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The implication to the Zohr discovery on Cyprus’ gas aspirations
ENI’s recent announcement of a giant discovery in Egyptian waters raised concerns that deals to import gas from Israel’s largest offshore fields and Cyprus’ Aphrodite may be off the agenda. The Zohr field, located in the Shorouk Block in 1450m water depth and encompassing an area of 100 km2, is estimated to hold up to 30 Tcf, is the largest discovered to date in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Israel’s biggest offshore successes, the Leviathan and the Tamar fields, both discovered by Texan Noble Energy, hold respectively 22 and 10 Tcf. ENI’s Zohr discovery in Egypt’s maritime zone is expected to tremendously alter regional dynamics. Not only can it put an end to Egypt’s ongoing energy crisis, but the quantities, if confirmed, also allow room for exports. Should Egypt reach the export phase, the field may fill the capacity of two LNG plants at Damietta and Idku, and prevent further imports from Israel and Cyprus.
ENI had previously faced setbacks in Cypriot waters; its two drillings in Block 9 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone proved dry. The successful encounter in Egypt will no doubt reinforce the Italian company’s presence in the Eastern Mediterranean, lift the region’s overall export potential and potentially improve diplomatic relations between the emerging natural gas producing Eastern Mediterranean players, or, on the contrary, promote competition over gas exports. ENI is planning to move to the appraisal drilling phase in the aim of commencing production as early as 2020.
Natural Gas Europe spoke with Dr Charles Ellinas, former Chairman of the Cyprus National Hydrocarbons Company, to understand the significance of this giant find, and more importantly its implication on Cyprus’ natural gas aspirations. Asked whether Egypt’s Zohr discovery cancels the possibility of gas imports from the Aphrodite to Egypt’s export LNG terminals, Ellinas answered that Egypt’s new find constitutes an additional challenge to the concretisation of an import deal from Cyprus to Egypt. He added however that ENI still has to assess production quantities and the timeline attached to the field, as well as define how much gas will be reserved for domestic consumption and how much will be allocated for exports via Egypt’s LNG plants, highlighting that BG and Union Fenosa, operators of the Idku and Damietta plants, are likely to take the necessary time before finalising any decision.
Ellinas said that the new discovery strengthens ENI’s positioning in the Eastern Mediterranean: “Having announced that their strategy is to concentrate on mature provinces, it remains to be seen whether they continue in Cyprus or whether they focus their efforts in Egypt. Certainly Egypt will put ENI under pressure to bring Zohr into production as soon as possible given its dire need for gas, and stop expensive LNG imports.”
ENI’s Zohr discovery is likely to trigger regional competition over gas exports. “The world is experiencing a glut of LNG, so Zohr could end up competing with Cypriot and Israeli gas especially if it is fast tracked. But Israel and Cyprus still have the option to pipe the gas through Turkey to southeast Europe, once the Cyprus problem is resolved. But they need to act quickly”, said Ellinas. Despite ENI’s disappointing results in Cypriot waters, the discovery does however indicate there may be more gas to find in the Levant basin, and particularly in Cypriot waters, given the proximity of the discovery to Cyprus’ maritime zone. ENI is scheduled to pursue its drilling offshore Cyprus in Block 9 of the island’s EEZ, and the possibility of encountering additional reserves remains a possibility.
* Karen Ayat is an analyst and Associate Partner at Natural Gas Europe focused on energy geopolitics, co-founder of the Lebanese Oil and Gas Initiative (LOGI), holds an LLM in Commercial Law from City University London and a Bachelor of Laws from Université Saint Joseph in Beirut.
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The Exploration of Authentic Identity Versus Performed Identity
Considering the often polarised fragmented identities that we perform and how to bring the interiorised authentic self and the exterior constructed self together. The goal is to examine socially constructed patterns of behaviour, create situations in which the participants break or transcend the internal feedback loops that control their own actions, and address the power structures we inhabit and perpetrate.
Is Art Lonely?
Kage- where K for Kott
What! Art though like the Adder waxen and deaf?
Filippos Tsitsopoulos (1967) is a painter, installation, media and performance artist who explores the limits and the interfaces between performance and painting since the 1990s. His practice engages the spectator/participant to a “new” form of theatre that integrates performativity as a catalyst of our daily life. Theatrical conventions and props are applied to his visual practices such as masks made from living materials including animals or plants. His video installations have been exhibited at a variety of distinguished venues and contemporary art institutions including:
The Serpentine Gallery, FACT Liverpool, The Bluecoat, in Frieze Art Fair London, in Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, twice in the Tate Modern, in Toynbee Studios and in Artsadmin, in CGAC de Santiago de Compostela, at the Chelsea Theatre in London this last year and in Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin with the project “Goya Prophet der Moderne” at 2005, /“Les Bourgeois de Calais”- Performance. Neue National Galerie in Berlin at 2007, his project “Jelly and Sugar” at Círculo de Bellas Artes 2004 and “Craze” at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid at 2007 /“ASHES PERFORMANCE”, CAM Naples Museum ARTWAR, DOCUMENTA 13 Kassel Performance Department, 13 Location- 2012, /“Feldeinsamkeit”. BONE 14. Festival für Aktionskunsk in Bern. Cur. Norbert Klassen. Bern 2011, / “Just a Laugh, Just a Cry”. Vídeo instalación. FACT. Liverpool 2011 “The Monoloque of St Whale the Bomber”2009.Video installation and performance Casa Encendida Madrid/ Marat-Sade” Performance. Festival Óptica. Casa Encendida. Madrid 2011, / “The Madrigal of the Explosion of the Wise Whale” 2010. Freies Museum. Berlín/”Metabolism of forms”- HUNTERIAN Museum Performance, 23 July 2012 LONDON Cur. Sozita Goudouna, / Sacrificio- PELEGRINATIO 2012 Cur. Fernando Castro Florez Valencia. Tempus Arti 2009 with curator Jan Hoet. Flandes, Belgium/ Benaki Museum 2008 with Cur. Denys Zacharopoulos/ Macedonian museum of Modern Art Thessaloniki with Denys Zacharopoulos. Tsitsopoulos has worked as the external collaborator of the Educational Department of the Prado Museum in Madrid (2005 to 2012). He received his Doctorate studies in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid entitled “Irony in Art”(1990-1996) and he studied painting at the Fine Arts Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1985-1990). The artist is currently producing his new film entitled “Kage where K for Kott” in London.
Batagianni gallery – Athens
Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery – Athens
The Empire Project http://theempireproject.com/lang-EN/exhibitions/upcoming – Istanbul
Art Hobler Gallery http://www.arthobler.com – Zurich
C&C Gallery http://ccgallery.co.uk/fillipos-tsitsopoulos-performance-24th-oct – London
Atm galleria Altamira http://www.galeriaaltamira.com -Gijon
Studio Ra Contemporanea, http://www.studiora.eu – Roma
Aboutart Gallery http://www.aboutart.es – Pontevedra
RPHArt Gallery http://www.rphart.net/en – Madrid
The Ryder project Gallery – London.
http://www.fact.co.uk/767059.aspx http://www.theatro-technis.gr/the-end-is-in-the-beginning/
http://www.artinliverpool.com/events/fact-filippos-tsitsopoulos-live-art- performance/?utm_content=buffer96c5c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm _campaign=buffer
http://ceel.org.uk/culture/film-theatre/jan-kott-our-contemporary-contexts-legacies-new- perspectives-reviewed-by-valenka-navea/
http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/shakespeare-our-contemporary/
http://www.polishculture.org.uk/news/article/a-cage-went-in-search-of-a-bird-two-part- performative-intervention-by-filippos-tsitsopoulos-255.html
http://www.roomsmagazine.com/filippos-tsitsopoulos/
http://www.chelseatheatre.org.uk/project/filippos-tsitsopoulos-criticactor/
http://www.unit24.info/filippos-tsitsopoulos-a-bath-when-you-are-born-a-bath-when-you-die/
http://www.rphart.net/filippos-tsitsopoulos#2185
http://cgac.xunta.es/EN/actividad-detalle/82/kage_whereENG
© 2016-2018 Filippos Tsitsopoulos.
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Nosferatu Single Film Summary
jclarke | Sunday September 13, 2015
Categories: A Level, OCR A Level, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Directors, F.W. Murnau, World Cinema, Nosferatu, Genres & Case Studies, Fantasy, German, Horror
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LOOhc2eML4
OCR Film Studies Paper 1
Section B: European Cinema History
This section focuses upon the study of at least two major European movements or stylistic developments in film history, characterised by the significant contribution they made and continue to make to film aesthetics. Learners must study one compulsory, distinctly experimental film movement (surrealist film) and one other film movement from a choice of two:
Experimental film – European surrealist film
Learners must study a set pair of two experimental films from the European surrealist film movement of the 1920s and 1930s. The set experimental film pair is equivalent in study to one feature length set film.
Un Chien Andalou: Silent film (Buñuel and Dali, 1929)
L'Age D'or (Buñuel, 1930) Coming Soon!
In addition to the above, learners must also study at least one other set film. This film should be drawn from one of the other European film movements or stylistic developments listed below:
Other European film movements or stylistic developments
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Opinion - 10/July/2020
Reducing waste in manufacturing is imperative for the wind industry
With careful planning and utilising materials within a circular economy, the wind industry can reduce its waste during the production process, says Olivier Fontan, the new CEO at blade manufacturer LM Wind Power
The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of FORESIGHT Climate & Energy
The expansion of wind power to reach climate goals will see manufacturing levels reach new heights, and with it the levels of waste
According to International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) 2020 Global Renewables Outlook report, in order to set the world on a pathway towards meeting the aims of the Paris Agreement, energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions need to be reduced by a minimum of 3.8% per year – that is 70% less than today’s level by 2050, with continued reductions thereafter.
Within this scenario, the share of renewables would need to increase to 28% by 2030 and 65% by 2050. Wind power would be a major electricity generation source, supplying more than a third of total electricity demand, which would require 6 TW of onshore and offshore wind (compared to 650 GW installed as of 2019).
While the wind industry is poised for this growth, all industry leaders must ask: How can we deliver this growth – scaling up everything including product size, manufacturing footprint, equipment and logistics – in a safe, cost-effective, sustainable way?
As we push forward with innovations in materials and design, we cannot forget about the basics. We need to clean up our waste and to avoid creating that waste in the first place.
NOT ALL WASTE IS VISIBLE
When people think about waste, it is natural to first think about the objects that end up in the bin. That is the waste you can see. But we need to also consider the waste that is less visible, like excess electricity usage, CO2 emissions throughout the product lifecycle and manufacturing inefficiencies.
Regarding visible waste, all manufacturing businesses have some amount of wasted material in production. This represents both a waste of valuable resources and a cost to the business; why pay for materials and then pay again to dispose of them without using them in your product?
Blade manufacturers report approximately 20% waste during the manufacturing process. To continue to deliver on our clean energy and sustainability promise, it is imperative for the wind industry to reduce waste during manufacturing. At the same time, it must also develop materials that can be recycled into a circular economy following the production process and also at the wind turbine blade’s end-of-life.
In this sense, more value can be gained from the virgin materials, as they can be recycled into new blades, or recycled into another value chain. Extending the life of the materials also significantly reduces CO2 emissions from the wind turbine blade lifecycle.
When it comes to less-visible waste, improvement begins with strong data and processes. For this reason, LM Wind Power began reporting on sustainability indicators in 2010 as a signatory to the UN Global Compact and became the first carbon neutral business in the wind industry in 2018. Building on this data and processes, we were able to identify opportunities to save on emissions and cost. Through energy efficiency initiatives $2.6 million was saved on energy bills already in the first year of LM Wind Power’s carbon neutrality programme.
We need to stop talking about sustainability programmes or projects as separate from business objectives to reduce cost and improve efficiency. To me, emissions equal waste. Reducing these emissions is both a driver and result of a lean mindset.
SUSTAINABLE MINDSET
Being lean is neither a set of tools nor an initiative; it is a mindset that must become embedded in everything we do, as a way of working across the organisation, starting with the factories. The same should be said about sustainability.
I have worked in a manufacturing environment, including the automotive and power generation industry, for many years and applied a lean methodology to improve operational efficiency, reduce defects and create customer value. This practice can be applied in the wind industry to drive waste reduction and recycling, but also to improve productivity, quality, safety and overall efficiency, resulting in cost savings.
There are tools that you need to apply to get to the root of the problem and find a sustainable solution:
Identify the root cause of a problem through ‘Five Whys’ – This repeated questioning allows teams to diagnose problems without any statistical analysis and often identifies multiple root causes and the relationships between them
Continuous Flow – Call on teams to manufacture smaller batches to allow for regular examination of the output and make any necessary improvements for the next batch, thereby eliminating waste
Five Ss (Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardise and Sustain) – Focus on workplace efficiency and effectiveness. Dictate how teams should organise materials and keep workstations clean to maximise efficiency and reduce accidents in plants
Three Ps (Production, Process, Preparation) – Eliminate waste through product and process design
Once we embark on this journey, we bring about cultural change in the organisation, influence people’s behaviours and actions and empower them to incorporate sustainability into their overall priorities. I strongly urge wind industry captains to reduce both visible and invisible waste as a lever to achieve sustainable, cost-effective growth in the years to come.
Do you have a thoughtful response to the opinion expressed here? Do you have an opinion regarding an aspect of the global energy transition you would like to share with other FORESIGHT readers? If so, please send a short pitch of 200 words and a sentence explaining why you are the right person to deliver this opinion to opinion@foresightdk.com.
Trump will delay but not destroy an electric car future for America
The United States, the home of the car, has yet to make the kind of market impact with electric vehicles (EVs) as it did with the internal combustion engine
Near-term headwinds slow renewables’ march
The renewable energy sector cannot escape the impact of Covid-19, but a redrawing of the landscape and its resilience through the pandemic will lay the foundations for future growth, says Arnaud de Giovanni, Global Power and Utilities Transaction Advisory Services leader at EY
Danish firms want regulatory rewards for climate action
Politically there is broad support in Denmark for financing the green transition through taxes and a carbon emissions tax proposal has been welcomed by parties across the political spectrum, but industry opposition could ultimately quash the idea
Staying committed to renewables makes investment sense
Despite the massive economic downfall as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, there remains strong demand for renewable energy assets, suggesting the sector will not suffer as it did after the 2008 recession
Offshore wind pushes boundaries in North Sea
Europe’s offshore wind revolution requires a more integrated approach
Using trade measures for climate gain
Europe is considering taking the bold step of introducing a border carbon adjustment tariff on goods imported from regions where carbon pricing is lacking, placing trade right in the middle of its climate ambitions
Finance ministers need to coordinate for a resilient economy
The fiscal response to the Covid-19 crisis is an opportunity to establish a green economy but finance ministers across the globe need to coordinate their actions for the biggest impact, says Dileimy Orozco from E3G
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Gionee GPad G3 with MT6589 and 4.2.2 Android [Coming Soon]
Update: 5/10/13 Gionee Gpad G3 is now available in India for a competitive price of Rs. 9,699 From Online retailer Snapdeal. Display has FWVGA resolution and battery capacity is 2250 mAh. We will post our Gionee Gpad G3 quick review soon
Few months back we talked about the Gionee Gpad G2 in details which was equipped with 5.3 Inches LCD screen and then conventional MT6589 Quad Core Processor and now its successor with the name of Gionee Gpad G3 is out. Though the price of the same has not been revealed yet but we have got the full list of the specifications which this successor will be having. Before going further let me tell you that please done set your expectations high as there are very few upgrades in this new device.
The display size has been taken to 5.5 inches from the previous 5.3 Inches (Gionee GPad 2). Disappointingly the cameras (both secondary and the primary) have been downgraded with 5MP available at the rear of the phone and 0.3 MP available as the secondary camera (initially they were 8MP and 2 MP respectively).
The processor and RAM are still the same which are 1.2 GHz Quad Core Mediatek MT6589 and 1 GB RAM. The internal memory of this device will be 4GB which can be extended up to 32GB with the help of microSD card. The battery strength in GPad G3 is only 2250 mAh as compared to 3000 mAh available in case of GPad G2, which may really affect the talktime and standby time of this phone.
Now when the display size has been increased then logically the battery strength should have been upgraded but this battery strength comes as a surprise to us. The version of the Android has been upgraded to 4.2.2 and it also comes with the feature of Dual SIM, which will support 3G on both the slots. The other common connectivity features are available with the device (like 3G, Wifi, Bluetooth and others).
So performance wise this successor is same to that of its predecessor but GPad G3 keeps it self ahead in terms of display, but on the other hand it depreciates in terms of camera and battery strength, whereas it managed to stay on the same line in terms of performance and benchmark (as per ‘on-paper’ specs). So, the expected price of GPad G3 will not much higher as compared to the GPad G2. You will get to know more about this in our Quick Review post about the same device.
Gionee Watch 5 (GSW5) Review: Affordable Smartwatch With Good Looks & Features
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3 Under Display Camera Phones Coming in 2020
Realme X3 Coming Soon to India: Full Specs and More Details Inside
Abhinav Singh, a software engineer who is very much interested in social engineering. He is responsible to manage all the social media profiles of Gadgets To Use. He also has a hobby of tracking new apps and gadgets and to share them with our readers as well.
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Album Review: Elevator by The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol
Date: January 9, 2017Author: Simon 1 Comment
OK quiet at the back, you’re about to learn something. Fuck ‘School of Rock’ this is where you can really get an education. Not necessarily from reading this review, but by listening to The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol (TBWNIAS). This is the Canadian collective from Ottawa who are not so much influenced by great music of the past but drenched in it, rock and roll comes out of every pore of their performance.
I have written plenty about this band before (click here for a selection) so I’m not going to go into it again, but let’s just say that I rate this band very highly; and particularly appreciate their open and sharing approach to music; and the care an dedication they take in playing it. A great example of this is how a member of the band does a wood carving (see below) to mark each album. This tells me that their albums are not thrown together but curated in a sort of holistic way.
But on with the lesson. I have always associated TBWNIAS albums with coming straight out of the traps and right in your face. This though has a calmer start as ‘Kolban’ opens with a single quiet drone which feels like a invocation to listen, but very soon breaks out into a typically raucous track which is at the same time dense and joyous. The band are quickly in their stride and powering through the gears. After that start ‘Eat The Maraca’ sees things slowing down. This is a very considered track with, you feel, everything carefully in it’s place. Yes this is a band who thrive on spontaneity and ‘the moment’ (the album was recorded in a single day), but also play with a certain discipline honed from hours of jamming.
As I have previously written the next track, ‘Loomis’, “is another fantastic slice of your record collection (because it’s representative of the band’s record collection), and even more this track is dedicated to the late Andrew Loomis, drummer of American punk band Dead Moon, who died earlier this year at the age of only 54. All I can say is that it’s a fantastic tribute from another great album from a band who just get things right…” By this I didn’t just mean musically right, because another sign of the nature of this band is how many of the tracks are dedicated to the memory of someone…they get their priorities right too.
This makes the album feel like a celebration of people the band have respected and known, something which gives it an extra something; and additional layer of emotion and propriety. As such a track such as ‘Lonesome Cowboy Jill’ gets a new edge, and is one of those typical TBWNIAS tracks which contains riffs and ideas which are familiar…part of that rock and roll sweat which pervades the bands work.
Last up on side one, and this is very much an album of two sides, is ‘Sunburst Finish’ which is another number that really rattles along in a momentum building way making an absolute joy to listen to. So far so great, and pretty much what you want from a TBWNIAS album, superbly played rock and roll that is for the most part upbeat and uplifting; the sort of stuff that you are going to groove in an almost knowing way.
For me, though, side two is different and a far more interesting proposition. Most of this side is taken up by ‘Bridge of Regret’ which, according to the liner notes is “dedicated to our dear friend Mathieu Trudel” a local Ottawa artist (see here for more details of his life and sad death) who clearly meant a lot to the band. With this knowledge one can better appreciate ‘Bridge of Regret’ with it’s much more introverted tone and dissonant space horn. I should say that before I was aware of the story behind it this was the stand out track of the album and, for me, the most complete track that I have heard the band do. It’s the sound of a band putting their collective hearts and souls into their music and as a result I find it to be a hugely moving piece as befits remembering someone who died young. Trudel, I believe, was 37 when he passed away.
https://soundcloud.com/john-westhaver/the-band-whose-name-is-a-symbol-bridge-of-regret-1st-rough-mix
The other track on side two, Irene’s Meadow’ is “dedicated to ‘Dorothy ‘Debbie’ Jette”. This track is much less introverted, and feels much more like the celebration of a life. There are some lovely almost pastoral moments to the track, which is much more smooth and less raucous that anything found on side one of this album.
Overall this feels much more than an album, it feels like a snapshot of time in the life of the band. It is a powerful invocation of the ups and downs that its members have experienced over during the time since its predecessor, ‘Masters of the Molehill’. Perhaps, in the end, it is an acknowledgement that all these experiences are moments of learning. Maybe the real education here is how we can express these things in a way that works for us and is appreciated by others. That’s what I take from this album, that and the collective assimilation of the thousands of albums that bring the band their sound.
However you cut it though, it’s been emotional.
With all this is mind you’re going to want to attend the launch of the album, The Inaugural Address, which is streaming live on You Tube this coming Wednesday at 7pm EST (midnight GMT). Details below.
Release information:
This is a 350 pressing on Cardinal Fuzz Records, with only a handful left from the label itself (here). The album is available from Birdman Sound in Ottawa (the band’s spiritual home), with a few out with selected record stores.
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Youth and Politics
Around the world there is a growing interest in youth and politics. Some political groups are changing to respond to the growing number of young people who want to affect the political system. Political ideologies appealing to youth that were once considered “fringe” beliefs are becoming mainstreamed, and more young people are associating themselves with non-popular political parties. More young people than ever before are actually becoming engaged in local community campaigns and other political activities. Youth can change the world through politics by becoming actively, meaningfully and substantially involved throughout political parties and beyond.
Ways Youth can Change the World through Politics
Youth Mainstreaming — Advocating for youth mainstreaming can allow young people to change the world by creating new awareness, opportunities, policies, systems and cultures that foster youth engagement. In political parties, youth mainstreaming could allow for children and youth to affect democratic representation even in parties that would deny them the right to vote or otherwise become engaged.
Running for Office — Whatever age they are, young people can run for office anywhere in the world as an act of protest; to make a stand; or to draw attention. Building momentum for single candidates requires they remain committed to the causes that get them elected; pushing a political party or platform requires staunch champions for youth in politics.
Youth as Voters — Fighting for youth suffrage and demanding youth rights is a platform for youth voters. Another avenue for youth as voters is a protest vote. Going to a voting place and casting a blank ballot can show youth dissatisfaction with the current political system. Youth as voters can also vote for a youth candidate who may be foreign to the political system, but young and capable of sharing youth voice.
Things Youth Need to Change the World through Politics
Education — In order to become engaged in politics in the most effective ways, young people can learn about political systems, political actions, political issues and other realities within and around the political system. They can also conduct action learning oriented activities that allow them to gain credit for their involvement.
Training — Training young people to change the world through politics means teaching them the skills they need to become involved. These include communication, problem-solving, change management and conflict resolution skills. It also means participating in knowledge-sharing activities designed to build their capacity for powerful action.
Inspiration — After 12, 14, 17 or 21 years of being told their voices don’t matter in politics, young people may need inspiration to become engaged. Never in history have children and youth been seen or treated as serious political actors; given the opportunity, they will be. Inspiration from stories, parables, biographies and other sources can help prepare and sustain youth in politics.
Youth and Government
Youth as Voters
“Young People, Political Participation and Decision-Making” by United Nations Youth Division
Youth & Participatory Politics Research Network
“Young People and Political Engagement” by the Pew Research Center
“Young people in politics: A multi-continental survey” by Marta Lagos and Richard Rose for the International IDEA Archive
Other tools are out there, too – share your thoughts in the comments below! For more information about how The Freechild Project can support youth involvement in politics in your community or organization, contact us.
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22 thoughts on “Youth and Politics”
Moses ochieng says:
Youth in politics
Leadership should be inclusive by involving the youth
JH says:
Hi, I really need some help.
My son is 13 and very enthusiastic about politics. His dad and me are not academic so I don’t know where to start with his journey and dream of being an MP
Adam Fletcher says:
I assume you’re in the UK? If I were there, I’d suggest he research online for how to become an MP–there is a lot of information from the government and other organizations. A good place to start is at https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/mp
Let me know if there’s anything specific you’d like more information about.
Harshita says:
Youth can definitely bring a positive change in the political system of any country. In fact, our youth should be more aware of the political scenario of their country as well as the outside world because society is gonna have future leaders from the youth itself. When youth will be familiar with the actual political scenario, they can also help others to make the right political decisions by making other people aware and they can also question the incumbents.
Joakim Mukundi says:
Am in search of literature review and reliable research relating to viable curriculums for training high school students (future politicians and voters) on being better in:- campaigning, political leadership, informed voting, etc. There is opportunity in my country Kenya to introduce Political Clubs in High Schools for reasons in line with the above forum’s foregoing discussion. Our high schools have Science clubs, Press clubs, etc as extra-curricular activities. As well I feel ”Parliament” Clubs in high schools as mentorship school activity is a first step towards providing our society with an alternative to the ever recurrent tribal, self-centred, and materialistic political breeds in my country. Although I expect the less objective heads of schools to be against such a club, I am developing a program proposal that proposes introduction and facilitation of a simulated Parliament in high schools of elected students and school groups representative. Kind of controlled short-term political environment. This will also involved relative training to all including faculty. The main objective is to mentor youthful politician (and voters) and direct them away from the individualism rather policy based politics as we have always witness here in Kenya.
Teens in Politics says:
Youths should be well educated about the importance of participating in politics today. I think that today’s teens are the backbone of future America and without participation who knows who will be our next leaders.
Anthony E. says:
The fact is, we can never eliminate politics from our world today. But there is a big question about who is proficient enough to use political ideas to increase developments and the lives of people. The youths today are learning leadership roles from our political leaders and we pray they adopt ‘corrupt-free’ practices.
Rosie Beckett says:
It is interesting that you say young people are becoming more involved in politics than ever before and that they can change the world by becoming actively involved in political parties. My son is currently researching politics to choose a party to campaign behind and I am glad that there will be so many benefits for him! The fact that my son’s voice matters and that he really can make a difference is something I will share with him.
Sadiq says:
I met a teacher today that asked me that did u think these kids will not b diverted by discussing politics with them? That they’re not even serious b4 then would that not complicate d issue? Pls I need useful answers. Thanks and God bless.
ALFA SALIHU says:
I AM FROM NIGERIAN IS MY GRATITUDE TO MEET EVERYONE HERE
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Peter Mutombwa says:
I am from Zimbabwe…I like it everything here, m inspired ,motivated and feeling equip ed by all the stuff currently as youth running to campaign as a member of Parliament in the all time great opposition party ….. Arise youth Arise.
Joseph Inyang says:
I’m impressed knowing that people are concern about youth.
In Nigeria where I am from, youths are seen as opposition for saying the truth. Elders deliberately oppressed the youth and take away our ideas and initiatives because they are financially powerful than us.
Matching the youth education and awareness campaign with actions like sponsorship for political positions will go a long way to help out.
Nice work I must commend.
Divinity Glenn says:
I definitely agree that teenagers get looked over when it comes to politics. I think as the new generation, we have the media outlets and we can make things go viral within minutes. I think the worst part is that we do not really have any classes where we get deep into politics. We all have our civics classes but we do not have a class where we can get deep into politics.
sitting in a 4*4 and commenting on politics is very easy. if you really have the burden of doing something for country then please get out of your room and get into politics.
11th grade Propel Braddock Hills students says:
Dear Adam Fletcher,
We believe that youth and politics are two important things in today’s world and this article is very inspirational. Everyday, we attend high school and don’t learn that much about politics. This article really shows how much you care about the youth and our opinions. You confirm our belief that our voices matter and can make a change despite being 16 years old. Thank you for being an inspiration and emphasizing the importance of youth in today’s world.
Youth voice is one of the most important things in our society’s activities, whether they’re politics, entertainment, education, technology or the economy. Unfortunately, there’s still a LOT of struggle to make youth voice heard! Working together, youth and adults can make space for young people everywhere, all of the time.
Thanks for your note! Let me know if there’s anything I can do to support YOU!
Faith Godwin says:
With the sudden effects of a change coming about the world, we will never be able to be the change we honestly want to see. However, if our generation wants to see a change in this nation, in this world, we can’t continue to be a burden on ourselves; our voices were meant to be heard, and our minds are to be dignified and be on a standard that all “children shouldn’t have a say because they’re to young”. We are not to young, our votes, our say matters just as much as older voters. For the life that we have to live and the difficult situations we have to go through it is in no fault that we come together as a teenagers and as young votes to use the right that you have to vote, and vote seriously. Not out of the side of your neck, make sure you understand who you’re voting for before you vote. Be politically sound in your judgement for all areas of your political life.
ashlia kapapa says:
love what you said, very inspiring
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Nebraska Football Players Sue Big Ten Conference Over Postponed Season
Can Nebraska players beat the Big Ten in court? It’ll be tough says analyst
The Pac-12 soon followed suit, but six other major college football conferences, including the powerhouse Southeastern Conference, are still forging ahead toward a season that will start in September.
The eight players suing the conference are redshirt freshman linebacker Garrett Snodgrass, sophomore linebacker Garrett Nelson, redshirt freshman offensive lineman Ethan Piper, redshirt freshman safety Noa Pola-Gates, freshman wide receiver Alante Brown, redshirt freshman offensive lineman Brant Banks, junior long snapper Brig Banks and redshirt freshman linebacker Jackson Hannah.
The person spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because the Big Ten was not making public its efforts to have a football season that starts in either late fall or winter.
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The 13-page lawsuit, which was posted to Twitter on Thursday via an account run by parents of Huskers players, contends that Big Ten's decision should be overturned on the grounds that it failed to adhere to established procedures in the decision-making process.
Big Ten officials were previously considering a schedule that would begin in January and end in March, with indoor stadiums in regions such as Indianapolis, Minneapolis, and Detroit possibly coming into play.
The Big Ten is under intense pressure since canceling its fall sports schedule due to COVID-19 concerns, including football, in early August.
"We share the disappointment that some student-athletes and their families are feeling". With 14 member schools, at least nine presidents would have needed to vote in support of postponing the season. While the Big Ten was the only conference Trump named specifically in his tweet, it's one of four conferences at the top level of college football with a postponed fall sports season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
"This lawsuit isn't about money or damages, it's about real-life relief", Mike Flood, the lead attorney representing the athletes, said in a statement.
The Big Ten and first-year commissioner Kevin Warren have faced push back and criticism ever since, including a lawsuit filed by eight Nebraska players who want the decision overturned. There were reports of several conference schools trying to defy the Big Ten's orders and still play.
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Artadia, Houston Announces 2020 Finalists for Its Two-Artist $10,000 Award
by Christopher Blay December 22, 2020
National non-profit Artadia, which grants unrestricted awards to artists around the country, has selected five finalists for the Houston Artadia Award, the organization announced last Monday. Valentina Jager, Cindee Travis Klement, Bria Lauren, Anna Mavromatis and Phillip Pyle II have been selected as the 2020 Houston Finalists. The artists will each receive virtual studio visits with second-round jurors, from which two artists will be awarded $10,000 in unrestricted funds. Jager was a recipient of the second annual Houston Artadia Fellowship for Immigrant Artists last year, and received $2,500 in unrestricted funds from the Fellowship, which was introduced in 2018 as a response to Houston’s incredibly diverse immigrant artist communities.
Phillip Pyle II, “Broken Obelsik Elbows.”
Although New York-based, the organization, which began in 1999 in San Francisco, grants its merit-based financial awards to artists in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. It awards unrestricted grants; over the last 20 years, Artadia has awarded more than $5 million to more than 333 artists within its seven-city scope.
Last year’s winners were artists Adriana Corral and Vincent Valdez, selected from finalists who included Allison Hunter, Lovie Olivia, and Sarah Welch.
The 2020 Houston Artadia Award application, open to visual artists at any stage in their career and who were living and working within Harris County for a minimum of two years, was juried by Ashley DeHoyos, Curator, DiverseWorks; Judy Ditner, Curator of Photography and Digital Media, Yale University Art Gallery; and Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Cindee Travis Klement “Livestock Rescue, Hurricane Harvey Bison Calf.”
Anna Mavromatis “Deep Blue Sea.”
“It was particularly inspiring to be involved this year, in this time of socially distancing; to get to know and feel connected to such a strong and diverse group of artists working in Houston,” states Ditner. DeHoyos adds, “Not only do these artists address timely and relevant topics but they also take interesting approaches in their artistic practice that exhibit a range of creative choices that highlights an artistic knowledge of the history of the field, and an understanding of materials.”
Valentina Jagar.
Beyond the grant, the Award includes lifelong access to a community of fellow artists and patrons. The Artadia Award is designed to provide essential funding and recognition to artists at pivotal points in their careers, strengthen their communities, and spur new levels of career achievement.
The 2020 Houston Artadia Award is generously supported by John R. Eckel Jr. Foundation, The Brown Foundation, the Houston Endowment, Artadia Board of Directors, and individual donors from across the country.
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Celebrate safely at home this holiday season
Spread cheer and share moments while staying healthy and safe at home to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
COVID-19 is real, poses a dangerous risk, and continues to spread throughout the country. Kaiser Permanente’s infectious disease experts and clinicians agree that staying home for the holidays — not traveling and not gathering — is the best way to protect yourself and those you love.
While staying apart this holiday season is the safe choice, it’s also a tough choice, and experts say it’s crucial to recognize the emotional and psychological impact of that decision.
“The notion of canceling or missing traditional holiday festivities with loved ones is leaving many feeling sad,” according to Hillary Van Horn-Gatlin, PhD, a psychologist at Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center. “People are mourning the loss of their important traditions, on top of all they have missed since March.”
Changing holiday plans
If you’re following clinical guidance and choosing to stay home this year, it’s better to break the news early. Having a conversation with your family and loved ones sooner rather than later may help reduce your anxiety and manage others’ expectations.
“Start the conversation with honesty and vulnerability,” said Van Horn-Gatlin. “It may be as simple as saying, ‘I love you, but I have a lot of concern about the holidays this year.’ Emphasize that it was a hard decision to make, but the priority is keeping everyone safe.”
Then, invite your family and friends to brainstorm some creative and different ways to be emotionally close while staying apart.
If you still decide to host or attend an in-person celebration, Kaiser Permanente recommends that you follow the Centers for Disease Control’s considerations to reduce your risk of exposure, for example:
Host or attend outdoor activities rather than indoor activities as much as possible. Avoid crowded, poorly ventilated, or fully enclosed indoor spaces.
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Tasers are often viewed as a non-lethal alternative to subdue criminal suspects, but they are far from perfectly safe. Victims have suffered miscarriages, brain damage, and even death. Therefore, tasers should be used rarely and only with good reason.
It turns out that a man asking “What for?” while his hands are above his head and his back is facing police is not a good enough reason. Darsean Kelley got a $110,000 settlement from the city of Aurora, Colorado, without even having to file a lawsuit, after body camera footage showed officer an officer tasing him in the back.
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The footage of Kelley’s tasing is not easy to watch, as his body stiffens, he falls backward onto the sidewalk, and can be heard crying afterward. The ACLU, who took up Kelley’s case, described the scene:
Police in Aurora, Colorado, got a call about a man pulling a gun on a kid. They had no description of the suspect. On their way to the scene, they stopped two Black men walking down the sidewalk.
Darsean Kelley, one of the men, followed the officers’ orders to hold his hands above his head and turn around. His repeated requests for an explanation as to why they had been detained went unanswered. Even though it was clear he had no weapons and he was no threat to the officers, Darsean was tased in the back just as he said, “I know my rights.” Darsean fell backwards and hit his head on the pavement.
Kelley was arrested for disorderly conduct, or failure to obey a lawful order, after he was tased. That charge was dropped, but not before he spent three days in jail, unable to post his bond.
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There was no punishment for the police officers involved, after an internal review board determined the use of force “was reasonable, appropriate, and within policy.”
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Also in Malaysia Sabah. Bandjarese, Banjar Malay, Banjarese, Labuhan. The southern and eastern coast of Kalimantan is home to the Banjar people, who live up and down the rivers from the interior rainforest to the coastal cities.
Dayakthe main indigenous people in the island Territorial loss of the thalassocracy of the Sultanate of Brunei from to due to the beginning of Western imperialism According to ancient Chinese[32]: Archaeological findings in the Sarawak river delta reveal that the area was a thriving centre of trade between India and China from the 6th century until about During its Birth ritual in banjarmasin south kalimantan age under Bolkiah from the 15th century to the 17th century, the Bruneian Empire ruled almost the entire coastal area of Borneo lending its name to the island due to its influence in the region and several islands in the Philippines.
British Borneo and Dutch East Indies British flag hoisted for the first time on the island of Labuan on 24 December Since the fall of Malacca inPortuguese merchants traded regularly with Borneo, and especially with Brunei from The English began to trade with Sambas of southern Borneo inwhile the Dutch only began their trade in The English, led by Stamford Rafflesthen tried to establish an intervention in Sambas but failed.
Although they managed to defeat the Sultanate the next year and declared a blockade on all ports in Borneo except Brunei, Banjarmasin and Pontianakthe project was cancelled by the British Governor-General Lord Minto in India as it was too expensive.
The present boundaries of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei are largely inherited from the British and Dutch colonial rules. The Dutch began to intervene in the southern part of the island upon resuming contact inposting Residents to Banjarmasin, Pontianak and Sambas and Assistant-Residents to Landak and Mampawa.
Brooke established the Kingdom of Sarawak and was recognised as its rajah after paying a fee to the Sultanate. He established a monarchy, and the Brooke dynasty through his nephew and great-nephew ruled Sarawak for years; the leaders were known as the White Rajahs.
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This resulted in indirectly establishing British- and Dutch-controlled areas in the north Malay Peninsula and south Sumatra and Riau Islands respectively.
American support craft moving towards Victoria and Brown beach to assist the landing of the members of Australian 24th Infantry Brigade on the island during Operation Oboe Six10 June During World War II, Japanese forces gained control and occupied most areas of Borneo from — In the first stage of the war, the British saw the Japanese advance to Borneo as motivated by political and territorial ambitions rather than economic factors.
The Sultanate was thereafter suspended and replaced by a Japanese council. From the Sandakan camp site, only six of some 2, prisoners survived after they were forced to march in an event known as the Sandakan Death March.
They temporarily revived headhunting of Japanese toward the end of the war, [88] with Allied Z Special Unit provided assistance to them.
Sukarno visiting PontianakWest Kalimantan in Towards the end of the war, Japan decided to give an early independence to a new proposed country of Indonesia on 17 Julywith an Independence Committee meeting scheduled for 19 August Sukarno and Hatta continued the plan by unilaterally declaring independence, although the Dutch tried to retake their colonial possession in Borneo.
The reaction was relatively muted with little open fighting in Pontianak or in the Chinese majority areas. The Philippines opposed the newly proposed federation, claiming the eastern part of North Borneo today the Malaysian state of Sabah as part of its territory as a former possession of the Sultanate of Sulu.
The Philippine government also claimed that the heirs of the Sultanate had ceded all their territorial rights to the republic. Kesatuan Negara Kalimantan Utarawhere the Sultan of Brunei would be the head of state for the federation—though Azahari had his own intention to abolish the Brunei Monarchy, to make Brunei more democratic, and to integrate the territory and other former British colonies in Borneo into Indonesia, with the support from the latter government.
Brunei withdrew from being part of the new Federation of Malaysia due to some disagreements on other issues while political leaders in Sarawak and North Borneo continued to favour inclusion in a larger federation.
During the administration of Philippine President of Ferdinand Marcosthe President made some attempts to destabilise the state of Sabah, [] although his plan failed and resulted in the Jabidah massacre and later in insurgency in the southern Philippines.
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Most of the population lives in coastal cities, although the hinterland has small towns and villages along the rivers. In the Sambas riotsDayaks and Malays joined together to massacre thousands of the Madurese migrants.
In Kalimantan, thousands were killed in fighting between Madurese transmigrants and the Dayak people in the Sampit conflict. In other instances, the district area is much larger than the actual city it represents thereby relatively inflating the population estimate by including the surrounding rural population—in cases such as Tawau and Palangka Raya.Mar 21, · The Museum of Lambung Mangkurat was officially opened in from birth- children- adults- getting married- giving birth- phase, until death.
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Basunat for society Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, is very important. In fact, Islam is not considered perfect person if the person has not been circumcised.
Banjarese are the majority population of the province of South Kalimantan on Indonesian Borneo. The Meratus mountains, a long, broad range with no peak higher than 1, m (6, ft), run north–south through the province.
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Where next for silver after the surge?: Saxo's Hansen
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Ole Hansen
Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank, explains why precious metals, such as silver and platinum, are performing strongly.
He says the focus is starting to return to gold, but Chinese traders and investors are showing an interest in silver similar to that of steel and iron ore in April.
US bond yields continue to collapse and Brexit uncertainty remains, says Hansen, but this is providing an environment where precious metals can be attractive.
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Real Estate Side Hustle Turned Rookie Of The Year w/ Ryan Butler
Ryan Butler from Washington D.C.
Ryan recently turned his real estate side hustle into his full-time career.
In this episode of the Hustle To Freedom podcast, Ryan shares his side hustle journey which started in college selling used mini refrigerators then as he moved into his career as a software developer, he realized his true passion was real estate. He gives you the blueprint for how we eased his way into the business while still working a full-time job. It seems to be in-style to just quit your job and try to be an entrepreneur but Ryan did it the smart way, and the way I teach as well.
HOW WILL IT HELP ME?
Ryan really shows that In true side hustle fashion, how taking a smart risk, can really pay off. By listening to his inner voice, he knew that being a software developer was not what he was put on this world to do and he couldn’t have an intimate impact with people like he wanted to. Often times, people stay in careers they hate and it leaves them bitter and angry – there are a million different things you could do – and Ryan highlights that.
You can send him an email at ryan@dchomeslifestyle.com with any of your real estate questions or if you have questions on how you can get started on your side hustle journey. (below are some of the books he recommended)
He mentions that when getting started in real estate, two books really helped him:
1. Millionaire Real Estate Agent
2. The One Thing
If you want to get started using MailChimp, like Ryan and I, then take advantage of the discount code provided in the episode and click here to download the course. You’ll have to listen to get the discount code 🙂
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Home Car News Ferrari India Discloses Model Lineup and Pricing
Ferrari India Discloses Model Lineup and Pricing
Surya Solanki
Ferrari entered the Indian automobile industry in 2011, forming a partnership with Shreyans Group, who became the Italian manufacturer’s official importer in the Asian country.
However, Shreyans Group was heavily criticised for its poor after-sales services, leading to a conflict between the small group of Ferrari owners in the country and the dealership. Bad PR is never good for an automobile company and naturally Ferrari severed its ties with Shreyans Group in April 2014. Till January 2015, Ferrari operated without any official dealer in India and maintained contact with its customers directly.
However, at the start of this year, it announced two new sales and service centres in India- one in the capital, New Delhi, and the other in Mumbai. Describing India as a “strategic market”, Ferrari is keen to utilise its popularity in the country to reap some significant revenue.
Its global competitors, Lamborghini and Porsche are forming a considerable base in India with the two having attained adequate popularity among the car enthusiasts over the past few years. Thus, banking on its rich heritage and brand value, Ferrari is hoping to do well in India’s premium car segment.
As it prepares to commence sales from its two new outlets, Ferrari India has revealed the price-list for its sports cars to Zigwheels. Here’s what it looks like:
1. Ferrari California T Convertible- INR 33 million ($518,000)
2. Ferrari 488 GTB Coupe- INR 38.9 million ($610,200)
3. Ferrari 458 Spider- INR 40.7 million ($638,500)
4. Ferrari 458 Speciale- INR 42.5 million ($666,000)
5. Ferrari F12 Berlinetta- INR 47.5 million ($745,000)
(all prices are ex-showroom Mumbai)
Despite the Ferrari 458 going out of production from this year, Indian customers will still get the option to acquire the 458 Spider or 458 Speciale.
A dealer also revealed that the Ferrari 488 GTB Coupe has nearly sold out already. Meanwhile, the entry level Ferrari, California T Convertible is also doing admirably well in the market.
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Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council “Pretties up” the Abstention
November 9, 2016 November 12, 2016 Circles Robinson 0 Comments
Even with the official statistics, the election participation was lower than that indicated by the Supreme Electoral Council
By Arlen Cerda (Confidencial)
The magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Council read their voting results. Photo: Carlos Herrera/confidencial.
HAVANA TIMES – If two times two are four, Roberto Rivas president of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) doesn’t know it. Official data assures that the level of participation in last Sunday’s election was 68.2%. However, even taking these results as a starting point, Rivas’ statistics don’t add up.
Analysts and opposition figures sustain that the erroneous math of the CSE president is the result of premeditated party objectives.
In the morning following the voting, Rivas presented the third preliminary report, with official tallies from 99.8% of the polling places. The official count affirmed that 2,578,445 Nicaraguans left their homes to mark and deposit their vote. “We have a level of participation of 68.2%, Rivas affirmed. Photos taken on election day, as well as the CSE’s own statistics, indicate the opposite.
According to the CSE, the total universe of voters this November 6th was 4,990,020 Nicaraguans. Of them, 4,345,161 citizens were on the “active rolls” – that is, they were apt to vote. Another 644,859 were on the “passive list”, meaning a “cold” list where the electoral register has inscribed some citizens who haven’t voted in the last two or three elections, whatever their motives.
Since 2012, the CSE decided to differentiate these lists with the objective of cleaning out the voting rolls, although four years later they’ve never given an account of the process.
In mid-October, in a report from Confidencial about the FSLN seal on the voting rolls, political analyst José Antonio Peraza warned: “if we don’t have a clear record of the people who are going to vote in a particular polling place, anything could be altered without our ever finding out.”
The 68.2% number doesn’t add up from any direction
With a universe of 4.9 million voters and a total of 2.5 million votes deposited (according to the CSE numbers), a simple calculation reveals an abstention level that’s not 31.8% as the electoral tribunal states, but 48.3%.
One of many tally sheets showing few voters.
That statistic is also six points higher than the 42% abstention registered in the 2011 elections, when Comandante Daniel Ortega imposed his presidential reelection, breaking the chains of the Nicaraguan constitution which prohibited consecutive terms.
If instead of a universe of 4.9 million, we start from the “active voting rolls” of 4.3 million, the percentage of abstention goes down to 40.6%, still nearly nine points above the CSE statistic.
Without offering explanations on the origin of another type of voter roll, in mid-October Magistrate Rivas mentioned that in addition to the total roll, the active roll and the passive roll, there was a “real voter roll” of 3.8 million Nicaraguans which, according to the functionary, is the quantity of voters who would really be called upon to vote.
Even using that “real voter roll” and the quantity of voters that according to the CSE deposited their votes this past November 6th, the percent of abstention is still slightly greater than the number offered.
Are they going to wipe 2.4 million Nicaraguans off the voter rolls?
In their fifth observation report this Monday, the Electoral Panorama consortium highlighted the fact that “the procedure that the Supreme Electoral Council used to clean up the voting roll is unacceptable.”
The mechanism endangers the right to vote of a high percentage of the citizenry who live outside the country or for other reasons haven’t voted in two consecutive elections,” indicated the group that has observed the process without official accreditation, because the government has infringed that right.
In that “clean-up” sifter, effected prior to last Sunday’s vote, the CSE had already dispatched 1.2 million citizens by excluding them from the “real voting roll” which Rivas announced would be his basis for vote counting.
Following November 6th and basing ourselves only on the official results and not on the massive abstention that the CSE is trying to “pretty up” according to the opposition, the number of Nicaraguans excluded under Rivas’ version of the “real voting rolls”, ascends to more than 2.4 million Nicaraguans who haven’t voted in the last two or three elections, including this latest one.
Experts in electoral statistics estimate that a minimal percentage of that number could correspond to deceased Nicaraguans, who still figure on the “active rolls.”
Nonetheless, the great majority corresponds to citizens who haven’t voted in recent elections because they live outside the country, or for varied reasons including apathy, or abstention as a means of protest.
CSE results “not auditable”
Robert Courtney, executive director of Ethics and Transparency and a member of Electoral Panorama, assures that due to the lack of transparency in the process, the voting results presented by the CSE are “not auditable” and can’t be taken as a credible point of reference.
Tally sheets showing a low voter turnout.
“The 2016 elections haven’t complied with the basic standards of electoral integrity and rather represent a backwards step in comparison with the past three elections that also lacked credibility. Electoral transparency has been eroded, since almost all of the checks and balances that generate confidence have been eliminated,” advised the Electoral Panorama in its report.
The Nicaraguan lawyer and expert in Constitutional Law, Azahálea Solís declared this Monday on the Esta Noche [Tonight] television show that even before the CSE presented the preliminary results and well before the actual voting day, the Nicaraguan electoral process had already lost its legitimacy.
Solis agrees that just as the opposition – outlawed via a legal decision five months before the vote – has stated, the “massive and evident” abstention was a “resounding response from Nicaraguans in reaction to the collapse of the electoral system”.
In the same sense, José Dávila, member of the National Coalition for Democracy, affirms that the level of abstention in the election is greater than the official statistics. He underlined that from the beginning the CSE has “dedicated itself” to “prettying up” the abstention with the use of various data registries.
According to Dávila the monitoring of the observation posts that the National Coalition for Democracy organized indicated an abstention rate between 71 and 74% and that they have copies of the official voting tallies that confirm the tendency towards abstention as well as the manipulation of the tallies by deliberately inflating the number of votes deposited.
With 0.2% of the polling places left to be tallied in the National Data Center, and no explanation from Rivas on the cause of delay, the president of the CSE affirmed yesterday that there won’t be any more press conferences for the preliminary results.
Nonetheless, results by department are still pending, so as to know how many deputies will correspond to each party that appeared on the ballot. The official CSE webpage isn’t a possibility either right now, because it hasn’t yet been brought up to date.
Meanwhile, in zones such as Bilwi (Puerto Cabezas) capital of the North Caribbean Autonomous Region and a bastion of the ethnic Miskito population, the streets seethe with burned tires and protests, because the regional indigenous party Yatama that represents them claims that “once again” the CSE is trying to rob them of a deputy’s seat.
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Perioperative and long-term operative outcomes after surgery for trigeminal neuralgia: microvascular decompression vs percutaneous balloon ablation
W. Scott Jellish1,
William Benedict2,
Kevin Owen1,
Douglas Anderson2,
Elaine Fluder1 &
John F. Shea2
Numerous medical and surgical therapies have been utilized to treat the symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia (TN). This retrospective study compares patients undergoing either microvascular decompression or balloon ablation of the trigeminal ganglion and determines which produces the best long-term outcomes.
A 10-year retrospective chart review was performed on patients who underwent microvascular decompression (MVD) or percutaneous balloon ablation (BA) surgery for TN. Demographic data, intraoperative variables, length of hospitalization and symptom improvement were assessed along with complications and recurrences of symptoms after surgery. Appropriate statistical comparisons were utilized to assess differences between the two surgical techniques.
MVD patients were younger but were otherwise similar to BA patients. Intraoperatively, twice as many BA patients developed bradycardia compared to MVD patients. 75% of BA patients with bradycardia had an improvement of symptoms. Hospital stay was shorter in BA patients but overall improvement of symptoms was better with MVD. Postoperative complication rates were similar (21% vs 26%) between the BA and MVD groups.
MVD produced better overall outcomes compared to BA and may be the procedure of choice for surgery to treat TN.
Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) is "a sudden brief, usually unilateral, severe, recurrent pain in the distribution of one or more branches of the fifth cranial nerve" [1]. This pain is typically triggered by daily activities such as eating, talking, or brushing teeth. Frequently patients are asymptomatic between episodes. Although rare, affecting approximately 4 per 100,000 persons per year, this severe chronic pain syndrome can greatly compromise patient quality of life and disrupt daily functioning [2]. The etiology of trigeminal neuralgia in the majority of cases is compression of the nerve root by a blood vessel [3]. Other, albeit less common etiologies include demylelinating processes such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS), posterior fossa meningiomas or neuromas [3].
Pharmacotherapy is generally the mainstay of treatment of TN, with carbamezapine affording a satisfactory initial effect in approximately 70% of patients [3]. Other medications such as gabapentin, baclofen, oxcarbazepine, and lamotrigine have also been used as primary treatments or as adjuvants to carbamazepine as well [3]. However, loss of pharmacological effect or problems with tolerability of the medications is experienced in almost half of patients by 10 years of treatment [3]. Fortunately, if medical treatment fails then surgical options are available.
Minimally invasive percutaneous techniques include radiofrequency rhizotomy, glycerol rhizotomy, and balloon compression gangliolysis (BA) [4]. More invasive techniques such as posterior fossa exploration for microvascular decompression or partial trigeminal rhizotomy can also be performed [5]. Microvascular decompression (MVD) is currently the only technique which corrects the hypothesized vascular etiology by repositioning the impinging vessel, usually the superior cerebellar artery or the anterior inferior cerebellar artery [6]. Multiple prior comparisons between ablative procedures and MVD exist in the literature but no recent analysis has compared BA and MVD [6–10].
Traditionally, BA is reserved for older patients or patients who may not be able to endure a craniotomy for MVD. However, it is often surgeon preference that may influence what surgical technique the patient will undergo. While both techniques have unique advantages, these procedures are not without complications or side effects. Manoru, et al. first described a trigeminal depressor response (TDR) in which bradycardia occurred as a result of stimulation of the spinal trigeminal complex in rabbits [11]. This TDR ensued after low frequency stimulation of any branch of the trigeminal nerve or entering roots. In another study, Preul, et al. observed bradycardia in 30% of rabbits receiving percutaneous balloon compression of the trigeminal ganglion as well as histopathological changes indicating cellular injury near the inflated balloon [12]. In humans, Brown and Preul described a similar depressor response with percutaneous microcompression of the trigeminal ganglion for the relief of trigeminal neuralgia [13].
Although other investigators have explored the incidence of intraoperative bradycardia with various ablative procedures, none have yet addressed the question of whether or not the occurrence of bradycardia may be used as an indirect indicator of sufficient neuronal injury to predict a successful outcome of the ablative procedure [13, 14].
This paper compares the degree of pain relief and occurrence of complications between MVD and BA. It also examines the incidence of intraoperative bradycardia, an indicator of trigeminal stimulation with therapeutic outcomes and attempts to determine which procedure produces the best therapeutic benefit for patients with TN.
After obtaining approval from the institutional review board to perform a retrospective chart review, records of patients who had trigeminal neuralgia and underwent either a microvascular decompression via a lateral skull base approach or a balloon compression rhizolysis of the trigeminal ganglion between 1993 and 2003 were reviewed. 120 patients had a total of 164 surgeries during the review period. Cases of atypical neuralgia, carcinomatous pain or multiple sclerosis were excluded. All patients had undergone conservative treatment prior to surgical intervention.
Patients undergoing percutaneous balloon compression (84 cases) had general anesthesia with either a tracheal intubation or placement of laryngeal mask airway. Patients were placed in a supine position with the neck and thorax slightly flexed. Using biplane fluoroscopy, a Trucut liver biopsy needle was inserted into the foramen ovale. A ventricular stylet was next inserted into the hub of the needle. The catheter was then pushed up to the foramen ovale. A number 4 Fogerty catheter was placed into Meckel's Cave and the balloon inflated with 0.75 cc of contrast media for 3 minutes. The presence of a pear-shape was seen when compression of the nerve was accomplished with the balloon. Reflex bradycardia, tearing of the eye, and a modest hypertension insured proper placement.
