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Romanian president green lights bribery probe against former PM
Romanian president green lights bribery probe against former PM.
Romanian president Klaus Iohannis green-lighted the criminal investigation against former prime minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, accused of having received material benefits worth USD 800,000 in 2007-2008. The president forwarded the prosecutors’ request to the justice minister, Digi24 (...)
[Read the article in Romania Business Insider]
Cercel: COVID-19 vaccine booster starts, face masks might stay mandatory until 2023 Doctor Adrian Streinu-Cercel said on Sunday, after being vaccinated with a second dose against COVID-19, that seven days after the booster dose is administered there is no longer any risk of developing severe forms of COVID-19. “Theoretically, seven days after the booster dose we can breathe a (...)
Citu: Vaccination campaign is going smoothly with over 75% of people over 65 to be vaccinated next Prime Minister Florin Citu says the appointment scheduling for Romania’s second stage of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign is going on smoothly, with over 75% of people over 65, the most affected by the novel coronavirus, to be vaccinated during next period. “The appointments are going on (...)
HealthMin Voiculescu: Romania will be affected by slowdown in vaccines deliveries Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu also said on Friday that Romania will also be affected by the slowdown in the delivery of anti-COVID vaccine doses by the producer Pfizer, but the vaccination campaign will continue, considering that our country has a reserve of doses. “Romania will also be (...)
Bucharest City recording highest COVID-19 new case count: 703; counties of Timis, Iasi follow The latest highest COVID-19 new case count has been reported by Bucharest City - 703, and the counties of Timis -159; Iasi - 110; Ilfov - 105; Brasov - 100, according to data released on Sunday by the Strategic Communication Group (GCS), the official novel coronavirus communication task force. (...)
Bucharest City, three counties still in COVID-19 red zone Ilfov County is reporting a 14-day notification rate of newly reported COVID-19 cases per 1,000 population of 4.38 cases per 1,000 population, slightly lower than the previous day's 4.53, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS), the novel coronavirus communication task force, reported on (...)
GCS: Romania's COVID-19 daily case count rises by 2.156 following more than 15.000 tests performed in last 24 hours As many as 2,156 new cases of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Romania were recorded in the last 24 hours following more than 15,000 tests nationwide, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS), the official novel coronavirus communication task force, reported on Sunday. These are cases of (...)
Law enforcement issues 5,337 COVID-19 fines in last 24 hours amounting to 924,857 lei In the last 24 hours, law enforcement in Romania issued 5,337 fines amounting to 924,857 lei for violations of Law 55/2020 on measures to prevent and combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS), the official novel coronavirus communication task force, (...)
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This is the most amazing SMB editor yet. Not only does it have full editing capabilities, it has an emulator built in so you can test the game from the exact point you’re editing.
Included is the original Japanese version, an English (International) version, and the source code.
Contributors to the International English version are Chezzman1, Insectduel, MirracleMXX, & Yy.
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To dine at The Parisian Macao is to experience a smorgasbord of dishes from both sides of the culinary world
by Brittany Panter
Exploring the gastronomic world doesn’t necessarily mean spending hours on a long-haul flight. The Parisian Macao, now celebrating its first anniversary, enables you to journey from Asia to Europe in a few bites. Three of the resort’s top restaurants – Le Buffet, Lotus Palace and Market Bistro – offer inventive menus that bring diners the best of both worlds.
The Parisian Macao’s take on the self-service concept, Le Buffet, is a veritable marketplace of European and Asian delicacies. Its signature Chinese restaurant, Lotus Palace, is perfect for a casual lunch or a slightly more formal dinner, offering traditional Chinese dishes, from fresh seafood and spicy hotpot to
pan-Asian and Cantonese favourites. And for a Southeast Asian twist, Market Bistro introduces guests to a celebration of French culture in Asia. These eateries offer surroundings as distinctive as the food: from the high ceilings and Parisian Golden Age décor of Le Buffet to the street-like atmosphere of the Saigon-inspired Market Bistro.
Because a meal should be about more than just the dish in front of you – it should be an experience. One such experience at Le Buffet is the grilled raclette cheese with new potatoes and pickles. Part-gastronomic theatre, part culinary
delight, raclette is often presented as a half-wheel melted with a special apparatus before being scraped onto a plate. The mild yet nutty flavour of this semi-hard, unpasteurised cow’s milk cheese is perfect for a light lunch and is an autumn favourite in France. The cheese is grilled to order and served over new
potatoes and delicately seasoned with paprika and home-made pickled vegetables.
In addition to being a spectacle, The Parisian Macao is noted for its fusion cuisines. Take the humble prawn: a popular speciality at Lotus Palace is the fried prawns with creamy pumpkin sauce, a dish as smooth as it is sumptuous. Executive sous chef Hew Choong Yew has combined textures and flavours from various regions to create a distinctly autumn delicacy. Butter prawns, a popular Asian dish, are served with a pumpkin purée delicately spiced with curry leaves and Thai chilli. The silky purée, with its subtle heat which comes through at the end, adds a layer of richness to the dish.
There is a lot you can do with prawns, that most versatile of shellfish. Market Bistro offers several alternatives, one of the tastiest being wok fried king prawns in spicy sauce, with deep fried “mantou”. This is based on a classic Singaporean recipe for chilli crab, but here king prawns take the place of the crab, and the mantou, steamed buns from northern China, enable diners to soak up the gloriously fiery sauce.
Yet the Chinese don’t have a monopoly on seafood: inspired by his grandmother’s recipe, Le Buffet’s chef de cuisine Guillaume Gully serves up a quintessential French classic: bouillabaisse. A Provençal dish that originated in the port of Marseille, the dish started out as a humble stew made with ingredients that local
fisherman were unable to sell. Today, it is made with the finest ingredients the sea has to offer, including red mullet, prawns, lobster, clams, scallops and mussels. These are simmered in a traditional broth made with leeks, onions, tomatoes, celery and Provençal herbs and served with the essential rouille, a mayonnaise made of olive oil, garlic, saffron and cayenne pepper, on slices of toasted bread.
Speaking of national treasures, few ingredients are as highly-regarded in Chinese cuisine as abalone. To showcase this delectable mollusc, Lotus Palace’s Hew Choong Yew has created a dish that fuses the delicate flavour of abalone with sun-dried scallops, sea cucumber and fish maw. The soup is double boiled to extract maximum flavour from each ingredient, and just before reaching the table, thin slices of the revered black truffle are added to enhance the taste and fragrance. The resulting seafood stew is a show-stopper that will delight the taste buds as much as it will impress guests.
Everywhere at The Parisian Macao, visitors find this theme of tradition mixing with cultural fusion. Market Bistro offers an unlikely contender in the form of beef pho. The version here is a particularly rich pho, with beef balls, beef brisket, sliced beef and rice noodles – all in a beef broth. This is about as hearty as pho (pronounced “fur”) can get. You might be forgiven for thinking that this form of noodle soup is quintessentially Vietnamese – but the famous beef variant probably did not become widespread until the first half of the 20th century, when French colonial demand for beef was at its height. The dish has since been embraced by Vietnamese as a mainstay of the nation’s culinary heritage.
Back at Le Buffet (buffet itself being French for a sideboard on which food is served), French, Chinese and international highlights are presented alongside one another at the popular rotisserie and carving sections, which offer everything from Peking duck to all-you-can-eat lobster and foie gras. At the centre of the restaurant, diners can indulge in salads, cold cuts and chilled seafood. There is even a dedicated dim sum menu offering Cantonese morsels.
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West Mids retain I.C.C Premier Rinks title as Norfolk fail to progress
West Mids are once again ESMBA I.C.C Premier Rinks champions after comfortably defeating Hampshire at Solihull Indoor Bowling Club. Norfolk made the decision to enter the competition this year but due to the unavailability of some players the team consisted of a mixed side of both Premier and “A” team bowlers who found the opposition too strong on the day. What was planned as a preliminary round became a one day event after the withdrawal of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Kent left just eight of the seventeen county Premier sides competing for the title. Norfolk were drawn in the group with Dorset, Hampshire and Herefordshire. The other group consisted of Essex, Northamptonshire, Surrey and West Midlands. The winners of each group would progress to the final. Each game was over 12 ends played to ESMBA rules. Norfolk produced some spirited performances but were found wanting against the other three counties losing to Herefordshire by 1 shot, and Dorset and Hampshire by 15 shots as Hampshire claimed their place in the final. The top rink for Norfolk was Kerry Greenacre, John Jeffery, Jack Marshall and Keith Cooke. They beat a Herefordshire rink by 13-10, lost by 12-9 against a Dorset rink and won their last game by 12-8 against a Hampshire rink. They were the only Norfolk rink to win in the game against Hampshire. Elaine Willies, Donna Lamb, Jamie Forster & David Lamb won 19-8 against Herefordshire, drew 10-10 with a Dorset rink and lost by 20-5 against Hampshire. The other two Norfolk rinks lost all their games with Mike Tate, Rob Howlett, Jason Woods & Simon Willies losing by 19-11, 16-7 & 8-7 while Jean Woods, Ray Lamb, Robbie Lamb & Melly Woods lost by 13-6, 14-11 & 14-11.Player-Manager Simon Willies issued a great big thank-you to all the Norfolk players for participating, many of whom started their journeys before 5.00 in the morning. Understandably these one-day events take place in the Midlands but leave Norfolk as one of the counties dis-advantaged by the long journey followed by an early start time.
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Home F1 News Lewis Hamilton honoured and grateful for the “Hamilton Straight”
Lewis Hamilton honoured and grateful for the “Hamilton Straight”
January 8, 2021 January 8, 2021 F1 News, Lewis Hamilton
© Steve Etherington for Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd.
In early December, the British Racing Drivers’ Club announced they will rename Silverstone’s International Pit Straight into the “Hamilton Straight”.
The BRDC, who own the legendary track, did this in honour of the seven-time champion. Lewis once again says what an honour it is for him to immortalize the Hamilton name.
“Hamilton Straight! What an honour and I am so grateful to the BRDC,” said the Briton.
“To be honoured like this, and knowing that they haven’t done that with any other driver really.
“To have a Hamilton Straight, so even if my life ends tomorrow, the Hamilton name will always be there which is really…
“I really feel like I’ve got my grandad’s name there and that’s a really proud thing for me.”
Having won everything there is to win in Formula 1, Hamilton was asked how he keeps tracks of his ambitions.
“At the beginning of the year I jot down the things that I want to do.
“Aspirations one to 10 and when I get to the track at the start of the season I have a book and I write at the beginning what my goal is.
“I never look at it again and at the end of the year I write whether I reached that goal,” concluded Lewis.
Toto Wolff on keeping drivers motivated after title fight is over
Toto Wolff: “I was always committed to Mercedes”
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Relentlessly brutal, but backing an urgent message of positivity and self-improvement, Fight Like Hell is one of the forerunners of hardcore in the Mile High City. Their songs combine the fury and tradition of streetwise, mid-90s hardcore with the speed and energy of classic bands like the Cro-Mags, all while maintaining a contemporary edge and sensibility. Their lyrics are a driving force for personal change, illustrating the struggle of those rising up from the mistakes of the streets to strive for a something better and more meaningful. Political, yet personal, Fight Like Hell delivers a message of individual revolution and self-empowerment, building upon a foundation laid by bands like Madball and Death Threat. Of course, unafraid to push the boundaries of what a traditional hardcore band can sound like, Fight Like Hell also seamlessly assimilate sounds that fall far outside the realm of hardcore without compromising their integrity or connection to the traditions of the genre. The energy and diversity of the music incorporates not only the influence of their hardcore forefathers, but also the influence of Iron Maiden
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Boxcar Bertha 1972 * * * Stars
Rating: * * * Stars
Cast: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus
Before Martin Scorsese trolled the dark alleys, bars, cabs, and pool halls of the seedy New York City Districts, he made a project that was a little less personal when he shot Boxcar Bertha in 1972. That's not to say that it's a bad film. In fact, it's darn good. It just feels like it wasn't exactly his dream picture. You can see little tidbits of his signature style laden throughout even though it sometimes feels like an all out action flick. There's a lingering notion that he just had to make this thing in general in order to get more opportunities to flex his directorial wings. It's also a small film developed by a B movie producer. However, it's alive, ambitious, violent, cynical, and edgy. Taking a sort of Bonnie and Clyde approach, "Bertha" is no doubt a good old fashioned American movie. From the opening title sequence, you can immediately sense a rush of urgency and an aching need for a budding, genius filmmaker to get out.
Taking place in the 1930's and based on an autobiography entitled Sister of the Road, Boxcar Bertha is an account of Bertha Thompson (Barbara Hershey) and her lover Big Bill Shelly (David Carradine). They meet, become active train robbers (with the help of some other buddies), and reluctantly get involved in a murder of an important, wealthy gambler. The film chronicles their intersecting lives as fugitives for a quick, fast paced 90 minutes. On a side note, "Bertha" is also an exercise that finds ways to make radical statements about race and gender issues. What's the point you ask? Well, from what I read about this vehicle's background, the railroad south relayed this culture throughout the aforementioned decade.
As far as casting goes, Boxcar Bertha is significant in my mind because it's one of those movies where you'd think that everyone in it would later go on to become A-list actors/actresses. One in particular, is Barbara Hershey. She gives a risky, fearless performance that should have catapulted her into superstardom. Yes she's been a working actress for the last 40 years but has never quite equaled her potential here. Watching "Bertha" you sense that she was wise beyond her years (she was only in her early 20's when filming began) not to mention adorable in every singular frame. Along with her, you have solid portrayals of vagabond robbers in David Carradine, Barry Primus (Rake Brown), and Bernie Casey (Von Morton). Again, these are respected actors that have hung around for a long time, just not entirely broken through.
Something of note: No one is a bigger fan of Martin Scorsese than me. But I'll never figure out why there is never any controversy over his excessive use of racial slurs and overall lapses of racial bigotry in his films (Boxcar Bertha has a handful of it). When other directors make an attempt at it (Quentin Tarantino comes to mind), they get a lot of criticism from other film critics and even their peers. Scorsese somehow gets a pass. Now this is not a knock on the famed director. It's just one of the great mysteries of his work that I'll never quite understand. Another note: Two actors that share a solid amount of screen time in "Bertha" (Harry Northup and the previously mentioned Carradine) are featured later on in Scorsese's classic, Mean Streets. What's strange is that they make unbelievably small appearances in that film. It's as if they got demoted (ha ha). No really, I'm not kidding. They literally have no lines whatsoever.
Overall, Scorsese's second feature film has style and it's far from boring. This flick enthralls you from the get-go. I'd call it the movie equivalent of a sleeve of firecrackers. So to be honest, I'm not sure if a lot of you have taken in "Bertha" (I could be wrong). If you've viewed it, disregard the last comment. If you haven't, then give it a look-see. Oh and if you're wondering whether or not the world's greatest living director shows off with the camera (aggressively I might add), don't worry, you'll get that here. Boxcar Bertha is experimental, exhausting, and full of jump start energy (be aware of the ending though, it's not for the faint-hearted). The tagline for its poster reads, "Life made her an outcast, love made her an outlaw." What can I say; I guess this movie "made" me a fan.
Labels: 1972, Barbara Hershey, Barry Primus, David Carradine, Video Vault
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Stand Up Guys 2012 * * * Stars
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Following global launch, Netflix will crack down on VPN users accessing unlicensed content
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 15 January 2016 | Categories: news
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Long rumoured for what seems like several months, Netflix is now available in South Africa, having gone live earlier in the month. While many have become enamoured with the streaming service, the entire library of content is not accessible in certain regions. The same rings true for South Africa, with several TV shows not listed for users to download and view. There are however ways to bypass this, with the use of VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) being a popular method of fooling the Netflix platform that you're streaming from another country.
Netflix is fully aware of this problem and has stated that it will crack down on any users trying to implement a VPN in order to bypass its region-specific library restrictions. “Some members use proxies or 'unblockers' to access titles available outside their territory,” expressed Netflix in a statement to TechCrunch. Adding, “in coming weeks, those members using proxies and unblockers will only be able to access the service in the country where they currently are.”
In the past, Netflix has been rather lax in the use of VPNs, but this change in policy is a result in the "evolution of their technology," according to Netflix. "We look forward to offering all of our content everywhere and to consumers being able to enjoy all of Netflix without using a proxy. That’s the goal we will keep pushing towards," concluded David Fullagar, VP of content delivery architecture at Netflix.
As for any criminal implications for users found using VPNs, no comment has been made at this stage, but for now Netflix has simply stated the greater efforts it will go to in ensuring VPNs are not used for streaming.
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Storyteller's Rulebook #173: Know How to Dog Whistle
Writing dialogue for corrupt politicians and businessmen can be hard. On the one hand, they rarely say, “So I’m corrupt, so what?” or, “The law doesn’t apply to us!” or “We may have to threaten violence,” or “Screw the voters,” but on the other hand, they don’t simply deny everything either. Skilled corrupters know how to express all of the above sentiments without actually saying those words.
How do you master the language of the corrupt? You read their repugnant memoirs, or books of interviews with them. Whenever I do so, I add to a glossary of corruption that I’ve slowly been building:
Laws we don’t like = Legalities
Rules we don’t like = Niceties, “Marquis of Queensbury rules”
Lawful or non-violent = Risk-averse
Our scandal = A “flap”
Brutal and/or illegal = Uncompromising, “Not afraid to take the gloves off”
Brutality= vigor
Brutalized = “cracked down on”
Accountability = “The blame game”, Nitpicking
Our critics = Hand-wringers
We lied = “We showed a lack of candor”
We screwed up = “Our plans were overtaken by events”
We chose evil = “Our choices were unattractive”
Criticism = Negative thinking
There’s a great line in “Havana Nocturne”, T.J. English’s wonderful history of the American mafia in Cuba: Santo Trafficante’s men would threaten people by saying, “You’d better be careful or the man with green eyes will come and see you.”
Actual dog whistles are supposedly out of the range of human hearing, but they aren’t really. We don’t hear them, but we feel them: they make the hair on the back of our neck stand up. That’s what so great about this language. I would sound innocuous in court, but in person its meaning is all too clear.
When writing dialogue for anyone who’s breaking or bending the law, write as if an incorruptible cop is sitting right there in the room, listening to everything. These guys talk as if that were true in real life, not just out of fear of wiretaps or snitches, but also because they know it’s a lot more chilling for their victims if they say it without saying it.
Posted by Matt Bird at 7:57 PM
Labels: Dialogue, Storyteller's Rulebook
christinembird said...
Corporate villainy has its own vocabulary.
See: Jamie Dimon's reference to a $6 billion loss as a "tempest in a teapot."
As any scandal starts to brew, it is invariably a woman who is sent out to deny any wrongdoing.
Only when the case is about to go to trial does one of the male higher-ups appear, always to declare, "We look forward to the opportunity to clear our name." (Common variant: "We welcome the chance . . .")
HSBC is not "into laundering drug money." They had weak controls on the transfer of funds between banks.
-- a defense of the banksters, posted among the comments on a NYT editorial
j.s. said...
"These guys talk as if that were true in real life, not just out of fear of wiretaps or snitches, but also because they know it’s a lot more chilling for their victims if they say it without saying it."
There's another important motivation for all this euphemistic dialogue that christine is getting at in her comments and that you've touched on before in other posts and it's simply this: that the bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys. They are the heroes in their own stories, doing what -- from their point of view -- needs to be done to deliver justice, security, economic success, etc.
Harvey Jerkwater said...
It even works in domestic situations.
Cruelty = "Tough Love"
Insults = "Just being honest," "Telling it like it is"
They're not dog whistles - they're lies the people tell themselves so they can remain the hero in their own story. But they're closely related.
A fascinating part of human nature is how someone can be full of crap and both know it and deny it at the same time.
Matt Bird said...
...But I think the truism that every villain is the hero of his own story is an overstatement. Is this really always true?
Did Santo Trafficante really think that he was doing nothing wrong?
Even look at Dick Cheney-- Sure, he thought his actions were ultimately righteous and justified, but he had no interest in "playing the hero." To this day, he loves being hated and clearly amuses himself by doing intentionally contemptuous things. Listen to him speak: hate emanates from every pore in his body. That's no accident.
Too many movies these days overly justify their villains. Once again, I return to Green Lantern and John Carter. In both cases there was a distant, unmotivated god-like villain who we rarely saw, but the main onscreen villain (the god's patsy) was, as far as I could tell, a perfectly-nice guy in a bad situation.
In fact, if those movies had let me choose who to root for, I would have chosen Peter Sarsgard over Ryan Reynolds and Dominick West over Taylor Kitsch, easily.
The writers of those movies didn't listen to how real-life bad people justify themselves, instead, they took the easy route: they *actually* justified their villains. But then why are we supposed to root against them? Why are we supposed to root for the hero?
Why are we sitting in this super-loud theater feeling nothing?
James Kennedy said...
Could "Why are we sitting in this super-loud theater feeling nothing?" be the name of your book? Or at least the name of your emo ballad?
Whoa, what happened to the Matt Bird who urged us not to judge our characters?
I don't know about Trafficante's motives, but I do know that many other real-life and movie gangsters didn't see themselves as doing what's wrong so much as doing what's necessary to provide for their families and survive in a game that was otherwise rigged against them because of their race, poverty, immigrant status, etc.
It's hard for me to see Cheney as cartoonishly evil either. I'm pretty sure he saw himself as heroic, making the hard calls that were necessary to secure the country in one of America's darkest hours and publicly playing the bad cop to deliberately draw attention and criticism away from President Bush.
It seems to me that part of what you're wrestling with is how to accurately portray a bad guy who truly and deeply knows he's bad and doesn't care. But for me that's a very small percentage of humanity, most of them bonafide psychopaths.
But… But… But… When I refer to judging characters, I’m referring to a failure of *empathy*, such as thinking, “That person is doing that bad thing for no reason, just because he’s a bad person.” Empathy requires us to say, “Everybody has their reasons, even if they’re not good reasons. Why is this person like this?”
A writer (and the audience) should have empathy for every character, hero or villain, but the difference is that we’ll usually have *sympathy* for the hero and we should almost never have sympathy for the villain.
No, Cheney is not “cartoonishly evil” (aka, shallow, two-dimensional, no depth, no motivation, just hates for the sake of hate), he’s real-life evil (a person with deep convictions and complex motivations who chose to have people tortured and killed because he hated and feared them, even though he knew that he was violating his country’s laws and most common notions of morality and ethics). He has his own personal reasons and self-justifications for everything he did, I’m sure. If I was writing about him, I would have to explore them and understand them. Even if I don’t write about him, just in order to be a good person myself, I have *assume* that he has his reasons. But I also have a responsibility to identify evil choices as evil choices, instead of just saying that everything is relative.
Now let’s look at your final point:
I pretty much totally disagree with this: In fact, I think the exact opposite is true. Let’s look at three TV dog-killers:
Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) kills her client’s dog and frames her opponent for it at the end of the pilot episode of “Damages”. Does she think that this is the right thing to do? No. She knows that she’s chosen to do an evil thing. Does she think that her larger goal is justified? Well, she keeps saying that her goal is justice for her defrauded working-class class-action clients…but we can tell that she doesn’t really believe that anymore. She still pays lip service to idealism, but she’s basically just a shark at this point, gobbling up money and power for the sake of money and power. Like Walter White, the only motivation she has left is spite (for a world that she feels is unfair to powerful women). Unlike Walter, however, she feels guilt for what she’s doing, and occasionally breaks down crying when she realizes what a wretch she is, which proves that she’s not a psychopath.
Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) one-ups Patty by killing a dog in the opening minutes of “House of Cards”. Does he think that this is the right thing to do? Yes, as he explains directly to the camera, he thinks that the dog needed to be put out of its suffering. Does he think this makes him a good guy? No. He knows that his actions are cold, Machiavellian and unlovable. Does he think of himself as a good guy in general? No, like Patty, he accepts that he is ruled mostly by his own petty hatreds. Unlike Patty, he thinks that he can still do some good politically, but only once he has total power, and he’s more than willing to do things that he himself considers to be evil in order to get that power. Unlike Patty, he cannot cry about his wretched state, but his narration to us lets us know that he is aware (and slightly regretful) that he is hurting people, which, once again, shows us that he is not a psychopath.
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Now let’s look at King Joffrey on “Game of Thrones”, who orders his fiancé’s wolf killed, giving him an honorary membership in the dog-killing club. Joffrey is the only one of the three who *does* think of himself as a hero because he’s the only one of the three who *is* a psychopath. Joffrey is incapable of feeling empathy-- incapable of understanding that the needs and wants of others are equally valid as his needs and wants. The dog hurt him, and so it dies, and if his fiancé disagrees, then she’s an idiot, because she should realize that it’s the job of everything in the universe to please Joffrey. Unlike Patty and Francis, he *truly* believes that he is hero of his story: he thinks that he’s never done anything wrong, and that everybody loves him, because he’s their king.
Now don’t get me wrong, *we* have empathy for Joffrey: we see that he was purposely spoiled by his sadistic parents, who saw him as their weapon of revenge against the world. Joffrey is merely what he was raised to be. So we have empathy for him, but no sympathy, and we recognize that he will never have any empathy for others.
So I feel that, in general, *only* psychopaths see themselves as the hero of their story, while corrupt people, like Patty and Francis (and, yes, Cheney) think of themselves as people who have decided to willfully transgress society’s commonly-accepted notions of morality and ethics for their own personal reasons, even if that means that others will think of them as “The bad guy”.
(Wow, that got long! One big request: I have only seen the first four episodes of “House of Cards” and I’m on season two, episode two of “Game of Thrones”, so PLEASE don’t spoil anything I haven’t seen!) (For that matter, I only watched the first season of “Damages”, but I’m probably not going to finish it, so spoil away.)
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The Short Game - The (short) Review
A feature documentary was released in September 2013, entitled The Short Game. It follows the lives of eight golfers as they prepare to compete in the 'World Championships' of golf at Pinehurst in North Carolina... and then compete in the three day event itself.
It's probably important to mention at this point that these golfers are seven years old and they're competing against their peers from over 50 countries.
Is it worth a look? Absolutely, and here are 10 reasons why:
1. The swings these kids have are astounding. As the movie rolls and you see some of them hit a ball, your eyes will go wide and you'll say 'wow'. Amari Avery and Alexa Pano have swings of beauty and power - you have to see them to believe it - but they are all incredible youngsters and they hit the ball 170 yards plus off the tee... and they're only 7.
2. There's a Kournikova in it... not Anna (though she appears fleetingly) but her precocious, mouthy and extremely talented little brother, Allan.
3. You get to compare the brashness and single-mindedness of some of the American kids (and their parents, grandparents, coaches... and even a pet) against the calmer, more laissez faire approach of the... how shall I put this... non-American kids. You get the feeling that some adore what they do, while others are 'encouraged'.
4. You get to see the tears and the tantrums, and you can't help but feel sorry for some of them. You also get to see some of the bad traits that we, as 'adult' golfers have learned to hide... such as the pleasure Allan Kournikova takes after he discovers his main opponent has had a disastrous round. And Amari Avery has some temper on her.
5. The rules of this competition are crazy. One of the favourites for the trophy is late for his tee time after a rain delay and his penalty is appallingly unfair.
6. You meet the parents! Yes, the kind of parents you read about who drive their kids relentlessly. At times it is painful; at times you'd like 10 minutes alone with them, wielding your 7 iron; at times you'll wonder why it is you need a licence to have a dog but not one to breed children. And then there are those who are far more relaxed about the talents their children possess.
6a. You meet the kids, some of whom are utterly driven (never mind two incredibly annoying fathers), expect to be the best and won't stop until they are. Alexa Pano is a dynamo - her work ethic puts most adults to shame.
7. You meet Zamkuhle Nxasana and his family. If this guy and his dad don't make you smile check your pulse.
8. You get a few (though not enough) pearls of wisdom from some of the greats (Player, Nicklaus, Sorenstam and Rodriguez).
9. The credits list eight names to remember in the future. You can't tell me that one of these kids isn't going to hit the big time.
10. And finally... the simple jealousy of watching swings we can only dream about and golfers who have achieved more at seven years of age than we will achieve in a lifetime. It's sobering.
You can watch The Short Game on Netflix.
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Reiser: "I did not kill Nina Reiser"
On the witness stand, Reiser has been known to give long, rambling answers to even the simplest questions. Late Tuesday, his answers were very short and direct, when asked directly if he committed murder.
"I've already told you. I did not kill Nina Reiser" Hans Reiser insisted, under repeated questioning from Alameda County prosecutor Paul Hora, over whether Reiser harmed his estranged wife in any way on the last day he saw her in September 2006.
That's also the last day Nina Reiser was seen alive after she dropped off the couple's two young children at Reiser's Oakland Hills home.
The prosecutor grilled Hans Reiser.
"Did you strike her?"
"No," Reiser replied.
"Did you apply physical force?"
"Did you commit any form of manslaughter or murder?"
"No," Reiser answered.
A black belt in judo, Reiser did say "yes", when asked if he could've killed Nina with his bare hands, if he wanted to.
"The prosecutor is trying to preclude any claim that this was anything other first-degree, premeditated murder, with explicit malice aforethought," says ABC7 legal analyst Dean Johnson.
Hans and Nina Reiser were involved in a contentious divorce, including a custody battle over their young children. Nina Reiser's body has never been found.
On the stand, Reiser told his attorney he tried to run away from the police that were trailing him because he needed to "lose weight."
Later, he admitted he was trying to shake their surveillance because he is "paranoid" by nature.
Reiser's attorney, William Du Bois, often seemed frustrated with his client's testimony, at one point throwing down his pen in exasperation.
"I think you can count on the fact that Reiser has taken the stand contrary to his attorney's advice and that there is probably a deep emotion rift between attorney and client right now and the result is not surprising," says Johnson.
At the end of the day, the prosecutor showed the jury a series of emails exchanged between Hans and Nina over custody issues. He actually made Reiser read his own written words. In them, Reiser seemed somewhat bitter. He wrote "Those who anger slowly, cool slowly, Nina."
Those were the last words the jury heard. Hans Reiser will be back on trial on Wednesday.
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Astros 6, Giants 2
The Astros scored six times in the bizarre sixth. San Francisco tied a major league record by hitting three batters in the inning, and also issued four walks.
Houston's winning streak is its longest since a nine-game string in September 2006. The Astros have won 15 of 19 overall.
Randy Wolf (8-10) didn't allow a hit until Fred Lewis' leadoff single in the fourth. He improved to 2-0 in four starts since the Astros acquired him from San Diego on July 22.
Barry Zito (6-15) shut out the Astros on two hits through five innings. But the Giants' 1-0 lead quickly disappeared when Zito and reliever Billy Sadler lost their control.
In all, the Astros' six runs were driven in by two hit batters, two walks and two sacrifice flies.
Ty Wigginton hit a leadoff single, Mark Loretta walked and Miguel Tejada blooped a single to center that loaded the bases. Lance Berkman drew a walk that tied the score and sacrifice flies by Geoff Blum and Reggie Abercrombie made it 3-1.
After Zito hit Humberto Quintero with a pitch to reload the bases, he walked Wolf to force home another run. Sadler took over and hit the first two batters he faced, Wigginton and Loretta, to make it 6-1.
It was the 35th time in major league history a team has hit three batters in one inning, and the first since San Diego was plunked three times by the New York Mets on June 7.
Randy Winn and Bengie Molina doubled in the sixth for the Giants' first run. Winn and Ryan Rohlinger each doubled in the seventh. It was Rohlinger's first major league hit.
Notes:@ Houston also had three batters hit by a pitch in an inning on Sept. 13, 1997, against the Dodgers. ... Rohlinger was called up from Double-A Connecticut earlier in the day. Making his big league debut, he struck out in his first inning, then made a throwing error at third base on Wigginton's leadoff grounder in the bottom half. ... Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum, who left Tuesday's game with a bone bruise on his right knee after taking a line drive off the bat of Brad Ausmus, was walking and feeling better. He said he felt "100 percent" sure he would make his next start Sunday at Atlanta. Manager Bruce Bochy smiled and said "I'd say probably 99.9 percent." ... With 2B Kazuo Matsui day-to-day because of a sore back, Wigginton moved into the leadoff spot. It was only Wigginton's second game in the leadoff role this season. Wigginton's infield single in the sixth gave him a season-high 10-game hitting streak.
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“A production company is only as good as its crew”, says Dave Rosen CEO of Absolute. Rosen continues, “Since the early days of live streaming in 2009, we have been involved in projects with some of the biggest names in entertainment, social media, sports and consumer goods. We not only support these projects with crew, we have a warehouse full of live streaming and production equipment. Our gear is also made available to support clients and offer it as rentals to other production companies in need of quality streaming equipment”.
“You only get one chance to get it right”
Absolute has supplied its Live Stream Crews for major eSports live streams, Showtime‘s Mayweather vs McGregor Press Conferences, Talk The Thrones (Official After Show For Game of Thrones) HBO’s Insecure to name a few. In each of these projects we were not the primary production company, we supplied key members of the production team that specialize in the live element of production. It is one thing to know lights & cameras, it is something completely different to understand the complexities of putting on multi camera live production.
We supply Live Stream Crews in every position from Jib Operators, 3Play Operators (Slo-Motion), EIC’s (Engineer in Charge), TD (Technical Directors), Playback Pro Operators, Graphics Operators (Expression) A1 & A2 (Audio Mixer & Audio Assistant) Broadcast Utilities and more. Our crew members have been hired to replace an existing crew member for the day or an entire season. Many times when we take on a new position we send the paid crew member as well as a “shadow back up”. This allows a seamless transition in the event one of our crew members is not available for a subsequent gig. Most of our crew that works on ESports are not only Video & Production professionals, they are also huge fans of the games themselves and it’s just one more reason why they love their job.
Talk The Thrones
This project was a hybrid between our team and the existing team that was already in place. For this project we supplied an EIC, EIC Assistant TD, A1, PTZ Cam Op. The existing production company offered the Director, Stage Manager, Lighting Technician, Make Up Artist, Talent, Producers and the Graphic Designer. It was Absolute Live Productions job to design the control room and the live streaming workflow. ALP was responsible for re-cabling the existing equipment, installing the ULX-D wireless lav system, mixing consoles, as well as installing a two TriCaster (Primary & back up) system, 20 in Black Magic Router, dual Teradeks, and KVM to switch monitors in the event of going to back up. During the show, ALP was responsible for switching the cameras, role in videos and adding the graphics, micing the talent and mixing the audio, painting and adjusting the PTZ cameras, testing & checking the stream itself and pretty much everything else that has to do with the practical production of the broadcast.
Mayweather vs McGregor Press Conferences
This project was three days in three locations in Las Vegas. It was made up of, super early morning call times and critical live times. This meant that every member of our Live Stream Crew had to be performing at 110% as professionals skilled and capable to team up and dance with the client’s needs and production vision. The client was already very skilled at producing live streams as they had already been on tour for this fight over the past few months and ALP was called in due to the fact the size and scope of the project had increased. The Press conferences, consisted of a 4 talent talk show that lasted 15 minutes then threw immediately to the press conference cameras, and back to the 4-talent show. In designing the needs for this project, we chose a team that could be multiverse in any position they were needed. As an example, the graphics operator for this project works as a A1 & TD for other past projects, our TD for this project is an EIC & Director for ESPN projects, one of our camera operators for the press conferences not only can handle IT Support but is a Streaming engineer & a Jib Op as well , and lastly our Stage manager on this Las Vegas based gig works as a A1 and has recently finish a one year contract with Yahoo as an eSports producer. Being you get only one chance to get it right, ALP demands this level of diversity in its streaming crew. With the client’s competence combined with the Absolute Live Productions team who was brought in as the additional streaming support, this stream was not only a pleasure to be part of, but it came off without a hitch.
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Mt. Vesuvius and Pompeii Day Trip from Naples all inclusive
Discover the wonder of one of Europe’s active volcanoes on this Mt Vesuvius and Pompeii day trip from Naples. Follow your local guide through the ancient ruins of this UNESCO World Heritage-listed city. Enjoy a traditional Italian pizza lunch with your small group and then hike to the top of the notorious volcano, where you’ll find stunning views of the Bay of Naples and the surrounding landscapes.
Naples City and Pompeii Half Day Sightseeing Tour
Discover the best of southern Italy on a half-day sightseeing tour of Naples and Pompeii. Led by a local guide, explore Naples’ must-see spots, including the Royal Palace, Naples Cathedral, and the Posillipo quarter, where you soak up incredible views of the Bay of Naples. Afterward, journey to the ancient ruins of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. See the Forum, Thermal Baths and more before returning to your original departure point.
Withlocals Highlights & Hidden Gems: Best of Naples Private Tour
With its wealth of historic sights, sprawling city center, and relentless urban pace, Naples can be daunting at first glance. With this tour, the city becomes manageable with the help of a guide who leads you on a walking itinerary of the highlights great and small, explaining Neapolitan history and culture along the way. Catch your breath and sample a traditional pastry during a break for coffee and dessert.
Pompeii, Herculaneum And Vesuvius - Deluxe Group Tour
Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Mt. Vesuvius are the three headliners near Naples, but slow trains and tricky roads make it impossible to visit all three in one day. With this tour, save hours with pickup in Naples and private transportation to at the archaeological sites in Pompeii and Herculaneum, with a visit to a traditional coral workshop in between. End your day by taking in the volcanic crater on top of Mt. Vesuvius.
Pompeii Half-day Trip from Naples
Explore the UNESCO-listed remains of the Roman town of Pompeii on this tour from Naples. After hotel pickup, ride an air-conditioned minibus to the Pompeii Archaeological Park. Gain priority entry with your informative guide and tour the highlights of the site, frozen in time by ash from a massive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. Witness relics such as the piazza, baths, brothel, and fresco-covered walls of Vetti’s House as your guide shares haunting stories about the lives and deaths of the long-gone inhabitants.
Daily Pompeii and Amalfi Coast Tour from Naples
Admire one of Italy’s most beautiful stretches of coastline, see the postcard-perfect town of Positano and discover the volcanic ruins of Pompeii, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on this day trip from Naples. Combine iconic Italian scenery, archaeology, and history as you learn about the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and drive along the coastal road with fabulous photo ops. Tour departs from the Naples cruise port.
Private Tour: Pompeii Half-Day Trip from Naples
Go back in time two millennia on this intriguing half-day private guided walking tour of Pompeii from Naples. Get the most out of your visit to this incredibly preserved Roman city, which has been frozen since Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. Some of the highlights include the Forum, a theater, a ‘fast food’ restaurant, and even a brothel. Your private guide will illustrate Pompeii’s tragic fate through captivating stories, facts, and anecdotes while taking you to the main highlights of the place. Choose to have the guide show you around or opt for the transportation-only option, giving the chance to check out Pompeii on your own.
Naples Guided Tour by Bike
Get to know the southern Italian capital in a unique way with this 3-hour guided bike tour of Naples. Ride through the historic city with a professional guide, learning about Naples' archaeological, cultural and culinary history. Stop frequently for photos, including a coffee break along the way. Ideal for cruise passengers or short-break tourists.
Day Trip to Pompeii Ruins & Mt. Vesuvius Volcano from Naples
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Research ArticleLIFE SCIENCES
Bonobos engage in joint commitment
View ORCID ProfileRaphaela Heesen1,*,
Adrian Bangerter1,
View ORCID ProfileKlaus Zuberbühler2,3,
View ORCID ProfileFederico Rossano4,
View ORCID ProfileKatia Iglesias5,
View ORCID ProfileJean-Pascal Guéry6 and
View ORCID ProfileEmilie Genty1
1Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
2School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK.
3Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
4Cognitive Science Department, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
5School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, Fribourg, Switzerland.
6Zoological Park La Vallée des Singes, Romagne, France.
↵*Corresponding author. Email: raphaela.m.heesen{at}durham.ac.uk
Vol. 6, no. 51, eabd1306
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd1306
Raphaela Heesen
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For correspondence: raphaela.m.heesen@durham.ac.uk
Adrian Bangerter
Klaus Zuberbühler
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Federico Rossano
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Katia Iglesias
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Jean-Pascal Guéry
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Emilie Genty
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Joint action is central to human nature, enabling collectives to achieve goals otherwise unreachable by individuals. It is enabled by humans’ capacity to understand and engage in joint commitments. Joint commitments are evidenced when partners in interrupted joint actions reengage one another. To date, there is no clear evidence whether nonhuman animals understand joint commitment, suggesting that only humans experience it. Here, we revisit this claim by interrupting bonobos engaged in social activities. Bonobos reliably resumed the activity, and the likelihood of resumption was higher for social compared to solitary activities. Furthermore, communicative efforts deployed to suspend and resume social activities varied depending on partners’ social relationships and interactive roles. Our results suggest that bonobos, like humans, engage in joint commitment and have some awareness of the social consequences of breaking it.
Cooperative activities are widespread in the animal kingdom. Still, only humans seem to engage in complex joint actions (1) characterized by shared intentionality, a special motivation to share experiences and mental states (2). Shared intentionality relies on advanced cognitive abilities like meshing beliefs and intentions with recursive mind reading, cooperative communication, perspective taking, complementarity of roles, mutual help (3), and understanding of joint commitments (1, 4). Joint commitment is the “glue” that holds joint action together (5, 6), enabling collectives to achieve goals otherwise unreachable by individuals. It involves partners’ communicative and behavioral efforts to achieve a common goal (3), as well as their understanding of the consequences linked to breaking such commitments (7). In human children, joint commitment is manifested when partners whose joint action has been interrupted communicate before moving to another activity and resume the activity after the interruption (7–10). In conversations, human adults deploy politeness when they are responsible for suspending it, and even more so when they are listeners compared to speakers (11). Suspending an ongoing conversation (e.g., to interact with a third party) threatens the partner’s “face” (12, 13), as they are kept waiting and their time and efforts spent in the activity are being devaluated. Greater impositions (e.g., longer waiting times) and interactions with partners who are unfamiliar or of higher status (12) cause people to use more politeness when suspending or resuming.
To date, there is no clear evidence that animals experience something akin to joint commitment or even understand the consequences of breaking it, which has led to the claim that only humans are capable of shared intentionality (1, 14). This claim is based on experiments in which subjects played triadic games (involving a play object) with a human experimenter who then unexpectedly interrupted the game (15). In one study, human children (12 and 24 months) readily attempted to reengage the seemingly reluctant experimenter, while chimpanzees (33 and 51 months) did not (15). In other studies, however, chimpanzees (12 to 60 months) and bonobos (all age classes) showed some resumption attempts (16, 17). Such inconsistencies across studies may be due to species differences, age effects, or game complexity, while interactions with human experimenters and their artifacts may provide additional motivational complications.
Here, we addressed this issue by testing bonobos’ understanding of joint commitment focusing on natural intraspecies interactions rather than artificial games with human experimenters. We experimentally interrupted naturally occurring grooming interactions among conspecifics.
We first tested whether subjects differed in their propensities to resume interrupted joint actions of social grooming (hereafter social activities) compared to solitary activities (self-grooming or solitary play). For interruptions of social activities, we targeted interruptions at one or both partners in two experimental conditions. This was instigated by a keeper either calling a subject’s name to provide a food reward (targeted interruption condition) or rapidly opening and closing a sliding door in the main holding area (untargeted interruption condition). Untargeted interruptions suggested the imminent occurrence of a feeding event beneficial to everyone, which usually interrupts the entire group’s ongoing activities. We designed these two conditions to manipulate the “imposition” that is being made onto one partner versus the dyad, provoking potential variation in individuals’ communicative or behavioral efforts to preserve joint commitment. In the targeted interruption condition, we predicted that an imposition should be more consequential, as the responsibility of suspending the commitment is carried by just one partner, compared to the untargeted interruption condition, where the responsibility is shared. We predicted that, if bonobos have some awareness of joint commitment, they should be (i) more likely to resume an interrupted social activity than a solitary one. In addition, if only one subject is responsible for the suspension (instead of both), targets should appease their partners by (ii) being more likely to resume targeted interruptions compared to untargeted interruptions and by (iii) being more likely to communicate to suspend and resume the social activity in targeted interruptions compared to untargeted interruptions.
We further assessed whether the relationship between partners would affect their propensity to resume the social activity by interrupting dyads of differing social bond and rank difference. In human interactions, being responsible for interrupting the interaction increases the pressure to reduce face threats, depending on the identity of the partner. If bonobos have an understanding of their responsibility in the suspension and completion of the joint action, then we should observe patterns similar to face management in humans (11, 12) with calibration of behavior and communication to the identity of the partner. We predicted that, if bonobos are sensitive to something akin to human face threats, then they should be more likely to (iv) resume the activity and to (v) communicate to suspend and resume the social activity when social distance and rank difference between partners increases (12).
In addition, we explored the extent to which bonobos understand their role in the social activity. Role understanding is crucial in managing joint commitment in humans (4) where partners show awareness of who initiated and suspended a joint action and the potential imbalances in time and effort allocated to it (11, 18). To do so, we assessed whether the likelihood of resumption and communication depended on the partners’ responsibility in the suspension of the activity (responsible or nonresponsible), their role in initiating the interaction (initiator or receiver), and their grooming role at the moment of suspension (active or passive). We predicted that, if bonobos understand their responsibility in the joint action, then they should be more likely to communicate to suspend and resume the social activity when they are responsible for suspending it (vi), when they are responsible for having initiated it (vii), or when they are the passive groomee (viii). We also predicted that if partners take their role into account, then they should be more likely to resume the same grooming role they occupied before the interruption (ix).
In a first set of analyses, we compared the likelihood of resumption of the social activity with the same partner after interruptions. First, we compared the likelihood of resumption of interrupted social activities to solitary ones (model 1). Second, we assessed the likelihood of resumption of the social activity depending on the experimental condition (targeted or untargeted interruption), taking into account social distance and rank difference between partners (model 2) and the individuals’ role in the social activity (responsible or nonresponsible, initiator or receiver, and active or passive) (model 3).
In a second set of analyses, we assessed the likelihood of communicating to suspend and resume the social activity, depending on the experimental condition (targeted or untargeted interruption), social distance and rank difference between partners (models 4 and 5), and the individuals’ role in the social activity (responsible or nonresponsible, initiator or receiver, and active or passive) (models 6 and 7).
Last, to assess whether bonobos would resume a previous (rather than start a new) social activity, we assumed that they should meet several criteria: (i) they should resume their activities fairly rapidly, (ii) they should frequently resume them within a 2-m2 radius of the same location, (iii) they should engage in no other social activity with a new partner during interruption breaks, and (iv) they should continue grooming where they left off, i.e., by grooming the same body part as before the interruption. If a bonobo simply was in “grooming mood” and in the search to start a new grooming activity, we believe it is likely that they would just start grooming with the next and nearest partner and possibly by grooming whichever body part is most convenient to groom.
Likelihood of resumption of social versus solitary activities (model 1)
We conducted 88 interruptions of social activities (n = 39, targeted interruptions; n = 49, untargeted interruptions) and 26 interruptions of solitary activities (n = 7, targeted interruptions; n = 19, untargeted interruptions). We excluded three cases in which individuals did not interrupt their social grooming activity (n = 2, targeted interruptions; n = 1, untargeted interruptions). The mean resumption rate of social activities (averaged across dyads) was 80% after targeted interruptions and 83% after untargeted interruptions. In contrast to social activities, interruptions of solitary activities resulted in substantially lower mean resumption rates in both conditions (50% versus 66% in targeted and untargeted interruptions, respectively); see Fig. 1A and fig. S3A; b = −1.57, SD = 0.49, 95% credible interval (CrI) (−2.53, −0.63); see table S4 for model details. Across solitary activity types, the average resumption rates of self-grooming (48.1%) and solitary play (52.3%) were very similar.
Fig. 1 Resumption.
Variation of resumption probability according to nature of activity (A), social bond strength [dyadic sociality index (DSI)] (B), rank difference (C), interruption condition (D), and interaction roles (E to G). Plots depict the predicted probability of resumption for the marginal effects of the complete Bayesian models (A, model 1; B to D, model 2; E to G, model 3) and show how model predictions match the data. Upper/lower bars and ribbon edges depict 95% credible intervals (CrIs), and the mid-square or mid–ribbon lines represent estimated posterior means. Squares colored in blue represent estimated effects. Gray circles correspond to the proportion of resumption per dyad [A (social); B to D] or individual [A (solitary); E to G]. Larger circles indicate more observations.
Likelihood of resumption by experimental condition, social bond, and rank difference (model 2)
Model 2 revealed no substantial relationships between the likelihood of resuming an activity and the experimental condition [b = −0.85, SD = 0.58, 95% CrI (−2.02, 0.26)], social bond strength [b = 0.15, SD = 0.31, 95% CrI (−0.42, 0.78)], or rank difference between partners [b = −0.01, SD = 0.29, 95% CrI (−0.59, 0.57)]; see Fig. 1 (B to D) and fig. S3B.
Likelihood of resumption depending on role in social activity (responsible or nonresponsible, receiver or initiator, and active or passive) (model 3)
In 83% of the trials, individuals responsible for suspending the social activity resumed the same role (active or passive) that they occupied before the interruption. Model 3 revealed a relationship between individual roles in the social activity and resumption and initiation of the social activity and resumption (fig. S3C). Individuals were less likely to resume when they were the passive grooming partner, as compared to when they were the active grooming partner [Fig. 1E; b = −0.98, SD = 0.45, 95% CrI (−1.91, −0.13)]. Individuals were more likely to resume when they were initiators than when they were receivers [Fig. 1G; b = 1.16, SD = 0.38, 95% CrI (0.43, 1.92)]. There was no relationship between resumption and being responsible versus nonresponsible for activity suspension [Fig. 1F; b = 0.30, SD = 0.42, 95% CrI (−0.52, 1.11)].
Likelihood of communication about suspension and resumption by experimental condition, social bond, and rank difference (models 4 and 5)
In models 4 and 5, we compared the likelihood by which individuals who were responsible for suspending or resuming communicated depending on whether they were interrupted in the target versus untargeted interruption conditions, on the social bond they had with their social partner, and on the rank difference relative to that of their partner (table S4).
Model 4 revealed negative relationships between communication at the time of suspension and social bond strength, rank difference, and experimental condition (fig. S3D). Individuals were less likely to communicate at the time of suspension when they were more closely bonded with their partner [Fig. 2A; b = −0.94, SD = 0.46, 95% CrI (−1.93, −0.13)]. Bonobos were also less likely to communicate at the time of suspension when they were higher ranked than their partner (Fig. 2B; b = −1.24, SD = 0.72, 95% CrI (−2.82, −0.03)] and when interrupted in the targeted interruption condition compared to the untargeted interruption condition [Fig. 2C; b = −1.46, SD = 0.72, 95% CrI (−2.99, −0.11)].
Fig. 2 Communication for suspension.
Variation of communication probability at the time of suspension according to social bond strength (DSI) (A), rank difference (B), interruption condition (C), and interactional roles (D to F). Plots depict the predicted probability of suspension communication for the marginal effects of the complete Bayesian models (A to C, model 4; D to F, model 6) and show how model predictions fit the data. Upper/lower bars and ribbon edges depict 95% CrIs, and the mid-square or mid–ribbon lines represent estimated posterior means. Squares and ribbons colored in blue represent substantial effects. Gray circles correspond to the proportion of communication at the time of suspension per individual responsible for suspension (A to C) or any individual regardless of whether or not they were responsible for suspension (D to F). Larger circles indicate more observations.
Model 5 revealed no effect of social bond on communication at the time of resumption [Fig. 3A; b = 0.21, SD = 0.31, 95% CrI (−0.39, 0.82)]. However, we found a substantial relationship between the likelihood to communicate at the time of resumption and both experimental conditions and rank difference (fig. S3F). Individuals were more likely to communicate to resume when they were higher-ranking relative to their partner [Fig. 3B; b = 1.00, SD = 0.33, 95% CrI (0.38, 1.68)] and in the target interruption condition compared to the untargeted interruption condition [Fig. 3C; b = 1.93, SD = 0.73, 95% CrI (0.59, 3.47)].
Fig. 3 Communication for resumption.
Variation of communication probability at the time of resumption according to social bond strength (DSI) (A), rank difference (B), interruption condition (C), and interactional roles (D to F). Plots depict the predicted probability of resumption communication for the marginal effects of the complete Bayesian models (A to C, model 5; D to F, model 7) and show how model predictions match the data. Upper and lower bars and ribbon edges depict 95% CrIs, and the mid-square or mid–ribbon lines represent estimated posterior means. Squares and ribbons colored in blue represent substantial effects. Gray circles correspond to the proportion of communication at the time of resumption per individual responsible for resumption (A to C) or any individual regardless of whether or not they were responsible for resumption (D to F). Larger circles indicate more observations.
Likelihood of communication at the times of suspension and resumption depending on interactional role (responsible or nonresponsible, receiver or initiator, and active or passive) (models 6 and 7)
In these two models (models 6 and 7), we aimed at comparing the likelihood by which either partner communicated depending on their responsibility in suspending the activity (responsible or nonresponsible), on their role in initiating the activity (receive or initiator), and on their grooming role in the activity (active or passive) (table S4).
