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Norman Borlaug’s 1970 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Warning Us About The Urgent Need For Population Limitation
By Donald A. Collins | 23 April 2020
(Screenshot via PBS)
Ah, today is Earth Day. I note that fact seems very slightly celebrated in the mass media so far, with little context given as to its importance. You can refresh your memory here.
Yesterday, on April 21st WETA TV here in Washington, DC ran the PBS documentary program about miracle wheat innovator Norman Borlaug, “the man who tried to feed the world” with his Green Revolution that began in the 1960’s.
This riveting tv history reminded us that he tried and briefly succeeded in his goal, but at costs that plague us today.
At his brief Nobel Prize award speech in Oslo on December 10, 1970, when in part he gave the world this warning:
It is true that the tide of the battle against hunger has changed for the better during the past three years. But tides have a way of flowing and then ebbing again.
We may be at high tide now, but ebb tide could soon set in if we become complacent and relax our efforts. For we are dealing with two opposing forces, the scientific power of food production and the biologic power of human reproduction.
Man has made amazing progress recently in his potential mastery of these two contending powers. Science, invention, and technology have given him materials and methods for increasing his food supplies substantially and sometimes spectacularly, as I hope to prove tomorrow in my first address as a newly decorated and dedicated Nobel Laureate. Man also has acquired the means to reduce the rate of human reproduction effectively and humanely. He is using his powers for increasing the rate and amount of food production. But he is not yet using adequately his potential for decreasing the rate of human reproduction. The result is that the rate of population increase exceeds the rate of increase in food production in some areas.
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. Fighting alone, they may win temporary skirmishes, but united they can win a decisive and lasting victory to provide food and other amenities of a progressive civilization for the benefit of all mankind.
For his work fighting world hunger, Norman Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — but his methods drew criticism.
Tune in or Stream THE MAN WHO TRIED TO FEED THE WORLD Tue Apr 21 at 8/7c #FeedTheWorldFilmPBS → https://t.co/YJquEns9t6 pic.twitter.com/Z1BZGhCB5O
— American Experience (@AmExperiencePBS) April 16, 2020
You can read his entire speech here.
In 1970, humans worldwide numbered 3.7 billion and over 200 million in the USA, up from 2 billion in the world and 125 million in the USA when I was born in 1931.
In 1970, I was the population program staffer for a rich lady who with her sizable charitable funds urged me seek out and find aggressive family planning grantees! For that reason, I also grew to know the many enemies of population limitation!
Those NGOs I identified for family planning grants knew then that limits had to come, either gently or harshly. One key leader I met who became a close friend and colleague, Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt, the former the Director of the Office of Population at USAID never doubted the need for population limits as did his strong political advocate and protector, General William Draper Sr. a friend of Ike’s as well as to many other key leaders. Draper who I also got to know and admire very well, died too soon in the mid 1970’s. Bill’s passing lead to Rei being ousted by the usual suspects! Before that however, Rei and I helped start Ipas, IFRP now FHI360, and several other family planning entities. At his memorable 1976 speech at a conference on adolescent fertility at Airlie House, Rei brought along a key chart showing the dangerous trend in population growth.
Rei favored abortion choice and I helped him and others fund abortion clinics throughout the USA and the world. His liberal view of choice no doubt amassed the political pressure that forced him out too early. Not however before we got Battelle Institute’s early, safe menstrual regulation abortion kits funded by starting Ipas in 1971!!! I was Ipas’s first Chair and President until 1985.
The loss of the leadership of heroes like Rei and Bill Draper Sr was severe but many others I worked with were among those who understood the population crisis and continued to believe in tackling the long-term disaster inevitable in their predictions.
Together these NGOs worked hard at promoting access to birth control, an effort attacked by religious groups here and overseas. Some liberals who favored family planning mistakenly thought development and the move of vast numbers of poor farmers to what, thanks in part to Borlaug’s green revolution, became mega cites would solve the over population problem. They could not have been more wrong.
Turns out that Borlaug’s green revolution required vast changes in his miracle wheat’s production. New cultivation machinery and vast new acres of previously unused land plus more water and powerful fertilizers were needed to achieve the increases!
Borlaug’s method for increasing food production dramatically resulted in the creation of big agriculture combines, whose automated farming with big machines cut the need for labor. This drove millions of poor small farmers worldwide into urban slums where the extolling of religious leaders against family planning or at least no urging by them to their poor parishioners to embrace birth control caused 1970 population levels to reach nearly 7 billion by 1994.
All these bad effects were well in effect when my 10 colleagues and I under the leadership of Werner Fornos, President of the Population Institute attended the UN Conference on Population and Environment in Cairo in 1994.
There in Cairo we were faced with opposition to birth control that Dr. Madeline Weld subsequently brilliantly documented in her 2012 paper. Here in part is what she and other authors wrote in an April 2012 paper published by Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics.
It has become an unwritten rule of political correctness that in order to criticize people or their ideology one must share a biological characteristic of the people being criticized. The inherent racism or sexism of this assumption is lost on those who insist upon it. Nevertheless, the rule, in all of its absurdity, persists. Good arguments are routinely dismissed not on their merits, but by the fact that they are waged by someone thought to be racially or sexually disqualified to comment on the issue. (This cannot apply here, for Madeline Weld, President of the Population Institute of Canada, is a woman, and she reproaches the fem-left for its collusion in the crippling of the Programme of Action as set out by the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo 16 years ago.)
Let me interrupt this Weld quote by noting again that in Cairo for that historic 1994 UN conference — 26 years ago — the thrust for no population control attention came of course from the top officials from the Vatican who kept my friend and FHI360 fellow board member, the chief meeting presiding Chair, Dr Fred Sai, occupied for a couple of days over their opposition to family planning and abortion. These articulate Vatican representatives had obtained front row seating as delegates along with the invited large sovereign country delegates so they could easily publicly and in side bar interludes could fully argue their case, a privilege which no other religion got.
But worse and largely unreported was the strong push by the don’t talk about the numbers because development will solve the problem crowd lead by an avid feminist with strong NYC foundation connections, Joan Dunlap, the leader of a vocal group of anti-population limitation women. She had been John D. Rockefeller III’s assistant until his death in 1973. Dunlop’s views on abortion choice and the need to reduce births with family planning, which I gleaned from several personal one on one private meetings, was contrary to mine to say the least.
To resume the Weld Ethics paper quote:
The Cairo conference and its Programme of Action were steeped in the same taboo of the feminist and social justice left that has, for the last several decades, snuffed out any serious public discussion about population growth, which had been so much a part of the early days of the environmental movement. This attitude in fact made them strange bedfellows of the Vatican and other religious interests at the Cairo conference. While not explicitly stated in the Programme of Action, it was implicitly understood that anything remotely resembling demographic targets was racist, anti-woman, anti-poor, and flirting with eugenics.
Putting the Development Cart before the Population Horse
With the ‘P’ sidelined by ICPD’s refusal to countenance population control, the emphasis for a path out of poverty fell on the ‘D.’ It was assumed that development would lead to a reduction in population growth. Poverty would be eradicated ‘through sustained economic growth in the context of sustainable development.’ The Programme of Action implicitly assumed that the Earth would support this sustained economic growth along with the rapid population growth that was inevitably going to occur for some time. Population growth would be slowed through ‘education, especially for girls; gender equity and equality; infant, child, and maternal mortality reduction; universal access to reproductive health services, including family planning and sexual health’ (UNFPA 1995a, Preamble, paragraph 1.12).
The wishful thinking that the indirect effects of development alone can overcome the problems created by rampant population growth is based on the belief in a silver bullet known as demographic transition. The idea is that parents have fewer children when they see that those they have are likely to survive, and, at the same time, with increasing rural to urban migration, they realize that children cost money rather than provide free labour. The trouble with the demographic transition theory is that it is treated like a law of physics when in fact it is only one of many possibilities. A major problem is the slowness at which it kicks in. The lag time between the child mortality rate falling and the desired family size also dropping can be very long indeed. In western and middle sub-Saharan Africa, the desired family size is still 6 children.
I strongly suggest you read this entire powerful indictment document here.
No real surprise that serious diseases as SARS or Ebola, or now Coronavirus begin in such crowded, often poor places. This is exactly what many people concerned with the proliferation of human numbers have been predicting for decades.
Borlaug’s wise advice should continue to challenge us into urgent action to insure birth control supplies and early access for young women to education.
Unfortunately, this urgent call has yet seemingly been unheard by the “sustainable growth” crowd which includes businesses large and small pontificated over with great big salty tears, but no repentance, symbolized on this past Easter Sunday by the lone figure of Pope Paul as he walked through those mostly empty ornate Vatican spaces!
Yes, Folks, we are there at planetary limits of which Global Warming is but a part.
With this Coronavirus crisis the public is fortunate to have such credible voices such Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx stating the need for more tests so we have the data we need to gainsay the extent of the pandemic. Presumably opening our world economy fully will take more time than is being forecasted by most political leaders.
The true irony is the fact that we are more than THERE in terms of acceptable human numbers. The world will have 8 billion people by 2025 and the US population is now 329 million plus some 12 million here illegally.
That means we are way beyond any relatively easy fixes such as could have happened had we harkened Dr. Borlaug’s advice at his Nobel speech in 1970.
Humans now number nearly 8 billion with experts predicting 10 billion by 2050. The fragility of so many people is demonstrated dramatically by the never before worldwide phenomenon of the COVID/-19 pandemic. While interrupting all our lives and already punishing so many with painful deaths, Covid-19 will doubtless, before it runs its course, deeply affect the businesses and employment of all of us survivors here in rich USA and likely a higher percentage around the planet.
Yet still there I have not heard of any major world leader recognizing that these dire circumstances are population growth related, as in 1970 Borlaug predicted they surely would be.
Where is the fervent call for all of us to understand that the reduction our human numbers is based on the now urgently irrefutable fact that endless growth on a limited planet is the path to massive suicide for all living creatures and all living things over our entire precious orb! As noted earlier, the widely touted dangers of global warming can be related directly to our human impact on our environment.
“You can’t build peace on empty stomachs.” Norman Borlaug, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane Goodall @ Population Matters Conference 2019
Final Warning Limits to Growth
The Threat of Overpopulation
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Working from home due to COVID-19? You likely qualify for a brand new tax deduction of up to $400
Next year’s tax filing season just got a little less complicated for Canadians who found themselves working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
One of the many announcements in Monday’s fiscal update was a work-from-home personal tax deduction of up to $ 400 for employees who have incurred “modest expenses” in 2020 due to remote working.
Here’s how that works, who it will benefit, and what else you need to know before next year’s tax season.
To qualify
To qualify for the $ 400 deduction, you must have been working from home because of COVID-19, said Josée Cabral, a senior tax expert with H&R Block. This means the deduction won’t apply if you were already working from home when the pandemic hit, or if you were working from home for reasons other than the pandemic.
As well, the deduction is up to $ 400, depending on the amount of time you worked from home, she added.
This is the biggest announcement in the fiscal update from a personal tax point of view, said Cabral, noting that more details are expected in the coming weeks about the deduction.
Cabral said the word “reasonable” will be key when claiming work expenses — not only do you have to make sure you’re claiming eligible expenses like internet, you need to consider what percentage of each expense you can claim.
No receipts
Janet Gray, an Ottawa-based certified financial planner with national firm Money Coaches Canada, said the $ 400 deduction will significantly streamline the tax season for both accountants and their clients — it doesn’t require receipts or proof of expenses, nor does it require the T2200 form from your employer.
Gray said it’s important to note that a tax deduction is not the same as a credit: a deduction reduces your taxable income, in this case by up to $ 400, while a credit reduces the actual tax you owe.
This could drop you into a lower tax bracket, she added, which would have an impact on your tax rate.
Brian Quinlan, partner at Campbell Lawless LLP, said the deduction is likely meant to make the tax process easier for anyone with minimal work-from-home costs, as well as for the government.
Those with higher costs will need to make sure their employer completes a T2200 form, he said, which does require receipts or other proof of expenses.
Prepare to pay
Quinlan cautioned that anyone who has received a COVID-19 benefit this year, be it the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) or one of the three temporary benefits, needs to prepare for a bigger tax bill than usual. CERB wasn’t taxed at the source, so you’ll owe tax on that, and the emergency benefits are only taxed 10 per cent at the source, so if your tax rate is higher than 10 per cent, you’ll still owe more on those benefits as well.
If you received the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) and your total income (minus the CRB) is more than $ 38,000, you’ll have to pay 50 cents of each CRB dollar back for every dollar of income over that limit.
Monday’s update also included an almost 20-per-cent bump to the Canada Child Benefit, which will provide up to $ 1,200 for every child younger than six, beginning next year. It also announced an expansion to the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive for buyers in Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria. As well, the government plans to offer grants of up to $ 5,000 for homeowners making energy-efficient improvements to their homes, with eligibility retroactive to Dec. 1, 2020.
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World’s first SD855 smartphone benchmarks kill the competition
When Qualcomm announced the new Snapdragon 855 last month, they promised that the new 7nm chip would be significantly more powerful than the Snapdragon 845 and would also give Huawei’s Kirin 980 and Apple A12 a run for their money. While it’s easy to get excited about claims like that, we’ve been waiting for some real-world numbers to back them up. Thanks to today’s unveiling of the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT which is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC, we can now get a better look at howmuch more powerful Qualcomm’s new chip actually is. During the Z Pro GT’s unveiling, Lenovo shared some numbers, revealing that the phone managed to score a mind-boggling 368,480 points onAntutu. When compared to the Antutu benchmark numbers of the iPhone XS, the Lenovo Z Pro GT has a 3-5% performance advantage. But that gap grows to 20% when matched up against devices running the Kirin 980 and there’s an astounding 25% gap when you look at devices running the Snapdragon 845. To be fair, the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT’s Antutu benchmark numbers area little skewed since the benchmarked device was equipped with 12GB of RAM. By removing the RAM “advantage” that the phone has over its competitors, Antutubelieves that the phone would still manage a score in the 360,000 point range. Even with this drop, the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT is still the most powerful smartphone to be benchmarked by Antutu and should give us a good baseline for how other Android smartphones running the Snapdragon 855 should perform. For those who don’t know, a leaked Antutu benchmark score for the upcoming Samsung GalaxyS10 surfaced recently with a score of 343,051. Since the device isn’t expected to make its debut for at least two more months, those scores couldeasily reach 360,000 as the software is finalized and performance optimizationsare made. While few of you will likely be buying the new Lenovo Z5 ProGT, the performance numbers we’re seeing from the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 lookpromising. The new chipset will deliver incredibly powerful smartphones in 2019 and the new 7nm manufacturing process will also give those devices improved battery life. What’s your take on the performance of the new Snapdragon 855? Do you think it’ll be worth upgrading from a high-end 2018 smartphone to one running a SD855 in 2019? Share your thoughts in the comments.
source: https://phandroid.com/2018/12/18/worlds-first-sd855-smartphone-benchmarks-kill-the-competition/
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Book: Speak No Evil, by Martyn Waites (U.S. 2010)
Bad Vince. You know not to jump into a series in the middle. But sometimes these things can’t be helped. And the praise Martyn Waites has received made the leap worth the risk.
In the fourth novel about Joe Donovan, the journalist turned private eye lands an assignment that draws on his former profession. He’s asked to collaborate on a book with Anne Marie Smeaton, who decades earlier killed a child when she was but a child herself. Anne Marie has a son of her own now and is trying to make something of her life. But stirring up the past is awakening impulses that she can’t control, leading her to fear the worst when a teenager is murdered on her housing estate and she wakes up with blood on her hands and no memory of where it came from.
Speak No Evil, need it be said, is a dark book. It’s also an ambitious one, with multiple plotlines and a host of viewpoint characters. (Several of them are adolescents, whose rage, awkwardness and curiosity Waites depicts with unstinting honesty.) No doubt I’d have gotten more out of the book had I read the previous novels about Donovan and his compatriots at the Albion agency. Donovan’s young son has disappeared, his relationship with the rest of his family is strained, and there’s fallout from his previous cases to deal with. But Waites weaves the material in smartly so that newcomers can keep up. The greater measure of his skill is the compassion he engenders for Anne Marie, a woman who has been denied such mercy anywhere she goes. Speak No Evil is strong stuff that goes down smooth.
DVD: New York Confidential (1955)
Miscellaneous: Kodachrome and Kon
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Book: Beast of Burden, by Ray Banks (2009, U.S. 2011)
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Book: The Cold Kiss, by John Rector (2010)
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Cocktail of the Week: The French 75
I’ve told this story before. I’m telling it again. It’s not like you’re paying for this.
Scene: Prescription Cocktail Club, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, July 2011
Dramatis Personae: Vince, a dashing American abroad
Rosemarie, his lovely wife
Sullivan, a far more dashing French bartender
Vince: Didn’t you want to have a glass of champagne or a champagne cocktail? This would be the place.
Rosemarie: I want to order a French 75. But do they call it that here? Maybe it’s just a 75.
Me: Huh. I never thought of that.
Sullivan: What else can I get you?
Rosemarie: Could you recommend a champagne cocktail?
Sullivan: Of course. A French 75?
Rosemarie: That would be perfect.
The French 75’s name is derived from the Canon de 75 modèle 1897 (or M1897) 75-mm light field artillery gun. A lethal piece of weaponry that could, with the right personnel, briefly fire up to 30 rounds per minute, it was used by the French army and the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Called the “Soixante Quinze” (“75”) en Français, the gun loaned its name to the cocktail because that’s how hard the drink hits you.
This much we know is true. The rest is what that French call une zone grise.
Histoire. We know that Harry’s New York Bar, Paris put the French 75 on the map, and that the Stork Club in New York made its name Stateside. But where did the drink come from before Harry’s? In Classic Cocktails, legendary London bartender Salvatore Calabrese says that Harry MacElhone took the “75 Cocktail” made with gin and lemon served at Henry’s Bar, Paris and augmented it with champagne. Other experts note that the 1919 edition of Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails credits an English bartender with the recipe. Insert Gallic shrug here.
Ingrédients. The champagne’s not the question. It’s the other spirit. The early recipes all say gin. But along comes David Embury’s The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks first insisting on cognac, then uncorking this whopper: “Gin is sometimes used in place of cognac in this drink, but then, of course, it no longer should be called French.” The estimable Gary ‘Gaz’ Regan ventures that no one had heard of a brandy version until Embury suggested one, leading to great confusion in the land. Patrick Gavin Duffy’s Official Mixer’s Manual achieves détente by offering a range of options. A French 75 is made with gin, a French 95 with bourbon (and orange juice, according to Dale DeGroff), a French 125 with brandy. I say stick with the original: gin, lemon juice, sugar, champers.
Verrerie. You’d think glassware would be the easy part, but no, that’s got to be a bone of contention, too. Many recipes call for the French 75 to be served in a Collins glass with ice. Some, God help us, even call for straws. Maybe it’s how I was raised, but I refuse to drink champagne with a straw. I’ve also seen the drink poured into a standard cocktail coupe. My rule is simple: if there’s bubbly involved, it goes in a flute. More beverages should be drunk from flutes. Perhaps this choice might result in less champagne, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. You want the gin’s presence to be felt, after all.
½ oz. simple syrup
several ozs. champagne
Combine the first three ingredients. Shake. Pour into a champagne flute. Top with champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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PHD #203: Burning Locker of Fire
IC Timeline » Roleplay Logs » Season 2: The Widening Gyre » PHD #203: Burning Locker of Fire
Burning Locker of Fire
Summary: A vandal strikes the Enlisted Berthings, namely, Sofia's locker.
Date: 17 Sept 2041 AE
Related Logs: Cylon Lovers stuff
Enlisted Berths
Rows and rows of bunks run along the outside and center of this room which is quite a bit larger than the Officers' Berths. With multiple hatch entrances to different sections of this area, the complex has spaces for armored doors similar to the ones on the Hangar Deck that can lower in case of fire or depressurization. Tables are set up along the spaces between the bunks and lockers divide each over-under sleeping area. Each bunk is a standard military size and has a deep blue curtain to seal in some privacy for the occupant.
Leave the fancy brass to the high and mighty officers. The enlisted men and women of Cerberus are the ones who really make this great ship hum, and tonight they finally have an opportunity to kick back and enjoy the fruits of their labors. With the help of crewmen from the escort carrier Areion — who didn't volunteer but instead were voluntold — repairs to the battlestar are, for once, ahead of schedule. No surprise, then, that Captain Gabrieli gave his damage control crews the benefit of a one-night furlough: the functional equivalent of unleashing a wrecking ball on the unfortunate enlisted berths.
By now, the party's cleared up: oh-dark-hundred in the morning and only a few souls are stirring. A drunk petty officer is passed out two feet from his bunk, having fallen asleep en route; a pair of lovebirds are necking rather loudly on one of the room's larger tables. Plastic cups are strewn around the floor, some still filled with moonshine left over from Monday's meet-and-greet, and a trail of vomit leads from a ring of six upturned chairs into the head to aft.
And for one night only, a blind eye shall be turned.
Woo! Repairs ahead of schedule. Sofia yawns, chilling out on her bunker. She didn't party much after her run in with her first ever hangover. She winces at the lovebirds and the trail oof barf. Ew. She just kind of curls up and tries to pull her blanket over her head so the smell doesn't waft over.
At first, all that's audible is the squelching of lips and tongues pressing together with abandon — but even as Sofia moves to draw the blanket over her head, she hears something that most definitely did not come from the crewmen sharing a very public tryst. It's a rattle — like the sound of ball bearings clicking and clacking in a busted pair of rollerblades, perhaps, or the sound of a locked door being pulled and pulled again.
Crewmen need love too. Unhf. Hey wait. Sofia pauses at that noise. She furrows her brows, trying desperately to ignore the noise and tempation to throw a shoe at the lovebirds. "The hey?" She leans over to go see if she can find out where the rattling is coming from. "Making out is bad enough…" But this is either out and out frakkin' or - something. Maybe someone REALLY likes doors?
There weren't any roller derby girls at the party, last time Sofia checked, so by simple process of elimination, the noise must be coming from somebody trying to bust up a door. A second later, her bleary eyes confirm her hypothesis: there's a figure crouched in front of a row of lockers, a figure that's so busy cracking the combination to one in particular that it doesn't notice the soft swish of a curtain sliding open. And that locker? It belongs, of course, to to one Sofia Wolfe.
Right. Though, Fiona might be able to give one a run for their cubits. Regardless- Sofia rubs her eyes and blinks. Um. Maybe they're drunk and confused? "Um. Pardon me?" She asks the figure, curious, cautious. She's willing to give them the benefit of the doubt - at least half the room is so drunk finding one's pants is a Sisyphean exercise. She sits up and lets her legs dangle a moment.
Sofia earns no response: the safe having been cracked, the figure's withdrawing a can of spray paint from its large and bulky sweater, priming the bottle by shaking it up and down without regard for the other occupants of this particular collection of bunks. One flick, two flicks, three flicks — and then the figure is letting loose, paintaing angry red letters onto the neat and well-organized interior.
What the! "Hey!" Now it's serious. She pouts. Sofia spent ages cleaning and organizing. "What the frak are you doing!" That's HER stuff and - there's rage, surprise and - general wtfery. She looks startled.
Sofia's belongings will suffer one final indignity before the night is out. Even as the woman's voice rings out, the vandal has covered all four of her precious books in bright red paint, and now he — or she — ditches the bottle in favor of a —
Holy shit. That's really a lighter. And any engineer worth her salt will know what happens when mist from a spray can meets an open flame…
Two choices, Sofia. Douse that fire or go after the sweater-clad figure now sprinting for the hatch.
Oh. Oh FRAK. Sofia screams, almost reflexively. Fire. Fire bad. Fire bad for raesons Sofia /really can't remember/ but there's some deeply buried fear and loathing and oh gods. She hesitates. There's a temptation to beat the hell out of the sweater clad figure if she can catch them. But then there's a load of books on fire. Choices, choices. Well, the hatch - yeah, time to douse that fire. Sofia's gonna try to put it out. For the sake of the others. "Stop that person! He's setting fires!" As if any of the drunks would be any use but it's worth a shot?
"What?" The dreamy-eyed guy looks up from the flushed face of his lover, palms pressing down against the table to avoid putting too much weight on the poor woman beneath him — and then, suddenly, he's bolting up toward the nearest fire extinguisher, staggering forward as he tries to get his balance. He needn't have bothered. A half-second later, the shipboard klaxons sound that most terrifying of alarms, and a second after that, the man's partner has gotten on the nearest intercom to raise the call:
"Fire! Fire in the enlisted berths!"
And the vandal, of course, doesn't stick around to see it.
"Someone set my locker on fire-" Sofia jerks her head towards the hatch. She looks annoyed that the vandal got away, but such is life. She moves to grab the extinguisher and start putting out the fire. Her /stuff/. There's words, and angers and fears and frustrations. What kind of stupid prank is this? There's a lot churning and it feels like she swallowed a stone. Gods. It takes several moments for her to put it out, several puffs of carbon dioxide ensuing. Brains are funny. Things seem to slow down when one is in a panic. Is it so one doesn't screw up at a vital moment? Who knows? A cruel twist of the knife so that moment when one realizes they screwed themselves over /really/ sinks in? Either way.
Thankfully for Sofia — and the majority of her stuff — the first emergency team to arrive is made up of those enlisted folk who did the responsible thing and avoided this golden opportunity to get beautifully shitfaced. With the help of their extinguishers, the blaze is put out with relative ease: no kitchen fire, this little thing. Her clothes are saved — but alas, the books are beyond repair, having been painted over, burned, and then doused in so many streams of chemicals.
And the locker itself? Scorched, sure, but otherwise undamaged — save for the words 'CYLON LOVER' painted in massive capital letters over the mirror on the door.
"Arson," a grim-faced deckhand declares, setting her fire extinguisher down in disbelief.
"Gods," her buddy whispers, turning to skewer Sofia with his cool grey eyes. "What the frak did you do?"
Phew. Sofia takes a deep breath. She looks sad, realizing her books are gone. Books from Aquaria. Never again. Her eyes are wide, horrified. There's water gathering dangerously in them. She bites her lower lip hard. If only the place wasn't full of drunks. "Who would do this…" Who did she anger? She grits her teeth a little. She swallows hard. "N-nothing. I am friends with the deck crew, if it's Coll they think of. But … would someone /really/ believe a random - Agh. No." She shakes her head. "Nothing. I haven't done /anything/," She curls her fingers hard into her palms.
So there show up two very non-MP looking Marines. Why don't they look like MPs? Well, they're both dressed in their black BDUs, weapons slung on their back. And the leader, Corporal Lucius Decumius, has his mouth hanging open as he enters the room, nose twitching at the smell of burning. "Frak. This is… frakked." His companion, one of the other guys who came up from 3/4 Marines Recon with him, is just as exasperated looking.
Silence reigns for a few seconds as the DC crew unwinds, the adrenaline rush fading; then, as the MPs arrive — or not-MPs, as the case may be — they do what all enlisted folk do when confronted with events beyond their control.
"Yeah," the female deckie murmurs at length. It's an answer to Sofia and Decumius both: noncommittal in every way. "Don't get paid for this bullshit. Pryce, incident report is yours."
"Uh-huh." The large man's eyes don't leave the words on Sofia's locker as he backs away slowly. For this just might be the buzzkill to end all buzzkills.
"Yeah, and thanks for the help while the guy ran out," Sofia replies, mood considerably soured. She huffs softly. She rubs the back of her head. She shakes her head. Her books. She almost wants to cry. She does want to cry. She looks to the Marines. "Well." Well. What?
"Anyone who was in here isn't going anywhere." Decumius comes to his senses rather quickly, a frown pursing his lips. "I'm taking statements from every single one of you. And until we determine exactly what happened, nobody touches /anything/." He looks from person to person, pausing to give a sympathetic look to Sofia quickly before he booms to them all, "Understood?"
Sofia sighs and looks to Decumius. There's a lot of mingled emotions. She shakes her head. "If only I wasn't the only one not making out or sober," Sigh. She just puts her face in her palms. "Understood." She looks back to her locker.
"Sorry, you're gonna have to explain this to me, Wolfe. I was asleep until my shift, which started half an hour ago. Then I came here. Who was drunk, and what was happening? I need the whole story." Decumius looks around, quickly, taking his helmet off. He motions over to a corner of the room, as far from the burnt items as he can get. Not far, given the circumstances, but anyways. And he moves there. "Please, sit down. Breathe. And tell me the whole story, please."
By the door, Lance Corporal Koersen is busy talking to the other folks who were present. He's got a sour look on his face and a notepad in his hand that he's busy scribbling in.
"Um. Watch out for that vomit trail," Sofia points. There's trail of vomit from a ring of upturned chairs into the head to aft. She sighs and moves over. "Sorry. I'm-" Not in a good mood. "I guess I can't blame people for sitting even after I yelled. I - okay. So everyone'd been partying since we had a night off I guess. Anyway, I start pulling my curtain and blanket because frankly I don't wanna hear people making out or going farther," She explains. "I mean, if you wanna do that - whatev." Shrug. Drunk is drunk, "So I hear this rattling and something like a door being forced open. I poke my head out and someone is trying to open my locker. Guess they got it eventually because then they start spraypainting things." Sigh. "Make sense so far?"
Decumius has his own notepad out and is writing down some obviously key points, looking down at the paper and then back up to Sofia periodically. He nods at the crewman. "Yep. Please, go on."
Sigh. Sofia nods, "Well, I yelled at them. Didn't stop. Then they pulled a lighter - I can't tell if it was a boy or a girl, but they had on a sweater." Frown. "No one was able to stop them I guess." Or too *ahem* busy. "I screamed. But I guess that seemed like something someone drunk might do?" A shrug. "Anyway, I noticed the lighter and they torched my books. I had a choice of either grabbing the guy or putting the fire out, so I put the fire out. I dunno if it was right, but frakkin' drunk or making out or not, no one deserved to burn alive if it spread," Sofia bites her lower lip.
Decumius nods at the doubt that Sofia expresses, putting a hand on her shoulder. He's trying to be comforting, it seems. "Yes. That was the right thing to do. Fire in a confined space is priority. Especially on a ship, and especially in a berth. So, this guy ran out as you were putting the fire out? Did you catch any other glance at him?"
Sofia smiles faintly at the hand on her shoulder. "I appreciate the sympathy," She remarks quietly. "Just-" Her rep's probably toast, with the letters 'CYLON LOVER' spraypainted neatly on her locker. "Those books were from home and now everyone's looking at me funny…" Then a headshake. "No. I tried. I even called for help but again-" Load of drunks and the two lovebirds. Yeah. She seems relieved that she choose wisely in terms of fire vs. tackling dude. "Yeah, they bolted once the fire was going. Guess they heard me yelling and didn't want to stick around, you know?" She shrugs. "Oh well." What's done is done. Now there's sadness and fear.
"Alright. Well, for now, if that's all you can remember, here's what I want you to do. We're cordoning off this room, it's now a crime scene. Grab your blanket and whatever sleeping kit you need, as long as it's not in the locker, and you can head up to the security office. I'll radio ahead and have the duty officer prep for you a room. Probably in the guest rooms." Decumius says, his fingers and pen jotting down a final few things before the pad gets tucked away in a pocket. He looks dour.
Lance Corporal Koersen, meanwhile, is still taking witness statements. Upon overhearing Decumius, though, he begins to order the same - everyone woken, and sent up to berthings. He approaches Decumius and leans in to whisper something to him.
Decumius nods and whispers back.
Koersen moves to tell the other folks where their new berths are. These happen to be seperate from where Sofia will be sleeping.
Sads. "Not even any of my clothes? Alright," Sofia nods, accepting. It's not easy to find clothes … tailored to her, but she seems to accept it. "Thank you," She murmurs. "I'm really sorry…" She seems gloomy, but what can be done. "I wish I could tell you more, I was just about to go to sleep." Good thing she hadn't, one supposes. She takes a deep breath, gathering her pillow, blanket and sleeping kit. She looks to the Decu, though there is some curiousity and worry. "Well… might be kinda cool to get a room," Look on the bright side.
"Sorry. You'll get your stuff back when we've done thorough investigation. I'll make sure the duty officer knows you need a fresh shower and toiletry kit up there. You'll be comfortable, don't worry." Says Decumius, reassuringly. He gets up, and nods at Lance Corporal Koersen.
Koersen calls up the duty officer over a small handheld wireless set, and informs him of the details.
Decumius glances at Sofia. "Off you go now. Don't take it to heart, it's probably random, drunken violence."