Microvascular decompression (80 cases) was done under general anesthesia. Invasive blood pressure monitoring was used in a majority of these cases. The patient's head was turned contralaterally and a small retrosigmoid craniotomy was performed. The trigeminal nerve was examined microsurgically for vascular compression at or near its point of entry into the brain stem. Compressive arteries and veins were repositioned and any other compressive veins were electrocoagulated or divided. In some patients a rhizotomy was also performed. These patients had atypical symptoms which were severe enough to warrant immediate relief with no response to carbamazepine. Other criteria for performing a rhizotomy included any patient who had previous invasive procedures for pain relief or where actual vascular compressive findings during surgery were not severe enough to account for the patient's symptoms.
Demographic data was obtained from the records and the length of disease recorded. Pain medications and previous treatments for TN were also recorded. Intraoperative variables collected include OR surgical times, performance of surgical rhizotomy, incidence of bradycardia during treatment (defined as a decrease of 10% from baseline) and hospital length of a stay after the procedure. Postoperative outcomes including the number of patients with immediate improvement in symptoms, percent of total cure and the number with no change in symptoms were also obtained along with the length of time to follow up and the number of patients who relapsed. Time to relapse was recorded, as was the total number of operations performed. Reported complications after surgery were also compared between the two surgical groups and the incidence of the most frequent complications were compared between the two surgical populations. In addition, the incidence of bradycardia was correlated to determine if any relationship exists between the degree of bradycardia and improvement of systems. Numeric variables were examined and compared using two tailed t test analysis while nonparametric variables were compared by Pearson Chi Square Analysis with a p < 0.05 considered significant. All values are expressed as mean ± SEM.
A total of 84 patients were in the BA group, while the MVD group had 80 patients. All MVDs were performed by one surgeon (DA), while all BAs were performed by another surgeon (JS). Patients who underwent MVD were significantly younger than BA patients (Table 1). Gender, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status, and length of treatment for TN was approximately the same in both groups, and a similar utilization of preoperative medications to control TN symptoms were used (Table 1). A significantly greater number of patients who received trigger point injections underwent BA treatment compared to patients who had MVD (Table 1). Finally, both groups had a similar incidence of prior surgeries for correction of TN (Table 1).
Table 1 Demographic Data
As would be expected, MVD OR time was significantly longer than in the BA group (Table 2). Patients who underwent additional rhizotomy had OR times similar to MVD. A significantly greater number of patients developed bradycardia after BA compared to those who underwent MVD or MVD with rhizotomy (Table 2). In addition, significantly more BA patients developed bradycardia that was severe enough to require treatment.
Table 2 Intraoperative Variables and Incidence of Bradycardia
Length of stay was shorter with percutaneous BA compared with MVD (Table 3). MVD produced a significantly greater number of patients with an immediate improvement of symptoms, as well as cure rate (defined as complete resolution of symptoms at last documented follow-up) (Table 3). A smaller number of MVD compared to BA patients (11% vs 27%) had no improvement after surgery (Table 3). All patients who developed bradycardia during BA had an improvement of symptoms. Similar improvements in symptoms were noted in MVD and MVD with rhizotomy patients who developed bradycardia during the procedure (Table 3). While the incidence of relapse after surgery was the same in both groups, the length of time to relapse was slightly shorter after MVD as compared to BA. However, the requirement for postoperative pharmacologic therapy to treat TN was significantly reduced after MVD (Table 3).
Table 3 Postoperative Outcomes for Rhizotomy, Balloon Ablation, and MVD
There was a difference in the incidence of postoperative complications (excluding paresthesias) between BA and MVD (Table 4). The incidence of head/face/neck paresthesias was significantly higher in the MVD group (Table 4). Of all remaining complications, only hearing loss occurred with greater frequency in the MVD group compared to those in the BA group (Table 4). The hearing loss noted after MVD was ipsilateral to the surgical field and was transient in all affected patients. There was a higher incidence of CSF leak with MVD but no differences in the incidence of infection or visual changes between the groups (Table 4). All of the complications involving sight were either diplopia or blurred vision which usually resolved in one or two days.
Table 4 Post-Operative Complications for Rhizotomy, Balloon Ablation, and MVD
Numerous studies have compared different methods of treatment for trigeminal neuralgia but few have compared percutaneous BA of the trigeminal ganglion with posterior fossa MVD [9, 15]. Our study is unique in that it compares the long-term outcomes of the two procedures done exclusively by two different surgeons performing the same procedure over a prolonged time period. While the rationale for the decision to have a patient undergo percutaneous BA versus MVD was not always elucidated in the records, the patient's age may have contributed to the decision-making process: patients undergoing balloon compression were significantly older. Finally, patients in the BA group had their disease for a slightly (although not significantly) longer period than patients who underwent MVD. This trend is reported by other studies examining BA procedures and probably reflects a prejudice toward offering this minimally invasive procedure to older patients who typically have more comorbid conditions than their younger counterparts [9, 15, 16]. However, our data indicated that there was no difference in ASA Physical Status between groups, indicating that co-morbidities may not have contributed to the decision to undergo BA versus MVD in our institution.
Patients undergoing BA also underwent a significantly greater amount of treatments prior to surgery with peripheral nerve blocks as compared to patients undergoing MVD. The 13.1% of our patient population who underwent prior nerve blocks is very similar to the 14.6 percent of patients undergoing nerve blocks reported by Lobato, et al. and may reflect the reluctance of the treating physician to bring older patients to the operating room [17].
Operating times were significantly less with BA compared to microvascular decompression. This was expected since the percutaneous approach is much less invasive and requires much less surgical time compared to the retrosigmoid lateral skull base approach needed for MVD. In a recent analysis by Chen, et al. comparing the same two procedures, our average time of 23 minutes was shorter than their operating time for BA, although the hospital length of stay was equivalent [18]. As would be expected for a more invasive surgical procedure, hospital length of stay was significantly longer in the MVD group.
At the onset of the study, we postulated that the occurrence of intraoperative bradycardia may be suggestive of a favorable outcome in the BA group. The rationale behind this theory was that adequate compression of the trigeminal ganglion required for BA should elicit intra-operative bradycardia through stimulation of the ganglion. Lack of bradycardia may suggest that inadequate ganglion compression occurred with a less than optimal outcome. Our data support this theory. We found that 75% of patients who had bradycardia with BA had some improvement in symptoms. Only 40% of these bradycardic patients had a complete resolution of symptoms. This suggests that bradycardia is not an indicator of successful nerve ablation and that destruction of the ganglion, in many cases, may be incomplete with recurrence of symptoms.
Bradycardia occurred in a majority of the balloon ablation patients and was twice as prevalent when compared to all patients who underwent MVD. Other studies have noted a cardiac depressor response during compression of the trigeminal ganglion [19, 20]. Our study found the incidence of bradycardia to be 76%, a value similar to the 70% incidence found by Brown et al [20]. It is interesting to note that the study which demonstrated a 20% vagal response used thermocoagulation while the one where a 70% incidence of bradycardia was observed used microcompression. It may be possible that a compression of the ganglion produces a more severe response than that elicited by thermocoagulation. This response most likely stimulates the efferent arch of the carotid sinus reflex, which ends in the dorsal nucleus of the vagus and produces severe bradycardia or asystole. Finally, one study reported marked tachycardia during ganglion compression [21]. Their report, however, noted initial bradycardia upon entering Meckel's Cave and tachycardia immediately afterward. The explanation for their conflicting findings was light anesthesia and sympathetic stimulation producing tachycardia.
Patient outcomes were very similar in our study compared to reports from the literature [15, 18]. MVD showed significantly better immediate relief and total cure rates compared to BA. The higher success rate for microvascular decompression may be due to the fact that this procedure is performed on a discrete lesion or vascular loop which causes the neuralgia and is removed under direct vision. BA neurolysis however, destroys the ganglion but does not affectively remove the cause of the pain. Several studies evaluating outcomes after BA reported total sustained relief between 70–80% [18, 19, 22]. Our study noted improvements of pain symptoms in 72% of patients, a number similar to the above referenced studies. Immediate improvement in pain symptoms after MVD was 88%, a value very similar to the outcomes reported by other investigations (82–85%) [23, 24]. However, long term follow-up showed a total cure rate (i.e. complete resolution of symptoms) of only 60% at a mean interval of 26.5 months, which is lower than reported follow-up success rates of 75% at 1 year, 80% at 38 months, 74% at 5 years, and 64% at 10 years [23–25]. Patients who received an additional rhizotomy had a higher cure rate of 68% still lower than that from other reports. We can offer no reasonable explanation as to why our long-term cure rate is lower than what is reported in literature, except that our definition of cure was 100% resolution of symptoms, whereas other authors may have had a less rigorous definition of "cure", and hence higher successful outcomes.
The incidence of unchanged symptoms after MVD was 11%. While significantly lower than that of the BA group (27%), it is higher than the reported 2% incidence of unchanged symptoms reported by Barker, et al [24]. Other studies however have reported a 7–8% incidence of no change in symptoms after surgery, which closely approximates the incidence in the present study [23, 25]. Our relapse rates, defined as a total recurrence of symptoms, were 10% for both groups. This is considerably lower than some studies which reported reoccurrence rates after BA to be as high as 25–30% but equivocal to other studies reporting rates between 9–14% [22, 26–28]. Recurrence of TN after MVD has been reported as high as 15.3% in some studies, whereas other studies show a recurrence rate from 6.5–10.2%, again in agreement with our findings [23, 29]. Barker, et al., reported several predictive factors for recurrence of TN after MVD, including female sex and a longer preoperative history of TN [24]. Contrary to these findings, we found no significant difference in mean disease length of treatment and the population of patients with total cure versus no cure after MVD. Time until relapse was not significantly different between the BA and MVD groups (12.1 vs 8.4 months, n = 8). These findings are consistent with relapse intervals found for MVD (majority less than 1 year) [30], and for BA (majority within 2 years) [28].
MVD has several related morbidities associated with the procedure. The associated mortality risk is 0.3% with an incidence of neurologic complications reported at 1.7% [31]. Paresthesias are a well-known side effect of this surgery and occurred at a rate of 45% with MVD versus 20% in the BA group. The paresthesia occurrence rate for MVD range from 0.9–4.8% in some papers and 22–36% in others with a higher incidence usually related to concurrence of rhizotomy at the time of MVD [5, 8, 16]. Our results support the findings of others. Facial paresthesias were much higher in MVD procedures with rhizotomy compared to MVD alone (53% vs 35%). Facial paresthesias for BA surgeries have been reported to be around 15%, a value similar to our findings [8]. Hematoma, mechanical ventilation and facial palsy have also been reported. Other investigators have noted that the three most common complications that occur after MVD are cerebellar injury, CSF leak and hearing loss [24]. None of our patients developed cerebellar injury but 3% developed a CSF leak and 15% of patients undergoing MVD were noted to have hearing loss. No difference was noted in hearing loss if the procedure was also accompanied by rhizotomy. The hearing loss was transient and the short duration of these symptoms suggest conductive hearing loss secondary to fluid in the mastoid air cells after surgery and not direct trauma to the nerve. Some studies reported hearing loss to occur in 24% of all patients while other studies placed hearing lost between 0.8–7.5%, more consistent with our findings [24, 29]. Hearing complications may also occur from cerebellar retraction and many have suggested that if cerebellar retraction is necessary, the duration should be brief. The direction of the traction applied should also be perpendicular to the axis of cranial nerve VIII [24]. The surgeon who performed the MVD (DA) did not use cerebellar retraction for these procedures, thus direct trauma to the nerve producing hearing loss was unlikely.
Our study is in agreement with previous comparisons of MVD and trigeminal ganglion BA which show that MVD provides better outcomes with more sustained pain relief and a lower incidence of recurrence [6, 10]. The reduced use of medication postoperatively and the lower number of patients that reported no improvement in symptoms after surgery points to the fact that MVD produces a better outcome compared to BA procedures.
Furthermore, our data suggests that a history of prior surgeries for correction of TN is a negative prognostic factor for outcomes with BA surgeries. Even though MVD is more invasive and requires longer hospitalizations, the long-term outcomes favor this procedure.
In conclusion, we believe that MVD is the best procedure to reduce and eliminate the symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia and recommend this procedure over BA rhizolysis, even in older patients, if their physical status allows them to tolerate a posterior fossa craniotomy.
American Society of Anesthesiologist
BA:
Balloon Ablation
CSF:
Cerebrospinal Fluid
MVD:
Microvascular Decompression
TDR:
Trigeminal Depressor Response
TN:
Trigeminal Neuralgia.
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Taha JM, Tew JM: Comparison of surgical treatments of trigeminal neuralgia: reevaluation of radiofrequency rhizotomy. Neurosurgery. 1996, 38: 865-871. 10.1097/00006123-199605000-00001.
Elias WJ, Burchiel KF: Microvascular decompression. Clin Journal of Pain. 2002, 18: 35-41. 10.1097/00002508-200201000-00006.
Apfelbaum RI: A comparison of percutaneous radiofrequency trigeminal neurolysis and microvascular decompression of the trigeminal nerve for treatment of tic douloureux. Neurosurgery. 1981, 1: 16-21.
Ferguson GG, Brett DC, Peerless SJ, Barr HWK, Girvin JP: Trigeminal neuralgia: a comparison of the results of percutaneous rhizotomy and microvascular decompression. Le Journal Canadien Des Sciences Neurologiques. 1981, 8: 207-14.
Burchiel KJ, Steege TD, Howe JF, Loeser JD: Comparison of percutaneous radiofrequency gangliolysis and microvascular decompression for the surgical management of tic doloureux. Neurosurgery. 1981, 9: 111-19. 10.1097/00006123-198108000-00001.
Meglio M, Cioni B, Moles A, Visocchi M: Microvascular decompression versus percutaneous procedures for typical trigeminal neuralgia: personal experience. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 1990, 54&55: 76-9. 10.1159/000100194.
Lee KH, Chang JW, Park YG, Chung SS: Microvascular decompression and percutaneous rhizotomy in trigeminal neuralgia. Stereotract Funct Neurosurg. 1997, 68: 196-99. 10.1159/000099923.
Manoru K, Dampney RAL, Reis D: The trigeminal depressor response: a novel vasodepressor response originating from the trigeminal system. Brain Res. 1997, 19: 305-326.
Preul MC, Long PB, Brown JA, Velasco ME, Weaver MT: Autonomic and histopathological effects of percutaneous trigeminal ganglion compression in the rabbit. J Neurosurg. 1990, 72: 933-940.
Brown JA, Preul MC: Trigeminal depressor response during percutaneous microcompression of the trigeminal ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia. Neurosurgery. 1988, 23: 745-748.
Kuchta J, Koulousakis A, Decker A, Klug N: Pressor and depressor responses in thermocoagulation of the trigeminal ganglion. Br J of Neurosurgery. 1998, 12: 409-13. 10.1080/02688699844592.
Sweet WH: Percutaneous methods for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia and other faciocephalic pain; comparison with microvascular decompression. Seminars in Neurology. 1988, 8 (4): 272-278.
Brisman R: Surgical treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. Seminars in Neurology. 1997, 17 (4): 367-372.
Lobato RD, Rivas JJ, Sarabia R, Lamas E: Percutaneous microcompressioin of the gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia. J Neurosurg. 1990, 72: 546-553.
Chen JF, Lee ST: Comparison of percutaneous trigeminal ganglion compression and microvascular decompression for the management of trigeminal neuralgia. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2003, 105 (3): 203-8. 10.1016/S0303-8467(03)00012-X.
Belber CJ, Rak RA: Balloon compression rhizolysis in the surgical management of trigeminal neuralgia. Neurosurgery. 1987, 20 (6): 908-913. 10.1097/00006123-198706000-00015.
Brown JA, Gouda JJ: Percutaneous balloon compression of the trigeminal nerve. Neurosurgery Clinics of North America. 1997, 8 (1): 53-62.
Dominguez J, Lobato RD, Rivas JJ, Gargallo MC, Castells V, Gozalo A, Sarabia R: Changes in systemic blood pressure and cardiac rhythm induced by therapeutic compression of the trigeminal ganglion. Neurosurgery. 1994, 34 (3): 422-428. 10.1097/00006123-199403000-00006.
Skirving DJ, Dan NG: A 20-year review of percutaneous balloon compression of the trigeminal ganglion. J Neurosurg. 2001, 94: 913-917.
Broggi G, Ferroli P, Franzini A, Servello D, Dones I: Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia: comments on a series of 250 cases, including 10 patients with multiple sclerosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2000, 68 (1): 59-64. 10.1136/jnnp.68.1.59.
Barker FG, Jannetta PJ, Bissonette DJ, Larkins MV, Jho HD: The long-term outcome of microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia. N Engl J Med. 1996, 334 (17): 1077-1083. 10.1056/NEJM199604253341701.
Slettebo H, Eide PK: A prospective study of microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia. Acta Neurochir. 1997, 139: 421-425. 10.1007/BF01808878.
Brown JA, Preul MC: Percutaneous trigeminal ganglion compression for trigeminal neuralgia. J Neurosurg. 1989, 70: 900-904.
Abdennebi B, Bouatta F, Chitti M, Bougatene B: Percutaneous balloon compression of the gasserian ganglion in trigeminal neuralgia. Acta Neurochir. 1995, 136: 72-74. 10.1007/BF01411438.
Lichtor T, Mullan JF: A 10-year follow-up review of percutaneous microcompression of the trigeminal ganglion. J Neurosurg. 1990, 72: 49-54.
Kondo A: Follow-up results of microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm. Neurosurgery. 1997, 40 (1): 46-52. 10.1097/00006123-199701000-00009.
Lee SH, Levy EI, Scarrow AM, Kassam A, Janetta PJ: Recurrent trigeminal neuralgia attributable to veins after microvascular decompression. Neurosurgery. 2000, 46 (2): 356-62. 10.1097/00006123-200002000-00019.
Kalkanis SN, Eskandar EN, Carter BS, Barker FG: Microvascular decompression surgery in the United States, 1996 to 2000: mortality rates, morbidity rates, and the effects of hospital and surgeon volumes. Neurosurgery. 2003, 52 (6): 1251-1262. 10.1227/01.NEU.0000065129.25359.EE.
This study was funded through the Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery at Loyola University Medial Center. The funding body had no influence on the content of this manuscript, data collection or where the manuscript was submitted for publication.
Department of Anesthesiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA
W. Scott Jellish, Kevin Owen & Elaine Fluder
Department of Neurosurgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA
William Benedict, Douglas Anderson & John F. Shea
W. Scott Jellish
William Benedict
Kevin Owen
Douglas Anderson
Elaine Fluder
John F. Shea
Correspondence to W. Scott Jellish.
WSJ conceived the study and helped draft the manuscript. WB participated in the design of the study and acquisition of the data. KO also was involved with data acquisition and drafting of the manuscript. DA was involved with conceptual design of the study and performed data acquisition, as did JS. EF participated in study design and statistical analysis.
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Jellish, W.S., Benedict, W., Owen, K. et al. Perioperative and long-term operative outcomes after surgery for trigeminal neuralgia: microvascular decompression vs percutaneous balloon ablation. Head Face Med 4, 11 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-160X-4-11
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Delhi: Private hospitals told to update list of vacant EWS beds in real time
Sources said directions have been issued to private hospitals to update the status of vacant beds in real-time on the government website so that the beneficiaries can approach them for Covid-19 as well as non-Covid problems.
New Delhi: A day after TOI highlighted the issue of vacant EWS beds at Delhi’s private hospitals, the state health authorities swung into action. Sources said directions have been issued to private hospitals to update the status of vacant beds in real time on the government website so that the beneficiaries can approach them for Covid-19 as well as non-Covid problems.
There are 61 private hospitals across the city that have acquired land at cheaper rates and, according to an order by the Supreme Court, they have to reserve 10% of their in-patient department capacity and 25% out-patient department for free treatment of poor patients.
Ashok Agarwal, a member of the committee appointed by Delhi High Court for implementation of free bed facility, said together, they have more than 950 beds earmarked for EWS patients. “Since the pandemic started, many hospitals haven’t been admitting EWS patients on one pretext or the other. I hope the government directives to hospitals to fulfil their mandate will help change the situation,” he said.
On Thursday, the real-time data shared by hospitals showed more than 500 EWS beds were lying vacant. This included 25 ICU beds with ventilator support and 55 ICU beds without ventilator support. ICU beds have been in high demand due to Covid-19 outbreak and many patients are struggling to find such beds.
The rule says any poor patient can visit a private hospital directly for admission under EWS quota or state-run hospitals can refer their patients if required. Nodal officers have been deputed by all hospitals to facilitate admission to the needy, officials said. “Due to Covid-19 pandemic, many patients with non-Covid problems are avoiding visiting hospitals. This could be one of the reasons behind vacant beds under the EWS category,” said an official in the state health department.
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After four days, surgeries resume in Doon hospital
The anaesthetist was on Diwali leave and with her return, patients and residents have heaved a sigh of relief. In the past four days, the hospital registered a backlog of around 100 surgeries.
Corporation wants KIMS doctors to run Chitaguppi
The sanctioned strength of doctors at the hospital is 23, but currently the number of doctors is only 15, including Ayurvedic doctors.
Want surgery? Get own anaesthetist, Doon government hospital tells patients
In a bizarre order, the Coronation Hospital, a government hospital in Dehradun, has asked patients in need of surgery to arrange their own anaesthetist.
Anaesthetist fined Rs 15L for patient’s death gets breather
An order, asking an anaesthetist to pay a fine of Rs 15 lakh for allegedly injecting a patient with excess dose of medicine and causing his death 15 years ago, has been set aside by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
Hospital held liable for child’s death due to unqualified anaesthetist
Can a general medical practitioner without specialized qualification practise as an anaesthetist?
Hospital provides dialysis, but lacks genset
A comparatively small New Gardiner Road Hospital near Income Tax roundabout in the state capital boasts of providing such a facility which even major government hospitals in Bihar don't - dialysis facility.
Dehradun: Five surgeons but still no operations in this hospital
Five surgeons on duty but not a single anaesthetist, forcing patients in it’s vicinity to turn to the already overcrowded Doon Hospital
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Refrigeration and freezing: Products & Services for Singapore
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08/21/2020 Passion for refrigerators that you can feel: the Liebherr monobrand store opens in Vienna
August 20 is the day. In Vienna, the Liebherr monobrand store is opening in the ICON Tower at the main railway station. In an inviting and one-of-a-kind atmosphere, visitors can experience the whole world of Liebherr refrigerators over more than 170 square metres.
Already on entering the Liebherr store it becomes clear that the focus is all about communication and encounters. The large oak table is the perfect place for consultation discussions.
In both a practical and emotional sense, there's no household appliance which is more important to people than the refrigerator. This has been more than enough reason for Liebherr to develop uncompromisingly high-quality appliances for over 70 years. The company has therefore made no compromises with its first own monobrand store in the ICON Tower at Vienna's main railway station. Customers can experience the entire Liebherr product range across a spacious 170 square metres. “In our new store, the focus is on consultation and a comprehensive range of services – both for end consumers and for retail customers. We want people here to simply feel at ease and be inspired,” says Robert Ortner, Head of Business Area Austria & South-East Europe, as regards the new Liebherr monobrand store.
Theme landscapes ensure clarity
The arrangement of the new Liebherr Store into different themes means you can quickly find what you are looking for. The themes are “installation, freezing, BioFresh, SmartDevice, MyStyle and wine – in each of these, all the features, equipment, surfaces, materials and sizes of the respective products can be discovered,” explains Robert Ortner. Among the 50 or so appliances on display, customers will find refrigerators for every requirement from entry-level appliances to high-end models. Guests can use digital screens to find out further details about the products, for example, by watching videos about the individualisation of the appliances, about the technology and optimal food storage.
What is particularly striking when you take a tour of the monobrand store is the painstaking design. The interplay of unusual shapes, warm colours and traditional materials creates an atmosphere that is both homely and modern. Julia Mitteregger, the architect from Umdasch The Store Makers, describes her vision for the design of the store: “The aim was to make the Liebherr brand tangible. All that Liebherr represents should be reflected here: the demand for quality, innovation and product design, but also the sense of tradition and family.” While the oak-wood look is intended to create a warm and homely atmosphere, the stone and tile elements represent reliability and durability. The colour scheme is also intended to emphasise a cosy element with soft natural tones. As part of this, clear accents are set by the classic colours of Liebherr's corporate identity. In addition, the design also pays tribute to the Vienna location, for example through the herringbone structure of the floor – typical of the parquet flooring in old Viennese buildings.
Customers can experience the wide range of Liebherr products across a spacious area of 170 square metres. The wine-themed section also invites you to sample a glass.
Plenty of space for consultation and service
Already on entering the Liebherr-Hausgeräte Monobrand Stores it becomes clear that the focus is all about communication and encounters. The large oak table is the perfect place for consultations and invites you to eat, drink and chat at events for which the show kitchen is also readily available for use. Extensive sales and service offers provide support when selecting the most desired appliance. This is thanks in part to active and targeted cooperation with the many Liebherr trading partners in Vienna and the surrounding area. A café area offers a space for relaxation and to enjoy what's on offer. And if customers then decide to buy their Liebherr refrigerator there and then, the store has plenty of appliances and accessories ready in stock to take away – or delivers appliances in stock within 24 hours.
With its first monobrand store, Liebherr-Hausgeräte is opening a new chapter in its corporate history in the heart of Europe. Robert Ortner comes straight to the point: “We want to meet our customers directly and share our passion for refrigerators with them.”
The Liebherr Monobrand Store – key information:
Address: Wiedner Gürtel 13, 1100 Vienna
Size: ~ 170 m²
Construction time: May to July, 2020
Opening: 20 August
~ 50 appliances on display
Opening hours: Mon - Fri 9.00 am - 6.00 pm / Sat 9.00 am - 1.00 pm
Here you will find the press release and images for download.
Press Information English (PDF, 314 KB)
Presseinformation Deutsch (PDF, 316 KB)
Images (ZIP, 4.1 MB)
Claudia Meindl
Communication & Brand Management
Liebherr-Hausgeräte Lienz GmbH
The ICON Vienna
Phone+43 50809 214-34
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“Only Trump Is Left To Campaign Here”: Asaduddin Owaisi Takes A Jibe At BJP
by Tejas Joshi November 29, 2020
Mr Owaisi said it didn’t look like a Hyderabad election anymore, given the kind of leaders campaigning for the BJP.
Slamming BJP for unleashing all the A-listers for a mere municipal election in Hyderabad, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said the only person left to campaign in the city was US President Donald Trump.
On Saturday, while addressing a public rally at Hyderabad’s Langer House, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader said it didn’t look like a Hyderabad election anymore, given the kind of leaders campaigning for the BJP.
“It is as if we are electing a Prime Minister in place of Narendra Modi. I was at a rally in Karwan and said that everyone has been called here. A child said they should have called Trump too. He was right, only Trump is left,” Mr Owaisi was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
From party national JP Nadda to Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath, the BJP has been parading all its top guns for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Election scheduled for December 1. It is so much so that even union home minister Amit Shah is scheduled to attend various poll-related programmes in the city today.
Mr Owaisi, in last week, had even challenged the Prime Minister to campaign in the polls to see how many seats the BJP can win.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, amid vitriolic campaign in the last few weeks, On his part, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has appealed to Hyderabad’s voters to keep “divisive forces” away and choose “progressive parties”.
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UK Civil Aviation Authority to provide safety management assistance to Armenia
Siranush Ghazanchyan
CAA International (CAAi), the technical cooperation arm of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA), has been contracted by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) to develop a Safety Management Manual for the Civil Aviation Committee (CAC) of the Republic of Armenia. This project is funded by the British Embassy Yerevan at the request of the CAC.
Over the next three months, aviation regulators from the UK CAA will work with CAC to develop a Safety Management Manual to help manage Armenia’s ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) Annex 19 and EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) competent authority obligations. The manual will establish the steps for implementing and maintaining a Safety Management System and provide assurance that State aviation safety risks are managed effectively. The manual will also be critical in assessing the safety management systems of Armenian service providers, facilitating the collection and exchange of information on safety hazards and deficiencies. A workshop on the contents of the manual and new procedures will also be delivered.
The UK CAA’s assistance is part of a wider programme being conducted by CAC to improve the level of safety oversight capability in Armenia and improve international safety standards which will facilitate the growth of Armenia’s aviation industry and, in turn, Armenia’s economy.
The project was formally launched during a virtual kick-off meeting on Wednesday morning, attended by CAC, CAAi and FCDO officials, including Ms Helen Fazey, UK’s Chargé d’Affaires to the Republic of Armenia.
Speaking after the meeting, Rob Erskine, Head of Operations at CAAi commented:
“With more than 15,000 passengers from the UK alone flying to Armenia each year, we are delighted to be able to assist our Armenian counterparts with the experience and know-how of the UK CAA. Thanks to FCDO funding, we can build a stronger, more robust aviation regulator in Armenia. We are fully committed to supporting CAC on its journey to improve international safety standards and promote the sustainable development of Armenia’s aviation system.”
In her opening speech, UK’s Chargé d’Affaires in Armenia Helen Fazey mentioned: “The enhanced air connectivity will be key to unlocking Armenia’s significant economic growth potential and prosperity, in part because it will enable the country to attract more business investment, facilitate international trade and spur tourism. UK Civil Aviation Authority International is extremely well-placed to support Armenia’s aviation regulator: drawing on its experience of providing aviation safety, security and economic regulation in over 140 countries, and working hand-in-hand with the CAC in pursuit of the common goal of raising aviation standards in Armenia.”
Tatevik Revazyan, Director General at CAC concluded: “Armenia has one of the highest safety records at the International Civil Aviation Organisation with an implementation rate of 84.89% where the world average is 68.85 %. Despite this, safety gaps have been identified, leading to an institutional reform at our Civil Aviation Committee. The root-cause of these gaps are mainly related to the lack of an efficient Safety Management System. Therefore, we highly welcome the acknowledged expertise from the UK Civil Aviation Authority and are thankful to the UK Embassy and especially UK’s Charge D’affaires, Mrs Helen Fazey for enabling the implementation of this project.”
The project commenced on 8th January 2021 and is expected to last three months.
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True Will: The Radical Re-orientation Towards Becoming Who We Are (pt.1)
Wanting versus Willing
To Will and to want. These are not simply two ideas. To Will and to want are two fundamental ways of existing in the world. Our Law as Thelemites is “Do what thou wilt”; it is our sole duty and right to find and do this Will. Aleister Crowley often distinguished Will – often called True Will – from want. For example, he wrote that the purpose of each individual is “the discovery of his True Will (as opposed to his conscious ideals or wishes) by each individual”1; “It should be clear that ‘Do what thou wilt’ does not mean ‘Do what you like.’ It is the apotheosis of Freedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond.”2;“Do what thou wilt does not mean Do as you please, although it implies this degree of emancipation, that it is no longer possible to say à priori that a given action is ‘wrong.’ Each man has the right—and an absolute right—to accomplish his True Will.”3; “It will be seen that the formula – ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law’ has nothing to do with ‘Do as you please.’ It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.”4
To Will and to want are two modes of existence. They are paralleled in the contrast between “to Be” and “to have.”5 In ordinary life, we are dominated by the mode of wanting or having at the expense of losing touch with Will or Being. This ordinary mode of existence, wanting and having, can be likened to a horizontal line: we are always trying to achieve our desires, to have more things. This is everyone’s natural, “un-initiated” state of constant striving after possessing more and more. Society bombards us from all directions with the message that fulfillment is found through possessing more. Our wants are endless – there is always more to amass. We see this most evidently in the frenzy over the accumulation of wealth and material objects; we want the latest gadgets, the fastest cars, and the fanciest clothes. It can also be seen in wanting social status or authority, so we seek to have labels and titles that reflect our authority… “I am a CEO,” “I have a PhD,” “I am a 7th degree,” or “I am a High Priest.” The attitude of wanting extends into relationships: the more friends on Facebook, the better! Our possessiveness shows itself in our intimate relationships – it is even embedded in the language we use such as, “I have a boyfriend” or “I have a wife.” Wanting/having can be seen more subtly in the accumulation of knowledge. We want to have wisdom, so we accumulate facts – the person who can list the most correspondences of the Tree of Life is surely the wisest! Even our spirituality is not protected from this nefarious mode of existence. We amass (and occasionally read) shelves of books that could easily crush us under their combined weights, we strive to get the most ornate and beautiful ritual implements for our temples, we accumulate a giant encyclopedia of knowledge of rituals and spiritual dogmas… we even speak of the goal of religion as a possession! They are the ultimate “wants”: We seek to obtain the Holy Grail or to find the Philosopher’s Stone, and we say that we “have” a True Will. Our absorption in this horizontal dimension of existence knows no bounds in terms of the unfathomable plethora of “wants.”
The modern age of technology has provided us the means to get more and more of what we want – friends through social networking sites, information through search engines, and all the food we could ever want at a supermarket (et cetera ad infinitum). In spite of this, a fundamental characteristic of our modern era is widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment. We have houses with heating and plumbing that kings could only wish for in past epochs, yet we are not content. We have 500 friends on Facebook, yet we are lonely. We sail through the air in metal contraptions at unfathomable speeds, yet we are impatient. When we get down to it, what do we all hope to gain from this relentless pursuit of wants and accumulation of possessions? It stems from this deep, underlying sense that there is something lacking in our lives despite all the things we have. There is a hole and this hole is filled with stuff, whether material objects or knowledge or whatever else. We are looking for a sense of true fulfillment but the pursuit of our wants has left us no closer to our goal. In fact, all of our striving towards “having” makes us more dissatisfied: for everything we have, we also gain a fear of losing it. We have everything backwards: our very preoccupation with wanting is the source of our lack. It is the source of our anxiety, our loneliness, our emptiness, our meaninglessness, and our sense of inauthenticity that we strove to extinguish by obtaining the objects of our desires. We want to be truly and authentically alive, yet – paradoxically – we have our hands so full with our “wants” and “haves” that we are left completely empty-handed.
In the face of this delirious engrossment in the mode of wanting, it may seem that there is no other possible way of existing in the world. In contrast to this horizontal mode of preoccupation with wants, there is the vertical dimension of True Will, of Being. It is of note that the word “being” in Greek is “to on,” giving us the word “ontology” (the study of being), and an ancient name of the sun was “On,” as is mentioned in the Gnostic Mass.6 The effulgent glory of Solar light is an apt symbol of the way of Being or True Will in contrast to the confused groping-in-the-darkness of the way of wanting. To find a sense of self that is not empty and inauthentic, we do not need more desires and more possessions nor do we need more beliefs or knowledge. We need a radical re-orientation of our way of being in the world, one where we become who we are. This is what we of Thelema call the True Will. It is also of note, at least to occultists and Masons, that the word “reorient” means to get one’s bearings and etymologically means “to face the East,” i.e. to re-orient. We reorient ourselves to the East, the place of the rising Sun, which is a symbolic way of saying we reorient ourselves towards the way of Being or of True Will, remembering our starry nature, so to speak.
This vertical mode of being shows us symbolically that we are not simply striving towards more and more as in the horizontal mode of wanting. Instead, we extend upwards towards a loftier expression of ourselves and downwards towards a deeper understanding of ourselves. In our Holy Books it is written, “My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.”7 Instead of seeking after abundance through wanting and having things, we seek abundance in Being ourselves more fully, our True Selves. When we operate in this vertical dimension of True Will, religion is not something we adopt or “have,” our entire Being is religious. To be present in the vertical dimension of True Will is to be authentically religious.
The fatuousness of our attempts to gain satisfaction through the pursuit of our conscious desires is illustrated by the Freudian model of the psyche as an iceberg. Above the water there is the tip of the iceberg: our sense of self or ego and our conscious desires. Beneath the water lies the immensity of the rest of our psyches, the unconscious. In our engrossment with our conscious wants, we let the mere tip of ourselves dictate our direction. The majority of the self that lies underwater, the unconscious, is left unheeded and unsatisfied. To reorient ourselves to Will instead of want, Being instead of having, is to seek to encompass and express the totality of the self. It is to actualize the vast power and potential that lies dormant and untapped as long as we remain on the horizontal dimension of want and have. In fact, Crowley himself likened the Holy Guardian Angel8 and the True Will9 to the unconscious. He wrote, “Good sense is in reality common to all men: it is the property of the Unconscious whose Omniscience matches its Omnipotence. The trouble is that in practically every particular case the Intellect insists on interfering… Remember that the Ego is not really the centre and crown of the individual; indeed the whole trouble arises from its false claim to be so.”10 It might be said that, psychologically, the mode of wanting or having keeps us in a perpetual state of conflict between the ego/conscious and the unconscious. The mode of Willing or Being involves a harmonious alignment between conscious and unconscious. Crowley writes, “A Man whose conscious will is at odds with his True Will is wasting his strength. He cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently. A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”11
Aleister Crowley’s own life serves as an archetypal template of this radical reorientation from a mode of wanting and having to that of Willing and Being. This occurred in his “Vision of Sorrow” in 1897 of which he writes in his Confessions,
“The occasion was an attack of illness. It was nothing very serious and I had long been accustomed to expect to die before I came of age. But for some reason or other I found myself forced to meditate upon the fact of mortality. It was impressed upon me that I hadn’t a moment to lose. There was no fear of death or of a possible ‘hereafter’; but I was appalled by the idea of the futility of all human endeavour. Suppose, I said to myself, that I make a great success in diplomacy and become ambassador to Paris. There was no good in that — I could not so much as remember the name of the ambassador a hundred years ago. Again, I wanted to be a great poet. Well, here I was in one of the two places in England that made a specialty of poets, yet only an insignificant fraction of the three thousand men in residence knew anything about so great a man as Aeschylus. I was not sufficiently enlightened to understand that the fame of the man had little or nothing to do with his real success, that the proof of his prowess lay in the invisible influence with he had had upon generations of men. My imagination went a step further. Suppose I did more than Caesar or Napoleon in one line, or than Homer and Shakespeare in the other — my work would be automatically cancelled when the globe became uninhabitable for man. I did not go into a definite trance in this meditations; but a spiritual consciousness was born in me corresponding to that which characterizes the Vision of the Universal Sorrow, as I learnt to call it later on. In Buddhist phraesology, I perceived the First Noble Truth – Sabbé Pi Dukkham – everything is sorrow. But this perception was confined to the planes familiar to the normal human consciousness. The fatuity of any work based upon physical continuity was evident. But I had at this time no reason for supposing that the same criticism applied to any transcendental universe. I formulated my will somewhat as follows: ‘I must find a material in which to work which is immune from the forces of change.’ I suppose that I still accepted Christian metaphysics in some sense or another. I had been satisfied to escape from religion to the world. I now found that there was no satisfaction here. I was not content to be annihilated. Spiritual facts were the only things worth while. Brain and body were valueless except as the instruments of the soul.”
We see that Crowley wanted to become a great poet, a great diplomat, a great chess master… yet all of these things were found wanting, so to speak. He turned his eyes away from the possession of these titles and towards spiritual attainment, and the rest is history. In embarking upon the vertical path, he was led to the discovery of his True Will. A parallel can be found in the life of Siddhartha Gautama who – upon seeing an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and then a yogi – renounced the possibility of being a king and having all the material comforts of the world and turned his attention toward becoming awakened. He found the answer to his gnawing dissatisfaction with the suffering of the world in enlightenment, in the vertical dimension of becoming who he really was, an awakened one, a Buddha. These two particularly good examples because they were men – not transcendent gods or demi-gods or mythical heroes – who represent the possibilities the actualization of potential that is available to all of us as men and women. William Blake described this attitude concisely when he wrote, “All deities reside in the human breast,”12 and, as it says at the top of our declaration of the rights of man, “There is no god but man.”13
To summarize, there is a horizontal dimension of being of “want” that is characterized by preoccupation with “having” or possessing, whether material objects, knowledge, or other people. We strive to assuage our anxiety about our sense of emptiness through pursuing our “wants,” which ironically leaves us feeling more empty and inauthentic. To transcend this condition, we do not need more “wants” or a new and specific “want,” but instead we need a radical reorientation of our very being towards the vertical dimension of “Will” (or True Will) that is characterized by a focus on “Being” rather than having. The process of shifting from want to Will, having to Being, horizontal to vertical, is shown symbolically or archetypally in the life of Aleister Crowley, specifically his experience of the “Vision of Sorrow.”
“It all depends on your own acceptance of this new law, and you are not asked to believe anything, to accept a string of foolish fables beneath the intellectual level of a Bushman and the moral level of a drug-fiend. All you have to do is to be yourself, to do your will, and to rejoice.”
-Aleister Crowley, “The Law of Liberty”
1 “The Constitution of the Order of Thelemites.”
2 “Liber II: The Message of the Master Therion.”
3 “The Method of Thelema.”
4 Eight Lectures on Yoga, “Yama.”
5 See Erich Fromm’s To Have or to Be?
6 “…our Lord and Father the Sun that travelleth over the Heavens in his name ΟΝ.”
7 “Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus,” line 40.
8 “The Holy Guardian Angel is the Unconscious Creature Self – the Spiritual Phallus.” -Liber Samekh.
9 “The Kingdom of Malkuth, the Virgin Bride, and the Child is the Dwarf-Self, the Phallic consciousness, which is the true life of Man, beyond his ‘veils’ of incarnation. We have to thank Freud — and especially Jung — for stating this part of the Magical Doctrine so plainly, as also for their development of the connexion of the Will of this ‘child’ with the True or Unconscious Will, and so for clarifying our doctrine of the ‘Silent Self’ or ‘Holy Guardian Angel’. They are of course totally ignorant of magical phenomena, and could hardly explain even such terms as ‘Augoeides’; and they are seriously to blame for not stating more openly that this True Will is not to be daunted or suppressed; but within their limits they have done excellent work.” -New Comment to Liber AL vel Legis III:22
10 Commentary to “Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente sub figura LXV.”
11 Magick in Theory & Practice, “Introduction,” part III, Theorems 8-9.
12 William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
13 “OZ: Liber LXXVII.”
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bryan cooper says:
wow, crowley is well interesting!
Squire Brown says:
Great. Thanks for posting.
Ben King says:
I concur.
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This is excellent. Thank you for this.
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Ron Adams says:
I always enjoy/like your little talks. You seem to have a common sense approach to Thelema. I bet writing and revealing are part of your true will.
IAO131 says:
93 Ron – Thanks for reading, I appreciate the feedback.
Nomonde Nhlapo says:
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Natan Alexander says:
93 Brother,
Thank you for your scholarship and pragmatic approach to Thelemic subjects. You are truly shedding light here, and I wish to express my appreciation for your writings. I have shared a few of your writings both on my personal page and on my local OTO body’s page. (Knights Templar Oasis, Salem Mass.) Please feel free to contact me directly should you ever wish to speak here, we would be honored to host you here in Salem.
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93 – Thanks Natan, I appreciate you sharing the articles on KTO’s page. I’m currently in California so KTO is a long ways away, but I’ve always wanted to travel around and go to different local bodies around there. I’ll letcha know if that ever materializes. 93s
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Emmanuel Pertey says:
I honestly love your article True Will: The Radical Reorientation Towards Becoming ourselves. I want to become a member of the Temple of Thelema
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Hrim says:
https://offthehrim.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/do-what-thou-wilt/
Hey, i am fascinated by Thelema and wrote a blog on it. Would really appreaciate any kind of feedback :). 93!
Krister Hoff says:
First of, thank you for charing your knowledge and wisdom, have gained valuable insights by reading on this site. As to my own True Will and Self, I am still calibrating and searching. It is a quest that have been going on all my life. Discovering Thelema have given me the confidence and conviction that it is possible.
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The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), one of China’s “big four” banks, is embarking on a pilot program to enable the first digital yuan ATMs. The banking institution deployed the first machines in selected branches in Shenzhen.
ATMs Will Work With a Smartphone App
According to SZ News, the program is part of the ongoing second digital yuan trial, consisting of a giveaway of 200 yuan ($31) to 100,000 residents.
The ATMs enable the possibility to deposit and withdrawal the digital yuan via a smartphone app. The pilot program’s mobile app allows customers to convert cash and savings to and from the token.
As the digital yuan pilot programs keep underway across the country, it’s not surprising that the ABC is testing the digital yuan ATMs. In fact, the bank is a partner of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC).
Zou Hua, manager of the bank’s Digital Yuan Innovation Lab, commented on the ATMs infrastructure’s deployment across Shenzhen:
Agricultural Bank has taken the lead in launching the ATM cash deposit and withdrawal function in the industry to guide Shenzhen residents to adapt to the digitization of cash and explore service transformation.
Shenzhen’s Interest in the Digital Yuan High, Says Expert
Moreover, local experts are reporting positive progress from the digital yuan tests in the city. A comment from Song Qinghuim, a local economist quoted by SZ News, reads as follow:
The third station of the digital RMB pilot program returned to Shenzhen again, indicating that the market has recognized the city. Compared with the first pilot, there have been many changes, which indicates that the digital RMB project is progressing steadily.
The Shenzhen authorities and the PBoC are also preparing the ground to launch another $3 million digital yuan giveaway. They expect to make it possible before the Lunar New Year holidays (mid-February).
Recently, the People’s Bank of China approved a physical card-wallet pilot to test its digital yuan. Coffee shop staff in a Shanghai-based university hospital was chosen as participants in the pilot.
What do you think about the new digital yuan ATMs? Let us know in the comments section below.
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China Launches Digital Yuan ‘Hard Wallet’ Card Pilot Program
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) have green lighted a physical card-wallet pilot to test its digital yuan. Coffee shop staff in a Shanghai-based university hospital was chosen as participants in the pilot.
Wallet Card Can Pay or Accept e-CNY Without Wi-Fi or a Mobile Connection
According to Tencent News, staff members at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine’s Tongren Hospital used the digital yuan token to pay for food. They used a point-of-sale device and a physical card with a small screen in the top right corner.
The card reveals how much digital yuan remains in the wallet. Local media reports claim that the Postal Savings Bank of China is in charge of providing technical support. The “hard wallet” allows staff to buy products such as a cup of coffee or snacks.
One of the photos featured in Tencent’s article also shows a hospital staff member holding a card with 144.75 yuan on it and three offline payments available. The latter feature allows people to pay or accept e-CNY transfers without Wi-Fi or a mobile network connection.
Digital Yuan Tests Still Taking Place in Several Chinese Cities
So far, the digital yuan pilot programs have been underway internally in Chinese cities such as Shenzhen, Suzhou, Xiongan, Chengdu, preparing for the Winter Olympics — an event which is still scheduled to take place in 2022.
Although local experts have warned that there is still “a long way to go” before the token can be fully launched, PBoC officials believe that the digital yuan could be launched before the Olympic event.
The central bank aims to attract as many domestic and foreign spectators as possible to use the digital yuan. The Chinese government’s plans points towards reducing dependence on the USD.
What do you think about the ongoing digital yuan tests? Let us know in the comments section below.
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The EURST Stablecoin Set the Path That Major Central Banks Now Want to Follow
From Asia to Europe, major central banks all around the world are expected to announce their own digital currencies soon. This is vindication that stablecoins like EURST are on the right path forward, and they can serve to show how national economies should reinvent themselves following the current crisis.
Why Everyone Wants a CBDC Now
There is a lot of discussions in economic forums and reports in the financial press these days about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and how they can help with building a new post-Covid economy. Many countries in various regions are said to be developing some version of a CBDC, as far apart as Thailand and Ukraine. In fact, major central banks have been working on CBDCs for a few of years already, and the European Central Bank’s upcoming digital euro and China’s digital yuan are expected to be among the first.
Even usually closed minded anti cryptocurrency detractors are now forced to admit that digital currencies are an unavoidable reality. For example, no other than “Dr. Doom,” economist Nouriel Roubini, now predicts a “big revolution” coming in the next few years due to many central banks launching their own digital currencies.
This is mainly happening because central bankers are seeing the success of stablecoins, digital tokens pegged to national currencies, and they fear being left behind as people are choosing to use the new innovation. Stablecoins also serve as a clear example for the central bankers of the world of how the technology of digital currencies work, and the positive impact they can have on their regional economies.
A leading example of a digital currency for the European economy is EURST, a USD asset-backed and live-audited stablecoin created by Mr Simone Mazzuca. This digital currency from Wallex Trust represents 1€ worth of USD, secured by the accounts of the federal reserve and Wallex Trust.
“Digital currency that represent countries or states is now a very trending topic. This is happening because stablecoins work. They are effective. EURST is an example for the European economy, but for us EURST is also just the beginning, it’s a taste of what can be done. Our aspiration is to ‘beat’ the system and to build the system.” – Simone Mazzuca
The Path Forward With EURST
One of the major technological challenges for digital currencies that will have official state backing is that will have to comply with a whole host of complex financial regulations. Anyone can just issue a token using a blockchain like ethereum, but to integrate with the legal framework on a national level you need to prove it is backed by an asset as claimed, you need to prove it follows regulations and compliance laws, and you need ways to prevent bad actors from taking advantage of it.
The Wallex Group, which secures EURST and includes Wallex Trust and Wallex Custody, is a regulated entity, with an insurance account, and it follows strict compliance procedures for AML (5th Directive Anti-Money Laundry) and know-your-customer (KYC) procedures. In this way EURST can be complaint with with European regulations and get integrated with the traditional financial system. This enables businesses and individuals to interact with the system they are used to while also benefiting from the many advantages of digital assets.
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“This is where the new economy is heading and for companies like us, The Wallex Group and EURST, that is just the beginning. We are giving people the ability to have financial power again. We let people create startups and use this technology to the best of its ability.” – Simone Mazzuca
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Trump Bans Chinese Payment App Giants Alipay and Wechat- Order Could Steer Billions of Dollars Toward Bitcoin
Cryptocurrencies may see a boost between China and the U.S., as the American president Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning financial transactions with eight China-based payment applications. Following the signing of Trump’s new executive order, popular payment apps including Alipay, Wechat Pay, and Tencent’s QQ will be banned in America in 45 days.
According to the latest executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, Americans will be prohibited from transacting with eight different Chinese payment applications. Transactions processed with these apps will be prohibited in 45 days according to Trump’s latest edict. The applications that fall under Trump’s ban include WPS Office, QQ Wallet, Alipay, Camscanner, Shareit, Tencent QQ, Wechat Pay, and Vmate.
Trump’s administration claims the prohibition has been enacted for national security reasons and it follows the executive order Trump signed to ban the China-based app Tiktok. In August, Trump signed that specific order against any transactions between Tiktok’s parent company, Bytedance. The latest order against eight different Chinese payment apps says the ban was invoked for national security reasons as well.
“The pace and pervasiveness of the spread in the United States of certain connected mobile and desktop applications and other software developed or controlled by persons in the People’s Republic of China… continue to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States,” the Trump administration’s order insists.
“By accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, Chinese connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information,” the Trump administration said.
The analyst Michael Gogel told his 4,800 Twitter followers that the executive order was invoked over the digital yuan and decentralized cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. “It has everything to do with the digital yuan and digital currencies like bitcoin that U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to ban transactions with eight Chinese software apps including Alipay and Wechat Pay,” Gogel tweeted.
The analyst added:
Interesting to note that on the same day the New York Stock Exchange decides to 180 and reneges on the delisting action in relation to China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom (Hong Kong).
Back in September 2020, the bitcoin proponent, Sylvain Saurel, also wrote a blog post about Trump banning these payment apps and how it would benefit bitcoin. “Financial transactions between the United States and China, or other countries in Asia, will have to be done through another channel,” Saurel stressed in his blog post. “We are talking about several hundred billion dollars exchanged each year.”
The author further added:
Bitcoin therefore fully meets the need that would emerge for millions of people from the Chinese diaspora living in the United States in the event of a complete ban on Wechat. Bitcoin also has the advantage of being completely politically neutral. At a time when a new cold war is starting between China and the United States, such neutrality is a significant asset.
If the Trump administration gets away with prohibiting transactions using these eight applications, Asian Americans and their families living in Asia will likely be affected negatively. However, the ban could be stopped, as a judge recently implemented a preliminary injunction against Trump’s recent Tiktok ban, as it’s been met with adversity. Further, Reuters reports that China’s Ministry of Commerce also gave a statement concerning the payment app ban, and the entity said it goes against “fair competition.”
Additionally, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross supported Trump’s decision and said he backs the President’s “commitment to protecting the privacy and security of Americans from threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party.”
Moreover, Ross insisted that the Commerce Department will “begin implementing the E.O.’s directives, including identifying prohibited transactions” in 45 days.
Do you think Donald Trump banning eight China-based payment apps will be a boon for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.
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Video: Central Bank Woes
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The dynamic duo of “Fed Watch” is back in another episode. This time, Christian Keroles and I walk through policy updates from the three major central banks of the world, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the People’s Bank of China (PBOC).
This year has been full of central bank action and it can be hard to stay on top of everything happening, even for those who try to follow monetary matters. The global recession is by no means over, and while the Federal Reserve and Jerome Powell might be holding policy constant, the ECB and PBOC are actively fighting slowing economic numbers.
Policy from the ECB is the most exciting because it is the most active, with the most colorful rhetoric. Last week, its expanded its stimulus program by €500 billion. Their Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) is now a whooping €1.85 trillion. In the ECB’s statements, it admits to fighting deflation and a strong euro, despite the unprecedented central bank action this year. It seems the more it does, the worse its situation gets.
The Federal Reserve meets on December 16, 2020, for its final meeting of the year. Chairman Powell is expected to keep policy unchanged. Relative to the euro and renminbi strength, the U.S. dollar has been weakening, with the dollar index (DXY) extending yearly lows and approaching two-year lows. This presents a dichotomy, the least active central bank has the relatively weaker currency, which is contrary to the accepted wisdom that central bank activity devalues a currency.
The next central bank of interest in this episode of Fed Watch is the PBOC. After an update on the Digital Yuan project, we discussed the wave of defaults faced by the PBOC in recent weeks. To address the deflationary pressures in the Chinese economy it has rolled over previous bailout loans and expanded on them by $145 billion.
The episode ended with a discussion about a possible speculative attack against the dollar. MicroStrategy has given people an outline in how to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars and buy bitcoin with it. If this is done in high enough quantities, it can force the price of bitcoin up and the relative value of the debt down. MassMutual was also another large story, but as I said on the show, “Bitcoiners have been expecting this for a very long time.”
This is another great episode to keep you current on central bank issues. Do not forget to subscribe to Fed Watch’s new RSS feed, so you don’t miss any of our great guest insights in the future.
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This Robot Can Help You Kill Coronavirus From Your Home Or Office
Jike Eric
Xenex disinfection services, a San Antonio-based company, has claimed it has perfected a robot, which can help to kill coronavirus. According to the company, the robot, also known as Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot, is already being used by some companies, including the Department of Defense and some reputable universities.
Also, the $100,000 worth robot was reported to be working effectively. According to the report, it’s already being used to kill coronavirus from different workplaces, including the US military bases and LAPD’s Skid Row station.
Furthermore, there’s a report that the Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot has caught the eyes of major sports leagues, including the MLB and NBA. Any moment from now, they’ll start inquiring about it to decontaminate their sporting facilities.
But how does the Robot work to kill coronavirus? Let’s have a quick look at it, in the videos below.
How Xenex Robot Works
According to the video below, the Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot utilizes a pulsed xenon lamp. The lamp is a system that helps the robot in generating high-intensity xenon light to cover the entire spectrum of the germicide for effective and fast disinfection.