Model 6 revealed no substantial effects of any of the tested interactional roles on communication at the time of suspension, including responsible or nonresponsible for suspension [b = 0.54, SD = 0.54, 95% CrI (−0.51, 1.62)], initiator or receiver [b = −0.09, SD = 0.46, 95% CrI (−1.00, 0.83)], and active or passive grooming role [b = −0.98, SD = 0.55, 95% CrI (−2.10, 0.07)]; see Fig. 2 (D to F) and fig. S3E.
Model 7 revealed no substantial effect of the interactional grooming role active or passive on communication at the time of resumption [Fig. 3D and fig. S3G; b = −0.12, SD = 0.55, 95% CrI (−1.21, 0.94)]. Nonetheless, individuals were slightly more likely to communicate at the time of resumption when they were responsible for suspending the activity compared to when they were not [Fig. 3E and fig. S3G; b = 1.06, SD = 0.49, 95% CrI (0.11, 2.05)], and when they were initiators compared to receivers (Fig. 3F and fig. S3G; b = 0.97, SD = 0.44, 95% CrI (0.12, 1.83)].
Assessing whether bonobos resume (versus start) a grooming activity
Bonobos resumed activities (n = 68) (i) within, on average, 86.8 s (first quartile: 26.7 s; third quartile: 105.7 s); (ii) by moving to the same 2-m2 location radius than before the interruption in, on average, 92.6% of the time (for travel distances, see analysis S1); (iii) after having engaged with other social partners until resuming the activity again in, on average, 1.5% of cases; and (iv) by continuing to groom the same body parts than before in, on average, 40.0% of cases.
Drawing on a paradigm than was previously used to assess joint commitment in human children (8, 9, 19), we investigated whether bonobos experience a sense of joint commitment when engaging in naturally occurring joint actions with conspecifics. Specifically, we assessed whether partners in an interrupted social activity would subsequently resume it and whether resumptions were driven by an individual motivation to complete an unfinished task or, as in human joint action, by an underlying sense of responsibility toward the partner—a joint commitment to a shared goal. We also assessed whether this joint commitment would vary depending on the social relationship between partners and their respective roles.
In line with our predictions, bonobos were less likely to resume a solitary than a social activity, suggesting that their motivation to resume social interactions goes beyond a mere desire to complete an unfinished task, but entails a sense of commitment toward the partner or the joint action itself. Our findings are comparable to those demonstrated for human children. Children verbally take leave after an interruption when playing together with a partner, but not when playing in parallel with that partner (8, 19). One might argue that the higher rate of resumption of social compared to solitary activities in bonobos could be explained by a more pleasant feeling of being groomed than grooming. This explanation is unlikely, however, given that subjects were more likely to resume when they had been the active groomer, compared to when they had been the passive groomee. The high resumption rates in the social activity are thus unlikely to be merely driven by a more pleasant feeling of being groomed. It might be argued that solitary grooming represents a boredom behavior that would be less likely to be resumed than a social activity. However, we also used solitary play (a usually highly enjoyable activity) as a control, and we did not find higher resumption rates for solitary play compared to solitary grooming (52% versus 48%), rendering this assumption unlikely.
When social activities were interrupted, subjects consistently resumed with their initial partners, regardless of experimental condition or social relationships—a behavioral pattern that was taken as evidence for joint commitment in previous studies [e.g., (7, 15, 19)]. It could nonetheless still be argued that subjects resumed social activities more because social activities serve to build relationships and, hence, are by default more rewarding than solitary activities. However, our findings support the idea that bonobos engage in joint commitment: (i) Likelihood of resumption does not differ depending on relationship quality or rank differences, but initiators of activities and active groomers were more likely to resume; (ii) bonobos communicate more when resuming targeted interruptions (where one individual was initially responsible for suspending the joint activity) than untargeted interruptions; (iii) bonobos communicate more when resuming interactions if they themselves were responsible for suspending or for having initiated the activity; and (iv) suspension is more frequently accompanied by communication when the dyad is weakly bonded (and the relationship is less secure) or individuals are lower-ranking than their partner (and the social pressure is greater).
It could also be argued that the resumption of the activity is actually the start of a new interaction, which would not permit us to conclude that bonobos engage in joint commitment. However, several of our findings render this alternative explanation unlikely. Bonobos generally resumed grooming activities within a short amount of time (<1 min), moved to the same meeting point than before within a 2-m2 radius in more than 90% of the time, engaged almost never with any other social partner until the activity with the initial partner had been resumed, and frequently resumed both their own grooming roles as well as the grooming of the precise body part than before the interruption. We believe that these findings support the assumption that bonobos are somewhat aware about the permanence of their still-ongoing joint commitment with a previous partner, as they would have otherwise started grooming any other nearest partner and perhaps selected the body parts most convenient to them. Some other controls may nonetheless constitute a promising avenue for future study to further consolidate the evidence for joint commitment. For example, to further corroborate the idea that bonobos are resuming an unfinished (rather than starting a new) activity, one might compare the duration of uninterrupted grooming activities versus the combined duration of an interrupted grooming activity before and after the interruption occurred. One might expect that the sum of the duration before and after interruption should roughly equal the total duration of an uninterrupted grooming activity.
Regarding the communication efforts to suspend and resume the joint activity, we found that, in line with our prediction, when grooming interactions were interrupted, bonobos deployed more communicative efforts at the time of resumption in targeted interruptions than in untargeted interruptions. This further supports the assumption that bonobos might be aware of their responsibility toward their partner when suspending the activity. Individuals might realize that breaking a commitment due to an individual motivation (to fetch a personal food reward) is more threatening to partners than breaking a commitment due to an event relevant to the whole group (opening of holding doors). Bonobos seem to have an understanding of the social implications of their actions. When considering the communication at the time of suspension, however, individuals communicated less when suspending the activity following a targeted compared to untargeted interruption. Bonobos might have had an intensified emotional response toward group-related stimuli, leading to more communication at the time of suspension in untargeted compared to targeted interruptions. Although our study could not assess this, we hope that this will be tested in future studies by measuring arousal levels via noninvasive psychophysiological techniques like thermal imaging (20) or by selecting stimuli causing comparable arousal levels across conditions. Another way to test whether arousal-based explanations are responsible for this finding would also be to compare the type of signals used to communicate suspension in the different conditions, or equally with different partners of higher or lower rank or weak or strong bond.
It is important to note that our current analyses do not permit us to understand how bonobos communicate about joint commitment. Although we know that bonobos communicate during suspension and resumption, we cannot ascertain whether bonobos, like humans, produce specific signals to coordinate interruptions. Those signals should differ from those used to start and end an interaction. For example, humans exchange greetings and goodbyes to initiate and end an encounter (21–24) but use different phrases when communicating that they have to suspend the interaction (e.g., “Sorry, I’ll be right back”) or reinstate it (e.g., “Sorry for keeping you waiting”) (11, 18). Presuming that bonobos understand when an activity was interrupted prematurely, and presuming that they intend to re-establish joint commitment with their partner, an interesting avenue for future studies would be to further verify whether the signals used to communicate suspension and reengagement differ from those used to communicate about starting a new activity or to ending a previous one.
Inferences from behaviors to mental states are always debatable, so it is important to rigorously apply the principle of parsimony (25), also with human data. In humans, it is usually accepted that joint actions are the product of an underlying joint commitment that, at least in adults, is tied to higher-order mental processes that involve concerns about how others perceive them, and concerns about avoiding face-threatening acts (12). In humans, face management increases as a function of social risk, and face threats become more likely with increasing social distance and power difference between two partners, requiring more politeness (12). Moreover, social roles during joint actions matter, with beneficiaries of joint actions being more indebted to other participants. We found that social roles also matter in bonobos. For instance, bonobos were more likely to communicate to reengage a previous partner when they had been responsible for initially having suspended the activity. As predicted by politeness theory (12), bonobos increased communication efforts when suspending joint actions as social distance and rank difference increased. They were more likely to communicate at the time of suspension when they were socially distant and subordinate in rank and more likely to communicate at the time of resumption after targeted interruptions, especially so when they were higher-ranking. The latter result did not follow the patterns predicted by politeness theory, however; we believe that this finding could be explained by the fact that higher-ranked individuals communicate to subordinates to avoid ambiguity in re-approaching—i.e., subordinates might generally fear approaches by dominants unless they signal benign intent. These results suggest that bonobos have some awareness of the social consequences linked to breaking joint commitments and adjust their communication efforts according to the identity of their partner (11, 12, 18).
Bonobos’ joint actions seem to be governed by some sense of joint commitment and seem to follow at least some patterns predicted by face management (12). Nonetheless, there is no evidence that bonobos are concerned about how others perceive them as much as humans do. Three-year-old children resist breaking joint commitments when being offered personal rewards in about 70 to 80% of trials (9), whereas in bonobos, this is observed in merely 3% of trials. This difference demonstrates that human toddlers will forgo opportunities for personal gain to honor joint commitments. It is thus possible that humans and apes differ in how they prioritize social commitments relative to material personal benefits.
Together, bonobos seem to have some awareness of their responsibility toward their partner in joint action and of the social consequences linked to suspending a joint action. Bonobos appear to follow some patterns predicted by face management while, at the same time, prioritizing personal incentives over joint commitments, especially in situations involving highly arousing causes of interruptions like food rewards. Whether these differences in behavior are due to population-specific peculiarities (e.g., wild bonobos may be more socially committed), group-specific characteristics (e.g., less egalitarian captive groups might be less flexible in communicating about joint commitment), underlying psychological differences, or differences in the importance of social norms cannot be decided with our data.
Although joint commitments usually imply mutual knowledge of partners that they are committed (3), a sense of joint commitment can also arise through coordination alone and must not entail the explicit communication of that knowledge by the partners (26). Our current study suggests that, at the least, bonobos engage in an implicit form of joint commitment (27), where partners get involved in a joint commitment by mutual coordination. With joint commitment being only one aspect of shared intentionality in humans, shared intentionality also entails other features like the ability to complement roles, to help each other, to communicate cooperatively via pointing, to engage in cumulative culture, and to engage in complex forms of perspective taking (1). Although some evidence suggests that great apes might be capable of at least some of these abilities [e.g., perspective taking (28), helping (29), and cooperative communication (30)], the jury is still out on the extent to which they are endowed with all the critical prerequisites necessary for shared intentionality. Bonobos represent an interesting model to investigate shared intentionality, as they exhibit high social tolerance (31), pro-sociality (32), and emotionality (33)—crucial features that would pave the way for successful collaboration, hence favoring the evolution of joint commitment. The close phylogenetic relationship between bonobos and chimpanzees would suggest that chimpanzees should also engage in joint commitment to some respect, but the unique socioecology of bonobos might have favored the evolution of joint commitment specifically in this species. We advocate future comparative studies to assess joint commitment in chimpanzees using a similar methodology as in this study.
In conclusion, our findings provide evidence that bonobos are endowed with a social cognition that enables them to engage in joint commitment, although possibly in a less profound way than humans. Since joint commitment is a key prerequisite for how humans make their social worlds and taken as evidence for shared intentionality (1, 5), our findings support the idea of a layered evolutionary continuum of primate social cognition.
Study subjects and site
This experimental study was conducted at the zoological park of La Vallée des Singes, France, from May to August 2018. The bonobo (Pan paniscus) group consisted of 17 individuals, 15 of which participated in the study (mean age = 17 years; SD = 12 years; age range, 4 to 51 years; 10 females and 5 males; see table S1 for detailed group composition). The group lives in large enclosures composed of an outdoor island enclosure with a large forest and climbing structures in grassy areas (8000 m2) and an indoor enclosure with various enrichment and climbing structures (600 m2). The group receives food five to six times a day, including daily rations of primate pellets, fruits, and vegetables. Occasionally, the bonobos receive rice, nuts, meat, and eggs. Individuals can additionally forage for wild berries and herbaceous vegetation in their outdoor enclosure. In stable weather conditions (>13°C), the group is locked in their outdoor enclosure. Water is always available ad libitum from a fresh water source at the building and a stream surrounding the island. For the experiment, we selected 30 dyads on the basis of the strength of their social bond: 16 dyads with a strong bond and 14 with a weak bond (table S2) among which we selected 8 focal individuals (table S1), each of which had at least one strongly and one weakly bonded partner.
Social bond and rank difference
Data used to compute social bond strength and rank difference between partners were collected at the time of the study period (May to August 2018). These consisted of 15 min of continuous focal follows, 5-min scan samples, and ad libitum conflict data on selected focal individuals (defined in table S1), 1 hour per day. In total, we collected 62.3 hours of observations (7.7 hours per focal individual, SD = 0.28). We carried out analyses with the R software package (v. 3.5.0).
Social bond strengths were computed using dyadic sociality indexes (DSIs) using the socialindices package in R, accessed via https://github.com/gobbios/socialindices. The DSI thus serves as an inverse proxy for social distance (12). These included the count of focal individuals’ proximity to others (at arms-reach distance) recorded during the 5-min scans, the count of approaches, and duration of grooming (and play, collected previously during a 5-month observation period in 2017) recorded during the continuous 15-min focal follows. The average DSI value was 1.0 (SD = 1.9; range, 0.05 to 15.3). We classified strong bonds as those with a DSI >1 and weak bonds as those with a DSI <1.
Rank differences were computed by producing a rank hierarchy with dominance scores for each individual, on the basis of recordings of conflicts collected during a previous 5-month observation period in 2017. We computed ranks using EloRatings using the “EloRating” package in R (34). We then computed rank differences by subtracting individuals’ EloRatings. Higher values indicate stronger bonds, whereas lower values indicate weaker bonds. The average rank difference (based on original EloRatings) between partners was 416 (SD = 250; range, 46 to 1059).
Social activity type
We selected social grooming as the joint action of choice for this experiment because bonobos engage in grooming bouts very frequently, with various partners, over long periods of time and in a reciprocal manner; in addition, apart from its hygienic function, grooming is beneficial for managing tolerance and social bonding (35).
Solitary activity types
As a control to the social activity, we investigated subjects’ motivation to resume a solitary activity after interruption. We selected two equivalents of social behaviors that subjects could carry out on their own—self-grooming and solitary play. We considered all individuals who engaged in either one of these activities during the experimental trials and assessed whether these individuals resumed the same solitary activity within 2 min after the interruption stimulus. We were able to record 26 solitary activities during the experimental trials (10 solitary play and 16 self-groomings), comprising, on average, 2.4 ± 1.8 solitary behaviors per individual across conditions (n = 11 individuals; untargeted interruptions, 1.8 ± 1.5; targeted interruptions, 1.6 ± 1.3; table S2). Of the 11 individuals engaged in solitary activities during experimental trials, eight (with four focal individuals) were also subjects in different trials. Solitary activities and social activities were interrupted during the same testing period.
Experimental design and procedure
To assess whether the subjects engaged in joint commitment, we experimentally interrupted ongoing grooming interactions and manipulated the partners’ individual responsibility in the interruption of the activity in two conditions. In the targeted interruption condition, only one focal individual is rendered responsible for interrupting the activity while the partner is kept waiting (see movies S3 and S4). In the untargeted interruption condition, both partners are equally responsible for interrupting the activity (see movies S1 and S2). The experimental trials were conducted between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. We waited for the subjects to be located near the indoor building or nearby tree trunks in the open space of their outdoor enclosure, as both spots were popular grooming locations at that time of day, and in full view of the experimenter (fig. S1). Experimental trials were run opportunistically, whenever focal dyads engaged in grooming, but we counterbalanced the number of targeted and untargeted interruptions across the study period. To avoid habituation to the stimuli and extinction of behaviors, we kept daily interruptions to a maximum of two a day. We randomized the time of interruptions in an early time slot (4:00 to 5:00 p.m.) and a late time slot (5:00 to 6:00 p.m.), maintaining a balanced number of targeted and untargeted interruptions across time slots.
R.H. was standing in the public area and filmed the dyads of interest as well as the whole group, using two Panasonic HC-V770 Camcorders on tripods with externally attached directional microphones (Sennheiser MKE 400) placed at the two different locations (fig. S1). Grooming bouts were recorded from the beginning (one or both partners start grooming the body of the other) until the end (partners stopped grooming for at least 2 min), including interruption periods. R.H. timed the grooming interaction from its onset to the predetermined interruption time. R.H. called the keeper present on that day, who was standing inside the holding area, via a walkie-talkie (Motorola GP340) 5 min before the predetermined interruption time and again 30 s before that time point. Upon cue, the keeper produced the interruption stimulus from within the building.
In the targeted interruption condition, only a focal individual was targeted by the stimulus. Upon receiving the cue by R.H., the keeper called the focal subject by its name through the holding door of the indoor enclosure. This type of stimulus is regularly used by keepers, as part of their husbandry routine, to attract one individual at a time for medical treatment or general health checks, to which individuals willingly respond by approaching. Upon arrival at the holding door, the keeper rewarded the focal subject with a desirable food item, such as carrots, juice, or raisins (keepers chose food items randomly each time to avoid habituation). If the focal individual did not approach after several attempts of calling, the keeper closed the holding door and the trial was cancelled. We ran a total of 39 targeted interruption trials (mean = 4.6 trials per focal individual, SD =1.4), of which we discarded 2 as the stimulus did not lead to an interruption of the grooming bout. From the 37 remaining targeted interruptions, 8 were conducted with weakly bonded dyads and 29 were conducted with strongly bonded dyads (mean interruptions per dyad = 1.9, SD = 0.9; table S2).
In the untargeted interruption condition, we broadcasted a stimulus that was not directed at any individual in particular but that potentially affected the entire group (thus, both partners in the dyad). On cue, the keeper produced the stimulus by producing noise of a rapidly moving holding door of the indoor facility, simulating a scenario by which the group is usually let inside the indoor facility to receive the evening meal and rest for the night. The keeper rapidly opened and closed either the first or the second holding door (randomized across trials; see fig. S1 for location of holding doors). This type of noise typically interrupts the entire group’s ongoing activity and provokes the approach of all group members to the holding doors to check inside. In this condition, no bonobo received any food rewards, and the holding doors remained closed after the stimulus. In total, we ran 49 untargeted interruption trials (mean = 6.1 trials per focal individual, SD =2.3), of which we discarded one trial as the stimulus did not lead to an interruption of the grooming bout. From the 48 remaining untargeted interruptions, 17 were conducted with weakly bonded dyads and 31 were conducted with strongly bonded dyads (mean interruptions per dyad = 1.6, SD =1.2; table S2).
Interruption times
We hypothesized that in the process of social grooming, partners may feel more committed to the grooming activity at the beginning of the bout than toward the end. They may feel less responsibility toward a potential joint commitment if interrupted at a later stage of their interaction compared to an earlier stage. For these reasons, we controlled for the time of interruption of grooming for each dyad. We determined the best interruption time for each dyad on the basis of preliminary observations during a 5-month study conducted at La Vallée des Singes from May to September 2017 (total of 330.3 hours; mean = 20.6 hours per individual; SD = 0.5 hours). The distributions of dyads’ grooming durations were estimated from at least three complete interactions per dyad (range, three to six grooming interactions). We then computed the average duration of grooming bouts for each dyad on the basis of these sampled interactions. We decided to determine the best period of interruption as the period between the onset of the grooming bout and the median of the dyad’s grooming bout duration (table S2), hereafter referred to as “interruption time range” (ITR). The beginning of the ITR corresponds to the start of the dyad’s grooming bouts. The end point of the range corresponds to the median duration of the dyad’s grooming bouts. We interrupted the dyads as accurately as possible in both experimental conditions within this time range. For n = 10 dyads (one-third of the sample), there were either no or not enough interactions to be analyzed from the previous data collection, and we could therefore not predetermine an ITR for these dyads. As a compromise, we interrupted these dyads randomly within a time window of 3.0 to 18.0 min (based on the ITR of the other dyads). Solitary activities had no predetermined ITRs; individuals who engaged in solitary activities (self-grooming or solitary play) at the time of a stimulus (targeted or untargeted) were interrupted, and these interruptions were analyzed whenever they occurred (i.e., the time individuals spent in solitary activities ranged from 0.2 and 5.6 min until the interruption occurred).
We coded all behaviors and communicative signals occurring during the interruption period using the computer software ELAN (Version 5.2, 04 April 2018; Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; retrieved from https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/). Specifically, we coded the following variables: individual IDs of the focal individual and its partner; the nature of the activity that they engaged in before the interruption (social or solitary); whether the activity performed before the interruption was resumed or not within 2 min after the interruption stimulus (resumption or no resumption); whether the bonobos resumed their previous location with their initial partner after the interruption within a 2-m2 radius (yes or no); whether the bonobos would continue to groom the same body part after the interruption than they groomed before the interruption (body parts divided into regions of head, face, back, shoulder, legs, hands, feet, arms, chest, stomach, and genitals); the length of the interruption break (starting with the cessation of grooming movements and attention paid to stimulus and ending with the restart of grooming movements on the body of the partner); whether the bonobos groomed any other partners in between the interruption breaks than the initial one (yes or no); whether communicative signals (see table S3 for definitions/frequency of signals) were exchanged during the interruption period to suspend (3 s before and 3 s after interruption stimulus) or to resume partners (3 s before resumption of grooming) (communication or no communication); the role of each partner in instigating the interaction (initiator or receiver); the role of each partner in the interaction at the time of the interruption stimulus and after resumption (active or passive); and the responsibility of each partner in the interruption of the activity (responsible or nonresponsible for suspension or resumption). The individual responsible for interrupting the activity was defined as the one who stopped the activity first (i.e., “responsible for suspension”). The individual responsible for resuming the activity was defined as the one who initiated the resumption (i.e., “responsible for resumption”).
For the communicative signals, we coded any signal described in the great ape literature, which followed at least one of the previously described intentionality criteria: response waiting, audience checking, and persistence if the apparent goal was not met (37). Signals could be vocalizations, gestures, body signals, and facial expressions typical for bonobos (36, 38). To provide an overview of the communication strategies deployed when suspending or resuming grooming activities, we present the number of times and types of signals used in our ethogram (table S3).
To test the understanding of joint commitment in our subjects, we compared the likelihood of resuming the activity after interruption of a social versus a solitary activity. In addition, we explored the likelihood of resuming the grooming activity with the same partner after interruption and the likelihood of communicating with their partner at the times of suspension and resumption, depending on the following: the experimental condition (targeted or untargeted interruptions), the nature of the relationship between partners (strong or weak bond and higher or lower ranking), and the role of partners in the interaction (initiator or receiver, responsible or nonresponsible, and active or passive).
To test our research questions, we fit Bayesian generalized mixed models (GLMMs) using the Stan computational framework (http://mc-stan.org/), accessed through the brms package (39) in R v. 3.5.0 (40). We fit each model with random effects of IDs of individuals and their partners or dyads, where relevant (see table S4 for selected models’ specificities); for all models, we compared full models, including respective random effects with reduced models excluding random effects, to verify whether mixed modeling was justified. We ran leave-one-out cross-validations (LOO ICs) (41) and chose the model with the best expected log-predictive density (table S5) and sufficient variance across intercepts (≥0). We consistently presented the results of the more parsimonious models if random-effects modeling was not justified; if the model fit was best without random effects, then we conducted generalized linear models (GLMs) instead. To ensure transparency, we nonetheless present all variants of nonselected models’ results in table S6. All models included four Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) chains, with 10,000 iterations per chain, of which we specified 2000 iterations as warm-up to ensure sampling calibration, leading to 40,000 posterior samples. The model diagnostics revealed that the posterior distributions reflect the distribution of the original response values appropriately; R-hat statistics <1.05, the number of effective samples >100, and the MCMC chains had no divergent transitions (tables S4 to S6 and fig. S2). For all models, we used the default priors of the brms package, which were weakly informative with a Student’s t distribution of 3 degrees of freedom and a scale parameter of 10. For inference, we calculated 95% CrIs from the posterior distributions and checked whether 0 was comprised in this interval.
To test whether the nature of the activity affects the likelihood of resumption, we fit model 1 with the dependent variable “resumption” or “no resumption” (fitting a Bernoulli distribution with presence or absence of resumption as binary outcome). The fixed effect was the nature of the activity (social versus solitary). This dataset included 30 dyads and 11 individuals, with 111 interruptions (85 social and 26 solitary). To test whether the social bond and rank difference, as well as experimental condition, affect the likelihood of resumption, we fit model 2 with the dependent variable resumption or no resumption (fitting a Bernoulli distribution with presence or absence of resumption as binary outcome). The fixed effects were the DSI (as inverse proxy for social bond), absolute rank difference between partners (as proxy for rank difference), and the experimental condition (untargeted versus targeted interruptions). We z-transformed both DSI and rank difference for all individuals to mean = 0 and SD = 1. This dataset included 30 dyads and 85 interruptions. As random effects, we considered the ID of the individual/dyad.
To test whether the interaction roles affect individuals’ likelihood to resume the activity, we fit model 3 with the dependent variable resumption or no resumption (fitting a Bernoulli distribution with presence or absence of resumption as binary outcome). The fixed effects were the role in the suspension (responsible versus nonresponsible), the role in opening the activity (initiator versus receiver), and the role in the activity itself (active versus passive). We excluded observations where roles could not be determined, such as in the case of “mutually suspended” interruptions (n = 12 cases). The dataset thus included 10 individuals and 158 interruptions (i.e., 158 data points as we looked at each individual’s behavior, and not at the dyad’s level). As random effects, we considered individual ID, interaction ID, and dyad ID.
To test whether the social bond and rank difference, as well as the experimental condition, affect the likelihood of communication at the time of suspension and resumption, we fit models 4 and 5 with the dependent variable “communication” or “no communication” (fitting a Bernoulli distribution with presence or absence of communication as binary outcome; for communicative signals used, see table S3). The dataset is composed of data points of individuals responsible for suspension or resumption of the activity. The fixed effects were the social bond (DSI), the rank difference between the individual suspending or reengaging and its partner, and, as a control variable, the experimental condition (untargeted versus targeted interruptions). We z-transformed both DSI and rank difference as before. The dataset for model 4 included 10 individuals responsible for suspending (with 12 different possible partners) and 79 interruptions (i.e., of n = 85 interruptions, n = 6 interruptions were excluded as they were mutually suspended). The dataset for model 5 included nine individuals responsible for resumption and 66 interruptions (i.e., of n = 85 interruptions, n = 2 were excluded as we could not identify one individual clearly responsible for resumption, and n = 17 interruptions were not resumed; thus, communication could not be evaluated). As random effects, we considered the ID of the one responsible for suspension or resumption, as well as the interaction partner.
To test whether the interaction roles affect any individuals’ tendency (i.e., not just the one responsible for suspension or resumption) to communicate at the time of suspension or resumption, we fit models 6 and 7 with the dependent variable communication or no communication (fitting a Bernoulli distribution with presence or absence of resumption as binary outcome). The fixed effects were the role in the suspension (responsible versus nonresponsible), the role in the opening of the activity (initiator versus receiver), and the role in the activity itself (active versus passive). In our dataset, each row indicates whether a partner of a dyad communicated at the time of suspension or resumption, taking each row as an independent data point of one individual acting within a dyad. We excluded observations where roles could not be determined, such as in the case of mutually suspended interruptions (n = 12). The dataset used to test the communication at suspension (model 6) thus included 12 individuals and 158 interruptions. Besides data points where individuals responsible for suspension could not be identified, we excluded n = 32 data points representing nonresumed interactions, reducing the dataset used to test the communication at resumption (model 7) to 126 interruptions. As random effects, we considered individual ID, interaction ID, and dyad ID.
Controlling for stimulus habituation
Last, we implemented a control to investigate the possibility that the subjects might have become habituated to the interruption stimuli (analysis S2). To this end, we computed Bayesian GLMMs/GLMs (depending on whether random factors were modeled in selected models; see table S4) with trial number as fixed factor and the respective variable of the models as outcome variable. Using LOO IC, we compared the model, including trial number against a null model without any fixed effect, to inspect the possibility whether subjects’ resumption likelihood or communication likelihood decreased over time. We found no effects of trial number on any of the tested outcome variables, except a slight improvement in model accuracy for model 4. We thus re-ran the analysis with model 4 to verify whether, by inclusion of the trial number, the effects would remain stable, and found that they do. We thus conclude that trial number (i.e., stimulus habituation) had no confounding effect on the interpretation of our results.
Coding reliability
We assessed inter-rater agreement about whether (or not) the individual responsible for suspension or resumption communicated (yes or no) by using any of the signals from our ethogram (see table S3) between R.H. and another rater (E. Doherty) who was blind to the hypothesis and entirely new to coding great ape signals. They were then told to code for the presence or absence of any of these signals at the time points of 3 s before and after the interruption occurred (suspension communication) and 3 s before the two partners resumed their activity (resumption communication). The test revealed substantial agreement for the communication for resumption (n = 20 interruptions, Cohen’s κ = 0.7, 85% agreement) and moderate agreement for the communication for suspension (n = 19 interruptions, Cohen’s κ = 0.6, 84% agreement). With a second naïve coder (Y. Kim), we also computed an inter-rater agreement about whether (or not) the subjects would resume the same location by a 2-m2 radius after the interruption as before, would groom the same body part as before, and would groom any other partner during the interruption break, and the length of the interruption. The tests revealed perfect agreement for the rating of location resumption within 2 m2 (n = 24 interruptions, Cohen’s κ = 1.0, 100% agreement), moderate agreement for the rating of whether the same body part region was groomed as before (n = 23 interruptions, Cohen’s κ = 0.6, 83% agreement), perfect agreement for the rating of whether the bonobos groomed other partners during the interruption break (n = 24 interruptions, Cohen’s κ = 1.0, 100% agreement), and, last, almost perfect agreement on the duration of interruption breaks [n = 24; two-way Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) = 0.91, 95% confidence interval (0.81, 0.96)].
Supplementary material for this article is available at http://advances.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/6/51/eabd1306/DC1
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Joining the famous MU team when he was just 18 years old, Cristiano Ronaldo became the center of the sports and fashion world, according to which scandalous sexual scandals.
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Jae Seong Yang, Jin Taek Kim, Jouhyun Jeon, Ho Sun Park, et al
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By AZ 93.3 | December 29, 2020
The Year in Active/Alt Rock: COVID-19 pandemic puts all touring on hold
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 affected nearly every aspect of life, but the touring industry was hit especially hard.
The nature of the virus made live concerts essentially untenable, leading music venues to close and countless tours postponed or canceled. A year without live music was already a depressingly unfathomable thought as the pandemic began to take hold, but it also came during a year that was going to be loaded with giant tours.
By the end of 2019, beloved, long-dormant bands including My Chemical Romance, Rage Against the Machine, The Black Crowes and Mötley Crüe had all announced plans for a 2020 reunion tour. Even Red Hot Chili Peppers got back together with their longtime on-again/off-again guitarist John Frusciante with intentions of returning to the road. All of those plans were postponed due to the pandemic.
Aside from the high-profile reunions, other big tours were also affected, such as Green Day‘s planned Hella Mega tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer, which was pushed back to 2021. Other artists whose tours were either canceled or postponed included Foo Fighters, Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, Paramore‘s Hayley Williams, Nickelback, and Disturbed.
Festival season was wiped out, as events such as Coachella and Bonnaroo initially postponed dates to the fall before eventually scrapping 2020 entirely.
As it became increasingly clear that live shows wouldn’t be coming back for some time, the concert industry moved online. What began as simple, free livestreams from artists’ own homes evolved into full-scale, paid productions you could watch from your couch from artists including the Foos, Eilish, Evanescence and Gorillaz.
The streaming world also brought forth new ideas and unique collaborations, such as Post Malone‘s Nirvana tribute set, featuring Blink-182‘s Travis Barker on drums.
Musicians would often use the streams to raise money for COVID-19 relief, especially for touring industry professionals who were unable to do their jobs.
While some artists used new technology to bring their music to fans, others looked back to a relic of the past: the drive-in theater. AJR and Skillet were among those who played drive-in shows in 2020, while Godsmack‘s Sully Erna and Staind‘s Aaron Lewis teamed up for a tour of drive-in venues.
Ever the innovators, Metallica filmed a new concert performance and screened it at drive-in theaters across the country. The Flaming Lips, meanwhile, tried out a mini concert with every audience member confined to their own “space bubble.” A full space bubble concert was announced for December, but even that was postponed due to the pandemic.
Here at the end of 2020, the future of live music remains unclear, though artists are continuing to announce new and rescheduled dates 2021. It’s safe to say, though, that whenever concerts do come back, people will be more than ready to rock out.
By Josh Johnson
The Head and the Heart announces 'Rivers and Roads' concert film and live album
Rage Against the Machine shares 'Killing in Thy Name' documentary
Watch Machine Gun Kelly's 'Downfalls High' musical film tonight
X Ambassadors announce collaborative '(Eg)' project; listen to new single "ultraviolet.tragedies" now
Hayley Williams officially releases cover of Massive Attack's "Teardrop"
Founding New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain dead at age 69
Chris Cornell's daughter Toni marks 30th anniversary of "Hunger Strike" with tribute to her father
Listen to two new AFI songs, "Twisted Tongues" and "Escape from Los Angeles"
Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen performing during Biden Inauguration Day concert
Foo Fighters perform "Waiting on a War" on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'
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EC sets Sepa migration deadlines
If you read our June 2010 post about Sepa migration deadlines Just a week after the EC and ECB hosted the first meeting of the Sepa Council… you’ll be very interested in new details as we have fresh news on Finextra:
The European Commission has finally set out its proposals for EU-wide end-dates for the migration of national credit transfers and direct debits to Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) instruments.
See the news on Finextra (16 December 2010) or read it here:
The move means that, once the regulation comes into force, national credit transfers will be replaced by the pan European Sepa SCT within 12 months, with direct debits following after another year.The proposal now passes to the European Parliament and the member states for consideration.The EC says it has moved to enforce the move because self-regulation has failed.
According to available European Central Bank data, as of October, only 9.6% of all credit transfers in the euro area were executed using a pan-European payment instrument. If this trend continues, it will take 25 years for the full benefits of the Sepa to be felt.
To ensure interoperability, the use of certain common standards and technical requirements such as the use of international bank account numbers (Iban), bank identifier codes (Bic) and a financial services messaging standard (ISO 20022 XML) will be mandatory for all bank account payments in euro in the EU.
Internal market and services commissioner Michel Barnier says: “We have a Single Market, many countries share a single currency and soon we will move to a single pan-European payment system in Europe. It means that making payments cross-border will become as easy as making them at home. Consumers will only need one bank account and their payments will be faster, cheaper and safer. Businesses will benefit from one set of standards and much simpler processes. The proposal adopted today fixes end-dates to make this pan-European system a reality, hopefully as early as 2012.”
The European Central Bank’s Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell – who has long called for a deadline – told the Financial Times that she “very much welcomed” the EC proposal.
Last month the European Payments Council warned that the EC will “effectively derail the entire Sepa project” if regulatory intervention on migration end dates does not include deadlines for phasing out national schemes.
By: Corina Cornea
Using Allevo qPayIntegrator, Musoni gets full control over its business flows
Allevo has successfully deployed in 2010, in collaboration with Microsoft and Musoni, the qPayIntegrator production platform for Musoni micro-financing venture with headquarters in Amsterdam and targeting Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda businesses, making full use of the mobile phone technology.
See IBS Journal – News: Musoni live on qPayintegrator for microfinance mobile payments
The project significantly enhances the services that the institution delivers to its clients by ensuring operational risk containment.
Once Microsoft BizTalk Server was adopted as qPayIntegrator technological platform to provide business application integration, Musoni’s IT and business employees closely cooperated with Allevo business consultants and BizTalk Server certified software professionals to design and deploy the system.
The technological superiority and versatility of Microsoft BizTalk Server was once again proven in an environment requiring the integration of heterogeneous platforms, such as a mobile payment platform, a micro-financing application and the general ledger.
“Allevo qPayIntegrator application, developed on Microsoft’s BizTalk Server technology, enabled us to offer our customers a competitive business differentiator tool,” said Lukas Wellen, former CEO of Musoni.
“Musoni’s ability to quickly integrate disparate micro financing and telecommunication channels clearly demonstrates the capabilities of Microsoft BizTalk Server. Payments technology partners such as Allevo use BizTalk Server as a payments framework from which to build critical applications to uniquely and efficiently meet the challenge of integrating multiple systems and devices in the increasingly multi-channel world of financial services,” said Karen Cone, General Manager, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft.
“The success of the project relied on the efficient professional cooperation of the parties’ assigned teams,” added Sorin Guiman, CEO Allevo. “qPayIntegrator fulfills the business needs and at the same time provides strong operational risk containment for Musoni and its clients.”
Ending a challenging year and welcoming a better one….
We’re almost ready with the preparations for tomorrow’s BIS’ December Party. The whole team and families, a few guests and their families, we gathered a hundred persons in a big Restaurant Ballroom.
We’ll have a Three-in-One Party, one party for three items, all important for us, our 12th Anniversary, our traditional Christmas Party and our internal announcement of a near-future rebranding.• 12th Anniversary: there were 12 hard work & continuously growing years for BIS, in expertise, team, quality; you can see BIS’ brief history in one of our November posts here.
• Christmas Party: as usual, all the kids (ten of them born since BIS was founded) will find Santa’s gifts under the Xmas Tree, then a String Quartet will sing us Christmas Carols and we’ll all enjoy the Holidays’ Season’s atmosphere
• Internal announcement of rebranding: for the near future we plan finishing the long rebranding process we’ve embarked on; so, most probably, the second quarter of 2011 will bring us a new visual identity, as BIS is rebranding in Allevo; all the changes that outcome of this will be presented by our rebranding company.
We’ll also have a Three-in-One big anniversary cake to wish us all
“Many happy returns of the day” &
with the literally sweet image of our 12-yo well-known logo.
Business Information Systems revealed that, in collaboration with Microsoft and Musoni, it has deployed the qPayIntegrator production platform for a Musoni micro-financing venture (Finance on Window’s page is attached).
Winter 2010 FINANCE ON WINDOWS
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Bing Devils
BU/Colleges
Rumble Ponies
Endicott man’s first-time Masters experience: ‘Unbelievable,’ abnormal as it was
Kevin Stevens | Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
He unwittingly served as forecaddie for Bryson DeChambeau — twice, with .500 results — and hydration station for Phil Mickelson, toured the grounds with access uncommon to the vast majority. There were wonderful vantage points from positions near No. 3 green, No. 5 tee and greenside at the spectacular 16th, a succulent steak at one of the iconic eateries along the golf trail, and, yes, one sweet swag bag.
“Not only did Dustin Johnson get a green jacket, but so did I,” Ken Harris said of a highlighted item among that satchel’s contents.
Harris, 66, turned the key in a knob of his West Corners home Monday, 12 days after days after departing for Augusta, Georgia, to man a spot on camera detail for CBS Sports’ coverage of the 84th playing of The Masters.
Make that, an aberration of a tradition unlike any other.
Here was his initial opportunity to experience what many consider the game’s crown jewel, only, under highly atypical circumstances.
Instead of the customary 40,000 spectators — er, patrons — per round, many galleries consisted of perhaps dozens. A Tiger Roar? Not so much. Audible might have been a chipmunk passing gas, never mind potty-mouthed utterances of occasionally stray-shooting competitors. As for vibrant colors? Really, not all that catchier than home-front hillsides in October.
And so, first-time Augusta National visitor, feel cheated out of experiencing the full shot of Masters week?
“No. In fact, I felt honored to experience The Masters the way it was because it was the first time it was played that way,” said Harris, who has worked 18 men’s professional majors across assorted television networks. Ordinarily, maximum attendance can mean impossibly obtrusive obstacles impeding negotiation from Point A to Point B and beyond. Same for, say, the overhyped spectacle that is the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale— “More strenuous than you can believe.
“So, to be able to cover that kind of golf in that kind of setting was really unique, I didn’t feel cheated. I do want to go back in the spring and see it in bloom.”
More: Endicott man's latest stop on the television golf coverage tour? Augusta National
Grinding to be done
Pre-tournament for Harris brought, following requisite COVID-19 test upon arrival and day’s wait for results, initiation to the grounds riding shotgun in a cart with Tom Cassese, fellow freelance camera operator with whom Ken grew acquainted in the mid-1990s at En-Joie. But by way of gauging the oddities of November at Augusta? Even a 21st-year guy like Cassese was a hair disconcerted early on — no grandstands, few concession stands in their customary locations, in fact little other than tee markers and flagsticks late the week before the tournament proper.
And there was grunt work to execute, i.e., building cameras, unloading and labeling equipment from truck after truck, etc. Harris was told 160-ish cameras are used for Masters coverage, and 600-plus employees play a role.
Many initially seeing Augusta National marvel at the striking elevation changes, as well as the colors. Harris’ take? The enormity of the grounds. Treasure of a golf course, fine, but largely unnoticed on a television screen are the surrounding cottages, office complexes, maintenance/equipment barns, nurseries, massive access tunnels, et al. CBS’ compound is near the par-3 course, which Harris was informed is to be expanded to 18 holes.
Technical checks occupied much of Monday and Tuesday of tournament week, and Wednesday was largely a rehearsal day. Somewhere in the interim, Harris was driving a cart across pine straw to No. 3 green when his peripheral vision caught a golf ball scooting past. “Couple minutes later, Bryson DeChambeau comes walking up— ‘Did you see a ball come by?’ ”
Indeed, Harris located and was kindly thanked by the highly ranked basher, who notoriously lost a tee ball in Round 2 of the tournament on that very hole, with Harris viewing through a lens on a green-backing tower. No luck finding that ball, by either cameras or eyeballs on the spot. Harris had a closer, boots-to-turf inspection when he was off the air, but still nothing doing.
Also during practice rounds, he had an up-close look at Rory McIlroy playing out of what amounted to a Sunday bag, and provided Mickelson and caddie water bottles when they came up parched while doing short-game work near No. 17 green.
T-Bonz, man
Harris and crew members bunked on the main drag, Washington Road, and absent thousands of visitors for tournament week were a mere seven-minute drive from The National. Conveniently between course and hotel? T-Bonz, purveyor of certified angus beef savored by strings of champions and Hall of Famers since 1986— remember what transpired that spring in Georgia’s second-largest city?
CBS Sports had sensibly encouraged all to protect themselves and co-workers. “In essence, we were in a bubble. How each of us handled that individually was up to us, but I’ll tell you, I wasn’t going to blow it,” Harris said.
But then came that evening when, Harris safely in his room, a text message from a co-worker stated something along the lines of, “I’m at T-Bonz, I’ve got a secure place for us to be, come back.
“I jumped back into my shoes and it took three minutes to get there.”
Melt-in-mouth ribeye and views upon views of walls adorned with all things Masters history made for a worthwhile interruption of DoorDash or curbside fetching.
'Unbelievable'
“Unbelievable is probably the word that hits it the best,” is how Harris summed up his Masters experience. “The first day I was kind of in awe of everything, so it was good that I had a friend I was working with who was there for the 21st year.”
The swag bag was a pleasant bonus, replete with high-quality rain jacket and face coverings, each bearing Masters logo. One of the latter, he discovered, was going for $300 on eBay early this week— not that he’d consider going that route. On-course concessions, tasty and free of charge, were dipped into here and there.
The grateful first-timer hopes for an April return, of course, to man a spot on the crew covering one of the world’s most-cherished sporting events. But that is out of his control.
“I understand that, and I’ll take the one time, believe me,” he said. “If that’s it, I’ll take it. But I’d like to go back and hear those roars, and see it in bloom.”
Next on his golf to-do list is the final assignment of 2020, the U.S. Women’s Open, Dec. 10-13 at Champions Golf Course in Houston.
“Then, I sit and wait for 2021,” said this world traveler, who’ll closely monitor the COVID-19 climate before committing to future travels.
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Stark Choices.
by Anna Raccoon on August 29, 2009
The reality that is Rupert Murdoch, dwarfs any other media mogul in history.
Journalist Wendy Goldman Rohm described him as “a man who over the years has been reviled worldwide for his alleged crassness and reputation for catering to the lowest common denominator.”
His youngest son, who many believe is being groomed to take over from his father at the helm of the media empire, has described the £3.7bn a year BBC licence fee as a “regressive tax” and argued that the BBC should be scaled back. For anti-Monarchists, the Murdoch’s seem uncommonly keen on the hereditary principle.
The shift towards the Internet is throwing the BBCs power to dominate with its free news service into ever sharper focus, the BBC, put simply, can afford to give away its news, it is pre-paid by the tax payers to do so. Murdoch and his other competitors, out in the real market place, cannot give away the news, they must find a way to charge for their services.
One view holds that Murdoch is after world domination and the BBC stands four square in his way, but alternatively, if the BBC is to remain a prepaid monolith, then human nature dictates that those organisations which need to charge for their services will slowly bleed to death, and eventually the state run organ will be the only organ.
One could argue that those who dream of citizens suddenly producing news coverage of courts, council meetings, public meetings, police press conferences, and major accidents are just that, dreaming; and in the age of the citizen journalist those valued Times journalists could reinvent themselves as bloggers – but who is to pay their expenses to fly to Tripoli to gather the first interview with Ali al-Megrahi ? Does it matter whether we have that interview or not?
Murdoch Senior once told Eurobusiness: “We [a global media company] have special powers: we can help set the agenda of political discussion. We can uncover government misdeeds and bring them to light. We can affect the culture by glorifying or demonising certain behaviour.” (Eurobusiness, April 2002)
As far back as 1996, Murdoch was assuring his shareholders that “once we have established our [multimedia satellite] platforms around the world – a goal which is well within reach – the potential for our company and our investors is truly awesome.”
A Downing Street memo, released under the Freedom of Information Act in October 2008 has revealed how Tony Blair helped Rupert Murdoch overcome an official investigation which was jeopardising his £8oo million investments.
The memo reveals an episode in 1998 – a year after the Sun’s conversion to Labour – in which Murdoch appears to call in one of those favours. Murdoch had privately approached Blair when he feared that the European commission investigation was hindering his business opportunities.
Blair gathered members of his inner circle to see the tycoon – his chief of staff, Jonathan Powell; James Purnell, then a Downing Street special adviser on the media and now a cabinet minister; and his press secretary, Alastair Campbell.
Murdoch complained that the investigation by the European competition commissioner into one of his planned television schemes was costing him money. He told Blair: “The competition commissioner, [Karel] Van Miert, had come up a long list of complaints and the project was being delayed at huge cost. Sky’s own investment was very significant (£800m so far) and the success of the venture was crucial to their overall plans for developing digital services.”
One of the main reasons why Tony Blair attempted to stop the publication of Lance Price’s book, Spin Doctor’s Diary (2006) was that he disclosed that all important policy decisions had to go before Rupert Murdoch before being announced to the general public.
Karel Van Miert, the EC Competition Commissioner, gave permission for Murdoch’s British Interactive Broadcasting to go ahead in 1999. Initially it was successful but was closed down in 2001 because of the competition from the Internet.
Now Murdoch Junior is complaining of unfair competition from ‘ the state dumping free news’ – does he have a point? I think he does.
We can listen to the left wingers telling us that Murdoch seeks unfair domination of the news agenda, and condemn his attempts to clip the wings of the BBC and their mega licence fee – that way lies a potential state run propaganda corporation, which has squeezed out any competition by its ability to provide the news for free –
Or we can listen to the right wingers telling us that the BBC is a chilling state propaganda machine and we can force the BBC to stop ‘dumping free news’ and allow Murdoch and co to make a decent profit and survive.
Neither Murdoch nor the BBC emerges with any credit when it comes to domination of market, nor dumbing down of content – but there does seem to be a point at which we can’t have both – so which do we want?
Or is Murdoch just lining up behind James Purnell?
“Murdoch has a long and sordid history of discarding the accepted norms of honest journalism in order to advance his own political and corporate agenda,” wrote Eric Boehlert, a senior fellow at Media Matters in America, in a statement published on the progressive media watchdog group’s website.
Stark choices indeed.
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Old HolbornAugust 29, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Once Murdoch has finished with the BBC, he’ll be going after us.
Just imagine how furious he’ll be when he realises both you and I (and Guido) do this just for fun. We don’t even need the taxpayer to fund our scalp claims. How is he going to deal with that?
SaulAugust 30, 2009 at 1:10 am
There is no point being the richest kid around, and threatening to take your ball home when there is a free one available all the time.
Methinks the Dirty Digger wants to be the only game in town.
ChâtelaineAugust 30, 2009 at 2:15 am
As long ago as – I guess , because it’s really long ago – in the early 80’s, when I professionally started to know and understand what was going on in the media, I got alarmed and predicted that one day all media would be in the hands of just a few very mighty influential persons, who could/would control the people. If you have the media, you don’t need a military coup to rule a country – or the world as for that matter …
Henry North LondonAugust 30, 2009 at 8:19 am
Its true Chatelaine. Control what people know and you can brainwash them
RogerDodgerAugust 30, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Sky Arts is good.
Dunno why I said that. Seems fair though.
SabotAugust 30, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Perpetual Cricket on BBC Long Wave Radio 4 is a Government Plot to force Expats to return home so they can Listen to Gardeners Question Time.
It might have worked with some, but I realised what they were up to.
DemetriusAugust 30, 2009 at 1:45 pm
As someone who disregards the info-entertainment & promotional packages peddled as BBC News and Sky News, a plague on both their houses, there are other sources. Some come and some go, it was sad to lose The Rocky Mountain News, but there are plenty of others on the list. If the British public comes to its senses and loses interest in commercial football, where will Sky be then? Some of the repeats are now coming round for the twentieth time.
VimesAugust 30, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Aye, let’s ditch the BBC for a UK equivalent of Fox News – that would be a really smart move. Now, just put your head in the shark’s mouth, sir – he won’t bite, honest.
cogentAugust 31, 2009 at 2:20 am
BskyB, born of an attempt to corner the satellite delivery market now finds competition from another medium and squeals ‘unfair !’ . . . hardly the enterprise spirit we’re led to expect.
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Give Scotland its Independence – Now!
by Anna Raccoon on April 10, 2013
I have finally lost patience with the whingeing weegies in the sulphurous sewer that is Glasgow. The spectacle presented worldwide in national news outlets, of Scotland’s ’finest’, who are normally keen to tell us that they live on the breadline, breaking out the champagne and party poppers to celebrate the death of a woman, any woman, is beyond despicable, and utterly hypocritical. They have no part to play in any nation that contains the words ‘Great’ in its title.
It is time for the Socialist Republic of Scotland to stand alone.
That they all appear to be too young to have any experience of life before Thatcher, their views can only be the product of their schooling and parenting. They have been indoctrinated from birth, and like undisciplined dogs, it would be kinder to maroon them in their inhospitable land now, rather than endure their rabid attacks on unsuspecting citizens.
To hear their views – ‘Thatcher forced the sale of council houses’ – she forced no one. She gave their comrades, their dutiful soviet style fellow citizens, the opportunity to sell their council houses and escape; no one forced them. No one demanded that they deprive future citizens of a council house – they chose to do so in their droves, happy to take the money from hard working citizens who wished to buy – and run; part of the reason that Southern Spain is now full of retired laundromat workers, and amusement arcade mechanics soaking up the sun rather than grinding their way through another day of grunge and humiliation in downtown Glasgow. Do I see the ex-Glaswegians in Spain celebrating Thatcher’s death? No, they at least are not hypocrites.
‘They’ve never forgiven Thatcher for ‘using Scotland as a testing ground’ for the Poll Tax’ – does that mean they wouldn’t have been celebrating if it had started in another part of the country first? I doubt it. They would find another reason. They would only have been happy if Scotland had been excused paying anything at all for its services. They’ve never been weaned from the national teat.
‘They’ve never forgiven her for decimating the mining communities’ – rubbish; the strikes decimated the mining communities. Just as the strikes decimated the Liverpool ship building communities. Strikes called because they saw no reason why their fellow citizens shouldn’t continue to pay over the odds for fuel, and live in a land of environmentally unfriendly smog – so that they could continue to live next door to their Aunty Maisie, with no regard for their Uncle Jimmy and his coal dust slaked lungs, or his crushed arm from yet another pit fall. Come to that, the risk of the comrades ‘glowing in the dark‘. They would really rather, those champagne wielding idiots, be down a mine today? Would they Hell! Given the choice, they’d rather be drawing their dole and whingeing. Let Scotland have its independence – they can re-open their mines and hack away at the unforgiving coal face to their hearts content. The South won’t have to subsidise their vocal demands to live in the past.
It is the socialists who demand so many new hate laws, who rush like lemmings to Twittter whenever they feel outraged on behalf of someone, especially a woman, who has been slighted in some way – yet it is the socialists who feel that it is acceptable to ‘tramp down the earth‘, to dance in the streets, to celebrate the death of a woman with the ‘toffs’ drink of choice, champagne. Why? Because she had a different philosophy to them. 23 years ago.
Can you imagine if Scargill had been successful and the government had given in to his bullying of the nation, that Thatcherites would have been out on the street cheering and celebrating his death when it occurred? It is unthinkable.