"…" Sofia looks worried about leaving her worldly possessions behind. "Yeah, sure," She doesn't seem to believe that last line. She doesn't fuss though, a friendship with some of the MPs keeping her a meek sort. She pauses. She shuffles her blanket a little. There's a sketchbook nestled within the blankets. Kid sleeps with a sketchbook? Odd Snipe is odd. "Thanks."
Decumius smiles genuinely at Sofia, waiting for her and the others to vacate the room.
Sofia just sort of half smiles weakly back. It's not really anyone's fault, she's just really rattled by what happened. Even a little fearful. She will step out then, clinging to what she's allowed to take.
Decumius puts his head in his hands for a moment, before composing himself. He locks the hatch door. "Frak me. This is gay."
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Notch signaling is an evolutionary conserved cell-cell communication pathway
Notch signaling is an evolutionary conserved cell-cell communication pathway. precursor cell specificationGreenwald, 1998(Zebrafish)Notch 1, 2 Delta A, B, C, D Jagged 1, 2Somitogenesis, artery and vein specificationLawson MUT056399 et al., 2001; Venzin and Oates, 2019(chicken)Notch 1, 2 Delta-like 1, 4 Jagged/Serrate 1, 2Inner ear developmentNeves et al., 2013(house mouse)Notch 1, 2, 3, 4 Delta 1, 3, 4 Jagged 1, 2Inner ear development, vascular easy muscle cell developmentBray, 2016; Sj?qvist and Andersson, 2019is treated as a continuous variable that obeys an ODE of the form: represents any biochemical process that regulates the production of is the basal transcription rate in absence of NICD, is a threshold concentration of NICD, is a fold-change and is a coefficient that regulates how steeply MUT056399 transcription changes as a function of NICD. At low NICD (NICD?can represents a receptor or ligand that binds to another ligand/receptor and degrades after NICD release. This is often modeled with a chemical reaction term, thus Degr = + represents the concentration (or copy number) of a ligand or receptor that binds to is the ligand-receptor binding rate constant. Therefore, a network of interacting biochemical species or genes, such as the intracellular signaling network sketched in Physique 2B, can be described by a collection of variables (ODEs of the form of Eq. 1. In such system of equations, the production term for (due to interactions with all other species in the network. It is worth mentioning that biochemical and gene regulatory networks are sometimes modeled with Boolean, rather than continuous, factors. A Boolean adjustable can only believe two expresses = 0, 1 matching to a dynamic or inactive chemical substance types/gene, respectively. At any moment, the state of the variable (factors connected together regarding to a pre-defined guideline, such as flexible springs (Du et al., 2015). As a result, the motion of the connected membrane factors defines the quantity occupied with a cell. In the framework of Notch signaling, off-lattice model have to include ligand-receptor binding between neighbours further. Stopka et al. (2019) lately created an off-lattice, multicell style of Notch signaling where membrane factors of neighboring cells talk about adhesion junctions (modeled as flexible springs). Therefore, the amount of distributed junctions between neighbours modulates the quantity of signaling between cells (Stopka et al., 2019). In both agent-based and away lattice models, the signaling dynamics within each cell could be described by a couple of ODEs still. One essential difference is certainly that static lattice versions assume set cell volumes; as a result, molecule focus and duplicate amount are comparative descriptions. Conversely, Agent-based and off-lattice models allow changes in cell volume, thus requiring adjustment of molecular concentrations. Spatiotemporal Patterning Guided by Notch Signaling In this section, we review experimental systems that exemplify two well-known patterning mechanisms enabled by Notch signaling: lateral inhibition and lateral induction. While lateral inhibition promotes opposite cell fates via biochemical unfavorable feedbacks between the Notch receptor and Delta ligands, lateral induction promotes comparable cell fates by positive feedback between Notch and Jagged ligands. Moreover, we MUT056399 review mathematical models that elucidate these patterning mechanisms on idealized, ordered lattices. Experiments and theoretical models help decoding the emergent outcomes of interactions between lateral inhibition and lateral induction mechanisms; specifically, we examine three biological processes that exhibit various degrees of patterning: angiogenesis, inner ear development and epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancer metastasis. Lastly, we discuss temporal oscillations of Notch observed during somitogenesis as an example of spatiotemporal patterning. Biochemical Mechanisms of Lateral Inhibition and Lateral Induction Historically, Notch MUT056399 signaling has been first characterized in as a mechanism that induces opposite cell fates among nearest neighbors (Heitzler and Simpson, 1991; Celis and de Garcia-Bellido, 1994; Celis and de Bray, 1997; Huppert et al., 1997; Simpson, 1997; Buceta et al., 2007). The establishment of divergent phenotypes among two neighboring cells, or lateral inhibition, relies on binding of the Notch receptor to ligands of the Delta-like family (Delta in Drosophila; Dll1, Dll3 and Dll4 in mammals C see Table 1) presented at the cell surface of a neighboring cell Rabbit Polyclonal to mGluR2/3 (Bray, 2006; Andersson et al., 2011). Upon engaging of Delta with the transmembrane Notch receptor, the intracellular domain name of Notch (NICD) is usually cleaved by enzymes and translocates to the cell nucleus. Here, NICD activates Hey/Hes1, which in turn inhibits Delta (Shimojo et al., 2011; Bray, 2016; Sj?qvist and Andersson, 2019; Physique 3A). This unfavorable feedback amplifies.
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Supplementary MaterialsSupplementary Numbers. cancerous cells and peripheral plasma of ICC individuals than in regular regulates (p<0.05). Furthermore, hsa-miR-27a-3p was discovered to be considerably upregulated in the tumor cells and peripheral plasma of ICC individuals (p<0.05). In comparison to regular controls, the manifestation of Benefits1 mRNA was considerably downregulated in ICC individual cancer cells (p<0.05) however, not in peripheral plasma (p>0.05). Furthermore, ROC evaluation exposed that RP11-328K4.1, hsa-miR-27a-3p, and Benefits1 had significant diagnostic worth in ICC. We figured the upregulation of lncRNA RP11-328K4.1, which can become a miRNA sponge, exerts an antitumor impact in ICC through the elimination of the inhibition of Rabbit Polyclonal to GTPBP2 Benefits1 mRNA manifestation by oncogenic miRNA hsa-miR-27a. and and and promotes proliferation, migration, and invasion of CRC cells by activating the Wnt/-catenin pathway via focusing on the downstream gene RXR. Consequently, miR-27a-3p is known as to be always a prognostic biomarker and/or a potential restorative focus on for CRC individuals. Li L et al. [43] verified that miR-27a-3p was upregulated in nasopharyngeal carcinoma also. Mechanistic research show that miR-27a-3p promotes the proliferation, migration, and invasion of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells by straight inhibiting the 3 untranslated area (3-UTR) of Mapk103. Wang WS et al. [44] verified that the manifestation of miR-27a-3p was considerably improved in the peripheral bloodstream of individuals with pancreatic tumor which its manifestation level can efficiently distinguish between pancreatic tumor, harmless pancreatic disease, and healthful topics. Our bioinformatic evaluation and experimental validation of miR-27a-3p in ICC are in keeping with the above outcomes, confirming the high manifestation of miR-27a-3p in the tumor cells and peripheral bloodstream of ICC individuals, recommending that miR-27a-3p might turn into a potential prognostic and prognostic biomarker and restorative focus on for ICC individuals. The system and design of miR-27a-3p manifestation to advertise carcinogenesis in the above-described tumors act like the findings with this research on ICC; all the observed effects rely on the actions of miR-27a-3p on downstream mRNA to trigger corresponding pathway adjustments. Subsequently, these data support the medical character of our method of learning the pathogenesis of ICC by creating ceRNETs. Nevertheless, Zhao N et al. [45] recommended how the manifestation miR-27a-3p can be downregulated in tumor cell and cells lines of HCC, which is connected with early metastasis of HCC significantly. Mechanistic research have shown how the elevated manifestation of miR-27a-3p can inhibit metastasis and angiogenesis by straight focusing on a vasculogenic mimicry-associated cadherin (VE-cadherin), performing like a tumor suppressor gene thereby. That is inconsistent using the manifestation trend and part of miR-27a-3p in other styles of tumors and our results in ICC, indicating the universality of tumor heterogeneity and various systems of pathogenesis and natural behavior in various malignancies. The inconsistent manifestation level and part of miR-27a-3p in HCC and ICC tumor F1063-0967 cells make it useful in medical practice of hepatic medical procedures. It is because the early medical manifestations, tumor markers and imaging symptoms between ICC and HCC aren’t specific, leading to great problems in differentiating between HCC and ICC during analysis, which includes been problematic for hepatic cosmetic surgeons for a long period. The comparison from the above outcomes F1063-0967 shows that, through additional basic tests and medical validation, miR-27a-3p is a potentially handy biomarker for the first differentiation of ICC and HCC during analysis in the foreseeable future. At present, there’s a relative insufficient studies about the partnership between cancer and PROS1. A lot of the scholarly F1063-0967 research had been limited by the experimental study level, missing validation of its clinical prognostic and diagnostic capacities. Che Mat M et al. [46] demonstrated that the manifestation of Benefits1 was considerably improved in pleomorphic glioblastoma which silencing the manifestation of Benefits1 could efficiently decrease the activity of pleomorphic malignant glioblastoma cells, inhibiting their proliferation, migration, and invasion and inducing apoptosis. The same phenomenon was within castrated prostate cancer cells also. Saraon P et al. [47] demonstrated how the addition from the purified human being Benefits1 gene considerably improved the migration capability of the cells, which can be inconsistent with this findings. Inside our research, we display that Benefits1 mRNA can be reduced in tumor cells and peripheral plasma of ICC individuals considerably, that might are likely involved like a tumor suppressor gene in ICC. The Benefits1 gene encodes a supplement K-dependent plasma proteins, proteins S (PS), which can be an important anticoagulant and a multifunctional proteins. Too little PS could cause anticoagulant system disorder, resulting in the formation.
Supplementary MaterialsAdditional document 1: Physique S1
Supplementary MaterialsAdditional document 1: Physique S1. used to make statistical comparisons). 12935_2019_873_MOESM1_ESM.pdf (141K) GUID:?8DC89154-3D16-45AD-BFFB-BB77565A1EDB Data Availability StatementNot applicable. Abstract Background Lymphoma is one of the most common hematologic malignancy. Drug resistance is the main obstacle confronted in lymphoma treatment. Malignancy stem cells are considered as the source of tumor recurrence, metastasis and drug resistance. The -Asarone, a low-toxicity compound from the traditional medical plant em Acorus calamus /em , has been shown to act as an anti-cancer reagent in various cancer types. However, the anti-cancer activities of -Asarone in lymphoma have not been shown. Methods Cell counting assay was used to evaluate Raji cell proliferation. CCK8 assay was used to evaluate the cell viability. Annexin-V/PI staining and circulation cytometry analysis were used to evaluate apoptosis. ALDEFLUOR assay was used to evaluate the stem-like people. Luciferase reporter assay was utilized to examine the activation of NF-B signaling. Traditional western blot and polymerase string reaction (PCR) had been used to look for the appearance of interested genes. Outcomes We demonstrated that -Asarone inhibited proliferation and induced apoptosis in Raji lymphoma cells within a dose-dependent way. Additionally, -Asarone functioned being a sensitizer of doxorubicin and led to synergistic results on inhibition of proliferation and induction of apoptosis when coupled with doxorubicin treatment. Oddly enough, that -Asarone was discovered by us also decreased the stem-like people of Raji lymphoma cells within a dose-dependent way, and suppressed the appearance of c-Myc and Bmi1. Significantly, -Asarone abolished doxorubicin-induced enrichment from the stem-like people. In the system study, we uncovered that -Asarone suppressed not merely basal NF-B activity but also Tumor necrosis aspect (TNF-) induced NF-B activity. Furthermore, preventing NF-B signaling inactivation was crucial for -Asarone induced inhibition and apoptosis of proliferation, however, not for the result on -Asarone decreased stem-like people. Actually, -Asarone suppressed stem-like people by destabilizing Bmi1 with a proteasome-mediated system. Conclusions Our data recommended the use of -Asarone to lessen the toxic?effect of doxorubicin and increase the level of sensitivity of doxorubicin in clinical treatment. More importantly, our data exposed a novel part of -Asarone which could be used to remove stem-like populace in lymphoma, implying that -Asarone might reduce relapse and drug resistance. Famprofazone Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12935-019-0873-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. strong class=”kwd-title” Keywords: -Asarone, Lymphoma, Natural compounds, Bmi1, Malignancy stem cell, NF-B, Synergistic cytotoxic effects, Doxorubicin Background Lymphoma is one of the most common hematologic malignancy. Treatment for lymphoma may involve one or more of the following strategies: chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy. Doxorubicin is definitely a popular and effective chemotherapy drug in the first-line chemotherapy regimens. However, the use of doxorubicin is bound due to adverse medicine and effects resistance [1]. Thus, the introduction Famprofazone of novel anti-cancer PRKD3 medicines with few harmful effects and the sensitizing effect is one of the main focuses in lymphoma study. Malignancy stem cells are a small populace of cells within the tumor with the abilities for self-renewal, differentiation, and tumorigenicity [2]. The existing of malignancy stem cells are thought to be the major obstacle for malignancy treatment because of the Famprofazone substantial chemo- and radio-resistance. Malignancy stem cells are considered as the source of tumor recurrence and metastasis [2]. Thus, the development of drug targeting malignancy stem cells becomes essential in treating cancer and avoiding Famprofazone tumor relapse. Natural products are usually the sources for developing novel drug with high effectiveness and few side effects for treating diseases. Currently, a significant number of medicines with different mechanisms that are used to treat cancer preclinically are derived from natural products. For example, bitter melon draw out displayed anti-cancer activities Famprofazone in multiple cancers by reducing the infiltrating regulatory T cells and Th17 cells in the tumor [3], enhancing natural.
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national | anti-war / imperialism | news report Monday September 23, 2019 22:28 by ShannonWatch
This blog entry from 16th Sept on the ShannonWatch.org website is reproduced here because while it might seem old news one week late, it will in fact be news to a lot of people since the mainstream just don't cover this, certainly not from the side of peace perspective.
The following was written by Veteran for Peace activist Tarak Kauff who is currently being refused permission to leave Ireland. He is accused of minor offenses linked to the attempt he and Ken MAyers made to inspect a US contracted military plane at Shannon Airport.
Veteran for Peace activists: Former U.S. Marine Major Ken Mayers and former U.S. Army paratrooper Tarak Kauff
For the past 5 1/2 months, my veteran buddy, former U.S. Marine Major Ken Mayers and myself, a former U.S. Army paratrooper, have been meeting and talking with people about Irish neutrality. Actually, most often, people stop us to talk because they see we're veterans. Some of them have read about us being arrested for exposing U.S. military troops and weapons violation of Irish neutrality at Shannon Airport, or they have seen us on RTE TV. Almost without exception, we find, the Irish people believe in and want Irish neutrality. One poll reported that 82% of the people desire a neutral Ireland. Few perhaps, realize how important that is to the world at large.
I have bad news. Irish neutrality, if not dead, is perilously close to it.
U.S. VP Mike Pence, not a man I would buy a used car from, came here and you might say gave the last rites, or you could also say, put a nail in the coffin of any pretense of Irish neutrality. In Tuesday's Irish Times, Simon Carswell wrote,"Mr. Pence expressed his appreciation for 'the security partnership' between the U.S. and Ireland, particularly the use of Shannon, which has become 'such an important hub for US forces deploying overseas' and for the 'close coordination' between the two countries in 'US military operations around the world'. He thanked the people of Shannon for 'how they welcome our troops here at all times of the day and night and give them a warm Irish welcome either on their way into the fight or on their way home.' "It is not a small matter, said Mr. Pence."
Irish politicians who have sold out to U.S. imperialism, hypocritically talk about Irish neutrality as if it were still a reality. Pence, Trump's batman, in this rare case, was speaking the truth. Irish neutrality for all intents and purposes, is gone. "Such an important hub for US forces deploying overseas," does not sound like neutrality. "Close coordination . . . in US military operations around the world," does not sound like neutrality. Next, Irish sons and daughters will be fighting and dying in America's never ending wars.
There are 4,892,415 people living in Ireland. Eighty-two percent of that is a little over four million people.
Either the people will exert their will on this critical issue of Irish neutrality or start wearing black armbands, but I think four million people ought to be able to demand that Irish neutrality live.
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Video on What's the story with Irish neutrality?
by T Tue Sep 24, 2019 22:27
Back in March Luke Ming Flanagan did a good video on calling out our politicians on neutrality.
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India’s heavylift rocket successfully launches GSAT-19
India today scripted history as it successfully launched its heaviest rocket GSLV MkIII-D1 carrying communication satellite GSAT-19.
The 43.43 metre tall rocket lifted off at 5.28 pm from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here and launched the 3,136 kg GSAT-19, the heaviest satellite to be launched from the country yet, into orbit about 16 minutes later.
A jubilant Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman A S Kiran Kumar said it “is a historic day” and the the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III (MkIII D-1) has successfully demonstrated its capabilities with the injection of GSAT-19 into the desired orbit.
“It is a great success in the first maiden attempt and GSLV MkIII has successfully put in orbit GSAT-19 which is a next generation satellite,” Kumar said.
“I wish to congratulate the entire team which has relentlessly worked each day for today’s launch from 2002,” he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the successful launch, saying it took India closer to next generation satellite capability.
Kiran Kumar said Modi called him and congratulated each member of the ISRO team for the successful mission.
GSAT-19, which will augment India’s communication resources, was released into the intended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).
Today’s GSLV mission is significant for India as ISRO had been depending on foreign launchers for orbiting communication satellites weighing more than 2,300 kgs. The GSLV MkIII-D1 is capable of lifting payloads or satellites weighing upto 4,000 kgs into the GTO and 10,000kgs into the Low Earth Orbit.
It was a textbook launch as every stage of the three-stage GSLV MkIII with indegeneous cryogenic engine performed well.
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The Game 3
By: Pam Atchley and Mark Murray
Firil 15, 1018 - Naia 20, 1018
This entry is part of 4 in the series The Game
“You paint a fair picture of yourself, Delex,” Nusa said to me, a lowly prisoner in the Dargon jail. “You work as a prostitute for Eliza Tillipanary at the Lucky Lady. You have women pay you to do disgusting things and you take pleasure in it. You are charged with murdering a man and with attempted rape. The picture that others have painted is a far different one than yours.”
“Will you not try to find the truth?” I asked. “Otherwise, why are you here?”
“I came here only because … well, let me fill in parts of your story that you do not know …”
There was a thundering sound, and Nusa Abarris started from her bed, heart beating almost as loudly as the noise that had awakened her. Again it sounded, and she realized that someone was almost beating the door down. She could tell that it was still early, for the single window that she had left open still let in the darkness of night rather than light of day.
“I’m coming,” she called, standing up and straightening her tunic before going to the door. She was a tall woman, still shapely despite her age, and a member of the Town Guard.
When she opened the door, a young man was standing outside, hand raised to knock again. He looked disheveled and shock and fear were clearly writ upon his face. He was good looking, with big blue eyes and blonde hair.
“You!” Disgust dripped from her voice. It was her younger brother, Masian. There was a striking similarity between them. Yet she was not the prettier of the two, for where his hair was golden, hers was just the color of straw; where his eyes were the brightest of blues, hers were but pale and watery. They had become estranged about three years past when he had decided to go to work at the Lucky Lady, a hostelry that was well known for its people of pleasure, or, in more stringent terms, prostitutes.
The night Masian had told her of his decision had been a nightmare for her, a devout Stevenic. Of all the professions open to him, he had chosen one which she could never accept. That was the night she had disowned him, when she had told him outright that she had no brother. For her, it had been more bitter than when their mother had died, leaving the young boy to her guardianship. Masian had been more son than brother to her.
She made as if to shut the door, but he was too quick for her. He stepped inside, crowding her, and she instinctively stepped back inside the large, single room that was her home. “Masian, get away from me. I can and I will hurt you.”
“Nusa, please. Listen to me. I need your help.” There was a quaver in his voice, and it tugged at her heart.
She had to quash the old instinct of running to his aid. He was a grown man and he had made his choice. “I cannot help you,” she said harshly. “Begone!”
“I won’t go. Nusa, you’re my sister, and nothing can ever change that. I need your help now, so don’t send me away. Besides, it isn’t even for me!”
That stopped Nusa, and she swallowed the angry words unsaid.
Her silence was enough for Masian, and he poured out his story. “My friend Delex — they’re saying he killed a man, and he would never do that. You have to help, Nusa, please. He’s such a good man, so kind. He’s always helpful. Please, Nusa.”
“Masian …” She knew when he said “friend” whom he meant; she was sure it was that bald-headed man who always accompanied Masian when she happened to run into them on the streets that she patrolled. The friend was another of those wretched men of the night. There was no way that she would ever lift a finger to help one like that.
“No,” Masian shook his head. “I won’t let you say no. You always told me to help other people, to do the right thing. Well, you’re not doing the right thing here. Delex is innocent, and you won’t even listen to me just because you don’t approve of my job. Is that what the good Stevene would have wanted?”
His question hung in the sudden silence between them, and Nusa was forced to ponder it. She had always hated his job, still hated it, but …
“You’re assuming that Delex did it just because you disapprove of what he does for a living.” Masian threw another verbal bolt at her.
Was he right? Was she assuming that the man, whoever he was, was guilty simply because he did something that was sinful for a living?
Masian continued his assault. “Nusa, you can’t punish sins; only God can. Besides, remember that the Stevene said, ‘Judge a man not, for God is the final justiciar’.”
Nusa turned away, her mind in turmoil. She didn’t know what to do. Masian was silent, as if he sensed that he was about to get his way. She knew that she had to listen to his story, even though her every instinct screamed at her to avoid it; yet a tiny voice within her spoke of justice at all costs, of doing the right thing for its own sake, and she listened to that voice that was both so small and so strong.
“Tell me what happened.”
It was apparent that Masian had been waiting for just that invitation, for the words spilled out of him like a raging river. The story was quite simple. Her guess had been right: the friend was the bald man she had seen with Masian. Apparently, a client had sent a runner requesting his presence in her own home, and the man, Delexand, had gone. It turned out to be the house of the wrong woman. Here, the story got convoluted, but Nusa let Masian talk without interruption. At the house, the client’s male assistant had been murdered and the client had been molested. The client had been scratched in various places upon her body and her clothes had been torn. Two guards had arrested Delex and taken him away.
“How do you know he’s innocent?” Nusa raised a hand to stop Masian when he opened his mouth, and she continued, “She was his client. What if she changed her mind? What if he really did molest her? What if he really did kill the young man? How do you know he’s innocent?” she repeated.
“How do I know he’s innocent?” Masian parrotted back to her in an astonished voice. “Nusa, if someone told you I’d killed a man, would you believe him?”
Nusa didn’t answer, and Masian didn’t bother to wait for a response. “That’s how I know. I know him, Nusa, and he didn’t kill anyone. And I’m pretty sure he didn’t molest that woman either.”
Nusa nodded, and began to pace, thinking about what Masian had told her. The story had more holes than a torn blanket in an old orphanage. She asked slowly, “You said that a runner came to invite him to a client’s house.”
Masian nodded.
“Straight, then why did he go to someone else’s house?”
Masian frowned. “I don’t know, Oosa.”
The old nickname had slipped out, and Nusa felt her eyes tear. He had called her Oosa when he was younger and still learning to speak. He had been so cute and innocent then. She turned away, swallowing, and opened her eyes wide to prevent the tears from falling out, hoping he wouldn’t notice.
He didn’t. “Straight. If Grana Baugar’s runner came, then how come he was at Jande Tes’ house?” Grana Baugar was the client, and Jande Tes was the woman who had been molested and in whose house the murder had been committed.
Nusa composed herself and turned back to face him. “We have to go to see him. When was he taken away? Do you know where he is now?”
Masian nodded. “The runner came last night. Apparently he was taken away to the guardhouse around the first bell of night. I didn’t find out until this morning because …” His voice trailed away and he glanced at her before continuing, “Eliza told me.”
Nusa ignored the implication and said briskly, “We’ll go to the guardhouse now.” As if the good God and the Stevene were agreeing with her, she heard the first bell of the day.
Nusa and Masian entered the guardhouse where a page sat on a small stool. She was a little girl and was just waking from a nap. When she saw Nusa, she slid off the stool and smiled widely, revealing a gap between her front teeth.
“Hi Nusa,” she said in a high-pitched voice.
“Hello, Enid. Are any of the sergeants in?” Nusa asked.
“I dunno. I fell asleep,” the little girl said sheepily.
Nusa smiled, told Masian to wait for her, and went inside. On one side of the corridor was the stairwell that led upstairs to more offices, and the justiciar’s hall above, and downstairs to the dungeons. She went up to where the offices were: the captain’s at the far end, one room for the lieutenants, and a few for the sergeants. It was far too early in the day for either Captain Koren or Lietenant Darklen to be in, but some of the sergeants were present.
She poked her head into one of the big, roomy, shared offices. “Caisy, have you been here all night?” Although Caisy had been promoted to lieutenant, he’d continued to use the desk he’d had as a sergeant.
The man she addressed looked up from the ledger he’d been painstakingly studying. “Yes. You need something?”
Nusa entered and approached his desk. “It seems they brought in a man named Delexand on suspicion of killing somebody and attempted rape.”
Caisy nodded. “Yes. This guy works at the Lucky Lady.” He smiled. “Garay and Tarb were patrolling the streets there, and it seems the lady’s runner came out screaming something. When they went in, they found him with the body in his arms.”
Nusa frowned. “Are they here? I’d like to talk to them.”
“They went off duty about ha’bell ago. Any particular reason you’re interested?” Caisy’s voice took on an inquiring tone, but she knew he wanted an answer. He was her immediate supervisor, after all.
She shrugged. “The man’s best friend came to see me, convinced that the guy is innocent. I agreed to talk to him, that’s all.”
A quizzical look appeared on Caisy’s face. The two of them were not close friends, but Nusa got along with him well. He was scrupulously fair and had an acerbic wit that appeared at strange opportunities. Nusa liked him, for he was a kind man, although he kept that trait well hidden. Now he merely said in a dismissing tone of voice, “The guy is in a cell downstairs.”
Nusa nodded and exited the room thoughtfully. She knew that Caisy would now keep an eye on this case, for he had been intrigued by her interest. It occurred to her that this case would be the focus of gossip and laughter in the guardhouse; for some reason, most people seemed to wink and smile when the topic of pleasure houses came up. For Nusa herself, while she disapproved of such houses, the thought of their inmates and their lifestyle had a much more personal and negative impact.
She reached the cell where the prisoner had been confined. It was a small room, bare of anything save a chamber pot in one corner. The corridor outside the cell had a narrow window high up that did duty as a skylight; occasionally the feet of passersby could be seen through it. This early in the morning, the rosy light of day crept through.
Through the cell door, the man sat on the floor, leaning against a wall with his feet outstretched, hands loosely clasped in his lap, and his eyes closed. He had removed his tunic, which lay neatly folded beside him; the reason was obvious from the bloody tear on top that she could see from outside the cell. His chest and upper arms were muscled without being overly so, and his trim hips were hidden beneath a pair of clean and shiny breeches. His bald pate accentuated his facial features: a narrow face with a pointed chin, a well-defined nose, and ears that lay flat against the side of his head. He looked to be a few years her junior.
He must have sensed her presence, for he opened his eyes. In the dim light, she could not make out their color. He said nothing but continued to watch her with an unnerving intensity.
For a moment, Nusa wondered what she was doing. She disapproved of pleasure houses for had not the Stevene said of physical pleasure, ‘Let that which is special to the marriage bed remain within’? And this man was not only a sinner but he was also a friend of Masian’s, probably encouraging him to remain within the profession. She would listen to him, but her promise was only to hear this man’s story, not to help him.
“You are Delexand,” she said.
“I am Nusa Abarris.”
His eyes widened at that and he rose and approached the bars that separated them. She saw that his eyes were brown, and his skin seemed to glow like copper in the golden light of the morning.
“Why are you here?” His voice was soft and deep, its pitch inquiring without any other overtones, while the expression on his face was neutral.
Nusa supposed rather bitterly that, given his profession, he must know how to act well. “Masian came to see me.”
He laughed softly, but it seemed to Nusa that it was humorless. “That, I realized the moment you introduced yourself. So, you have come to pass your own judgment on me before ever I get to the justice hall, happy to see one more sinner hung for his sins.”
“I am here to listen to your story.”
“Oho, are you now? Tell me the truth, Nusa. Are you willing to even face the possibility that I might be innocent? That my choice of professions does not automatically make me a killer?” He paused and looked at her.
She was frowning and had taken a step back as he spoke. Seeing her move, he nodded with a sarcastic smile and continued his tirade.
“I thought not. Tell me, Nusa, why *are* you here? You disapprove of my and Masian’s profession. You ignore him and snub him when you see him in church. If that is any indication of your affection for him, I do not see any reason for your presence here.” His voice had grown bitterer as he spoke.
Nusa felt the words come boiling up from within her as he spoke, the feelings his statements evoked too hot and angry for control. “And what do you know of affection, you who works as a man of the night, you who corrupts men and women without a thought for the moral questions behind your actions? You have no right to question me. I may disapprove of your profession, but I will not allow my own feelings to obscure what is right and what is wrong. If you really killed that young man, Delex, I will make sure that your trial takes you speedily to the noose. And if you did not, then I will be your advocate.” Her breath was coming harshly by the time she finished speaking, and then silence descended.
He did not reply, but stared at her with an intensity that she would have found unnerving had she not been so very angry. Finally he gave a curt nod. “So be it,” he said and his next words were measured and spaced out evenly. “I did not kill that young man.”
“Tell me what happened,” Nusa ordered.
“And I’ve given you all I know,” I said. “Will you help me?”
“It doesn’t sound right,” Nusa said. “Why did you go to her house? You’ve never done that before. Why did the man die in your arms with blood all over you and not her?”
My hopes crashed to the floor and despair hit me in the gut. I felt the noose around my neck. It was not long now, I knew.
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Ever hopeful
The China View news agency tells us that the
“Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) urged UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to support Lebanon and put an end to Syrian interference”,
as reported in one of the local newspapers.
Syria, according to this appeal, continues to attack Lebanese troops, invade parts of Lebanese territory, arm Palestinian terrorists for carrying out proxy attacks and carry out smuggling (presumably of arms).
The letter went to GenSec Kofi Annan (father of Kojo), the Security Council, the Interanational Socialist Party, the European Union and other international human rights organizations.
Naturally enough, Syria is denying all accusations, though it has issued an arrest warrant, which, as the Lebanese appeal points out, violates international law, against the leader of the party, Walid Jumblatt.
The warrant was relayed to Beirut via Interpol and is demanding Mr Jumblatt’s extradition to face a military court in Syria on charges of “slander and inciting hatred against Damascus”.
What is so touching about this story is the faith Lebanese politicians seem to place in the tranzis. Their assumption that organizations that have shown themselves ready to negotiate with and fawn on terrorist organizations and dictatorships will lift a finger to defend Lebanon’s freedom and sovereignty.
Possibly, the PSP does not actually believe this but is trying to use every method to bring the situation to the world’s attention. The problems between Syria and Lebanon seem to be relegated below the ever growing Palestinian ones. Even so, the ploy has been less than totally successful. If it were not for the Chinese news agency …
To prove that the situation in Lebanon is volatile, we had (some) news of an attack with Katyusha rockets on northern Israel by Hesbollah and Palestinian Jihad groups. The subsequent “skirmishes” seem to have been resolved by UN negotiators.
(In Lebanon they seemed to behave better than in East Timor where all “non-essential” UN staff has been ordered to leave after renewed fighting had broken out. The Australians have remained and will soon be reinforced by other troops. One wonders who those “non-essential” staff was and why they were there.)
Meanwhile, our own Prime Minister has been sounding off about UN reform, a subject that has become the great political filler. As it happens, my colleague managed to find the only interesting story that came out of the Bush-Blair summit. I have been left to pick up a few remaining pieces, the most interesting of which is Blair’s speech at Georgetown University.
The speech seems to have been vintage Blair with lots of feel-good factors thrown in, a little bit of statesmanship – we cannot pull out of Iraq immediately, we know we have made mistakes but the world must unite in helping Iraq to build up its democracy – and a few rather tame ideas for supposed reform.
Blair, as we know, has always been rather enamoured of transnational organizations interfering a good deal more than they do, already. The long, painful and, ultimately, disastrous trek through the UN before the war in Iraq had been his idea with President Bush going along somewhat reluctantly.
