixes surfaced for Katy Perry ("I Kissed a Girl"), Britney Spears ("3"), Chris Brown ("Beautiful People"), and PRGz ("Soul Glo").
In 2010, the duo released their first singles, the sunny "Dancing with the DJ" (which later appeared on their 2011 EP Magic) and the whistling "Make It Better." Over the course of the next few years, the duo's profile was magnified by additional remixes for Tegan and Sara ("Closer"), the 1975 ("Girls"), and Dragonette ("Let It Go"), among others, in addition to tours with Ellie Goulding, Dragonette, and Sleigh Bells. They also collaborated with Fred Falke for the Kitsuné Music release "Geronimo" in 2012, as well as Treasure Fingers for "DYWT," released on Fool's Gold Clubhouse in 2014. Also in 2014, the group released an EP, titled Comfortable and released on the Neon Gold label, that included collaborations with X Ambassadors and Ra Ra Riot.
Signed to Big Beat, the Knocks slowed it down a bit for the 2014 single "Classic," one of their funkier and more disco-indebted singles, featuring Powers. An EP titled So Classic appeared in April of 2015, followed by a new version of "Classic" featuring a verse by Fetty Wap. The Knocks spent much of the year working on their long-delayed debut album, which was previewed by the singles "I Wish (My Taylor Swift)" (with Matthew Koma) and "New York City" (featuring Cam'ron). Finally, in March 2016, the duo dropped their first full-length, 55, which included additional guest appearances from Wyclef Jean, Walk the Moon, Carly Rae Jepsen, Alex Newell, and Semi-Precious Weapons' Justin Trantor. That July, the duo remixed selected tracks from the album on the 55.5 EP. In early 2017, the Knocks released Testify, an EP of new songs featuring collaborations with MNEK, Delacey, and Tayla Parx. Later that year, the duo formed the Mary Nixons, a group with Mat Zo, and issued the single "Adrian." Months later, they followed with the Captain Cuts collaboration "House Party." ~ Andy Kellman
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Mystery of Love (From “Call Me By Your Name”) - Single Sufjan Stevens
Mystery of Love (From “Call Me By Your Name”)
Released: Dec 1, 2017
℗ 2017 Sufjan Stevens, under license to Madison Gate Records, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Jardin d'hiver - Single 2000
All I Really Want Is Love
Henri Salvador & Lisa Ekdahl 2002
Chambre Avec Vue 2000
Jazz Silver Moonlight
Que Reste-t-il de Nos Amours
Rosa Passos, Henri Salvador, Cyro Baptista, Paulo Braga, Helio Alves & Paulo Paulelli 2003
J'ai vu
Aime moi
Il fait dimanche
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About Henri Salvador
Henri Salvador enjoyed one of the longest careers of any French cabaret artist, debuting professionally in the mid-'30s and recording -- with satisfying results -- all the way into the new millennium. For much of his career, Salvador was known for his jazzy guitar work, his comic talents, and novelty songs, and a distinct Brazilian influence in his brand of chanson. A star in France since the end of World War II, Salvador shifted into children's music for much of the '70s before reclaiming his old audience. He reinvented himself again with 2000's Chambre Avec Vue, a gentle, nostalgic collection of love songs that, thanks in part to the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon, was reissued in America by the legendary jazz label Blue Note.
Salvador was born on July 18, 1917, in Cayenne, French Guiana. His father came from Spanish stock and his mother was descended from Caribbean natives, and both had been born on the island of Guadeloupe. The family moved to Paris when Salvador was seven, and at age 11, he discovered American jazz via Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. He started playing the guitar, influenced primarily by the great gypsy jazzman Django Reinhardt, and at age 16 landed his first professional gig with Paul Raiss' orchestra. In 1935, he began performing with a jazz quartet at Jimmy's Bar, a popular cabaret. In addition to establishing his talents as a comedian, this exposure led to a gig with American violinist Eddy South in 1936, and also a meeting with his idol Django Reinhardt, for whom he served as accompanist for a brief period.
Salvador's promising career was interrupted by World War II; he enlisted in the military in 1937 and served for four years. He quickly found work with Bernard Hilda's Cannes-based jazz orchestra, and from there was hired by orchestra leader Ray Ventura for his comic presence. Ventura's group spent much of the remainder of World War II touring South America, particularly Brazil, with an act highlighted by Salvador's vocal impressions of Popeye. He performed his first solo shows in Brazil in 1942, and when he returned to France after the war in 1945, he decided to embark on a solo career.
Salvador's time in Brazil helped him break away from his dominant Reinhardt influence, and he incorporated elements of samba into much of his subsequent work. He started his own group and, in 1947, cut his first solo sides for Polydor, including "Clopin Clopant," "Maladie de l'Amour," and "Ma Doudou." The following year, he appeared in the operetta Le Chevalier Bayard alongside Yves Montand. In 1949, Salvador was awarded the prestigious Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros on the strength of two hits, "Parce Que Ça Me Donne du Courage" and "Le Portrait de Tante Caroline." He followed them with one of his all-time classics, "Le Loup, la Biche, et le Chevalier (Une Chanson Douce)."
Salvador spent much of the early '50s giving live performances, both in France and abroad. He moved over to the Philips label in 1952 and issued the LP À Pleyel in 1955. Late the following year, he made his first appearance in the United States, right in the midst of the rock & roll craze. After appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, Salvador returned to France and hooked up with songwriting partner Boris Vian. Adopting the pseudonym Henri Cording, Salvador began writing rock & roll songs with Vian and recording them with a group dubbed the Original Rock and Roll Boys. Oddly humorous novelty numbers like "Rock and Roll Mops" and "Le Blues du Dentiste" gave France some of its earliest exposure to the new music. Salvador moved to the Barclay label in 1958, but unfortunately, Vian passed away the following year, having collaborated on over 400 songs with Salvador in their brief but hugely productive partnership.
Salvador soldiered on, culling another live album, Alhambra, from his performances at the titular venue in 1960. He embarked on a successful 12-week run on Italian television in 1961, which encouraged him to concentrate almost exclusively on that medium for his live performances. He and his wife Jacqueline started their own music publishing company and label, Disques Salvador, and he quickly boosted them with a hit, "Le Lion Est Mort Ce Soir," in 1962. He followed that with the Monsieur Boum Boum LP in 1963, and subsequently started a new label, Rigolo, that would be the home of a series of hit singles from 1964-1968: "Syracuse," "Zorro Est Arrivé" (an adaptation of the Coasters' "Along Came Jones"), "Le Travail C'est le Santé," "Juanita Banana," "Veunise," "Quand Faut Y Aller, Faut Y Aller," and "Mon Pote le Blues," among several others. Salvador closed out the '60s with a series of popular television specials, as well as the LP C'est Beau de Faire un Show in 1969.
In 1971, Salvador morphed into a children's singer with an original song that recounted the plot of the Disney film The Aristocats. The resulting album, Henri Salvador Chante 'Les Aristochats' et le Monde Merveilleux de Disney, helped him win his second Grand Prix du Disque. Over the next five years, Salvador recorded five more children's albums that relied heavily on Disney films, in particular tackling Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Robin Hood, and Pinocchio; he also made recordings of LaFontaine's fables. Following his wife's death in 1976, Salvador returned to adult music, issuing two albums -- Salvador 77 and Les Canotiers -- over the next two years. In 1979, he recorded Salvador/Vian, a tribute album for Boris Vian that revisited 12 of their best-known works. Salvador en Fête followed in 1980, recapping some of his most celebrated moments on record.
After this burst of activity, Salvador slowed his pace a bit, concentrating more on television performances and his return to the concert stage in 1982. The latter was documented on the double-album Live du Spectacle de la Porte de Pantin. In 1984, Salvador retired his label -- in part because his wife had always handled most of its everyday operation -- and signed with EMI/Pathé Marconi, for whom he debuted with 1985's all-new Henri. The French songwriters union SACEM honored him with its Grand Prix de l'Humour in 1987, and the following year he was knighted as a Chevalier in the Legion d'Honneur. A new album, Des Goûts et des Couleurs, appeared in 1989 and proved to be his last for EMI.
Salvador kicked off the '90s by returning to his roots in jazz and blues. He appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991, and two years later performed with the great French jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani. In 1994, he signed a new deal with Sony and traveled to New York to record the jazzy Monsieur Henri album; the live Casino de Paris followed a year later. In 1996, he received a special lifetime achievement award at the Victoires de la Musique Awards, where he performed a duet with Ray Charles.
After resting comfortably on his laurels for several years, Salvador returned to recording in 2000 with Chambre Avec Vue, a high-profile comeback that featured a number of promising young songwriters, a duet with Françoise Hardy, and some of Salvador's first self-penned material in quite some time. A gentle, delicate, romantic fusion of French pop and bossa nova, Chambre Avec Vue was a huge hit with the French public; it also won him Best Male Artist and Album of the Year awards at the Victoires de la Musique. The recent success of the Buena Vista Social Club album and documentary in America had suddenly made hot commodities of older foreign musicians, and in 2002, Blue Note reissued Salvador's album under its English title, Room with a View. Meanwhile, Salvador embarked on a triumphant tour of France and, later, North America. He returned with a similar-sounding follow-up, Ma Chère et Tendre, in 2003, and three years later Révérence, an album that was recorded mostly in Brazil and included duets with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, came out. Henri Salvador died at age 90 from a ruptured aneurysm at his home in Paris on February 13, 2008. ~ Steve Huey
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Home / Health / India has a long way to go before it can use space for modern warfare
India has a long way to go before it can use space for modern warfare
Leo Tolstoy Health
The high ground always had a position of benefit or superiority in the army. Sixty years after the first satellite was launched, space became the new military high ground that countries wanted to seize and dominate.
Just last year, the US indicated it by establishing a sixth branch of its army: a restored US Space Command with its own & # 39; Space Force & # 39;. The Chinese created the Strategic Support Force, the fifth branch of their army in 2015, with responsibilities for space and cyber war. This is the context in which we should make India's somewhat cautious decision to establish a Defense Space Agency (DSA).
From the start, space has sparked military interest and indeed most space programs have been militarily run. The Outer Space Convention prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space and prohibits the national appropriation of celestial objects, or the construction of military installations. It does not, however, prohibit military activities in space, space-oriented military forces or the use of conventional weapons in space.
The decision to create the DSA is in line with India's parsimonious space program. Similarly, it has to navigate through the conflicting demands of agencies such as the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Technical Research Office (NTRO) for the control of space-based assets.
India is the country that enters the multi-tasking satellites as those of the INSAT series, and also in defense. It finds it easy to insist that different agencies use the use of assets.
In most countries, civilian applications of space were a discount to their predominantly military programs. India was the odd one and insisted the program was aimed at serving development goals. India has gone out of its way to make its program as transparent as possible, detailing the technology it develops, its testing processes and so on.
One reason for this was the decision by ISRO to take all the foreign aid it can get into the Pre-Missile Technology Control regime. And it got quite a bit of it, for a range of applications ranging from space-tiled vehicles to sensors and satellites.
As far as military applications are concerned, India has the Defense Research and Development Organization, which has developed its own path to trial and missiles. But when it didn't work, they introduced knowledge of ISRO in the form of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who helped develop the SLV-3, and used the knowledge to develop the Agni series. Eventually, India settled on a model that uses the dual nature of many space applications.
India exploited the space for telecommunications, remote sensing and navigation in the 1980s, but its use for defense was limited to acquiring images of organizations such as SPOT from France. Next, it developed its own image automotive vehicles, coming from the civilian effort, such as the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) Satellite Program in the 1980s. In 2001, it launched an image satellite called the Technology Experiment Satellite (TES).
But it was only in the Cartosat series that began in 2005 that India has its own satellites capable of delivering military useful images, although only a few work exclusively for the armed forces, others, as usual, multi-task.
Other militarily important multi-taskers are the Resourcesat 2 (2011) series, again satellites such as SARAL (2013), OceanSat 2 (2009) and the RISAT 2 (2009) and RISAT 1 (2012). This allows data to flow to the ISRO stations or to the managers of the defense and intelligence agencies.
The DIA, which was set up in the wake of the 2001 reforms, operates the Defense Processing and Analysis Center, which has a satellite reception center. at Gwalior to analyze satellite data. The NTRO, which got control of the military satellites, has its own station in Assam. His mandate is to provide raw information to the Central Archives facility so that it can be accessed by all users.
In the field of communications, ISRO's INSAT series has provided the country with the capability for telecommunications and TV broadcasting. But the first satellite dedicated to military communication, the GSAT 7 (eg INSAT 4F), was launched only in 2013. These were the needs of the Indian Navy. Then, in December 2018, it launched the GSAT 7A to meet the requirements of the Indian Air Force.
In the field of navigation, India has supplemented its Indian regional navigation system (IRNSS) for a GPS-like capability for India in southern Asia and would like to provide encrypted data for military use, the latter.
In the early decades, space was used by the army in a passive way – to obtain images, electronic intelligence and communication and navigation aids. Increasingly, the importance of fast encrypted communication and images to provide battle-space awareness is becoming an important factor in modern warfare. So has the ability of space systems to fight fighter jets, UAVs and ammunition. Indeed, many soldiers see the use of space as essential to their ability to fight and win wars.
So, we've seen a military interest in blinding opponent satellites, capturing their signals or even capturing and destroying them. This is a whole new world of so-called counter-space missions. The Indian AST test was just the tip of the iceberg, and a somewhat outdated demonstration. Countries like the US and China have shifted to other techniques, such as frame satellites or the use of ground or space-based lasers to take them out.
The future environment is likely to be an even more intense use of satellites, perhaps constellations of smaller satellites, that can provide real-time on-demand information. In an environment where satellites can be disabled or neutralized, the army would have the ability to quickly replace them – in other words, their own launch vehicles and satellites.
It's not surprising that India is a DSA. At the same time, it also showed a sharp increase in its space-related activities. In the next decade, ISRO will be launching new rocket engines, launch vehicles, launch configurations, propulsion systems, fuel types, and so on. Offer. It also hopes to launch an orbital crew channel in 2022, and more recently, the ISRO head has announced the target. to establish a space station by 2030.
As with other countries, many of these missions will develop technologies that have military applications.
But India has a long way to go, not just in the area of anti-space technology – where its lonely AST test doesn't really matter. The challenge comes equally from the use of space technologies, such as robots to inspect, repair and dispose of damaged satellites, from satellites that can be armed with lasers.
India's ability to use space for military purposes is extremely limited. It only has a dozen satellites for military purposes, while China probably has 10x as much.
Imagerysatellites like Cartosat and RISAT can provide useful images, but India has a long way to go before it can be near real-time. imagery or electronic intelligence, which is often necessary to maintain the pace of modern warfare.
Manoj Joshi is a Distinguished Fellow, Observatory Research Foundation.
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King’s College Chapel, Strand, London
The original organ of King’s College was thought to be built in around 1854, and was housed in the old chapel; there is very little information existing of this organ, although it seems to have formed the basis of the 1866 instrument which was built in the new chapel designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, who also designed the new organ façade which exists today.
The organ remained pretty much undisturbed until 1932, when the roof of the chapel was dramatically lowered to facilitate the building of a new Anatomy department directly on top of the chapel. Willis III completely rebuilt and electrified the organ, which had to be lowered about 3 metres to avoid the newly lowered ceiling, a detached console was provided and sited on the chapel floor.
This instrument lasted until 1977 when the Bishop company were brought in to radically alter the organ once again. Tonally the organ was introduced to more neoclassical voices, and some of the Willis I & III pipework was lost. Direct pallet soundboards were introduced with mixed results. A new console was supplied by Bishop’s in 2000.
We were called in by the College’s new advisor, David Titterington to see what could be done with the organ, which by 2016 was not in a good working order and was felt not to be a suitable instrument for such a world class university chapel and its choir.
We recommended the thorough rebuilding of the organ with a completely new mechanism using the best of the remaining Willis pipework, including the superb façade. The new organ would not be a Willis reconstruction, but tonally would be very much influenced by Father Willis.
A new Great chorus was made, as the old chorus had been much altered and revoiced, and was no longer thought to be up to the job of supporting the organ as the foundation of the new instrument. The former Great Principal went on to the Choir, and the Fifteenth and tierce Mixture went on to the Swell. The old Great Open Diapason became the new Pedal Principal.
The superb Willis reeds had all survived pretty much unscathed and were kept, a new Vox Humana (copied from the Union Chapel, Islington) was re-introduced to the Swell as were new Pedal reeds, all made to Fr Willis scales. A new Flûte à Cheminée was also made for the Swell, this time copied from the Royal Albert Hall.
Barring the larger bass notes, all the pipework is now on slider soundboards; there are no borrowings or extensions.
The organ has also been provided with an exquisite new console and mobile platform, all made in solid European oak. The stencilling and painting of the façade were restored by Robert Woodland.
Scales for the King's College Chapel Organ.
The opening recital by David Titterington, and blessing of the organ by the Dean took place on the 12th November 2018.
Project Leader: Michael Blighton
Organ Consultant: David Titterington
Technical Design: Geoff McMahon
Scaling and Voicing: Michael Blighton
Metal Pipework: Roger Kirchner
Site team: Siegfried Auer, Nicholas Von Bandemer, Billy Gleed, Philip Shrimpton
Tonal Finishing: Michael Blighton, Felip-Ioan Serbu
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John Le Mesurier
A Christmas Night with the Stars – 1972
source, two Adrienne Posta, Alyn Ainsworth, Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Bill Oddie, Bill Pertwee, Cilla Black, Clive Dunn, Denise Distel, Graeme Garden, Ian Lavender, James Beck, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Lulu, Michael Knowles, Mike Yarwood, Mollie Sugden, Nerys Hughes, Nosher Powell, Paul Ellison, Peter Greene, Polly James, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Sally James, Sheila Fay, The Breakaways, The Young Generation, Tim Brooke-Taylor
Tagged Adrienne Posta, Alyn Ainsworth, Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Bill Oddie, Bill Pertwee, Cilla Black, Clive Dunn, Denise Distel, Graeme Garden, Ian Lavender, James Beck, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Lulu, Michael Knowles, Mike Yarwood, Mollie Sugden, Nerys Hughes, Nosher Powell, Paul Ellison, Peter Greene, Polly James, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Sally James, Sheila Fay, The Breakaways, The Young Generation, Tim Brooke-Taylor
1964 Intro
source, two Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Beverley Simons, Bill Pertwee, Bob Hope, Briony McRoberts, Cilla Black, Clive Dunn, Clodagh Rodgers, Dick Emery, Frank Sinatra, Graham Kerr, Ian Carmichael, Ian Johnson, Ian Lavender, Jack Warner, James Beck, Jerry Lewis, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, June Whitfield, Mary Hopkin, Nana Mouskouri, Pauline Yates, Roland Pickering, Stanley Baxter, Terry Scott, The Breakaways
Tagged Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Beverley Simons, Bill Pertwee, Bob Hope, Briony McRoberts, Cilla Black, Clive Dunn, Clodagh Rodgers, Dick Emery, Frank Sinatra, Graham Kerr, Ian Carmichael, Ian Johnson, Ian Lavender, Jack Warner, James Beck, Jerry Lewis, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, June Whitfield, Mary Hopkin, Nana Mouskouri, Pauline Yates, Roland Pickering, Stanley Baxter, Terry Scott, The Breakaways
source, two Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Bill Pertwee, Carol Cleveland, Cilla Black, Cliff Adams, Clive Dunn, Dick Emery, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Hugo Keith-Johnston, Ian Lavender, James Beck, Jill Riddick, John Cleese, John Junkin, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Kenneth McKellar, Kenneth Williams, Lulu, Marty Feldman, Mary Hopkin, Michael Palin, Moira Anderson, Peter Elliott, Reginald Marsh, Robert Aldous, Roland MacLeod, Rolf Harris, Ronald Hines, Roy Castle, Terry Jones, The Cliff Adams Singers, The Young Generation, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Val Doonican, Verina Greenlaw, Wendy Craig
Tagged Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Bill Pertwee, Carol Cleveland, Cilla Black, Cliff Adams, Clive Dunn, Dick Emery, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Hugo Keith-Johnston, Ian Lavender, James Beck, Jill Riddick, John Cleese, John Junkin, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Kenneth McKellar, Kenneth Williams, Lulu, Marty Feldman, Mary Hopkin, Michael Palin, Moira Anderson, Peter Elliott, Reginald Marsh, Robert Aldous, Roland MacLeod, Rolf Harris, Ronald Hines, Roy Castle, Terry Jones, The Cliff Adams Singers, The Young Generation, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Val Doonican, Verina Greenlaw, Wendy Craig
source, two Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Cliff Richard, Clive Dunn, Edward Sinclair, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Fanny Rowe, Frances Rowe, Harry Worth, Hugo Keith-Johnston, Ian Lavender, James Beck, Jill Riddick, Jimmy Logan, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Kenneth McKellar, Louis Armstrong, Lulu, Marty Feldman, Nana Mouskouri, Petula Clark, Roberta Tovey, Rolf Harris, Ronald Hines, The Seekers, Wendy Craig
Tagged Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Cliff Richard, Clive Dunn, Edward Sinclair, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Fanny Rowe, Frances Rowe, Harry Worth, Hugo Keith-Johnston, Ian Lavender, James Beck, Jill Riddick, Jimmy Logan, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Kenneth McKellar, Louis Armstrong, Lulu, Marty Feldman, Nana Mouskouri, Petula Clark, Roberta Tovey, Rolf Harris, Ronald Hines, The Seekers, Wendy Craig
George and the Dragon : Merry Christmas – 1966
source, two Bob Hornery, Jack Wild, Jeffrey Segal, John Le Mesurier, Keith Marsh, Kim Smith, Peggy Mount, Shelagh Fraser, Sid James, Sidney James, Stephen Bullivent, Yootha Joyce
Tagged Bob Hornery, Jack Wild, Jeffrey Segal, John Le Mesurier, Keith Marsh, Kim Smith, Peggy Mount, Shelagh Fraser, Sid James, Sidney James, Stephen Bullivent, Yootha Joyce
Dad’s Army : The Love of Three Oranges – 1976
source, two Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Bill Pertwee, Clive Dunn, Colin Bean, Edward Sinclair, Eric Longworth, Frank Williams, Ian Lavender, Janet Davies, Joan Cooper, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Olive Mercer, Pamela Cundell
Tagged Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Bill Pertwee, Clive Dunn, Colin Bean, Edward Sinclair, Eric Longworth, Frank Williams, Ian Lavender, Janet Davies, Joan Cooper, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Olive Mercer, Pamela Cundell
The Morecambe & Wise Show 1977 Christmas Show – 1977
source Angela Rippon, Angharad Rees, Arthur Lowe, Barry Norman, Eddie Waring, Elton John, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Francis Matthews, Frank Bough, James Hunt, Jenny Lee Wright, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Kenneth Kendall, Michael Aspel, Michael Parkinson, Paul Eddington, Penelope Keith, Peter Woods, Philip Jenkinson, Richard Baker, Richard Briers, Richard Whitmore, Sandra Dainty, Stella Starr, Valerie Leon
Tagged Angela Rippon, Angharad Rees, Arthur Lowe, Barry Norman, Eddie Waring, Elton John, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Francis Matthews, Frank Bough, James Hunt, Jenny Lee Wright, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Kenneth Kendall, Michael Aspel, Michael Parkinson, Paul Eddington, Penelope Keith, Peter Woods, Philip Jenkinson, Richard Baker, Richard Briers, Richard Whitmore, Sandra Dainty, Stella Starr, Valerie Leon
A Christmas Carol – 1977
source Bernard Lee, Brian Blessed, Brian Hayes, Carol MacReady, Christopher Biggins, Claire McLellan, Clive Merrison, David Corti, David Hatton, David Ronder, Dorian Healy, John Grillo, John Le Mesurier, John Ringham, John Salthouse, June Brown, Maev Alexander, Michael Hordern, Michael Mulcaster, Nicholas John, Patricia Quinn, Paul Copley, Paul Kegg, Roy Desmond, Stephen Churchett, Timothy Chasin, Tracey Childs, Tricia George, Veronica Doran, Will Stampe, Zelah Clarke, Zoë Wanamaker
Tagged Bernard Lee, Brian Blessed, Brian Hayes, Carol MacReady, Christopher Biggins, Claire McLellan, Clive Merrison, David Corti, David Hatton, David Ronder, Dorian Healy, John Grillo, John Le Mesurier, John Ringham, John Salthouse, June Brown, Maev Alexander, Michael Hordern, Michael Mulcaster, Nicholas John, Patricia Quinn, Paul Copley, Paul Kegg, Roy Desmond, Stephen Churchett, Timothy Chasin, Tracey Childs, Tricia George, Veronica Doran, Will Stampe, Zelah Clarke, Zoë Wanamaker
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Violence & Harassment
Newsflash: U.S. Has “Failed” Rape Victims; Senate to Hear Testimony
9/13/2010 by Laura Gottesdiener
Congressional hearings trade in statistics, so here’s a preview number for a subcommittee hearing tomorrow:
Three percent. That’s the number of rape cases that ultimately lead to a rapist’s incarceration, according to a 2010 report by End Violence Against Women International.
At 2:15 p.m. (EST) on Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled “Rape in the United States: The Chronic Failure to Report and Investigate Rape Cases.” The Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs will hear such speakers as Honorable Susan B. Carbon, director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women, Charles H. Ramsey, commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, Scott Berkowitz, president of the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN), and our very own Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation and publisher of Ms. The hearing will be broadcast live via webcast.
Feminists are familiar by now with the institutional challenges to successful rape prosecution: the underreporting, underpowered investigations, brief prison sentences and the undying myth that only strangers rape (despite evidence that acquaintance rape constitutes 70 percent to 90 percent of cases). Still, an estimated three percent incarceration rate for rapists in the year 2010 is more than a “chronic failure”; it’s a gaping hole in our legal system. Let’s take a look at a few of the legal and social problems in rape prosecution that are contributing to this crisis:
Under the Uniform Crime Report, the definition of forcible rape is “the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” Based on this definition, the FBI estimated 57.7 offenses per 100,000 women in 2008–a far cry from the National Violence Against Women Survey that estimates approximately one in six women will experience a completed or attempted rape in their lifetimes. Perhaps part of the discrepancy lies in the Uniform Crime Report’s exclusion of statutory rape (if it lacks sufficient force) and penetration by any object other than a penis, as well as counting rape by the number of victims, not by number of rapists or number of incidents.
Beyond the narrow definition, victims of forcible rape must contend with police forces that are approximately 85 percent men and sometimes all too quick to dismiss a case as “unfounded.” In June, The Baltimore Sun investigated why the city has a 30 percent rate of “unfounded” sexual assault crimes and concluded that it wasn’t because one in three women in Baltimore were lying about being assaulted. Instead, the article noted:
Women continue to report that they are interrogated by detectives, sometimes questioned in the emergency room or threatened with being hooked up to lie detectors.
Moreover, lie detectors aren’t always a threat; in Ohio a judge recently ordered four rape victims to submit to polygraph tests.
Finally, the continued perception of rape as a he-said-she-said crime (in which each party is just as likely to be lying as the other) buttresses the acceptability of police departments dismissing rape cases as unfounded. The frenzy of media accounts in which women supposedly “cry rape” obscures the truth that very few rape allegations are false. But the possibility of being treated with skepticism further discourages women from reporting sexual violence.
These are only a few of the challenges that will be covered tomorrow during the hearing. To hear more, go here tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. EST, and then tell us what changes you think could help ameliorate this chronic failure.
Photo of Lady Justice from Flickr user nyghtowl under Creative Commons 2.0.
Tagged: Eleanor Smeal, Justice System, Sexual Violence, Violence Against Women
About Laura Gottesdiener
Laura Gottesdiener is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She is a former Ms. editorial intern who is enjoying exploring and writing in the Big Apple.
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2017 Key Writing, Editing, Training and Presentation Projects
Writing and Editing of technical training manuals for a sub-contractor to the Department of State.
Web and blog content
Development of classes including PowerPoint, video, and related materials for business and personal growth classes I teach.
Listed below are examples of various other technical, business, and more creative projects for which I have had primary responsibility.
Nancy has been booked throughout the Washington, D.C. Metro Area and beyond to give speeches and presentations about:
How To Start A Business and related basic business classes
Meditation and Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Homelessness, Addiction, Sexual Harassment and more.
Please Click Here for an ever-out-of-date list of seminars and workshops. It probably is incomplete when you read it, as Nancy develops new classes, at client request, frequently.B5
Before we go further, if you already know you are interested in a free initial consultation and/or you want more information, feel free to contact us now at MyPersuasivePresentations@gmail.com or by leaving a message at (540) 636-4311 (Eastern Standard or Daylight Time). Otherwise, keep reading for more details about: Policies & Procedures Manuals, Technical Training Manuals, Video Production, Event Planning, Newsletters, Book Editing, Awards, etc.
Auditable Documentation of Policies and Procedures
Created for the following:
Pacific Tel & Tel Co (Menlo Park, California)
National Urban League Headquarters (New York, New York)
Robert Crandall & Associates, Inc. (New York, New York)
Applied Data Research, Inc. (Paramus, New Jersey)
Northern Virginia Community College (Manassas, Virginia )
Created a manual of office policies and procedures, which needed to be codified – Pacific Tel. & Tel.
Codified or created policies and procedures that 105 field operations headquarters must follow to be in accord with national headquarters’ policies and procedures – National Urban League, Inc.
Created and implemented a Human Resources department (from scratch) and documented all company policies and procedures for Robert Crandall & Associates, Inc.
Codified policies and procedures for the six Regional Administrative Offices (which reported to me) to follow. My “territory” included 2/3 of the U.S., as well as part of Canada at one point. – Applied Data Research, Inc.
Documented detailed financial processes for handling tuition, fees, and other receipts of money. The policies and procedures, as well as the documentation, itself, have to meet audit standards of internal (state) and external audit agencies, including the Virginia Joint Legislative Audit & Review Commission (JLARC) and the Agency Risk Management and Internal Control Standards (ARMICS) – Northern Virginia Community College
Created and constantly updated SOP and emergency management policies and procedures for both the campus police and for the campus at large – Northern Virginia Community College
Interviews and Scripts for Videos, a Play, and a Book
Prince William County Better Beginnings Coalition (Interviews &Video for Cable Television)
Greater Prince William Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition (video project)
Domestic Violence Coalition – (Play, entitled, “Break The Chain”)
Variety Pack (Nancy was Owner/Producer/Writer/Director)
See script summaries for Three Hots and A Cot or see the awards won for this work. Go below to Scripts for Educational and Performing Arts
It Could Happen To You and 3 Hots and a Cot (compilation of scripts performed by homeless people)
Breaking the Chain (a play about domestic violence)
AIDS, Homelessness, Hunger, Addiction, Abuse
Street Hustler/Drug Pusher – A Scary Dude, Who Really is a Teddy Bear
A little girl, whose family was made homeless by a fire, and who is being seduced at the shelter by a drug pusher
The societal consequences of having large numbers of homeless people
The life and joy that can be found, even when one has AIDS
Good deeds of homeless people, who give, despite having “nothing.”
Introduction to Ph. D. thesis for a client who wrote about the founder of the Howard University School of Nursing
Annual Conference for the Commonwealth of Virginia Management Association (brochure, flyers, agendas, etc.)
Numerous brochures, flyers, announcements for a variety of events at Northern Virginia Community College
All aspects of College For Kids (a summer “camp” for grade schools students) at Northern Virginia Community College
Numerous brochures, flyers, announcements for events at Northern Virginia Community College
Brochures for my own Holistic Healing business
Brochures and flyers for specific events related to social service activities
Current author of:
Blogs – With Intent To Sell
Blogs with Intent To Educate – Wellness Products
Short and Informal Blogs; Long and Formal Blogs
Research Blog Content and Pictures, As Needed
Blogs About the Benefits of Products and Services She Sells
A Case of ASEA
Book Editing
I edited the book, Black Students. New York: Free Press. 1970. LCCN 79116809, by Harry Edwards, Ph. D. He also wrote The Revolt of the Black Athlete. Dr. Edwards, according to Wikipedia, now is: ” Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as a staff consultant to the San Francisco 49ers football team and to the Golden State Warriors basketball team. He has also been involved in recruiting black talent for front-office positions in major league baseball.” Here is the link for more information from that source. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Edwards_(sociologist) . Here is the link where you may buy his book, The Revolt of the Black Athlete:
Numerous articles, speeches, and book manuscripts for Dr. Gloria I. Joseph, while we were at Cornell University, where she was the Director of the Committee on Special Educational Projects (COSEP) program.
The Book for Math Empowerment, by Sandra Manigault. Here is the link to The Manigault institute, founded by Sandra and Donald Manigault, an organization for which I also am a private college prep tutor for the critical reading and writing portions of the SAT Exam.
See newsletters for My Get Well Guru, aka Nancy Wyatt in her metaphysical role.
https://mypersuasivepresentations.com/newsletters-get-well-guru/
Nancy’s website for all things metaphysical is www.getwell.guru. Please Visit!
Scripts for Educational and Performing Arts
Nancy was President/Writer/Producer Director of Variety Pack, a non-profit, serving people in Washington, D.C. These folks were homeless, drug addicted, HIV+, sexually abused, and/or suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Nancy scripted their stories.
She and the homeless people, themselves, performed them as monologues to educate people about the reasons for and complexity of their circumstances.
They performed for educational, religious, civic and governmental organizations, before members of Congress and for the Virginia Governor’s Conference on Housing and Homelessness. The National Archives taped a performance; a script was entered into the Congressional Record, and her troupe performed on cable television. These efforts, along with assisting people in finding jobs, going back to school, having enough food, clothing, medical care, and drug rehabilitation, resulted in several awards.
Sleep Like A Baby,
Guided Meditation with Music by world-famous Reiki Master, Llewellyn.
Available in MP3 and wave downloads Plus CD’s
or go to iTunes, Amazon Digital Services, and other world-wide outlets.
This very same Nancy is certified in a number of wellness modalities, commonly referred to as being within the Complementary and Alternative Medicine realm. Nancy writes and teaches about meditation and CAM, so you will see more information about products and services on her website: www.getwell.guru. We hope you will follow her there, too.
In other words, Nancy is a multi-faceted person with a vast background of experiences in many walks of life. This enables her to understand and to empathize with your situation, which will help her put your thoughts into words, which meet your needs.
My fees vary, depending on whether you choose editing, writing, or reviewing services. Fees also are influenced by the:
amount of lead time you provide
complexity of the work
amount of research involved.
ability to do the work and transmit it online for the most part.
If you put me on retainer for six months, I’ll give you a reduced rate. You also may qualify in other ways to be one of my VIP Clients. In addition, I occasionally give discounts to specific networking group members and to worthy causes. Contact me for details.
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2 killed when commuter train hits car stuck on tracks
PMN News
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — A commuter train hit and killed two people whose car got stuck on the tracks in Florida.
A Broward Sheriff’s Office news release says the Tri-Rail train was heading north on Sunday when it hit the car near Pompano Beach.
The driver, 91-year-old William Richards, and passenger, 79-year-old Richard Leftingwell, both died at the scene. Officials say about 80 passengers were on the train, which runs from Miami to West Palm Beach. No injuries to passengers were reported.
The crash delayed trains and affected traffic in the area for about two hours.
Pompano Beach is north of Fort Lauderdale on Florida’s Atlantic Coast.