Can you imagine if Thatcher had demanded that all mines remain open and all able bodied men in Scotland work down them? Uproar!
Can you imagine if Thatcher had passed a law saying that council houses were only for ‘those in need’ – that you could not pass it on to your children, could not buy or sell it, could only live in a particular type of house whilst your need dictated it? Plenty of houses coming empty as children grew up and moved away – but uproar at the unfairness to ‘the poor’.
Can you imagine if Thatcher had opened the borders and encouraged the immigration of hundreds of thousands of people prepared to work for less money ‘to rub the noses of the left in it’. General strikes all over the country!
Can you imagine if Thatcher had sold all the countries Gold, and then overspent by billions cosseting rich voters in the South of England? By God, they’d have had a million reasons to hate the woman then – but do you imagine that any Southerners would be crass enough, hypocritical enough, ignorant enough, to be found dancing in the streets on Gordon Browns’ death? D’you know what her real crime was?
The greatest division this nation has ever seen were the conflicts of trade unions towards the end of a Labour Government—terrible conflicts. That trade union movement then was under the diktat of trade union bosses, some of whom are still there. They used their power against their members. They made them come out on strike when they didn’t want to. They loved secondary picketing. They went and demonstrated outside companies where there was no dispute whatsoever, and sometimes closed them down. They were acting as they were later in the coal strike, before my whole trade union laws were through of this Government. They were out to use their power to hold the nation to ransom, to stop power from getting to the whole of manufacturing industry to damage people’s jobs, to stop power from getting to every house in the country, power, heat and light to every housewife, every child, every school, every pensioner. You want division; you want conflict; you want hatred. There it was. It was that which Thatcherism—if you call it that—tried to stop. Not by arrogance, but by giving power to the ordinary, decent, honourable, trade union member who didn’t want to go on strike. By giving power to him over the Scargills of this world.
Those dancing in the streets preferred the dictatorship of Scargill. Let them have it.
Is it unfair to set loose an entire nation based on the antics of a few puerile unreconstructed Neanderthals dancing in the streets?
If it is fair to base the effects of a moving global economy, of third world countries discovering that they can manufacturer things cheaper and more efficiently than we can, of technology and innovation decimating some industries – on the words of one woman, and generate so much hatred, then I believe it is.
Unless, of course, the unthinkable were to happen, and those in charge of the Scottish economy denounce those celebrations with the same venom they reserve for those who offend footballers, then I might recant…
FrankieApril 12, 2013 at 18:41
I say ‘Give us all the vote and, by an overwhelming majority, we, the
citizens of the United Kingdom will overwhelmingly vote to give those
ungrateful blighters what they have asked for – their independence.’
Thereafter, erect Customs posts along the border, rebuild the wall and
leave them to enjoy the fruits(?) of their own wealth. I would much rather we
were all United Kingdom and could all get on, but it would seem that some will
never be content to be a part of a greater whole.
Let them depart then.
LucozadeApril 11, 2013 at 17:25
Ho Hum,
Re: “Surely there is also an argument that Scots vote cyclically for Labour
and the SNP, because doing so is the only realistic way of getting rid of the
other from power”
I think that’s the case usually, I don’t think many would vote for Labour
other wise….
MarkApril 11, 2013 at 15:36
Unfortunately I think that the majority of Scots know which side their
bread is buttered and would rather get their beer tokens from the hated
English rather than risk relying on their ain folk to keep them happily
lolling about on their fat backsides.
I’ll be voting for independence anyway if it gets rid of the tories, lol
Independence might get rid of the Tories in Scotland (not that there
are any there these days) but it will help them secure a majority in
England – even with the execrable leadership of Cameron.
Moor LarkinApril 11, 2013 at 16:10
@ Independence might get rid of the Tories in Scotland (not that
there are any there these days) @
From earlier……….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/region/7.stm
National Party…………….. 491,386
Conservative………………………….. 412,855
shome mishtake shurely?
As I understand it there is only one Conservative MP who won a
Scottish seat – David Mundell who represents Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale
and Tweeddale.
Despite the three names it is only one seat.
It was as much the number of votes in favour of the SNP v those
favouring the Tories that caught my eye….
Ho Hum
Surely there is also an argument that Scots vote cyclically for
Labour and the SNP, because doing so is the only realistic way of
getting rid of the other from power
I would guess they have voted SNP for the Scottish Parliament in
much the same way my dad would vote Tory in the council elections and
they vote Labour in the Generals – just as my dad said he did, much as
I would pressure him otherwise……….
Presumably, if Independence occurs there will still be a Scottish
Labour Party. Perhaps a Scottish Tory Party might be a tad
differentiated from the UK version and rise to prominence with future
hands of friendship over the garden wall.
Re: “Independence might get rid of the Tories in Scotland (not that
there are any there these days) but it will help them secure a majority
in England – even with the execrable leadership of Cameron”
Well, let’s just hope Scotland gets independence then.
Bet it won’t though….
I would love to agree with you that that would be a good thing, but
I can’t. At one time in the past, now far too distant, a Scot might
reasonably have had a vision of himself as if a colossus, astride the
globe. Not now. All we’ve had recently is Gordon B and Wee Alex, more
like a couple of Lawsons Pork Pies and Chipolata, or maybe even the
Krankies, looking for all the world as if they would be better
employed doing some sort of jig from the White Heather Club
Independence? Way to go, if you want be run by a bunch of small
minded, puritanical wee men and women, convinced of their own
superiority in all matters moral, fiscal and legal, with limited
vision and an apparent underlying taste for compulsion that would make
Eastern Bloc residents run for the hills. Scots, as politicians, are
generally not up to it when it comes to having real vision as to how
to lead free people, in a free country, in a free world
Not that others are much better, but left with no balancing
influence at all, I shudder to think where it will end up
Re: “Independence? Way to go, if you want be run by a bunch of
small minded, puritanical wee men and women, convinced of their own
Eastern Bloc residents run for the hills”
Not really. What do you mean by convinced of their own superiority
in all matters moral, legal and fiscal though?
They should just let me take over….
convinced of their own superiority in all matters moral, fiscal and
legal, with limited vision and an apparent underlying taste for
compulsion that would make
As an example then. From within…
Shifting the Culture
A proposal for a bill to bring forward
measures to help change culture in relation to alcohol in Scotland
Dr Richard Simpson MSP &
Graeme Pearson MSP
(both Scottish Labour)
‘We propose a new requirement on any court which convicts a person
for an offence in
which (in the court’s opinion) alcohol was a
significant contributory factor, to notify the
person’s GP
accordingly. We would consider extending this to other
involving alcohol- related offending behaviour, but
which do not involve a conviction
– for example, the issuing of a
fixed penalty notice or fiscal fine, a warning letter from
procurator fiscal, or just arrest and detention by the police
(where the person is
subsequently released without charge). In
these situations, the police or other authority
could also be
obliged to report the circumstances to the person’s GP.
The requirement to report to a particular GP would only arise if
the offender was
prepared to provide his or her GP’s details
voluntarily; if this was not provided, the
obligation would be to
inform all GPs’ surgeries in the area in which the offender
resident. ‘
The latter suggestion is a wee bit of a shift in moral and legal
interference, isn’t it? Even if not convicted….
Sheesh…they mean
well, but what sort of world do you want to live in, when those sort
of ideas start expanding into other things? And don’t tell me they
won’t. I’m too old to fall for that sort of nonsense again. Anyway,
they’re old hat to Labour. For instance…
http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2008/05/13/hazel-blears-and-sergeant-flanderka—tension-monitoring-ie-snooping-on-local-communities.html
Re: “Even if not convicted….”
Yeah that’s talking it a bit too far. I could see the point if the
person had actually committed a crime because of their drinking. But
you wouldn’t really want the doctor contacted just because you
accidentally got a bit too drunk once for the first time in 5 years
and hadn’t even been convicted of a crime….
m.barnesApril 11, 2013 at 13:33
As I am constantly reminded by family and friends whenever I go back to
Scotland, you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the media. A consistent
% of scots have said in poll after poll that they don’t want independence.
Alex will have his referendum and it will go the same way as Nick’s. The fact
that Alex Salmond could annoy the angels should not disguise the paucity of
his arguments.
DenApril 11, 2013 at 13:50
That may be the case but, the fact remains that 5 million Scots help to
give Labour a majority in Westminster which rules us 50+ million. This is
totally disproportionate. The English should have a vote in the referendum
so that Scotland can be made independent, thus saving us from another tax n
spend, cultural Marxist mob. All the Labour/Marxism doesn’t stop Scottish
racism against the English e.g. “Anyone but England T-Shirts” etc. Apart
from anything else, the last two Scottish PMs have really fouled us up. Let
the Scots go their own way and we ours. Cry ‘God for Harry, England and St
Ho HumApril 11, 2013 at 14:10
Oddly, the most popular party throughout the whole country seems to
have fairly consistently won the country’s ‘national’ elections. I guess
there must have been a few beastly English & Welsh just happened to
make up for the overall shortfall that there would have been in in the
Scots numbers alone, when making those majorities
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/UK_parliamentary_elections_from_1950_graph.png
And for what it’s worth, St George was Greek, born in what is now
Israel, and famous for exploits in Asia Minor, ie Turkey. If the English
were to go their own way, they might want to take a map, just so as to
make sure they don’t get lost……
So what? He’s still the patron saint of my country. I suppose we
don’t have to ask permission as to who we want for our patron saint.
What’s wrong with being born in Israel or doing stuff in Asia Minor?
Sounds a bit racist that
Den,
Re: “last two Scottish PMs have really fouled us up”
Life under Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives may have been good
for you, fair enough, but it most definitely was not good for everyone. My
dad always worked and my mum worked part time in the evening when we were
very young – and in the late 80′s and early 90′s we most definitely were
‘poor’.
In order for those in high paid jobs to be in that position there also
needs to be people in lower paid jobs beneath them, whose jobs are just as
valuable and required, that is an unavoidable fact. If people don’t get
paid enough to make ends meet then they are going to not be particularly
happy about that.
Contrary to popular belief among those fortunate enough to have either
always been comfortably well off, or when not earning so much perhaps
didn’t have a family to look after at that point, not everyone 20 to 25 or
more years ago who complained about being ‘poor’, was actually on the
dole.
A lot of people that don’t vote Conservative probably don’t do so (if
they vote at all) A) because they don’t like their policies or B) Because
they remember what it was bloody like the last time round (before David
Cameron and Tony Blair etc). It’s as simple as that.
In order for people to work in high paid positions, they need people
below them working less well paid positions which are very often no less
valuable.
Hi Lucozade,
You seem to have me confused with someone else and your Socialist
views leave me cold I’m afraid. I left school in ’58 and worked on a
factory line. I realised that one could be socially mobile (before
NuLab) and went to night school, the OU and Brookes eventually getting
an HNC, a BA and a Masters. I worked as a labourer, an electrician and,
in later years a manager. Yes, my wage/salary gradually improved and we
could buy shoes for the kids – I had a couple of pints of beer once a
month – things were looking up. I paid union dues all my life – I had
been brought up by decent Socialists – not the sort that want to run
things according to the Frankfurt School. Needless to say the union
organisers did very well and the workers less so. I believed in
socialism until I was 57 years old when my wife was terminally ill.
Surprise, surprise, there was nothing of the welfare safety net left for
us it had all been pissed away. We struggled on alone till the end. That
was when I realised the truth about Socialism. It looks good on paper –
but how can corrupt humanity operate it properly without the psychopaths
taking it over and running it to their own advantage? I am now an
individualist and do what I can myself. I’ve never voted Tory and won’t
while they carry on in the way they are. I shall go with UKIP for now to
try to get away from the Marxist run EU. Before you lecture me again let
me say that I don’t suppose UKIP would show high principle if ever it
got power. “Power tends to corrupt…….”. In this Socialist world I trust
very few people nowadays and there are no politicians on my list.
The Socialist trade unionists with whom I worked in the 50s did not
pay their hard-earned shillings in union dues to bring about this
welfare state of dependence – they would be horrified at what has been
done. They were hard working, decent men who wanted a safety net, not
something to be manipulated into what we have now: Welfare dependence,
Cultural Marxism, politically correct censorship, a Marxist EU and a
neutered Parliament.
I’ll stop now, you’ve certainly drawn me out – I wonder if that was
your intention? I’ll end by saying don’t judge anyone till you know
their story. I await your further insights.
Oh right I didn’t realise, just thought you were harping on about
what a good Prime minister Margaret Thatcher was over Tony Blair,
Gordon Brown etc, so wanted to point out that it wasn’t for
I didn’t realise my views were all that socialist.
So, could your wife not get sick pay/benefits?
Daedalus X. ParrotApril 11, 2013 at 17:00
Very well said Den.
Glasgow’s appears to be the tamest of them all, especially compared with
Bristol!
And seems to be comprised mainly of older people with a special interest in
politics ….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306165/Margaret-Thatcher-death-parties-The-Lefts-sick-celebration-Brixtons-streets.html
carol42,
Re: “Glasgow has been run by Labour as long as I can remember, and little
has improved but they still get voted in again and again”
Glasgow seems to have a lot more going for it than a lot of places
facilities etc….
@ carol42
Some might think that your saying that Glasgow might be thought to be a
dump because it once was, is almost like saying that London isn’t a dump
because it once wasn’t, except, of course, for the fact that it always was.
http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2930
carol42April 10, 2013 at 23:18
That is certainly true of the city centre and the West End, it is the
wastelands ourside that are deeply depressing. I was there last year in
Paisley, not Glasgow I know, but it was a sad experience. One area that is
vastly improved is Castlemilk since it now seems to be much beter run, it
used to be a real dump. A friend recently bought her flat there and houses
seem to be selling very well. Shame they don’t seem to be able to so the
same in other vast housing estates.
Yeah it’s all been rejuvenated – theirs some nice houses in
Castlemilk.
I wouldn’t vote Conservative anyway, no way, lol….
I am Glasgow born though I left many years ago and I was utterly disgusted
by the sight of those idiots in George Square. To ‘celebrate’ anyones death is
vile. I just wish the BBC would spend a few hours with the old footage of just
what it was like in the 70s, only those of us who were there know the full
horror of those days, not stupid kids who were likely not even born then and
who have clearly not been taught any factual history or politics. If Scotland
has more of a sense of community I can’t say I ever saw it when I lived there
and most of my family still do. Glasgow has been run by Labour as long as I
can remember, and little has improved but they still get voted in again and
again. I am unsure about independence, it would be a shame but in a way it
might be better for everyone, though the unfair develution will have to sorted
at some time if there is not to be independence. Maybe it is time for Northern
Ireland, Scotland and Wales to go their own way and let England run her own
affairs. I think some of the trouble for Scotland is that many of her most
able and ambitious tend to leave and for those who stay the best jobs are in
the public sector. Perhaps the Union is coming to a natural end. From my own
family only one is voting for independemce that I know of.
BrianApril 10,
Individuals in Scotland have had a right to buy their croft houses and land
since 1976 and crofting communities have been able to force a sale on the
laird since 2003:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/farmingrural/Rural/rural-land/right-to-buy/crofting
Leftie bigots applaud this policy because it is compulsory purchase from a
private landlord’s stock of property onto the open market. Council house right
to buy (it has always been possible to buy surplus council houses if the
council agreed to sell) transfers property from a public landlord onto the
open market. If one swallows a double measure of hypocrisy it is possible to
appreciate the difference.
davidbApril 10, 2013 at 17:56
I was bemused by much of the above. Alas you are all being manipulated by
media, and are not seeing bigger pictures. A more profound understanding of
the history of these islands, their various tribes and of the historic role of
religion would allow a more sober reflection.
If it is right that England should stay out of the Euro because a one size
interest rate is bad for a group of economies so divergent, how is it right
for Scotland, Northern England, Cornwall and London to share the same
currency? Are houses in Penzance selling for £20million? Does the consumer
credit market in Liverpool need damping down? But the rump of this UK economy
has been funded by an explosion of financial services in the City of London.
So interest rates and taxes and monetary policy have been dictated by the
requirements of that place. That is not any more in Scotland’s interest than
it is in Newcastle’s. If Salmond wants to join the Euro he will be laughed at
– although not 10 years ago. If Scotland has its own currency – well we export
whisky and oil – so our currency would be “hard” if it wasn’t pegged to
something else. Best not rock the boat, there’s a referendum to be won.
A handful of dicks from the Shagger Sheridan Tendancy doth not a nation
make. 10 % of the electors voted for extreme left parties just a few years ago
in Scotland. They no more represent the majority of Scots than do morris
dancers represent England. So some of them felt it was OK to be filmed
clowning around in bad taste. It was a couple of hundred I heard reported. We
must all be the same then. And all black men must be rapists and all guys with
beards are child molesters. Get a grip. Most people are indifferent, many I
know acknowledge her strengths and some do not want to resile from an
irrational bitterness. The Irish minority community derived much support here
in Scotland during the troubles. Bobby Sands ( a fine songwriter btw ) was
revered in some quarters. I could quite understand if someone bore a grudge
for the Baroness’ perceived part in his demise. Did anyone find out if the
handful of mawkish souls had a “sound” reason for their ill manners?
Scotland pays its way in the UK. The real cash drain is Ireland. But chunks
of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham and even bits of London are a
big drain on the public purse. Oh, and we are your shock troops. Twice as many
in proportion to population die in your global posturing wars. Got to have
that UN seat and unaffordable trident missiles or England would be the poor
permanent member.
The empire is gone now. Do many of you who have this hatred of Scotland
bear a bitter resentment towards India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and
the other quarter of the globe that decided it did not want to be part of
“England” any more? Anna, I don’t know if Monbazillac was ever part of
England, but do you feel a bitterness towards the people of Calais or Poitiers
which used to belong to England? What is this antipathy towards us ungrateful
Scots? Are there not enough ingrates in Lewisham or Notting Hill to go
round?
I thought she was the best PM we have had since the war. And I am voting
Yes in the referendum. I do not hate you FEB’s, I just think that Frenchmen
should run France, Spaniards Spain, and Scotsmen Scotland. Is that so bad?
Johnd2008April 10, 2013 at 14:39
I have experienced this type of mindless hate by the left before when I
refused to strike in 1971. The instructions came down from Union headquarters
without the pretence of a ballot. One thing that no one seems to be asking, in
the event of a yes vote for independence, how many ships will there be in a
Scottish navy and how many aircraft in the Scottish air force?
Ted TreenApril 10, 2013 at 21:46
a) Two coracles and b) one tame but probably pissed Golden Eagle.
Tom MeinApril 10, 2013 at 14:35
Well said Anna, maybe it would be nice of the whole of the UK had an
opportunity to vote on Scottish independence rather like the way that Scottish
mps are able to vote on English affairs?
Tony (Somerset)
If Scotland wants to go, let them go. But don’t expect the rest of the UK
to pay anything.
GildasTheMonk
I am bound to say I have been harbouring exactly such sentiments for some
time now. I am heartily sick of the endless carping. Also, it would end the
prospect of Labour rule in England forever – a distinct plus!
Wigner’s Friend
The only problem is that: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306651/Scotland-expects-Bank-England-bail-split-UK.html
and knowing this government they will probably let them get away with it.
Furor Teutonicus
Fucking BRILLIANT! Well said Anna!!!
SKApril 10, 2013 at 12:45
No need to generalise. In every nation there are different kind of people
with different beliefs.
For the people who commented about Scotland and only saw oil as the main
benefit, i think you might have to look further and think about water.
SE cant have enough and wont have enough soon and Scotland is the only
MichaelApril 10, 2013 at 12:03
Street celebrations at a funeral? The Westboro Baptist Church would be
proud. Maybe the protesters (many too young to properly remember her
premiership) should knock up a few banners. I suggest, “God hates Mags”.
MudpluggerApril 10, 2013 at 11:43
I really can’t understand why any sane Conservative would now want to keep
Scotland in the UK. The Lib-Dems at least have an excuse because of all those
woolly votes in the Highland & Islands. The Labour Party knows it can rely
on brain-dead votes, and thus MPs, to sustain its cunning devolution formula
of giving away power whilst retaining all their payroll-seats at Westminster
to counter the opposite nature of most English voters. But why any Tory group
would want to keep it, thus making any future majority far more difficult, if
not impossible, completely baffles me.
Add into the equation that the unspoken long-term plan to hand over
Northern Ireland to the Irish Republic is already running its course, it’s
just waiting for the predictable demographics to catch up in a decade or two,
then the concept of the four-nation United Kingdom is already dead in the
turbulent waters surrrounding it.
Scotland’s largely a beautiful place, enjoying stunning, unspoilt scenery
and some very smart, personable folk (although, if we’re honest, most of that
type have already left in the kilted diaspora). Sadly Scotland’s attractions
are now far outweighed by its evident downsides, only some of which feature in
Anna’s piece.
“Time to go”, said Zebedee.
“Scotland’s largely a beautiful place, enjoying stunning, unspoilt
scenery and some very smart, personable folk ”
“Unspoilt” scenery? With SNP policy of 100% renewables plan by
2020, there are already hundreds of Subsidy (wind) Farms blighting the
glens, so that also calls into question their alleged ‘smartness’ too.
JP You may indeed be right – I’ve not been there post-windmill
nonsense. Another reason to cut adrift.
“…there are already hundreds of Subsidy (wind) Farms blighting the
You can bet your best sporran that would not be so if Jock Public were
footing the bill.
That wouldn’t be because Scotland doesn’t really need them, would it,
being a net exporter of electricity to England?
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/65841/7345-elec-gen-2008-2011-et-article.pdf
Ken Ferguson
As someone who has lived in various locations throughout the UK, I do agree
that there is a much stronger communitarian ethos in Scotland than there is in
England. Whether a few Socialist Worker idiots celebrating Thatcher’s death in
Glasgow is sufficient reason to cast them adrift is another matter.
Norway is one of the richest countries in the world and there is a strong
argument that, had Scotland been independent throughout the boom in North Sea
oil, it would be rich enough to indulge itself in whatever socialist fantasies
it wished. And I agree that if it still thinks such a future is viable it
should be able to choose it.
But don’t, for a moment, suppose that casting Scotland adrift would somehow
defeat, or even affect collectivism in England. I’m afraid we are too badly
infected already and nobody seems interested in looking for a vaccine.
‘I do agree that there is a much stronger communitarian ethos in Scotland
than there is in England.’
That was the primary problem. There were parts of Scotland which had been
true blue Tory for yonks, but she managed to breed a resentment to her
intentions by her use of language and a thinking that was totally alien to
the way most Scots perceived their culture, and what they thought was a good
and proper way of going about your dealings with your fellow men and women
The Tories certainly didn’t then get kicked of Scotland by the miners et
al. Industrialised Scotland was Labour through and through and, at the time,
likely to remain so as long as any one candidate could turn up with a red
rosette, any intellect, common sense and breadth of vision being unnecessary
extras. No, the Tories didn’t lose lost their rural heartlands of Northern
and Eastern Scotland etc by losing the votes of unreconstructed miners and
trades unionists – in those areas there were no pits or heavy industries. It
wasn’t by any underlying or inherent pro Labour partisanship either, as
almost all non urban local government was controlled and run by
Independents.
It was the perceived cultural divide she created, and her failure to
understand the implications, or willingness to ignore them, that alienated
her there.
Now, that said, Scots may have proved to be great scientists, engineers,
technological innovators and explorers, but the inbuilt authoritarianism
that Anna refers to makes them really useless as politicians, as they are
all too ready to impose their will on anyone else they can on the basis that
there is only right or wrong, and if they are right, everyone else must be
wrong and consequently, as they surely then need to be protected from
themselves, the only right and decent thing to do is to do whatever means is
necessary to achieve that, compulsorily if necessary. It’s one’s moral duty
to do others good
The logic is scientific in its precision, but it comes in packages where,
if the bearer has had a Presbetyrian, or worse still, a Calvanist
upbringing, it is all too often delivered with the underlying emotional
intellect of a brick, insofar as it completely ignores other people’s
positions and feelings and any shades of grey in terms of right or wrong,
but this is something which Scots have developed such thick skins to over
the years that they can happily ignore those, and even seem crass in their
ability to do such, but by which they will very readily upset the
sensitivities of their softer hearted counterparts elsewhere.
Of course, Mrs T’s approach to communitarianism, individualism and so on
(remember ‘there is no such thing as society’? – I know the context and full
quote, but that was the headline message most people absorbed), that could
readily be construed as being one in which she considered that only she was
right, but when you put that up against the thinking of an equally stubborn
group who saw themselves as having lived quite happily in a communitarian
spirit developed over centuries, she and the Tories north of the border were
bound to come to grief
Now, as for dispatching all Scots into some sort of outer darkness, while
I have no charge over the Scottish Economy, I trust that our hostess will,
in the light of a bright new day, see that doing so on the basis of a media
report highlighting a few latter day nitwits in George Square, while similar
activities are going on in balmy England, might not necessarily be a good
idea as, even if many Scots hold no real love for Mrs T, the twats cavoring
about on the streets are probably as unrepresentative of the majority in
their conduct as their counterpart loonies in Bristol and Brixton etc
If she should not feel like relenting, then if she could be as good as
remove Brixton from the map too, that would be helpful, as it would make
getting home easier. And, while in despatching mood, to ensure a measure of
equality in the process, she might also wish to remove for everyone’s
benefit that other self righteous group, who sound quite similar to most
Scots I grew up with, described as being those who ‘were frugal, reticent,
utterly self-reliant, and immensely aspirational. They were also suspicious
of progressive values, vulgarity of any kind, self-indulgence,
pretentiousness, and people who know best’. That would do us all good.
Re: “the twats cavoring about on the streets are probably as
unrepresentative of the majority in their conduct as their counterpart
loonies in Bristol and Brixton etc”
Now Glasgow has a population of 598,830, and only 300 have been
reported as celebrating Margarate Thatchers death on George Square, some
may well have just been passers by and someone organised it on Facebook
apparently….
Whilst what you say may be true, I can confirm from my circle of
acquaintances (from all walks of life) that were a plebiscite held in
England over the matter of Scottish independence, said independence
would be approved by an overwhelming majority.
Maybe that’s the fault of a perceived cultural divide on the part of
the English.
PoyntonApril 10, 2013 at 13:56
Worth remembering that the reason Scotland joined the Union was that the
country was bankrupt. For most of the time since said Union, they have lived
off the teat of England. They owed us that oil, indeed, and we are still
subbing them hugely.
Re: “Worth remembering that the reason Scotland joined the Union was
that the country was bankrupt”
That was back in the early 18th centuary.
Re: “For most of the time since said Union, they have lived off the
teat of England”
Now that is a myth. The reason for the Union was that a handfull of
aristos with lands in both countries saw fit to sell their country in
return for their own debts being repaid. Think of it like a bank going
bankrupt but the price of bailing it out is that your country is handed
over to a richer foreign power. You only get a vote in the matter if you
are a creditor of the bank. Interest rates were not unduely high ( TC
Smout ) in Scotland at the time, so Darien didn’t bankrupt Scotland,
merely those investing in the venture.
LarkinApril 10, 2013 at 11:37
My only thought is that we should not judge the Scottish people by their
apparent mouthpieces any more than we might judge the British people by
theirs…..
My other thought is that we are allowing not a lot of people, to have an
inordinate influence upon our political thinking:
Liberal Democrat…………. 465,471
Scottish National Party……………..
UK Independence Party……………….
Green………… 16,827
British National Party………………. 8,910
Unionist and Socialist Coalition………… 3,530
Scottish Socialist Party……………
Christian Party………………….. 835
PaulApril 11, 2013 at 08:07
The Scottish people ARE British and will remain British even if they
leave the union. They will still be inhabitants of the British Isles or at
least have been born in the British Isles. I think what you meant was
ENGLISH, now it seems, a dirty word. You haven’t been indoctrinated have
@Paul
I can see that you have grasped the subtlety yourself, but failed to
credit me with the same capacity. We’re all pawns m’dear.
I believe the definition of who will be able to vote in the Referendum
is associated with all those who are normally resident in Scotland and so
are subject to paying the local taxes (Poll or otherwise). Thus there will
be many English, Irish and Welsh people eligible to vote (but will they do
so? Or honourably abstain) whilst many of those who probably view
themselves as Scottish but cycled to get a job in Kent in the 1980′s, will
be “disenfranchised” in any “racial” sense. You might just as well have a
referendum for Merseyside, as Davidb elsewhere has pointed out. Maybe, if
the Scots experiment is successful,, we will one day have fuller and
fuller Balkanisation. It seems to work for the Czechs so why not us.
Moor Larkin,
Some people have suggested that the whole north of the county (not
just Scotland), should become separate from the south of England (or
vice-versa), if at all….
Ed PApril 10, 2013 at 11:35
As Gordon Brown did much, much more harm to this country than all the good
that Mrs. Thatcher did, I beg to differ: I will be dancing with joy when he
snuffs it.
Chris Morriss
I’ll be tempted to do that as well, though the real jubilation for me (if
I’m still around), will be for when the mendacious war criminal Blair
finally gets taken away screaming by the denizens of the dungeon
In any case I’ve been fed up with them for ages. Send ‘em packing and
re-build Hadrian’s wall a hundred feet high. And share the gas and oil in
proportion to population of countries involved – they’d all have apoplexy.
Most of my observations of the Scots have been in London pubs where peace and
quiet was interrupted by Glaswegian drunks fighting anyone with an English
accent. Oh, and the only time I have been racially abused was in Glasgow on
account of an English accent. They are beyond the pale.
meApril 10, 2013 at 11:40
I may, or may not, have been “racially abused” in Glasgow, during my few
visits there I have been unable to understand what anyone was saying.
Good one, well played.
My father-in-law, an born and bred Socialist of the old school, a quiet
man and a lovely man, served in the Navy all over the world in WWII. Not a
man to speak ill of anyone, he made an exception for the Scots, who, he
noted, were always the ones who started bar room brawls when in port.
Yes, build the wall, and send in the White Walkers. Winter is coming … to
Scotland.
RaccoonApril 10, 2013 at 14:04
Another Game of Thrones fan I see!
It was once said that modern day Scots are proof that the Vikings used to
shag the Highland Cattle.
Alright, it was said by me. In 1979. In a hotel bar in Aberdeen. Not one
of my wiser actions…
It was also said of the native americans and the buffalo….
Now I knows why them thar Injuns wuz called Braves……………..
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but who has ever marooned an
undisciplined dog in an inhospitable land?
“Rufus, if you bark like that at the postman again, I will maroon the hell
out of you in an inhospitable land!”
“A child has been taken to hospital after a dog attack, and is in a serious
but stable condition. The dog was marooned in an inhospitable land by
police.”
martinApril 11, 2013 at 00:04
I once policed an inhospitable dog in a marooned land.
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yum·my (yŭmē)
adj. yum·mi·er, yum·mi·est
1. Very pleasing to the taste or smell; delicious. See Synonyms at delicious.
2. Very pleasant or attractive.
[From YUM.]
yummi·ness n.
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Artist Spotlight: Lauren Seiden Exploring Lauren Seiden's lush graphite based 'sculptures'
EXPLORING LAUREN SEIDEN’S LUSH GRAPHITE ‘SCULPTURES’
By Kate Messenger
Living and working in New York City, Lauren Sieden has had exhibitions in New York City, Miami, Brazil, Germany, Istanbul, Italy and the UK. Beyond gallery and institutional settings, Seiden’s work has also been placed for staging in high end real estate sales in New York. Curated by the design team ASH, Seiden’s work was installed at Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s townhouse at 20 East 10th Street in Greenwich Village when it was being sold last year, as well as the development at 10 Sullivan Street in Soho by celebrated architect Cary Tamarkin. ASH specifically selected Seiden’s work to enhance the interior experience of these spaces, bringing a unique architectural physicality to otherwise flat walls. These homes were widely publicized and featured in New York Magazine and Architectural Digest, and Sieden’s work has been reviewed and featured in ArtForum, Modern Painters, Time Out NY, and Blouin Artinfo.
In the Western tradition, drawing is most commonly a two dimensional medium – the scaffold on which the more rarified practices of painting, sculpture, and architecture are built upon. Lauren Seiden’s practice expands the act of drawing beyond the page, exploring the essential elements of process and materiality through an intuitive and intimate layering of graphite. Testing the conventions of drawing, Sieden breaks down the surface and transforms these materials into a physical, textural and structural form. For example the “Wrap Series,” made of large sheets of stiffened rectangular paper that have been laboriously rubbed with graphite, project off the wall in a sculptural expansion. Graphite pervades every surface as she applies this same process to hanging thread, steel, marble, and floating on the surface of water; showing how as these materials transition, they begin to masquerade as a new form of the material’s natural state.
Seiden’s graphite based sculptures bring drawing itself into the foreground, redefining its terms by drawing in four dimensions and creating a new form beyond the expected medium.
Seiden’s artworks were used to stage Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s townhouse at 20 East 10th Street when the property was being sold last year. Seiden’s Shield Wrap 3 is shown in this photo (photo credit: Christian Harder and ASH)
Seiden’s Raw Wrap 10 shown installed at 10 Sullivan Street in SoHo when the new development property was staged for sale (photo credit: Christian Harder and ASH)
Hard to Break, 2016. Graphite and mixed medium on paper. 24 x 16 x 4 inches.
Shield Wrap 10, 2014. Graphite on paper. 56 x 42 x 10 inches.
Blue Raw wrap 2, 2014. Graphite and pigment on paper wrapped on stretchers. 33 x 28 x 7 inches.
Broken Shield, 2015. Graphite and mixed medium on paper. 34.5 x 24 x 6.5 inches.
That Fiery Sadness Called Desire, 2016. Graphite and mixed medium on silk/polyester thread, 120 x 34 inches.
Rainbow in the Dark 2, 2015. Graphite and mixed medium on silk/polyester thread with graphite drawn wood frame. 77.5 x 24 x 6.5 inches.
To view more of Seiden’s work visit : www.laurenseiden.com
– Kate Messenger (Twitter/Instagram @methemessinger)
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Life Art 15 Jun 2020 Stories connected by lockdown
Life, Art
Stories connected by lockdown
THE ASIAN AGE. | NAYARE ALI
Published : Jun 15, 2020, 7:59 pm IST
Updated : Jun 15, 2020, 7:59 pm IST
Lockdown Liaisons, a collection of three eBooks by Shobhaa De is just what the doctor has ordered this Covid season
Shobhaa De
In her characteristic no-fuss style, Shobhaa De delves into the lives of the middle-class milieu.
She showcases, among others, squabbling couples as they grapple for mental and emotional space, wives who are repulsed with the forced physical intimacy with their partners and a lonely married migrant worker finding love amidst ruins.
Shobhaa explains, “These are not pretty and palatable fairy tales. The lockdown has been brutal it has brought out our worst side as human beings.
Blame it on feelings of claustrophobia, impending death, stress, monotony. In the bargain, close relationships became the first victims of the pandemic.”
Excerpts from a candid email interaction with with Shobhaa De.
In Book 1, the first three stories have an ambiguous ending. Was this deliberate, to keep the readers hooked?
As an avid reader myself, I hate being spoon-fed. I love open/ambiguous endings, be it movies or books. Why not let the reader swap places with the character and imagine what he/she would do in an identical scenario?
The story with the couple squabbling has a very contemporary vibe especially with the cuss words in it. How different was the equation in your time?
There’s definitely a generational shift. I had never heard a cuss word from either of my parents. My generation was a little more lax, especially while using the ‘f’-word. There’s no holding back today’s couples, not only with their vocabulary, but also in the free expression of their unfiltered emotions.
In the story about the woman who refuses to have sex with her husband considering her background, do think women in such situations can withhold sex?
Yes, if they have sufficient pride and refuse to endure daily humiliation. Withholding sex is the only way they can ‘hit back’. Sex is the only weapon they possess. Women without any means, who’re entirely dependent on their husbands, often resort to using sex as a bargaining chip.
The migrant worker narrative highlights the dual lives people lead, in which a fantasy relationship gives the man hopes.
The migrant worker’s relationship with a co-worker is not fantasy. For the first time in his difficult life, he discovers tenderness and his own emotional core. He feels exceedingly protective towards an oppressed young widow.
He is torn between his own desire to leave the city with the other migrant workers from his village, who decide to trudge back, and his sense of responsibility for the woman he has developed feelings for. Then there is the other compulsion his wife and kids back home, who are worried about him dying of the virus.
Book 2 turns more intense...
As a writer, I didn’t want to let go this dramatic moment in history without documenting it in my own way. I wrote the first book as an immediate response to the crisis, which at the time was just unfolding. I’d just concluded 60 episodes of my daily vlog titled Lockdown Chronicles on Instagram.
The book started where those ended. The short-story format seemed the perfect way to chronicle what was happening beyond one’s own window.
I hadn’t thought then of publishing the collection. That came later, when I strongly felt I wanted to share all these ‘voices’ with readers, who may have experienced some of these dilemmas during the lockdown. I was delighted when Simon and Schuster jumped at the idea, and we figured around putting them out there as eBooks quickly.
In Little Joyful Things, you highlighted traditional husband wife dynamics with a modern twist.
I’m glad you recognised this aspect. Today’s ‘wife’ has moved miles away from accepting a ‘doormat’ position in marriage. She’s mature, sensitive and wants more out of life and marriage. The lockdown time with her husband provides the perspective she needs to make an important decision not rashly but wisely.
In Vodka and No Tonic, I found the concept of sexual detox funny but real. People don’t want to mess around during Covid-19, with many couples having severe issues with the lockdown. Do you think it’s because couples in modern marriages aren’t used to spending so much time together?
I believe most young couples have forgotten what ‘intimacy’ means. Their relationships seem bloodless and transactional, with very little emotional and physical connect, and their lives consumed by career goals and consumerism.
The underlying theme in the three books seems to be about women in unhappy marriages and sexually dissatisfied and abusive exploitative men. Is this a direct fallout of Covid-19, where women are questioning their lives?
The idea was to table mixed feelings of being ‘trapped’ physically and emotionally because of Covid-19. We are all paying a huge price for what has been unleashed on the world by a microbe.
Women in particular find it harder to cope as the burden of domestic management has fallen largely on them. Additionally, with home schooling and other responsibilities, women are definitely feeling deeply oppressed. Sex is last on their minds.
You’ve addressed new age sexual incompatibility and boredom issues. Do you believe monogamy is outdated?
The institution of marriage is going South. Perhaps it is in the process of being redefined. We may arrive at a new format, keeping with today’s changed environment. Who knows?
Your writing is simple and evocative. There’s a tendency among new-age authors to try and impress readers with their extensive vocabulary a desire to use every new word in the dictionary!
This is and has always been my ‘voice’, from the time I started writing over 45 years ago.
For me, writing a book is a conversation I’m having with my reader. I write the way I speak directly and minus the flourishes. I prefer a form of communication devoid of literary gimmicks and attempts to show off, which I find is a tiresome, pretentious trait in writers.
Good communication is about conveying what you wish to say in an accessible way to illuminate, not impress which is why I admire R K Narayan. It’s a joy to read him. His sophistication as a supremely talented storyteller lies in the simplicity of his words. Milan Kundera’s another master.
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New Research Finds Dramatic Shift in Security Budgets from Prevention to Detection Solutions
Reading Time: 3 minutes | Published: January 24, 2017 in Press Release, Survey
Tags: Detection budgetpreventionResearchsurvey
Study Conducted by Anderson Research Shows 49% Allocated to Detection, Now at Parity with Prevention
Fremont, CA., January 25, 2017— Attivo Networks®, the award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity defense, today announced that a survey conducted by Anderson Research shows the portion of security budgets targeted for detection solutions increased substantially over 2015. According to those security professionals surveyed, their current budgets have shifted and are now split evenly between detection and prevention solutions. The report, sponsored by Attivo Networks, was conducted last quarter among security professionals from over seven industry sectors throughout the U.S. According to industry estimates, enterprises have historically spent more than 75% of their InfoSec technology budgets on preventative technologies.
Nearly 80 percent (73.1%) of those surveyed feel they are at risk of a security breach and only half (51.9%) feel their security defenses are reliably stopping threats from getting into their networks. Three quarters (70.3%) are more concerned about in-network threat detection than in 2015. These numbers validate that organizations are adopting an “assumed breached” security posture and are now looking to modernize their security infrastructure with tools that provide accurate in-network threat visibility and will improve their efficiency in post infection detection and response.
Detecting in-network threats can be challenging because of limited visibility, the complexity and resource intensity of correlating attack information and incident response. Alert fatigue is also common challenge driven by many detection solutions generating more alerts than security teams can address. The most common cited issues were:
Limited resources to respond. In fact, 65.2% indicated they agreed (42%) or strongly agreed (23.2%) with this.
Correlating attack information and activity accurately is too resource intensive (59.2%)
Too many false positives (52.2%)
Lack of visibility to threats inside their network (54.5%)
According to the survey, key motivators for shifting budget to detection solutions include early visibility to in-network threats or misconfigurations that could lead to a breach (68.5%); followed by automated attack correlation for resource efficiency (55.1%), automated blocking and quarantine of attacks of accelerated incident response (42.7%), and the elimination of false positives for accuracy and incident response efficiency (42.1%).
The survey went on to explore the challenges faced by organizations implementing detection as a security solution, which included more logs and data to manage (63.4%), the number of false positives generated (48.3%), lack of trained resources (46.5%), too complex or time consuming to manage (39.5%), more tools to manage (34.3%) and lack of budget (33.1%).
The concept of deception-based threat detection was introduced in the survey and of the respondents looking for new detection solutions, 60% agree, 11% strongly agreed, that they would consider deception-based detection for in-network threats.
According to Gartner in Applying Deception Technologies and Techniques to Improve Threat Detection and Response, “many organizations can benefit from implementing deception technologies and techniques. Although it is not a requirement from any significant compliance mandate, deception is a valid approach to complement a security architecture and to address some of the shortcomings of other security solutions.”
“Increasing the size of detection budgets is a critical change in the security planning process,” said Tushar Kothari, CEO of Attivo Networks. “There have been too many breaches in the past to suggest that prevention tools alone can protect organizations. With advanced detection technologies like deception, the prior complexity and resource intensity challenges of in-network treat detection are elegantly solved. It’s exciting to see so much interest in deception among those who were surveyed.”
The survey respondents represented a wide spectrum of industries including financial services, healthcare, telecom, retail, manufacturing, hospitality and education. A third were from companies with more than 50,000 employees (30.5%) and two thirds (66.3%) from companies with more than $100 million in revenue.
About Attivo Networks
Attivo Networks® is the leader in deception technology for real-time detection, analysis, and accelerated response to cyber-attacks. The Attivo ThreatMatrix™ Deception and Response Platform accurately detects advanced in-network threats and provides scalable continuous threat management for user networks, data centers, cloud, IoT, ICS-SCADA, and POS environments. Attivo Camouflage dynamic deception techniques and decoys efficiently lure and deceive attackers into revealing themselves while attack path and lateral movement tracking provide accurate visibility to advanced, credential, ransomware, and insider threats that have evaded prevention systems. The solution’s automated attack analysis and forensic reporting provides evidence-based alerts, and auto-blocking and quarantine of attacks for accelerated incident response. For more information, visit www.attivonetworks.com
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Harry and Meghan 'spent $38000 on private jet to Ibiza'
Danielle Stacey
·Royal Correspondent
16 August 2019, 6:43 pm
Meghan and Harry in Dubbo, Australia last October. Photo: Getty Images
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s private jet to Ibiza reportedly cost up to $38,000, but who paid remains unclear.
Earlier this week, Spanish press reported that Harry, 34, and Meghan, 38, spent six days on the Balearic island with their three-month-old son Archie Harrison, in a private villa.
The trip was to celebrate Meghan’s birthday on August 4 and would have marked baby Archie’s first trip abroad.
The couple are said to have travelled with their security team and ‘local forces were not needed.'
Meghan and Harry pictured with baby Archie at a polo match in July. Photo: Getty Images
Flight logs obtained by Mail Online show the only private plane travelling to Ibiza from Farnborough Airport in Hampshire on Tuesday 6 August was a Gulfstream 200.
The airport is 20 miles, roughly a 35-minute drive, from Harry and Meghan’s home in Windsor.
It’s been claimed that the royals then returned to the UK on Monday this week, on a nine-seater Cessna 500 XL, which is owned by luxury private aviation company NetJets, known as the 'the Uber for billionaires.'
Each aircraft offers in-flight fine dining, entertainment, grooming products and WiFi.
It is not known who paid for the Sussexes’ flight, but Harry’s millionaire pal Argentine polo player Nacho Figueras is understood to be a user of NetJets.
A post shared by NetJets (@netjets) on Aug 15, 2019 at 6:31am PDT
Environmental misstep
According to the Mail, the journey by private jet would have emitted six times more carbon dioxide than a commercial flight.
Buckingham Palace has declined to comment.
It comes after controversial reports claimed Prince Harry travelled to the Google summit in Sicily by private jet, earlier this month, where he gave a speech about climate change, while barefoot.
In Meghan’s guest edited issue of British Vogue, Harry also discussed environment, responsibility and climate change with primatologist Dr Jane Goodall, 85.
In the interview, the duke explained why it’s important to wake up to the “the damage and the destruction that we’re (humans are) causing.”
He also said that he and Meghan only plan to have “two children, maximum” to help protect the planet.
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Amazon says it spent months warning Parler about violent posts
Amazon has officially responded to Parler’s lawsuit against AWS. In court documents filed Tuesday, Amazon says it warned Parler officials about the violent threats on its platform nearly two months before the riot at the US Capitol sparked the app’s removal from major app stores and technology platforms.
“This case is not about suppressing speech or stifling viewpoints,” Amazon’s lawyers write. “It is not about a conspiracy to restrain trade. Instead, this case is about Parler’s demonstrated unwillingness and inability to remove from the servers of Amazon Web Services content that threatens the public safety, such as by inciting and planning the rape, torture, and assassination of named public officials and private citizens.”
Amazon offers several disturbing examples of the kinds of posts the company says it “repeatedly” flagged to a top Parler executive. In emails dated in mid-November, AWS representatives asked Parler’s Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff for more details on how the app moderates content.
The emails include screenshots of “potential hate speech and incitement of violence content” that was available on the app at the time. The examples include a post with numerous racial slurs directed at Michelle Obama, as well as two posts that include the phrase “Kill ‘em All.”
In a response two day later, Peikoff says that the “Kill ‘em All” comments were “passed on to our regular contact for investigation.” Regarding the post about Obama, though, she notes that “as hateful as it is, would not be deemed a violation of our terms of service.” “Parler does not ban ‘hate speech’ insofar as it would be protected by the First Amendment,” she writes.
Amazon says that in the seven weeks following that exchange, it “reported more than 100 additional representative pieces of content advocating violence.” Amazon included more than a dozen examples of the posts it reported, including messages calling for the deaths of numerous tech executives and elected officials and calls for a civil war. Parler users also threatened teachers and members of law enforcement, Amazon says. “Parler itself has admitted it has a backlog of 26,000 reports of content that violates its (minimal) community standards that it had not yet reviewed,” the company writes.
Parler filed a lawsuit claiming antitrust violations against Amazon earlier this week. The company argued that Amazon was trying to help Twitter by going after Parler -- a claim AWS has disputed.
The “free speech” app’s lack of robust content moderation has become a major hurdle for the service, which gained notoriety for being popular among Republican lawmakers and supporters of Donald Trump. In addition to Amazon cutting it off, Apple and Google also cited the company’s content policies and the prevalence of violent threats on Parler, when they pulled the app out of their stores last week. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that Parler would be allowed back in the App Store if the app starts following Apple’s terms of service.
Update 1/13 6:53pm ET: In a statement a spokesperson for AWS confirmed that Amazon had warned Parler several times.
“AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler’s right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service. We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.”
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First case of highly-contagious Covid variant found in Australia
28 December 2020, 11:43 pm ·3-min read
The first Australian case of a South African variant of Covid-19 thought to be more contagious has been detected in Queensland.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the case involved a woman who arrived on December 22 and was immediately placed into hotel quarantine.
"Genome sequencing has come back to show that she has this new variant that has been picked up in South Africa, that is thought to be more contagious," she said.
The woman was transferred via ambulance to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.
The first Australian case of a South African variant of Covid-19 thought to be more contagious has been detected in Queensland. Source: AAP
Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said while other jurisdictions had detected a UK variant of the virus, this was the first time the South African strain had been confirmed in Australia.
"We are absolutely confident that all proper measures were taken at the hotel and in the transfer, and of course at the hospital in relation to this positive case," she said.
Two new coronavirus cases in Queensland
There were two new cases recorded in the state overnight, both acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine.
Queensland Health has also confirmed two crew members from a superyacht that arrived in Cairns four days before Christmas no longer have active Covid-19 infections.
A man in his 30s and a woman in her 20s had initially tested positive after the Lady E arrived on December 21, following a two-week sea journey from the Maldives.
Some 14 guests and other crew have been directed to hotel quarantine while six other crew members remain on the vessel.
Further testing found the pair were carrying antibodies from an old recovered infection.
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"The blood tests confirm there is no active Covid-19 infection," it said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Both will remain in quarantine and full isolation from the wider community until early January."
All other crew members have returned negative test results but will continue to isolate either on the yacht or onshore.
The captain of the Lady E, James Kennedy, said he was grateful for the effort authorities had gone to on behalf of the crew.
Members of the Saaberie Chishty Burial Society prepare the body of a person who died from Covid-19 in Johannesburg. Source: AAP
A fourth checkpoint designed to ease congestion on Queensland's border with NSW will open for New Year's Eve as police work to balance resources across a number of Covid operations.
Chief Superintendent Mark Wheeler said the checkpoint would open at 7am on December 31 to help ease congestion around Coolangatta and Tweed Heads.
Almost 70 extra officers and SES personnel have been called on to assist at the border and Chief Supt Wheeler said police also had responsibility at airports and hotel quarantine sites.
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ENVISION: THE GREYFIELD PRECINCT IDENTIFICATION E-TOOL
ENVISION allows users to query a rich and diverse set of data to identify areas of redevelopment focus and potential redevelopment precincts in the established suburbs of major Australian cities.
To apply for access to Envision, please email Stephen Glackin at: sglackin (at) swin.edu.au
From 2012 to 2016 this project translated a prototype planning support system (ENVISION) developed jointly by researchers at Swinburne and Curtin Universities for the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI), into a standalone web tool. This tool is now hosted and supported by the CRCSI.
ENVISION offers a set of tools allowing users to query a wide variety of data sets and indicators to identify areas that are appropriate for redevelopment and to ultimately allow them to identify redevelopment precincts.
The toolkit has four main tools. The first two allow users to run multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) assessments using property level and ABS SA1 level data. These two functions allow users to select a variety of demographic, proximity-based and market-based attributes (decision criteria), weight their significance, and from them calculate a single composite index to visualise areas suitable for redevelopment as a choropleth (thematic map).
The third tool allows users to select variables that are potential indicators of redevelopment, as well as their cut-off values. The tool facilitates users drilling down into housing data to finally produce a map that identifies potential redevelopment precincts, or clusters of dwellings with high redevelopment potential. The fourth tool provides a redevelopment viability assessment and costing function that allows users to populate a chosen area with various housing typologies, estimate the cost of developing the project and then compare the estimated sales price against existing sales in the area.
Users of the ENVISION system will include both strategic and non-strategic planners (at both state and local government levels), in combination with local community residents and the building industry.
The original investment from AURIN funded the project team to produce:
An online version of the ENVISION urban redevelopment decision support toolkit. This includes the following 4 functions: Property Level MCE, SA1 Level MCE, Redevelopment Precinct Identification and Development Viability and Costing.
Two demonstrator projects in cities of Manningham (VIC) and Canning (WA).
Full user manual and documentation.
PROJECT TEAM OVERVIEW
The research was initially funded by AURIN and the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information. Other partners included the Western Australian Department of Planning and the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. Research was led by Professor Peter Newton of Swinburne University and Professor Peter Newman of Curtin University. Research and software was designed and implemented by Dr Stephen Glackin of Swinburne University and Dr Roman Trubka of Curtin University.
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Newton, P, Newman, P, Glackin, S & Trubka, R 2012, ‘Greening the Greyfields: Unlocking the Redevelopment Potential of the Middle Suburbs Australian Cities’, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, no. 71, pp 658-677.
Newton, P, Murray, S, Wakefield, R, Murphy, C, Khor, L, & Morgan, T 2011, ‘Towards a New Development Model for Housing Regeneration in Greyfield Residential Precincts’, AHURI Final Report No. 171, July.
Newton, P 2010, ‘Beyond Greenfields and Greyfields: the Challenge of Regenerating Australia’s Greyfield Suburbs’, Built Environment, vol. 36 , no.1, pp81-104.
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Roy D. Money, age 61 of Lima, died early Friday morning, November 4, 2016 at his residence. He was born March 7, 1955 in Lima, Ohio; to the late Hillary Frank and Lucille Janeway Money. On March 5, 1987 he married Brenda Durr.