So, having Blair pontificating about the need to reform the UN and other transnational organizations is not particularly surprising. Some newspapers round the world have suggested that he saw the speech as an interview for his next job, SecGen of the United Nations. (Well, Cherie should love that – all those freebies.)
But what did he actually suggest? Expanding the Security Council to include India, Japan, Germany, a Latin American and an African country is not a spectacularly good idea if you want the organization to work. Those of us who think that the UN has had it and the sooner it dies the better, would find the expansion of the Security Council extremely helpful: the bigger it is the more likely is it to get bogged down on every decision. But one must assume that Prime Minister Blair does not actually intend that.
The speech also suggested that the SecGen should be given greater powers over his personnel so that the UN can be made into an effective organization that reacted rapidly to world problems.
For the world, as Mr Blair presciently pointed out, has changed since the days the UN was set up. In fact, it has changed since most of the transnational organizations were set up and they should all be reformed. (One wonders if he feels that the EU belongs to a different era as well.)
The IMF and the World Bank, possibly, should be merged and even if they are not, “there is a powerful case for reform”.
“He also suggested that an international uranium bank held by the International Atomic Energy Agency should supply fuel to all countries with a nuclear energy program.”
In other words, there was very little new in his speech, even though it seems to have caught the journalists’ attention all over the world. As the Times put it in its editorial:
“The Prime Minister’s larger theme, one that has come to define him as a politician, is that the world must urgently get to grips with the consequences of interdependence (globalisation is not a word Labour politicians care much to use). When turmoil can spread like wildfire and even the powerful United States can be affected “at breakneck speed and fundamentally” by events beyond its shores, politicians need to understand that “the rule book of international politics has been torn up” and “traditional views of national interest” are perilously out of date.
“Intervention, far beyond our borders” will often be required. For such necessary activism to be acceptable, ways must be found to involve “the international community” in joint strategies to tackle global problems and promote democracy. This means much more than military action, and includes supporting a greater flow of information and education initiatives.”
Does this speech really matter? Well, yes and no. It could be that Mr Blair is looking for another job, not being all that interested in sitting at home and writing his memoirs whenever he or the electorate finally decides that he must go. And, of course, he has always mouthed platitudes about the need for international co-operation and well-meaning interventionism led by transnational bodies.
Other reactions, like the ones in Indian newspapers limited themselves to concentrating on what matters to them – a seat on the Security Council (though why any self-respecting country should want one, I cannot even imagine).
Then there is the Chinese reaction. China is vehemently opposed to Japan acquiring a seat on the Security Council and is equally vehemently opposed to a US-Japanese sponsored suggestion of a reform in payments into the UN kitty. At present China and Russia, both rather large and with permanent seats on the Security Council pay considerably less than Japan does, a state of affairs, they would obviously like to continue.
It was, therefore, interesting to read an article in the Chinese business newspaper, published in Hong Kong, the Standard, which managed to attack Blair without mentioning the real problem: his support for Japan acquiring a permanent seat on that Council.
According to Toby Harnden and Patrick Hennessy (familiar and unChinese names) Blair had been forced by the White House to water down his speech. Their evidence for this is somewhat tenuous and seems to consist of whispers from various officials who had briefed journalists in one way while the speech went differently.
There seems little of any importance that he might have said if Karl Rove or whoever had not locked him up and threatened to make him listen to endless repeats of David Cameron on Desert Island Discs if he did not do as he was told. Can’t blame the man for giving in.
“He also backed away from a planned demand for a major change in the running of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Blair had intended to spell out a plan for Europe and the United States to give up their exclusive rights to install their own nationals as heads of the bank and the IMF respectively. This would help persuade smaller nations to give up their effective right to choose the United Nations secretary general, in favor of a move to install a leading international figure. Instead, Blair's speech glossed over the issues, merely citing a "powerful case for reform."
Another planned section was intended to take a tough line on global warming and the Kyoto Treaty, which Washington still has not signed. In the event, Blair merely claimed: "We must act on climate change," but did not go into detail. At this point, as a mobile phone rang in the audience, he even made a joke about American interference. "I hope that's not the White House telling me they don't agree with that," he said. "They act very quickly, these guys."”
It seems Blair still knows how to play his audience. Or his speech writers do. But, as it happens, none of that is sinister. He has been known to go “soft” on Kyoto before. In any case, anyone who is not obsessed with the idea of Al Gore becoming President would have realized that the Kyoto signatories have not reduced their emission and there are serious and growing scientific doubts being cast on that agreement and the whole notion that global warming is getting worse or being caused necessarily by human behaviour.
As for China, it did not sign up to Kyoto and has no intention of doing so or of closing down any of its newly opened coal stations. No doubt Al Gore will add a few thousand more air miles and fly his private plane to Beijing to remind them of their duty. Or maybe not.
The really frustrating part of all this burbling, whether by politicians or journalists, is that all of it represents a lost opportunity. The world has changed and is changing very rapidly and some decisions need to be taken as to how we shall deal with those changes. Every speech, every article, every paper that prattles on about reform of existing transnational organizations avoids those hard discussions and decisions.
Somehow it does not surprise me that Tony Blair should make one of those speeches of avoidance.
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All we need are the white flags
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It may be pedantic, but…
We are the bosses now
Talking about them… talking about themselves
The joys of VAT
Political schizophrenia?
More reflections
To our eternal shame
A temporary setback
Transparency no, invisibility yes
Negotiating with the Bear
The ultimate in fatuity?
Boring us all to death
The best laid schemes…
D for agoras
A one-way street?
Going after the real enemy
Not big enough for both of them
The pace quickens
Baroness Nicholson is displeased
Credit where it is due
Another EU success
The engineer of human souls
Can he deliver?
A vote for serfdom?
The march of the EuroArmy
A reason to support the EU?
The EuroNavy cometh… slowly
You wonder what they use for brains
Week-end rumination
The £15 million heist
Of rumours dark and devious
Guns but no butter
The UN hits out at the US
Detached from reality
In the "difficult" file
Flying into stormy weather
Wanted: set of British values
They can also see it
Fishing in muddy waters
We're shocked!
Getting the point
A matter of geography
Quelle surprise!
Cui bono?
The reluctant empire
Could we not all play that game?
Towards a European Health Service
Not long now
Why does he (try to) deceive us?
They get what they deserve
Tight security as Ken meets Hugo
Dereliction of duty
It's still there
The stench of hypocrisy
Have they thought this through?
Boy, when things go wrong ....
March of the jobsworths
The emasculation of common sense
Bi-regional strategic interests (whatever they may...
Gesture politics
Conspiracy redoubled
One hell of a climbdown
How not to learn from elections
Spy in the (Euro) sky
Human rights are safe in their hands
That famous European diplomacy
A citizen's agenda?
Whither regionalisation?
Grist to the mill
Whoopee!
Another try-on?
Our favourite Latin American dictators
Is it any wonder?
One of our excuses is missing
Death of a sage
A conspiracy of silence
A personal tale
Oh, whoops!
Success with the Poles?
A hidden victory
A matter of nearly complete ignorance
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Uni of vs Hallam Dartsity match abandoned after violence breaks out in the crowd
Ben Warner
The annual Dartsity event at the Octagon had to be abandoned due to crowd trouble, bringing a conclusion to the 2017 Varsity proceedings.
Dartsity is a showpiece event held between the University and Sheffield Hallam, but this year’s event was unable to finish thanks to disturbances from both sets of fans at the Octagon.
Trouble began to unfold during the sixth and final match of the evening, as Uni of captain Adam Warner was celebrating the unassailable 4-1 lead for the hosts when Hallam fans allegedly threw beer over him.
Warner, who had come from behind to win his match by three sets to one, then became involved with the scuffle in the crowd.
The event descended into chaos as a minority of fans from both sides threw punches at each other, as well as chairs and beer, soaking other spectators as well as those involved.
Security tried their best to deal with the perpetrators, but made it clear they wanted the event to be abandoned, which it was following the suspension of play in the final match.
Fighting continued as fans left the Octagon, and police soon arrived to help restore some order to the night.
The crowd for this year’s event is more than double the 400 which watched 2016’s edition, presenting new challenges for those involved in the organisation of the event.
Head of University of Sheffield Darts, Ed McCosh, released a statement thanking those who took part in and helped organise the event from both universities, as well as all the staff and security who worked on the night, particularly the cleaning staff who “went above and beyond the call of duty”. McCosh went on to condemn the “disgraceful behaviour” and apologise for those who were unable to play as a result. McCosh also stated additional fundraising efforts would be made for the charities involved “by way of an apology”.
Some of those who attended Dartsity 2017 suggested that the security team was understaffed for the size of the crowd, making it difficult to control the trouble which ensued.
Despite the trouble, the University claimed the trophy for the year, thanks to the lead they had gained in the first five matches of the night.
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Yes, there was far too few security for the number of attendees for an event where alcohol was involved.
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Chris Lamb & The Universals were a 7-piece Showband fronted by trumpeter Chris Lamb, playing US bases and Irish clubs around Kilburn from 1963 to 1968.
Although they were basically known as an Irish Showband, the only true Irish members in the band were bandleader Chris Lamb and the saxophonist Mort O'Sullivan from County Cork. Trombone player Brian O'Shea aka "Brian Keith" and drummer Albert Rossi were both from Scotland, the rest of the band all from England except an American female vocalist, Edie Andrews who had worked for Alan Williams at the Blue Angel, Liverpool.
They were supporting American singer Jim Reeves on his tour of American military bases in Britain and Ireland in May and June 1963. Reeves was permitted to perform in Ireland by the Irish Federation of Musicians on the condition that he share the bill with Irish show bands, becoming popular by 1963. The British Federation of Musicians would not permit him to perform there because no agreement existed for British show bands to travel to America in exchange for his band, the Blue Boys, playing in Great Britain.
However, Jim Reeves compromised by doing a tour of the American bases from June 10 to June 15, which was allowed because it was then considered that he wasn't performing on British soil and he appeared on British radio and TV programs. The Universals’ guitarist Peter Jay used to sing Jim Reeves songs to close the shows.
During 1964/5, they played many times at the Hammersmith Oden for Top Rank.
The only known record by Chris Lamb & The Universals is “Mysterious Land” / “If You Ask Me” on Decca records released in June 1965. However they also covered some Beatles songs with Edie Andrews singing lead on. Andrews eventually went back to the States at the end of the year. The Universals backed Scottish singer Gidian on his third single “Feeling” / “Dont Be Sentimental” released on Columbia records in October 1966.
At this time, the band featured new musicians: Carlo Little on drums, Paul Raymond on keyboards and Bill Parkinson on guitar. They toured the south of England and backed several stars like Stevie Wonder between November 1965 and June 1966. They played everything from the top 20 to themes like “Laurence of Arabia” or “Tijuana Brass”, and of course an array of Irish music.
By July 1966, Carlo Little rolled his mates of The Universals into Screaming Lord Sutch’s Savages. This crew spent half their time backing Sutch, but also worked as The Circles, recording on their own with Chris Blackwell (Island records). As The Savages, they played at the Olympia in Paris, and recorded such gems as Saturday Club with Brian Matthews.
By 1967, The Universals signed to Page One then evolved into Plastic Penny.
Many of the personnel went on to greater things. Carlo Little joined The Flowerpotmen; Bill Parkinson worked for Tom Jones; Grabham formed Cochise and then joined Procol Harum; Tony Murray joined The Troggs; Paul Raymond was with Chicken Shack and then Savoy Brown; Nigel Olsson was with the Spencer Davis Group and later became the drummer in Elton John's backing group and Brian Keith headed Congregation...
Chris Lamb led a number of bands until his decease some years ago. His brother Robert 'Bobby' Lambe is an internationally renowned composer/arranger, who as a trombone player worked with Frank Sinatra, Woody Herman and many other top names and spent most of his musical career in the US.
Bill Parkinson After I left P.J.Proby I auditioned with 30 other guitarists and got the with job with top Irish show band Chris Lamb and The Universals, this was a very good tight band with excellent musicians, On drums was Carlo Little, ex Rolling Stones, on vocals and Trombone was Brian Keith lead singer with Plastic Penny, on keyboards was Paul Raymond who played with many bands and on Bass, John Lawson. The sax player was Mort Sullivan, the leader Chris Lamb played trumpet, We played everything from the top 20 to themes like Laurence of Arabia and Tijuana Brass, and of course an array of Irish music. We backed several stars like Stevie Wonder and played on several records… One day Carlo Little asked me and a couple of the other musicians if we would join the Savages and back Screaming Lord Sutch.
Mick Grabham about “Everything I Am”: “Our only hit! No I didn't play on that actually. I was living in Sunderland at the time and the rest of the Plastic Penny was formed out of a group that was a showband called Chris Lamb and the Universals. Three or four of them had made a record apart from the rest of the group, which was produced by Larry Page of Troggs tape fame, and they were playing as Chris Lamb and the Universals in this night club in Sunderland. They were looking for a guitarist and they saw this friend of mine with frizzy hair and asked him if he was a guitarist – they didn't want to get a face from London into the band. He said 'No I'm not, but I know somebody who is'. At the time, this guy was sharing up [sic] house with me, so he brought them back and they asked me if I wanted to go down to London and give it a try. They said that they needed a drummer and like Nigel Olsson was a real good friend of mine, so I got him to come down as well and we both ended up getting the job. When I think of it now, somebody coming up to me in Sunderland, saying 'do you want to come down and join this band', it's mad!”
Mysterious Land / If You Ask Me (Decca F 12176) 11/06/1965 as Chris Lamb & The Universals
Take Your Time/Don't You Love Me No More (Island WI 279) 07/1966 as The Circles
Feeling / Dont Be Sentimental (Columbia DB 8041) 10/1966 as Gidian & The Universals
I Can't Find You/Hey You (Page One POF 032) 07/1967 as The Universals
Green Veined Orchid/While The Cat's Away (Page One POF 049) 11/1967 as The Universals
Various Line-ups of Chris Lamb & The Universals
Chris Lamb & The Universals Allstars #1 (April 1963 - Late 1964)
Chris Lamb (Trumpet)
Mort Sullivan (Tenor Sax)
Brian Keith (Vocals/Trombone)
Peter Jay (Lead Guitar)
Alan McCiver (Bass)
?? (Keyboards)
Albert Rossi (Drums)
Judy Ward (Lead Vocals)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #2 (Late 1964 - June 1965)
Foggy Little (Lead Guitar)
Peter Jay (Rhythm Guitar)
P.J. Kelly (Keyboards)
Dave ?? (Drums)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #3 (June - November 1965)
Dave ?? then Carlo Little (Drums)
Edie Andrews (Vocals)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #4 (November 1965 - July 1966)
Bill Parkinson (Lead Guitar)
Ged Peck (Lead Guitar)
John Lawson (Bass)
Paul Raymond (Keyboards)
Carlo Little (Drums)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #5 / The Circles (July 1966 - September 1966)
Tony Dangerfield (Bass)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #6 (Late 1966 - December 1967)
Tony Murray (Bass)
Eddie Thorpe (Drums)
Terry Parsons (Drums)
Chris Lamb & The Universals #7 (December 1967)
Mick Grabham (Lead Guitar)
Nigel Olsson (Drums)
lesley 17 October 2013 at 07:31
Eddie Thorpe was the drummer in 1966-67. Also in the group were Dick Errington John Lawson and Peter Jay. Eddie went on to play with Simon Raverne( Buddy Britten ) in Jersey and various places abroad
My granda was an amazing man i love him so much r.i.p chris lamb xxx my angel ♡♡♡
My mom was the singer Edie Andrews she had a beautiful voice loves always terry
Albert Rossi 4 July 2016 at 02:57
Yes, he certainly was Eileen. I loved playing with his band and have many fond memories of it.I was very sorry to hear of his passing.
Don't know if your still alive but I'd love to hear stories about my grandad if you have great stories to tell xxx
I was sound man at The State in Kilburn in the day .Chris had a residency there. I would play Green onions as intro and the band one by one joined in seamlessly I then stopped the record they continued and that was the start of a great night of music.He dressed so well and wore a beautiful camel hair overcoat.A lovely kind man with excellent manners a credit to Ireland.also,Leon Wells managed the ballroom in my day.
macca 3 September 2015 at 05:57
Trying to track down the wherabouts of John (Johnny) Lawson. Can anyone help please? Very early days he played bass in a Shadows-like group, called I seem to remember The Strangers. They played a few times at the Gaumont State Dance hall in Kilburn North London. I'm in a Facebook, group "Kilburn in 50's and 60's and Johns name has cropped up a few times together with a good mate of his Johnny Souster. They both lived in Brondesbury Villas, Kilburn and John L's s mum worked at a Grocers shop in Salusbury Rd between the Presbyterian Church and Grays the Chemist. Any help or steer in the right direction will be very much appreciated. Thanks .Ian.
Not sure but I think he lives in Hastings
Albert Rossi 16 February 2016 at 11:34
I played with the Universal Allstars from 1963 to 1964 and they were some of the best years I had in my long 62 year musical career. The band was great and a lot of fun to be with. We were a wild bunch and could drink most guys under table but one thing for sure, it never affected our ability to play and entertain. I would say that Chris had a discipline that made you always want to give your best and we certainly did. We backed Jim Reeves in July 1964 and our singer/guitarist Peter Jay was so good at singing Reeve's songs that Reeves manager asked him to stay behind after his show to listen to Peter. Sadly nothing ever came about it as Reeves died in a plane crash less than a month later. R.I.P. Chris I have happy memories of you that I will always carry with me. Albert Rossi
dennis lynch 19 October 2016 at 14:45
hi I am Dennis lynch younger brother of Pete lynch (jay] Pete has mentioned you Many times over the years great band great times he lives in the USA now 30 years or more he played with john Lawson and they won new faces talent show in 1975 as lynch & Lawson they went USA and made a few records he is 75 now but still does a few gigs now Ann then all the best den
Albert Rossi 14 June 2017 at 09:11
Hello Dennis, thanks for your reply. What a shame I just saw it now. I would love to contact Peter so can you let me have some contact details for him?
Hi Albert - I discovered a number of years ago that I am related to Chris Lamb and would love to learn more about him. Are you on Facebook or Whatsapp so I can contact you? Kind Regards Karen Boyle
dennis lynch 10 February 2018 at 05:51
hi Albert this is Dennis peter jay's brother his phone in america is 001 435 635 9533 I'm sure he'd like a chat all the best dennis
Hi Karen I'm Chris Lambe pride and joy I'm on Facebook Eileen Lambe ivanova I'd be more than happy to speak to you xxx hi Albert delighted I'm noticing people really do notice on this what other people write up your more than welcome to add me to love hearing stories of Chris Lambe especially the funny ones xxx
OSCAROWSKI 4 April 2016 at 05:10
Hi there, could anyone shed some more info on this release please. I believe the record company is not the correct one as they have linked it to the US Destination label, but seems to exist in one shape or the other... any info, please send me a mail to oscar dot richt @ gmail dot com. Many thanks in advance, Oscar
this release: https://www.discogs.com/Gidian-With-Chris-Lambe-And-Universals-Feeling-Dont-Be-Sentimental/release/5657206
Is that peter jay of the jaywakers
dennis lynch 13 August 2018 at 06:10
no this peter jay was a singer and guitarist with Chris lamb and many other bands in the 60's & 70's who went the win "new faces" in 1974 with base guitarist john Lawson as lynch & Lawson peter also recorded for the great Joe meek in the early 60's as peter jay and the blue men Dennis lynch Pete's brother
Knew Peter when he played with The Universals and with John Lawson
dennis lynch 21 July 2019 at 13:36
hi unknown would like to know who you are don't where john is now but my brother pete in the US still singing !! did you work with pete ? dennis
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Vietnamese enterprises build unique regional products to attract tourists
Nhat Minh - Thu Huong
The Hanoitimes - From now to the end of the year, the number of domestic travelers is expected to reach about 70-80% of that in the same period last year.
To revive the tourism industry in the post Covid-19 period, many local tour operators, hotels and transportation providers are joining hands to offer promotions, building new and unique products to attract tourists.
Many tourism enterprises are jointly building new and unique products to attract tourists. Photo: Tony Bac
New and unique products
Many tour operators have created and deployed new packages. Flamingo Redtours has launched four domestic tours with discounts of up to 30-50%. The tour operator has cooperated with other travel businesses, airlines, 4-star hotels and transportation providers to build the packages with high quality accommodation and competitive prices, according to CEO of the company Nguyen Cong Hoan.
Meanwhile, Vietravel Hanoi branch is deploying its products “Vietnam – Say Hello to a New Day” with a 50% discount, Deputy Director Nguyen Van Bay told Kinh the & Do thi.
From the beginning of May, Hanoitourist Travel Company has also introduced tours with reasonable prices of VND4-5 million (US$172-US$215) per visitor to central provinces.
To stimulate demand post Covid-19, Hanoi has cooperated with a number of provinces and cities such as Nghe An, Quang Binh, and Lai Chau to implement stimulus programs, according to Deputy Director of Hanoi’s Tourism of Department Tran Trung Hieu.
Especially, many provinces have also attracted tourists with incentive programs and the introduction of new destinations. A typical example is the Sapa program with a discount of 30-60% on hotel rooms, car and entrance tickets until September 30.
Some historical and cultural sites have also reduced 50% of the entrance ticket in Quang Ninh, Hue, Danang and Quang Nam provinces.
Transporters in four provinces including Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Gia Lai, and Dak Lak pledged to offer price discounts of 10-40% for transportation services.
Compared to previous years, the number of foreign visitors to Vietnam in 2020 is poised to plunge due to the health crisis, according to Deputy General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) Ha Van Sieu. However, many localities and businesses have launched a number of programs including the exemption and reduction of entrance tickets and transportation costs to stimulate travel.
Some places of interests have even been overcrowded, Sieu added. “This is a motivation for tourism companies to build and introduce stimulus products in post-Covid-19 tourism,” he told Kinh te & Do thi.
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Bac Lieu province. Photo: Vietnam Travel's facebook
After two months of the reopening of destinations, tourism activities have revived, the number of tourists has increased again. According to the VNAT, in May and June, occupancy rates for accommodation rooms increased by 50-60% in week days and 80-90% on weekends. The number of domestic tourists in June reached 7 million, an increase of 2.3 times compared to May.
With the revival, the tourism industry aims that from now to the end of the year, the number of domestic tourists will reach about 70-80% of that in the same period last year. However, to achieve this goal, it requires local businesses and localities to offer tour packages which are not only "unique" but also at reasonable costs.
Besides new products being put into service, including a night tour at the Hoa Lo Prison and the Imperial Citadel of Thanh Long - Hanoi, Hanoitourist is working on experience tours from Hoa Lu ancient capital (Ninh Binh) to Hanoi. It will thereby help visitors better understand the process of moving the country's capital taking place a millennium ago, towards the celebration of the 1010th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi, according to Director of Hanoitourist Phung Quang Thang.
In order to attract tourists to Hanoi, besides offering discounts, in July, the city’s tour operators would not only upgrade the existing city tours but also continue to create five to seven new travel packages focusing on typical historical and cultural relics of Hanoi. The tours will be expected to be unique and bring new experiences for visitors, Hieu from Hanoi’s Tourism of Department said.
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The mini-LED TV market in 2025 is the trend of the premium TV market
2021년 January 15일 /in Focus on, Market /by olednet
Products with more advanced LCDs appear. It is an LCD that has greatly improved brightness, HDR, and color reproducibility by adding QD film and mini-LED to BLU. The existing top-level LCD used a full array local dimming (FALD) BLU with a local dimming zone of about 300 to 500.
When the local dimming zone is increased to more than 3,000 by using mini-LED, the contrast ratio is significantly improved, and the halo effect is reduced compared to FALD BLU LCD TVs. In order to achieve the same performance as OLED, the local dimming zone must have as many pixels as the number of pixels, but due to the limitation of LED size reduction, mini-LED TVs to be sold this year will have a local dimming zone of 1,000-3,000 products.
To make the best LCD TV, a TFT substrate capable of AM driving mini-LED BLU is needed. The competitive pointer of LCD TVs using mini-LED BLU is a technology that can make the image quality similar to OLED while minimizing the local dimming zone and the number of LEDs. In order to realize the same image quality as OLED, the local dimming zone must be more than 100,000 divisions, and hundreds of thousands of LEDs and TFT substrates are required for driving, so the manufacturing cost of panels (including modules) becomes similar to that of OLED.
If the backplane of the mini-LED BLU uses FR4 or BT and the local dimming zone is divided into 3,000, the mini-LED TV manufacturing cost can be reduced to about half of that of the OLED TV, maximizing the quality of the LCD TV while lowering the price. The TV with the best cost performance is created.
The manufacturing cost of mini-LED BLU for 65-inch TVs with a local dimming zone of 10,000 divisions or less is analyzed at 250-1,100 dollars level, and the TV price is expected to range from 1,500 to 6,000 dollars depending on the size and local dimming division level. In 2021, the mini-LED TV market is expected to form 2.5 million units.
In terms of market share with OLED TVs, mini-LED TVs are expected to dominate after 2024.
TCL has led the development of Mini-LED TVs, but the market will be led by Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.
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OLED Market Enters Adjustment Period from Rapid Growth
2020년 December 1일 /in Component, Focus on, Technology /by olednet
As smartphone makers, including Samsung Electronics and Apple, increased the use of OLEDs in flagship models, the growth of the OLED market, which had been rapidly growing, has been braked.
The third quarter of each year is the season with the best OLED performance for smartphones due to the launch of a new iPhone. According to the display market track of UBI Research (www.ubiresearch.com), in the third quarter of this year, 113 million units were shipped, an increase of 26.3 million units compared to 86.7 million units in the last quarter, showing a growth of 30.4%. However, this figure is due to an optical illusion. The reason is that the results in the first and second quarters were very poor compared to before due to COVID-19. Compared to the third quarter of last year, shipments in the third quarter of this year decreased by 17.9%. Shipments are smaller than in the third quarter of 2018.
The decrease in OLED shipments for smartphones in the third quarter is due to the addition of Huawei sanctions to COVID-19. The sharp drop in shipments from Samsung Display and BOE to Huawei deteriorated the third quarter earnings.
There are also many analyzes that companies such as Samsung Electronics, Oppo, and Vivo will benefit from the reflection due to Huawei sanctions. However, since Samsung Electronics is currently struggling in the Chinese market, and the brand power of Oppo and Vivo is less than that of Huawei, it will be difficult to replace the expensive smartphone market in China occupied by Huawei. Therefore, Huawei’s smartphones, which mainly use OLEDs, disappear from the market, and shipments of Samsung Display and BOE are also forced to decrease more than expected.
The growth of the smartphone OLED market is expected to slow for the time being due to Huawei’s smartphone production disruption, which was expected to break through the 300 million units’ market and purchase OLED in large quantities. As a result, the OLED market in China will suffer a severe oversupply situation.
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Samsung Electronics’ foldable smartphone to be released in 2021, with touch pen and UTG thickness different?
2020년 October 26일 /in Component, Focus on, Technology /by olednet
According to the ‘2020 OLED Components and Materials Report’ recently published by UBI Research, Samsung Electronics’ next-generation foldable smartphones to be released in 2021 are expected to be equipped with a pen function.
It is expected that the pen function will be added to Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Z Fold2, which was released in September, but the flexibility issue of the digitizer, which is an essential material to support the pen function, and ultra thin glass (UTG), the cover window material. The pen function was not added in the end due to its thin thickness.
In order to add a pen function, Samsung Display seems to be considering applying an active electrostatic solution (AES) method that does not require a digitizer and changing the thickness of UTG.
First, the’Galaxy Note’ series uses an electro-magnetic resonance (EMR) method with a digitizer at the bottom of the OLED panel. The EMR method has good touch sensitivity and does not require a battery to be embedded in the pen, but it is not applicable to foldable devices due to the flexibility issue of the metal digitizer.
Unless the companies developing the EMR method provide a special solution, the AES method is highly likely to be applied to the pen for the next ball double device. In this case, the sensor pitch of Y-OCTA is formed more densely or the Touch IC is more complex. Can be designed.
The AES method is also being developed by LG Display and BOE to apply to foldable devices.
In addition, the thickness of UTG is also expected to change. The 30 um thick UTG, which is currently commercially available, has good flexibility, but due to its film-like characteristics, when pressure is applied with a touch pen, traces remain and may affect touch sensitivity. To solve this problem, Samsung Display is developing UTG with a thickness of more than 60 um in cooperation with glass processing companies.
As the thickness of the UTG decreases as the thickness increases, it is expected that the UTG currently under development will be applied with a concept in which the folded part is processed thin and filled with a material having the same refractive index as glass. In addition, in the future, there is a possibility that an additional coating process will be added after the reinforcement process without a protective film such as PET on UTG.
In UBI Research’s ‘2020 OLED Parts and Materials Report’, Samsung Display’s expected change in foldable OLED was written as a roadmap and the trends of related materials were analyzed. According to the report, Samsung Electronics’ application of pens for foldable devices is expected in 2021, and UTG materials are expected to lead the market at 78% by 2025 in the future cover window market for foldable devices.
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OLED performance analysis in the first half of 2020
2020년 October 19일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
It was found that COVID-19, which has spread around the world since January this year, has adversely affected the OLED industry as well. According to UBI Research (CEO Choong Hoon Yi)’s [2020 OLED Display Semi-Annual Report], OLED total shipments and sales in the first half of 2020 were 231 million units and 13.2 billion dollars, respectively. Compared to shipments of 230 million units and sales of 13.8 billion dollars in the first half of last year, shipments increased by 1 million units but sales decreased by 600 million dollars.
The reason for the decrease in sales compared to the increase in shipments is because the shipments of OLEDs for watches, which are cheaper, have increased, but OLEDs for smartphones and TVs have decreased. OLED for watch was 22 million units in 1H19, but 1H20 increased significantly to 33.5 million units, helping to increase OLED shipments. However, the OLED market for smartphones decreased by 10.6 million units. The foldable OLED market has risen significantly with the Galaxy Z Flip, which Samsung Electronics released in the first half of this year.
<OLED shipments by major application products>
In the future, the increase in line capacity for mobile devices by panel makers is expected to slow from 2023. Until 2022, investments by Chinese companies are maintained, but further investment is difficult to expect as the oversupply of OLED for smartphones continues.
Samsung Display is converting the LTPS TFT line of the A3 plant to the LTPO TFT line, and since it has been converted so that Y-OCTA can be manufactured at all plants, the mass production capacity is expected to decrease gradually, reaching 9 million square meters in 2021.
As a result, Korea’s mass-produced substrate area is 56.5% until this year, but from 2021, China is expected to have 1% mass-produced capacity, and after 2022, China’s mass-produced capacity will exceed 50%.
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Smartphone OLED shipments plummeted to 87 million units in the second quarter of 2020
2020년 August 24일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
According to the market track for the second quarter of 2020 published by UBI Research, the total OLED shipments in the second quarter were 107 million units, down 13.4% (QoQ) from 124 million units in the last quarter. In addition, it decreased by 16.6% (YoY) compared to the 122 million units in the second quarter of 2019. This is because sales of OLED set devices decreased due to the aftermath of COVID-19.
However, it was found that the OLED market for smartphones that support the OLED market was significantly affected by COVID-19 compared to the overall market.
OLED shipments for smartphones in the second quarter were 87 million units, down 17% from the previous quarter (QoQ), and 23.1% from the same quarter last year (YoY). Compared to the decline in overall OLED shipments, the decline in OLED shipments for smartphones is even greater. However, the reason for the decline in OLED shipments for smartphones is concentrated on rigid OLEDs.
Despite the sharp decline in OLED shipments for smartphones, flexible OLEDs grew 38% compared to the same quarter last year.
However, the YoY of rigid OLED shipments was -40.3%, a sharp decline from the same quarter last year.
The reason why the increase in flexible OLED for smartphones has soared and the shipments of rigid OLEDs have fallen sharply is because Chinese smartphone makers reduced production of mid-priced smartphones using rigid OLEDs and increased smartphone shipments using flexible OLEDs.
According to UBI Research’s CEO Choong Hoon YI, the reason Chinese smartphone makers have increased their flexible OLED smartphone shipments is: First, due to the influence of Apple, Chinese smartphone makers also use OLED for their flagship models. In particular, Chinese smartphone makers use the name plus or max, which are used by Apple and Samsung Electronics, for the highest-end specifications, and imitate that they are making a product that is equivalent to Apple and Samsung Electronics, which are the most recognized in the smartphone market. The second reason is that Chinese display makers have improved OLED manufacturing technology, allowing them to produce panels similar to Samsung Display’s OLED. In particular, it is because Chinese panel makers are supplying panels at 60% of Samsung Display’s price, so Chinese smartphone makers have increased the choice of flexible OLEDs. The third reason is that Chinese panel makers can supply OLEDs at low prices because of the Chinese government’s subsidy policy.