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Joseph Smith and the Restoration
Joseph Smith Jr. was born 23 December 1805 in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith. Born into a poor farming family, he was the fifth child of 11 — nine of whom survived childhood. Because his family could not afford the luxury of public education, Joseph received only three years of formal schooling. Along with his brothers and sisters, he was educated mainly at home from the family Bible.
Confused about religion during a time of intense religious revival in the state of New York where he lived in 1820, 14-year-old Joseph read a passage in the New Testament that, he wrote later, spoke to the depths of his soul. It was an admonition for those who lack wisdom to seek it from a divine source. Joseph’s response was to find a place of solitude in a wooded area near his home, and pray vocally for the first time in his life.
What followed forever changed Joseph Smith and has become a central tenet of Latter-day Saint belief. Joseph records that God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him. "I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head," he wrote, "above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me." Within that light, he saw two personages — one of whom spoke Joseph's name, pointed to the other, and said, "This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!" Church members refer to this experience as the "First Vision." It began the work of restoring the Church of Jesus Christ to the earth.
Joseph Smith is perhaps best known for his translation of the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Some years after his First Vision, Church members believe that Joseph was led to a hill near Palmyra, New York, where he received an ancient record from an angel known as Moroni. The record, engraved on metal plates, gave the history of a people who lived on the American continent during the time of Christ, including the appearance of the resurrected Christ to them. Joseph translated the record in about three months, and the resultant Book of Mormon was first published in New York in 1830. A volume of over 500 pages, the Book of Mormon is one of the great contributions of Joseph Smith and a foundational scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Latter-day Saints believe that divine authority was lost in the ancient church after the death of the apostles and required a restoration by divine intervention. The restoration of priesthood authority through Joseph Smith in the first half of the 19th century was a literal act through angelic visitations from those who held the authority anciently.
Joseph Smith and five associates, with 50 other individuals attending, formally organized the Church in a log cabin at Fayette, New York, on 6 April 1830. He presided over the Church until 27 June 1844, when he was martyred. Under his leadership, Church membership grew from small beginnings to over 26,000.
Joseph Smith’s revelations introduced striking theological innovations and challenges to the churches of the day. He was strong in his defense of religious freedom for people of all faiths. His revelations introduced such concepts as temples where saving work can be done for the dead and an understanding of three broad degrees or levels of heaven and of the ultimate destiny in the next life of faithful children of God. His experience with the First Vision led to Latter-day Saint understanding of the physical nature of God and Jesus Christ and that humankind is created in their image. He spoke and wrote frequently about the latter-day gathering of Israel, and taught it not only in terms of the gathering of Jews to Israel but also the gathering of all God’s people to places of refuge and holiness. See also: Why and How Are Latter-day Saints Different?
Outside the Church, Joseph Smith is also known for his introduction of the ancient practice of polygamy through revelation, though this is no longer practiced in the Church and is not often discussed by Church members except in a historical context.
In the years he led the fledgling Church, Joseph organized an international missionary program and founded what is today one of the largest women's organizations in the world. He oversaw the building of three cities and directed the construction of two temples — at the same time enduring intense persecution from local mobs, which eventually drove Church members from all three cities Joseph settled.
Because Church members’ religious and civil rights as American citizens had been denied them despite repeated appeals to the federal government, Church leaders announced Joseph Smith's candidacy for president of the United States in January 1844. By May, Joseph had been officially nominated by a Nauvoo, Illinois, convention. His political platform called for government intervention on behalf of religious and civil rights in the face of persecution. Joseph and his brother were killed by a mob in June of that same year, ending Joseph's run for political office.
Joseph and his older brother Hyrum were shot to death on 27 June 1844 by a mob of 150 to 200 men. The brothers and some close associates had been imprisoned in an Illinois jail on false charges treason after surrendering themselves to the law. Joseph was 38; Hyrum was 44. The bodies of Joseph and Hyrum were prepared and laid out for an estimated 10,000 mourners to view on 28 June, and on the following day were buried secretly to avoid further attacks or desecration by mobs.
The church that Joseph established in 1830 is today a global faith of more than 14 million members, and Joseph Smith himself is regarded by Latter-day Saints as the pre-eminent prophet of modern times. Contrary to assertions by some opponents of the Church, Joseph is not worshiped by Church members. He is honored as a prophet but was still a man with the shortcomings and faults common to other men.
(VIDEO) Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration
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Facts So Romantic On Numbers
99 Problems, and a Wild Gecko Space Orgy Is Just One
Posted By Amy Shira Teitel on Aug 01, 2014
By the time of this launch of the space shuttle Discovery in 2009, NASA knew well the dangers of lightning to spacecraft. At the launch of Apollo 12, in 1969, they were in the dark.NASA
On July 19, Russia launched a satellite designed to study the effects of microgravity on, among other living beings, geckos. The purpose was to observe the geckos—four females and one lucky male—mating, then study how fertilization in microgravity affected the eggs after the satellite returned to Earth. But there was a glitch: The satellite stopped responding to commands. Russia’s orbiting gecko orgy was zooming around the planet out of control.
An out-of-control orbiting gecko orgy is probably a first, but in one way is not so surprising: Ever since we started sending machines up into space, strange challenges have been pretty common, especially when new technologies are being tested or deployed. A lot of what we’ve learned about spaceflight has come through trial and error, and oftentimes breaking into new frontiers reveals interesting and unexpected problems. Controlling what happens inside a spacecraft isn’t exactly rocket science. In some ways, it’s harder.
An unanticipated but preventable problem nearly canceled America’s very first human spaceflight. On the morning of May 5, 1961, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard was fitted in his pressure suit and strapped inside the Freedom 7 spacecraft, ready to make the nation’s tentative first foray into space: a 15-minute suborbital flight. But after hours of delays, Shepard found that the coffee he’d had with breakfast was ready, one might say, to make its return flight. The spacecraft’s systems were exquisitely designed for the mission at hand, but there were no provisions for an astronaut to relieve himself during what was supposed to be such a short time wedged into his suit and craft. It was the one thing no one at NASA had planned for.
Shepard couldn’t leave the spacecraft without delaying the launch further, and he was wired with so many biomedical sensors that he risked electrocuting himself if he did his business in the suit. But there was simply no better option. Technicians finally shut off the sensors and, lying supine in his spacecraft, America’s first astronaut wet himself. The urine pooled at his lower back, but the oxygen flowing inside his suit soon dried it up. Shepard launched into history dry, if a little smelly.
Twenty years later, feces became an issue in space on the first mission of the space shuttle program. The earlier, Apollo-era astronauts defecated in bags and stored the waste on board the spacecraft; solid waste couldn’t be jettisoned like urine. But storing waste wasn’t something NASA wanted to do on the space shuttle’s longer-duration Earth-orbital flights, so when STS-1 launched on April 12, 1981, it did with a state-of-the-art toilet on board.
That new device was much more like a standard, sit-on toilet. Air sucked waste down, and a “slinger” inside propelled it against the side of the bowl. From there, fans separated liquid from solid waste, with the latter exposed to a vacuum and freeze-dried, and then stored on board. But the complex system of pumps and fans didn’t work harmoniously, and the toilet became clogged before the mission ended. It got worse. It turned out that a by-product of exposing fecal matter to a vacuum was fecal dust, which seeped into the ventilation system. NASA’s attempt to give its astronauts a cleaner, more “normal” toilet instead gave them a cabin environment contaminated with freeze-dried fecal dust that risked reconstituting in the moist tissue of their lungs. It took NASA three years to fix the shuttle’s toilet situation.
NASA learned lessons in more spectacular fashion as well, as was the case with Apollo 12. The morning of November 14, 1969, was stormy, but no one thought it was bad enough to delay the launch of this second lunar-landing mission. And so the massive Saturn V was cleared and rocketed away through stormy skies. Thirty-six seconds later, NASA found out that the rocket could act like a lightning rod—the Saturn V was struck twice by bolts of electricity that rode its contrails all the way down to the launch pad. The strikes had the effect of knocking the spacecraft’s power to dangerously low levels, upsetting the signal conditioning equipment that translated sensor data from the rocket into displays on the spacecraft’s computer and in mission control. When the lightning hit, the spacecraft seemed to go haywire. The solution, which almost no one at NASA had heard of, was to flick the switch for an obscure system called the signal conditioning electronics into its auxiliary setting.
Apollo 12 also debuted a new technology for NASA: color TV. The agency wanted to bring the moonwalk to the world in full color this second time around. But it never happened; hardly any video was returned from the mission. In unpacking the camera on the moon’s surface, lunar module pilot Alan Bean unwittingly pointed it at the Sun, frying one of the image sensors. Cameras took revenge on Bean later in that flight. Though the crew stored and secured everything for splashdown, one camera slipped out and fell on Bean’s head on impact with the Pacific Ocean, hard enough to briefly knock him out.
There are many more stories of unexpected problems turning into important learning moments in spaceflight’s history. In most of those cases, clever astronauts and engineers have found inventive ways to address the issues. So too with Russia’s problematic gecko orgy: The space agency Roscosmos regained control of the satellite last weekend and confirmed that the geckos are all doing well.
Amy Shira Teitel is a spaceflight historian and freelance writer. Her blog, Vintage Space, is hosted by Popular Science.
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Stonehenge landscape transformed as the A344 is permanently closed
As part of English Heritage’s project to transform the setting and visitor experience of Stonehenge, a section of the A344 road running right past the monument, almost touching the Heel Stone, will be permanently closed from today (Monday 24 June).
The section of the A344 to be closed is between Stonehenge Bottom (junction of A344 and A303) and Byway 12, which is closest to the monument and severs it from the Avenue, its ancient processional approach.
The closure will fulfil the commitment given by the UK Government to UNESCO in 1986 to remove the A344 where it crosses the Avenue and will facilitate greater access to the World Heritage Site.
Once the landscaping works are complete in June 2014 visitors will be able to approach and view the monument from the Avenue. A detailed laser analysis of the Stones' surface by English Heritage has further confirmed that this approach from the north-east was intended by Stonehenge’s prehistoric builders.
Loraine Knowles, Stonehenge Director, English Heritage, said: “The Stones have never failed to impress visitors, but for too long their setting has marred people’s appreciation and enjoyment of this special place. At last, this is going to change. For the first time in centuries, when all the works are complete, people will be able to experience this complex and extraordinary monument in a more tranquil, natural setting.”
Jan Tomlin, the National Trust General Manager for Wiltshire Landscape, said: “We welcome the closure of the A344 past Stonehenge – it is an important step towards the vision for the future of the monument. We have worked over the past decade to restore much of the land we own around Stonehenge to grassland and this is an important step in linking Stonehenge to the ancient landscape.”
From 24 June, traffic for Stonehenge and other nearby villages will be re-directed via Longbarrow Roundabout (junction of A303 and A360) and Airman’s Corner (junction of A360 and A344). Motorists travelling west on the A303 will see a sign in the vicinity of Stonehenge Bottom indicating that they should continue straight ahead for Stonehenge. There will also be signs at Longbarrow roundabout.
Over the summer, work will start to remove the high fences along the road and the road surface itself will be removed and grassed over. The closure is in accordance with the Stopping-Up Order granted by the Department for Transport in November 2011, following a public inquiry in June of that year. The Highways Agency has upgraded Longbarrow roundabout and English Heritage has created a new roundabout at Airman's Corner to accommodate the re-routed traffic.
The new Stonehenge visitor centre, located 1.5 miles away from Stonehenge, is scheduled to open in December 2013. The remaining section of the A344 between Airman's Corner and Byway 12 will be subject to a Traffic Regulation Order in the autumn and turn into the route of a new visitor shuttle service to and from the Stones.
In January 2014 work will start on decommissioning the existing facilities and returning the car park to grass with a small operational hub tucked into the landscape. The project will be completed in June 2014 when all the landscape restoration work have been carried out, although it will take some time for the newly seeded areas to establish fully.
The £27m project is financed almost entirely by Heritage Lottery Fund money (£10m), English Heritage commercial income and philanthropic donations including significant gifts from the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Linbury Trust and the Wolfson Foundation.
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Good On Them: The Black Eyed Peas Have Announced That They No Longer Want To Get Retarded
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The Black Eyed Peas may not be in the spotlight anymore, but they just made an announcement that will make any fan proud. After years of consideration, will.i.am, Fergie, apl.de.ap, and Taboo went on the record yesterday to officially state that they no longer want to get retarded.
Good on them! This is a massive step forward for The Black Eyed Peas!
In a statement released on their website this morning, The Black Eyed Peas publicly clarified that they no longer wish to get retarded (in ha), or retarded (in here). According to the group, 14 years after its hit single dropped, it’s no longer the time for the foursome to lose their minds, getting ill is no longer the deal, and the days of getting coo-koo are officially behind them.
“After over a decade of getting messy, loud, and sick, The Black Eyed Peas no longer wish to get retarded in any way, shape, or form,” read the statement, penned by will.i.am and signed by the entire group. “Yes, there was a point in our lives where we wanted to get so retarded that we wrote a three-minute-and-40-second song about it. But, as of today, the days of runnin’ runnin’ and runnin’ runnin’ and runnin’ runnin’ are behind us.”
“We will never get retarded again, and after further consideration, nor will we ever even get it started,” it continued. “Thank you to all our fans.”
Wow. What an amazing gesture from The Black Eyed Peas. Now that four fewer people in the world want to get retarded, hopefully, many more will follow in their footsteps! Hats off to them!
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Published at: 20 Sep 2018
Around 1.7 million Australians have some form of diabetes, while another 2 million are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes as they grow older.
Evidence shows type 2 diabetes can be prevented in up to 58 per cent of high risk cases.
280 Australians develop diabetes every day – one person every five minutes.
By 2040, over 642 million people globally will be living with diabetes.
There is no such thing as ‘mild’ diabetes. All types of diabetes are serious, and can have a major impact on quality of life and life expectancy.
The GV Health Diabetes Centre is staffed by a team of clinicians that provide clinical care, education and support for people with diabetes in the Strathbogie, Moira and Greater Shepparton areas and Southern New South Wales. It is made up of several credentialed diabetes educators, an Endocrinologist, medical registrar, dietitian and podiatrist.
Endocrinologist Dr Balvinder Kalra has been at GV Health for two years, and says that education is crucial when managing diabetes diagnoses.
“We have a lot of diabetics in the region,” said Dr Kalra. “There is definitely a greater prevalence of diabetic patients in rural areas. We find people aren’t very aware of the important, healthy lifestyle options available.”
Dr Kalra says many local patients have issues preventing them from travelling to Melbourne to see an endocrinologist, which can influence a patient’s motivation to maintain their treatment.
“We have an excellent team of diabetes nurse educators, podiatrists and dietitians,” said Dr Balvinder. “We’re trying to raise awareness by providing information not just to patients but also to Allied Health and other specialists, so they’re aware there is a full multidisciplinary service within the hospital.”
The Diabetes Centre offers individual consultation as well as a range of services and specialist clinics for people with complex and complicated diabetes.
These clinics include GV Health Multidisciplinary Diabetes (MDD) Clinic provides outpatient clinics for patients with complex and complicated diabetes, a young persons monthly clinic, a High Risk Foot Clinic and a Diabetes in Pregnancy clinic for women requiring insulin during pregnancy.
Melissa McMahon was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago, and is now pregnant. “I went through a stage where I just didn’t want to deal with my condition,” she said. “Then I found out I was pregnant, and at a higher risk.”
Ms McMahon discovered she was pregnant early thanks to her increased sugar levels, which led to her immediate referral to the Diabetes Centre.
“They got me in straight away,” she said. “Now I’m sticking to a very strict pregnancy diet. There are a lot of foods you take for granted – there are so many things you can’t have.”
The expectant mum is enthusiastic about the knowledge and range of services available at the centre.
“John Kilmartin is really great,” she said. “He’s constantly in touch – I was speaking to him three times a day after my pregnancy referral.”
The centre’s can-do, interactive attitude to treatment is particularly attractive to Ms McMahon. “There’s always someone you can always call. It’s all new to me – the restrictions, the new information, and a lot of appointments!”
Dianne Hayes and her carer Peter have been coming to the centre for several years. Dianne, who was diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes 30 years ago, was referred to GV Health by her GP.
“I had one episode, really bad,” said Mrs Hayes. “I was totally out of it - even the ambulance couldn’t bring me around.”
Mr and Mrs Hayes, who live in Finley, make the trip down to Shepparton every three months to see Dianne’s specialist, Dr Kalra.
“She’s doing well now,” said Mr Hayes. “Dianne’s diabetes has always been up and down. I had to climb through the window of the house once because Dianne couldn’t open the door.”
The Hayeses couldn’t be happier with the treatment Dianne receives.
“They’re doing everything – they’re all really good!” said Mr Hayes.
Judith Wilkinson and Rhonda Marino are two of the Diabetes Centre’s credentialed diabetes educators.
Both Ms Wilkinson and Ms Merino have been working in the diabetes treatment field for twenty years.
“I was working in paediatrics,” said Ms Wilkinson. “I was seeing a lot of kids with
Type 1 diabetes and developed an interest in helping them.”
Ms Marino says a highlight of her job is the opportunity to “work alongside Judith and soak up all of her knowledge.”
The GV Diabetes Centre covers the full range of diabetes patients, from birth to end of life.
“Living with diabetes can be complex,” said Ms Wilkinson. “Our role is to teach self- management skills – how to use a metre, how to check levels. From a paediatric perspective it’s with a family focus, offering support and education for everyone.”
As a child moves through their life journey there are many changes and adjustments they experience that can impact diabetes management. As they enter adulthood they become more independent with their routine, and the service plays a role assisting and supporting kids and families through these stages.
“They graduate into the adult streams,” said Ms Marino. “It can be a challenge living day to day living with diabetes - you can’t have a day off for Christmas. If someone’s having trouble, we can offer support.”
The GV Diabetes Centre has links with the local Type 1 peer support group (GVTOPS). The group caters for all people living with Type 1 diabetes including parents, carers and families. They meet on a monthly basis at GV Health and also host social gatherings and guest speakers.
“We’re very lucky – we have a good team and a lot of local support in terms of the Centre,” said Ms Marino.
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oh joy builds a house: how we found land to build on!
First of all, thank YOU for your super kind words and messages after our big announcement last month on our very big, new personal project of building a house! I'll be sharing the whole process from start to finish as we finish the house build in real time. For these first few months, I'm going to catch you up to how we got to this point in the first place. Then, as we get closer to the house being finished, we'll ramp up to more regular updates into the nitty gritty of design and so much more! Today's post is all about...how we found LAND to build on...!
So let's go back to 2014 (OMG, it's crazy this process started FOUR years ago!). We were ready to take a big leap and felt that building instead of buying a house could be for us. But we needed to find land to actually build on. Los Angeles doesn't have a ton of open lots just sitting there. Typically people tear down old homes or whatever land is left is super small or tricky to build on (otherwise a developer would have already scooped it up). So here are the steps we went through to find land...
1. Location, location, location. In the same way that people go about deciding on neighborhoods to look for a house, those are the same factors we kept in mind for land. We wanted a neighborhood we loved and could stay in for a very long time, somewhere near good schools for our kids, and land that was big enough that we could have a flat yard for our kids to play.
2. Search real estate sites like Redfin and Zillow. Next, we did a basic search on real estate websites. We had already been previously on all of these sites looking for a house, so we just had to change our search criteria to allow for land. Some of these sites even have a category you can check for land only. Now, those sites will show land IF someone chooses to list the land. But a lot of land simply isn't listed on a real estate sites.
3. Scour the earth and Google Earth (seriously!). Because not all plots of land are listed for sale, we then drove around looking for any area that looked empty. Since it's hard to aimlessly drive around all the time, we relied on Google Earth to really search and looked for open areas of land from the aerial view in our choice neighborhood. It was through Google Earth that we first spotted the land we now own today. Once you find land in this way, you can certainly grab the address, visit the site, and see if it happens to have a for sale sign. In our case, part of the land was owned by one owner and part was owned by someone else. If you feel comfortable knocking on strangers doors, you can ask neighbors if they know who the owners are. But if they don't know, you can find out from the city or county's assessor's office.
4. Visit or call the City or County Assessor's Office. One part of the land we found had a "FOR SALE" sign! Sweet! But the other had nothing, and it wasn't actually for sale. We needed both parts to make it worth even getting the land. For land that is unclear who the owner is, you can look up the address at the Assessor's Office of your city or county. That can involve a phone call or a physical visit to the office. From there, you can contact the owner to see if they are willing to sell the land. The same thing goes for a house that may be empty or in disrepair and no owner is present living in the house.
5. Contact Land Brokers. We ended up getting in touch with a land broker who was listed as the contact for one part of the land. He had helped us to broker the deal with his client, but then he also ended up helping us find out who the owner of the adjacent lot was and negotiate a price with them as well. Just like finding a house and working with a real estate agent, you can find a land broker to help you find land from the beginning. They do the same thing that a house broker does and can help you find, put in an offer, and negotiate for land.
Remember what I said about land that is usually available in Los Angeles is often small or tricky to build on? That's basically describes the land we got! We ended up combining two lots together that on their own would have been a bit too small for our house, but together would work. Also, because the land is on a hill, it's more challenging to build on and therefore a developer never wanted to put in the extra investment into something they needed to sell and make a quick profit. However for us, since this is our forever home that we are building to live in, we were okay with something that may not be the quickest or easiest to build. Hence, why so many years have passed since we found this land and more which I'll tell you in upcoming posts!
This is what our land looked like from street level. No one would have ever known there was land on top to build on if we hadn't found it from above! Also, I wanted to share some common questions you guys have asked...
What's the difference between building on Open Land VS. a Tear Down? Open land that has never been built on can be really hard to find, especially in large and densely populated cities. So often, people tear down old houses in order to build something new. The downside to tearing down a old house is that you're having to buy a house in order to just get rid of it, and a house costs more than empty land. We didn't even consider doing a tear down because we would not have been able to afford an existing house on top of the price of building a new one from scratch.
However, the benefits of a tear down versus empty land is that permitting tends to be easier on an existing house. Since the existing house has permits from whenever it was built in the first place, you can use those permits to help build your new house instead of starting from scratch if you keep some of the existing frames or walls of the house. It took us TWO YEARS to get permits for our project because of various reasons but mainly because we were starting from scratch with difficult land that has never been built on.
Are you building on flat land or on a hill? One thing you will learn about me through this journey is that for some reason, I never seem to be able to take the easy road :). We are building on a hill. We would have loved to build on flat land but that's even harder to find in Los Angeles. While we love having a view that a hillside home brings you, building on a hill also takes much more structural and foundation work to get a flat area to eventually build a house on.
Here's a flashback photo to right after we finally purchased our land in 2014! Ruby was just 2.5 years old, and my youngest, Coco, wasn't even born yet and happily growing in my belly at the time. This is a journey for sure, but it's fun to look and see that we've finally made it to the point of getting closer and closer to an actual house!
Check out my post over at Architectural Digest's Clever where I interviewed a few friends from other parts of the country about how they found land...it's cool to see how they approached it in different cities...
{Top photo by Lily Glass}
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The Concept and Importance of Senatorial Courtesy Explained Perfectly
Though unofficial, the practice of senatorial courtesy plays an important role in the appointments of official positions, and has the power to make or break a nomination. OpinionFront gives you a brief idea of this concept.
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The Blue Slip is a custom that was introduced in the 1900s following the tradition of senatorial courtesy, wherein the senators of a state give their opinions regarding a federal judicial nominee from that state on a blue-colored slip.
An unwritten rule in the political system of America, senatorial courtesy is defined by the Collins Dictionary as "a custom of the U.S. Senate whereby that body refuses to ratify a presidential nomination to an official position, as in a state, if the senators from that state or from the nominee's state do not approve." Senators from a nominee's home state are free to deny his/her nomination on the grounds that they feel "personally offended" by him/her, or if they feel the candidate is "personally obnoxious."
Senatorial courtesy also had another, lesser-known meaning which is almost invalid today―if the President puts forward a nominee who is a former senator, for a position in an executive office, the Senate is generally very co-operative and approves of that nomination immediately. However, this kind of courtesy is almost unheard of today.
What is Senatorial Courtesy?
Though the legal definition may seem a little confusing, the concept in itself actually means that a presidential appointment of a particular person to an official position has to be approved by the senators of the state of that nominee first. The President has to consult the senators of a particular state before nominating any candidate for a federal vacancy in that Senator's state. However, if the President and the senior senator of a particular state are not of the same political party, this courtesy is not extended.
Though this practice is an unofficial/unwritten one, it has been in existence since President Washington's time. The senatorial courtesy has the power to make or break a nomination―even if one senator from that nominee's home state disapproves, it will be seen to it that the nomination does not progress any further. Additionally, senatorial courtesy is an unspoken agreement between senators to not vote in favor of a presidential nomination if that candidate is disapproved by the senators of the nominee's home state.
Thus, if the President has to make an appointment for a federal vacancy in a particular state, traditionally he is expected to consult the senators of that state before taking a decision. If the senators of that state all approve of the desired nominee, the President announces the senators' confirmation and the proposed nomination moves ahead. This is done to avoid any future disagreements or controversies.
Senatorial courtesy allows senators of a proposed candidate's home state to disapprove of the nominee on the grounds that he or she may "personally obnoxious", or for similar reasons. It is expected that all the other senators support the opposing senator's decision to veto the nomination, so as to receive the same courtesy in return. Senators practice this courtesy with the strong belief that the same favor will be returned to them if the need ever arises.
History of Senatorial Courtesy
According to The National Archives, the history of senatorial courtesy goes back to the presidential rule of George Washington. In August 1789, President Washington sent a list of nominees to the Senate for port collectors, who would be appointed for collecting import taxes at ports. The list of nominees was sent to the Senate so that once the senators all approved of his proposed candidates, the process could move ahead.
The Senate voted in favor of almost all the presidential nominees, except Benjamin Fishbourn who was supposed to be appointed as the port collector in Savannah, Georgia. President Washington met with the senator from Georgia, James Gunn, who had opposed the appointment. Gunn gave his reasons for disapproval of Fishbourn, and thus, the custom of senators having to advice and consent in presidential appointments began.
Examples of Senatorial Courtesy
Senatorial courtesy is typically observed mainly in case of the appointments of federal judges, district attorneys, and as was observed in some cases, the appointment of the Supreme Court judge. Some political appointments are for a long duration, or are even permanent, and hence, it is important that only a worthy and deserving candidate be appointed to that position. Senatorial courtesy may be both a pro and a con here―if a candidate is worthy of the position but has a personal disagreement with one of the senators of his state, he or she may be overlooked for this reason. Similarly, if the senators do not give their approval (or disapproval) about a proposed candidate prior to the appointment, it may result in an incorrect kind of appointment.
Critics believe that the practice of senatorial courtesy gives too much power to one person, and that it results in the overlooking of several good candidates for an official position. According to critics, a candidate may have a checkered personal life, but a very good career record, which means that he or she is worthy of that official position. However, if a senator from the candidate's home state opposes the nominee, he or she will be overlooked for a negligible reason. Critics strongly feel that this practice may result in the selection of only diplomatic, politically correct candidates who may not always be completely suited and ideal for that particular position, especially if there is another nominee who is better at his job, but is somewhat controversial personally.
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How Much Is a Disney Plate Worth?
By Terri Deno ; Updated April 12, 2017
Disney collector plates are popular among fans of Disney collectibles. Collector plates have been produced every year since the 1930s and continue to grow in popularity and value. The value of the plate is determined by the amount produced and the age of the plate. Many collectors seek older plates in fine to mint condition.
Some of the most valuable collector plates come from the 1930s to the 1950s, and can be worth $50 to $100. Plates produced after the 1950s are still valuable ($25 to $50), though it is easier to find them in mint condition, which provides a lower overall value. The plates currently produced should be kept in mint condition and if the plates are part of a series, the whole series should be purchased to maximize the value later on.
It is also extremely important to keep any certificate of authenticity that the plate comes with. This provides proof that the plate is not a reproduction or fake. It also adds value to the plate. Buyers looking for older plates should consider plates that come with the C.O.A., to make purchasing an authentic plate easier.
Disney collector plates were first produced in the 1930s when Walt Disney characters were gaining popularity with children and adults. Since then, Disney has released a large number of collector plates to commemorate specific characters, scenes from particular movies and to commemorate the life of Walt Disney. These collectors plates are valuable at the time of purchase and only rise in value if the plate is kept in excellent condition.
There are many types of Disney collector plates. The most popular plates on the market in 2009 include a Tinkerbell series, a Winnie the Pooh collection and the Disney Princesses. Current plates sell for $40, with values quickly rising once the plate is no longer available on the retail market. Some of the most popular plates of the past have been any series featuring Mickey Mouse and the plate series for movies such as “The Lion King” and “The Little Mermaid.”
Other collector plates that do not feature Disney characters instead feature a picture of one of the buildings from Walt Disney World or Disneyland. These collector's items were originally purchased as souvenirs from a trip to one of the theme parks.
Collectors plates produced by Disney will feature a back stamp that includes a production year. The type of back stamp on the plate will be determined by the year it was released and the movie or character represented on the plate. For example, Disney products manufactured in 1992 have a wheel that represents the cartoon “Steamboat Willie.” Other back stamps include feathers, butterflies, harps and glass slippers.
Many vintage Disney plates can be found through online auctions, antique stores and flea markets. Anyone considering a purchase from these sources should note the condition of the plate as well as the presence of a certificate of authenticity. The C.O.A. makes Disney plates more valuable over the years and also provides a way for collectors to authenticate the plate as an official Disney release. The C.O.A. also provides information on the artist and how long the plate was produced. Collectors should also consider getting the plate valued by an antique dealer, especially if the C.O.A. is not present at the time of purchase.
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Terri Deno is a freelance writer living near Indianapolis. She holds a B.A. in English from Ball State University. She has a passion for research; this passion is the driving force for writing about antiques, literature, genealogy, shopping and travel.
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Community / Wilmington Welcomes State’s 1st Black Female College President
Dr. LaVerne T. Harmon. Photo courtesy of Wilmington University
Wilmington Welcomes State’s 1st Black Female College President
Mar 30, 2018 , Community
Dr. LaVerne T. Harmon was inaugurated as president of Wilmington University on March 8—International Women’s Day—thus becoming the first African-American female to be named president of a Delaware college or university. The ceremony took place at the Chase Center on the Riverfront.
A 29-year employee of the University, Harmon was unanimously approved by the Board of Trustees in July of 2017. She becomes the fourth president of the school, succeeding Dr. Jack Varsalona, who retired last year after serving as president since 2005.
Harmon holds a Doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. She held numerous positions while earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wilmington University, then maintained her full-time position while earning her doctorate. She held key roles in the University’s internal operations, planning and strategic growth. She served as assistant to the president, director of Human Resources, director of Student Affairs and Alumni Relations, and vice president of Student Affairs.
Wilmington is among the fastest-growing universities in the country. From fiscal year 2007-2008 to fiscal year 2016-2017, the school’s unduplicated headcount grew from 12,071 to 20,480, an increase of 70 percent.
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What is feminism now?
By Stephanie Convery
6.Nov.14
Julie Bishop, the highest-ranking female minister in the Abbott cabinet, recently explained why the word ‘feminist’ was not in her lexicon, in spite of the fact that she is a powerful woman at the top of her field. In the same week, Antony Loewenstein wrote an article for the Guardian arguing that contemporary feminists were too focused on facelifts and George Clooney to bother talking about the real issues – single parents, war, refugees, etc. The biggest problem with the theory Loewenstein proposed, as many commentators said at the time, was his lack of analysis of the corporate media machine that generates and proliferates feminist writing only under particular conditions and with particular caveats. It’s a strange oversight for someone so familiar with the media industry, but perhaps it is a product of that very same click-bait commission mentality: get a guy to write the article about feminists, and get him to tell them they’re doing it wrong.
Still, the convergence of these incidents highlighted, for me, the unresolved contradiction at the heart of the feminist movement. To suggest, as the broad church philosophy does, that everyone’s feminism is valid, skates very close to saying that everyone’s politics are acceptable. But clearly we don’t think that or we wouldn’t be feminists. Bishop doesn’t, either – in fact, she sees feminism as ‘self-victimisation’. As shirking personal responsibility. As weakness. One might think the reason that she doesn’t consider herself a feminist would be obvious: she doesn’t call herself a feminist because she doesn’t believe in the things feminism stands for. But what if she did call herself a feminist? After all, feminism is a broad church, everyone keeps saying, and a broad definition of feminism allows more people to be feminists, including, presumably, the Julie Bishops of the world.
So I want to know: is feminism is an issues-based tool, or is it a comprehensive political theory? Because we can’t have it both ways. If it is the latter, then it needs to provide a way to interpret, understand and respond not simply to the products of culture but to the structures that underpin them: the market, governance, social services and the state, colonisation, globalisation, and democracy. And taking a position on those things has consequences.
If we’re for the economic equality of all women, for example – not some women at the expense of others – then the Right is actually our opposition in this project. That includes right-wing women – even right-wing women who call themselves feminists. In an article in Private Media’s Women’s Agenda, Paula Matthewson demonstrated this point remarkably well, albeit from the opposite end of the political spectrum. Feminists shouldn’t attempt to change the minds of conservative women, Matthewson argued, unless they can show that feminism is not actually going to substantially change the way the world is organised. ‘Women of the Right think differently because they have different core values,’ she wrote. ‘Feminists who keep trying to change these foundation stones of a person’s philosophy and attitudes, by insisting individualist and conservative women embrace the label, are simply wasting their time.’
It’s tempting, perhaps, in the face of that, to argue that feminism is more flexible, that it has a myriad of applications and potential benefits, even for women on the Right. But if feminism is simply a filter one can put on or take off at will, then it is not and will never be a unifying force. It will split and splinter as culture continues to splinter, as people think of themselves less as a community and more as individuals. It will not revolutionise society, it will not generate solidarity or shared values, but will instead become subject to and co-opted by the already existing power brokers as a means to serve their own ends. It will become a tool of the unequal status quo.
In fact, this is already happening. Feminism is a brand now, and we sell it. We sell ourselves through it. It’s the marketing tool of Jezebel and Daily Life and Elle and Women’s Agenda. It’s the handy new value-proposition of a corporate consensus that sells clicks before it sells politics, but sells sells sells as its first priority. We’re the content providers, not the content shapers, no matter how vehement or radical our personal politics, and our media power is as limited by the 800-word column space as the media monolith is constrained by its advertising budget.
Yes, many feminists do appear to talk publicly about Jennifer Lawrence or Beyoncé more often than they do about, say, the wrack and ruin and brutal repression that a handful of (sometimes female) economists and politicians in the US have unleashed on millions in the developing world in the name of ‘freedom’, and this is because sex sells (and that includes sex crime), because celebrities sell, and because to be a feminist is still sufficiently controversial that our opinions on these things sell, too.
But I also believe that feminism sells precisely because there is no consensus on the politics that underpin our movement. Are we for the success of a handful of female CEOs or are we for emancipation from corporate slavery? Because if it’s the latter, then those women at the top of the business ladder won’t serve our interests, and neither will most of the mainstream media. An article may get hundreds of thousands of hits and retweets and Facebook likes, but the average turnout to a feminist demo is still only a few hundred people. Maybe demos aren’t cool any more, but words sure as shit aren’t enough. And yet we let ourselves sink into debates about our own privilege because we are the product of that very same radical free-market doctrine: we are atomised and isolated with little sense of collective experience.