In 1987, he became employed by Marimor Industries as a bus driver. After about fifteen years, he left Marimor to focus on his growing
moving business, R&M Movers and Sons in Lima, Ohio. He ran his moving business for 30 years before retiring. His hobbies included spending time with his family, grandchildren, and dogs.
Survivors included his children – Shana of TN, Michael Johns of Lima, Scott of Lima, Brian Johns of Lima, Chad Johns of TN, Sarah (Trinity) Bundy of Sidney, Darren (Wendy) of Lima, Troy (Linda) of Lima, and Sheila of Lima; 18 grandchildren; a brother – Larry Money and 3 sisters – Gayle (Roger) Shellenbarger, Mary (Robert) Rodriguez, and Ruby (Terry) Culp all of Lima.
He was preceded in death by grandson – Damion Joseph, father-in-law Leonard Durr, brother Hillary “Moe” Money, and sister Geraldine Money.
Services will begin 1:00 p.m., Saturday, November 12, 2016 at Ark of the Covenant Baptist Church, 2106 Reese Ave Lima, Ohio. The family will receive friends one hour prior to services at the church. Pastor Arnold Wright will officiate. Burial will be at a later date in Bluelick Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family is asking for contributions to be made directly to Bayliff and Son Funeral Home in Cridersville, Ohio to help with the cost of the funeral.
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Blank counting on co-team builders to lead a turnaround
By Cole World,
February 11, 2019 in Talk About the Falcons
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Fixing the offensive line is No. 1 priority
D. Orlando Ledbetter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After the messy ending to last season, Falcons coach Dan Quinn and general manager Thomas Dimitroff started forging onward into the 2019 campaign.
Quinn got back in the office Jan. 29, the Tuesday before the Super Bowl, and they started the evaluation of the roster that resulted in the release of cornerback Robert Alford, kicker Matt Bryant and defensive end Brooks Reed last week, which created an additional $15.2 in salary-cap space.
“Still they are, that’s accurate,” Falcons owner Arthur Blank told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution when asked if Dimitroff and Quinn were still co-team builders. “But you judge a coach and general manager not in the same parameters. There are different disciplines that they are responsible for. One could be successful and one not.”
Much was made of Dimitroff and Quinn going into a “must-win” season after going 7-9 and firing all of the coordinators. Blank said that the two parties were not necessarily linked together.
“An example would be when we made a move with coach (Mike) Smith and we kept Thomas,” Blank said of Smith’s dismissal after the 2014 season. “It was just because we felt we needed to make a coaching change with great respect and fondness for everything that Mike Smith did for us, five winning seasons in a row, multiple playoffs, but we felt after a couple of very disappointing seasons, we felt we had to have a change in that area.
“We didn’t think it was necessary in terms of our general manager.”
After Smith followed a 6-10 season with a 4-12 stinker, the coach with the most wins in team history was dismissed.
The decision to move on from Alford, Bryant and Reed were the easy ones.
The major offseason program will be rebuilding the offensive line. The rebuild of an offensive line was a factor in Smith’s dismissal.
If the scouting department whiffs again, it likely would be trouble for Quinn.
“Can he? Yes, he can?” Blank said when asked if Dimitroff could fix the offensive line. “Most importantly, the coach and Thomas believe that’s probably our No. 1 priority.”
The Falcons know that quarterback Matt Ryan is most effective when he can step up into the interior of the pocket. The Falcons started six different guards last season, and the interior of the pocket was not firm.
“Matt plays much better when he’s vertical as opposed to horizontal,” Blank said. “The running game is an important part of the passing game in the total offense. If we depend on one versus the other you are not going to get a successful outcome.”
The Falcons are counting on new/returning offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter to re-establishing the rushing attack.
Koetter was the Falcons’ offensive coordinator under Smith from 2012-14. He helped the Falcons reach the NFC title game after the 2012 season.
“The advantage of bringing back Dirk Koetter is that he had good balance when he was with the Falcons,” Blank said. “In Tampa he had a great balance as well. He respects the running game really deeply.”
The Falcons felt they lost their way on offense under offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian the past two seasons after going to the Super Bowl under Kyle Shanahan.
“So, coach Quinn feels strongly that he wants to get back to that brand of football, as well,” Blank said. “It doesn’t mean that Matt won’t be throwing for 5,000 yards again. It does mean that we’ll have more balance. So, we have the personnel to do that, but we need some help on the offensive line.”
Dimitroff, in a radio-row interview during Super Bowl week, stated that the Falcons will not spend “boldly” in free agency.
“We will be very manageable and mindful about how we are going to be approaching free agency,” Dimitroff said. “We are not just going to throw money at it for the sake of it.”
So the offensive-line help will have to come from low-budget free agents, the draft or from players on the roster.
The Falcons coaches have told Blank they are not switching to a power-run scheme, thus they’ll still look for smaller, quicker linemen who fit the cut-blocking system.
“It’s a combination of outside and inside zone,” Blank said. “It’s going to be a zone scheme, but it’s going to be a combination.”
So, the Falcons have started the push toward improving their roster. Dimitroff has said he new contracts for defensive tackle Grady Jarrett and wide receiver Julio Jones.
The Falcons likely will make a few more moves before the team heads to the scouting combine, which is set for Feb. 26-March 4 in Indianapolis.
Blank wanted to be clear about the team structure moving forward.
“The coach has final say on the roster and what have you,” Blank said. “That was clear when we hired Dan four years ago. It’s his fifth season now.
“I think he and Thomas have a very much shared vision for the club. They make decisions collaboratively. That doesn’t mean they always agree. They respectfully disagree.”
Blank likes that they listen to each other.
“Sometimes, Dan will talk Thomas into something and vice versa,” Blank said. “So, we understand that ... in most cases I would say if there is really strong disagreement from one or the other, they would tend to move on and try to find a different solution that they have a common feeling about.”
After missing the playoffs and watching the Rams flail against the Patriots in the Super Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the Falcons’ owner wants a quick reboot to contender status. Dimitroff and Quinn will be charged with leading the way.
“They have that much respect for each other,” Blank said. “They are connected at the hip only in terms of their charge to make the team better and roster better and our team to perform better. But beyond that, they are not connected. They have different jobs and different responsibilities. They are not a twin by any means.”
Now, folks can turn their attention back to the roster.
As a reminder
Flying Falcon 9,264
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Well, looks like Quinn will be fired and we will be keeping TD again if this doesnt work with these small, weak OL.
As much as I want Simmons or Oliver, if they are not there I'm all for moving back and targeting Dalton Risner or Chris Lindstrom.
Both seem to play with an edge. Risner would offer more versatility but Lindstrom is a beast as well. Lindstrom reminds me of Kevin Zeitler, who was drafted by the Bengals with the 27th pick in the 1st round of the 2012 draft.
Risner would be a nice understudy to Mack.
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Thomas dimitroff has to be the biggest *** kisser. Mean while, les snead puts together a good roster
Osiruz 10,079
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Get me Lindstrom and Jonah Williams or Ed oliver from this draft along with someone like Daryl Williams and this draft will be a win.
RazorWing 693
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I was hoping for more power running.
Godzilla1985 6,392
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The 4-12 season preceded the 6-10 season. Bedwetter is pitiful.
FalconFanSince1970 24,077
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Low Budget Free Agents - tried this forever
The Draft - will likely take draft picks two or three years to settle in
Players On The Roster - laughable
Dimi better get this right or it might be his turn to go.
56 minutes ago, Cole World said:
Dimitroff has said he new contracts for defensive tackle Grady Jarrett and wide receiver Julio Jones.
What the heck? Orlando, as usual, doesn’t proof read. Nor do his colleagues at the AJC properly edit his work.
How, for the love of the English language, is this even possible as a professional sports writer?
He, and they, should be held accountable. Obviously they have low standards.
Otherwise I enjoyed the article. I don’t believe he’s a bad writer, it’s just that nobody, including himself, reviews & refines his work.
10 minutes ago, FalconFanSince1970 said:
It’s difficult to disagree with your points. Even if it’s only one, solid FA, we probably don’t need to halfazz it again.
Won't be surprised if they roll with Schraeder and Sambrailo at RT to battle it out and bank on fixing the interior. TD already made the comment that guys transfer quicker at OG coming out of college. Should tell you what you need to know. Doubt they go OG at #14, which means they're probably looking hard at DL there then fixing the interior OL in the 2nd/3rd.
This is about to be another sh!@ show on the OL. This is ridiculous.
39 minutes ago, vel said:
While I agree with this approach, it wouldn't surprise me if we got at least a mid-tier FA OL signing that's a step above Fusco; again at minimum, before the draft and keep an open mind to moves during the draft; etc. When things go down is it better to trade down, get your guy, or ? and determine is it OL or DL?
I agree it could very well be a DL as the best option at 14; not surprising, and IMO we could still trade up from our 2nd rounder for an OL that falls to 30ish overall that we prefer over remaining OL.
Not like we can't afford something of the $10M FA OG nature with Schraeder's contract possibly being gone by June; especially if he doesn't win the RT job. After all how can we justify overpaying him as the 3rd OT if he isn't the starter and hasn't re-structured? That's more money towards FA right there. (and that first year can be lower btw on such a contract)
Fixing the interior OL will mean a lot, but we also need to be able to pass block at RT in OBVIOUS passing situations. Unfortunately, that was far too often last year and RS was always a better run blocker than pass blocker. Our run game needs fixing and the pass protection will follow; mostly anyway. You can do way more when they respect the run looks/formations/play-action.
Why should we be penny pinching when it comes to the OL? This has gone on far too long.
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1 hour ago, Cole World said:
Still on the Ford Taylor train here I think either guy could make that RT there own year one.
If not those guys round 2 I’m looking Howard or Dillard.
If we are going pure G Lindstrom Jenkins with the latter in competition with Schweitzer as long term replacement for Mack.
Collaborative team building who’d have thought not the BS it’s TDs fault when something or someone is a bad pick mentality that’s been floating round here for years.Then reverse the narrative when the opposite happens to the good side of the ledger.
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If the scouting department whiffs again, it should mean trouble for Thomas Dimitroff just as much or more than Quinn. They each have their share of successes and failures but eventually you have to allow TD to take some blame for this roster, whether that's a positive or a negative.
Arthur Blank repeatedly saying that Quinn and TD aren't tied at the hip leads you to think he would be more than willing to part with one & keep the other. If Quinn doesn't pan out, I think it's time to just clean house and begin a whole new regime. They should be tied at the hip.
I'm not a Dimitroff hater, but he should be held accountable this time around. I'm not sure who is who in this organization though. Was Quinn the one who wanted Neal, Deion, Grady, etc.? Or was that TD? Or Pioli?
13 minutes ago, kiwifalcon said:
Yes if we are targeting tackles than yes Taylor and Ford, but if were targeting G's I think Lindstrom is by far the best RG in this class. Risner could play basically all the positions outside of LT but not as well as Lindstrom could play RG.
I like Jenkins as well but there are a few others that could man the LG position and take over for Mack when he is done like Risner, McCoy, and Bradbury.
Howard is a guy I'm following as well but (OT) Tyler Roemer is my sleeper.
23 hours ago, TheFalcoholic said:
Or all of thee above could have been responsible for those picks.
I think we can agree that urgent athleticism has been a go to with this Coach.
I just find the single minded ness of some to lay blame on one guy just isn’t right in this case as a lot of people’s opinions on the who what and the why come into play.
TD is at the point of the spear so I personally think it’s the easy out for alot because they really aren’t looking at the big picture they just want to allay blame.
runshoot 1,269
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This is key for those wanting to "learn" more about football. Started 6 OGs last season. When you are quick to scream about how bad our offense was, bad our OC was or how DQ should have been fired, these are the things to pay attention to. It's a christmas miracle our offense was as good as it was.
Caddieman 1,159
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I find it laughable when people blast TD for his draft picks when Blank just said DQ has finial say on the roster.
1 hour ago, kiwifalcon said:
TD is at the point of the spear so I personally think it’s the easy out for alot because they really aren’t looking at the big picture they just want allay blame.
I agree. This mindset of blame/credit is always going to be obtuse.
As fans, we have personalities that we may like or dislike. So oftentimes we assign blame or credit based upon our personal preferences.
This thinking, over time, after committing one way or another to a player/coach/manager, may lead to an agenda in order to reinforce previously assigned guilt/praise.
It’s not healthy to have an agenda because it puts an individual above the collective whole. It’s not difficult, personally, for me to look at the big picture.
Behind the scenes, however, accountability is important so that past mistakes aren’t repeated. If choosing linemen on offense has been a repetitive problem, it would be wise to explore the who & why.
If injuries or draft capital are factors then that must be reviewed as well. If our FA expenditure limits or our willingness to draft olinmen early are part of the problem, then those should be scrutinized also.
All things considered, I don’t get all jacked up over who gets credit or blame. It’s a team sport.
AB is also very much a part of this picture too I would assume.
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4 hours ago, R_The_Great said:
We have as strong a roster as rams do. Stronger in some areas, weaker in others....but overall our roster is up there with any team in football.
Our talent is not the problem.
3 hours ago, Flying Falcon said:
We have one of the most expensive offensive lines in the league.... Why do you guys keep saying this when you know it's not true?
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The Life and Public Services of Justin Smith Morrill
By William Belmont Parker
Most-favored-nation clause, and reci Greenbackers, 216, 286, 287; defia-
procity treaties, 255.
tion policy checked, 217; M. and re-
Motley, J. L., on Morrill Tariff, 113; sumption, 217, 286; panic of 1873
recall from London and Grant and agitation, 285; M.'s fears as to
Sumner break, 231-37.
Hayes's soundness, 288; M. on
Mount Vernon, M. on (1841), 41-43.
flood of bills (1896), 343.
Pardoning power, and impeachment
Napoleon I, M.'s collection of medals, and resignation, 244.
Paris, M. on, 202.
Napoleon III, stables, 202.
Parker, J. W. D., candidacy against
National banking system, M. and ex M., 60.
tension, 217.
Parliament, visits of M. to Houses,
National Road, M. on, 43.
186, 187, 206.
Navy, M. and grog, 60.
Partridge, Alden, and public-land
Nesmith, J. W., M. on, 152.
schools, 275, 280.
New Hampton, N.H., founding, 3. Payne, H. B., and M., 226.
New York City, collectorship contro Peabody, George, and M. in London,
versy under Hayes, 290.
New York Tribune, M.'s articles on his Peace Congress, failure, 123.
tariff bill, 113, 114. See also Gree- Pearce, J. A., and M.'s Land-Grant
ley, Horace.
College Bill, 264, 277.
Norwich University, M. as trustee, Peel, Sir Robert, Webster on tariff
speech, 167.
Pendleton, G. H., and M.'s tariff bill,
Ohio River, travel conditions (1841), 105.
Pennington, A. C. M., in Speakership
Olmsted, F. L., and Capitol grounds, contest (1855), 65, 66.
Pennsylvania, and Morrill Tariff, 106.
Ompompanoosuc River, Morrill dam, 109, IIO.
5; Colfax on, 17.
Pennsylvania Railroad, M. and sta-
Orr, J. S., and Keitt-Grow affair, 69, tion on Mall, 249.
70; and M., 93, 334.
People's College, and M.'s Land-
Oxford University, M. on, 189. Grant College Bill, 264.
Phelps, E. J., formal candidacy
Page, W. H., correspondence with M. against M., correspondence on
on article for Forum, 330, 331. M.'s victory, 338-40.
Paine, Elijah, appearance, 37.
Pictures, M.'s collection, 223-25.
Panic of 1857, Republicans and, 91; Pierce, Franklin, M. on administra-
and governmental finances, 103. tion, 78.
Panic of 1873, and paper-money agi- Plattsburgh battle, Strafford volun-
tation, 285.
teers, 4, 5.
Paper money, M.'s opposition to le- Poland, L.P., appointment to Senate,
gal tender, 134, 136-42, 144, 218; 165, 172; first senatorial contest
and forced loan, 137; inflation and with M., 170-74, 183; appearance
cost of war, 138; constitutionality, and character, 172; second contest,
138; and disappearance of specie, 291-95; and salary grab, 292; satir-
139: irrevocable step, 139, 144; M.'s ical verses on, 292, 293; third con-
substitute, 140, 141; M. and bill to
test, 307.
contract (1866), 178-82; M. and Politics, M.'s bent, 34-38; intensity
II2.
of American, 35; M.'s preparation, Republican Party, M. and Vermont
47, 48. See also Elections; and organization, 61; confidence (1857),
parties by name.
84; loses ground (1857), 91; M. and
Polygamy. See Mormons.
dissensions, 230; Grant-Sumner
Pomeroy, S. C., and M.'s Land-
break, 231-37;
Grant-Greeley
Grant College Bill, 277.
break, 237-40; effect of Grant's
Populist Party, M. on, 4.
administration, 285; loses control of
Portland, Me., M. at, 28.
Congress, 285, 293. See also Elec-
Portraits of M., 225, 304, 305.
tions.
Potter, J. F., Pryor affair, 116, 117; Resumption of specie payment, M.'s
and M.'s Land-Grant College Bill, policy, 217, 286.
269-71.
Rice, A. H., M. and reëlection, 101.
Powers, Hiram, statue of Collamer, Rich, Abel, character, 14, 15.
letter from M., 248.
Richardson, W. A., in Speakership
Prairies, M. on farming, 46.
contest (1855), 66.
Proctor, Redfield, and M., 354. Richmond, Eng., M. on, 190.
Progress during Civil War, 145, 146. Richmond Examiner, on M.,
Pryor, R. A., Potter affair, 116, 117. Rhine River, M. on, 194-96.
Public debt, M. and refunding, 217, Rhodes, J. F., on Lecompton message
218. See also Paper money.
in House, 91; on legal tender, 141.
Public lands, M. on squatter claims, Roads, M. on English, 189.
46, 47. See also Land-Grant Col- Roberts, D., letter to M. on chief-j'is-
lege Acts.
ticeship, 257.
Rockwell, Porter, murderer, 88.
Railroads, M. on English, 188; inva- Rome, M. at, 298.
sion of Mall, 249.
Roosevelt, Theodore (1), and collec-
Randolph Academy, M. attends, torship, 291.
23; Lafayette at, 52.
Roosevelt, Theodore (2), and M., 222.
Reciprocity, M.'s early opposition, Ross, E. G., and trial of Johnson, 213.
97, 136; M. and denunciation of Ross, Jonathan, on general store as
Canadian treaty, 148; constitu institution, 37.
tionality, 149, 150, 225; effect on Rutland Herald, on M.'s services in
trade balance, 151, 256; and annex Congress, 309.
ation, 151, 320, 321; substitute fish-
eries bill, 164, 165; M.'s later oppo Salary grab, M. and, 241-43; statistics
sition, 254, 320; and most-favored on return, 243, 244; Poland and,
nation clause, 255; as Republican 292.
measure, 320.
San Domingo, M. opposes annexation,
Reconstruction, tariff and tax, 167; 229, 254.
M. and Southern, 176; Johnson and Sanborn, Kate, correspondence with
Congress, 176–78, 183; act to re M. on his book, 326–28.
duce legal tender, 178; impeach- Schurz, Carl, M. on bolting, 237; cor-
ment of Johnson, 208-16; M. and respondence with M. on sound
financial, 216–18; election of 1868, money, 288, 289.
Scotland, M. in, 207.
Reid, Whitelaw, correspondence with Scott, H. D., dough face, 75.
M. on Grant and Conklin, 303, 304. Scott, Winfield, presidential candi-
Reni, Guido, picture in M.'s collec dacy, 54; and Bull Run, 126.
tion, 225.,
Scottish, M. on, 207.
Secession. See Compromise efforts; Collamer on pertinacity of ques-
Disunion.
tion, 93; amendment to protect, in
Self-Consciousness of Noled Persons, States, 124. See also Emancipation;
privately printed, 323, 324; en Kansas.
larged public edition, 323, 324; Smith, J. G., letter from M., 296.
planned third edition, 324, 342; Smith, S., letter to M. on slavery
character, extracts, 324-26; M. on question, 59.
title, 328.
Smith, Sydney, on taxation, 143.
Senate, M. declines to consider (1853), Smith, W. F., M.'s resolution for re-
56; assault on Sumner, 75–77, 80;
moval from command, 129, 130.
power under Grant, 226. See olso Social conditions, American, during
Morrill, Justin S. (In Senate). M.'s early years, 12; in early Ver-
Seward, W. H., M.'s resentment, 208, mont, 16.
209; and Johnson, 215.
Sound money controversies. See Pa-
Seymour, Horatio, candidacy, 218–
per money; Silver.
Spanish dollar, M.'s, 28.
Shafter, O. L., candidacy against M., Spanish War, M.'s opposition, 345.
Speakership contest (1855), 64-68,
Sheep, M. on, 48, 49.
Sheldon, C. M., letter from M., 320. Spinner, F. E., and M.'s Land-Grant
Sherman, John, and Southerners, 70; College Bill, 277.
relations with M., alienation, Spofford, A. R., and bill for Library
102, 222, 300-02; and M.'s tariff
of Congress, 322.
bill, 105, 109; and M. as financier, Spooner, J. C., and M., 322.
133; presidential candidacy, 286, Spranger, Bartholomeus, picture in
306, 307; and sound money, 288; M.'s collection, 223.
New York collectorship contro Springfield Republican, pen portrait
versy, 291; and M.'s White House
of M., III.
Bill, 302; period of congressional Spurgeon, C. H., M. on services, 204.
services, 337
Stanton, E. M., death, 216.
Sherman, W. T., and M., 222, 226. Statuary Hall in Capitol, M. and, 158,
Shipman, Mrs. boarding-house, 248.
Stephens, A. H., M. on, 71; on Keitt-
Sickles, D, E., and M.'s Land-Grant
Grow affair, 92.
College Bill, 267, 268; killing of Sterne, Laurence, and Beecher, 326–
Key, 268.
Silver question, M. and Warner Bill Stevens, Thaddeus, and M., 102; and
(1885), correspondence with Bay M.'s tariff bill, 106; and South-
ard, 314-16; Democratic split, 316; erners, 115; chairman of Ways and
non-circulation of dollars, 317; pay Means, 125; and M.'s son, 151,
ment of bonds in, 317, 318; M. and 159; letter to M. on reëlection, 159;
final contest, 342-45; danger of sil chairman of Appropriations Com-
ver standard, 343; Crime of '73, mittee, 162; death, 216; M.'s eu-
344; M. on Bryan and free coinage,
logy, 329.
345. See also Paper money. Story, W. W., on Washington Monu-
Skinner, Hampden, sugar venture, 25. ment, 252.
Slavery, M.'s experience, 44-46; M.'s Strafford, Vt., arrival of Morrills, 3;
views, 59, 60, 79; and territorial ex M. on character of settlers, 13-15;
pansion, 68; as issue in 1856, 80; aspect, 17, 18; M.'s attachment,
18–20; school, 20, 21; President ley Bill, 338; M.'s reasons for being
Monroe's visit, 21-23; copperas a protectionist, 340; political effect
works, 22, 31; general village store, of McKinley Act, 336, 342. See
25, 32, 36, 37; Judge Harris, 26–28; also Reciprocity.
Harris Library, 27; M. as store- Taxation, M. and postbellum reduc-
keeper, 29-33; M.'s house, 51; M.'s tion, 217. See also Internal rev-
tomb, 360.
enue; Tariff.
Stranahan, F. S., letter from M., 341. Taylor, Zachary, M. supports, 50;
Strasbourg, M. on cathedral, 199. anecdote, 62.
Stratford-on-Avon, M. on, 189. Thetford Academy, M. attends, 23,
Stuart, C. E., and M.'s Land-Giant 24.
College Bill, 266.
Thirteenth Amendment, M. on, 162,
Sumner, Charles, Brooks assault, 75 163
77, 80; and Fessenden, 115; corre- Thompson, Zadok, claim, 81.
spondence with M. on election Tiepolo, G. B., picture in M.'s collec-
(1864), 160; break with Grant, let tion, 225.
ters from M., 231-37; Hoar on ego-Tocqueville, Alexis de, on American
tism, 235; M. on lecture topics, 237; politics, 35.
M.'s resemblance, 310; M.'s eulogy, Toombs, Robert, and method of dis-
union, 67.
Sunderland, Byron, on assault on Tracy, Andrew, declines further can-
Sumner, 75.
didacy, 56; on Kansas question, 92.
Supreme Court, Dred Scott decision, Travel, western, in 1841, 43, 44; M.
90; on legal tender, 138; Edmunds in Europe, 185–207, 297, 298.
and justiceship, 289, 290; Arthur Treasury Department, M. and port-
and appointment to, 299; M. and folio, 134, 287.
building for, 359.
Trees, M. on, in Europe, 192.
Swan, Caleb, M.'s father-in-law, 53. Trumbull, Lyman, and trial of John-
Swan, Louise, and M., 151; trip to son, 210, 213.
Europe, 297.
Turner, J. B., claim to authorship of
Swan, Ruth B., M.'s wife, 52. Morrill Act considered, 278-84;
career, 279.
Taft, W. H., and reciprocity, 320.
Taney, R. B., Dred Scott decision, 89. University of Vermont, M. as trustee,
Tarifi, M. and bill of 1857, 85-87;.
261, 294.
M.'s attitude, 103; preparation of
M.'s bill (1859), 103-05; bill in Vance, Z. B., and M., 226.
House, 105-09; as issue in 1860, Vanity, M. on, 326.
109, 110; northern attacks on the Van Winkle, P. G., and trial of John-
bill, effect abroad, 113; war-time, son, 213
133, 147, 148; M.'s understanding, Van Wyck, C. H., and M.'s White
134, 136; postbellum, 166-69; M.
House Bill, 302.
on Greeley's political economy, Vermont, human type, 1; in youth, 5;
238; M. and Commission (1882), topography, 15; social conditions,
300; M. and act of 1883, 301, 302; 16; M. on, 16; growth and prosper-
M. and Cleveland's message, 318; ity, 30; militia claim (1838), 82; M.
M. and campaign (1888), 319; as true representative, 97, 157-59;
M.'s reply to Gladstone's article, as barometer State, 159; statues for
332; maple sugar bounty in McKin Federal Capitol, 248.
Vermont Historical Society, portrait Webster, Daniel, candidacy for presiof M., 305, 342.
dential nomination (1852), 53-55; Verses by M., 20, 119, 120.
M. on, 54, 55; on Peel's tariff Voorhees, D. W., and Library of speech, 167; and Tyler, 215. Congress, 322.
West, M.'s tour (1841), 39-47.
Wheeling, aspect (1841), 44.
Wade, B. F., and Southerners, 92; | Whig Party, M.'s adherence, 50, 51;
and trial of Johnson, 210; and M.'s and Compromise of 1850, 53; con-
Land-Grant College Bill, 267, 269, vention of 1852, 53-56; dissolution,
277. Walbridge, D. S., and M.'s Land- Whiskey Ring, M. and, 244.
Grant College Bill, 264, 265. White, A. D., and M., 256, 261; on Walton, E. P., and office for M., 56, Land-Grant College Act, 259.
59; letter to M. on office-seeker, 257. White, Horace, letter to M. on tariff, Walworth, R. H., and Supreme 169. Court, go.
White House, M.'s bill to extend, 302. War of 1812, Strafford volunteers for Wilder, M. P., and M.'s Land-Grant Plattsburgh, 4, 5.
College Bill, 269, 277. Warner, A. J., M. and silver bill, 314- Wilderness campaign, M.on, 131, 132. 16.
Wilkinson, M. S., and M.'s LandWashburn, C. C., and Keitt-Grow af Grant College Bill, 270. fair, 70.
Willard, C. W., and M.'s senatorial Washburn, Israel, and M. and Blaine,
contest, 172. 152; and M.'s Land-Grant College Williams, G. H., nomination as Chief Bill, 265.
Justice, 257 Washburn, W. B., and Motley's re- Windom, William, and M., 222; and moval, 237.
M.'s Land-Grant College Bill, 271. Washburne, Elihu B., and Keitt-Grow Wine, M. on culture in Rhine Valley,
affair, 69; mess, 114; letter from M., 194, 195. 154.
Winthrop, R. C., and South, 74; Washington, Bushrod, and Mt. Ver Washington Monument oration, non, 43.
letter from M., 310, 311. Washington City, M. visits, 38, 40, Wise, H. A., on disunion (1856), 81.
41, 62; M. and Hall of Statuary, Woman suffrage, M. on, 341.
158, 248; M.'s house, 222–25; M.'s Women, as laborers in Europe, 194,
birthday receptions, 225, 305, 358;
railroad invasion of Mall, 249; Li- Wood, Fernando, M.'s attack on, 123.
brary of Congress, 249, 252, 321, Wood, T. W., portrait of M., 305.
322; Washington Monument, 249, Woodruff, John, and Kansas, 93.
252, 310, 311; M. and improvement, Wool, M. and tariff, 86, 97; in post-
249-52; M.'s defense, 253.
bellum tariff, 168; in tariff of 1883, Washington Monument, M. and com 301, 302.
pletion, 249, 252, 310, 311. Wrifford, Allison, teacher, 24. Waterloo, M. on battlefield, 192, 193. Watts, Frederick, displacement, 288. Young, Judith, Mrs. Harris, 27. Ways and Means, Committee of, M. as Young, N. S., partnership with M., member, 93;
chairmanship, 125, 162. 33; debating society, 39. Weaver, J. B., presidential candidacy, 297.
Zollverein Treaty, before Senate, 255.
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THE HISTORY OF FRANCE
von EYRE EVANS CROWE
The Convention, to the Death of Louis XVI Page"
CHAP. II.
The Convention, from the Death of Louis XVI tc> the fall of the Gironde 34
CHAP. III.
The Reign of Terror 50
CHAP. IV.
Prom the Fall of Robespierre to the Dissolution of the Convention 75
CHAP. V.
The Executive Directory, to the Armistice of Leoben 97
CHAP. VI.
From the First Cessation of War with Austria at Iieoben to the Estab-
lishment of the Consulate 125
CHAP. VII.
The Consulate. 152
CHAP. VIII.
From Bonaparte's Accession to the Empire to the Peace of Tilsit 185
CHAP. IX.
From the Peace of Tilsit to the Marriage of the Emperor with Maria
Louisa 21?
CHAP. X.
From Napoleon's Marriage with the Archcuchess to his Flight from
Russia - ;242
CHAP XI
1813—1814:
The fall of the Empire • 20j
HISTORY OF FRANCE.
CHAP. I. 1792—1793.
THE CONVENTION, TO THE DEATH OF LOUIS XVI.
The French revolution is apt to present itself to the eye as a hideous spectre. We behold and tremble. We are appalled by its monstrous aspect, and too deeply stricken with horror to regard it fixedly, with scrutiny and patience. Could we but do so, the phantom would lose much of its shadowy character; and although naught can wash away its crimes and blood, it would at least appear but an earthly and human phenomenon, the nature and causes of which we might perceive and store up as the precious materials of wisdom.
Hitherto, however, the revolution has been treated as the spectre, and considered beyond the pale of humanity. The imagination alone has seized upon its prominent horrors. Even those, who have deigned to seek for a cause, have found it in some collateral or subordinate circumstance. Philosophy in the opinion of some, the duke of Orleans or Pitt in that of others, prepared and brought about the great catastrophe; whilst others again are satisfied to cast the entire blame on the fickleness and-cruelty of man born upon the French soil. Scarcely has a distinction been made betwixt the revolution and its excesses. Freedom itself has been included in the general stigma, and made answerable for that mass of guilt and folly, which its enemies were mainly influential in producing.
The most fatal circumstance of the epoch was foreign inerference, fatal alike in the hopes and the fears which it occasioned. Reliance on foreign support caused the emigration of the noblesse, as well as the temporizing, and at intervals the insincere, policy of the unfortunate Ipuis XVI. Had king and aristocracy been obliged to confine their views to France, they would either have from the first submitted frankly, in which case power could never have descended lower than the ranks and opinions of the constitutionalists; or they would have stood forth in open and in civil war, an alternative preferable to flight, conspiracy, and massacre. The monarch, obedient to the moderation of his character, pursued an uncertain career, a kind of medium between the extremes, by which he excited irritation and popular hatred", and compelled the successive parties, which in the assembly advocated the cause of freedom, to call in the popular force, first to their support, and then to their mastery. Finally came invasion; it produced the 10th of August, and rendered possible the massacres of September, which the panic and anticipated vengeance of an expiring cause could alone have executed.
By these judgments the prudence of the actors is arraigned, not the honesty or justice of their conduct. Louis cannot be considered criminal for endeavoring to recover a share of his authority, or even for leaguing with foreign sovereigns for this end. Yet the consideration which thus spares him from censure must also tend to excuse, though certainly not to exculpate, those who counter-intrigued in the cause of freedom. The interference of the Austrian and Prussian monarchs was most fatal as a measure; but who can say that it was not warranted by just fears for themselves, by just and generous sympathy for Louis]
Previous to the breaking out of the revolution, the old alliance formed under Choiseul betwixt the houses of Austria and Bourbon still subsisted. England, Holland, and Prussia were the powers in the opposite balance; whilst Russia, which had lately made an abrupt and giant intrusion into the European confederacy, stood among them in an attitude of sullen and selfish independence. This power had compelled the first partition of Poland, and was now menacing to appropriate to herself the rest of that ill-fated kingdom. Austria and Prussia, filled with congenial alarm at the encroachments of Russia on one side, and the moral plague of jacobinism rising and reflected towards them like a mephitic exhalation from France on the other, agreed to sink their mutual jealousies, and come to a closer understanding. The emperor Leopold could not but be anxious to relieve his sister, Marie Antoinette, and her royal consort, from the cruel position in which the revolution had placed them. Frederick William, less touched with sympathy, was still anxious to profit by the supposed weakness and disorganization of France. The kingdom of Prussia had not yet reached its natural development; its numerous and welWisciplined army inheriting the renown of the great Frederick, was an instrument of power too su179& CONFERENCES OF PILNITZ. U
preme to be. allowed to remain idle. Whilst Leopold, there* fore, was anxious to form a wide alliance, in which all Euiope was to join, in order, by its imposing force, without an actual war, to fright back France into the ways of moderation and loyalty, the king of Prussia aimed at unfolding the banner of the great Frederick, and carving for himself new territories with the sword. The sovereigns met at the castle of Pilnitz in the summer of 1791. The count d'Artois, together with one or two leading emigrants, were present And hence was issued the famous declaration in which the finger of menace was held up against France, and which sought to awe a great nation with such significant reproof as is used towards a froward child.
This served but to rouse the pride of the national assembly, and to afford the demagogues of Paris an ample theme of declamation against the tyrants of Europe. The mild menace of Leopold produced an effect precisely the contrary of that intended. The French ministry was compelled to assume a tone of arrogance equal to that of its enemies. Explanation was sought and answered by demands to which no king, much less a republican government, immediately responsible for any insult allowed to be offered to the national pride, could possibly submit War was the consequence. It was declared; but active measure's for prosecuting it were not taken, until the emperor Francis succeeded to his father Leopold in the spring of 1792.
In the commencement of this same year, Dumouriez, then minister, conceived the bold plan of assuming the offensive, and invading Belgium, a country in which insurrection had been but lately quelled and imperfectly extinguished. The French, he reasoned, would rally to them the powerful body of the malcontents; and the weak state of the Flemish fortresses, dismantled by the emperor Joseph, presented no obstacle to invasion: Luxembourg and Namur were in fact the only towns capable of making serious resistance. If the project of Dumouriez was bold, the mode in which he purposed to execute it savored of the inexperience of the time. The military critics of Napoleon's school smile with pity on his plan of dividing his small force into four columns, which he called armies, each to invade upon a different point. This was still more faulty with young troops, who gather confidence, when acting in numbers and in mass. Then the generals charged to execute Dumouriez's orders were little inclined to them; neither Rochambeau nor La Fayette approved of the plan of campaign. The result was total failure. Two of the divisions, struck with a panic at sight of the foe, turned
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Watch Will Smith Rap ‘Friend Like Me’ In the New ‘Aladdin’ Trailer
The new Aladdin trailer not only features more of Will Smith as the CGI Genie (or CGenIe, if you prefer) — it gives us our first taste of Will Smith rapping “Friend Like Me,” the Genie’s show-stopping musical number, originally performed by Robin Williams. Watch the video above.
Here’s the film’s official synopsis:
A thrilling and vibrant live-action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic, “Aladdin” is the exciting tale of the charming street rat Aladdin, the courageous and self-determined Princess Jasmine and the Genie who may be the key to their future. Directed by Guy Ritchie, who brings his singular flair for fast-paced, visceral action to the fictitious port city of Agrabah, “Aladdin” is written by John August and Ritchie based on Disney’s “Aladdin.” The film stars Will Smith as the Genie; Mena Massoud as Aladdin; Naomi Scott as Jasmine; Marwan Kenzari as Jafar; Navid Negahban as the Sultan; Nasim Pedrad as Dalia and Billy Magnussen as Prince Anders.
The good news is the Genie doesn’t look quite so uncanny in this new trailer, and some of the other stuff looks promising, like Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott taking their magic carpet ride and singing “A Whole New World.” Let’s all hope for the best. If you have a magic lamp, rub it and make a wish. Aladdin opens in theaters on May 24.
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RECLAMATION chapter 1, Meet Addy and Jack
Posted bybperrywrites February 11, 2017 October 16, 2017 Posted inReclamation, StoriesTags:amwriting, Reclamation
Feet tangled, Adelaide let the box go and grabbed the handrail before she took a quick trip to the bottom of the stairs. The box smashed onto a corner and tumbled into the drive.
“Shit,” she said, standing.
Jane flipped her long red hair out of the way. Once she’d secured it in a bun, she lifted the wooden box and tossed it in the back of the truck. “Addy, you’re the smoothest person I know.”
“Shut it, woman,” Addy said, grinning. “I’ll go get the next one.” Spinning to go back upstairs, she ran face first into her dad.
“Slow down, little girl. Let me help you,” he said, reaching for her arm.
“I got it, dad.”
“Hey, Mr. C., I could use a hand,” Jane said. She leaned against the truck, crossing her arms.
As her dad laughed, Addy stomped up the rest of the stairs and into the house. Leaning to get another box, a strand of her own dishwater brown hair fell in her eyes.
Blinking it out of her lashes, she lifted the box. It clanked against the handle of her machete as she shifted it onto a hip and spun towards the door.
And there was dad again, trying to take the box.
“Seriously, dad. I got it.”
He smiled, corners of his eyes turned down. “Headstrong, just like your mother, baby girl. Makes sense. You look just like her. Especially with those brownzel eyes of yours.”
The edges on her heart softened. Leave it to him to try and guilt her into staying by mentioning her dead mother. “Dad,” she said, easing the box back into her own arms, “by the time you were my age, you had two kids already.”
“Almost. I was twenty-four when you were born.”
“Whatever. Look, I get it. Believe me,” she said, frowning, “I get it. I miss her too. But dad, it’s been over ten years. And now there’s the Cure, and we’re all safe, and I think I can handle living in my own apartment.”
He sighed, glancing out the window. The light shone sideways through his eyes, turning the blue almost white. “We’re never safe. I hear that come out of your mouth again and I’ll chain you in your room till you’re thirty.”
“You know what I mean,” she said, stepping around him and out the door.
Managing to make it down the stairs without falling, she set the box in the truck.
Staring over the top of her sunglasses, Jane grinned. “We about done?”
“What’s this ‘we’ you keep asking about? You’ve carried like two boxes.”
“That’s because I don’t live here,” Jane said.
“Might as well,” dad said, coming down the stairs with a box on his right hip. Each time he stepped, the butt of his holstered gun slapped the bottom of the box.
Eyeing the box, one that had been marked ‘fragile’, Addy frowned. “That the last one?”
Without looking at the stairs in front of him, he nodded. Sure feet never missed a step.
Jane took it from him as he reached the bottom. “Thanks, Mr. C..” Standing on tip-toe, she stretched as far as she could and set it on top of the other boxes.
Reaching over her head, he gave the box an extra push. “Why don’t you just call me Jack, huh Jane? I don’t think we need to stand on ceremony anymore.”
“You got it,” she said, facing him before he leaned back. The corners of her mouth turned up. “Say hi to Michael for me.” She tugged keys from her pocket.
“I’m sure my brother would say hi back, Jane,” Addy said, holding her hand out for the keys. “Let’s get out of here before it gets dark.”
As Jack crossed his arms and stepped back, Jane handed the keys over, green eyes dancing.
“I’m going to come check out security at this new place tomorrow, Adelaide,” Jack said, frowning. “If it’s not adequate, we’ll make it that way.”
“You worry too much, dad.” Addy hopped into the driver’s seat. It took her three tries, but she found the ignition and slid the key in.
Jane jumped in next to her and smiled out the window. “We’ll be fine,” she said, bad imitation of Scottish brogue dripping from her voice.
Brow scrunched, Jack kicked a rock. “Look after each other.” Frowning at the ground, the curls on his neck bounced in the light breeze. “You’re always welcome back here, you know.”
“Of course,” Addy said, starting the truck and turning it towards their new home. Glancing at Jane from the corner of her eye, she whispered, “Dead Heads be damned, we are not moving back home again.”
Spinning to watch Jack recede into the distance, Jane pursed her lips. “You got that right, lady.”
Waving a hand in front of his face, Jack coughed in the dusty rooster tail Addy’s truck created.
And there went his youngest, off to face the world on her own.
Swallowing, swiping at his dusty, watery eyes, he spun to trudge back up the stairs. Raising her and her brother in all this hadn’t ever been easy, especially after their mother had died. He probably hadn’t done as good of a job of it as he could have.
Addy had a point, though. With the Cure, they had it a lot better than they had when she’d been born into this.
Top and bottom gates secure, he stood at the top of the stairs and swiveled a handle on the wall. Trip wires popped up along every other step, but the handle squealed as it spun.
Grimacing, he finished its rotation and retrieved the oil from its perch inside the house, above the fridge.
As he stepped away, oil can in hand, the refrigerator’s compressor kicked on.
He leapt eighteen inches from the floor if it was a day. Didn’t matter if they’d been living with electricity three days or three years, he wasn’t used to the sound. Gun halfway out of its holster, he reseated it.
“Damn jumpy ass.” Not quite a whisper, not really out loud.
Did it qualify as talking to yourself if there was no one to hear you?
Back on the landing, he oiled the handle and spun it a few times. The trip wires raised and lowered in silence.
One side of his mouth turned up. Nodding, he started back inside.
The crunch of gravel under a foot.
The hackles on his neck rose, painful pricks along his spine. The base of his skull tingled. Hand hovering over the grip of his gun, he waited for the owner of the foot to round the corner.
The feet took regular, measured steps, and Jack relaxed a millimeter. Only the living walked with a purpose.
As a portly, balding man stepped into view, Jack sighed and pulled his gun anyway.
“Whoa, hey Jackson, good evening,” the newcomer said, stopping at the bottom of the stairs and peeking through the gate.
Jack shook his head. “You can call me Mr. Cooke, Wade.”
Wade grinned, fleshy lips pulling back from his teeth. “OK, Mr. Cooke. Can I come up?”
Jack shook his head and spun, holstering his gun once again.
An audible sigh from the bottom of the stairs followed him into the house.
As the door snicked closed Jack exhaled, shoulders falling. The man might be a worm, but he was Mayor Worm. Frowning, he opened the door again.
Eyes narrowed, he spun the tripwire handle and trudged down the stairs. Dust assaulted his nose as he reached the bottom and he all but sneezed in Wade’s face as he opened the bottom gate.
Wade threw up a hand, spittle covering his palm as he did. “Whoa, hey Mr. Cooke, are you OK? Getting a cold?” His pleasant expression rippled, becoming something predatory, reptilian. His hands disappeared behind his back.
All at once Jack noticed the bulge beneath Wade’s armpit. The pommel of a knife peeking from his belt. Boots wider at the top than they ought to be.
He peered at the man, reassessing. “No, Wade. Just dust. Always happens, this time of year.”
The little man nodded, empty hands reappearing.
Jack shook his head and scratched at his salt and pepper beard. Only little more than stubble, it could use a trim. But who had time for such things? “Come on up.”
Following the mayor up the stairs and resetting the trip wires, he locked and barred the front door.
“Never too many precautions, huh Mr. Cooke?” Wade bounced on the balls of his feet, hands clasped in front of him.
Jack turned, cool blue eyes staring through him. “No.”
Wade bounced.
Jack stared.
Wade shuffled a foot. “Do you think I could get some water or something, please?”
Jack led him into the kitchen, motioning to the table in the center of the room.
Wade took a seat, wood creaking under his considerable ass. He sighed, a smile stretching his lips as Jack filled a glass with cold water and ice.
Setting the glass in front of Wade, Jack took a seat.
Wade took a swig, clapping a hand to his forehead as he sat the glass back on the table. “Brain freeze.” He tittered.
Jack’s mouth twitched, but he wasn’t sure if it was a smile or a frown. He opted for neither and pressed his lips together. Leaning on the table, he sucked a labored breath through his nose. Exhaled. “What can I do for you, Wade?”
Wade nodded, taking another sip from his glass. “Well Jackson, um mister, Mister Cooke, I, that is the I who is mayor, was wondering if you wanted to be on the security committee.”
Chuckling, Jack leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms. “You’re joking.”
“Oh no, Mr. Cooke. About town matters I don’t joke.”
As Jack exhaled a laugh, Wade picked the glass up again. His fingers slipped over the condensation, sending the glass sliding towards the floor.
Jack stuck his hand out in time to stop it falling and sat it back on the table, no more than two or three droplets escaping it.
Wade pointed. “See there? That’s one of the things I, that we, want you on the committee for. You’re so quick.”
At some point, the little man had begun to sweat, upper lip beaded with dirty, salty drops of it.
Also, the longer he sat in Jack’s quiet kitchen, the more it smelled a bit like stale bacon.
Jack lifted his upper lip. If it had taken all of his considerable strength, skill, and smarts to keep his kids alive for the last twenty-five years, how had this man done it?
He cocked his head, tightening his crossed arms. “No, Wade.”
Wade sighed, knocking back the rest of the water like it was a shot of vodka. The ice cubes crunched and squeaked between his teeth.
Nails on a chalkboard.
“Jackson. Jack. We need your help. You’re a great benefit to this community and we need you to take part in its safety.” Reaching to his face, Wade chuckled at his hand and glanced at Jack with the side of his eye. “Heh. I forgot I got contacts again. It’s been so long since I had them, I keep trying to adjust glasses that aren’t there.”
Jack grunted.
Wade stood, sliding the chair back under the table with a prissiness reserved for actors. No one else could be that over-the-top with it.
Herding him to the front door, Jack flinched as the floorboards creaked.
At the door, Wade stopped. He spun, muddy brown eyes narrowed. “Listen. We’re working really hard here on rebuilding this community. The state. Hell, the planet. We need everyone’s help. You have a skill,” he said, motioning to the bar on the door. “We need your skill. It’s been a long time since we were able to have stability. But it’s here now, and you can help us maintain it.”
Jack frowned down at him, nose itching. An interesting proposal, it also sounded like the kind of old world bureaucracy he did not miss. Rather than answer, he reached past the mayor, unbarred the door, and motioned for Wade to take his leave.
Repeating the process of entry in reverse, without all the flying spit, Jack slammed the gate and locked the chain.
“The next meeting is tomorrow. It’s at city hall, noon,” Wade said.
Jack grunted, sun-warmed lock gripped in a tight fist. He glanced up, meeting Wade’s eyes.
“I’ll think about it.”
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The NBA Draft is Thursday night.
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There might not be a more intriguing week of the year for Wolves fans than NBA Draft week, and this year is proving to be no different as rumors and speculation mount leading up to Thursday's selection showcase.
Earlier Tuesday, we wrote about a report claiming that Minnesota is "aggressively" looking to trade Andrew Wiggins, despite mountains of evidence suggesting a trade involving him and the $120+ million left on his contract being nearly impossible.
Now, ESPN's Jonathan Givony is reporting that the Wolves are among a handful of teams looking to trade up in the draft for a chance to take Vanderbilt point guard Darius Garland.
"Darius Garland will conduct a last-minute workout in Tarrytown with the New York Knicks tomorrow, a source told ESPN," writes Givony. "Garland is in serious consideration for the No. 3 pick. Minnesota, Boston, Chicago are teams looking at potentially trading up to No. 4 with Garland in mind."
Garland, 19, going third overall to the Knicks would be a surprise considering the top-three picks in the draft have been long thought be to etched in stone, with Zion Williamson going first overall to the Pelicans, followed by Ja Morant to the Grizzlies and R.J. Barrett to the Knicks.
Garland, however, has gained a lot of late steam even though he played in just five games this past college basketball season because of a torn meniscus.
KSTP's Darren Wolfson responded to Givony's report saying the Wolves are interested in obtaining the fourth, fifth or sixth pick, which would allow them a chance to draft Garland or North Carolina point guard Coby White.
Sam Vecenie of The Athletic (paywall) believes it's likely that New Orleans trades the fourth pick, with a team hoping to get Garland.
"This is the swing point of the draft. Teams around the league know this pick is open for business. The feeling around the league is that the Pelicans are more likely to move it than to keep it. The player mentioned most when discussing a potential trade-up with New Orleans is Garland. So that’s why the projection here is Garland, not because I think Garland ends up in New Orleans. Teams around the league generally believe that Garland is the player with the most upside outside of the top-three guys in this class. It’s easy to see why. He’s an elite live dribble creator due to his ability to keep the ball on a string and change pace. His pull-up game is also lethal and makes him a tailor made fit for today’s NBA as a scoring guard if he can finish around the basket."
Minnesota has Jeff Teague slotted in to start at point guard in 2019-20, which is the final year of his contract. He's due to make $19 million, which is a big number that could free up dollars for the salary cap-strapped Wolves via a trade this summer or once he comes off the books next summer.
But trading from 11th to fourth would likely require at least Teague, the 11th pick and a future first-round pick.
Another possible roadblock is that the Pelicans already have Jrue Holiday and Lonzo Ball as guards, so the only real value New Orleans would probably see in Teague is his expiring contract freeing up space to go after a big free agent next summer.
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Improving the temperature record vs conspiracy theories at WUWT
Sou | 2:02 PM Go to the first of 21 comments. Add a comment
Over the years, scientists in different parts of the world have worked hard to get a more accurate picture of the change in global surface temperature over time. This is slow painstaking work. Initially it would have meant working with written records, with people trying to decipher handwriting of the tens of thousands of people who wrote down readings of temperature and rainfall, and other weather indicators, from all the weather stations around the world. Over time the data was digitised - another extremely laborious task.
I'm not going to write about all that's been done. It's a mammoth ongoing effort involving people from all around the world. What I'm writing about are the ignorant scoffers. You know the people I mean. The ones who sit at their keyboards all day to snipe at the work done by scientists.
Anthony Watts has put up three articles from one chap who's been looking to see the extent of this careful work, as measured by adjustments to the original data. He's only looked at two data sets. One which is used by NASA and NOAA for global land surface temperatures. The Global Historical Climatology Network Data or GHCN. This was first developed in the early 1990s, with the current version 3 released in 2011. The other is the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN), which is the high quality dataset used by NOAA for USA temperatures since 1987.
The Global Historical Climatology Network
NASA and NOAA use GHCN-M for the land component of the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). The M stands for "monthly".
This year, NOAA announced that it will be changing to using a broader set of data, roughly doubling the number of stations. Version 4 of Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly (GHCN-M) v4. will be using data from the International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI).
From the NOAA website:
The Global Land Surface Temperature Databank contains monthly timescale mean, maximum, and minimum temperature for approximately 40,000 stations globally. It was developed as part of the International Surface Temperature Initiative. This is the global repository for all monthly timescale land surface observations from the 1800s to present and uses data deriving from sub-daily, daily, and monthly observations. It brings together data from more than 45 sources to create a single merged dataset. It will be used in the creation of various integrated global temperature resources, most notably Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly (GHCN-M) v4.
I expect that will keep deniers at WUWT quite busy, adding up all the corrections to raw data over time for 40,000 stations.
I don't know how many person hours have gone into developing ISTI, but it's fair to say that it will be orders of magnitude more than goes into maintaining a denier blog like WUWT.
Quality assurance and homogenisation
Below are just the quality assurance steps that are taken to prepare the monthly GHCN data, which you wouldn't know about if you only read denier blogs. There is more detail here. (Most deniers don't want any quality assurance. They call it "fudging".)
Then there are the homogeneity adjustments. This is described by NOAA as follows:
Many surface weather stations undergo minor relocations through their history of observation. Stations may also be subject to changes in instrumentation as measurement technology evolves. Further, the land use/land cover in the vicinity of an observing site may also change with time. Such modifications to an observing site have the potential to alter a thermometer's microclimate exposure characteristics and/or change the bias of measurements, the impact of which can be a systematic shift in the mean level of temperature readings that is unrelated to true climate variations. The process of removing such "non-climatic" artifacts in a climate time series is called homogenization.