YI said that the OLED industry will become more active due to the increase in OLED usage by Chinese smartphone makers, but the growth of Samsung Display’s OLED business, which has maintained a monopoly position in the smartphone OLED market, may stop growing due to the increase in production of Chinese panel makers.
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Supplied foldable OLED panels to CSOT T4, Motorola
2020년 August 10일 /in Display, Focus on, Set /by olednet
Recently, the panel maker COST T4 plant, a subsidiary of TCL Group, mainly produces premium flexible AMOLED displays, and already supplies them to Motorola foldable OLED phones and Xiaomi 10/10 Pro premium OLED phones.
In early 2019, TCL Group changed its company name to “TCL Technology” while reorganizing its assets and focused on the display panel business. The production capacity of TCL Technology, one of the LCD manufacturers with the largest production capacity in China, is showing rapid growth in recent years.
It is said that the CSOT shipment in 2019 was 22.84 million square meters, an increase of 23.8% from the same period last year. Among them, the flexible AMOLED T4 plant achieved the first stage of mass production in the fourth quarter of last year. CSOT expects that flexible products will be mass-produced within this year and will enter the market in large quantities.
At the same time, the spread of next-generation display technologies and materials is also strengthening. In 2019, the company invested 5.46 billion yuan in R&D and applied for 2,752 PCT international patent applications
The cumulative number of patents is 11,261, covering countries such as Europe, the United States, and Korea.
Even in the large size area, TCL applied HVA technology in LCD premium products to increase market share such as 4K/8K and Touch, and launched MLED, the world’s first glass substrate mini LED product.
Even in the small and medium sized area, TCL’s LTPS production line yield and quality have already reached the international level, and the market share of Incell/COF/Blind hole products is steadily increasing. Therefore, it is said that Off Screen/In Screen fingerprint technology is also actively developing.
TCL Technology, which focuses on premium flexible AMOLED, is focusing on premium technologies such as UDC technology and foldable.
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Will Dowooinsys expand UTG lines to prepare for the foldable phone market?
2020년 July 30일 /in Component, Focus on, Market /by olednet
The cover window material of Samsung Electronics ‘Galaxy Z Fold 2’ which will be released in the second half of this year, is UTG like ‘Galaxy Z Filp’. The reason why Samsung Electronics prefers UTG is analyzed for its sense of luxury, differentiation, and sensitivity for the touch pen expected to be applied in the future.
In 2021, the market for over 10 million foldable phones is expected to expand, and the main cover window material of Samsung’s foldable phones will be UTG. To respond to this, Dowooinsys should increase their capacity.
Dowooinsys’ capa is estimated to be 250K/month for 6 inch cells and 375K/month for 7 inch cells. Even if the 6 inch line will be converted to a 7 inch line in the future, it will be 500K/month. Considering the yield of Dowooinsisy and Samsung Display’s Vietnamese module line, more than 4 to 5 lines should be expanded.
Currently, Samsung Display’s Vietnamese module line is assumed as 450K/month considering the yield, but the Vietnamese module line is continually being converted into a foldable line. Even in response to the current situation that Samsung Electronics prefers UTG, Dowooinsys is expected to expand more lines in the second half of this year, and its location is also expected to be considered near Samsung Display’s Vietnamese module line.
With the expansion of Dowooinsys’ additional lines, the market of cover window materials for foldable phones is expected to change in the future. At UBI Research’s ‘Next-Generation Display Technology and Industry Outlook Seminar’ held in mid-July, it is predicted that UTG will lead the future market at a ratio of 7:3 with colorless polyimide.
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LPKF’s laser glass processing technology, makes a cover glass thicker than UTG be folded.
2020년 July 24일 /in Component, Focus on, Technology /by olednet
It was expected that the S Pen would be applied to Samsung’s ‘Galaxy Z Fold2’, which will be released in the second half of this year, but it has passed the year.
UTG, the cover window material currently applied to Samsung Electronics’ ‘Galaxy Z Filp’, is 30 um thick and is 1/10 thinner than 300 um, the thickness of commercially available cover glass.
It was possible to have flexibility by using UTG into a foldable phone, but due to the film-like characteristics, there was an issue that durability was insufficient to apply the S Pen.
In order to handle this issue, a technology that increases the thickness of UTG and secures flexibility will be needed. A typical method is processing the folding part of the glass to get flexibility even at a thick thickness.
LIDE (Laser induced deep etching) technology, developed and patented by German high-tech company LPKF, is expected to be a good example. It is known that this technology is a two-step process called micro-region transformation and chemical treatment using a laser, and can process glass of various thicknesses from 30 um to 900 um without micro crack.
LPKF explains that the part where the cover glass is folded is finely processed with a laser to give flexibility to the glass, and it is possible to design the pattern to be invisible using a polymer having same reflectivity as a cover glass.
If you look at Vitrion’s YouTube video (https://youtu.be/Vh3rU4LRHaw), a separate brand related to LIDE, in LPKF, you can see that a cover glass with a thickness of 500 um was patterned to secure bending radius of 1 mm.
<LPKF foldable OLED cover glass, Source: LPKF>
With this glass processing technology, attention is paid to whether a S-pen can be supported as a thicker cover glass is applied to a foldable phone in the future.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 2 image leak, internal and external displays become bigger.
2020년 July 22일 /in Display, Focus on, Set /by olednet
<The first supposed official render of Galaxy Z Fold2, Source: twitter.com/ishanagarwal24>On 21 July, information leaker for IT new product, Ishan Agarwal, released an image presumed to be a rendered photo of ‘Galaxy Z Fold2’ on his Twitter.
Galaxy Z Fold2 will be released at the end of September, about two months after it was unveiled at the Galaxy Unpack event on the 5th of next month.
Inside the Galaxy Z Fold2, a 7.7-inch foldable OLED that is larger than the previous Galaxy Fold’s 7.3-inch screen is used, and the cover window material of the foldable OLED is UTG. The size of the external OLED is 6.23 inch, which is 1.63 inch larger than the previous one.
The rear camera is equipped with a 1,800-megapixel main camera, a triple (three) camera and a flight distance sensor (ToF), and the internal camera is known to be located in the center of the right screen in the form of a punch hole, but can’t see in this image.
Expected touch pens do not apply to this model. The shipping price is expected to be 2.3 million won, which is about 100,000 won cheaper than the previous one.
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Published The Chinese OLED Industry Trend Report for The First Half of 2020
2020년 July 21일 /in Focus on, Market /by olednet
UBI Research published a report on trends in China related to the OLED industry at the end of the first half of 2020.
In 2020, 1Q China’s OLED sales were $842 million, despite a Corona 19 crisis, up 1.7% QoQ and 59.4% YoY. China’s OLED shipments are 23% of the total market as of 2020, and it is expected to expand to 45% in 2025.
This report includes product launch trends of OLED-related Chinese set makers during the 2019~first half of 2020, business and investment status by major panel manufacturers, supply chains for major products, various performance analysis and forecasts, and includes the trend of recently announced exhibition products.
This report will provide guidelines for people engaged in various tasks such as OLED-related panel manufacturing, parts/materials, and equipment fields to understand and forecast the Chinese OLED industry.
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Material Science Co., Ltd. develops high-purity blue light-emitting material with a half width of 11 nm
2020년 July 10일 /in Focus on, Market, Material /by olednet
In OLEDs which are currently leading the display industry for mobile devices and TVs, blue material is still using fluorescent material unlike red and green.
Currently, a lot of light emitting material companies are trying to improve the efficiency, lifespan, and color purity of blue light emitting materials, also next-generation materials such as phosphorescence, TADF, and hyper-fluorescence as well as actively developing luminous efficiency by controlling emission wavelengths.
Material Science (hereinafter referred to as MS), a Korean company that has been developing blue light emitting materials since 2015, has recently focused on realizing high color purity and successfully developed high color purity blue light emitting materials with a light emission wavelength of 460 nm and a half width of 11 nm. Considering that the emission wavelength of the currently commercially available blue material is about 20 nm, the blue material of MS is expected to receive great attention.
The full width at half maximum (FWHM) is an expression of the extent of function given by the difference between the two extreme values of the independent variable at which the dependent variable is equal to half of its maximum value.
and the narrower the half width, the higher the purity.
A typical example is Samsung Electronics’ QLED TV, which has significantly improved color reproduction by applying a QD sheet to the LCD back light.
The blue light emitting material developed by MS is expected to be applicable not only to fluorescent materials but also to hyper-fluorescence, which is attracting attention as a next-generation blue material according to emission wavelength control.
<Comparison of the half width of the existing blue dopant with the half width of the blue dopant developed by MS, Source: Materials Science>
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Announcement of sale of Samsung LCD P8-2 line
2020년 July 9일 /in Display, Focus on /by olednet
Recently, Samsung’s announcement of the sale of the P8-2 LCD line in Tangjeong was posted (announced on June 29).
Samsung has been steadily selling the old LCD line until recently, but since it has never posted a sale announcement, it is unusual to post a notice on the sale of this P8-2 line.
Prior to this, some facilities of the P8-1 line were converted to the newly invested QD display line, and only about 30K of TFT and 200K of CF out of all 200K-scale process equipment were sold to companies in China.
Shenzhen EFONLONG OPTRONICS DISPLAY CO., LTD, which acquired Samsung P8-1 line equipment, was founded in 2008 as a manufacturer of LCD modules , located in shenzhen, China. Hefengtai is known to attract investment from the government of Zhejiang, China, and install and operate a relocation facility in Zhejiang.
On the other hand, this P8-2 is known to sell the entire 200K-scale facility, and it is known that Samsung C&T is in charge of it, and the sale amount reaches 500 billion won.
Samsung is known to preferentially convert existing LCD facilities in line with the investment of QD Display, but due to the announcement of the sale of all volumes, it is expected that most of the investment facilities will be newly purchased in the future.
In view of this information, it is possible to carefully predict the possibility of a delay in the investment schedule of an additional 90K scale after the current QD display 30K investment or a change in the investment direction associated with QNED development status.
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Jiangsu LEMENG (江苏乐萌) invests 200 million yuan for OLED metal mask project
On June 18, 2020, Jiangsu Lemeng Precision Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (江苏乐萌精密科技有限公司, hereinafter Jiangsu Lemeng) invested 200 million yuan to sign a project contract to confirm the OLED metal mask. It was held in the state-of-the-art new district of Changzhou, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province.
Jiangsu Lemeng (江苏乐萌) secured 77,000 m2 new plant site for expand the OLED metal mask production line. Based on the existing G6 and G5.5 Mask Frame production lines, it will expand production capacity and secure large-scale production capacity of CMM. After the project is completed, Jiangsu Lemeng (江苏乐萌) can produce 8000 Mask Frames and 1000 CMMs annually, and the production sales are expected to reach 500 million yuan. Metal masks are core consumable parts required for OLED production, and have been exclusively supplied by Japanese and Korean companies for a long time.
Jiangsu Lemeng(江苏乐萌) is a subsidiary of Lemeng, Changzhou City, invested 120 million yuan from OLED business unit of Lemeng, Changzhou City, the predecessor, and related to OLED metal mask industrialization from 2017 Technology has been developed. Started mass production of Mask Frame from October 2019 and has a production capacity of about 1000 pieces per year. Jiangsu Lemeng is known to have already secured CMM industrialization technology, and is expected to secure 1,000 CMM production capacity annually from June 2021, when the new facility is completed.
Source: OLED Industry June 19
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Investment of 43.75 billion yuan, investment of new Micro OLED factory in China
2020년 June 25일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
According to China’s Fujian Daily, a large-scale investment agreement has been recently signed in Quanzhou, China. According to the contents of the agreement, the contents of various agreements including the Micro OLED project, high-purity electronic materials, lithium hexafluorophosphate project, China Datang 5G Southeast Industrial Base project, and integrated circuit start-up investment fund business are included. It consists of high-tech IT industries such as manufacturing, digital economy, and financial services.
It is known that Quanzhou City’s Micro OLED project is planned to divide the total of 4.33 billion yuan into two stages. The first phase of the project is to invest 667 million yuan and build one micro OLED module test production line on a 5000 square meter site. The monthly production capacity is 1 million units (basic size 8 inches), and the production of 100,000 modules is completed on an annual basis. It is estimated that the annual output of the resulting production will reach 350 million yuan. The second phase, which is in progress, is 3.7 billion yuan. One Micro OLED plant is built and the monthly production capacity is 15,000 sheets (12 inches of substrate size), and one Micro OLED plant will be produced to produce 20 million consumer electronics modules.
According to the breaking news reported earlier, the Micro OLED project was also announced at the concentrating cloud contract of Qianzhou City’s major project in 2020, held by the City Hall of Quanzhou on March 19th. At the time, the event was conducted in the form of’meeting site + online linkage of investment destinations’. Vice Minister Wang Yafu of County, Quanzhou City, signed the Huidong Industrial Park Micro OLED business, investing a total of 4.35 billion won with Chairman Wu Wen Tian of 福建恒煦实业有限公司 on behalf of the current government.
Source: Fujian Daily June 5
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Samsung Display A3 line replaced with Y-OCTA manufacturing line
2020년 June 17일 /in Display, Focus on, Technology /by olednet
The touch panel technology installed on a mobile phone is an important element technology that performs a user interface function. Touch technology is changed from an add-on type to an on-cell type in flexible OLED displays.
The built-in method in which a touch sensor is formed on a thin film encapsulation (TFE) is called by various names such as Y-OCTA(YOUM on-cell touch AMOLED), ToE(touch on encapsulation) or FMLOC(flexible multi-layer on cell touch) for each panel maker. Unlike the add-on type, the on-cell type touch sensor is formed directly on the top of the encapsulation layer without a separate base film. Due to this, the on-cell type has a higher process difficulty than the add-on type, but it is advantageous to manufacture a thin OLED panel thickness, and there is an effect of reducing the process cost.
Recently, in order to apply this on-cell type touch technology to mobile phones using OLEDs, each display manufacturer is undergoing a step-by-step line modification work. Four mask steps are added to apply the on-cell type touch technology. There are two ways to cope with this process step increase: to install and respond to new equipment as much as the process to increase, and to proceed with the process at existing facilities.
Samsung Display decided to use an existing exposure machine to use the on-cell type touch technology in the existing A3 line (Tangjeong), and is in the process of remodeling the 105K capacity TFT production line. In the existing process flow, a back plane process is performed with mother glass of 1500×1800 mm2 and 1500×900 mm2 glass with half-cutting of this mother glass is processed in the OLED process. Therefore, in order to process the half-cut glass again in the back plane equipment, the jig manufacturing method of connecting and processing two cut sheets is applied. After this modification, the production capacity of the A3 line will be reduced. The amount of 105K of the A3 line that is currently being renovated is changed from LTPS process to LTPO process, and it is combined with Y-OCTA process. In this case, 3 mask steps increase as LTPS is changed to LTPO, and 4 additional mask steps increase for Y-OCTA. As a result of the total increase of 7 mask steps, the A3 line is expected to reduce the existing 105K production capacity to approximately 75K level after remodeling.
China’s BOE is also constructing built-in touch processes in B7 and B11. BOE is in the process of adding and processing exposure equipment, etc. as a way to add a built-in touch process. In this case, there will be no significant change in production capa.
<Production capacity comparing with before/after modifying at SDC A3 line>
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Deuterium substitution blue, will be next generation blue materials?
2020년 June 12일 /in Focus on, Material /by olednet
Fluorescent blue emitting material is the only fluorescent material used in small and medium-sized OLEDs and large-area OLEDs.
Development of next generation emitting materials such as TADF and hyper-fluorescence is also in progress, but deuterium substitution technology has got attention since it is adopted to Samsung Galaxy S20.
Deuterium substitution technology is to replace hydrogen with deuterium in a compound combined with existing hydrogen, and each company has a difference in substituting the compound before or after synthesis or substituting the whole. Representative development companies for deuterium substitution include Idemitsu Kosan, DuPont, SFC, and JNC.
As related patents, compounds substituted with deuterium with an atomic mass of deuterium that is twice as high as hydrogen have lower zero-energy and lower vibrational energy than those combined with hydrogen, resulting in lower ground-state energy and weaker intermolecular interactions, resulting in a thin film in an amorphous state. It is effective in improving the life of OLED.
It is expected that the OLED device to which the deuterium-substituted compound is applied can improve the lifetime by more than 20% compared to the previous one.
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Samsung’s QNED, will make a sensation in the TV and display markets?
2020년 May 28일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
QNED (Quantum dot nanorod LED), which is known to be under development by Samsung, is becoming a hot issue in the display industry in 2020.
With the emergence of micro LEDs, followed by CRTs, PDPs, LCDs, and OLEDs as TV displays, the industry is interested in whether QNED could be another new technology.
Samsung Display is known to stop the LCD business and invest 13.1 trillion won as an alternative to do the QD-OLED business. In this situation, attention is being focused because the development of QNED can act as another variable in the future of Samsung Display’s large display business.
QNED uses oxide TFT and QD (quantum dot) -CF (color filter) technologies used in QD-OLED manufacturing. On the other hand, the pixel material that emits light is characterized by being changed to a nano-sized bar-type LED (nanorod LED), unlike OLED emitting materials. The pixel manufacturing technology, which is the core technology of QNED manufacturing, is a method of spraying nanorod LEDs dispersed in a solution into a pixel area by an ink jet method and arranging them in a self-align method by an electric signal.
UBI Research published a report that analyzed the structure and manufacturing technology of QNED based on the patented technology filed by Samsung Display. This report is structured to quantitatively analyze QNED-related patents filed by Samsung Display, so that QNED’s technology completeness and mass productivity can be known.
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QNED structure and manufacturing technology analysis report published
2020년 May 24일 /in Display, Focus on, Technology /by olednet
UBI Research (www.ubiresearch.com) published “QNED Structure and Manufacturing Technology Analysis Report”, which analyzed 41 cases of Samsung Display’s QNED (quantum dot nanorod LED) published patents.
The contents described in this report were selected from the 41 patents published, which are considered to be used for QNED manufacturing, and are constructed by qualitative analysis.
As a result of analyzing the published patent, the QNED structure was formed of TFT, pixel, and QD (quantum dot) -CF (color filter). In the published patent, all TFT structures are depicted as 2Tr (transistor), but it is estimated that a 3Tr1C structure will be used because at least three TFTs for current driving are required. The pixels consisted of nanorod LEDs, electrodes, and optical structures to increase light efficiency.
Until now, the electrode structure of the pixel was known to be rectangular, but as a result of analyzing published patents, the electrode structure is estimated to be circular. In a specific patent, when the asymmetric waveform was applied to the circular electrode, the alignment direction and alignment characteristics of the nanorod LED were improved. It is judged that the nanorod LED alignment electrode and the drive use the same electrode.
The nanorod LED used for QNED manufacturing is made of GaN and emits blue light, and the size is <1um x 10um. In order to increase the alignment effect of the nanorod LEDs and reduce process defects, the nanorod LED surface appears to be treated with an insulating film and an orientation radical.
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What is the difference between the touch types of each model of iPhone 12?
2020년 May 21일 /in Display, Focus on, Set /by olednet
All of Apple’s iPhone 12 models, OLED panels will be used and consisted of four models. There are three sizes, 5.4 inches, 6.1 inches, and 6.7 inches, respectively, and 6.1 inches are divided into two models.
Samsung Display and LG Display have begun preparing to mass-produce, with recent orders from Apple. Samsung Display plans to supply OLED panels of all sizes, LG Display plans to supply 6.1-inch OLED panels, and there are differences in touch type by size.
First, on-cell touch which a touch electrode is formed on a thin film encapsulation (TFE) is applied to 5.4 inch and 6.7 inch models. Each panel maker is called Y-OCTA (YOUM on-cell touch AMOLED), ToE (touch on encapsulation), FMLOC (flexible multi-layer on-cell touch), and unlike add-on touch, a touch electrode is formed directly on the upper layer without base films. Due to this, the on-cell touch has a higher process difficulty than the add-on touch, but it is advantageous to fabricate a thin OLED panel thickness, and the process cost is also reduced.
Add-on method is applied to 6.1 inches. A touch electrode is formed on the base film, and is attached on the TFE by adhesive. It has the advantage that the process is simpler than on-cell touch.
<Flexible OLED touch type, Source: AMOLED Manufacturing Process Report>
Recently, rumors that BOE is supplying 5.4 inch and 6.1 inch OLED panels to Apple have turned around, but 5.4 inch is on-cell touch type and it is still difficult to supply for iPhone 12 due to technical difficulty. BOE is developing a 6.1-inch OLED panel and has not received calls yet.
<iPhone 12’s touch types and panel suppliers>
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Who is the supplier of OLED panels for iPhone 12?
<Image of iPhone 12 Pro Max, Source: EveryApplePro>
Apple’s new iPhone 12 will be consisted of 4 models, and all 4 models are expected to adopt OLED. The general lineup of the iPhone 12 is the 5.4 inch iPhone 12 and the 6.1 inch iPhone 12 Max, and the pro lineup is the 6.1 inch iPhone Pro and the 6.7 inch iPhone Pro Max.
Recently, rumors are floating that BOE will supply OLED of 5.4 inch and 6.1 inch general models, and Samsung Display will supply OLED of 6.1 inch and 6.7 inch pro models. Due to the news that Chinese OLED panel manufacturer BOE is supplying OLEDs to Apple, the interest of OLED-related companies such as light-emitting material companies and component companies is growing day by day.
According to UBI Research, BOE is developing 5.4 inch and 6.1 inch OLEDs, but has not received any calls from Apple. In the current situation, Samsung Display plans to supply 5.4 inch, 6.1 inch, and 6.7 inch OLEDs, and LG Display and BOE are developing 6.1 inch OLEDs.
The BOE hasn’t gotten a clear call yet, but there’s plenty of time left for the mass production of the iPhone 12, so there’s plenty of room for the BOE to get a call from Apple. While the production of the iPhone 12 is likely to be delayed by about a month due to the corona incident, it usually takes 4 ~ 5 months from the OLED panel test to the mass production of the set, so there is enough time.
Related information can also be found in the recent report of ‘change in OLED market by coronavirus’, published by UBI Research.
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78.6 tons of OLED emitting material demand increased by 5.6% in 2020
2020년 May 8일 /in Equipment, Focus on, Market /by olednet
According to the 2020 OLED emitting material report published by UBI Research, the demand for emitting materials in 2020 is 78.6 tons, which is 4.2 tons higher than last year’s 74.4 tons. The material used for OLEDs for smartphones and mobile devices is 62.9 tons, and the OLED emitting material for TVs is expected to be 15.7 tons.
In 2019, the total emitting material market was totaled at $ 1.28 billion, and 43% of the total amount was purchased from Samsung Display. It was found that the amount purchased by LG Display was 19.4% and the BOE was 11.6%. LG Display’s purchase of emitting materials accounted for 60.8% of TV use. The order of purchase of emitting materials for mobile devices is in order of Samsung Display, BOE, and LG Display. This is because BOE has a large amount of OLED production for mobiles after Samsung Display.
The OLED panel for TV only produces LG Display, but Samsung Display is pursuing QD-OLED commercialization using blue light emitting material and QD. In addition, although BOE is a white OLED structure similar to LG Display, it is developing a top-emission structure that transmits light in the opposite direction of TFT, and it is expected that three companies will produce OLED panels for TV within a few years, and the emitting material market is expected to increase as well.
The market for emitting materials in 2020 is expected to increase by 7% from 2019 to $ 1.37 billion. Among the emitting materials, green and red hosts are expected to be $ 19.2 billion and $ 19 billion, respectively, and green dopants and P + are expected to be $ 1.37 billion and $ 1.35 billion, respectively.
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2020 OLED market change by coronavirus
2020년 May 4일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
According to UBI Research’s report on changes in the OLED market caused by coronavirus, the forecast for the 2020 OLED modification market is $ 36.7 billion in sales and 612 million units. This is a decrease of 4.8% and 7.6%, respectively, from the expected sales of $ 38.5 billion and shipments of 6.6 million units at the beginning of the year.
As a result of UBI Research’s analysis of the effect of coronavirus on the OLED market for two months, the global smartphone market is expected to drop by 20% and the TV market is expected to decrease by 15%. However, the impact on the overall OLED industry was judged to be only 5-8%. OLED panels for smartphones, TVs and watches are expected to decrease, but the market for OLEDs for monitors is expected to increase.
The expected OLED shipment for smartphones was 527 million units at the beginning of the year, but the forecast for correction is 486 million units, a decrease of only 7.8%. Although the market for Galaxy and iPhone is analyzed to be higher than the average decrease rate, Chinese smartphone makers are expected to reduce LCD smartphones and increase production of OLED smartphones significantly.
Chinese smartphone makers’ use of OLED seems to follow Apple’s business direction. Flagship models of Chinese smartphone makers have used Pro and Pro Plus. Pro is the model grade name used by Apple and Plus is the model grade name used by Samsung. However, flagship models of Chinese smartphone makers that are launching this year are using both Pro and Pro Max as well as Apple. All of these models, like Apple, plan to use flexible OLEDs.
The OLED TV market was found to be greatly affected by coronavirus. Estimated shipments at the beginning of the year were 4.9 million units, but the forecast for correction was 3.6 million units, down by 1.3 million units. A 26.5% reduction is expected. This is 300,000 units more than 2019 shipments. This is because the production schedule of the Guangzhou factory has been postponed since the third quarter due to the coronavirus, and TV sales are plunging due to the spread of coronavirus in Japan and Europe, the main markets for OLED TV. In fact, Japan’s TV performance in the second quarter was below 50% in 2019.
However, the demand for the OLED panel business for monitors that Samsung Display has been promoting since the second half of last year is expected to increase due to the game industry, telecommuting, telemedicine, and remote classes due to the aftermath of the coronavirus.
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Merck acquires OLED patents for display applications from Konica Minolta
2020년 April 28일 /in Display, Focus on /by olednet
Merck announced that it acquired the OLED patent portfolio for display applications from Konica Minolta Inc., a global technology company that provides innovative solutions to businesses and society on 24th April. The acquired portfolio comprises over 700 patent families.
“Adding Konica Minolta’s patents to our already strong portfolio will further boost our OLED development pipeline”, said Kai Beckmann, Member of the Executive Board of Merck and CEO Performance Materials. “With this step we will further strengthen our power to drive innovations in the fast-growing market of OLED displays.”
For more than 15 years, Merck has conducted research and development in the OLED technology field, and, as a result, became one of the leading OLED material suppliers.
The acquisition of Konica Minolta’s OLED patents for display applications is effective immediately. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Apple’s last LCD phone, iPhone SE
2020년 April 19일 /in Display, Focus on, Set /by olednet
The iPhone SE, the last product of the LCD smartphone that Apple has opened to the smartphone market, has been released.
Apple’s 2019 model iPhone 11 had three models, the base model iPhone 11 used a 6.06inch LCD, and the advanced specifications iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max used 5.85 inch and 6.46inch flexible OLED, respectively.
Samsung Display supplies both 5.85inch and 6.46inch flexible OLEDs, and LG Display has supplied only 6.46inch flexible OLEDs from the fourth quarter of 2019.
This year, Apple releases a four-model iPhone. There are three types of iPhone, SE2 which started selling this month, and 3 iPhone 12 which starts selling in September. Strictly speaking, since there are 2 models of the iPhone 12 Pro, 4 types of iPhones using OLED will be released in the second half of this year.
Apple’s current LCD phones are the iPhone 11 and the newly released SE2. Of the iPhone models released by Apple this year, only the LCD will use the SE2, and the SE2 is expected to be Apple’s last LCD smartphone.
Apple already mentioned that in 2019, all future iPhone displays will be replaced by OLEDs. Therefore, in fact, this is the reason that the SE2 released this time is expected to be the last LCD phone.
Most of the latest smartphones are more than 6 inches, but the iPhone SE2 released this time is a small 4.7-inch model using IPS LCD.
The reason Apple used a small display is believed to be a strategic product to target the mid-priced market of around $ 500. It’s currently $ 549.99 on eBay, but it’s on Amazon for $ 399.
Apple’s expected iPhone strategy is two tracks. First of all, in order to maintain the second largest market share in shipments, it is necessary to match shipments with products with a wide market of $ 500. And the operating profit creation is to fit the expensive iPhone 12 series using flexible OLED.
However, shipments of LCD phones are expected to gradually disappear after 2021, depending on the sales of 5.42 inches, the basic model of iPhone 12, which will be released in the second half of this year.
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Huawei’s OLED TV launch, LG Electronics, and Sony’s 48-inch OLED TV launch will further increase the influence of OLED TV
2020년 April 7일 /in Display, Focus on, Set /by olednet
Huawei launch its first OLED TV and LG Electronics and Sony will launch a new lineup, a 48-inch OLED TV. As a result, the OLED TV camp and lineup are expected to become more diverse.
First, Huawei will launch its first OLED TV X65 soon. X65 is used a 24-megapixel camera to control the TV with a ‘gesture tracking’ function that recognizes the user’s face, motion, and posture, and is equipped with 14 under-screen speakers to automatically To correct the sound. The X65 used LG Display’s OLED will be released on April 8.
China’s OLED TV camp has increased to five camps from Skyworth, Konka, Changhong, and Xiaomi to Huawei. In addition, Huawei’s OLED TV launch, which is leading the Chinese smartphone market, can have a great influence on the premium TV market in the future.
<Hauwei’s OLED TV ‘X65’, Source: news.mydrivers.com>
Meanwhile, LG Electronics and Sony, which are leading the OLED TV market, will launch a new 48-inch OLED TV to make the lineup more diverse. Currently, OLED TVs have only 55-inch, 65-inch, and 77-inch lineups, and are evaluated to have a relatively short lineup compared to LCD TVs. LG Electronics and Sony are planning to target the Japanese or European market with high preference for small TVs through the launch of this 48-inch OLED TV.
<Sony’s 48 inch OLED TV ‘KJ-48A9S’, Source: Sony.jp>
LG Electronics and Sony’s 48-inch OLED TVs are scheduled to be released in May and July, respectively.
It is noteworthy whether OLED TV will exert great influence once again in the premium TV market in 2020, such as Huawei joining the OLED TV camp and LG Electronics and Sony launching the first 48-inch OLED TV.
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Samsung Display QD-OLED investment timing forecast
2020년 April 3일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
Samsung’s LCD business, which began in 1991, will be suspended in 2021. Samsung’s LCD business is completely closed after a 30-year lifespan. Samsung foresaw the limitations of the LCD business 10 years ago and stopped investing in the 10G. Instead, Samsung Electronics has separated the LCD business to create a Samsung Display combined with Samsung SDI’s OLED and has been preparing for a new display era.
Samsung’s loss of LCD business can be estimated for two reasons. The first is the deterioration of profitability from China’s LCD over-investment, and the second is the transition to a new business with high added value.
Since the display is an essential product in the modern information society, demand is gradually increasing worldwide as the usage is increased. In addition, as the amount of information increases, the data to be expressed increases, so the display size must also increase. By these two factors, the display industry has the power to continue to develop. However, China’s LCD investments have continued to invest in large quantities over many years. In the wake of this, only two LCD companies in Japan, Sharp and JDI, remained, and the Korean LCD business also reached a point where it was necessary to organize the business due to deficits.
Samsung Display and LG Display have expanded the OLED business to respond to the low-priced panel of Chinese LCD companies, and have focused on producing OLEDs with the best image quality preferred by set makers with high brand power. Samsung Display already secured a market of $ 25.3 billion in the smartphone display business in 2019, and LG Display secured $ 2.2 billion in sales in the OLED market for TV last year.
Samsung Display has enjoyed tremendous sales and operating profit in the OLED business, but the LCD business has been in the red for several years. Samsung Display sells LCDs for monitors, mainly for LCDs for TVs, but has secured the optimal solution to replace them all as QD-OLEDs.
QD-OLED production, which Samsung Display started investing from this year, uses 8.5G equipment. This is because Samsung Display’s factory in Tangjeong is an 8.5G LCD line, which can reduce the cost of building an OLED production line. Samsung Display will produce 8K 65-inch QD-OLED panels at this plant starting next year. It also produces QD-OLEDs for 32-inch 4K monitors. Maintaining the TV and monitor panel business previously held by Samsung Display, profitability can be secured by selling expensive products.