Even intersectionality – a theory developed at the height of the identity politics movement to deal with the multidimensional nature of oppression, and in particular, the confluence of race and gender – suffers from the same affliction. ‘My feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit,’ is its rallying cry. One way of understanding this call is to interpret it as a reflection on politics past: that any political movement which doesn’t incorporate an understanding of how differences of the body (race, gender, sexuality, ability, etc.) translate to different experiences of inequality in the world will be subject to the very same shortcomings and blind spots as its predecessors. If intersectionality is a tool for evaluating my own subject-positioning, it can certainly be useful. But it too folds all too neatly into that ideal market construct of the self: the individualist political entity with individual experiences and individual objectives. No solidarity here. And if it is a comprehensive political theory, I find more holes than I do answers. How does intersectional feminism help us respond to, for example, the relentless war profiteering that is driving invasion after invasion in the Middle East? The privatisation of the public service at home? The systemic incarceration of Indigenous women? Our own government allowing unfettered access to the personal data of the entire country to anyone with a civil service salary? What alternatives does it offer? If we can’t answer questions like that, our theory is inadequate.
So my feminism will be comprehensive or it will be bullshit. It will be anti-corporate or it will be bullshit. It will fight for the poor, for the marginalised, for health care, for welfare, for social services, for democracy and self-determination. It will not allow those women to be represented as lazy, undisciplined, weak or undeserving, as the Right would have it, and it will have no truck with anyone who purports to represent women while simultaneously perpetuating brutality, racism, war, greed, and plain old inequality. Because if those women are feminists, and if we accept that their politics represent a legitimate struggle under the feminist umbrella, then what does that make our movement but one which tolerates sweeping injustice in the pursuit of personal advancement?
Stephanie Convery is the deputy culture editor of Guardian Australia and the former deputy editor of Overland. On Twitter, she is @gingerandhoney.
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From Stephen Wright on 6 November 2014 at 11.35 am
Lucid, punchy, passionate and terrifically argued. And, as always, setting the standard for other OL bloggers to aspire to.
From Clementine on 6 November 2014 at 11.40 am
Great piece Steph.
From Maxine on 6 November 2014 at 1.16 pm
#notallwhitefeminists
From Cher Tan on 6 November 2014 at 2.03 pm
I don’t see how it is possible to oppose capitalism and simultaneously dismiss intersectionality—a lot of what you call “identity politics”, e.g. the systemic marginalisation of women of colour, violence against women, the prison industrial complex, able-ism, etc, are actually resulting effects of capitalism. This is including the discrimination of LGBTQI folk face. It IS exactly intersectionality that people are linking together the various forms of oppression which connect to the bigger destructive force: capitalism. I get what you’re saying, but it is the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy that we as a feminist community need to tackle head-on.
From Tim Scriven on 6 November 2014 at 2.30 pm
I think SC’s point is not that we shouldn’t pay attention to “the marginalisation of women of colour, violence against women, the prison industrial complex, able-ism,” I think her point is that intersectionality- focusing as it does on the colliding of different personal identities and the way that affects and shapes experience- may be too individualistic a lens to challenge exactly the things you mention- at least as a primary tool or primary slogan.
There are theoretical frameworks for talking about these things that don’t prioritise personal experiences and we need to build on them and nurture them.
I also think your understanding of intersectionality is probably more structurally focused than most understandings and so is perhaps less of the sort of thing that the author is critiquing. For example, you write that the awful things you mention:
“are actually resulting effects of capitalism.”
But a lot of supporters of the concept of intersectionality wouldn’t agree with that and don’t recognise the core role capitalism plays in oppression.
If all that is meant by intersectionality is a focus on the problems of the marginalised, and especially on those who are marginalised in more ways than one, then that’s totally right, but while I don’t want to talk for the author, I think she’s talking about more than just that- she’s talking about a particularly individualistic way of approaching it.
But to conflate intersectionality with individualism is missing the point: “identity politics” are only ‘individualist’ when you don’t have many identity markers to mark you in the first place. It’s difficult to cast aside race, sexuality and ability (for example) when they are factors which contribute to one’s marginalisation in a larger societal context.
From Stephanie on 6 November 2014 at 3.55 pm
I’m not conflating intersectionality and individualism, and I’m certainly not suggesting we ignore race, ability, sexuality etc as markers of difference of experience.
Rather, I’m arguing that intersectionality as it is commonly practiced is subject to being adapted to suit the status quo, which is individualist; capitalist. As in, I see this particular theoretical framework, when put into practice, regularly co-opted by the forces that are perpetuating the inequality in the first place.
From Jasmina Brankovich on 6 November 2014 at 4.53 pm
I do think that there are faults with intersectionality as it is currently practiced. I would, however, like to offer a few corrections:
1. origins of intersectionality should NOT traced to the height of identity politics. In fact, it was Marxist and socialist feminists who first used the concept when their campaigns were confronted by women of colour as wanting and limited.
2. Works by people like Sheila Rowbotham (particularly Beyond the Fragments), bell hooks, Angela Davis, are as intersectional as they are steeped in a materialist, revolutionary analysis.
Conflating intersectionality with a very limited body of theory, does everyone very little justice.
What are some examples of instances where intersectionality has been co-opted by the status quo?
From Anonymous on 6 November 2014 at 6.09 pm
It’s also funny that you mention that “there are theoretical frameworks for talking about these things that don’t prioritise personal experiences”, because it is personal experience (i.e. the lived experiences of women living in a patriarchal world) that eventuated in the birth of feminism.
It’s also funny that you mention that “there are theoretical frameworks for talking about these things that don’t prioritise personal experiences”, because it was precisely personal experience (i.e. the lived experiences of women living in a patriarchal world) that eventuated in the birth of feminism.
From Liv on 6 November 2014 at 2.28 pm
You can’t put every single feminism into one box. We need to accept that feminism has different faces and to try and subsume it into one particular brand is to dangerously preach a universal feminism for all women, which has been the case so far with white feminism.
From puzzled on 6 November 2014 at 2.34 pm
Yes, I’ve been wondering about what feminism is, means, to different sectional interests and groups, given that it has been given airplay here at OL of late, and sort of wondered about the usefulness of the term if it means different things to different people and different interest groups, but appears an elusive signifier which can’t be pinned down: or if it is pinned down, problems and conflicts immediately arise which splinter feminism further. Take pre-industrial capitalism, for instance, a time of strict patriarchal rule, yet the sun / moon binary opposition, which in ancient times was a symbol of male and female equality, two opposing but interacting and mutually dependent forces of creation, were symbols which retained their ancient meanings, apparently. Didn’t change the status quo though, of course. What am I saying at bottom? Don’t know really, maybe suggesting that feminism is yet to be found, if ever, that perhaps the struggle is everything, and that “broad church” doesn’t cover it for me, as it was John Howard’s favourite descriptor of the Liberal Party.
It’s worth noting that Howard’s “broad church” was, in fact, united – under the pursuit of capital.
Really? No sporting, social group, union, political party etc. that I have ever been party to has ever been united under the pursuit of one goal. The teleological descriptor is the spin at work, and the leader who preaches the spin has already made up the envelope, while minions busily bash down heads which keep popping up beyond the parameters of the supposed united front. Cynical, I know, but that’s politics for you.
From puzzled on 7 November 2014 at 10.59 am
Having made that last point, I can appreciate the desire for unity and direction within feminist ranks, and can sort of remember, perhaps, when feminism was united in its opposition to what was called male chauvinism, before splintering into such groups as lesbian separatists and SCUM (society for cutting up men) etc. From the division within feminist ranks evidenced in the comments thread here, it would seem that there are a lot of SCUOWs disrupting your broad church push (societies for cutting up other women). The acronym, fittingly enough, being unpronounceable.
From Muna A on 6 November 2014 at 4.11 pm
Ah, yes. Those pesky women of colour demanding their non-white experiences be acknowledged. Ruining feminism!
I wasn’t aware that while we women of colour are busy organizing against police brutality, racial profiling, imprisonment of our refugee brothers and sisters, lower wages, constant attacks on racial discrimination laws, we also had to provide solutions for white feminism problems.
On what basis do you think Stephanie argues that? The only paragraph that addresses intersectionality says:
Why does merely posing questions about the limitations of intersectionality as a framework entail a white feminism?
From Claire on 7 November 2014 at 2.28 am
LOL I know right. I want these anti-intersectional whingers to simply understand that intersectionality is about community. Intersectionality is also fundamental for e.g. when issues of sexual and intimate partner violence come up so that a white, middle class woman perspective is decentred and women of colour are not left out in the cold when it comes to housing, rape crisis centres etc.
A feminist and disability rights activist made a great point online yesterday that the idea of paying men less wages as an equal pay solution as suggested by Professional Feminist, Valenti is bullshit because white, disabled men earn 22c out of the dollar which white, able-bodied cis men are paid.
Campaigns need to be based on intersectionality. It’s not women of colour’s fault or any other marginalised person’s fault who has an intersectional approach if these so-called materialists are too obtuse to understand what intersectionality is.
That should be “disabled men earn 22c out of the dollar which white, able-bodied cis men are paid…” and not “white, disabled men”.
From Muna on 7 November 2014 at 2.00 pm
Thank you Claire.
My points exactly.
LOL, I don’t know how she got from Julie Bishop to women of colour…including riffing off Flavia’s words.
Women of colour – the materialist’s bourgeois problem.
From Stephanie on 7 November 2014 at 7.43 am
I’m getting a bit of stick for this (which is fine) so I’m not sure whether attempting to clarify will help or hinder, but maybe it will be worth an attempt regardless.
IMO intersectionality theory is not the only way to work an anti-racist, queer-aware etc. dimension/recognition into the framework of your political practice. It is just that – a theory – and I don’t believe you need to be an intersectional feminist to be an effective anti-racist and anti-sexist activist. Perhaps you do believe this, in which case that’s a political disagreement we won’t solve here.
As a materialist theoretical underpinning for a) explaining how oppression works and b) providing a concrete way forward, though, I find intersectionality theory problematic and unstable, and when put into practice I also find it regularly co-opted by the same forces that feminism gets co-opted by, eg. the market, individualism, self-promotion. I certainly don’t see it rooted to a materialist/revolutionary analysis in these contexts, but perhaps we move in different circles.
This is not the same as thinking it did not and does not make an important contribution to feminist thought, nor does it invalidate excellent feminist work that gets done by intersectional feminists. It does make a unified project very hard, though. Surely that’s a hurdle worth addressing.
From Alison Croggon on 7 November 2014 at 9.07 am
Thanks Steph for your provocation. Reading the article and the comments, I have a couple of questions. Isn’t intersectionality precisely the mechanism by which we can understand the complexities of the relationships between oppressions, class, race, sex, and so on, to reach a clearer notion of what feminism might be as a liberating idea? My understanding – from reading Audre Lorde and bell hooks and others, the first feminists who in fact really spoke to me at a crisis-ridden juncture of my life – is that these feminisms are indeed revolutionary politics, in the wider senses of the words. If these feminisms are distorted in some mass market versions, that doesn’t mean that intersectionality itself is the problem.
I’m a bit troubled by the easy conflation of personal experience, identity politics and individualism. The fact that they are often portrayed as the same doesn’t mean that they are. One of the truly revolutionary aspects of feminism is, in fact, how it insists on the relationship between personal experience and wider politics. The personal, that area of life routinely assigned to the feminine, routinely derided as trivial when compared to the significance of the public sphere, can be the site of critical political energies. The dismissal of this massive area of human experience as irrelevant, even hostile, to any collective or structural understanding of social forces can create huge blind spots, and worse, negate the potencies that feminisms have to offer. I think it explains the entrenched and surprising sexism that still exists in much of the Left. Many inspiring thinkers fold their personal and individual experiences into their wider understandings: often it’s the furnace of their politics. I’m not sure a lot of what is called identity politics really is identity politics, if by that you mean a politics entirely focused on identity, and I suspect it’s often used as a label to delegitimise uncomfortable discussion about race, sex and even sometimes class. Which might be where some of the protests here are coming from.
From Samira on 7 November 2014 at 4.34 pm
“a label to delegitimise uncomfortable discussion about race, sex and even sometimes class.”
I was going to comment on this piece but I feel your response is exactly what I wanted to express.
From rm on 7 November 2014 at 2.56 pm
The point to me made is, I feel, that capital has demonstrated, and continues to demonstrate, an ability to fold in subversive discourses and narratives into its own logic system. To, in a sense, use anti-patriarchy, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist energy as the resource that allows its own ongoing expansionist dynamic to perpetuate. This is, I would suggest, a playing out of colonial expansionism within the cultural realm. So, a truly radical emancipatory politics must necessarily militantly engage in actions that work to dismantle capital itself. Feminism, I suppose, must also be anti-capitalist, otherwise it will never meet the goals championed by intersectionality.
From Rutegar on 8 November 2014 at 9.50 am
“Isms, in my opinion, are not good.
A person should not believe in an ism, he (she) should believe in himself (herself).
I quote John Lennon, — I don’t believe in ‘Beatles’, I just believe in me. —
Good point there.
After all, he was the Walrus. (pretty sure he was a boy walrus)
I could be the Walrus, I’d still have to bum rides off of people.”
— FERRIS BEULLER
From Anitra Nelson on 10 November 2014 at 12.02 pm
Getting rid of ‘isms’ and ‘ists’ risks having no general frameworks or defined positions for explaining and understanding life.
Some history: until the early seventies we mainly called ourselves women’s liberationists. Like ‘communism’ and ‘crippled’ this became a dirty word, especially for bourgeois/reformist women seeking suffrage and equal pay like reforms, so anti-capitalist radicals, like me, and lesbians et al. all hung unto calling ourselves women’s liberationists right through the 1970s (as Gough rewarded the feminists and spurned the women’s liberationists). This got us free from all the tangles explicated in this discussion. Being WL meant radical, anti-system, anarchist, socialist — in short, all the good things in life.
For many years it was easy. I said ‘I would be dead rather than call myself a feminist — I’m a women’s liberationist.’ And everyone who had any idea about political movements knew what I meant.
Then a whole generation of women, who had no understanding of what any of this might mean, grew into the discourse so that gradually I referred to myself ambiguously as a feminist or woman’s liberationist — depending on how much time I had to explain terms and histories…
the point is I don’t think we women will get anywhere in terms of liberation unless we have an anti-capitalist revolution. I don’t think us socialists will get anywhere unless we liberate males and females from the reproduction of gender through male/female roles re children. We’ve hardly gotten anywhere in this crucial area.
Essentially capitalism as a system was predisposed us to take on board reforms so women could work. Indeed the irony is that whereas in the 50s most families — which were generally a bit larger than nowadays — had one breadwinner and now they have two. I don’t think being able to work like a man is a great expression of liberation. And women’s liberationists kept making those points but the media didn’t pick up on them often. When they did it was to split and to divide women and make us as a movement look stupid.
From my perspective equal wages aren’t key strategically but I was interested to read The Age article on the weekend — http://www.theage.com.au/national/rich-man-poor-woman-the-gender-wealth-gap-widens-20141108-11igay.html — which shows we’ve slipped back to where we were 20 years ago.
Happy to be a women’s liberationist and keep fighting — ‘until the last chains fall …’
From Jennifer Breen on 10 November 2014 at 6.32 pm
At last a writer–Anitra Nelson–explains succinctly the history of the 1960s to 1970s women’s liberation movement from which’feminism’ emerged.
There seem to me to be innumerable ‘feminisms’ today, but, as far as I’m aware, there was only one twentieth-century women’s liberation movement, and at root there still is one, even if it’s subdued today.
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The Philosophy of Pathei-Mathos
The Numinous Way of Pathei-Mathos
Theory of The Acausal
Some Notes On The Theory of The Acausal
In respect of the theory of the acausal, [1] the terms acausality and acausal refer to ‘acausal space and acausal time’. That is, and in the context of this theory, both terms refer to a posited continuum different from the causal continuum of observed phenomena; which causal continuum has been described in terms of a four-dimensional space-time; and knowledge of and understanding about which causal continuum can be obtained by means of sciences such as physics, astronomy, and chemistry.
Essentially, therefore, acausality – as part of such a formal theory – is an axiom, a logical assumption, not a belief. This axiom about the nature of the cosmos is one that derives not from the five Aristotelian essentials that determine the scientific method, but from the intuition of empathy [2] and from deductions relating to observations of living beings.
The latter point about life is crucial to understanding both why the axiom has been made and what it may logically imply. That is, a theory is proposed about the nature of known life – about why and how a living being differs from a non-living being. Currently, science cannot explain what makes ordinary matter – the stuff of physics and chemistry – alive, and why for instance a living being, a biological entity, does not obey one of Newton’s laws nor the axiom of entropy (the second law of thermodynamics).
A living being, for example, can change – grow and move – without any external physical (Newtonian) force being applied to it. In short, living beings do not behave in the same way as ordinary physical matter does, be such matter a star, a galaxy, a rock, or a chemical element interacting with another chemical element.
The acausal theory thus proposes that living beings possess what is termed acausal energy – that it is this acausal energy which in some way animates, or which presences in, a biological cell to make that cell behave in a different way than when that cell is dead. That it is such acausal energy – emanating from, or having its genesis in, a posited acausal continuum – which gives to ordinary physical matter the attribute we term life, and which thus enables a living organism (in contradistinction to ordinary matter) to, and for example, reproduce itself, be sensitive to, or aware of, its environment, and move without any external (Newtonian) force being applied to it.
Therefore what it is important to remember is that acausality is only a theory based on certain axioms, and that this theory is posited to explain certain things which are currently unexplainable by other rational theories. The things explained by the theory – which the theory attempts to explain in a logical way – are the nature of living beings, and the nature of empathy (of sympatheia with other living beings).
The theory posits an acausal realm (continuum) as the source of the energy that animates living beings; that this energy differs from the energy observed by sciences such as physics and chemistry; and that all currently known living beings are nexions – regions – where the theorized acausal intersects with, is connected to, or intrudes into, the observed physical (causal) universe known and described by sciences such as physics.
The theory also posits that this acausal realm is a-causal in nature and that it (and thus the acausal energy said to originate there) cannot be described in terms of three spatial dimensions and one dimension of linear time [3], and thus its geometry cannot be described in terms of the current mathematical equations used to describe such a four-dimensional ‘space-time’ continuum (such as the tensorial equations that, for instance, describe the geometry of a Riemannian space-time).
It is therefore posited that the acausal may be described or could be described by an acausal Space of n acausal dimensions, and an acausal, un-linear, Time of n dimensions, where n is currently unknown but is greater than three and less than or equal to infinity. Currently there are no mathematical equations that are capable of re-presenting such a type of un-linear, non-spatial, n-dimensional space.
Were someone to develop such mathematical equations to describe such an acausal geometry it should be possible to explain acausal energy – i.e. acausal waves and their propagation in both the causal and the acausal, in the way that Maxwell’s equations describe the propagation of causal energy/waves in four-dimensional physical space-time.
It is posited that to develop such mathematical equations requires a new type of mathematics since current geometric representations (two, three, and four dimensional) use a differential – the calculus (tensorial, matrical, Euclidean, or otherwise) – of linear (causal) time [4].
As for the nature of the acausal dimensions, they are currently undefined except as extensions to current mathematical concepts: as non-linear and non-spatial in Euclidean terms. That is, acausal space-time could be conceptualized as a new type of mathematical space, and not as a geometric space such as a Euclidean space of three measurable dimensions or a four dimensional space-time manifold as described by certain physical and cosmological theories (such as general relativity). [5]
Thus the new type of mathematics required would describe the new type of (acausal) geometry of this new type of mathematical space possibly having an infinite number of ‘dimensions’, and which geometry does not involve a linear, physically measurable, ‘time’ but rather something akin to a ‘time’ that is both topological [6] and variable (non-linear) in its simultaneity. [7]
To return to acausal energy. If this postulated – and presenced – acausal energy exists, then it should be capable of being detected and such energy measured, and the theory of acausality suggests that it might be possible – even using current scientific means – to detect acausal charges (defined as manifestations of acausal energy in the causal) – by microscopically observing the behaviour of a living cell and its components (such as the nucleus) under certain conditions such as observed physical/chemical/biological changes when placed in the presence of other acausal charges (living cells and their collocations).
The theory also suggests that another way might be to construct some new type of experimental apparatus which can detect acausal charge directly, and makes a comparison with how electrical charges were first discovered, measured, and then machines developed to produce and control their propagation, as in Faraday’s experiments in producing electric currents. Thus such acausal energy might be harnessed in a manner similar to electrical energy.
However, the theory also makes it clear that there are currently no experimental observations to verify the existence of such acausal charges, such acausal energy, so that the whole theory of acausality remains an interesting but speculative theory.
David Myatt
[1] The theory of the acausal was tentatively outlined in previous essays such as The Physics of Acausal Energy.
[2] By empathy here is meant the natural (though often undeveloped and little used) human faculty which reveals (dis-covers) a type of individual (personal) knowing – a perception – distinct from the knowing posited by both conventional philosophy and experimental science. One type of this empathic knowing is a sympathy, συμπάθεια, with other living beings.
Empathy supplements our perception of Phainómenon, and thus adds to the five Aristotelian essentials of conventional philosophy and experimental science.
The perception which empathy provides [ συν-πάθοs ] is primarily an intuition of acausality: of the acausal reality underlying the causal division of beings, existents, into separate, causal-separated, objects and the subject-object relationship which is or has been assumed by means of the process of causal ideation to exist between such causally-separate beings. Expressed more conventionally, empathy provides – or can provide – a personal intuition of the connectedness of Life and the connexions which bind all living beings by virtue of such beings having the attribute of life.
This intuition of acausality, which empathy provides, is a wordless apprehension (a knowing) of beings and Being which does not depend on denoting or naming (and thus does not depend on abstractions) and the theory of acausality is a formal attempt to explain this apprehension and this distinct type of knowing.
[3] The term dimension is used here to refer to an aspect, or component, or quality, or arrangement, or an attribute of, a theorized/mathematical form (or space), and/or of an object/entity posited or observed.
One example of a mathematical form is an Euclidean space (geometry) described by three attributes – measurable dimensions – at right angles to each other. Another example is a four-dimensional manifold as used in the theory of general relativity, and one of which dimensions is a measurable (linear) ‘time’. One example of a mathematical space is a Hilbert space of infinite (unmeasurable) dimensions.
Thus the term dimension includes but is not limited to something measurable by physical means.
[4] It should by now be apparent that much of the terminology currently used in an attempt to describe and develope the theory of acausality – and to describe the perception and knowing of empathy on which the theory is based – is inadequate, and that many of the terms which are used need defining and explaining, and even then are open to misinterpretation often as a result of a failure by the author to adequately define and explain them.
However, until a non-verbal – a mathematical – description of the theory is formally developed, such terminology will have to suffice.
[5] Refer to footnote 3 for what the term ‘dimension’ signifies.
[6] Acausal time conceptualized as a transformation described by a topological space. Another alternative is to conceptualize acausal time as topologically variant.
[7] The term simultaneity is used here to express a quality of acausal time; that is, that the n-functions (where n is > 3 but ≤ ∞) which describe this type of time occur throughout the geometry described by the n-functions (dimensions) of acausal space. Or expressed somewhat differently, that not only is acausal time a simultaneous and non-simultaneous function of acausal space – and vice versa – but also that, in living beings, causal space-time is a function (simultaneous or otherwise) of acausal space-time (and vice versa).
Conspectus
Some Terms Explained
Way of Πάθει Μάθος
Aesch. Ag. 67-71
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Fates Warning, Metal Blade Reunite
Posted on February 16, 2019 by philspicks
Photo Credit: Stephanie Cabral
Fates Warning and Metal Blade Records have reunited.
The veteran progressive rock band announced this week that it signed a new deal with Metal Blade Records. Most recently, the band was signed with InsideOut Music, which released the band’s most recent recordings, Theories of Flight (2016) and Live Over Europe (2018).
Front man Ray Alder addressed the reunion in a recent interview.
“All of us in Fates Warning are happy to announce that we are back with Metal Blade Records,” Alder said. “Metal Blade has been there for us since the very beginning, and we are proud to call them part of our family. The journey begins again, and we cannot begin to say how excited we are to work together once more. A big thank to our fans for sticking with us through all these years. We could not be here today without all of you. That is a fact. Thank you, everyone. Here’s to making some new memories.”
Fates Warning was signed with Metal Blade Records from its inception, releasing albums through the label until 2013, when it released Darkness in a Different Light through InsideOut Music. Theories of Flight followed in 2016. The band’s 1998 live recording Still Life was also released via Metal Blade Records, as was the band’s 2017 live recording Awaken The Guardian Live.
Courtesy: InsideOut Music
Fates Warning is scheduled to join Queensryche on the road starting March 2 as a support act for Queensryche as it tours in support of its new album The Verdict. That album is currently scheduled for release March 1 via Century Media Records. The tour’s current schedule is noted below.
Fates Warning tour dates
w/ Queensryche
Mar. 2 – The Plaza Live – Orlando, FL
Mar. 3 – Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Mar. 4 – Jack Rabbits Live – Jacksonville, FL *
Mar. 5 – Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
Mar. 7 – Sound Stage – Baltimore, MD w/ The Cringe
Mar. 8 – Sellersville Theater – Sellersville, PA *
Mar. 9 – Irving Plaza – New York, NY w/ The Cringe
Mar. 10 – Palladium – Worcester, MA w/ The Cringe
Mar. 12 – Bogarts – Cincinnati, OH
Mar. 13 – Diesel – Detroit, MI
Mar. 14 – Concord – Chicago, IL
Mar. 15 – The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
Mar. 16 – Medina Entertainment Center – Medina, MN
Mar. 17 – The Royal Grove – Lincoln, NE *
Mar. 19 – The Shrine – Tulsa, OK *
Mar. 20 – House of Blues – Dallas, TX
Mar. 21 – House of Blues – Houston, TX
Mar. 22 – Aztec – San Antonio, TX
Mar. 23 – El Rey – Albuquerque, NM
Mar. 24 – House of Bards – Tucson, AZ * w/ Push, DIRTNAP, Tribulance, Fire By Rank
Mar. 26 – The Marquee – Tempe, AZ
Mar. 27 – Observatory – San Diego, CA
Mar. 28 – The Fonda Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 29 – Slim’s – San Francisco, CA
Mar. 30 – Ace of Spades – Sacramento, CA
Apr. 1 – The Dip – Redding, CA *
Apr. 2 – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR
Apr. 3 – Neptune – Seattle, WA
*=Fates Warning only
Once Fates Warning wraps its tour, it will start work on its 13th full-length studio recording, which will be released in 2020 via Metal Blade Records. More information on that album is available online now along with all of Fates Warning’s latest news at:
Website: http://www.fateswarning.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FatesWarning
Twitter: http://twitter.com/fateswarning
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Fates Warning Officially Announces Tour With Queensryche
Posted on February 2, 2019 by philspicks
Fates Warning announced a new slate of live dates this week.
The veteran progressive metal band officially announced Thursday, that it is joining Queensryche for the band’s tour in support of its forthcoming album The Verdict, which is currently scheduled for release on March 1 via Century Media.
Queensryche recently made the announcement of the tour along with announcements of its new videos, which feature music from The Verdict. The tour is currently scheduled to launch March 2 in Orlando, FL. and run through April 3 in Seattle, WA.
The tour’s schedule, which features performances in cities, such as Dallas, TX; Baltimore, MD and Detroit, MI, is noted below.
FATES WARNING – Live 2019:
Sa March 2nd – Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live – w/ Queensryche
Su March 3rd – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room – w/ Queensryche
Mo March 4th – Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbit’s *
Tu March 5th – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade – w/ Queensryche
Th March 7th – Baltimore, MD – Sound Stage – w/ Queensryche
Fr March 8th – Sellersville, PA – Sellersville Theater *
Sa March 9th – New York, NY – Irving Plaza – w/ Queensryche
Su March 10th – Worcester, MA – Palladium – w/ Queensryche
Tu March 12th – Cincinnati, OH – Bogarts – w/ Queensryche
We March 13th – Detroit, MI – Diesel – w/ Queensryche
Th March 14th – Chicago, IL – Concord – w/ Queensryche
Fr March 15th – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave – w/ Queensryche
Sa March 16th – Medina, MN – Medina Entertainment Center – w/ Queensryche
Su March 17th – Lincoln, NE – Royal Grove *
Tu March 19th – Tulsa, OK – The Shrine *
We March 20th – Dallas, TX – House of Blues – w/ Queensryche
Th March 21st – Houston, TX – House of Blues – w/ Queensryche
Fr March 22nd – San Antonio, TX – Aztec – w/ Queensryche
Sa March 23rd – Albuquerque, NM – El Rey – w/ Queensryche
Su March 24th – Tucson, AZ – House Of Bards *
Tu March 26th – Tempe, AZ – The Marquee – w/ Queensryche
We March 27th – San Diego, CA – Observatory – w/ Queensryche
Th March 28th – Los Angeles, CA – Fonda – w/ Queensryche
Fr March 29th – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s – w/ Queensryche
Sa March 30th – Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades – w/ Queensryche
Mo April 1st – Redding, CA – The Dip *
Tu April 2nd – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom – w/ Queensryche
We April 3rd – Seattle, WA – Neptune – w/ Queensryche
* FATES WARNING headline show
The Cringe will also serve as support during the tour.
Fates Warning’s tour with Queensryche is in support of its latest live recording Live Over Europe, which was released June 29, 2018 via InsideOut Music. According to Fates Warning front man Ray Alder, the tour is also in support of the band’s most recent full-length studio recording Theories of Flight, which was released July 1, 2016 via InsideOut Music.
Live performances of the songs ‘Firefly,’ ‘The Light and Shade of Things, ‘Life in Still Water‘ and ‘Point of View‘ were released leading up to the release of Live Over Europe. Live Over Europe can be ordered digitally and physically now.
More information on Fates Warning’s upcoming live dates is available online now along with all of the band’s latest news at:
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Queensryche Debuts ‘Dark Reverie’ Lyric Video
Posted on January 18, 2019 by philspicks
Courtesy: Century Media
Queensryche released the lyric video for its latest single this week.
The band debuted the lyric video for its single ‘Dark Reverie‘ on Monday. The song’s musical arrangement is everything that audiences have come to expect from Queensryche throughout its life. Queensryche guitarist Parker Lundgren explained the song’s lyrical theme is very introspective.
“‘Dark Reverie’ is a guitar-driven progressive ballad addressing self-reflection during times of tragedy and the questions we ask ourselves while grieving,” Lundgren said.
‘Dark Reverie’ is the latest single from Queensryche’s forthcoming album The Verdict, which is currently set for release March 1 via Century Media. Pre-orders for The Verdict are open now. The album’s lead single, ‘Man The Machine‘ premiered Nov. 16.
Queensryche will tour in support of The Verdict starting March 2 in Orlando, FL. The monthlong tour is scheduled to run through March 3 in Seattle, WA, and feature performances in cities nationwide, such as Cincinnati, OH; Uncasville, CT and Tempe, AZ. The tour’s current schedule is noted below.
Courtesy: Century Media Records
QUEENSRYCHE HEADLINE TOUR DATES
March 2 – Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
March 3 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room
March 5 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
March 7 – Baltimore – Sound Stage*
March 8 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun^
March 9 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza*
March 10 – Worcester, MA – Palladium*
March 12 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogarts
March 13 – Detroit, MI – Diesel
March 14 – Chicago, IL – Concord
March 15 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
March 16 – Medina, MN – Medina Entertainment Center
March 17 – Davenport, IA – Rhythm City Casino Resort^
March 20 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
March 21 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
March 22 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec
March 23 – Albuquerque, NM – El Rey
March 26 – Tempe, AZ – The Marquee
March 27 – San Diego – Observatory
March 28 – Los Angeles, CA- Fonda
March 29 – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
March 30 – Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades
April 2 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
April 3 – Seattle, WA – Neptune
*w/ support from The Cringe
^Queensrÿche only
More information on Queensryche’s new single, tour, album and more is available online now at:
Website: http://www.queensrycheofficial.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/QueensrycheOfficial
Twitter: http://twitter.com/queensryche
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Queensryche Announces New Album Release, Tour Dates; Debuts Album’s Lead Single
Posted on November 17, 2018 by philspicks
Queensryche is giving audiences their first preview of its new album.
The band debuted the lead single, ‘Man The Machine‘ from its forthcoming album The Verdict on Friday. The Verdict is scheduled to be released March 1 via Century Media, and will come a little more than three years after the release of the band’s most recent album, 2015’s Condition Human.
Front man Todd La Torre said in a recent interview that more is on the way from Queensryche as The Verdict‘s release date nears.
“We are excited to release the first full song ‘Man The Machine’ from our upcoming album, The Verdict,” La Torre said. “This is just a small taste of what is to come, and we look forward to unveiling more tracks and videos as we approach the official album release date of March 1, 2019 via Century Media. For exclusive footage, sneak peek audio teasers, exclusive merchandise and album pre-order packages, we invite you to join our official Pledge Music campaign here!”
Pre-orders for The Verdict are open now. The Verdict will be available on a variety of platforms, which are listed below.
The Verdict was produced, mixed and mastered by ZEUSS (Rob Zombie, Iced Earth, Hatebreed). at Uberbeatz in Lynwood, WA; Planet Z in Wilbraham, MA and watershed Studios in Seattle, WA.
The following formats will be available for The Verdict:
CD Digipack (US)
CD Jewelcase (EU)
Ltd. 2CD Box Set (EU)
Exclusive T-Shirt Bundle available at the Century Media store here:
https://Queensryche.lnk.to/TheVerdict/cmstoreus
The following vinyl colors will be available:
500x Red Smoke LP (Available in stores and online in the US)
Limited (TBD) Clear Smoke LP (Band Exclusive Available at Pledge Music)
500x Bloodshot LP (Exclusively Available at FYE)
The following will be available on the Century Media European store HERE:
Black LP+CD & Poster
100x clear LP+CD & Poster
200x transp. red LP+CD & Poster
200x transparent petrol green LP+CD & Poster are available alongside album bundles HERE
Along with the announcement of its upcoming album release, Queensryche has also announced it will tour in support of The Verdict. It will launch a headlining tour March 2, with Fates Warning and The Cringe serving as support. Tickets can be purchased via the band’s official website.
The current schedule for Queensryche’s upcoming tour is noted below.
March 27 – San Diego, CA – Observatory
More information on The Verdict, Queenryche’s tour in support of The Verdict and all of the band’s latest news is available online now at:
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Red Reign’s New EP Will Appeal To Classic Rock Fans Of All Ages
Courtesy: Chipster PR
Early last December, Red Reign released its latest studio recording, a five-song self-titled EP. The self-released record is a work that will appeal to any fan of the songs that made up rock’s mainstream during the late 1980s and early 1990s. This applies both in regards to the record’s musical arrangements and its lyrical content. The record’s opener ‘Not That Way’ solidly serves to support that statement. ‘Chains,’ the record’s third entry, is another of its songs which supports that statement. It will be discussed later. The same can be said of the record’s title track. Each song is important in its own right in showing why fans of rock from that bridge between the 1980s and 90s will enjoy this record. The other two songs not noted here are just as important in their own right, too. All things considered, Red Reign proves to be a record that any classic rock fan will appreciate. That is the case even with Red Reign being a more modern act.