In version 3 of the GHCN-Monthly temperature data, the apparent impacts of documented and undocumented inhomogeneities are detected and removed through automated pairwise comparisons of mean monthly temperature series as detailed in Menne and Williams [2009]. In this approach, comparisons are made between numerous combinations of temperature series in a region to identify cases in which there is an abrupt shift in one station series relative to many others. The algorithm starts by forming a large number of pairwise difference series between serial monthly temperature values from a region. Each difference series is then statistically evaluated for abrupt shifts, and the station series responsible for a particular break is identified in an automated and reproducible way. After all of the shifts that are detectable by the algorithm are attributed to the appropriate station within the network, an adjustment is made for each target shift. Adjustments are determined by estimating the magnitude of change in pairwise difference series form between the target series and highly correlated neighboring series that have no apparent shifts at the same time as the target.
USA - Historical Climatological Network and the Climate Reference Network
For the US only, NOAA uses the U.S. Historical Climatological Network (USHCN). This is different to the finished data used in the global composite, the GHCN. In the latest WUWT article about the proportion of data changed (archived here), John Goetz wrote about the proportion of records that have been amended in the USHCN, which would be similar to the changes described above except that the UHCN fills in data gaps, which the GHCN doesn't.
In the USA, there is also a new network of weather stations, U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) which was developed as a check on the broader network. Unlike most of the weather stations, all of it is maintained by NOAA rather than volunteers, and the stations have been placed in locations where the surrounds are not expected to change, so it is considered pristine. You can see a description of a CRN weather station here.
Importantly, the data is virtually indistinguishable from the USHCN as can be seen in the charts below.
First the monthly comparisons (click to enlarge):
Then the annual comparisons:
At the bottom of the latest WUWT article Anthony Watts wrote:
Of course Tom Karl and Tom Peterson of NOAA/NCDC (now NCEI) never let this USCRN data see the light of day in a public press release or a State of the Climate report for media consumption, it is relegated to a backroom of their website mission and never mentioned. When it comes to claims about hottest year/month/day ever, instead, the highly adjusted, highly uncertain USHCN/GHCN data is what the public sees in these regular communications.
One wonders why NOAA NCDC/NCEI spent millions of dollars to create a state of the art climate network for the United States, and then never uses it to inform the public. Perhaps it might be because it doesn’t give the result they want? – Anthony Watts
Anthony is wrong on almost all counts.
The CRN data only goes back to 2006, so it's not of any use in State of the Climate Reports, which compare changes going back decades.
There is nothing in particular to report in a press release. The CRN data is virtually indistinguishable from USHCN data.
These charts and the underlying data do see the light of day. They are on the NOAA website, for all the world to see.
When it comes to claims of the hottest year/month/day ever, the charts show that USHCN and USCRN are virtually identical. On an annual basis in 2012 and 2013, USCRN is ever so slightly hotter than USHCN!
Looking at the charts above, you can see why Anthony keeps his mutters to his blog, and doesn't back up his comment with data. That's typical of deniers. You can readily see the conspiratorial thinking that Anthony is indulging in, too, with his "something must be wrong" (though it's not) and "nefarious intent" comment.
It took Anthony a long time to wake up to the fact that the National Climatic Data Centre is no longer, and it's now been merged into the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). He's out of the loop on a lot of things. He'll be pushing to get Tom Peterson, President of the WMO Commission for Climatology, to take any notice of Anthony's NOAA nonsense these days. (See here and here.)
US temperatures over time
To complete, here is a chart of decadal temperatures for the contiguous USA from 1895 to 2013 (the latest available for some reason).
Data source: NOAA
From the WUWT comments
George E. Smith doesn't know anything about US temperatures, or quality assurance, or homogenisation, or statistics, but he knows what conspiracy theories he likes:
Is any of this behavior considered criminal, or fraudulent, or deceptive, or misleading, or argumentative, or speculative, or even immoral ??
One advantage of doing statistical mathematics (pure fiction) rather than real science, is that there is a built in pre-supposition that your results automatically incorporate uncertainty.
Well actually, your results are never uncertain, if you know how to do 4-H club arithmetic correctly.
The uncertainty rests entirely on what you claim your results mean; all of which is entirely in your head.
Mike Smith reckons nine years of data is all he needs, though he probably doesn't even know how to analyse that. Nor does he know that CRN data is almost identical to the US historical network data.
USCRN and the satellite data both show a complete lack of warming. Those are the best data sources we have, by far.
The unadjusted surface temperature record shows no warming.
The conclusion is clear: global warming is caused exclusively by an artifact of some highly questionable statistical adjustments.
Wojciech Peszko is clued up, and points out the two data sets have the same result. Hardly anyone takes any notice:
Adjusted US surface data also show no or little warming, so they’re in agreement.
The conculsion is clear: we can’t say whether the long term trend stopped or not.
markstoval is a WUWT regular, who usually spouts conspiracy theories like this:
This post clear shows that the so-called data sets are not data at all. The “data” set is false and is just made up. One wonders why there is not one single main stream investigative reporter willing to write a story on this issue. Not one.
Zeke Hausfather points out a couple of things wrong in the article, with charts. (Follow the link to see his full comment.)
This article gets a few things wrong. First, the effect of TOBs adjustments to U.S. temperature data is larger than those of pair-wise homogenization (~0.25 C per century vs. 0.2 C).
Danny Thomas asks Zeke a question:
Mr. Hausfather,
Thank you for the input and links.
Is it in no way bothersome to discover that some 92% of the data is adjusted? I’ve seen yours and Mosher’s discussions in the past but still find that it heightens my sense of concern that so much data gathering is considered to be so invalid in supposedly an improving state of the art system of instrumentation.
Being the consumer of said system, I’d have no choice but to ask for a refund or substantial discount.
Zeke Hausfather explains that back in the day, Grover Cleveland didn't foresee the eruption of conspiracy theory blogs like WUWT. He had other things on his mind. Otherwise he most certainly would have bowed to the collective wisdom of deniers and set up a department to set up a climate reference network back in 1895 (not really) - (my emphasis)
Hi Danny,
Unfortunately USHCN is not by any measure a “state of the art” system; we didn’t have the foresight to set up a climate monitoring system back in 1895, rather we are relying on mostly volunteer-manned weather stations that have changed their time of observation, instrument type, and location multiple times in the last 120 years. There are virtually no U.S. stations that have remained completely unchanged for the past century. The whole point of adjustments are to try and correct for these inhomogenities.
The reason why adjustments are on balance not trend-neutral is that the two big disruptions of the U.S. temperature network (time of observation changes and conversion from liquid-in-glass to electronic MMTS instruments) both introduce strong cooling biases into the raw data, as I discuss here (with links to various peer-reviewed papers on each bias): http://berkeleyearth.org/understanding-adjustments-temperature-data/
I also did a synthetic test of TOBs biases using hourly CRN data that might be of interest: https://archive.is/9Zayx [replaced link - Sou]
The new USCRN station is a state of the art climate monitoring system. So far its (unadjusted) results agree quite well with the (adjusted) USHCN data, which is encouraging. Going forward it will provide a useful check (and potential validation) of the NOAA homogenization approach.
Steven Mosher also points out that USHCN is the same as USCRN:
September 27, 2015 at 5:25 pm (excerpt)
If USCRN is the gold standand..
Then if adjustments to USHCN, result in USCHN matching USCRN
What can one conclude about adjustments and infilling?
AndyG55 is not impressed by the fact there's no difference, and talks about someone called "nobody", who is impressed:
You are trying to sell a LEMON, Mr car saleman !
And nobody is buying it. !!
I'll just post some links. First a link to Victor Venema's articles on homogenization. There are lots more articles on the internet as well. Do a google search for Zeke Hausfather. Visit Nick Stokes blog. Go to SkepticalScience.com. And read the FAQs and other information on sites like NASA's GISS, NOAA, BoM etc. Or use the search bar up top for other HotWhopper articles on the subject (which I mostly spell homogenisation with an 's').
By Sou at 2:02 PM
Labels: GHCN, homogenisation, NOAA, quality control, surface temperature, USCRN, USHCN
I have been putting in my two bobs worth on these articles (in between getting sniped at from the usual suspects). Some of the comments have been excellent.
It is still a red-herring of course. The implication is the adjustments in an adjusted data set are somehow an attempt to mislead the United States public.
Whether by design or not, some are pushing the 'idea' that thermometer measurements are being adjusted. It is bollocks of course, the unadjusted data sets are (mostly) free from homogenization. I have seen a similar idea being pushed on the JoNova website was well.
Millicent September 28, 2015 at 4:14 PM
So Anthony avoids mention of his own 'gamechanging' reanalysis of temperature data and the winged monkeys dutifully neglect to ask why.
Sou September 28, 2015 at 4:41 PM
Yes, Millicent. WUWT-ers are nothing if not docile and compliant.
It's now more than three years since his breathless announcement that was going to change the face of climate science forever, or something. Either he can't get the data to refute his previous paper after all, or he can't explain any mechanism, or he can't get anyone to rescue the paper for him this time around, or he can't get his secretive open society organised well enough to publish it (or any other journal).
Tom Peterson September 28, 2015 at 6:53 PM
Thanks for bringing some sanity to this issue, Sou. Your post brought back a lot of fond memories from my time at NCDC building GHCN-M version 2, including searching out European archives of Colonial Era data from around the world with the late, great, Prof. John Griffiths, and digitizing them to increase our global coverage in the early years of the data record. E.g., http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ghcn/colonialarchive.html and http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/col.gif
But the most relevant memory was when a State Climatologist visited for a couple weeks and argued that we were biasing his state's climate record because our USHCN station adjustments created more warming than cooling while he assumed that they should be random. This was back in the day when station history files were only available in filing cabinets in our basement. So we agreed to evaluate the 10 largest adjustments for stations in his state. It turned out that 8 of the 10 were for station moves from city centers to sewage treatment plants. That's when he realized that systematic adjustments were in response to systematic changes in the observing system.
Thanks for the anecdote, Tom. The reality of all the solid work you and others have put in over the years should shame Anthony Watts and his deniers. (If they were capable of the emotion.)
Zeke September 29, 2015 at 7:39 AM
The move from city rooftops to wastewater treatment plants and airports is a particularly interesting one. It causes some weirdly low century-scale urban warming trends if you mistakenly look at the raw data.
By the way, thanks for all your hard work on temperature data over the years Tom. Hope you are enjoying a well-deserved relaxing retirement :-)
Ceist September 28, 2015 at 11:07 PM
It's posts like this on WUWT that I find particularly sad:
"katherine009
Some days, I am so disheartened. I am seriously worried for the future my kids (and hopefully grandkids) will have. Energy poverty, destroyed economies, all to satisfy what? It’s madness. I’m doing my best to enlighten others, but my command of all the facts is limited. I read here daily, educating myself and hopefully others. Thank you Mister Watts."
The poor dear seriously thinks she is "educating herself and hopefully others" by swallowing and regurgitating the pseudoscience nonsense on WUWT.
Millicent September 28, 2015 at 11:24 PM
It reads to me like a typical denier sockpuppet post. Utterly fake and intended to try and impart some credibility to WUWT in the eyes of any naive visitor to the site.
Magma September 29, 2015 at 12:04 AM
Definitely sockpuppetry here. katherine009 first appears fully-fledged on June 6 and dives right into many of the usual themes.
Google katherine009 says: and site:wattsupwiththat.com
Sou September 29, 2015 at 12:06 AM
I wonder who he is. dbstealey? Bob Tisdale? Poptech? Steve McIntyre? They've all used sockpuppets :)
Joshua September 29, 2015 at 12:39 AM
Sou -
When did Stevie-Mac use a sockpuppet?
Millicent September 29, 2015 at 12:47 AM
Using that Google search, Katherine009 goes back years before June. Its hard to reliably identify a denier sockpuppet because these people do not behave as 'normal' people do, so I could well be wrong.
And if I might answer Joshua's question: McIntyre was caught using "Nigel Persaud" to wax lyrical about his own work. Googling on that name plus McIntyre should lead you to the whole sorry story.
Magma September 29, 2015 at 1:06 AM
@ Millicent, you have to be careful. I first looked in vain for katherine009 on some of the early search results from "katherine009", then checked Google's cached page from the search and found the name in the Recent Posts sidebar, referencing much newer comments dating from when Google last captured the page. My revised search used the string "katherine009 says:" which excluded those false hits.
Millicent September 29, 2015 at 4:18 AM
Ah sorry, I am not a skilled Googler, and being careful about anything is not a habit I have picked up :)
Looking through the katherine009 posts does seem to reinforce the sockpuppet impression. There was also "asybot" whose rather ill thought out comment informed us that he was pleased his parents were dead as that was (apparently) preferable to them listening to Pope Francis. Who would have thought that sockpuppets could be so cold hearted.
Rattus Norvegicus September 30, 2015 at 12:25 PM
Google Nigel Persaud for Stevie Mac's sockpuppet.
EliRabett September 28, 2015 at 11:57 PM
Way back when, Eli pointed out to Willard Tony that the USCRN was Tom Karl's trick to validate the USHCN and the homogeneity adjustments. Agreement going forward would show that the older data from the USHCN was properly treated.
Without time machines this is about the best that could be done. An excellent example of perceptive experimental design
Sou September 29, 2015 at 4:29 AM
What a sneaky thing to do :)
Anthony's next but one paper will probably be how the Climate Reference Network data has been manipulated to make it seem like it's getting hotter.
To be fair, you can't actually use USCRN to differentiate raw and adjusted USHCN data quite yet; the overlap is short enough and the nature of the pairwise homogenization algorithm tends to limit the amount of adjustments detected in the recent past (since it prefers having a length of time preceding the following the breakpoint to determine the correction needed).
Victor Venema September 29, 2015 at 10:33 AM
You cannot differentiate between raw and adjusted, but you can already see that the temperature trend in USHCN over the last century is not just due to urbanization. A difference of 0.1°C would be visible because both networks measure the same region.
You are right that the last part of the series is least reliable because it is hard to detect inhomogeneities near the end. You detect them by comparing the mean temperature before and after a potential break. You need years of data to get a reliable mean and thus too see breaks. The NOAA Pairwise Homogenization Algorithm even has an explicit limit and will not set any breaks in the last 18 months.
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The close relationship between Phylum Bacteroidetes and Phylum Chlorobi are supported by comparative genomic analysis which indicates they are derived from a common ancestor based on unique molecular signatures and common proteins.
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photolithotropic: Obtain energy from light and use inorganic electron donors only to fuel biosynthetic reactions.
Figure: Green sulfur bacteria: An image of a green sulfur bacteria which is categorized under the Phlyum Chlorobi and shares a close relationship with bacteria in the Phlyum Bacteroidetes.
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Misha Mansoor Was Blown Away By His New Pro Series Guitars
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Periphery guitarist Misha Mansoor has been so enamored with this USA signature Juggernauts that he was a bit skeptical at first about rolling out his new for 2017 Pro Series models. However, the Jackson team quickly secured his confidence.
“I think when Jackson approached me about doing a Pro Series model my initial thought was, ‘OK, but I have a great guitar right now; I don’t want to do anything that isn’t sort of that level,’ and they were like, ‘Look, I think we can really nail this,'” recalled Mansoor. “I have to say, they paid so much attention to detail that this guitar, which I was worried would be a bit of a compromise, ended up being so killer. I’m definitely going to be playing these live. They really blew me away with what a great job they did and how true to form all the important parts are.”
Mansoor goes into depth about all of those key components in the video below, particularly noting the new MM1 pickups.
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By Aggie Perilli March 26, 2018
10 Ideas to Transform Violence into A World of Peace
Since December 14, 2012, when 20 children and six adults were shot and killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the vast majority of Americans have been calling for gun control. Still, without sensible regulations, at least 1,813 more people in the US have been killed and 6,434 wounded in no less than 1,601 mass shootings at the time I am writing this.
In addition to passing urgently needed gun regulations, I believe that there are solutions that would transform violence into peace from the inside out, and for the long term.
Here are 10 Ideas to Transform Violence into A World of Peace:
Ignore scapegoating and personal attacks, and independently research the inclusive, unifying truth of oneness.
A 2011 survey by Fairleigh Dickinson University found viewers of ideological news programs the United States’ least informed citizens, and listeners of National Public Radio and viewers of Sunday morning talk shows, the most informed. (http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/)
Reinforce laws against hate speech and inciting violence.
Ignore and replace spokespeople who trivialize or romanticize what President Dwight Eisenhower called “the horror and lingering sadness of war.” Promote empathetic communication and partnerships, and embody the golden rule. Treat yourself as kindly as others, and all beings as kindly as yourself.
Strengthen regulations that ensure health and safety.
Compromises to health and safety in virtually every industry are exacerbating global warming, and leading to earlier and more frequent cases of cancer and other deadly and debilitating illnesses, especially among children.
Balance time spent on electronics and work with physical and social activities, preferably outdoors.
Spend quality time in nature. Play without purpose. Read. Listen to music. Engage in the creative arts.
Join or advance honest leaders who are informed and inclusive.
Develop nonpartisan solutions that people affected agree are for the common good. In an interview with The New York Times, Israeli President Shimon Peres said:
“The man with a hammer thinks every problem is a nail. Problems are not nails. When there is goodwill, they can all be overcome.”
Accelerate disarmament from illegal weapons of mass destruction, and urgently halt human rights violations and war crimes.
This includes the targeting of untried citizens for assassination or indefinite detention; the use of bombs and ammunition made with depleted uranium, and the wiretapping or mining of electronics.
Stop illegal drone and ground attacks.
Former President Jimmy Carter wrote in a 2012 New York Times article, “After more than 30 airstrikes on civilian homes in Afghanistan last year, President Hamid Karzai demanded such attacks end, but they have continued in areas of Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, which are not in any war zone. We don’t know how many innocent civilians have been killed in attacks …that would have been unthinkable in previous times.”
Newsweek reported in August 2017 that more civilians have been unlawfully killed during President Donald Trump’s first seven months in office, than the many killed during the three years President Barack Obama fought against the Islamic State militant group ISIS!
Redirect the trillions of dollars the United States, alone, has lost on unwinnable and explosive wars to peacemaking and the restoration of infrastructures, resources, and livelihoods devastated by violence.
Wherever you live, shift from calamitous nuclear power and fossil fuels, to 100% clean energy suited to your climate and resources, as in Burlington, Vermont and elsewhere. Research and ensure universally safe and clean drinking water, affordable education and healthcare for all, voluntary and independently tested and approved medicines and vaccines, equal pay and taxation, and the one person, one vote.
Without delay, shift to regenerative organic agriculture and landscaping, the humane treatment of animals, and chemical- and GMO-free food, clothing, and industrial practices. Transform the violence and desperation that feeds violence into empathetic communications and partnerships that enrich our world community.
Insist that entertainers, politicians, the media, and all industries champion peacemaking as what is truly safe and sexy.
The shock value of brutality is no substitute for empathetic communication and wit. When did modern society become like the ancient Romans who went to The Colosseum and watched killing for entertainment?
Be authentic and proactive.
Apply your passions and abilities to build a world of peace, however menacingly some might disapprove. Create visionary and inspiring communications, and be as forgivingly patient and tolerant of others as you’d like others to be with you. Maintain mutual boundaries and be firm, but kind.
“The soldiers who are dead and gone…” sang Curtis Mayfield in the 70s. If only we could bring back one, he’d say that “we’ve got to have peace to keep the world alive.” Is world peace impossible? At 89 years old, Peres said he had seen faith triumph more often than cynicism or skepticism. Realize the only true and lasting power of empathetic communication and partnerships.
How are you using your talents and abilities to communicate peace and nonviolence? Do you have ideas for transforming violence into a world of peace that were not shared above? If so, please share them in the comments section below!
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Bugatti Wants You To Know The Chiron's A/C Is Strong Enough To Cool An Apartment
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Bugatti loves to find creative ways of bragging about its products. Don’t forget, this is the company that once told us the Chiron’s coolant circuit has 800 litres of water pumped through it every minute. And now, the VW Group-owned brand would like us all to know that the Chiron and Divo’s air conditioning condensers are powerful enough to chill “an apartment in Europe”.
We’re talking about a decent-sized apartment, at that – one with an area of around 80 square metres, which is bigger than the average UK home. The reason the two Bugs need so much A/C clout is largely down to the long, heavily-raked windscreen, which has nearly double the surface area of a “conventional compact car”. Factor in the optional (and apparently very popular) Sky View glass roof, and you have the potential for a very toasty cabin.
The solution is those two big condensers, which work together with a 10kW compressor. The system – which has 9.5 metres of piping due to the mid-engine layout of the hypercar – can compress 3kg of coolant every minute.
The compressor sits close to the exhaust system, so this needs its own coolant system so it doesn’t get adversely affected by heat soak. Also, the high speeds that the Chiron and Divo can achieve needed to be factored in when the system was designed. Normally, air will enter a cabin just below the windscreen, but on Bugatti models, this will only happen if you’re going 155mph or faster.
“From this point onwards, there is a switch to negative pressure: a sophisticated control system with an additional ram air flap and an optimised blower ensures that air continues to enter the interior,” the company says. Crikey.
“At first glance, our air conditioning system appears to function like a conventional system,” Bugatti’s air-conditioning tech chief Julia Lemke (pictured above) says, adding, “But it’s a real challenge to perfectly harmonise the highly complex system of a small-series hyper sports car so that it works impeccably even at maximum speed and engine load.”
Making sure the system worked properly involved a lot of seat time in the Chiron, which sounds like an awfully good way of earning a living…
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Faith & Public Life, Immigration and Seeking Refuge
The Church’s “Third Rail” of Immigration
By Craig Wong
“If you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, those who go staggering to the slaughter; if you say, ‘Look, we did not know this’—does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it? And will he not repay all according to their deeds?” (Proverbs 24:11-12)
Save us now from satisfaction when we privately are free, yet are undisturbed in spirit by our neighbor’s misery. (Elton Trueblood, in the hymn, “Christ Whose Purpose Is to Kindle,” 1966)
The political theater around the topic of immigration can best be described as painfully comic, especially in election seasons, as each candidate frets and spins in a clumsy attempt to communicate a coherent position. It reminds me of that scene in the comedy Meet the Parents where a panic-stricken young man feigns love of cats in order to score points with his future father-in-law. Beads of sweat appear on the candidates’ brows as the questions fly through their minds: How can I prove tougher than my opponent on illegal immigration? How do I do that without sounding like a racist? What if they ask me about those sanctuary ordinances? The driver’s license proposal? My gardener? Will a compassionate stance make me look soft on crime and terrorism? How about the Latino vote? How do I explain my “yes” vote on the 700-mile fence? Should I divert attention to tough employer sanctions? Those law-breaking meat-packing plants? What if that alienates my business constituency? Is it more politically expedient, at the given moment, to emphasize affection for cats or disdain for dogs?
While some might derive cynical pleasure from watching would-be leaders dance and stammer, the morally spineless nature of such issue-skirting is no laughing matter. A political “third rail” (i.e. touch it and die) issue like immigration is particularly subject to duplicitous sound-bite posturing that, more often than not, hides ugly realities few dare to address. At best, experienced politicians keep the conversation safe, striking an ideological balance between imperatives of “enforcement” and “earned citizenship” or waxing eloquent about the rule of law or the historic role of immigration. Such rhetorical surface banter, I would argue, is buffering our collective conscience from the inhumane treatment we as a nation are currently inflicting upon “the strangers in our midst.”
While left and right engage in fruitless dialogue about “comprehensive immigration reform,” real people are suffering under the increasingly heavy hand of our own government. We have all heard about the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids ordered by the Department of former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff (“Operation Return to Sender”). Few are aware of the more recent push to implement “no-match” (of Social Security IDs) letters to force employers to fire their undocumented workers.
Fewer still know that hundreds of millions in tax dollars are being spent on private contractors to erect mass detainment facilities throughout the country. And almost absent in the media are human faces to the state-sanctioned cruelty being committed within our own borders. The following snapshots, paraphrased from the report Over-Raided, Under Siege, are just three of thousands of documented accounts:
“ICE agents stormed the home of Nelly Amaya, entered her bedroom, and conducted a search without identifying themselves. ICE roughed her up as they frisked and arrested her, twisted her arm, aggravating an existing injury. Her arm was swollen and bruised after the handcuffs were put on. On the way to the station, she suffered an asthma attack, which went untreated.”
“After the trauma of the ICE raid at the plant, electronic monitoring shackles were placed on the ankles of 33 women who were released but kept under house arrest. Almost all being mothers, and the sole providers for their family, they faced insurmountable barriers to provide for their families because they were not allowed to work.”
“ICE forcibly separated an 8-year-old girl from her pregnant mother and left her alone for four days at a residential facility. The mother and child cried inconsolably after they were awakened as the mother was taken away. Having fled Honduras earlier to escape an abusive relationship and gang violence, they were denied asylum. The mother and child were only reunited after being deported back to Honduras.”
Over 34,000 immigrants in detention facilities (these numbers are actually mandated, to fill a quota); thousands of workplace arrests, border deaths, and deportations. Social vilification. Separation of families. Withholding of health services. Physical abuse.
We are being told to accept, essentially, that this is just what happens to those who “don’t play by the rules.” God’s people, however, are called to live by a different set of rules. The current immigration crisis, therefore, represents a moral “third rail” for the American church. How we engage it can be the difference between life and death.
Craig Wong is a “minister at-large” for Grace Fellowship Community Church in San Francisco.
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10 movies to watch (again) during Hispanic Heritage Month
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September 15 marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month- a month when people take some time to recognize the contributions of Hispanic and Latin Americans to the United States and celebrate the group’s heritage and culture.
For this reason, we picked some of the most popular and remembered Hispanic movies whose stories tell not only the struggles of being a Latino in the United States, but also highlight the hopes, pride and achievements of Hispanic living in the United States.
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.
Musician brothers Cesar and Nestor leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, hoping to hit the top of the Latin music scene.
An epic film that traces over three generations of an immigrant family’s trials, tribulations, tragedies and triumphs.
Selena (1997)
The true story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums on the Latin music charts.
Tortilla Soup (2001)
A Mexican-American father and chef lost his ability to taste but his family still lives by one simple rule: be at home for Sunday dinner.
Piñero (2001)
The true story of the explosive life of Puerto Rican icon and poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. Piñero’s prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes.
Real Women Have Curves (2002)
A coming of age story of a first generation Latina, her very traditional parents and the struggle to find a balance between mainstream ambitions and cultural heritage.
Under the Same Moon (2007)
A young Mexican boy travels to the U.S. to find his mother-who has been working in the States to provide for him-after his grandmother passes away.
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.
The true story of a coach who turns seven Latino students with no hope into one of the best cross-country teams in the U.S.
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All movie synopsis taken from IMDb.
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Troy Aikman: 'The Cowboys are the best team in the division'
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Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman Aikman, who won three Super Bowls with the Cowboys, said that Dallas is "the best team" in the NFC East.
"I will say this: I have said it throughout the year; I do feel that the Cowboys are the best team in the division," Aikman said. "And some would say, 'Ok well who cares? What does that necessarily mean?' Well, what I think it means is that they could go into the postseason, and they are capable."
Aikman, who made an appearance on 105.3 the Fan on Wednesday morning, talked about the Cowboys’ three-game winning streak, and how they’ve suddenly put themselves in a position to steal the division crown away from the Washington Football Team.
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"We know what they are on the offensive side of the ball, and the defense is playing better," Aikman said. "They're at least getting the takeaways and doing some of the things that they've had a hard time doing the last couple of years. And this team is capable, when they're playing well, I think they're capable of giving anybody a run."
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The Cowboys will look to continue their winning ways against the New York Giants on Sunday.
The last time the Cowboys and Giants squared off, Dallas starting quarterback Dak Prescott injured his ankle and was lost for the season. It looked as if the Cowboys’ season would be over, but they managed to rally behind backup Andy Dalton.
During Week 5, Dallas came away with a 37-34 win over the Giants. Running back Ezekiel Elliott had 19 carries for 91 yards and two scores, and rookie wideout CeeDee Lamb had eight receptions for 124 yards for the Cowboys.
In Week 17, The Cowboys need to win, and they need some help from the Philadelphia Eagles in order to claim the division crown. If Dallas comes away with a victory over the Giants, and if the Eagles manage to upset division-leading Washington, Dallas will host a playoff game in the NFC playoffs.
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Regal and IMAX Launch Virtual Reality Centre in NYC’s Times Square
The Next Generation of Immersive Entertainment is Now Available at Regal E-Walk Stadium 13 & RPX
Knoxville, Tennessee (December 12, 2017) – Regal Entertainment Group, a leading motion picture exhibitor owning and operating one of the largest theatre circuits in the United States, in partnership with IMAX, unveiled the new IMAX VR Centre at Regal E-Walk Stadium 13 & RPX in Times Square, New York City. Regal’s new IMAX Centre is one of only six in the world, and invites guests to experience other worlds with immersive, multi-dimensional virtual reality experiences, including movie entertainment content and games.
The mind-shattering IMAX VR experience will be available at E-Walk starting today, and Regal looks forward to sharing the state-of-the-art technology with its guests. The Centre features a unique combination of premium technology and world-class content that lets users see, feel, move and play in new worlds in a powerfully immersive and realistic way, just as Regal’s IMAX theatres offer moviegoers a differentiated and best-in-class film experience. With groundbreaking VR headset technology, 360-degree sound and sophisticated room tracking, players will be instantly transported into new interactive virtual worlds that are more realistic than anything imaginable.
“Regal strives to offer the ultimate in cutting-edge technology, and this VR Centre is unlike anything our guests have experienced,” said Ken Thewes, Chief Marketing Officer at Regal Entertainment Group. “Our partnership with IMAX allows us to offer virtual reality options that are in high demand with today’s movie fans, and create bigger and better opportunities for our guests. The IMAX VR Centre is a huge technological leap, and a fantastic advance for the Regal experience.”
The Centre, which will be located on the fourth floor of the Regal E-Walk Stadium 13 multiplex, employs a new design – proprietary to IMAX – to allow multiple players to enjoy highly interactive, exciting, moveable VR experiences in an extremely social environment. The Centre will consist of two “pods,” which are designed to optimize user mobility and interaction in virtual environments and can be adapted for specific content experiences – whether single or multi-user, as well as a GloStation – a new hyper reality escape room VR experience that allows up to 4 players at a time to compete as a unit with free-roam mobility.
“We look forward to expanding our longstanding partnership with Regal to usher in the next evolution of immersive entertainment – starting with the launch of IMAX VR at one of its most prominent multiplexes,” said Mark Welton, President, IMAX Theatres. “As one of the most heavily trafficked tourist destinations in the world, Times Square is an ideal location to introduce IMAX VR to a wide range of audiences from all over the world.”
The VR Centre will continually feature an array of new, premium interactive content experiences that are each expected to range between eight and 15 minutes in length. Regal looks forward to sharing this innovative technology and offering crowd-pleasing experiential opportunities at E-Walk throughout the holiday season. Paired with luxury recliners and a continually expanding concession menu, the theatre is raising the bar for movie fans everywhere.
About Regal Entertainment Group
Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC) operates one of the largest and most geographically diverse theatre circuits in the United States, consisting of 7,315 screens in 561 theatres in 43 states along with Guam, Saipan, American Samoa and the District of Columbia as of September 30, 2017. The Company operates theatres in 48 of the top 50 U.S. designated market areas. We believe that the size, reach and quality of the Company’s theatre circuit not only provide its patrons with a convenient and enjoyable movie-going experience, but is also an exceptional platform to realize economies of scale in theatre operations.
Additional information is available on the Company’s website at www.REGmovies.com.
About IMAX Corporation
IMAX, an innovator in entertainment technology, combines proprietary software, architecture and equipment to create experiences that take you beyond the edge of your seat to a world you’ve never imagined. Top filmmakers and studios are utilizing IMAX theatres to connect with audiences in extraordinary ways, and, as such, IMAX’s network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe.
IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto and Los Angeles, with additional offices in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of September 30, 2017, there were 1,302 IMAX theatres (1,203 commercial multiplexes, 11 commercial destinations and 86 institutions) in 75 countries. On Oct. 8, 2015, shares of IMAX China, a subsidiary of IMAX Corp., began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code “HK.1970.”
More information about the IMAX can be found at www.imax.com. You may also connect with IMAX on Facebook (www.facebook.com/imax), Twitter (www.twitter.com/imax) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/imaxmovies).
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Council Passes North Bay Casino, but it’s Not Over Yet
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Is North Bay City Council blinded by bonus casino revenue?
Last night, the North Bay City Council convened for a special committee meeting. A crowd of locals came out to attend, eager to hear whether a $31 million casino is in their future. It’s a very old discussion, by most standards; one that’s been on the table for the last six years.
Following the presentations of more than a dozen townspeople—most adamantly opposed to the installment of a North Bay casino—Mayor Al McDonald and the city’s10 councilors weighed in with their final votes.
Officials Favor North Bay Casino by 8-3 Vote
The crowd was stunned when the 8-3 vote came in. Audience members clapped as Councilors Robertson, King and Tignanelli each offered votes of “No”. Otherwise, there was silence throughout the meeting hall during the process. When it was over, a resounding buzz of negativity encompassed the room.
The people in attendance were upset because, after more than two hours, all who came to speak at the meeting were ignored. 19 presenters were registered; 17 for 5-minute presentations and 2 for 10 minute presentations. A few who signed up were no-shows, but most did appear, and many of their arguments were moving.
They spoke of the negative social and economic impacts. One gave accounts of Ontario casinos that continuously lost money, or barely stayed afloat, for the last 10 years. Another listed 54 charities and non-profit organizations in North Bay that would be at least hampered, if not devastated, by a casino. A father told the story of his daughter, who’s now struggling as a single mother since her children’s father’s gambling addiction tore the family apart, leaving them in great debt.
City Officials Blinded by Bonus Casino Revenue?
Aside from Councilors Robertson, King and Tignanelli, none of those arguments seemed to bother the other city officials. They maintained their arguments that a North Bay Casino would create around 200 jobs, generate tax revenue, and that it’s the people’s choice whether they want to visit a casino or not.
Mayor McDonald, who voted in favor of the casino, notes that this debate has gone on for six long years. He is looking forward to the extra employment, having heard it could bring anywhere from “180 to 250” permanent jobs, plus “one time jobs for construction.”
As for the impending tax revenue, McDonald said, “I recommend that the money that comes back to the community does not go in the operating budget, that a portion of it goes to different sectors in our community.” No mention of exactly where in the community that unmeasured “portion” might go.
Townspeople Lash Out at City Council
Once the vote was taken, presenter Tracey Restoule gave the council a verbal lashing:
“You are all elected to represent the city of North Bay and the citizens. And yet all these people who came here—you don’t care about anything that they said. You’re supposed to be representing what we want. Not what you want. Not what your benefits are. You’re supposed to represent these people. Shame on you!”
No doubt, the emotion behind her message was reciprocated by the majority of those in attendance. No response came from the head of the room.
Want to hear more? Watch the City Council Meeting on YouTube.
Councilor King Files Motion to Reconsider
All is not said and done just yet. Councilor Mark King, who’s opposed the North Bay casino plan all along, immediately filed a motion to reconsider. He believes that 5 members of the city council are too new to fully understand the breadth of the situation.
“They’re having a tough time following this and getting a handle on what it means for the city,” said King earlier this week, noting his desire to delay the voting process. “I would think that rushing this through is not the way to go about it.”
King’s motion was granted. A final vote will take place at the next council meeting. However, no discussion will take place prior to that vote. Councilors must take the time to reconsider their position, and whether the prospect of bonus casino revenue might be blurring their vision, before the next meeting. Whatever vote is taken then will decide whether North Bay gets its casino.
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May 6, 2019 by Thiha
THE department of Highways has revised build-operate-transfer highway contracts awarded by the military junta with 25 companies, including some of Myanmar’s biggest conglomerates, after discovering the roads they upgraded were substandard.
The department, under the Ministry of Construction, has submitted the revised BOT contracts to the Ministry of Planning and Finance, the Myanmar Investment Commission and the Attorney-General’s Office.
The construction ministry does not have a record of the total value of the contracts, most of which were awarded before 2011, the deputy director general of the Department of Highways, U Aung Myint Oo, told Frontier.
He said even if the department had these records, they wouldn’t be accurate.
“The military regime asked the companies to take part in these projects. They didn’t apply willingly, and they didn’t have any experience. That’s the heart of the issue,” he said.
The department said the revised BOT contracts stipulated that all highways must meet ASEAN Class III standard, which is the minimum standard for highways, and be two-lane thoroughfares at least 18 feet wide (5.5 metres). The BOT contracts were for 61 highway sections across the country with a total length of 3,264 miles (5,224 kilometres).
Aung Myint Oo said it was hard to estimate how many of the contractors had breached the terms of their contracts, and what portion of the roads they had built were subpar.
A rotten legacy
Decades of underinvestment and mismanagement have made highways in Myanmar among the worst in Southeast Asia. The situation isn’t helped by the climate, with the waterlogging that accompanies the heavy four-month rainy season undermining the foundations of roads and washing away poor paving work.
In the 1990s, the military junta began awarding private companies BOT contracts, typically lasting 40 years, in which the companies were required to build, upgrade and maintain highways in exchange for the right to collect road tolls.
Private companies now manage around 30 percent of the national highway network – more than 6,000km – under BOT terms. While this has saved government money, complaints about lack of maintenance have piled up over the years.
The Asian Development Bank, in a Transport Sector Policy Note on trunk roads published in 2016, called the template BOT contract used by the Department of Highways “deeply flawed” and “often far removed from best practice”.
“Overall, the contracts in use leave excessive room for government discretion and open-ended renegotiations. This can lead to corruption, non-transparent arrangements, multiple contract renegotiations without any clear basis for renegotiating, frequent conflicts and poor performance,” the policy note said, adding that low fixed toll rates made many of the concessions unviable, leaving little incentive an limited means to properly maintain them.
Sections of highway newly-upgraded under BOT contracts signed during the term of the U Thein Sein government, which ran 2011-16, are due to open in the coming months. These link Taikkyi with Hmawbi in Yangon Region, Kalaw with Taunggyi in Shan State, Pyin Oo Lwin with Mandalay in Mandalay Region and Myinmu with Monywa in Sagaing Region.
Seven companies are upgrading the old Yangon-Mandalay highway under BOT contracts, the department said. U Aung Myint Oo said there were fewer problems with these newer contracts, but that they needed to be revised to include clearer terms and conditions, including on the quality of the roads.
U Shwe Zin, the department’s chief engineer, said the companies had breached their BOT contracts mainly because they took on the projects without considering whether they would be profitable and had failed to properly calculate the number of vehicles that would travel on the roads.
“Based on the number of vehicles using a road each day, or Annual Average Daily Traffic, we have to decide whether we should widen a road to 18 feet, 24 feet or 48 feet,” he told Frontier. Companies in the past were solely responsible for calculating this number, which they consistently overstated.
As a result, the figures held by the ministry do not reflect the reality on the ground.
Soft on failure
The Ministry of Construction has ordered some companies to postpone collecting tolls on highway sections before upgrades are completed to the required standard.
They include a section built by the military-owned Myanmar Economic Corporation between Monywa and Ye-U in Sagaing Region, a section between Dala and Kawmhu in Yangon Region upgraded by Zaykabar Company and a section between Pakokku in Magway Region and Chaung Oo in Sagaing Region contracted to a company called Htun Nyo Lu.
Shwe Zin and other officials repeatedly insisted in interviews that they “took action” against the companies by telling them to stop collecting tolls and focus on fulfilling their contracts.
However, some lawmakers believe the ministry has been too soft on the companies, and say it needs to take more decisive action to ensure that companies understand that the terms of contracts must be respected.
“The ministry needs to exercise close supervision over BOT contracts,” said Amyotha Hluttaw MP U Kyaw Htwe (National League for Democracy, Yangon-8). “If [companies] don’t respect the terms of the contract, the ministry should act accordingly.”
Kyaw Htwe was the first lawmaker to flag the issue in parliament, when he asked on January 26, 2018 about Zaykabar Company’s upgrade of a road section between Dala and Kawmhu, which is in his constituency.
The ministry asked the company to stop collecting tolls, because the project was not yet complete, and a group of MPs and community leaders was formed to monitor the project’s implementation.
Local residents and MPs say that after Zaykabar was told to stop collecting tolls it ceased work on the upgrade and there are unconfirmed reports of cash flow challenges.
Frontier unsuccessfully sought comment from Zaykabar as well as other companies working on BOT road upgrades, including Max Myanmar, Oriental Highway, Thanti Thitsar and Su Htoo Pan.
Shwe Zin said that if companies were to honour the terms of their contracts, it “would really be a win-win situation between the government and the companies”.
Defending the principle of BOT contracts, Shwe Zin said building and upgrading roads required large amounts of capital and if the private sector did not do the work it would require funding from the government that could be better spent on other development projects.
He said most of the BOT contracts were for roads that were originally 12 feet wide and needed to be widened to at least 18 feet.
After the upgrades are completed the companies are required to inform the ministry, after which the MIC sets what is known as a profitable timeline. This determines whether the company can collect tolls for three years or five years.
The department says the revised BOT contracts will be announced in May, and it is due to award contracts for new projects in Kachin State in a few months.
Kyaw Htwe is disappointed that firmer action has not been taken over contract breaches. “The government is still hesitating to take action,” he said, arguing that contractors responsible for substandard work should be blacklisted, and those that had begun collecting tolls before projects were finished should hand the money over to the government.
“If the ministry is still avoiding taking action and is instead planning to make it easy for the companies by revising the contracts, then a question arises about whether the officials responsible are being honest,” he said.
“How can the government work in the future with these companies when they have shown that they are prepared to breach existing contracts?”
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About a Factory
Glenn and I enjoyed The Bagdad today, another hot one. Lots of street theater, though none of the buskers from the other day (above).
A long happy chapter in Glenn's life was re-purposing an old abandoned high school, twelve foot ceilings, tall windows, maple floors, a huge walk-in air conditioning solution... to make it a healthy place to work, producing sensitive measuring devices. The town had already dwindled to not quite a ghost town, when a new generation of young people showed up, Glenn among them, a Vietnam vet (exNSA).
Glenn did a lot of the wiring and our discussion turned to conduit, how it's bent without crimping. Ingenious spring sleeves do the trick, though he also described a more conventional solution. Having tried to bend copper tubing by hand, and quickly crimping it (a kindergarten experience, saved for kitchen sink owning adulthood), I could appreciate the need for tools.
Fishing the wire through (this is conduit for wiring) is another art. He talked about an air pressure powered "mouse" that may be used to fire the pull-cord right through the length, after which a tightly bound bundle of wires is pulled behind it, perhaps with the help of lubricant. Why tighter is better I wasn't sure, having a memory of "cable trays", suspended from the ceiling, open to the air, but then there's a difference between high voltage cables and data cables.
The plant was in Jerome, Arizona, and the instrument was a very fine almost-pure gold mesh. One could detect toxins at parts per billion not million, including the "sour gas" that kills oil rig workers, if they hit a pocket of the stuff. And mercury. These were canary in a mineshaft devices, and used by environmentalists to document "externalized costs" in the form of deteriorating health (lower living standards) for surrounding populations (some factories are more polluting than others).
At its peak, this "mostly hippie" factory, meaning egalitarian, no cubicles, parties every Friday afternoon (well earned), turned a pretty penny and outperformed the competition, making a lot of less competent companies look bad. I guess the factory was publicly listed or something, or in any case it got bought out and ruined by lesser minds from Phoenix or one of those. That's from Glenn's angle of course, given the takeover involved everyone being fired (and adding cubicles "so people couldn't see you not working").
The unions, when influential on a construction site, have their respective turf when it comes to tubes and ducts. Pipe fitters have their specialty. However once the building is complete and in service, a next cast of ongoing maintainers get to practice a more inter-disciplinary blend of skills.
Glenn really benefited from all the talents he got to develop, extending what he'd learned from growing up around a construction site: Glen Canyon Dam near Page, Arizona. His dad was a senior engineer on that one, the family having moved there from St. Helen's, Oregon.
Fig 1: Clojure IDE: IntelliJ
In this classroom, we foreground Python while ramping up at a slower rate in the background with Clojure. That lets us dabble in Functional Programming while absorbing the Object Oriented mindset, providing a strong basis for future exploration and new skills acquisition.
The segue computation, twixt Python and Clojure, is this "volume of a tetrahedron based only on six edge lengths for input" algorithm handed down to me from the ancestors, and in my subculture fine tuned by one Gerald de Jong (of Elastic Interval Geometry fame) to natively output in what we call tetravolumes, i.e. when all edges are one, the thing is calibrated to return one (unit volume in this system).
Gerald shared his results on Synergetics-L which used to run in the Teleport domain. I brought the result to sci.math, coming under attack (by some guy named Chapman) for not getting my priorities straight. I have not gone back to sci.math with anything important (too frenetic!).
David Chako, Gerald, myself, and later Tom Ace, were all working on Quadrays at the time, which we also called Chakovian coordinates. I became aware of Darrel Jarmusch's parallel efforts somewhere in the course of this R&D.
Imagine a regular tetrahedron centered at O with four radial arms to its four vertexes. These are the unit vectors, at most three of which are needed, in linear combination, to span each quadrant. All IVM (= CCP) ball centers have positive integer or zero coordinates with origin O at (0, 0, 0, 0).
Quadrays may be used in combination with tetravolume measures to show all Waterman polyhedrons have whole number volume, as do all tetrahedrons with all four corners at IVM points (proof by Robert Gray, the original transcriber of Synergetics onto the Web).
To use the Volume function (below), one gives the three edges from a common apex, call it O, meaning we input OA, OB, OC. The next three edges are the AB, BC, CA respectively, i.e. going around the base. The algorithm works with 2nd powers of these lengths, forming products of "open", "closed" and "opposite" sets of edges.
Fig 2: Call-out: the Volume function
In the above figure, the summary Volume computation is matched with a special case example, that of the A module, for output of:
All edges D=1, Volume: 1.0
Amod volume: 0.04166666666666668
The labeling in that case corresponds to some plane net in Synergetics. The unit volume tetrahedron fragments into 24 such modules, 12 left and 12 right (inside-outs of each other), and therefore each with a volume of 1/24 (same as B and T modules).
The Clojure program, just like the Python version, then goes on to compute other module volumes, including the E and S module volumes, from published plane nets, with the S / E volume ratio named "sFactor" in other computations relating to the Jitterbug Transformation (see CSN blog).
I recommend Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations, into mathematics especially, for those balking at the very notion of a unit volume tetrahedron, which may at first seem counter-intuitive, just as Clojure's LISP-like syntax may feel too alien (remote) at first.
Showing how the tetravolumes language game extents to the planar case, along with the payoff in terms of whole number volumes, may lower the student's skepticism level enough to where engaging in hands-on exercises with these concepts, using computer languages, does not seem a waste of time on some purely nonsensical activity.
Of Kepler and Aristotle
I've grown in both my respect and understanding for several historical figures in recent years, Descartes and Mercator in particular. Both had to navigate in the treacherous waters of fear, based in strife among namespaces. Religious wars were rampant in other words.
Mercator ended up in jail for a spell, whereas Descartes was always dodging the equivalent of paparazzi and may have been poisoned in the end, as chief adviser to a Scandinavian Queen. Copernicus was also cool.
Johannes Kepler, however, I'd come to appreciate much earlier, through Arthur Koestler's works. Here was a guy really into the classic rhombic dodecahedron, a space-filling shape. He understood its connection to what we today call the CCP or FCC matrix, both with the word "cubic" in them, yet 60-degree and 120-degree angles are what stand out given balls closest-pack in triangular relationships as much as square.
The growing cuboctahedron of dense-packed spheres that defines the CCP is actually the dual shape to the rhombic dodecahedron, the shape which naturally encases each of those spheres such that they become inter-tangent at the centers of its twelve diamond faces.
1, 12, 42, 92, 162...
:: Growth of the IVM (= fcc, = ccp) ::
Thanks to graphene and the emergence of the Age of Carbon as some call it, hexagonal awareness has surged to the foreground, with checker-board patterns (except Chinese) receding, though also present in the CCP in cross-section.
The discovery of buckminsterfullerene as an allotrope of carbon in the 1980s marked the beginning of a cascade of events, leading to nano-tubes and then graphene. The computer industry has converged to this space of hexagons, and, by extension, the rhombic dodecahedra so fascinating to Kepler.
On to Aristotle, who fits in for his controversial claim that tetrahedrons are space-filling. Regular ones are clearly not, so is that what he meant?
Rather than put words in Aristotle's mouth, or take them out, we should simply remember the MITE or Minimum Tetrahedron, as a component of Kepler's rhombic dodecahedron. Crisscross each diamond face and pull out the four right angle tetrahedrons.
These Mites also form cubes in assemblies of 24, and the space-filling Coupler (= 8 Mites), an oblate octahedron.
That "Coupler" rhymes with "Kepler", at least a little, helps hold this memeplex together.
The MITE is space-filling, in other words, as are some of the Sytes built from them. The quarter Rite (also space-filling) is yet another. None of these have "handedness" and so qualify as Sommerville Tetrahedrons, named for the geometer who studied them.
What Glenn Stockton calls the Global Matrix includes concentric hexapents, like carbon cages of arbitrary frequency, as a data store and display structure. Such layering for mapping purposes is consistent with other geometry learned from dividing spheres.
Shifting education channels to help bring these patterns forward into more common everyday awareness could mean putting more emphasis on both Kepler and Aristotle for the reasons mentioned.
When it comes to memes and memetics, the core metaphor is: "connecting the dots" -- the stuff of graph theory and graph databases.
OSCON 2015 Continues!
Tim O'Reilly held court in the Expo Hall during the break (sponsored by New Relic), after the UK's counterpart, the head of a US version of Digital Services, had given a keynote.
PayPal with InnerSource is on the same page as other big enterprises: the open source way of working, with tools that are open source, builds a better enterprise. The shorter tag line: Apache Inside (as in Apache Foundation projects; still a hotbed of open license technologies). Walmart Labs has likewise standardized on the Open Source way inhouse, both using and contributing to the ecosystem, with a stack based on Node, Cassandra and Mongo in large degree, and moving to Trusty for a standard OS (Trusty is in the Ubuntu series).
Tim talked a lot about Technology to solve social ills by augmenting people power, not oppressing us. "Where's the Uber for eldercare?" he wondered, echoing ideas I learned about from CareWheels, a project to let people stay longer in their own homes with light monitoring and community support over the Web, in addition to in-home visits and services.
Uber does seem a lot like Transporation Reaching People (TRP), originally administered by Clackamas County, software by me, in an age before smartphones. "What about Technology for refugee camps?" asked Tim. Indeed. Any instant city needs ephemeral organs of self government, feedback loops mainly. That's what journalism helps with, in the context of bigger picture framing viewpoints (oft referred to as "bias" but also "leaning" or even "leading" if using esoteric Quaker parlance).
Technology has the ability to create wealth (life support) by augmenting our powers. As Amber Case pointed out in her later talk, with augmentation comes fear, including possible estrangement between those who "have" and those who "have not" whatever new powers we're talking about. Other technologies are more restorative e.g. eyeglasses, used to bring people up to normative speeds. Her theme was Calm Technology, meaning feedback loops ranging from non-intrusive to subliminal (highly peripheral). Suggest today's weather with light hues. Ambient cues. Atmospherics.
Luciano is running something concurrent to search for 192 country flag URLs, using all 676 letter combinations from AA to ZZ. He's about to talk about Python's new concurrancy features. He's (virtually) hitting against the CIA Factbook, first sequentially (five minutes) than concurrently, at first with five connections (one minute), then with a hundred connections he gets all the flags (thumbnail gifs) in under five seconds. He does this all using Python's new native "green thread" capabilities.
I was just at Damian Conway's talk about extending Perl 5's syntax using new packages he's written, to make it a lot more like Perl 6. One can even add new keywords in that language, by a kind of macro substitution process against the source. Alex and Anna likewise did a language-centric talk on patterns in Python, calling out specific high level features in the standard library.
Advice to Pythonistas regarding asynchronous programming: start with learning generators thoroughly, and then study coroutines. The newest Python (3.5 in 2015) has new keywords: async def replaces the @asyncio.coroutine decorator and await replaces yield from. An asyncio Task wraps a coroutine, giving an API allowing task cancellation and status checks. The style suggested is a way of avoiding "callback hell" according to Luciano.
Luciano would later be wandering over to the Urban Airship site on the west side to deliver his talk to our Python User Group. I hope I get to ask him how that went.
The grand finale talk for me today was co-worker Patrick Barton's presentation, about using some fancy "neo-cortical" algorithms (implemented in Python) to predict short term energy demand based on previous learning. Then it was off to Amber's talk and the WalMart Labs mixer at Spirit of 77 across the street.
Training a Numenta instance is somewhat like training Dragon speech recognition software. In this case, the "voice" was the collective energy demand of some 116 households in Austin, TX (the site for next year's OSCON as fate would have it). Paul (co-worker) and I adjourned to Lucky Lab on Hawthorne in his company car (different company -- he has two jobs) for a nightcap with Ben (former co-worker) and a fellow car nut, then I hopped a bus home.