The UV light emitted by the xenon lamp is dangerous to the eyes. As such, people must leave the room during the disinfection process. The robot can work alone. So, all that the operator needs is to set up the robot and work away from the room immediately before it starts working.
Let’s have a quick look at the features of the powerful germ-zapping robot.
Features Of The Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot
Intense Germicidal Killing Action
Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot helps to deliver intense germicide action from 200nm to 315nm. Apart from that, It’s also a user-friendly robot with intense pathogen killing power in 5 minutes.
Furthermore, the germ-zapping robot delivers up to 4,300x more UV pathogen killing intensity than UV-C Mercury vapor. That explains while it’s very fast and effective to disinfect an entire patient room in 20minutes and kill coronavirus, according to the video below.
The robot offers a simple user interface. It also has auto-updating software, which helps users to add new features. Apart from that, it also delivers a cloud-based reporting, using WiFi or cellular data.
Sensor Motion Detection
It has a triple sensor motion detection cone which helps to sense motion across the room for safety purposes.
During this coronavirus pandemic period, the Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot is making a lot of sales for the company. That’s because of its rapid rise in sales up to 600% over last year. Since the robot is becoming popular, a lot of companies are already looking to enquire about it.
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Composers Love
A Universe of Delight
Alexander Scriabin and Natalya Sekerina
by Georg Predota January 25th, 2015
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) was short of stature and stood just over five feet tall. For a period of time he joined the military, but was mercilessly ridiculed and bullied because he was “small, effeminate and weak.” Commentators have suggested, “Like many little men, he acted arrogantly to compensate for his lack of height.” And compensate he did! We find evidence of a seemingly endless stream of sexual conquests of a homo-and heterosexual nature. Yet love did come at last, as Scriabin—then aged 20—met “a beautiful and clever, most gifted girl.” The gifted girl in question was 15-year-old Natalya Sekerina, a highly talented pianist. Natalya and her sister Olga had seen Scriabin perform at a Moscow Conservatory recital, and formally invited him around the next day. Olga recalled, “he may have been in a cadet uniform, but there was nothing military in his bearing. He was awkward I must say. Behind it you could see all the wonderful softness which feminine care and upbringing had left on his manners.” The young lovers went ice-skating, but he did not know how. So Scriabin sat in a chair and the young girls took turns to push him around over the ice.
Athletic awkwardness none withstanding, Scriabin channeled his feelings for Natalya into a mystical poem, which he eventually set to music as well:
Were I by sweet dreaming
To dwell within thy soul,
Were I to turn thy fair head
To great thoughts of creation,
I would, dear friend,
Reveal to thee
A universe of delight.
Entitled “Romance,” the manuscript was only found after Scriabin’s death and there is no evidence to suggest that Natalya ever heard it. In March 1891, Natalya’s mother intercepted a love letter and summoned Scriabin. Before she could say a word, Scriabin burst out, “Natalya and I consider ourselves engaged to be married and have to for some time.” Hardly surprising that he was forbidden to enter the house ever again. Scriabin was devastated and he communicated to Olga, “Don’t take away my little Natalya. Don’t deprive me of my muse. I love her with that pure, ideal love with which one loves only once in a lifetime.” Olga eventually agreed to become the messenger, ferrying secret notes and letters between the lovers.
Natalya Sekerina
In all, a total of sixty-seven Scriabin letters written between December 1891 and December 1895 have survived. None of Natalya’s replies have been preserved, however, since Scriabin never kept correspondence from anyone. The majority of these letters were written during the summer months, when Scriabin traveled extensively throughout Russia and Northern Europe. In these letters, Scriabin shows particular interest in nature, considering it “man’s mind turned inside out.” He excitedly reports from his first visit to the Baltics, “Everything glowed with magnificent majesty on the horizon. First a clear purple, then it turned rose-colored, and finally silvery flecks stained the surface of the sea…. The green of the sea blended with the blue reflection of the sky. There was such a play of colors and shades, as I’ve never seen. It was a picture, a triumph of colors, a festival of truth.” It is remarkable that this fascination with color is already found in his youthful correspondence, as Scriabin would in later years champion a system in which each musical key is associated with a specific color.
Stormy clouds were gathering over the relationship when the couple attended the 1894 debut recital of Josef Hofmann in Moscow. Natalya was mightily impressed, much to the displeasure of Scriabin. Hofmann was also an expert ice skater and Natalya and Hofmann “sailed around the rink gaily chatting while Scriabin became fearfully depressed.” At a school ball shortly thereafter, Natalya danced every dance, while Scriabin—who thought of dancing as a vulgar, unpleasant and meaningless activity—stared at Natalya’s empty chair. From that point onward, Scriabin’s messages become rather incessant, “Hear me out! Listen to this voice of a sick and tormented soul. Remember and pray for the man whose entire happiness is yours and whose entire life belongs to you.” He even composed the rich and melodious Etude Op. 8, Nr. 8 for her, and attempted to arouse her jealousy by publically holding hands with a number of young ladies. Apparently, Scriabin’s renewed proposal of marriage was met by Natalya’s flat rejection, “I am not marrying you, because I love you less than I did at first.” And that, as they say, was the end of the relationship. Natalya eventually married the judge Nikolai Markov, and Scriabin turned his attention to Vera Issakovich; more on that relationship next time.
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The moment was frozen in suspended animation. The inkpot hovered in the air above the map, spread out below it in all its handmade glory. Then Myu’s tail snapped forwards and the illusion dissipated; the inkpot smashed onto the table and the ink spilled all over.
Myu disappeared as quickly as the details of the map did underneath the indelible ink.
Now it was Lielle’s turn to be frozen. She was frozen with horror as she took in the damage to her beloved map. Drawn in painstaking detail over the course of half a year, under the instruction of her tutor, it was her masterpiece and her joy. She had dedicated the main table of her study to it; pinning the paper carefully to the edges of the table and making sure nobody and nothing remotely harmful came close to it.
Now Myu, her cat, had infiltrated the study and flung a pot of black ink over it with a swish of his tail. What made it worse was that the event unfolded right in front of Lielle’s eyes. Had she come upon the disaster later, after it had already happened in her absence, she would not be eaten away by the thought that she could have prevented it. However, right there, in front of her eyes, Myu had carried out his mischief. Sinking into the beanbag in the corner of her study, Lielle dissolved into tears as she contemplated the almost deliberate malice with which Myu regarded her work of six months. He didn’t like being barred from the study, which used to be his domain before the map project started. In fact, the whole house was his domain ever since the fateful day he had appeared on her doorstep.
It was the morning of her assignment to her tutor, the revered Huoyhnhm, who did not take on any but the cream of the crop. Basking in the glory of her first lesson in the presence of this celebrated mind, she had opened the door to find a gold-flecked tan cat, sitting comfortably on the doorstep as if he owned the place. The cat looked up at her without the slightest bit of hesitation, and, taken in by his confidence, Lielle took him in. She had in her mind’s eye the perfect picture of the art student who blossomed under the watchful eye of her tutor and the inspirational company of her pet cat. How ideal, she had thought.
How disastrous, she thought now.
She finally brought herself to look at what remained of her handiwork. The intricate details lay blotted out beneath a sea of black. She wiped away her tears, unpinned the paper and folded it up. Now, instead of washing away in helpless tears, she burned with firm resolve. She clattered up the stairs into the attic, where she took out a huge roll of special paper, and, shouldering it, came back down more quietly. She unrolled the paper and pinned it to the table. Then she took out her map-making materials and arranged them on the work space.
The energy that had churned within her stilled as she considered the blank paper. She had gotten so used to continuing work already started that she had not faced the challenge of the empty page for months.
Taking out her charcoal, she began to sketch the border from memory. Golden-tan flicked past in the corner of her vision. She did not raise her head and continued working. Myu came near. He did not seem the least guilty or disturbed. On the contrary, he was alive with curiosity and watched her as she worked diligently into the wee hours of the night.
“What is this?” Huoyhnhm said next morning, upon seeing the new map, which was blank except for a border.
“A clean slate, sir,” Lielle answered.
“Hmm,” was Huoyhnhm’s response. He viewed the expanse of white for a minute before sitting down in his customary working position, motioning for Lielle to begin.
“But, sir,” Lielle said, slipping into her work pose and picking up her instrument, “where do I begin?”
“You have already begun,” he said, motioning towards the borders of the map. “Now you may continue.”
Lielle looked back at him inquiringly before turning back to face the blank map. She paused, put her instrument down, and said, “I must bring Myu in, sir. I want him to see me work.”
“That won’t be necessary,” said Huoyhnhm.
“But—” said Lielle.
“I said,” Huoyhnhm replied firmly, “continue your work.”
And she did.
The next morning before her tutor was expected to arrive, Lielle searched far and wide for Myu in order to bring him into the study before Huoyhnhm came, but he was nowhere to be found. She usually left Myu to his own pursuits while she worked with her tutor, and had no idea what he did during those times, so she did not know where he might be. Sighing, she ambled back to her study, only to find Huoyhnhm already seated. She glanced at the clock.
“You’re late,” said Huoyhnhm.
“I’m sorry, sir,” said Lielle. “I was looking for Myu.”
Huoyhnhm looked back at her as if he were studying the page of a textbook. He cocked his head to the side in the way Myu did when he looked at her. Then he straightened up and motioned towards the map.
Gathering her materials, Lielle settled down to work.
A few map-making sessions later, Huoyhnhm said that he had something important to relate. Lielle perked up to listen.
“You have shown prowess in the face of adversity,” he said. “I have watched you grow under my tutelage. You have grown to the point where further instruction on my part is not required. I release you.”
Lielle stared uncomprehendingly back at him without replying.
“I will write a letter of recommendation to the university,” Huoyhnhm continued. “You may sit the exam and receive your qualification. After that, the world is yours. You may do with it as you wish.”
Lielle looked at the unfinished map, then back at Huoyhnhm.
“Ah,” he said. “That is something you may complete on your own. You no longer need my assistance. I have observed your response to a great setback, overcoming something like that is more important than advancing seamlessly from one achievement to another. You have what it takes to be an artist. I release you.”
Lielle finally spoke up. “You honour me,” she said. “You will always be my teacher.”
Huoyhnhm smiled.
“Before you go,” Lielle said, “I would like you to give me…I would…that is…will you give me an autograph?”
Huoyhnhm stared at her for a moment. Then he chuckled. “Of course.” Taking the pen from her hand, he signed the proffered piece of paper with a flourish. After he left, Lielle pinned the paper to her work table along with the map.
Try as much as she could, she could not find Myu after that. She alternated between searching for him and sitting and wondering about him. In a way, Myu had been as supportive as Huoyhnhm, only Huoyhnhm had watched directly over her art, and Myu had been the overseer of the rest of her life. However, an artist’s art is not separate from the rest of his or her existence; so it seemed that between Myu and Huoyhnhm, she had been very well guided in her training.
Finally, she went back to the study, only to stop at the threshold, arrested by the sight within. There lay Myu, curled up on the map, apparently sleeping. She walked quietly over to him so as not to disturb him, tears of joy welling up in her eyes.
Myu’s eyes popped open, and he fixed her with an unwavering gaze. Lielle gulped at the intensity of his eyes. Moving slowly but deliberately, he slipped off the table and went to the door, where he looked back at her as if to ask her to follow him. She followed, and he led her to the front door. She opened the front door, and Myu went onto the doorstep, where he looked up at her, then down at the street, and meowed.
Lielle sighed. Would conquering one disaster mean that she would have to part with all her instructors, and find new ones? That was how it seemed. She looked out into the street, then down at Myu, and finally said, “I release you.”
As if he understood, Myu rubbed against her legs, purred, and then set off into the street, weaving in and out of the patches of sunlight that streamed through the dense trees.
When Lielle went back to the study, she observed something different about the autograph pinned to her table. There, in black ink, was a cat’s paw print, next to Huoyhnhm’s signature. It had not been there before.
She gazed at the piece of paper for a long time. Then she spoke into the silence of the room, “You were a humane cat, and a feline human. In my entire journey as an artist, I will never again find a teacher like you.” She closed the door of the study and left. Behind her, the human-cat instructor’s signature blended into the darkness of the room.
– Published in Us Magazine, The News (Pakistan): http://magazine.thenews.com.pk/mag/detail_article.asp?id=9716#sthash.64vwqC1B.dpuf
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NEW YORK: The number of COVID-19 patients being treated in hospitals across the United States reached 90,000 on Friday after nearly doubling in the last month, just as holiday gatherings are expected to propel the next wave of infections.
The rate of hospitalizations – now at the highest since the pandemic began – has pushed some medical centers beyond capacity. The rapid increase comes after weeks of rising infection rates across the country. That is likely to worsen as people who mingled with friends and relatives over Thanksgiving gradually get sick, health experts say.
“This is the reality we face when COVID-19 is allowed to spread unchecked – ICUs at capacity, not enough health care workers available,” wrote New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham in a tweet on Friday.
There were 880 people hospitalized with COVID-19 on Friday in New Mexico. The state is under a lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus, with all non-essential businesses closed and residents told to stay home. A hospital in rural Curry County was the latest to reach capacity in its intensive care unit earlier this week, according to the county’s Facebook page.
Many health experts and politicians pleaded with Americans to refrain from gathering for their traditional communal Thanksgiving feasts this year, warning that socializing between households would accelerate the rate of community transmission and push an already strained healthcare system to the brink.
Some abided by the public health guidance, spending their Thanksgiving on Thursday seeing their family over video calls. But others chose to travel anyway.
On the day before Thanksgiving, typically one of the busiest travel days of the year in the United States, more than 1.07 million people transited through U.S. airports – the most of any single day since the start of the pandemic, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
Nearly 6 million Americans traveled by air from Friday to Wednesday, it said, a number that is however less than half that of the same period last year.
State governors have also urged Americans to stay home on Black Friday, a traditionally busy holiday shopping day, encouraging them instead to take advantage of online deals or curbside pick-ups.
“Remember, skip the crowds and shop from home this Black Friday. Our local shops have curbside pickup options and need our support,” Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear wrote in a tweet on Friday.
National Retail Federation CEO Matthew Shay on Friday said his lobbying group forecast a record high in holiday spending this year, even with many Americans struggling financially as the pandemic as hit the economy and jobs.
“Consumers are out there,” he told Fox Business Network in an interview. He said people had shifted spending from travel, entertainment and other experience-based consumption to home and other material goods.
In an effort to mitigate the winter COVID-19 wave, more than 20 states have issued new restrictions, including mask mandates and limiting capacity of bars, restaurants and houses of worship.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s restrictions on religious gatherings on Wednesday, voting 5-4 late in favor of requests by a Roman Catholic Diocese and two Orthodox Jewish congregations for an injunction to block the capacity restrictions from being enforced.
Cuomo dismissed the ruling as “irrelevant,” saying it related to houses of worship in specific areas that were no longer considered at high risk. However, the ruling could have broader implications for houses of worship appealing capacity restrictions elsewhere.
Earlier this week, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said the latest COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings in the nation’s capital also applied to indoor religious services, reducing capacity from 100 people to 50 people, with a maximum 50%. It was not immediately clear if the curbs would be challenged following the Supreme Court ruling.
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Rietveld refinement of the zorite structure of the ETS-4 molecular sieves
The crystal structure of ETS-4 titanosilicate [Na9Si12Ti5O38(OH). 12H(2)O] was refined using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and the Rietveld method (R-P=0.050; R-wP=0.063; R-B=0.169). Our diffraction data provide direct evidence that ETS-4 has the same structure as the zorite mineral. The framework of zorite can be described as nenadkevichite-like chains, laterally connected by 4[SiO4]/[TiO6] units, corresponding to two different chemical environments for Si. Similar to previous observations, a discrepancy was found between the population ratio of Si positions as calculated by the occupancy refinement of atomic sites related to these two environments, and that inferred from Si-29 MAS NMR. This is tentatively explained here on the basis of the large amounts of protons in the proximity of the Si2 site as indicated by Si-29 CP/MAS NMR. The low thermal stability of the zorite/ETS-4 structure is explained in terms of relevance of the hydrogen bonding between extra framework water molecules and framework oxygens.
Titolo: Rietveld refinement of the zorite structure of the ETS-4 molecular sieves
CRUCIANI, Giuseppe
DE LUCA P.
NASTRO A.
PATTISON P.
MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Abstract: The crystal structure of ETS-4 titanosilicate [Na9Si12Ti5O38(OH). 12H(2)O] was refined using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and the Rietveld method (R-P=0.050; R-wP=0.063; R-B=0.169). Our diffraction data provide direct evidence that ETS-4 has the same structure as the zorite mineral. The framework of zorite can be described as nenadkevichite-like chains, laterally connected by 4[SiO4]/[TiO6] units, corresponding to two different chemical environments for Si. Similar to previous observations, a discrepancy was found between the population ratio of Si positions as calculated by the occupancy refinement of atomic sites related to these two environments, and that inferred from Si-29 MAS NMR. This is tentatively explained here on the basis of the large amounts of protons in the proximity of the Si2 site as indicated by Si-29 CP/MAS NMR. The low thermal stability of the zorite/ETS-4 structure is explained in terms of relevance of the hydrogen bonding between extra framework water molecules and framework oxygens.
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I will present results from my work on two topics. The first is usable privacy. Effectively communicating privacy choices and consequences to internet users is a persistent challenge, as their privacy preferences are complex and diverse. I will discuss two studies on privacy in online social networks, and I will present findings from the Usable Privacy Policy Project, a multidisciplinary effort to use crowdsourcing and natural language processing to help internet users understand online privacy practices. The second topic involves entity linking, a subtopic in natural language processing. Writing to inform frequently contains references to illustrations, sections, lists, examples, arguments, and other communicative artifacts within a document. I will present some results on work toward identifying references to such artifacts. Potential applications include automatic artifact tagging (in the same sense as tagging images with descriptive text), enhancement of online discussion forums, and document layout generation.
Shomir Wilson is a Project Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. He has previously been a NSF International Research Fellow, a Postdoctoral Fellow, and a Lecturer at the same university, and he has also been an NSF International Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. His interests span pure and applied research in usable privacy, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2011.
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Co-occurrence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease by social class: 1958 British birth cohort
C Power1,
K Atherton1,
O Manor2
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Professor C Power, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK; c.power{at}ich.ucl.ac.uk
Aim: To establish whether social differences in multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease are due to a greater strength of association (higher correlation) between risk factors in less advantaged groups.
Methods: Co-occurrence of five risk factors (smoking, hypertension, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, obesity, diabetes) in 3614 British 45-year-old men and 3560 women in the manual and non-manual social groups.
Results: 4.0% of women in manual groups had ⩾3 risk factors compared with 1.7% in non-manual groups: 6.2% and 3.4% respectively for men. There was a higher than expected percentage of the population, overall, with ⩾3 risk factors assuming independence between risk factors; correspondingly, there was a slightly lower than expected proportion with one factor. However, patterns of observed to expected ratios were consistent in manual and non-manual groups and did not differ by the number of risk factors.
Conclusions: Higher prevalence of multiple risk factors in manual groups was due to the higher prevalence of individual factors rather than a greater tendency of those with an individual risk factor to have additional risks. Strategies to reduce multiple risk factors in less advantaged groups would help to lessen their health burden.
Funding: Medical Research Council Health of the Public initiative (grant G000934).
Competing interests: None.
Ethics approval: Ethical approval for the medical examination of the British 1958 Birth Cohort was obtained from South East Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee.
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2008; 62 1017-1017 Published Online First: 13 Nov 2008.
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Prelude to COP15: Climate Justice actions sweep the US before Copenhagen talks
Crossposted from Grist.
Today in the U.S., climate justice activists turned up the street heat to corporations in the financial and energy sectors most responsible for the climate crisis. Initiated by the Mobilization for Climate Justice and the Climate Pledge of Resistance, the day of action came a week before social movements converge in Copenhagen at the U.N. climate talks on Dec. 7 and on the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle in 1999. Major demonstrations, teach-ins, civil disobedience actions anchored the day of action in nine U.S. cities, supplimented by other smaller actions blooming around the country.
Civil disobedience also took place at the Chicago Climate Exchange, the first and largest carbon trading institution in North America.
Renowned climate scientist Dr. James Hansen joined protestors in New York in calling for an end to cap and trade and instead implement a simple carbon tax. Dr. Hansen wrote in his book Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity, “The picture has become clear. Our planet, with its remarkable array of life, is in imminent danger of crashing… But we should not give up on the democratic system—quite the contrary. We must fight for the principle of equal justice. Civil resistance may be our best hope.”
Already across the globe in the past month, activists have upped the ante on the climate in the U.K. Australia, Canada and at the U.N. talks in Barcelona where the African delegation walked out and nearly a hundred activists blocked the exits, with the message “Without DRASTIC cuts, there is no EXIT”). Now U.S. activists are joining this growing global resistance by voting with their feet and putting their bodies on the line. In recent months, millions of people around the world have been taking action to protect their communities and the global climate. Shutting down coal power plants and mining sites, blockading oil refineries and marching on the streets of their cities, an increasing number of people are speaking out against climate pollution and calling for urgent action.
The U.S. is home to some of the world’s most egregious corporate climate polluters such as Chevron, British Petroleum (BP) and American Electric Power, along with their financiers, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase. The false solutions promoted by these corporations, like “clean coal”, nuclear energy, bio-fuels and carbon markets will delay urgent emissions reductions, threaten ecosystems and subsidize the construction of more toxic industries in the backyards of the poor. Furthermore, the world’s poor, the working class, indigenous peoples and communities of color are systematically excluded from the U.N. process, yet are the hardest hit by the effects of climate change.
Just as a directly democratic anti-corporate global justice movement emerged from the Seattle protests in 1999 larger and stronger than ever before, now the post-Copenhagen mobilization will see the emergence of an anti-corporate climate justice movement that also incorporates a large coalition of groups, a diverse set of tactics, democratic values and developing world nations ready to bring new demands into the climate talks.
The Mobilization for Climate Justice is calling for:
Drastic emissions reductions guided by science, without carbon trading, offsetting or other corporate-driven solutions such as nuclear energy, biofuels, clean coal and incinerators.
Protection for the rights of those most impacted by polluting industries, climate change impacts and the transition to a clean energy economy.
Re-localization of production and consumption, favoring local markets, cooperative economies and community-controlled, renewable energy systems.
Rights-based resource conservation that enforces Indigenous land rights and ends corporate control over energy, forests, seeds, land and water.
An end to forest and biodiversity destruction, and international sanctions and tariffs supported by Indigenous peoples, peasants, fisher-folk and other frontline communities.
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As global climate negotiations in Barcelona enter into the last week of talks before December’s Copenhagen summit, there continues to be more aggravation than agreement amongst negotiators. Despite the litany of warnings about the devastation a failure in Copenhagen will cause – mass migrations, floods, worsening hunger and elimination of entire small island states – the most powerful countries in the world have failed to significantly reduce emissions, let alone commit to new targets or adequate funds to pay for adaptation. Unwilling to muster collective political will to dramatically reduce consumption, wealthy countries are looking for ways to continue business as usual.
The surprising announcement that the US Congressional Committee on Science and Technology will be holding hearings on geoengineering in Washington later this week has some participants in Barcelona wondering if the lack of collective political will on the part of industrialized countries has something to do with Plan B moving a whole lot faster than we thought. Plan B is geoengineering: the intentional, large-scale plans to modify the climate and related systems.
Geoengineering technologies include, for example, schemes to simulate a volcanic eruption by shooting sulphur particles into the stratosphere to reflect the sun’s rays back to outer space. Other technologies whiten clouds to make them more reflective. Some geoengineers propose dumping iron particles in the oceans to feed algae that might soak up CO2. Others want to change hurricane paths and rainfall patterns.
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Rich countries halt Barcelona climate talks with inaction – Africa walks out
Cross posted from Grist
African negotiators at the U.N. climate talks in Barcelona just refused to continue formal discussions about all other issues until wealthy countries live up to their legal and moral responsibility to commit to deep emissions reductions. Rich countries (also called “Annex 1 countries”) have ground negotiations to a halt by failing to agree their new targets under the Kyoto Protocol (KP), driving developing countries to put their feet down. This walkout is significant and opens up political space – it means many of the countries in Africa just stopped one half of the UN climate negotiation process until rich countries say how much they will reduce their carbon.
We’re down to the wire: just four negotiating days left before the big agreement in Copenhagen is supposed to go down. Its day one, and we saw just a taste of the breakdowns to come. While rich countries continue to undermine commitments for the Kyoto Protocol (one of two negotiating tracks for Copenhagen which is supposed to be renewed for a second commitment period of Annex 1 targets), the spin has already taken hold: they’re blaming Africa for their own delay-mongering. Oy vey.
In response, movement and civil society organizations held a demonstration at the U.N. building in support of African delegates’ insistence that developed countries commit to new, strong binding targets. Delegates and observers were invited to join a human shield against the killing of Kyoto targets (complete with an Annex 1 grim reaper) and instead urged to promote at least 40% emission reductions with no offsets by 2020.
Kamese Geoffrey of NAPE/ Friends of the Earth Uganda warned, “Rich countries are attempting to dodge their legal and moral responsibilities to reduce emissions. Developing countries and communities have historically had practically no fault in the creation of climate change, yet they will be the first to face the devastating impacts of climate change.”
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Jing, Vietnamese in China
Photo Source: Copyrighted © 2021
Dragon Images / Shutterstock All rights reserved. Used with permission
Map Source: Joshua Project / Global Mapping International
People Name: Jing, Vietnamese
10/40 Window: Yes
World Population: 84,981,700
Primary Language: Vietnamese
Christian Adherents: 3.00 %
Evangelicals: 0.15 %
Scripture: Complete Bible
Online Audio NT: No
Jesus Film: Yes
Audio Recordings: Yes
People Cluster: Vietnamese
Affinity Bloc: Southeast Asian Peoples
Progress Level:
The official classification of the Vietnamese people is a problematic one. They have not been included under the Jing nationality, although the Jing are fellow Vietnamese who have earned official status as one of China's 55 minority groups. This profile refers only to ethnic Vietnamese in China and not to the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Chinese who have fled from Vietnam to China since the late 1970s. As one commentator explains, "During outbreaks of racial hostility in Vietnam in 1978, thousands of Vietnamese of Chinese descent fled in confusion to their home country which they had left many years, sometimes generations, earlier. ... About 100,000 went to Guangxi, and another 110,000 settled elsewhere in China." Because those refugees are ethnic Han Chinese, they have easily assimilated back into China. "Since these refugees can no longer return to Vietnam, the aim of the Chinese government is to repatriate them as Chinese citizens. The teaching medium in schools is therefore Chinese. After several years of hard work, the residents are now no different from other Chinese." The Vietnamese profiled here, however, are ethnic Vietnamese who speak the Vietnamese language. Their official classification is uncertain.
The Vietnamese came to Hainan in 1986 by accident. They had set out as refugees onboard fishing vessels bound for Hong Kong, but only managed to reach Hainan Island. Hong Kong - which at one point housed almost 100,000 Vietnamese refugees - offered escapees the chance for repatriation to Western nations. Not all of the refugees who made it to safety in Hong Kong, however, came by sea from Vietnam. Many crossed the border into China, traveled by train to Guangdong Province, changed their appearance to look as if they had endured great hardship at sea, and then boarded vessels to take them the few miles into Hong Kong waters.
Because of the exorbitant amount of money charged by the owners of the fishing vessels, most of the refugees came from wealthy families in northern Vietnam. They were willing to give up all they had in the hope of gaining entry to the United States or another Western nation.
Most Vietnamese on Hainan Island are nonreligious, although there are some who follow Daoism, Buddhism, or Catholicism.
Few of the Vietnamese refugees on Hainan claim to be Christians. Because they originated in northern Vietnam where there are few churches, most have little awareness of the gospel. One missionary dropped off a few hundred Vietnamese gospel tracts and a Jesus film in 1997, but no organizations are known to be specifically focusing on this group.
Text Source: Operation China, Asia Harvest Copyrighted © 2021 Used with permission
Full Joshua Project profile at: www.joshuaproject.net/people_groups/12700/CH
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Families have adjusted plans under CDC guidelines. "Not many people made it to Thanksgiving this year. I respect the CDC guidelines, and we have been following them with our own family practices. All year we have been fighting, social distancing, wearing masks and isolating. I wanted my family to feel rewarded for their efforts and rejoice together during this Thanksgiving - to remember that we should be in Thanksgiving everyday," said Dr. Christopher Broughton. Due to the spike in COVID-19 cases, as of November 21, 2020, the state of California has required that all non-essential work and activities stop between 10PM and 5AM in counties across the state. Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP
– Americans celebrate Thanksgiving under pall of pandemic
WASHINGTON, Nov 27, 2020 (AFP) – Millions of Americans defied Covid-19 guidelines Thursday to spend a subdued Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends, while questions emerged over the level of protection that one potential vaccine offers.
About a million people were screened at US airports each day over the last week, as many appeared bent on enjoying one of the country’s biggest annual celebrations.
The exodus came despite warnings that mass travel threatens to significantly worsen the pandemic in the country hit hardest, with a six-month high of more than 2,400 deaths registered in the US in just the past 24 hours.
President-elect Joe Biden offered a message of hope, however, in a Thanksgiving video address that rallied Americans to pull together to defeat the outbreak.
“I know better days are coming, I know how bright our future is. I know the 21st Century is going to be an American century,” he said.
British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, one of three firms that have reported their vaccine to be ready, said Thursday that further research was needed after questions emerged over the protection it offers.
The manufacturer initially said its vaccine was 70 percent effective, and then said it was 90 percent effective when an initial half-dose and then a full dose were given.
But US scientists said the higher rate came during tests in people aged 55 and under.
Vaccine breakthroughs have raised hopes for an end to the outbreak, though much of the world faces a gloomy winter dampened by lockdowns, economic anxiety and devastating loss.
Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, said he was expecting “a surge superimposed upon a surge” caused by the big holiday getaway.
President Donald Trump, for his part, spent the day golfing at a course he owns in Virginia, taking time out to attack Biden’s record-setting winning vote count in the election earlier this month.
“Just saw the vote tabulations. There is NO WAY Biden got more than 80,000,000 votes!!! This was a 100% RIGGED ELECTION,” he fumed on Twitter.
Thanksgiving ‘gift’
Globally, more than 60 million infections and 1.4 million deaths have been recorded since the new coronavirus emerged in China late last year, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources.
Despite the burst of travel in America — still far below last year’s Thanksgiving numbers — pandemic restrictions meant that there was a resolute, stoical undercurrent to this year’s festivities.
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, a cherished tradition nearly a century old featuring giant balloons and colorful floats, went ahead in a truncated made-for-TV celebration across just one city block, with no crowds and much of it pre-recorded.
Biden described how he normally travels to the New England coast for a big family feast but would be staying home in Delaware this year for a small get-together.
“I know this isn’t the way many of us hoped we’d spend our holiday. We know that a small act of staying home is a gift to our fellow Americans,” he said in his video message, posted to social media.
On radio and TV, chefs have been making suggestions on scaling down meals for smaller gatherings, or even sharing bits of what they cook and leaving it on the doorstep of friends and family, so it at least feels like a shared meal.
Tangible hope
The New York Times asked readers to state in six words or fewer what they were grateful for and published some of these lines, as Americans tried to make the best of the holiday.
“A furtive hug with a friend,” one entry reads.
“Windows have never been so important,” said another.
America’s political divisions were also evident.
Trump’s White House has urged “all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship,” despite the health risk.
But Biden has been calling on people to hunker down and keep observing health guidelines until a vaccine becomes available.
While low-income frontline workers often face the biggest risks from the virus, it has also run rampant among the world’s wealthiest and most powerful.
On Thursday, Sweden’s Prince Carl Philip and his wife Princess Sofia went into self-isolation after testing positive for Covid-19, the palace said.
With Britain and France talking about easing their lockdown measures soon, Russia is still resisting stay-at-home orders despite registering record infections and deaths from the virus Thursday.
Countries that have had strong success against the virus are also cracking down on new outbreaks.
South Korea closed bars and nightclubs this week as it braces for a third major wave, with virus cases at their highest level since March.
“With some exceptions, governments have made great efforts to put the wellbeing of their people first, acting decisively to protect health and to save lives,” Pope Francis said in an op-ed in the Times.
“The exceptions have been some governments that shrugged off the painful evidence of mounting deaths, with inevitable, grievous consequences. But most governments acted responsibly, imposing strict measures to contain the outbreak.” burs-dw/bgs/to Agence France-Presse
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Thousands of Honduran migrants push through the police fence as they attempt to cross the border at El Florido in Guatemala forming the first migrant caravan of the year on it's way to the United States on January 15, 2021. Some 3,000 people left Honduras on foot January 15 in the latest migrant caravan hoping to find a welcome, and a better life, in the US under President-elect Joe Biden. Seeking to escape poverty, unemployment, gang and drug violence and the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes, the migrants plan to walk thousands of kilometers through Central America. / AFP / Johan ORDONEZ
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A member of the National Guard stands guard behind a fence toped with razor wire in preparation for next week's Presidential inauguration a week on January 14, 2021, in Washington, DC. The center of Washington was on lockdown as more than 20,000 armed National Guard troops were being mobilized due to security concerns ahead of the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden. / AFP / Brendan Smialowski
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10 things about 2016: part two
Posted: December 29, 2016 | Author: julesbirch | Filed under: Blogging, Devolution, Homelessness, Welfare reform | Tags: Housing and Planning Act |Leave a comment
Originally published on December 29 on my blog for Inside Housing.
The second part of my look back at the year in housing as seen on my blog kicks off with the fallout from the referendum result. We may still not know what Brexit means apart from Brexit but the consequences were profound.
6. New government, new approach
The most immediate impact was political as the departure of David Cameron triggered not just a change of prime minister, but a change of virtually every minister with any say over housing and a real change of political tone. The debate during the brief Conservative leadership campaign and the winner’s rhetoric about “a country that works for everyone” suggested some potentially significant changes in the drivers of policy.
Brandon Lewis was confident Theresa May would stay true to the agenda of Right to Buy and Starter Homes but he was soon moved to a different job. Gavin Barwell quickly proved himself to be a more consensual and thoughtful housing minister and in his first major speech signalled a shift in focus to housing of all tenures rather than just homeownership.
I speculated on what this might mean for crucial elements of the Housing and Planning Act that were still unresolved, including Starter Homes, but that’s still not clear.
Conservative party conference speeches from Theresa May, Philip Hammond and Sajid Javid suggested a new approach with housing as a “number one priority”, but the question was whether the reality would match the rhetoric. However, the Autumn Statement did partially reverse the skewing of investment towards ownership rather than affordable rental.
7. The Housing and Planning Act
With so much left to secondary legislation, Royal Assent in May was far from the end of the process for the government’s flagship housing legislation. As 2017 approaches, we are still waiting to find out how key policies such as the sale of higher-value council houses will work. I’d blogged all along that the sums did not add up and despite concessions the decision to delay the extension of the Right to Buy with a second pilot suggests they still don’t. An 11th-hour climbdown made Pay to Stay a bit fairer but I argued it was also pointless because it would cost more to administer than it raised.
Under pressure from Conservative councils, the government eventually agreed and made it voluntary at the same time as it confirmed that fixed-term tenancies would be mandatory. This second climbdown was cloaked in the rhetoric of the new government, with Mr Barwell arguing that it no longer supported “ordinary working-class families who need to get by” .
On most of the rest of the bill, the details that were missing at the start of the year are still nowhere to be seen at the end. Pity the civil servants still working their way through Brandon Lewis’ “16 million pieces of data”.
My last word on the bill read between the lines on higher-value sales and replacement homes but we are still none the wiser seven months later.
8. The two-way street of devolution
The nations of the UK continued to diverge on housing in 2016 and devolution also began to have a real impact in the English regions. In May I blogged about the post-election prospects not just in Wales and Scotland but also London and Bristol under their new Labour mayors.
Devolution was also starting to have an impact in rural areas, with the referendum on second homes in St Ives stirring interest in other communities.
However, devolution only goes so far. As the year ended I blogged about the way that Wales is forging ahead with its own housing policies, including increased investment in social housing, but remains subject to significant control from Westminster via housing benefit.
Outside the UK but still close to home I also blogged about housing in Ireland. Facing a crisis even worse than here, the new government agreed plans to double housebuilding and significantly increase investment in social housing. An equivalent programme adjusted for England’s much larger population would see 540,000 social homes built or acquired over the next four years.
9. Still not coming home
The 50th anniversary of the first transmission of Cathy Come Home was always going to give homelessness a bigger profile in 2016. The issues exposed in Ken Loach’s TV drama – holes in the safety net, homelessness itself and children being taken into care because of it – have not gone away 50 years on.
The programme had lost none of its power when I rewatched it but I also blogged about the way that bureaucratic logic takes on a life of its own and contrasting perceptions of the housing crisis.
Mr Loach returned to the cinema in 2016 with I, Daniel Blake, and a BBC documentary, No Place to Call Home, exposed housing conditions in Barking and Dagenham and the plight of single homeless people who are not entitled to help under the current system. The year did at least bring the promise of progress on that at least, with the launch of a private members’ bill on homelessness prevention inspired by the system introduced in Wales.
However, the news elsewhere was bleak. At a local level, I blogged about Peterborough and how in 10 steps and 50 years it had moved from a new town accommodating a growing population to a place where homeless people were being evicted in the name of tackling homelessness. At a European level, I blogged about a league table measuring housing exclusion across the European Union showing that the UK was the biggest faller. As we languished in 20th place, only ahead of the countries worst affected by the Euro crisis and the poorest Eastern European nations, I wondered if we were leaving the EU before we were relegated.
The prospects for the future looked bleak as the year ended with homelessness and the use of temporary accommodation in England still rising remorselessly. The number of families with children in bed and breakfasts for more than the six-week legal limit is up 24% in a year and is 13 times what it was before the 2010 election.
10. No end to welfare reform
Cuts in housing benefit were the biggest single reason for the UK plummeting down that European housing league table and the pressure on the system continued to grow in 2016. In April I blogged on the turn of the screw – the start of the four-year freeze in working age benefits – and the likely impact of the reduction in the benefit cap and the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) cap.
The new government took power pledging that there would be no more cuts but those already planned threatened to undermine the help that Theresa May promised for ‘just about managing’ families while the two caps were an alarming prospect for social tenants and landlords alike.
In November I blogged about the start of the reduction in the overall benefit cap, threatening the finances of 116,000 families (on the Chartered Institute of Housing’s estimate) and leaving many with just 50p a week towards their rent. Ministers continued their efforts to devise a funding system for supported housing after the LHA cap but the uncertainty left projects on hold.
Introduction of the LHA cap was delayed until 2019 but will now apply to existing as well as new tenants. In general needs housing, that raises a huge issue about single tenants under 35, whose housing benefit will be restricted to the shared accommodation rate.
If 2016 was the year of surprises, the continuing impact of benefit cuts on tenants and landlords alike was no surprise at all.
For part one of this blog click here.
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Truncated Form of the Epstein-Barr Virus Protein EBNA-LP Protects against Caspase-Dependent Apoptosis by Inhibiting Protein Phosphatase 2A
Julie Garibal, Émilie Hollville, Andrew I. Bell, Gemma L. Kelly, Benjamin Renouf, Yasushi Kawaguchi, Alan B. Rickinson, Joëlle Wiels
Julie Garibal
1UMR 8126 CNRS, University Paris-Sud, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif cedex, France
Émilie Hollville
Andrew I. Bell
2Cancer Research UK Institute for Cancer Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Gemma L. Kelly
Benjamin Renouf
Yasushi Kawaguchi
3Department of Infectious Disease Control, The Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
Alan B. Rickinson
Joëlle Wiels
For correspondence: wiels@igr.fr
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-encoded leader protein, EBNA-LP, strongly activates the EBNA2-mediated transcriptional activation of cellular and viral genes and is therefore important for EBV-induced B-cell transformation. However, a truncated form of EBNA-LP is produced in cells infected with variant EBV strains lacking EBNA2 due to a genetic deletion. The function of this truncated form is unknown. We show here that some Burkitt's lymphoma cells harboring defective EBV strains are specifically resistant to the caspase-dependent apoptosis induced by verotoxin 1 (VT-1) or staurosporine. These cells produced low-molecular-weight Y1Y2-truncated isoforms of EBNA-LP, which were partly localized in the cytoplasm. The transfection of sensitive cells with constructs encoding truncated EBNA-LP isoforms, but not full-length EBNA-LP, induced resistance to caspase-mediated apoptosis. Furthermore, VT-1 induced protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) activation in sensitive cells but not in resistant cells, in which the truncated EBNA-LP interacted with this protein. Thus, the resistance to apoptosis observed in cells harboring defective EBV strains most probably results from the inactivation of PP2A via interactions with low-molecular-weight Y1Y2-truncated EBNA-LP isoforms.
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a gammaherpesvirus, infects human B lymphocytes and can be used to produce immortalized cell lines in vitro. After infection, the viral DNA persists in the cell nucleus, in an episomal form. A limited number of viral proteins are produced, together with two small, noncoding RNAs (EBER1 and EBER2). The viral proteins produced include six EBV nuclear antigens (EBNA1, -2, -3A, -3B, -3C, and EBNA-LP [leader protein]) and three latent membrane proteins (LMP-1, -2A, and -2B) (38, 51). In vivo, EBV can promote the development of several human B-cell cancers, including Burkitt's lymphoma (BL), Hodgkin's lymphoma, and lymphoproliferation, in immunocompromised patients (21). In these EBV-associated B-cell tumors, the latent protein production is highly variable, with some cells producing only EBNA1 (latency I BL) and others expressing the full spectrum of latent EBV genes (posttransplant lymphoma).
The roles of the latent proteins in the development of EBV-associated cancers have been extensively studied. EBNA1 is needed for the maintenance and replication of the EBV episomal genome and is also, apparently, able to inhibit apoptosis (19). EBNA2, -3A, and -3C and LMP-1 are crucial for B-cell transformation in vitro and have antiapoptotic properties, whereas LMP-2A is not essential for cell transformation but provides an important survival signal for B cells (21, 50, 51). EBNA-LP is important for B lymphocyte immortalization by EBV and is a coactivator of EBNA-2-mediated transcriptional activation. However, the gene encoding this protein remains one of the most enigmatic viral genes expressed in infected cells.
The EBNA-LP open reading frame consists of the repeating W1 and W2 exons of the major internal repeat region (IR1) of the EBV genome and the unique C-terminal Y1 and Y2 exons located just downstream from IR1 (39, 43). Due to variations of IR1 in different viruses and alternative splicing between the repeated W1W2 exons and the unique Y1Y2 exons, various isoforms of EBNA-LP are produced in EBV-infected cells (38). Furthermore, a Y1Y2-truncated form of EBNA-LP also exists in cells infected with a variant EBV strain (35). EBNA-LP is found predominantly in the nucleus, but its distribution is variable: it is found in promyelocytic leukemia nuclear bodies (PML NB; multiprotein nuclear structures involved in various cellular processes, including transcriptional regulation, DNA repair, and apoptosis) in lymphoblastoid cell lines, but is distributed diffusely throughout the nucleus in some BL cells or during the early infection of B lymphocytes (30, 44). Furthermore, in cells transfected with a vector encoding EBNA-LP with only one W1W2 repeat, the protein is found exclusively in the cytoplasm (15, 34).
EBNA-LP is known to enhance the EBNA2-mediated transcriptional activation of various cellular (cyclin D2) and viral (LMP-1 and LMP-2B) genes (10, 30, 31, 33, 42). Three functionally conserved regions (CR1, CR2, and CR3) have been identified in the W1W2 domains: CR1 and CR2 constitute a bipartite nuclear localization signal, which, together with CR3, is critical for the transcriptional coactivation function of EBNA-LP. Only proteins with two or more copies of W1W2 display coactivation (28, 34). Studies with recombinant EBV strains containing a Y1Y2-truncated form of EBNA-LP have shown that this domain plays a role in determining immortalization efficiency but is not required for cooperation with EBNA2 (10, 26, 30). Ling et al. recently showed that EBNA-LP interacts (through the CR3 region) with the PML NB-associated protein Sp100 and that—due to its ability to displace Sp100 and heterochromatin protein 1α from PML NB—this interaction is important for the EBNA-LP coactivation function (25). These data identify, for the first time, some of the components of the PML NB involved in the ability of EBNA-LP to coactivate EBNA2, but the exact mechanism underlying this process still remains to be fully characterized.
EBNA-LP has also been shown to interact with several cellular proteins, including oncogenes and tumor suppressors (pRb, p53, p14ARF, and Fte1/S3a), heat shock proteins (hsp70 and hsp72/hsc73), molecules involved in cell cycle regulation (DNA-PKcs and HA95) and HAX-1, an antiapoptotic protein (6, 9, 14, 15, 27, 45). However, the roles of most of these interactions remain to be established.
We show here that most BL cells containing defective EBV strains are specifically resistant to the caspase-dependent apoptosis induced by verotoxin 1 (VT-1) or staurosporine. These cells produce low-molecular-weight Y1Y2-truncated isoforms of EBNA-LP, which are partly localized in the cytoplasm. The transfection of these truncated EBNA-LP isoforms, but not of full-length molecules, conferred resistance to caspase-mediated apoptosis. VT-1 induced activation of the serine-threonine protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) in sensitive but not in resistant cells, in which truncated EBNA-LP interacted with this phosphatase. A specific PP2A inhibitor decreased VT-1-induced apoptosis. Thus, the resistance to apoptosis observed in cells containing defective EBV strains probably results from the functional inactivation of PP2A through interaction with Y1Y2-truncated EBNA-LP isoforms.
Cell lines.All cell lines, except MCF7, were originally established from endemic or sporadic cases of BL. BL70/P3HR1, BL2/P3HR1, and EHRB/Ramos were generated by stable infection of the original EBV-negative BL cell lines with the P3HR1 virus strain, and BL2/B95 was generated by stable infection with the B95-8 virus strain. Sal-BL (EBV+), Oku-BL (EBV+), Oku-BL clone 1, and Oku-BL clone 4 were established at A. Rickinson's laboratory (18). These cell lines were cultured in RPMI 1640 medium (Invitrogen) containing 2 mM l-glutamine, 1 mM sodium pyruvate, 20 mM glucose, 100 U/ml penicillin, and 100 μg/ml streptomycin and supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (complete RPMI medium). The MCF7 cell line was cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) containing 20 μg/ml gentamicin and supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (complete DMEM).
Antibodies and reagents.Purified recombinant VT-1 was kindly provided by C. Lingwood (Toronto, Canada), anti-EBNA-LP monoclonal antibody (MAb) clone 4D3 (40) by Y. Kawagushi (Tokyo, Japan), and anti-EBNA1 MAb clone 1H4 (7) by F. Grasser (Munich, Germany). Staurosporine was obtained from Calbiochem and okadaic acid from Sigma. Anti-caspase 8 MAb (clone 1-3) and anti-poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) MAb (Ab-2, clone c-2-10) were purchased from Calbiochem, anti-LMP-1 MAb (CS.1-4) from DAKO, antitopoisomerase II MAb (Ki-S1) from Chemicon International, anti-EBNA2 (clone PE2) from Novocastra Laboratories, and anti-IκBα MAb (H-4) and goat anti-PP2Ac polyclonal Ab from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. Horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated rabbit anti-mouse immunoglobulin G (IgG) (RAM-IgG) and donkey anti-goat Ig (DAG-Ig) were purchased from Zymed Laboratories, Inc., and Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc., respectively. Alexa 488-conjugated goat anti-mouse Ig (GAM-Alexa 488) Ab was obtained from Molecular Probes.
Plasmids and transfection.The W1W2Y1Y2, (W1W2)2, (W1W2)4, (W1W2)2Y1Y2, and (W1W2)4Y1Y2 plasmids used in this study were generated as previously described (30). pSG5-LP and pSG5-LPd45 (EBNA-LP lacking the 45 C-terminal codons corresponding to the Y1Y2 domain) plasmids were kindly provided by C. W. Peng (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA) and were originally described by Harada et al. (10). For transient transfection experiments, 6 × 105 MCF7 cells were seeded in 24-well plates the day before transfection and 75 to 90% confluent cells were transfected with 3 μg of various plasmids by using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's protocol. Six hours after transfection, the cells were washed and placed in fresh complete DMEM. The cells were harvested 48 h after transfection and used for further experiments.
For stable transfection experiments, 107 Ramos cells were electroporated (950 μF and 200 mV) with 15 μg pSG5 vector and 3 μg of pSG5(NeoR); 10 μg of pSG5-LP and 2 μg of pSG5(NeoR); or 15 μg of pSG5-Ld45 and 3 μg of pSG5(NeoR). After 48 h, the transfected cells were distributed in 96-well plates (2,000 cells per well) and maintained in complete RPMI 1640 supplemented with 1.6 mg/ml neomycin (PAA Laboratories) for selection. The plates were incubated for 4 weeks, and stable transfectants were then used for further experiments.
Induction of apoptosis and cell death measurement.We incubated 1 × 106 cells for various periods of time at 37°C with either VT-1 (5 ng/ml) or staurosporine (2.5 μM) in 1 ml of complete RPMI medium. The cells were washed in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), resuspended in annexin buffer (10 mM HEPES-NaOH, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 5 mM KCl, 1 mM MgCl2, 1.8 mM CaCl2) containing 2.5 μg/ml fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled annexin V (Roche Applied Science), and incubated at 4°C for 5 to 10 min. The cells were washed, resuspended in annexin buffer supplemented with propidium iodide (PI) (10 μg/ml), and analyzed by flow cytometry (FACSCalibur, Becton-Dickinson). Alternatively, levels of cell death were assessed by measuring the proportion of sub-G1 hypodiploid cells. The cells were fixed by incubation in 70% ethanol at −20°C for at least 30 min, washed twice in PBS, and incubated for 30 min at 37°C in 20 mM EDTA, 100 μg/ml RNase A (Sigma-Aldrich, France) and 10 μg/ml PI in PBS. The DNA contents were measured by flow cytometry.
Western blot analysis.A pellet containing 1 × 106 cells was solubilized by incubation in ice-cold lysis buffer (25 mM Tris HCl, pH 6.8, 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate, 50 mM dithiothreitol, complete protease inhibitor) for 10 min. Sample loading buffer (60 mM Tris-HCl, 3% sodium dodecyl sulfate, 10% glycerol, 5% β-mercaptoethanol) was added, and the mixture was boiled for 5 min. The proteins were separated by electrophoresis in 12% bis-Tris precast gels and transferred to polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes (Millipore). The blots were blocked overnight at 4°C in 3% nonfat milk powder and 2% glycine in PBS and incubated for 1 h at room temperature with primary antibodies. The blots were washed and incubated with HRP-conjugated RAM-IgG or HRP-conjugated DAG-Ig. The antibody complexes were detected by enhanced chemiluminescence (Amersham Biosciences).
Immunoprecipitation.We disrupted 5 × 106 cells by sonication (10 s on ice) in 1 ml of lysis buffer (150 mM NaCl, 50 mM Tris, pH 7.5, 5 mM EDTA, 0.5% NP-40, 0.5% sodium deoxycholic acid, 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulfate, complete protease inhibitor cocktail). The lysates were mixed with 1 μg of 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb and incubated overnight at 4°C under rotation and then for 4 h at 4°C with 30 μl of protein A-Sepharose beads (Amersham Biosciences). The beads were washed twice with ice-cold lysis buffer and twice with PBS and resuspended in loading buffer. Samples were boiled for 5 min and analyzed by Western blotting.
Preparation of nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions.The cells (1 × 107) were washed, resuspended in ice-cold, low-salt buffer (10 mM Tris, pH 8, 1.5 mM MgCl2, complete protease inhibitor cocktail) and incubated for 10 min at 4°C. They were then centrifuged at 800 × g for 10 min. The cytoplasmic fractions (supernatants) were stored at −80°C, whereas the pellets were resuspended in high-salt buffer (10 mM Tris, pH 8, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 0.5 M NaCl, complete protease inhibitor cocktail) and incubated for 30 min at 4°C. The lysates were centrifuged at 15,000 × g for 15 min and the supernatants—containing the nuclear fractions—were stored at −80°C.
Immunofluorescence.Cells grown on glass coverslips were fixed by incubation in methanol-acetone (1:1) for 10 min at −20°C, washed with PBS, and incubated for 1 h at room temperature with 2% bovine serum albumin in PBS to block nonspecific binding. The cells were then probed with 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb and GAM-Alexa 488 and analyzed by using a Zeiss LSM 510 confocal microscope.
PP2A assay.Cells (3 × 107) were incubated with VT-1 (5 ng/ml) in 30 ml of complete RPMI medium for various periods of time at 37°C. They were washed with Tris-buffered saline, lysed in 300 μl of ice-cold IH buffer (20 mM imidazole-HCl, 2 mM EDTA, 2 mM EGTA, pH 7, 10 μg/ml each of aprotinin, leupeptin, and pepstatin, 1 mM benzamidine, and 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride) and sonicated for 10 s at 4°C. The PP2A immunoprecipitation assay was carried out as recommended by the manufacturer (Upstate). Briefly, subunit C (catalytic) of PP2A was immunoprecipitated and the precipitates were washed twice in lysis buffer and twice in a serine/threonine assay buffer (100 μM CaCl2 and 50 mM Tris-HCl [pH 7.0]). The pellets were resuspended in assay buffer, and the levels of PP2A activity were measured after adding 250 μM phosphopeptide. The phosphatase reactions were allowed to proceed for 10 min at 30°C. The release of phosphate from the added phosphopeptide was quantified with malachite green reagent. Changes in absorbance were measured at 620 nm in a Multiskan EX plate reader (Thermo Electron). A phosphate standard curve for quantifying the levels of phosphatase activity of the samples was generated in parallel.
Burkitt cells containing a defective EBV strain are resistant to caspase-dependent apoptosis.We previously showed that P3HR1 cells were resistant to VT-1-induced apoptosis (48), despite expressing high levels of the VT-1-receptor (the Gb3/CD77 glycolipid antigen). We investigated the mechanism underlying this resistance by assessing the sensitivity to VT-1 of a selected panel of cell lines expressing similar levels of Gb3/CD77 antigen (Fig. 1A, left panel). Four cell lines (Ramos, BL2, Mutu I, and BL70) were highly sensitive to VT-1-induced apoptosis, whereas two others (P3HR1 and Daudi) were completely resistant. VT-1 induced a caspase- and mitochondrion-dependent pathway in sensitive cell lines: caspase 8 activation and the cleavage of PARP (a direct target of caspase 3) were demonstrated by Western blotting (Fig. 1B, left panel), and a loss of mitochondrial membrane potential (Δψm) was detected by flow cytometry using DiOC6(3) dye (data not shown). No caspase 8 activation, PARP cleavage, or loss of Δψm was observed in the VT-1-resistant cell lines.
VT-1 and staurosporine induce caspase-dependent apoptotic cell death in some, but not all, BL cell lines. (A) Cells were incubated for 16 h with VT-1 (5 ng/ml), staurosporine (2.5 μM), or complete RPMI medium (control). The cells were labeled with annexin V-FITC and PI and analyzed with a FACSCalibur flow cytometer to determine the percentages of apoptotic cells. Error bars show the standard deviations. (B) Cells were incubated for 16 h with VT-1, staurosporine, or complete RPMI medium (−). Cell pellets were lysed and equal amounts of protein were subjected to electrophoresis in 12% bis-Tris precast gels. The proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes, which were probed with an anti-caspase 8 MAb or an anti-PARP MAb. Molecular sizes are indicated to the right of each gel.