Red Reign’s new self-titled, five-song EP is a work that any “classic rock” fan will appreciate. That is exhibited in no small part through the record’s opener ‘Not That Way.’ The song’s guitar-driven musical arrangement takes listeners back to rock’s early 90s era, conjuring thoughts of Queensryche, Joe Satriani, Van Halen and other similar acts. Drummer Sam Bendheim’s time keeping on the song provides the song even more depth as he keeps the song moving solidly forward. Front man and guitarist Carlton McMichael even conjures thoughts of former Queensryche front man Geoff Tate through his vocal delivery. The song’s musical arrangement is clearly an important part of its whole, but is just one key part of that presentation. Its lyrical content is just as important to discuss as its musical arrangement.
The lyrical content comes across as an anti-break-up song of sorts. That is especially inferred as McMichael sings in the song’s chorus, “How things have changed/But it’s not the same/No it’s not that way/You had your chance/And you let it slip away.” If there was any doubt left about the song’s upbeat message, the song’s second verse alleviates that doubt almost instantly as McMichael sings, “All these years have passed/And I’ve found somebody new/I never ever, ever think of you/Then you come around/Cause you thought you could/But I broke those chains so long ago/And it feels so good.” The song’s subject goes on to sing in the verse’s back end about being heartbroken long ago and having moved on. It is a rare message sent in songs centered on relationship break-ups. Keeping that in mind, that positive, upbeat message does plenty to make ‘Not That Way’ stand out. When it is coupled with the song’s equally upbeat musical arrangement, the two elements show clearly in themselves why Red Reign will appeal to “classic rock” fans. It is just one of the songs that serves to support that statement. ‘Chains’ serves as just as much of an example of why classic rock fans will appreciate the record.
‘Not That Way’ is a clear example of what makes Red Reign’s new self-titled EP a work that any classic rock fan will appreciate. That is due in no small part to the song’s upbeat and uplifting lyrics and its equally positive musical arrangement. It is of course just one of the songs that serves to show why this record will appeal to the already noted audience. ‘Chains’ is another example of why that audience will enjoy this new offering from the Richmond, Virginia-based rock act. Its musical arrangement sits at the base of its notoriety. As with the record’s opener, there is an obvious influence from Queensryche in this song’s arrangement. That is obvious right from the song’s outset through Larry Moore’s bass line and McMichael’s bombastic guitar line. The combination of those elements and Bendheim’s work behind the drum kit conjures thoughts of something from Queensryche circa 1986 (Rage For Order’s release year). While the song’s musical arrangement shows a direct influence from Queensryche, its lyrical content is different yet still just as thought-provoking as the lyrical themes presented in RFO.
Whereas Red Reign’s opener was an upbeat anti-breakup song, this piece is much deeper with what seems like introspective commentary centered on someone’s efforts to move forward in life and forget the past. That is inferred as McMichael sings in the song’s lead verse, “Black and pouring rain/I’m running through these streets where no one knows my name/Free/I won’t look back/On all these things that kept me fear/For all these years/I’m gonna break these chains/I’ll break these chains/I’ll breathe again/I’ll breathe again.” The song’s second verse continues in similar fashion as the song’s subject sings about overcoming certain difficult situations. Considering this and the power in the song’s musical arrangement, one can’t help but imagine the song is meant to convey a message of overcoming and moving on in life. That is of course only this critic’s own interpretation of the song and should not necessarily be taken as gospel. It would be interesting to learn the exact message delivered in the song. One can only hope the message interpreted here is somewhere in the proverbial ballpark. Regardless, the power in the song’s musical arrangement and its lyrical content combines to show in whole why it, too plays such an important part in Red Reign’s enjoyment by its target audiences. It still is not the last song that serves to show why classic rock fans will appreciate this modern rock act’s new EP. The record’s title track is one more example of what makes this record an effort that will appeal to fans of rock’s biggest age.
‘Not That Way’ and ‘Chains’ are both key compositions showing what makes Red Reign a record that any classic rock fan will appreciate. That is due to musical arrangements that harken back to the late 1980s and early 90s and lyrical themes that will both uplift and leave listeners thinking. They are not its only key compositions. The record’s title track proves to be just as important to its presentation as the previously discussed songs. As with those songs, the discussion here begins with the song’s musical arrangement. This time out, the song’s musical arrangement is more directly related to music from the early 90s. It hints at influences from Stone Temple Pilots, Brother Cane, and other slightly harder-edged bands from that era. One could even argue that there is a hint of Van Halen circa 1994 (Balance) in this song’s arrangement thanks to its heavy guitar riffs, bass line and equally heavy vocal delivery from McMichael. That overall arrangement is just one part of what makes this song stand out. Its lyrical content will leave listeners thinking just as much as that presented in ‘Chains.’
The lyrical content presented in ‘Red Reign’ will leave listeners thinking (and talking) because of McMichael’s metaphorical language used throughout the song. He sings in the song’s lead verse, “Like a flash of lightning/I burn throughout the sky/Out of the way, I’m running high/I feel the evil coursing through my body and veins/Are you ready to rock this place/Lower the bridge I’m coming through/Red reign down on you.” One can’t help but wonder what exactly McMichael is saying here. The song’s second verse is just as intriguing as McMichael sings, “In this house of pain the storm looms large and black/My sanity is off the tracks/You know I’ve got no more home…I’ve come from grace and I can’t go back/Lower the bridge I’m coming through.” McMichael definitely leaves listeners guessing at his message here. It would definitely be interesting to learn that message and the story behind the song considering that uncertainty. The very fact that the song’s lyrical content can generate just as much discussion as its musical content shows why this song is so important to Red Reign’s overall presentation. When this is all set alongside the musical and lyrical content presented in the previously noted songs the picture painted through the songs is one of a record that, again, any classic rock fan will appreciate. That is even though the band is a more modern rock act.
Red Reign’s recently released self-titled EP is a work that classic rock fans of any age will appreciate. It shows with its arrangements–which bridge the sounds of the late 80s and early 90s—and its thoughtful lyrical themes that a lot of time and effort was put into its creation. That time and effort, audiences will agree, paid off. It resulted in a record that takes audiences back to a specific era without simply being a carbon copy of songs from that era. The end result is a record that modern record that classic rock fans will appreciate as much as any original classic rock record. It is available now in stores and online. More information on Red Reign is available online now along with all of Red Reign’s latest news and more at:
Website: http://www.redreignband.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RedReignBand
Twitter: http://twitter.com/redreignband
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Geoff Tate Stars In New Independent Horror-Thriller Flick
Courtesy: MVD Entertainment Group/Cleopatra Studios
Geoff Tate is starring in a new independent horror flick.
The former Queensryche and current Operation Mindcrime front man is starring in the direct-to-DVD movie The Burningmore Deaths. The movie, set to be released on DVD and digital platforms on Feb. 14 via Cleopatra Studios and MVD Entertainment Group, is based on true events centered on a group of unsolved murders.
The murders are alleged to have happened in 2005 during the filming of a pilot for a home improvement television series. A man named James Parrish is believed to have murdered the crew filming the home makeover presentation in the house where he is also alleged to have previously murdered his own wife and children.
As the film crew proceeds to record the series’ pilot, Parrish allegedly murdered the film crew, with the whole event being caught on security cameras set up by the show’s crew. Tate takes on the role of Parrish in this gripping horror/thriller from MVD Entertainment Group. Audiences can view a trailer for the movie online now here.
Tate said taking on the role of Parrish was not a big change of pace for him because of his experience. It just meant thinking a little bit differently.
“I think I’ve always done it…In our own shows and with the way I present music,” Tate said. “It all has a bit of a stage acting bend to it. So this wasn’t really a stretch for me. It was just playing to a different audience, to a camera rather than a room full of people, but it’s the same thing. You play-act and you make stuff up and you present that like you would in a stage show.”
The Burningmore Deaths can be ordered online direct via MVD Entertainment Group’s online store and via Amazon. More information on this and other titles from MVD Entertainment Group is available online now at:
Website: http://mvdb2b.com, http://mvdentertainment.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MVDEntertainmentGroup
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mvdentgroup
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Queensryche Unveils ‘Bulletproof’ Video
Posted on December 17, 2016 by philspicks
Queensryche has unveiled the video for its latest single.
The band unveiled the video for ‘Bulletproof’ this week. The video is streaming online now here. It mixes together footage from the veteran rock act’s recently completed year-long Condition Human world tour.
Front man Todd LaTorre explained the band opted to use its live footage for the video in order to illustrate the song’s lyrical theme.
“‘Bulletproof’ is a journey through a relationship gone bad and however painful the relationship is you still find a way to persevere,” LaTorre said. “We elected to present the song in a live setting as a sharp contrast to the videos we’ve done for the Condition Human album to help bring this chapter to a close and start the next journey.”
More information on Queensryche’s new video is available online now along with all of the band’s latest news and more at:
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Electrically charged Higgs versus physicists: 1-0 until break
by The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences
If an electrically charged Higgs boson exists, there are not many places where it can hide. The image presents one of the events covered by the latest analysis, with four jets (white and blue cones) and marked direction of the missing momentum (red arrow). (Source: ATLAS Collaboration, CERN, IFJ PAN) Credit: ATLAS Collaboration, CERN, IFJ PAN
The last missing particle of the Standard Model, the Higgs boson, was discovered in 2012 in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Since then, searching for new, related particles has been underway. Predicted by various theories that go beyond known physics, Higgs bosons with positive or negative electric charge are among the candidates to be observed. But do these particles really exist?
At the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN near Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider's second run of collisions and collecting data on particles and their decays has just ended. Over the next two years, the accelerator will undergo maintenance and the upgrades will be completed. Meanwhile, physicists intensively analyze data from the just-completed run. Their investigation focuses primarily on the search for elementary particles beyond the Standard Model, such as the electrically charged Higgs boson. The most recent analysis in this field was carried out by an international team of physicists working within the ATLAS experiment. The group consisted of researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Cracow and five other institutions scattered around the world.
"The Standard Model is a complex theoretical structure and describes all known elementary particles with excellent accuracy. We know, however, that it works well for experimentally accessible energies. At really high energies, the Standard Model predictions break down; hence the need for so-called new physics," says Dr. Pawel Bruckman (IFJ PAN), and recalls that classical mechanics, for example, shows similar features. When the energy of moving bodies is low, its description is exact. However, when the speed becomes comparable to the speed of light, Newtonian physics must give way to relativistic theories.
Discovered in 2012 by ATLAS and CMS experiments, the neutral Higgs boson confirmed the existence of the mechanism necessary for Standard Model consistency. Physicists, however, are aware that this particle may be only part of a wider Higgs sector, predicted by most theories that go beyond modern particle physics. In the most popular supersymmetric theories (where each known particle has an exotic, more-massive super-partner), there are five Higgs bosons. Three of them, including the standard one, are electrically neutral, while the other two are electrically charged (negatively and positively).
"We have been exploring a very wide range of masses. The mass of the proton, i.e. the nucleus of hydrogen, is about one gigaelectronvolt. In turn, the mass of the quark t, the most massive of the known elementary particles, is 173 gigaelectronvolts. We were looking for traces of the existence of a charged Higgs in the mass range from 90 gigaelectronvolts up to 2000 gigaelectronvolts," explains Ph.D. student Marzieh Bahmani (IFJ PAN).
The team focused on those collision events between quarks and gluons, in which the charged Higgs bosons would be produced together with the t quark, and then decayed into a tau lepton (a much more massive equivalent of the electron) and its associated neutrino. In such events, a few neutrinos are emitted. These particles interact weakly with matter and are invisible to the detectors. Therefore, during the selection of decays, the amount of missing energy that neutrinos would carry away was important.
For the purpose of the analysis, Cracow researchers developed and optimized a multivariate discriminant method. The technique, based on many carefully selected variables and correlations between them, maximizes the discrimination of the expected signal from the overwhelming background.
"Within the current sensitivity, we can say at the 95 percent confidence level that in the selected range of masses we have not observed charged Higgs bosons. This is a very strong limitation on the new theories. We intend to improve it even further in the next round of the analysis, by taking into account all data from the recently completed second run of the LHC accelerator. It is still possible that the charged Higgs is hidden somewhere in the mass range covered by our analysis, but we are not yet sensitive enough to see its signal," says Dr. Anna Kaczmarska (IFJ PAN).
The results of the analysis, published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, are particularly valuable for selecting theoretical models that go beyond known physics. The parameter space of these models has been significantly narrowed. As a consequence, their predictions will be more precise and easier to verify.
On the trail of the Higgs Boson
More information: Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying via H± → τ±ντ in the τ+jets and τ+lepton final states with 36 fb−1 of pp collision data recorded at s = 13 $$ sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS experiment, Journal of High Energy Physics (2018). DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2018)139
Provided by The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences
Citation: Electrically charged Higgs versus physicists: 1-0 until break (2018, December 21) retrieved 18 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2018-12-electrically-higgs-physicists-.html
Physicist Philip Harris on first observation of long-predicted Higgs boson decay
Who gets their mass from the Higgs?
New level of precision achieved in combined measurements of Higgs boson couplings
New particle accelerators will probe how charged particles assume a new identity, or change 'flavor'
Probing physics beyond the Standard Model with the ATLAS Experiment
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Mass, as positrons and negatrons (electrons), is produced supersymmetrically from threshold gammarays (1.0216 Mev), before any larger structures of matter were eventually formed.
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Study suggests girls' advantage in reading explains gender gap in math fields
A pair of researchers, one with the Paris School of Economics, the other with CNRS, UMR8545, Paris-Jourdan Sciences-Economiques, has found a possible reason for the gender gap in math fields—girls have an advantage in reading. ...
Diversity on teams leads to positive outcomes, but not for all
Individuals on teams of diverse people working together can have better outcomes than those on teams with similar individuals, research as shown.
The impact of ethnic stereotypes on employment
Despite their different migration histories, the U.S. and Spain have become the most preferred destinations for Latino migrants, who are among the largest migrant minorities in the two countries. There have been some studies ...
Gender comprises a range of differences between men and women, extending from the biological to the social. At the biological level, men and women are typically distinguished by the presence of a Y-chromosome in male cells, and its absence in female cells. At the social level, however, there is debate regarding the extent to which the various biological differences necessitate differences in social gender roles and gender identity, which has been defined as "an individual's self-conception as being male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex."
The word "gender" has several definitions. Colloquially, it is used interchangeably with "sex" to denote the condition of being male or female, but in the social sciences it refers to specifically social differences, such as but not limited to gender identity. More recently, it has been equated with "sexual orientation" and "identity" (especially LGBT sexuality).[citation needed] People whose gender identity feels incongruent with their biological sex may refer to themselves as "intergender".
Many languages have a system of grammatical gender, a type of noun class system—nouns may be classified as masculine or feminine (for example Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and French) and may also have a neuter grammatical gender (for example Sanskrit, German, Polish, and the Scandinavian languages). In such languages, this is essentially a convention, which may have little or no connection to the meaning of the words. Likewise, a wide variety of phenomena have characteristics termed gender, by analogy with male and female bodies (such as the gender of connectors and fasteners) or due to societal norms.
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Functional Arrhythmias
Jonathan Finlayson
Miles Okazaki
Anthony Tidd
Sean Rickman
PI47 – Release date: March 26, 2013
Snap-Sis
Hormone Trig
Assim-Elim
Adrenal, Got Ghost
Lymph Swag (Dance of the Leukocytes)
Cerebellum Lean
Respiratory Flow
Limbic Cry
Cerebrum Crossover
Chemical Intuition
Medulla-Vagus
Sinews
Functional Arrhythmias is the latest and most ambitious chapter in alto saxophonist Steve Coleman’s ongoing study into patterns found in nature in this case the various rhythms found inside the human body and using them as the building blocks for his highly individual musical language. The new CD follows on the critically acclaimed Harvesting Semblances and Affinities and The Mancy of Sound, both released on Pi Recordings. To help realize his latest musical vision, Coleman has revamped his band Five Elements by reenlisting two veterans: Sean Rickman on drums and Anthony Tidd on bass. Together with long-time member Jonathan Finlayson one of the most acclaimed young trumpeters on the jazz scene and guitarist Miles Okazaki, they possess the combination of intuition and experience to capture Coleman’s music in all its labyrinthine beauty.
The title of the album refers to the irrational rhythms found in healthy human heartbeat patterns and how many of its compositions utilize the heartbeat pulse (ternary or triple pattern). Coleman has long been fascinated with time-related themes, and Functional Arrhythmias is his attempt at creating a musical analogy of the rhythmic interaction between the circulatory, nervous, respiratory, and other biological systems of the human body. He also examines the effect of sensory stimuli on these relationships, and reflects them in the music. He credits the master percussionist and polymath Milford Graves — whose pioneering research into heart sounds and rhythms point to the connection between the human soul, biology and music — for providing the inspiration for his explorations.
Coleman employs an unusual process in creating these compositions: It usually starts with him improvising alone playing the saxophone and/or singing as he simultaneously beats out rhythms while visualizing some of the physical principles (shape, appearance, energy, vibration, movement, effect, etc.) of biological functions. These spontaneous sketches are then transcribed and other improvised sections overlaid to arrive at the final composition. The resulting layers of melodic and rhythmic counterpoint exhibit all the hallmarks of Coleman’s best work.
Five Elements, Coleman’s band since 1981, continues to be his primary vehicle for the expression of his music. This version of the band is notable for the return of Anthony Tidd on electric bass and Sean Rickman on drums, both of who first played with the band over 15 years ago. They bring a thorough understanding of Coleman’s systems and a muscular sense of groove to the music, but are at the same time flexible enough to navigate the complex rhythmic twists and turns that are characteristic of this music. The rest of the band is comprised of Jonathan Finlayson, who has been a member of Five Elements since 2000 when he was still a teenager, and Miles Okazaki, a relative newcomer who has released three well-received albums of his own as a leader. Finlayson, who is one of the most sought after trumpeters for his musicality and ability to tackle cutting-edge musical concepts, has appeared on an astonishing three New York Times #1 albums of the year in the last four years, including Coleman’s Harvesting Semblances and Affinities, Steve Lehman’s Travail, Transformation, and Flow, and David Virelles’ Continuum. He is also a member of guitarist Mary Halvorson’s quintet and appears on her acclaimed recordings Saturn Sings and Bending Bridges. He will release his debut recording as a leader, Moment and the Message on Pi Recordings in May.
For a quarter century Coleman has been known as the key proponent of M-Base, a musical and philosophical movement that incorporates elements from the folkloric music of the African diaspora fused with musical ideas influenced by ancient metaphysical concepts and patterns found in nature. He has conducted extensive research trips to Cuba, Ghana, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Senegal, Algeria, Ivory Coast and Tunisia to collaborate and learn from musicians from different cultures. Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer said in an article in The Wall Street Journal: “It’s hard to overstate Steve’s influence. He’s affected more than one generation, as much as anyone since John Coltrane.
Coleman has often stated his desire to “be able to look at a mountain and literally play the mountain and to look at the flight pattern of a bee, the flight pattern of a bird, and play that. Or have that directly influence my music, so almost be able to look at nature as one big gesture.” Of his latest endeavor, Coleman says: “All of the activities of the human body are connected in a miraculous fashion, like a giant musical composition that is constantly and spontaneously changing based on interactions with its environment.” Functional Arrhythmias is the latest in his fascinating and never-ending quest to express the relationship of mankind to everything else through his music.
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World Population Data 2018: Population Age Structure
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What insights into the changes in the lives of individuals and families does a social science research infrastructure like the GGP offer researchers, policy makers and civil society? This animated introduction to the Generations & Gender Programme (GGP) explains the purpose, function and value of a social science research infrastructure to the domains of public policy and research. To access the GGP open source datasets register as a GGP User here. [...]
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Category Archives: Week In Review
Week Eleven In Review
November 23, 2016 Scotty M Leave a comment
The Carolina Panthers advanced to 4-6 with a 23-20 victory over the New Orleans Saints.
The Cleveland Browns fell to 0-11 with a 24-9 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Dallas Cowboys’ 27-17 victory over the Baltimore Ravens marked their ninth straight win.
The Jacksonville Jaguars stumbled to 2-8 with a 26-19 loss to the Detroit Lions.
The Indianapolis Colts won their straight matchup over the Tennessee Titans 24-17.
The Buffalo Bills defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 16-12.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers edged the Kansas City Chiefs 19-17.
The New York Giants defeated the Chicago Bears 22-16.
The Minnesota Vikings ended their four-game losing skid with a 24-20 victory over the Arizona Cardinals.
The Miami Dolphins collected their fifth victory in a row with a 14-10 win over the Los Angeles Rams.
The Seattle Seahawks defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 26-15.
The Green Bay Packers’ 42-24 loss to the Washington Redskins marked their fourth straight defeat.
The Oakland Raiders defeated the Houston Texans to retain control of the AFC West.
Week Ten In Review
The Cleveland Browns fell to 0-10 with a 28-7 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Cairo Santos booted a 37-yard game-winning field goal that lifted the Chiefs to a 20-17 victory over the Carolina Panthers.
The Houston Texans edged the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-21.
Denver Broncos safety Will Parks returned a blocked extra point for a two-point conversion that was the difference in the Broncos’ 25-23 victory over the New Orleans Saints.
The Los Angeles Rams defeated the New York Jets 9-6.
The Philadelphia Eagles advanced to 5-4 with a 24-16 victory over the Atlanta Falcons.
The Chicago Bears fell to 2-7 with a 36-10 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Green Bay Packers’ 47-25 loss to the Tennessee Titans marked their third consecutive defeat.
The Washington Redskins edged the Minnesota Vikings 26-20.
The San Diego Chargers lost to the Miami Dolphins 31-24.
The Arizona Cardinals edged the San Francisco 49ers 23-20.
The Dallas Cowboys advanced to 8-1 with a 35-30 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The New England Patriots suffered a rare home loss to the Seattle Seahawks 31-24.
The New York Giants edged the Cincinnati Bengals 21-20.
Week Nine In Review
November 9, 2016 Scotty M Leave a comment
The Atlanta Falcons trounced the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 43-28 behind quarterback Matt Ryan’s four-touchdown performance.
The Minnesota Vikings’ 22-16 loss to the Detroit Lions marked their third consecutive loss.
The New York Giants edged the Philadelphia Eagles 28-23.
The Miami Dolphins won their third consecutive game with a 27-23 victory over the New York Jets.
The Jacksonville Jaguars sunk to 2-6 with a 19-14 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Dallas Cowboys advanced to 7-1 with a 35-10 victory over the Cleveland Browns.
The Baltimore Ravens defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 21-14.
The New Orleans Saints defeated the San Francisco 49ers 41-23.
The Carolina Panthers advanced to 3-5 with a 13-10 victory over the Los Angeles Rams.
The Indianapolis Colts edged the Green Bay Packers 31-26.
The San Diego Chargers edged the Tennessee Titans 43-35.
The Oakland Raiders took control of the AFC West with a 30-20 victory over the Denver Broncos.
The Seattle Seahawks advanced to 5-2-1 with a 31-25 victory over the Buffalo Bills.
Week Nine Picks
Atlanta over Tampa Bay
Pittsburgh over Baltimore
Dallas over Cleveland
Kansas City over Jacksonville
New York (J) over Miami
Minnesota over Detroit
New York (G) over Philadelphia
Carolina over Los Angeles
New Orleans over San Francisco
Green Bay over Indianapolis
San Diego over Tennessee
Denver over Oakland
Seattle over Buffalo
Week Eight In Review
The Jacksonville Jaguars stumbled to 2-5 with a 36-22 loss to the Tennessee Titans.
The Washington Redskins and Cincinnati Bengals tied 27-27 in London.
The New England Patriots flattened the Buffalo Bills 41-25.
The Arizona Cardinals stumbled to 3-4-1 with a 30-20 loss to the Carolina Panthers.
The Cleveland Browns remain winless after losing to the New York Jets 31-28.
The Houston Texans edged the Detroit Lions 20-13.
The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Indianapolis Colts 30-14.
The New Orleans Saints defeated the Seattle Seahawks 25-20.
The Oakland Raiders committed a league-record 23 penalties, but quarterback Derek Carr led the Silver and Black to a 30-24 overtime victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Denver Broncos defeated the San Diego Chargers 27-19.
The Atlanta Falcons edged the Green Bay Packers 33-32.
The Dallas Cowboys advanced to 6-1 with a 29-23 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Chicago Bears defeated the Minnesota Vikings 20-10;.
Week Seven In Review
October 25, 2016 Scotty M Leave a comment
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’s three-touchdown performance carried the Packers to a 26-10 victory over the Chicago Bears.
New York Giants safety Landon Collins’s had two interceptions and a touchdown during the Giants’ 17-10 victory over the Los Angeles Rams in London.
The Cleveland Browns stumbled to 0-7 with a 31-17 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Detroit Lions’ 20-17 victory over the Washington Redskins marked their third straight win.
The Oakland Raiders advanced to 5-2 with a 33-16 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The Kansas City Chiefs edged the New Orleans Saints 27-21.
The Miami Dolphins defeated the Buffalo Bills 28-25.
The New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Ravens 24-16.
The Minnesota Vikings’ 21-10 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles marked their first loss of the season.
The Indianapolis Colts defeated the Tennessee Titans 34-26.
The San Diego Chargers edged the Atlanta Falcons 33-30.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the San Francisco 49ers 34-17.
The New England Patriots advanced to 6-1 with a 27-16 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals tied 6-6 despite both the fact that both teams had short field goal attempts in overtime.
The Denver Broncos trounced the Houston Texans 27-9 in Texans QB Brock Osweiler’s return to Denver.
Week Six In Review
The Denver Broncos’ 21-13 loss to the San Diego Chargers marked their second loss in two weeks.
The Buffalo Bills flattened the San Francisco 49ers 45-16 in 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s first start of the season.
The Jacksonville Jaguars edged the Chicago Bears 17-16.
The Detroit Lions advanced to 3-3 with a 31-28 victory over the Los Angeles Rams.
Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger tore his meniscus during the Steelers’ 30-15 loss to the Miami Dolphins.
The New England Patriots defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 35-17.
The Carolina Panthers fell to 1-5 with a 41-38 loss to the New Orleans Saints.
The New York Giants edged the Baltimore Ravens 27-23.
The Cleveland Browns remain winless following their 28-26 loss to the Tennessee Titans.
The Philadelphia Eagles’ 27-20 loss to the Washington Redskins marked their second consecutive loss.
The Oakland Raiders fell to the Kansas City Chiefs 26-10.
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliot totaled 157 rushing yards during the Cowboys’ 30-16 victory over the Green Bay Packers.
The Seattle Seahawks edged the Atlanta Falcons 26-24.
The Houston Texans mounted a 14-point fourth quarter comeback and defeated the Indianapolis Colts 26-23 in overtime.
The New York Jets fell to 1-5 with a 28-3 loss to the New York Jets.
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Home » Blog » Do We Have Misconceptions of Love?
Do We Have Misconceptions of Love?
By Lauren Suval
Society has told us that one day we will grow up to meet the person who completes us, the person who is our counterpart, our other half. Is it just me, or is that conception a little, I don’t know, disturbing? Is it bothersome to think that you are not whole, and without this other half you will be harboring this ever-present inner void?
If we don’t meet this kind of soulmate, are we incomplete?
I tend to think that true love and its essence are not about finding that other half, but about finding another whole. After all, we all are whole: It just takes growth and experience to become the person we want to be, to feel secure in our own skin. When two wholes meet and fall in love, that’s when a relationship can find strength and move forward.
Who knows — maybe there’s a reason why those Nicholas Sparks romance dramas unfold the way they do. His stories usually center on young love. Then there’s an inevitable breakup and heartache, but right when you think it’s not meant to be, the two estranged lovers do find a way back to each other — it just so happens that it’s years later when they’re older, and have possibly come into their own, perhaps no longer pining for a half that was “missing.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the New York Times bestseller Eat Pray Love, has an interesting take on the role of soulmates:
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”
Another trap we may all succumb to is the notion that once the passionate phase of a relationship starts to disintegrate, the chemistry may be lost as well.
“After a few months or a year or two, at most, the ties of romantic love normally die down into embers,” say psychologists Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener. According to their positive psychology book, Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, Hollywood fuels the image of “true love,” which is highlighted by individuals moving from relationship to relationship in search of sustainable passion.
Many couples break up during this transition; however, they’re missing out on the phase that’s to follow. A period of passionate love gives way to companionate love, where there is a readiness to accept and acknowledge a partner’s flaws and sacrifices are made for each another.
“It’s true that passion comes and goes during companionate love, and that a spouse can sometimes feel like a friend instead of a lover,” say Diener and Biswas-Diener. “This is a sign that the relationship is growing rather than dying.”
Since the type of love in a relationship is an integral source of overall fulfillment, it’s also important to tread carefully when encountering deficiency-love. The Happiness book suggests that this form of love does pose potential consequences for long-term happiness in a relationship; the theory is based on the belief that we are attracted to those who satisfy our needs.
“If you’re low in self-esteem you will find attractive a person who gives you many compliments,” Diener and Biswas-Diener explain. “If you get bored easily, you will be drawn to an entertaining, exciting person.”
They propose that deficiency-love is substantial for as long as our needs are stable, but as we evolve and grow, our needs change. Unless our partner’s needs change at the same pace as our own, the relationship can be in jeopardy when the other person no longer can supply something we need or desire.
I tend to believe that love can certainly bring out the best in us, and true romantic love does ignite great happiness. But when it comes to relationships, it may be worth questioning the idiosyncracies and nuances that come with the territory.
Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener. (2008). Happiness: Unlocking the Secret to Psychological Wealth. Wiley-Blackwell.
Lauren Suval
Lauren Suval studied print journalism and psychology at Hofstra University, and she is a writer based in New York. Her work has been featured on Thought Catalog, Catapult Community, and other online publications. Lauren's e-book “Coping With Life’s Clutter” and her latest book, “The Art Of Nostalgia,” a collection of personal essays, can both be found on Amazon. She loves to be followed on Twitter @LaurenSuval.
Suval, L. (2018). Do We Have Misconceptions of Love?. Psych Central. Retrieved on July 18, 2019, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/do-we-have-misconceptions-of-love/
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Home / News / The New Wave of Daily Organizers: The Modern Manila with Alyssa de Asis
The New Wave of Daily Organizers: The Modern Manila with Alyssa de Asis
Alyssa de Asis is a girl as whimsical as her illustrations. From her hair to her style, she’s infused her personality into every design she’s created. With her Modern Manila, she’s given a piece of herself to the Punchdrunk Panda family.
Image (c) Alyssa de Asis
Growing up with a pencil and sketchpad in hand and a vision of a colorful world in her mind, Alyssa was guaranteed to be in the artistic field. Ever since she graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from St. Scholastica’s College-Manila, she’s never looked back. Her chosen specialization in Visual Design and Communications enabled her to start a career in advertising before fully jumping in to a career as a full-time freelance illustrator.
As a full-time illustrator, graphic artist, web designer, and photographer, she has her hands full with staying inspired all the time to keep making content. She does this by traveling, visiting art galleries, and looking up new inspirations on social media. Most of her works are inspired by nature (as seen in the foliage she includes in her art) but she also looks to the works of Hayao Miyazaki and other children’s book illustrators for that generative spark. She also stresses the importance of setting priorities and allot time for work. But on those days when creative block rears its ugly head, a cup of coffee and good music will perk her up.
Photo (c) Alyssa de Asis
Modern Manila sprouted from how she sees Manila as it is today. After some research, she listed down the great features of our city: a rich nightlife with talented musicians performing in different places, always having new restaurants and cafes to discover, carpooling, bazaars and so much more. The bright city life was translated into Alyssa’s colorful graphics for the Daily Organizer.
If you want to follow in Alyssa’s footsteps, she advises you to always keep learning new things, work hard, and have fun as you do so. Looking back on her previous works, she’s most proud of her recent illustrations that show the improvement in her style. With hard work and dedication, any aspiring artist will flourish because they love what they do.
Follow Alyssa on her Instagram, @alyssadeasis, for updates on her ongoing projects. Check out her website, alyssadeasis.com, for more of her previous works and inquiries. It’s like falling into fairytale land!
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Home Rugby Exclusive – Beyond The Divides: How Rugby Is Changing War-Torn Afghanistan
Exclusive – Beyond The Divides: How Rugby Is Changing War-Torn Afghanistan
Paul Wassell September 19, 2016
The beauty of rugby is it can bring people together from across political, social and religious divides to recognise and celebrate achievement, determination and a basic human commonality.
In war-torn Afghanistan, a country blighted by conflict for decade upon decade, the people are beginning to embrace rugby as a way of providing moments of joy in a bleak and disjointed society.
We spoke to Afghanistan Rugby Federation’s CEO and vice president Asad Ziar, who helped reintroduce the game to the country as recently as 2011.
When one considers the difficulties that many emerging nations go through in building the foundations for greater sporting futures, their problems are nothing in comparison to the challenges that Asad Ziar and his colleagues faced and continue to do so.
“Bringing sport, especially a new sport like rugby is very challenging and there is no support for the development of new sports. We started rugby in 2011 but we still do not have a single rugby playing ground in the whole country.”
Ziar’s journey is akin to conquering Everest and then some. Yet whilst the upper echelons of the rugby globe seem to be becoming more and more obsessed with funding, costs and finance, the Afghans simply do not have this luxury. For them conquering this rugby summit comes from a brilliant passion, unbridled enthusiasm and an unwavering resolve to succeed.
“Countries with millions of dollars of funds allocated for the development of rugby did not inspire me at all but the Fijians really did and I believe that rugby does not need a huge financial support to develop in Afghanistan.”
However, Afghanistan is not without its own sporting heritage and for centuries the Afghan people have played ‘Buzkashi’, a sport with some similarities to rugby.
“Afghanistan has indigenous sports which bear some resemblance to rugby football. One of these games is called Buzkashi, which has been compared to a cross between rugby and polo and uses a dead goat or sheep as the ball. The goal of a player is to grab the carcass of a headless goat or sheep and then get it clear of the other players and pitch it across the goal line or into a target circle or vat.”
Ziar informs me that the game has even been referred to as ‘Sheep Rugby’ by the Society for Creative Anachronism since the 1970s (it’s true, look it up). So why then would the people of Afghanistan want rugby when they already have their own cultural traditions?
“I understood that buying a horse cost a huge amount of money and that is the reason the game of Buzkashi is dying in the country, but everyone can afford to find a rugby ball and play rugby instead of Buzkashi.”
European influence has permeated Afghanistan society for centuries, sometimes with the best of intentions but often otherwise; in this case the promotion of rugby once has provided an element of accessibility to a population that is living in such an uncertain and unstable environment.
“Afghans are physically fit for almost all sports and they love to be part of a sporting team. Participation in sport is still very rare and that is because of the lack of proper playing grounds and security issues.”
But Ziar and the rest of the Afghanistan Rugby Federation are working tirelessly to manoeuvre around the many obstacles that lie in their path to see rugby grow as a way forward for bringing Afghans together. Right now, rugby is really only played in the capital city of Kabul and its surrounding villages, but Ziar is keen to see the sport taken across the nation in order to bring unity to a brutally divided society.