Samsung Display started investing in QD-OLED 30K in the existing 8.5G LCD factory, but the total investment is 120K. The remaining investment is 90K. Samsung Display’s additional investment is expected to change in size and timing depending on the QD-OLED production situation starting next year. If a yield of over 60% is secured from the beginning of production, the remaining 90K can be invested in next year. This is the most desirable timing. It can be used without leaving the LCD engineer. To prepare for this situation, all LCD lines must be removed by the first half of 2021. The next scenario is when the QD-OLED yield is less than 60%. In general, when the yield is low, the plant cannot be fully operated, so it does not require much manpower. Since additional investment is appropriate after securing the yield, it is a method of separating the investment, investing 30 ~ 60K, and then investing the remaining size later.
Nobody know what will happen next year, but Samsung Display is steadily taking a step forward to secure the future business.
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JDI decided to sell LCD production equipment to a foreign client for 200 million dollars.
2020년 April 3일 /in Equipment, Focus on, Market /by olednet
JDI announced that it has agreed to sell production equipment at its plant in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, to a foreign client for 200 million dollars.
The Hakusan plant was JDI’s mainstay factory, producing LCD panels for Apple. The plant was halted in July last year due to sluggish demand. JDI plans to clean up excess facilities that have caused poor performance.
JDI decided to sell LCD production equipment to Apple first and real estate to Sharp later, but negotiations have been delayed due to the effect of the corona virus.
The Hakusan plant was built with Apple’s $ 1.5 billion funds and operated at the end of 2016. But because Apple’s utilization of OLED panels on iPhones has increased in recent years, utilization rate of Hakusan plant has decreased. Moreover, it was a burden for JDI to repay the advances to Apple at the end of February 2020. It is a policy that the funds obtained through the sale of the equipment will be used to repay advances.
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Foldable OLED UTG market expected to grow rapidly
2020년 April 1일 /in Component, Focus on, Market /by olednet
As Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Z Flip continues to be sold out in the market, Samsung Display’s foldable OLED cover window UTG (ultra thin glass) market is expected to grow rapidly.
According to UBI Research’s first quarter 2020 parts and materials market track, the UTG market is expected to grow to $ 160 million this year and to $ 640 million in 2023.
In Samsung Electronics’ first-generation foldable phone, the Galaxy folder, a transparent PI made of plastic was used as the cover window, but in the second-generation foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Flip, the cover window was replaced with UTG. The reason Samsung Display changed the transparent PI to UTG is that the glare of the glass cover when the screen is off gives a much more luxurious feeling than the transparent PI.
Samsung Display used transparent PI produced by Dongwoo Fine-Chem for the first-generation foldable OLED, but changed it to UTG produced by Dowooinsys technology. Glass for UTG is provided by Shott. To strengthen the foldable OLED ecosystem, Samsung Display secured a 27.7% stake in Dowooinsys and secured its position as the largest shareholder. Foldable OLED latecomers are now only developing out-folding type foldable OLEDs as transparent PI, but Samsung Display has changed materials to prevent latecomers from following the foldable OLED market at all.
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3F starts construction of 1,100 tons of PI production plant annually
2020년 March 31일 /in Component, Display, Focus on /by olednet
China has entered the localization of PI. Although it has grown to the world’s highest level of LCD production, it is still only a few percent in the OLED panel market. In the OLED field, the Chinese government continues to invest heavily in panel makers, mainly BOE, to help China become the best production base. However, the supply chain of parts and materials that are essential for producing OLED is very poor.
The Chinese government has invested in a PI plant to make flexible substrates, which is the first step in flexible OLED manufacturing.
3F New Material, located in Changshu, started a project capable of producing 1,100 tons of PI per year. The project involved construction of a three-story production plant on a site of 2408 square meters with a total investment of 216 million yuan. The total building area is 7224 square meters, and after completion of the factory, it will have the capacity to produce 1,000 tons of PI for the substrate and 100 tons of transparent PI for the cover window.
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Samsung Display, LG Display, and OLED sales depend on the operation of the Vietnamese module factory
2020년 March 25일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
Samsung Display and LG Display, whose business trip to Vietnam was blocked by the Corona virus, are trying to prevent delays in OLED production by launching charter.
Samsung Display, which produces OLED for mobile devices, operates a line of OLED modules for smartphones in Bac Ninh, Vietnam, and Samsung Electronics also has smartphone manufacturing plants in Bac Ninh and Tai Nguyen. Samsung Display installed the foldable OLED module line 30K in December 2019. In this module factory, Samsung Display is producing foldable OLED modules for Galaxy Z flips, which Samsung Electronics has begun selling this year. LG Display invested a total of KRW 1 trillion in Haiphong, Vietnam in May 2016 to produce the OLED module, built a module factory and started operation in September of that year.
The Vietnamese government is blocking entry from Korea to prevent the spread of coronavirus. This has made it difficult for Korean companies with factories in Vietnam to travel to Vietnam. However, Samsung Display and LG Display are preparing a charter for the normal operation of their OLED module factory and are on a business trip to Vietnam.
If Samsung Display is unable to manage the Vietnamese module factory, Samsung Electronics will disrupt the production of the Galaxy Z Flip, which is the biggest game this year, and may cause huge losses and may be affected by the leading position in the foldable smartphone market. LG Display is also in an urgent situation. From the fourth quarter of last year, LG Display began to supply pOLED to Apple following Samsung Display, and pOLED shipments to Apple are increasing this year. As LG Display supplied pOLED to Apple, sales increased significantly last year. This year, LG Display’s Apple supply is expected to reach 15 million units.
Therefore, these two companies are desperate to manage the module factory in Vietnam to maintain the OLED business.
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Molecular Glasses Receives U.S. Patent 10,593,886 For Improved OLED Device Lifetime
2020년 March 23일 /in Focus on, Material /by olednet
The U.S. Patent Office has awarded patent number U.S. 10,593,886 to Molecular Glasses, Inc. for “OLED Devices with Improved Lifetime Using Non-Crystallizable Molecular Glass Mixture Hosts”
<Improved OLED device lifetime using OLEDIQ™, Source: molecularglasses.com>
The present invention provides an OLED multilayer electroluminescent device that includes a cathode, an anode, a light-emitting layer (LEL) disposed there between, and charge-transporting layers disposed between (A) the cathode and the light-emitting layer, (B) the anode and the light-emitting layer, or (C) both (A) and (B). The light-emitting layer (LEL) includes a host material and an emitter. The host material includes a high-entropy non-crystallizable molecular glass mixture, which includes hole-transporting capabilities, electron-transporting capabilities, or ambipolar capabilities. The ambipolar capabilities include hole-transporting capabilities and electron-transporting capabilities.
According to Mike Molaire, Molecular Glasses’ CEO and Founder, “OLEDIQ™ materials are amorphous, soluble small molecules that are non-crystallizable, which prevents aggregation of dopant emitters. This means OLEDIQ™ produces significant improvements in OLED lifetime and high reliability. This is an ideal platform for high-efficiency, long-lasting blue OLED. OLEDIQ™ materials can be used for both the vacuum-thermal deposition production process, as well as inkjet printing without any modification”.
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The OLED emitting material market will grow to $ 1.9 billion by 2020
2020년 March 19일 /in Focus on, Market, Material /by olednet
UBI Research(www.ubiresearch.com), a company specializing in OLED market research, predicted that the market for OLED emitting materials for 2020 will rapidly grow to $ 1.9 billion.
According to the OLED emitting material market track published by UBI Research every quarter, the emitting material market in 2019 was $ 1.304 billion, up 39.2% from 2018’s $ 0.937 billion market.
The reason for the growth of the emitting market in 2019 is proportional to the growth of the OLED panel market for smartphones. This is because OLED shipments for smartphones in 2018 were 407 million units, but growth was 16% in 2019 at 474 million units. (Source: UBI Research 2020 OLED Display Market Track).
The reason why the emitting material market growth is greater than that of the panel market is that 6G flexible OLED factories of Chinese panel makers have started operation. The production amount is still small, but the yield is low, so the input of the substrate is twice the amount of production, so the consumption of emitting materials is very high. In addition, it is one of the reasons that the market for emitting materials has grown due to the small purchase volume compared to Samsung Display.
As a result of counting sales by emitting materials companies in 2019, UDC accounted for $ 233 million, accounting for 17.9% of total sales, and Samsung SDI accounted for $ 212 million (including Novaled sales), accounting for 16.2%.
In 2020, both panel makers’ capacity and utilization rate are expected to increase, and consumption of emitting materials is also expected to increase.
The total consumption of emitting materials in 2019 was 73 tons, but it is expected to increase to 102 tons in 2020.
Expected consumption for each material is 16.9 tons for HITL materials and 4.15 tons for blue host materials. Blue host and dopant materials are expected to increase rapidly from 2021 when Samsung Display starts mass production of QD-OLED.
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Wuhan Tianma 6G OLED line installation delay
2020년 March 17일 /in Equipment, Focus on /by olednet
The Tianma T4 plant in Wuhan has continued to produce even during the corona period, and the core equipment of the ph2 6G OLED line has already been brought in, but the equipment set-up is delayed due to the inability of overseas equipment companies to enter Wuhan.
In recent, as the number of corona virus spreaders in China, including Wuhan, has declined, equipment set-up is expected to resume from the second quarter, and mass production is expected to start after the third quarter.
The ph2 of Tianma T4 was signed on June 1, 2018, and a total of RMB 14.5 billion was invested. When the Ph2 setup is complete, the Tianma T4 plant will have a total of 35K Capa in 6G.
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2020 OLED Manufacturing Equipment Market Forecast
2020년 March 15일 /in Equipment, Focus on, Market /by olednet
According to UBI Research’s annual equipment market track for 2020, the OLED manufacturing equipment market is expected to reach $ 9.51 billion in 2020. This is an increase of $ 1.2 billion compared to $ 8.31 billion in 2019.
Chinese panel makers have aggressively invested the 6G Flexible OLED line, but due to the high panel price, the adoption of flexible OLED produced in China in the smartphone market has not increased, leading to an oversupply of over 30% worldwide. For this reason, Korea has stopped investing in 6G flexible OLED, and Chinese panel makers are also delaying their investment time slightly.
However, by 2020, Samsung Display’s investment in the 8.5G QD-OLED 30K line began, and the equipment market will remain at the 2019 level.
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Canon enters OLED materials business
Canon is considering the OLED materials business as the adoption of OLED panels such as smartphones and TVs is spreading. OLED panels are used in electronic finders in Canon’s mirrorless cameras.
Although no specific production date has been announced, the company will focus on research and development, group companies in Fukui Prefecture, and Fukui Canon.
Canon Tokki, the No. 1 OLED evaporator market share, is a subsidiary.
Canon is developing TADF luminescent materials as Cu-complex compounds. (Japanese Patent JP2011213643A)
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OPPO Launches All-round 5G Flagship Find X2 Series with Industry-leading Screen
2020년 March 10일 /in Display, Focus on, Set /by olednet
OPPO unveiled its Find X2 series March 6, 2020 – a flagship lineup of 5G devices that delivers a powerful camera experience and battery life, with one of the most advanced screens in the industry.
In the 5G era, with the improvement of the network, users are now consuming content at a much faster rate and simultaneously have higher requirements for the content quality. Catering to these needs, Find X2 is equipped with a 120Hz QHD+ AMOLED screen, an all-round ultra-vision-camera system, the industry’s fastest 65W SuperVOOC 2.0 flash charging technology and the most advanced 5G mobile platform—Snapdragon 865. The Find X2 Pro is also the first mobile phone to support all-pixel omnidirectional focus and up to 12bit photo capturing.
Both Find X2 and Find X2 Pro are equipped with an OPPO customized 120Hz 6.7inch QHD+ Ultra Vision Screen with more than one billion variations of color display capabilities, bringing a visual revolution in resolution, color, refresh rate and brightness. With a resolution of 3168×1440, 513 ppi, ultra-low screen reflectivity and a maximum screen brightness of up to 1200nit, it creates a clear and comfortable display in any environment.
The Find X2 series adopts a front and back sleek double-curve body design. The front of Find X2 series is covered with Corning Gorilla’s sixth-generation glass panel. The advanced COP packaging technology and the 67.8° curved surface design create a visually borderless effect, making the phone round and smooth to touch.
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AP System supplies ELA equipment to Chongqing BOE B12
2020년 March 9일 /in Equipment, Focus on /by olednet
AP System was selected as the final bidder for BOE’s B12 line ELA (eximer laser annealing) equipment.
ELA is an essential equipment to make low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT for OLED. Eximer laser crystallizes a-Si into polysilicon. It is called LTPS because it makes polysilicon without applying high heat.
In this bid, BOE presented not only equipment quality but also technical competitiveness, easy operation, and maintenance as a supply condition. The AP system met all these requirements and became a final equipment supplier. The official PO has not come out yet.
BOE B12 plans to install eight ELA units. AP System also supplied ELA equipment to BOE’s B7 and B11.
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The impact of the corona virus on the OLED market in 2020
2020년 March 8일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
Dark clouds are approaching Korean industry by the corona virus that has been blown since the beginning of the year. Wuhan, the birthplace of the corona virus, is badly affecting the Chinese display industry because it is a key place where Chinese display makers are building large production bases.
Wuhan and other plant set-ups are experiencing difficulties due to the lack of manpower needed to build the line. At the same time, the utilization rate of the entire supply chain in China is falling sharply, as the labor force of parts and materials manufacturers in China is delayed to return to the factory. In the smartphone industry, the center of the OLED industry, iPhone production is affected in the first quarter. Foxconn’s factories, which produce iPhones in Zhangzhou and Shenzhen, China, are operating at 50% at end-February. This is because manufacturing workers are returning to the factory late. Companies such as Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo are also hampering smartphone production due to delays in parts procurement.
Nevertheless, the production of OLED smartphones is not much affected yet. First, Samsung Display’s panel production plant, which accounts for 86.3% (2019) of OLED shipments for smartphones, is located in Korea, while the module plant in Vietnam is not affected by China. In addition, the supply chain has no effect as most of the material production bases that make up OLED panels (including modules) are also in Korea.
Samsung Display’s OLED production for smartphones in January and February totaled 48 million units, less than 2 million units compared to 50 million units shipped in the same period in 2019. Of these, 14 million and 17 million units were supplied to Chinese smartphone makers in 2019 and 2020, respectively. This year, more than 3 million units are shipped. So far, Samsung Display’s OLED business is not affected by the corona virus.
The total market share of Chinese OLED panel makers in 2019 is 11.7%. By February, the panel utilization rate of Chinese OLED panel makers was maintained at 80%. The impact of factory operation due to lack of manpower is about 20% because most of the display manufacturing industry is driven by automated facilities. Chinese OLED makers import most of the major materials, including light emitting materials, from Korea and Japan, so they are hardly affected by the corona virus.
The parts procurement status of smartphone makers in China affects the market. If Chinese suppliers, including Huawei, fail to procure parts in China, smartphone production will be hampered. However, as Samsung Display’s OLED production for China is progressing smoothly, Chinese smartphone makers have a strategy of maintaining OLED smartphones, which are expensive brands.
In addition, the first quarter is the off-season with the lowest shipment season, so even if it is difficult to operate a smartphone manufacturing plant until March, the impact on the overall market is about 10%. After the second quarter, if the corona virus subsides, demand can resume.
The problem is from March. China’s corona virus has slowed down, but South Korea has been expanding since the last week of February. There is someone has a virus at Samsung’s Gumi smartphone manufacturing plant. In addition, the Vietnamese authorities, concerned about the influx of South Korea’s virus, refused to visit Koreans, which may make it difficult for the headquarters to properly deal with problems with Samsung Display’s module plant management in Vietnam.
Most important of all, the corona virus is spreading all over the world, and economic activity is severely reduced. In China, the entrance of the apartment is blocked, so it is difficult to bring TV. The Chinese TV market is shrinking. Many people are refusing to go out because they are concerned about a corona virus infection, so fewer people visit a store and buy a smartphone. Consumer sentiment is falling significantly.
Assuming that the corona virus crisis will end in March in Korea and China, the impact of the smartphone OLED industry on 2020 is estimated to be about 5%, but if it is prolonged, it may be adversely affected by more than 10%. Assuming that the corona virus crisis will end in March, the impact of the smartphone OLED industry on 2020 is estimated to be around 5%, but if it continues until the first half of the year, it could be adversely affected by 10%.
The OLED business for TV is slightly different. LG Display’s factories that produce exclusive OLED panels for TVs are located in Paju, Korea, and Guangzhou, China. The Paju plant is not disrupted at all. Like OLEDs for smartphones, parts and components are mostly supplied by Korean and Japanese companies, so Paju factory is not affected by China.
The problem is the Guangzhou plant. LG Display has been expected to produce panels since September 2019, but its supply has been delayed due to poor panel lifetime. LG Display has begun production of panels again this year and is undergoing product tests from customers. Recently, however, the corona virus has begun to spread in Korea, making it difficult for Korean engineers to go to Guangzhou. Even if the corona virus disappears in the first quarter in China and the factories operate normally, it may take some time before the panel is supplied from the Guangzhou plant.
According to Ubi Research’s OLED market track, the 2020 forecast is 4.95 million units without considering the corona virus situation, of which 750,000 OLED panels for TV can be produced by LG Display in the first quarter. If the 55-inch production volume is large, up to 800,000 units can be produced. Since the data were prepared in anticipation that panels produced at the GuangZhou plant will be available from the second quarter, LG Display’s panel supply is expected to be 1.4 million units in the second quarter.
However, it is possible that production will be delayed after May if the customer’s quality certification of panels produced at Guangzhou plant is delayed due to the Korean coronavirus rather than the Chinese coronavirus. In that case, the annual TV panel production could be reduced by about 200,000 units, which is expected to decrease by 4% from the estimated total. However, if the corona virus is prolonged by June, it can cause up to 10% of adverse effects. The market should consider 500,000 fewer than expected.
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Galaxy S20 series, Korea’s first day of opening about 70,000 units
2020년 March 3일 /in Focus on, Market, Set /by olednet
The opening volume of Samsung’s new smartphone Galaxy S20 series on the first day in Korea is half that of last year’s Galaxy S10.
According to the Korean telecommunications industry on February 28, the opening volume of the Galaxy S20 series is estimated at about 70,800 units. This figure is about 50% lower than the 140,000 units of the Galaxy S10, which was released in March last year.
In the industry, the Galaxy S20 Ultra is equipped with an 108 million pixel camera, so it was expected that the S20 series, which greatly enhanced the camera function, will be in high demand.
The decrease in the opening volume of the Galaxy S20 is estimated to have reduced demand for the Galaxy S20 due to the decrease in offline visitors due to the spread of the new corona virus.
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LG Display named Huawei flexible OLED supplier for new smartphone P40 Pro
2020년 March 3일 /in Display, Focus on, Set /by olednet
LG Display is the top OLED company with a monopoly market in the production of OLED panels for TVs, but the performance was low in the flexible OLED market for smartphones until the first half of 2019.
LG Display built a flexible OLED line after Samsung Display and focused on panel sales, but failed to supply flexible OLED by pushing BOE to Huawei’s P30 Pro model in 2019. However, in the second half of 2019, it succeeded in supplying panels to Huawei for Mate30 Pro, and began supplying flexible OLED for iPhone to Apple.
Huawei’s P40 Pro shipment target is 12 million units, and LG Display is expected to supply 50%. The variable is a new coronavirus. It could change Huawei’s smartphone launch schedule and volume.
Huawei is highly dependent on domestic demand, and coronaviruses can reduce shipments by more than 10%.
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Compal develops 13-inch foldable PC FlexBook
Compal, an ODM for notebook and mobile devices, has developed a prototype foldable hybrid tablet that can be equipped with a keyboard. Similar to Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold, Compal’s FlexBook is a 13.1 tablet with two speakers at the bottom, two USB-C ports, and a volume button on the side.
The tablet can be folded in half with a foldable OLED and a zero gap lay flat hinge. Fold in half to use it like a notebook. Attach a keyboard to make it easier to use. This product can use stylus.
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IPhone shipments may drop sharply in 1Q
2020년 February 28일 /in Focus on, Market, Set /by olednet
The impact of China’s corona virus is expected to reduce iPhone production by 50% year-on-year.
Foxconn’s iPhone plants are located in Zhangzhou and Shenzhen, China, where 90% of the iPhone is manufactured.
Foxconn’s Zhangzhou’s workforce is about 160,000, but only about 10% have returned since the spring holiday, and the Shenzhen plant has not resumed production.
Foxonn plans to increase overall utilization by 80% in March. For the time being, iPhone production is expected to decline.
Foxconn pays 3000 yuan (about $ 400) per person if it returns before March 7th to increase plant utilization.
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Estimated OLED shipments by 2020 will be 662 million units
2020년 February 18일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
According to UBI Research’s “2020 OLED Annual Report”, OLED sales in 2020 are expected to be $ 38.5 billion, an increase of 17.5% from the sales of $ 32.8 billion in 2019.
In terms of shipments in 2020, smartphone OLEDs are expected to reach 527 million units, TV OLED units at 4.9 million units, and watch OLED units at 118 million units. The estimated 2020 shipments of OLED for foldable phones are 6 million units.
The bad news for the OLED market for smartphones in 2020 is a decline in demand due to the ongoing Corona virus COVID-19. But in 2H, demand for flexible OLED will increase as Apple adopts more OLEDs. In particular, OCTA will be applied to the flexible OLED for iPhone, which will be produced in 2H, and the price of flexible OLED is expected to fall by 15-20%. The high price of US $ 1,000 or more could lead to a surge in replacement demand for iPhones, which could not be replaced, leading to increased flexible OLED shipments.
The product to be noted in the OLED TV market is the newly launched 48-inch product. 48-inch OLED TV, introduced as a gaming TV at CES2020, is expected to be in high demand in Japan. Sony’s OLED TV sales are expected to increase.
Chinese panel makers are very active in producing OLEDs for watches. The watch uses a small display of 1 to 1.5 inches, but the rigid OLED price is very expensive, at about $ 10 to 15 dollars. Chinese panel makers account for 43.3% of the 70 million OLED panel shipments in 2019. However, Korean companies that supply expensive flexible OLEDs to Samsung Electronics and Apple account for 65.3% of sales.
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Foldable Phone Cover Window Material Competition To Heat up.
2020년 February 10일 /in Component, Focus on, Market /by olednet
Ahead of Samsung Electronics’ unpacking event, interest in the foldable phone cover window material is hot. There was a concerned surprise that the Galaxy Fold, which was scheduled to be released in the first half of last year, was delayed for several months due to the tearing issue of the protective film. This year’s concern is whether Ultrathin Glass (UTG), which has emerged as a substitute for Colorless Polyimide (CPI), can be mass-produced without major issues.
Samsung Electronics will release the Galaxy Z flip known as “Clamshell” in the first half of this year and the Galaxy Fold 2 known as “Winner 2” in the second half of this year. The Clamshell is known to adopt UTG. This material is advantageous in terms of the hardness required for the use of the S Pen, the luxurious visibility and the soft touch unique to the glass. Moreover, the major reason for adopting UTG is known to remove wrinkle at the center of the screen, which has been pointed out as a disadvantage of CPI.
Prior to adopting UTG, Samsung Display invested $ 40.8M in Dowooinsys, UTG maker, and became the largest shareholder with 27.7% stake. The intention is to secure the stable supply of UTG and reduce its dependence on Japan for major materials.
<Ultrathin Glass (UTG) (Source : Dowooinsys homepage)>
However, there are also concerns about the adoption of UTG. Schott, AGC and Corning are also developing the product and they can produce substrates with a thickness of about 100 mm by the floating method or the slit nozzle method. To make it even thinner, Dowooinsys uses hot drawing or HF etching. The thickness of UTG to secure durability is believed to be 100 mm or more and with this thickness, the radius of curvature is about 2 ~ 3mm (~1mm for CPI), which reduces design freedom of the foldable phones. To improve durability, the UTG surface is coated with a polymer resin, which also prevents glass fragments from scattering when broken. The current problems of UTG are that mass production and yield are not yet secured due to the difficulty of the process, and that there exist traumatic worries on unexpected durability issues when released to the market.
Meanwhile, CPI material companies, which have been threatened by the news that UTG will be adopted for Clamshell, are also preparing to fight back. In order to remove the changeable window film (protective film) of PET material applied to Galaxy Fold, they are increasing the hardness of the hard coating on the CPI and developing a functional coating to give a glassy gloss. In particular, Dongwoo Fine-Chem, which did hard-coating on the CPI for Galaxy Fold, is known to simplify the process by developing hard coating materials including antifouling function. With all efforts added up , the CPI cover window structure is changed from the first generation foldable phone (PET + COA + CPI + COA) to the second generation foldable phone (CPI + COA), enabling the thickness to be reduced from about 200 mm to half, and the material cost and the process to be reduced.
<2019 Released Samsung Galaxy Fold Structure (Source: UBI Research Report)>
<Structure Prediction of the Samsung Galaxy Fold Follow-up Models: When Using UTG (Left) and CPI (Right) (Source: UBI Research)>
In addition to Sumitomo Chemical, which supplied to Galaxy Fold, Kolon Industries and SKC are also preparing for mass production of CPI. While UTG adoption seems to benefit to Clamshell with small screens, CPI is advantageous for larger screen sizes. UTG must make up for durability at the thickness retaining design freedom, and secure mass production system and price competitiveness through process improvement. CPI should strive to improve the hardness and appearance close to glass, and also increase price competitiveness. The material selection criteria will vary with the foldable phone models and customer response. Therefore the customer response for the Clamshell will be an important step in the future direction of the foldable phone cover window material. The market for the material is expected to grow rapidly, reaching $ 429.6M by 2023. The competition between UTG and CPI to take the market first has now begun.
<Market Forecast for Cover Window Materials (Source: UBI Research Report)>
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JDI at Japan signed a $1 billion investment contract and focused on automobile LCDs and finger sensors rather than OLEDs.
2020년 February 7일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
Japan Display (JDI) announced on the Jan. 31st that they have signed a final contract to receive investment of up to 108 billion yen (980 million dollar) from Ichigo Asset Management. Therefore, the company is expected to release its debts and invest in new fields such as fingerprint sensors. However, it has yet to be determined whether JDI will invest in OLED for Smartphones.
It will take over preferred shares at 50.4 billion yen and secure 44 percent of voting rights to become the largest shareholder. The remaining 50.4 billion yen will take over preferred shares that do not have voting rights, but after one year, it will be possible to convert ordinary shares, which will result in more than a majority of Ichigo’s voting rights. Scott Caron, the CEO of Ichigo, will be Chairman of JDI after approval. JDI plans to hold an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting on March 25 to get the official approval and receive the funds on March 26 the same day.
JDI is supplying liquid crystal panels for the iPhone to Apple, but JDI needs a new revenue source as Apple is set to hire more OLED panels in the mid- and long-term. JDI plans to use funds from Ichiro to invest in facilities such as LCDs for automobile and fingerprint sensors. In an interview in September 19, JDI’s CEO Kikuoka said, “We will decide whether or not to mass-produce OLED panels for smartphones in 2020,” but this investment is not expected to be easy.
<JDI president Kikuoka (left) and Ichigo CEO Scott Caron (Nikkei.com)>
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Motorola unveils clamshell-type foldable OLED smartphone
2020년 January 13일 /in Display, Focus on, Set /by olednet
Reporter : Daejeong Yoon
Motorola unveiled “ Moto RAZR 2019 ”, a clamshell type foldable OLED smartphone at a presentation to be held in Los Angeles, USA on November 13th. The Motorola RAZR is characterized by the folding in the horizontal direction rather than the vertical folding like a book, and is like the new foldable phone type that Samsung Electronics unveiled at SDC 2019 last October.
<Moto RAZR 2019, Source: gsmarena.com>
Moto RAZR 2019 will be equipped with a 6.2-inch OLED and the vendor will be BOE. OLEDs are notched, with an aspect ratio of 22: 9 and a resolution of 2142 x 876. In addition, the external LCD is equipped with a 2.7-inch, 600 x 800 resolution secondary LCD to provide simple information such as reminders and time.
Moto RAZR 2019 will be equipped with three cameras, with 4GB / 6GB RAM, 128GB of storage, 2730mAh and an operating system of Android.
Moto RAZR 2019 is expected to cost USD 1,500 and is expected to be officially released in December.
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Rigid OLEDs dominate shipments of the OLED market for smartphones
2019년 December 22일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
According to UBI Research’s 4th quarter OLED display market track, rigid OLED is still the main product in the OLED market for smartphones, with 79.2% of the total OLED market in 2019. As a result of counting and analyzing shipments up to the third quarter of 2019, rigid OLED accounted for 237 million units of the total shipment of 338 million units.
<Source: UBI Research Q4 OLED Market Track>
Display companies all over the world have invested heavily in the flexible OLED line, but rigid OLED is still the main OLED used in smartphones. This reflects that the display companies have invested without forecasting the market situation properly.
Rigid OLEDs for smartphones are mostly supplied by Samsung Display. Rigid OLEDs are also produced in China’s Visionox and EDO, but are not yet available to brand companies. As the A1 and A2 lines, which produce rigid OLEDs at Samsung Display, are both in full operation, Samsung Display can no longer supply products in the growing rigid OLED market.
Flexible OLED lines will continue to be invested by 2023, and the annual production area will increase to 20 million square meters per year, but the line capa for rigid OLEDs has been frozen since 7 million square meters per year.
Therefore, in order to cope with the growing rigid OLED market, it is necessary to convert flexible lines to rigid OLED lines or to further invest in rigid OLED lines.
In order for Samsung Display to dominate and have a differentiated market in the display industry, it is time for latecomers to consider converting flexible OLED lines to rigid OLED lines.
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The next full-screen display trend is the under-display camera
2019년 December 17일 /in Exhibition, Focus on, Technology /by olednet
Since Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and Apple’s iPhone X launch, smartphones with the Home button removed have become a trend in the smartphone market.
Due to the nature of smartphones that cannot grow indefinitely, display sizes with a large proportion within limited smartphone sizes are directly related to the competitiveness of smartphone set makers.
Samsung’s Galaxy S10, which was recently released, attracted great attention with its flexible OLED with HIAA (hole in active area) technology. Notch or HIAA designs, however, can still interfere with video viewing and gaming because camera lenses occupy a small portion of the display.
That is why a number of panel makers are developing under display camera technology for a full-screen display.
Under display camera technology allows the front camera to be placed behind the display for a full-screen display. Oppo unveiled the first smartphone with the technology at MWC China 2019, and BOE and Visionox also anticipated that under-display cameras will become the next trend in smartphones at CIOC 2019.
It is expected that screen, camera module, and algorithmic technologies will all be specially designed to implement under display camera technology. Specifically, the technology to make the pixel near the camera at low resolution to secure transmittance, to mount a CMOS image sensor of a larger pixel size than the existing, and to apply algorithm technology to improve the picture quality.
The trend of full-screen smartphones, which began in 2017, is paying attention to whether full-screen smartphones will bloom with the technology of under-display cameras since 2020.
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OLED flagship size for smartphones ranges from 5.5 inches to 6.5 inches
2019년 December 1일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
According to UBI Research’s 3rd quarter OLED display market track, the size of OLED for smartphones is gradually shifting from 5.5~5.99 inches to 6~6.49 inches.
Among the OLED shipments for smartphones of 430 million units in 2017, 5.5-5.99 inches accounted for 52.5%, but in the shipment performance until the third quarter of 2019, 5.5-5.99 inches decreased to 49.6% and 6-6.49 inches increased to 42.3%.
In 2017, more than 5.5 inches of OLED smartphones were 78.5%, but now more than 5.5 inches are 91.9%. This reflects that consumers are demanding larger OLED smartphones.
When analyzed by detailed size, 5.5-inch OLED shipments were the most at 39.5%, and second, 6.4-inch OLEDs were the highest at 20.1%. Most of the 5.5-inch are rigid OLEDs and are mainly used by Galaxy J series, Chinese companies such as Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo. In the 6.4 inch, the main application is the rigid OLED for the Galaxy A series.
Because the Galaxy S series, which adopts flexible OLED, and Apple’s iPhone X are very expensive in the global OLED smartphone market, the market growth is very slow. In comparison, the Galaxy A series and J series are growing fast because they are intended for the mid-priced smartphone market.
While Samsung’s Galaxy has lost market share in the Chinese market, Chinese smartphone makers Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo are expanding the Chinese market as smartphones using rigid OLEDs from Samsung Display.
This means that Samsung Electronics lost the Chinese market, but Samsung Display’s OLED business is gradually expanding its influence in the Chinese market. The growing market share of OLED smartphones in the Chinese smartphone market indicates that Samsung Display can overwhelm the OLED market in the future, and that revenues will be updated every year.