P3HR1 and Daudi cells are resistant to VT-1-induced apoptosis but are killed by a caspase-independent pathway induced by anti-Gb3/CD77 MAb (46, 48), suggesting that the resistance mechanism is specific for apoptosis pathways involving caspases. We tested this hypothesis by treating the same cell lines with staurosporine, a kinase inhibitor that induces apoptosis in a caspase-dependent manner (47). The cell viability and levels of caspase activation were assessed. Results similar to those for VT-1 were obtained: Ramos, BL2, and Mutu I underwent apoptosis, whereas P3HR1 and Daudi did not (Fig. 1A, right panel); caspase 8 activation and PARP cleavage were detected in sensitive cells but not in resistant cells (Fig. 1B, right panels).
The two African BL cell lines, P3HR1 and Daudi, both contain EBV strains lacking the EBNA2 gene and part of the EBNA-LP gene (13, 35). They display an atypical form of latency (“BamHI W promoter [Wp]-restricted”), in which the Wp, rather than the Qp, is active, leading to the production of EBNA1, the EBNA3s, and truncated EBNA-LP (16, 18). We investigated whether this characteristic was involved in the resistance to apoptosis by treating EBV-negative BL cells and their in vitro EBV-infected counterparts with VT-1 or staurosporine. The infection of Ramos, BL2, and BL70 cells with the P3HR1 virus strain (which did not modify Gb3/CD77 expression on the cell surface [data not shown]) strongly decreased sensitivity to VT-1, whereas the infection of BL2 cells with the B95-8 virus strain had only a slight effect (Fig. 2A, left panel). Similarly, Ramos, BL2, and BL70 cells infected with the P3HR1 strain became less sensitive to staurosporine than their EBV-negative parental cells, whereas BL2/B95 cells remained as sensitive as the BL2 cells (Fig. 2A, right panel). The levels of caspase activation were also measured by Western blotting of extracts of treated EBV-negative and EBV-infected cells. Procaspase 8 and PARP were cleaved in Ramos, BL2, and BL2/B95 cells treated with VT-1 or staurosporine but were not cleaved (or only partly cleaved) in EHRB/Ramos and BL2/P3HR1 cells treated with these two compounds (Fig. 2B).
Infection with the P3HR1 strain of EBV protects BL cells against VT-1- and staurosporine-induced apoptosis. (A) Cells were incubated for 16 h with VT-1 (5 ng/ml), staurosporine (2.5 μM), or complete RPMI medium (control). The cells were labeled with annexin V-FITC and PI and analyzed with a FACSCalibur flow cytometer to determine the percentages of apoptotic cells. Error bars show the standard deviations. (B) Cells were incubated for 16 h with VT-1, staurosporine, or complete RPMI medium (−). Cell pellets were lysed, and equal amounts of protein were subjected to electrophoresis in 12% bis-Tris precast gels. The proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes, which were probed with an anti-caspase 8 MAb or an anti-PARP MAb. Molecular sizes are indicated to the right of each gel.
Thus, infection of the cells with a variant EBV strain lacking the EBNA2 gene and the last two coding exons of the EBNA-LP gene seems to protect against the most widely used apoptotic pathway. This protection occurs at the early stages of apoptosis, as caspase 8 showed little or no activation.
Apoptosis-resistant cells produce a truncated, low-molecular-weight EBNA-LP protein, localized in the cytoplasm.As VT-1 and staurosporine induce apoptosis in EBV-negative BL cells, resistance to apoptosis is unlikely to be due to the lack of EBNA2 in P3HR1-infected cells. We therefore hypothesized that the truncated form of EBNA-LP might be involved in this resistance. EBNA-LP is variable in size, even when not truncated, and its location, in the nucleus or cytoplasm, depends on the number of W1W2 repeats. We first investigated the production and size of the EBNA-LP protein in sensitive and resistant cell lines. Western blot analysis was performed with the 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb, which has been shown to react with all isoforms of EBNA-LP protein (40). EBNA-LP was detected as a 27-kDa band in the P3HR1, EHRB/Ramos, and BL2/P3HR1 extracts (with a minor band at 50 kDa in BL2/P3HR1), as a 34-kDa band in the Daudi extract, and as a 70-75-kDa doublet band in the BL2/B95 extract. Ramos and BL2 cells, which are EBV negative, and Mutu I cells, a BL cell line with a group I phenotype (8), did not produce EBNA-LP (Fig. 3A). Thus, cells resistant to VT-1- or staurosporine-induced apoptosis contain a low-molecular-weight, truncated EBNA-LP protein, whereas sensitive cells contain either a high-molecular-weight, full-length EBNA-LP protein or no EBNA-LP. As other latent EBV proteins are known to protect cells against apoptosis (19, 23, 24), we assessed the levels of these proteins in our cell lines. As expected, all EBV-positive cells expressed EBNA1 (although at different levels and with slightly different molecular weights), and only BL2/B95 cells expressed EBNA2 and LMP-1 (Fig. 3A). The lack of correlation between the expression of these EBV latent proteins and the resistance to VT-1- or staurosporine-induced apoptosis observed in P3HR1-infected cells indicate that these proteins are not involved in this phenomenon.
Levels of expression of various EBV latent proteins and subcellular distributions of EBNA-LP in various BL cell lines and derived cell clones. (A) Cell pellets were lysed and equal amounts of protein were subjected to electrophoresis in 12% bis-Tris precast gels. The proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes, which were probed with 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb, CS.1-4 anti-LMP-1 MAb, 1H4 anti-EBNA1 MAb, PE2 anti-EBNA2 MAb, or an anti-β-actin MAb (as a control for protein loading). (B and C) Total lysates (T) were fractionated into cytoplasmic (C) and nuclear (N) extracts. Equal amounts of each fraction (20 μg protein) were subjected to electrophoresis in 12% bis-Tris precast gels. The proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes, which were probed with 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb. We checked that fractionation was complete by probing the membranes with MAbs recognizing a nuclear protein (topoisomerase II) and a cytoplasmic protein (IκBα). Molecular sizes are indicated to the right.
We further investigated the possible role of the truncated EBNA-LP protein in resistance to apoptosis by determining its subcellular distribution. Protein extracts were separated into nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions, and Western blotting was performed with 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb. We checked the quality of fractionation by also probing blots with antibodies recognizing proteins known to be localized in the nucleus (topoisomerase II) or in the cytoplasm (IκBα). The 27-kDa and 34-kDa forms of EBNA-LP, expressed in P3HR1, EHRB/Ramos, BL2/P3HR1, and Daudi cells, were found only or mostly in the cytoplasmic fractions, whereas the minor, 50-kDa band expressed in BL2/P3HR1 cells was found in the nuclear fraction. By contrast, the 70-75-kDa doublet detected in the BL2/B95 extract was strictly nuclear (Fig. 3B).
BL cell lines (Sal-BL and Oku-BL) carrying both a viral genome with a deletion (e.g., P3HR1 and Daudi) and a wild-type genome, but in which only the genome with a deletion is expressed, have recently been established (16, 18). The production and distribution of EBNA-LP were investigated in these cell lines and in subclones of Oku-BL containing either both genomes (clone 4) or only the genome with a deletion (clone 1) (18). EBNA-LP was detected as a single, predominantly nuclear, 50-kDa band in Sal-BL cells. Various isoforms (35, 47, and 80 kDa) were present in Oku-BL extracts, and these isoforms were also predominantly nuclear. These isoforms were not detected in the subclones, but a 150-kDa band, equally distributed between the cytoplasm and nucleus, was detected in Oku-BL clone 1, whereas a faint, 27-kDa band (similar to that in P3HR1 cells) was detected in the cytoplasmic fraction of Oku-BL clone 4 (Fig. 3C). We assessed the sensitivity of these cell lines to staurosporine and VT-1. Staurosporine induced apoptosis in 60% of Sal-BL, Oku-BL, and Oku-BL clone 1 cells, whereas only 36% of Oku-BL clone 4 cells were killed by this compound; similar results were obtained with VT-1, with Oku-BL clone 4 cells being more resistant than the other cells (Table 1).
VT-1- and staurosporine-induced apoptosis in Oku-BL cells and derived cell clonesa
Thus, cells resistant to caspase-dependent apoptosis seem to contain a truncated, low-molecular-weight EBNA-LP protein, localized predominantly in the cytoplasm (P3HR1 [parental or converted cells], Daudi, and Oku-BL clone 4), whereas sensitive cells produce either a full-length high-molecular-weight protein (BL2/B95) or a truncated high-molecular-weight protein localized predominantly in the nucleus (Sal-BL, Oku-BL, and Oku-BL clone 1).
Transfection with a Y1Y2-truncated EBNA-LP construct protects cells against caspase-dependent apoptosis.We used transient and stable transfection experiments to investigate the roles of various truncated and full-length isoforms of EBNA-LP in resistance to apoptosis. As BL cells have a very low transfection efficiency, we used MCF7 cells (which regularly yielded 80% transfected cells) for transient transfection with various pSG5-based EBNA-LP constructs. On Western blots, the (W1W2)4Y1Y2 construct gave a 37-kDa protein, (W1W2)4 a 32-kDa protein, (W1W2)2Y1Y2 a 22-kDa protein, (W1W2)2 a 17-kDa protein, and (W1W2)1Y1Y2 a 16-kDa protein (Fig. 4A). The subcellular distributions of the variant EBNA-LP proteins in the transiently transfected cells were assessed by confocal microscopy (Fig. 4B). Full-length EBNA-LP, with two or four W1W2 repeats, was detected only in cell nuclei [with, however, faint cytoplasmic staining also observed with the (W1W2)4Y1Y2 construct], whereas the protein with only one repeat was found exclusively in the cytoplasm (detected as numerous large spots). Y1Y2-truncated EBNA-LP with two or four W1W2 repeats was found either in the nuclei only or in both the nuclei and cytoplasm. In this case, the cytoplasmic staining was diffuse and usually weaker than the nuclear staining (see the high-magnification image of cells transfected with the construct containing four W1W2 repeats).
Production levels, subcellular distributions, and effects on apoptosis of EBNA-LP after transient transfection. (A) MCF7 cells were transfected with 3 μg of various EBNA-LP expression vectors and grown for 48 h. Cell pellets were lysed, and equal amounts of protein were subjected to electrophoresis in 12% bis-Tris precast gels. The proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes, which were probed with 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb or an anti-β-actin MAb (as a control for protein loading). Molecular sizes are indicated to the right. (B) MCF7 cells were transfected with 3 μg of various EBNA-LP expression vectors and grown on glass coverslips; 48 h after transfection, the cells were stained with 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb and GAM-Alexa 488. (C) MCF7 cells were transfected with 3 μg of various EBNA-LP expression vectors; 48 h after transfection, the cells were treated with staurosporine (2.5 μM) for 6 h and stained with PI. The levels of apoptosis were assessed by determining the proportions of cells with sub-G1 DNA content by flow cytometry. The percentages of apoptosis inhibition were determined by comparison with cells transfected with the pSG5 vector. Error bars show the standard deviations.
As MCF7 cells do not express the Gb3/CD77 antigen, we assessed the sensitivity of transfectants to apoptosis by treating them with staurosporine only. We quantified apoptosis by measuring the percentages of cells in the sub-G1 fractions, and the inhibition of apoptosis was determined by comparison with cells transfected with the empty pSG5 vector. Full-length EBNA-LP [(W1W2)4Y1Y2 and (W1W2)2Y1Y2] conferred slight protection against staurosporine (16% ± 5% and 24% ± 1% inhibition of apoptosis, respectively), whereas the Y1Y2-truncated EBNA-LP, although produced in smaller amounts than the full-length proteins [compare (W1W2)4 with (W1W2)4Y1Y2 and (W1W2)2 with (W1W2)2Y1Y2 in Fig. 4A], had a much stronger effect [58% ± 3% and 57% ± 6% inhibition for the (W1W2)4 and (W1W2)2 constructs, respectively]. Interestingly, the full-length protein with only one W1W2 repeat conferred intermediate protection (36% ± 4% inhibition of apoptosis) (Fig. 4C).
For confirmation of these results, we also derived Ramos cells that stably expressed full-length or Y1Y2-truncated EBNA-LP. The EBNA-LP expression levels were checked by Western blot analysis (Fig. 5A), and the sensitivity to apoptosis of these stable transfectants were determined by treating them with VT-1 (Fig. 5B). Compared to cells transfected with the empty pSG5 vector, cells expressing full-length EBNA-LP (Ramos-pSG5-LP) were not resistant to apoptosis (6.5% ± 6% inhibition of apoptosis), whereas cells expressing Y1Y2-truncated EBNA-LP (Ramos-pSG5-LPd45) displayed significant protection against the effects of VT-1 (32.5% ± 2% inhibition of apoptosis).
Effect of stable transfection of EBNA-LP on apoptosis. Ramos cells were cotransfected with EBNA-LP expression vectors and the pSG5(NeoR) vector, which carries the neomycin resistance gene. The cells were grown in selection medium (complete RPMI supplemented with 16 mg/ml neomycin) for 4 weeks, and the clones were then tested. (A) Cell pellets were lysed, and equal amounts of protein were subjected to electrophoresis in 12% bis-Tris precast gels. The proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes, which were probed with 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb. Molecular sizes are indicated to the right. (B) Stable transfectants were treated with VT-1 (5 ng/ml) for 16 h, labeled with annexin V-FITC and PI, and analyzed by using a FACSCalibur flow cytometer to determine the percentages of apoptotic cells. The percentages of apoptosis inhibition were determined by comparison with cells transfected with the pSG5 vector. Error bars shown the standard deviations.
These results confirm our previous observations and demonstrate that truncated and cytoplasmic EBNA-LP protects cells against caspase-dependent apoptosis.
PP2A is involved in the apoptotic signaling cascade and forms a complex with EBNA-LP in resistant cells.PP2A regulates several apoptotic signaling pathways at the level of or upstream from the initiator caspase 8 (11). We investigated the possible involvement of PP2A in our caspase-dependent apoptotic pathways by using okadaic acid, a potent inhibitor of this phosphatase. Ramos cells, with or without prior incubation with okadaic acid, were treated with VT-1, and the levels of apoptosis were measured. PP2A inhibition significantly decreased the sensitivity to VT-1 (41% ± 4% apoptotic cells in samples treated with okadaic acid versus 63% ± 1% in control samples; Fig. 6A), suggesting that this phosphatase is involved in the VT-1-induced signaling cascade.
PP2A is involved in VT-1-induced apoptosis. (A) Ramos cells were incubated with okadaic acid (50 nM) or with vehicle (DMSO) or without any treatment (−) for 1 h before being treated with VT-1 for 4 h. The cells were labeled with annexin V-FITC and PI and analyzed by using a FACSCalibur flow cytometer to determine the percentages of apoptotic cells. (B) VT-1-sensitive or -resistant cells were incubated with or without VT-1 (5 ng/ml) for various periods of time and lysed. The lysates were immunoprecipitated with an anti-PP2A Ab, and the levels of PP2A activity were determined by measuring the release of phosphate from a phosphopeptide substrate in a colorimetric assay. The increases in the PP2A activity levels of treated samples were determined with respect to the levels in untreated samples. Error bars indicate the standard deviations.
We then measured the levels of PP2A-specific activity of sensitive (Ramos and BL2/B95) and resistant (P3HR1) cells treated with or without VT-1 for various periods of time. Before treatment, the levels of phosphatase activity of PP2A-immune complexes were similar in all three cell lines (Ramos, 95 pmol phosphate/min/mg protein; BL2/B95, 134 pmol phosphate/min/mg protein; and P3HR1, 103 pmol phosphate/min/mg protein), but marked differences were observed after incubation with VT-1. The levels of PP2A activity increased strongly in both Ramos and BL2/B95 cells after 1 h of treatment (factors of 1.9 ± 0.01 and 1.7 ± 0.15, respectively) and then decreased, reaching nearly basal levels after 2 and 4 h. By contrast, the level of PP2A activity of P3HR1 cells was unaffected by VT-1 treatment (Fig. 6B).
Having demonstrated the involvement of PP2A activation in VT-1-induced apoptosis, we investigated whether the truncated, low-molecular-weight EBNA-LP could interfere with PP2A. Coimmunoprecipitation experiments were carried out with P3HR1 and Ramos protein extracts and with BL2, BL2/P3HR1, and BL2/B95 extracts for comparison of cells with the same background. Immunoprecipitations were performed with 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb, and the immunoprecipitates were probed for PP2A. The catalytic subunit of PP2A was detected as a 36-kDa protein in the inputs of all five cell lines and was coprecipitated with the truncated EBNA-LP protein in P3HR1 and BL2/P3HR1 cells, but not with the full-length protein in BL2/B95 cells (Fig. 7). Control Western blots with 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb showed that this molecule was immunoprecipitated in BL2/B95 as a 70-75-kDa doublet and in P3HR1 and BL2/P3HR1 as a 27-kDa band (Fig. 7). The coimmunoprecipitation of PP2A with EBNA-LP did not depend on the amount of EBNA-LP in the cells, because BL2/B95 cells consistently produce larger amounts of this protein than P3HR1 or BL2/P3HR1 (see the inputs of these three cell lines in Fig. 7 and also Fig. 3). We can therefore conclude that the interaction between PP2A and truncated EBNA-LP prevents PP2A activation, resulting in resistance to apoptosis.
PP2A interacts with EBNA-LP in cells resistant to VT-1-induced apoptosis. Lysates obtained from various VT-1-sensitive or -resistant cells were subjected to immunoprecipitation (IP) with 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb or irrelevant Abs (Irr). Western blot analysis was then performed with an anti-PP2Ac Ab or 4D3 anti-EBNA-LP MAb. As a control for protein levels before IP, a portion of cell lysate (Input) corresponding to 15% of the input for IP was also included in the Western blot analysis. Molecular sizes are indicated to the right.
In this study, we showed that a C-terminally truncated variant viral EBNA-LP protein, lacking the Y1Y2 domains and with a limited number of W1W2 repeats, conferred resistance to caspase-dependent apoptosis by interacting with cellular PP2A. This conclusion is based on the demonstration that EBV-infected BL cells producing low-molecular-weight truncated isoforms of EBNA-LP are not killed by two potent inducers (VT-1 and staurosporine) of caspase-dependent apoptosis, whereas cells producing full-length isoforms are killed. Furthermore, the transient and stable transfection of EBV-negative cells with truncated EBNA-LP strongly decreased their sensitivity to VT-1- and staurosporine-induced apoptosis. Finally, we showed that PP2A was involved in triggering apoptosis, as an inhibitor of this phosphatase significantly reduced cell sensitivity to apoptotic inducers and the levels of PP2A activity increased in sensitive, but not resistant cells, following treatment with VT-1. We showed, by coimmunoprecipitation, that truncated EBNA-LP interacted specifically with PP2A.
Many studies have investigated the role of EBNA-LP, but most have focused on the full-length protein and its role as a coactivator of EBNA2. This study is the first to demonstrate that the truncated EBNA-LP has a specific function in itself: protecting cells against caspase-dependent apoptosis.
We showed that the subcellular distributions of full-length and truncated EBNA-LP clearly differed. Native truncated EBNA-LP was predominantly localized in the cytoplasm, and the transfected truncated form was found in both nucleus and cytoplasm. By contrast, the full-length protein (native and transfected) was almost exclusively nuclear. However, the localization of the truncated form of the protein also depends on the number of W1W2 repeats. Indeed, the truncated EBNA-LP isoforms expressed by Sal-BL and Oku-BL cells, which have molecular masses above 50 kDa, were found predominantly in the nucleus. The observations that these cells were sensitive to apoptosis and that transfection with a full-length EBNA-LP construct containing only one W1W2 repeat (which localized exclusively in the cytoplasm) conferred to the cells intermediate protection to apoptosis stress the importance of the cytoplasmic localization of the low-molecular-weight, truncated EBNA-LP in the protection against apoptosis.
The cellular distribution of the full-length and truncated EBNA-LP forms has long been a matter of debate. Nitsche et al. (30) reported that Y1Y2-truncated EBNA-LP was present in the nuclei of transfected cells and therefore able to cooperate with EBNA2. However, transfection efficiency was low (10 to 15% of the cells) and few labeled cells were shown. We found that cytoplasmic labeling was weaker than nuclear staining, so the cytoplasmic staining may have been too weak to be detected in Nitsche's study. Although full-length EBNA-LP molecules with two or more W1W2 repeats are generally considered to be localized exclusively in the nucleus, various studies have shown that some of this protein is also detectable in the cytoplasm, where it can interact with HAX-1 (6, 15, 28, 34), a protein involved in apoptosis and cell migration (36, 41). It therefore seems likely that all isoforms of EBNA-LP are present in various ratios in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm, but it remains to be determined whether this distribution is permanent or, as suggested by Peng et al. (34), whether EBNA-LP shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Addressing this issue would provide insight into the functional roles of the various isoforms of EBNA-LP.
We provide evidence that the resistance to apoptosis displayed by cells containing truncated EBNA-LP results from the interaction of this viral protein with PP2A, inhibiting the activity of this phosphatase. EBNA-LP homologs are present in several nonhuman primate lymphocryptoviruses, and five conserved regions have been identified. Three of these regions (CR1, CR2, and CR3) are localized in the W1W2 repeats (32) and were shown to be crucial for the EBNA-LP coactivation function (28, 34). Determining whether the truncated forms of the lymphocryptovirus EBNA-LP homologs also protect cells against caspase-dependent apoptosis and specifically coprecipitate PP2A would provide information about EBNA-LP/PP2A interactions. If this were the case, the introduction of mutations or deletions in the conserved regions would make it possible to identify the functional domains of EBNA-LP interacting with PP2A.
PP2A is a major Ser/Thr cellular phosphatase involved in regulating many processes, including transcription, translation, cell cycle progression, and various signal transduction pathways. The core enzyme is a dimer, consisting of a catalytic subunit (PP2Ac) and a regulatory constant subunit (PR65/A). This core dimer can interact with a third variable subunit (B subunit), four families of which have been identified. The association of the core dimer with one of these B subunits may account for the differences in the substrate specificities and regulatory activities of PP2A. PP2A activities are also regulated by interactions with many cellular or viral proteins (12, 22).
PP2A has been reported to be involved in apoptosis, mainly due to its ability to interfere with proteins of the Bcl-2 family (49). PP2A has also been shown to regulate apoptosis by acting on caspases 8 and 3 (2). We are currently measuring the levels of caspase 8 and caspase 3 phosphorylation in our BL cell lines, and we will determine whether the increases in the activity of PP2A observed following the treatment of sensitive cells with VT-1 correlate with changes in these levels. As the apoptotic pathways induced by VT-1 and staurosporine involve mitochondrial depolarization, we will also assess the levels of Bcl-2 and Bax phosphorylation during these processes.
Another viral protein, the small t (ST) antigen of simian virus 40 (SV40), is known to inhibit PP2A activity. SV40 is a DNA tumor virus of the polyomavirus family that has been widely studied. Two proteins from this virus (large T and ST) disturb key tumor suppressor pathways in the cell and play essential roles in the oncogenic properties of this virus (3). PP2A deregulation by ST is absolutely required for the transformation process, and ST specifically targets the B′/B56/PR61 (B56γ) variable subunit (4). In BL cells resistant to VT-1-induced apoptosis, truncated EBNA-LP forms a complex with PP2Ac, probably preventing its activation. It remains to be determined whether the association between EBNA-LP and the C subunit is direct or involves the PR65/A subunit and whether this association can displace the various B subunits from the core dimer.
What is the role of the survival advantage conferred by truncated EBNA-LP, particularly in the absence of EBNA2? Early in the infection of primary B lymphocytes with P3HR1, EBNA-LP is the only product detected, whereas infection with B95-8 induces the production of EBNA-LP and EBNA2, followed by EBNA1 and the EBNA3s (1, 37, 42). The early and sustained production of truncated EBNA-LP during the primary infection of tonsillar B cells may enable these cells to resist germinal center selection, which occurs through activation of the caspase-dependent death receptor pathway (5). Interleukin-10, which is produced in germinal centers (29), was recently shown to induce the expression of LMP-1—the major transforming EBV gene product—in tonsillar B cells infected with P3HR1 (20). The survival advantage conferred by the truncated EBNA-LP, combined with the induction of LMP-1 by interleukin-10, may, therefore, favor the production in vivo of immortalized B cells bearing mutant EBV. Perhaps most importantly, the ability to overcome apoptosis conferred by truncated EBNA-LP also constitutes a clear advantage for the development of tumor cells. Recent reports have shown that, among clones of BL cell lines differing in EBV status, those with the “Wp-restricted” latency form (displayed by cells infected with a virus lacking EBNA2) have the highest degree of protection from apoptosis (17, 18). It has been suggested that EBNA3 protein production in these cells is responsible for this protection (18). Our results demonstrate that truncated EBNA-LP may also potentially account for the survival advantage of these cells. Furthermore, the observation that all viruses identified so far with a deletion of EBNA2 have deletions of the EBNA-LP Y1 and Y2 exons provides strong evidence for a specific role for the truncated EBNA-LP protein in the persistence of these mutant viruses.
We thank Yann Lécluse for flow cytometry analysis, Abdelali Jalil for confocal microscopy, Cécile Tétaud for technical support, Pierre Busson for providing anti-LPM1 MAb and anti-IΚBα MAb, and Mounira Amor Gueret for providing anti-topoisomerase II MAb. We also thank Pierre Busson and Marc Lipinski for helpful discussions.
This work was supported by the Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC 3454). J.G. holds a fellowship from ARC.
Received 6 November 2006.
Accepted 3 May 2007.
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Don't Use Smartphones While Walking, Warns Tokyo Staircase
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In Tokyo, mobile phone carrier NTT Docomo just unveiled a huge yellow warning plastered all over a Shinjuku Station staircase. It reads, "Walking while using a smartphone is dangerous."
Under the warning, in parenthesis, it reads, "But those people probably didn't see this announcement." Oddly, this kind of reminds me of health warnings you see from tobacco companies.
There are also advertisements on the walls next to the staircase, hoping to turn walking with smartphones into socially unacceptable behavior. Below, the text reads, "Even if you don't notice this poster, we want you to notice everyone's icy stares."
The campaign comes after the country's press has increasingly been reporting that walking while using cell phones is causing all sorts of hazards, such as people bumping into each other more and more. But that's hardly the worst of it. According to Asahi, this lack of awareness can also be deadly, as in 2010, one person fell from a train platform while using a smartphone and tragically died. Earlier this spring, a ten year-old boy fell off a platform while looking at his phone's screen. Thankfully, he was rescued in time.
To prompt safety, there are now radio ads telling people in Japan that using smartphones while walking is dangerous. Columnist Takashi Odajima is even calling for a ban on using smartphones while walking, much like the ban on smoking while walking in certain parts of Japan.
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This probably is not unique to Japan, nor is the concern over it. There have been other proposals outside of Japan for a similar ban on using smartphones while walking. One city in New Jersey, apparently, even banned texting while crossing the street. There are also public service announcements in the U.S. about texting when driving.
But if you think things are bad now, wait until headsets go mainstream—or when people start getting chipped!
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Commuters warned of dangers of using smartphones while walking [Asahi]
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A question - there was an episode of Top Gear a few years back where James and Richard were crossing Japan using public transportation, and they got dirty looks on a bus for using their cellphone to talk to Jeremy. What was the deal? Is there a stigma against general cellphone use on the bus, is it that they had the speaker on, what?
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Forbes released its 2018 list of the most powerful women in entertainment, revealing that some of our faves like Oprah Winfrey and Beyoncé, made the top 10.
Topping the list, unsurprisingly was Oprah Winfrey, who has been an influential mainstay in the world of entertainment for years. Beyoncé comes in at No. 6, as one of few musicians on the list. She was highlighted for her groundbreaking Vogue cover, shot by the youngest and first African-American photographer Tyler Mitchel, and her iconic Coachella performance.
Shonda Rhimes, with her trailblazing Netflix deal, comes in at a strong No. 12. Forbes described her multi-million-dollar deal with the streaming platform as a move that “cemented her place at the forefront of entertainment’s digital future—and pioneered Netflix’s handsome producer paydays.”
And Serena Williams came in at a respectable 14th place, having enjoyed a big year following her return to the tennis circuit after giving birth to daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
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Qoyawayma, Al – Large Water Jar with Four Flute Players (1986)
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Al Qoyawayma is known for innovative pottery. This piece is from 1986 and is a classic wide shoulder water jar. The jar is stone polished in a vertical manner, which historically is often called an “onion skin” polish. The jar has four flute players as the design and they are each created in repousse, which is to say that they are pushed out from the inside (not applique). Al has often used the Flute Player, or Kokopelli, as a design on his pottery. It is an ancient figure often found on rock art throughout the southwest and “represents wisdom, goodness, and fertility.” The jar is signed on the bottom. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.
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Qoyawayma, Al (b. 1938)
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Al Qoyawayma has created two distinctive styles of Hopi pottery. The first style embodies figurative sculpted reliefs using the repousse' technique, combined with traditional coil construction and tactile stone polished surfaces. The resulting contemporary Hopi pottery calls forth images of the Southwest with its subtle mix of desert hues, creating an interplay of light and shadow, so reminiscent of the Hopi land. This land and the essence of his ancient relatives nurtures and inspires the artist. The second is one that is polychrome and a “futuristic” version of Sikyatki pottery from the 1500s. The pieces are carved and slipped with various clay colors. The precision of the carving and the contrasting colors make this style visually dynamic. Al writes of himself: “I am of the second generation of Hopi beyond the broken pattern, a pattern, a way of life utterly foreign to the western world. With the full influence of western civilization, I am the product of two worlds. Out of our family clan, the Coyote Clan, it was said that we would be the generation to meet the new world and make a change that was our ancient role as the Coyote Clan….to be those who go before. It is only natural that one of our necessary survival skills, as exhibited at our old ancestral, should be adapted to today’s world of art. Through the gentle hand and guidance of a beautiful teacher, my aunt Polingaysi, I learned the basic techniques and philosophy I now use in my pottery creations. My clay creations reflect the southwest environment's aesthetic influences and values passed down through our family. Form, textures, contrasts, shadow, the softness of desert color hues are foremost in my work. Oral history and research provide me with themes that continually emerge, which identifies who we were and is a profound pursuit. At the same time, my repoussé technique offers a “contemporary” style of ceramics. A particular tradition does not restrict me; instead, I’m free to innovate. I find myself trying to “reach” in my creative pursuit, as I strive to bring into focus those things, human and spiritual, just beyond my reach. Creativity will always be my challenge." Al Qoyawayma won "Best of Pottery" at the 2016 Santa Fe Indian Market and "Best of Pottery" at the 2017 Heard Indian Market.
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The antioxidative effect of electro-acupuncture in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease.
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Accumulating evidence indicates that oxidative stress plays a critical role in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Our previous work has shown that 100 Hz electro-acupuncture (EA) stimulation at ZUSANLI (ST36) and SANYINJIAO (SP6) protects neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta from 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) toxicity in male C57BL/6 mice, a model of PD. In the present study we administered 100 Hz EA stimulation at the two acupoints to MPTP-lesioned mice for 12 sessions starting from the day prior to the first MPTP injection. We found that in the striatum of MPTP treated mice 100 Hz EA stimulation effectively inhibited the production of hydrogen peroxide and malonaldehyde, and increased glutathione concentration and total superoxide dismutase activity through biochemical methods. However, it decreased glutathione peroxidase activity via biochemical analysis and did not affect the level of 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium in the striatum revealed by high performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection. These data suggest that 100 Hz EA stimulation at ST36 and SP6 has antioxidative effects in the MPTP model of PD. This data, along with our previous work, indicates that 100 Hz EA stimulation at ST36 and SP6 protects the nigrostriatal system by multiple mechanisms including antioxidation and antiapoptosis, and suggests that EA stimulation is a promising therapy for treating PD.
As in the previous post, application of electro acupuncture remote from the site of the damage, can be effective. This has changed the way I practice acupuncture. Info on the practice here.
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The Princess Bride: Life Lessons, Optimism and the Pit of Despair
On a sidenote: I read that Mandy Patinkin, when he was filming the big swordfight, imagined he was doing battle with the exact form of cancer that killed his father in 1972, which is probably why his acting is so evocative. The line ‘I want my Father, you son of a bitch’ is one of the few in cinema that ALWAYS gives me chills, every time I see the movie. It’s a small moment with huge meaning– Inigo doesn’t rail at the unfairness of losing his father or bitch about it endlessly in some terrible monologue, he just came up with a plan and that single line is the only indicator of the massive sadness he carried with him ever since his world was destroyed.
Everyone knows, or at least knows OF, the Princess Bride. How you feel about it is an entirely different matter, since it’s the kind of charming, straightforward and well-told story in which anyone can find something to like. Finding something to NOT like about it is the kind of thing that kills conversation at a party, tantamount to saying you’re an advocate of dog-fighting or the industrial use of kittens and baby ducks.
'I'm sorry, I cant' hear you over the sound of Westley screaming in anguish. Or, you know, me being awesome.'
To analyze the film is to make a careful truce with oneself about just how objective one can be. Film analysis is an inherently subjective medium–after all, the effects of a film, all the time, money, and most of all creative coordination that go into it are a multi-step process that can’t be reproduced, a fact that studios bank on. Anyone can make a movie, but what are the chances of two filmmakers and their actors and crew making the SAME movie, and having them come out the exact same? Thus is film, like food, an art rather than a science.
Which is a boring way to introduce the fact that most people on earth who have seen the movie like it, and those who haven’t probably would. I’m sure if you showed it in a theater in Shenzen with a decent translator, barring significant cultural and political barriers, most notable of which is the Chinese notion of saving and losing face, there would be at least some level of appreciation for it.They’d get down to the fight scenes, if only because fight scenes without wires would probably be fascinating and new.
Is the film a crowd-pleaser? Yup. But crowd-pleasing is not always a bad thing. Humans on an evolutionary level enjoy fats in their diet–they are necessary to sustain movement and chemical functions since they are an energy source. If you give a health nut something with fat in it, but don’t tell them there’s fat in it, chances are their brain will tell them ‘you like this!’ on some level, even if they have trained themselves to be turned off to fats. Fats are necessary for survival, especially for hunter-gatherers like primates. Humans on another evolutionary level enjoy swordfights, stories about true love, witty dialogue, monsters, revenge, watching attractive people do things, and feeling smart. There’s no shame in appreciating something that other people appreciate–one thing I have come to loathe these days is the false-elitism of also falsely-jaded pop cultural enthusiasts. Anyone with an opinion and a scathing vocabulary will convince themselves why liking something is wrong and that everyone else is somehow a lesser being for not recognizing the speaker’s innate genius because the movie in question had cheap effects or dated stunts.
But I digress. Part of enjoying a movie you’ve seen before is remembering who you were then, and the experiences ancillary to the actual film.
Vizzini is happy to be anywhere, except a land war in Asia.
My mother, my Aunt Linda and I saw the film at the Cross County 8 theater in West Palm Beach, a theater in a mall that would become a decrepit, half-abandoned shithole I would work at in my teens, where weekday matinee showings were mostly attended by homeless people and prostitutes turning tricks. I remember going home from that fateful showing and telling my Father some of the best jokes, about Inigo urging the Man in Black to hurry up so he can kill him and the Man In Black countering with ‘This isn’t as easy as it looks, I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t distract me.’ I used to recreate the swordfights in my backyard with sticks, and when speaking in front of a crowd I ALWAYS have a moment where I imagine I’ll hear that old crone shouting ‘Boo! Boo! Booooooo!’
An observation I read on the IMDB pointed out that Count Rugen visits five wounds on Inigo Montoya, and that when Inigo is exacting his revenge in the climactic swordfight scene, he visits the same five wounds– but no more than that. It’s an interesting observation, and an extremely good character study: a man who has dedicated his life to revenge gives exactly as he got, no more, and since Count Rugen is the most important person in Count Rugen’s life, Inigo kills him. But there’s something I’d like to posit beyond that observation on the 5 wounds–Inigo received the exact same five wounds as he gave the count–two on the face, one in the shoulder, one in the arm, and one in the stomach. He gave Rugen these same wounds – and Rugen died. This is an interesting point because since Inigo ostensibly dedicated his life to finding and killing Rugen, he really shouldn’t have lived past that moment, but he does. Since Inigo has put his life on hold in order to avenge his Father, he has other things he might probably like to do. Open a fencing school, take up piracy (the movie’s suggestion), hell, just take a vacation where he isn’t on the hunt for a six-fingered man. Some day I’d like to make a list of movies that could qualify as Great Movies for Secular Humanists, and this one is definitely going on the list.
On a sidenote: I read that Mandy Patinkin, when he was filming the big swordfight, imagined he was doing battle with the exact form of cancer that killed his father in 1972, which is probably why his acting is so evocative. The line ‘I want my Father back, you son of a bitch’ is one of the few in cinema that ALWAYS gives me chills, every time I see the movie. It’s a small moment with huge meaning– Inigo doesn’t rail at the unfairness of losing his father or bitch about it endlessly in some terrible monologue, he just came up with a plan and that single line is the only indicator of the massive sadness he carried with him ever since his world was destroyed.
Are there flaws in the film? God, yes. I’m not putting this film on a pedestal as some great example to which all should aspire (although it’d be nice if modern filmmakers paid as much attention to story, character, nuance, ANYTHING besides effects or box office), but as an example by which to be inspired.
Cary Elwes’s simple and indirect love proclamation, ‘As you wish,’ hasn’t lost its ability to melt my heart; Inigo’s plan to find the Man in Black— who might be anywhere on earth– by the end of the day still stirs the blood to action, and Buttercup’s assertion that Westley will come for her no matter what bullshit the Prince gets up to (delivered, notably, while she is wearing blue, the color of loyalty) makes me believe in love, in the ability of two people to mean something more to each other than an alternative to being alone.
There’s just so much to love. From the synth soundtrack to Chris Sarandon’s tights to Vizzini’s maxims for a long life, this is a movie that will never get old for me, or for many in my generation.
Author jennnanigansPosted on June 1, 2010 June 4, 2010 Categories ReviewTags adventure, childhood, classics, comedy, fantasy, romance, yammering
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Hallo Spaceboy...
Hallo, everyone. I suppose it's onlt fair that I do this... DISCLAIMER: The coolness of the person to whom I've dedicated this page may be too much for some. I am not responsible for any side-effects caused by viewing this page. Discretion is advised. Thank you. Okay.. now that you've been warned, you may proceed into my little niche of Bowie-ness. I have divided this page into sections for ease of browsing. There is my Labyrinth Section, which gives a brief synopsis of the movie and has a link to a great Labyrinth site. MyLinguini Incident Section, which summarizes that movie as well and will have some .wav files I created free for your downloading enjoyment. MyEarthling Section, dedicated to His Coolness's newest album (which is where I got my nickname, LittleWonder). Here, you will find the track list and my own personal review. My1. Outside Section, which is pretty much the same as the Earthling section, and lastly, myThe Man Who Fell To Earth Section. Why lastly? You'll understand when you read it. :�
I hope you enjoy this page. I know it's pretty feeble, but it is ALWAYS under construction, so... come back again and there'll probably be something new. :) Oh, and if any of you out there happen to have a copy of "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence",or know how I could get one, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know by e-mailing me. It would be much appreciated! :)
Ahh, Labyrinth. Where do I begin? It is truly a wonderous movie, made to stand the test of time... well, kinda. It really is a good movie, but I just don't think it really suits everyone's tastes. The Story: It begins with Sarah (Jennifer Connolly), a young girl who lives with her father and step-mother, her wicked step-mother, if you will. Much to her shagrin, she is told to babysit her little brother, Toby. Feeling burdened and mistreated, she wishes in passing that the Goblin King (played by David Bowie) would come and take the baby away. When her brother disappears and the Goblin King visits her, she regrets wishing that wish. Jareth, the Goblin King, tells her she must make her way through a labyrinth in 13 hours to save her brother. Fearing the consequenses if she declined, she sets out into the Labyrinth, where she meets a strange variety of creatures.The Question I Have:Okay, if you'll notice in the movie, Jareth seems to have a little "thing" for Sarah. What are they trying to teach us?! It IS a children's movie! Not to say Bowie's a pedophile, but... sheesh. Little Wonder's Rating: 10 overall. A classic. Reccomended:The Labyrinth Drinking Game
Linguini Incident
Though a bit obscure, this movie is actually quite entertaining. Maybe it's just because of all the cute Bowie scenes.. I dunno. If you like campy romanic-comedies, this movie is for you. The Plot: Monte (David Bowie) is an immigrant bartender at a posh restaurant who is desperately searching for marriage, not only for his green card, but to win a double-or-nothing bet with the restaurant's owners, Cecil and Dante. He sets his eyes on an aspiring escape artist named Lucy (Patricia Arquette), and tries to woo her over. Somewhat reluctantly, (and with the prodding of her friend Viv [Eszter Bailant]), she agrees to marry him, but when it falls through, Cecil and Dante choose to go to more extreme measures, resulting in another double-or-nothing bet. The Question: How in the world did they get the title? The term, "Linguini Incident" is not mentioned but once, and it's not even suggestive of the plot!! Plus, what happened to the guitar Monte had for that one brief seen? Little Wonder's Rating: 10 for Bowie cuteness, 7 for plot, and 4 1/2 for floating between genres. Coming soon-- The Linguini Incident Drinking game! By yours truly and her friend.
Little Wonder, then. Little Wonder. You Little Wonder, Little Wonder you... Earthling is the newest CD in the Bowie anthology. It owes much to the wonderful world of Electronica. Included on Earthling are the following ( a "*" indicates a single has been released):
Little Wonder*, Looking for Satellites, Battle for Britain (the Letter), Seven Years in Tibet, Dead Man Walking, Telling Lies, The Last Thing You Should Do, I'm Afraid of Americans*, and Law (Earthlings on Fire).
Little Wonder's Rating:A 9 and 1/2. Seems to be lacking something....
1. Outside
Earthling is great, but I'm afraid Outside is better. It is based upon the story (enclosed with the CD) of Detective Nathan Adler and his quest to solve the art-crime murder of Baby Grace Blue. Each track on this album is from the perspective of a character, 4 of whom have spoken tracks on the album (all voices are Bowie's, manipulated to sound like a young girl, a psyco droid woman, an elderly shopkeeper, and Det. Adler). Supposedly, it is the first (hence, the '1.' in front of the title) in a series of five CD's in a boxed set due out before New Years of 1999/2000. The tracks are:
Leon Takes Us Outside, Outside, the Hearts's Fithy Lesson*, A Small Plot of Land, Baby Grace Blue (A Horrid Cassette), Hallo Spaceboy*, The Motel, I Have Not Been to Oxford Town, No Control, The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty), Ramona A. Stone/I Am With Name, Wishful Beginnings, We Prick You, I'm Deranged, Thru' These Architect's Eyes, Strangers When We Meet.
Little Wonder's Rating:10. Definitely. I think mostly due to the incredible "Hallo Spaceboy".
Okay... The reason I put this last is because it was horrible. Maybe I would've liked it, given I could understand it! The Plot: What? There WAS a plot? Hmm.. well, let's see.. okay, he drops to Earth.. gets dressed in a business suit and goes to a hotel... people have sex... he meets Candy Clark...more people have sex... Candy Clark discovers Tommy Newton (Bowie) is an alien and urinates on herself... THEY have sex... he gets captured and taken to some place with a ping pong table where he and Candy play full-contact ping pong... I'm sure there's sex involved somehow... people do experiments of him, and his home planet withers away. Hmm. I guess I was wrong! There IS a plot! The Question: Why was there so much sex?! What does having sex prove?! Oh, and does anybody know what was supposed to be going on? I've seen it twice and am still lost. Little Wonder's Rating:Well, judging it in little bits and pieces (since no one I know can seem to piece them together into anything that makes the slightest bit of sense), I give it.. a 3. And that's only because he's so waif-like and you just have to feel sorry for him.
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LOTUS EDITIONS
American Infantilism
Who are the true patriots? The boorish protesters? The boorish defenders of sham elections? Bill Belichick?
For ‘self-rule’ to be viable, a lot of mature people need to use their freedom well for the common good. So, with today’s dominant forces (in society) driving people to be infantile, activist, self(ie)-seekers, everyone’s existence and that of society is imperiled.
The Year of the Steal (with society stolen by Covid response, ‘racial justice’ movement, and sham election) demanded a coherent response by American citizens. But, alas, the infantilism and disintegration wrought by American education and culture has left Americans incapable of mounting a serious defense of their own society, and instead has made them protagonists in its decline.
Category: United States Tagged:
After a year besotted with bad news, and confused identities, humanity can reset by uniting and identifying with the good news of Christmas. “He sacrificed himself for us in order to set us free from all wickedness and to purify a people so that it could be his very own and would have no ambition except to do good.” Titus 2:14
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Chaos In DC
As the exterminating angels ravage the American scene, the year 2020 will be recalled for the widespread slaughter of society and persons — wrought by its dominating forces.
In a world where people often act as though God doesn’t exist and truth doesn’t matter, it’s reassuring to discover His presence — holding onto His creation — still in the picture.
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As per CDC guidelines.
‘New America(n)’
‘Build Back Better’
Baseless, soulless and faceless — unhinged from: Creator, Natural Law, and Constitution — arbitrary and absurd.
“Man will occupy himself with re-registering mountains and rivers, and will earnestly and repeatedly make improvements in nature. In the end, he will have rebuilt the earth, if not in his own image, at least according to his own taste. We have not the slightest fear that this taste will be bad…” Leon Trotsky, 1923
Category: Anthropology, United States Tagged:
Truth, Justice, Freedom, Peace.
In a special way we salute the election officials, poll workers, and programmers who have come forward with their sworn stories of voting fraud. The loss of the willingness and ability of government officials to conduct a correct election, leaves the US experiment in democracy all but over.
The United States came into existence when its rebel founders succeeded in their fight for justice and freedom — in line with the truth. Today’s social justice warriors are fighting for justice and freedom, while rebelling against the truth.
Bill O’Reilly insists Trump has one narrow path to victory. I believe he has two, and I hope the Supreme Court picks the wide one! pic.twitter.com/nmdujypV5M
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) November 12, 2020
Biden Assumes Command
Far from affirming democracy (Harris), this election may be remembered for having broken democracy.
On a night when he called for an end to “demonization,” Biden (and Harris) said America was “systemically racist.”
American Charade
What a sham(e). With pathological polling, malevolent reporting and harvested-glitch voting, how can democracy be said to be alive in the USA?
In the make-believe world of this political cycle, with systemic fraud the norm, one kernel of truth offers hope for America’s future — the diverse and sincere 70+ million people who voted for Trump.
D-Day In America
Trump Surge Underway
Black and Hispanic Americans are saying “I Can’t Breath,” to the anti-patriarchy pollution coming from the Left.
‘Progressive’ policies destroy persons and society. Truly woke people recognize that.
‘Reimagining’ Nature
“Shut it down!” No (good) future in that.
“Down and down I go, ’round and ’round I go…”
A mask does little for those who are immunocompromised (and can in fact kill them), but a lot to advance personal ‘self-estrangement,’ and its Marxist antidote — (Aufhebung) “abolition” of man/society. For progressives, attacking the virus with the mask reinforces their attack on the person — which harkens to Marx’ “negation of the negation.”
Those who don’t die from the virus, may very well die from the ‘progressive’ response to the virus.
Orientation or preference?
“Passion is the essential force of man energetically bent on its object.” Karl Marx, 1844
The underlying Marxism in progressive politics, has moved people to attempt a re-imagining of nature — with the true “self” reduced to, and obliterated by, data and sex organs.
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Orangeman’s Response
Trump gets a bad rap for his Covid response, which is particularly galling given that he was mostly correct in his attempt to deal holistically with the crisis, keeping in mind the bigger picture — and the needs of society overall — not just isolating on one aspect. The calls to “stay home” and “shut it down” probably led to more deaths than anything Trump did or failed to do. Also, if more sick people had been allowed to take hydroxychloroquine early on (as Trump had advocated), the US death rate might be far less. This reporter’s family doctor (and entire office) came down with Covid in March. They all took hydroxy and each recovered. One spent time on a ventilator, but credits early hydroxychloroquine for her ultimate and complete recovery.
“Indeed the greatest benefactor of humanity, ‘has become a figure of fun and satire.’ The man, whose memory people have revered for centuries, is lately branded by abusers of the right of free speech as ‘the Fraud of the Ages’! And what is still worse, the publication and circulation in our country of such libellous stories is apt to cause revolt in the untrained minds of our children…”
from: “Christopher Columbus, A Greek Nobleman,” Seraphim G. Canoutas, 1943
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Unsettling
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“I Can’t Breath”
An elderly woman walking in Jackson Heights, on Monday, was aided into an ambulance after fainting twice while shopping. At first, it was thought the seemingly healthy woman was having a stroke. But after a bystander took off her mask, she came to and said she was fine. The consensus among those helping her, was that she had fainted from a lack of oxygen — due to the mask she was wearing.
Could it be that inordinate ‘mask wearing’ is putting at-risk people, at greater risk? — hampering their immune system, making them more susceptible to illness.
The extreme (and arbitrary) thinking of leaders is making a just response to Covid hard to find, while increasing the suffering of people and undermining society.
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Main Currents in American Thought
Contempt, rather than respect — for ones neighbor — is dominating the American scene, as people degenerate and disintegrate.
If Trump has been irresponsible, it’s not for not wearing a mask (which in fact “does not eliminate the risk of contracting any disease or infection” and can indeed create new problems for healthy people). But rather in not checking his egoism.
A Covid avoidance strategy should be based on pure (balanced) living, not extremism.
Society needs for Trump to be a good and healthy man — to best represent it’s interests, which the Left seems intent on destroying. But alas, democracies tend to make their citizens into children, rather than truly free men and women.
sed Corpus
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CAnceled UN
The virtual opening of the 75th General Assembly, laments/cheers the breakup of the world’s ‘bedrock of freedom.’ — with the disintegrated family of nations moving to align with China.
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Meditating on Life
OMMMMM.
There is greater evidence to support the view that more healthy people will be harmed by excessive mask wearing (with CO2 emissions), than protected by it.
Reddening of America
Trump Coalition
Black, Spanish, and Muslim men will have had a decisive impact — if Trump is re-elected.
Say No To Marxist Thought
Teaching Marxism, as a religion, needs to be discontinued in American schools.
Got Spirit?
The greatness of black people in America has always been in proportion to their unity with the Holy Spirit. But today’s activists, guided by a materialist ideology — opposed to that Spirit — are being driven by a power that undermines the dignity and self-esteem they seek.
‘Soul Of America’
Claiming, during his DNC speech, that his campaign is about the “soul of America,” Joe Biden proceeded to curse his country, insisting that “no miracle is coming” for Covid sufferers. Later he stated the need “to do the hard work of rooting out our systemic racism.” Thereby adding to the curse and fueling the doom. By encouraging the “systemic racism” narrative of the protesters, rather than confronting it, Biden is contributing to the destruction of what remains of his country, not unlike the Bolsheviks of 1917 Russia.
Dem Dogs of August
Few people have more to be grateful for than former President Obama, and by extension African Americans in recent years. And yet his remarks at the Democrat (Zoo)m Convention were more a litany of contempt, ingratitude and resentments — sure to stultify rather than ennoble his followers, turning them into savages rather than healthy men and women.
If President Trump were more “serious,” he would seek to have Obama jailed as an enemy of the State, and chief enabler of BLM, a terrorist organization at war with the United States.
Amid the Ruins
Dust and Shadows
There should be a funeral for New York City, and the place should be renamed.
July 29, 2020 – Fifth Avenue.
March of Negative Thinkers
July 26, 2020 – Woodside, NYC.
A new world of peace isn’t achieved by clinging to old-world resentments.
Phase IV Reopening
Echoing the corpse that NYC city has become.
Rebels Killing Rebels
American style democracy — “by the people” — was founded by rebels oriented to (building a society around) the truth of man, and freeing themselves from British tyranny. But today’s rebels for democracy (diversity, inclusion, equality), guided by Marxist thought, are rebelling against truth itself, and making a mess of themselves and society.
The problems of the status quo can’t be fixed by the wreckers of the status quo.
NYC Undercover
‘O Liberty’
Injured?
All black lives matter, even the unborn.
By emphasizing material power, BLM eclipses the spirit — the source of true dignity and real power — leaving individuals and society injured and maimed.
Phase III Reopening
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What China could do with all your data
by Jamie Seidel
You - the internet user - have become the front line in a battle for hearts, minds and political advantage. And your personal details are the weapons in an international struggle for power.
News that the Chinese company Zhenhua Data had profiled more than 35,000 Australians among a database of some 2.5 million comes as no surprise to digital privacy and social media analysts.
Information is power.
And that information is easy to steal.
Western corporations have been data-scraping the internet for decades to give them a marketing edge over their competitors. There's little wonder that political entities have begun doing the same, argues Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) analyst Michael Shoebridge.
"The consequences of Google or Facebook having masses of data about you are serious and rightly a topic of public debate and potential further regulation," Shoebridge says.
"But they are quite different to the consequences of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its technology companies having huge amounts of personal information about you and your family."
Zhenhua is just one of several Chinese state-run businesses determined to learn everything it can about you. Even if they don't have a use for that information - yet.
It means Beijing can sift through thousands of candidates for 'back doors' into political, academic and corporate arenas. It's about finding the weakest links to leverage to their advantage, he argues.
"Coercive economics and pressure on governments and companies to say and do what Beijing wants is one clear use," Shoebridge said. "Another is being able to influence political debates and even national decision-making."
HOME FRONT ASSAULT
Tech giants such as Facebook and Google boast to advertising agencies and lobby groups that they harvest thousands of 'data points' from each of their billions of users.
It's surveillance for profit. It's sold for targeted advertising and market research.
International laws - including Australian privacy provisions - make it illegal to store identifiable data portraits of individuals. But researchers warn there's growing evidence such datasets are being aggregated for psychological profiling and attitude "nudging".
Your habits, weaknesses, preferences, biases - even health - can be leveraged through the masses of data collected on you.
"The CCP's methods are not that different from what we see in the global advertising industry," ASPI researcher Samantha Hoffman recently told the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"But instead of trying to sell a product, the CCP is trying to exert authoritarian control. It's using capitalism as a vehicle to access data that can help it disrupt democratic processes and create a more favourable global environment for its power."
It's one of the reasons why social media platform TikTok has attracted so much scrutiny in recent months.
"TikTok is a good example of a seemingly benign app that can give the CCP a lot of useful data," she said.
"You wouldn't think of a social media app that is used by a lot of children around the world as being inherently problematic for political reasons. But the sentiment data from an app like TikTok can be used to understand how people are influenced and how they think."
SURVEILLANCE SCORE
Attached to every name in the controversial Zhenhua Database is a number. It's meaning is unknown.
But it's not unique.
The Chinese Communist Party under its autocratic chairman Xi Jinping has begun imposing an intensive surveillance system on its 1.4 billion citizens. Its effects are already being seen.
Credit card details. Facial-recognition surveillance cameras. Social media posts. Web activity. Reports from local political commissars. All are fed into a national artificial intelligence system that algorithmically determines whether you've been naughty or nice.
Chinese citizens don't get told their resulting 'Social Score'. Their only clue comes when they go to book a train ride to the coast for a holiday. Or apply for a promotion. The Communist Party's computer system will simply say yes - or no.
So how do such AI assessments apply internationally?
"It's not clear how individuals are being targeted," says assistant professor Bruce Baer Arnold of the University of Canberra School of Law.
"The profiling might be systematic. It might instead be conducted on the basis of a specific industry, academic discipline, public prominence or perceived political influence."