“Our aim is to support youngsters who participate in sport against a backdrop of violence, conflict and suffering. The Federation does not make judgments about the war, or about any individual’s participation in the war, but simply hopes to encourage young people to do something positive, fun and competitive, in the hope that they will avoid becoming part of the violence and avoid the temptation of drugs.
“Sport is a powerful tool to promote peace, tolerance and understanding, bringing people together across boundaries, cultures and religions. Its intrinsic values such as teamwork, fairness, discipline and respect are understood all over the world and can be utilised in the advancement of solidarity and social cohesion. We always witness love, passion and brotherhood in rugby and we feel it will help our youngsters to be united and respect each other.”
When Ziar looks back on his best moments with Afghanistan Rugby so far, he points to significant wins that the national team had over international rivals and more established rugby nations.
“It was November 2013 when Afghanistan was placed second with 9 points with wins over UAE (33-0) and Lebanon (22-5) in the West Asia Rugby Sevens Tournament in Al Ain – UAE. Afghanistan Rugby Federation is an associate member while UAE and Lebanon are Full Members of Asia Rugby and in UAE’s case World Rugby.”
Those wins were a tremendous milestone for rugby across the country, but results that are very much in the past. Ziar is focussed on the here-and-now and the future that he envisions for both the sport he adores and the country he calls home.
“We now have 14 rugby clubs and the short-term goal is that we start school rugby next year. The medium goal is that in the coming two years we have rugby actively in at least five provinces of Afghanistan.
“The federation desperately needs a rugby academy and rugby playing fields which will enable the federation to boost the number of participants and have more and more professional rugby players to feed the national teams. Our long-term plan is that each and every Afghan should be familiar with rugby throughout the country.”
Rugby might only provide moments of bliss or fragile fragments of joy, but it is slowly making a difference in a society that has been so bitterly divided for much of its recent history. Inspirational men like Asad Ziar should be celebrated for their selfless devotion to a cause that goes far beyond simply sport.
In this context rugby can truly transform a nation almost destroyed by conflict; that power to go beyond the divides is what makes the sport so special.
You can find out more about Asad’s work by clicking here.
Paul Wassell, Pundit Arena
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Paul is an English teacher by day and an avid rugby fan the rest of the time. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook, or contact him at paul@punditarena.com
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Kate is an actress/singer/writer who works bi-coastally. She has appeared in over forty roles in television and film and has performed leading roles in regional theaters across the country, including La Jolla Playhouse and Arena Stage. She was in the company of the first national Broadway tour of SPRING AWAKENING and has developed and performed a one-woman show, RACHEL CALOF, based on the memoir of a Jewish homesteader on the northern plaines, nationwide. She has written two published biographical novels about the physicist Enrico Fermi and the educator Maria Montessori and is currently at work on a third about the director Frank Capra. Kate is a former McKnight Fellow.
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Cheating case against Pune-based real estate developer DSK
Besides, cheating, D S Kulkarni and his wife have also been booked for criminal breach of trustPTI | October 29, 2017, 08:42 IST
PUNE: The Pune police on Saturday registered a cheating case against city-based developer D S Kulkarni and his wife based on a complaint of a senior citizen who failed to get back his investment from the real-estate group.
Besides, cheating, D S Kulkarni, popularly known as DSK and his wife have also been booked for criminal breach of trust, said police.
There are around 8,000 depositors who have reportedly invested around Rs 485 crore with D S Kulkarni's group but due to a financial crisis, the investors have failed to get their money back from the developer.
For the last several months, all these investors, largely pensioners, have been queuing up at DSK's office here in Pune.
As many as 170 depositors who have invested in the Fixed Deposit (FD) scheme of the DSK group, had even approached the Pune police couple of months ago, demanding a cheating case be registered against the firm.
"We have registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC and the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors Act against D S Kulkarni and Hemanti Kulkarni," said Prabhakar Shinde, senior inspector at the Shivaji Nagar police station.
He said the complaint was filed by Jitendra Mulekar (65), who claimed to have invested Rs 4,40,647 in the scheme.
Mulekar claimed he neither received the principal amount nor the interest since February 2017.
The police said the economic offences wing is investigating the case.
"We are scrutinising other applications and verifying the exact amount invested by all the investors," said a police officer from the EoW.
Despite repeated attempts, D S Kulkarni could not be reached for a comment.
However, in a video, released by DSK himself earlier this year on social media, the real estate developer had replied to all allegations and queries of deposit holders and investors.
"People have been investing with the group for the last 35 years and they were getting their returns on time. The firm started facing financial crunch from October 2016 as the real estate was going through a tough time and at the same time demonetisation exercise was announced, which added to cash crunch," Kulkarni had said in the video message.
He had said that out of 21 construction projects, the work at 13 sites had stopped.
"We are working on all the fronts to find a solution to raise cash and I would like to ensure my investors that they will not lose their money," he had said.
DSK had in September stepped down from the post of managing director of DS Kulkarni Developers Limited (DSKDL).
His son Shirish has succeeded him as the new managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company.
Legal remedies available to homebuyers against builders for unfair practices adopted
Tags : Regulatory, Scam, Pune, fixed deposit, D S Kulkarni
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Bill Nye, Kevin Kelly and driverless vehicle experiences announced as first round of 2019 Idea Week acts
Author: Nick Swisher
Emmy Award-winning speaker Bill Nye the Science Guy and Wired magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly were announced as the first round of keynote speakers for Idea Week 2019, an annual event that celebrates innovation, entrepreneurs and the incubation of new ideas.
Event organizers also announced plans to incorporate technology experiences into the week, including rides in driverless vehicles for registrants.
Idea Week will take place April 8-13 (Monday-Saturday) and is hosted by the University of Notre Dame, the South Bend-Elkhart region and various community organizations and businesses. It will be held at Notre Dame and other locations throughout South Bend and Elkhart and will be open to the public.
Nye will speak on the importance of science and innovation and Kelly will speak on the intersection of faith and technology. The dates and times of their keynotes will be announced at a later date. Details on the driverless vehicle experiences will also be announced in the coming months.
More than 18,000 people attended at least one part of Idea Week 2018, its inaugural year.
Grammy Award-winning country music artist Tim McGraw was previously announced as the week’s major concert act. He will perform April 13 (Saturday) at the Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center. Tickets to see McGraw range from $40 to $125 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday (Nov. 16) at www.ideaweektix.com.
Idea Week is a cross between a festival and similar innovation and entrepreneurial events in cities like Boston, Denver and Chicago. It will include more than 50 sessions broken up into four types: Learn, Play, Meet and Compete. It is geared toward everyone, including entrepreneurs, students, developers, makers, inventors, designers, investors or those who simply love science, innovation and tech. Its goal is provide attendees with the practical knowledge, creative inspiration and social foundation they need to innovate within their own careers, studies and communities.
In addition to McGraw, Nye, Kelly and the driverless vehicle experiences, there will be a major comedic act; additional musical performances and keynote speakers; the McCloskey New Venture Competition, which will offer prizes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars; meetups; workshops; additional technology experiences; and various social activities, all of which will be announced over the next four months.
“Bill Nye and Kevin Kelly each bring a unique and needed perspective to the topics of innovation, science and technology,” said Bryan Ritchie, Notre Dame vice president and associate provost for innovation. “Bill will entertain us and make us laugh all the while evangelizing on the acute importance of science and technology, and Kevin will discuss how technology and faith can and should intersect as well as explore the ethical implications of innovation. We look forward to hearing from both of them during Idea Week 2019.”
Nye is an American science educator, engineer, comedian, television presenter, author and inventor, with a mission to help foster a scientifically literate society and to help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Making science entertaining and accessible is something Nye has been passionate about his entire life. Nye made a number of award-winning shows, including the show he became so well known for, “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” which won seven national Emmy Awards for writing, performing and producing.
Kelly is senior maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its executive editor for its first seven years. His new book for Viking/Penguin is called “The Inevitable,” which is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling “New Rules for the New Economy,” the classic book on decentralized emergent systems; “Out of Control,” a graphic novel about robots and angels; “The Silver Cord,” an oversize catalog of the best of Cool Tools, and his summary theory of technology in “What Technology Wants.”
For more information about Idea Week, including how to register, visit ideaweek.com.
Originally published by Nick Swisher at news.nd.edu on November 13, 2018.
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Following the spectacular failure of his second opera, Un giorno di regno, Giuseppe Verdi vowed never to compose another. But he was lured back to the theatre by Bartolomeo Merelli, the impresario of La Scala, Milan, with the commission for Nabucco. The resulting opera was a triumph – first performed in 1842, it was revived the same year with a run of 57 shows.
From its famous, dissonant opening chords, Tosca conjures up a world of political instability and menace. The Chief of Police, Scarpia – one of the most malevolent villains in opera – ruthlessly pursues and tortures enemies of the state.
The Royal Opera presents Verdi’s grand opera Les Vepres Siciliennes for the very first time – and in a major new production. Antonio Pappano conducts a star cast that includes Bryan Hymel, Marina Polavskaya, Erwin Schrott and Michael Volle.
2013/2014 Royal Opera House, Opera Season
La bohème got a lukewarm reception when it had its premiere in 1896, but its fortunes almost immediately changed. Giacomo Puccini's romantic depiction of bohemian Paris, with memorable music and a love story drawn from everyday life, has captivated audiences round the world, making La bohème one of the best-loved of all operas.
The Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season gets off to a dramatic start with the return of Puccini’s musically sublime final opera Turandot – a tale of disguised identities, riddles, ritual executions and powerful, triumphant love.
‘A toast to the pleasures of life!’ – so sings Violetta, her new admirer Alfredo and her party guests in the opening scene of Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata. But beneath the surface glamour of Violetta’s Parisian life run darker undercurrents: her doomed love for Alfredo and the tensions the lovers encounter when they break society’s conventions.
Carmen was based on a popular novella of the same name by Prosper Mérimée, which enticed French readers with exotic tales of Spain. Its heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage and Georges Bizet’s opera was a critical failure on its premiere in 1875.
A new production of Parsifal, Wagner’s huge, profound meditation on guilt, death and possible redemption, is always a remarkable event. This one, directed by Stephen Langridge, designed by Alison Chitty and conducted by Antonio Pappano, the creative team who brought Birtwistle’s brutal, beautiful Minotaur to the stage, is especially exciting.
Puccini’s publisher tried to prevent him from adapting Abbé Prévost’s L’Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut – Massenet had already created a highly successful opera based on the novel. But Puccini was not to be dissuaded, claiming ‘a woman like Manon can have more than one lover’.
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BMW Team RLL Races in P3 and P10 at 12 Hours of Sebring Mid-Point; No. 55 Runs in Third, No. 56 Slowed by Crash Damage in Tenth
Pre-Event Notes/Quotes for IndyCar Open Test at Barber
BMW Team RLL Finishes 3rd and 10th at the12 Hours of Sebring; No. 55 Z4 GTLM Drivers Move into Championship Points Lead
Woodcliff Lake, N.J. – March 15, 2014 . . . Second race, second podium: BMW Team RLL finished third and tenth in today’s 12 Hours of Sebring. Victorious twice before at the classic sports car racing endurance event (2011 and 2012), the 62nd edition of the longest half-day in motorsport relinquished only a third place finish to the No. 55 BMW Z4 GTLM for the team’s second consecutive podium of the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. The result moves Bill Auberlen, Joey Hand and Andy Priaulx to the top of the Driver point standings.
The No. 55 Z4, co-driven by Bill Auberlen, Joey Hand and Andy Priaulx, took the checkered flag in third place – 5.144seconds from the second step of the podium – completing 286 laps of the 3.74-mile, 17-turn Sebring International Raceway. The trio finished second at the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona and now stand first (unofficially) in GTLM driver points. The No. 56 Z4 finished tenth. Co-driven by John Edwards, Dirk Müller and Dirk Werner, the car experienced a number of problems during the race and finished nine laps in arrears of the class winning Porsche.
Qualifying second (Dirk Müller) and third (Bill Auberlen), the team began its sixth Sebring race from an excellent position and ran strongly in the 11-car GTLM class for the first half of the race.
At the six-hour mark the No. 55 machine was running in third and the No. 56 in tenth after Werner was pushed into the wall by a competitor. Repairs over the next few hours ultimately cost the 56 machine nine laps.
The race was slowed by more than five hours of caution periods and the crack RLL strategy helped the No. 55 machine regain a lost lap caused by a malfunctioning pit speed limiter just past the midpoint of the race. With 2.5-hours remaining Joey Hand was in fourth, only two seconds from a podium position. He took over third on lap 276, putting a good chase on for second in the final ten laps of the race. The same could not be said for the No. 56 Z4 as the lost laps proved to be too many to make up and a tenth place finish was the result.
“Today was certainly a tough day for us in many respects,” said Bobby Rahal, Team Principal. “A third place finish by the No. 55 Z4 and now the points lead is a tremendous achievement given the ups and downs they went though the course of the race. Unfortunately, the day was ruined quite early for the No. 56 car. At the end we didn’t have the pace to catch the leaders, but now we head to Long Beach and a circuit much more suited to the strengths of the Z4.”
Gordon McDonnell, BMWNA Motorsport Manager commented, “Sebring reminded us it is always harder than expected, but at the end of the day it was a great result for BMW Team RLL. We head to Long Beach next month leading the GTLM driver points ready for the next step in the fight for the championship.”
Bill Auberlen, driver No. 55 Z4 GTLM – “We ran into some of the worst luck I have ever seen. We had a great car, we were up to second place and then we dropped to third place. Then we got a speeding violation coming into the pit lane, and then we got three more back to back before we determined the cause, which put us a lap down. We fought back to the lead lap. Our Z4 was great. We tuned it and adjusted it throughout the race. It sustained some damage early on and had a big understeer. We tuned that out and we had something to go racing with and my last stint was very strong.”
Joey Hand, driver No. 55 Z4 GTLM – “It was an interesting race for sure. We just kept trying to make the car better and better. It wasn’t as good as I thought it was going to be, but it all came right and during that last twenty minutes I was thinking, “Oh boy, this is turning into another dog fight!” It seemed the Porsche was too far gone, but I thought we could get to the Viper. It wasn’t our race to win today, but the reason why we have won championships in this program is because we get what we can get, and that is what we did.”
Andy Priaulx, driver No. 55 Z4 GTLM – “My first stint was hardly a stint as I had so many safety cars. We had a bit of contact with a prototype which damaged the bodywork and there was then some understeer in the car. The team did a great job to re-balance the car, which luckily wasn’t badly damaged. Then Joey jumped in and had a great couple of stints. They bolted me in and I had a really good fast stint with good lap times. We had to come in a couple of laps early as the bonnet was a bit loose and had to be taped. We were in the ball park and not far off where we needed to be and I thought if we can get a couple of safety cars now we will be back in the hunt. I was also pleased that when I got out of the car I had set the fastest lap time in it up to that point. My job was to bring the car back in one piece, which I did. There were a couple of crazy re-starts as there were so many cars out there and you were locked in the battle from the moment you got into the car – I have never had it like that before. It is full ten tenths, it is fun and it makes you sharp and I am loving it.”
John Edwards, driver No. 56 Z4 GTLM – “There is not much we could have done today. Things that were not expected to happen ultimately put us in the situation where we were out of contention. It’s really too bad because we had a strong car. We saw the No. 55 finish on the podium and we think we would have been right up there too.”
Dirk Müller, driver No. 56 Z4 GTLM – “This was one of those races which ultimately ended quite early for us. We stayed positive and were hoping that we’d get the laps back with all the caution periods. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out. Congratulations to the 55 guys!”
Dirk Werner, driver No. 56 Z4 GTLM – “Unfortunately we had too many incidents today. The hit from a Porsche that turned us in the wall put us back a number of laps and we never really recovered. I hope the rest of the season will be better for Dirk and John.”
Round Three of the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, the Sports Car Showcase at Long Beach, will take place on Saturday, April 12th during the Long Beach Grand Prix weekend. The race will be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 beginning at 6 p.m. ET. Follow BMW Team RLL on Twitter at @BMWUSARacing for “from-the-pit-box” updates all weekend. More information on the program can be found at www.bmwusa.com and www.imsa.com.
Journalist note: Information about BMW Group and its products in the USA is available to journalists on-line at www.bmwgroupusanews.com and www.press.bmwna.com.
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OTHER THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED – FEBRUARY 26
HONG KONG’S EXPORT RULES FOR BABY MILK FORMULA TO STAY IN PLACE
The Hong Kong Free Press on 26th February reported that the Hong Kong government has announced that export controls on baby milk formula will remain in place as parallel trading activity persists. The policy was implemented in March 2013 following protests over the mass purchase of baby milk powder in Hong Kong by Chinese tourists and parallel traders. Shelves were emptied owing to safety concerns over such products in the mainland. Exporting of the product for personal use is limited to 1.8 kg (about 2 cans) per person per 24 hours. The number of convicted cases in breach of the export control has maintained at around 3,800 per year since 2016.
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/02/26/hong-kongs-export-rules-baby-milk-formula-stay-place-parallel-trading-persists/
TUNISIA: CUSTOMS SEIZE 98,000 PACKETS OF CIGARETTES
Hellenic Shipping News on 18th February reported that customs officials seized a total of 98,000 packs of cigarettes in operations at La Goulette port in Tunis and on Tunisia’s southern border near Remada. The destination for the cigarettes is thought to be Italy. Cigarette smuggling is a lucrative trade in southern Tunisia and across north Africa.
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/protection-vessels-international-weekly-maritime-security-report-77/
UN: NORTH KOREA’S OIL SMUGGLING BLOWS PAST IMPORT CAP
The Nikkei Asian Review on 26th February reported that North Korea likely received far more petroleum in 2018 than allowed under UN sanctions, with Russia and China appearing to look the other way on illicit transfers of oil at sea, according to a UN report, with ship-to-ship transfers having become increasingly sophisticated.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Trump-Kim-Summit/North-Korea-s-oil-smuggling-blows-past-import-cap-UN-report
SWEDBANK HIRES EY TO CONDUCT FORENSICS INTO MONEY LAUNDERING
Consultancy Europe reported on 26th February reported that, in the wake of the Danske Bank affair, Swedbank, one of the largest banks in Sweden, has hired EY to investigate the bank’s possible involvement in large-scale money laundering.
https://www.consultancy.eu/news/2411/swedbank-hires-ey-to-conduct-forensics-into-money-laundering
IRELAND: EXPRESS TRUST TRUSTEES MUST NOW SET UP BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REGISTERS
Law firm Arthur Cox published a briefing saying that the Irish The Department of Finance has taken the first step towards implementing a central register of the beneficial ownership of trusts, as required by the Fourth and Fifth Money Laundering Directives. As of 29th January, a trustee of an express trust must now collate information on the beneficial owners of that trust, and establish a register containing that information.
http://www.arthurcox.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Beneficial-Ownership-of-Trusts-Feb-2019.pdf
CALIFORNIA BANK VICE PRESIDENT BUSTED IN UNDERCOVER STING
KYC 360 on 26th February reported that a court had sentenced a vice president of East West Bank to 2 years in prison for conspiring to launder more than $25,000 in suspicious funds through cashier’s cheques. Vivian Tat co-ordinated with bank client Ruimin Zhao and her husband, Raymond Tan, to convert cash provided by a federal informant. The latest convictions flow from Operation Phantom Bank which, since 2015, has resulted in 6 indictments of 25 defendants purportedly linked to organised crime, narcotics trafficking and international money laundering.
https://www.riskscreen.com/kyc360/news/cali-banker-sentenced-to-2-years-for-money-laundering-conspiracy/
SOUTH AFRICA PROPOSES WITHHOLDING TAX ON GAMBLING WINNINGS
On 21st February, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyer published an article saying that a gambling tax, first announced in 2011, and which was due to be introduced in 2013, may now be on its way. In the 2019 Budget, the Minister announced that South African government intends to publish draft legislation pertaining to a gambling tax for public comment in 2019.
https://www.cliffedekkerhofmeyr.com/en/news/publications/2019/Tax/budget-speech-alert-2019-government-to-introduce-a-gambling-tax.html
CIVIL RECOVERY PROCEEDINGS UNDER PART 5 OF POCA: FUNDING THE DEFENCE
On 25th February, Carmelite Chambers published a briefing, from a lawyer’s perspective, on defending civil recovery cases under Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. It starts by explaining that the litigation leading to a Civil recovery Order usually starts with the NCA securing, without notice, a Property Freezing Order freezing the assets that may become the subject of a final order. The end result is often what is in effect, a criminal trial in the High Court, with the defendants facing allegations that they probably were involved in drug trafficking, corruption, mortgage fraud and so on. It says that, a first, civil legal aid was available for these cases but this simply did not properly work and rates were so poor and the mechanics so cumbersome that eventually a scheme was introduced to permit access to the funds frozen by the PFO to those defending in such cases. However, the whole area of funding has become something of a specialism in itself. The briefing considers how funding may be provided, and the potential problems and pitfalls.
https://www.lexology.com/library/document.ashx?g=eb2b668e-949c-4890-8a5e-aedd4e876b18
6 HIGHLIGHTS OF DAC6 – A NEW EU INFORMATION REPORTING REGIME
On 22nd February, Eversheds Sutherland published a briefing about the transaction reporting requirement issued under EU Directive 2018/822/EU, which has the goal of providing early access for tax authorities to information about tax planning and sharing of that information among EU Member States. The article explains that the Directive is dubbed “DAC6” because it is the 6th iteration of the Directive on Administrative Cooperation (originally Directive 2011/16/EU), and it requires additional exchanges of information for cross-border arrangements that meet certain hallmarks or characteristics and may apply to ordinary business transactions. Under DAC6, intermediaries of a company that engages in what the Directive terms a cross-border arrangement that meets at least one pre-determined hallmark will be required to report the transaction to the tax authority of the appropriate Member State. In some cases, the company itself may be required to report such arrangements. Each Member State will automatically exchange and communicate the information to the competent authorities of all other Member States through a centralised database. The briefing highlights 6 factors to bear in mind about DAC6. It says that DAC6 represents a major compliance obligation, requires transaction-by-transaction reporting within a short time frame of 30 days, and its broad definition of cross-border arrangement allows it to cover steps leading up to the implementation of an arrangement.
https://www.lexology.com/library/document.ashx?g=b4ca67f3-117b-40dd-a325-47ac8bf60e19
BELARUS: EU PROLONGS ARMS EMBARGO AND SANCTIONS AGAINST 4 INDIVIDUALS FOR ANOTHER YEAR
On 25th February, a news release advised the extension of EU sanctions against Belarus to (at least) 28th February 2020.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2019/02/25/belarus-eu-prolongs-arms-embargo-and-sanctions-against-4-individuals-for-one-year/
ROMANIAN COURT FREES FORMER MINISTER SENTENCED FOR CORRUPTION
Romania Insider on 26th February reported that the Supreme Court freed former minister of energy Constantin Niţă, whose case will be re-tried starting April 15th. This is a further case following the Constitutional Court’s ruling on irregularities in the formation of 5-judge panels. In June 2018, he had been sentenced to 4 years in prison for influence peddling.
https://www.romania-insider.com/index.php/court-frees-constantin-nita-feb-2019
FATF TO VISIT SRI LANKA IN MAY TO REVIEW COMPLIANCE WITH AML/CFT STANDARDS
Colombo Page on 26th February reported that FATF has made the initial determination that Sri Lanka has completed its action plan and warrants an on-site assessment to verify that the implementation of AML/CFT reforms has begun and is being sustained, and that the necessary political commitment remains in place to sustain implementation in the future. Since October 2016, the country had been subjected to a review of the International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG) of the FATF to assess the progress of AML/CFT effectiveness in the country. After finding that Sri Lanka has not made sufficient progress in 4 areas, namely International Co-operation, Supervision, Legal Persons and Arrangements and Targeted Financial Sanctions on Proliferations (North Korea and Iran), FATF added it to its “grey list”.
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_19A/Feb26_1551151365CH.php
CONSEQUENCES OF UNILATERAL US SANCTIONS AND GROWING MARKET COMPETITION TO ENERGY MARKET IN EUROPE
A paper from ETH Zurich on 25th February examined how unilateral sanctions function as a tool of US policy towards Russia; the economic impact of these sanctions; and the effects of US LNG exports to Europe. It says that the increased use of economic instruments of power in US policy towards Russia is negatively affecting European and German interests. It concludes that the impact on Russia’s current oil and natural gas production and energy exports has so far been rather minimal. However, US measures have dissuaded companies from investing in expensive projects and developing new large deposits, instead encouraging them to concentrate on boosting production from previously developed fields and re-opening small fields. As a result, current production and exports of crude oil and natural gas increased despite the sanctions. As a response, the article suggests that the European Council should swiftly add all the relevant US legal bases to the annex of the EU “blocking legislation”; and that the EU and Germany should continue to focus on diversification, including higher LNG imports, not least as a political signal to Washington and Moscow.
http://www.css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/articles/article.html/0bbf3d4e-a3f3-4eca-a0ab-dabe38580a68
EU COMMISSION PUBLISHES ADDITIONAL “NO-DEAL” BREXIT GUIDANCE ON CIVIL JUSTICE COOPERATION
On 25th February, Dentons published an article saying that in January the EU Commission published a replacement notice on the impact of a No-Deal Brexit on the rules of civil justice and private international law. The Client Alert provides an overview of the key points in the EU Commission’s update and highlights some of the potential repercussions of the UK becoming a “third country” from exit day as well as departure on a No-Deal basis. The Commission’s No-Deal updated notice applies to all disputes i.e. from financial markets to real-economy disputes and beyond. It explains that important Regulations likely affected by a No-Deal Brexit include the Brussels I Regulation, the Lugano Convention, the Insolvency Regulation, the Hague Conventions and the Rome Regulations, among others – and the Alert briefly explains the effect of each of the main Regulations.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/stark-warning-or-smart-positioning-the-67930/
AFGHANISTAN LAUNCHES NEW EXPORT ROUTE TO INDIA THROUGH IRAN
Customs Today on 26th February reported that Afghanistan began exports to India through an Iranian port, as the landlocked, war-torn nation turns to overseas markets to improve its economy. Officials said 23 trucks carrying 57 tonnes of dried fruits, textiles, carpets and mineral products were dispatched from western Afghan city of Zaranj to Iran’s Chabahar port. The consignment will be shipped to the Indian city of Mumbai.
http://www.customstoday.com.pk/afghanistan-launches-new-export-route-to-india-through-iran-2/
NEW ZEALAND CUSTOMS SEIZE $55 MILLION OF METH HIDDEN IN GOLF CARTS
On 26th February, Customs Today reported that 2 men – a Taiwanese national, 39, and a Chinese national, 27 – are scheduled to appear in court after allegedly attempting to smuggle 110 kg of methamphetamine and 2 handguns into New Zealand inside golf cart batteries.
http://www.customstoday.com.pk/customs-seize-55m-of-meth-hidden-in-golf-carts/
2 YEARS AFTER PANAMA PAPERS STILL NO COURT CASE FOR MR MOSSACK AND MR FONSECA
In his blog on 25th February, Kenneth Rijock reports that 2 years after partners Jurgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca Mora were arrested, on money laundering charge, the investigation is said to be incomplete, and there’s no sign the case will ever go to trial.
http://rijock.blogspot.com/2019/02/two-years-after-their-arrest-for-money.html
NORTHERN IRELAND WOMAN CALLS POLICE AFTER DRUG DEALER SOLD HER BROWN SUGAR INSTEAD OF COCAINE
Illicit Trade on 25th February repeats the story of a woman who, after discovering she had been ripped off after handing over £200 for the sugar, the woman called emergency services to report that she had been the victim of a crime.
https://www.illicit-trade.com/2019/02/northern-ireland-woman-calls-police-after-drug-dealer-sold-her-brown-sugar-instead-of-cocaine/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
SWEDBANK REPLACES EY WITH FORENSIC AUDITORS TO INVESTIGATE MONEY LAUNDERING REPORT
Reuters on 26th February reported that the bank had replaced the recently appointed EY with external forensic auditors to investigate information in a media report linking the bank to the Danske Bank money laundering scandal. UK-based FRA specialises in forensic accounting, data analytics and financial investigations and has experience in regulatory probes, AML and terror financing cases. A report to the board is due for 28th March.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-danske-bank-moneylaundering-swedbank/swedbank-replaces-ey-with-forensic-auditors-to-investigate-money-laundering-report-idUSKCN1QF0WH
GERMAN HEALTHCARE COMPANY AGREEMENT WITH US AUTHORITIES OVER FOREIGN BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS
On 26th February, the Wall Street Journal reported that German health-care company and provider of dialysis products and services Fresenius Medical Care AG had said in a regulatory filing that it had reached agreement in principle with US authorities regarding a long-running foreign-bribery investigation that involved an anonymous whistleblower complaint, and are believed to relate to alleged widespread bribery in Latin America.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/german-dialysis-firm-reaches-agreement-in-bribery-probe-11551119500?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
US RIGHT WING TERRORISM AND ‘THE ENEMY WITHIN’
Cipher Brief on 26th February reported that, in the wake of the arrest earlier in February of an active US Coast Guard officer who apparently plotted to kill Democratic politicians and members of the media, between 2009 and 2018, 73.3% of all domestic extremist-related killings in the US have been perpetrated by right-wing extremists – and not jihadists. The piece argues that, by every metric, right-wing extremism is the most serious terrorist threat facing the US although jihadists still garner the lion’s share of media attention.
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column/soufan-center/right-wing-terrorism-and-the-enemy-within
PROSUR: CHILE TO HOST FIRST SUMMIT FOR NEW SOUTH AMERICAN UNION
On 25th February, Crowell Moring reported that the Colombian President announced on January 14 the creation of a new union called PROSUR. President Duque explained that PROSUR would function as an organisation for regional co-ordination and co-operation of public policy, defence of democracy, promotion of the separation of powers, and the fostering of market economies among South American countries. Venezuela has been the only South American nation not invited to participate at the summit. The creation of PROSUR could strengthen trade ties and foster stronger collaboration throughout the region and it also could lead to the creation of a free trade zone.
https://www.cmtradelaw.com/category/prosur/
ECUADOR CRACKING DOWN ON CORRUPTION
On 25th February, Crowell & Moring reported the first meeting for the creation of the International Anti-Corruption Commission. Attendees included the diplomatic corps, members of multilateral organisations, and civil society representatives. Its 3 objectives are said to be corruption prevention; the investigation of alleged cases of corruption; and combating and prosecuting acts of corruption – including the repair and recovery of assets accrued through money laundering.
https://www.cmtradelaw.com/category/latin-america/
FIRST TRUCK COMPLETES EUROPE-CHINA DELIVERY IN 12 DAYS
EurActiv on 26th February reported that the first overland delivery of European goods bound for China arrived safe and sound, in a good omen for Europe’s hopes of making the China’s ambitious Belt and Road initiative a 2-way street. It took was 12 days for a Dutch truck laden with automobile lubricant to make a 7,400 km journey from Germany to western China, via Poland, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/transport/news/first-truck-completes-europe-china-delivery-in-12-days/
DUTCH SHELL FIRMS USED TO PAY MILLIONS IN BRAZILIAN BRIBES, SAY PROSECUTORS
Reuters on 26th February reported that prosecutors have raided locations across the Netherlands as part of an investigation into the alleged use of shell companies to distribute $100 million in bribes on behalf of Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht SA.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-brazil-corruption/dutch-shell-firms-used-to-pay-millions-in-brazilian-bribes-prosecutors-idUSKCN1QF24R
CORRUPTION SCANDAL IN UKRAINE’S DEFENCE PROCUREMENT: TOP NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE COUNCIL OFFICIAL SUSPENDED FROM OFFICE
On 26th February, UNIAN reported that Oleh Hladkovsky, First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, has been suspended pending the probe opened following a journalistic investigative report on corruption schemes in defence procurement.
https://www.unian.info/politics/10461072-corruption-scandal-in-ukraine-s-defense-procurement-top-nsdc-official-suspended-from-office.html
SINGAPORE: MAN JAILED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING OFFENCES IN $40 MILLION SKILLSFUTURE SCAM
On 26th February, the Straits Times reported that a driver who was linked to a SkillsFuture scam involving nearly $40 million, dealt with almost $1.1 million of the ill-gotten gains, a district court heard, and he earned personal benefits totalling more than $108,000. The article reminds one that the affair has been described as the largest case of fraud perpetrated against a public institution in Singapore. SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) oversees the SkillsFuture initiative which is aimed at promoting lifelong learning.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/man-jailed-for-money-laundering-offences-in-40-million-skillsfuture-scam
SEYCHELLES CHALLENGED BY EU ON IBC TAX REGIME
Tax News on 26th February reported that the EU’s Code of Conduct Group (Business Taxation) has written to authorities in Seychelles to warn that new provisions to the territory’s tax regime are considered harmful. The Code Group considers that changes to the tax settings for International Business Company (IBC), which ensure that foreign income is exempt from tax, are harmful. Changes mean that only Seychelles source income of a Seychelles IBC would be subject to tax; and an IBC that earns only income overseas and derives no income from activities in Seychelles can avoid taxation entirely.
https://www.tax-news.com/news/Seychelles_Challenged_On_IBCs_Tax_Regime____97032.html
CAN THE US OFFER NORTH KOREA EXEMPTIONS WITHOUT DISCREDITING THE CURRENT SANCTIONS REGIME?
On 26th February, RUSI published a Commentary saying that a way around the dilemma may exist. It suggests that an option for President Trump to ensure both strict implementation of current sanctions obligations, alongside the immediate pursuit of limited and targeted economic engagements, could lie in “humanitarian” exemptions, rather than “sanctions relief”.
https://rusi.org/commentary/sizing-sanctions-second-trump–kim-jong-un-summit
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND GOLDEN PASSPORTS
On 26th February, Foodmans CPAs & Advisors published an article on the use (and potential misuse) of the so-called “golden passports” to obtain citizenship by investment. This follows the publication in October of a report where OECD analysed over 100 CBI and RBI arrangements from jurisdictions that are committed to the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and concluded that some jurisdictions put the integrity of the CRS at risk because they provide a low personal tax rate on income from foreign financial assets without requiring an Individual to spend a significant amount of time in the jurisdiction offering the arrangement.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/financial-institutions-and-golden-70969/
MALAYSIA: “DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT RELEASING PLASTIC WASTE SHIPMENTS”
On 26th February, the Straits Times reported that the Customs Department has issued a stern warning to shipping agents at seaports against releasing any containers bearing imported plastic waste. The warning came about following the government’s ban on the import of plastic waste, which took effect in July last year. Its Director General said that the department will not release the containers for as long as one does not possess the approved permit (AP).
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/02/463417/customs-dont-even-think-about-releasing-plastic-waste-shipments
CHINA: FORMER VICE-GOVERNOR SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN JAIL FOR CORRUPTION
Baker McKenzie on 26th February reported that the former vice-governor of the eastern Anhui province, Zhou Chunyu, 50, has received a jail term of 20 years and a fine of $53.7 million for corruption. He was convicted of taking bribes, concealing overseas deposits, abusing power, and insider trading.
http://www.riskandcompliancehub.com/china-former-vice-governor-sentenced-to-20-years-in-jail-for-corruption/
INDIA’S KIDNAP FOR RANSOM RISK RISES ON THE BACK OF A GROWING MIDDLE CLASS
A podcast from Control Risks on 26th February deals with data which shows that the Indian states with the greatest levels of investment have seen the sharpest increases in financially motivated kidnap.
https://www.controlrisks.com/our-thinking/insights/podcasts/india-s-kidnap-for-ransom-risk-rises-on-the-back-of-a-growing-middle-class
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Denholtz gains approvals, unveils expanded plan for mixed-use Red Bank project
A rendering of The Rail @ Red Bank Station — Courtesy: Denholtz Associates
By Joshua Burd
Denholtz Associates has received approval for a newly expanded plan to bring a mix of new apartments and commercial space to a site adjacent to Red Bank’s train station.