Tomorrow I think I'll start out walking Mt. Tabor again. It's been quite awhile. I've been working on healing the ankle. Then I'll watch the opening keynotes via live streaming before trekking over there for closing ceremonies.
:: amber case (esri) ::
OSCON 2015 Begins!
This time I had my confirmation code, after the embarrassment of last year where a phone call needed to be placed to confirm my status as a proposal reader. On top of that I'm an employee. Anyway, this year the confirmation code was not required, simply a QR-code on one's phone, or the email address one had registered with. Super fast, with the name badge printing right there. I was good to go in no time flat.
Holden is in from the UK and we met up with Patrick and Deke at Hop House last night. Today, he and I were both in the Docker tutorial, brilliantly presented and organized by Andrew Baker, with Twilio in DC. He had a large number of Ubuntu cloud instances ready to give us each one-on-one access to a docker-ready platform.
So what's Docker? As Andrew explained, on the spectrum from manually configuring a server from scratch, all the way to configuration scripts and virtual machines, it's closer to supplying a VM but not in the sense of hosting a guest Operating System. Might one call it a light-weight operating system layer, an OS extension?
Docker containerizes processes (services) and thereby has them join a community of well-behaved players, and in a way that stores to an image one places in a Docker Registry. Run an image to boot up containers, each supervising a processes such as a Flask app, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Neo4j, and so on.
I met up with Alex Martelli then rejoined Steve and we shortly adjourned to lunch, in the vast "Holodeck" as some call it, in the Oregon Convention Center, there to be joined by Anna Ravenscroft (also Martelli family). Conversation turned to having enough supplies to last through some unspecified catastrophe, a focus of LDS church members as well as preparedness groups more generally.
I got through the gifify exercise then decided I wanted my XQ-1 back from Camera World. I was able to secure the replacement and return before the tutorial had ended, whereupon we splice to the above lunch at the Pythonista table. This is actually a replacement, not a repair (same language used in cardiology) with a new serial number and everything. I'm looking forward to blissing out with it. Above is the first shot taken, of Holden on my back deck, after lunch.
Discipline and Record Keeping
Although many Friends don't think of it this way, keeping accurate and complete records falls under the Truth Testimony.
"Are these records to be believed?" If the answer is "no" then we may conclude:
(A) they're meant as fiction (storytelling) perhaps with embedded teachings
(B) they're obsolete (out of date) and in that sense misinforming
(C) they're deliberately misinforming
(D) the records are riddled with outright lies.
In moving from A-D, I'm escalating the severity of the untruths.
Many not-truthful records fall into category (B) within NPYM.
We have creaky, obsolete ways of conducting business. Collectively, we lack discipline as a business.
Saying a nonprofit or 501(c)(3) "is not a business" is probably a grave error, one that kills off serious Quakerism by suggesting that our "business" (as in "Meetings for Business" -- a core activity) is not really business, and so the idea of applying serious "business logic" or "business rules" need not apply.
The lack of discipline in our record-keeping is thereby justified. "Everyone knows non-profits are dysfunctional" -- a belief I've encountered often.
Perhaps it would be constructive to use the term NGO (for non-governmental organization) more assiduously? Personnel in the global development business know that not all NGOs are slouches, Some NGOs have their act together, including with respect to record-keeping.
What holds us back is the stereotype of a "non-profit charity" as a loose ship run by mostly volunteers, a hobby activity. The outcome: recreational Quakerism, not all that serious and typically middle class Christian, a religion being something people engage in "on Sundays" and on some holidays.
Thanks to the connotations of "non-profit", our "business" takes a back seat, including record-keeping, as Friends indulge in what they consider "more spiritual" matters. Record keeping is not sexy enough.
NPYM Friends fall further and further behind, in terms of relevance, as they allow their "business culture" to continue to degrade. Quakers reached their peak in power and credibility sometime in the late 1700s, when they actually ran legitimate businesses.
The very idea of a "sectarian business" is fairly unusual by now, at least as a marketing ploy. Everyone knows that Quaker (the commercial brand) does not mean Quaker (the religious sect).
When the Rajneeshis tried to start their own company town in central Oregon, they opened some storefronts in Portland, like a bakery, but those all were shut down, leaving a bad taste with many Oregonians (a twisted tale). Churches sometimes have gift shops at least. Christian supply stores abound like at The Grotto in Portland.
At some point, with the passage of time, the neglect starts to seem more willful and we move from (B) closer to (D) along the Scale of Untruthfulness.
Not lifting a finger to become more up to date eventually becomes a way of lying, with lying becoming a way of life. Externalizing "future shock" so that others must endure it, but not oneself, is a way of postponing the day of reckoning. Answering the call of the Zeitgeist to "shape up" means keeping up with best practices around curating and record-keeping. Graph database anyone?
I don't believe we need hirelings when it comes to the basics of Quaker record-keeping though. In today's world, these basics include knowing something about Structured Query Language (SQL) and databases. People in a clerking role should bone up on the relevant technology. It's not all ledger books and quill pens anymore. We do not live in Victorian England.
Bottom line: software engineering is not "outside" the spiritual sphere, but is rather at the core of our practice and has to do with the Truth Testimony. Engineering is a spiritual activity.
I'd like to address issues of lax discipline around record-keeping in the context of joining said standing Discipline Committee. The role of "clerk" involves attention to records. Keeping our information up to date is a shared responsibility of clerks, not something to outsource or lay at the door of some paid person.
As the Technology Clerk, new position (unpaid of course), I've been agitating for ex oficio status on the Discipline Committee. I want our practices to improve with respect to record-keeping. Lets see where that goes. I'm getting the feeling my proposal is not taken seriously yet.
Annual Session (Day One)
Since getting the new air flow meter, maxi taxi (1997 Nissan, doors dented cosmetically, right side), the ride has been smooth, not lurchy. Carol and I left Blue House (as named within the FNB namespace) around noon, making it to Spokane by about 18:30, with a stop at Cross Roads truck stop near Umatilla / Irrigon, right where I-82 hops the Columbia. The Caesar salad was enormous.
Barry (Wanderer) drives to Spokane often and talks about the windmills, which he doesn't like. But then the pylons were there first and he's OK with those. Notably, one sees none outside the Gorge margins. The farmlands are still using hydro-power, from the numerous dams. Actually that's an oversimplification as the windmills feed the same grid.
I'd not been out this far by surface vehicle for so long that the windmills were new to me. I'm more used to the farmland ones along say I-70 / I-75 in IN, IL, MS or one of those.
Friends (the Religious Society thereof) were born in the 1600s so lets call them Elizabethan. In the times of Shakespeare and the East India Company's rise to global power, a man named George Fox questioned authority in a big way, and served to focus what a lot of people were thinking at the time.
How this sect got branded "Quaker" is a bit of a story, however this was a lucky break as any ad man will tell ya. "The rest is history" as they say.
After a period of persecution in which Quakers faced jail time or worse, they become vogue, partially owing to their success in banking and business. By the late 1700s, Quakers were making tons of money, and doing it without slavery. The industrial revolution was in full swing, displacing human labor as a source of brute strength. "Brain over brawn, mind over brain" might be our mantra.
George Fox, like William Penn, another big name Friend, has lots of stuff named after him, including a university (at least one). Penn State is a whole state (Pennsylvania i.e. Billy's Forest -- no one called him Billy AFAIK).
We're sharing eating facilities with a large number of athletic young girls in the middle of summer soccer practice. Women's soccer was huge this year, a bigger magnet for viewers of that final World Cup game than even the final playoff NFL game or whatever. The US team trounced Japan's in the final round, wow, what a goal (I caught up later, despite my Facebook-registered intent to catch it live).
Lots more soccer players than Quakers so far, have entered the dining area, but then that's true world wide. I hope they leave me some breakfast. I'll add to this account after we hear from the Friend in Residence (traditionally, an invited guest gives the keynote).
Oh wait, duh, basketball, not soccer. Actually seeing the balls was the giveaway. Oh, and the shirts. What was I thinking? I'll leave the above paragraphs to show how I come to false conclusions sometimes (but I am also self-correcting, given enough opportunity).
Good chatting with (in order of appearance): Clint Weimeister, Dave Fabik, Ethan Berleman, Chris Cradler, Eddy Crouch (we used to work with AFSC together) and assorted University Friends Meeting folks (Seattle), plus one guy from Olympia. Chris's Larry will be flying out later. Greg, their eldest is with the grad school in housing close to Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which I used to jog through a lot, when a student.
What I'll call the Zen wing of Quakers is actually very traditional in eschewing theology, preferring to let each Friend fill the void with whatever experimental brain-chatter. The more Zen-like Friends see theology as the bureaucratization of faith by a hireling priest caste. Our Society started out by purging itself of any priestly hierarchy in favor of a rotational self-management scheme, based on clerked committees, both standing and ad hoc.
However, women especially love theology and that gender has banded together to form a more theologically-oriented group called the Women's Theological Conference. They had some PR (book markers) at every table here at Annual Session, advertising their 2016 event. Our WQM Mens Group is hardly that together.
Some brands of Friend actually do hire pastors, going back to the kind of outsourcing familiar to most "steeple house" Christians (as "spin doctor George" referred to the churches of his day, somewhat disparagingly).
I'm in favor of the Zen wing breaking off from and/or distinguishing itself from Christianity as away of underlining its freedom from theological concerns, but then right away we get into philosophy, so what's the difference?
Philosophy has more room for Gnostic influences is how I'd put it (Gnosticism in turn inherits a lot from Zoroaster and Hermes T. both). The Jungians would understand I think. Zen is more a psychology and a philosophy than a theology, ditto the Quakerism I practice.
Deficiencies in the English Language
The BBC interviewed some bloke last night who used to be a BBC journalist and so needed to be unbiased, but was now in a new position, as a pundit, and so could come right out and say that Iran is seeking nuke weapons. He was open about shedding his former journalistic guise and becoming more openly biased.
The pundit was talking about ongoing negotiations in Vienna to establish a "breakout box" inside of which Iran would be boxed, not allowed to break out. This is the Standard Model used within Washington DC circles (e.g. within the Beltway) as well.
What's missing from the analysis, as usual, is any calculation as to what's in it for Iran to paint the Rogue States (the nuclear WMD states) as minions of a Great Satan, the hubristic desire to hold a Sword of Damocles over the rest of humankind, to arrogate the role of a "Do as I Say or Else" supreme bully.
People with nukes tend to threaten, gloat, lord it over, strut, puff etc. (it's a syndrome) -- we've seen it in the White House, and lets talk about Tony Blair. Saying nuke WMDs are "against Islam" is a setup to portray Christians, Jews and secularists as morally inferior i.e. susceptible to the military-industrial complex (a meme virus).
Eisenhower himself warned us of this susceptibility. Iran, not just South Africa, stands for hope, sanity, and a better tomorrow in this picture. Islam is about a better future, not Tyranny by the Rogue States, with the same criminal, murderous weapons that Iran should never have (Iran agrees).
Even if Iran is secretly building a bomb, or wanting to, it's poor journalism to not even sketch for the listeners how Iran might actually have a motive to lead the Ban Treaty movement, and to embrace not only non-proliferation, but criminalization of existing nuclear arsenals, an agreement most UN nations have already signed.
Wouldn't that be good PR, to help leverage a ban on nuke weapons worldwide? Iran would be seen as a moral leader, victorious against the reprobates and backsliders, the less humane.
Politically speaking, it adds to Iran's gravitas as a principled nation and great civilization, to take a stand against nukes while allowing for atomic power.
Doing so from a position of strength makes it a conscious choice.
The US wants to paint itself as victorious in "forcing" Iran to submit to inspections. But what about the US itself? It has no intention of submitting to anything, and that's where its hypocrisy is both self evident and self undermining.
The US position well explains its continuing loss of credibility, day by day, which the BBC is striving valiantly to shore up, given that Special Relationship and perhaps loyalty to another English-speaking culture. But hasn't all this shoring up become uncomfortably transparent?
In fact, imputing such a motive to Iran, to be a religious leader seizing the moral high ground, which might have an endgame wherein Iran-trained weapons inspectors gain access to syndicate facilities in Colorado someday, once the Ban is imposed, connects a lot of dots already out there, such as the Nuclear Free Zone we know Iran proposed, but which the WMD nations derailed for the region.
Great Satan wants His nuke weapons without restrictions of any kind.
Great Satan has actually used nukes against Japan and Micronesia.
Yet through misdirection we're made to think Iran is the hypocrite. Very clever? Maybe just dumb? How long can it last?
The longer Iran's rhetoric and actions match up, the more Great Satan seems engaged in delay tactics around preventing any Countdown to Zero clock from ticking. Tick, tick, tick... Austria is already strongly in favor of a Ban Treaty. Is that why they're meeting in Vienna then?
I'm not at all surprised that CNN hasn't the courage to explain the PR situation to the American viewers, easy to fool, none too bright, par for the course.
However, I'm a little surprised the BBC won't let its global listeners even sample this line of reasoning, which is well-known outside the Anglo-speaking sphere.
Maybe tonight?
Will they get anyone more conversant with the actual dynamics of the situation, for balance if nothing else?
One almost thinks the English language, or "forked tongue" as some call it, is incapable, almost as a software issue, of revealing its own inconsistencies and hypocrisies. It'd be too undermining.
Perhaps the BBC is really just for superficially intelligent listeners. Certainly real intelligence services would need to keep score at a deeper level, if planning to stay relevant on the world stage.
BBC had an engaging episode, in the form of a multi-voice, moderated conversation, last night on the topic of term limits. On Newshour Extra.
The guy from Singapore posited an East-West dialog with the West trying to be more important than the East in suggesting term limits as a panacea. An ascendant West was an aberration from this gentleman's point of view, though in some models of our spherical GU (global university) it's hard to find these political divides in the first place.
The US President got a lot of focus.
Imagine a Constitution that allowed a president to run for a third term, but under different rules: the electoral college would be bypassed and a simple majority vote would need to be obtained. No fourth term would be possible without interruption i.e. after sitting it out for at least one term, OK to start over. Might we vote for Obama for prez in 2020? Not possible per Amendment XXII.
Grover Cleveland was 22nd and 24th president when a 3rd term would have still been allowed.
Or suppose Supreme Court justices had a maximum of eight years?
We make the Judicial Branch a "for life" appointment (yes, I know the theory, similar to that behind academic tenure -- freedom from influence, but if you're already partisan?) but subject the Executive Branch to stringent term limits. Why not jigger this?
Obviously the inertia behind a system as vast as the United States is there's no turning on a dime. We could have science fiction movies about this 3rd term alternative campaign.
Imagine "3rd term" were institutionalized as "experimental" i.e. anytime we held a presidential election for a 3rd termer, we'd assume innovation. Then, ideas that worked well, that seemed beneficial, could be worked into the first two terms as reforms.
Nice idea on paper maybe but there's no turning on a dime as I've said.
But think of individual high schools full of teenagers eager to interact, to practice self-governance, along with faculty and admin. Why not use our imaginations there? Or in a college?
The appeal, in the college catalog, to prospective students, is not just course offerings, but this intricate manner of self-governance that really gives a resume some cred. "Their Student Senate has real power, wow, I should go there!" thinks the politically-minded prospective.
We think some 200 UN nations might sound like a lot. But think how many corporations we have, some of them supra-national.
Why not have "corporate governance" be more flexible?
Who says it's not flexible even today?
Quakers have corporations, with no voting, no Robert's Rules. Doesn't that prove the corporate structure is already flexible?
That's a query not a rhetorical question.
Big Rock Candy Mountain
lets hang the jerk who invented work...
I was listening to KBOO the other day, regarding who owns the Arctic. People living above the Arctic Circle, called "the north" in this namespace, such as in Greenland, have a dialog going with the rest of us in "the south" regarding the use of natural resources.
Sometimes there's a tidy sum to be made from extracting resource X, and it might actually be renewable (eco-tourism depends on an endless supply of tourists). Some level of abstraction, of resources from the environment, if only oxygen and water, is required for biological continuance.
The bootstrapping equation is: knowledge worker jobs such as one might have in some corporate office building, with bandwidth and plumbing, require fancy educations, but before we attain those high levels of education comes maybe decades of more menial work. That's what the more plodding developers think.
"Says who?" and "Why not short circuit or leap frog, like skipping landlines for cells?" Lets enroll thousands in general systems theory, prototype curricula, pilot testing. Experiment with XRL (extreme remote livingry), emergency shelters. Not because it's an emergency necessarily but because when it's not an emergency is a good time to prepare for one.
Conflate study into work / study (chores + scholarship + playful research projects) and actually pay Greenlanders to obtain that schooling starting now. It's a loan against one's future income, if you want to see it that way. When you're born, your elderly self is already sending you money from the future! We can do that with bookkeeping, no time travel required. Don't let intermediaries intercept your birthright!
Lets call this the Big Rock Candy Mountain scenario, in contrast with the Iron Mountain scenario, which latter feeds and shelters its Army Specialists on the understanding they'll do work / study under the Generalists ("the generals"). These are very similar Mountains, in terms of the patterns they employ. Livingry and killingry both require innovation and human-powered networks.
Out of Mind / Sight
The usual phrase is "out of sight out of mind" and has numerous applications. In Madness & Civilization, Foucault traces what he considers to be a series of signal flips in Western Europe's perceptions of, and ways of coping with madness, which we may also call "extreme deviance" to the point of inconveniencing others and prompting them to seek a radical solution.
In the Middle Ages, a town might drive its indigent, especially its beggars, outside the city gates and impose on them fines for returning. Towns alongside rivers or canals might have their madmen hauled away by boat, creating the image of the Mad World as a large place "out there" beyond the boundaries of the Polis (city-state, police). Foucault makes much of this "ship of fools" image.
With the Renaissance came the view of Madness as a window into a cosmic Other, a demonic realm, making it sacred in some ways, more shamanistic or shamanic. The deranged had their own wisdom which likewise glorified the Good Order, showing how derangement was integral within the wheel of life. Reason and Unreason both derived from the same holy root. This attitude sounds more Oriental to me.
By the Age of Reason, after the French Revolution, madness was more a pathology associated with "not working" (as in "not making sense") and the strategy became one of confinement. The mad should be made to work, as under Protestantism, virtue was in one's discipline and obedience to God's ordained. What drove the mad mad was not a demonic order but an untamed bestiality, an "animal nature" which normal humans had transcended (risen above) in a moral sense.
A giant hospital system, left over from when leprosy was more of a scourge, was re-purposed to warehouse the scandalous, with the truly insane on display as people to feel superior to. For a fee, one could visit the Asylum and mock the crazies and the freaks, or exude pity according to one's temperament.
I'm reading all this against the backdrop of JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass (a well-read theologian) wherein some random guy, Ralph Leon Yates, picks up a hitchhiker in his pickup. The passenger has a gun-shaped bundle he claims are "curtain rods" and he wants to keep them in the cab.
The driver saw later this man looked just like the Lee Harvey Oswald on TV and the curtain rods were likely the gun he'd smuggled into the Book Repository and killed John Kennedy with. He'd left the Oswaldy guy close to there.
The problem with this story, according to Douglass, was the Warren Commission had already included the one and only "curtain rods" story it wanted, with this extra Oswald story a loose end. Having two variations of the curtain rod story pointed back to a cover-up, as did all the suspicious shenanigans in Mexico City, which had to be rejected also, for much the same reason.
An overzealous crew of Ollie North types, imagining themselves clever operatives, had seeded the field a little too zealously with incriminating memories, very likely using an Oswald look-alike -- including in the movie theater where he was later arrested (the "other Oswald" was in the balcony and arrested later per Douglass).
The fate of the driver? He went to the FBI with his story, but since the Establishment understood its job was to support the Warren Commission, they had to commit him to a psychiatric hospital at the end of the day, and subject him to "drug therapy". His crazy story was too much of an inconvenient truth. He'd passed a polygraph test but that only proved he believed in his delusion, all the more evidence he was insane.
We shouldn't stop there in associating Yates's "treatment" with the rigid Rationalism of France. Why not see Langley itself as a mother ship of "hospitals" dedicated to the treatment of the deranged?
Lets remember though, that deep within the Agency, subterranean, riddled with moles, many an operative was even then delighted to see the cover story was so transparently a cover-up. It would unravel in time, it would have to. Many would participate in the unraveling, even as others would insert new stories designed to misdirect. Right from day one, LBJ refused to blame the Russians, knowing where that could lead, dashing hopes many held for a more serious confrontation.
That's what a "cover story" is, when of this magnitude: it buys time, is but a time capsule. One generation hands it off to a next, an obvious puzzle, a mess. One might as well stamp "cover up" on the box. It's radioactive, and has a half life. But in slowly leaking its information, whispering its truths, it's less explosive, and that's the intent.
Were FDR-era Americans ready to accept a coup? Had they heard of the Business Plot? Coups were the stuff of Banana Republics. The people of the USA needed a different narrative, the truth could wait. They needed an official madness, a story that couldn't get them in trouble at work. The job of the Warren Commission was to provide that. People needed something to say that was not crazy, in a crazy world. "A lone gunman, acting alone..." that story would become their security blanket.
Beyond the mother ship is a network of secret prisons, all interconnected by torture taxis. We're familiar with this Gothic infrastructure, as a result of the latest wars. Large chunks of major office buildings, airstrips and old bases, sympathetic contractors... Capitalism's Invisible Army. Yet another Gulag.
The madhouses of Reason's Europe were simply re-purposed, yet again, to confine extremists, inconvenient parties. Madmen were not usually suicide bombers in Medieval times. Even lepers were not that suddenly contagious. Advances in the design of explosives changed the profile of insanity towards that of a Unabomber.
In sketching an appealing profile in courage, of Jack and Robert Kennedy, Douglass somewhat skirts the issue of madness in the Oval Office itself and what that might mean. Other books take up that issue, including in relation to the Kennedy profile e.g. Royal Babylon and Hersh's book The Dark Side of Camelot.
In going here, I find much that's fascinating yet think there's a danger in over-personalizing what were clearly crazy times. The Oval Office, in its shape, is clearly a metaphor for the skull. Craziness in the Oval Office just means in the Executive Branch, West Wing included. So we've come full circle, wherein craziness fights craziness (so who wins? -- it's the dialectic that matters, so who cares?).
Prohibition (still lingering) had turned the majority of Americans into criminals (aka "sinners") by that time so I'm never impressed by "organized crime" as anything worse than "organized religion" -- both have done their dirty business. To Douglass, I maybe sound like Quaker Mafia.
"Goodies and Baddies" are so much less nuanced than "Cowboys and Indians" (a clash of ethnicities) -- unless you've learned to like villains.
A lot of people felt excluded and shoved aside by that Imperial Presidency.
We have a lot more hindsight today, regarding what the Kennedy brothers were up to. At the time, they were likewise considered inconvenient extremists by many factions, as Douglass well documents. Participation in the cover-up was widespread, including by people with no clue about the truth -- they just saw it as their duty to support the official line, for sanity's sake.
:: another puzzle piece, take it or leave it ::
Spy (movie review)
My angle into this movie was from too serious a springboard. I've been reading the "new" JFK book (2008), by Douglass, who talks about Thomas Merton -- whom I also read as a younger man some, though had no idea about those Cold War letters.
I was in second grade or so, when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened.
That new JFK book, recommended to me by Friends, refers to so many other such readings and plunges me back into that whole morass, wherein the CIA swirls in a more down-the-toilet sense. I've actually not finished reading it yet.
Those were not happy times, and they stayed unhappy. I can relate to "long strange trip" ala the Grateful Dead reunification (upcoming in Chicago).
I'd say the gear shift to this comedy CIA, one the movie's writer-director unabashedly embraces for a ready meme set of spoof-able cliches, built up by Hollywood, in complicity with the CIA's own storytellers, over the decades, was somewhat jarring.
At first people seemed to be having some fun here, but no, it was still horrific, and still quite crazy, with rats and bats and stuff in the basement. In making the control room batty, and outfitting it with a Brit, we bridge to British humor, maybe? Did this movie play well in the UK?
I of course appreciate the retro references (e.g. the credits), the semi-knowing satire. But I noticed the audience around me was laughing and I was more just sinking down in my chair, worried I wasn't getting it.
Accents certainly played a role. Spy World has always been about i18n.
There's this sense of ordinary people bashing through that wall of illusion (movie screen) behind which the phony world of 007 (one of the previews was for Spectre), its Never Land, does not exist.
Said faux world is here reconstructed as more female-friendly in some way (think Carmen Sandiego), and a source of edginess and getting lost in fashion. Vanity and jealousy are heavy duty in this space, so what else is new?
Never Land keeps a toe hold in reality e.g. appears to have money, a real building in Langley.
Buying into horror as part of the genre and making that an object of spoof just reminds me that Spy World is also Gothic in the Lovecraftian sense. I keep forgetting that.
Kafkaesque too. Lets not forget Byzantine...
So yeah, maybe not quite in the mood. Why blame others?
So then I ambled down to the Blues Festival, in progress.
I found a patch of grass in the semi-dark and started reading Madness and Civilization by Michael Foucault. A lot of people have read that already, the Powell's paperbacks had been around the block a few times. Maybe I'd browsed it before? It seemed fresh to me anyway.
I wanted a copy for Kindle so I could read it on my devices while listening to blues in Portland.
One thing I've learned from the new JFK book (also on devices) is how directly the Kennedy brothers took on some of the special interests, steel in particular. Steel speaks up in Grunch of Giants too.
I like the idea of a president as "one who presides", which is a long way from what the executive branch had become. But then a lot of people want to participate in government.
As all presidents know, everyone, OK at least a few, want to be, or think they're a president too.
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Scientists have specially processed Chandra's X-ray data of M87 to reveal the presence of what they believe to be three rings associated with the galaxy's core and jet. One possible explanation for the triple-ring structure is the merger of two spinning, supermassive black holes.
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Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github legacy-cc. The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. These are not capable of being compiled today with modern c compilers like gcc. I am only posting these here for the enjoyment and reminiscing of the spark that ignited a. Aug 30, · Worked Excercises from The C Programming Language, by Brian W. Kernignham and Dennis M. Ritchie. This repository contains solutions to the examples presented in the classic book The C Programming Language, by Brian W. Kerningham and Dennis M. china-week.info many cases they have been written to utilize C99 features. Solutions for any given chapter attempt to only use featured . Apr 14, · C is a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. C is very widely used, straightforward, and can be compiled to a number of platforms and operating systems. C is an imperative language, with a small number of keywords and a large number of mathematical operators.
Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github legacy-cc. The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. These are not capable of being compiled today with modern c compilers like gcc. I am only posting these here for the enjoyment and reminiscing of the spark that ignited a. The earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler (china-week.info) points by jnord 5 days ago | hide | past | web I wonder how many people are going to request logins to the PDP to try to build the C compiler? reply. technofiend 5 days ago. You may have your very own PDP-8, PDP, or PDP simply by running SIMH. Oct 22, · The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. - mortdeus/legacy-cc. GitHub is home to over 31 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together. First, compile and install the Apout emulator. Make sure that you turned -DEMUV1 on in the Makefile. Unpack the V1 executables from the s2 tape and unpack them in a suitable area, e.g /usr/local/src/V1. Apr 14, · C is a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. C is very widely used, straightforward, and can be compiled to a number of platforms and operating systems. C is an imperative language, with a small number of keywords and a large number of mathematical operators. Aug 30, · Worked Excercises from The C Programming Language, by Brian W. Kernignham and Dennis M. Ritchie. This repository contains solutions to the examples presented in the classic book The C Programming Language, by Brian W. Kerningham and Dennis M. china-week.info many cases they have been written to utilize C99 features. Solutions for any given chapter attempt to only use featured . Solutions for "The C Programming Language", 2nd Edition, Kernighan and Ritchie. Lin Ke-Fong ([email protected]) I read the book a while ago and did most of the exercises, this was a copy from my university's library.Lastc and prestruct-c were posted on Github - the earliest versions of the very first C compiler in history. The code was written by Dennis Ritchie himself in . Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on github (china-week.info ). Very old C compilers. Contribute to mrquincle/ancient-c-compilers development by creating an account on The files are from Dennis Ritchie. Reading Dennis Ritchie's code is as close to reading a religious text as I'll ever come. The straightforward elegance of it is so inspiring!. Revive UNIX V7 C compiler written by Dennis Ritchie - dibyendumajumdar/C. for a while. I guess the whole point of this is giving it github syntax highlighting ? What was the first C compiler built from Yacc and Lex?. The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. - mortdeus/legacy-cc. First C compiler pops up on Github posting over on Github that you'll just love: the earliest known C compiler by the legendary Dennis Ritchie. Exercises and examples from The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. Compiling and Running. To compile a file such as hello.c. It is described pretty well in Dennis Ritchie's writeup of the C language history. The first C compiler wasn't written in C, usually when writing a compiler we use either assembly This code has also been placed on github. Uncle sam goddamn instrumental, worms 3d full version pc, uu 24 tahun 2000, winamp 5.9 windows vista, dmx the great depression, shes dating the gangster sgwannabe pdf, rinada manutan istri andika the titans 3gp
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The Language Of A Moment
by Jordan Foti Gulino
22 Books By Indigenous Writers to Read Right Now
“The world’s an untranslatable language.” So poet Charles Wright states in the first line of “The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight.” The poem appears in Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright, a new collection from Farrar, Straus and Giroux comprised of Wright’s previously published works from some twenty books, written over the course of forty years. In the collection, the former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner invokes many ghosts: of people, places missed, memories and ephemera. As a result, Oblivion Banjo is a complex theater of images where the world — “chalk hills” and “A length of chain, a white hand” — appears strange yet cherished in Wright’s verse.
Wright’s life — he’s a veteran and a former professor, among many other things — is a great wellspring from which he draws inspiration. It’s appropriate that memories are treated as monadic quantities in Oblivion Banjo; Wright employs the past to create poetic moments in which he toys with his reader’s senses. The collection is neatly bound. The cover, in the fashion of Zbigniew Herbert’s The Collected Poems, published in 2008 by Ecco, features a solitary figure over a black backdrop. In this case, it’s not Herbert striking a cigarette with a lit match, but a sole index finger covered in sparkling dust standing before an inky darkness.
In the winter 1989 issue, the Paris Review published J. D. McClatchy’s interview with Wright, conducted at Wright’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia. McClatchy stated, “You say you began writing in Italy. You could as easily say you began writing in the army — but you don’t.” Wright responded: “The army was fact, Italy was fiction. Again, the metaphysics of the quotidian. Or, poetry is the fiction we use to prove the fact. Something like that.”
The two discussed the importance of Ezra Pound; Wright kept a copy of Pound’s Cantos while stationed in Italy. The text inspired him to compose his own poetry. It’s fitting, then, that readers find in Oblivion Banjo a poem titled “Homage to Ezra Pound” that reads:
Today is one of those days
One swears is a prophesy:
The air explicit and moist,
As though filled with unanswered prayers;
The twilight, starting to slide
Its sooty fingers along the trees;
And you, Pound,
Awash in the wrong life,
The speaker of the poem apostrophizes Pound after the controversial literary figure returned to America from Italy. Though Wright and Pound never met, the speaker addresses him directly. The reader finds a dialogue; as in the previous stanzas, the terrain where Pound once lived speaks to Wright. “As though filled with unanswered prayers,” the Venice landscape acts as a channel between artist and muse.
In poems like “Homage to Ezra Pound,” Wright focuses his gaze on things left behind: a modern Orpheus looking back. After all, the truth of prophesy is only revealed in hindsight. Wright gives readers a sense that memories leave imprints on landscapes, but only if one can discern them. We are left to wonder at Wright’s metaphysics. When poetry proves the essence of reality, perhaps every landscape is haunted by unsung memories. Perhaps every memory is a landscape waiting to be sung.
From a thematic standpoint, the poems in Oblivion Banjo are concerned as much with mysticism and theology as they are with philosophical constructs. There are moments, as with the “first dusk” described in the poem “Invisible Landscapes,” that Wright conceptualizes God’s role in his speaker’s subjective experience of nature:
I bring to this landscape a bare hand, these knuckles
Slick as a cake of soap,
The black snag of a tamarack,
The oddments and brown jewelry of early September evenings
In wet weather, a Colt-colored sky…
God is the sleight-of-hand in the fireweed, the lost
Moment that stopped to grieve and moved on…
There is a poetic sleight-of-hand here: that God is a “Moment.” Not only a student of Pound, but also a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Wright is carefully — playfully — aware of form. The description of God as “the sleight-of-hand in the fireweed,” and the capital “M” in “Moment,” create the sensation of motion, suggesting a prime-mover. Though Wright capitalizes the first word of each line in the poem, the enjambed phrasing of the last two lines also makes “Moment” a proper noun — a thing of great importance. But the moment is fleeting. The God of the poem moves on.
A kind of grappling occurs in Wright’s poems because of his many influences. Speaker and place intersect, only to be wrested apart by memory; place and God entwine, until God exits. It makes one wonder: if “poetry is the fiction we use to prove the fact,” is there truth within Oblivion Banjo? It may only be a subjective one for both poet and reader: a line that rings the bell of memory, a turn of phrase that hurts too closely, a metaphor suggestive of a secret joy.
Walter Benjamin writes, in “The Task of the Translator,” “One might, for example, speak of an unforgettable life or moment even if all men had forgotten it.” Though more famous for his prose, Benjamin, too, was a poet; he wrote over seventy sonnets in honor of his friend — the poet Christoph Friedrich Heinle. From the German, translator Nirmal Dass approximates in English pentameter part of line eleven and the last tercet from “Sonnet 1” as:
Materials of the Self
you royally carried
The banner whose emblem you did fathom
If just in me you’d raised your holy name
Imageless like an unending Amen.
Accordingly, Wright finishes “The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight:”
If tree is tree in English
And albero in Italian,
That’s as close as we can come
To divinity, the language that circles the earth
and which we’ll never speak.
Is divinity, of a kind, what he is after? Or is it a belief in a pre-Adamic language of gestures? Earlier in the poem, Wright writes there is “a language of objects / Our tongues can’t master.” Happy and without a name for everything — every moment — Wright has a manner of knowing uncertainty. As he’s done throughout his career, he leaves his reader wondering what language can aspire toward: how poetry unties the tongue-tied muse of memory.
Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright
By Charles Wright
Published Nov. 5, 2019
Charles Wright Farrar Straus and Giroux Oblivion Banjo Poetry
Jordan Foti Gulino
Jordan Foti Gulino is the Features Editor for the Chicago Review of Books. He is a poet, essayist, and translator based out of Chicago (and sometimes Greece). Follow him on Twitter at @fotakigulino.
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Bubber Miley was from the body and soul of Soulsville. He was raised on soul and saturated and marinated in soul. Every note he played was soul filled with the pulse of compulsion. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing was his credo. Before he played his choruses, he would tell his story, and he always had a story for his music, such as: "This is an old man, tired from working in the field since sunup, coming up the road in the sunset on his way home to dinner. He's tired but strong, and humming in time with his broken gait--or vice versa." That was how he pictured "East St. Louis Toodle-oo." Both Miley and Whetsol painted pictures in music, one in one style and one in another. They spoke different languages, and though the listener didn't understand their language, he believed everything they had to say. His [Bubber���s] growl solos with the plunger mute were another of our early sound identities, and between 1925 and 1929 he laid the foundation of a tradition that has been maintained ever since by men like Cootie Williams and Ray Nance.
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Gaming with Windows ML
Neural Networks Will Revolutionize Gaming
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Machine Learning. We mentioned the wide-ranging applications of WinML on areas as diverse as security, productivity, and the internet of things. We even showed how WinML can be used to help cameras detect faulty chips during hardware production.
But what does WinML mean for gamers? Gaming has always utilized and pushed adoption of bleeding edge technologies to create more beautiful and magical worlds. With innovations like WinML, which extensively use the GPU, it only makes sense to leverage that technology for gaming. We are ready to use this new technology to empower game developers to use machine learning to build the next generation of games.
Games Reflect Gamers
Every gamer that takes time to play has a different goal – some want to spend time with friends or to be the top competitor, and others are just looking to relax and enjoy a delightful story. Regardless of the reason, machine learning can provide customizability to help gamers have an experience more tailored to their desires than ever before. If a DNN model can be trained on a gamer’s style, it can improve games or the gaming environment by altering everything from difficulty level to avatar appearance to suit personal preferences. DNN models can be trained to adjust difficulty or add custom content can make games more fun as you play along. If your NPC companion is more work than they are worth, DNNs can help solve this issue by making them smarter and more adaptable as they understand your in-game habits in real time. If you’re someone who likes to find treasures in game but don’t care to engage in combat, DNNs could prioritize and amplify those activities while reducing the amount or difficulty of battles. When games can learn and transform along with the players, there is an opportunity to maximize fun and make games better reflect their players.
A great example of this is in EA SEED’s Imitation Learning with Concurrent Actions in 3D Games. Check out their blog and the video below for a deeper dive on how reinforcement and imitation learning models can contribute to gaming experiences.
Better Game Development Processes
There are so many vital components to making a game: art, animation, graphics, storytelling, QA, etc, that can be improved or optimized by the introduction of neural networks. The tools that artists and engineers have at their disposal can make a massive difference to the quality and development cycle of a game and neural networks are improving those tools. Artists should be able to focus on doing their best work: imagine if some of the more arduous parts of terrain design in an open world could be generated by a neural network with the same quality as a person doing it by hand. The artist would then be able to focus on making that world more beautiful and interactive place to play, while in the end generating higher quality and quantity of content for gamers.
A real-world example of a game leveraging neural networks for tooling is Remedy’s Quantum Break. They began the facial animation process by training on a series of audio and facial inputs and developed a model that can move the face based just on new audio input. They reported that this tooling generated facial movement that was 80% of the way done, giving artists time to focus on perfecting the last 20% of facial animation. The time and money that studios could save with more tools like these could get passed down to gamers in the form of earlier release dates, more beautiful games, or more content to play.
Unity has introduced the Unity ML-Agents framework which allows game developers to start experimenting with neural networks in their game right away. By providing an ML-ready game engine, Unity has ensured that developers can start making their games more intelligent with minimal overhead.
Improved Visual Quality
We couldn’t write a graphics blog without calling out how DNNs can help improve the visual quality and performance of games. Take a close look at what happens when NVIDIA uses ML to up-sample this photo of a car by 4x. At first the images will look quite similar, but when you zoom in close, you’ll notice that the car on the right has some jagged edges, or aliasing, and the one using ML on the left is crisper. Models can learn to determine the best color for each pixel to benefit small images that are upscaled, or images that are zoomed in on. You may have had the experience when playing a game where objects look great from afar, but when you move close to a wall or hide behind a crate, things start to look a bit blocky or fuzzy – with ML we may see the end of those types of experiences. If you want to learn more about how up-sampling works, attend NVIDIA’s GDC talk.
ML Super Sampling (left) and bilinear upsampling (right)
What is Microsoft providing to Game Developers? How does it work?
Now that we’ve established the benefits of neural networks for games, let’s talk about what we’ve developed here at Microsoft to enable games to provide the best experiences with the latest technology.
Quick Recap of WinML
As we disclosed earlier this month, The WinML API allows game developers to take their trained models and perform inference on the wide variety of hardware (CPU, GPU, VPU) found in gaming machines across all vendors. A developer would choose a framework, such as CNTK, Caffe2, or Tensorflow, to build and train a model that does anything from visually improving the game to controlling NPCs. That model would then be converted to the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format, co-developed between Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon to ensure neural networks can be used broadly. Once they’ve done this, they can pipe it up to their game and expect it to run on a gamer’s Windows 10 machine with no additional work on the gamer’s part. This works, not just for gaming scenarios, but in any situation where you would want to use machine learning on your local machine.
DirectML Technology Overview
We know that performance is a gamer’s top priority. So, we built DirectML to provide GPU hardware acceleration for games that use Windows Machine Learning. DirectML was built with the same principles of DirectX technology: speed, standardized access to the latest in hardware features, and most importantly, hassle-free for gamers and game developers – no additional downloads, no compatibility issues – everything just works. To understand why how DirectML fits within our portfolio of graphics technology, it helps to understand what the Machine Learning stack looks like and how it overlaps with graphics.
DirectML is built on top of Direct3D because D3D (and graphics processors) are very good for matrix math, which is used as the basis of all DNN models and evaluations. In the same way that High Level Shader Language (HLSL) is used to execute graphics rendering algorithms, HLSL can also be used to describe parallel algorithms of matrix math that represent the operators used during inference on a DNN. When executed, this HLSL code receives all the benefits of running in parallel on the GPU, making inference run extremely efficiently, just like a graphics application.
In DirectX, games use graphics and compute queues to schedule each frame rendered. Because ML work is considered compute work, it is run on the compute queue alongside all the scheduled game work on the graphics queue. When a model performs inference, the work is done in D3D12 on compute queues. DirectML efficiently records command lists that can be processed asynchronously with your game. Command lists contain machine learning code with instructions to process neurons and are submitted to the GPU through the command queue. This helps to integrate in machine learning workloads with graphics work, which makes bringing ML models to games more efficient and it gives game developers more control over synchronization on the hardware.
Inspired by and Designed for Game Developers
D3D12 Metacommands
As mentioned previously, the principles of DirectX drive us to provide gamers and developers with the fastest technology possible. This means we are not stopping at our HLSL implementation of DirectML neurons – that’s pretty fast but we know that gamers require the utmost in performance. That’s why we’ve been working with graphics hardware vendors to give them the ability to implement even faster versions of those operators directly in the driver for upcoming releases of Windows. We are confident that when vendors implement the operators themselves (vs using our HLSL shaders), they will get better performance for two reasons: their direct knowledge of how their hardware works and their ability to leverage dedicated ML compute cores on their chips. Knowledge of cache sizes and SIMD lanes, plus more control over scheduling are a few examples of the types of advantages vendors have when writing metacommands. Unleashing hardware that is typically not utilized by D3D12 to benefit machine learning helps prove out incredible performance boosts.
Microsoft has partnered with NVIDIA, an industry leader in both graphics and AI in our design and implementation of metacommands. One result of this collaboration is a demo to showcase the power of metacommands. The details of the demo and how we got that performance will be revealed at our GDC talk (see below for details) but for now, here’s a sneak peek of the type of power we can get with metacommands in DirectML. In the preview release of WinML, the data is formatted as floating point 32 (FP32). Some networks do not depend on the level of precision that FP32 offers, so by doing math in FP16, we can process around twice the amount of data in the same amount of time. Since models benefit from this data format, the official release of WinML will support floating point 16 (FP16), which improves performance drastically. We see an 8x speed up using FP16 metacommands in a highly demanding DNN model on the GPU. This model went from static to real-time due to our collaboration with NVIDIA and the power of D3D12 metacommands used in DirectML.
PIX for Windows support available on Day 1
With any new technology, tooling is always vital to success, which is why we’ve ensured that our industry-leading PIX for Windows graphics tool is capable of helping developers with performance profiling models running on the GPU. As you can see below, operators show up where you’d expect them on the compute queue in the PIX timeline. This way, you can see how long each operator takes and where it is scheduled. In addition, you can add up all the GPU time in the roll up window in order to understand how long the network is taking overall.
Support for Windows Machine Learning in Unity ML-Agents
Microsoft and Unity share a goal of democratizing AI for gaming and game development. To advance that goal, we’d like to announce that we will be working together to provide support for Windows Machine Learning in Unity’s ML-Agents framework. Once this ships, Unity games running on Windows 10 platforms will have access to inference across all hardware and the hardware acceleration that comes with DirectML. This, combined with the convenience of using an ML-ready engine, will make getting started with Machine Learning in gaming easier than ever before.
Getting Started with Windows Machine Learning
Game developers can start testing out WinML and DirectML with their models today. They will get all the benefit of hardware breadth and hardware acceleration with HLSL implementations of operators. The benefits of metacommands will be coming soon as we release more features of DirectML. If you’re attending GDC, check out the talks we are giving below. If not, stay tuned to the DirectX blog for more updates and resources on how to get started after our sessions. Gamers can simply keep up to date with the latest version of Windows and they will start to see new features in games and applications on Windows as they are released.
UPDATE: For more instructions on how to get started, please check out the forums on DirectXTech.com. Here, you can read about how to get started with WinML, stay tuned in to updates when they happen, and post your questions/issues so we can help resolve them for you quickly.
GDC talks
If you’re a game developer and attending GDC on Thursday, March 22nd, please attend our talks to get a practical technical deep dive of what we’re offering to developers. We will be co-presenting with NV on our work to bring Machine Learning to games.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance your Game (1 of 2) This talk will be focused on how we address how to get started with WinML and the breadth of hardware it covers.
UPDATE: Click here for the slides from this talk.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Your Game, Part 2 (Presented by NVIDIA) After a short recap of the first talk, we’ll dive into how we’re helping to provide developers the performance necessary to use ML in their games.
Recommended Resources:
• NVIDIA’s AI Podcast is a great way to learn more about the applications of AI – no tech background needed. • If you want to get coding fast with CNTK, check out this EdX class – great for a developer who wants a hands-on approach. • To get a deep understanding of the math and theory behind deep learning, check out Andrew Ng’s Coursera Course
Appendix: Brief introduction to Machine Learning
“Shall we play a game?” – Joshua, War Games
The concept of Artificial Intelligence in gaming is nothing new to the tech saavy gamer or sci-fi film fan, but the Microsoft Machine Learning team is working to enable game developers to take advantage of the latest advances in Machine Learning and start developing Deep Neural Networks for their games. We recently announced our AI platform for Windows AI developers and showed some examples of how Windows Machine Learning is changing way we do business, but we also care about changing the way that we develop and play games. AI, ML, DNN – are these all buzzwords that mean the same thing? Not exactly; we’ll dive in to what Neural Networks are, how they can make games better, and how Microsoft is enabling game developers to bring that technology to wherever you game best.
Neural networks are a subset of ML which is a subset of AI.
What are Neural Networks and where did they come from?
People have been speculating on how to make computers think more like humans for a long time and emulating the brain seems like an obvious first step. The behind research Neural Networks (NNs) started in the early 1940s and fizzled out in the late ’60s, due to the limitations in computational power. In the last decade, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have exponentially increased the amount of math that can be performed in a short amount of time (thanks to demand from the gaming industry). The ability to quickly do a massive amount of matrix math revitalized interest in neural networks – created by processing large amounts of data through layers of nodes (neurons) that can learn about properties of that data and those layers of nodes make up a model. That learning process is called training. If the model is correctly trained, when it is fed a new piece of data, it performs inference on that data and should correctly be able to predict the properties of data it has never seen before. That network becomes a deep neural network (DNN) if it has two or more hidden layers of neurons.
There are many types of Neural Networks and they all have different properties and uses. An example is a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that uses a matrix filtering system that identifies and breaks images down into their most basic characteristics, called features, and then uses that break down in the model to determine if new images share those characteristics. What makes a cat different from a dog? Humans know the difference just by looking, but how could a computer when they share a lot of characteristics – 4 legs, tails, whiskers, and fur. With CNNs, the model will learn the subtle differences in the shape of a cat’s nose versus a dog’s snout and use that knowledge to correctly classify images.
Here’s an example of what a convolution layer looks like in a CNN (Squeezenet visualized with Netron).
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Honorary Presidents, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26 West 61st Street, NEW YORK. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW, SOMERTON, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Cor. Sec., ELLEN BATTELLE DIETRICK, 176 Huntington Ave., BOSTON, MASS. Rec. Sec., ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, BOSTON, MASS. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, WARREN, OHIO. Auditors: RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, PA. JOSEPHINE K. HENRY, KV. Chair. Com. on Organization--Carrie Chapman Catt, World...
Show moreHonorary Presidents, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26 West 61st Street, NEW YORK. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW, SOMERTON, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Cor. Sec., ELLEN BATTELLE DIETRICK, 176 Huntington Ave., BOSTON, MASS. Rec. Sec., ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, BOSTON, MASS. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, WARREN, OHIO. Auditors: RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, PA. JOSEPHINE K. HENRY, KV. Chair. Com. on Organization--Carrie Chapman Catt, World Building, New York. Rochester, N. Y., April 2, 1894 Mrs. Eliza R. Whiting, Springfield, Mass. My dear friend:- Your note with Mr. Bonney's letter, came duly. What a "Tempest in a teapot" the South has gotten up over the Council's resolutions of respect to the greatest colored man, orator, statesman, philosopher, the world ever saw. They seem to think nothing, but an endorsement of Miscegenation, in these respectful notices. They are charmingly oblivious of the fact that his bleached out complection with that of the black faces of the negros, whom we meet in the streets in the North and South, give evidence that something more than respectful attention was paid by the Anglo-Saxon men of the nation to the colored women. I have been home a little over two weeks and have but three more before I start for California. Why does not the Republican send you over to San Francisco to write home letters of the wonderful gathering of Pacific Slope women? As you know, Miss Shaw is going with me and henceforth I propose always, wherever I go, to take along with me an orator. I should like also to be able to take along a good newspaper correspondent, such as you are, for instance. Lovingly yours, Susan B. Anthony Alma Lutz Collection Copy Chair. Com. on Organization--Carrie Chapman Catt, World Building, New York. Rochester, N. Y., April 2, 1894 Mrs. Eliza R. Whiting, Springfield, Mass. My dear friend:- Your note with Mr. Bonney's letter, came duly. What a "Tempest in a teapot" the South has gotten up over the Council's resolutions of respect to the greatest colored man, orator, statesman, philosopher, the world ever saw. They seem to think nothing, but an endorsement of Miscegenation, in these respectful notices. They are charmingly oblivious of the fact that his bleached out complection with that of the black faces of the negros, whom we meet in the streets in the North and South, give evidence that something more than respectful attention was paid by the Anglo-Saxon men of the nation to the colored women. I have been home a little over two weeks and have but three more before I start for California. Why does not the Republican send you over to San Francisco to write home letters of the wonderful gathering of Pacific Slope women? As you know, Miss Shaw is going with me and henceforth I propose always, wherever I go, to take along with me an orator. I should like also to be able to take along a good newspaper correspondent, such as you are, for instance. Lovingly yours, Susan B. Anthony
New Hotel Bellevue Beacon Street. Harvey & Wood. Boston, Mass. May 25. 1900 My Dear Mrs. Whiting At the last moment I bought & came on an Excursion ticket over the Fitchburg R.R. So- for this time I must abandon my call at Springfield but may be you will be in at the Suffrage meetings tomorrow & Tuesday - I am sorry but I couldn't stop any way as I have to hurry strait back heme - The Vol IV - & the entire jobs on hand forbid my dallying this timeBut I shall keep the hope...
Show moreNew Hotel Bellevue Beacon Street. Harvey & Wood. Boston, Mass. May 25. 1900 My Dear Mrs. Whiting At the last moment I bought & came on an Excursion ticket over the Fitchburg R.R. So- for this time I must abandon my call at Springfield but may be you will be in at the Suffrage meetings tomorrow & Tuesday - I am sorry but I couldn't stop any way as I have to hurry strait back heme - The Vol IV - & the entire jobs on hand forbid my dallying this timeBut I shall keep the hope in store for the future - and will come almost any time you can get Miss Drew to back me - but as I said - I will not assume the responsibility of a whole evenings talk - without a sure rescuer behind me Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony I go out to Dorchester tonight to spend evening - the rest of the time I shall be at the Hotel - 2 at the Suffrage meetings S B AAlma Lutz Collection Copy New Hotel Bellevue Beacon Street. Boston, Mass. May 25. 1900 My Dear Mrs. Whiting At the last moment I bought & came on an Excursion ticket over the Fitchburg R.R. So- for this time I must abandon my call at Springfield but may be you will be in at the Suffrage meetings tomorrow & Tuesday - I am sorry but I couldn't stop any way as I have to hurry strait back heme - The Vol IV - & the entire jobs on hand forbid my dallying this time - But I shall keep the hope in store for the future - and will come almost any time you can get Miss Drew to back me - but as I said - I will not assume the responsibility of a whole evenings talk - without a sure rescuer behind me Lovingly yours Susan B. Anthony I go out to Dorchester tonight to spend evening - the rest of the time I shall be at the Hotel - 2 at the Suffrage meetings S B A
National American Woman Suffrage Association. MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26 West 61st Street, New York. Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL...