What value would the Communist Party gain from gathering and scoring personal profiles on international government, corporate, media, entertainers and social media influencers?
Shoebridge argues they can help identify who might be willing or susceptible to co-operation.
"Large datasets like this can boost conventional espionage operations significantly," Shoebridge writes.
"They give levers to obtain co-operation willingly or unwillingly. When those levers include not just personal foibles and vulnerabilities, but information about a target's children, relatives or friends, it starts to look uglier, even malign."
INFORMATION WARS
Personal dirt equals power. And that can be applied to politicians, media and personalities to significant effect.
"Think about telling a key participant in a high-level government decision that if they don't do what you want, you'll reveal a distressing and compromising thing about one of their children to the world," Shoebridge writes.
"Think about enticing influential people to do what you want by paying off the large legal or medical bills you know they have because of the data you hold about them."
Unlike open democracies, China's rigidly controlled social and news media systems are solely designed to support the Communist Party.
There's little chance any Chinese citizen will get to read about Xi Jinping's billion-dollar family fortune, for example. Or a 'Wolf Warrior' diplomat's embarrassing foot-fetish "like" on Twitter (a service any of his citizens could be jailed for accessing anyway).
The Australian federal government recently announced plans to establish a group designed to tackle disinformation campaigns being directed at social and traditional media, and key public figures.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne went so far as to accuse China and Russia of attempting to "undermine liberal democracy" by spreading disinformation to manipulate social media debate.
"Where we see disinformation, whether it's here, whether it's in the Pacific, whether it's in Southeast Asia, where it affects our region's interests and our values, then we will be shining a light on it," Payne said in June.
She highlighted how such false narratives were given credibility when repeated by trusted sources - such as friends, family, and community leaders.
Foreign Affairs Marise Payne has accused China of undermining liberal democracy. Picture by Sean Davey.
POLITICAL TARGETS
What we've seen of Zhenhua's intercepted dataset seems a relatively basic assembly of names, birthdays, addresses, photographs, political ties and relatives.
But ASPI's recent Engineering Global Consent report highlights far more extensive digital data gathering activities of another Chinese technology firm, GTCOM.
It's controlled by China's Central Propaganda Department and claims to harvest 10 terabytes of data from across the world every day from the likes of Twitter, Facebook, WeChat, public chat forums, blogs and services pages.
"The company describes its work as contributing directly to China's national security, including military intelligence and propaganda," Hoffman says.
"The Party talks about its intent to shape global public opinion in order to protect and expand its own political power. At the same time, Chinese tech companies collect data in support of such efforts."
Military analysts often refer to China's concept of "Three Warfares". It argues warfare is not just about militaries fighting. It's also about controlling the political, economic and psychological processes of opponents.
"The Chinese government and its corporate assistants will be using the insights from this giant data pool to obtain political, commercial, strategic and military advantage for the Chinese government and Chinese companies right now, including in ways that break other countries' laws and rules," Shoebridge says.
"The insights from these datasets are valuable for powering foreign interference by Chinese actors in other states and societies. They are the fuel for Chinese state entities' covert and corrupting activities."
China is scraping the internet for data at an incredible rate.
LAST CHANCE?
Subliminal advertising flickers of the 1970s. The Australia Card privacy uproar of the 1980s. The explosion of closed-circuit surveillance systems in the 1990s.
All were met with public outcry and subsequent strict government regulation.
Not so the all-pervasive prying of international social media and internet search giants. Nor the obsessive data collection of corporations and governments.
"Citizens of liberal democracies are rightly concerned with how tech companies abuse their data, but at least in liberal democracies there are growing restraints on how data is used," says Hoffman.
"In China, where the party-state literally says that the purpose of the law is to "strengthen and improve the Party's leadership," technology is deployed to extend the political power of the party-state."
China was implicated in the recent theft of Australian National University records. The university concedes this could have been going on for some 19 years.
Earlier this year, the NSW Government admitted personal details on 200,000 citizens were stolen from its archives.
But democratic governments are addicted to data.
"Pervasive surveillance is now a standard feature of all major governments, which often rely on surveillance-for-profit companies," Arnold writes. "Governments in the West buy services from big data analytic companies such as Palantir."
What is needed, he says, is a renewed focus on data resilience.
"One way is to require government agencies and businesses to safeguard their databases. That hasn't been the case with the NSW government, Commonwealth governments, Facebook, dating services and major hospitals."
Shoebridge warns a battle is also underway to secure the future of the internet architecture.
"Australia and other open democracies need to pile in on the new internet standards and governance if we aren't to get a redesigned internet that's even easier to use covertly and corruptly for authoritarian purposes than the one we have now," he says.
Hoffman adds it's also a matter of asserting the rule of law, and democratic principles.
"Liberal democratic governments must bolster data privacy laws and rethink how to manage propaganda from both foreign and domestic sources in the digital age - but without compromising democratic values along the way. To do that, they must be clear about what their values are and why they differ from those of authoritarian regimes."
Jamie Seidel is a freelance writer | @JamieSeidel
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Saying Goodbye to Seeku
Posted on February 27, 2014 by Nancy Walton
PHOTO: NANCY WALTON
And then there was one.
Until a few weeks ago, we had been a two-cat family for years. Walter, our newest addition, was a two-year-old rescue, fun-loving and goofy and uber-friendly. We added him to the family and quickly couldn’t remember when he wasn’t around. Seeku, our old cat, was about thirteen when Walter joined us.
About two weeks ago, at age sixteen, we took Seeku to the vet to have him put to sleep. He was suffering from cancer, and it was the kindest thing to do for a dignified old man who no longer had even a passable quality of life. But we worried about how to talk to Georgia about it.
Seeku was, as Chris pointed out, Georgia’s oldest friend. It hadn’t hit me until the prospect of the vet trip loomed – Georgia had never known life without Seeku. I actually acquired Seeku before I had Georgia, and lived with him sleeping on my stomach and chest at night for a year or two before I became pregnant; that large lumpy thing in my abdomen meant that Seeku lost his sleeping place. He moved four houses with me, has bonded with multiple house-sitters, has drooled on many a dedicated cat-petter and has hunted his share of Toronto birds and rodents.
Like many cats, he loved to be out at night. Leaving him in would result in despondent howling and worries about being accused of animal cruelty. So I would let him out, and every morning he’d be at the back door, some days proudly sitting with a mouse or a sparrow at his paws as a gift. In one house we lived in, just east of downtown, there was a local chipmunk that everyone in the neighbourhood adored. Neighbours fed him seeds and nuts, and we’d all be slightly competitive about whose backyard ‘the chippy’ visited more. When the chipmunk would come around, we would hurry Seeku into the house, and he’d watch from the living room with eyes like slits, and what we know now was a slowly-forming evil plan.
One lovely summer morning, as I sleepily opened the sliding door to let the hunter in, I noticed in passing that he seemed a bit more fluffed up and proud than usual. Looking down, I saw with horror that the night’s victim was …yes, beloved chippy. I let out a little scream and nearly dropped my coffee. Recognizing that the chipmunk was beyond saving, I gave him a proper if rushed good-bye.
I then had to smile somewhat stiffly and shrug guiltily every time a concerned neighbour asked, “Oh, have you seen old chippy? Where could he be? I’ve got some nice seeds for him!” As if summoned, Seeku would then swagger by with what I think was a triumphant cat smile on his face, and a self-satisfied swoosh of his tail.
Despite this bloodthirsty tale Seeku was, in a word, great. He was a cat with a big but reserved personality, who spent his days exploring the neighborhood and hunting and nights curled up on the bed. When he’d crawl up to sleep on my chest like a sphinx, I’d feel his paws kneading softly into my collarbones. We were like roommates, checking in once in a while to see how the other was doing, but with respect for each other’s space. Then along came Georgia.
Most cats see Georgia as a bit of a mini King Kong with grabby huge hands, lots of loud energy and absolutely no sense of ‘gentle touch’. Being faster than she is, cats can typically escape, and Georgia doesn’t mind that they run. But Seeku never did. When she was a toddler, she was very slow to toddle around and easy to escape, but he never ran away. He never seemed to be angry with her as she groped him, opened and closed his eyes for him, examined his teeth for plaque, scratched him two or three inches away from where he wanted to be scratched, or forced a hair-covered cat treat into his mouth.
He would occasionally crawl into a random cardboard box as cats are wont to do, and Georgia would join him if the box was big enough. He’d make room and create a photo op. But he never ran away.
Once when she was a baby, Seeku scratched her. He was sleeping with his head hanging over the side of the couch and she approached with stealth. Okay, not exactly stealth – more like a giggling screaming excited hyena – but he was a very heavy sleeper. Before I could cross the room she had pulled on a precious whisker and woke him from a deep sleep; out of reflex he reached out and scratched her face. Now imagine the same giggling screaming excited hyena, but substitute ‘giggly’ and ‘excited’ with ‘horrified’ and ‘hurt.’ For days, she shied away from him.
But soon enough they were cuddled up together again on the couch, with Georgia babbling through her life story while he listened.
This was their life together. Georgia told Seeku many a secret, and let him know of her triumphs and disappointments. Each afternoon when she came through the front door she called out, with great joy, “Hey Seeku, I’m home from school!” She wouldn’t care that he rarely, if ever, raised his head to acknowledge her. They sat beside each other watching TV without a word or movement between them – just both being themselves, together. He just accepted her as she is, and I suspect she’s never realized how special he really was for that.
When we talked to Georgia about the fact that Seeku was dying from cancer and was going to be home for a while, but very sick, we weren’t sure how she’d take it. She is lucky enough to not have had to have death explained to her very much before that. The abstract notion of what death really means is hard for someone who lives very much in the moment to understand. Or so we thought.
One suggestion that she already knew something about death without us talking to her about it suggested that she’s picked up the odd thing from her occasional visits to Sunday school with Grandpa and Grandma. A while ago, my hair dryer broke. We realized it was broken as she was standing at the sink, wrapped in a towel post-bath, waiting for her lovely long hair to be dried. We explained to her that the blow dryer was broken.
“It’s dead? The blow dryer’s dead?”
“Yes, Georgia, the blow dryer’s dead.”
“Oh well. It’s gone to see Jesus.”
We were astounded. I mean, it was a very good blow dryer. But still.
We realized that, in terms of being uber-good parents who prepare their kids for a talk about death, we were total and complete failures. Two reasons.
First, she knows about things dying, but only in the context of inanimate objects, as we use that expression freely in an unthinkingly casual manner: Electronics that lose their charge – “The iPad died! Charge it up!” – or things that break – “Hey, the vacuum died! Better get a new one.” Not the ideal messages to give your kid about death: Once something dies, you either charge it up again or get a new one.
Second, as most of her experiences with death have been animals she knew, someone said to her that the dogs and cats and horses (Shamus, the old Walter, Charlie, Boz, Lucy the horse) she has known who have died have Gone To The Happy Hunting Grounds. Yes, you know the place. It is not easily explained but has roots to the Lakota indigenous peoples in the Great Plains. I’ve looked the phrase up a few times and it relates to the afterlife being a great green paradise where hunting and game are limitless.
In terms of Seeku, our great hunter, it was easy to make the case to Georgia that once he was gone, he was on a great plain somewhere chasing mice in the sunshine. But we worried that it was just a bit too easy and that one day, we’d have to explain that a person that she loved was there.
Then we’d have to explain that there was no visiting and that they’d never come back, and all these things would make the Happy Hunting Ground suddenly a much darker place.
So we took a deep breath, fearing the worst and opted for the straightforward approach, explaining to her that Seeku was sick and that he was dying.
“He’ll feel better tomorrow?”
“No, Georgia, he won’t feel better. He’s very sick and he’s going to die.”
“We’ll be sad?”
“Yes, we’ll be sad.”
“Oh poor old Seeku.”
“Yes, poor old guy.”
“He’ll go to the happy hunting ground?”
We looked at each other, worried. “Well, yes, he will.”
“With Shamus and the old Walter and Charlie and Boz and Lucy?”
“Yes, with Shamus and the old Walter and Charlie and Boz and Lucy.”
“He’ll go in the blue car?”
We look at each other, confounded. “Wellll, yes. We’ll take him in the car to someone who knows the way there.”
And off she went to play.
We looked at each other, this time in complete surprise.
At the end of the day we realized that Georgia, in her own way, has made some pretty complicated connections between a whole bunch of belief systems and experiences and random sayings, and she’s far better prepared than we are to deal with death.
And of course, she still has Walter. She’s been coming home after school the last few weeks, bursting through the front door and yelling out with joy, “Hey Walter, I’m home from school!”
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The Death of Stalin demystifies dictatorship [review]
Commentary, Film and Television, Reviews
Providing an absurdist look behind the Iron Curtain, blackly comedic The Death of Stalin is one of the best political satires ever made.
Written and directed by Armando Iannucci, The Death of Stalin chronicles the chain of events following the sudden death of the Soviet tyrant. The film plays these true events as madcap farce, following Stalin’s underlings as they each fight to install themselves as successor.
The tone of Death of Stalin will be familiar to fans of Iannucci’s Veep and In the Loop, which aimed their contempt at contemporary British and American legislators. These earlier comedies sought to expose how politics can be overly focused on the trivial: the staff of Veep’s ambitious Vice President could spend the better part of a day agonizing over what flavour of frozen yogurt their boss should sample for a photo-op; in In the Loop, a British Parliamentarian neck-deep in discussions about whether to enter the Iraq War was continually interrupted by an irate constituent demanding repairs to a wall.
The Death of Stalin’s politicians are similarly cynical, their desperate power-grabs punctuated by juvenile bickering, bureaucratic red tape, and arguments over funeral furnishings. The main difference is that in this film, metaphorical back-stabbing is replaced by gunshots.
(If nothing else, this is a film that reminds those of us who live in liberal democracies just how lucky we are).
The cast consists mainly of British and American actors, including Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, Simon Russell Beale as Lavrentiy Beria, Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov, and Monty Python’s Michael Palin as Vyacheslav Molotov.
Somewhat controversially, Iannucci allows its stars to speak in their own accents, rather than affected Russian ones. This approach adds an immediacy to the events, and eliminates the temptation to otherize the Russian protagonists; as Slate’s Marissa Martinelli argues, “the familiarity of the accents makes the action feel closer to home and helps sell the parallels between the Soviet Presidium and other political administrations.”
(The script’s few attempts at period authenticity add yet another level of comedy; my favourite line in the whole film has to be Steve Buscemi shouting, “Can we just stop twittering like fishwives at the market?”)
What I love about this movie is how it demystifies the Soviet Union by highlighting the inherent absurdities of totalitarianism. A dying Stalin receives sub-par medical attention because all the good doctors in town have been arrested. The Politburo struggles to square their desire for reforms with their belief that no policy of Stalin’s could possibly be wrong. Michael Palin’s Molotov is such a staunch loyalist that he can’t make up his mind whether his beloved wife’s imprisonment under Stalin was justified or not.
It’s to Iannucci’s credit that he’s able to mock his subjects without without downplaying the atrocities they committed. (The film is particularly explicit in exposing the sadism of Lavrentiy Beria, the former Secret Police head who gets his comeuppance in the final scenes.) Though his memory looms large, Stalin himself is denied any pretense of dignity; his corpse is the source of much scatological humour.
In a way, The Death of Stalin gives these tyrants the legacy they deserve. Despots like Joseph Stalin thrive on fear; there’s some justice in seeing one of history’s worst mass murderers reduced to a joke.
Film: The Death of Stalin
Year: 2017/2018
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Steve Buscemi / Simon Russell Beale / Jeffrey Tambor / Michael Palin
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What will you do when digital technology eats itself?
We all know that viruses and malware are an ever present danger in today’s world, and this fact was brought home to me when the Toppled Bollard itself – that most British of institutions – was disabled by hackers from the recently formed revolutionary republic of New Northamptonshire.
Naturally those of us who frequent the esteemed hostelry on the peat and bog hinterland that separates north Northamptonshire from the Noble Republic of Rutland did multiple tuttings and shakings of the head as we considered the implications of this dire event.
The tills would not work, and suggestions to our esteemed pal and landlord Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw that everyone should be given a tab were rejected with a look so stern that several species of wildlife known to inhabit the Bollard are now no more.
Yet so broad and devastating was the attack that it also took out most known variants of mobile phone systems and the local landlines, not to mention the plumbing.
Naturally folk at the Bollard are made of strong stuff (one has to be, given the type of beer Billy provides) and quickly a number of parlour games were instituted, although that was stopped when the fighting over who had won a game of snakes and ladders resulted in six decapitations. They take their games seriously in these parts.
But then, suddenly, and to everyone’s surprise, a team of swarthy gents from nearby Corby burst in carrying boxes, asking for the Bollard regular, Sir Hardly Anyone, who often knocks out his football tipster column on his laptop while sitting in the saloon lounge.
Sir Hardly smiled and in that genial manner inherited via fifty generations of inbreeding, tipped the delivery team sixpence in old money before with a look of superiority that did not enhance his reputation one iota, removed a portable typewriter and ream (as I believe it is called) of paper.
Well, I am sure you can imagine the fuss! Youngsters gathered around, gazing in awe of the 1964 Remington which Sir Hardly expertly unpacked and used to type out today’s Premier League gambling tips, explaining to us that these machines are still in daily use in the Farmer’s Republic to the north.
It was then that Sir Hardly provided those around him with a list of antique typewriter shops in the area and a number of regulars toddled off to get their machines. There was also much searching for a supplier of envelopes and paper (the hairdresser in the high street had a box, for reasons that did not become clear at this time), and a post office (which turned out now to be based at the back of the fish and chip shop).
Within days the Bollard was buzzing with the sound of two finger typists knocking out their commentaries as a whole new industry of “runners” developed, selling and delivering all the supplies needed. Within a week Billy had opened a sub post office in the lounge bar with a subsidiary selling “only used once” stamps at half price in the public.
It was, as the old Northants folk song of days past that might not have been, goes, “just like old times, but we never had any old times.”
Next I moved to Shetland where the offshore wind farms generate enough power to allow a signal to reach Norway which still has the internet. We are told the power stations in the rest of the UK are likely to be offline for a decade or two, so its not too bad.
For a while we took messages sent either via semaphore or hurricane lamp but finally we have relocated the Bollard to Allmenningen a minor village in Vågsøy municipality itself within Sogn og Fjordane county, in Norway. I’m sure you know it. It’s just off the A47.
If you want to know what else we are up to you could try clicking here.
The provisional revolutionary council now running Northamptonshire following its descent into bankruptcy has appealed for calm.
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Comics, 1985, 1985, August,
Copper-Age
Uncanny X-Men Vol 1
Secret Wars II
Jim Shooter/Editor-in-Chief
John Romita Jr./Cover Artist
Terry Austin/Cover Artist
Chris Claremont/Writer
John Romita Jr./Penciler
Daniel Green/Inker
Glynis Oliver-Wein/Colourist
Tom Orzechowski/Letterer
Ann Nocenti/Editor
X-Men (Earth-616)/Appearances
Charles Xavier (Earth-616)/Appearances
Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)/Appearances
Katherine Pryde (Earth-616)/Appearances
James Howlett (Earth-616)/Appearances
Piotr Rasputin (Earth-616)/Appearances
Rogue (Anna Marie) (Earth-616)/Appearances
Rachel Summers (Earth-811)/Appearances
Ororo Munroe (Earth-616)/Appearances
Max Eisenhardt (Earth-616)/Appearances
Aleytys Forrester (Earth-616)/Appearances
Beyonder (Earth-616)/Appearances
Michael Bowen (Earth-616)/Appearances
Fenris (Earth-616)/Appearances
Andrea von Strucker (Earth-616)/Appearances
Andreas von Strucker (Earth-616)/Appearances
New York City Police Department (Earth-616)/Mentions
Nimrod (Earth-811)/Mentions
Yahweh (Earth-616)/Invocations
X-Men (Earth-811)/Mentions
Max Eisenhardt (Earth-811)/Mentions
Charles Xavier (Earth-811)/Mentions
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Earth-616)/Mentions
Raven Darkholme (Earth-616)/Mentions
Katherine Pryde (Earth-811)/Mentions
Hounds (Earth-811)/Mentions
New York City Fire Department (Earth-616)/Mentions
Homo superior/Appearances
Lions/Appearances
Birds/Appearances
Gods of Earth/Mentions
Beyonders/Appearances
Geese/Mentions
Earth-616/Appearances
Earth/Appearances
North America/Appearances
Morningside Heights/Appearances
Columbia University/Appearances
Lower East Side/Appearances
St. Anne's Church/Appearances
Bryant Park/Appearances
New York Public Library (Main Branch)/Appearances
Los Angeles/Mentions
Africa/Appearances
Tanzania/Appearances
Great Rift Valley/Appearances
Serengeti/Appearances
Nairobi/Mentions
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Earth-811/Mentions
Adamantium/Appearances
Secret Wars (1984 Event)/Mentions
Holocaust (Event)/Mentions
Part of the "Secret Wars II" event
Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 #196
Terry Austin
"What Was That?!!"
Glynis Oliver
(Secret Wars II)
It's done -- the mutie's as good as dead!
--Unnamed Columbia University student
Appearing in "What Was That?!!"
Professor X (Charles Xavier)
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde)
Colossus (Peter Rasputin)
Storm (Ororo Munroe)
Magneto (Erik Magnus)
Lee Forrester
The Beyonder
Father Michael Bowen
Andrea Strucker
Andreas Strucker
Unnamed Columbia University students
A lion and buzzard
Unnamed restaurant workers and patrons
NYPD (Mentioned)
Nimrod (Mentioned)
God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
X-Men (Mentioned)
Magneto (Magnus) (Mentioned) (Deceased)
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned) (Deceased)
Street gang and a victim
Phil, John, Roger, Mark, Mickey and Johnny (students)
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Mentioned)
Mystique (Raven Darkholme) (Mentioned)
Kate Pryde (Mentioned)
Hounds (Mentioned)
NYCFD (Mentioned)
Gods (Mentioned)
Beyonders
Geese (Mentioned)
Prime Marvel Universe
St. Anne's Church
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California (Mentioned)
Nairobi, Kenya (Mentioned)
Battleworld (Mentioned)
Heaven (Invoked)
Days of the Future Past (Mentioned)
Adamantium (On Logan's claws)
Homemade bomb
Secret Wars (Mentioned)
Holocaust (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "What Was That?!!"
This story takes place after the events of Secret Wars II #1
Professor Xavier is once more resuming his lectures at Columbia University when he overhears one of the students who beat him months earlier[1] suggest to his friends that hey should kill Xavier as he can identify them. Unfortunately, due to his injuries the Professor cannot, and due to the limitations on his mental powers and the amount of minds in the room he is unable to pinpoint who is plotting to murder him and decides to get the X-Men involved to try and prevent the attack.
Meanwhile, in the African Serengeti, Storm is enjoying the wilderness when she is approached by a lion. Seeing this as a sign she is horrified when the creature is shot dead. When she rushes to it she is grazed by a bullet. This is a shot fired by Andreas von Strucker, who is paying Ororo back for beating her and her brother up earlier and they decide to leave her for dead in the wilderness.
Back in New York City, Professor X meets with his fellow X-Men and Magneto at a deli where he explains the plot against him by the students who beat him earlier. As they begin planning, Rachel becomes distracted when she notices a strange man suddenly entering the deli and asking strange questions about "manners" and satisfying his curiosity about food. Rachel approaches the man and realizes that it's the Beyonder. But when Kitty goes up to see who she is talking to and Rachel tries to point him out the Beyonder has vanished just as mysteriously as he entered, leaving both wondering what the Beyonder wanted. Nightcrawler is paying a visit to his priest father Bowen at St. Anne's church. He explains his encounter with the Beyonder, a being that has shaken his faith in God. Breaking down into tears before the troubled priest, Nightcrawler admits that he has lost.
That night at Columbia University, the students plotting to kill Xavier plants a special device on Xavier's desk that will kill him the moment he sits down at it. While nearby, the X-Men stake out the area looking for clues. As Rogue carries Rachel over the campus she talks about how she can trust Magneto to work with the X-Men considering that in her reality, Magneto was a trusted ally of the surviving X-Men. The conversation ends when Rachel picks up trouble in an alley and the two help stop a mugging. However, it proves to be a bitter victory as the man they saved was jumped while writing an anti-mutant epitaph on the wall. Angry that this sort of anti-mutant sentiment is being allowed, Rachel angrily psi-blasts the wall and vows never to let her apocalyptic future to happen again. As she and Rogue walk away, neither are aware that they were being watched by the Beyonder who has found Rachel's actions very interesting and decide to observe her farther.
Elsewhere, Kitty and Wolverine go over reports back from the others when Kitty's curiosity in Wolverine's cigar makes her yank it out of his mouth and give it a puff. She finds the smoke incredibly harsh and proceeds to have a coughing fit. Wolverine finds this amusing and tells he that the only reason he can handle the cigars without any irritation is because of his mutant healing factor. They then begin talking about if they should be able to trust Magneto, to which Logan suggests that Magneto deserves a chance at redemption.
Kitty then decides to check out their next list of suspects and uses her phasing powers to gain access to a dormitory, unaware that the Beyonder is secretly watching her. She enters a physics lab where she comes across her classmate Roger and some other students working on something in secret. She decides to butt in and start asking questions. Roger, knowing that Kitty attends Xavier's school, asks her if she is a Mutie. When she retorts by asking him if he identifies as a racial slur, he becomes angry and she points out that calling a mutant a Mutie is no different or any less hurtful. When she decides to leave she is maced and chloroformed and Roger decides that she has to die as well. Her attempts to contact Rachel or the Professor telepathically but it's too late. While the other X-Men are waiting for Kitty, Rachel accompanies Xavier and Magneto back to Charles' office. She is expressing her concerns over the Beyonder when she detects his presence when they enter the office. Using her psi-powers to try and get them to see him to, Rachel inadvertently activates the weapon left behind by the students, a psi scrambler device that bombards her mind and threatens to overload it. The resulting blast sends Charles and Magnus flying out of the building.
While the other X-Men rescue them, Wolverine goes up to check on Rachel. Rachel, so furious about being attacked in such a horrible way manifests her hound costume and facial tattoos and races off to find the men responsible. She crashes in on Roger as he is attempting to choke Kitty to death. She knocks all the students aside and when Roger attempts to shoot her with a gun, she uses her telekinetic powers to turn the bullet back. It almost strikes Roger if not for Magneto's timely arrival.
He argues with her that this is not the way to deal with those whose ignorance and hate lead them to treat mutants as they do. He explains that the way of violence has done nothing for him over the years. Rachel counter argues that in the future she came from humans made her into a slave-hound and killed all those she loved. When she expresses that they need to pay for the pain and the suffering they have caused, Magneto decides to let her make up her mind. Telling her that she should slaughter them as mercilessly and callously as they would her. Rachel finds that she cannot take a human life and spares Roger, telling Magneto that she may never be able to forgive him for this and suggests that they leave. As they walk away, Kitty thanks Rachel for her help.
In the aftermath of the battle, the Beyond finds the whole tableau that happened before him strange and confusing. Wondering why beings of such power would act in the fashion that they did. Finding the X-Men puzzling indeed, the Beyonder decides to turn his attention to others and teleports away.[2]
Secret Wars II continues in Iron Man #197...
Secret Wars II #1 New Mutants #30 Captain America #308 Uncanny X-Men #196 Iron Man #197 Secret Wars II #2 Web of Spider-Man #6
Amazing Spider-Man #268 Fantastic Four #282 Secret Wars II #3 Daredevil #223 Incredible Hulk #312 Avengers #260 Secret Wars II #4
Dazzler #40 Alpha Flight #28 Rom #72 Avengers #261 Secret Wars II #5 Thing #30 Doctor Strange Vol 2 #74
Fantastic Four #285 Secret Wars II #6 Cloak and Dagger Vol 2 #4 Power Pack #18 Micronauts Vol 2 #16 Thor #363 Power Man and Iron Fist #121
Secret Wars II #7 New Mutants #36 Amazing Spider-Man #273 Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #111 Uncanny X-Men #202 Defenders #152 Secret Wars II #8
New Mutants #37 Amazing Spider-Man #274 Avengers #265 Uncanny X-Men #203 Fantastic Four #288 Secret Wars II #9 Avengers #266
2 Reprints of Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 196
The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men Vol 2 #4 - See for further referencing
↑ Uncanny X-Men #192
↑ He pops up in Iron Man #197
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10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media
By Vadim Lavrusik 2009-06-19 11:58:42 UTC
Vadim Lavrusik is a new media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is @lavrusik on Twitter and blogs at lavrusik.com.
With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook or Twitter, which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.
And though many professors are still experimenting and learning how these tools can be used, below are the 10 ways journalism schools are currently teaching students to use social media. Please share in the comments others that you have found to be important and effective as well.
1. Promoting Content
Social media tools are bringing readers to news sites and in many cases are increasing their Web-traffic. This isn’t just through the news organizations’ own social media accounts, but those of their writers that tweet, post, share and send links to their organization's content. Each writer has a social network, and using social media tools to promote and distribute content increases the potential readership of the article being shared.
Sree Sreenivasan, dean of student affairs at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, said this is one of the most basic and yet very important social media uses for journalists. Sreenivasan, who is teaching a social media skills course in the fall, said it is a way for journalists to engage their audience and point them to the information that you are gathering.
2. Interviewing
Though they are often frowned upon, email interviews have become regularly used by news reporters. But the same concept can be achieved through a Facebook message or chat, Google Talk, a short exchange via Seesmic, or one of the most useful apps in a journalist's arsenal: Skype.
Paul Jones, a clinical associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaches journalism students how to use technologies like Skype for conducting interviews. “The thing you use for play is also the thing you use for work,” Jones said of the tool. A student can conduct and record the interview on Skype and later embed it within an online post.
Jones said that using services like Skype allows journalists to interview international sources quite easily – and affordably, not to mention that it adds a visual element to the text of the story.
3. News Gathering and Research
The power of real-time search is providing journalists with up-to-the-second information on the latest developments of any news, trends and happenings, worldwide.
Jeff Jarvis, a professor and director of interactive media at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, said it’s important for students to know how to use real-time searches to gather information and keep up on what is breaking. This includes, but is not limited to, using search on Twitter, FriendFeed, OneRiot, Tweetmeme, Scoopler, and SearchMerge.
Sreenivasan said searches on social media sites can point journalists to supplementary information for their reporting. These sites can also help in the process of crowdsourced news gathering.
4. Crowdsourcing and Building a Source List
It’s amazing how many websites don’t include their staff’s contact information, and the WhitePages really no longer cut it. Luckily, because of the nature of social media in networking, most people post their contact info on their profiles. Social media tools are becoming vital in building source lists. One can track now fairly easily down a source on Facebook or Twitter and send them a message. (Of course, picking up the phone too still can’t hurt.)
Students are also being taught the power crowdsourcing using social media. A journalist can tweet a question involving their reporting or announce that they are looking for a source via their FriendFeed and get some remarkable responses. Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University, earlier this month posted a FriendFeed request to his more than 2,000 subscribers to help him determine why he was receiving conflicting traffic figures for different URL shorteners, for example. He received dozens of responses to his question.
Jones from the University of North Carolina teaches his students the importance of not only finding sources using Twitter and Facebook, but keeping them. One of the important factors in getting responses is doing the same when others ask questions — you have to be an active member of the social network if you expect your peers to help you ask for help.
5. Publishing with Social Tools
There are many social media tools that journalists can use to publish information, and this variety is something that journalism professors are encouraging students to explore. Publishing via social media tools can be as simple as updating readers or “followers” on Twitter during a breaking news event or building an entire news site focused around Facebook connectivity and conversations about local news – something Northwestern University students created with “NewsMixer” as a project at the Medill School of Journalism last year.
Paul Bradshaw, senior lecturer of online journalism and magazines at Birmingham City University, said the most basic tools that students should know how to use are Wordpress for blogging and site building, Twitter for live updates, Facebook for posting articles or videos, Delicious for bookmarking, Flickr for photos or videos, and YouTube for video. All of these can be used from the field with a smart phone or laptop.
Jarvis also noted the importance of using these mediums to meet the audience where they exist: social networks. “We used to always have the audience come to us, but that’s not the cast anymore,” Jarvis told me.
According to Jones, it is important for students to practice publishing information on these networks to learn how social media works and how it can be applied. He’s teaching a class on vernacular video and virtual communities in the fall, in which all of the course material come from videos, as well as student assignments and responses.
6. Blog and Website Integration
Because so many news sites are incorporating live blogging into their daily dose of content and conversation with readers, Katy Culver, a faculty member in the journalism school at University of Wisconsin at Madison, had her students learn how to use CoveritLive, which can be embedded within a site.
Culver had her students use CoveritLive to cover a lecture on journalism ethics that had limited seating. She said the conversation on the live blog was quite fascinating and informative with students linking to content that the lecturers were discussing. She said using live blogging is a great tool for readers to get a chance to ask questions of an expert, reporter, or editor at a news organization. Tools like CoveritLive also include integration with Twitter, Qik for live video, or YouTube pre-recorded videos.
Jarvis from CUNY, who had his students use BlogTalkRadio to host live audio broadcasts, said it’s about hosting a conversation with the readers and using it within content creates an interactive experience.
This is also why it is important for students to learn how to integrate social media tools into websites. Jones had his students build a Ning social network that integrated various social tools, for example.
7. Building Community and Rich Content
Sure a journalist can use social media tools to have a conversation with their audience, but what's the point? The greater goal is to build a community through engagement. Crowdsourcing, live blogging, tweeting — it’s about building a network around issues that matter to the community. In a way, social networks are the new editorial page, rich with opinions and ideas.
Jarvis said building community can be done by joining groups on social networks (though always be careful that you’re not somehow taking sides). Ultimately, he said, social media should help journalists do their job and be integrated into their reporting, but not take it over. Content is still king.
Jones emphasized the importance of creating rich content. “A tweet shouldn’t just be ‘I am eating a sandwich,’” he said. It should include a link with details that are useful to someone reading it. And retweets, he said makes the original tweet more rich and gives it credibility because someone else thought it was useful to share with their network. In a way, it is like the Associated Press wire picking up your story, Jones said.
8. Personal Brand
Students can't stay in school forever — eventually they need to get jobs. Social networks can be used to build a personal brand that can help students land a reporting gig after college. But Jones emphasized this applies to students only, which is what he teaches.
He believes that a journalist is representing their organization and not their name, and that applies to their use of social media. Often times, he said, a journalists’ followers are following them because the news organization they represent has credibility, not necessarily them.
9. Ethics: Remember, You’re Still a Journalist
Sreenivasan from Columbia said there are no hard and fast rules for ethics and social media yet. But told me that what a person posts or shares or produces on social media reflects on the person’s judgment and students should be cautious. He used the example of broadcasting your affiliations on Facebook through notifications on your wall.
In some cases, a journalist may actually be joining an advocacy group as a way to gain sources, but their social network could interpret that they support the group or are involved in some way, he said. Keep in mind the horror stories of people not getting jobs because of their social media profiles and the things they put on them — remember that employers no longer just look at your resume. Also, take a look a Leah Betancourt’s post on How Social Media is Radically Changing the Newsroom.
10. Experiment, Experiment, Experiment
Sreenivasan, Culver, Jarvis and Jones all pointed to the importance of students experimenting with social media tools. For example, if Flickr isn’t meeting your needs, try another tool that suits your use better. Sreenivasan pointed out that we are all still learning the best practices of social media. Journalism students experimenting with these tools can learn how to apply them once they join the workforce.
Here are a few tips from Bradshaw for how teachers can encourage social media experimentation:
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- Social Journalism: Past, Present, and Future
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Friday: ABC’s ’20/20′ episode about Sandra Grazzini-Rucki
March 28, 2019 Comments Off on Friday: ABC’s ’20/20′ episode about Sandra Grazzini-Rucki read Media, The Girls Are Gone
Tomorrow, March 29, 2019, at 10 PM (CST), The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) will be broadcasting the episode of ABC’s “20/20” discussed in the new best-selling true crime book, The Girls Are Gone.
The episode about Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, called “Footprints in the Snow” was first broadcast on April 8, 2016, and was later rebroadcast on March 25, 2017. The episode has since been rebroadcast on multiple television networks in the last two years.
Grazzini-Rucki had tried to stop the rebroadcasts of the episode which found no documentation to verify Grazzini-Rucki’s claim that she was abused by David Rucki. Grazzini-Rucki had taken to Facebook, calling the show “rank propaganda” and encouraging people to register complaints.
In April 2017, Grazzini-Rucki announced she would be filing a defamation lawsuit against ABC, Inc, ABC’s “20/20”, and Elizabeth Vargas, the co-anchor of “20/20”. Grazzini-Rucki claimed she would be seeking “an ungodly amount” of money in her latest lawsuit, but the lawsuit was never filed. Continue reading →
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Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann will have a book signing at Barnes & Noble at the Galleria in Edina, Minnesota on Saturday, March 23, 2019, from 1 PM – 3 PM.
Since being released last October, The Girls Are Gone has been a commercial and critical success. The Kindle Edition of The Girls Are Gone has appeared on multiple “best seller” lists by Amazon.
The Girls Are Gone is available for sale through numerous retailers in both paperback and ebook. Click here to view a list of upcoming book events for Brodkorb and Mann.
Third printing ordered of ‘The Girls Are Gone’
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Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann announced today that the third printing of their book, The Girls Are Gone, has been ordered.
Brodkorb and Mann have appeared at over 20 events for their book in the last few months and more book events in Minnesota and other states will be announced in the next few weeks.
“We are thrilled that there has been such an amazing response to our book,” said Allison Mann. “Bringing such an important story to as many people as possible has always been the goal and it feels wonderful that is happening now,” said Mann.
The Girls Are Gone is published by Wise Ink Creative Publishing and was released on October 23, 2018. The book provides new details about the disappearance of Samantha and Gianna Rucki and the adults who conspired to keep the missing sisters and the truth hidden. Continue reading →
Barnes & Noble book events canceled due to weather
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UPDATE (3:10 PM, Frida, March 8, 2019) – Due to inclement weather scheduled for this weekend, Saturday’s event at Barnes & Noble in Edina has been postponed until March 23, 2019.
UPDATE (3:41 PM, Thursday, March 7, 2019) – Due to inclement weather scheduled for this weekend, Sunday’s event at Barnes & Noble in Minnetonka has been postponed until a later date.
Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann will have three two events this week at Barnes & Noble locations across Minnesota for their new best-selling true crime book, The Girls Are Gone.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019, Barnes & Noble in Duluth, Minnesota from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Saturday, March 9, 2019, Barnes & Noble in Edina, Minnesota from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Sunday, March 10, 2019, Barnes & Noble in Minnetonka, Minnesota from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Since being released in October, The Girls Are Gone has been a commercial and critical success. The Kindle Edition of The Girls Are Gone is currently listed on Amazon’s Best Sellers for True Crime Biographies.
Michelle MacDonald’s lawsuit against Missing in Minnesota dismissed
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A judge in Ramsey County today dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by Michelle MacDonald against Michael Brodkorb and Missing in Minnesota. Judge Richard H. Kyle, Jr. granted the motion for summary judgment filed by Brodkorb and Missing in Minnesota in October.
Judge Kyle ruled MacDonald was a public figure and that the statements made by Brodkorb and Missing in Minnesota “were either true or lack the requisite showing of actual malice…”
In an interview for Minnesota Lawyer, Brodkorb said the ruling from today from Judge Kyle was that further evidence that MacDonald’s lawsuit “should have never been filed in the first place.” Continue reading →
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Missing in Minnesota is the online companion to the new best-selling true crime book – “The Girls Are Gone” – about two sisters who vanished, the father who kept searching, and the adults who conspired to keep the truth hidden.
Samantha and Gianna Rucki vanished from Lakeville, Minnesota on April 19, 2013, during a custody and divorce proceeding involving their parents.
The sisters were taken by their mother in violation of a court order.
The girls’ father, David Rucki, kept searching for his missing daughters for 944 days, until they were found by law enforcement on November 18, 2015.
Criminal charges were filed against four people, included the girls’ mother Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, related to their disappearance.
On July 28, 2016, Grazzini-Rucki was found guilty on six counts of deprivation of parental rights involving the disappearance of her daughters.
The other three people charged were convicted or pleaded guilty for their involvement in the disappearance of the Rucki sisters.
Missing in Minnesota is authored by Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann, and provides detailed news, analysis, and commentary on the continuing developments involving this case.
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Supran and Oreskes on ExxonMobils Communication of Climate Change
Over at Cliscep, Geoff Chambers gave a rather bitter review (with foul language) about a new paper, Assessing ExxonMobil’s Climate Change Communications (1977–2014) by Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes.
One point that I would like to explore is part of a quote Geoff uses:-
The issue at stake is whether the corporation misled consumers, shareholders and/or the general public by making public statements that cast doubt on climate science and its implications, and which were at odds with available scientific information and with what the company knew. We stress that the question is not whether ExxonMobil ‘suppressed climate change research,’ but rather how they communicated about it.
It is the communication of climate science by a very powerful oil company, that the paper concentrates upon. The approach reveals a lot about the Climate Change movement as well. In particular, this statement in the introduction:-
Research has shown that four key points of understanding about AGW—that it is real, human-caused, serious, and solvable—are important predictors of the public’s perceived issue seriousness, affective issue involvement, support for climate policies, and political activism [62–66].
The references are as follows
[62] Krosnick J A, Holbrook A L, Lowe L and Visser P S 2006 The origins and consequences of democratic citizens’ policy agendas: a study of popular concern about global warming Clim. Change 77 7–43
[63] Ding D, Maibach E W, Zhao X, Roser-Renouf C and Leiserowitz A 2011 Support for climate policy and societal action are linked to perceptions about scientific agreement Nat. Clim. Change 1 462–6
[64] Roser-Renouf C, Maibach E W, Leiserowitz A and Zhao X 2014 The genesis of climate change activism: from key beliefs to political action Clim. Change 125 163–78
[65] Roser-Renouf C, Atkinson L, Maibach E and Leiserowitz A 2016 The consumer as climate activist Int. J. Commun. 10 4759–83
[66] van der Linden S L, Leiserowitz A A, Feinberg G D and Maibach E W 2015 The scientific consensus on climate change as a gateway belief: experimental evidence PLoS One 10 e0118489
For the purposes of Supran and Oreskes study, the understanding that people have of any issue does not require any substance at all beyond their beliefs. For instance, the Jehovah Witness Sect developing an “understanding” that Armageddon would occur in 1975. This certainly affected their activities in the lead up to the momentous history-ending event. Non-believers or members of the Christian Church may have been a little worried, shrugged their shoulders, or even thought the whole idea ridiculous. If similar studies to those on climate activism had been conducted on the prophecy of Armageddon 1975, similar results could have been found to those quoted for AGW beliefs in references 62-66. That is, the stronger the belief in the cause, whether religious evangelism in the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses or ideological environmentalism in the case of AGW, is a predictor of activism in support of the cause. They cannot go further because of an issue with scholarly articles. Claims made must be substantiated, something that cannot be done with respect to the prophecies of climate catastrophism, except in a highly nuanced form.
But the statement that AGW is “real, human-caused, serious, and solvable” – repeated five times in the article – indicates something about the activists understanding of complex issues.
“AGW is real” is not a proper scientific statement, as it is not quantified. Given that the impacts on surface temperatures can muffled and delayed nearly indefinitely by natural factors, or swallowed by the oceans, the belief can be independent of any contrary evidence for decades to come.
“AGW is human-caused”, is saying “Human-caused global warming is human-caused”. It is a tautology that tells us nothing about the real world.
“AGW is serious” is an opinion. It may be a very widely-held opinion, with many articles written with confirming evidence, and many concerned people attending massive conferences where it is discussed. But without clear evidence for emerging net adverse consequences, the opinion is largely unsubstantiated.
“AGW is solvable” could be whether it is theoretically solvable, given the technology and policies being implemented. But the statement also includes whether it is politically solvable, getting actual policies to reduce emissions fully implemented. If the “solution” is the reduction of global emissions to a level commensurate with 2C of warming (hence a partial solution), then COP21 in Paris shows that AGW is a long way from being solvable, with no actual solution in sight. Whereas the 2C limit requires global emissions to be lower in 2030 than in 2015, and falling rapidly, fully implemented policies would still see emissions higher in 2030 than in 2015 and still increasing.
The statement AGW is “real, human-caused, serious, and solvable” is, therefore, nothing more than a mantra held by people who fail to distinguish between empirical and verifiable statements, tautologies, opinions and public policy that requires some fanciful global political implementation.
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by manicbeancounter on 11/09/2017 • Permalink
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Tagged Climate Activists, Climate Propaganda, Exxon Knows, Naomi Oreskes, Science and pseudo-science
Posted by manicbeancounter on 11/09/2017
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The Inferior Methods in Supran and Oreskes 2017
Hilary Ostrov (aka hro001)
Perhaps Oreskes and Supran would have done better to simply limit themselves to the IPCC’s very own three “Key Messages” as revealed by their latest and greatest communication gimmick. No less than 19 slides of which No. 6 illuminates these Key Messages:
Human influence on the climate system is clear
The more we disrupt our climate, the more we risk sever, pervasive and irreversible impacts
We have the means to limit climate change, and build a more prosperous sustainable future
Source: https://www.slideshare.net/ipcc-media/ipcc-history-mandate-and-the-production-of-the-sixth-assessment-report
One would think that so many years after Climategate 1.0 these “great communicators” could come up with something new and different to explain why their oh-so-frequently recycled mantra is so very far from fulfilling its … uh…potential. 😉
Hi Hilary,
It seems that since Climategate – or IPCC AR4 – the “great communicators” have taken center stage. It is their way of avoiding confronting the failure of the real world to conform to the theories. The result is ever more banal phrases but with greater elements of belief as illustrated in the last of the key messages, you quote.
To build a more prosperous sustainable future requires central and detailed planning along with measures of performance. In relation to Supran and Oreskes, in analysing individual papers, they demonstrate why they have not a case for mitigation, like Exxon puts together a business case for its strategic investments. That would require weighing up the potential harms & risks of climate change against the potential harms & risks of policy. This might be the subject of another piece.
Kevin, in today’s post-truth world, I don’t think it matters to the likes of Supran and Oreskes whether the statement “AGW is real, human-caused, serious, and solvable” is true or not, or even whether it has any meaning.
All that matters to them is whether the statement can be used to manipulate public opinion to support their political agenda – to get people to ‘support climate policies’ and engage in ‘political activism’.
I agree that in a Post-Truth world it is only ideologically-based opinion that matters. But those with any concern for truth, justice, honesty, common decency or the poor, should call them out. One of the elements is to shut down successful Western businesses, whilst doing nothing to combat that State-backed OPEC cartel that caused so much misery in the 1970s and destroyed a number of smaller fledgling and highly competitive oil businesses a couple of years ago.
Excellent deconstruction if the Oreskes-style hype.
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Nairobi, Kenya: Tilisi mega-city has today begun construction of its first housing project, reversing the trend towards high density properties with the 186-home Tilisi Views residential estate offering home-owners spacious green gardens on half of each plot, tree-lined streets, extra play areas in every hub of 15 to 30 villas, and additional acres of communal recreational space.
“We have seen developers moving inexorably towards higher density developments as a way of supposedly lifting revenues, with even detached villas offering little more than a parking space for new owners. But we have decided to stay true to our dream of a better lifestyle at Tilisi, with houses on one eighth, a quarter, and half acre plots, all designed to maximise garden space,” said Kavit Shah, co-CEO of Tilisi Developments PLC, the developer of the Tilisi mega-city.
Set on the Waiyaki Way and 10 minutes from the intersection with Nairobi’s Southern bypass, the new residential estate, which is fully financed from its outset, will be surrounded by trees along the roads to offer a cooling breeze, and will include nine play areas, one for each cluster of 15 to 30 villas, as well as two acres of a communal clubhouse, a recreation space and jogging tracks.
“Delivering a better quality of life at Tilisi has seen us concentrate on creating a green and natural environment, as something we can do from our positioning that literally isn’t possible in Kilimani, or Westlands, or even very much in Gigiri, nowadays. But it creates an entirely different kind of life for our future residents,” said Ranee Nanji, joint CEO of Tilisi.
This is supported by global research, with the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reporting that people who live close to green space have lower rates of depression and anxiety and better physical health than those who live in more urban settings.
The journal reported that incidences of anxiety were 50 per cent lower and of depression 25 per cent lower for people living in areas with 90 per cent green space within two miles of their homes, compared to those living in areas with 10 per cent or less green space.
Further research by Harvard University found that residents who had any kind of green space within 200 meters of their homes had a 12 per cent lower rate of mortality than those living in areas without greenery. This was because the more natural environment decreased the rate of cardiovascular, neurological, respiratory and digestive diseases, mental illness and musculoskeletal disorders.
Gardens and green open spaces also encourage more physical activity. But even viewing nature scenes reduces blood pressure, respiration rate, brain activity, and the production of stress hormones, within three to four minutes, while also improving mood.
“Our goal with the project was to meet the needs of Kenyan home owners by offering a serene beautiful environment at an affordable rate,” said Ranee.
With seven different house designs to choose from, pricing of the villas will range from Sh19m for three bedrooms to Sh60m for five bedrooms. Construction of the first 26 units has begun and will be completed by October 2021.The project which is fully financed by Tilisi Development PLC, will sit on 41 acres of the 400 acre mega city, with an open day scheduled for 26th and 27th October 2019.
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As Heavy As 70,000 Tons Of Metal
It is always a thrill to attend Metal festivals, but to get up close and personal with living legends is another dimension of thrills, and this is what you will experience if you ever thought of attending the biggest Heavy Metal Cruise in the world. (Scroll Down For Photo Gallery)
The 5th edition of the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise sailed on Thursday, January 22nd from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale – Florida to Ocho Rios – Jamaica, and returned on Monday, January 26th.
There have been various pre-parties, at Miami Beach, Hollywood Beach, and the pirates’ pre-cruise party, where everybody got dressed as a pirate in a ship that went to the “Pirate Republic Bar”.
60 bands and 3000 metal heads for the first time on a new ship, Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas, which is a much bigger vessel than the previous one,Majesty of the Seas.
The ship is huge and has lots of facilities: Flowrider surf simulator, rock-climbing wall, ice-skating rink, mini-golf course, basketball court, boxing ring, Vegas-style casino, water park, four stages,The Platinum Theatre, the Egyptian-themed SPHINX Lounge, the indoor stage STUDIO B, and the pool deck stage surrounded by several bars and pools.
Prior to the departure, a wedding took place on a little bridge atthe Solarium front of the ship.The bridewalked in a beautiful black wedding dress down the aisle by “Jason Keyser”,the vocalist of the bandOrigin.All the bridesmaids and groomsmen were also in black.It was an epic ceremony away from all typical weddings where the couple decided to celebrate it with their metal family.
The lineup included many big names: “Amorphis”, “Annihilator”, “Apocalyptica”, “Arch Enemy”, “Behemoth”, “Blind Guardian”, “Cannibal Corpse”, “Destruction”,“Grave Digger”, “Soulfly”, “Therion”, “Venom”, etc.
The band “Origin” announced that there will be a pillow fight during one of their two sets.They ordered fans to forget about a mosh pit and start a huge pillow fight.Some metal heads carried their pillows from the cabins and headed to the venue in their pajamas. It was hilarious!
“Threshold”, these guys are completely underrated, and their singer is one of the best persons I’ve seen on a stage.
“God Dethroned” announced their return to the most Metal cruise ever! They wanted their first shows to be where they played their last ones three years ago, a rebirth and a reunion for the band.
“Michael Schenker’s Temple of Rock”delivered a great show.Unfortunately, I only got to see their first set in the Platinum.They got the whole place singing ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’.
“Amorphis” played some of their old death metal songs with harsh vocals than with clean.They put on a hell of an energetic show.
“Venom” played with borrowed instruments from “Arch Enemy” as their equipment was misplaced by the airline company.
On the third day, thousands of metalheads arrived to Ocho Rios, Jamaica, where sailors went to swim with dolphins and hike Dunn’s River Falls with their favorite bands.
The pool area was fully packed during one of the main activities on the cruise,The BellyFlop contest,where a number of people,mostly of the larger physical build,took turns to attempt to create the largest splash possible.
On the last day, the organizer of the event announced that this year, metal fans from 70 nations were represented on 70000 Tons of Metal.He said in his short speech: “You are the United Nations of heavy metal – thank you!”
Next year, the cruise will take place most likely the first week of February.People started preparing and sending their wish lists.The destination is not announced yet, but who cares, we all can’t wait.
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Jeddah: Battling it out against the region’s leading agencies, independent GCC Agency W7Worldwide scooped up the Middle East Public Relations Association (MEPRA) Best Energy & Natural Resources Campaign and Best Media Campaign Awards. The coveted MEPRA Awards saw over 80 agencies and in-house communication teams compete, with W7Worldwide shortlisted for a record 17 of the 53 award categories.
The double award win proves W7Worldwide’s growing prominence and success in establishing its leading position in the region as an exemplary local communications agency of international standard with global outreach. MEPRA is regarded as one of the most influential PR and Communications awards in the Middle East, with the level of entries excelling each year, reflecting the rapid professional development of the sector.
“To be awarded the prestigious MEPRA Awards in two categories is testament to our team’s high level of skills, creativity and knowledge.” says Abdullah Inayat, Co-Founder and Director of W7Worldwide. “From the outset, we have always aimed to contribute to the growth and professionalism in our industry in the region with thought leadership and nurturing homegrown talent, which makes this dual win and endorsement from MEPRA all the more significant for us.”
Founded in 2001, MEPRA is a self-governing non-profit member association, established to set world-class standards for the public relations and communication industry in the Middle East. With over 300 in-house, agency and individual members, MEPRA is the voice of the public relations industry committed to setting standards of excellence. W7Worldwide entered the awards to seek industry recognition of its ongoing work and commitment to elevate the PR and Communications profession in the region and to showcase their talent as one of Saudi Arabia’s and the GCC’s leading independent agencies.
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Global alliance of overseas Filipinos and families Migrante International joins the international community in condemning the senseless and brutal massacre of 16 Afghan civilians on Sunday by an American soldier. Among those killed were nine children and three women.
The massacre was the latest in the list of reported atrocities committed by US soldiers in Afghanistan, including the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base in Kabul last month which sparked riots across the country. US troops are now entering their 11th year in Afghanistan.
“Migrante reiterates its strong opposition to the deployment of American troops in the Asia Pacific region with the aim to secure the economic and military interests of the US for oil and territorial positioning. Historically, the presence of US troops has had disastrous effects on peoples, especially women and children. This latest massacre is yet another tragedy that Filipinos all over the world condemn in strongest terms,” said Garry Martinez, Migrante International chairperson.
He said, “Wherever there are US troops, violence, prostitution, rape and other abuses thrive. Innocent civilians become casualties of a so-called ‘war on terror’ that continues to terrorize and murder peoples and restrict their civil liberties and freedoms.”
Martinez called on the Philippine government to actively condemn the massacre in Afghanistan, and ensure the safety of at least 6,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in US facilities there.
Last year, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) lifted the deployment ban for OFWs who are working inside US facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Because of what happened, a backlash can be expected against US troops and on their army bases. We fear for the safety of our OFWs. It is imperative that the Philippine government publicly condemn the massacre and support the Afghan people’s cry for justice,” Martinez said.
The migrant leader criticized the Aquino administration for its continuous support of the deployment of US troops and foreign wars of aggression in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region under the guise of a “war on terror”. He cited the Philippine government’s abstention in the United Nations vote condemning the violence in Syria as “playing safe” and in effect “supporting the impending US-NATO air strikes on the country”.