The developer announced this week that the borough’s planning board had approved the revised project. Known as The Rail @ Red Bank Station, the project will result in 57 luxury apartments and more than 6,000 square feet of retail space, along with 30,000 square feet of soon-to-be-renovated office space at an existing building on Red Bank’s west side.
Steven Denholtz
Construction is slated to begin next spring, Denholtz said. Besides the office building, which sits on 1.25 acres at 116-118 Chestnut St., the site currently includes a vacant lot at 101-107 Oakland St. and two closed restaurants, all of which are steps from a train station.
“As Red Bank continues its remarkable evolution, we wanted to ensure that our project plan reflected the bright future on the horizon for the borough,” said Steven Denholtz, CEO of Denholtz Associates. “We feel that the substantial increase in retail space and the redesign of the residential component in our plan better positions us to create a true sense of community at the site.
“We would like to thank Mayor Pasquale Menna and the Borough Council for their support of our revised plan and we look forward to continuing to work together to implement our shared vision for the future of the West Side neighborhood and Red Bank.”
The Matawan-based firm was able to expand the project, which is years in the making, after acquiring the two vacant restaurant properties this year. Denholtz has since increased the number of apartments to 57 from 45 and the retail space to 6,000 from 600 square feet.
Lance Blake of Rotwein+Blake designed the project.
Residents will have access to amenities such as two open-air courtyards with turf and seating areas, while the property will also feature a café, a two-level on-site parking garage with 242 spots and a 95-space parking lot. The site will also benefit from its proximity to downtown Red Bank’s dining, shopping and entertainment options and its location alongside NJ Transit’s North Jersey Coast Line, which provides direct service to New York City and Hoboken.
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Joshua Burd, an award-winning reporter and editor, has been covering New Jersey commercial real estate for eight years. Many industry leaders view him as the go-to real estate reporter in the state, a role he is eager to continue as the editor of Real Estate NJ. He is a lifelong New Jersey resident who has spent a decade covering the great Garden State.
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Americans are easy prey when it comes to being distracted by the political theater in Washington. It is this attraction to non-issues (e.g., the so-called government shutdown) that prevents them from focusing on the issues that really matter.
Of course, people’s ideas about what constitutes freedom can vary widely, depending upon whether they view the world from the right or the left. Speaking for myself, I believe that the easiest way to define freedom is to call it the antithesis of communism.
Karl Marx and his lackey benefactor, Friedrich Engels, firmly believed that violent revolution was the only way to bring about pure communism, and that such a revolution was possible only where capitalism existed. The reason for this, they believed, was because capitalism was a necessary ingredient for creating a wide financial disparity between the workers and the privileged class.
It’s kind of weird that Marx and Engels sought to increase income disparity between the classes, then rectify the disparity through violent revolution. Perhaps their thinking was a result of their being familiar with the colossal failure of the French Revolution, which led not to freedom but mob violence, unthinkable human carnage, and ultimately a Napoleonic dictatorship.
Neither Marx nor Engels lived long enough to witness the most notable communist revolutions, those in Russia, China, Vietnam, and Cuba, and it’s interesting that none of these countries could have been considered capitalist countries at the time. There’s no question, however, that Marx and Engels would have considered the modern-day United States to be the perfect crucible for testing their convoluted class-warfare theory.
Today, only naïve utopian dreamers believe in the communist fairy tale that under communism, the state will eventually “wither away” because there will be so much of everything for everybody that government will no longer be necessary.
I do, however, believe that Marx and Engels were on to something when they referred to socialism as a “transitional stage of society” between capitalism and communism. This should be explained to the masses, so when a Bernie Sanders or an economics-major (chuckle) like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hails the virtues of socialism they understand what a socialist society actually looks like.
Here in the United States we have long suffered from the delusion that “European-style socialism” is a nice, peaceful, cradle-to-grave compromise between capitalism and communism. Elitists on both the right and the left have come to believe that Western society is static and that so long as Western countries keep their redistribution-of-wealth policies finely tuned, capitalists will go right on producing enough wealth to support the parasitic masses.
In this naïve view of the world, they do not take into account a crucial factor known as human nature. Homo sapiens — particularly its progressive subspecies — is, by nature, an avaricious creature. As a result, getting free stuff does not decrease his desire for other people’s property. On the contrary, his appetite for wealth without work is insatiable.
The result is that when producers can no longer create enough wealth to appease the voracious appetites of the masses, those on the receiving end become increasingly angry. If, for example, a man spends his whole life being told that it is his right to retire at age fifty-eight and that it is someone else’s obligation to support him in his retirement in the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed, he is incapable of comprehending that he must work until … gasp! … age sixty.
With the ongoing debt-ceiling crisis, no cutbacks in store for Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, and a majority of politicians unwilling to make serious spending cuts in other redistribution-of-wealth programs, it does not take a fiscal genius to see where all this is headed: revolution.
The worst thing about the collapse of a nation’s economy is that it sets the stage for the uprising that Marx and Engels so passionately longed for — and that those on the Radical Left believe they can achieve in America. The reason the United States has been able to avoid violent revolution until now is because even through the eras of the most left-leaning presidents and Congresses of the past hundred years, there has always enough pushback to keep capitalism alive.
But things are now changing very fast. The pushback of yesteryear has been on the decline for decades, as evidenced by recent election results in formerly rugged individualism states like Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado. These states are becoming more blue by the day, with serious pushback from the right now coming from less than 50 percent of the population.
There’s an irony in the fact that Marx and Engels believed capitalism was necessary in order to create more wealth disparity. That irony is that capitalism creates more wealth for those on the lowest rung of the income ladder than any other system, so income and wealth disparities, while interesting phenomena for academic eggheads to ponder, are pretty much irrelevant. The only thing that’s relevant is how well off each individual is in absolute terms — not in comparison to others.
Without capitalism, prosperity for the masses cannot exist. Likewise, without freedom, capitalism, by definition, cannot exist, because it is nothing more than a subcategory of freedom — the freedom to trade one’s goods, services, and labor with others without interference from government. Plain and simple, capitalism is the purest form of freedom.
All this by way of saying that as we enter the new year, we would all do well to resist becoming distracted by the ongoing political theater in Washington and focus on the most important issue of our time: our loss of freedom. It is, in fact, the most important issue of any time.
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29 responses to “The Capitalism and Freedom Connection”
It should be noted here that what passes for capitalism in the US today bears little relationship to the real thing. When "gains are privatized but losses are socialized", meaning the bankers get their bonuses, but the government/Fed prints billions to cover their losses, that's not capitalism. When someone who wants to start a business has to get certificates or approvals from uncountable agencies and offices, the vast majority of which serve no useful purpose, that is not capitalism. And this applies in spades when big businesses lobby for regulations that will keep competitors from ever getting started.
What we have is more of a mutually supportive system between big government and big business, where the bosses of both work closely together, and where the elite live by different rules than the general public. There is still room around the margins for some individuals to start a business and make it grow, but it's getting harder, and the obstacles higher.
There is a name for a system where businesses are functionally private but still serve as an arm of the state, and where there is close coordination between the two. Any guesses?
I believe the name for such a system is fascism, but today people seem to prefer "crony capitalism".
Randall says:
It is a mystery to me why every "conservative" and libertarian writer and talk show _host has not pushed for the passage of the "Fair Tax", HR25, since its introduction in _July of 1999. The simplified version was explained in the book by Neal Bortz_ "The Fairtax Book" and website fairtax.org. Robert, this question is to you. _ There are easy one-liner answers. I am interested in ( I hope you are too) in the _solution that unites all who want property rights, free enterprise, honest money and _banking, justice in law and a constitutional government. To me it is a no brainer._We don't have to like the other guy. You don't have to like me. We do have to plain _to win together or we will most certainly fail. HR25 is only the beginning, to do now or perish.
Stephan F says:
"There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'" -Murray Rothbard
Sorry Randall, just can’t pass on a rebuttal here.
Apart from the idea of how much either of the alternative taxes would levy, I would strongly favor the flat tax. Why? As a matter of pragmatism, one obvious reason is the bookkeeping/accounting nightmare of keeping track of a (fair?) sales tax versus the simplicity of the flat tax, which in theory, would be just a matter of sending in your payment on a post card. No more need to burden American business with more government accounting regulations and stiffing the American taxpayers with yet another GIGANTIC govt bureaucracy to pay for overseeing this idiotic program. But the most important reason is that the so called "Fair Tax" is yet another attempt at government fraud to steal money that has been earned and taxed already and then taxed again! Sorry, this is outrageous. It’s nothing but an innocent sounding tax collection scheme that is in fact an unconstitutional tax on people with savings. Can you say V.A.T.? It’s grand theft on a grand scale. Anyone against a sales tax understands this. I grok that the country has turned into a nation of thieves, but do you really want to rob someone twice? If enacted, it simply double-taxes prudent savers.
Oh BTW I forgot to mention, my #1 first choice is to abolish the income tax and replace it with nothing. Cut government down to its Constitutional size and what's left can be funded quite easily with the other immoral and unconstitutional taxes government already levies.
P.S. I’m willing to discuss the flat tax scheme which you might just talk me into. It too is an injustice, but much “fairer” than the hair-brain fair-tax scheme.
Great video here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xOAgT8L_BqQ
John Charles says:
Exactly, what is so "fair" about theft in any disguise??
theczech says:
You mean, the system that starts with an 'F?'
Rick G. says:
I say "fascism".
Fascism.
kauai_mike says:
For me, the most important issue to focus upon, is not our loss of freedom.
Rather, it is my ability to retain freedom despite the actions of others.
Semantics? Maybe. But you can be a free man in an unfree world.
If you focus where it matters.
Along the lines of Harry Browne's seminal work (to this day) titled, "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World"
Great book.
You are a true wisdom icon.
Andrew J. Galambos would quibble with RJR's definition of freedom. Rather than being the antithesis of something (which in of itself would require a precise definition), AJG defined freedom as "The societal condition that exists when every person has full, 100% control of their own property." Then, of course, one has to define property: hence, "A person's property is his own life and all non-procreative derivatives of that life." There is still more to the definitions but you get the idea that words matter and require precise definition to avoid misunderstandings.
Terry Dee says:
The word capitalism, like the word God, has been very much overused and abused. Capitalism, in it's purest sense adheres to all of the universal laws and could be the panacea we all seek. Unfortunately, as practised in modern times, it has become a byword for greed, corruption and almost every vice known to human kind. Is it any wonder that it is derided by working class people and only seen in a negative light.
Perhaps it is time to open a new dialogue where terms like communism, socialism and capitalism, are omitted and alternative less inflammatory terms can be applied to our world problems.
It has been said numerous times that if we keep trying to solve our problems with the same thinking then we are doomed to keep repeating the same mistakes.
There is always talk that we need to reduce social security (the entitlement) — We paid into the system our whole working life so first it is not an entitlement and second if the social security system had not been raided at least 2 times in my lifetime there would be plenty of money in the system,
If they want to cut something start with welfare for illegal immigrants that is currently estimated to be over 15 billion per year. How is it that someone coming here illegally deserves to be taken care of more that the people who worked their whole life and paid into the system.
Excellent article! Every leftist (of all stripes—–communists, socialists, liberals, et al.) should read and re-read this over and over until it finally sinks in, if that is ever going to be possible. Why would anyone, including leftists, fail to acknowledge the reality of what leftist ideology really is and its miserably disasterous consequences? Communism, and its variants, have never ever worked anywhere in the world at anytime, except for those in power who have to use brute force to implement and enforce it. And just look at how mankind "accepts" this new "freedom", all the people in Cuba who fled that country and settled in the United States. And all the people who fled East Berlin to West Berlin to escape it. And what about nowadays people wanting to leave Venezuela? If Communism were so great, why is the movement of people AWAY from Communism and never toward it? Mankind, for some reason, just cannot come to grips with this reality and understand this. The usual "excuse" from the left is "it was not well implemented, and run properly", or "the right people were not in charge", as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez like to say. The problem really is, man has an instinctive urge to be free and is willing to go to any length to achieve it, even die to get it. This is why Robert Ringer states above that freedom is the antithesis of communism. The two are incompatible, direct opposites.
One interesting note for the advocates of Communism. Whenever the existing order is overthrown during a revolution, the revolutionaries are later executed when the new order takes power. The "logic" here is that if you are powerful enough to overthrow the former government, then you are also powerful enough to overthrow the new government. This has happened repeatedly time and again throughout history. So, be careful, revolutionaries, of what you wish for.
When will mankind ever learn? When?
Could you perhaps get in there – gub-mint" and help fix it. It is such a shame that so many talented people are kept out of public office.
A while ago, I posted an excellent, informative response to this article and, for some reason unbeknownst to me, it was rejected.
You may have forgotten to click on the "submit" button?
Jay, I clicked the Submit button, but it said it needed approval. Anyhow, I think Robert saw the above post and finally posted my comment. Thank you, Robert.
D Frank Robinson says:
Don't cut my subsidy. Cut those people off at the border who haven't received any subsidy. Any tax where I get a kick back isn't an entitlement.
People have moral tunnel vision.
Talking about freedom. In Brisbane, Australia if you are caught eating an apple, having a sip of water etc whilst driving, it can incur a $523 fine and loss of 3 demerit points (12 points available – loss requires 3 years to restore). https://www.facebook.com/paul.minuti.5/videos/102… Same in Georgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA8b7Wi4Kvo
Richard Lee Van says:
There are ways to AVOID The System and make a (my idea of) good living. As a touring lecturer, radio personality and counselor, I worked on a Cash Basis and did well. AND, many years later, I developed an advertising device, and sold Ads WITHOUT a DBA. Again I worked partly on a cash basis, but if I had to accept a check, my local bank in a small town, because they knew me, cashed them all. BUT, that was 20, 30 years ago. Can it be done now? I don't know. Working on a CASH BASIS worked back then.
And, I passed my $avings on to customers and clients. I believe in "FAIR".
True capitalism only exists while the state and government imposes no controls or regulations which block competition and enforce redirection of profits. Capitalism requires a free-market environment whereby competitors can freely offer alternative products and consumers are free to chose among the available products and services. When a state or government agency controls who can produce and offer what, can dictate monoploistic distribution of goods, and services, and can redirect company profits through taxes and wage controls, then the consumer looses the ability to chose, and the competitive producers are often driven out of the market of providing choices for the consumer.
This applies to all production of goods and services including taxis and transportation, utilities (gas and electric services), entertainment (cable and internet services), etc., etc..
A litmus test could easily be; does the consumer have a true choice in selecting goods and services, and do competitive producers have an unfettered opportunity to provide those choices.
Jurgy says:
There is nothing as self-satisfying as working for and creating your own wealth … and that can only be accomplished in a capitalist society …
NZ Steve says:
Superb submission! But we need many more Conservative sources in order to overcome the left wing bias of the MSM. This is an excellent source: https://www.galganov.com/editorials.asp?id=2596#….
Nasdaq7 says:
The misery those two have given to the world is incalculable. There really is a time when socialism has sucked the life out of an economy, the debt is so high, the wages of government employees is too high. That's when socialists start to "privatize" companies.
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The Patrick Barry House is a historic site that was built in 1855 by Patrick Barry of Ellwanger and Barry and the Mount Hope Garden and Nurseries. It is located on Mount Hope Avenue.
The house was given to the University of Rochester in 1963 by the heirs of Patrick Barry's daughter, Harriet Barry Liesching, who had lived there until her death in 1951. A careful restoration was carried out from 1964-65 under the direction of Elizabeth Holahan of the Society for the Preservation of Landmarks in Western New York. According to Holahan in a 1981 UR press release, the Barry House is the nation's "outstanding" example of the Italian style of the Victorian period. The one comparable residence, located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was razed in the 1970s despite protests from preservationist groups. In 1969 the Barry House parlor and library were featured in in Nancy Comstock's 100 Most Beautiful Rooms in America.
The grounds of the Barry House are especially notable for the number of trees planted by Patrick Barry which are still living today. They include some of the finest specimens from the Ellwanger and Barry nursery and are nationally famous in among horitculturalists.
Today the Patrick Barry House is used as the residence of the University of Rochester Provost. It underwent a second renovation in 2008 and is now part of UR's Mount Hope Campus.
The American Dream on Mount Hope: Nineteenth-Century Buildings by Ellwanger and Barry by Susan Sutton Smith, University of Rochester Library Bulletin (1982)
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Craig Irving, the Philadelphia hip-hop vocalist better known as Cee Know the Doodlebug of the Grammy-winning hip-hop trio Digable Planets, adopted the moniker Cee Knowledge while studying the 5% Nation of Islam in 1988 at Howard University. Knowledge grew up in a city full of musical traditions from the cosmic jazz of the Sun Ra Arkestra to the new Philly soul of Bilal and Musiq Soulchild and the groundbreaking hip-hop of the Roots and Chill Moody. It was a place for Knowledge to absorb all kinds of music from early hip-hop and '70s funk to avant-garde jazz and new Philly soul. Knowledge's mind drifted south of Philadelphia for his funk sources in the music of Parliament-Funkadelic, the Bar-Kays, and Barry White. He first expressed his love of funk, jazz, and hip-hop together in Digable Planets, which won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 1993.
2018 marked the release of Alien-Aided - a Cosmic Funk anthology via Artists First Records and Ropeadope. The crew is on their game, with special guests Schoolly D, Cookie Rabinowitz, and many more. Get cosmic and funky, Y’all.
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PGA Pro Shawn Weisen Unlocks the Secrets of Playing the Royal Golf Course
Every golf course has its secrets, and mastering a single hole may take hours, days, maybe even a whole season. At the Royal Golf Club, we do our very best to guide you through each hole, and to help you discover the joy of playing our challenging, yet entertaining championship course.
The key to mastering the Royal Golf Club 18-hole course, according to PGA golf pro Shawn Weisen, is to understand the intent of Annika Sörenstam and Arnold Palmer who designed the course. While meant to be accessible to all ages and all playing levels, the two golf legends wanted to see the course grow in its challenge as a golfer put more time into it.
“I’ve heard comments from some very good golfers who were surprised at how challenging the course actually is,” says Shawn, who suggested reading Google reviews of the course online. “The thing is, this course is just in its first year. It’s only going to get better as it continues to grow in and mature.”
In addition to Shawn’s advice, golfers also can explore all eighteen holes of the King and Queen course individually on the Royal Golf Club website for more in-depth insights and advice. Insights about the Short Course are available online, too.
The front nine, or the Queen’s Nine, was designed by legendary professional golfer Annika Sörenstam. For her first project in the United States, Sörenstam hit the ground running with a challenging, but approachable, nine holes.
“I think the front nine is just breathtaking,” he adds. “It’s such a fun course. It has challenging greens, drivable par 4s and reachable par 5s.”
After conquering the Queen’s Nine, golfers move on to the back nine, the King’s Nine, which was designed by the king of professional golf, Arnold Palmer, and his design team. According to Shawn, the King’s Nine is slightly more open than the Queen’s Nine, making it easier to navigate.
“The King’s Nine has a more traditional, wide-open feel to it. It’s where you’re going to want to take some risks and go big with your drives,” Shawn says.
“The front nine is a touch more challenging than the back nine,” Shawn says. “That’s because it’s tighter, you’re going to need to be more accurate with your shots and work the space you have.”
“Work with the space” may just be the mantra you’ll be saying to yourself over and over as you play the Royal Golf Course, which offers a range of terrain and obstacles, from rolling hills to greens that run true.
“Holes 4, 12 and 16 are all on the short side,” Shawn says. “They slope uphill, so meeting par on those is definitely a challenge. We’ve already had two holes-in-one on Hole 4, though.”
“On the other hand, Hole 13 is one of the harder holes on the course,” he adds. “It’s one of the most difficult sections of the course, too, especially with three severe breaks in the green and bunkers beyond.”
Hole 13 features three tiers that golfers must conquer on the green, as well as a bunker. The bunkers in the Royal Golf Course vary greatly in size and depth, but pose a formidable challenge to golfers of every skill level.
“Honestly, I enjoy bunkers. I like a challenge,” says Shawn. “There’s a big ol’ bunker on Hole 11 that just loves to throw me for a loop.”
On top of bunkers, golfers must also successfully navigate uphill holes and downhill holes. Hole 15 features a downward slope, making it easy for the ball to overshoot the green entirely, and Hole 3’s upward slope can bring a weak swing all the way back to the tee.
Shawn also shares some advice with avoiding water and the Royal Club properties that line the course.
“Water comes to play in holes 2, 5, 6 and 7, but you’ll never be forced to go over the water,” Shawn says. “There’s plenty of room to go around it and your score won’t necessarily suffer if you do.”
“The homes within the Royal Club won’t be in your face either,” he adds. “The course is set up so you won’t hit them, so try not to worry.”
Despite a challenging course overall and more than a handful of obstacles to avoid, Shawn applauds the course’s approachability, scenic views and, of course, his favorite hole.
“Hole 2 is definitely my favorite,” Shawn says. “You get the most beautiful view on the course and it’s a great section of the course to take a risk.”
For those playing the course the first time, Shawn advises golfers to keep things simple as they move from hole to hole, as they learn the course.
While Sörenstam and Palmer designed the course to meet the needs of golfers of all ages and abilities, Shawn admits that this is a course that will require multiple trips to master.
“This course has a lot of nuance to it,” Shawn says. “Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, it throws you for another surprise. It’s always interesting.”
“There’s so much to take in at each section of the course, and everyone plays differently,” he says. “Keep your game as simple as possible, and just try to enjoy it. That’s what Arnie would want. Just have fun.”
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Soundtrack | Composer | Music Department
Known for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Wicker Park (2004), Insomnia (2002)
@coldplay (twitter.com) | 10 official web sites & 15 more links
11 wins & 38 nominations
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Love in the Countryside (2018)
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Lip Sync Battle Shorties (2018)
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Abanderados de la Argentina Solidaria 2017 (2017)
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2017 Monaco Grand Prix - Live (May 28, 2017) Season 15, Episode 8 - Performer ("Hymn for the Weekend") (uncredited) Performer ("Hymn for the Weekend") (uncredited) See fewer
The Voice (2016–2017)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Something Just Like This") (1 episode, 2017), Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (1 episode, 2016) Performer ("Something Just Like This") (1 episode, 2017), Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (1 episode, 2016) See fewer
Blind Auditions 7 (May 7, 2017) Season 6, Episode 7 - Performer ("Something Just Like This") (uncredited) Performer ("Something Just Like This") (uncredited) See fewer
Blind Auditions 3 (May 3, 2016) Season 5, Episode 3 - Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) See fewer
The Boss (2017)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Yellow") (1 episode, 2017) Performer ("Yellow") (1 episode, 2017) See fewer
Episode #1.9 (May 4, 2017) Season 1, Episode 9 - Performer ("Yellow") (uncredited) Performer ("Yellow") (uncredited) See fewer
Edge of Desire (2017)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Up&Up") Performer ("Up&Up") See fewer
Snooker Shoot-Out (2017)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Yellow") (1 episode, 2017), Performer ("Paradise") (1 episode, 2017) Performer ("Yellow") (1 episode, 2017), Performer ("Paradise") (1 episode, 2017) See fewer
2017: Day Four - Part 2 (Feb 26, 2017) Season 7, Episode 7 - Performer ("Paradise") (uncredited) Performer ("Paradise") (uncredited) See fewer
2017: Day Three (Feb 25, 2017) Season 7, Episode 5 - Performer ("Yellow") (uncredited) Performer ("Yellow") (uncredited) See fewer
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(TV Series) - Performer ("Life in Technicolor II") (1 episode, 2017), Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (1 episode, 2016) Performer ("Life in Technicolor II") (1 episode, 2017), Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (1 episode, 2016) See fewer
2017: Day Six - Part 1 (Feb 18, 2017) Season 9, Episode 16 - Performer ("Life in Technicolor II") (uncredited) Performer ("Life in Technicolor II") (uncredited) See fewer
2016: Day Two - Part 1 (Feb 16, 2016) Season 8, Episode 4 - Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (uncredited) Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (uncredited) See fewer
Imposters (2017)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Viva La Vida") (1 episode, 2017) Performer ("Viva La Vida") (1 episode, 2017) See fewer
My Balls, Dickhead (Feb 14, 2017) Season 1, Episode 2 - Performer ("Viva La Vida") Performer ("Viva La Vida") See fewer
Rising Sun (2016–2017)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") See fewer
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014–2016)
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Jesse Eisenberg/Zoë Kravitz/Chris Martin/Coldplay (Mar 15, 2016) Season 3, Episode 110 - Themselves - Musical Guest, Performer ("Up&Up") Themselves - Musical Guest, Performer ("Up&Up") See fewer
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The X Factor (2005–2016)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Fix You") (3 episodes, 2005), Performer ("The Scientist") (1 episode, 2006), Performer ("Paradise") (1 episode, 2013), Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (1 episode, 2016) Performer ("Fix You") (3 episodes, 2005), Performer ("The Scientist") (1 episode, 2006), Performer ("Paradise") (1 episode, 2013), Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (1 episode, 2016) See fewer
Live Results Show 6 (Nov 13, 2016) Season 13, Episode 24 - Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (uncredited) Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (uncredited) See fewer
The Women's Football Show (2016)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (15 episodes, 2016) Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (15 episodes, 2016) See fewer
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Lorraine (2016)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (2 episodes, 2016) Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (2 episodes, 2016) See fewer
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Tu cara me suena (2016)
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Divorce (2016)
Pilot (Oct 9, 2016) Season 1, Episode 1 - Performer ("Paradise") (uncredited) Performer ("Paradise") (uncredited) See fewer
The World's Biggest Asshole (2016)
(TV Short) - Composer Composer See fewer
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Highlights: Germany vs. France (Jul 7, 2016) Season 1, Episode 34 - Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (uncredited) Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (uncredited) See fewer
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Best of Glastonbury 2016 (Jul 2, 2016) Season 1, Episode 18 - Themselves (archive footage), Theme Song Performed By (uncredited) Themselves (archive footage), Theme Song Performed By (uncredited) See fewer
Match of the Day: Euro 2016 (2016)
(TV Mini-series) - Performer ("Viva La Vida") (2 episodes, 2016) Performer ("Viva La Vida") (2 episodes, 2016) See fewer
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Highlights: Poland vs. Portugal (Jun 30, 2016) Season 1, Episode 49 - Performer ("Viva La Vida") (uncredited) Performer ("Viva La Vida") (uncredited) See fewer
Burning Hearts (2016)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Hymn for the Weekend"), Writer ("Hymn for the Weekend") Performer ("Hymn for the Weekend"), Writer ("Hymn for the Weekend") See fewer
World Championship Snooker (2014–2016)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (3 episodes, 2015), Performer ("Hymn for the Weekend") (2 episodes, 2016), Performer ("Viva La Vida") (1 episode, 2014) Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (3 episodes, 2015), Performer ("Hymn for the Weekend") (2 episodes, 2016), Performer ("Viva La Vida") (1 episode, 2014) See fewer
2016: Day 10, Part 1 (Apr 25, 2016) Season 44, Episode 53 - Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) See fewer
Football League Tonight: The Johnstone's Paint Trophy (2016)
2016: Final - Barnsley vs. Oxford United (Apr 3, 2016) Season 1, Episode 1 - Performer ("Viva La Vida") (uncredited) Performer ("Viva La Vida") (uncredited) See fewer
Skam (2016)
Jeg er i hvert fall ikke sjalu (Apr 1, 2016) Season 2, Episode 5 - Performer ("Paradise") Performer ("Paradise") See fewer
Ladbrokes Players Championship (2016)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Violet Hill") (1 episode, 2016) Performer ("Violet Hill") (1 episode, 2016) See fewer
2016: Day Three - Part 2 (Mar 24, 2016) Season 1, Episode 6 - Performer ("Violet Hill") (uncredited) Performer ("Violet Hill") (uncredited) See fewer
Women's International Football (2016)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Hymn for the Weekend") (3 episodes, 2016) Performer ("Hymn for the Weekend") (3 episodes, 2016) See fewer
2016 SheBelieves Cup: England vs. France (Mar 9, 2016) Performer ("Hymn for the Weekend") (uncredited) Performer ("Hymn for the Weekend") (uncredited) See fewer
The Royals (2016)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Midnight") (1 episode, 2016) Performer ("Midnight") (1 episode, 2016) See fewer
The Serpent That Did Sting Thy Father's Life (Jan 17, 2016) Season 2, Episode 10 - Performer ("Midnight") (uncredited) Performer ("Midnight") (uncredited) See fewer
Masters Snooker (2016)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (3 episodes, 2016) Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (3 episodes, 2016) See fewer
2016: Day 7, Part 2 (Jan 16, 2016) Season 42, Episode 26 - Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (uncredited) Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (uncredited) See fewer
The Shannara Chronicles (2016)
Chosen: Part 1 (Jan 5, 2016) Season 1, Episode 1 - Performer ("Midnight") (uncredited) Performer ("Midnight") (uncredited) See fewer
Strictly Come Dancing (2015)
(TV Series) - Writer ("Fix You") (1 episode, 2015) Writer ("Fix You") (1 episode, 2015) See fewer
The Grand Final: Show One (Dec 19, 2015) Season 13, Episode 26 - Writer ("Fix You") (uncredited) Writer ("Fix You") (uncredited) See fewer
UK Championship Snooker (2015)
2015: Final - Part 2 (Dec 6, 2015) Season 39, Episode 32 - Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (uncredited) Performer ("Adventure of a Lifetime") (uncredited) See fewer
Friday Night Football (2015)
(TV Series) - Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (3 episodes, 2015), Performer ("Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall") (2 episodes, 2015), Performer ("Speed of Sound") (1 episode, 2015), Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars", "Speed of Sound") (1 episode, 2015) Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (3 episodes, 2015), Performer ("Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall") (2 episodes, 2015), Performer ("Speed of Sound") (1 episode, 2015), Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars", "Speed of Sound") (1 episode, 2015) See fewer
The Finals - 2nd Semi Final: Hawthorn vs Adelaide (Sep 18, 2015) Season 14, Episode 29 - Performer ("Speed of Sound") (uncredited) Performer ("Speed of Sound") (uncredited) See fewer
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup (2015)
United States vs. Colombia (Jun 23, 2015) Season 1, Episode 55 - Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) See fewer
Armans Geheimnis (2015)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Magic") (1 episode, 2015) Performer ("Magic") (1 episode, 2015) See fewer
Die Auserwählten (Apr 4, 2015) Season 1, Episode 6 - Performer ("Magic") (uncredited) Performer ("Magic") (uncredited) See fewer
My Worst Best Friend (2015)
(TV Movie) - Performer ("Always In My Head", "O") (uncredited) Performer ("Always In My Head", "O") (uncredited) See fewer
Atop the Fourth Wall (2015)
Energy and Safety with the Justice League (Feb 2, 2015) Season 8, Episode 5 - Soundtrack ("Polkarama") Soundtrack ("Polkarama") See fewer
Todd's Pop Song Reviews (2015)
(TV Series) - Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (1 episode, 2015) Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (1 episode, 2015) See fewer
Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2014: Part 2 (Feb 1, 2015) Season 7, Episode 4 - Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") See fewer
Marked (2014)
(TV Short) - Performer ("Christmas Lights") (uncredited) Performer ("Christmas Lights") (uncredited) See fewer
Forever (2014)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Album Version)") (1 episode, 2014) Performer ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Album Version)") (1 episode, 2014) See fewer
Skinny Dipper (Dec 9, 2014) Season 1, Episode 11 - Performer ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Album Version)") (uncredited) Performer ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Album Version)") (uncredited) See fewer
Radio 2: In Concert (2011–2014)
(TV Series) - Themselves (2 episodes, 2011), Performer ("Mylo Xyloto", "Hurts Like Heaven", "Yellow", "In My Place", "What If", "Major Minus", "Us Against The World", "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face", "The Scientist", "Up In Flames", "Viva La Vida", "Charlie Brown", "Paradise", "Clocks", "Fix You", "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall") (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("Always in My Head", "Charlie Brown", "Paradise", "Magic", "Clocks", "The Scientist", "Ink", "True Love", "Viva La Vida", "Midnight", "Every Tear Drop Is a Waterfall", "Fix You", "A Sky Full of Stars", "Christmas Lights") (1 episode, 2014) Themselves (2 episodes, 2011), Performer ("Mylo Xyloto", "Hurts Like Heaven", "Yellow", "In My Place", "What If", "Major Minus", "Us Against The World", "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face", "The Scientist", "Up In Flames", "Viva La Vida", "Charlie Brown", "Paradise", "Clocks", "Fix You", "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall") (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("Always in My Head", "Charlie Brown", "Paradise", "Magic", "Clocks", "The Scientist", "Ink", "True Love", "Viva La Vida", "Midnight", "Every Tear Drop Is a Waterfall", "Fix You", "A Sky Full of Stars", "Christmas Lights") (1 episode, 2014) See fewer