Show moreNational American Woman Suffrage Association. MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 26 West 61st Street, New York. Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y. President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 2008 American Tract Society Building, New York. Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, 1830 Diamond Street, Philadelphia Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio. Auditors- LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH, The Rookery, Chicago, Ill. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, N. Y. OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT, 17 Madison St., ROCHESTER, N. Y. March 5th, 1901. Mrs. Whiting Springfield, Mass. My Dear Friend: —- 1 enclose this letter from Mrs. Marion B. C. Dudley, whom I used to know when she lived at Milwalkee. The letter sounds pretty shaky as if her mind were a little off. People who find meaness on every hand doubtless see themselves in others quite frequently. This woman wrote me very strange letters indeed from Jacksonville, Florida, last year. I do not know how she expects to get suffrage, but she seems to think that I do and that I spurn her efforts. It seems hardly possible that three years have gone by since we were all in Adams at the foot of old Greylock. Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony Please do not let her know that I sent you her letter-but if you hear of her tell me what you think of herCopy Alma Lutz Collection Office of Honorary President 17 Madison St., Rochester, N. Y., March 5th, 1901. Mrs. Whiting Springfield, Mass. My Dear Friend: —- 1 enclose this letter from Mrs. Marion B. C. Dudley, whom I used to know when she lived at Milwalkee. The letter sounds pretty shaky as if her mind were a little off. People who find meaness on every hand doubtless see themselves in others quite frequently. This woman wrote me very strange letters indeed from Jacksonville, Florida, last year. I do not know how she expects to get suffrage, but she seems to think that I do and that I spurn her efforts. It seems hardly possible that three years have gone by since we were all in Adams at the foot of old Greylock. Very sincerely yours, Susan B. Anthony Please do not let her know that I sent you her letter-but if you hear of her tell me what you think of her
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Sri Lanka needs holistic trade and investment liberalization: Razeen Sally
Wednesday December 30, 2015 07:27
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka needs a holistic trade and investment liberalization law to take the country forward instead of ad hoc liberalizations which can bring new distortions and a push-back from lobbies, a top international economist said.
Boosting exports and international trade has now become part of the policy discussions in the country, which was a welcome reversal from the denial seen during the last regime, Razeen Sally a top international economist, who was recently appointed to chair Sri Lanka’s Institute of Policy Studies said.
"It is also not just a question of exports, it is also a question of more imports, more inward investment and inserting Sri Lanka into the kind of global value chains it is not in," he told a forum at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.
"Garments is the main exception, but it is not in all the others."
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had said the right thing in an economic policy statement in November.
Investment and Trade Law
The budget contained a few measures to open up the economy for investment and exports including tea, but there was heavy lobbying by entrenched business against competition.
International trade and investments was inextricably linked together and it had to be looked at together.
"What I think is really needed, and I hope preferably in the first half of next year is a comprehensive omnibus trade and foreign investment bill," Sally said.
"Not these selective measures that are introduced in budgets or whatever ad hoc mechanisms.
"If you reverse the order of priority and say these is our general principles overall, for the trading economy, these are the sensitive areas which we will not liberalize for the moment based on political realities, that is the better way to go about it.
"I think the only way to do that is through a comprehensive Bill. That is what I think the Prime Minister should spearhead."
The budget had given effect to the words through a few liberalizations here and there including tea, but heavy lobbying by entrenched businesses had ‘ripped apart’ the potential of the budget, showing the danger of the approach.
Budget Potential Ripped Apart
"Firstly, this kind of very ad hoc selective liberalizations it might look good on paper, but it actually introduces new distortions, because you are not looking at the economy overall or at the linkages between sectors," Sally told a forum at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.
"It might have the un-anticipated effect of increasing the real rate of protection in some areas."
"Secondly we have seen the push-back from the usual suspects many of them members of this chamber who do not want to see more competition, whether it is from other companies domestically or from international competitors."
"And they have been lobbying the finance minister and the people who advise the finance minister, so we see the potential of the budget being ripped apart."
Though the budget promised to lower protection in steel and sanitary ware which would prevent the homeless being gouged by vested monopolies, heavy lobbying is seen to prevent them. Liberalization of tea has also been opposed again.
Effective rates of protection can be very high when partly finished goods, or finished goods needed for another production process is taxed at high rates.
In East Asia protection levels were brought down allowing global supply chains, a capitalist innovation more efficient than the ‘high value added’ single origin type of production seen in earlier centuries to take place.
Analysts say while countries like Malaysia tried to develop a ‘domestic car’ with protection, Thailand has now become a large exporter of cars of various brands.
East Asian Tariff regime
Sri Lanka is now has a complex mass of import taxes, export taxes, cesses and para tariffs designed to put extra profits in the hand of various lobby groups.
"The tariff structure is far too complicated. Para tariffs cesses need to go as quickly as possible," Sally said.
"The export duties need to go as quickly possible. And the tariffs need to be simplified, preferably to two bands at most, with the overall rate lower than it is more in accordance with the East Asian average than the south Asian average.
Trade facilitation and customs procedures have to be re-looked at he said.
"You cannot look at trade measures without looking at foreign investment measures if you want to get Sri Lanka into global value chains like logistics and IT enable services and may be one or two manufacturing industries".
"For that you need a holistic approach for foreign direct investment, which is not about tax incentives."
Sally said foreign direct investments would also have to be relaxed on a negative list principle taking holistic approach.
At the moment there was protection for areas like shipping, which prevented large logistics companies from investing in logistics hubs.
"FDI policy in Sri Lanka is a fetish about tax incentives, which of course is open sesame for corruption, from the usual suspects and some dodgy Indian businesses who beat a path to the BOI (Board of Investment). (Colombo/December30/2015 – Update II)
Gotabaya must stay the course on attracting foreign investment – Mangala
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Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary
By Gabrielle Sorto, CNN
Updated 1904 GMT (0304 HKT) October 16, 2019
(CNN) The Rosary is going mobile.
The Vatican announced the launch of the "Click to Pray eRosary" Wednesday. October is the month of the Rosary.
The eRosary is an app-driven device that can be worn as a bracelet. To activate it, all you have to do is make the sign of the cross, similar to how Catholics begin praying the Rosary.
Once activated, the wearer can choose between three different options to pray. There is the standard rosary, a contemplative rosary or a thematic rosary, which will be updated every year. The device shows the users progress throughout each prayer and keeps track of each rosary completed.
The interactive device is a push from the church to reach tech-savvy millennials and Gen Z.
It "serves as a tool for learning how to pray the rosary for peace in the world," according to a news release from the Vatican.
The project -- part of the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network -- brings together the best of the Church's spiritual tradition and the latest advances of the technological world, the Vatican said.
The eRosary is available to buy now for $110.
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An NYPD official is under investigation after a report connects him to racist posts on police message board
By Sonia Moghe, Brynn Gingras and Harmeet Kaur, CNN
Updated 0656 GMT (1456 HKT) November 6, 2020
(CNN) A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department has been temporarily relieved of his command and placed on modified duty after a City Council investigation found evidence suggesting he was behind a multitude of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic comments on a public law enforcement message board.
Between July 2019 and September 2020, a user under the name of "Clouseau" routinely posted offensive messages on "Law Enforcement Rant" attacking Black people, Muslims, Hasidic Jewish community and others with extremely derogatory language, according to a draft report from the New York City Council Oversight and Investigations Division.
South Carolina police officer fired after seen on video using n-word
The "Rant" is a public internet messaging board where police officers often vent their job grievances.
"Clouseau" used disparaging language to refer to elected officials, including former President Barack Obama and Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, who is a Black woman, the report claimed.
He allegedly used slurs to describe two NYPD officers, who are women of color. And he insulted Eric Garner, who died in 2014 after an NYPD officer put him in a chokehold, along with this mother, the report said.
He also attacked athletes in the NFL for kneeling in protest of police brutality, and perpetuated stereotypes about the Hasidic Jewish community as Covid-19 cases increased in New York in March.
City Council investigators assert that "Clouseau" appears to be NYPD Deputy Inspector James Francis Kobel -- the commanding officer of the police department's Office of Equal Employment and Opportunity, which is responsible for investigating employment and harassment claims.
Kobel has told The New York Times that he did not post on the "Rant" and was unfamiliar with "Clouseau." CNN has reached out to him for comment.
Investigators said they matched up info with NYPD official
Investigators said they were able to identify "Clouseau" by matching information provided in the posts with publicly available personal information about Kobel.
Both "Clouseau" and Kobel joined the NYPD at the same time, held the rank of captain or higher in 2019 and were on the job in February 2020," the report said. The authors also wrote that the two had served in the NYPD Housing Bureau under the same former chief. And details that "Clouseau" shared -- such as when his parents died, where his in-laws live, where he proposed to his wife and how many parishioners of his church died in the 9/11 attacks -- corresponded to information about Kobel.
"Clouseau's" profile and posts appear to have been taken down.
The offensive and disturbing comments detailed in the report come as law enforcement departments around the nation face scrutiny for explicit and implicit racism within their ranks. A wave of killings at the hands of officers this year has ignited global condemnation against police brutality and systemic racism, sparking calls for sweeping reform and accountability.
A source with knowledge of the investigation shared the draft report with CNN, and a final version will be released publicly on Friday.
City officials call for his resignation
City Councilman and Congressman-elect Ritchie Torres, who oversaw the report, called for Kobel to resign.
"The virulent bigotry of Deputy Inspector James Kobel has no place in the NYPD, much less in the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity," Torres said in a statement to CNN. "The shocking nature of his misconduct calls for nothing less than termination."
Christopher Monahan, president of the NYPD Captains' Endowment Association, said in a statement to CNN that Kobel is a "dedicated professional" who adamantly denies these allegations.
"Unfortunately, he has conducted thousands of internal investigations over the last several years," Monahan said. "Clearly, he has angered some people along the way. In any event, he looks forward to being fully exonerated when all the facts come out."
At a news conference Thursday, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea called the comments "utterly disgusting" and said the department interviewed Kobel the day it received the allegation. Shea added that Kobel was placed on modified assignment in the last 24 hours.
"Within the two weeks, where we are in the investigation now, we thought it was prudent to
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The Business Story
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Creating a Quality, Ethical Online Baby Business for Conscious Parents – Two Creatives Lead the Way
2 Comments / Creative Goddess / By neema kambona
From left to right – Rabi and Mel
They say necessity is the mother of invention. Two friends Rabi and Melissa adhered to that phrase and came up with a brainwave to solve the lack of quality baby products modern parents desired. Seeing a gap with what was on offer, they developed their own brand of environmentally friendly products under the catchy name ‘Baby Boo Boo’ launching only a small range to test the market initially. Rabi and Melissa are on their way to achieving online retail success as well as their mission to create a global community for parents.
What a wonderful concept you have created with the Baby Boo Boo Brand. Please explain the idea and what you mean by saying that your business goes beyond baby retailing?
The concept for Baby Boo Boo started on the premise of wanting to consider the customer experience and to be considerate of the journey of parents, in particular, first time parents. Many baby clothing brands focus on the products whereas we take more of a person-centred approach. We are not only providing our customers with products but targeted messaging through our Conscious Parenting Blog.
Eventually we would like to put on small events around London that focus on topics geared towards modern parenting and child rearing. When we say that our business goes beyond baby retailing it is because we are adding to and considering our customers’ journeys. What we envision for Baby Boo Boo is a lifestyle brand and a community where parents can engage, share advice with others and learn new things.
How long have you been in business and how did you come up with such an apt name?
We had first registered our company in July 2015 but it took us three years to plan and muster up the courage to take a leap of faith with our business. We spent a lot of time discussing ideas and defining our vision but we also wanted to be sound in our understanding of the processes and rules behind developing baby clothes. We wanted to have enough time for trial and error.
We officially launched our business on August, 5th 2019. The name Baby Boo Boo came from ‘Boo Boo’, a term of endearment we used for one another and close friends. On brainstorming names we realised that Boo Boo was a playful term for babies and we wanted our business name to be jovial. We also loved the fact that that our company name had alliteration which we could play with through branding.
Handmade BB Dummy Clip
You give high importance to providing top quality products and using ethically sourced materials. How and where do you source the products? Do you also design and manufacture your own products?
We have a mixture of sourced products from across Europe, Asia as well as home (UK) designed products such as our BB Classic, one of our first conceptualised baby grows. The BB Classic was the first product to allow us to understand the manufacturing process from start to finish. It also allowed us to get to grips with establishing our designs and developing an acute eye for detail. We custom design our Gender Reveal Cannons which was another exciting project to work on.
Currently we are designing and creating tech packs for our first full range and choosing a sole manufacturer for our designs. Our goal is to have most of our manufacturing processes led by one provider so that we can keep the high quality of our products. We do a lot of research when it comes to the materials of our products and enjoy the opportunity to incorporate organic cotton products into our brand.
Tell us more about the Conscious Parenting Network. Did you both come up with the idea? What’s the aim?
(Rabi). We always knew we wanted to have a blog incorporated into our website but a brainwave gave me the idea of The Conscious Parenting Network. As a young millennial, I was constantly aware and reminded by friends and family that the time would come when I would have children. Also, with the passing of my Mother I was very conscious that when I have children I won’t have that source of advice and the CP Network was a great opportunity to create that for those in similar positions.
The times we currently live in are very different from the times that we grew up in. We are living in a new era of parenting where there are now initiatives such as shared parental leave; more women are working in senior positions and/or running businesses as well as starting families. More men are allies creating a society where Gender Equality is a priority and an understanding of harmful gender stereotypes. With all of this, it made me think of not only creating a blog but a network of progressive millennial parents where pertinent discussions can take place on a globalised platform.
With the idea that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’, we would love the CP Network to branch off into small events taking place across London with parents and expert/speaker engaging on broad issues such as, how to make the most of maternity and paternity leave; returning to work and mental health and parenthood to name a few. We would love the CP Network to be a space that men can engage and share their stories of fatherhood.
Gender Reveal Confetti Cannons
You are both busy, young professionals. What is the story behind your partnership? How do you juggle all your commitments and run an online retailing business?
(Melissa). We’re both pretty much on the ball at all times. It can be hard working full-time and running an online business but we just make it work. It’s a lot of late nights and responding to emails during our commutes to and from work, or working on things during lunch breaks but we always make sure everything that needs to get done gets done!
(Rabi). We have been friends since the age of 11. We are now both 27 so we know each other and how we work best together including where our strengths and weaknesses lie. This is an important aspect of our partnership as it means we have a clear idea of who should do what and with our varying career backgrounds, we both bring something different to the table. When one of us might have too much going on, the other is always there to support and pick up extra responsibilities. We have both, during our business journey, gone through two serious bereavements. Having the other as a support continuing to work on the business has carried us through to our eventual launch.
In the years, you have been trading, what has been the most valuable thing you have learnt?
(Melissa). Don’t panic as everything is a learning process. We’ve have had quite a few tough challenges in the lead up to launching Baby Boo Boo. Every time it has caught us off guard, my initial reaction would always be, ‘why is this happening? My mind automatically running around like a headless chicken. But once the initial panic settled, we handled the crisis. After that happened a few times, I realised there will be plenty more challenges providing opportunities for growth and resilience.
(Rabi). For me, the two most valuable things is that there is nothing to fear from slow growth. Prior to launch we worried about not having a large range like some of the big companies. Essentially we started small. Secondly, I have learnt to overcome the fear of a large vision by breaking down activities and actions into smaller achievable tasks. This time two years ago I was worried about how we would continue to self-fund the development of our business and now we have a brand to be proud of.
Define your image of success for your online business and are you on track to achieving it?
Our image of success for Baby Boo Boo is to become a well-known UK national brand with a strong customer base and wide ranging engagement from parents of all backgrounds and cultures. When we diversify our products and create rolling collections, is when we will have reached our stride and achieved business success. Being a relatively new start-up, we believe we have the right mind-set and processes in place to make this a reality.
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Israel arrests Palestinian archbishop during protest against church takeover
Patrick Strickland Rights and Accountability 1 July 2015
Greek Orthodox Archbishop Theodosios (Atallah) Hanna during a visit with released Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Khalaf in occupied East Jerusalem, 1 January 2014.
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Israel arrested a prominent Palestinian Christian leader on Saturday during a demonstration in the Hebron area of the occupied West Bank.
Atallah Hanna, activist and Archbishop of the Orthodox Patriarchate at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, was detained and interrogated by Israeli occupation forces as dozens of Palestinian and foreign activists had gathered to protest the takeover of a Palestinian church compound by Israeli settlers, according to an Arabic-language report in al-Araby al-Jadeed.
“[Israeli] occupation forces prevented the activists from reaching the building,” Hassan Barajiya, an activist from the National Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, told al-Araby al-Jadeed. “They managed to arrest Archbishop Atallah Hanna, who was close to the soldiers, and take him to the side.”
Archbishop Hanna was subsequently transferred to the Etzion detention center in a nearby Israeli settlement, where he was issued a summons to return for interrogation before eventually being released.
Secret deal
Beit al-Baraka, the church compound where the protest was staged, is situated between the al-Aroub refugee camp and Hebron, a Palestinian city in the southern West Bank.
The compound was secretly purchased three years ago, through a Swedish organization, by Aryeh King, founder of the Israel Land Fund, a right-wing settlement organization that aims to push Palestinians off their land and replace them with Jewish Israelis, according to a recent investigation by the Israeli daily Haaretz.
King, who is known for buying Palestinian homes or properties through proxies, was funded by Irving Moskowitz, an American millionaire with a long history of funding Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank, especially in East Jerusalem.
In recent months, settler organizations have been preparing the site to house 20 settler families. Establishing an outpost there would, according to Haaretz, “also allow the settlers to spread out from the site” into adjacent lands.
Earlier in June, Israeli occupation forces forcibly prevented a similar march to Beit al-Baraka, assaulting and injuring protestors, according to Ma’an News Agency, and declaring the area a “closed military zone.”
Protest organizer Yousef Abu Maria told Ma’an that Palestinians feared the new settlement would threaten not only the refugee camp, but also a nearby Palestinian college and school. Israel already has plans to build a road for settlers in the area.
Arrested without charges
Archbishop Hanna’s arrest came just days after Israeli occupation forces arrested Daoud al-Ghoul, a Palestinian activist and tour guide from East Jerusalem.
In December 2014, Israel banned al-Ghoul and other local activists from entering Jerusalem for “security reasons” for four months, as reported by The Electronic Intifada at the time.
After relocating to Ramallah, al-Ghoul received another military order informing him that he was also banned from being in the West Bank and had to move to Haifa, a coastal city in northern present-day Israel.
Although al-Ghoul has not been accused of or charged with any crimes, Israeli authorities barred him from international travel until October 2015 and renewed the ban on his ability to visit Jerusalem or the West Bank twice since April.
After being summoned for questioning to the Russian Compound – an Israeli interrogation center in Jerusalem – al-Ghoul was arrested on 25 June.
Prisoners protest
Meanwhile, more than 60 Palestinian administrative detainees – held on “secret evidence” without charge or trial – are boycotting Israeli military courts to protest their detention, according to Addameer, a Ramallah-based group that monitors Israel’s arrests and detentions of Palestinians.
Addameer has documented at least 401 Palestinians presently being held as administrative detainees, including six lawmakers from the Palestinian Legislative Council. Among those is Khalida Jarrar, a prominent left-wing lawmaker who Israel has hit with a dozen charges related to her prisoner solidarity work and activism.
Israel has issued more than 50,000 administrative detention orders against Palestinians since 1967, when its military occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
“The Palestinian prisoners’ movement has been fighting against the policy of administrative detention for decades, which includes boycotting military courts and hunger strikes on the individual and collective levels,” Addameer reports in its press release. “Between 2011 and 2015, dozens of administrative detainees launched an open hunger strike against the policy of administrative detention.”
Earlier this week, Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan ended a 55-day hunger strike against his being held in administrative detention. In exchange for ending the strike, Israel has agreed to release him on 12 July.
“Thank God that my husband is coming back to us victorious,” his wife Randa said at a press conference about her husband’s release.
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When I was a design student there didn’t seem to be an abundance of books about graphic design. There were obviously some, such as recommended canons on the discipline like Meggs’ History of Graphic Design, but they were few and far between. And none, to my eyes, seemed particularly contemporary in their approach to relating to the subject.
Thankfully this is no longer the case. In the last ten years there has been an explosion in the amount of books published about the subject, from self-published/vanity monographs to historical re-tellings, from exhibition tie-ins to in-depth breakdowns of the process of designing. Academic/student friendly publishing houses such as AVA, (now under Bloomsbury), and Laurence King have gone a long way to help those studying graphic design today, and it is likely that the growth of undergraduate graphic design students over the last 10 years has created a captive audience.
One publishing house that is worthy of praise for its output in the last few years is Unit Editions. Set up in 2009 by Tony Brook of Spin, and Adrian Shaughnessy, previously of Intro, their first releases trickled slowly onto the market but quickly established a standard of exceptional quality in both the critical content and production values. Their output has increased dramatically since then, and in the last 18 months alone they’ve published monographs on over-looked designers; FHK Henrion, Herb Lubalin and Ken Garland. They’ve also produced a study on contemporary expressive typography: Type Only, and a collection of Shaughnessy’s writing collated from various websites and magazines that he contributes to, titled Scratching The Surface.
The lavish production values of FHK Henrion monograph: Unit Editions—2013. (Photo: Unit Editions.)
Brook and Shaughnessy describe Unit Editions as producing books “for designers by designers”. While it is true that the latter two publications mentioned above do add to an introspective discourse about contemporary graphic design practice, and the designer/publishers have been showcased on many design blogs such as It’s Nice That, I believe that what Unit Editions are doing is much more than just ‘for designers’.
The desire to showcase designers that have become ‘lost’ in the fog of design history, such as Henrion et al, is obviously a desire to pay these people their dues. The research into their past; how they became designers; what underpinned their practice, (in terms of personal ethos); as well as the excellent archiving of their life’s work, should also be of great interest to those outside of the discipline as well as to designers. For to document their contributions to society at large is to showcase their relevence to popular culture. It is difficult to read Structure and Substance without getting the sense that Garland is dedicated to making the best work he can for the end user. The fact that these designers understood who they were creating work for underpinned an ethos of responsibility in their thinking about graphic design that fed into the aesthetic appeal of what they produced. When you then consider that their work has influenced the world we see around us today by feeding into the evolution of graphic design and how the viewer reads visual communications in their everyday, it is fair to say they also helped to fashion social history.
Spread from Ken Garland, Structure and Substance: Unit Editions—2012. (Photo: Unit Editions.)
It is interesting to note that at the conferences Graphic Design: History In The Making, and Critical Tensions, both held at St Bride Library in 2011, several speakers discussed the standing of graphic design history and graphic design practice in the eyes of the general public. At the latter, Jonathan Barnbrook spoke of graphic designers being the lowest regarded ‘arts’ discipline after advertising, while the history themed conference debated why graphic design was not afforded the respect with which art history is bestowed. While it is fair to claim that many graphic designers have chips on their shoulders, these are still relevant debating points. To address the issue of design history’s standing, someone speaking from the floor at History In The Making stated that graphic design can only ever be judged by non-designers in relation to its original context. In other words, a designs’ reason for existence is what it should be judged against. And in my mind, Unit Editions have come closest to publishing books on what is generally an inward-looking discipline that are accessible, and attractive, to a much wider audience than just designers.
I will look forward to the publications that will come out of Unit Editions during 2014, as well as those that other publishing houses produce. Unlike when I was a student, it is fair to say that books about graphic design have never been in ruder health. The bonus that they could be seen as of great importance in documenting social history is one I think that should be championed, and could go a long way to repositioning graphic design in the mind of the general public.
For more on Unit Editions and design books in general, then check out this excellent interview with Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy on Designers & Books.
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Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi and his kind are not supposed to win. When the president’s assassination plummets the country into sudden and bloody chaos – Hutu against Tutsi, neighbour against neighbour – Jean Patrick is left without protection and without any choice. Now he must run: from his home, from his family, from the woman he loves. Finding them again will be the race of his life. Evoking the raw beauty of Rwanda and the tragedy of its recent past, Running the Rift is a truly stunning novel of a people’s trauma, of lives lost, and of loves salvaged.
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Multiple Cropping after the Rice Harvest in Rainfed Rice Cropping Systems in Khon Kaen Province, Northeast Thailand
Arunee Promkhambut* and A. Terry Rambo**
* อรุณี พรมคำ บุตร, Program on System Approaches in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand
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** Program on System Approaches in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand; East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii 96848-1601, USA
DOI: 10.20495/seas.6.2_325
Cropping intensification in rainfed rice-based farming systems through multiple cropping after the rice harvest by using residual soil moisture and supplemental irrigation offers a way to increase agricultural productivity and boost rural incomes in Northeast Thailand. This study identifies localities, planted areas, types of crops, and number of households growing crops after rainfed rice in Khon Kaen Province; it also analyzes some of the physical and social factors associated with the occurrence of this system. A questionnaire survey was conducted in 2013 of 198 agricultural extension officers in each subdistrict (tambol) in the province to collect data on multiple cropping. An area of 10,384 ha (2.9% of the total rainfed rice area) was used for multiple cropping by 16,184 households (10.9% of all rainfed rice farming households). Both field crops (e.g., cassava, crotalaria, field corn) and vegetables (e.g., sweet corn, watermelon, Chinese radish) were grown. These crops generated USD414–49,072 per hectare per crop for a total revenue of USD32 million, which is three times higher than the value of rice grown in the same field area. However, the area that can be utilized for multiple cropping in different subdistricts may be limited by physical conditions, including availability of irrigation sources and soil texture, as well as social and economic factors such as availability of markets, institutional support, and farmer skills.
Keywords: agricultural intensification, diversification, crops grown after rice, spatial distribution of crops
In rainfed rice fields in Northeast Thailand, only a single crop of rice is commonly planted in the rainy season. Moreover, the yield of rice is generally low, averaging 1.7 t/ha. The low productivity coupled with low and fluctuating prices and high input costs severely limits the profitability of rice production and keeps many farmers trapped in poverty. Cropping intensification through multiple cropping could be a way to increase productivity and boost rural incomes.
In the past, multiple cropping was rarely practiced in Northeast Thailand due to the limited biophysical resources (e.g., low and erratic rainfall, infertile sandy soils, limited availability of surface water supplies, serious problem of insect pests, long duration of the rice crop) (Terd et al. 1976a; 1976b; 1978a; 1978b; Aran et al. 1977a; 1977b; 1977c; KKU-Ford Cropping System Project 1982; Rambo 1991; Viriya 2001). Even when experimental multiple cropping systems were agronomically successful, farmers did not adopt them (Vichain and Aran 1990), mostly due to social and economic constraints, including limited markets for crops, labor competition, and lack of capital and knowledge (Rigg 1985; Vichain and Aran 1990). Although the factors limiting the adoption of multiple cropping were well understood in the context of rainfed agriculture in the 1980s, the situation in the Northeast has undergone rapid change since then. The context for multiple cropping is now quite different from what it was in the past. Key changes include the widespread adoption of the drought-tolerant RD6 glutinous rice variety and use of diesel pumps to provide supplementary irrigation water from newly dug farm ponds, which have helped to stabilize rice yields in years of low rainfall. The resulting higher and more stable yields of glutinous rice have allowed farmers to plant a larger share of their land with non-glutinous KDML105, which is raised as a cash crop, providing rural households with a new source of income. Agricultural intensification is occurring to an extent unimaginable just a few years ago. Relying on remittances sent back to their families by migrant workers, as well as cash earned by engaging in off-farm employment in new factories and service jobs in local urban centers, Isan farmers have been rapidly adopting modern agricultural technology, including increased use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and farm machinery (Grandstaff et al. 2008). Multiple cropping and cultivation of high-value crops to supply growing urban markets are also more commonly practiced (Rambo 2012).
In Khon Kaen Province, farmers now employ a variety of locally developed double cropping systems to grow cash crops after the rice harvest and thus raise farm incomes. Some farmers grow high-value vegetable crops after the rice harvest, such as Chinese radish (Patcharaporn and Orawan 2011), tomato for seed production (Prapatsorn and Wareerat 2010), glutinous corn (Uraiwan et al. 2010), and various green vegetables, which provided a net income of USD7,727–12,733 per hectare per season. Even though some examples of multiple cropping after rice have been reported, there have been no detailed studies on the localities, planted areas, types of crops, and number of households adopting these systems; nor has there been any detailed analysis of the factors associated with the occurrence of each system of multiple cropping. This research, therefore, was undertaken in order to identify localities, planted areas, types of crops, and number of households growing crops after the harvest of rainfed rice in Khon Kaen Province and to identify physical, social, and economic factors associated with the occurrence of these cropping systems.
The study area was the whole of Khon Kaen Province, Northeast Thailand. It is located between latitude 15°40′ to 17°5′N and longitude 101°45′ to 103°45′E. The province has an area of 10,886 km2 and had a population of 1,774,816 in 2013. It is divided into 26 districts and 198 administrative subdistricts (tambol) (Khon Kaen Provincial Office 2013).
The topography of Khon Kaen Province can be divided into two main types: lowlands and uplands (hills or mountains). Most parts, over 80%, are flat to gently undulating land 101–200 m above sea level and include the broad floodplain along the Chi River. This plain is dotted with inselbergs (isolated and flat-topped mountains with nearly vertical cliffs) and inselberg ranges as high as 900 m above sea level in the northern and western parts of the province (Geo-Informatics Center for Development of Northeast Thailand 2009).
There are 34 soil series in the province (IGES n.d.). Generally, the upland soils have been formed from parent material composed of fine-grained sandstone and shale. Soil groups distributed in the province are varied due to the topography. Tropaquepts with fine textures are found in the floodplain adjacent to the Chi River. Paleustults with sandy texture cover a large part of the northern and western parts of the province. Paleaquults are distributed mostly in the depression of undulating land and nonflood plain (Viriya 2001). The climate of Khon Kaen Province can be classified as Tropical Savannah according to the Koppen Climate Classification System. The average annual temperature is 27°C, and the mean maximum and minimum temperatures are 32.8°C and 22.4°C, respectively. The rainy season extends from May to October, with almost no rainfall in the remaining months. Rainfall is unevenly distributed within the year and varies from year to year (ibid.). Average annual rainfall during 2000–13 was 1,290 mm (Northeast Meteorological Center [Upper Part] 2014).
The total cultivated area of Khon Kaen Province is 699,047 ha (64.19% of total area), of which only 98,349 ha (14%) is irrigated. In 2012, wet season rice was the major crop grown, accounting for 58.9% of the agricultural area. Sugarcane and cassava were the second- and third-most widely planted crops, covering 12.9% and 4.6% of the agricultural area, respectively (OAE 2014).
Data on the locality, planted areas, types of crops, and number of households practicing multiple cropping after the rice harvest during the 2012–13 growing season in every subdistrict (tambol) were collected using formal questionnaires distributed to the agricultural extension officers in each tambol in 2013. The questionnaires were pretested in three selected tambol in order to examine their reliability and validity. After the questionnaires had been revised accordingly, they were distributed by mail or e-mail to the agricultural extension officers in every tambol. Follow-up telephone calls were made to ensure that the questionnaires were completed and returned to the researchers. Ultimately, 100% of the questionnaires were returned. Field observations were also made in selected subdistricts to verify the information provided by agricultural extension officers, and follow-up interviews were done with 28 farmers. These farmers were asked about the yields of crops they obtained per unit area and the price they sold them for, in order to calculate income per unit area. Physical and social factors determining the types of crop they grew were also ascertained.
Provincial information about rice planted area, number of rice farming households, and the farm gate price of rice in the 2012/13 growing season were obtained from online databases of the Office of Agricultural Economics (2014) and Department of Agricultural Extension (n.d.), Thailand.
All of the tambol having multiple crops after rice were identified, along with the crop species grown, the area planted with each crop, and the numbers of households growing each of these crops. The crops were then classified into two groups according to their characteristics: (1) field crops (non-perishable products, low water and nutrient requirements, and extensive management) included peanut, field corn, cassava, crotalaria, and mung bean; and (2) vegetable crops (perishable products, high water and nutrient requirements, and intensive management) included sweet corn, chili, watermelon, cucumber, eggplant, yard-long bean, sweet potato, tomato, Chinese radish, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, and other green vegetables. Percentages of multiple cropping area to total rice area, and rainfed rice farming households planting multiple crops to all rice farming households were calculated using Excel spreadsheets. The spatial distribution of multiple cropping according to the percentage of total rice area planted with multiple crops in each tambol was mapped using the ArcInfo GIS program.
Types of Crops Grown after the Rice Harvest in Khon Kaen Province
Of the 198 tambol in Khon Kaen Province, 178 (90%) planted a crop after the harvest of rainfed rice. As shown in Table 1, the area devoted to multiple cropping after rice was relatively small; multiple crops occupied only 10,384 ha, which is 2.9% of the total rainfed rice area in the province. The share of farm households engaging in multiple cropping was considerably larger, however, with 16,184 households planting crops after rice, which is 10.9% of the total number of rainfed rice farming households in the province.
Table 1 Characteristics of Multiple Cropping after the Rice Harvest in Rainfed Paddy Fields in Khon Kaen Province in the 2012–13 Growing Season
There is considerable variation among tambol in terms of the share of the rice area that is multiple cropped. Most of the tambol (84%) planted less than 5% of the total rice area with multiple crops. However, about 11% of the tambol planted multiple crops on 5.01–20% of their total rice area while about 5% planted multiple crops on more than 20% of their total rice area. The spatial distribution of the multiple crops planted after the rice harvest is shown in Fig. 1. Tambol having multiple crops on less than 5% of their total rice area are scattered throughout the province, while tambol having multiple crops on 5–20% of their rice area are located mostly in the southern part of the province and tambol with a higher proportion of multiple cropped area are in the northern part of the province.
Fig. 1 Spatial Distribution of Multiple Crop Area to Total Rice Area Grown after Rainfed Rice in Each Tambol (subdistrict) in Khon Kaen Province during 2012–13
Field crops and vegetable crops are planted after the rice harvest in rainfed paddy fields in Khon Kaen Province. Field crops occupied about 2% of total rice area. About 81% of the total multiple cropping area is planted with these crops, including cassava, crotalaria, field corn, peanut, and mung bean. Vegetable crops, including sweet corn, chili, watermelon, cucumber, eggplant, yard-long bean, sweet potato, tomato, Chinese radish, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, and other vegetables, occupied 19% of the multiple cropping area, or only about 0.5% of the total rice land (Table 2). Although the area occupied by field crops is much larger than that occupied by vegetable crops, the number of rainfed rice farming households growing vegetables is almost as large (7,374 households) as it is for field crops (8,810 households), with households growing vegetables as a multiple crop accounting for 45.6% of all farm households engaging in multiple cropping (Table 3).
Table 2 Planted Area of Multiple Crops Grown after the Rice Harvest during the Dry Season under Rainfed Conditions in Khon Kaen Province during 2012–13
Table 3 Number of Rainfed Rice Farming Households Growing Crops after Rice during the Dry Season under Rainfed Conditions in Khon Kaen Province during 2012–13
Economic Value of Multiple Cropping
Data from Table 4 show that total gross income per area of multiple crops grown after rice varied according to type of crop. Field crops, except field corn and peanuts, provided income lower than USD1,000 per hectare. Vegetables generally had a much higher return than field crops, ranging from USD1,055 to USD49,072 per hectare. The variation in income per hectare of different crops depends not only on the yields and prices of the different crop species, but also on the purposes for which the crop is produced. Field corn, watermelon, tomato, and chili were mostly grown under contract to produce hybrid seed. Hybrid vegetable seed production was first established by a few companies in a limited number of places in Northeast Thailand in the late 1970s but nowadays has spread to many additional places, with several competing local and international companies (Rosset et al. 1999). V. Benziger (1996) has indicated that contract farming is a program to help small farmers make a transition into high value-added crops. It provides revenues per area 6.5 times higher than those obtained by traditional farmers. In addition to contract farming, many other multiple cropping farmers engage in independent growing of vegetables such as yard-long bean, eggplant, Chinese radish, and cucumber to supply rapidly growing urban markets. These high-value crops give gross returns of USD7,023–14,180 per hectare.
Table 4 Economic Values of Multiple Crops Grown after Rainfed Rice Compared to Main Season Rice in Khon Kaen Province during 2012–13
When the total gross annual revenue generated by multiple crops after the rainfed rice harvest was calculated based on area planted to each species, it was found that about USD32 million was generated in 2013, which is three times higher than the value of rice grown in the same field area (Table 4). Table 5 shows the different amounts of revenue generated by various multiple crops. Field crops, particularly mung bean, generated only 30–65% more revenue compared to vegetable crops, which generated 65–98% more revenue than rice alone. The higher return per unit of land from crops grown after rice compared to rice mono-cropping has also been reported by G. Kar et al. (2006). The fact that growing vegetable crops provides the highest returns may explain the popularity among the farmers of vegetables as a multiple crop. Despite the high returns generated by vegetables, farmers still plant a much larger area with cassava, which provides lower returns per unit land.
Table 5Gross Income of Rice and Some Multiple Crops Grown after Rice under Rainfed Conditions in Khon Kaen Province during 2012–13
Possible Factors Associated with Distribution of Multiple Crops Grown after Rice
Information from farmer interviews and field observation by the authors showed that physical factors, such as availability of irrigation sources, suitable soil texture, and having a shallow water table, are the most important factors determining the presence of multiple cropping in an area. It was found that all vegetable crops except sweet potato relied heavily on the availability of irrigation. Farmers indicated that hybrid seed production required having a farm pond for irrigation. However, the supply of water from farm ponds is very limited, so the area that can support intensive cultivation is restricted accordingly. Water from the ponds is used mostly for supplemental irrigation of the main season rice crop during short-term droughts and to grow small quantities of vegetables and fruit on the bunds around the ponds (Ogura and Somsak 2002). If the water storage capacity of the ponds could be increased, it might be possible to expand the area planted with high-value multiple crops.
Besides farm ponds, streams, rivers, public water bodies, and shallow wells are other sources of water that farmers rely on for multiple cropping. Growing peanuts after rice without irrigation depends on having a shallow water table and soil with good texture (Vichain and Aran 1990). Farmers also report that good soil texture is the main factor needed for growing sweet potatoes. Soil texture plays a significant role in the presence and availability of soil moisture and the availability of oxygen in root zone (Gines and Kaida 1982). Vichain Kerdsuk and Aran Patanothai (1990) found that soil type was one of the important factors affecting farmers’ adoption of multiple cropping systems.
Availability of adequate labor supply is another important constraint on the adoption of multiple cropping. Only those households that have sufficient labor power are likely to engage in cultivation of intensive crops such as vegetables and hybrid seeds. Cassava, which requires relatively less labor, can be planted by more farmers.
Availability of markets and institutional support were the next most important factors contributing to the existence of multiple cropping. This is especially the case with regard to contract farming of hybrid seed. Farmer skills are also an important factor in high-value specialty crop production. For example, production of hybrid tomato seed requires a good supply of highly skilled workers to emasculate the flowers (Wareerat 2014).
In the case of cassava, there appear to be no especially important physical or institutional determinants; instead, farmers adopt this multiple cropping system as an adaptive strategy to cope with losses of rice yield caused by drought, as explained by A. M. S. Ali (1995).
Although individual factors may sometimes affect the existence of specific crops in multiple cropping systems, usually there are multiple factors involved. For instance, in the case of crotalaria, farmers are supplied with seed by the Land Development Department, which also provides them with a guaranteed market for their crop. But in addition to such institutional support, only rice fields located in the lower part of the toposequence with good soil moisture and relatively loamy soil are suitable for this crop. Therefore, in order to assess the possibility of extending multiple cropping systems into other areas, we need to identify all of the interrelated factors affecting each crop.
Although still practiced on only a small share of the total area of rainfed rice, multiple cropping after rice is now widespread in Khon Kaen Province. It is found in 90% of all subdistricts and is practiced by almost 11% of all rainfed rice farming households. The recent expansion of multiple cropping is part of the ongoing agrarian transformation that is reshaping the economy and society of rural Northeast Thailand (see Rambo, this issue). As part of this transformation, agriculture is simultaneously undergoing intensification and diversification. Farmers who formerly grew only a single low-yielding crop of glutinous rice in lowland paddy fields for home consumption, and cultivated cassava in upland fields to sell for cash, have greatly intensified their land use. They have intensified rice production by adopting new higher-yielding varieties of glutinous rice, using part of their paddy area to grow non-glutinous rice for sale, shifting from plowing with buffalo to plowing with tractors and from hand harvesting to the use of combine harvesters, and greatly increased their use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, among other changes. At the same time, upland cropping has been diversified by the adoption of new crops, including sugarcane, eucalyptus, and rubber. The widespread adoption by farmers of multiple cropping after rice is part of this general trend to generate more cash income from their land. Although income earned from growing field crops after rice is relatively low, vegetable crops provide very high returns per hectare, making a substantial contribution to the economy of rural families.
Although multiple cropping after rice can be a successful strategy for improving the livelihoods of rainfed rice farmers, its further expansion in Khon Kaen Province appears to be limited by many physical and economic factors. For example, only certain restricted areas within the province appear to be suitable for growing high-value vegetable crops. Further investigation is needed to identify locally specific factors (e.g., soil moisture, soil fertility, availability of supplemental irrigation sources, household composition and labor supply, and alternative local employment opportunities) that may facilitate or constrain the engagement of individual farm households in multiple cropping in different localities.
Accepted: January 19, 2017
This research was supported by the Young Researcher Supporting Program of Khon Kaen University. Additional support was provided by a grant (BRG5680008) from the Thailand Research Fund Basic Research Program to Prof. A. Terry Rambo. The views expressed are those of the authors and are not necessarily shared by the funding agencies. Sukanlaya Choenkwan provided useful assistance in data analysis and preparation of maps. The authors would like to thank all the tambol agricultural officers who responded to our questionnaires.
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Impact of Regulations on Cash-In and Cash-Out Networks
Many low- and middle-income countries remain challenged by a financial infrastructure gap, evidenced by very low numbers of bank branches and automated teller machines (ATMs) (e.g., 2.9 branches per 100,000 people in Ethiopia versus 13.5 in India and 32.9 in the United States (U.S.) and 0.5 ATMs per 100,000 people in Ethiopia versus 19.7 in India and 173 in the U.S.) (The World Bank 2015a; 2015b). Furthermore, only an estimated 62 percent of adults globally have a banking account through a formal financial institution, leaving over 2 billion adults unbanked (Demirgüç–Kunt et al., 2015). While conventional banks have struggled to extend their networks into low-income and rural communities, digital financial services (DFS) have the potential to extend financial opportunities to these groups (Radcliffe & Voorhies, 2012). In order to utilize DFS however, users must convert physical cash to electronic money which requires access to cash-in, cash-out (CICO) networks—physical access points including bank branches but also including “branchless banking" access points such as ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, agents, and cash merchants. As mobile money and branchless banking expand, countries are developing new regulations to govern their operations (Lyman, Ivatury, & Staschen, 2006; Lyman, Pickens, & Porteous, 2008; Ivatury & Mas, 2008), including regulations targeting aspects of the different CICO interfaces.
EPAR's work on CICO networks consists of five components. First, we summarize types of recent mobile money and branchless banking regulations related to CICO networks and review available evidence on the impacts these regulations may have on markets and consumers. In addition to this technical report we developed a short addendum (EPAR 355a) which includes a description of findings on patterns around CICO regulations over time. Another addendum (EPAR 355b) summarizes trends in exclusivity regulations including overall trends, country-specific approaches to exclusivity, and a table showing how available data on DFS adoption from FII and GSMA might relate to changes in exclusivity policies over time. A third addendum (EPAR 355c) explores trends in CICO network expansion with a focus on policies seeking to improve access among more remote or under-served populations. Lastly, we developed a database of CICO regulations, including a regulatory decision options table which outlines the key decisions that countries can make to regulate CICOs and a timeline of when specific regulations related to CICOs were introduced in eight focus countries, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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Self Help Groups Prevalence and Coverage
Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa can be defined as mutual assistance organizations through which individuals undertake collective action in order to improve their own lives. “Collective action” implies that individuals share their time, labor, money, or other assets with the group. In a recent EPAR data analysis, we use three nationally-representative survey tools to examine various indicators related to the coverage and prevalence of Self-Help Group usage across six Sub-Saharan African countries. EPAR has developed Stata .do files for the construction of a set of self-help group indicators using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA), Financial Inclusion Index (FII), and FinScope.
We compiled a set of summary statistics for the final indicators using data from the following survey instruments:
Ethiopia:
Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey (ESS), Wave 3 (2015-16)
Kenya:
Kenya FinScope, Wave 4 (2015)
Kenya FII, Wave 4 (2016)
Nigeria FII, Wave 4 (2016)
Rwanda:
Rwanda FII, Wave 4 (2016)
Tanzania:
Tanzania National Panel Survey (TNPS), Wave 4 (2014-15)
Tanzania FinScope, Wave 4 (2017)
Tanzania FII, Wave 4 (2016)
Uganda FinScope, Wave 3 (2013)
Uganda FII, Wave 4 (2016)
The raw survey data files are available for download free of charge from the World Bank LSMS-ISA website, the Financial Sector Deepening Trust website, and the Financial Inclusion Insights website. The .do files process the data and create final data sets at the household (LSMS-ISA) and individual (FII, FinScope) levels with labeled variables, which can be used to estimate summary statistics for the indicators.
All the instruments include nationally-representative samples. All estimates from the LSMS-ISA are household-level cluster-weighted means, while all estimates from FII and FinScope are calculated as individual-level weighted means. The proportions in the Indicators Spreadsheet are therefore estimates of the true proportion of individuals/households in the national population during the year of the survey. EPAR also created a Tableau visualization of these summary statistics, which can be found here.
We have also prepared a document outlining the construction decisions for each indicator across survey instruments and countries. We attempted to follow the same construction approach across instruments, and note any situations where differences in the instruments made this impossible.
The spreadsheet includes estimates of the following indicators created in our code files:
Sub-Populations
Proportion of individuals who have access to a mobile phone
Proportion of individuals who have official identification
Proportion of individuals who are female
Proportion of individuals who use mobile money
Proportion of individuals who have a bank account
Proportion of individuals who live in a rural area
Individual Poverty Status
Two Lowest PPI Quintiles
Middle PPI Quintile
Two Highest PPI Quintiles
Coverage & Prevalence
Proportion of individuals who have interacted with a SHG
Proportion of individuals who have used an SHG for financial services
Proportion of individuals who depend most on SHGs for financial advice
Proportion of individuals who have received financial advice from a SHG
Proportion of households that have interacted with a SHG
Proportion of households in communities with at least one SHG
Proportion of households in communities with access to multiple farmer cooperative groups
Proportion of households who have used an SHG for financial services
In addition, we produced estimates for 29 indicators related to characteristics of SHG use including indicators related to frequency of SHG use, characteristics of SHG groups, and individual/household trust of SHGs.
Indicator Cross-Comparisons, All Countries Pivot Tables
Review of Land Tenure Technologies and Indicators
Land tenure refers to a set of land rights and land governance institutions which can be informal (customary, traditional) or formal (legally recognized), that define relationships between people and land and natural resources (FAO, 2002). These land relationships may include, but are not limited to, rights to use land for cultivation and production, rights to control how land should be used including for cultivation, resource extraction, conservation, or construction, and rights to transfer – through sale, gift, or inheritance – those land use and control rights (FAO, 2002). In this project, we review 38 land tenure technologies currently being applied to support land tenure security across the globe, and calculate summary statistics for indicators of land tenure in Tanzania and Ethiopia.
Technical Report - Land Tenure Technologies, Summary Profiles - Land Tenure Technologies, Results Coding - Land Tenure Technologies, Research Brief - Plot Ownership Summary Statistics for Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania, Research Brief - Land Tenure Indicator Summary Statistics for Ethiopia and Tanzania
Economic Benefits of Empowering Women in Agriculture: Assumptions and Evidence
A growing body of evidence suggests that empowering women may lead to economic benefits (The World Bank, 2011; Duflo, 2012; Kabeer & Natali, 2013). Little work, however, focuses specifically on the potential impacts of women’s empowerment in agricultural settings. Through a comprehensive review of literature this report considers how prioritizing women’s empowerment in agriculture might lead to economic benefits. With an intentionally narrow focus on economic empowerment, we draw on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)’s indicators of women’s empowerment in agriculture to consider the potential economic rewards to increasing women’s control over agricultural productive resources (including their own time and labor), over agricultural production decisions, and over agricultural income. While we recognize that there may be quantifiable benefits of improving women’s empowerment in and of itself, we focus on potential longer-term economic benefits of improvements in these empowerment measures.
Technical Report, Results Coding
Husband and Wife Perspectives on Farm Household Decision-making Authority and Evidence on Intra-household Accord in Rural Tanzania
We use OLS and logistic regression to investigate variation in husband and wife perspectives on the division of authority over agriculture-related decisions within households in rural Tanzania. Using original data from husbands and wives (interviewed separately) in 1,851 Tanzanian households, the analysis examines differences in the wife’s authority over 13 household and farming decisions. The study finds that the level of decision-making authority allocated to wives by their husbands, and the authority allocated by wives to themselves, both vary significantly across households. In addition to commonly considered assets such as women’s age and education, in rural agricultural households women’s health and labour activities also appear to matter for perceptions of authority. We also find husbands and wives interviewed separately frequently disagree with each other over who holds authority over key farming, family, and livelihood decisions. Further, the results of OLS and logistic regression suggest that even after controlling for various individual, household, and regional characteristics, husband and wife claims to decision-making authority continue to vary systematically by decision – suggesting decision characteristics themselves also matter. The absence of spousal agreement over the allocation of authority (i.e., a lack of “intrahousehold accord”) over different farm and household decisions is problematic for interventions seeking to use survey data to develop and inform strategies for reducing gender inequalities or empowering women in rural agricultural households. Findings provide policy and program insights into when studies interviewing only a single spouse or considering only a single decision may inaccurately characterize intra-household decision-making dynamics.
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Bread is the Root of Everything: Ukraine Discourages the Milling Market of Asia From Australia
Asian flour millers are ready to buy in 2018 a record volume of wheat from producers of the Black Sea region, where Ukraine and Russia are the leaders, according to Reuters.
Australia – the traditional supplier of this culture to Asia – has experienced a severe drought this season, specialists explain such changes on the market.
In addition, traders note the continued growth in demand for wheat throughout the Asian region.
The growing appetites of Asia and the growth of wheat sales from the Black Sea region threaten to squeeze Australian dominance in this trade direction.
In addition, Asia is building up a middle class, which increasingly abandons rice, switching to noodles, pizza and cakes, the main raw material for which is wheat flour.
“Even large mills previously secured by Australian suppliers are now taking Black Sea cargo because of favorable prices,” said one of the market players in Singapore who asked to remain anonymous. “Wheat from Russia and Ukraine is getting better every year.”
Black Sea wheat with 11.5 percent protein is traded in the amount of $ 220-227 per ton, including cost and freight, compared to a similar grade of Australian wheat, which goes at $ 255-260 per ton.
Indonesia, according to traders, is ready to buy this season a record 12 million tons of wheat, and probably half of this import will have to Russia and Ukraine.
Thus, Indonesia will become the largest importer from the Black Sea region. It will be followed by Malaysia, Vietnam, India and Bangladesh.
Although the Australian grain was considered to be more quality, its production had already fallen in 2017 to a ten-year low of 21.2 million tons, increasing pressure on the export price.
The official forecast for 2018/19 is 23.7 million tons, but the spring drought does not allow to assume that the production will exceed 20 million tons.
In addition, most modern mills can mix lower quality grains with higher quality and get the right final product, according to the purchasing managers of the largest flour mills in Southeast Asia.
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Suturing device co Anchora Medical raises $4.5m
1 Mar, 2020 14:30
The Israeli company's single-use suturing device for the approximation of soft tissue during MIS incorporates tiny stainless-steel smart anchors threaded on a surgical thread.
Israeli single-use laparoscopic suturing device developer Anchora Medical has announced the closing of a $4.5 million financing round led by HOYA Corporation and Tal Capital. Previous investors include Dr. Shimon Eckhouse and Alon Medtech. Based in Yokneam, Anchora is a portfolio company of Alon Medtech Ventures. The funds will be used to further develop the company's laparoscopic suturing devices.
Anchora’s single-use suturing device for the approximation of soft tissue during MIS incorporates tiny stainless-steel smart anchors threaded on a surgical thread to create either running or interrupted sutures in tissue.
Anchora CEO Yoni Epstein said, "The recent investment, led by HOYA, is a robust validation of our technology, and it will allow us to move toward commercialization."
Anchora’s Chairman Dr. Shimon Eckhouse said, "This partnership with HOYA is an excellent indication of the innovation and significance of Anchora's solution for the advancement of modern surgical technologies. We are confident that HOYA's leadership position in the global minimally-invasive surgical market will play a critical role in bringing Anchora’s exciting technology to surgeons and patients around the world."
"Our investment in Anchora further complements HOYA’s aim of partnering with innovative minimally-invasive surgical companies to complement our Life Care medical device divisions. We are excited about the progress and novel advancements that Anchora has made with its laparoscopic suturing products. Timothy Gehlmann, President and CEO of HOYA’s Microline Surgical division, has joined Anchora as a board member and we look forward to the company’s continued successes. Additionally, we welcome the opportunity to continue our venture capital partnering activities with the flourishing medical device industry in Israel," said Augustine Yee, HOYA’s Chief Legal and Corporate Operating Officer.
Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on March 1, 2020
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Yingluck Shinawatra, former Thai prime minister, begins her trial in Bangkok over corruption allegations
Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Image: Gerd Seidel and Rob Irgendwer.
Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has begun her trial in Bangkok on Tuesday for alleged negligence in a rice subsidy scheme. If convicted she could face up to ten years in jail.
The subsidy scheme was designed to prop up rice prices by spending billions of dollars to acquire the crop at high rates over the market rates.
It has been alleged by her political opponents that this was a way to gain support from poor rice farmers.
"I am confident that I am innocent and I hope the court will give me justice and allow everything to proceed in accordance with the law," Shinawatra told reporters outside the Bangkok courthouse.
12 months ago the former prime minister was removed from office by a military coup after weeks of protests in the Thai capital. The military stating that it had to restore order.
The court has forbidden Shinawatra to leave the country.
AFP/Reuters. "Thailand general election delayed six months, hours after former PM Yingluck Shinawatra fronts court" — ABC Australia, May 19, 2015
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Common Lineage: The Bensons
January 11 - February 9, 2017
Since 2005, Lee Benson, professor of sculpture and ceramics at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee has worked with his wife Betty, and later their four children, Zac, Aaron, Mary, and Sarah to make sculpture and public works. They work mainly in mixed media, the earth, stone, timber, wood, clay and 24k gold producing large-scale architectural forms as well as figurative, narrative monoliths. Residing across the country, they maintain five studios.
The Bensons have produced works from New York City to Australia and have had wide public recognition. They have also recently developed a relationship with Habitat for Humanity and Habitat for Humanity International to use materials used in their sculptures to be repurposed into homes throughout the community.
Staying Alive: The 70th Annual Student Art Competition
Graphic Design: Jeff Baxter and Paul Schlacter
Fine Arts: Mike Calway-Fagen and Rob Tarbell
Art History: Dr. Charissa Terranova
March 24 - April 21, 2017
In partial fulfillment of their graduation requirements, students pursuing the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree are required to mount a solo exhibition of work, and to defend their work during an oral examination in front of a faculty committee. Due to the number of graduate students enrolled in the UT School of Art, these exhibitions generally take the form of small groups of students presenting concurrent solo exhibitions in the gallery space. Exhibition students are: Anna Wehrwein, Corinna Ray, Abigail Lucien, Jessica Gatlin, Jing Qin, Joshua Shorey, Meg Erlewine, Geoff Silvis, Chris Spurgin, and Elysia Mann.
Initiated by the Ewing's Director Sam Yates 27 years ago, this exhibition recognizes outstanding students graduating from The University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art, College of Arts and Sciences; a Bachelor of Architecture or Bachelor of Science, Interior Design, a Master of Architecture, and a Master of Landscape Design from the College of Architecture and Design. Selected by a School of Art Faculty Scholarship committee, seven art students from various art disciplines were chosen from the qualifying applicants for this year's exhibition. These students are Drew Justice, Ryan McCown, Catherine Meadows, Byeol Shim, Paris Woodhull, Pippin Long, and Grant Barbour. Exhibitors from the College of Architecture and Design are: William Harvell, Andrew Tarsi, Lorena Martin Cid, Pruett Smith, Emilee Wilson, Abbey Green, and Mike Stone.
Ellen Fullman: The Long String Instrument
As part of the Nief-Norf Summer Festival, The Ewing Gallery hosted Ellen Fullman's The Long String Instrument. Fullman gave a performance of "Harbors" with cellist Theresa Wong.
Dual Current: Inseparable Elements in Painting and Architecture
August 31 - October 10, 2017
Dual Current: Inseparable Elements in Painting and Architecture, curated by Gabriele Evertz, examines the relationship between painting and architecture in a contemporary context through color, shape, and theory.
The artists whose works are featured in this exhibition are: Josef Albers, Matthew Deleget , Peter Dudek, Cris Gianakos, Michelle Grabner, Lynne Harlow, Changha Hwang, Russell Maltz, Rossana Martinez, Kristine Marx, and Manfred Mohr. Their works link three-dimensional space and the picture plane to create radical new forms. Dual Current explores the relationship between painting and architecture, closely intertwined since the Renaissance.
Liquid Kingdom: Modeling an Architectural Proving Ground
An exhibition by Smout Allen
Liquid Kingdom is a speculative design proposal for an environmental 'proving ground' of landscape and architectural installations, sited on the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. The project responds to the Isle's unique character, 'shaped by separation, a sense of independence and abrupt contact with nature', and prepares it for the future demands of society and climate change.
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Abdulrasheed Hameed is a committed Chief Lecturer with over 24 years of experience at Federal College of Education, Okene,Kogi State. He teaches both N.C.E and Undergraduate Students with various social and cultural backgrounds. He possesses excellent, administrative, and communication and written skills. All of these make him a sought after teacher. Abdulrasheed A. Hameed is the current Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences having been elected into that position through a popular vote.
Mallam Hameed is an accomplished Islamic scholar who delights in teaching Islamic History and Jurisprudence. His is also a convinced preacher of Islam as a religion and way of life. All of these make him a friend and role model to both his colleagues and students. A. A. Hameed holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Islamic Studies. He is gentle, soft spoken and speaks English and Yoruba fluently. He is also a member of several academic and professional Associations such as the National Association of teachers’ of Arabic and Islamic Studies.
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November 27, 2011 Uncategorized24, Clare Danes, Marin Ireland, Showtime, televisionTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR
Showtime’s Homeland debuted on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. The series stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a CIA operative who’s learned that an American soldier in the Middle East has been “turned” and now works for an Al Qaeda cell. When Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) is found after eight years in captivity and returns to a hero’s welcome, Carrie is certain he’s the double agent.
Since she can’t persuade her dubious CIA superiors to follow her instincts, Carrie goes rogue, setting up an illegal surveillance on Brody’s house and then engineering a personal relationship with him that lets her follow her own course.
The series plays the country’s paranoia for all it’s worth, constantly turning the plot to keep viewers and characters off guard. The performers hold their characters’ secrets close; they’re as difficult for us to read as they are for one another to truly understand, even though viewers are given key bits of information early.
For instance, Carrie’s surveillance cameras can’t pick up the inside of Brody’s garage, where we know well before Carrie that he retreats regularly for Muslim prayers. Hearing his chanting and seeing him perform the rituals seems chilling, but it later appears that the show’s producers have played on mainstream viewers’ stereotypes about Islam to enhance our sense of foreboding.
In a later episode, Brody explains to Carrie that he adopted Islam because he needed religion—any religion—to survive the ordeal of his captivity. Because Lewis plays Brody so convincingly, it’s difficult not to be persuaded and even moved by his explanation. But the most recent episode’s plot twist once again upends our understandings, playing both with and against viewers’ presumptions.
Nonetheless, it’s impossible for a series about terrorism not to trade on knee-jerk expectations of which characters will be good and which bad. The Arabic-accented, Middle Eastern-appearing men are instantly marked as villains. The only thing that makes Brody truly interesting is that he’s a red-haired, archetypally American soldier who might, in fact, be working for the enemy.
And in a subplot that hasn’t yet been consistently developed, a young Middle Eastern professor and his blonde American wife have moved into a neighborhood that puts them within shooting range of a U.S. military landing strip. The CIA believes the man might be Brody’s Al Qaeda contact, but it turns out that it’s his wife, Aileen (played by the always wonderful Marin Ireland), who is the mysterious operation’s architect. Her back-story gives her ample reasons to love the Middle East and to despise the United States, but her centrality to the series’ plot has so far been tenuous.
Homeland’s producers, then, try to keep twisting the plot so that the binary of American/good, Middle Eastern/bad won’t maintain. But its visual scenario tells a different story. Middle Eastern male characters are constantly beaten, attacked, or killed by white military or intelligence officers. The guard who confined Brody for all those years, whom Brody beats when he asks to visit the captured man in prison, subsequently slits his wrists with a razor blade somehow smuggled in to him. Aileen’s husband is killed when CIA operatives catch up to him and Aileen and blast automatic rifle fire through the walls of their motel room. (She escapes.)
Even the henchman of Abu Nazir—the archenemy who Carrie suspects is the mastermind behind a new plot to attack America—is nearly strangled when Brody breaks into his house to confront him about his presumed dead comrade, Tom Walker. Homeland invites viewers to watch with a kind of vengeful pleasure as these brown men endure violence meted out by righteous white men. Although the series wants to disrupt our assumptions, its images nonetheless secure conventional ideology about the Middle East as the dangerous, obvious locus of terrorist threats.
Danes plays Carrie, the smart, difficult, unruly operative who receives the intelligence that a soldier has been turned and rests her suspicions on Brody. Danes does a wonderful job communicating the obsessions of someone high up in the CIA’s ranks who takes it as her personal responsibility not to let 9/11 happen again. In fact, in Danes’ voiceover on the show’s credits, Carrie insists that she should have caught the clues, that she should have seen the 9/11 attacks coming and been able to prevent them. The weight of personal guilt for a national tragedy fuels Carrie’s passion and her mania.
Homeland suggests that only enormous ego or narcissism could explain one solitary CIA agent’s single-minded pursuit of justice and her insistence that 9/11 was in some way her fault. At the same time, the show proposes that another terrorist event might in fact be foiled by a single agent.
The show seesaws between these two different desires. It appeases our yearning for a hero who can stop speeding bullets with his or her bare hands (like Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in 24, on which some of Homeland’s producers previously worked). But it also underlines that national security is a complicated priority that takes way more than a village, let alone any individual.
Homeland mostly resists 24’s fantasy that one man could save us all. In fact, Homeland’s hero is a woman. While the show admires Carrie for her superior intelligence and her willingness to dedicate her life to her job, it also burdens her with an unnamed but determining psychological problem. Carrie can’t tell the agency about her condition or she’d be fired from her high-level security clearance position. She pilfers drugs from her impatient, unsympathetic pharmaceutical rep sister to self-medicate and keep herself even.
By explaining Carrie’s obsessions as at least partly the result of her illness, Homeland cuts the character off at the knees. We’re never sure if her paranoia is justified or chemical, and none of her reactions can be trusted because we don’t know what really fuels her obsession.
Her superiors don’t know Carrie’s medical history; they find her difficult because she breaks rules and resists censure. She is a loose cannon in a carefully regulated world. In fact, Carrie’s vigilantism is one of the least believable aspects of an otherwise smart show. Certainly, an agent who bugged the home of a returning war hero without authorization would be summarily fired. And certainly, an agent who initiated a sexual relationship with that war hero would be denounced. (But then again, indiscretions like these didn’t hamper Jack Bauer, either.)
Instead, Carrie confesses her misdeeds to Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), her father-figure mentor. He scolds her, knits his thick eyebrows together in deep disapproval, and then absolves her, hugging her tightly in understanding parental embraces that free her to go on drawing outside the lines of agency protocol. Saul, you see, is also emotionally haunted. His obvious though unnamed Jewishness—inescapable in any character Patinkin plays—emphasizes his moral ambivalence.
Like Carrie, Saul’s obsession with his job compromises his emotional and domestic life. In fact, his South Asian wife has decided to leave him after 25 years of marriage to return to her family in Delhi because he’s emotionally and physically inaccessible. Their scenes together allow Patinkin to indulge his hang-dog, maudlin side. The producers haven’t quite figured out how to bring more nuances to a character caught between his righteous ambitions and his sincere love for his wife. Their costly commitments to their jobs make Saul and Carrie the show’s real soul-mates.
Damian Lewis performs Sergeant Brody as a time-bomb set to detonate, controlled by unknown forces on an unknown schedule. Brody was isolated for eight years before being rescued by an American SWAT team. Lewis clarifies the force of will required to survive captivity, and never shies from inhabiting Brody’s vulnerabilities. He makes palpable the depth of Brody’s need for connection while he remained in captivity, after he was released from extended solitary confinement and torture.
After sustaining himself by making unimaginable moral choices, Brody returns to a domestic life that’s moved on without him. Brody finds that his wife, Jessica (Morena Baccarin), has been sleeping with his best friend, Mike (Diego Klattenhoff). But after being told that Brody was presumed dead, how long was she supposed to keep her life on hold?
Likewise, Brody’s friend and fellow captive, Sergeant Tom Walker, whom Brody is lead to believe he killed with his bare hands, left behind a wife who’s since remarried. Both couples have kids who barely know their fathers. One of Homeland’s conversations, then, also concerns the place of biological fathers in families that survive without them. The series implicitly asks whether men like Brody have any right to walk back into their patriarchal roles without acknowledging how their domestic spheres have closed around their absences.
Baccarin, as Jessica, plays Brody’s conflicted wife with emotional depth and precision. She’s given little to do—wouldn’t a soldier’s wife have to work for a living when he was presumed dead?—and she mostly reacts to Brody’s presence. But Baccarin communicates the complicated feelings of a woman who has to pick up a marriage that was suspended and presumed ended for eight years. Her struggle to play the dutiful, faithful wife makes Jessica more interesting in Baccarin’s performance than she is in the show’s dialogue.
Homeland’s latest twists (Episode 9) stretch the credulity of an already somewhat confusing story. (I’ve noticed the on-line concern that the show might go the way of The Killing, last season’s atmospheric new series that finally irritated viewers with its cliff-hangers and unlikely plot turns.) But I’ll keep watching to see how Danes continues to bring depth and complexity to one of the more interesting roles for women on series television, and to see how the writers unravel the current host of secrets and complications and set us up for more in season two.
Homeland, Showtime, Sundays, 10 p.m., ET/PT
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EU seals new Covid-19 deal amid global distribution fears
Brussels has already secured, or is negotiating, a stock of nearly two billion doses of potential vaccines (Photo: Sanofi Pasteur)
Brussels, 21. Sep 2020, 07:04
The European Commission announced on Friday (18 September) that it had successfully signed its second contract on behalf of member states with pharmaceutical manufacturers Sanofi and GSK for the supply of at least 300 million doses of its potential Covid-19 vaccine.
The deal between the EU and the French and British firms, who joined forces to develop a vaccine they hope to get approved next year, follows an earlier agreement with the British drugmaker AstraZeneca for up to 400 million doses.
In return for the right to buy the agreed number of vaccine doses in a specific timeframe, the European Commission will finance part of the upfront costs faced by vaccine producers. But the vaccine doses will be finally purchased by EU countries.
The EU executive is also discussing similar agreements with other vaccine manufacturers such as Johnson & Johnson, CureVac, Moderna and BioNTech.
In total, Brussels has already secured, or is negotiating, a stock of nearly two billion doses of potential shots.
Following new outbreaks all across Europe, EU commissioner for health, Stella Kyriakydes, said in a statement that an "effective vaccine is more instrumental than ever to overcome this pandemic and its devastating effects on our economies and societies".
The deal took place on the deadline for joining the World Health Organization's (WHO) vaccine purchase programme - which aims to speed up vaccine development and fairly distribute them to avoid "vaccine nationalism".
With nearly 30 million cases of coronavirus worldwide and more than 937,000 deaths, "vaccines will be a vital tool for bringing the pandemic under control," said the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last week.
So far, 92 low-income nations are involved in the WHO-led programme COVAX, while some 80 higher-income countries have expressed their interest to join. Last month, the US announced that they were not joining a programme "influenced by the corrupt WHO and China".
Rich countries first
In her State of the Union speech, commission president Ursula von der Leyen warned against "vaccine nationalism" saying that it put lives at risk worldwide.
However, a study from the NGO Oxfam shows that a few countries, representing just 13 percent of the world's population, have already bought more than half of the promised doses of five leading Covid-19 vaccine candidates.
These vaccines are being developed by AstraZeneca, Gamaleya/Sputnik, Moderna, Pfizer and Sinovac.
The vaccines candidates, which are in late-stage clinical trials, could supply 5.94 billion doses, enough for nearly three billion of the world's population, according to Oxfam.
But 51 percent of the supplies have been already snapped up by rich countries - namely the US, the European Union, Britain, Australia, Hong Kong & Macau, Japan, Switzerland and Israel.
While the remaining 2.6 billion doses have been bought by or promised to developing countries like India, Bangladesh, China or Brazil, among others.
"The most important thing is to scale up production across the globe as soon as a vaccine is found so that there is enough for everyone - but there must also be a fair way of allocating doses that prioritises those at risk across all countries," Anna Marriott, health policy advisor at Oxfam, told EUobserver.
"Countries in the EU are understandably concerned about securing enough doses for their citizens but until they challenge pharmaceutical monopolies their deals will leave many poorer nations out in the cold," she added.
Meanwhile, members of the European Parliament's committees on environment and industry will hold a hearing on Covid-19 vaccines next week, focusing on adequate clinical trials, speedy manufacturing and commercialisation, and equitable distribution of the vaccines.
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The European Commission has secured at least 300 million doses of AstraZeneca's potential Covid-19 vaccine, as member states seem to be facing the much-feared second wave of the pandemic.
EU health ministers will discuss on Friday plans to have the Commission negotiate with pharmaceutical companies on behalf of EU countries, make advaced payments and secure enough vaccines for Europeans.
The EU Commission plans a vaccine stategy to make sure all citizens have access to it once it is ready, while it is also seeking to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies on securing the vaccine.
Experts are now warning of the "very serious" surge in Covid-19 cases in Europe - where new weekly cases exceede those reported in March. The worst-hit countries are Spain and France - while Italy is resisting the much-feared second wave.
A panel at the World Health Organisation said the antiviral drug remdesivir was 'ineffective' in treating Covid-19. But tens of thousands of doses have already been distributed throughout the EU and a €1bn contract signed with Gilead.
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Honouring Our Mentors
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by Susan McCaslin
From the moment I heard poet Robin Blaser lecture in my first graduate course at Simon Fraser University in 1969, I was drawn like a moth to the strings of a piano, to borrow a metaphor from his well-loved “The Moth Poem”:
The moth in the piano
will play on
frightened wings brush
the wired interior
of that machine
I said, ‘master’[1]
Coming as a callow graduate student from Seattle to SFU at the age of 22, I found that Robin had only been teaching there since 1966. Like me, he had emigrated from the United States, and similarly (though I had no idea then), we both were to become Canadian citizens and remain permanently in Canada.
It was one of the most fortunate days of my life when I walked into Robin’s course on classical backgrounds. Robin was impeccably dressed, with silver hair, aquiline nose, dark brows, and an elegant bearing. He seemed more European than American; yet was, strangely enough, originally from Idaho (though part of the San Francisco poetry Renaissance). I had been reading fairy tales and myths since I was a young child, but he opened ancient myth for me in a radically new way. Robin made it clear that graduate school was not about just credits or jobs, but about soul-making.
For my first graduate seminar I chose to write a paper on Olson’s poem “The Praises.” Putting off my presentation till the very last, I rushed through my reading hurriedly, not once looking up or making eye contact with either instructor or class, struggling through an agony of shortness of breath. Finally, when I finished, a long uncomfortable pause ensued; then a single word floated miraculously on the air from Mr. Blaser’s lips: “Maaahvelous!” I was hooked on Olson, writing, and Blaser’s seminars.
I have to confess, I quickly became a Blaser groupie, or as they were called then, a “Blaserite.” Someone joked we should be called “Blaseriods,” a troop of blazing asteroids. Sometime afterward I summoned the courage to approach the poet’s office, the door of which was always open, and ask if he’d consider being my thesis advisor on Edgar Allan Poe. After finishing my course work, I visited Robin fairly regularly to talk about Poe, Blake, Coleridge, Shelley, and the Romantics. I took a year off grad school to work out some personal difficulties, but returned and finally completed the thesis under Robin’s guidance in 1973. Always ready to meet, never intrusive or controlling, Robin allowed me to flounder a bit and eventually find my own voice.
In later years, even after the self-consciousness of youth wore off, I didn’t look Robin up as much as much as I wished to, partly because my aura of shyness remained. Though he wasn’t at all intimidating, he was so erudite I feared I would betray my relative ignorance or what I felt were great gaps in my knowledge. I had come from a family where I was the only one who ever read much of anything besides the newspaper, and had not attended even a play or symphony growing up. Robin had an encyclopaedic memory and a way of being able to pull together wisdom traditions from many eras and cultures. In comparison, my cultural exposure and word-hoard, though expanding, seemed small.
When consulting the revered man about my thesis, I screwed up the courage to present him from time to time with a few of my early poems. He always took these embryonic efforts seriously and retuned them with detailed commentary, praising one and offering valuable suggestions for another. Though SFU didn’t offer a program in Creative Writing, having Robin for a professor was like getting a two-for-one deal, as he took the poetry just as seriously as the academic papers. Looking back at my raw juvenilia, I marvel at how gently he responded, and how much he shaped me as a writer. Writing was serious business, the process as important, if not more so, than the product, though he was rigorous about insisting on the exact word and line break. He corrected more by example and through the kind of poetry to which he pointed me, than by overt criticism.
I inherited from Robin the sense of poetry as a high calling. Throughout a long teaching career as an English professor at Douglas College, marriage, and raising a child, this sense of poetry as my essential vocation has remained. Because of his influence, at the end of my life I will not ask whether I have succeeded, but whether I have been obedient to my poetic calling.
Once Robin spoke about the importance of honouring one’s teachers in the context of his own early mentors. A teacher who transmits not only the love of his subject but a lifetime of inspiration is an honour to celebrate. If this tribute seems unrelievedly laudatory, it is not because Robin, like all human beings, didn’t have his faults or shadows, but that my slowly awakening interior poet found him unstintingly supportive and nurturing at a crucial stage in my life. The number of his students who went on to become poets themselves is evidence of his ability to transmit creative fire.
Robin has now permanently entered the realms of the great companions” like Dante, Blake, and Shelley; therefore he becomes for me another of the luminous companions as I continue to encounter him through the legacy of his living words where, as he said, the “truth is laughter.”[2]
[1] Robin Blaser, “The Moth Poem” in The Holy Forest, 40.
[2] See Robin’s “The Truth Is Laughter Poems“ interspersed throughout The Holy Forest. A number of them appeared first in the volume Syntax (1983).
Susan McCaslin is a Canadian poet and Faculty Emeritus of Douglas College in Westminster, BC where she taught English and Creative Writing for twenty-three years. She is the author of ten volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Demeter Goes Skydiving (University of Alberta Press, 2011). The latter was a finalist in 2012 for the BC Book Prize (Dorothy Livesay Award) and the first-place winner of the Alberta Book Publishing Award (Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award). Susan has recently published a volume of essays, Arousing the Spirit: Provocative Writings (Wood Lake Books, 2011). She has edited two anthologies and is on the editorial board of Event: the Douglas College Review. She lives in Fort Langley, BC with her husband and an active Australian shepherd. www.susanmccaslin.ca
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Anonymous: Words Work
March 26, 2016 by Ethos Team Leave a comment
Assembly Objective:
Why do our words have a powerful effect? This assembly explores the Bible’s teaching about using words wisely, for good purposes.
Anonymous (Sony, 2011, certificate 12). Click here to buy the DVD online.
James 3:3-5 (New International Version)
Supporting Values Education:
The value of Individual Liberty affirms each person’s right to self-determination, but the values of Democracy, Respect and Tolerance call us to live as part of a community. This assembly encourages pupils to consider how they choose to use their power of speech and how words can be used to build up rather than knock down other people.
OPENING ACTIVITY
Multiplying Words (something to think about)
Download the Communication Words Assembly PowerPoint with this activity.
Play the PowerPoint to demonstrate the proliferation of communication in recent years. The PowerPoint presentation has been set up to automatically move from slide to slide at the right times (there’s a blank slide initially but be careful not to click on the first slide as it will simply bring up the word ‘words’ and not display all the other words on slide 1). We suggest playing the presentation to the accompaniment of Wordy Rappinghood by Tom Tom Club, which is available to buy from Amazon.
The presentation will finish shortly after the tenth slide showing the Bible verse. You will need to fade the soundtrack out at this point.
Famous Writer Slamdown (something to do)
Explain to the students that you want them to help you to pick the greatest writer of all time ever. Choose four writers and arrange in advance for four volunteers (probably members of staff, but you could use students) each to be advocates for one of the writers. Each advocate has one minute to say why their writer deserves to be considered the champion, before the students vote to decide the matter. If you have enough time, you might want to do three votes – two semi-finals and then a final with each surviving advocate getting a further thirty seconds to make their champion’s case – but if not a four-way one-off vote will work fine.
Which four writers you use is up to you: we suggest allowing your advocates to choose a champion who they genuinely feel strongly about. Having said that, the link between this activity and the rest of the assembly will be much stronger if someone advocates for William Shakespeare. We’ve provided some suggestions below, in case you are struggling to find advocates with preferences of their own.
The most performed playwright in the world, he coined numerous figures of speech that have passed into common usage – ‘green-eyed monster’, ‘such stuff as dreams are made of’, ‘a foregone conclusion’, ‘with bated breath’, ‘the long-and-short of it’, and many more. The emotional depth of his characters was unlike anything his contemporaries were capable of, he uniquely mastered comedy, tragedy and historical drama, and he wore a natty little beard. Without William Shakespeare, both the English language and the world of contemporary drama would be unrecognisable today.
Pride and Prejudice is consistently ranked as one of Britain’s favourite novels, and her fans would argue that her understanding of human nature and the foibles of courtship have rarely been matched since.
The leading story-teller of his day, and a leading advocate of social reform through his depiction of poverty and institutionalised social injustice.
The most shop-lifted author in Britain, according to WH Smiths. Pratchett has redefined the world of comic-fantasy writing, with his Discworld series growing in both size and popularity, consistently delivering laughs while also directing satirical treatments of religion, death, the media, authority and much more.
Russell T. Davies
The man who brought Doctor Who back to our television screens, and turned the tide of Saturday evening television away from talent shows and back to edge-of-the-sofa drama. He made family entertainment that actually entertained the whole family.
After the students have chosen their favourite, explain that today’s assembly is going to be concerned with the power of words, and will feature a film clip from a film about William Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Play the clip from Anonymous (Sony, 2011, certificate 12)
Start time: 0.09.38 (beginning of chapter 2 of the DVD)
End time: 0.10.22
Clip length: 44 seconds
The clip starts with Edward (Rhys Ifans) sitting in the umpire’s chair and saying, ‘Er… out. Henry, how many people were at that play?’ It ends with Edward saying ‘out’ in a withering tone of voice.
The clip shows Edward discussing the impact that the play he saw in a previous scene had on the audience. He discusses the relative merits of conventional political means – like an army – and the mobilising powers of drama on the common man.
Download the Communication Anonymous Assembly Talk PowerPoint for use with this presentation.
Scripted Talk
[PowerPoint slide 1]
Words have power, and we underestimate them at our cost.
Not convinced? Think about the adverts we see on television. See how many of you know which companies or products these slogans are used to advertise: [Pause after each slogan and invite the students to suggest the correct answer].
[click] I’m lovin’ it (McDonalds); [click] Because you’re worth it (L’Oreal), [click] Just do it (Nike), [click] Simples (Compare the Market.com).
Words have power. If words didn’t have power, why would advertisers pay so much to the people who come up with those slogans, or pay television companies hundreds of thousands of pounds to play the adverts between shows? Why has politics become more concerned with soundbites that will play well on the television news – ‘We’re all in it together’, ‘Cutting too far too fast’ – and less concerned with the detail of political debate and discussion? Words have the power to carry an argument, to change an opinion and to shape the world.
Here’s a clip from the film Anonymous. The man in the umpire’s chair is Edward De Vere, a nobleman and political schemer in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. He’s also, according to this film, the man who actually wrote the complete works of Shakespeare.
Play the clip from Anonymous:
If you are unable to play the clip, say, ‘In Anonymous, Edward is taken by the effect of a play he saw on the audience and becomes convinced that drama can be used as a powerful political weapon. One of his friends remains unconvinced, and says that he would rather keep his sword.’
Edward realises that drama can change the way people think about the world, meaning that words are the most potent political weapon at his or anyone’s disposal. A sword may kill a man, but words can give life to an idea, and an idea can inspire a revolution.
The Bible tells us just how powerful words can be. This is what the book of James tells us about the power of the tongue:
When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go.
Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. James 3:3-5 (New International Version).
Words, simple little words that we form with our tongue without even thinking about them, have the potential to do amazing things. Whether we’re talking about great writers like William Shakespeare, great politicians like Edward De Vere, or ordinary people like you and me, we all use words every day to negotiate our way through the world. We try to persuade, to entertain, to argue, to correct and to influence with our words.
The challenge for us is to use our words wisely, to use them for good purposes. The Bible passage goes on to point out the enormous potential for harm that we have with our words. [click] How do we make sure that we don’t hurt other people with the things we say? How do we ensure that our communication with others is a positive influence in the world?
Words have power:
Don’t underestimate them.
Think about adverts – which ones can you recognise?
[click] I’m lovin’ it (McDonalds).
[click] Because you’re worth it (L’Oreal).
[click] Just do it (Nike).
[click] Simples (Compare the Market.com).
Words have power,
Why else do people pay for adverts?
Why else do politicians craft soundbites?
Words can change an opinion and shape the world.
Introduce clip from Anonymous:
Umpire is Edward De Vere, nobleman and political schemer.
He also, says the film, wrote the complete works of Shakespeare.
Play the clip:
Edward realises that drama can change the way people think about the world.
Words are the most potent weapon at his disposal.
A sword may kill a man, but words give life to an idea and can inspire a revolution.
The Bible tells us just how powerful words can be:
Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. James 3:3-5, New International Version.
Words have the potential to do great things.
All of us use words everyday to negotiate our way through the world.
Our challenge:
To use our words wisely.
Not to use them to cause harm.
[click] How do we make sure we don’t hurt others with our words?
How do we make our communication a positive influence on the world?
Photo Copyright for Communication Words Assembly PowerPoint: Slide 2 public domain / Slide 3 public domain / Slide 4 vlasta2 / Slide 5 public domain / Slide 6 Warner Bros / Slide 9 Jorge Royan
Photo Copyright for Communication Anonymous Assembly PowerPoint: Slide 2 Reiner Bajo, Columbia TriStar Marketing Group / Slide 3 Thowra_uk / Slide 4 and 5 iStockphoto.com
Dear God, thank you for making us with a desire to communicate with one another. Help us to use our words wisely, building others up rather than breaking them down. Amen.
Have you ever thought about the power of words? How much power do your words have? Who has been helped today by something you said? Who has been hurt? How do you want your words to impact on the world and on the lives of other people? What might you do differently to make that happen?
Wordy Rappinghood by Tom Tom Club, which is available to buy from Amazon, if you are using Opening Activity: Multiplying Words.
Communication Words Assembly PowerPoint.
Communication Anonymous Assembly Talk PowerPoint.
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Wendy’s & Pringles Join Forces For Limited-Edition Baconator Chips
A hamburger in a can? Pringles and Wendy’s have collaborated to make this a reality. Bacon strips and salty crisps lovers, behold the Pringles Baconator, which promises to deliver “a mouth-watering combination of [Wendy’s Baconator] flavors in every bite.” For those unfamiliar with the fan-favorite sandwich at the fast-food franchise, its ingredients consist of half a pound of beef, American cheese, six strips of crispy Applewood smoked bacon, ketchup and mayo.
Pringles Baconator will be available for a limited time in the snack aisle of grocery stores nationwide.
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Wendy’s Announces Baconator Fries
Wendy’s introduced new Baconator Fries today. The new menu item contain a delicious blend of warm cheddar cheese sauce, freshly-cooked Applewood smoked bacon and shredded cheddar cheese drizzled over Wendy’s natural-cut fries. The suggested price for the bacon fries is $1.99.
Wendy’s will showcase the way bacon should be made on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter through a video series that will launch on July 6. These tongue-in-cheek “after-school” special videos tap into 90s nostalgia trends, entitled Bacon: Scared Straight. The videos will feature bacon puppets voiced over by decorated cartoon actor Billy West, one of the lead voice actors for the show Futurama and the talent behind other memorable characters like Woody the Woodpecker, Ren & Stempy and Doug Funny. Through these farcical videos, “at-risk” bacon teens will be warned of bacon-related dangers that might prevent them from becoming Baconator worthy.
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Wendys To Introduce New Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger On July 4, 2013
Wendy’s Co. The Dublin-based fast-food chain expects to be serving its highly anticipated Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger ($4.69 ) nationwide by July 4, 2013.
It will be offered all summer long.
The limited-time offer, which has been in the works for more than a year, is Wendy’s highest-testing burger to come through its product development pipeline since it recommitted to its development efforts in the last several years.
Described as a pub-style cheeseburger, the key feature is (obviously) the pretzel bun, made using the same process used to make soft pretzels. Other ingredients include a nine-green spring mix, red onion and tomatoes, both a warm cheddar cheese sauce and a slice of cheddar cheese, a sweet and smoky honey mustard sauce and thick, applewood-smoked bacon all on a quarter-pound burger.
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Due to repeated continental and alpine glaciations, many of the volcanic deposits in the belt reflect complex interactions between magma composition, topography, and changing ice configurations.
The most recent major catastrophic eruption in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt was an explosive eruption of the Mount Meager massif about 2, years ago.
It was similar to the eruption of Mount St. These volcanoes were formed 8 to 1 million years ago, and the Nazko Cone last erupted only 7, years ago.
These volcanoes are thought to have formed as a result of the North American Plate sliding westward over a small hotspot , called the Anahim hotspot.
Eruptions of basaltic to rhyolitic volcanoes and hypabyssal rocks of the Alert Bay Volcanic Belt in northern Vancouver Island are probably linked with the subducted margin flanked by the Explorer and Juan de Fuca Plates at the Cascadia subduction zone.
It appears to have been active during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. However, no Holocene eruptions are known, and volcanic activity in the belt has likely ceased.
It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Okhotsk Sea to the west. Almost all types of volcanic activity are present, from stratovolcanoes and shield volcanoes to Hawaiian-style fissure eruptions.
Over 30 active volcanoes and hundreds of dormant and extinct volcanoes are in two major volcanic belts.
The most recent activity takes place in the eastern belt, [52] starting in the north at the Shiveluch volcanic complex, which lies at the junction of the Aleutian and Kamchatka volcanic arcs.
Just to the south is the famous Klyuchi volcanic group, comprising the twin volcanic cones of Kliuchevskoi and Kamen , the huge volcanic complexes of Tolbachik and Ushkovsky , and a number of other large stratovolcanoes.
The only active volcano in the central belt is found west of here, the huge remote Ichinsky. Farther south, the eastern belt continues to the southern slope of Kamchatka, topped by loads of stratovolcanoes , continuing onto the Kuril Islands with about 40 active volcanoes, and south into Japan.
As many as 1, earthquakes are recorded yearly, and magnitudes of 4 to 6 are not uncommon. Minor tremors occur almost daily in one part of the country or another, causing some slight shaking of buildings.
On March 11, a magnitude 9. Mount Bandai , one of Japan's most noted volcanoes, rises above the north shore of Lake Inawashiro. Mount Bandai is formed of several overlapping stratovolcanoes, the largest of which is O-Bandai forming a complex volcano.
O-Bandai volcano was constructed within a horseshoe-shaped caldera that formed about 40, years when an earlier volcano collapsed, forming the Okinajima debris avalanche, which traveled to the southwest and was accompanied by a plinian eruption.
Four major phreatic eruptions have occurred during the past 5, years, two of them in historical time, in and Seen from the south, Bandai presents a conical profile, but much of the north side of the volcano is missing as a result of the collapse of Ko-Bandai volcano during the eruption, in which a debris avalanche buried several villages and formed several large lakes.
In July , the north flank of Mount Bandai collapsed during an eruption quite similar to the May 18, , eruption of Mount St. After a week of seismic activity, a large earthquake on July 15, , was followed by a tremendous noise and a large explosion.
Eyewitnesses heard about 15 to 20 additional explosions and observed that the last one was projected almost horizontally to the north.
Mount Fuji is Japan's highest and most noted volcano, featuring heavily in Japanese culture and serving as one of the country's most popular landmarks.
The modern postglacial stratovolcano is constructed above a group of overlapping volcanoes, remnants of which form irregularities on Fuji's profile.
Growth of the younger Mount Fuji began with a period of voluminous lava flows from 11, to 8, years ago, accounting for four-fifths of the volume of the younger Mount Fuji.
Minor explosive eruptions dominated activity from 8, to 4, years ago, with another period of major lava flows occurring from 4, to 3, years ago.
Subsequently, intermittent major explosive eruptions occurred, with subordinate lava flows and small pyroclastic flows. Summit eruptions dominated from 3, to 2, years ago, after which flank vents were active.
The extensive basaltic lava flows from the summit and some of the more than flank cones and vents blocked drainage against the Tertiary Misaka Mountains on the north side of the volcano, forming the Fuji Five Lakes and the volcanic rock which the Aokigahara forest has grown on.
The last eruption of this dominantly basaltic volcano in ejected andesitic pumice and formed a large new crater on the east flank.
Some minor volcanic activity may occur in the next few years. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo is the world's second-largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century.
Successful predictions of the onset of the climactic eruption led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from the surrounding areas, saving many lives, but as the surrounding areas were severely damaged by pyroclastic flows, ash deposits, and later, lahars caused by rainwater remobilising earlier volcanic deposits, thousands of houses were destroyed.
Mayon Volcano is the Philippines' most active volcano. The historical eruptions of this basaltic-andesitic volcano date back to and range from Strombolian to basaltic Plinian eruptions.
Eruptions occur predominately from the central conduit and have also produced lava flows that travel far down the flanks. Pyroclastic flows and mudflows have commonly swept down many of the roughly 40 ravines that radiate from the summit and have often devastated populated lowland areas.
Taal Volcano has had 33 recorded eruptions since A devastating eruption occurred in , which claimed more than a thousand lives. The deposits of that eruption consist of a yellowish, fairly decomposed nonjuvenile tephra with a high sulfur content.
The most recent period of activity lasted from to , and was characterized by the interaction of magma with the lake water, which produced violent phreatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions.
Although the volcano has been dormant since , it has shown signs of unrest since , with strong seismic activity and ground-fracturing events, as well as the formation of small mud geysers on parts of the island.
Kanlaon Volcano , the most active volcano in the central Philippines, has erupted 25 times since Eruptions are typically phreatic explosions of small-to-moderate size that produce minor ash falls near the volcano.
On August 10, , Kanlaon erupted without warning, killing British student Julian Green and Filipinos Noel Tragico and Neil Perez, who were among 24 mountain climbers who were trapped near the summit.
The volcanoes in Indonesia are among the most active of the Pacific Ring of Fire. They are formed due to subduction zones of three main active tectonic plates, namely the Eurasian Plate , Pacific Plate, and Indo-Australian Plate.
The most active volcanoes are Kelud and Mount Merapi on Java island, which have been responsible for thousands of deaths in the region. Since AD , Kelud has erupted more than 30 times, of which the largest eruption was at scale 5 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index , while Merapi has erupted more than 80 times.
The International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior has named Merapi as a Decade Volcano since because of its high volcanic activity.
Another active volcano is Sinabung , which has been erupting since New Zealand contains the world's strongest concentration of youthful rhyolitic volcanoes, and voluminous sheets blanket much of the North Island.
Much of the region north of New Zealand's North Island is made up of seamounts and small islands, including 16 submarine volcanoes.
In the last 1. Mount Ruapehu , at the southern end of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, is one of the most active volcanoes. In recorded history, major eruptions have been about 50 years apart, [57] in , , and — Minor eruptions are frequent, with at least 60 since Some of the minor eruptions in the s generated small ash falls and lahars that damaged ski fields.
Major eruptions may completely expel the lake water. Where a major eruption has deposited a tephra dam across the lake's outlet, the dam may collapse after the lake has refilled and risen above the level of its normal outlet, the outrush of water causing a large lahar.
The most notable lahar caused the Tangiwai disaster on December 24, , when people aboard a Wellington to Auckland express train were killed after the lahar destroyed the Tangiwai rail bridge just moments before the train was due.
In , the ERLAWS system was installed on the mountain to detect such a collapse and alert the relevant authorities. The Auckland volcanic field on the North Island of New Zealand has produced a diverse array of explosive craters, scoria cones, and lava flows.
Currently dormant , the field is likely to erupt again with the next "hundreds to thousands of years", a very short timeframe in geologic terms.
The Pacific Ring of Fire is completed in the south by the continent of Antarctica , [60] [61] [ unreliable source ] which includes many large volcanoes.
The makeup and structure of the volcanoes in Antarctica change largely from the other places around the ring. In contrast, the Antarctic Plate is almost completely surrounded by extensional zones, with several mid-ocean ridges that encircle it, with only a small subduction zone at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula , reaching eastward to the remote South Sandwich Islands.
At the opposite side of the continent, the volcanoes of Victoria Land may be seen as the 'other end' of the Antarctandes, thus completing the Pacific Ring of Fire and continuing up through the Balleny Islands to New Zealand.
Mount Erebus is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica after Mount Sidley and the southernmost active volcano on earth. It is the sixth-highest ultra mountain on an island.
The volcano has been observed to be continuously active [62] since and is the site of the Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory, run by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
The volcanoes of the Victoria Land area are the most well known in Antarctica, [61] [ unreliable source ] most likely because they are the most accessible.
Much of Victoria Land is mountainous, developing the eastern section of the Transantarctic Mountains , and the several scattered volcanoes include Mount Overlord and Mount Melbourne in the northern part.
The volcanism in this area is caused by rifting along a number of rift zones increasing mainly north-south similar to the coast.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Ring of Fire disambiguation. Area of high earthquake and volcanic activity, also the circum-Pacific belt.
Further information: Andean Volcanic Belt. Main article: List of volcanoes in Bolivia. Main articles: List of volcanoes in Chile and Volcanism of Chile.
Main article: List of volcanoes in Ecuador. Main article: List of volcanoes in Peru. Main article: List of volcanoes in Costa Rica.
Main article: List of volcanoes in Guatemala. Main article: List of volcanoes in Mexico. Main article: List of volcanoes in the United States.
See also: Volcanism in Canada. Main article: List of volcanoes in Russia. Main article: List of volcanoes in Japan.
Main article: List of volcanoes in the Philippines. See also: List of volcanoes in Indonesia and Volcanology of Java. Main article: List of volcanoes in Antarctica.
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Avocado is a highly nutritious and universal fruit that thrives in both temperate and sub-tropical zones in the world. Grown in Kenya and South Africa, African avocados have a soft, creamy texture and a mild, exquisite flavour. With an average total oil content of between 16% to 21%, the fruit is an internal lubricator and is good for healing ulcers. It is high in lecithin, which is a natural “brain food” and a readily digested fat.
Avocados are generally pear-shaped, but depending on the variety, avocados can be as round as an apple, or as oblong as a cucumber. They have a delicate skin that is generally green, but can span a wide range in terms of colour and texture. Beneath the skin lies the flesh, which is pale green and creamy, and the flesh in turn, surrounds the large inedible core of the fruit.
Avocados are best stored at room temperature, and consumed soon after they are cut. When avocados are cut open, the process of oxidation begins, which is why the exposed flesh turns brown. To store a cut avocado, leave the pit inside and brush a mild acid like lemon or lime juice on the flesh, and then wrap tightly with a food wrap like clingfilm.
The main varieties of avocado grown in Africa are the following:
Hass:-The origin of the Hass avocado is thought to be Californian, and although its' exact size depends on where it is grown, it has an average length of four inches, and possesses a dark, and almost black skin. Inside, its' flesh is pale green and creamy, with a nutty flavour that pairs well with the strong flavour of onions or fragrant herbs.
Fuerte: This is a hybrid variety grown in Kenya, although it is thought to have originated in the Mexican state of Puebla. The name Fuerte, which means strong in Spanish does not refer to the flavour of the fruit, which is quite mild, compared to the Hass avocado. However it is believed the avocado earned the name Fuerte, after surviving a rather terrible Californian frost during the winter of 1911. The Fuerte avocado has a green-textured skin, and on average is about five inches long.
Nabal: The Nabal avocado is a large, spherical avocado with a smooth skin that is dark green with bright green flecks on it. The large stone inside is surrounded by yellow flesh. The Nabal avocado has a very delicate flavour, which lends itself best to being savoured on its own, on a dark granary toast with nothing more than a sprinkling of sea salt.
Puebla: The Puebla avocado is another very green variety that is grown in Kenya. It has a thin, purple-like skin, with a flavour that is quite nutty and earthy, which makes it the perfect ingredient for a dip, or a sauce.
The main season for Kenyan and South African avocados is March to September with the Fuerte variety available from mid-March and the Hass variety being available from June through to September.
Avocado Recipes:
Avocado & Fig Breakfast Bruschetta
Millet & Avocado Salad Bowl
Egyptian Chickpea & Avocado Salad
Berbere-Spiced Chocolate Avocado Pudding
Black-eyed Peas & Sweet Corn Salsa
Spinach & Avocado Dip
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African Avocado Salad (Saladi Ya Parachichi)
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MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Increased funding needed for Cavan-Monaghan as part of a comprehensive national and long-term response to domestic abuse – Pauline Tully TD
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26 November, 2020 – by Pauline Tully TD
Sinn Féin Cavan-Monaghan TD, Pauline Tully, has highlighted the need for a comprehensive national and long-term response to the tackle the enormous everyday problem of domestic abuse.
Commenting on a recently published Safe Ireland report – Tracking the Shadow Pandemic, which traces the prevalence of domestic abuse and coercive control during the lockdown months from March to August, Teachta Tully said:
“Safe Ireland, working with 39 front-line services, have recently presented a bleak report on the prevalence of domestic abuse and coercive control during the lockdown.
“The figures in the report are stark.
“Over the six-month period, 3,450 women and 589 children contacted a domestic violence service for the first time. Almost 34,000 helpline calls were answered, which is an average of 184 a day.
“During this period 1,351 requests for refuge could not be met.
“Although service providers worked tirelessly to find accommodation in the community, one of the main reasons many women do not leave an abusive relationship is the shortage of available and affordable accommodation that could rehouse victims of abuse at short notice.
“According to the Council of Europe, it is recommended there should be one refuge place per 10,000 people, meaning there should be 446 refuge places in Ireland, whereas there are only 143 currently, and even fewer due to Covid.
“This is simply not good enough and it must be addressed as a matter of priority by the Government. Otherwise, the number of women who suffer domestic abuse will continue to rise.
“It should also be noted that not everybody in an abusive situation requires a refuge, but they need options to live free from a violent partner.
“Housing is the key requirement that needs to be made available to those fleeing domestic abuse.
“One in four women become homeless as a result of domestic abuse.
“In my constituency of Cavan-Monaghan, there is a severe lack of emergency accommodation available to at-risk women.
“Although it is a large rural constituency, it does not have a single refuge and there are only three staff employed to assist vulnerable women across the two counties.
“Undoubtedly, it is one of the worst funded areas for domestic violence supports, a situation that cannot be allowed to continue.
“I commend the service provided by Tearmann Domestic Violence Services, which is excellent in the support it gives. However, like all domestic violence services, it is at its wits’ end dealing with the level of contacts it is receiving.
“Safe Ireland has consistently looked for a resourced national service development plan to be led by Safe Ireland in consultation with front-line services such as Tearmann.
“This service development plan would be the start of a comprehensive national and long-term response to the enormous everyday problem of domestic abuse and coercive control.”
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GIFF wraps another edition filled with unforgettable moments
The twenty-second edition of GIFF was a success in its two locations. We enjoyed the best of world cinema with a large Official Selection with national and international feature films and short films of the highest quality in genres such as documentary, experimental cinema, animation and fiction. 223 films screened and 120 of them in competition, from 47 countries, showed that Guanajuato is the quintessential home of film culture in our country
We also celebrated 100 years of Filipino cinema with a careful selection of the best of cinema in this Asian country. We celebrated classical and contemporary filmmakers who have shaped the cultural identity of their nation and continue to be a source of inspiration for emerging Filipino filmmakers.
We highlight the presence of the great Filipino filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik. Recognized by his peers as the patriarch of Filipino independent cinema, this prominent auteur received an international tribute and shared his experiences in a pleasant talk that enriched the cultural heritage of all who attended.
Among those from our country, legendary Mexican actor José Carlos Ruiz received a well-deserved tribute to his outstanding career. A professional of his trade that has earned the recognition and affection of the audience through rigor, discipline, perseverance and intelligence, always making clear that he’s driven by his passion for cinema to continue working to the end of his days.
The Women in Film and Television organization recognized the contributions of Mexican actress Queta Lavat and the remarkable career of negatives restorer Guadalupe Ramírez, who with her work has exalted our national film industry.
All of them received the UNAM Film Library Medal, made with the silver nitrate of the films they have helped forge, and which is given to the most important personalities of world cinema.
In San Miguel de Allende, renowned American director Gus Van Sant received the Silver Cross in honor of a career that has created an unmistakable style focused on eccentric characters and worlds formed with great mastery. He also offered a Master Class in which he reviewed his career and took a look at his creative process.
In Guanajuato, the great filmmaker Terry Gilliam also received an international tribute for his remarkable career, which has raised freedom and creative imagination as banners. His cinema, as opposed to all kinds of conventions, expands the limits of our reality through art and forms a mold for all the dissatisfied people of this world. At his Master Class, Terry Gilliam called for the use of imagination and humor to travel through life and oppose a materialistic reality that can often be oppressive – values to which his magnificent films are undoubtedly attached.
The Music + Cinema concerts made us dance, giving a joyful touch to this international film festival. In addition to offering a space to strengthen important creative and labor ties, GIFF offered spaces for reflection with conferences, special presentations for all types of audiences, workshops, courses and a wide variety of events that gave rise to the concerns of art enthusiasts. that – among many other things – include industry and technology.
The Identity and Belonging contest celebrated a decade of telling the stories that young people from Guanajuato live. In this edition of the festival was made up of El Llano, Faroles, León es como lo pintan, Mi herencia, Pólvora and Toci. The young university students showed an enormous capacity and talent to tell the stories that belong to us all. Their efforts are an example and a note of hope for the country’s culture.
The XI University Rally featured 6 teams from 6 different states of Mexico. From an exhaustive preparation over months, the filmmakers filmed their short films for 48 hours using unique location offered by a Human Heritage city as a backdrop for their stories.
The range of experiences and emotions that GIFF XXII inspires in all who participate in it is incalculable and from now on it will be part of our lives and our memories. It is for all this and much more that the Guanajuato International Film Festival thanks our sponsors, guests, organizers, participants and the general public, who made this new edition a celebration of the best that Guanajuato has to offer in the beautiful streets and screens of these two World Heritage cities. Más Cine Por Favor!
TERRY GILLIAM TAKES GUANAJUATO
The Richter Scale: To Live To Sing + Yesterday
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Just Cause 3 Studio Avalanche is Teaming Up With the Team From Final Fantasy on an Unnamed Project
Via Square Enix NA
CEO of Avalanche Studios, Christofer Sundberg, sent this video message to PAX in order to announce a collaboration between his team and the team working on Final Fantasy XV. The collaboration is in such early stages that he had no further information to share.
Final Fantasy XV Will Probably Release Next Year
Via Gamespot
After a very long development cycle, it seems like gamers will finally get to play Final Fantasy XV.
The game, originally developed under the title Final Fantasy Versus XII first saw the light of day when Square Enix showed it off at E3 in 2006.
But don't worry Final Fantasy fans, Director Hajime Tabata gave a prospective release window for the game that's not terribly far away.
He confirmed with Gamespot that it will come in 2016.
"I understand why people are feeling that way after coming to Cologne and speaking to a lot of the media," he said. "We really do get the feeling that people are a bit worried. Certainly, one thing I would like to say to them to reassure them, is that we've set down the release date, we know when it is, and we've got a complete road map lined up, right up to launch, and we're proceeding along that as planned."
Then, Tabata dropped the best indication of the Final Fantasy XV release date yet: "We can certainly say to people: it's not going to be 2017. It's going to be before that."
As Tabata said, not a lot of other announcement have come out of Gamescom 2015 about the game. However, we did learn a lot about the backstory that drives the game (and the backstory of the dude who drives the car).
All the Highlights From Square-Enix's E3 Conference
Square-Enix had its strongest showing in years with gameplay from beloved titles like Kingdom Hearts and Deus Ex, and a cheer-worthy reveal of an HD remake of Final Fantasy VII.
Square-Enix Teases a New Nier
Via MKIceAndFire
Check Out Square Enix's Newly Announced "Figure Heads"
Via Square Enix
Figure Heads is a new online 5 v 5 shooter from Square Enix coming exclusively to PC. There are very few details about the game, but it looks to feature all the important stuff: cute anime babes and cool robots.
figure heads
Square Enix Gives Us a Preview of the Most Realistic Graphics Ever Used
Via GamersPrey HD
Dude. Duuuuuuude...
... whoa.
The Latest Humble Bundle is Full of Square Enix Games
Via Humble Bundle
Currently, the bundle includes:
Hitman Go
Pay more than the average for:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Directors Cut
Pay more than $15 for:
Humble's Got a Square Enix Bundle
Square Enix Registers Just Cause 3 Domain
Via @supererogatory
Don't Worry, You Can Choose Subbed or Dubbed for Bravely Default
Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Gets a Release Date (in Japan)
Sorry North America, we're still out of luck, but if you're lucky enough to live in Japan, Final Fantasy X & X-2 HD will be available December 26, 2013.
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