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Flexible OLED market forecast to grow to $ 18.3 billion this year
2019년 November 30일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
As foldable smartphones begin to be sold by Samsung Electronics, the flexible OLED industry (including foldable OLED) is expected to continue to grow.
Yi Choonghoon, CEO of UBI Research, predicts that the flexible OLED panel market will grow to $ 18.92 billion this year and expand to $ 32.65 billion by 2023.
<Source: Flexible & Foldable OLED Report, UBI Research>
According to Yi, there are four types of flexible OLED products, including smartphones, foldable phones, watches and automobiles, and flexible OLEDs will be used in the monitor market next year. LG Electronics began to sell rollable OLED TVs, but the sales volume is so small that it will take much time to form the market. The foldable smartphones that Samsung started to sell are expected to be supplied to the market by 800,000 by the end of this year.
In addition, Yi predicted that Chinese panel companies’ flexible line production will expand very rapidly in line with the expansion of the flexible OLED market.
As of 2019, Korean display companies have an annual substrate area of 7.3 million square meters and China’s 4.6 million square meters, but by 2023, China’s production capacity will expand to 11 million square meters, accounting for 57% of the total production capacity.
China is expected to have the world’s largest facility for flexible OLED production following LCD.
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OLED TV camp threw a pitch in the 65-inch TV market for Black Friday.
2019년 November 20일 /in Focus on, Market, Set /by olednet
On Black Friday, the day of the biggest sale season in the US, LG Electronics and Sony have lowered the price of 65-inch OLED TVs from the previous month, further increasing price competition in the premium TV market. On the other hand, 55-inch and 77-inch OLED TV prices are the same except for Sony’s XBR77A9G.
In November, LG Electronics’ OLED 65C9, a 65-inch OLED TV, was priced at US $ 2,100, down 12.5% from October’s US $ 2,400. Sony’s XBR65A8G’s November price was US $ 2,000, down 13% from the October price of US $ 2,300. Both models ship the same price at US $ 3,500.
Samsung’s QN65Q90, a 2019 QLED TV, is priced at US $ 2,200 in November, down 15.4% from the October price of US $ 2,600. The QN65Q90 also ships at US $ 3,500.
<LG Electronics’ OLED65C9, Sony’s XBR65A8G, and Samsung’s QN65Q90 price trend, Source: UBI Research DB, Bestbuy.com>
In the TV market, which is growing in size, 65-inch TVs are becoming mainstream along with 55-inch TVs. Since 55-inch OLED TVs have already formed a premium TV standard of US $ 1,500 since October, LG Electronics and Sony have continued to reduce the price of 65-inch OLED TVs, another mainstream, to compete with QLED TVs.
Since August, LG Electronics’ OLED65C9 and Sony’s XBR65A8G have formed a lower price range than Samsung’s QN65Q90, and Black Friday is also trying to get a price advantage with a price lower than QN65Q90.
LG Electronics and Sony, which are striving to popularize OLED TVs, are paying attention to whether OLED TV’s position in the premium TV market can be further expanded.
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Samsung Display starts to expand OLED notebook market in Taiwan
2019년 November 8일 /in Display, Focus on, Market, Set /by olednet
Samsung Display attended the Taipei Grand Maple Hotel on November 7, attended by 350 global customers including HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus and other major ODMs such as Compal, Quanta and Wistron. ‘Samsung OLED Forum 2019 Taipei’ was held.
<Samsung Display’s OLED Forum, Source: news.samsungdisplay.com>
Samsung Display presented OLED notebooks as a new growth engine in the stagnant IT market for global IT companies and introduced differentiated strengths that only OLED can provide.
Under the theme of ‘New Era of Laptop with OLED’, Samsung Display is a premium notebook with OLED’s thin and light design flexibility, infinite contrast ratio, DCI-P3 100% wide color gamut and color accuracy, and excellent outdoor visibility. Emphasis is placed on the essential image quality characteristics.
In addition, the company also unveiled a roadmap for fusion technology of OLED’s unique display sensors such as Fingerprint Display and Sound Display.
Samsung Display has already developed OLED for 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch notebooks in the first half of this year and has cooperated with HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Asus to supply panels to 13 kinds of notebooks. The company plans to expand its product lineup to mid-end and respond to market demand.
<15.6-inch multi-screen OLED notebook exhibited by Samsung display at IMID 2019>
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Samsung Display decided to invest 13 trillion won in QD-OLED by 2025
2019년 November 1일 /in Display, Equipment, Focus on /by olednet
Samsung Display chose QD-OLED as the next generation premium TV. It will also have a big impact on the premium TV market, which is divided between white OLED technology and QLED technology.
Samsung Display announced a new investment and win-win cooperation agreement ceremony at Asan Campus on October 10 and will invest a total of KRW 13 trillion in QD-OLED production facilities and R & D by 2025.
The basic structure of QD-OLED is composed of blue OLED and red and green quantum dot color filters (QD-CF). Blue OLEDs emit blue light, and the red and green QD-CFs convert them to red and green, respectively. QD is also applied to QLEDs because it has the effect of further improving color purity.
Samsung Display will invest 13 trillion won by 2025 to build the world’s first QD display mass production line ‘Q1 Line’ at Asan Campus. The new line will start production in full scale in 2021 with an initial 30,000 sheets (8.5 generations) and will produce a 65-inch or larger ultra-large QD display. To this end, the company plans to convert existing 8G LCD lines into QD OLED lines step by step and gradually expand production capacity by 2025.
In addition, in order to accelerate the commercialization of new QD technology, the company plans to shift the existing LCD workforce to QD and hire new QD materials and process development experts. Samsung Display predicted that if investments start in earnest, approximately 81,000 jobs will be created over the next five years.
Lee Dong-hoon, president of Samsung Display, emphasized that “QD, a semiconductor particle that emits light close to natural colors, is the future growth vision of the large display industry.” “We will lead the premium display market with this investment.”
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LG Display Announces Q3 2019 Results, Revenue 5,817.2 Billion won, Operating Loss 436.7 Billion won
LG Display announced on the 23rd that it recorded sales of 5,827.1 billion won and operating loss of 436.7 billion won in the third quarter of 2019 according to K-IFRS.
Revenue increased 9% QoQ (5.35 trillion won) due to the full-fledged sales of plastic OLED business and the expansion of mobile panel sales.
On the other hand, 3Q operating loss fell last quarter due to a sharp drop in LCD TV panel prices that exceeded market expectations, reduced utilization of related fabs, and increased depreciation expenses associated with the operation of new plastic OLED plants. The operating loss recorded 436.7 billion won.
Net loss was 442.2 billion won and EBITDA was 611.8 billion won (EBITDA margin of 10.5%).
Revenue breakdown in the third quarter of 2019 recorded 32%, a 9% QoQ decline for TV panels due to a decline in shipments due to adjustments in LCD TV fab utilization. Mobile panels recorded 28%, up 9% p QoQ, due to full-scale production of plastic OLED panels. Notebook and tablet panels accounted for 21 percent and monitor panels 18 percent.
Dong-hee Seo, Executive Vice President of LG Display CFO, said, “LG Display is innovating its business structure to reinforce its fundamental competitiveness and have a differentiated competitive edge.” In addition, the company plans to find ways to secure competitiveness from a more fundamental and long-term perspective, while at the same time strengthening its IT, commercial (auto) and auto (business) business capabilities that can differentiate in the existing LCD sector. Large OLEDs will accelerate the market trend utilizing the inherent value of products and continue to stabilize the business of plastic OLEDs for smartphones. ”
In addition, “We will communicate with the market by establishing a long-term vision centering on technologies and product lines that can quickly complete the ongoing LCD structure improvement activities and provide differentiated value.”
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[SID Vehicle Display 2019] OLED is optimal for side mirror replacement display
2019년 October 2일 /in Display, Exhibition, Focus on /by olednet
In October 2018, Samsung Display received a lot of attention by supplying OLED for side mirror replacement to e-Tron of Audi, a global automaker. e-Tron has a camera installed in the side of the existing side mirror, and the driver can check the surroundings through the OLED installed in the vehicle.
Mirrorless cars were discussed at the SID Vehicle Display 2019 panel discussion in September 2019.
Drew Harbach pointed out that “existing side mirrors may have the effect of glare in tunnel-like spaces.” “The cameras and displays can be reduced to provide a better night view.”
He mentioned that the resolution of the display is important, of course, but the contrast and FOV are also very important factors. He also emphasized that the contrast ratio should be very high so that objects can be seen under any environmental conditions.
The high contrast ratio is a very helpful factor in recognizing objects not only in dark nights but also under the strong sunlight of the day.
Panelists mentioned the various displays such as LCD, OLED, micro LED, etc., but OLED is the only display with high contrast ratio and wide viewing angle in the environment where mass production is possible. In addition, OLED has a very fast response time, which is widely used in VR devices and professional monitors where image quality is very important.
OLEDs are mentioned as potential candidates for side-mirror displays and are expected to be used in internal displays, such as clusters and CIDs (center information displays). Korean and Chinese panel makers are actively developing automotive OLEDs, and Samsung Display has forecast that automotive OLED panels will increase to about 3 million by 2022.
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Second quarter OLED emitting materials market grew 41.1% compared to the same quarter last year
2019년 October 1일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
According to the OLED emitting material market track published by UBI Research (www.ubiresearch.com), the second quarter earnings was $ 329 million, an increase of 16.6% compared with the previous quarter’s $ 228 million, and 41.1% higher than the second quarter’s $ 233 million.
<Source: 3Q2019 UBI Research OLED Emitting Material Market Track>
As a light emitting materials company with high sales in the second quarter, UDC accounted for 22.7% of the total market with US $ 72.7 million, with Idemitsu Kosan 12%, Merck, Dow Chemical, and Novaled more than 10%. None of the Korean emitting material companies exceeded 10% market share.
UDC’s strongest sales were due to the 6-month-long purchase of dopant material from the BOE, which anticipates it will be difficult to purchase phosphorescent dopant materials in the US-China trade dispute. The phosphorescent red host, phosphorescent green host, and p + materials all exceeded $ 30 million.
According to the analysis of the material usage, the total material usage of the second quarter was 21.3 tons, 21% more than the previous quarter, and 49% higher than the same quarter last year. The high usage of materials compared to the amount is interpreted as a result of a slight decrease in prices as Chinese panel makers use more materials.
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OLED sales increased to $ 6.9 billion in the second quarter
2019년 September 23일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
According to the OLED market track published by UBI Research in the third quarter, OLED sales increased to $ 6.9 billion in the second quarter. This is an increase of 9.5% compared to last quarter, an increase of 18.5% from the same quarter last year.
The biggest reason for the increase in sales is the increase in OLED sales to China by Samsung Display, which leads the OLED industry. Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiomi’s OLED usage increased more than 1.5 times compared to last year, and Samsung Display’s sales in the second quarter were $ 5.5 billion. In addition, LG Display’s WRGB OLED sales growth and BOE’s flexible OLED sales boosted the market to $ 6.9 billion.
Samsung Display’s sales share accounted for 79.9% and BOE’s market share increased to 6%.
<Source: 3Q2019 UBI Research OLED Market Track>
In 3Q, sales are expected to increase further. Samsung Display’s flexible OLED shipments will increase further for Apple’s new models and Huawei’s Mate. LG Display will also begin supplying flexible OLEDs to Apple, and BOE has decided to supply flexible OLEDs to LG Electronics.
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Samsung and LG fight for 8K TV picture quality
2019년 September 19일 /in Display, Focus on /by olednet
In response to 8K LCD TV quality disputes that LG Electronics compared and exhibited at IFA2019, Samsung Electronics raised the problem of burning of OLED TVs.
At the exhibition hall, LG Electronics displayed the same screen on its NanoCell 8K LCD TV and other companies’ 8K LCD TVs, and magnified images taken by precision cameras on the same screen area, allowing 90% reproduction of CM (contrast modulation) of NanoCell TV. However, it emphasized that other companies’ 8K LCD TV is only 12%. The company did not say what kind of company it was, but LG was recently emphasized that LG Electronics disassembled Samsung’s QLED TV after IFA and talked that QD-LCD using QD sheet does not produce good image quality. Thus the other 8K can be estimated as SEC’s QLED TV.
In response, Samsung Electronics publicly reported to the press that 8K OLED TVs disappear due to image sticking.
There is a very confusing dispute for consumers who do not have expertise in picture quality. Putting the two companies together, Samsung’s 8K QLED TV and OLED TV are both less qualified products.
In reality, however, the two products seen by the IFA were among the best of all existing TVs. OLED TVs have very high contrast ratios, so even in two-dimensional flat screens, the perspective is displayed as well as three-dimensional TVs. QLED TVs have very high HDR, which are delicately expressed from bright to dark screens. Also, the two products must be TVs with the highest precision at 8K resolution.
Korean media have expressed a lot of negative views about noise marketing of Samsung and LG, but it seems that the two companies’ TVs have been developed.
In fact, when Apple criticized the Galaxy for its low resolution, Samsung Electronics has grown to the world’s best product by raising the resolution of OLED to QHD level. In addition, Samsung Electronics made a negative offensive by pointing to the burning of OLED TVs, but OLED TVs expanded the market to nearly 50% of the premium TV market of more than $ 2,000. Of course, most of the burning has been eliminated.
Therefore, Samsung Electronics is also expected to be an opportunity to grow 8K QLED TV’s image quality into the world’s best LCD TV.
The two companies have a negative fight because of their own grievances. If OLED TV market share continues to rise in the premium TV market, Samsung Electronics expressed a sense of crisis as the QLED TV market shrank by that much. If 8K QLED TVs lower prices and target the premium TV market, LG Electronics should prevent the expansion of the QLED TV market in order to accelerate the growth of the OLED TV market.
In a strategy battle in which the spear and shield alternate, the TV fight of the two companies will be a good opportunity for Korean TV to maintain the world’s best level.
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Fraunhofer FEP shows modular OLED light strips
2019년 September 19일 /in Focus on, Lighting /by olednet
Almost everyone is familiar with light strips for interior design. LED strips are available by the metre in DIY stores around the corner and are just as often found as under-cabinet luminaires or in decorative articles. But also in the automotive industry the demand for light strips is enormous. Customized strips with additional functionalities play an increasingly important role, especially in the area of innovative car designs.
Scientists at the Fraunhofer FEP have now succeeded in producing light strips from individual organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). What is special about this innovation is that the OLED light strips act like a single luminous surface without interruption.
Claudia Keibler-Willner, head of the “Sheet-to-sheet OLED Technologies” department at Fraunhofer FEP, explains this effect in more detail: “We manufacture flexible OLEDs with appropriate control electronics in such a way that any number of OLED modules can be connected without creating visible interruptions to the active surface. This makes it possible to produce infinitely long OLED light strips. An additional highlight is the individual control of the segments. This allows additional lighting effects such as different dimmings or dynamic warnings to be realized.”
But why actually use OLEDs for car interiors or luminous clothing instead of using existing LED technology? The enormous advantage of OLEDs lies in their properties as area light sources. In contrast to LEDs as point light sources, OLEDs illuminate surfaces and are therefore homogeneous. As a result, OLED strips require no reflectors, light guides or additional optics. They also impress with their extremely low installation depth and light weight. This filigree quality of flexible OLEDs, which are manufactured on plastic substrates, for example, can hardly be achieved with conventional LED technology. In addition, the reduction of glare effects contributes to increased road safety, for example in safety clothing with lighting.
The OLED can make particularly good use of these advantages in the developed modular light strips of any length: OLED strips can be flexibly applied to curved surfaces such as car bodies or furniture. They can be transparent when switched off so that the underlying surface remains visible. Thus the OLEDs almost melt into their surroundings. Dynamic control or dimming opens up additional possibilities, such as for welcoming scenarios at the car. Designer dreams for interior design are thus within reach.
The scientists are now looking forward to concrete industry inquiries to develop prototypes or small series of these light strips for innovative designs and applications.
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[China OLED Trends] Will US-China Trade Dispute Accelerate Chinese Large-Size OLED Market?
Recently, due to the trade dispute between the US and China, a large portion of the budget planned by the Chinese government is flowing into the display industry while the semiconductor industry, which is one of intensive investment promotion industries, foreshadows difficulties. In the display industry, the focus is on OLED, which is a cutting-edge technology, and most of the investment is in the 6G line, a mobile product production line. This year has already been made at Visionox and Tianma on the 6G line, and BOE and CSOT will be invested further this year.
The Chinese government is actively investing in the display sector, which is relatively uncontained due to trade disputes between the United States and China, and it is reported that the mobile OLED production line as well as the large OLED line, 8.5G and 10.5G lines, are being reviewed ahead of time.
Large OLED lines are currently being mass-produced only by LG Display, and are being produced using oxide TFT and white OLED deposition. Samsung Display is also considering mass production by adding QD structures to oxide TFT and blue-based OLED deposition.
Samsung and LG are preparing to mass-produce or mass-produce by applying heat deposition method to organic materials, but Chinese OLED panel makers are oriented to mass production line of RGB Inkjet method (Solution Process OLED). However, as the investment has accelerated recently, experts are concerned about the investment of RGB inkjet method which has not been mass-proven.
This is because LG Display’s white OLED deposition method has already been mass-proven and Samsung Display is also planning to invest in the same deposition method with only the different structure. Indeed, it is necessary to see whether Chinese OLED panel makers will move beyond the second-place strategy to adopt the RGB Inkjet method or change their direction to the deposition method, a proven technology.
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[IFA2019] Sony’s OLED TV Evolving from Year to Year
2019년 September 6일 /in Exhibition, Focus on, Set /by olednet
Sony, which is driving the OLED TV market with LG Electronics, is exhibiting OLED TVs with new features at CES and IFA after the first display of OLED TVs.
The OLED TV displayed at Sony’s booth, which was first opened on Media Day of IFA2019, did not show a woofer. Using surface acoustic technology to produce sound from the screen, Sony showcased the CES2019’s model with four actuators on the back of the OLED panel and a woofer speaker as the rear stand. However, the woofers disappeared in IFA2019.
According to exhibition officials, the secret is that the panel is arranged with six actuators, three rows of two behind the panel, so that sound can be displayed on the screen from low to high.
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2019 Solution Process OLED Annual Report
2019년 August 25일 /in Display, Focus on, Market, Material /by olednet
Solution process using inkjet OLED (sol OLED) has been developed mainly as a large OLED panel for TV, but recently began to attract attention in the monitor display market.
The evaporation method with FMM that produces OLED for smartphones has a bending phenomenon of FMM. Thus, the substrate is used by dividing into two or four. Since smartphone-sized FMMs are used by attaching 10 to 15 sheets to the mask frame, the profitability is very low due to the small number of cells in the production of 20-inch or larger monitors.
In comparison, sol OLED is a highly productive method because OLED can be manufactured from the original substrate regardless of substrate size and display size.
If the 27-inch and 32-inch OLED panels, which are mainly used as gaming monitors, are produced by the FMM method, four can be produced. But sol OLEDs do not divide the substrate, so the 27-inch can make eight, and the 32-inch can make six.
Therefore, in the future, OLED manufacturing technology is expected to be used in combination of three technologies depending on the application and size. Smartphone OLEDs are expected to be divided into FMM and evaporation methods, large OLED panel manufacturing for TVs with open mask and evaporation technology, and sol OLED technology for monitors larger than 25 inches.
There are three types of premium monitor market, LCD, RGB OLED, and sol OLED, but the premium OLED monitor market will be replaced by sol OLED. If 6G-class inkjet lines are invested in large quantities, sol OLED will become the flagship product in the mid-priced monitor market.
The solution process OLED annual report, published by UBI Research (www.ubiresearch.com), expects to create a market of $ 579 million by 2023. This amount represents 85.3% of the OLED monitor market by 2023.
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[Press Release] Opening Ceremony of new Novaled Headquarters(Dresden, Germany, June 2019)
Investment of 30 million Euros in Novaled Headquarters with state-of-the-art R & D center for OLED cutting-edge technology in Dresden, Germany
After 2 years of construction Novaled GmbH opened its new headquarters in Dresden on June, 12th together with long-standing business partners and supporters. Besides representatives of Samsung SDI, the Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, and the First Mayor of the city of Dresden, Dirk Hilbert, participated in the event.
Core of the 10,200 m² premises in the northern part of the city is a 110 m long R & D center with chemistry laboratories as well as cleanrooms of class ISO5 and ISO7 equipped at highest standards. The new location is an improvement all along the line. Additional space in cleanrooms allowed for investments in cluster tools. This increased the OLED processing capacity by around 40%. The generously planned chemistry laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment and proprietary analytics are a true quantum leap in the development of new materials for high-performance OLEDs.
Novaled is currently the only supplier of organic dopants for OLED display mass production in the industry. Know-how and materials from Dresden enhance therefore most high end smartphones, TVs and smart watches, equipped with OLED displays.
“State-of-the-art cleanrooms, three times more lab space and entirely new facilities offer the best conditions for innovation,” said Novaled CEO Gerd Günther. The company started back in 2003 with five key patents concerning organic electronics. Meanwhile there are nearly 1,000 Novaled patents granted or pending. “Our technologies and materials are established as an industry standard in the OLED display field,” said Gerd Günther. “Novaleds revenues clearly show that we are growing even stronger than the market.”
In addition to the construction of a new technical center, the former mill of the army bakery was extensively renovated and Novaled employees get to work there in loft-like, bright offices. A green outdoor area offers an attractive environment for meetings and relaxation. During the opening ceremony, a birch tree was planted by Novaled CEO Gerd Günther, Samsung SDI Executive Vice President Dr. Hyuk Chang , the Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer and the First Mayor of Dresden, Dirk Hilbert and. “The birch is a known symbol for light and a new beginning, representing what we do in our new premises,” explained Gerd Günther.
About Novaled
Novaled GmbH is a leader in the research, development and commercialization of technologies and materials that enhance the performance of OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes) and other organic electronics. Novaled offers OLED product manufacturers a unique combination of proprietary technology, materials and expertise, and is currently the only company in the OLED industry licensing and selling organic conductivity doping technology and materials for use in the commercial mass production of display products. Novaled has developed strategic partnerships with key OLED innovators and producers throughout the world and, with a broad portfolio of more than 980 patents granted or pending, has a strong IP position in OLED technologies, structures and materials. Novaled is headquartered in Dresden with some 135 staff and offices in Asia. Since end of 2013 Novaled belongs to Samsung. www.novaled.com
About OLEDs
OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes) are solid-state devices composed of multiple thin layers of organic materials often only a few nanometers thick that emit diffuse light when electricity is applied to them. Because they are an area light source, OLEDs are a key part of fulfilling the dream of the rapidly growing flat panel display market: paper-thin, highly-efficient displays with brilliant colors and excellent design flexibility. OLEDs may also lead to innovative decorative lighting applications and personalized environments. www.novaled.com/oleds/
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[Press Release] OLED production capacity will increase to double in 2023.
2019년 June 10일 /in Equipment, Focus on, Market /by olednet
UBI Research has published [2019 OLED Equipment Report] that forecasts the OLED equipment market. According to the report, the total substrate area of display companies in 2019 will be 34.9 million square meters, which will be 68.5 million square meters in 2023 and double after four years.
OLED substrate area growth is attributable to investments made by OLED lines for TVs driven by Samsung Display and LG Display. Currently, OLED manufacturing lines for TVs are 8G lines optimized for 55-inch panel production. However, the demand for premium TVs is shifting from 55-inch OLED TVs to 65-inch TVs. By 2021, the 65-inch OLED TV market will account for more than 40%. In response to these market conditions, LG Display is preparing to invest 10.5G lines in the most efficient production of 65-inch panels. In 2023, the substrate area of a large OLED line is expected to occupy 42% of the total substrate area.
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The substrate area of the 6G line is expected to grow to 13 million square meters this year and to 19.3 million square meters in 2023. Most of this is due to investment by Chinese panel makers. In China, the smartphone market accounts for about 40% of the global market, so Chinese smartphone makers have a very high market share based on the domestic market. Huawei has recently become the world’s second-largest shipper based on its domestic market. Chinese panel makers are boldly adding a 6G flexible OLED line to Chinese smartphone makers, with the Chinese government’s huge support.
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In 2019, Korea’s OLED production capacity (substrate area) will total 27.9 million square meters, accounting for 80% of its total production capacity and expanding to 54.8 million square meters by 2023. The market share will remain at 80% and lead the OLED industry.
Chinese panel makers are expected to stay at around 20% as they are investing only in OLED production lines for mobile device.
The OLED manufacturing equipment market (excluding logistics equipment) is estimated at $ 28.4 billion for four years from 2019 to 2022 due to investment by Korean and Chinese panel makers. Among them, the sixth-generation equipment market is expected to account for 61% of the total equipment market, at $ 17.2 billion.
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[SID2019] What material is better for cover windows of foldable OLED? colorless PI or UTG?
2019년 May 22일 /in Component, Exhibition, Focus on /by olednet
Since Royole introduced ‘FlexPai’, a foldable OLED phone, Samsung Electronics and Huawei have also launched Foldable OLED phones, attracting great interest from the industry and the public.
The biggest change of the foldable OLED phone currently being commercialized or under preparation is that the cover window of the glass material used in the existing flexible OLED has been changed to colorless PI material.
Colorless PI is thinner than conventional cover window glass, which is advantageous in reducing the radius of curvature and has the advantage of not breaking. UTG (ultra-thin glass), which has good surface touch-feel and scratch-resistant glass as thin as possible, is also attracting attention as a cover window material for foldable OLEDs.
At the SID Display Week exhibition in San Jose, KOLON exhibited colorless PI with hard coating. KOLON, which has been ready for mass production of colorless PI since 2018, is currently supplying colorless PI for foldable OLED cover windows to AUO, BOE, LG Display, and Royole.
Hard coating company DNP and TOYOCHEM also exhibited colorless PI with hard coating. DNP’s company official said that the film is under development and its main business area is hard coating, and TOYOCHEM’s company official said that it supplied hard coating samples to KOLON and SKC.
Meanwhile, SCHOTT, a UTG development company, also attracted the attention of the audience by displaying UTG for foldable OLED cover windows. An official of SCHOTT said that the UTG currently being developed is a cover window product for out-folding, not in-folding, and that the thickness is currently in development from 0.7 mm to 2.5 mm in accordance with customer requirements.
As the smartphone set makers are expected to release foldable OLED phones in the near future, competition for related materials is also expected to be intense. Whether the Colorless PI will continue to dominate or whether UTG will be able to exercise its influence is highlighted.
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2019 Chinese OLED panel maker equipment order status
2019년 May 3일 /in Equipment, Focus on /by olednet
As Korean OLED panel makers do not have a lot of investment, the OLED equipment industry is in a low-demand season. When Chinese OLED panel makers confirm the order status of equipment orders in 2019, orders are being made centering on equipment and module line equipment required for new technologies rather than new lines.
In China panel makers BOE and CSOT, some equipment was ordered in March of this year for the development of flexible on-cell touch technology, and Korean equipment makers seem to have received orders from Wonik IPS and Iruja. In addition, since last month, the BOE Chengdu line has begun full-scale mass production and ordering of modular products along with foldable product preparation. Korean equipment makers will also receive equipment orders from BOE and proceed with production.
Starting this month, Visionox Hebei Line, which is set to start full-fledged investment this year, has begun placing orders for long-term delivery equipment and automation equipment. In addition, Wuhan Tianma is making some complementary investments in flexible process equipment, and EDO, Royole, and Truly are expected to invest in the future depending on market conditions.
UBI Research AMOLED process equipment industry report, which is scheduled to be published in May 2019, will be covered in detail in investment situation and equipment supply chain in China panel makers.
[BOE Chengdu Module Line Order Status]
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[Press Release] AMOLED components and materials market grew to $ 24.15 billion in 2023
2019년 April 29일 /in Component, Focus on, Market /by olednet
Although Samsung Electronics and Apple’s OLED smartphone market are stalled, Chinese smartphone makers are gradually increasing their use of OLEDs based on the huge smartphone market in China. As a result, BOE and Chinese panel makers have aggressively established a Gen6n flexible OLED plant, which is driving the OLED industry.
As a result of UBI Research’s panel makers’ operation rate analysis due to OLED plant expansion and supply and demand, the market for various component materials (excluding light emitting materials) that make up OLEDs is expected to reach $13.9 billion in 2019 and expand to $ 24.15 billion in 2023.
Recently, as the production of foldable OLED has started, various kinds of films that are not applied to LCD are emerging as core materials.
In the [2019 OLED Components and Materials Report] published by UBI Research, we examined the foldable OLED structure of Samsung Display, LG Display, and BOE, and analyzed the thickness and characteristics of the films that make up the module.
In the OLED components and materials market, components for TV OLEDs will grow rapidly to reach $ 19.1 billion in 2023 and lead the OLED industry.
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OLED Daily Issue, April 25, 2019
2019년 April 25일 /in Focus on, Others /by olednet
▶ LGD’s performance is in the doldrums. This year, it will compete with high-value OLEDs. (ZDNet Korea)
(Full text of article: http://www.zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=20190424130827)
While LG Display is recording poor performance in first quarter of this year, it is going to strengthen its competitive edge in OLED display, which is its main business. Because it is expected that Chinese LCD will continue to make inroads into supplies this year, Samsung Display is planning to bring about results through high-value OLEDs that are highly profitable.
“It seems that large OLED business will take up more than 30% of TV business in 2016 through changes in customer and high-end position.” said Seo Dong-hee, chief financial officer of LG Display, during a conference call on the first quarter of 2019.
“Although some fixed expenses are also expected in second half of this year due to preparation of (Guangzhou OLED fab) production infrastructure as planned, we will increase profit contribution starting from 2020.” said a representative for LG Display.
■ It is difficult to rebound in second quarter performance…compete with high-value OLED in second half.
LG Display also expects that its second-quarter earnings will continue to worsen market conditions due to oversupply of LCDs and lack of IT products. Consensus of second quarter’s performance that F& Guide is estimating is $5.58 trillion (5.8181 trillion KRW) in sales and $16 billion (16 billion KRW) in operating loss.
However, it is expecting that it will produce results starting from second half of this year due to operation of OLED production lines that are located in Guangzhou, China, and release effects of transparent and automatic OLEDs.
“We believe that Guangzhou fab will operate successfully during first half of this year. “We are also preparing to apply MMG (Multi Model Glass, which is a method that is produced by combining 55-inch and 65-inch panels) to Guangzhou and Paju fab.” said a representative for LG Display.
Furthermore, transparent OLED products will be released in second half of this year and will expand additional demands. “We are currently working with variety of customers in commercial business.” said a representative for OTO, “Auto is already making more than 1 trillion won in sales through LCD. During this year, you will be able to see vehicles with plastic OLEDs. Although it is difficult to mention exact numbers, South Korea has received a large number of orders for displays for vehicles that employ POLEDs. We believe that orders will also gain considerable momentum when cars with POLED are successfully released this year,” he stressed.
▶ FineTec Receives Intent for Purchase of OLED Bonding Equipment from Chinese Firms(NEWSPIM)
(Full text of article: http://www.newspim.com/news/view/20190424000218)
While demands for OLED panels are increasing rapidly due to the resumption of investments in Chinese OLEDs this year, FineTec is trying to expand its supply of bonding equipment to Chinese display-specialized companies.
FineTec made an announcement on the 24th that it recently received orders from Chinese display company BOE for OLED composite bonding equipment and received LOI (Lent of Purchase of OLED bonding equipment) from CSOT.
FineTec is planning to supply CSOT with equipment dedicated to chips on plastic and COP-COF (chip on film) and other composite equipment that can be produced simultaneously. It is predicted that it will sign a contract with CSOT to supply bonding equipment after discussing detailed timing of supply.
In addition, FineTec, which is currently seeking to diversify its suppliers to China, is planning to strengthen its competitive edge in operation such as OLED composite bonding equipment for CSOT starting with this contract.
“Chinese OLED panel manufacturers are increasing their market share thanks to government support and Chinese Smartphone manufacturers’ promotion.” said a representative for this company. “FineTec is planning to focus on improving performance by securing orders from Chinese suppliers as China is actively seeking to increase its market share in OLED.”
It is also expected that FinTec’s combined bonding equipment will expand its competitive edge in markets in China. Although FinTec had about 10% of orders for bonding equipment that was placed in China three years ago, percentage of orders from Chinese display companies such as BOE and Visionox increased to 26% last year due to increased demands for composite equipment.
“We are currently converting variety of display panels from facilities that are targeted at specific types of panels from China and around the world into multi-functional equipment that can be produced at the same time.” said a representative for Samsung Electronics.