Coldplay (Dec 8, 2014) Themselves, Performer ("Always in My Head", "Charlie Brown", "Paradise", "Magic", "Clocks", "The Scientist", "Ink", "True Love", "Viva La Vida", "Midnight", "Every Tear Drop Is a Waterfall", "Fix You", "A Sky Full of Stars", "Christmas Lights") Themselves, Performer ("Always in My Head", "Charlie Brown", "Paradise", "Magic", "Clocks", "The Scientist", "Ink", "True Love", "Viva La Vida", "Midnight", "Every Tear Drop Is a Waterfall", "Fix You", "A Sky Full of Stars", "Christmas Lights") See fewer
Coldplay Live at Dingwalls (Dec 15, 2011) Themselves, Performer ("Mylo Xyloto", "Hurts Like Heaven", "Yellow", "In My Place", "What If", "Major Minus", "Us Against The World", "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face", "The Scientist", "Up In Flames", "Viva La Vida", "Charlie Brown", "Paradise", "Clocks", "Fix You", "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall") Themselves, Performer ("Mylo Xyloto", "Hurts Like Heaven", "Yellow", "In My Place", "What If", "Major Minus", "Us Against The World", "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face", "The Scientist", "Up In Flames", "Viva La Vida", "Charlie Brown", "Paradise", "Clocks", "Fix You", "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall") See fewer
Tennis: World Tour Finals (2014)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (4 episodes, 2014), Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (1 episode, 2014) Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (4 episodes, 2014), Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (1 episode, 2014) See fewer
Final: Murray v Djokovic Exhibition Match (Nov 16, 2014) Season 6, Episode 8 - Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) See fewer
More Favourite Tricks (Nov 3, 2014) Season 2, Episode 7 - Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) Performer ("Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) See fewer
21 Totally Brilliant Brit Stars (2014)
(TV Movie) - Performer ("Paradise") Performer ("Paradise") See fewer
Our Girl (2014)
Feelings (Sep 28, 2014) Season 1, Episode 2 - Performer ("Midnight") (uncredited) Performer ("Midnight") (uncredited) See fewer
Red Band Society (2014)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall") (1 episode, 2014), Writer ("Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall") (1 episode, 2014) Performer ("Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall") (1 episode, 2014), Writer ("Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall") (1 episode, 2014) See fewer
Pilot (Sep 17, 2014) Season 1, Episode 1 - Performer ("Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall"), Writer ("Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall") Performer ("Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall"), Writer ("Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall") See fewer
Under the Dome (2014)
Going Home (Aug 11, 2014) Season 2, Episode 7 - Performer ("Midnight") (uncredited) Performer ("Midnight") (uncredited) See fewer
The Voice Kids (2014)
The Blind Auditions, Part 4 (Jul 13, 2014) Season 1, Episode 4 - Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) See fewer
Tennis: Eastbourne (2014)
2014: Day 2 (Jun 18, 2014) Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) Performer ("A Sky Full of Stars") (uncredited) See fewer
Saturday Night Live (2001–2014)
(TV Series) - Themselves - Musical Guest (5 episodes, 2001), Performer ("Paradise", "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall") (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("Viva La Vida", "Lost!", "Yellow") (1 episode, 2008), Performer ("Magic", "A Sky Full of Stars") (1 episode, 2014), Performer ("Speed of Sound", "Fix You") (1 episode, 2005), Performer ("Yellow", "Don't Panic") (1 episode, 2001) Themselves - Musical Guest (5 episodes, 2001), Performer ("Paradise", "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall") (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("Viva La Vida", "Lost!", "Yellow") (1 episode, 2008), Performer ("Magic", "A Sky Full of Stars") (1 episode, 2014), Performer ("Speed of Sound", "Fix You") (1 episode, 2005), Performer ("Yellow", "Don't Panic") (1 episode, 2001) See fewer
Andrew Garfield/Coldplay (May 3, 2014) Season 39, Episode 19 - Themselves - Musical Guest, Performer ("Magic", "A Sky Full of Stars") Themselves - Musical Guest, Performer ("Magic", "A Sky Full of Stars") See fewer
Dream Corp LLC (2014)
(TV Short) - Performer ("Shiver") Performer ("Shiver") See fewer
Danville 2nd Ward Young Men (2010–2013)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Til Kingdom Come") (1 episode, 2013), Performer ("Lost!", "Lovers in Japan") (1 episode, 2010), Performer ("Cemeteries of London", "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall") (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("Shiver", "Hurts Like Heaven") (1 episode, 2013) Performer ("Til Kingdom Come") (1 episode, 2013), Performer ("Lost!", "Lovers in Japan") (1 episode, 2010), Performer ("Cemeteries of London", "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall") (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("Shiver", "Hurts Like Heaven") (1 episode, 2013) See fewer
High Adventure 2013 (Jul 13, 2013) Season 5, Episode 6 - Performer ("Til Kingdom Come") Performer ("Til Kingdom Come") See fewer
Dancing with the Stars (2012–2013)
(TV Series) - Soundtrack (2 episodes, 2012) Soundtrack (2 episodes, 2012) See fewer
Week 1: Performance Show (Mar 18, 2013) Season 16, Episode 1 - Soundtrack ("Yellow") Soundtrack ("Yellow") See fewer
Week 4 (Oct 15, 2012) Season 15, Episode 7 - Soundtrack ("Fix You") Soundtrack ("Fix You") See fewer
Gent de paraula (2013)
Episode #3.22 (Mar 15, 2013) Season 3, Episode 22 - Performer ("Violet Hill") Performer ("Violet Hill") See fewer
90210 (2008–2013)
(TV Series) - Soundtrack (1 episode, 2013), Performer ("Viva La Vida") (1 episode, 2008) Soundtrack (1 episode, 2013), Performer ("Viva La Vida") (1 episode, 2008) See fewer
#realness (Feb 11, 2013) Season 5, Episode 13 - Soundtrack ("Major Minus") (uncredited) Soundtrack ("Major Minus") (uncredited) See fewer
We're Not in Kansas Anymore (Sep 2, 2008) Season 1, Episode 1 - Performer ("Viva La Vida") (uncredited) Performer ("Viva La Vida") (uncredited) See fewer
(TV Series) - Performer ("The Scientist") (1 episode, 2013) Performer ("The Scientist") (1 episode, 2013) See fewer
Episode #1.6 (Jan 20, 2013) Season 1, Episode 6 - Performer ("The Scientist") Performer ("The Scientist") See fewer
Brave Woman (2012–2013)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Hurts Like Heaven") Performer ("Hurts Like Heaven") See fewer
Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (2012)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Lost") (1 episode, 2012) Performer ("Lost") (1 episode, 2012) See fewer
Bestellt, entführt, geliefert (Sep 27, 2012) Season 32, Episode 4 - Performer ("Lost") Performer ("Lost") See fewer
Malhação (2012)
Intensa como a Vida (Aug 13, 2012) Season 20, Episode 1 - Performer ("Paradise") Performer ("Paradise") See fewer
The Newsroom (2012)
I'll Try to Fix You (Jul 15, 2012) Season 1, Episode 4 - Performer ("Fix You") Performer ("Fix You") See fewer
American Idol: The Search for a Superstar (2012)
(TV Series) - Themselves - Musical Guest (1 episode, 2012), Performer ("Paradise", "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall") (1 episode, 2012), Courtesy Of (Coldplay CD Cover) (1 episode, 2012) Themselves - Musical Guest (1 episode, 2012), Performer ("Paradise", "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall") (1 episode, 2012), Courtesy Of (Coldplay CD Cover) (1 episode, 2012) See fewer
Top 5 Results (May 3, 2012) Season 11, Episode 34 - Themselves - Musical Guest, Courtesy Of (Coldplay CD Cover), Performer ("Paradise", "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall") Themselves - Musical Guest, Courtesy Of (Coldplay CD Cover), Performer ("Paradise", "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall") See fewer
The Block (2011–2012)
Red House Elimination: Night 1 (Apr 16, 2012) Season 5, Episode 1 - Performer ("Paradise") (uncredited) Performer ("Paradise") (uncredited) See fewer
The Key Challenge (Jun 24, 2011) Season 4, Episode 5 - Performer ("Yellow") (uncredited) Performer ("Yellow") (uncredited) See fewer
Brazil Avenue (2012)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Charlie Brown") Performer ("Charlie Brown") See fewer
One Tree Hill (2006–2012)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Us Against The World") (1 episode, 2012), Performer ("A Message") (1 episode, 2006), Performer ("Violet Hill", "Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love") (1 episode, 2008) Performer ("Us Against The World") (1 episode, 2012), Performer ("A Message") (1 episode, 2006), Performer ("Violet Hill", "Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love") (1 episode, 2008) See fewer
Danny Boy (Mar 21, 2012) Season 9, Episode 11 - Performer ("Us Against The World") (uncredited) Performer ("Us Against The World") (uncredited) See fewer
The Office (2012)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Clocks") (1 episode, 2012) Performer ("Clocks") (1 episode, 2012) See fewer
Test the Store (Mar 1, 2012) Season 8, Episode 17 - Performer ("Clocks") Performer ("Clocks") See fewer
The 54th Annual Grammy Awards (2012)
(TV Special) - Themselves, Performer ("Princess of China", "Paradise") Themselves, Performer ("Princess of China", "Paradise") See fewer
The Vampire Diaries (2010–2012)
(TV Series) - Writer ("Yellow", "Clocks") (1 episode, 2010), Performer ("Up In Flames") (1 episode, 2012) Writer ("Yellow", "Clocks") (1 episode, 2010), Performer ("Up In Flames") (1 episode, 2012) See fewer
Our Town (Jan 12, 2012) Season 3, Episode 11 - Performer ("Up In Flames") Performer ("Up In Flames") See fewer
Miss Mystic Falls (Apr 22, 2010) Season 1, Episode 19 - Writer ("Yellow", "Clocks") (uncredited) Writer ("Yellow", "Clocks") (uncredited) See fewer
No me la puc treure del cap (2010–2011)
(TV Series) - Themselves (2 episodes, 2010), Performer ("Christmas Lights") (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("Viva la vida") (1 episode, 2010) Themselves (2 episodes, 2010), Performer ("Christmas Lights") (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("Viva la vida") (1 episode, 2010) See fewer
Nadal (Dec 29, 2011) Season 2, Episode 1 - Themselves (archive footage), Performer ("Christmas Lights") Themselves (archive footage), Performer ("Christmas Lights") See fewer
El cant del Barça (Nov 4, 2010) Season 1, Episode 3 - Themselves (archive footage), Performer ("Viva la vida") Themselves (archive footage), Performer ("Viva la vida") See fewer
Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs (2011)
(TV Movie) - Performer ("Christmas Lights") Performer ("Christmas Lights") See fewer
Kirstie's Handmade Britain (2011)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Fix You") (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("The Scientist") (1 episode, 2011) Performer ("Fix You") (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("The Scientist") (1 episode, 2011) See fewer
Royal Cornwall Show (Nov 9, 2011) Season 1, Episode 4 - Performer ("The Scientist") (uncredited) Performer ("The Scientist") (uncredited) See fewer
Devon County Show (Oct 19, 2011) Season 1, Episode 1 - Performer ("Fix You") (uncredited) Performer ("Fix You") (uncredited) See fewer
Late Show with David Letterman (2011)
(TV Series) - Themselves - Musical Guest (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("Paradise") (1 episode, 2011) Themselves - Musical Guest (1 episode, 2011), Performer ("Paradise") (1 episode, 2011) See fewer
Episode #19.9 (Sep 20, 2011) Season 19, Episode 9 - Themselves - Musical Guest, Performer ("Paradise") (uncredited) Themselves - Musical Guest, Performer ("Paradise") (uncredited) See fewer
Looks and Essence (2011– )
(TV Series) - Performer ("Paradise") Performer ("Paradise") See fewer
Kerry Katona: The Next Chapter (2011)
Episode #2.4 (Apr 20, 2011) Season 2, Episode 4 - Performer ("The Scientist") (uncredited) Performer ("The Scientist") (uncredited) See fewer
Channel Nine Cricket (2011)
Commonwealth Bank Series: Australia vs England: Game 5 - Flood Relief Appeal (Jan 30, 2011) Season 32, Episode 39 - Performer ("Fix You") (uncredited) Performer ("Fix You") (uncredited) See fewer
Top of the Pops (2000–2010)
(TV Series) - Themselves (4 episodes, 2000), Performer ("Christmas Lights") (1 episode, 2010), Performer ("The Scientist") (1 episode, 2002), Performer ("Yellow") (1 episode, 2000), Performer ("Trouble") (1 episode, 2000) Themselves (4 episodes, 2000), Performer ("Christmas Lights") (1 episode, 2010), Performer ("The Scientist") (1 episode, 2002), Performer ("Yellow") (1 episode, 2000), Performer ("Trouble") (1 episode, 2000) See fewer
Episode dated 25 December 2010 (Dec 25, 2010) Themselves, Performer ("Christmas Lights") Themselves, Performer ("Christmas Lights") See fewer
Banda sonora (2010)
Episode #6.4 (Nov 23, 2010) Season 6, Episode 4 - Performer ("Viva la vida") Performer ("Viva la vida") See fewer
Him & Her (2010)
The Argument (Oct 11, 2010) Season 1, Episode 6 - Performer ("Clocks") (uncredited) Performer ("Clocks") (uncredited) See fewer
So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2009–2010)
(TV Series) - Performer ("The Scientist") (2 episodes, 2009), Performer ("In My Place") (1 episode, 2010) Performer ("The Scientist") (2 episodes, 2009), Performer ("In My Place") (1 episode, 2010) See fewer
Top 10 Performance (Oct 6, 2010) Season 3, Episode 19 - Performer ("In My Place") Performer ("In My Place") See fewer
Dragons' Den (2010)
(TV Series) - Performer ("The Scientist", "Don't Panic") (1 episode, 2010) Performer ("The Scientist", "Don't Panic") (1 episode, 2010) See fewer
What Happened Next: Duncan Bannatyne (Sep 24, 2010) Season 8, Episode 12 - Performer ("The Scientist", "Don't Panic") (uncredited) Performer ("The Scientist", "Don't Panic") (uncredited) See fewer
20 to 1 (2010)
80's Good, Bad & Ugly (Sep 14, 2010) Season 9, Episode 15 - Performer ("Fix You") (uncredited) Performer ("Fix You") (uncredited) See fewer
So You Think You Can Dance (2009–2010)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Fix You") (3 episodes, 2010), Performer ("Viva La Vida") (2 episodes, 2009) Performer ("Fix You") (3 episodes, 2010), Performer ("Viva La Vida") (2 episodes, 2009) See fewer
Finale: Winner Announced (Aug 12, 2010) Season 7, Episode 23 - Performer ("Fix You") Performer ("Fix You") See fewer
Holby City (2010)
Swimming with Sharks (Jul 6, 2010) Season 12, Episode 40 - Performer ("Fix You") (uncredited) Performer ("Fix You") (uncredited) See fewer
Formula 1: BBC Sport (2010)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Trouble") (1 episode, 2010) Performer ("Trouble") (1 episode, 2010) See fewer
The European Grand Prix: Qualifying (Jun 26, 2010) Season 2, Episode 25 - Performer ("Trouble") (uncredited) Performer ("Trouble") (uncredited) See fewer
I'm in a Rock 'n' Roll Band (2010)
(TV Mini-series) - Performer ("In My Place") (1 episode, 2010), Themselves (1 episode, 2010) Performer ("In My Place") (1 episode, 2010), Themselves (1 episode, 2010) See fewer
The Singer (May 2, 2010) Season 1, Episode 1 - Themselves (archive footage), Performer ("In My Place") (uncredited) Themselves (archive footage), Performer ("In My Place") (uncredited) See fewer
The Simpsons (2010)
Million Dollar Maybe (Jan 31, 2010) Season 21, Episode 11 - Performer ("Viva La Vida") (uncredited) Performer ("Viva La Vida") (uncredited) See fewer
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief (2010)
(TV Special) - Themselves - Performers, Performer ("A Message 2010") Themselves - Performers, Performer ("A Message 2010") See fewer
Live from Studio Five (2010)
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Episode #1.88 (Jan 22, 2010) Season 1, Episode 88 - Performer ("Viva La Vida"), Writer ("Viva La Vida") Performer ("Viva La Vida"), Writer ("Viva La Vida") See fewer
Dancing on Ice (2010)
Episode #5.4 (Jan 17, 2010) Season 5, Episode 4 - Performer ("Viva La Vida"), Writer ("Viva La Vida") Performer ("Viva La Vida"), Writer ("Viva La Vida") See fewer
Cold Case (2006–2010)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Talk") (1 episode, 2008), Performer ("In My Place") (1 episode, 2006), Performer ("Fix You") (1 episode, 2007), Performer ("Speed of Sound") (1 episode, 2007), Performer ("Politik") (1 episode, 2010) Performer ("Talk") (1 episode, 2008), Performer ("In My Place") (1 episode, 2006), Performer ("Fix You") (1 episode, 2007), Performer ("Speed of Sound") (1 episode, 2007), Performer ("Politik") (1 episode, 2010) See fewer
The Good Soldier (Jan 10, 2010) Season 7, Episode 11 - Performer ("Politik") Performer ("Politik") See fewer
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(TV Series) - Performer ("In My Place") (1 episode, 2010), Performer ("42") (1 episode, 2009) Performer ("In My Place") (1 episode, 2010), Performer ("42") (1 episode, 2009) See fewer
Dead Air (Jan 8, 2010) Season 5, Episode 11 - Performer ("In My Place") Performer ("In My Place") See fewer
Life on the Line (Jan 9, 2009) Season 4, Episode 11 - Performer ("42") (uncredited) Performer ("42") (uncredited) See fewer
(TV Series) - Performer ("42") (1 episode, 2009) Performer ("42") (1 episode, 2009) See fewer
Canyon Flowers (Dec 10, 2009) Season 2, Episode 11 - Performer ("42") Performer ("42") See fewer
Being Erica (2009)
What Goes Up Must Come Down (Dec 1, 2009) Season 2, Episode 11 - Performer ("Clocks") Performer ("Clocks") See fewer
Grey's Anatomy (2008–2009)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Death And All His Friends") (1 episode, 2008), Performer ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") (1 episode, 2009) Performer ("Death And All His Friends") (1 episode, 2008), Performer ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") (1 episode, 2009) See fewer
Holidaze (Nov 19, 2009) Season 6, Episode 10 - Performer ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") (uncredited) Performer ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") (uncredited) See fewer
Freedom: Part 1 (May 22, 2008) Season 4, Episode 16 - Performer ("Death And All His Friends") (uncredited) Performer ("Death And All His Friends") (uncredited) See fewer
The Hills (2009)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Life in Technicolor II") (1 episode, 2009) Performer ("Life in Technicolor II") (1 episode, 2009) See fewer
Something Old, Something New... (May 31, 2009) Season 5, Episode 10 - Performer ("Life in Technicolor II") Performer ("Life in Technicolor II") See fewer
Brothers & Sisters (2008–2009)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Lost?") (1 episode, 2008), Performer ("Fix You") (1 episode, 2009) Performer ("Lost?") (1 episode, 2008), Performer ("Fix You") (1 episode, 2009) See fewer
Troubled Waters: Part 1 (Mar 1, 2009) Season 3, Episode 16 - Performer ("Fix You") (uncredited) Performer ("Fix You") (uncredited) See fewer
Tug of War (Oct 12, 2008) Season 3, Episode 3 - Performer ("Lost?") (uncredited) Performer ("Lost?") (uncredited) See fewer
The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009)
(TV Special) - Performer ("Lovers in Japan (Ssaka Sun Mix)", "Viva La Vida") Performer ("Lovers in Japan (Ssaka Sun Mix)", "Viva La Vida") See fewer
Brit Awards 2009 (2009)
(TV Special) - Themselves - Performers, Performer ("Viva la Vida") (uncredited) Themselves - Performers, Performer ("Viva la Vida") (uncredited) See fewer
A Person of Interest (Feb 16, 2009) Season 5, Episode 3 - Performer ("Viva La Vida") (uncredited) Performer ("Viva La Vida") (uncredited) See fewer
Três Irmãs (2008–2009)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Lovers In Japan") Performer ("Lovers In Japan") See fewer
The Favorite (2008–2009)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Viva La Vida") Performer ("Viva La Vida") See fewer
A Long Way Home (2008)
(TV Movie) - Performer ("Warning Sign") Performer ("Warning Sign") See fewer
The Happy Place (Oct 16, 2008) Season 9, Episode 2 - Performer ("42") (uncredited) Performer ("42") (uncredited) See fewer
Ugly Betty (2008)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Lost!") (1 episode, 2008) Performer ("Lost!") (1 episode, 2008) See fewer
Betty Suarez Land (Oct 16, 2008) Season 3, Episode 4 - Performer ("Lost!") (uncredited) Performer ("Lost!") (uncredited) See fewer
Resumen - 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2008)
(TV Special) - Performer ("Viva la vida") Performer ("Viva la vida") See fewer
Hollyoaks (2008)
Episode #1.2368 (Aug 20, 2008) Season 1, Episode 2,368 - Soundtrack ("Violent hill") Soundtrack ("Violent hill") See fewer
2008 MTV Movie Awards (2008)
(TV Special) - Themselves - Performer, Performer ("Viva la Vida") Themselves - Performer, Performer ("Viva la Vida") See fewer
Numb3rs (2008)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Warning Sign") (1 episode, 2008) Performer ("Warning Sign") (1 episode, 2008) See fewer
When Worlds Collide (May 16, 2008) Season 4, Episode 18 - Performer ("Warning Sign") Performer ("Warning Sign") See fewer
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Long John Peter (May 4, 2008) Season 6, Episode 12 - Performer ("Clocks") (uncredited) Performer ("Clocks") (uncredited) See fewer
I Know My Kid's a Star (2008)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Speed of Sound", "In My Place") (1 episode, 2008) Performer ("Speed of Sound", "In My Place") (1 episode, 2008) See fewer
Episode #1.6 (Apr 24, 2008) Season 1, Episode 6 - Performer ("Speed of Sound", "In My Place") (uncredited) Performer ("Speed of Sound", "In My Place") (uncredited) See fewer
Deadline - Jede Sekunde zählt (2007)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Talk") (1 episode, 2007) Performer ("Talk") (1 episode, 2007) See fewer
Rache (Nov 29, 2007) Season 1, Episode 3 - Performer ("Talk") Performer ("Talk") See fewer
Ren'ai shindan (2007)
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Sayonara no merodi (Kouhen) (Aug 12, 2007) Season 1, Episode 6 - Performer ("Yellow") Performer ("Yellow") See fewer
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Hidden Palms (2007)
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Second Chances (Jul 4, 2007) Season 1, Episode 8 - Performer ("Amsterdam") Performer ("Amsterdam") See fewer
Pilot (May 30, 2007) Season 1, Episode 1 - Performer ("Don't Panic") Performer ("Don't Panic") See fewer
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What Schemes May Come (Apr 11, 2007) Season 3, Episode 20 - Performer ("Talk") (uncredited) Performer ("Talk") (uncredited) See fewer
Jamalot (Nov 30, 2005) Season 2, Episode 10 - Performer ("Talk") Performer ("Talk") See fewer
Türkisch für Anfänger (2007)
Die, in der ich Mama wahnsinnig mache (Apr 10, 2007) Season 2, Episode 8 - Performer ("Trouble") (uncredited) Performer ("Trouble") (uncredited) See fewer
(TV Series) - Writer ("Til Kingdom Come") (1 episode, 2007), Performer ("Til Kingdom Come") (1 episode, 2007) Writer ("Til Kingdom Come") (1 episode, 2007), Performer ("Til Kingdom Come") (1 episode, 2007) See fewer
Winter's End (Mar 28, 2007) Season 1, Episode 16 - Performer ("Til Kingdom Come") (uncredited), Writer ("Til Kingdom Come") (uncredited) Performer ("Til Kingdom Come") (uncredited), Writer ("Til Kingdom Come") (uncredited) See fewer
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Smoke Screen (Jan 9, 2007) Season 3, Episode 33 - Performer ("Low") (uncredited) Performer ("Low") (uncredited) See fewer
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How Music Works (2006)
Melody (Nov 18, 2006) Season 1, Episode 1 - Performer ("Fix You") Performer ("Fix You") See fewer
The Nine (2006)
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Heroes Welcome (Oct 11, 2006) Season 1, Episode 2 - Performer ("Amsterdam") Performer ("Amsterdam") See fewer
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(TV Movie) - Performer ("Talk") Performer ("Talk") See fewer
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The Tribe (Mar 8, 2006) Season 1, Episode 16 - Performer ("The Scientist") (uncredited) Performer ("The Scientist") (uncredited) See fewer
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My Cabbage (Feb 28, 2006) Season 5, Episode 12 - Performer ("Fix You") Performer ("Fix You") See fewer
My Catalyst (Feb 10, 2004) Season 3, Episode 12 - Performer ("Everything's Not Lost"), Writer ("Everything's Not Lost") Performer ("Everything's Not Lost"), Writer ("Everything's Not Lost") See fewer
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Extraction (Jan 10, 2006) Season 5, Episode 1 - Performer ("Til Kingdom Come") (uncredited) Performer ("Til Kingdom Come") (uncredited) See fewer
Circles (Jun 4, 2002) Season 1, Episode 13 - Performer ("Trouble") (uncredited) Performer ("Trouble") (uncredited) See fewer
Mike Bassett: Manager (2005)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Gravity") (6 episodes, 2005) Performer ("Gravity") (6 episodes, 2005) See fewer
Abide with Me (Nov 3, 2005) Season 1, Episode 6 - Performer ("Gravity") Performer ("Gravity") See fewer
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Mortal (Oct 6, 2005) Season 5, Episode 2 - Performer ("A Message") (uncredited) Performer ("A Message") (uncredited) See fewer
No Sex Please, We're Teenagers (2005)
(TV Movie) - Performer ("Trouble") Performer ("Trouble") See fewer
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(TV Series) - Soundtrack (1 episode, 2005), Performer ("A Rush of Blood to the Head") (1 episode, 2003) Soundtrack (1 episode, 2005), Performer ("A Rush of Blood to the Head") (1 episode, 2003) See fewer
Time Flies (Jun 27, 2005) Season 5, Episode 4 - Soundtrack ("Speed of Sound") Soundtrack ("Speed of Sound") See fewer
Perfect Circles (Mar 2, 2003) Season 3, Episode 1 - Performer ("A Rush of Blood to the Head") Performer ("A Rush of Blood to the Head") See fewer
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The O.Sea (May 12, 2005) Season 2, Episode 23 - Performer ("Fix You") Performer ("Fix You") See fewer
Steel River Blues (2004– )
(TV Series) - Performer ("The Scientist") Performer ("The Scientist") See fewer
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(TV Series) - Performer ("Don't panic") (1 episode, 2004) Performer ("Don't panic") (1 episode, 2004) See fewer
Guts (Jul 21, 2004) Season 1, Episode 1 - Performer ("Don't panic") Performer ("Don't panic") See fewer
Murder in Suburbia (2004)
Noisy Neighbours (Apr 17, 2004) Season 1, Episode 6 - Performer ("The Scientist") (uncredited) Performer ("The Scientist") (uncredited) See fewer
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(TV Series) - Performer ("The Scientist") (1 episode, 2004), Performer ("Yellow") (1 episode, 2002) Performer ("The Scientist") (1 episode, 2004), Performer ("Yellow") (1 episode, 2002) See fewer
Nej, jag är inte sur (Jan 13, 2004) Season 2, Episode 11 - Performer ("The Scientist") Performer ("The Scientist") See fewer
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Cheaters (2004)
Episode #4.21 (2004) Season 4, Episode 21 - Performer ("Clocks") (uncredited) Performer ("Clocks") (uncredited) See fewer
Miss Match (2003)
Who's Your Daddy? (Oct 3, 2003) Season 1, Episode 2 - Performer ("The Scientist") Performer ("The Scientist") See fewer
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Episode dated 1 July 2003 (Jul 1, 2003) Performer ("Trouble") (uncredited) Performer ("Trouble") (uncredited) See fewer
John Doe (2002–2003)
Psychic Connection (Mar 7, 2003) Season 1, Episode 15 - Soundtrack ("Amsterdam") Soundtrack ("Amsterdam") See fewer
Without a Trace (2003)
The Friendly Skies (Feb 6, 2003) Season 1, Episode 14 - Soundtrack ("Trouble") Soundtrack ("Trouble") See fewer
Alias (2003)
(TV Series) - Performer ("God Put a Smile upon Your Face") (1 episode, 2003) Performer ("God Put a Smile upon Your Face") (1 episode, 2003) See fewer
Double Agent (Feb 2, 2003) Season 2, Episode 14 - Performer ("God Put a Smile upon Your Face") Performer ("God Put a Smile upon Your Face") See fewer
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (Jan 30, 2003) Season 9, Episode 13 - Performer ("Clocks") (uncredited) Performer ("Clocks") (uncredited) See fewer
In einer Nacht wie dieser (2002)
(TV Movie) - Performer ("The Scientist") Performer ("The Scientist") See fewer
The Sopranos (2002)
Calling All Cars (Nov 24, 2002) Season 4, Episode 11 - Performer ("Clocks") (uncredited) Performer ("Clocks") (uncredited) See fewer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002)
Him (Nov 5, 2002) Season 7, Episode 6 - Performer ("Warning Sign") (uncredited) Performer ("Warning Sign") (uncredited) See fewer
Robbery Homicide Division (2002)
(TV Series) - Writer ("Amsterdam") (1 episode, 2002), Performer ("Amsterdam") (1 episode, 2002) Writer ("Amsterdam") (1 episode, 2002), Performer ("Amsterdam") (1 episode, 2002) See fewer
2028 (Oct 11, 2002) Season 1, Episode 3 - Performer ("Amsterdam"), Writer ("Amsterdam") Performer ("Amsterdam"), Writer ("Amsterdam") See fewer
Fastlane (2002)
(TV Series) - Performer ("In my Place") (1 episode, 2002) Performer ("In my Place") (1 episode, 2002) See fewer
Girls Own Juice (Sep 25, 2002) Season 1, Episode 2 - Performer ("In my Place") Performer ("In my Place") See fewer
Odyssey 5 (2002)
Pilot (Jun 21, 2002) Season 1, Episode 1 - Performer ("Don't Panic") Performer ("Don't Panic") See fewer
Ed (2002)
Last Chance (May 15, 2002) Season 2, Episode 22 - Performer ("Yellow") Performer ("Yellow") See fewer
Roswell (2001–2002)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Brothers and Sisters") (1 episode, 2002), Performer ("Trouble") (1 episode, 2001), Performer ("Don't Panic") (1 episode, 2001) Performer ("Brothers and Sisters") (1 episode, 2002), Performer ("Trouble") (1 episode, 2001), Performer ("Don't Panic") (1 episode, 2001) See fewer
Crash (Apr 30, 2002) Season 3, Episode 16 - Performer ("Brothers and Sisters") (uncredited) Performer ("Brothers and Sisters") (uncredited) See fewer
Wasted (2002)
(TV Movie) - Performer ("Help Is Around the Corner") Performer ("Help Is Around the Corner") See fewer
Playing the Field (2002)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Don't Panic (Album Version)") (1 episode, 2002) Performer ("Don't Panic (Album Version)") (1 episode, 2002) See fewer
Episode #5.4 (Jan 27, 2002) Season 5, Episode 4 - Performer ("Don't Panic (Album Version)") (uncredited) Performer ("Don't Panic (Album Version)") (uncredited) See fewer
Q Awards 2001 (2001)
(TV Special) - Themselves - Nominees, Best Live Act Award, Performer ("Shiver") Themselves - Nominees, Best Live Act Award, Performer ("Shiver") See fewer
(TV Series) - Performer ("See You Soon") (1 episode, 2001), Performer ("Shiver") (1 episode, 2001), Performer ("Don't Panic", "Everything's Not Lost") (1 episode, 2001) Performer ("See You Soon") (1 episode, 2001), Performer ("Shiver") (1 episode, 2001), Performer ("Don't Panic", "Everything's Not Lost") (1 episode, 2001) See fewer
Episode #1.8 (May 9, 2001) Season 1, Episode 8 - Performer ("See You Soon") (uncredited) Performer ("See You Soon") (uncredited) See fewer
Special Unit 2 (2001)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Sparks") (1 episode, 2001) Performer ("Sparks") (1 episode, 2001) See fewer
The Web (May 2, 2001) Season 1, Episode 4 - Performer ("Sparks") Performer ("Sparks") See fewer
La Femme Nikita (2001)
(TV Series) - Performer ("Spies") (1 episode, 2001) Performer ("Spies") (1 episode, 2001) See fewer
A Time for Every Purpose (Mar 4, 2001) Season 5, Episode 8 - Performer ("Spies") (uncredited) Performer ("Spies") (uncredited) See fewer
(TV Special) - Themselves - Winner, Best Album Award, Performer ("Yellow") Themselves - Winner, Best Album Award, Performer ("Yellow") See fewer
iHeartRadio Music Festival Las Vegas: Night One (2017)
(TV Special) - Themself - Performer Themself - Performer See fewer
Louder Together (2017)
Themselves Themselves See fewer
One Love Manchester (2017)
(TV Special) - Themselves Themselves See fewer
(TV Series) - Themselves - Musical Guest / Themselves - Musical Guests (2 episodes, 2014) Themselves - Musical Guest / Themselves - Musical Guests (2 episodes, 2014) See fewer
Jesse Eisenberg/Zoë Kravitz/Chris Martin/Coldplay (Mar 15, 2016) Season 3, Episode 110 - Themselves - Musical Guest Themselves - Musical Guest See fewer
Seth Rogen/Matt Bomer/Coldplay (May 6, 2014) Season 1, Episode 52 - Themselves - Musical Guests Themselves - Musical Guests See fewer
The Graham Norton Show (2011–2016)
(TV Series) - Themselves - Musical Guests / Themselves - Musical Guest (3 episodes, 2011) Themselves - Musical Guests / Themselves - Musical Guest (3 episodes, 2011) See fewer
Andrew Lloyd Webber/Rosamund Pike/Michael McIntyre/Coldplay (Nov 19, 2016) Season 20, Episode 7 - Themselves - Musical Guests Themselves - Musical Guests See fewer
(TV Mini-series) - Themselves (1 episode, 2016) Themselves (1 episode, 2016) See fewer
Day 3, Part 2 (Jun 26, 2016) Season 1, Episode 15 - Themselves Themselves See fewer
(TV Series) - Themselves - Musical Guests (1 episode, 2016) Themselves - Musical Guests (1 episode, 2016) See fewer
Episode dated 18 May 2016 (May 18, 2016) Themselves - Musical Guests Themselves - Musical Guests See fewer
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2016)
Anthony Anderson/Eugene Levy & Catherine O'Hara/Coldplay (May 17, 2016) Season 1, Episode 144 - Themselves - Musical Guests Themselves - Musical Guests See fewer
La Viola (2016)
(TV Series) - Themselves (1 episode, 2016) Themselves (1 episode, 2016) See fewer
Episode dated 31 March 2016 (Mar 31, 2016) Themselves Themselves See fewer
Episode dated 14 March 2016 (Mar 14, 2016) Themselves - Musical Guests Themselves - Musical Guests See fewer
The BRIT Awards 2016 (2016)
(TV Special) - Themselves - Performers Themselves - Performers See fewer
Episode #22.111 (Feb 8, 2016) Season 22, Episode 111 - Themselves - Musical Guests Themselves - Musical Guests See fewer
Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show (2016)
(TV Short) - Themselves Themselves See fewer
Episode #38.19 (Jan 31, 2016) Season 38, Episode 19 - Themselves - Musical Guests Themselves - Musical Guests See fewer
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Gwendoline Christie/Bryshere "Yazz" Gray/Coldplay (Dec 7, 2015) Season 2, Episode 48 - Themselves - Musical Guests Themselves - Musical Guests See fewer
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2014–2015)
(TV Series) - Themselves-Musical Guests / Themselves - Musical Guests (2 episodes, 2014) Themselves-Musical Guests / Themselves - Musical Guests (2 episodes, 2014) See fewer
Usher/Coldplay/Stephen 'tWitch' Boss (Dec 4, 2015) Season 13, Episode 62 - Themselves-Musical Guests Themselves-Musical Guests See fewer
Charlize Theron/Seth MacFarlane/Coldplay (May 21, 2014) Season 11, Episode 170 - Themselves - Musical Guests Themselves - Musical Guests See fewer
American Music Awards 2015 (2015)
VIP for a Day (2015)
IHeartRadio Music Festival 2015 (Oct 13, 2015) Season 1, Episode 4 - Himself Himself See fewer
Red Nose Day (2015)
BBC Music Awards 2014 (2014)
(TV Series) - Themselves (2 episodes, 2011) Themselves (2 episodes, 2011) See fewer
Coldplay (Dec 8, 2014) Themselves Themselves See fewer
Coldplay Live at Dingwalls (Dec 15, 2011) Themselves Themselves See fewer
(TV Series) - Themselves - Musical Guest (5 episodes, 2001) Themselves - Musical Guest (5 episodes, 2001) See fewer
Andrew Garfield/Coldplay (May 3, 2014) Season 39, Episode 19 - Themselves - Musical Guest Themselves - Musical Guest See fewer
Le grand journal de Canal+ (2011–2014)
Episode dated 24 April 2014 (Apr 24, 2014) Themselves Themselves See fewer
Episode dated 2 November 2011 (Nov 2, 2011) Themselves Themselves See fewer
(TV Special) - Themselves - Nominee (credit only) Themselves - Nominee (credit only) See fewer
Coldplay Live 2012 (2012)
(Video) - Themselves Themselves See fewer
Stand Up to Cancer (2012)
(TV Series) - Themselves - Musical Guest (1 episode, 2012) Themselves - Musical Guest (1 episode, 2012) See fewer
Top 5 Results (May 3, 2012) Season 11, Episode 34 - Themselves - Musical Guest Themselves - Musical Guest See fewer
The Secret Policeman's Ball (2012)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003–2012)
(TV Series) - Themselves - Musical Guests / Themselves - Musical Guest / Themselves (5 episodes, 2003) Themselves - Musical Guests / Themselves - Musical Guest / Themselves (5 episodes, 2003) See fewer
Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards (Feb 26, 2012) Season 10, Episode 131 - Themselves - Musical Guests Themselves - Musical Guests See fewer
The X Factor (2011)
(TV Series) - Themselves - Special Guest (1 episode, 2011) Themselves - Special Guest (1 episode, 2011) See fewer
Live Final Results (Dec 11, 2011) Season 8, Episode 31 - Themselves - Special Guest Themselves - Special Guest See fewer
Austin City Limits (2005–2011)
Coldplay (Dec 31, 2011) Season 37, Episode 13 - Self Self See fewer
Coldplay (Dec 17, 2005) Season 31, Episode 8 - Themselves Themselves See fewer
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2011)
Episode dated 7 December 2011 (Dec 7, 2011) Themselves - Musical Guest Themselves - Musical Guest See fewer
MTV Europe Music Awards 2011 (2011)
(TV Special) - Themselves - Nominee / Performer Themselves - Nominee / Performer See fewer
Coldplay/Voltaggio Brothers/Charlie Saxton/SafetySuit (Oct 24, 2011) Season 2, Episode 6 - Themselves Themselves See fewer
Coldplay (Oct 20, 2011) Season 8, Episode 8 - Themselves - Musical Guest Themselves - Musical Guest See fewer
Children in Need Rocks Manchester (2011)
(TV Movie) - Themselves Themselves See fewer
The Jonathan Ross Show (2011)
Seth Rogen, Michael Bublé, David Walliams and Coldplay (Oct 15, 2011) Season 1, Episode 7 - Themselves Themselves See fewer
Rock in Rio (2011)
(TV Series) - Themselves - Performers (1 episode, 2011) Themselves - Performers (1 episode, 2011) See fewer
Episode #4.6 (Oct 1, 2011) Season 4, Episode 6 - Themselves - Performers Themselves - Performers See fewer
Hamish & Andy's Gap Year (2011)
Episode #1.9 (Sep 22, 2011) Season 1, Episode 9 - Themselves Themselves See fewer
(TV Series) - Themselves - Musical Guest / Themselves (3 episodes, 2001) Themselves - Musical Guest / Themselves (3 episodes, 2001) See fewer
Episode #19.9 (Sep 20, 2011) Season 19, Episode 9 - Themselves - Musical Guest Themselves - Musical Guest See fewer
Glastonbury 2011 (2011– )
(TV Series) - Themselves Themselves See fewer
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Special Reviews
Chromosome Choreography: The Meiotic Ballet
Scott L. Page,
R. Scott Hawley*
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
↵* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rsh{at}stowers-institute.org
Science 08 Aug 2003:
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086605
Scott L. Page
R. Scott Hawley
For correspondence: rsh@stowers-institute.org
The separation of homologous chromosomes during meiosis in eukaryotes is the physical basis of Mendelian inheritance. The core of the meiotic process is a specialized nuclear division (meiosis I) in which homologs pair with each other, recombine, and then segregate from each other. The processes of chromosome alignment and pairing allow for homolog recognition. Reciprocal meiotic recombination ensures meiotic chromosome segregation by converting sister chromatid cohesion into mechanisms that hold homologous chromosomes together. Finally, the ability of sister kinetochores to orient to a single pole at metaphase I allows the separation of homologs to two different daughter cells. Failures to properly accomplish this elegant chromosome dance result in aneuploidy, a major cause of miscarriage and birth defects in human beings.