“The Aquino administration’s refusal to take a position condemning violence by US troops and military intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere continues to endanger the lives of tens of thousands of Filipinos in these countries. Worse, its continued all-out support for US’ interventionist and proxy wars places Filipinos all over the world under the brunt of anti-US troops and anti-imperialist protests,” Martinez said.
On March 17, death anniversary of OFW icon Flor Contemplacion, Migrante International will hold internationally-coordinated protest actions against the deployment of US troops and US-led wars of aggression.###
Statement of Migrante International on 2012 International Women’s Day Forced migration in the Philippines has a woman’s face
Why OFWs will join the People’s Protest vs. oil price hikes
More woes welcome migrant Filipinos in 2021 with PhilHealth premium increase
ENSURE THE SECURITY OF TENURE AND REGULARIZATION OF SEAFARERS AND FISHERS, SUPPORT THE MAGNA CARTA OF FILIPINO SEAFARERS (House Bill 6588 and substitute House Bill 8057
FILIPINO MIGRANTS FIGHT C.O.V.I.D. — Migrante International on 2020 International Migrants Day
“Defeat Duterte’s Fascist virus with the vaccine of people’s resistance!” — Migrante International on the 2020 International Human Rights Day
Locked up in the PH Embassy’s basement, 38 OFWs in Syria need urgent rescue and repatriation
On the "peace briefing" by AFP Chief Parlade and NTF-ELCAC in Melbourne, Australia
OPEN LETTER to Filipino frontline workers in the Philippines and Overseas – our doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, cleaners, food and service workers, and scientists
No to another Flor Contemplacion! Save the life of Mary Jane Veloso! – Migrante
FILIPINO MIGRANTS FIGHT C.O.V.I.D. -- Migrante International on 2020 International Migrants Day
OFWs in quarantine submit appeal letter to OWWA Deputy Admin Mocha Uson
Ipagbunyi ang makabuluhang buhay ni Kasamang Paul Aringo (1992-2017), huwarang lider-kabataan at rebolusyonaryo!
UAE OFWs need govt aid amidst pandemic -- Migrante International
IN PHOTOS: Global Day of Mourning and protest vs. state-sponsored killings
Migrante at mamamayan, salubungin ng protesta ang APEC 2015!
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Sweet Pea by Gloria Loring
by ChrisMCL
4th July 2017 8th December 2020
Further adventures in the Beautiful Garden
Arabella returns to the Beautiful Garden as Dog. Here, she accidentally betrays those she loves in the pursuit of pleasure. Through her mistakes, she suffers pain, sorrow and separation from her beloved Jasmin. In the depths of despair, will she ever see light and happiness again?
This is Arabella’s third adventure, where she struggles to find Faith, Joy, Hope and Happiness.
Sweet Pea can be enjoyed as a standalone story, or as part of the wider adventures in this fourth tale from the Beautiful Garden.
Beautifully illustrated with Gloria’s paintings.
Paperback 34 pages
Full colour illustrations
To purchase a copy, please email the author at gloria@glorialoringsart.co.uk
To find out more about Gloria and her work, please visit her website: www.shinystarleonora.com
Alfie Bear goes to work by Brenda-Gillian and Alfie Brown
6th May 2017 8th December 2020
Alfie Bear goes to work and meets lots of new characters down on the farm
Alfie Bear is a delightful tale about a little boy who blows out the four candles on his birthday cake and makes a wish. He wishes he could be grown up like Mummy. That night he dreams he is grown up and becomes a farmer. Little did he know what adventures lay in store for him down on the farm.
This is a delightful tale to read aloud with young children. We meet various characters that live on the farm and learn about the needs of others and how colourful farming can be!
A4 paperback with full colour illustrations by Brenda-Gillian and Alfie Brown.
RRP:£8.00
Copies available from the author at brendagillian86@gmail.com
The Family that Flew by Ann Petre
8th January 2017 7th December 2020
The Story of the Tor Bryan Petres and Pioneers in Flight
1914 was a key year for the Tor Bryan Petres. Seven offspring. Four sons fighting – three sons flying and the fourth, an aviation pioneer, already dead. Tragedy and sacrifice, fortitude and hopefulness in the face of loss are vividly portrayed here through photographs, letters and memories. The story begins in the Victorian era with the family influenced by the deep spirituality of Ann’s grandmother, Elise Sibeth. it portrays the excitement of aviation in the Edwardian years and something of the sadness and horrors of WWI.
The seven siblings, Ann’s aunts and uncles, mirror their times. The eldest, Mary, the family ‘carer’, was imprisoned by Edwardian mores. They all shared a passion for flight that led to the untimely deaths of Edward and jack. henry went on to found the Royal Australian Air Force. Sybil, the youngest, enjoyed more freedom as an ambulance driver and considerable artist.
This is also the story of Tor Bryan, Ingatestone, a unique Arts & Crafts House, built in 1850 by my grandfather and destroyed by developers a hundred years later. The demise of the house mirrors the lives, and deaths, of its occupants.
Fully illustrated with black & white photographs
To order a copy, please email us at Chris@miltoncontact.com and we will forward your request.
Other books by Ann:
Journey into Solitude
The Lost Priory
Who’s Hoo? by Jane Thomas
31st October 2016 8th December 2020
A story to be read aloud to the very young
Merry Mouse finds a letter but does anyone know Mr Hoo or where he lives? With the help of her friends, and a few rhymes along the way, Merry sets out on a journey to find the mysterious Mr Hoo.
Who’s Hoo is written for young children or the young at heart and is illustrated throughout with Jane’s watercolours. It is ideal to read aloud and encourages children to join in the rhymes.
Small paperback – 105 mm x 105 mm
28 pages – fully illustrated
Price: £3 (Plus P&P)
To purchase a copy, please email jane@miltoncontact.com
Also available on Amazon
Maiseerola and the Purple Sweets by Brenda-Gillian and Amelia-Rose Brown
30th July 2014 8th December 2020
Maiseerola loves purple sweets, but they lead to trouble. A lovely story for young children about actions and their consequences.
Written by Brenda Gillian with help and direction from her granddaughter, Amelia-Rose, Maiseerola and the Purple Sweets is a story about a little girl who loves purple sweets and the antics she gets up to when she goes to a friend’s birthday party.
Maiseerola soon finds out that actions have consequences when, full of energy she bounces a little too high on the trampoline and ends up stuck in a tree. Luckily help is at hand from a friendly woodland fairy, but will Maiseerola take her advice?
A lovely book to read out loud to young children and beautifully illustrated by Andrea McKenzie.
Copies available from the author, Brenda Gillian. Please email her at brendagillian86@gmail.com or visit the Crazy Grandma stories website at www.crazygrandma.co.uk
A4 Paperback format
36 pages with colour illustrations
The Lost Priory – A Cambridge Story by Ann Hales-Tooke
17th August 2009 24th November 2020
When Henry VIII destroyed Barnwell Priory, Cambridge, in 1538 he altered the locality for ever.
In two parallel stories, one Tudor, the other set in 1990, we see how the Evil men do lives after them affecting the places we live in, but that the Good redeems itself in many ways.
A murder at Stourbridge Fair in 1534, the suicide of a Homeless Project Manager hounded in 1990, the loss of a new-born baby and the painful end of Margaret Clifton, local visionary and artist, form parts of Ann Hales-Tooke’s carefully researched story.
The exciting action moves at times from Barnwell to Ely, Walsingham Norfolk, to Smithfield, Newgate Prison and the Tyburn Gallows.
A Barnwell resident for 30 years, Ann describes in a fast moving narrative that is a fascinating blend of historical fact and fiction, tragedies and resurgences of community spirit that can transform a neighbourhood.
Readers may also be interested in the author’s Memoir, ‘Journey into Solitude’, Milton Contact, 2006,under the name Ann Petre.
Dear Ruth: A Lament for Africa by Pamela Cotton
1st June 2009 24th November 2020
I lost my heart to Africa, so this book about the dying days of the British Empire in Central Africa, the abolition of the colonial civil service, and the years that followed these events hold bittersweet memories.
Much of the text consists of letters I wrote to my friend Ruth while we were living through these dramatic changes. The story is seen through the eyes of my family who lived and lost the continent that had captivated us, followed by our travels in the Middle East and finally back to Britain. It is also about the people amongst whom I worked; the cheery, commonplace, indigenous inhabitants.
They knew little of the ways of the politicians or of the important decisions being made in London on their behalf. The people I knew, their smiles, pervading good humour and cheerfulness were an inspiration.
My tale, a personal record of this era, challenges the received wisdom of the politicians which appears in our history books nowadays with embellishments. I write from the perspective of those of us who were there, working with the ordinary people.
If I make bygone Africa sound idyllic it is because for me it was. It is good to remember a time when I felt I was helping to improve the lives of such open-hearted, attractive people.
Nimrod – A memoir of Mischief and Mishap by Peter Newman Brooks
20th May 2007 24th November 2020
This is the biography of a Siamese cat – a puss-cat life… crowded with incident played out in Essex and Kent, the ‘Catswolds’ and Cambridge, as Nimrod moved house with his ‘Obliger’ Peter Newman Brooks. It is the record of a rare nine-life experience embracing not only the usual routines pet lovers enjoy, but also many a crisis verging on disaster. Endearing to the end, Nimrod would not have wanted a halo; but he surely strained every sinew to surprise all who knew him as a great character, independent, and shrewd – a cat of many parts!
Nimrod himself comments:
“Because of his fondness for felines, I, NIMROD, have allowed my Obliger, the Author, to write this biography. My full life has been demanding and left few spare moments for me to set about such a time- consuming task. In any case, writing about oneself can be boring, so the very thought of an autobiography I ruled out long ago. Yet when in repose, curled up with a paw over my eyes in many a favourite spot and Summer sleeping place, I have often pondered the matter. And my considered opinion has brought me to a compromise I hope readers will find acceptable. Almost all my lives I have trusted to my Obliger, and his very cattitude therefore makes him well qualified to write about them. But that will not prevent my including partial memoirs here and there – with my monogram upon them.”
Further Extracts
Believe it or not, my Mother was what Americans call a Calico cat!…always keep on your pads for instant action! Never mind that most humans tend to despise felines for precisely such foresight, even though others have come to realize that, without our dutiful care, rodents would overrun the world.
… as a whole, the community frowned on cat burglars, and once local worthies – the Women’s Institute in committee, and regulars who propped up the Inn’s Public Bar – began to compare notes, even cursory stocktaking revealed a rise in petty theft. Briefly, Coln was convinced that cat crime had risen, was rising, and had to be diminished.
…by now a seasoned traveller…en route for Cambridge he provided good company. Never lost for words, with many a mew to the driver, he gave a full running commentary on the journey.
Challenged in the gloom, Peter was asked to explain himself. “I’m here to collect my pet”, he replied, “a cat currently fouling consecrated ground!” A tale of the unexpected, the incident received prominence the Cambridge Evening News.
The higher he went too, the better the view. Why restrict Cambridge ‘Night Climbing’ to the student world? He’d heard his human friends boast of roof-top skills – and even learnt of unknown heroes who, unseen, had once assembled a car on top of the Senate House.
… for me it was another life lost. The little green space of that down-town cemetery had become a happy hunting range; and St Botolph’s churchyard wall my parade ground. I had got to know both well; yet almost overnight I became a displaced puss-cat and was taken to Downing.
What scope North Farm offered the whole family; and nobody was more excited by the Landbeach move than Master Nimrod. So recently honoured with a proper name, his singular status as a Siamese prince now promoted him to be a country squire. For here was a residence comparable in every way to what he had enjoyed in the ‘Catswolds’, or for that matter even to his birthplace in those far-off Essex days.
What a relief it was to discover Corgis that took to a cat as much as he warmed to them! Any frosty behaviour thawed out within five minutes of their reunion, and when the dogs were walked, Nimrod pranced along behind, round the paddock and even across the fields in the open country beyond.
The bird did not attack, but staged a fly-past and spectacular swoop. And that was enough for, bewildered by the owl’s last-second swerve, a hissing Nimrod leapt from the beam to avoid collision, and clung to a weather-board on the garden side of the barn. It had been a near miss, and in shock the frightened cat forced his way through a broken panel to survive in fresh air.
Nor am I colour blind – just fascinated by owls. In the ‘Catswolds’, Grey Cat had taught me to respect them, but never pointed one out, fur to feather so to say. No small wonder that I found myself mesmerized by that staring white ghost in the barn!
Humans may moan about Parrots – but their mimicry cannot compare with the tiresome way Starlings annoy cats, and Nimrod determined to lodge a Siamese protest.
I’ve been given to understand that complete disaster nearly came my way and I’m lucky to survive. Be that as it may, we cats have a relaxed outlook, and I want readers to know that all Siamese look on the bright side of life!
Nimrod knew well that even the best cooks valued encouragement from those they served with long hours of selfless devotion in the kitchen. There were, moreover, ample rewards on hand for a cat prepared to mew a running commentary on recipes, and be ready to sample and taste acceptable ingredients, or any kind of fare a cook’s generosity might hand down.
Altogether unnerved, a spitting, swearing Nimrod took up the challenge at once. Without as much as a pause to tiptoe around or ponder tactics in a battle plan, his claws shot out and gripped the brown body in a tight vice. Then, with a swift lunge of his jaw, the cat neatly nipped the foe with a well-placed blow at the back of the neck. Precise timing and fine physique had triumphed – the rat’s body relaxed, slumped forward, and after a brief sequence of terminal shivers, lay still on the ground.
After a professional career as a Cambridge don – well known for writings on the reformations of the sixteenth century – PETER NEWMAN BROOKS has turned to natural history. Flora and fauna he has long found inspirational, and this memoir is not only a tribute to his much-loved cat NIMROD, but also to wildlife in general.
At Robinson College, Cambridge – of which he is now Life Fellow – Dr Brooks came to know the illustrator IAN LEVENE, an artist of distinction, and another cat lover.
Designed and edited by Milton Contact Ltd, published by Moyhill Publishing
Journey into Solitude by Ann Petre
“Journey into Solitude” is a narrative story, part fact, part fiction, looking back almost 80 years in the life of Ann Petre. Childhood, the war, family history, triumphs and tragedies; this is a personal perspective, interspersed with dreams, photos and illustrations, on what it was like to live through each decade of the 20th century in Norfolk and Cambridge.
Ann Petre was born in 1926 at Langley Hall Farm, Norfolk and lived through some of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th Century, finally settling in Cambridge. You can experience what it was like, to grow up in the care of nannies, be educated by nuns, live through the war, and be a female student at Oxford in the forties. What happens when you make decisions based on passion later in life and have to start all over again – on your own?
The story is a window into another traveller’s soul, in this often capricious and inexplicable journey through life on which each of us is embarked. Ann relates how she wove her path through those times, losing and finding herself in her unique journey into solitude.
In addition to Ann’s story, there are two other threads. The first is historical with insights into a family history that includes links to nobility and a family of Britain’s early aviation pioneers. The second is the visual story told by photographs from the beginning of the 1900s and concludes with the author’s paintings.
“This is emphatically not a family history,” the author says, “nor, strictly speaking, a memoir. It is more a story, or a myth. It is a narrative woven round my life. It attempts to explain why people, including myself, behaved as they did.”
Designed by Milton Contact Ltd, Published by Moyhill Publishing 2006.
Out of print.
© Copyright 2020 Milton Contact Ltd
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Email: chris@miltoncontact.com
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mm203: One Laptop Per Child — News, and a discouraging word
One of this nanocorner of the ‘Sphere©‘s favorite topics for the past few months, the One Laptop Per Child initiative of Nicolas Negroponte and his non-proft spin-off from MIT, is back in the news today. Here are many of our previous posts:
mm088: Meet the XO
mm089: Amateur mapmaking…
mm099: A $99 Desktop…
mm149: India’s take…
mm153: By a Laptop, Get one…
mm162: Laptop with a Mission
mm170: Technology and Ed …
mm179: OLPC for India after all?
mm189: OLPC cranks up!
Today, the “Give One, Get One” “civilian” donation program has been extended.
By RODRIQUE NGOWI | The Associated Press
12:10 AM CST, November 23, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A promotion in which a customer buying a $188 computer in the U.S. and Canada automatically donates a second one to a child in a developing country was extended until year’s end, organizers said Thursday.
The “Give One, Get One” program will now run through Dec. 31, instead of ending on Nov. 26, according to the One Laptop Per Child Program, a nonprofit spinoff from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Always felt that two weeks was artificially short — after all the end of year gift/donation period lasts all the way to the end of the year.
One Laptop Per Child extends promotion until year’s end — chicagotribune.com
Of course, Newton’s law makes mandatory an equal and opposite reaction to the mostly positive news generated by this program.
From a site not before encountered comes the following two recent curmudgeonly observations, and we always make room for a fellow contrarian:
from the soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations dept
The One-Laptop-per-Child project, which the press is still referring to as the “$100 laptop” despite the fact that it now costs twice that, finally began rolling off the assembly line this week. What’s most striking about the effort is how dramatically Nicholas Negroponte has had to scale back his formerly lofty ambitions to get the project off the ground. He initially said that they’d need 3 million orders before they started production.
Techdirt: Dramatically Scaled-Back OLPC Begins Production
from the isn’t-technology-supposed-to-get-cheaper? dept
I’ll admit it. I’ve never quite understood the rationale behind the $100 laptop (or OLPC or whatever it’s being called these days). Yes, it’s a noble goal to get technology into the hands of people around the world with the hope that they can do something productive with it — but a big top down attempt to build something without much actual user feedback seems destined to fail.
Techdirt: Price Of The $100 Laptop Going In The Wrong Direction
Many a time, lofty goals founder on the shoals of the real world. Okay, $100 became $188, but one wonders what exactly has happened to the dollar itself in the several years since this project was born.
We know what happened to the dollar: it has lost much ground vs. the rest of the world, thanks to our kill-taxes-but-spend-stupendously administration of George III. One might imagine that had the project been denominated in Euros that its final cost might well have stayed closer to its initial target. So that feels like petty and carping argument.
MUDGE is still prepared to give OLPC the benefit of the doubt — the lofty goals thing deserves at least that.
And as we’ve been suggesting in this space,
I would think that people who would find a $399 purchase with a 50% charitable component affordable might also wish, as the story suggests, to donate the PC they’re entitled to a (not third world, but certainly third rate) school in this country.
God knows that there are pockets of the third world within these preciously regarded borders of ours, many within our biggest cities. Then it becomes a $399 charitable contribution, serving to further education among the deserving needy in our own country as well as beyond.
If this promotion serves to prime the production pump, so as to assure economic deliveries to the nations like Peru and Mexico and Italy (for Ethiopia — now that’s fitting!) that have committed to the project, then it’s absolutely worthwhile.
As the giving season is well upon us, why not add OLPC’s “Give 1, Get 1″ to your planning (orders to be taken Nov. 12–26); and as MUDGE recommends, just make that slight adjustment and you can call it “Give 1 (there), Give 1 (here).”
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Getting Dale for the Harrison Region Honest & Demolition Derby this evening. Beauty of creating a kid is always that I’ve a pal today to view amount 7 backrounds, demonstration derbys, etc.
Alain Chapel, le legs culinaire d'un grand cuisinier
À chaque affaire d'inceste, on semble redécouvrir le phénomène
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Walmart+ Seeing Early Traction, Survey Says, But Findings Questioned
A new survey suggested that Walmart+ is seeing some good traction out of the gate in terms of subscriber sign-ups, but while some observers have questioned its findings it’s still an indicator of a level of consumer acceptance of the mega retailer’s answer to Amazon Prime.
Piplsay’s survey found 11% of respondents had already signed up for Walmart+ over the past couple of weeks. It offers unlimited free delivery on orders over $35 for $98 per year, compared to $119 annually for Prime. After some false starts due to COVID-19 and other factors, Walmart+ launched on Sept. 15.
The survey, conducted by Market Cube, ran from Sept. 27-28 and queried 20,179 individuals aged 18 years and older in the U.S. It found that 53% of respondents had heard of Walmart+, while the rest hadn’t. Of those that had heard of it, 27% said they may soon subscribe.
The most popular feature of Walmart+, according to the survey, was free delivery (cited by 35% of respondents), followed by same day/one-hour delivery windows (24%), mobile scan-and-go (14%), fuel discounts (12%), single checkout (10%) and the cost of its annual fee (5%).
Amazon, with well over 100 million U.S. subscribers as of earlier this year, is probably not fearful of Walmart+ gaining significant market share, as its members are generally extremely loyal and enthusiastic, and the side perks are rich.
But maybe they should be a bit concerned with its heavyweight battle bot competitor. Thirty-eight percent of respondents to the Piplsay survey said Walmart+ was a threat to Prime, while 33% said it wasn’t and 29% were unsure. This is in addition to the 19% of respondents who said they switched. Still it’s impossible to know on what basis respondents saw Walmart+ as a threat to Prime.
Other survey findings include:
45% of respondents who signed up for Walmart+ said they also belong to Amazon Prime
36% of those same respondents said Walmart+ was their first subscription service
19% who signed up said they had migrated from Prime to Walmart+
60% of men think Walmart+ will be a big threat to Prime, compared to 40% of women
About 36% of millennial and Gen X respondents combined have both Walmart+ and Prime subscriptions
56% of Gen Z respondents said they were excited about the mobile scan-and-go feature of Walmart+, compared to 44% for Gen X
Brittain Ladd, CMO of Pulse Integration and a former Amazon consultant on grocery strategy, said he didn’t see Walmart+ as a threat to Prime because “it offers more value.” He added Amazon with its massive cash hoard could easily acquire a major retailer to further its grocery ambitions, as it did with Whole Foods in 2017, or expand through a partnership, in either case populating stores with its own brands.
“This survey assumes that nothing will change in the future with Amazon, which is false,” Ladd said. “It has many big moves that it can make to minimize the impact of Walmart+.”
Another analyst who did not want to be quoted said if the Piplsay findings were extrapolated out to the entire population, Walmart+ would already have about 15 million U.S. subscribers, based on its weekly traffic, or roughly half of the estimated 30 million Costco members. “It would seem unlikely that Walmart has already signed up half of what it has taken Costco decades to accomplish,” he said.
Marc Wulfraat, president of supply chain consultancy MWPVL International, said while the survey findings were interesting, he’s not sure how sustainable Walmart+ will be at scale, given the huge logistical costs.
“My own opinion is that people will sign up for free food deliveries first and foremost,” Wulfraat said. “But at a cost of $15 to $30 per delivery for Walmart, we’ll see how long this will last.”
Free shipping, after all, isn’t free for everyone, but smart people in Bentonville have certainly run the numbers on projected subscription revenue and average order value, etc. against estimated fulfillment and delivery costs. Also, with a subscription program the company is going after a more affluent and ideally higher spending group than its bread-and-butter customer base.
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Was William Stanley Misunderstood?
I have enjoyed reading the books of Richard Unwin about Richard III from the point of view of Laurence the Armourer and was intrigued by his theory that William Stanley was not a traitor, or at least not in the way we might think.
Think about the battle – William Stanley and his men are off to one side, watching the proceedings. He has already been declared a traitor by Richard, so he obviously must be hoping for a victory for Henry or he can look forward to a nasty end. Presumably, Richard’s loyal household knights also know this and are expecting him to turn traitor to his king by supporting Henry.
Then Richard does his dramatic and courageous charge – Stanley sees him and his men getting right into the enemy’s midst and killing many of them. He might or might not have been close enough to see John Cheney, Henry’s giant bodyguard, unhorsed by Richard but he must have seen Henry’s standard fall when Richard killed his standard bearer, William Brandon. Put yourself in his shoes. We know the Stanleys were notorious for changing sides when it suited them. Wouldn’t this be the perfect time to charge in on Richard’s side in the hope of avoiding being executed after the battle? But Richard’s men would have thought that he was coming in on Henry’s side, because of his already being attainted for treason and this could have caused the two forces to fight amongst themselves. We know this could happen, as it had done at Barnet when the Star banner of Oxford was mistaken for the Sun in Splendour banner of Edward in the fog.
It sounds plausible to me. What do you think?
“Coat of arms of Sir William Stanley, KG” by Rs-nourse – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Sir_William_Stanley,_KG.png#/media/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Sir_William_Stanley,_KG.png
Posted by jrlarner in anniversaries, battles and tagged anniversaries, Barnet, Battle of Bosworth, confusion, Earl of Oxford, Henry VII, Richard III, Sir John Cheney, Sir William Stanley, treason, William Brandon
24 thoughts on “Was William Stanley Misunderstood?”
Kalina on 22/08/2015 at 7:15 am said:
Traitor is traitor, nothing else, whenever he became a traitor and whatever he had to do for save his life full of treachery. And he ended as a traitor, and very well…
jrlarner on 22/08/2015 at 10:19 pm said:
Oh yes, I’m not excusing his behaviour at all – it just seemed as if (if he thought Tudor was finished) he might have feigned being on Richard’s side. In any case, he was a nasty piece of work!
timetravellingbunny on 22/08/2015 at 5:13 pm said:
No, sorry, it’s not. He knew the Stanleys had nothing to gain if Richard won, while they could hope to gain from Henry’s win, and that was the right moment to step in against Richard both because Henry was in danger of being killed, and because Richard’s force with which he was attacking Henry was so small and could be easily surrounded and killed off by the more numerous Stanley force.
And there were pretty obviously no misunderstandings, since no fighting occurred between Stanley’s and Henry’s men.
Kalina on 22/08/2015 at 5:47 pm said:
William Stanley as well as the other traitors: Thomas Stanley and earl of Northumberland were the feudal vassals of King of England. So they were obliged to give him their support and help. And to die for him if necessary. The contemporary people thought about it similarly. Earl of Northumberland was lynched for his treachery. William Stanley as the notorious traitor was executed by the man whom he offered Richard,s crown. Only Thomas Stanley saved his life of a traitor. I know…there was the end of English chivalry. To-day however a chivalry is over but something like nobility of soul, loyalty, keep our promises would be cool…I miss it:))
“No, sorry, it’s not. He knew the Stanleys had nothing to gain if Richard won, while they could hope to gain from Henry’s win”
How we can name it? I name it a scurvy trick. Stanleys made their honour an article of trade.
halfwit36 on 22/08/2015 at 6:47 pm said:
Not so sure about Northumberland. It may be that he was taken by surprise by Richard’s sudden charge, and by the time he was able to react, it was all over. Henry did have him arrested, at least briefly, which doesn’t sound much like he came in on the Tudor side. He may have been lynched because he was already disliked, and the collection of taxes was the last straw.
Or possibly the Northerners hated him because he lurked in the rear, like a coward. Which doesn’t seem quite fair. Wasn’t he where he was because Richard put him there?
@halfwit36: Well, Richard didn’t lead his charge at the start of the battle, it was after it had been going on for some time, Norfolk’s vanguard was losing to Oxford’s vanguard and Norfolk had been killed, and Northumberland’s rear hadn’t joined the battle at all. There are two theories about his (non)participation, one is that he chose to do avoid fighting and wait to see who wins, and the other that he couldn’t join because of the marshy ground.
Yes, it was just a thought. The misunderstanding thing need not have been an issue, if Richard’s men had thought he was acting for Tudor (whether he was or wasn’t) the result would have been the same – they would have ended up fighting Richard’s men.
Also, I don’t believe that he was facing certain execution if Richard won – if Stanley had joined the battle on his side eventually, would Richard have had an excuse to execute him as a traitor? He could have always pretended he was just waiting for the right moment (even if nobody really believed him). But, the Stanleys certainly had no new privileges and lands to look forward to if Richard won, unlike if Henry won, so it was obvious which side they preferred to help.
Well, that was my proposition – how much later could he have joined in on Richard’s side? If he had thought Henry was a goner?! 🙂
May be shortly, may be a little longer. It was no problem for a feudal knight. It had to be no problem for him – a knight had the feudal duties. Of course there were many events in this period in Europe when such people did not performer duties. But they were suitable named.
David on 23/08/2015 at 12:48 am said:
A view on William from the Richard III foundation
http://www.richard111.com/william_stanley__a_yorkist.htm
You should also look at the man who led the revolt against Northumberland – he was a cousin who profited from his death.
“He may not be owed much honor, but he does not deserve dishonor.”
Ok, let,s leave the matter of his honour and get talked about his sense. It,s interesting why he as Yorkist preferred to make King of England the fiance of young girl, princess of York then the experienced, mature man, the brother of late king, full-blooded Yorkist. The more so as that fiance had no claims to the English throne. Opposition: Elizabeth of York – King Richard III was ridiculous, the more so as there were rumours about their marriage. If Sir William so eagerly belived in rumours about the princes murdered by Richard he could with simile willing belive that Elizabeth became Queen of England thanks her uncle. But he did not it. Because by me he preferred to support a man who was step-son of his brother. That,s all.
What is your source for the rumours about the marriage?
Kalina on 23/08/2015 at 11:56 am said:
Croyland Chronicle and other relations, but in first – Richard,s public denying of this rumours
@Kalina, Well, the fact that he had publicly denied those rumors in very strong terms in March 1485 works against that argument, doesn’t it? Why would William Stanley or anyone think that Richard was going to marry Elizabeth, when he made it clear he would not?
What I find harder to understand, @David, is 1) why would anyone really be that naive to think that Elizabeth of York would be the one to have power if Henry Tudor conducted a successful invasion, killed Richard and married her, or that this would be a “Yorkist” rule by any means? No, I don’t believe for a second that anyone was that naive to believe that. If Elizabeth of York was the rightful heiress, why not start a rebellion to put HER on the throne? No, nobody at the time even entertained the idea that a woman could rule on her own. Did they think that she would be ruling jointly with Henry? I don’t believe that, either. Plain and simple, unless they were that naive to think otherwise, they were putting Henry Tudor on the throne. And would they really be that naive to think Henry wouldn’t go on to see all her Yorkist male relatives as rivals and potential enemies, and go on to execute or imprison any he could get his hands on?
and 2) if William Stanley was so convinced both of Edward’s sons were dead, how come he was ready to believe, just a few years later, that Richard of Shrewsbury was alive?
Jean A. Dickey on 24/08/2015 at 1:36 am said:
Philippa Gregory needed to make the ancient rumors more viable in order to sell more of her fiction books! Her story-arcs are extremely tidy in light of how her fiction works became condensed into THE WHITE QUEEN ten episode television series. She cleverly counterpoints events as did the scriptwriters who adapted her three books. If anything, Richard III was slowly weighing his options as a widower and not rushing into things. I heartily discount these rumors. On the whole, I’d rather believe he was drinking more top shelf wine at the end of his life, given the results of the tests done at the Uni of Leicester!
1a) They didn’t expect that Elizabeth would rule, but they might expect that she would have some influence. Nobody knew that no-one, even his mother, had much influence on Henry.
1b) “would they really be that naive to think Henry wouldn’t go on to see all her Yorkist male relatives as rivals and potential enemies, and go on to execute or imprison any he could get his hands on?” That’s not naivety, simply inability to predict the future.
2) Excellent point!
@timetravellingbunny
Croyland Chronicle:
The king, accordingly, followed their advice a little before Easter, in presence of the mayor and citizens of London, in the great hall of the Hospital of Saint John, by making the said denial in a loud and distinct voice; more, however, as many supposed, to suit the wishes of those who advised him to that effect, than in conformity with his own.
If the chronicler and “many” supposed that Richard did “denial” against his wishes, William S. could be among them:)) After his victory Richard could return to earlier plans:))
It is a joke of course. I do not agree with the article recommended by David too
I think it was more Richard’s past clashes with the Stanleys re Hornby Castle and the Harringtons and his general policies which they may have thought would curtail their power.
As far as “friendly fire’ infamously goes, Stanley’s attack after King Richard’s vespers hour cavalry charge seems to have also cut down some of Henry Tudor’s men in an attempt to get closer to Richard. If anything he came close to dispatching Richard and then Henry within minutes of each other. I think his timing got him beheaded.
Had he not moved, he might have “soft-soaped” a victorious King Richard, but his manner of indiscriminate movement set off Henry Tudor’s infamous paranoia. Incidentally, the final confrontation might have been much closer to Dadlington, because of the way the bodies of the dead were taken to St. James Church.
http://medievalaccommodation.com/medieval-britain/LMB%20Pages/pages-n-r/bosworth2.htm
http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centre/warsoftheroses/battlepageview.asp?pageid=392&parentid=387
Note the hill near the church, the local high ground! Ambion Hill to the north
also is a vantage point! The battle began perhaps after dawn with cannon fire
in the vicinity of the east/west Fenn area road — the roundshot suggest this…
Another theory is that Stanley may never have intended to go to Henry’s aid – he was just unable to control his Welsh troops.
Below I quote the post of “King Richard III” on Facebook. This is something about a honor:
Today, 25 August, in 1485, execution by beheading of William Catesby in Leicester, at the age of about 35. He was the son of Sir William Catesby of Ashby St Ledgers and Philippa Bishopston.
Catesby was captured at the battle of Bosworth for his support to Richard III.
Just before his execution he made his last will and wrote:
Henry VII, leaving its fulfilment entirely to his wife, ‘to whom, I have ever been true of my body.’ He wished his wife to restore all the land he had wrongfully purchased, and to divide the rest of his property among their children. ‘I doubt not, the king will be good and gracious lord to them; for he is called a full gracious prince, and I never offended him by my good and free will, for God I take to my judge I have ever loved him.’ And even more remarkable he wrote : ‘My lords Stanley, Strange, and all that blood, help and pray for my soul, for ye have not for my body as I trusted in you.
“I doubt not, the king will be good and gracious lord to them; for he is called a full gracious prince, and I never offended him by my good and free will, for God I take to my judge I have ever loved him”
O, my Lord, what a man who loves his family can do else except to sacrifice his honor…
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Wild Frontier – 2012 Review
Released by: Prime Entertaintment
Release Date: May 4th, 2012
Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Links: http://www.wildfrontier.de
Jens Walkenhorst – Lead Vocals/ Guitar
Mario Erdmann – Bass/ Vocals
Thomas Ellenberger – Keyboards/ Vocals
Sascha Fahrenbach – Drums/ Guitar
Nico Fahrenbach – Drums
2. To the end of the world
3. It´s all over now
4. Another lonely day without you
5. Why don´t you save me
6. Stay Tough
7. Favorite
8. It´s all up to you
9. Tonight Tonight Tonight
10. Can´t you hear me calling
11. Long gone
12. Why are the good things too hard to find
13. Gimme Gimme Gimme (bonus track)
The German natives of Wild Frontier return to the scene after a five year hiatus with their new studio record “2012”. I have to be honest and say that I had not heard of this outfit in all my time covering bands overseas, specifically in the Melodic Rock genre. But these guys are not new to the scene, rather the opposite as they have been around since the mid 90’s and have sparingly released music throughout the last few years leading up to this new album, they’re now 5th studio record.
One thing is obvious about these guys and they’re style, and that is the allure of their melodies on some of the tracks off their new record. Their sound falls somewhere in between Melodic Modern Rock and Hard Rock,with a big focus on their catchy melodic hooks. Is nice to hear a record with deviates a bit from the same formula that some rockers use, a little more synthetic in places is something you pick up on the guitar leads, this alongside the solid songwriting keeps the listener hooked throughout.
The first opening track I really could not place anywhere in comparison to the rest of the album, is a mid modern rocker which I felt was missing some more hooks overall, a little too direct and kind of a let down. But as that song ends you fall into the rhythms of “To The End of the World” which has an alluring chorus. The next track falls into the same heavenly category with “It’s All Over Now” a call for the apocalypse which some believe is coming on December 21, 2012. While lush melodies continue, I will say they are simplistic in form but the overall execution is in fine flavor, these guys know how to deliver a catchy piece of music, as tracks the likes of “Favorite” and “Can’t You Hear Me Calling” keep the ball rolling hard up hill.
For some weird reason I couldn’t stop but kick back and replay the track “Why Don’t You Save Me” as lead singer Jens Walkenhorst sounds like Don Dokken in he’s hey day, you know back when he actually had half of his voice left. Sorry Don cheap shot I know we still love ya. The steel punk vibes of “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight” has a crushing upbeat rhythm that provides the listener with a youthful revolt type of groove, nice addition to the record.
This is an enjoyable album by Wild Frontier, they don’t reinvent anything on the Melodic Rock wheel, rather they stick to the all susceptible European rock formula and provide the listener with some pretty cool melodies, an added punk attitude and overall embellish the listener in their fantastic choruses. Pretty solid production overall and a more then capable lead singer in Walkenhorst. Plenty of material to grind your teeth to as the album tops at 13 tracks with most of them delivering the goods with only a few clunkers. A band that probably won’t get much play simply because of the way the scene is now a days, you would be smart enough to check them out just cause I said so.
Written by Denys
Ratings Denys 8/10
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Tagged Hard Rock, Melodic Rock Wild Frontier, Musicbuymail, Wild Frontier - 2012 Review, Wild Frontier 2012, Wild Frontier Rock
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Citrix demos remote desktop app on Windows Mobile smartphone
Feb 2, 2010 at 21:45 GMT 11 years ago
Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), the leading global provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, and Citrix Systems, Inc., today announced the "nirvana phone" reference architecture, using virtualization to enable both mobile communications and office desktop-type productivity. The nirvana phone concept goes beyond traditional smart phones by allowing users to access their corporate virtual desktop and applications from a single device, in any location. With support for docking to full-sized displays, keyboards, mice and other PC-type peripherals, nirvana phones will offer mobile workers a complete "virtual desktop in your pocket," allowing them to take their desktop anywhere without the need to carry around a full laptop.
The nirvana phone reference architecture emerges from the partnership between OK Labs and Citrix, together with key ecosystem partners ranging from semiconductor suppliers and handset OEMs to enterprise IT suppliers and mobile network operators (MNOs). The design builds on Mobile-to-Enterprise (M2E) virtualization and readily-available functionality like mobile virtualization, cloud computing and wireless connectivity (3G, WiFi, Bluetooth). The nirvana phone reference architecture also incorporates emerging capabilities in mobile chipsets and handsets like full resolution video and HD output. The jointly-developed reference architecture can be viewed at ok-labs.com.
"The nirvana phone takes smart phones to the next level by bringing M2E from paradigm to platform and ultimately to product," noted Chris Fleck, VP of Community and Solutions Development, Citrix. "As HD video and other capabilities come on line in mobile chipsets, Citrix and OK Labs are working together to give OEMs a clear path to building handsets that meet the needs of IT organizations and mobile workers alike, delivering virtual desktops and applications to virtualized mobile devices."
"The nirvana phone will provide groundbreaking capabilities without breaking IT budgets with exotic technology," said Steve Subar, President and CEO, OK Labs. "The nirvana phone represents a near-term paradigm shift — OK Labs, Citrix, and our ecosystem partners envision real-world converged nirvana devices enabled for both mobility and desktop productivity entering the market within 12 to 18 months."
Minimum specs for a Nirvana handset is 528MHz ARM processor, 256MB ROM, 192MB RAM, and the software seem to run pretty well on the venerable Windows Mobile Imate 8150 (so that’s what became of them).
Read more at OKLabs here.
Via Engadget.com
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Plastic Debris Swarms Arctic Ocean
By Charmaine Coimbra on April 20, 2017 • ( 0 )
Hundreds of tonnes of plastic are cluttering the once pristine Arctic Ocean and doing great damage to the planet, a new report has found.
On top of the danger of fish and other wildlife swallowing the plastic, the material contains toxic chemicals that leak into the ocean. These toxins can attract other chemicals in the water to create concentrated hot spots of deadly waste.
‘The total load of floating plastic for the ice-free waters of the Arctic Ocean was estimated to range from around 100 to 1200 tons, with 400 tons composed of an estimated 300 billion plastic items as a mid-range estimate,’ the authors wrote in their study.
‘The fragmentation and typology of the plastic suggested an abundant presence of aged debris that originated from distant sources.’
The researchers claims that the Arctic is a ‘dead end’ for floating plastic waste dumped in the Atlantic Ocean off Europe and the United States.
This waste is swept north by ocean currents to a ‘polar graveyard’, they said.
Levels of plastic found east of Greenland and in the Barents Sea off Norway and Russia were far higher than expected for the sparsely populated regions.
Abstract from The Arctic Ocean as a dead end for floating plastics in the North Atlantic branch of the Thermohaline Circulation
The subtropical ocean gyres are recognized as great marine accummulation zones of floating plastic debris; however, the possibility of plastic accumulation at polar latitudes has been overlooked because of the lack of nearby pollution sources. In the present study, the Arctic Ocean was extensively sampled for floating plastic debris from the Tara Oceans circumpolar expedition. Although plastic debris was scarce or absent in most of the Arctic waters, it reached high concentrations (hundreds of thousands of pieces per square kilometer) in the northernmost and easternmost areas of the Greenland and Barents seas. The fragmentation and typology of the plastic suggested an abundant presence of aged debris that originated from distant sources. This hypothesis was corroborated by the relatively high ratios of marine surface plastic to local pollution sources. Surface circulation models and field data showed that the poleward branch of the Thermohaline Circulation transfers floating debris from the North Atlantic to the Greenland and Barents seas, which would be a dead end for this plastic conveyor belt. Given the limited surface transport of the plastic that accumulated here and the mechanisms acting for the downward transport, the seafloor beneath this Arctic sector is hypothesized as an important sink of plastic debris.
The report revealed how man-made pollution extends even to remote parts of the globe.
‘The northeastern Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean appeared as a dead end for the surface transport of plastic pollution,’ the authors wrote.
The survey, by the 2013 Tara Oceans circumpolar expedition that sampled 42 Arctic sites with nets, found hundreds of thousands of mostly tiny bits of plastic per square kilometre (square mile) in the northeastern Atlantic region.
Much of the plastic was apparently old and had floated north from Europe and North America.
Levels were comparable to those in ocean gyres, vast swirling currents nearer the equator, where plastic debris is known to accumulate, they wrote.
‘Ninety-nine percent of the floating plastic in the Arctic was confined in the Greenland and Barents Seas,’ lead author Andres Cozar of the University of Cadiz in Spain said.
‘The plastic pollution in the rest of the Arctic Polar Circle was low or absent,’ he said.
Global warming could open the Arctic to more pollution, partly as the extent of sea ice shrinks.
‘High loads of marine plastic pollution may become prevalent in the Arctic in the future,’ the study said.
The study said there was ‘special concern’ about the impact of plastic on fragile Arctic wildlife, including on the seabed where bits may eventually sink.
Northern fulmar birds on the Arctic Svalbard islands north of Norway, for instance, have been found with high levels of plastic in their stomachs from discarded plastic bags, fishing nets and other trash.
Separately, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), which was not involved in the report, is examining wider pollution risks from plastics.
‘We’re looking to see how big the problem is for the Arctic – both the physical plastic and the chemicals attached to the surface,’ Lars-Otto Reiersen, executive secretary of AMAP, said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4426104/Arctic-seas-called-dead-end-plastic-floating-U-S-Europe.html#ixzz4eoB6gNAO
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Nerdarchy > Reading List > Comic Books
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DC Comics Getting Their D&D On with The Last God
Third party creators publish new content for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons every single day. Many times each day. Since I’ve written this sentence there’s probably been a dozen titles published online along with crowdfunded projects and the like. But it’s noteworthy to see the Warner Bros.-owned comic book publishers DC Comics announcing a sourcebook based on The Last God comic book series for D&D. The Last God: Tales from the Book of Ages debuts in comic book retailers and participating digital retailers on April 29.
by Doug Vehovec
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Comics and D&D Q&A with Artist Kate Sheridan
Hello! Today I’m happy to share a Q&A with Dungeons & Dragons nerd, illustrator and comic creator Kate Sheridan. Kate appeared on the Nerdarchy live chat with Nerdarchist Dave, which you can find below, and had a great conversation about art, comics and D&D. After watching the chat, I checked out Kate’s work and picked up her comic Fallow Time, a terrific story that really captured my imagination. She has a wonderful art and storytelling style and I highly recommend checking out her work. I’m looking forward to adding a print of one of her pieces to my office. Kate was kind enough to share her time answering some more questions, so let’s get into it.
Comic Books Events Previews Video Games
DC Universe Online Is Experiencing A Rebirth
In the great big world of massive multiplayer online games, the market is very make-it-or-break-it. Yeah there are some games that are bigger than others, but the ones that really catch fire hit a specific market and consistently update the content. DC Universe Online, or DCUO for short, had hit the market so hard they beat out the market leader to become the ruler of the roost.
From going free to play, to the consistent new powersets that are given to the new players, DCUO has kept it coming. The MMO visits not just content inspired by hot topic events like various movies, huge comic arcs and cosplay fads, but also brings in things from the fringes of the comics to entertain. Truly, DCUO has got it on PS3, PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
by Nigel “Nubz” Sanford
Comic Books Creator Spotlight Events Writers
The ‘Fabulous’ Heart of the Marvel Comics Bullpen
Hey, guys, Professor Bill of Comic Book University (where we are always tuition-free) and I want to talk about the mythical Marvel Bullpen!
Back in the ’60s when Marvel was changing their name from Timely Comics, to Atlas Comics, and finally to Marvel Comics, Stan Lee was the editor-in-chief, working for Martin Goodman, and generally in charge of the day-to-day and he took over the scripting process.
The head artist for the longest time was Jack Kirby. So influential was “King” Kirby, as Stan Lee called him, Stan decided that Jack’s art would represent the overall look of Marvel. Jack made several “overlays” the other artists would copy or trace in order to deliver the look and feel that all the comics were drawn by Kirby.
by Professor Bill
Blast from the Past Comic Books
Blast from the Past: Shogun Warriors
Shogun Warriors history
Five of the original Shogun Warriors in all their plastic, two-foot-tall awesomeness.
Long before most in the United States had heard the words “manga” or “anime,” and a generation before the world would discover the Power Rangers, there were the Shogun Warriors.
Based upon Japanese television shows, the Shogun Warriors were a collection of toys, mainly robots though there were also a few vehicles.
by Ty Johnston
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Gaming Has Changed My Media Expectations
Jon Heder, as the titular Napoleon Dynamite, and Aaron Ruell as Kip engage in a nerd battle in the independent film “Napoleon Dynamite.”
Arguing about media is a staple of the nerd subculture. We spend an inordinate amount of time going over our favorite shows, movies and books with a fine-toothed comb picking out small details and jabbing at each other with them, because as nerds it’s just what we do. It shouldn’t be a huge surprise, then, that my friend group is no exception to this.
I’m not going to lie, much of the time it’s my fault. I am a total killjoy to watch a movie or anime with, because I absolutely hate it when the main character does everything.
by Robin Miller
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Marvel Super Heroes RPG Live Game All About the Chat
Hey, guys, Professor Bill of Comic Book University and I want to talk about you.
No, seriously, all of you guys who appear in the chat for the Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game FASERIP live game I run for the crew on Mondays. Also, all of you who comment afterward in the comments section of those videos, I try to go back to the videos once in a while to see if there are questions I can answer or see your opinions.
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D&Dized Spider-Man build for D&D 5E
Spider-Man in Columbia Pictures’ “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” [Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures]
As a dutiful nerd and lifelong comic book fan, I went to see “Spider-Man: Homecoming” on opening weekend. There will be no spoilers for the film in this article, but I will say that it is a fantastic movie. It’s also worth noting I’m typically not that much into action movies in general and my critical eye is more than average when it comes to superhero movies.
But all that aside, what I’ve really been thinking about all day is a character build to represent Spider-Man in fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. The Nerdarchy YouTube channel has a long history of D&Dizing fictional characters and objects, and it sounded fun to take a shot at this iconic, beloved Marvel Comics character. My previous crack at D&Dizing something – the Sword of Omens from Thundercats – was tons of fun to work on.
Comic Books Film, TV and Video Reviews
Spider-Man: Homecoming Review (Spoiler Free)
[caption id="attachment_22415" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Spider-Man climbs the Washington Monument in Columbia Pictures' "Spider-Man: Homecoming" [Image courtesy of Columbia Pictures][/caption] Class in session for a review of Spider-Man: Homecoming Hey, guys, Professor Bill of Comic Book University and I saw "Spider-Man: Homecoming" twice… because comic books! Spider-Man is one...
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Hail Hydra! Marvel FASERIP’s Mr. Cyber Explained
Hey, guys, Professor Bill of Comic Book University and I’m going to explain Mr. Cyber, the main bad guy in the Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game (FASERIP) I’m running every Monday for the Nerdarchists. Mr. Cyber is, well, me.
That’s right, Professor Bill is the ultimate evil in the Nerdarchy game. How did he get there? What did he do to gain his powers? Why is he so evil? Let’s read.
Where he’s from
Professor Bill was doing what every nerd was doing on that Thursday afternoon; he was watching the Nerdarchy live chat as Nerdarchist Dave was talking to one of his nerdy guests. The conversation is going one way and the chat is going another; just a typical live chat.
Dave says, something to the effect of, “We’re going to need to petition Professor Bill of Comic Book University to run a Marvel FASERIP game for us.”
Comic Books Dungeons & Dragons Reviews Writers
IDW D&D Comic Book – Frost Giant’s Fury
Hey, guys, Professor Bill of Comic Book University and by my name, you can probably tell that I kind of like comic books. I review a lot, and one of my current favorites is one that may appeal to every Nerdarchist. The comic in question...
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Nerdarchy the comic book! Issue No. 1
Face front, True Believers! In addition to his mild-mannered position as a Nerdarchy staff writer, William C.‘s alter ego is that of Professor Bill. In this other guise he runs Comic Book University, a YouTube channel dedicated to all things comic book. You may also recognize him from the recent live streaming game at Nerdarchy’s YouTube channel. Thursdays at noon EST, Professor Bill takes on the great power and great responsibility of acting as Judge for a game of Marvel Super Heroes RPG.
by Nerdarchy staff
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Blast from the Past: Nerdarchy Invades the Marvel Universe
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpBK1lZg32c&w=560&h=315] Class was in session when Professor Bill from Comic Book University (aka Nerdarchy staff writer William C.) took a group of mild-mannered nerds for a trip to the heart of the Marvel Universe for a game of the Marvel Super Heroes Role-Playing Game. [caption id="attachment_19932"...
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Blind characters not unknown in film, books, comics
On Last Monday’s “Nerdarchy: Live Chat,” the chat itself talked for more than a half hour about different kinds of blind characters. I figured I’d expand on the lore a bit more.
Comic Books Film, TV and Video
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 review
Hey, guys, Professor Bill of Comic Book University, and what kind of professor of comics would I be if I didn’t see Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 (GotGv2)? Here are my thoughts.
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Network Ireland > News & Media > News > Kildare Branch Women in Business Awards
Kildare Branch Women in Business Awards
Minister Mary Mitchell O’ Connor celebrates Kildare’s most Successful Women in Business, Network Ireland Kildare Branch Gala Awards Dinner
Women from the world of business gathered recently to celebrate their success at the Gala Dinner and Business Awards hosted by Network Ireland Kildare Branch in the Manor House, Palmerstown House Estate, Johnstown. Minister for Jobs Enterprise and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O’Connor was guest speaker for the evening. Esteemed judges Jacqui Mc Nabb, Kildare Local Enterprise Office; David Fanning, A.I.B. and Jill Kerby, Financial Journalist/Advisor had the pleasure of choosing the deserved winners from a wealth of candidates on Friday evening last.
Lee-Ann Mc Carthy, Kildare Village was awarded “Employee Business Woman of the Year”. A Kildare girl, Lee-Ann is from Celbridge and continues to live there with her fiancé. After completing a Marketing Degree, Lee-Ann has worked in various marketing roles in agencies, tech, hospitality and retail. For the past 8 years she works for Kildare Village, one of Ireland’s leading shopping destination. In her spare time, Lee-Ann loves travel, baking, fashion and interiors. Lee-Ann also volunteers as a marketing and branding advisor for the Celbridge Community Council.
Karen Leigh, Sensational Kids, was awarded “Social Enterprise Business Woman of the Year”. Karen has completed the Diploma in Management & Employee Relations with National College of Ireland, and Social Enterprise Management & Governance Programme with DCU Ryan Academy. Karen’s awards include Rehab County Kildare Person of the Year (2009), & the coveted Social Entrepreneurs Ireland IMPACT Award (2014). Karen is a proud member of Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Alumni Network. Karen has led Sensational Kids from foundation, to a multi-award winning innovative social enterprise turning over €700,000+ last year and impacting 4,000+ children.
Dr Deirdre Kelly, Kelly Scientific was awarded “Emerging New Business Woman of the Year”. Kelly Scientific Publications was founded by Deirdre Kelly Ph.D. whose career spans both industry and academia where she has worked with both start-up biotech and multinational pharmaceutical companies. Dr Kelly holds a PhD (Medicine, Immunology) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, an MSc Biotechnology from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a B.A. (Mod) Biochemistry from Trinity College, Dublin.
Karolynn Mac Hale, Aria Boutique Ltd, was awarded “Small Business (less than 10 employee’s) Business Woman of the Year”. Karolynn has always had a passion for fashion, before Aria she was Brand Manager for Jameson in Ireland and had spent 5 years living in Helsinki where she worked as a Brand Manager for their whisk(e)y portfolio. Karolynn travelled Scandinavia, saw a lot of designer labels which were not in Ireland thus she thought there was a gap in the market. Karolynn is a creative, positive, people’s person and loves what she does in Aria. Karolynn is married and a mother of 3 young boys: Adam is 6, twins Zach and Lewis aged 2.
Grainne Slattery, Optiweb, received a commendation award for “Small Business (less than 10 employee’s) Business Woman of the Year”. Grainne spent 20 years in the services industry before taking on her management role in Optiweb. Grainne has CIBTEC and ITAC qualifications. She brings with her a huge amount of experience to Optiweb. Grainne manages the Sales division and is the Creative Director of Optiweb. Grainne has one daughter who is 13 years old. She spends a lot of our time going to horse shows at weekends as she competes her pony. Her husband John is the Director of Optiweb and they both love working together.
David Fanning, Assistant Manager A.I.B., commented: “It was an honor to be judging this year’s business awards for Network Ireland, Kildare. The standard of candidates was extremely high. In my role I look at businesses from a financial perspective. It was great to see the real heart behind the business. I found the whole process inspiring, to see the passion and listen to the candidate’s stories from the grass roots up.”
Pauline Forde, President of Network Ireland Kildare Branch, said: “We are thrilled with the finalists, they are a great example of our inspirational members who are innovative and energetic about their businesses and understand their customer’s needs. We wish them every success going forward to the national awards and we have every confidence they will do us proud at a national level.”
The Network Ireland Kildare Branch Business Awards hosted by Network Ireland Kildare Branch in association with our supporters, Kildare Local Enterprise Office, AIB Bank and our media partners, Kildare Post.
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Released – September 13, 2013
Printing Templates verified in Excel 2013
NV2 works with many versions of Excel (97, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013). However the default print margins (top, bottom, left, right) vary in size depending on the version of Excel. Recent versions of Excel caused several templates to print on more than 1 page. All printing templates have now been checked and verified to work with Excel 2013.
Behavior Changes
Homing in on numeric values in highlighted columns was improved.
When you Ctrl-Click on a column title and position within that column you can “home in” on an item as you type a column value.
However NewViews items are sorted using a dictionary sort so there are differences in behaviour between what you might expect and what actually happens when you home in on numeric values. NewViews eliminated the difference, but only for the first numeric value encountered in the field. For example if you were homing in on a telephone number such as 555-946-8532, the 555 part would behave as expected and then revert to the dictionary style on the 946 and 8632 numeric components of the field. This release eliminates the differences for all numeric components of the field value and homes in as expected for all 555, 946 and 8632 components of the telephone number example.