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▶ ‘Other in 6 months’…BOE, 4th time to invest in flexible OLEDs. (Electronic Times Internet)
(Full text of articles: http://www.etnews.com/20190423000190)
BOE is going to start construction of its fourth 6th generation flexible OLED plant soon. It is planning to invest a total of 46.5 billion yuan (approximately 7.9 trillion won) to have a monthly production capacity of 48,000 sheets. Although the display market is slumping and demand for flexible OLEDs for smartphones is falling short of expectations, it is speeding up aggressive investments and expanding production capacity.
According to Chinese media on the 23rd, BOE is going to start constructing its fourth flexible OLED plant called ‘B15’ that will be invested in Fuzhou. It is heard that it will hold an event soon and make official investments.
As BOE is going to carry out its investments in B15, it has become clear that it will have production capacity of world’s largest 6th generation flexible OLEDs by beating Samsung Display.
▶ ” LCD TV panel price rebound…accelerates large OLED conversion” (The Korea Economic Daily)
(Full text of articles: https://www.hankyung.com/finance/article/2019042322206)
“The price of LCD TV panels increased +0.7% in second half of April compared to first half.” said KB Securities on 23rd.
“The price of LCD TV panels in the second half of April, which was announced by Witzview, has increased +0.7 percent compared to the first half,” said Dong-won Kim researcher. “The prices of 32-inch and 55-inch LCD panels increased +1.3% compared to the first half of April, and prices of 65-inch and 75-inch panels recorded 0.5% and 1.1% respectively, showing good trend of prices.” said a slight decrease in prices of PC panels compared to the previous quarter.
While positive trend of LCD prices is continuing in second quarter, it is predicted that businesses can convert large OLED panels faster. “If Samsung Display’s QD-OLED conversion investment for 8th generation LCD lines starts in earnest in the second quarter, price of 32-inch TV panels will continue to rebound slightly due to psychological impact on reduction of supply.” said Kim. “For 65-inch, 75-inch TV panel prices, production of Chinese panel manufacturers will expand, operation of 8th generation LCD lines of Samsung Display will slow down.”
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▶ China also produces war skills… unstable OLEDs(THE DONG-A ILBO)
(Full text of articles: http://news.donga.com/3/all/20190421/95157197/1)
The Chinese companies’ volume offensive raised concerns that the OLED industry, following liquid crystal displays, could face oversupply problems. Analysts say that while South Korean display manufacturers’ performance in the first quarter has deteriorated due to a sharp drop in prices of LCD panels, even OLEDs, which are seen as new growth engines, could be on the verge of oversupply in the near future.
According to a recent report released by Hana Financial Management Research Institute on Monday, the production capacity of OLED plants currently being built by Chinese companies such as BOE, CSOT and TCL is twice that of South Korea.
▶ Retirement of OLED business for general lighting… Accelerate selection and focus of ‘New LG’ (The Korea Economic Daily)
(Full text of articles: https://www.hankyung.com/economy/article/2019042211521)
LG Group is speeding up efforts to reorganize its business portfolio for future growth. LG Display’s decision to withdraw from its organic light-emitting diode (OLED) business for general lighting is part of its objection. The “choice and focus” strategy has become a keyword that penetrates LG Group Chairman Kwang-mo Koo “New LG,” who headed the group last year.
According to LG Group and others on the 22nd, LG Display has given up its OLED business for lighting that it has been pushing as a new growth engine. It has been about a year and six months since it started mass-producing products from new OLED production lines.
It is heard that LG Display has decided to withdraw from markets by gradually reducing mass production of OLEDs for lighting that are produced at 5th generation OLED lines (P5) in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province. Instead, it has decided to focus on OLED markets for vehicles that have huge growth potential and can produce synergy with the group’s automotive electric field (electric and electronic devices) business. LG’s acquisition of ZKW, which is a global automotive headlamp manufacturer, also affected LG’s ability to provide lighting for vehicles.
LG Display entered the general lighting market by introducing a new brand called ‘Luplex’ at the end of 2017. However, it is rumored that it has decided to give up its business after losing out on price competition from current LED (light emitting diode) lighting companies.
▶ OLED is also worried about oversupply…” China factory size, twice that of Korea.” (YONHAP NEWS)
(Full text of articles: https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20190419148900003?input=1195m)
Following LCD panels, there are predictions that oversupply can become a reality for OLED panels.
Concerns are growing as South Korean companies plan to grow OLEDs into new “cash cow” instead of LCDs that China has taken the lead.
According to a recent report released by Hana Financial Management Research Institute on 21th, the number of OLED panel factories currently under construction in China is 419,000 sheets per month, about twice the amount of 225,000 sheets per month, which is the size of South Korea’s expansion.
According to the report, China’s BOE, which ranks first in LCD panel market, is going to increase its size to 144,000 panels. In addition, Chinese panel manufacturers such as CSOT, Visionox, and TCL are also scrambling to expand their facilities on a large scale.
Among South Korean companies, LG Display is set to operate its 90,000-unit monthly plant in Guangzhou, China, and it is expected that there will be a total of 45,000 panels per month in Paju.
Industries predict that size of OLED plant that will be built by Samsung Display in Tangjeong, South Chungcheong Province, will reach 90,000 sheets per month.
“As speed of expansion of OLEDs in South Korea and China is much faster than rate of increase in demands, there is a high possibility that oversupply will worsen.” said Joo-wan Lee, a researcher.
▶ The screen shield that caused controversy over faulty Galaxy folds…Why do I need it? (Yonhap news)
Samsung Electronics’ first foldable Smartphone was embroiled in controversy over its screen defects even before it was released. Samsung Electronics explains that this happened because early users removed “screen protection film,” which can be misunderstood as screen protection film.
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According to industries on the 21st, current Smartphones are going to protect displays by attaching cover windows with reinforced glass material on top of OLED display panels.
OLED panels themselves are very thin like vinyl and are weak against external shocks. Plastic OLED (Plastic OLED) that is used for foldable Smartphones is more vulnerable to scratch. However, it can’t put glass, which is a material that doesn’t fold, so it is finished by applying film of plastic material.
“Although screen protection films that we already know are additional products that prevent scratching, protective films that are used for flexible displays are very important for displays.” said Professor Hak-seon Kim of UNIST, who is a former vice president of Samsung Display. Ok-hyun Jeong, an electronic engineering professor at Sogang University, also said, “The fact that we took out a protective film from PLED is tantamount to ripping off the display parts themselves.”
OLEDs emit light as organic materials, and due to their characteristics, they are very susceptible to oxygen and moisture components. When a thin panel itself is subjected to strong pressure during a screen’s opening, it can cause the screen itself to become indigestion due to moisture in an empty space.
Plastic has a weaker hardness than glass, making it easier to scratch the surface.
In addition to screen glitches, the media that received Galaxy Folders for review such as Bloomberg and Derverge points out that the protective film is easily dented or scratched. One reviewer said, “I tapped the screen with my fingernails, but there are still permanent marks.”
Some point out that there is a gap between the protective film and the display, which makes it easier for dust and others to get rid of it. One reviewer suggested a photo showing the gap between the screen’s protective screen and bezel, suggesting that it could be misleading.
Due to this reason, Samsung Electronics explained that its screen shield is for ‘replacement’. Since there is a higher chance of damage such as scratch than conventional glass, they were made so that they could be replaced at that time. However, users should not replace them directly and go through a service center.
Experts point out that such precautions should be sufficiently notified to consumers before the launch, and that early users also need to follow basic precautions as they use first-generation products.
Jeong said, “Samsung Electronics seems to have lacked notice of screen protection. “We need to strengthen advance notice when it is officially released.” said a person who dropped it from the company, which is about 100 grams more than normal Smartphones, risks further damage when it is dropped from the same location. This part also requires the user to pay attention,” he pointed out.
“Since the film itself is a plastic material, even if it is attached with protective film, it can be pierced and torn if exposed to sharp needles, unlike glass,” Professor Kim said. “In fact, these precautions should be properly introduced when selling it.”
▶ SK is investing in OLED business? (etoday)
(Full text of articles: http://www.etoday.co.kr/news/section/newsview.php?idxno=1747027)
SK Corp. is considering investing into OLED material business. As OLED markets are rapidly growing, industries that are made of OLED materials are also increasing.
According to mid- and long-term management plan data that SK Corp. held a corporate briefing for analysts of securities companies on Wednesday, SK Corp. is also reportedly considering investing in OLED materials to expand its material business.
SK Corp. has set a mid- and long-term strategy for its material business to expand its high-growth area by utilizing its current material platform.
For OLED materials, LG Display is planning to develop its own technologies by linking current SK Trichem’s technologies such as precursors and others while also considering investing in them.
Industries predict that SK Corp. will be able to expand its business through investments as it is an investment-type holding company.
For battery materials, which are planning to enter markets with high-entry barrier materials through partner companies’ cooperation and investment in technology holding companies, it has quickly entered the market by investing 270 billion won into shares of related companies.
SK Corp. previously acquired the stake in Watson, China’s No. 1 company that manufactures the second-order essential part of the battery, in November last year.
A reason why SK is showing interest in OLED markets is because OLED markets are growing rapidly.
According to a market research company called Ubi Research, size of OLED display market was estimated to be $28.31 billion (31.9568 trillion KRW) last year, which is a 7.1% increase year-on-year and is expected to grow to $32.3 billion (36.457 trillion KRW) this year.
It is expected to grow to $59.5 billion by 2023.
As a result, many other companies are working on OLED materials. Earlier this month, LG Chem stepped up its related business by acquiring material technology for “Solid Organic Light Emitting Diodes,” a key platform for next-generation displays, from DuPont in the U.S.
Doosan also established a new company through division of its business sector to strengthen its material businesses such as OLED.
“We have no specific plan to invest in OLED materials yet.” said a representative for SK Corp.
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OLED emitting materials market to grow to $ 1.71 billion in 2019
OLED light emitting materials market is gradually increasing as Chinese companies enter OLED panel market led by Samsung Display and LG Display.
The 2019 OLED emitting material report, published by UBI Research, predicts that the emitting material market in 2019 will reach $ 1.17 billion. 2021 and 2023 are expected to grow to $ 1.87 billion and $ 2.0 billion, respectively.
The size of light emitting materials consumed by Korean companies will account for 70.2% in 2019 ($ 0.82 billion), and its share will increase to 75.6% in 2023.
Korea’s emitting material market is growing because the consumption of OLED materials for TVs is soaring. In 2019, 21.1% of light emitting materials for TVs are expected to increase to 49.7% in 2023.
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[Lighting Fair 2019] NEG, OLED lighting collaborated with other lighting companies
2019년 March 12일 /in Exhibition, Focus on, Lighting /by olednet
At the Lighting Fair 2019 held in Tokyo Big Sight from March 5 to 8, 2019, Nippon Electric Glass (NEG) attracted the attention of the audience by exhibiting a large number of OLED lighting produced in collaboration with Kaneka, OLEDWorks and Lumlight. NEG, which produces ultra-thin glass for OLED lighting, introduced ‘Internal Extraction Layer (IEL)’ and ‘HX-1’, which improve external luminous efficiency, and high refractive index glass.
And NEG presented two OLED lighting panels were made in collaboration with Kaneka, a rechargeable OLED lighting ‘LUCE T1’, and a rotatable wall lighting ‘LUCE W1’. OLED lighting panels consist of square panels and rectangular panels with 3000K and 4000K color lighting, while square panels are in volume production, while rectangular panels are in progress.
In addition, NEG presented OLEDWorks ‘Brite 3’ series. ‘Brite 3’ has started mass production in the third quarter of 2018, efficiency is over 80 lm / W, color rendering is over 90, and color temperature is 3000K and 4000K.
Lastly, NEG exhibited the ‘OLED EYECARE LAMP’ stand by Lumlight. A represent said “OLED lighting would be a very useful lighting for infants and young people because it is less glare and feels very weak.
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2019 OLED KOREA] Unveiled the latest performance of TADF and Hyperfluorescence, the next generation blue light emitting material
2019년 March 6일 /in Exhibition, Focus on, Material /by olednet
CYNORA and Kyulux have unveiled the latest blue TADF performance and blue hyperfluorescence performance at the 2019 OLED KOREA, which is being held at Novotel Hotel in Gangnam from March 6 to 7, 2019.
Andreas Haldi, chief marketing officer at CYNORA, revealed that the color coordinates of the blue TADF emitter developed by them are 0.13, 20% for EQE and 5 hours for LT95 @ 1,200 nit.
He said, CYNORA in developing deep blue TADF in earnest from 2018, and will find green and red TADF after blue TADF development.
“The maximum EQE of blue hyperfluorescence is 26%, the EQE at 1,000 nit is 22% and the lifetime (LT95 @ 750 nit) is 100 hours,” said Junji Adachi, CEO of Kyulux.
Junji Adachi, CEO, also introduced applications using blue hyperfluorescence and emphasized the potential of hyperfluorescence as a next-generation luminous material.
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[2019 OLED KOREA] LG Display “8K is not everything. OLED will prove worth it”
2019년 March 6일 /in Display, Exhibition, Focus on /by olednet
“8K is not everything. OLEDs will provide new value not only in high resolution, but also in rollable typed and transparent displays ”
said Ko Kyoung Young, senior director of global promotion for LG Display’s TV division.
He emphasized this at the 2019 OLED KOREA held, the Novotel Hotel in Gangnam from March 6 to 7, 2019.
“Currently, 8K TVs are not attractive due to not ready for content and proper pricing” said Goh. However, OLEDs can provide new value, such as rollable and transparent displays, “he said that OLEDs will be the game changers of the future display era.
“The premium TV market which has been downsizing since 2014, started grow again in 2017 due to entering a new market of OLED TVs. In addition, we see OLED TV is leading the market last three years through it has been ranked from top to the 8th in the consumer reports , increase of global growth opportunities”
He also mentioned the OLED approach would overcome the scalability limitations that could be the best communication tool available anywhere in the fourth industry market. In addition, it can be applied to gaming monitors and automotive displays that are becoming bigger and bigger. “Global automobile companies such as BMW and Audi are in discussions with understanding display companies to apply OLED to future vehicles.” Director Ko said, to lead the premium TV market, we will support to boost production for large-scaled OLEDs by 2021, the expansion of the 4K and 8K
OLED TV lineups, and the creation of new platforms such as rollable and transparent displays. Notably he said, “8K OLED TV is planned to be 88, 77 and 65 inches, and 4Ks will be expanded to 77 inches, 65, 55 and 48 inches.”
Lastly, Ko announced that will continue to study OLED resolution and brightness lifetime through the development of oxide TFT and new materials along with transparent display and solar technology for the future.
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[MWC 2019] The new form factor, foldable phone wars heat up
2019년 February 28일 /in Display, Exhibition, Focus on /by olednet
Smartphone makers are promoting the new form factor, foldable phones at MWC 2019 started on February 27 and it runs until 29 in Barcelona Spain.
The show is buzzing with products from big-name tech companies, including Samsung Electronics and Huawei,TCL, LG Electronics being unveiled. That includes a variety of phones with foldable screens.
Samsung unveiled foldable phone ‘Galaxy Fold’ to customer, highly touted at the Samsung Galaxy unpacked event.
In folding ‘Galaxy Fold’ features a 7.3-inch QXGA + resolution OLED screen and it was built to be compact size with 4.6-inch HD + resolution OLED when folded.
And Huawei announced its own foldable phone “Mate X” uses roll out foldable technology, it is surrounded by a 6.6-inch main OLED on the front and a 6.38-inch on the back. It is 8.7 inches when it is opened, 1.4 inches bigger than Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Fold.
Mate X’s front display has 2480 × 1148 resolution with a 19.5: 9 aspect ratio. The back OLED has a 2480 × 892 resolution with a 25: 9 aspect ratio. When you flip it open, the resolution is 2480 × 2200 with an aspect ratio of 8: 7.1. .
Also, TCL announced the prototype device uses the company’s proprietary “DragonHinge” mechanism to fold and unfold the screen, it has 7.2-inch screen.
According to TCL, this device will build a production version that is slated for release by 2021.
Lastly, LG showed off V50 which is similar to a folding phone, it does have an optional case with a whole second screen on it. With two near-identical phone displays next to each other, the functional split-screen allows multitasking and gaming easily.
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What is the cost of OLED materials for the Galaxy F?
2019년 February 20일 /in Component, Display, Focus on, Material /by oled
What will be the price of foldable phone Galaxy F, which is expected to be on the market this year, is a concern for people around the world. Samsung Display is the only company that can mass-produce Foldable OLEDs with in-folding type used by Galaxy F.
Galaxy F with 7.29-inch OLED is a digital convergence product that can simultaneously target the smartphone and tablet PC market. The initial sale price will be around $ 2,000, and the estimated sales volume is about 1 million units this year.
The OLED industry is interested in how much the Galaxy F’s foldable OLED panels (including modules) will cost.
According to UBI Research’s material cost analysis data, Samsung Display’s foldable OLED material cost is 2.04 times higher than the Galaxy S10 5.8 inch. This is because the display area has increased, and the yield has been reduced.
Galaxy F, Galaxy S10, and iPhone XS’s flexible OLED material cost analysis shows that the module cost of iPhone XS is the highest at 95.2%, Galaxy S10 at 92.2% and Galaxy F at 89.3%.
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The largest OLED business conference, OLED KOREA 2019
2019년 February 15일 /in Focus on, Others /by oled
The OLED Korea Conference 2019, organized by UBI Research, will be held on March 6 and 7 at Novotel Ambassador in Gangnam.
The OLED Korea for the fifth consecutive year, the event includes many high profile speakers by having representatives of the industry on board
The conference will feature future forecast of panel market with executives from leading panel makers Samsung and LG Display, another major developers JOLED and TCL, which are pioneering markets for OLED panels with inkjet technologies
In order for OLED industries to grow, not only panel manufacturers but also variety of parts materials, equipment, and technologies need to be developed.
The conference will also include presentations from leading industry analysts from a variety of part and equipment firms.
Particularly, scheduled the session by Nanosys, a company specialized in QD, which will provide an important opportunity to forecast the growth of the QD-OLED business that Samsung Display is discovering as its next-generation business.
The OLED KOREA conference had over 200 attendees at last year.
[Program]
Can the OLED market continue to grow?
OLED Industry and Market Forecast in 2019
Dr. Choong Hoon YI, UBI Research
How will Korean panel companies attract the OLED industry?
Future Key Technology of OLED
Hyein Jeong, Samsung Display
How to create new value in display industry, LCD or OLED?
KY(Stephen) Ko, LG Display
Soluble OLED technology for making large-sized TV market
The Latest Breakthrough of Printing Technology for Next Generation Premium TV Application
Dr. Jueng-Gil (James) Lee, TCL
Strategic Market Creation of Printed OLED Display
Dr. Toshiaki Arai, JOLED
OLEDs state-of-the-art materials: Merck development and latest status
Dr. Remi Anemian, Merck
Latest Development of Soluble OLED Materials and Application to Mid-to-Large Panel Fabrication
Takeshi Yamada, Sumitomo Chemical
Inkjet Printing for Flexible and Large-size OLEDs Manufacturing
Kyung-Bin Bae, Kateeva
Next generation OLED application
OLED Micro-displays for VR/AR Applications
Dr. Amal Ghosh, eMagin
Airborne System & Cabin Integration enhance flight experiences and operations
Dr. Julian Chang, Boeing
Development status of fluorescence and phosphorescent materials
Future Directions for Phosphorescent OLED Displays
Dr. Mike Hack, UDC
Development history and recent development progress of Blue OLEDs in Idemitsu Kosan
Jisung So, Idemitus Kosan
What level of next generation emitting materials has been developed?
TADF – Recent progress in developing highly efficient blue emitter materials
Dr. Andreas Haldi, Cynora
Hyperfluorescence™, a Game Changing Technology of OLED Display
Junji Adachi, Kyulux
Film materials essential for OLED module manufacturing
Colorless Polyimides (CPI®) for Flexible Electronics
Dr. Chung-Seock Kang, Kolon
Optically Clear Adhesives for Future OLED Displays
Sun-Yong Park, 3M
New technology to prepare OLED future
Quantum Dots: Technology Platform for Future Displays
Dr. Nahyoung Kim, Nanosys
OLED Technologies for AR/VR
Dr. Hyunkoo Lee, ETRI
Dr. Robert Jan Visser, AMAT
Material Advances for Transparent OLEDs
Dr. Michael Helander, OTI
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[Press Release] AMOLED sales to reach USD 32.2 billion in 2019, up 13.8% from 2018
2019년 February 11일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by oled
UBI Research (CEO, Yi, Choonghoon) published the annual OLED report in 2019.
According to the report, the OLED market is expected to reach $ 32.2 billion in 2019 and 13.8% market growth. The market growth is due to the launch of a variety of applications in 2019. Foldable OLED will accelerate the growth of the flexible OLED market as a convergence product that fuses smartphones and tablet PCs, and 8K OLEDs and rollable OLEDs to be launched from 2H 2019 will further solidly support the premium OLED TV market. In addition, an increase in flexible OLED shipments due to improved yields by Chinese panel makers will support growth in the Chinese OLED market.
AMOLED revenue in the fourth quarter of 2018 was $ 7.9 billion, down 3.7% from $ 8.2 billion in the third quarter and down 10.4% from $ 8.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017. The quarterly OLED market was highly volatile due to sales fluctuations at Samsung Display.
Revenue in 2018 was $ 28.3 billion, up 7.1% from $ 26.4 billion in 2017. The growth slowed suddenly compared to growth of 58.7% in 2017. The sluggish growth is attributable to the sluggish OLED smartphone market, which drove the OLED market up until now. The OLED market for smartphones, which was worth $ 24.2 billion in 2017, was only $ 24.5 billion in 2018.
Flexible OLED panels are not being adopted in mid-end smartphones due to the high cost of manufacturing flexible OLED panels for smartphones. As a result, the oversupply will continue due to lack of demand compared to the 6G flexible OLED investment. In the fourth quarter of 2018, there was an oversupply of 31%. In the first quarter of 2019, oversupply will increase to 39% by overlapping seasonal demand decline.
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LG Display “OLED TV will account for more than 20% in total TV sales revenue.”
2019년 February 1일 /in Display, Focus on, Set /by olednet
LG Display OLED TV maintained sales revenue, it through conference call, stated it recorded annual sales revenue of 24.3 trillion won and 92.9 billion won operating profit in year of 2018.
LG Display despite of heightened global competition and downward panel price made an operating profit thanks to OLED TV, super large size TV and high resolution products.
Especially large size OLED TV maintained stable productivity and enlarged consumer bracket which enabled 2.9 million shipment on a yearly basis. It recorded gross profit within 5 years of product introduction which resulted in more than 20% in total sales revenue.
4th quarter 2018 revenue of LG display marked 6.95 trillion won TV panels accounts for 36%, mobile panels 28%, notebook and tablet panels 22% and 14% for monitor panels.
Operating profit recorded 279 billion won, 528% increase compared to the same quarter last year, 99% hike compared to last quarter thanks to high priced IT products, new introductions of small and medium size products and high added value products. LG Display aims to focus on OLED business reconstruction Seo Donghee CFO of the company said, “the ratio of OLED revenue was almost nothing 5years ago, now it is 30% this year and we estimate it is going to reach 50% of the total business.”
He also said “we will put in all assets to create new values focusing on OLED business.”
He replied to the question of large size QD-OLED of competitor, it will strengthen ecosystem and overall OLED industry. To the question of 8K and over 70inch large size OLED mass production, he replied that 8K technology is already secured as exhibited at CES2019 and said that large size OLED mass production will utilize the existing know-how of LCD production. In 2019, LG Display’s OLED demand outlook question suggests that demand for more than 14% of all flexible OLED smartphones is expected.
Regarding the large-area OLED and p OLED capacity in 2019, LGD said that the large-area OLED capacity will be completed at 70K per month in Paju and 60K in Q3 in Guangzhou, China and the pOLED capacity is expected to add 30K to the domestic 45K in 2020.
He announced that capex is estimated 8trillion won in 2019 and 4trillion won in 2020, a half of this year. 60% will be for large size OLED and 40% for pOLED. And he said pOLED mass production is currently concentrated on smart phone and cars. He expects good news from car pOLED by end of this year. He also targets over 3.8 million units large size OLED production this year.
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[OLED KOREA 2019] Early Bird Registration D-4 (until January 31)
2019년 January 28일 /in Focus on, Others /by olednet
The year 2018 was the inflection point for new application that had never existed in the OLED industry. Newly introduced OLED applications in 2019 include foldable phone, 8K OLED TV, rollable OLED TV, monitors made of inkjet technology, and automotive side view display.
The speaker of OLED KOREA 2019 consists of companies related to these five applications and presents the market and technology direction in 2019.
[Speaker]
Samsung Display Hyein Jeong
LG Display KY(Stephen) Ko
TCL Dr. Jueng-Gil(James) Lee
JOLED Dr. Toshiaki Arai,
Boeing Dr. Julian Chang
eMagin Dr. Amal Ghosh
UBI Research Dr. Choong Hoon YI
Cynora Dr. Andreas Haldi
Merck Dr. Remi Anemian
Sumitomo Chemical Takeshi Yamada
UDC Dr. Mike Hack
Kyulux Dr. Junji Adachi
Kateeva Kyung-Bin Bae
Idemitus Kosan Jisung So
Kolon Dr. Chung-Seock Kang
3M Sun-Yong Park
Nanosys Dr. Nahyoung Kim
ETRI Dr. Hyunkoo Lee
AMAT Dr. Robert Jan Visser
OTI Dr. Michael Helander
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55 inch and 65 inch OLED TV prices proximity to premium LCD TV
2019년 January 18일 /in Focus on, Market, Set /by olednet
Recently, Sony’s 65 inch OLED TV, XBR65A1E, is price at US$ 300 more than Samsung’s QN65Q7 on the Best Buy basis. Prices of LED TV and LCD TV are becoming increasingly competitiveness in the premium TV market.
As of January 16, Best Buy compares the price of OLED TVs between LG’s C8 series, Sony’s A1E series and Samsung’s Q7F series.
<55 inch premium TV price comparison>
LG’s OLED 55C8 prices dropped 47% from March 2018 to US$ 1,700, which is only US$ 200 higher than Samsung’s QN55Q7.
In the 65 inch TV market, LG’s OLED65C8 price dropped 30% from March 2018 to US$ 2,700, while Sony fell 40% to US$ 2,500, which is higher than Samsung’s QN65Q7 by US$ 500 and US$ 300. The prices gap has been greatly reduced.
In the premium TV market, OLED TVs are rapidly catching up with LCD TV prices because LG Display’s OLED production yield stabilization is the biggest factor.
LG Display is currently constructing Gen8 OLED lines in Guangzhou and Gen10.5 lines in Paju. As a result, the production of large size OLED will increase further, and the OLED TV market will become more prominent in the premium TV market.
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CES2019, the biggest issue of TV is LG Electronics OLED TV R
2019년 January 10일 /in Exhibition, Focus on, Set /by olednet
The CES, held in early January of each year, is the most important event to understand all of the consumer electronics trends of the year. This year, TV makers from all over the world exhibited a variety of products to attract spectators to the event.
When OLED TV occupied more than 50% of the premium TV market with more than $ 2,000, the LCD TV industry sought to prevent the OLED TV market from expanding by exhibiting 8K LCD TVs to CES. However, the attention and admiration of the spectators were poured into OLED TV R.
The 8K TV market began to open slightly from last year, in preparation for the 8K broadcast starting from the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. LCD TV companies displayed 8K LCD TVs of various sizes to preoccupy the market with the keyword of 8K. LCD TV, however, has not been recognized by viewers as a new TV product since Sharp has already exhibited steadily.
Another reason is OLED TV R displayed by LG Electronics. In the main body with built-in speaker, OLED TV rises up and goes down again. A lot of people came to see OLED TV R to shoot.
<LG Electronics, OLED TV R>
Last year, micro LED TVs became more prominent. In addition to Samsung Electronics, Sony, TCL and Hisense exhibited micro LED TVs this year. It seems that the gap of micro LED TV technology between Korean companies and Chinese companies is only about one year. In the micro LED TV market based on assembly technology that does not require special manufacturing technology, China, which is the world’s best LED industry and infrastructure, is expected to dominate the market soon.
However, as LG Display has a unique OLED TV manufacturing technology, which has a very complicated panel structure and manufacturing process, the technological gap between Korea and China is expected to be more than five years difference. In this situation, OLED TV R, released by LG Electronics, once again realizes that Korea’s OLED technology is the best in the world.
On the other hand, TV companies’ display of OLED TVs, except for LG Electronics, has stagnated. These companies are not yet receiving 8K OLED panels and rollable OLED panels from LG Display. Even Sony does not have any special features, only OLED TVs that are well known so far.
As a result, the CES TV show was notable only for LG Electronics.
It is judged that LCD TV using mini LED that TCL has released can compete with OLED TV in this exhibition. The contrast ratio is displayed as 1,000,000: 1 similar to OLED TV. Black is a very good product that has a vibrant color and contrast ratio similar to OLED TV. However, a holo-effect was found around the bright screen displayed on the black desktop. It is a phenomenon that the surroundings appear to spread brightly. As it is invisible to non-specialists, it is competitive in price and is a product that can compete well with OLED TVs.
< TCL, 8K QLED TV with mini LED>
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LG Display Vice Chairman Han Sang-Bum, “50% of sales of OLED and upbringing business in 2020”
2019년 January 9일 /in Display, Exhibition, Focus on /by olednet
Growing into the mainstream of OLED growth by expanding large OLED, differentiated products and supply
■ Small and Medium-sized POLED, strengthening fundamental business capacity and preparing future products such as Foldable
■ Develop commercial and automotive products, new technologies / new markets and develop into first-class business
LG Display is one of the world’s largest electronics exhibitors, and will hold a press conference at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) in Las Vegas on June 7, the day before the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with Han vice chairman, executive vice president Kang In-Byoung, Strategy and Marketing Group Director Song Young-kwon, and other executives.
At the meeting, Han Sang-bum said, “Although there were many difficulties due to excessive supply and enormous investment due to intensified global competition last year, large-sized OLED business turned to surplus and stable profit was generated mainly in high value-added products. “This year, LG Display will focus on OLED investments, accelerating OLED growth, and focus on commercial and automotive businesses. By 2020, LGD will account for more than 50% of total OLED and growth businesses. “He said.
To this end, LG Display plans to expand its large-size OLED market, strengthen its fundamental business capabilities in small- and mid-sized P-OLED (plastic OLED) businesses, and develop new markets with differentiated commercial and automotive products.
■ Large OLED, differentiated products and supply expansion
Since LG Display first supplied OLED TV panels in 2013, LG Display has continued to develop its technology. And last year, it sold nearly 3 million units and developed into a strong player in the premium TV market. This year, the company plans to expand its TV product lineup from the existing 4K resolution to 8K, and to further enhance its competitiveness by further enhancing performance such as luminance and response time. In addition, the company will expand its market by expanding differentiated products such as wall paper, CSO (Crystal Sound OLED), rollable and transparent display. LG Display will complete the G8.5 OLED panel factory in Guangzhou, China in the first half of this year, and mass-produce OLED from the third quarter. Through this, the company plans to expand its sales volume from 2.9 million units in 2018 to 4 million units this year, and to achieve more than 10 million units in 2021.
In addition, LGD will expand sales areas for existing customers, strengthen collaboration with strategic customers, and increase sales of premium products such as ultra-large size panel.
■ Small and mid-sized P-OLED, strengthening fundamental business capacity and preparing future products.
LG Display is targeting the small- and mid-sized OLED market through P-OLED.
This year, it is a great challenge to develop core technologies and products for strategic customers in a timely to raise market share of small- and medium-sized panel.
In addition, LGD plans to increase the production capacity of the Gen 6 Gumi factory, which has a capacity of 15,000 sheets per month, and to expand the P-OLED production capacity by early stabilizing the Gen 6 factory in Paju.
In addition, LGD plans to steadily prepare related technologies and infrastructure so that future products such as Foldable can be released on time.
■ Commercial and automotive displays, Fostering first-class business
LG Display nurtures the rapidly growing commercial and automotive businesses to first-class business.
In the commercial market, LGD plans to pursue differentiated products such as 98 and 86 inches, ultra-slim products such as in-touch, bezel of 0.44 mm, transparent and gaming.
For automobiles, LTPS-based high-resolution LCDs and P-OLEDs are expected to focus on 8-inch and larger screens and high-resolution products. In addition, LGD will prepare its production infrastructure to expand its business in a timely manner and further strengthen its cost competitiveness, thereby achieving the first place in the fast growing auto market.