Meiosis creates haploid daughters from a diploid parental cell in a manner that ensures each daughter cell a complete haploid genome. This is accomplished by first pairing homologous chromosomes to identify partners and then segregating these partners away from each other at the first meiotic division (meiosis I). Meiosis I is followed by a second mitosis-like division in which sister chromatids separate from each other. Errors in meiosis occur in as many as one in four human oocytes, resulting in the production of aneuploid zygotes (i.e., zygotes with an incorrect chromosome number), and the frequency of errors in maternal meiosis I increases with maternal age (1). The consequences of such errors can be devastating: Aneuploidy is a factor in ∼35% of spontaneous pregnancy losses and is the most common recognized cause of mental retardation.
In the last two decades, our understanding of the mechanisms that underlie meiotic recombination, and allow recombination events to ensure chromosome segregation, has increased dramatically, as has our understanding of the structure of the synaptonemal complex (SC), a proteinaceous structure that connects paired chromosomes. However, we still know very little about the mechanisms that underlie chromosome pairing or the mechanisms by which the SC maintains bivalent stability and facilitates reciprocal meiotic exchange. Although the goal of this review is to both elucidate the areas that are well understood and describe the unanswered questions, we will need to do so primarily in terms of the most common meiotic systems: those in which pairing leads to synapsis, synapsis facilitates the completion of recombination, and recombination ensures segregation (Fig. 1).
During prophase of meiosis I, chromosomes accomplish the three basic steps of pairing, synapsis, and recombination. Interactions between one pair of homologous chromosomes (red and blue) within a nucleus during prophase of meiosis are schematically represented. Sister chromatids produced during premeiotic S phase are shown as different shades of red or blue. Meiotic prophase is classically subdivided into five stages: leptotene, zygotene, pachytene, diplotene, and diakinesis. Chromosomes begin to condense, homologs become aligned along their lengths, and AEs form between sister chromatids during leptotene. Zygotene is marked by the initiation of synapsis and building the SC (yellow) between the paired homologs. By pachytene, synapsis is completed to produce a mature bivalent. Chiasmata resulting from interhomolog recombination that occurs during the zygotene and pachytene stages are evident during the diplotene and diakinesis stages and serve to connect the homologs. Breakdown of the nuclear envelope signals the end of prophase and is followed by formation of the meiosis I spindle (green). At metaphase I, the pairs of sister kinetochores are attached to the spindle and oriented toward opposite poles. Sister chromatid cohesion along the chromosome arms is released at anaphase I, and the homologous chromosomes separate and move to the poles (not shown).
Pas de Deux: Homologous Chromosome Pairing
Homologous chromosomes are brought together by a number of chromosome pairing and alignment mechanisms, which can generally be divided into mechanisms that require DNA double strand break (DSB) formation and those that are DSB-independent. The DSB-dependent class of mechanisms likely involves a homology search directly on the basis of DNA sequence. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, DSB formation and early recombination intermediates are required to establish a stable pairing interaction between homologs (2). This juxtaposition of homologous chromosomes was shown to be distinct from SC-mediated pairing and likely uses the recombination pathway for its establishment. In contrast, DSB-independent processes might include mechanisms such as the maintenance of premeiotic pairings or the pairing of homologs on the basis of the aggregation of sequence-specific DNA binding proteins. Both of these mechanisms can and usually do lead to synapsis, the stage at which the SC connects the two homologs that comprise the mature bivalent along their lengths.
The degree to which DSB-dependent and DSB-independent pairing mechanisms are used in meiosis appears to vary among organisms. For example, along with DSB-based pairing, S. cerevisiae also uses at least some types of homolog-pairing interactions that occur in the absence of both DSBs and the SC, although additional mechanisms may be required to stabilize those interactions (2, 3). Indeed, substantial homolog pairing is detected in yeast expressing a catalytically inactive version of Spo11p, the protein responsible for generating meiotic DSBs (4). The finding that deletion of this protein abolishes pairing altogether suggests a structural role for Spo11p in chromosome pairing beyond that of initiating recombination by creating DSBs (5). Similarly, in the basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus, a substantial amount of homolog pairing occurs in the absence of meiotic DSBs (6), despite the fact that DSBs are essential for proper synapsis. At the other end of the spectrum, homolog pairing occurs normally in the complete absence of DSBs in Caenorhabditis elegans and in both sexes of Drosophila (7–10).
Are there specific pairing elements or sites? A number of sites or regions have been identified that appear to facilitate pairing. The one commonality of these regions is that they all map near to or are comprised by repetitive sequences. The best characterized of these pairing sites is a 240-base-pair repeat sequence in the intergenic spacer found between ribosomal RNA genes clustered on the Drosophila X and Y chromosomes. When present in multiple copies, this sequence facilitates the pairing and subsequent segregation of the X and Y chromosomes during meiosis in Drosophila males (11). One can imagine that this represents a case where the aggregation of proteins that bind to specific sites (in this case, nucleolar proteins) serves both to pair chromosomes and to maintain the connection between them. Similarly, in C. elegans, genetic studies identified a region at one end of each chromosome, known as the homolog recognition region (HRR), which has the properties that might be expected of a pairing site (12). These sites are able to stabilize pairing in their vicinity even in the presence of mutants that block the formation of the SC (9). A number of repetitive DNA elements that are located within the genetically mapped HRRs were recently identified, but it is not yet known whether the repeats are required for HRR function (13). Several internal chromosomal sites that may play a role in facilitating pairing during Drosophila female meiosis have also been defined and mapped to regions of intercalary heterochromatin (14).
The nearly universal observation of a moderate to tight clustering of telomeres at the nuclear envelope during the leptotene-to-zygotene transition, a configuration known as the “bouquet,” has driven speculation that the processes involved in forming the telomere bouquet may be involved in pairing (15). Pairing and synapsis appear to coincide with bouquet formation in some systems (16), whereas in others pairing interactions occur well before the bouquet arises and in these cases the bouquet may serve as a gateway to synapsis (15). Indeed, in both S. cerevisiae and S. pombe, mutants have been identified that disrupt telomere clustering and/or separation and various aspects of pairing, synapsis, or recombination (17, 18). Perhaps the ability of telomeric regions to function as pairing elements may also reflect the aggregation of proteins that bind specifically to these sequences.
Pas de Quatre: Synaptonemal Complex Formation
In most organisms, pairing events appear to be stabilized by a tight axial association called synapsis, in which the four chromatids are brought into an intimate alignment. Synapsis is defined by the formation of the SC, which bridges the ∼100-nm gap between homologs (Fig. 2). The SC is comprised of two lateral elements (LEs) that are derived from the axial cores, or axial elements (AEs), of meiotic chromosomes. The mature LEs lie adjacent to chromatin along the length of each chromosome and are connected to each other by transverse filaments. A central element is often observed midway between the lateral elements, running down the central portion of the transverse filaments.
SC structure. (Top) General structure of transverse filament proteins. The transverse filament proteins identified to date share a common predicted structure that includes a central region rich in coiled-coils flanked by a largely globular N and C termini (9, 27–29). (Bottom) Model of SC structure. During zygotene, LEs (blue) are formed from AEs located along homologous chromosomes. Transverse filaments comprised of elongated protein dimers are thought to interact with LEs and with each other, possibly forming the central element as well. The protein constituents (in parentheses) of the LEs function both as part of SC structure and to organize chromosomal DNA in chromatin loops.
Synapsis requires DSB formation in most organisms. In a large number of organisms, the initiation of synapsis requires the creation of DSBs by Spo11p (3, 5). DSBs are essential for synapsis in S. cerevisiae, and similar observations have been made in Arabidopsis and in mammalian spermatocytes (5). A specific requirement for DSB formation to execute synapsis is suggested by the observation in Coprinus and in mice that the synapsis defect observed in the absence of a functional Spo11 protein can be rescued by experimentally induced DSBs. Induction of DSBs by gamma irradiation rescues the synapsis defect in the Coprinus spo11 mutant (6), and cis-platin-induced DSBs cause a partial restoration of synapsis in spo11–/– mutant male mice (19). SC forms to a varying degree in yeast mutants defective for the processing of meiotic DSBs, indicating that further steps in recombination may also be required for correct partner choice during synapsis or timing of SC formation (3, 20).
The requirement for DSB formation in synapsis is not universal. In Drosophila females and C. elegans, synapsis occurs normally even in the absence of DSB formation (7, 8). C. elegans chromosomes enter meiosis unpaired and then undergo a rapid alignment. This alignment requires neither the initiation of recombination nor the function of proteins that will later facilitate synapsis (9). Similarly, in Drosophila females the existence of prior somatic pairing associations may well circumvent the need for DSB-dependent homology searches. It seems likely that the lack of a requirement for the creation of recombination intermediates for synapsis in these organisms may reflect the ability of flies and worms to use other, DSB-independent means to mediate homolog recognition. However, despite using a different mechanism to achieve synapsis, the assembly and structure of the SC in these organisms are indistinguishable from what is observed in DSB-dependent synapsis.
The LEs are derived primarily from the cohesin complex. The cohesin complex, which mediates sister chromatid cohesion, plays a major role in the assembly of the LEs (21, 22). In yeast, the cohesin proteins Smc3p and Rec8p are associated with SCs during pachytene, and formation of AE fragments or the SC is abolished in mutants that fail to produce these proteins (21). As meiotic prophase progresses in mammalian spermatocytes, REC8 is initially present on short axial structures in the absence of other cohesin components (22). Other cohesin complex proteins, SMC1β and SMC3, appear to associate with these REC8-containing AE fragments simultaneously during leptotene (22–24). Presumably, the remaining cohesin component, STAG3, also associates with the complex at this time, because this protein also localizes to AEs during prophase I (25, 26). Cohesin remains associated with these AE fibers as they coalesce to run along the entire length of the chromosomes at pachytene, suggesting that the cohesins form part of the LEs of the SC.
Formation of the transverse filaments. Proteins that form the transverse filaments, which stretch between LEs, have now been identified in several species. These include Zip1p in S. cerevisiae (27), SCP1 in mammalian species (28), C(3)G in Drosophila melanogaster (29), and SYP-1 in C. elegans (9). These proteins play similar roles in the construction of the SC, and, although their primary amino acid sequences differ greatly, certain structural characteristics are shared among these proteins (Fig. 2). The most notable common characteristic of these proteins is the presence of an extended coiled-coil rich segment located in the center of the protein, flanked by largely globular domains (9, 27–29).
Immunolocalization of SCP1 and Zip1p by electron microscopy has elucidated the organization of these proteins within the SC (30–33). These results support a model for transverse filaments in which the proteins form parallel dimers through the coiled-coil regions and then align between the chromosomes, with the C termini along the lateral elements. The N termini from opposing dimers interact in an antiparallel fashion down the center of the SC (Fig. 2) (31–34).
The roles played by the transverse filament proteins remain unclear. One obvious possibility is that they simply connect the LEs. However, several lines of evidence suggest an additional role of this structure in mediating the recombination process (see below).
Formation of the central element. Electron micrographs from numerous species suggest the presence of a structural element running down the center of the SC. To date, no proteins have been identified that localize exclusively to the central element. The electron micrograph–defined central element may be a distinct structure composed of proteins yet to be identified, or it could be a region of increased electron density resulting from the overlapping of transverse filament proteins in the center of the SC (Fig. 2).
Possible functions for SC. In at least some organisms, the SC serves to hold homologs together during the processes of chromosome compaction and condensation that occur during the transition from leptotene to zygotene (15, 20). In addition, elaborate SC-like structures have been implicated in preserving attachments between homologs that do not undergo exchange, such as in Bombyx mori oocytes (35) and the sex chromosomes of Thylamys elegans (36). We can imagine that modifications of the SC play an important role in other chromosome interactions as well. For example, in Drosophila oocytes the SC breaks down at the end of meiotic prophase and the euchromatin desynapses. Nonetheless, heterochromatic regions remain tightly associated until metaphase and underlie the process of achiasmate segregation (37–39). It might not be unreasonable to imagine that this maintenance of pairing reflects some modification of SC or SC remnants to ensure heterochromatic cohesion.
Second, components of the transverse filaments and/or central element may well play an important role in promoting interhomolog exchanges. For example, mutants in the zip1 gene in S. cerevisiae reduce the frequency of recombination by 50 to 70% (27). Similarly, mutants in transverse filament protein–encoding genes c(3)G in Drosophila and syp-1 in C. elegans abolish exchange altogether (9, 29). Indeed, a recent study supports the view that DSB formation is reduced by at least fourfold in the absence of the C(3)G protein (40).
Several lines of evidence suggest that transverse filament proteins may be capable of interacting with chromatin and influence recombination in an LE-independent manner (23, 41, 42). A second Drosophila SC component, C(2)M, may define a component of the SC required to direct the recombination process into an SC-dependent pathway (43).
One mechanism by which the SC may mediate interhomolog exchange is through its association with structures referred to as recombination nodules, or RNs. In organisms that possess SCs, sites of recombination are marked along the meiotic chromosomes during pachytene by RNs sitting on top of the SC (Fig. 3) (44, 45). RNs exist in two forms: early and late. Considerable evidence supports the view that early nodules may mark sites of nonreciprocal meiotic exchange (gene conversion), whereas late RNs mark sites of flanking marker exchange. Indeed, the number and distribution of late RNs parallels that of reciprocal exchange events [for review, see (45)]. A detailed study of protein localization within RNs has demonstrated that these structures contain recombination proteins and has provided support for the existence of two distinct types of nodules associated with crossover and non-crossover products (46). Finally, it is also possible that the SC may serve to mediate the processes by which exchanges interact to control their own distribution, called genetic interference. Interference is reduced in a c(3)G hypomorph and reduced or eliminated in zip1 mutants, consistent with such a possibility (29, 34, 47).
The role of sister chromatid cohesion in meiosis. Cohesion complex proteins deposited along chromosomes (red and blue) during premeiotic S phase ensure sister chromatid cohesion and are necessary for the formation of the SC. This facilitates the formation of interhomolog exchanges during pachytene, which are evident as chiasmata. Cohesion between sister chromatid arms maintains the chiasmata, which keep the two homologs connected up to and during metaphase I. In S. cerevisiae, the monopolins bind to centromeres and facilitate monopolar kinetochore orientation at metaphase I (55, 56). Homolog segregation at anaphase I is made possible by the release of cohesion along chromatid arms, whereas cohesion at the centromere is protected from release until anaphase II.
Meiosis is still possible even in the absence of synapsis. Even though synapsis is observed in most meiotic systems, it is not seen in others (e.g., S. pombe and Aspergillus). Thus, synapsis can be viewed as only one possible outcome of the pairing process. In S. pombe, chromosome pairing proceeds in cells undergoing meiosis, but a canonical SC does not assemble. Instead, discontinuous structures called linear elements form along paired homologs. The linear elements seem to play a role analogous to SC by maintaining pairing interactions and promoting interhomolog recombination (17, 18). S. pombe can nonetheless perform meiotic recombination and reductional segregation of homologous chromosomes in the absence of synapsis. In what is perhaps a similar fashion, mouse oocytes lacking the SC protein SCP3 are often able to complete oogenesis and support levels of meiotic recombination close to those of the wild type without the formation of a normal SC (42).
Turnout: Chromosome Segregation
At the end of meiotic prophase, chromosomes begin the process of aligning themselves on or, in the case of most female meiotic systems, constructing the spindle on which the first meiotic division will take place. There are three basic components to this process: (i) congression of chromosomes to the metaphase plate, (ii) alignment of all chromosomes on that plate, and (iii) the separation of homologous chromosomes to opposite poles at the first meiotic division.
Moving the chromosomes to the metaphase plate. The term “congression” refers to the processes that collect the bivalents to the metaphase plate such that the two kinetochores of each bivalent are attached to opposite poles of the spindle (48). At the start of prometaphase, the two homologous centromeres are usually oriented in opposite directions. Thus, most bivalents immediately obtain a bipolar orientation that balances the bivalent on the metaphase plate by virtue of the fact that both kinetochores are being pulled toward opposite poles with an equal force (49). However, some bivalents fail to orient properly, either with both kinetochores attached to the same pole or with only one kinetochore attached to a pole. In this case, the kinetochores are able to go through successive cycles of microtubule release and reattachment until stable bipolar orientation is established. Errors in the progress of chromosome congression are known to be more common in older oocytes (50), and the first true mammalian aneuploidy-inducing compound to be discovered, bisphenol A, acts by impeding this process (51).
Many meiotic systems possess checkpoint or surveillance mechanisms to ensure that chromosomes are attached to the proper poles, as assessed by the presence of tension on the kinetochores. An improperly attached kinetochore, or pair of kinetochores, will not be under tension and thus trigger a meiotic arrest, or even apoptosis. Moreover, mutations in the spindle checkpoint genes lead to high frequencies of chromosome nondisjunction at anaphase I (52). There is a much stronger system for error detection in male meiosis that detects misaligned or unpaired chromosomes before the first meiotic division and, having done so, directs the cell toward death (53). Although oocytes appear to lack such a tension-sensitive checkpoint (54), at least some workers have proposed that age-dependent defects in the ability of oocytes to monitor at least some aspects of spindle assembly and/or chromosome position may well be a factor in the maternal effect on meiotic nondisjunction in humans (52).
Connecting two sister kinetochores to one spindle pole: monopolar attachment. To guide homologous chromosomes to opposite poles during meiosis I, each pair of sister kinetochores must function as a single unit, establishing an attachment to the same pole. Recent work has identified a group of S. cerevisiae proteins, termed “monopolins,” that are required for monopolar attachment at meiosis I and has begun to elucidate how this process is regulated (55, 56). These proteins— Mam1p, Csm1p, and Lrs4 — are required for the first meiotic division. In meiotic cells depleted for monopolins, homologs fail to segregate, despite normal recombination and regulation of sister chromatid cohesion, because sister kinetochores attain bipolar microtubule attachments that are resisted by Rec8p-mediated cohesion between sister chromatids. In the wild type, the monopolins are essential for ensuring that each pair of sister kinetochores establishes a monopolar spindle attachment, resulting in the reductional division of homologs at anaphase I (55, 56).
Sister chromatid cohesion ensures chiasma function. Chiasmata, the physical manifestation of reciprocal meiotic exchange, lock the homologs together (57). Once the two homologous centromeres are attached to opposite poles of the meiotic spindle, the chiasmata prevent premature progression of the centromeres to the poles by balancing the poleward forces localized mainly at the kinetochore (Fig. 3). Sister chromatid cohesion distal to crossovers maintains chiasmata at their initial positions until anaphase I (58). For example, mutants of the desynaptic gene in maize display both precocious sister chromatid separation, suggesting a defect in sister centromere cohesion, and the early separation of chiasmate bivalents (59). In Drosophila, chiasmata fail to conjoin homologous chromosomes in the presence of mutations at the ord locus, which disrupt sister chromatid cohesion during meiotic prophase (60). Similarly, in yeast the cleavage of Rec8p, a protein required for meiotic sister chromatid cohesion, is required for chiasma resolution, and homolog separation is blocked in the absence of this cleavage (61).
Chiasmata are not positioned randomly along chromosome arms, but rather tend to cluster in the middle of the arms. Exchanges too distal will not provide sufficient sister chromatid cohesion to ensure segregation; events too proximal will not be resolvable, given the need of the cell to maintain sister chromatid cohesion near the centromeres until anaphase II (62).
The release of sister chromatid cohesion distal to chiasmata allows homologs to separate. In mitotic cells, separase is necessary for the proteolytic cleavage of cohesin around the centromere (and both centromeres and arms in yeast), allowing chromosome segregation at anaphase (63, 64). In a similar manner, cleavage of cohesin by separase is also necessary for chromosome segregation during anaphase I (61, 65). Although arm cohesion must be maintained through prophase in order to maintain chiasmata, the release of cohesion is essential to allow the segregation of homologs to opposite poles at anaphase I. However, this creates a “Catch-22” situation: Dissolution of sister chromatid cohesion in the arms would release the chiasmata that hold the homologs together, yet the centromeres of sister chromatids have to remain together to ensure that the homologs segregate correctly and prevent sister chromatid missegregation.
Maintenance of cohesion at the centromeres and release of sister chromatid cohesion along the arms is achieved through the differential removal of cohesins from the arms and centromeres of the chromosomes. Immunolocalization of cohesin components during mammalian meiosis indicates that the cohesin complex is removed from chromosome arms at metaphase I but retained at the centromere until the second meiotic division (22, 24, 26). Maintenance of cohesin at the centromeres depends on the presence of the meiosis-specific Scc1p homolog Rec8p, which replaces Scc1p in the meiotic cohesin complex in most systems (21, 22, 66, 67). Scc1p is sufficient for sister chromatid cohesion in yeast meiosis in the absence of Rec8p but is not protected from cleavage at the first meiotic division (55). Yeast Spo13p is necessary and sufficient to protect centromeric Rec8p from separase-mediated cleavage but cannot protect other separase substrates (21, 68, 69).
Pulling the chromosomes apart. The final step in executing the first meiotic division is the actual movement of homologous chromosomes to opposite poles, both by mechanisms in which motor molecules at the kinetochore pull the chromosomes to the poles and by mechanisms that actually push the two poles apart from each other. Although mechanisms of spindle elongation and kinetochore-based movement lie outside the scope of this review, these processes have been thoroughly discussed in several recent reviews (70–72).
Although many aspects of the meiotic process are now much better understood than they were even a decade ago, many aspects of the process remain obscure. Perhaps the most notable of these is the mechanism(s) by which initial pairing is achieved. This process, which embodies the fundamental biological problem of telling “self from non-self,” remains enigmatic. We are similarly uncertain with respect to the mechanisms by which exchange distributions are established or how it is determined whether or not a given DSB will result in flanking marker exchange. Finally, despite its intriguing and conserved structure, the SC remains the “elephant in the meiotic living room.” We know it is there, we know something of its dimensions, but its “reason for being” remains a matter of some conjecture. It seems likely, though, that better techniques and better mutants will soon shed light on even these most vexing questions.
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ASHG announces 2019 winners of International DNA Day Essay Contest
Contest addressed familial disclosure of Huntington’s disease diagnosis
Credit: Lakeside School, Seattle, Washington
ROCKVILLE, Md. – As part of its celebration of National DNA Day, The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) announced today the winners of its 2019 DNA Day Essay Contest, which encourages high school students and teachers worldwide to learn about human genetics concepts and apply them to current scientific and societal issues. ASHG awarded first place to Sophia Chen, a junior at Lakeside School in Seattle, Wash.; second place to Yanna Bravewolf, a freshman at The Potomac School in McLean, Va.; and third place to Irene Calderon, a freshman at The Summit Country Day in Cincinnati, Ohio.
ASHG received essays from 1088 students from 45 U.S. states and 24 non-U.S. countries, who explored an ethical dilemma in human genetics. More than 300 ASHG members evaluated the results for accuracy, creativity, and writing. Since 2006, the Society has led the contest annually and seeks to spark excitement and learning among the next generation of genetics professionals and foster greater genetic literacy among the general public.
This year, students were asked to consider the goals, rights, and duties involved in deciding whether a father’s Huntington’s disease (HD) diagnosis should be revealed to his adult child. After considering both sides, students chose one argument to defend, using their knowledge of the scientific and medical aspects of HD.
“As genetic testing becomes more widespread in its use and public attention, we were interested in science students’ views on the complex ethical questions raised by the results of such tests,” said Jannine D. Cody, PhD, Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health at San Antonio, and Chair of ASHG’s Information & Education Committee.
“The winning essay was impressive because of the author’s appreciation of the genetic realities of Huntington’s disease and clear presentation of the ethical arguments for and against disclosure,” Dr. Cody said.
National DNA Day, celebrated annually on April 25, commemorates the discovery of DNA’s double helix structure in 1953 and the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, two key milestones in genetics.
ASHG will award monetary prizes to winning students as well as grants for genetics laboratory equipment to eligible teachers. Chen will receive a $1000 prize, Bravewolf will receive a $600 prize, and Calderon will receive a $400 prize.
Honorable mentions were awarded to 11 students, each of whom will receive a $100 monetary prize. The recipients of honorable mentions, listed alphabetically by last name, are:
Emma Gurcan, a junior at Partnership for Scientific Inquiry in Portland, Ore.
Weston Hicks, a freshman at The Potomac School in McLean, Va.
Alex Hu, a junior at Darien High School in Darien, Conn.
Sydney Kim, a junior at Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Conn.
Katherine Lei, a junior at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md.
Sheili Lewis, a freshman at Los Altos High School in Los Altos, Calif.
Grace McDevitt, a junior at Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Conn.
Edward Tucker Scott, a freshman at Ranney School in Tinton Falls, N.J.
Sarina Smith, a senior at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in Plymouth Meeting, Penn.
Shifa Somji, a senior at Newport High School in Bellevue, Wash.
Manu Sundaresan, a junior at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Md.
For details on the 2019 contest winners, including photos and the winning essays, see: http://www.ashg.org/education/dnaday_winners_2019.shtml.
Nalini Padmanabhan
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Using microcredit to increase rice yield in Bangladesh
Credit: Kyoto University/Malek Mohammad Abdul
In the developing world, access to credit can lead to higher productivity and an increase in living standards, but the ability to have this access is not universal. Formal financial institu-tions are reluctant to lend to households with low-incomes or which lack collateral.
This is where ‘microfinance institutions’ — or MFIs — play a role.
MFIs extend small loans, called microcredits, to individual households. While standard microloans tend to be geared toward business and entrepreneurial endeavors, in recent years Bangladesh has made a name for itself internationally by providing microcredits to tenant farmers.
Now, in a collaborative study with institutions in the United States and Bangladesh, a team led by Mohammad Abdul Malek — of Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Agriculture and the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC — has conducted a study examining the impact of agricultural microcredits on the livelihood of these farmers.
Writing in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the researchers analyzed vari-ous outcomes of these loans, such as: adoption of high-yield or hybrid rice, overall rice yield, and household income.
“The agricultural microcredit program Borgachashi Unnayan Prakalpa — BCUP — began in 2009 with a primary objective of increasing the credit access of tenant farmers to formal financial institutions,” explains Malek. “So we conducted two surveys in 2012 and 2014 to see how households receiving this financing changed over time.”
The Bangladesh Bank — the central bank of Bangladesh — started BCUP with a low-interest revolving fund, as part of its financial inclusion strategy. The average loan amount was equal to the production cost of rice for one hectare of land.
The team’s results show that BCUP helped increase rice yield as well as overall crop farm income, and additionally the probability of adopting hybrid and higher yield rice. Further, there appeared to be a somewhat positive effect on the cultivation of owned land and live-stock ownership.
“BCUP has had a number of positive effects,” continues Malek. “And while we did not find a change in household income, we noticed that the farmers were able to allocate more time to self-employment activities.”
While several studies have examined the role of agricultural credit on the livelihood of farm households, this is the first to examine the impact of a program designed specifically to in-crease the financial inclusion — in the broader economy — of tenant farmers.
The team hopes to continue their inquiry into the effects of microcredits in order to better inform future policy decisions, while acknowledging that other interventions, in combina-tion with microcredit, may be necessary if the program is to be scaled up in Bangladesh or elsewhere in Asia.
The paper “Agricultural Microcredit for Tenant Farmers: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh” appeared on 26 October 2018 in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, with doi: 10.1093/ajae/aay070
About Kyoto University
Kyoto University is one of Japan and Asia’s premier research institutions, founded in 1897 and responsible for producing numerous Nobel laureates and winners of other prestigious international prizes. A broad curriculum across the arts and sciences at both undergraduate and graduate levels is complemented by numerous research centers, as well as facilities and offices around Japan and the world. For more information please see: http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en
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William Shatner on Why We Love Star Trek
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By William Shatner (As told to Nicola Bridges)
When Star Trek took to the TV airwaves on September 8, 1966, it famously set out on a mission to “boldly go where no man has gone before.” And it certainly did, capturing the imagination of multiple generations of fans and becoming the world’s most iconic sci-fi entertainment franchise, an ongoing, multibillion-dollar spinoff of TV shows, blockbuster movies, games, books and other merchandise. Why has Star Trek endured for 50 years? We went right to the source: Capt. James T. Kirk of the starship USS Enterprise. Actor William Shatner, 85, who starred in the original TV series and in several ensuing movies, was happy to dig back into his “captain’s log.”
I think Star Trek, like science fiction in general, is mythology. It offers a look into the future that’s written by imaginative, creative artists whose vision may or may not be true, but we don’t know until the future arrives. It’s not unlike religion—we don’t know for sure, but we take it on board.
We adhere to the multiple positive stories that Star Trek suggests—that there’ll be a future, that technology will have gotten us out of the hole that it had gotten us into, the future will be bright and the Earth will still be here. And that’s the future people want to embrace. Star Trek offers a look into that future. It’s what makes Star Trek endearing, and enduring.
Storylines That Got You Thinking
Star Trek was driven by science fiction. It wasn’t Buck Rogers. At its best, it was complex. Many great science fiction writers suggested story ideas for the television series. Creator Gene Roddenberry had the vision to hire the right people to tell and dramatize those stories, and viewers were captivated.
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For example, one of the most memorable life-forms in the TV series was the tribbles: small, cute, furry creatures. Without the rules and regulations of nature, these tribbles multiplied beyond belief and consumed exponentially more food, indicating the potential of annihilation because of overwhelming reproduction, which is what we’re seeing in overpopulation right now.
At its best, Star Trek tackled global issues and clumped them into science fiction so that somebody might say, “Tribbles are quirky and funny,” but they had an underlying meaning.
The Nostalgia Factor
Another reason I believe we love Star Trek—and it’s a reason I love—is people come up to me all the time and say, “I watched your show with my parents.” There is this wonderful element of nostalgia attached to it.
The Quirky Cast of Characters
Of course, we also love the unusual mix and dynamic of the Enterprise’s characters and crew: Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov. The captain was written as a hero dealing with people or a situation and coming out on top. It was heroic writing, leading-man writing. I was delighted to be given the opportunity as the captain to be in some situations where the character had to deal with unusual things and had unusual cast members who were his friends to aid him. When Captain Kirk ended up with a girl, of course I didn’t object to that either!
And there’s actor Chris Pine, who plays Kirk in the latest movie installments of the Star Trek film franchise, set in the 23rd century: Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond [released in July]. He’s tall. Handsome. He’s wonderful!
Our Curiosity About Space Travel
Mathematically, there has to be life of all kinds in this universe and the multiple universes that are around us. So far we’re restricted to existing in the reality that is around us. We have no concept of what a fifth dimension is, let alone a 13th.
Whether or not our country is doing enough and spending enough on space travel research is a complex question, because there are so many programs fighting for the dollars. People want to eat as well as explore, so we need to balance [those national needs]. We are curious, and great scientists are driven by that one overwhelming emotion that is curiosity. It is that curiosity that has brought us to this point, this civilization, good and bad, and it’s something we can’t control. We will always be curious. But there has to be a balance of satisfying our curiosity and things such as our nation’s hunger issues.
Shatner stars in the NBC reality series Better Late Than Never, Tuesdays at 10 p.m., and his latest book, Zero G: Book 1 (Simon & Schuster), will be released September 20. Set in the year 2050, it follows FBI agents policing espionage beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
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