Note that this improvement can be very convenient when homing in on account names where the names are actually numbers broken into components such as 1200-120.
Problem / Bug Fixes
Under multiuser access, long-duration all-or-nothing operations could freeze.
This was a rare but very annoying bug. Long-duration all-or-nothing operations are the ones that display red progress bars. The bug could occur when two workstations attached to the same server attempted such operations at almost exactly the same moment. What could happen was that the server and all workstations attached to it could appear to freeze with a red progress bar displayed. This release fixes the problem.
The database_template_import script had an intermittent bug.
The database_template_import script could, under relatively rare circumstances, report a bug. This only occurred on large imports and this release fixes the problem.
In some circumstances, pressing [F3] to select a Pick Root in Define Columns prompt would crash NewViews.
A bug that prevented over-riding automatic printing Titles 1, 2 and 3 has been fixed.
A bug that broke the ability to enter a calculator style expression (e.g. 100*1.13) in a purchase or sales detail item total has been fixed.
This bug was was introduced in the previous release (2.26.0).
A few rare bugs that caused a “peer does not exist” error in the workstation window system have been fixed.
Excel 2013, when printing templated forms, reported an error (Activate method of Range class failed).
This “bug” was introduced in Excel 2013 so this release incorporates a work-around that corrects the problem in a way that is compatible with prior versions of Excel (Q.W. Page tested Excel 97, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013).
When an error occurred posting payroll pay checks the payroll preview window was not dismissed. Edits to the payrun and other underlying data values were allowed, after which a re-post could create errors or unexpected behavior. This release dismisses the payroll preview when an error occurs posting paychecks.
Using a calendar to pick an end date for the last column of a multiple period analysis, or the last row of an account history analysis, would in some circumstances cause the last column, or the last row, to ommit transactions from the last day of the range.
Note that typing the range end date did not cause this error. It would only occur when the calendar was used to pick an end date.
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Hunting the Slipper Lobster at Sea Breeze Fish Market in Bensonhurst
Barbara Hanson
Published: March 9, 2009 Last Updated: August 28, 2020
Editor's note: It's time for another dispatch from Serious Eats community member BaHa, aka Barbara Hanson, who checks in now and again about the various one-of-a-kind food stores and markets in New York. She told us that this title is a nod to "Hunt the Slipper," a childrens parlor game from the 1800s that's featured prominently in PG Wodehouse and other fiction of that ilk.
A couple of months ago, my friend Jim (who, earlier, had led me to the land of cevapcici) mentioned that his mother made a fish stew on Christmas Eve that invariably contained slippers.
I was about to ask Jim about that, as I was pretty sure his family wasn’t dining on a combination of seafood and footwear, when he told me that he didn’t really know what they were, but that they tasted a bit like lobster, a bit like shrimp.
Obviously, I was going to have to do some research. Armed with a sketchy description and complete faith in Google, I found that the slipper lobster is a clawless relative of both the spiny and furry lobsters. They are also known, not quite so appetizingly, as bugs, and look rather like seagoing rhinoceri sporting CDs for antennae.
The place to go, Jim told me, was the Sea Breeze Fish Market in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, a Sicilian fishmonger that has served several generations of Brooklynites; the line of customers runs out the door and down the block on Christmas Eve.
Sea Breeze lives up to its name, smelling freshly and brinily of the ocean, as a good fish market should. And, to someone who grew up on lemon sole and Sau-Sea Shrimp Cocktail, it feels distinctly more European than the store where we bought our fish each Friday.
Customers were placing orders in both Italian and English. I spotted scungilli, vongole, and calamari—but no slipper. I was about to give up when a large freezer caught my eye. In it were bags and bags of slippers. Had I done a bit more research, I would have learned that slippers live in warm oceans, and are only available frozen here.
The good-natured counterman teased me about having to borrow money from my husband to pay for the fish, then I was on my way home with a bagful of weird-looking, stunted shellfish tails, and no idea what to do with them.
After shelling 1 1/2 pounds, leaving me with 3/4 pound of meat, I decided to treat it as I would shrimp, winding up with Slippers in Garlic and Parsley Sauce.
Here's the Slippers in Garlic and Parsley Sauce recipe »
Sea Breeze Fish Market
8500 18th Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11214 (map) 718-259-9693
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Ranking the possession stats of all 30 teams, from most to least improved
By Jason BroughFeb 20, 2015, 12:15 PM EST
To mark the debut of “enhanced stats” (also known as “advanced stats”) on NHL.com, we compared the shot-attempt percentages with the score close (also known as Corsi close) of each team, this season to last season, to see if it can tell us anything.
Here’s the list of all 30 teams, from most improved to least:
% diff
1 Edmonton Oilers 4.2
2 New York Islanders 3.9
3 Nashville Predators 3.7
4 Pittsburgh Penguins 3.5
5 Toronto Maple Leafs 3.1
6 Washington Capitals 3.0
7 Minnesota Wild 2.8
8 Montréal Canadiens 2.7
9 Winnipeg Jets 2.7
10 Tampa Bay Lightning 2.5
11 Detroit Red Wings 2.4
12 Carolina Hurricanes 1.1
13 Anaheim Ducks 0.8
14 Dallas Stars 0.2
15 Florida Panthers 0.0
16 Philadelphia Flyers -0.5
17 Chicago Blackhawks -1.5
18 St. Louis Blues -1.5
19 Calgary Flames -1.5
20 Vancouver Canucks -1.6
21 Boston Bruins -1.6
22 Arizona Coyotes -1.6
23 Los Angeles Kings -2.2
24 Ottawa Senators -2.3
25 New York Rangers -2.3
26 San Jose Sharks -2.4
27 Colorado Avalanche -2.5
28 Columbus Blue Jackets -3.6
29 Buffalo Sabres -5.9
30 New Jersey Devils -7.2
— Skeptics of using shots attempts to track possession will immediately point to Edmonton being at the top of this list. If the Oilers are so “improved,” why are they still such a bad team? It’s a good question, and it’s why you should never rely on one statistic as a be-all, end-all for anything. You always have to drill deeper. Oh, and yes, you still have to watch the games. The Oilers, for example, have had the worst goaltending in the NHL, even worse than it was last season. Their special teams have also been worse, and their defensive coverage continues to be abysmal at times. Oh, and let’s not forget, despite the “improvement” in possession, they remain among the worst possession teams in the league.
— The same goes for Toronto at No. 5. The Maple Leafs may have improved in shot-attempt differential, but it’s still a major problem for them. Especially with the relatively poor goaltending they’ve received compared to last season.
— The New York Islanders at No. 2 says something, no? And Nashville at No. 3? And Washington at No. 6? Three teams that missed the playoffs last season. They’re not missing them this season.
— Moving to the bottom of the list, what about San Jose, in danger of missing the playoffs for the first time since 2003, at No. 26? And New Jersey — not even close to making the playoffs this season, despite the excellent goaltending of Cory Schneider — at No. 30? That has to say something.
— As for the New York Rangers at No. 25, absolutely that could be a red flag. This is a team that’s relied on the third highest even-strength shooting percentage in the NHL (9.8, compared to just 6.9 last season). Is that sustainable over the long run? History says no.
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Labor’s David Feeney expects a lift in Batman from Liberals’ move to preference Greens last
David Feeney with Reservoir West Primary School principal Bruce Kearney
by Bumpy Favell
The day of our interview, David Feeney resigned from his Senate position to run for the House of Representatives in the long held Labor seat of Batman, in the suburban north of Melbourne. Feeney is between offices, so we meet at a big, empty Rydges Hotel café overlooking Bell St, Preston, on a stormy day. He comes with his campaign manager Jeff who organized the interview. Feeney is wearing a suit and … blue tie. I ask him about his musical tastes first up, and to my surprise he says he’s a huge fan of the Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
After sparking his interest in politics at university through the Labor club, Feeney went on to work for the Transport Workers Union, and then for years within the Labor Party, including as campaign manager for Victorian Premier Steve Bracks and Premier Mike Rann in South Australia and then as Kevin Rudd’s marginal seats director in 2007.
Favell: So have you picked up any tips from yourself about how to run this campaign?
Feeney: I do chuckle to myself that I’m doing the things I’ve preached to others about – engage in active community campaigning, voter contact. But being a senator in Victoria for the last five years has also involved that kind of work – advocacy, speechmaking, school openings.
Favell: Any issues people in Batman have let you know about yet?
Feeney: I’ve made a point of visiting local schools so far. They have different challenges depending on the demographic profiles … but they are all delighted with the capital investment the Building Education Revolution provided. We should all pay tribute to Julia Gillard for that. But there are serious challenges around funding from state government. I’m keen to work with local council around public transport connections, particularly for Preston and Reservoir. They could be much more interesting public and retail spaces.
Favell: I see you are active on Twitter and recently commented on News Ltd’s bias against Labor.
The choice is clear pic.twitter.com/Bvp3a6f8lk
— David Feeney (@Feeney4Batman) August 4, 2013
What can Labor really do to confront Murdoch’s domination?
Feeney: Not very much. We obviously have a free media in this country – and Rupert owns 70% of it. Any progressive has watched with increasing alarm an ever more flagrant political edge to News Corporation. I think it coarsens the political debate and obviously makes life much tougher for the broad left of politics. But we don’t just have to suck it up. Part of my tweet and the broader conversation is to remind Australians that what they’re reading is in fact biased.
Favell: Can Twitter make a difference? Or is it just an echo chamber?
Feeney: As the media market fragments and people self-select their news sources, we need to be in that competition. I have 3100 Twitter followers and I often laugh that half of those are journalists and half are conservatives who only follow me to bag me. But Kevin Rudd has more than a million followers. Then you are really reaching a big audience.
Favell: Do you ever get offended by things people say about you online?
Feeney: I try not to, but I do. There are plenty of fascists, appalling right-wingers, with blogs which are little more than open sewers, who rush in and have a crack. But if you put yourself out there, it’s going to happen.
Favell: You are always referred to in the media as a ‘faceless man’. What does it mean?
Feeney: The Liberals first used this term about Labor in 1969. Tony Abbott was able to bring that old phraseology back to life in the aftermath of Julia Gillard becoming leader, essentially to create the notion that she was the product of the manipulation of a handful of people – of which it was said I was one. They want to paint the image of men, particularly blue-collar trade union men, scary, sinister shadowy figures, controlling the Labor Party. But I’ve always made the point that Julia was elected, on the first occasion unanimously, by 110 men and women, each of whom had been elected. And look, it’s just a line the Liberals use. You are not actually a faceless man if people have met you.
Favell: There was a lot of media around the Emily’s List advocacy for a woman to be selected for Batman. Can you address how voters might feel about another man being put into a safe Labor seat?
Feeney: I’ve always had a warm and constructive relationship with Emily’s List. There was angst on their part, quite reasonably, that mine was the third pre-selection in a row and no woman had been elected thus far. But I put myself forward as a candidate because I think I have a contribution to make. And I think everybody signs up to the Labor Party knowing it’s a party that wants to eliminate discrimination, whether it’s on the basis of race or sexuality or wealth or religion or gender. In recent days Clare O’Neil was selected in Hotham, a rolled-gold safe Labor seat, and I think that will go some way to satisfy women in the Labor Party, that there are some great opportunities for women of talent inside Labor.
Favell: Today Abbott announced Liberal preferences are going to Labor before the Greens. Does this improve your chances?
Feeney: Yes, it does. For the last decade we’ve watched Greens being elected on Liberal Party preferences – and we’ve been grinding our teeth. I’m not surprised by Abbott’s announcement. In the 2010 Victorian state election the Liberal Party, for the first time, changed their policy of preferencing to the Greens. They formed the view that they needed to stay true to their own conservative values. So they put the Greens last, because the Greens were the most extreme party.
Favell: Do you think that’s their reasoning, really?
Feeney: Yeah. This myth grew inside the Liberal Party that that act of principle, a rare thing for conservatives, helped (Liberal Premier Ted) Baillieu win the state election. So we’ve seen a steady momentum, because the Liberals nationally want to try to build themselves up as a party of principle rather than one of Machiavellian plotting. It’s obviously going to be a disappointment for the Greens, who have long been elected on conservative preferences.
Favell: So it wasn’t a deal between Labor and Liberal?
Feeney: No, no, I can positively assert that we have reached no agreement with the Liberals over preferences. We are not going to reciprocate.
Favell: You won’t be preferencing Liberals ahead of Greens?
Feeney: I can’t see that happening. In Batman, for instance, I would expect we will be preferencing the Greens ahead of Liberals.
Favell: What can you say to voters in Batman, which is full of people from all over the world, about Labor’s refugee policy?
Feeney: We have to stop our refugee policy being managed by criminal syndicates. They are ripping off desperate people and putting people’s lives at risk so they can begin an illegal journey towards Australia. Not only are these smugglers selling the prospect of Australian citizenship and they have no right to do so, but most distressingly they are packing people into unseaworthy vessels and we are watching many hundreds of them die. Australia, very generously by international standards, takes some 20,000, soon we hope 27,000 refugees a year. We want to be taking those people from refugee camps where the need is clear and the UNHCR are managing a refugee process. So we are in the very tortured position of needing to construct a policy which keeps faith with our own humanitarian and internationalist values, but which breaks the people smuggling model.
Favell: So, is there a climate emergency or not? Is this not a high priority any more with Labor?
Feeney: It certainly is. The Labor Party will stay committed to pricing carbon and finding local and global solutions to fight climate change. The proof of that is the amount of political pain we have endured. I served on the Senate Select Committee on Climate Change and I worked hard on the Carbon Pollution Reduction bills in 2009 and 2010. We watched the Greens and the Liberals vote together to destroy our initiatives – the Greens because our initiatives weren’t extreme enough and the Liberals because we had any initiatives at all – an axis of evil which struck down our attempt to take action on climate change. And then in more recent times we successfully priced carbon and are moving to an emissions trading scheme. Anyone who says our progress is too slow, I have sympathy with. But the Greens have absolutely no credibility here. They have assassinated policy in this area. Every time they talk about shutting down the coal industry, shutting down manufacturing jobs, all they do is help the conservative agenda of scaring people into thinking that action on climate change means job destruction – and it doesn’t.
Favell: Do you think that the coal industry needs to be wound down at all? How can it keep going if it is so polluting?
Feeney: The biggest challenge of this country is coal-fired power generation. So we have a renewable energy target. That means that we go around supporting wind farms. What happens when we try and build a wind farm? The local Greens group will complain that the windmills produce noise pollution. So, okay, we try to create solar initiatives, like one in Mildura – and what happens? The Greens complain that it’s on a special site, that the site should be different. You can’t just support these things here in Northcote or Preston, you actually have to roll up your sleeves and get these things done on the ground. That’s my frustration with that side of politics – they’re into slogans, not solutions.
Favell: Do you think it’s still a real fight between you and Alex Bhathal (Greens candidate for Batman), or do you think she’s out of the race now?
Feeney: I don’t think one and a half weeks into the campaign that anybody should be saying the race is over. There’s many weeks ahead of us. We are both people of passion and commitment, and I look forward to engaging in a good cogent, cerebral political debate over the next few weeks.
More Batman seat reports here.
Filed Under: #auspol, Batman, Bumpy Favell, Front Page Tagged With: Alex Bhathal, Carbon Pollution Reduction, Clare O’Neil, David Feeney, Emily's List, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Refugee Policy, Senate Select Committee on Climate Change, The Greens, UNHCR
Heather (@HEB2205) says
Good report. Very interesting. Sounds like a great candidate. (Not my area though).
he sure is not someone I would vote for to represent me in federal Parliament….
Darren says
Wow, now I know it’s all the extreme Greens fault that renewable energy has been stifled in this country. Next time I see David out there “going around supporting wind farms” I’ll be sure to thank him for all his hard work in this area.
Moz in a State of Confusion says
So there is a climate emergency, but a slow transition over 30 years is all that’s required to deal with it? And 20% renewable electricity is enough, we can just keep burning brown coal?
I’ve asked him this in person, and he weaselled out of it then. Sad to see him pull the same trick here.
Craig Smith says
Is Labor actually running a candidate in Batman? Have seen neither hide nor hair of them in our neighbourhood.
Lachlan Ridge says
Feeney: Not very much.”
Well not much point in voting for you, old son! Next!
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The Samsung Galaxy Book S opens a new chapter in ultraportable laptops
By David Nield
The Samsung Galaxy Book S open...
You can now choose a Samsung Galaxy Book S with either Qualcomm or Intel tech on board
Samsung claims the new 13.3-inch laptop can stretch to 17 hours of battery life
The Intel Lakefield chip on board combines both mobile and desktop architecture
The Samsung Galaxy Book S is a true ultraportable, weighing just 950 grams or 2.1 pounds
The latest model of the Samsung Galaxy Book S marks a new chapter in the story of ultraportable laptops – it's the first device to appear with Intel's new Lakefield processor, a hybrid chip designed to combine the best of both mobile and desktop architecture.
Manufacturers have already been experimenting with putting smartphone-style chips inside laptops, looking for the ultimate mix of connectivity and battery life. The first of the current generation Samsung Galaxy Book S models to go on sale featured the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor.
But while these chips can speed up boot up times, offer instant access to the web via 4G LTE, and keep your laptop running all day – just like your phone – they lack the grunt of the CPUs traditionally developed for laptops by Intel and AMD. Some more powerful applications and games will struggle to run at all.
That's the problem the new Intel Lakefield architecture is intending to solve, combining both the low power draw and instant loading times of a Snapdragon with the compatibility and power we're all used to from Intel's desktop processors.
To do this, Lakefield essentially combines larger desktop-style cores and smaller mobile-style cores on the same chip, delegating tasks to each group as required. It's marketed as hybrid technology, and the plan is that it successfully emulates the key benefits of a phone without sacrificing too much in terms of performance.
It's certainly the way the market is heading – Apple has already announced that its Macs are going to be making the switch to CPUs based on the ARM architecture, which like the Qualcomm platform is designed for mobile devices first and foremost. In other words, the gap between the iPad Pro and the MacBook Pro is going to shrink further.
Besides the headline Intel Core i5-L16G7 CPU, the new Samsung Galaxy Book S comes with 8 GB of RAM and up to 512 GB of SSD storage. It features a 13.3-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 pixel display, and has the latest Wi-Fi 6 connectivity on board – but no integrated 4G LTE in the US (this will be an option in some international markets). Graphics are powered by the Intel UHD platform and Samsung is promising an impressive 17 hours of battery life.
What impresses most about the Samsung Galaxy Book S is its thinness and lightness. It's just 6.2 mm or 0.24 inches at its thinness point, and tips the scales at a mere 950 grams (2.1 pounds). It's on sale now direct from Samsung for $949 ($50 less than the same model with the Snapdragon 8cx inside it), with Mercury Gray and Earthy Gold your color options.
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David Nield
Dave is a UK-based freelance technology journalist who has been writing about apps, gadgets and the Web for more than a decade.
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The Future Is Dynamic
Now here’s something you won’t see given to A’s fans for a long time. It’s the Giants’ current ticket pricing list, with different prices set per series or even per game within a series. Don’t worry that the resolution of the table is too low to be legible, here’s the PDF.
As complex as that is, it’s just the start. All unsold tickets are subject to market pricing, so that higher demand can lead to even higher prices. Here’s the Giants’ disclaimer:
Market pricing applies to all tickets.
Rates can fluctuate based on factors affecting supply and demand.
Lock in your price and location today!
Crazy? Well, it’s the future. Not every team will go to such extremes, but it’s still a way for any team to eek out as much revenue from ticket-buying fans as possible.
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18 thoughts on “The Future Is Dynamic”
jk-usa
Interesting. Of course the Dodgers and Redsox games have the highest ticket prices, but so do the A’s.
Either fans who hate the Coli and want to see them in a nice park or the bay bridge rivalry thing, which isn’t what it use to be.
white rob
Holy shit. $42 is the cheapest ticket for any of the 3 Red Sox games.
doctorK
Holy shit.$42 is the cheapest ticket for any of the 3 Red Sox games.
Well, if your stadium is going to fill up with a bunch of annoying front-runner Sawx fans, why not screw them out of a few more bucks.
Between 1999 and 2000, I recall the Giants keeping ticket prices about the same. It’s a good bet the A’s will drop $2 Wednesdays when they move into their new yard, but I hope they can keep bleacher seats below $15 for the first few seasons.
Ticket prices from around the league are discouraging. Whenever I’m looking at tickets in Seattle or Anaheim I’m reminded at how lucky we are as A’s fans. Well, I don’t know if “lucky” is the right word, but you get what I mean?
Bay Area A's
On May 18 I will embark with a few friends on a 6 day trip to see 6 ballparks (Camden, Citizen’s Bank, Yankee Stadium, Citi Field, PNC, Target Field). The tickets for Citi field are by far the most expensive because it is a Yankee game and those games are not available through the box office for single game purchase. I bought the tickets through stub hub before opening day for $105 each and through the Mets platinum season ticket holder price they go for $27 (the tickets ended up coming from the Mets box office)! I will be sitting in the upper deck, section 501. Now that is an expensive ticket! The cheapest tickets will be at PNC. Camden we will be buying day of game. The stadium situation is a double edged sword for us A’s fans. Old park… cheap prices, New park…more expensive. Ticket pricing for Target field seems resonable. I hope that is indicative of what we will see with a new A’s ballpark. I do think that if the A’s can hang in the race and MLB can make an f-ing decision on a ballpark, we will see attendance increase slightly this year and more next year.
@Bay Area A’s–Target Field was publically financed—proposed Cisco Field will be privately financed–expect tix prices like ATT because of this—no one is going to give away $500M of their own money without some expectation of return.
Personally, prefer to pay the higher price to have a quality venue and the opportunity to keep talent. Those who bitch and moan about lack of quality talent but want to see low tix prices are living in a delusional world–unless you can get taxpayers to fund a new ballpark…which will never happen in Cali
I try to make it to AT&T for one or two games of the A’s series each year. I suspect there are many other A’s fans who do the same: take advantage of a rare opportunity to see our team play in a pleasant venue.
AT&T is just a few minutes from my place, so I love walking down to Market in my A’s gear and hopping on MUNI to find a train full of orange & black. Though, you still see your fair share of green & gold which is awesome. I snoozed this year and by the time I remember to buy tickets, the price had inflated ridiculously. I’m not paying nearly $40 for a nose-bleed seat to a single game. Factor in multiple tickets for your party and you’ve got yourself one expensive day. Instead, I just bought more tickets at the Coliseum for random games later in the year.
I’m going to the 5/22 Bay Bridge game at the Coliseum, so I’m looking forward to seeing how many A’s fans will be BARTing across the bay.
While I hesitate to ever set foot in Pac Bell, I have already gone to see the A’s 2x this season down in Anaheim for the same reason, to see them in a more pleasant venue. It’s particularly sad though in Anaheim as their 1966 vintage stadium today could pass for one of the more modern Camdenesque stadiums. Meanwhile the A’s 1966 vintage stadium is, with the demise of the Metrodome, the worst stadium in Major League Baseball. It’s amazing the paths both stadiums took. Today Angel Stadium is arguably nicer than when it opened 45 years ago, particularly after the renovation in the mid 90’s, while the Coliseum was destroyed by its “renovation” in the mid 90’s and has been in a death spiral ever since.
GoA’s, ticket prices have little to nothing to do with team costs. If the A’s can get $20 a bleacher ticket, they’ll charge that. If they can get $40, they’ll charge that. Do you really think that you’ll have Wolff saying, “Gee, I could sell out the bleachers at a price of $40 a ticket, but since the taxpayers paid for the ballpark, I’ll be nice and only charge $20”? They’re not going to turn down free money out of the goodness of their hearts. Simple supply and demand.
The Giants grid shows just how desparate some teams are to not underprice their product.
Anyone know if Giants prices ever go down (say, if a game was selling slower than expected)?
the context was around Target Field pricing being cheaper–if taxpayers are already footing the bill it takes significant pressure off of a team to recover “mortgage expenses” to the tune of $15-$20M per year. In the latter case you don’t have a choice—while in a publically financed ballpark a team may hold back a bit on the actual “market rate” of a ticket—
Briggs,
I was at AT&T a few weeks ago for an outing with my wife’s family. A’s weren’t playing, but I wore my green and gold anyway. Giant’s fans were surprisingly feisty; I took a fair amount of verbal abuse even though I was there with young children. Pretty easy to win those arguments though (“1989,” “4-0”).
If you’re interested in seeing the Bay Bridge series in SF, check out StubHub. You can currently do a lot better than $40 for a nosebleed, especially for the Friday night game. I lot of the sellers are season ticket holders, and a fair number sell at or near the season ticket holder price even when the variable pricing goes up.
@ bartleby
Thanks for the Stub Hub tip. I’ve known of it, but I guess this is the perfect time to use it.
Concerning Giants fans; it’s a real buzz kill when some rival fans get abusive. I guess it really comes down to the luck of who else sits around you. Personally, I enjoy sitting next to a rival fan. In April, I sat next to brothers who were on a ballpark tour. It was funny hearing them complain about their M’s drafting Brandon Morrow over Tim Lincecum.
Many seasons ago as a kid with my younger brother, we when to a preseason Bay Bridge game (per Inter-League) at the ‘Stick in the Upper Reserve. It was just the two of us and maybe 4k other people battling the wind and low-50’s temperature. We had a good back and forth with a Giants family (who were the next section over, but still the closes group to us). Somewhere around the 7th inning, a vendor came up and gave us some personal pizzas. The Giants family dad yelled out, “Even A’s fans gotta eat.” That was really great of them, and that memory has stuck with me.
That’s one reason I always go to see games in Anaheim over SF. The Angels fans are surprisingly friendly to A’s fans. Don’t really say much of anything despite being division rivals. Far cry from Giants fans who can’t hide how green with envy they are.
daveinsm
@Dan I go watch the A’s at least once or twice a season down in SoCal and the fans in Anaheim are just different from most. Angel fans are more relax and it seems more of a family environment, the worse heckling I got was, “The A’s stink!” or something along those lines.
I do go to more Dodgers games down here, I would say those fans are as rowdy as Giant fans but still both are not even close to Bosox or Yankee fans.
OAKLANDathletics
I beg to differ daveinsm. I attended a game at Angel stadium with a few of my buddies a couple of years ago and some punk ass Angel fan through a plastic give-away noise maker/clapper that hit the side of one of my boy’s face. My buddy then stood up and turned around and said, “who the f*ck through that?!” We dared anyone to admit to it and of course no one did. We were getting ready to beat that fools ass! On top of that, we heard a bunch racial comments directed towards us since we were with majority Asians. So when security came, they directed their aggression at us. We told them what happened and security even had the nerve to say to us, “Not in my house.” Can you believe that shit?!
I say to hell with Angels, their fans and their security!!
Anaheim has a pretty bad rep for fan behavior. There was the guy who threw something (a bottle?) at Mike Piazza. There was a guy killed in the stands once (i think it was last season).
Like anywhere, a few dumb asses can screw it up for everyone.
Yes. A few bad seeds can give any team’s fanbase a bad reputation. Oakland is no exception. In 2006, early in the season the Tigers were in town. I was in the LF bleachers. A row behind me were some frat-type bro’s obviously drunk routing for Detroit. A few rows in front of me were some East Bay guys you just didn’t want to mess with. A long story short, the Frat boys and East Bay guys started yelling at each other. It started small but escalated throughout the innings.
As stupid as this sounds, the one of the Frat boys threw some nachos down at the East Bay guys and then everything got violent. The bystander fans in the rows between them cleared out of there fast. It was pretty gruesome. The seating rows don’t give much space to maneuver so you can image what it’s like when two groups of large grown men get in a brawl in such a small space. Security got involved, but not before there were some broken noses and chipped teeth.
No one was in the right. The Frat boys were being absolutely obnoxious but the East Bay guys really didn’t have to retaliate so extremely. In either case, it was just a bad scene that happened at an A’s game and isn’t representative of the A’s fanbase on a whole.
On a side-note, the A’s were blown out. If you told me then that these two teams would eventually meet in the ALCS last that season, I’d think you were mad. Getting back to baseball, 2006 was hands-down my favorite season beginning to end. The Cisco Field press conference later that November was just the cherry on top. Wow. How things can change.
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Newcomb Pottery On Display
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Newcomb Pottery
The Museum holds the world’s largest collection of Newcomb Pottery objects.
Due to space requirements for our exhibitions, Newcomb Pottery is currently not on display in the museum’s galleries. However, there are several other opportunities to experience the beauty of Newcomb Arts and Crafts on campus, as detailed on this page. For additional information please email museum@tulane.edu or call 504.865.53328.
Newcomb Pottery at the Newcomb Institute
As part of their shared commitment to provide public access to the history and works of Newcomb Pottery, Newcomb Art Museum and Newcomb Institute have created a permanent exhibit space on the third floor of the new Commons building on Tulane’s uptown campus that is free and open to the public. Spanning more than 50 years, the display, Newcomb Pottery Through the Years, centers on the historical timeline of the Pottery and the shifting style through the decades and features over 70 rarely-displayed treasures from the permanent collection including Newcomb Pottery, textiles, jewelry, metal objects, bookbinding, and more. Accompanied by a free publication, The (Feminist) Origins of Newcomb Pottery, written by renowned art scholar Jenni Sorkin, a stop at this miniature exhibition is a must on your next visit to Tulane.
Newcomb Pottery in Woodward Way
In the entry courtyard – Woodward Way – to the Newcomb Art Museum in the Woldenberg Art Center, surrounded by stunning Tiffany Stained-Glass Windows, is a small yet impressive display of Newcomb Pottery in glass vitrines that explores the various decorative techniques used by the Pottery.
Newcomb Pottery in The Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Located on the opposite side of the Newcomb Quad, in The A. B. Freeman School of Business’s Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex is a small selection of pieces of Newcomb Pottery and other select works from the collection. Free and open to the public, this is a great stop to make to see additional works when visiting campus.
Newcomb Collections Tour
Newcomb Art Museum holds a free behind-the-scenes collections tour at noon on the First Friday of each month. To reserve your free spot for this engaging tour, please email spolisar@tulane.edu. These tours are currently on hold due to COVID restrictions.
The Most Natural Expression of Locality: Jazz, Newcomb Pottery and the Creative Impulse in Turn-of-the-Century New Orleans curated by Teresa Parker Ferris is a double-sided four-panel exhibition designed for school lobbies, libraries, and other public spaces. For information about renting the exhibit please contact Tom Friel, Coordinator for Interpretation & Public Engagement, at tfriel@tulane.edu or 504.865.5361.
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Newcomb Pottery in 3D
Sarah (Sadie) Irvine, artist; Jonathan Browne Hunt, potter. Vase with Moss and Moon Design, 1929. Video and 3D scan produced by Ray C. Schmidt and Nelson E. Rios of the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute
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Single Family Homes: Ashcroft Place in Oswego is located off of Wooley Road directly across from the new fire and police stations! The neighborhood consists of single-family homes starting in the low to mid $300’s. A major benefit to our community is the award-winning school district 308. West Point Builders offers semi-custom homes featuring two ranch style plans as well as 2-story homes. All of the homes include basements! A picturesque small town with many services, Oswego boasts restaurants and shopping, a golf course and an inviting park set on the banks of the Fox River. Oswego offers a new Aquatic Center, a well-equipped library and over 317 acres of parks, including a park on the Fox River.
Townhomes: Located at Plainfield and Wooley Road, the Townes at Ashcroft Walk are within walking distance to the award-winning Oswego district #308 schools. Traughber Junior High is located right within Ashcroft, and Prairie Point Elementary and Oswego High School are both a short distance away. Oswego is located 50 miles southwest of Chicago and is situated at the southern end of the Fox River Valley in Kendall County, Illinois. Oswego has a small town feel and is an excellent place to raise a family. Many people choose to call Oswego home because of its award-winning school district while some are drawn to the quaint downtown and abundance of recreational programs. Oswego boasts a new aquatic center, bike trails, and hundreds of acres of parks. Oswego’s historic downtown includes shops, restaurants, and the Oswego Public Library, which is the community’s center for culture and recreation. The Oswego Chamber of Commerce has a very strong presence here and sponsors festivals as well as the annual Christmas Walk, which draws thousands of people from the Fox Valley to downtown. Ashcroft is home to families who are enjoying a community that balances a small town atmosphere with award-winning schools and an abundance of opportunity for recreation and culture. More Info About Ashcroft Place
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Tom Curran Sr. started building homes in 1957. Today, West Point Builders in not only about Tom Curran Sr., it’s also about Desmond, Patrick, and Tom Jr. The company has evolved into one of the most respected building companies in the Chicago area. The Currans have taken their family values, which include; mutual respect, honor, honesty, competency, a willingness to serve and a commitment to excellence in their careers, and extended those values into their building company. West Point Builders is built upon experience. That foundation delivers customer satisfaction to homebuyers of single-family homes, condominiums, townhomes and apartments. Chicago area homebuyers, both in the city and in the suburbs, have sought out the Currans’ new communities because of their innovative home designs, their quality construction and their willingness to personalize each home. An example of their foresight is the extraordinarily popular community named Riverside at Ole Caton Farm, a Planned Unit Development (PUD) that is located in Plainfield, Illinois. The community introduced the first ever of its kind, the concept of single-family townhome. The land plan that led many buyers to purchase homes in this new community was also recognized by Builder Magazine, which is one of the many voices of the National Homes Builders Association, and the Chicago Sun Times which named Riverside at Ole Caton Farm as Chicagoland’s Planned Unit Development of the Year in 1993. West Point Builders is proud of the recognition they have earned from the homebuyers, the media and the homebuilding industry. The ultimate recognition for the Currans derives from the personal satisfaction of achieving individual customer satisfaction. After all, that’s what it’s all about.
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Justice Dept. Faces Pressure on Media Consolidation
Jan. 17, 2018, 5:33 PM
Congressional Democrats and consumer advocates, encouraged by the Justice Department’s lawsuit challenging AT&T Inc’s bid to acquire Time Warner Inc., want the agency to stay tough on media mergers amid business-friendly changes at the Federal Communications Commission.
FCC actions so far under President Donald Trump signal a more relaxed regulatory environment, but the picture at the DOJ’s antitrust division is still taking shape. Analysts say we’ll know more after regulators weigh in on a few more big deals like Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.’s proposed tie-up with Tribune Media Co. and Walt Disney Co.'s bid to acquire 21st Century Fox’s major content assets. Some FCC critics view the DOJ as the best bet to curb media consolidation, particularly in light of the department’s AT&T-Time Warner challenge. They say any perceived inconsistency in the treatment of deals might raise alarm bells.
Clearance of the $3.9 billion Sinclair-Tribune deal by the FCC could come in the next few weeks. The outcome is expected to involve divestitures of TV stations in at least 10 cities where the markets overlap. The deal is also subject to DOJ approval. Both agencies are likely to approve it after Sinclair announces its divestitures, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
The likelihood that Sinclair-Tribune will be approved has irked some Democrats, in part because the merger was made possible by relaxation of some FCC media ownership rules. “With an FCC chairman so clearly beholden to corporations rather than consumers, it is even more critical for the DOJ to conduct thorough and exacting reviews of every merger that crosses its path,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told Bloomberg Law.
Blumenthal was referring to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who has made it a priority to unwind media ownership limitations. Pai says the rules are based on 1970s-era notions about media, where newspapers and TV stations dominated and there was no internet.
Republicans, however, say Pai is actually helping consumers and the media by recasting decades-old laws to reflect new technology. “The FCC, under the leadership of Chairman Pai, is modernizing America’s obsolete media regulations as Congress directed it to do with section 202(h) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” former Republican FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell told Bloomberg Law.
The media landscape has become far more competitive for consumers in recent years thanks to digital technologies and the rise of the internet, according to McDowell. “The FCC’s initiatives are merely updating the rules to reflect new competitive realities,” he said.
This isn’t the first time regulators have faced pressure over media consolidation, but advocates say the current situation is unique because the high-profile AT&T-Time Warner suit has vaulted the DOJ’s antitrust division into the spotlight. It’s in the DOJ’s interest not to look inconsistent by approving one media deal and suing to stop another. Questions about Trump’s possible interference in the DOJ review also make it that much more important for the agency to appear impartial.
Sinclair-Tribune’s Broad Reach
Blumenthal recently joined a coalition of Democratic senators urging both the FCC and the DOJ to closely scrutinize the Sinclair-Tribune merger. The combined entity would own 233 television stations and reach 82 percent of American households, affecting tens of millions of consumers, the senators wrote in Jan. 3 letter. Deregulation at the FCC has heightened the need for thorough and impartial reviews of such transactions, they said.
The FCC’s changes to several rules governing media ownership will encourage more broadcast, radio, and print media consolidation, according to the senators. They also said the Sinclair-Tribune merger is a direct result of the FCC’s rule reversal. DOJ spokeswoman Lauren Ehrsam said the department has received and is reviewing the letter but declined to comment further. The FCC declined to comment.
Trump Muddies Waters
Complicating matters, regulators under Trump face growing questions about their ability to remain politically unbiased. The Sinclair-Tribune deal would give a broadcaster known for its conservative leanings a fresh reach into new media markets as the 2018 elections heat up.
Trump has been vocal about his opposition to the AT&T-Time Warner combination. That transaction involves Time Warner property CNN, which is frequently criticized by Trump because of its coverage. The White House has been mum about the Sinclair-Tribune transaction. Trump congratulated Fox head Rupert Murdoch on the Disney deal shortly after it was announced.
“All mergers deserve equal scrutiny,” Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), told Bloomberg Law. “The Justice Department’s role in approving such mergers is to protect consumers, and the FCC is charged with protecting the public’s interest, and neither can effectively do so under a president who publicly seeks retaliation against media companies,” he said. He also signed the Senate letter about Sinclair-Tribune.
Reps. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said in a November letter to FCC Inspector General David Hunt that the agency’s review of the Sinclair-Tribune deal raised “serious concerns.” The letter cited reports about meetings between the Trump administration, Sinclair, and Pai’s office, among other factors.
Consistency?
Phillip Berenbroick, a senior policy counsel for the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, said it will be incumbent on DOJ to keep up strong enforcement in all merger reviews in light of political questions surrounding the AT&T-Time Warner suit.
“It can’t be just a one-off thing,” he told Bloomberg Law. “DOJ needs to continue to be a cop on the beat for consumers.”
Critics of the DOJ suit are also closely watching how the AT&T-Time Warner situation unfolds, noting that horizontal mergers like Fox-Disney and Sinclair-Tribune are historically more likely to see regulator scrutiny because they remove a competitor from the market.
“Why the government has filed suit to block the AT&T-Time Warner deal remains a mystery,” Larry Downes, an antitrust analyst at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, told Bloomberg Law. “How it will impact the analysis of Disney-Fox and the continued review of Sinclair-Tribune will speak volumes to whether there is any consistency in the Department of Justice’s emerging view of antitrust in a post-digital media environment.”
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What drives brain changes in macular degeneration?
MIT study sheds light on underlying neural mechanism
Cathryn M. Delude, McGovern Institute
Elizabeth A. Thomson
Email: thomson@mit.edu
MIT Resource Development
Caption: Nancy Kanwisher
Credits: Photo / Kent Dayton
Caption: Left: A macular degeneration patient suffers vision loss in the central visual field of the retina (fovea) and uses a new fixation (PRL, preferred retinal locus) in the lower periphery for tasks such as reading. Visual stimuli were presented at the PRL and another peripheral location (nonPRL).
Middle and Right (fMRI scans): Central vision cortex (white circle) responds to both stimuli presented at the PRL and a nonPRL.
Credits: Graphic / Daniel D. Dilks, McGovern Institute at MIT
Nancy Kanwisher
Photo / Kent Dayton
Left: A macular degeneration patient suffers vision loss in the central visual field of the retina (fovea) and uses a new fixation (PRL, preferred retinal locus) in the lower periphery for tasks such as reading. Visual stimuli were presented at the PRL and another peripheral location (nonPRL).
Graphic / Daniel D. Dilks, McGovern Institute at MIT
In macular degeneration, the most common form of adult blindness, patients progressively lose vision in the center of their visual field, thereby depriving the corresponding part of the visual cortex of input. Previously, researchers discovered that the deprived neurons begin responding to visual input from another spot on the retina -- evidence of plasticity in the adult cortex.
Just how such plasticity occurred was unknown, but a new MIT study sheds light on the underlying neural mechanism.
"This study shows us one way that the brain changes when its inputs change. Neurons seem to 'want' to receive input: when their usual input disappears, they start responding to the next best thing," said Nancy Kanwisher of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and senior author of the study appearing in the March 4 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
"Our study shows that the changes we see in neural response in people with MD are probably driven by the lack of input to a population of neurons, not by a change in visual information processing strategy," said Kanwisher, the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Macular degeneration affects 1.75 million people in the United States alone. Loss of vision begins in the fovea of the retina -- the central area providing high acuity vision that we use for reading and other visually demanding tasks. Patients typically compensate by using an adjacent patch of undamaged retina. This "preferred retinal locus" (PRL) is often below the blind region in the visual field, leading patients to roll their eyes upward to look at someone's face, for example.
The visual cortex has a map of the visual field on the retina, and in macular degeneration the neurons mapping to the fovea no longer receive input. But several labs, including Kanwisher's, previously found that the neurons in the visual cortex that once responded only to input from central vision begin responding to stimuli at the PRL. In other words, the visual map has reorganized.
"We wanted to know if the chronic, prior use of the PRL causes the cortical change that we had observed in the past, according to what we call the use-dependent hypothesis," said first author Daniel D. Dilks, a postdoctoral fellow in the Kanwisher lab. "Or, do the deprived neurons respond to stimulation at any peripheral location, regardless of prior visual behavior, according to the use-independent hypothesis?"
The previous studies could not answer this question because they had only tested patients' PRL. This new study tests both the PRL and another peripheral location, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan two macular degeneration patients who had no central vision, and consequently had a deprived central visual cortex.
Because patients habitually use the PRL like a new fovea, it could be that the deprived cortex might respond preferentially to this location.
But that is not what the researchers found. Instead, the deprived region responded equally to stimuli at both the preferred and nonpreferred locations.
This finding suggests that the long-term change in visual behavior is not driving the brain's remapping. Instead, the brain changes appear to be a relatively passive response to visual deprivation.
"Macular degeneration is a great opportunity to learn more about plasticity in the adult cortex," Kanwisher said. If scientists could one day develop technologies to replace the lost light-sensitive cells in the fovea, patients might be able to recover central vision since the neurons there are still alive and well.
Chris Baker of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition (NIMH) and Eli Peli of the Schepens Eye Research Institute also contributed to this study, which was supported by the NIH, Kirschstein-NRSA, and Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Byrne.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on March 4, 2009 (download PDF).
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Lenovo P2 vs Xiaomi Redmi Note 4: The battle of mid-range smartphones
Lenovo P2 will be available exclusively on Flipkart at Rs 16,999 for the 3GB RAM+32GB variant.
Flipkart's arch-rival Amazon is selling Xiaomi Redmi Note 4.
Lenovo has launched the P2 smartphone in India. Dipped in Champagne Gold and Graphite Grey options, it will be exclusively available via Flipkart. The smartphone has been launched in two variants - one with 3GB RAM and another with 4GB RAM - starting at Rs 17,999.
This also reminds us of another high profile launch of the month - the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, available via Flipkart's arch-rival Amazon. So, we couldn't help but compare them to find out who could be a winner, at least on paper. We've also thrown in the LeEco Le Max 2 in the ring that comes at a similar price of Rs 17,999 as the P2.
Take a look at the comparison chart below:
Lenovo P2 Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 LeEco Le Max 2
Display size 5.5-inches 5.5-inch 5.7-inch
Resolution (pixels) 1080 x 1920 1080 x 1920 1440 x 2560
Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Mediatek MT6797 Helio X20 Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
RAM 3GB/4GB 2GB/3GB 4GB/6GB
Rear Camera sensor 13MP 13MP 21MP
Front Camera sensor 5MP 5MP 8MP
Storage 32GB/64GB 16GB/64GB 32GB/64GB
Expandable storage Yes, up to 256GB Yes, up to 256GB No
Fingerprint scanner Yes Yes Yes
Battery 5100mAh 4100mAh 3100mAh
Online Price Rs 16,999 (32Gb + 3GB) Rs 21,491 (16GB + 2GB) Rs 17,999 (32GB + 4GB)
In terms of specifications, the LeEco Le Max 2 has a slight upper hand with its larger and better display and camera, powerful processor and more RAM. The price tag of the Max 2 takes the value it offers a notch higher compared to the other two. But, it lacks expandable storage and the battery capacity is lower compared to others.
The Redmi Note 4 and the Lenovo P2 are almost at par with a decent specs sheet. Both come with a decent display, battery capacity and expandable storage up to 256GB. On paper, Le Max 2 seems like the winner, without considering the overall performance. The Redmi Note series is the most popular among the three. And, the Note 4 has already received accolades for its performance. However, the current listed price (which may most likely change) is a huge hindrance. At Rs 21,491, the Note 4 seems overshadowed by the other two.
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Isaacs, Lewis Edward (1855–1911)
The funeral of the late Mr E. L. [Lewis Edward] Isaacs recently managing director of Feldheim Gotthelf and Co Limited took place in the Hebrew section of the Necropolis yesterday afternoon the Rev Messrs Einfeld and Wolinski officiating. Over 50 wreaths were despatched including a large wreath from the employees of the firm. About 120 of the employees were present while the total number of mourners in attendance amounted to nearly 300. Among those present were – Messrs Edgar Kenneth and Noel Isaacs (sons), Mr Henry Isaacs, Mr Philip Isaacs, Mr Septimus Isaacs, Mr O. G. Isaacs (brothers), Mr J. G. Farleigh, M.L.C., Mr Wm Dixson (of Hugh Dixson and Co), Mr Kent (of Kent, Brierley and Sully), Mr W. P. Grayson (of Robt Reid and Co), Mr F. W. Clark (of Henry Bull and Co), Mr R. Hopson (of Petersen Boesen and Co), Mr John Graham (of John Graham and Co), Mr P. C. Mitchell (of David Mitchell and Co), Mr Orwell Phillips (of Chown Bros and Mulholland), Mr Gotthelf, Mr Louis Phillip (of Moses Moss and Co), Mr George J. Cohen (of David Cohen and Co), Mr A. H. Nathan (of S. Hoffnung and Co), Mr H Tallerman (of Tallerman and Co), Mr E. Rich (of E. Rich and Co), Mr B. E. Marks, Mr E. Lichtner (of Lichtner and Co Ltd), Mr Albert Borchard, Mr Peter Britz and Mr Elvy (of Elvy and Co).
Mr Isaacs was born in 1855 at Bathurst NSW and entering the firm of Feldheim Gotthelf and Co as one of its youngest assistants, remained with the firm until its flotation as a limited liability company last September when he became managing director. He died in England on May 22 last, at the age of 56, the body being conveyed to Australia for burial. Mr Isaacs leaves a wife and six children, five sons and a daughter the youngest being 13. Their names respectively are Arthur, Hubert, Edgar, Kenneth, Dorothy and Noel of whom Mr Arthur Isaacs is at present in America while Mr Hubert Isaacs and Miss Isaacs are on their way from England in company with Mrs Isaacs.
Sydney Morning Herald, 19 July 1911, p 16 (view original)
probate, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 August 1911, p 14
Isaacs, Alice Anne (wife)
Cohen, Sarah (mother-in-law)
Cohen, William (father-in-law)
Marienthal, Frances (sister-in-law)
Benjamin, Elizabeth (sister-in-law)
Cohen, Hannah (sister-in-law)
Cohen, Rebecca May (sister-in-law)
Cohen, Violet (sister-in-law)
Cohen, Maude (sister-in-law)
Marienthal, Nathaniel Louis (brother-in-law)
Benjamin, Arthur Solomon (brother-in-law)
Cohen, Henry Samuel (brother-in-law)
Cohen, Edward (brother-in-law)
Cohen, Arthur Isaac (brother-in-law)
Cohen, Ernest Ralph (brother-in-law)
Blane, Violet Elaine (niece by marriage)
Benjamin, May Miriam (niece by marriage)
Marienthal, Lily Maud (niece by marriage)
Cohen, Madge (niece by marriage)
Kaye, Joyce Cecile (niece by marriage)
Cohen, Meredith (niece by marriage)
Marienthal, William Levi (nephew by marriage)
Marienthal, Harold Sydney (nephew by marriage)
Gotthelf, Moritz (employer)
'Isaacs, Lewis Edward (1855–1911)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/isaacs-lewis-edward-20250/text31310, accessed 17 January 2021.
Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
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Wigan takeover off after bidder reduces value of offer by almost 50 per cent
Wigan’s prospective takeover is off the cards after the Spanish bidder reduced the value of their offer by nearly 50 per cent.
A bid was accepted by the club in September, but the process had dragged on and a Latics statement on Tuesday morning revealed bad news for supporters of the League One club.
“As of 11am today, the administrators have broken off negotiations with the Spanish bidder,” the statement read.
“The facts are that as late as Christmas Eve the bidder indicated that they wanted to complete the deal immediately and had wired money from Spain to their UK solicitors.
READ MORE: Wigan confirm sale of training ground to Preston North End
“This was confirmed as being received by their solicitors over the Christmas period. The sale contract was agreed, the documentation had been signed in relation to the assignment of the leases with the council [stadium] and college [training ground] and completion was planned to take place in between Christmas and New Year.”
Wigan have been in administration since the start of July, when a 12-point deduction saw them relegated to League One.
News of a serious bidder appeared to give them a route out, but last month the English Football League (EFL) said it was still unable to sanction the deal.
In Tuesday’s statement, the club explained why such a big reduction in the bid was not acceptable and said they were resuming discussions with other interested parties.
The statement continued: “Over this weekend we received a letter from the bidder reducing the bid by almost 50 per cent.
“This would not allow us to pay non-football creditors the required 25 pence in the pound to avoid further sanctions against the club. This would result in a 15-point deduction and would effectively relegate the club to League Two.
“The purchaser was insistent on offering the reduced price but was not prepared to conclude the deal unless the 15-point deduction was waived. Under the EFL insolvency policy, this is not possible and the deal is therefore unable to be concluded.
“We have informed the EFL and are now starting to talk to other bidders who have expressed interest and will provide an update when there is any definite news.”
Wigan currently sit in the League One relegation zone in 22nd place, two points from safety.
The club have also been hit by coronavirus and their next two fixtures have been called off following an outbreak in the camp.
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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care
Volume No: 1 Issue No: 3
Research Article | Open Access
Available online freely | Peer Reviewed
Social Work in Psychosocial Crises: Analysis of a Voluntary Psychosocial Counseling Program to Close a Supply Gap in Psychosocial Therapy
Andreas Franke 2 Stefanie Neumann 2 Danuta Franke 1 Robert Northoff 2
1Dietrich Bonhoeffer Clinic, Neubrandenburg
2University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg
People suffering from acute psychosocial crises often require immediate help. To supplement existing institutions and services, a counseling program (“Hel.p”) was founded; this study evaluates that program following a two-year trial period.
The program offered anonymous, free-of-charge appointments to the public conducted by consultants holding, at minimum, a bachelor’s degree in social work. Supervised by a judge and a psychologist, client-centered counseling sessions were conducted each week.
Thirty-five counselors counseled 70 people. The clients were 37.6 +/- 18.4 years old and mostly female (67.1%). The counseling topics included health and diseases (16.1%) and general family problems (11.3%). The majority of the sessions (63.5%) took place during acute psychosocial crises.
“Hel.p” functions as a supplement to established outreach clinics for people with acute psychosocial crises. It bridges the gap between individuals’ acute psychosocial problems and the delayed psychiatric/psychotherapeutic treatment caused by resource restrictions in the health care system.
Received 08 Oct 2016; Accepted 30 Dec 2016; Published 06 Jan 2017;
Academic Editor:Mary Oschwald, Portland State University, The Regional Research Institute for Human Services
Checked for plagiarism: Yes
Review by:Single-blind
Copyright© 2017 Andreas Franke, et al
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Andreas Franke, Stefanie Neumann, Danuta Franke, Robert Northoff (2017) Social Work in Psychosocial Crises: Analysis of a Voluntary Psychosocial Counseling Program to Close a Supply Gap in Psychosocial Therapy . Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care - 1(3):22-31.
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DOI10.14302/issn.2474-3585.jpmc-16-1325
Throughout Germany, numerous public, private and religious organizations offer counseling centers for people with various psychosocial problems 1. In Neubrandenburg (NB), a city of 63,000 inhabitants in the rural area of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV), counseling centers in diverse practice areas (e.g., family, pregnancy, youth, addiction) are available 2.
If psychosocial counseling is insufficient, clients/patients might require assistance from the professional medical and/or psychotherapeutic health care system, which imposes a significantly higher barrier to entry and is more cost-intensive. Such clients/patients must wait for available help 3. According to a recent survey study of the Germany Association of Psychotherapists (DPtV), psychotherapists have waiting periods of more than 2.5 months for an appointment 4. The SHIP study reveals that 12% of mentally ill people receive no psychiatric/psychotherapeutic treatment at all 5. Another recent study reveals that 36% of mentally ill people are in contact with outpatient or inpatient psychiatric/psychotherapeutic services or a general practitioner 6.
Beyond the problem of immediate availability, other factors determine the use of the psychiatric/psychological/psychotherapeutic health care system, such as the type of diagnosis, comorbidity and individual sociodemographic characteristics 7. Other important reasons for the lack of medical/psychological assistance include individual and social barriers, a lack of knowledge, a lack of motivation, a lack of low-threshold medical and/or psychological treatment services, and a lack of care services in the outpatient setting 8, 9. Furthermore, 24-35% of surveyed psychotherapists reported that they frequently saw patients who were unwilling or unable to pay for psychotherapy 10.
Another complicating aspect, at least in Germany, is the interface problem between the medical health care system (which is primarily covered by health insurance) and the social system (which is primarily covered by the welfare system) and therefore between medical and/or psychological treatment options and counseling centers 11, 12, 13.
The current health care situation is such that in cases of sudden psychosocial crises, individuals have no prompt access to the high-threshold, cumbersome and expensive professional health care system, even if treatment by that system seems necessary. Therefore, the Hel.p project was founded at the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg (UNB) to offer a cost-free, low-threshold, rapidly accessible alternative to close the gap between the need created by acute psychosocial crises and the treatment available from the professional health care system. This manuscript presents data from the evaluation of this program after a two-year period.
On April 1, 2013, the Hel.p project was initiated by Dipl. Psych. Professor Robert Northoff, PhD, and his study group at UNB to offer a cost-free, low-threshold and rapidly accessible psychosocial counseling option.
Information about the project and contact details were distributed to the public via daily newspapers, local radio, and fliers published and distributed by network partners of the UNB (e.g., other psychosocial counseling centers and primary care physicians).
The Help team was available via telephone (24 hours per day, 7 days per week), via email and in person at the counseling office (Monday through Thursday, 4-6 p.m.). Counseling was anonymous and free of charge; clients did not have to disclose their name or other personal data. To ensure the highest degree of anonymity, clients were allowed to waive documentation of the counseling session; consequently, documentation pertaining to several cases was missing. Evaluation of the counseling session was also optional.
Counseling sessions were conducted using client-centered negotiation performed in accordance with Carl Rogers’ work 14, 15.
The criterion for admission to the Hel.p team as a counselor was to hold at least a bachelor’s degree in social work or a bachelor’s degree in a similar scientific field (e.g., psychology). The counseling project enabled students to gain practice in the field of counseling and/or social work. Counselors received no remuneration. All of the team members were supervised by the project leader, Robert Northoff, who is both an experienced psychologist and a judge.
As a supplement to the psycho-medical health care system, Hel.p counseling was restricted to a maximum of five counseling sessions; contact information for psychiatrists and psychotherapists were distributed.
The analyzed data were based on the data collected via anonymous questionnaires during the counseling sessions. As noted above, because of the offer of anonymity, clients had the choice to decline documentation, and completing a questionnaire was optional. Clients had been counseled, as described above.
Statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0; means and standard deviations are provided. According to chi-square tests, p-values are given with confidence intervals.
The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975. Prior to completing the questionnaire, clients were informed of the scientific goal of the data collection; they gave their written informed consent by filling in the questionnaire. The study was approved by the local ethics committee (Reg. No. 20.04.15).
The Hel.p project was conducted by 35 counselors who had been recruited by the supervisor prior to the project start. All of the counselors (n = 35) were students at UNB. To provide patients continuous counseling, although n = 9 counselors were accepted without a bachelor’s degree, they were six months away from receiving their degree and were strictly evaluated by the supervisor. The consultants (n = 35) were predominantly female (82.9%, n = 29 female; 17.1%, n = 6 male). For further characteristics, see Table 1.
Table 1. Structure of the Hel.p team:
Qualification of the counselor Number of counselors Quantity of counseling services offered during opening hours Number of sessions
Master’s Advisory N = 22 (3 male, 19 female) N = 163 N = 49
Master’s Social Work N = 4 (1 male, 3 female) N = 26 N = 4
Bachelor’s Social Work N = 9 (2 male, 7 female) N = 81 N = 17
Sum N = 35 (6 male, 29 female) N = 270 N = 70
A total of n = 270 counseling sessions were offered during operating hours (during the 2-hour opening time of the counseling office). The office was reachable without barriers.
Among the potential clients (n = 78), most initially contacted the Hel.p team via telephone. Compared to other contact types (email, in-person), this type of contact was associated with the lowest number of executed consultations (Table 2). Thus, the greatest adherence was achieved by recording local contacts with potential clients in the Hel.p office. In many cases (n = 28), consultation took place immediately after clients personally contacted the Hel.p team in the office (Table 2).
Significantly more women initially contacted the Hel.p team via telephone (p = 0,019, CI 0,130 – 1,407). Age and the approach to initial contact were not significantly associated. Similarly, with respect to psychosocial problems, there was no significant association between the counseling topic and the initial contact behavior (p = 0.070, CI -1.484 – 0.67). However, significantly more clients contacted the Hel.p team via telephone when experiencing acute psychosocial crises than for follow-up care and prevention (p = 0.000045, CI 0.861 – 1.599).
With regard to gender distribution, 67.1% (n = 47) of the clients were female and 32.9% (n = 23) were male. Clients were between 18 and 73 years of age, with an average age of 37.6 years +/- 18.4 (mean +/- standard deviation).
The clients’ completion of the evaluation questionnaire was explicitly voluntary. Moreover, to ensure the highest degree of anonymity and the low threshold to entry, the consultants’ records of the proceedings were also not compulsory. Therefore, only 68.6% (n = 48) of the counseling sessions (n = 70) were documented.
Table 2. Method of contacting the Hel.p team:
First contact Subsequent contact Agreed-upon consultancy Occurred consultancy Questionnaire available
Phone N = 30 N = 7 N = 34 N = 22 N = 19
Email N = 15 N = 0 N = 15 N = 11 N = 9
In person by appointment N = 5 N = 4 N = 9 N = 9 N = 9
In person without appointment during opening hours N = 28 / / N = 28 N = 11
Sum N = 78 N = 70 N = 48
Following categorization, four main topics were identified and clustered as follows: 16.1% (n = 10) of the consultations primarily addressed the issue of health and disease; 12.9% (n = 8) primarily addressed education and socialization; 11.3% primarily addressed disability and inclusion; 11.3% (n = 7) primarily addressed general family problems; and 9.6% (n = 6) primarily addressed work and unemployment. For more detailed data, please see Table 3. Clients were counseled on 1.6 subjects per consultation.
Table 3. Subjects of counseling session
Quantity Proportion
Money and tangible assets N = 5 8.10%
Law and infringement N = 2 3.2%
Habitation N = 1 1.6%
Health and disease N = 10 16.1%
Grief and death N = 1 1.6%
Family in general N = 7 11.3%
Conflicts and violence N = 4 6.5%
(Medical) Care and assistance N = 4 6.5%
(Un-) employment N = 6 9.6%
Disability and inclusion N = 8 12.9%
Education and socialization N = 8 12.9%
Marriage and partnership N = 4 6.5%
Learning and school N = 2 3.2%
Sum N= 62 100.0%
Clients who were counseled because of general family problems were not significantly older than average (p = 0.526 CI -0.276 – 0.143). The same was true for clients counseled on issues of health and disease (p = 0.685 CI -0.193 – 0.29). Furthermore, no significant differences could be detected in age or sex in relation to the counseling topic (p = 0.953, CI -1.22206 – 1.15539).
Regarding the timing of counseling along the timeline of psychosocial problems, 20.3% (n = 15) of the consultations could be assigned to the field of prevention and 16.2% (n = 12) could be assigned to the field of follow-up care. Most of the consultations took place during psychosocial crises (63.5%, n = 47) (Table 4).
Slightly (but not significantly) more female than male clients received preventive counseling (p = 0.055, CI -0.008 – 0.74). There was no significant association between the clients’ age and the timeline of psychosocial crises (p = 0.198, CI -13.01 – 61.223).
Table 4. Timeline of contacting the Hel.p team
Male Female Quantity Proportion
Prevention N = 0 N = 15 N =15 20.3%
Crisis N = 7 N = 40 N = 47 63.5%
Follow-up N = 1 N = 11 N = 12 16.2%
Sum N = 8 N = 66 N = 74 100.0%
The Hel.p project was founded to offer anonymous, low-threshold, barrier-free and cost-free psychosocial counseling to the public. The final analysis indicated that this service was requested by N = 78 potential clients. Most people contacted the counseling team via telephone; clients were 37.6 years old (mean), and most were female. N = 15 used Hel.p for prevention, N = 47 used it during acute psychosocial crises, and N = 12 used it for follow-up care in four main fields of counseling.
The main hypothesis was that professional psychosocial help is needed immediately during acute psychosocial crises. The majority of the clients verified this hypothesis, seeking psychosocial help during acute psychosocial crises (63.5%, N = 47). Significantly fewer than one-quarter of the clients used Hel.p for prevention or follow-up care. This aspect confirmed the assumption derived from national data about scarce resources in the medical and psychological field. A recent investigation of the German Association of Psychotherapists revealed 2.5-month waiting periods for patients seeking psychotherapy 4. However, this waiting period was measured by the time between the first call and the first, preliminary talk (not the beginning of psychotherapy itself). Furthermore, in regions with a lower population density such as MV, an even worse situation was described: For small cities such as NB, the waiting period was found to be 104 days 4. The SHIP study revealed that 12% of mentally ill people receive no psychiatric/psychotherapeutic treatment at all 5. Although in Germany, some psychosocial support should be covered by general practitioners (GPs), time restrictions prevent GPs from offering deep psychotherapeutic treatment. Unfortunately, there are no data on waiting periods for outreach clinics.
Hel.p enabled 40% (N = 28) of clients who contacted the Hel.p team in person during consultation hours to receive immediate counseling sessions. These persons stated that they needed, or “diagnosed” themselves as needing, immediate psychosocial help. The SHIP study indicated that 12% of mentally ill people, despite high stress, received no psychiatric/psychotherapeutic treatment, even though they were assessed as “needing treatment” 5.
However, it is difficult to make an international comparison because other countries’ health care resources and financing are not comparable to the German situation.
The problem of insufficient immediate access to psychosocial help during psychosocial crises derives not only from scarce resources but also from other limiting factors, such as the type of diagnosis, comorbidity, sociodemographic characteristics, individual and social barriers, a lack of knowledge, a lack of motivation, a lack of low-threshold medical and/or psychological treatment services, and a lack of care services in the outpatient setting. These factors are important and are depicted in the literature (e.g., 7, 8, 9. The lack of money to pay for psychotherapeutic treatment constitutes another limitation 10.
Some of the abovementioned factors were solved by Help, which was organized to be cost-free, low-threshold and completely anonymous.
In the German health care system, GPs have a special function as “gatekeepers” for further medical and psychological specialists; they are required to “guide” patients. This function was adopted by Hel.p, which not only counseled clients but also conveyed contact information to specialists. However, people must identify themselves using their personal health insurance card when consulting a GP. They therefore must identify themselves to others as having psychosocial problems (GP, receptionist, other patients in the waiting room), an issue that is linked to the putatively stigmatizing aspect of the problem. Furthermore, GPs are primarily consulted for somatic—not psychological or social—problems 16, 17. Therefore, people who lack somatic problems but have stigmatizing psychosocial problems may avoid consulting a GP. Hel.p may thus represent an adequate alternative, offering direct psychosocial counseling and distributing contact information for professional psychotherapists and psychiatrists. It could also provide contact information for other specialized outreach clinics.
Similarly to international studies regarding individuals seeking psychosocial help, the NASHIP survey demonstrates that psychotherapeutic treatment is provided to significantly more employed persons than retired persons 4, 18, 19, 20. The international data were confirmed by our study: Clients seeking help from Hel.p were, on average, 36.7 years old, and therefore of employment age.
The SHIP study revealed that 75% of all health problems are “treated” in the so-called “informal health system,” which means that people attempt to obtain counseling and treatment from family members, other relatives, friends and self-help groups 5. These 75% attempt to avoid contacting GPs or other professionals in the health care system or entering the system. These people can be reached much more easily via low-threshold services such as Hel.p.
The geographic accessibility of psychosocial treatment represents an important, frequently limiting factor for many people: In Germany, most patients (62%) reach physicians using a car, which presupposes the availability of a vehicle; 60% of physician visits require trips of approximately 10 minutes in general. To reach a specialist in Germany, trips of more than 20 minutes are required 18. This situation is comparable to the corresponding situations in other countries 21.
This location problem is not encountered in Hel.p, which is situated at the regional center (NB) and is conveniently accessible by public transport (buses).
Problematic factors of the Hel.p project may be the counselors’ age and status: counselors are comparatively young. They are beginning their (vocational) training and are not trained as physicians or psychotherapists. German psychotherapy patients are primarily aged 40-49 years; the mean client age of the Hel.p project was 37.6 years. The project’s counselors lack work experience because of their youth, which could mean that clients do not take the counselors in their professional role "seriously” enough and could lead to premature termination of consulting services.
In addition, sex may be another relevant aspect: The majority of the consultants were female. This gender distribution is comparable to other psychosocial fields: The proportion of women among the occupational groups of social workers and social pedagogues is 70-80% 22, 23, 24. For graduates of the psychology field of study, the proportion of women has trended upward in recent years and is now at 82% 23. The gender distribution among medical psychotherapists is similar 23. However, the majority of patients seeking psychotherapeutic help are female. The influence of sex roles on psychotherapeutic treatment, however, is a matter of controversy 25, 26, 27, 28.
At the end of the discussion, some aspects of the study are worth discussing as limiting factors: This evaluation is based on anonymous data from 70 counseling sessions. Furthermore, there are missing records because of Hel.p’s assurance of client anonymity by not recording any data. This approach might be source of a bias in which pursuant to the clients’ wishes, particularly stigmatizing topics were not recorded. This aspect may have influenced not only the types of recorded topics but also the number of counseling sessions. Nevertheless, this aspect is both the main weakness and the main strength of the project: It provides a reduced number of topics and clients for statistical analysis but enables complete anonymity.
Another limiting aspect is clients’ frequency of contacting: Given the high frequency and variety of psychosocial crises based on the numbers of consultations in various counseling centers and outpatient and inpatient psychiatric-psychotherapeutic treatment, the frequency of contacts was very low. During the two-year time frame, there were only 78 contacts with the team (although due to anonymity (as discussed above), not all of the contacts and counseling sessions were recorded). Furthermore, Hel.p was a low-threshold, cost-free, barrier-free and anonymous psychosocial outreach clinic available four days a week from 4 to 6 p.m. We assume that there was not sufficient public awareness and knowledge of Hel.p. Because newspaper advertisements were too expensive, we distributed fliers and local radio information to the public. This low awareness may have led to the low frequency with which people consulted Hel.p.
Nevertheless, the Hel.p project represented a complementary addition to the professional health care system. It offered an interim alternative to the use of the health care system, if the obstacles to receiving a counseling session an established advisory body and/or psychiatric-psychotherapeutic treatment were too high (e.g., the wait for psychotherapeutic sessions, the shame of stigmatizing psychosocial problems, the lack of anonymity, the fear of costs). In such cases, Hel.p conveyed knowledge and skills related to the health and social system and established contacts with other mental health facilities. Offering a maximum of five to ten counseling sessions, Hel.p was tailored to close a supply gap rather than to replace other forms of professional treatment.
The “Hel.p” project is a low-threshold, anonymous, cost-free and immediate program that supplements established outreach clinics and psychiatric/psychotherapeutic treatment for people experiencing acute psychosocial crises. This project bridges the gap between individuals’ acute psychosocial problems and delayed psychiatric/psychotherapeutic treatment resulting from the German health care system’s resource restrictions. It could curtail the development of psychiatric disorders from an early stage, which could prevent the later use of the health care system and possibly reduce both societal and individual costs.
Acknowledgments:
The authors thank all of the counselors for their help with the counseling project. The authors thank American Journal Experts (AJE) for excellent assistance with respect to editing and proofreading the entire manuscript.
The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975. Prior to completing the questionnaire, clients were informed about the scientific aim of the data collection and gave written informed consent by filling in the questionnaire. The study was approved by the local ethics committee (Reg. No. 20.04.15).
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August 2020 Webinars about Parkinson’s
August 3, 2020 By Parkinson's Community Help
You can participate in a web-based seminar — or webinar — from the privacy of your home. Join either live or view the archived version within a few days of the live webinar (in most cases). All webinars listed are free. All times listed are Pacific Time. Here are webinars that may be of interest to those living with Parkinson’s in August 2020…
Monday, August 3, 12:00-1:00pm
“A Conversation with Professor Bhatia”
Program: Join us to speak with Professor Bhatia about his work merging clinical, genetic and electrophysiology to better understand the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s and dystonia. Dystonia is an involuntary and often painful muscle spasm caused by incorrect signals from the brain. These spasms pull the body into abnormal postures through repetitive twisting and sustained muscle contractions. We’ll learn about current treatment approaches, promising treatments in development, and the research revealing potential genetic links between Parkinson’s and dystonia.
Presenter: Kailash Bhatia, MD, Professor of Clinical Neurology in the Sobell Department of Movement Neuroscience at the Institute of Neurology, UCL, Queen Square, London
Presented by: PMD Alliance
Tuesday, August 4, 9:00-10:00am
“Top Tips from “Living with Parkinson’s Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Caregivers”
Program: Dr. Okun will be sharing tips from his latest book and answering your questions about living with Parkinson’s and providing care and support for a person with Parkinson’s.
Presenter: Michael S. Okun, MD, Executive Director of the University of Florida’s Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases and Chair of Neurology, National Medical Director, Parkinson’s Foundation
Presented by: Parkinson’s Foundation
Register (you will view the presentation on the Parkinson’s Foundation Facebook page)
Wednesday, August 5, 10:00-11:00am
“Recognizing Communication Challenges in PD”
Program: Noticing challenges with expressing your thoughts, ideas, or needs? Join the Parkinson’s Foundation and an expert in Neuropsychology to learn more on how Parkinson’s disease may impact your skill to effectively communicate. We will explore practical tips to reduce barriers that will help you to improve your communication with loved ones, friends, and providers.
Presenter: Danielle Carns, Psy.D, Neuropsychology Fellow, Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Wednesday, August 5, 12:00-1:00pm
“The Neuropsychology of Parkinson’s”
Program: Parkinson’s can cause changes in some cognitive functions that range from mild impairment to more complex, including dementia. Understanding these changes and how to cope with them is an important part of the comprehensive management of PD. Neuropsychological testing done by a neuropsychologist, a psychologist who specializes in understanding the relationship between the brain and behavior, can detect even mild cognitive changes and provide valuable insight to patients and family members.
Presenter: Anthony Logalbo, PhD, board certified neuropsychologist specializing in the assessment and treatment of those living with a neurological disorder.
Thursday, August 6, 10:00-11:30am
“On the Menu: Nutrition & Parkinson’s”
Program: This is a 2-part program presented over two days. A balanced diet is a foundation of good health. For people with Parkinson’s disease, a balanced diet is even more important. In Parkinson’s, there are some foods that may help to ease symptoms and support brain health, while others can affect the way medications work. The informed choice of diet can help people to live better with the disease.
Join us as Dr. Mischley discusses the role nutrition plays for those living with Parkinson’s. Specifically, we will explore: the importance of healthy eating and how some foods and supplements may promote brain health; the relationship of meal timing and food interaction with Parkinson’s medications; and the connection between the brain and gut as it relates to Parkinson’s.
Presenters: Laurie Mischley, ND, PhD, MPH, Bastyr University Research Institute and Seattle Integrative Medicine
Taylor Drake, PT, DPT, Rochester University (Stretch Break)
Thursday, August 6, 11:00am-12:00pm
“Health Disparities and Parkinson’s: Understanding the Issue”
Program: We will begin this series by identifying what health disparities look like in the Parkinson’s community. Our expert panelists, who have extensive experience in research, medical care, hospital management, community outreach, and community programming, will help define the problem and share their experiences to help us root our understanding and identify future actions.
Presenters: Nabila Dahodwala, MD, Director, Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Jackson, PhD, Founder and Executive Director of the Community Access, Recruitment, & Engagement (CARE) Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
Nicte Mejia, MD, MPH, Director, MGH Neurology Diversity and Community Outreach Initiatives, Massachusetts General Hospital
Claudia Martinez, MD, Hispanic Outreach Coordinator, Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow Neurological Institute
Altaf Saadi, MD, MSc, General Academic Neurologist and Associate Director of Asylum Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital
Moderator, David Leventhal, Program Director, Dance for PD®, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Board of Directors, Davis Phinney Foundation
Presented by: Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson’s
Thursday, August 6, 12:00-1:00pm
‘Lunch with Docs – Different from Alzheimer’s: Lewy Body Dementia”
Program: What is the difference between Alzheimer’s and Lewy Body Dementia? How do you know if symptoms are just part of Parkinson’s or related to dementia? Join us for discussion on understanding the differences between Alzheimer’s and Lewy Body dementia with our speaker as he explains the symptoms of Lewy Body dementia, how it is diagnosed and treated and what research is relevant for those diagnosed.
Presenter: Davis Shprecher, DO, MSCI, FAAN, Banner Health
Friday, August 7, 9:00-10:00am
“The Tebow Family’s Brave Battle with Parkinson’s”
Program: Join our panelists in learning about one family’s experience with Parkinson’s. Joining the discussion is a leading Parkinson’s researcher and clinician. A question and answer session will follow the panel discussion.
Presenters: Bob and Pam Tebow, friends of the Parkinson’s Community
Michael Okun, MD, Executive Director, Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health, Chair and Professor, Department of Neurology
Presented by: Ending Parkinson’s Disease
Friday, August 7, 10:00-11:30am
“On the Menu: Day 2:-Discussion and Cooking Demonstration”
Program: Join our expert speaker as she shares tips related to Parkinson’s concerns, like loss of smell or taste, eating to maintain weight, cooking tools and adaptive silverware. Beth will show us how she prepares no heat meals, perfect for hot summer! We will also hear from people affected by Parkinson’s share their story and experiences with eating well.
Presenter: Beth Kitzis, Registered Dietician, Community Servings
Saturday, August 8, 9:00-10:30am
“Alleviating ON/OFF Periods in Parkinson’s”
Program: Our presenter will discuss the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s and how different medications interact with the body to treat those symptoms. The presenter will also provide information about ON/OFF periods, their causes and available rescue treatment options. Participants will also have the opportunity to hear from a patient advocate on their experiences with rescue medications.
Presenter Laxman Bahroo, DO, FAAN, is an assistant professor and co-director of the Neurology Residency Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Presented by: Parkinson Association of the Rockies
Monday, August 10, 9:00-10:00am
“Dr. Gilbert Hosts: Intentional Optimism-A Conversation with Bill Rasmussen”
Program: Dr. Gilbert has been hosting conversations with leading figures in the Parkinson’s community. This month’s conversation focuses on the role of optimism while living with the challenges of Parkinson’s disease
Presenters: Rebecca Gilbert, MD, PhD, Medical Director, American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA)
Bill Rasmussen, founder, ESPN
Presented by: American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA)
Tuesday, August 11, 11:00am-12:00pm
“Living Well with Parkinson’s Through Dance and Movement with David Leventhal”
Program: Dancing has been shown to improve gait and balance, reduce tremor, slow cognitive decline, and improve overall coordination and mobility in people with Parkinson’s. And, as a result, it has become one of the more popular activities that people with Parkinson’s do to improve their quality of life.
Presenter: David Leventhal, Program Director, Dance for PD®, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Board of Directors, Davis Phinney Foundation
Wednesday, August 12, 10:00-11:00am
“Let’s Keep Moving with APDA: Assessing Balance with a Physical Therapist”
Program: A discussion about the key components of a physical therapy visit to assess balance.
Presenter: Teresa Baker, PT, NPT, Boston University <link>Center for Neurorehabilitation
“Technology Can Work For You!”
Program: Staying connected and utilizing technology for communication, is more important than ever…but what if technology is not your cup of tea? This webinar will focus on increasing your knowledge and confidence, as well as exploring useful resources you can utilize, to make technology work for you! We will discuss a variety of topics such as: the importance of staying connected, telehealth, and more.
Presenter: To be advised at time of webcast
“Putting Your Best Voice Forward with PD”
Program: People with Parkinson’s disease (PD) may experience conversation breakdowns due to PD-related symptoms such as speech changes, decreased facial expression called “facial masking,” anxiety, and isolation. Guided by our expert moderator, a panel of people with PD and those who care for them will explore these communication challenges. People with PD, loved ones, families, and health providers are invited to join and learn about tools and strategies to strengthen communication, relationships, and one’s sense of self, helping people with PD feel heard and understood.
Wednesday, August 19, 11:00am-12:00pm
“A Crash Course for Care Partners: How to Help People Receiving LSVT LOUD and BIG”
Program: Do you help support and care for someone who is receiving LSVT LOUD or LSVT BIG? You can be a key part of optimizing their success. Learn our top tips on how to help support daily exercise practice, homework and carryover of a louder voice and bigger movements into daily life. Also hear ideas of how to motivate and encourage, as well as what NOT to do!
Presenters: LSVT clinicians
Presented by: LSVT Global
Thursday, August 20, 8:00-10:30am
“Virtual Summer Symposium”
“ Non-Motor Symptoms”- Roger Albin, MD
“ Staging Parkinson’s Disease”- Eleanor Orehek, MD
“ Research and Advocacy”-Karlin Schroeder
Presenters: Roger Albin MD, University of Michigan Udall Center
Eleanor Orehek, MD, Medical Director, Noran Neurological Clinic, APDA Minnesota
Karline Schroeder, Senior Director of Community Engagement, Parkinson’s Foundation
Presented by: APDA Minnesota Chapter, Parkinson’s Foundation Minnesota and the Dakotas, Udall Center, University of Minnesota
“Environment’s Role in Parkinson’s Disease”
Program: Our panelists will discuss studies into how factors such as pesticide and toxicant exposure and head injury can lead to Parkinson’s. We’ll also cover policies and legislation that may help limit those exposures and protect people from disease and answer questions from the audience.
Presenters: To be advised at time of webcast
Presented by: Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
Thursday, August 20, 12:00-1:00pm
“YOPD Council: Work, Money, Meaning, and Parkinson’s”
Program: One of the more difficult issues people who are diagnosed with Parkinson’s at a young age face is how they are going to manage their work life.
During this session, the seven members of our Council will discuss; How (and if) to share your diagnosis with your boss and colleagues; how to continue working and still do all it takes to live well with Parkinson’s; how to plan for an uncertain future of employment; how to advocate for yourself at work
How to change careers and/or find more meaning along your career path
Presenters: Davis Phinney Foundation YOPD Council
Sunday, August 23, 10:00-11:00am
“Ending Parkinson’s Disease”
Program: We are pleased that co-author Ray Dorsey, MD will join us for a book discussion of the new MUST READ book about Parkinson’s Disease for everyone with Parkinson’s and their care partners.
Presenter: Ray Dorsey, MD, MBA, University of Rochester
Presented by: Twitchy Woman
“Q&A: The Impact of COVID-19 on Daily Life with PD”
Program: Our speaker will discuss ways to handle stress and anxiety, and how to avoid feeling isolated while staying home.
Presenter: Arik C. Johnson, Psy.D., UCLA
Presented by: PCLA
“Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis: The What, When, Why & How”
Program: In this webinar, Dr. Goetz will answer the following: What causes Parkinson’s disease psychosis; what are hallucinations and delusions and are their different types; do hallucinations happen while sleeping; are they the same as vivid dreams and nightmares; what makes some people more likely to experience hallucinations and delusions than others; what can a person with Parkinson’s do to reduce or manage them; what treatments are available (pharmacological and non-pharmacological); what can a Parkinson’s care partner do when their person with Parkinson’s is experiencing them; when should someone see a doctor about them?
Presenter: Christopher Goetz, MD, Neurologist, Professor, Rush Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Program
Friday, August 28, 8:00-11:00am
“Online HOPE Conference: Relationships on Parkinson’s Journeys”
Program: Join us for an exciting opportunity to be a part of NW Parkinson’s online HOPE Conferences®! We are embracing the challenge of bringing our robust, traditionally in-person, conference to our community members virtually, by curating an intentional program that meets the needs of everyone we serve. More details to come soon
Presenters: See agenda
Presented by: Northwest Parkinson Foundation
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Playlist & Interview for Photogmusic LIVE on CHUO FM [April 15, 2013]
By Ming Wu on Monday, April 15, 2013
Here is today’s playlist from my radio show today on CHUO FM. I also had on the show, Jenn Schad and Blair Smith from SPAO. Both were here to talk about the upcoming exhibition taking place this Friday (April 19th) at SPAO. Here is the interview part of the show. (For those who don’t want …
Playlist for Photogmusic LIVE on CHUO FM [April 8, 2013]
By Ming Wu on Monday, April 8, 2013
Here is today’s playlist from my radio show today on CHUO FM. Have a listen to today’s show. 2013,Music,Ottawa,Indie,Radio by Photogmusic on Mixcloud
Best of 2012: Canadian Albums #20-13
2012 is almost ending soon. I am almost getting there! With that here are the “Best Of” Canadian albums from #20 to #13. You must be wondering why up to 13? That is because I am going to reveal the Top 12 on my radio show on Monday at 3pm. So here is the list. …
Concert indie Live Music Ottawa Show Review
Zeus @ Ottawa Bluesfest [July 10, 2012]
By Ming Wu on Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Toronto’s Zeus played the Electro Stage at Ottawa Bluesfest. It was the only indie rock band that was a day filled with R&B and Hip-hop playing at that stage and beyond. They did put on a great rocking set on the seventh day of the festival.
Album Review indie Music Music Video
Zeus – Busting Visions [Review]
By Ming Wu on Thursday, April 26, 2012
OK I will admit it! I wasn’t that much of a big supporter for Zeus. Yes they are a great band to see live but their first album “Say Us” didn’t give me a lasting impression. Wasn’t until I caught their CMW session at Sonic Boom and getting the album for free. Their set just …
indie Live Music Photography Show Review
Zeus @ Sonic Boom [CMW 2012]
By Ming Wu on Friday, March 30, 2012
Headed up to Sonic Boom for their CMW 2012 sessions. I completely forgot that Zeus was doing a in-store session. I got there when they were half-way into their set. The band played at the Horseshoe the night before. So I was like why not see them for free. There was already alot of people there.
Best of 2010: Canadian Albums (#41-#50)
Here is another installment of the best of 2010 Canadian albums. There is a mix of indie pop, rock, dance, folk and even jazz. This time its from #41-#50. Hope you will like who is in this list. Don’t forget to check out their music.
Compiling the Best of 2010 “Canadian Albums”
By Ming Wu on Wednesday, November 3, 2010
2010 is almost ending soon and its time to do a year end list on music. I know its going to be annoying for those “Best Of” list. I think its fun doing it. Starting today I will re-listen the albums that came out in 2010. Most of the albums have been reviewed but some …
Concert Live Music Ottawa Show Review
Bluesfest 2010: Jason Collett and City & Colour
By Ming Wu on Monday, July 12, 2010
It was a day off for Ottawa Bluesfest‘s main festival ground at the War Museum on July 12, 2010. But York Street was jamming pack with alot of people dying to see Jason Collett and City & Colour. It was also a free show part of the Pop Life at the National Gallery of Canada. …
NXNE 2010: [Part 2]
By Ming Wu on Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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Photo Credit: Nick Duran Fair, Advanced Modern/Postmodern Dance at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures, 2015
Embodied Futures: Somatic and Expressive Arts for Awareness and Acceptance
Nick Duran Fair, MFTT, MFA
Wednesday, Jan 13 2021
$15-$20 sliding scale, venmo or paypal only, no one turned away for lack of funds! Register
Class is an open group–an invitation to participate in a welcoming and nonjudgemental learning environment. We will understand feelings, sensations, and lived experiences through art and body-mind processes such as drawing, writing, dance/movement, music, mindfulness, yoga, and reiki. These are essential self-care practices based on the empirically supported assertion that the mind, body, and spirit are inextricably interconnected.
The class material is synthesized and facilitated by Nick Duran Fair, MFA, MFTT to promote self-awareness, self-esteem, and a safe space for expressing feelings. No prior experience is necessary. Please have art materials ready (pencils, pens, crayons, markers, or colored pencils), wear comfortable clothing, and wash your hands before class.
Please keep in mind that working deeply in this way may surface some discomfort and strong emotions. What is shared and discussed in class will remain confidential, and there is no requirement to share. Participants are welcome to turn off their cameras anytime. Many of the class activities do not require looking at the screen for prolonged periods of time.
This class does not claim to be curative and consultation with a medical provider is strongly encouraged. If you or someone you know is at risk of suicide, call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or text HOME to 741741. Additional support for mental health can be accessed by the NAMI HelpLine at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264), The Trevor Project Hotline 1-866-488-7386, and Open Path Psychotherapy Collective 1-800-268-2833.
Nick Duran Fair, MFTT, MFA, is an artist, teacher, and mental health clinician whose work attends to the mind, body, and spirit connection. They have taught at UCLA, California State University Long Beach, Loyola Marymount University, and Whitman College. Their work has been presented in Los Angeles by Pieter, PAM, REDCAT, Highways, Human Resources, and in New York City at the former Dance Theatre Workshop, Movement Research, and Danspace Project. They are a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee at Richstone Family Center and will attain an MS in Counseling Psychology from CSULB in December 2020. Their creative and therapeutic work synthesizes mind-body awareness, spiritual and energetic practices, and dance.
Upcoming Events in the Series:
Wednesday, Feb 3 2021
Wednesday, Feb 10 2021
Photo Credit: Brian Getnick, Mountain Solo, Nick Duran's first performance at Pieter, 2011
Photo Credit: Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo, Every Time You Are Near, Loyola Marymount University, 2014
For the month of January, all month long, when you register for class through our website we welcome you to share your confirmation email with a friend. Spread the word, share in movement. Start the year off by giving the gift of Pieter to someone who doesn’t know us yet! For the month of January, all month long, when you register for class through our website we welcome you to share your confirmation email with a friend. Spread the word, share in movement. Start the year off by giving the gift of Pieter to someone who doesn’t know us yet!
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For Walkability and Good Transit, and Against Boondoggles and Pollution
Construction Costs
Post Queue
Meme Weeding: Climate Resilience
I recently heard of state-level American standards for climate resilience that made it clear that, as a concept, it makes climate change worse. The idea of resilience is that catastrophic climate change is inevitable, so might as well make the world’s top per capita emitter among large economies resilient to it through slow retreat from the waterfront. The theory is bad enough – Desmond Tutu calls it climate apartheid – but the practice is even worse. The biggest, densest, and most desirable American cities are close to the coast. Transit-oriented development in and around those cities is the surest way of bringing green prosperity, enabling emissions to go down without compromising living standards. And yet, on a number of occasions I have seen Americans argue against various measures for TOD and transit improvements on resilience grounds.
The worst exhibit is Secaucus Junction. The station is a few kilometers outside Manhattan, on New Jersey Transit’s commuter rail trunk, with excellent service. So close to city center, it doesn’t even matter that the trains are full – the seats are all occupied but there’s standing room, which may not appeal to people living 45 minutes out of Midtown but is fine at a station that is around 10 minutes away today and should be 6 minutes away with better scheduling and equipment.
The land use around Secaucus is also very conducive to TOD. Most of the area around the station is railyards and warehouses, which can pretty easily be cleaned up and replaced with high-density housing, retail, and office development. A small section of the walkshed is wetlands, but the large majority is not and can be built up to be less ecologically disturbing than the truck traffic the current storage development generates.
Politically, this is also far from existing NIMBY suburbia. In North America, the single-family house is held to be sacrosanct, and even very YIMBY regions like Vancouver only redevelop brownfields, not single-family neighborhoods; occasionally there are accessory dwelling units, but never anything that has even medium density or visibly looks like an apartment building. Well, Secaucus Junction is far from the residential areas of Secaucus, so the most common form of NIMBYism would be attenuated.
And yet, there is no concerted effort at TOD. This is not even just a matter of unimaginative politicians. Area advocacy orgs don’t really push for it, and I’m forgetting whether it was ReThinkNYC or the RPA that told me explicitly that their regional rail proposal omits Secaucus TOD on climate adaptation grounds. The area is 2 meters above sea level, and building there is too risky, supposedly, because a 2 meter sea level rise would only flood tens of millions of South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Africans, and those don’t count.
This goes beyond just wasting money on needless infrastructure projects like flood walls, or leaving money on the table that could come from TOD. In the 2000s, New York City was emitting 7 metric tons of CO2 per capita, which was better than Germany and a fraction of the US average. This must have gotten better since – New York had an abnormally high ratio of building emissions (i.e. energy) to transportation emissions (i.e. cars), and in every developed country I’m aware of, only energy emissions have fallen, not car emissions.
A bigger New York, counting very close-in suburbs as New York, is an important part of the American green transition. To have the emissions of the inner parts of the city within the city is a luxury people pay $3,000 a month in rent for; to have it in exurbia means having a smaller car than everyone else in an environment in which accumulating lots of stuff is the only way one can show off status. Breaking the various interests that prevent New York (and Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and Boston, and Washington) from growing denser is a valuable political fight. But here, no such breaking is even needed, because the anti-growth interests think locally, and the only locals around Secaucus Junction live in one high-rise development and would if anything welcome more such buildings in lieu of the warehouses.
And yet, Americans argue from the position of climate resilience against such densification. Normally it’s just a waste of money, but this would not just waste money (through leaving money on the table) but also lead to higher emissions since housing would be built in other metropolitan regions of the US, where there is no public transportation. Once adaptation and resilience became buzzwords, they took over the thinking on this matter so thoroughly that they are now directly counterproductive.
Somehow, the goal of avoiding catastrophic climate change has fallen by the wayside, and the usual American praxis of more layers of red tape before every decisions can be made (about climate resilience, design for equity, etc.) takes over. The means justify the ends: if the plan has the word climate then it must be environmentally progressive and sensitive, because what matters is not outcome (it’s too long-term for populists, and all US discourse is populist) but process: more lawsuits, more red tape, more accretion of special rules that everyone must abide by.
Written by Alon Levy Posted in Environmental Issues, Incompetence, New York, Transportation
2020/08/31 - 19:50 michaelrjames
Of course the real reasons are that property developers can’t make as much money building and selling condos in New Jersey. And that if a Great Big Beautiful Flood Wall is going to be built it will encircle that much more expensive real estate in lower Manhattan while Jersey will be left to go under the waves.
2020/09/01 - 03:05 Eric2
“as much money” as what? This is nonsensical. Developers don’t refuse profitable projects just because somebody else is making more profit elsewhere. Just like you don’t refuse to go to work just because you are earning less than Jeff Bezos.
As usual you are just spinning Marxist fantasies rather than engaging with actual economics on even an undergraduate level.
2020/08/31 - 20:38 adirondacker12800
would if anything welcome more such buildings in lieu of the warehouses.
The people living in tall apartment buildings or short apartment buildings, even single family houses, like to eat. And have other stuff in the store when they go there. Or get their mail. Or packages other ways. Parts for whatever needs fixing… The warehouses have to be somewhere.
2020/08/31 - 20:59 Alon Levy
The argument I was given was not “this is an important location for warehouses,” it was “redeveloping this area is difficult because of climate resilience.”
You both want to redevelop it. I suspect you all like to eat.
2020/09/01 - 12:02 keaswaran
Is Secaucus Junction a particularly significant location for warehouses? Are there no other locations where warehouses could be just as effective? It seems that proximity to a transit station is a major amenity for residential uses, but it’s not at all clear that it is relevant for warehouses.
It’s in the middle of a metropolitan area with millions of people who use the stuff in the warehouses. Right next to railroads and highways and very close to a major airport and container port.
2020/09/03 - 09:19 DCUrbanist
Christ, no one is saying there should be no warehouses in New Jersey, or even that general region of New Jersey. They’re simply saying that maybe there are more effective uses for society within the easy walking distance of one of the busiest passenger train stations in the country.
Those trains go someplace that have sewers and schools and shops. That don’t have access to the highways and railroads. That don’t flood. That don’t have big chunks of land where you can put things like enormous warehouses. And they aren’t all warehouses. But looking at across Ninth Avenue it’s seems like a good idea.
2020/08/31 - 20:43 Joe Wong
I totally agree with you on this one. The area around Secaucus Junction is a excellent location for redevelopment as you proposed.
2020/08/31 - 21:41 Hugh B
There are 2 very easy responses to anyone who cries “climate resilience” to Secaucus development proposals:
1. Development fees! Just looking at the area on Streetview, it seems…unpleasant to pedestrians. This infrastructure would have to be improved with a massive influx of development i.e. an exit from the Bergen County platforms on the north side of the turnpike, wider sidewalks, etc. This infrastructure could also include some sort of sea-level rise protection and could be financed through developer fees.
2. The whole concept of “moving to higher ground” applies less to heavily populated areas. My rough guesstimate for a rezoned Secaucus is that it could house a bit less than 100,000 people plus some offices and retail (in terms of Suburban TOD, this just might be the place where offices are most warranted). Even if the flood protection system for just that area (and it wouldn’t be for just that area) cost $1,000,000,000, that would add up to $10,000 per person, a good value.
Yeah, American cities have moved up one story before, e.g. Chicago. But also nowadays there’s a Vogon can’t-do spirit in the US public sector, so it’s likely they don’t even think it’s doable.
2020/08/31 - 22:03 Frederick
An overwhelming majority of Americans, no matter left or right, or black or white, are against densification. Climate resilience is just an excuse.
They’re against densification in their community, but want affordable housing. Even though these preferences, applied society-wide, are incompatible.
For what it’s worth, the various YIMBY bills keep winning handily in NorCal, and even statewide there are the votes for some of them on the floor, so that committee chairs and speakers have to resort to tricks to keep them from winning an up or down vote (like, say, scheduling the vote 3 minutes before the end of the session so that the other house won’t have time to concur).
2020/09/03 - 02:59 Nathanael
Oh, YIMBYs even win local elections in small towns. (Points at local small city.)
I do think building in a swamp in a future flooded zone is… kind of extremely stupid? If a developer wants to do the full 7 meters elevated ocean platform for some reason, sure I’m not going to stop them, but I don’t want to repeat the “let’s put houses on all our barrier islands” scheme which was done before.
There’s plenty of high ground along the Metro-North lines just waiting to be upzoned. Plenty.
There’s plenty of brownfield in New Jersey too.
2020/09/01 - 02:44 hieronymous
From the climate apartheid post: “All of these adaptation plans should be prohibited on grounds of climate apartheid.”
Alon, it does not require radical anti-western position to promote TOD. Of course resilience planning is a tool that countries including America have a right to use. What kind of insanity is it to say otherwise? You would never suggest that flood defenses in Dhaka are unjust. It is possible that the people who need flood defense in the USA are not all oil and gas execs and politicians. Who are you to deny them the ability to secure their communities?
I would never suggest that flood defenses in Dhaka are unjust, because Bangladesh emits 1 metric ton of CO2 per capita per year, and I don’t even know what the income distribution there is but it’s poorer than India, where the average income in the top decile is maybe a bit higher than the American poverty line. I want to deny Americans the ability to secure their communities, because Americans emit around 16 t-CO2 and are the main historical reason why Bangladesh will need to spend money that it does not have on flood protection and adaptation.
2020/09/03 - 02:39 Aaron Moser
“I want to deny Americans the ability to secure their communities, because Americans emit around 16 t-CO2 and are the main historical reason why Bangladesh will need to spend money that it does not have on flood protection and adaptation.”
Yes you must die because of the sins of your ancestors. That is justice!
The thing is, none of these things are past tense only. We’re still emitting that and have shot most plans to reduce that in the States. Our ancestors certainly built America in a way that makes changing that very difficult, and are responsible for a huge percentage of the CO2 ever emitted, but even then we’re doing absolutely nothing about it in the present or the future, both for ourselves and for others. That’s the real moral failure here.
A few short years ago we got half of our electricity from coal. It’s under 25 percent and dropping. There are days when we get more from renewables than we do from coal. Our emissions are dropping.
Yes – I totally agree with you on this one. However, since much of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) is currently -10 to -15 feet below sea level already, it may be a wise investment to try to keep their land from sinking further into the Indian Ocean. Similar situation is happening in Northern Europe such as the Netherlands as well, since the land over there can be as much as -30 feet below sea level. Israel is also trying to keep the Dead Sea from sinking any further, at an considerable expense to the Israeli government, since it is also already -1,350 feet below sea level, and it’s currently the lowest point with the highest salt deposit’s on the face of this planet.
2020/09/01 - 10:08 AlexB
I agree with your argument to prioritize TOD to reduce emissions instead of resiliency projects but I’m not sure Secaucus Junction should be the poster boy. It’s is in a swamp off the Hackensack River and it would require major resiliency infrastructure if it were built to last, like raising the area a number of feet before redevelopment and probably some flood walls. With some additional sea level rise, a good sized storm surge from a hurricane would inundate the whole area. The location on major rail lines makes it a great idea but it never would never have been developed with current federal Wetlands standards in place and for good reason. A region right next to the station with large enough towers to support maybe 10-20k people would be a nice little bedroom community right next to Manhattan and could be made flood proof if it covered a small enough area.
What wetlands? The majority of the station’s walkshed is railyards and storage, and not wetlands.
Ummm..4-5 feet of sea-level rise would inundate the area year-round. source: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/3/-8247134.948314949/4977397.743988496/14/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/midAccretion. Yes, you could raise the elevation/build sea walls, but there are many areas that are easier to build with similar transportation options i.e. Jamaica, most of Brooklyn that don’t have the same risks from sea-level rise as Secaucus.
2020/09/09 - 13:59 Jardinero1
Resilient development is a marketing ploy. Residential units are functionally obsolete in less than 30 years, retail and low rise office about 30, warehouses about 20 – 30. Industrial facilities are typically obsolete between ten and twenty, after which they are retooled or abandoned. Major skyscrapers are functionally and practically obsolete after about 40 years. Heavy rail transit has to be rebuilt every 25 – 30 years, light rail about twenty, high traffic volume roads, twenty years. Any climate change/sea level rise which occurs over the next 50 years, regardless of cause, is irrelevant to the siting/construction standards of today, because all of today’s capital outlays, will be fully amortized and the buildings can/will be abandoned or razed. Development will continue elsewhere where the financials make it work. This is just as true in New York City as it is in Dhaka.
2020/09/13 - 08:30 Alex Cat3
Huh? The median age of NYC’s residential buildings is 90 years, and many are much older, especially the ones closer to the urban core. The NY area’s heavy rail lines (with the exception of tiny connector tracks) were all routed 100 years ago. Even new lines like the Hudson Bergen Light Rail were built mostly by connecting 100 year old rights of way. People need to plan for the future.
Very True Statement – That’s only possible if we just mind our own crumbling business instead of putting our noses where it does NOT belong all of the time, we would probably have a “State of the Art” infrastructure instead of one that’s crumbling….
@AlexCat3 The NY area’s heavy rail lines require replacement of all rail, electrical and plumbing every twenty to thirty years. Upgrading and replacing a decrepit system is hugely expensive. The projected cost of the NYC subway repair and replacement is in the neighborhood of forty to sixty billion dollars.
Things wear out. When you have a lot of things a lot of them wear out.
And if the NYC subway were built from scratch now, it would cost $600 billion. Investing 10% of a physical asset’s value once per generation to keep it in good repair is pretty normal, I think, and much more affordable than building new assets.
So why isn’t the MTA raising the sixty billion and taking care of the deferred maintenance and replacement?
@Jardinero1 “So why isn’t the MTA raising the sixty billion and taking care of the deferred maintenance and replacement?”
That’s easy. Cuomo and the American political class. The MTA under its then manager Andy Byford proposed the $50bn restoration program but he was sacked by Cuomo. Like every transit authority on the planet they can’t magic up that kind of money themselves. The politicians and the voters need to decide what they want in their prime city.
On the broader issue, the cost has become so big because of failure to do regular maintenance and upgrading over the previous half century. It wouldn’t be such a big deal if it had been deployed over those 50-odd years like every other big world city. As I noted earlier it is partly the American mindset of not wanting to invest in old stuff, being more inclined to demolish and build anew. This leads to decrepitude and poor efficiency that one sees today, compared to its peer cities of London and Paris, also with century-old Metro systems that function very well. Even if NY were to spend that $50bn, it would only be catching up compared to them. Paris is spending almost the same amounts ($40bn) on new stuff, in the M15 orbital, RER-extensions etc as part of its GPX program that will greatly expand the reach and efficiency of its transit system. In a single project London CrossRail is spending similarly, about $25bn and it will transform its network and is planning CR2. (Incidentally London gave Andy Byford the job of running it all.) Even Moscow is putting very big resources into expanding their system, not to mention future peer city competitors like Shanghai.
2020/09/16 - 00:51 Matthew Hutton
To be fair London only really started doing good maintenance in the late 1990s. The reliability has improved massively since then though.
https://www.usgbc.org/articles/empire-state-building-achieves-leed-gold
Silly them, they shoulda just torn it down.
The going rate for a new skyscraper in Manhattan is about about 35 million per floor(the was the cost of One World Trade Center). Cost to upgrade the Empire State building: 53 million per floor. Only in New York state does that make any kind of sense. The median age of residential, in NYC, is 90, and so what? Yes the old structures may stand, but they remain functionally obsolete unless and until someone invests substantially more than the costs of new construction to upgrade them.
@Jardinero1
Only exaggerated by a factor of ten. The Empire State building renovation cost about one seventh that of the new OWTC. (And not clear if the WTC construction cost includes final fitting out of each floor which mostly occurs as they are occupied by the tenants or landlords.)
Wiki (but note this was also in Adirondacker’s link).
Starting in 2009, the building’s public areas received a $550 million renovation, with improvements to the air conditioning and waterproofing, renovations to the observation deck and main lobby,[232] and relocation of the gift shop to the 80th floor.[233][234] About $120 million was spent on improving the energy efficiency of the building, with the goal of reducing energy emissions by 38% within five years.[234][235] For example, all of the windows were refurbished onsite into film-coated “superwindows” which block heat but pass light.[235][236][237] Air conditioning operating costs on hot days were reduced, saving $17 million of the project’s capital cost immediately and partially funding some of the other retrofits.[236] The Empire State Building won the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold for Existing Buildings rating in September 2011, as well as the World Federation of Great Towers’ Excellence in Environment Award for 2010.
Ok. Keep your expensive, worn out, obsolete buildings then.
No is forcing you to live in a New Law tenement. If it was cheaper to tear it down and build new people would be doing that. They don’t.
You’re the one who claimed it was “expensive” yet that was false. It turns out it cost one seventh of new-build to renovate and bring up to the best standards possible, and to allow it to function economically for perhaps another 90 years. Apparently it was worth it to the investors and owners to spend that money.
To come to rational decisions one first needs to begin with facts, not your alternative facts. There is also the matter of the material and carbon costs associated with a new build of a 100-floor skyscraper versus a renovation.
As regards “worn out and obsolete”, other than your arguments, those owners clearly didn’t consider the building obsolete. I know it is a foreign concept to Americans but a bit of maintenance or periodic updating can extend the useful life of buildings. And I do indeed choose to live in such “obsolescence”. I lived in a 350 year old building in the heart of Paris for many years and it was fabulous. Now I live in a veritable youngster, which is merely 120 years old–a wool store that was obsolete in terms of function and was repurposed to residential and that is highly desirable compared to our modern hi-rise neighbours.
Incidentally, elsewhere you wonder why the city’s Metro system is in such a mess but in some serious ways it is a result of your kind of mentality. After all, it is more than a century old and many (Americans) don’t want to spend money on keeping it in good condition. Their “alternative” is some fantasy of more roads, autonomous vehicles and hyperloops. Anything except what works.
They were busy deferring maintenance on the roads too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Elevated_Highway#1973_collapse
Not that they were thinking very clearly back then either. Busy building subways because elevated trains were noisy and dirty, They had gotten rid of most of the smelly by then with electrification. And merrily building even wider elevated highways.
@adirondiker Actually, in other parts of the country, outside of the Boston to Philly corridor, they do tear down obsolete buildings routinely. It is only in places like NYC where the regulatory climate basically prohibits demolition that you find so many functionally obsolete buildings still standing.
@michaelrjames As a matter of fact, I pay for my sons upkeep in Paris now(he is a student at Sciences-Po). I am very aware of the obscene cost to live, in tiny spaces, in obsolete buildings, in Paris. I can’t deny the aesthetic argument for preservation(especially for Paris), but there is no economic case for it. But few cities are Paris. Actually, 99.999 percent of cities are not Paris and there is little worth preserving. Finally, the aesthetic argument only works for those who can afford it.
Occupied buildings. Someone is finding their function adequate. If they aren’t to your tastes, no one is forcing you to use them.
Actually, nearly all European cities have a beautiful historic core like Paris. In most cases though, there is plenty of room for dense development outside that core.
Sorry for the late comment, but at the current level of service, there is barely any standing room left on these trains, and any local passengers at Secaucus would have to compete with the throngs headed from the Main/Bergen/Port Jervis Lines.
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Farm biodiversity map highlights falcons, kākahi and glowworms
August 17, 2020 by Kate Guthrie
Mark and Felicity Brough have created a biodiversity map of their sheep and beef farm at Paerua near Waitomo, in the central King Country. It shows where on the farm their resident falcons are nesting, which streams have kākahi (freshwater mussels), where longfin and shortfin tuna are found and where the glowworms live.
A section of the farm’s biodiversity map.
“Two or three years ago we created the biodiversity map so that we’d know where the hotspots of biodiversity are,” Mark explains. “It also means we can target where we do predator control.”
The Broughs have been on their Paerua farm for 20 years and started working to improve biodiversity about 4 or 5 years after taking on the farm.
Mark and Felicity Brough, pictured at a recent field day held on their farm. Photo: Kim Howell.
“We contacted Waikato Regional Council for advice and some years they’ve provided funding support as well,” Mark says. “We started with restoration of a small wetland and we were getting results in terms of the biodiversity of birds, invertebrates and fish, so we decided we’d do a bit more. Now we’ve started setting ourselves targets. We’re aiming to plant 1000 native trees per year.”
The wetland area where the first restoration planting was carried out.
Planting those trees 2 metres apart means 2km of riparian planting and fencing per year. The Broughs are aiming to use this planting to create a biodiversity corridor from the native bush on their farm to the dairy farms downstream.
“We’ve got virgin podocarp forest,” says Mark. “We’ve retired and fenced 15 hectares of native bush with 9 kilometres of riparian fencing and once the fence was there, we started to see young trees coming through. We’ve got all the usual birds: tui, kereru, bellbirds, tomtits and every year the birds are increasing.”
View from the bottom lane of the riparian planting.
To date the Broughs have planted 7000 native trees, along with 400 poplar poles which stop soil erosion and provide summer shade for stock. They set their first predator traps near where the falcons were nesting.
“We concentrate on feral cats and mustelids,” says Mark. “The Waikato Regional Council has done a magnificent job of controlling possums and its now very rare to see a possum here. 1080 has really helped the falcons and native birds too.”
The Broughs’ farm is flat to rolling hill country and Mark doesn’t find trap-checking an onerous task.
“We put the traps next to the fences, so that when you’re out riding a quad bike the traps are close. The easier you make it, the more likely you are to rebait and check the traps,” he advises.
“When we started, we were getting a stoat or ferret every 2 weeks, but now we might get one in 3 months,” Mark says. “We trap rats as well. It’s really rewarding getting feral cats because they do so much damage to the sheep, with toxoplasmosis causing them to abort lambs. The cats harm biodiversity as well, killing skinks and geckos and so on.”
Recently Mark and Felicity heard about a new method for measuring biodiversity and are giving it a go.
The flats, where freshwater mussels are found and the beehives are also located.
“It’s a test of what DNA is in the water,” says Mark. “The headwaters to some of the local streams are on our land and the test can tell you what birds, mammals and invertebrates have access to the water. It only costs $155, so it’s very affordable. You get a kit, take a water sample, send it to Wellington and get the results a couple of weeks later. We’ve done our first test and should get the results in a week or so.”
Mark and Felicity are planning to repeat the test every couple of years so that they can monitor progress of their restoration and trapping work and detect any new species to add to their biodiversity map.
“It should give us a very good base to measure improvements,” said Mark. “We’ve only just learnt about it recently. We had a field day on the farm for the award (Mark and Felicity are Waikato regional winners for the 2020 Ballance Farm Environment Awards) and a freshwater ecologist did a presentation at the field day. He brought along an electronic probe that zaps the water (bringing organisms to the surface) and allows you to look at what is living in the creek and he told us about the DNA test which is something anyone can do themselves.”
Over 150 people visited Mark and Felicity Brough’s farm on a recent field day.
As well as creeks and a fenced swamp/wetland, there are ponds and two small lakes on the farm.
“The lakes are aesthetic but they’re not as good as the swamp for biodiversity,” Mark says. “We also have a commercial beekeeper who leaves his hives on the farm all year round. We have an agreement with him not to take the hives away so that there’s no risk of bringing disease back to the farm. It means the bees are here for clover pollination as well as bush honey.”
Mark Brough hopes the many farmers who visited on the open day will be inspired to restore their own wetlands and waterways.
Mark and Felicity are hoping their efforts – and the insights they’re gaining through their biodiversity mapping – will inspire more farmers downstream to get involved in protecting their own biodiversity.
“Some farmers are already doing a lot, but it would be good to see more getting involved,” says Mark.
Mark’s even found a way to rope in some retired farmers to help with local conservation.
“I set up a trapping group of retired farmers to protect blue duck in Pureora Forest,” he explains. “They call their group ‘Dad’s Army’ and they’ve been protecting whio for 10 years. They’ve got 300 DOC 200 traps that they look after, working with the Department of Conservation and various sponsors. They’re doing a survey to see the increase in whio and every two months they recheck the traps and log the kills.”
Mark and Felicity Brough are Waikato region winners in the 2020 Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
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