This year LGD plans to complete investment in preparation for the future, which began in 2017. LGD Han Sang-Bum, vice chairman of LG Display, said, “LG Display will be able to lead the global display market once again with OLED.
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What is the biggest issue in the display industry in 2019?
2019년 January 7일 /in Focus on, Others /by olednet
In 2019, 8K OLED TVs and foldable smartphone will be on sale, bring new vitality to the OLED industry. OLED makers are leading the market with high-value-added products in order to maintain the display industry, which is collapsing due to low-cost LCDs pouring from the Gen10.5 line of Chinese panel makers.
Samsung Display is developing QD-OLED panels for the rapidly growing OLED TV market, and LG Display is spurring the development of foldable OLEDs for high-end smartphone market.
TCL and JOLED, which are relatively slower than Samsung and LG, are pioneering the soluble OLED market in response to the large-size OLED TV market.
The 2019 OLED KOREA will be held at the Novotel Hotel in Seoul from March 6 to 7 to enable you to understand the evolving OLED industry and technological development. The 2019 OLED KOREA, which includes Samsung and LG as well as the OLED industry, will provide insights into how and where the OLED industry will go in 2019.
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[28TH FINETECH JAPAN] Denso, Automotive displays that are directly connected to safety are OLED
2018년 December 17일 /in Display, Exhibition, Focus on /by olednet
At the 28th FINETECH JAPAN held in Makuhari Messe, Japan during December 5-7, 2018, Hiroyuki Hara, manager of Denso said that OLED will be used as future automotive displays due to their various advantages.
Hara refers to the large screen including the touch panel as the latest trend of automobile display, and now LCD is mainly used. However, OLED is expected to be used more and more in automobiles as the automotive electronics makers and drivers demand high-quality displays.
Saying that key elements in automotive displays are high contrast ratio, wide viewing angle, design autonomy, light weight, low reflection and reliability, Hara emphasized that the display that can satisfy all of these key elements is OLED. In addition, the factors related to image quality such as contrast ratio and viewing angle are directly related to safety for the driver. Thus, OLED is to be adopted more. Referring to the requirements of automotive OLED, he finally commented that improving reliability, such as lowering the luminance drop due to temperature changes and preventing damage to OLED due to high humidity, will be key to OLED for its entry into the automotive display market.
The automotive display is likely to lead the market for next-generation displays following mobile devices and TVs. Various OLED panel makers such as BOE and Visionox, as well as LG Display and Samsung Display, are showing automotive displays at domestic and international exhibitions. Denso also invested Japanese yen 30 billion in JOLED early 2018 to compete with Korean panel makers. Meanwhile, the market for OLED displays for automobiles led by Samsung Display and LG Display is expected to grow to US$ 540 million in 2023 according to UBI Research’s recently published “Automotive OLED Display Report”.
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[28TH FINETECH JAPAN] JDI and JOLED, announced Strengthening Cooperation for Mid-sized OLED Market
2018년 December 17일 /in Display, Exhibition, Focus on, Material /by olednet
At the 28th FINETECH JAPAN held in Tokyo, Japan from December 5 to 7, 2018, JDI and JOLED announced that they would intensify their cooperation in order to target the middle-sized OLED market.
JDI announced that it will actively promote JOLED’s solution process OLED to medium-sized OLED markets such as industrial display markets or automotive display markets through its own design know-how, production infrastructure, and sales channels,.
In particular, JDI announced that it will provide new value to next-generation automotive fields along with JOLED such as support for safety such as electronic mirrors and displays for A/B pillars, new interface functions, movie appreciation using 4-8K displays, and the displays that are harmonized with interior design such as curved surfaces and big screens.
JDI and JOLED also shared booths for exhibition. JOLED introduced 21.6-inch FHD OLED monitors for e-sports and medical applications. In addition, it introduced a number of medium-sized OLEDs such as 12.3-inch HD OLED for automobiles, 12.2-inch FHD flexible OLED, 27-inch 4K OLED for home interior, and 21.6-inch 4K flexible OLED with cylindrical form. It also showcased large OLEDs such as 54.6 inch 4K OLED.
On the other hand, JOLED announced in July, 2018 that it would open its Nomi office for mass production of solution process OLED. Based on 5.5 generation glass substrates, Nomi has production capacity of 20,000 glass substrates per month and plans to mass-produce in 2020.
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[Press Release] Foldable OLED Market Grows Fast to US$ 24.6 Billion by 2023
2018년 December 13일 /in Component, Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
Reporter & Analyst : Daejeong Yoon
5G communication technology introduced from next year can process higher image quality and large-capacity contents such as VR more rapidly, besides real-time streaming service. As the communication speed increases, the relevant contents, are expected to be released, which require high resolution and large screen with graphics detailed.
The current smart phone is getting bigger up to 6 inches, but it is not enough for 4K resolution of 5G communication age. Since 4K resolution is to be possible at 7-inch and larger displays, they might be the most suitable product for the 5G communication era. Foldable smart phones are digital convergence products that can function as smart phones and tablet PCs as the next generation mobile devices that use 7 inch or more displays but maximize portability.
Owing to foldable OLED, foldable smart phones are likely to be available. Several companies have rushed to produce various prototype foldable OLED displays at exhibitions and conferences. A few panel makers even pledged to mass-produce foldable OLED displays competitively. OLED display companies worldwide including Samsung Display have invested enormous development costs in order to preempt the next generation product market, and now foldable OLEDs are starting to appear.
Samsung Electronics, which is leading the OLED smart phone market, is planned to launch the in-folding type foldable phone for the first time in the world next year. Accordingly, Samsung Display has prepared 1.5R foldable OLED. For Samsung Electronics, which has suffered sluggish sales of the Galaxy S series, Foldable Phone is a super premium product that needs to be succeeded.
<Expected structure of Samsung Electronics’ in-folding type foldable phone>
Source: Foldable OLED Report, UBI research
UBI Research (CEO: Yi, Choong-hoon), an OLED research institute, has published Foldable OLED Report. According to the report, the market for foldable OLED in 2019 is only US$ 480 million, but it is expected to grow to US $ 24.6 billion in 2023.
Yi said, “The rapid growth of the foldable OLED market is due to the fact that 7-inch and larger smartphones, which can support 4K resolution, become required products in the 5G communication era. Accordingly, the value of OLED panel makers will be determined by the success of foldable OLED production.”
<Foldable OLED Market Forecast>
However, foldable OLED is not a product that anyone can produce. Since foldable OLED has a more complex module structure than conventional flexible OLED, it is necessary to overcome the changes in various panel characteristics caused by folding. Especially in in-folding type foldable OLED, compensation circuit technology to overcome TFT resistance change and resilience required when folding and unfolding screen are typical technical difficulties. In order to realize this technology, the key challenges of reducing stress at the area of folding, selecting a proper substrate, determining the ideal stack structure, and optimizing the liftoff process, need to be overcome. Even when folding over 200,000 times, it is required to have reliability that there will be no abnormality on display image quality and surface.
“Foldable OLED Report” published by UBI Research analyzes the development trends of panel makers together with the development issues of major films that determine the reliability of foldable OLED.
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JOLED, introduced many inkjet OLED technologies
2018년 December 12일 /in Display, Focus on, Material /by olednet
This was the first time for JOLED to demonstrate its products and technologies at FINETECH Japan 2018.
JOLED, which received the inkjet OLED technology from Panasonic and is doing OLED panel business, has been selling medical monitors since early this year. Next year, Asus is also scheduled to sell inkjet OLED TVs made by JOLED.
Its exhibited products include medical OLED monitor, OLED monitor for games, automotive OLED and 3 kinds of OLED TVs.
JOLED’s Inkjet OLEDs have a peak intensity of 350 nit. In case of full white, it is 140 nits, but has sufficient brightness for monitor applications.
JOLED will build mass production lines next year to produce OLEDs for 20-inch monitors and TVs as a full-scale. It also plans to start OLED business for automobiles after 2020.
JOLED is the only company producing OLED panels manufactured by inkjet technology. JOLED is also promoting the license business by providing this technology to Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese panel makers.
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[28TH FINETECH JAPAN] Sharp, announced Future Strategy Combining IGZO and OLED
2018년 December 12일 /in Display, Exhibition, Focus on, Technology /by olednet
Mr. Atsushi Ban, Vice President of Sharp presented a future strategy that combines IGZO and OLED through a keynote session at the 28th FINETECH JAPAN, held in Makuhari Messe, Japan from December 5, 2018.
Ban emphasized “The proportion of OLED in the entire display market is expected to grow even higher, and the new value of OLED is no different than flexibility.”
He said, “Sharp is also planning a variety of applications using the thin, light-weight and flexible characteristics of OLED. From the third quarter of 2018, its Taki plant has produced 4.5G backplanes and the Sakai plant is under injecting glass for OLED and module processing for 4.5G 15K quantity.”
Ban also pointed out the possibility of expanding the OLED industry through flexible OLED, commenting that Sharp’s next goal is to develop foldable OLED that combines IGZO. Sharp has pioneered a new display technology, called IGZO, which has been known for its semiconductor properties for years, but Sharp has developed a crystalline form that maximizes its benefits for greater display performance, and IGZO improves the performance of display panels in three significant ways: lower power consumption, higher resolution and special benefits for touch-sensitive displays. Ban expected that it could create new value if IGZO is combined with medium to large sized foldable OLED or rollable OLED.
Finally, Ban introduced Sharp’s IGZO development roadmap and announced that it will develop much improved IGZO.
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Fingerprint full-screen smart phones begin to compete
2018년 December 11일 /in Display, Focus on /by Daejeong YOON
<Vivo’s full screen smart phone with in-display fingerprint scanner, Android authority>
The competition for front fingerprint recognition of smart phones is expected to become hot.
In the smart phone with the existing home button, the front fingerprint sensor was installed on the home button. Fingerprint security enhances security, but recently, full screen Smartphone without home button has been released and fingerprint sensor has been moved to the back of Smartphone. This has caused disadvantages such as an uncomfortable hand shape when touching a finger to the fingerprint sensor and fingerprints on the camera lens.
In order to improve these points and to implement a complete full-screen Smartphone, the development of integrating full-screen fingerprint recognition with display is continuing.
The method of full-screen fingerprint recognition is largely examined by both optical and ultrasonic methods. The optics are inexpensive and easy to mass-produce, but the OLED substrate must be transparent because the sensor is to be located below the OLED panel. Therefore, it is applicable to rigid OLED using glass as a substrate, but it is difficult to apply to flexible OLED using colored PI as a substrate. The ultrasonic method is most stable in accuracy and durability, but it has a disadvantage of high manufacturing cost.
Currently, Chinese set makers have begun to launch smart phones with optical front fingerprint recognition. The Galaxy S10, which will be released next year by Samsung Electronics, is being watched for the adoption of ultrasonic full-screen fingerprint recognition. LG Display is also developing a display with front fingerprint recognition.
As such, the sales for full-screen smart phones with front fingerprint recognition are expected to be started in earnest. Competition in the smartphone market is expected to become more intense in the second half.
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OLEDWorks, released LumiCurve Wave, a flexible OLED lighting.
2018년 November 29일 /in Focus on, Lighting /by olednet
OLEDWorks recently announced the release of ‘Wave’, the first commercially available OLED (organic light-emitting diode) lighting platform on flexible glass.
<OLEDWorks’ Wave lighting, source: oledworks.com>
As part of the new LumiCurve product family, the Wave is processed on 0.1mm thin Corning’s ‘Willow Glass’. OLEDWorks says that the Wave panels are extremely thin and light and deliver the superb light quality and excellent color rendering that is uniquely achievable with OLED.
The Wave is available in a warm white (3000K) model and a neutral white (4000 K) model. Warm white offers up to 300 lumens of brightness. Its efficacy is up to 62 lm/W (at 100 lumens), the temperature is 3000 K, and the CRI is 90. Neutral white has a maximum brightness of 250 lumens, efficacy of 47 lm/W (at 100 lumens), color temperature of 4000 K and CRI of 90. Both products offer a lifetime of up to 50,000 hours with a minimum bending radius of 10cm.
OLED, which is actively being adopted by the display of current mobile devices and TVs, is also being applied to a wide variety of applications including indoor lighting, automotive lighting, and display lighting in the lighting market due to its unique surface emitting characteristics.
In addition to OLEDWorks, which is launching new products, LG Display, which can mass produce OLED panels for lighting, is also expected to showcase various OLED lightings at CES 2019. Industries are focusing on whether OLED lighting market will be expanded in earnest.
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The meaning of ‘Flexpai’, the world’s first foldable mobile phone
2018년 November 28일 /in Focus on, Set /by olednet
Having a Gen5.5 7.5K line in Shenzhen, Royole is known as a head mount display (HMD) company rather than a display company. After completing installation of equipment in the second quarter of this year, Royole has been developing panels for the target of 7.8-inch tablet PC.
RoYole has two peculiarities in OLED field. One is the world’s first mass-production of foldable OLEDs and the other is the first use of oxide TFTs in mobile displays.
Source: Royole Homepage
Because plastic film is used for the cover window of foldable phone, the display of out folding foldable phone is very likely to be damaged due to the external environment.
In fact, Samsung Display already developed a QHD resolution outfolding foldable OLED with a bending radius of 5 mm a few years ago, but the company plans to mass produce infolding foldable OLED to minimize damage to the screen from December.
Since Royole has not yet produced products with oxide TFT, the company has not achieved complete TFT reliability. Because of very low yield for the time, the available supply volume is expected to be limited even if the sales begin.
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Apple adopts LTPO TFT to extend battery life time to Apple Watch Series 4
2018년 November 27일 /in Focus on, Set, Technology /by Daejeong YOON
Apple released its Apple Watch Series 4 with enhanced healthcare features on a larger screen than before, in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in California, USA on September 12.
<Apple Watch Series 4, Source: Apple.com>
In this announcement, Apple brought Apple watch series 4 with a new technology called LTPO to improve power efficiency.
LTPO stands for low temperature polycrystalline oxide. It is a kind of TFT using only the advantages of poly-Si with good charge mobility and IGZO with low power driving. LTPO TFTs have low leakage current and good on / off characteristics, which lowers power consumption and increases battery life.
<Apple’s LTPO TFT patent>
In addition, Apple increased the size of its Apple Watch 4 to 40mm and 44mm. The edge-to-edge screen is 35% and 32% larger than previous models by narrowing the bezel compared to previous models. The screen resolution was 368×448 pixels for the 44mm model and 324×394 pixels for the 40mm model. The display of Apple Watch4 is a plastic OLED made by LG Display with a maximum brightness of 1,000 nit. The Apple Watch Series 4 starts at US$399 for GPS model, while the cellular model starts at US$499. The Apple Watch Series 4 is available for pre-order from Septmber14 in the U.S. with the availability beginning September 21.
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Japan’s first flexible OLED, finally made its debut
2018년 November 25일 /in Display, Focus on /by olednet
Japan, which used to be the strongest country in display industry in the past, gradually declined through the era of CRT, PDP and LCD, and has fallen to the third-largest producer in OLED industry after China.
Currently, Japanese companies that produce AMOLEDs are Sony and JOLED. Both companies are producing OLED for special monitors at 500 ~ 1,000 units per month. Although JDI has developed flexile OLED, it has not commercialized yet.
Sharp has challenged the OLED market for smartphones in the current Japanese manufacturing environment, which was passive in production. The production of flexible OLED is to be started at the 4.5 generation production equipment of Sakai plant. The flexible OLED is scheduled to be adopted on AQUOS zero model for Soft Bank.
The product was exhibited at the Sharp booth of CEATEC 2018, which is a QHD+ 6.2-inch dual edge type. Sharp
Officials said that the sales have not started yet.
In addition, Sharp also exhibited two types of flexible OLEDs which are under development.
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OLEDON, is to announce belt-plane source deposition technology for manufacturing ultra-high resolution and ultra-area OLED
2018년 November 22일 /in Equipment, Focus on, Technology /by olednet
Plane source technology, which was first developed by OLEDON in the world, has the principle of depositing the first organic material on the metal surface and evaporating it upwards to produce fine pattern of 2250 ppi, which is ultrahigh resolution. In this plane source process, three processes such as the first deposition, the plane source inversion, and the second evaporation are necessary, and the number of the high vacuum chambers is increased when the mass production is applied. The belt plane source FMM deposition technology introduced by OLEDON has a concept of carrying out the above processes at a time in one evaporation equipment. This is a continuous plane source supplying deposition technology in which the metal surface is formed in a belt shape.
Hwang added, “Using vertical plane source enables smooth deposition process for the 12th generation class area substrate for QD-OLED TV without sagging problem. Vertical belt-plane source evaporation equipment adopts the concept of depositing the substrate in a standing-up position so that the load on the framed glass chuck and the open mask is very low. Thus, easy transportation of the substrate, and uniform deposition process of thin film over a very large area in the static state are possible.” This technology is expected to be applicable not only to the 8th generation but also to the cluster type mass-production evaporator with substrate sizes more than 10 generations in the future.
<Vertical belt plane source evaporator for QD-OLED, Source: OLEDON>
Commenting finally that the company has successfully completed the material denaturation test for blue materials and the blue dopant deposition test, Hwang expected the plane source deposition technology to be applied to both small & medium sized OLED and large area OLED manufacturing in future.
On the other hand, OLEDON holds more than 30 related patents including original patents of plane source and belt plane source evaporator. Also, the company recently filed a patent related to a vertical belt plane source evaporator for mass production.
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Quarterly OLED sales was increased significantly
According to the 3Q AMOLED Market Track issued by UBI Research, the second quarter OLED market was sluggish, affected by the lower utilization rate of Samsung Display. However, in the third quarter, the market rebounded rapidly, forming a market of US$ 8.3 billion.
The performance of the third quarter is up 43.9% from the US$ 5.77 billion in the second quarter, and up 16.6% from the same period of last year.
Samsung Display, which drove sales growth, posted sales of US$ 7 billion, while OLED sales for Smartphone accounted for US $ 7.2 billion as its major application.
By country, Korea achieved sales of US$ 7.9 billion, accounting for 95.5% of the total market. China occupied 4.3% of total sales with US $ 360 million.
Yi Choong-hoon, CEO of UBI Research, explained that 3Q sales growth was attributable to Samsung Display’s production of Galaxy Note and Flexible OLED for Apple’s iPhone XS.
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[IMID 2018] Samsung Display, The display that will lead 5G is OLED
2018년 November 1일 /in Display, Focus on, Market /by olednet
At the IMID 2018 exhibition held in COEX, Seoul from Oct. 24 to 26, Samsung Display presented various OLED products under the theme of ‘optimized OLED for 5G era’.
First, Samsung Display emphasized the advantages of OLED by introducing the transition process of full screen OLED and HDR & true black under the theme of ‘realistic multimedia’. Currently, the smartphone market is dominated by full-screen smartphones applied with OLED, and OLEDs are able to display a completely black color compared to LCDs, resulting in a clearer picture quality.
The company also introduced the next generation touch technology such as HoD (Haptic on Display; when you touch the screen, you can feel the physical vibration by hand. Thus, you can enjoy the contents realistically.), FoD (Fingerprint on Display) and SoD (Sound on Display) together with full screen technology.
In addition, the front of the booth is equipped with a space to experience the durability of the flexible OLED with a plastic cover window, so that visitors can try to hit the panel with a hammer or drop the ball. Various advantages of flexible OLED have been shown.
Moreover, OLED for VR, which implemented 1200ppi ultra-high resolution, automotive rollable display (CID) and 5.9 type transparent HUD were displayed, raising expectations for future development of display technologies.
LG Display unveiled its 8K OLED TV for the first time in Korea, which had been showcased at CES 2018 in Las Vegas earlier this year. This product is the biggest OLED TV that is currently in existence and provides 4 times clearer picture quality than UHD resolution.
Furthermore, LG Display showed the possibility of various OLED applications while the company showcased its 65-inch CSO (Crystal Sound OLED), a sound system built into the panel, and 77-inch UHD wallpaper OLED product that can be closely adhered to the wall to enhance interior effects in the living room.
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OLEDON unveils plane source deposition technology for ‘super-gap’ OLED manufacturing.
2018년 October 30일 /in Equipment, Focus on, Technology /by olednet
Attention is growing since OLEDON, a venture company developing OLED deposition equipment, unveiled plane source deposition technology for OLED manufacturing to maintain ‘a superb gap with the competing countries’, at IMID2018, held in COEX, Seoul, Oct. 24, 2018.
Hwang Chang-Hoon, CEO of OLEDON, said, “Korea should actively invest in the development of creative deposition technology to maintain the first place in the current OLED producing countries.” He expects that plane source deposition technology is to be used both for small and medium size OLED and large area OLED manufacturing in future.
OLEDON is developing the world’s first curved plane source FMM deposition technology, which is an ultra-high-resolution OLED deposition technology capable of manufacturing 2250ppi AMOLED. The shadow distance of fine pattern can be up to 0.18um, enabling 11K high-resolution AMOLED pattern process.
<Existing FMM deposition pattern (left) and plane source FMM deposition pattern (right), Source: OLEDON>
According to Hwang, this process was confirmed with 800 ppi shadow mask, and the emission area of the pattern deposited with plane source was 1.7 times higher than the conventional deposition method.
On the other hand, OLEDON holds the original patent for the FMM deposition technology of plane source, and has recently applied for a patent for vertical plane source deposition for large area OLED TV manufacturing.
<Vertical plane source deposition for OLED TV manufacturing, Source: OLEDON>
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Could oil be the peg on which to hang stability in Sudan?
With south Sudan expected to vote for independence from the north in next month's referendum, peace could lie in the country's southern oilfields
AFP , Thursday 23 Dec 2010
Sudan's road to peace paved with Oil (Reuters)
Sudan's northerners have a pipeline but little petroleum; the southerners are swimming in oil but have no pipeline.
As north and south head for an expected break-up following a vote on independence for the south, oil could guarantee peace for the two new neighbours.
The January 9 referendum, which analysts expect will partition Africa's largest country into a mostly Muslim north and a predominantly Christian and animist south, was a central part of a 2005 deal that ended a two-decade civil war between them.
Oil "can surely be a factor of peace in Sudan because both sides need each other - the north the oil, and the south the pipeline," said Dana Wilkins, a campaigner at Global Witness, a British-based NGO.
The southern oil fields were a major factor in the second civil war, when the Khartoum regime used nomadic Arab militias in the 1980s to secure access. The south insisted on its share of the oil wealth.
The 2005 Comprehensive Peace deal calls for an equitable share of the oil, even though the fields lie in the south.
Since July, the two sides have been discussing the issues of future citizenship arrangements; sharing natural resources, particularly oil; security and compliance with international accords, notably on water allocation from the Nile.
They have yet to agree on key issues like the disputed oil district of Abyei. It was supposed to hold a simultaneous vote on its own future, but that has been delayed by disagreements over who should have a ballot.
"Oil can actually be a driver for peace, but it is very important that the parties understand that they have to accept that the other party will also have a significant share of the oil income," Norway's deputy foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, told AFP last week in the southern capital of Juba.
"They can only succeed together. So, in a sense, that is a message of peace, because there is only one viable option that would give a real economic income to the two states, which is to cooperate over oil," said Eide, whose country provides expertise to both sides on how to share their oil wealth.
Sudan is endowed with reserves currently estimated at more than six billion barrels. Three-quarters of that lies in south Sudan or its border regions with the north.
The southern oil now flows through a long pipeline across the north to Port Sudan on the Red Sea. A proposed alternative pipeline linking south Sudan to Kenya would take years to build.
The north and south are currently negotiating a formula for sharing the wealth that would be based on the southerners receiving their share from oil pumped from the ground, and the northerners from transport fees for their pipeline.
The fact that Sudan's state company Sudapet holds shares in international consortia pumping oil from the south, which the south's Nilepet does not have, complicates an already complex equation.
Wilkins said it was in both sides' interests to reach a transparent agreement with a verification mechanism that could guarantee a sustainable peace.
Oil is the primary source of foreign exchange for the Sudanese government, which is under US sanctions. The Khartoum authorities are already preparing for secession and an expected fall in oil revenues.
The south's budget, meanwhile, is 98 percent dependent on oil royalties.
"Without a pipeline, the southerners cannot do anything with their oil, except perhaps drink it," quipped a political observer.
Abyei
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Iraqi Journal of Cancer and Medical Genetics
Vol 10 No 1 (2017) /
Cancer Researches
Antimutagenic effect of grape seed extracted oil on diazinon induced genotoxicity in albino mice
Mustafa S. Al-Attar
Background: Human health hazard due to exposure to chemical pollutants is a global and chronic problem. The pesticides constitute the primary toxic chemicals in the environment. The present study explored the effects of grape seed oil supplementation on diazinon (DZN) induced chromosomal aberrations and sperm abnormalities in male mice. Materials and methods: The tests were carried out on 35 adult male albino mice (16-20 weeks, weighed 30-35 g). Animals were categorized into seven groups each with five mice; the first group was treated with phos¬phate buffer saline (PBS) as negative control group. The second and third groups were treated daily and orally with two different doses of the DZN (60 and 90 mg/kg body weight) respectively dissolved in corn oil. Animals of fourth, fifth and sixth groups were orally administered grape seed oil at a dose of 2 g/kg body weight, after 6 hours the fourth and fifth groups subjected to DZN at the same dose given to second and third groups. Animals of the seventh group were supplied with corn oil. The treatments were continued for five weeks. Results: The results showed that DZN increased the frequency of both chromatid and chromosome aberrations in bone marrow cells and sperm abnormalities. Treatment with grape seed oil extract showed a significant decrease (P<0.01) on both total abnormal chromosomes and sperms, and there was no significant difference between these groups and negative control in most analyzed parameters. The dose of grape seed oil has significantly minimized the effect of first dose of DZN concerning chromosome structure while it worked in the second dose regarding sperm abnormalities. Conclusions: This finding suggests the protective action of grape seed oil against DZN induced clastogenecity and sperm abnormalities.
AL-ATTAR, Mustafa S.. Antimutagenic effect of grape seed extracted oil on diazinon induced genotoxicity in albino mice. Iraqi Journal of Cancer and Medical Genetics, [S.l.], v. 10, n. 1, jan. 2018. ISSN 2078-6123. Available at: <http://ijcmg.uomustansiriyah.edu.iq/index.php/ijcmg/article/view/202>. Date accessed: 18 jan. 2021.
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Nathan Partain’s Jaywalker: Tight, finely-tuned Southern rock with a couple surprises up its sleeve
Published July 24, 2015 by Stephen Carradini
I rarely go out of my way to comment on the religiosity or lack thereof espoused in the lyrics of the bands I cover here on Independent Clauses. While I’m not quite as agnostic as Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman on whether “Christian music” can exist, I focus pretty heavily on the music at IC. (This decision in and of itself points toward my answer on the question; a deeper philosophical treatise on this issue will have to wait.)
However, it’s almost not possible to talk about Nathan Partain‘s Jaywalker without mentioning that these Southern-rock/folk-oriented tunes are meant to be sung in churches. Partain’s melodic and arranging chops accent but never hinder the ability of these songs to be easily sung by congregations (or people in cars, or walking down the street, etc.).
“I Have Found a Hidden Fountain” opens the record with squalling electric guitar feedback before launching into a full-band Southern-rock vibe, complete with screamin’ organ. After the intro, the band tones it down to feature the dual vocals: Partain’s yearning tenor up front and female vocals supporting with harmonies and tasteful wordless counterpoint. The band doesn’t totally drop out–they merely make way for the vocals to take center stage. This allows the tune to feel tight and real while still leaving the vocal melody easily heard, a trend that continues throughout the album. They get soulful in an instrumental solo section, drop down the volume for dramatic effect, then ramp back up to full weight to close out the tune.
Partain rolls out more Southern rock vibes in follow-up “It’s God Who Saves,” unveiling a nicely arpeggiated lead guitar line on top of more tight band interplay. He also lets his voice get a bit ragged in points, giving the performance a grit that wasn’t present in the more straightforward opener. Even though there’s not as much guitar action in this one, this is a bit more wide-open full-band performance. Partain and co. max out the rock grit with the innocuously-titled “Love is a Gift,” which contains a thunderous guitar riff and roaring vocals in the chorus. (As a result, this is the song that least feels like a congregational possibility.) If you love a bass-heavy Southern rock tune, you should skip straight to this one.
Moving toward the folkier end of the spectrum are tunes like “A Son of God” and “In Tenderness He Sought Me”; these dial back the electric firepower and lean heavily on the polished, evocative vocal melodies. The former includes swinging syncopation that makes it straight-up fun to sing; the latter gives Sarah Partain a verse, and her gentle, affectionate alto softens the already-sweet tone of the tune. “Hold Thou My Hand” is a stark, vulnerable piano ballad whose lyrics and melodies helped develop a catch in my throat by the end.
The most intriguing two songs on the record transcend tunes identifiable by genre labels: “Jesus Is Mine” and “He Was Wounded” invert generic stereotypes to create unique tunes. “Jesus Is Mine” opens with heavy-handed piano whacks and insistent bass thump, then splays out into a vaguely minor-key jam: the piano goes all saloon, Partain distorts his “oh-oh” vocals in the verse breaks, and the guitar wails in engaging ways. It’s not your average Southern-rock jam. Ominous isn’t the right word for a worship song, but whoa. “He Was Wounded” uses organ and delicate clean electric guitar to open in an almost ambient drone; there’s a spacious, elegant, cathedral-esque glamour to the tune that doesn’t draw its strength only from the gentle reverb. It’s quiet and tense without being a solo acoustic performance, something that isn’t so common in folk (with the strong exception of the Barr Brothers).
Jaywalker is a powerful album of Southern rock and acoustic-folk tunes that slots nicely next to bands like Hiss Golden Messenger, Megafaun, and Jason Isbell. Because of its roots, you can sing along every single tune (a highlight in my eyes!). On top of that, the arrangements are tight and finely calibrated to make the songs work right. I’ve been listening to it for weeks and haven’t gotten tired yet. Highly recommended.
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Stahlmann English version
Deutsche Version Русская версия
“Stahlmann”, the metal-band from Germany, has visited Russia at last! In spite of the fact, that the musicians have never been in our land, they have many Fans here. To listen to dark electrobeats, “steel” guitar-solos and deep vocal live, many people came to the clubs in Moscow and St. Petersburg. We succeeded in communicating with the band on 20th October, 2012, before the concert in “Arctica”-Club (St. Petersburg). Let's learn more about the band itself and about its members.
Well, meet Mart (Vocals), Tobi (guitar), Ablaz (bass guitar).
-Your cherished desire has come true: now you are in Russia! What impressions have you got?
Mart: We are in Russia, it's cool! Yesterday we met a lot of wonderful people and visited a lot of wonderful places in Moscow: the Red Square, the Kremlin, went for a walk through the city, speaking to different people. We also saw street musicians, dropped in a Hard-Rock-Cafe and drank coffee...
Ablaz: And Wodka too!
Mart: Of course, much Wodka! (Laughing.) Well, we enjoyed ourselves a lot!
Tobi: The same impressions, we were together all the time.
-Why did you want to visit Russia?
Mart: We have a lot of fans here. I'm managing our official Facebook-page, Ablaz is dealing with our fans on Vkontakte.ru. We have been noticing for a long time, that many Russian people would like to come to our live-concert. We also communicate with our fans in Russia very well, we wanted sure to come to Russia one day!
-What are you expecting from the today's concert?
Mart: I hope it will be wonderful just like yesterday's one. (Everybody's laughing.) There was an amazing event, we would have stayed longer if we hadn't to hurry to catch the train to St. Petersburg. Now we are glad to give a concert here! The party will be cool!
Everybody: Ohh yees! (Laughing.)
-You are first in Russia. What countries have you visited yet?
Mart: Of course Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia now, then Czech Republic is next in turn. We are on tour now.
Tobi: Don't forget about Poland.
-Remember the feelings you experience being on a stage n front of hundreds or even thousands of people who are dying to look at you, to listen to you. What do you feel in such moments?
Mart: Happiness and pleasure. You have no time to analyze, you are just enjoying the moment.
Tobi: I totally agree.
Ablaz: Before entering the stage, I am always excited and strained. I am trying to do my best and to rock with people!
-As far as I know, Mart and Tobi – you write music together, but for the live-shows you get different musicians involved in the work. What musicians have you dealed with? What bands are they from?
Mart: No-no, all musicians are from our band, but in the last two or three years we had about one hundred and fifty concerts – it is very much, and the musicians are playing in other bands too. For example, Ablaz is a member of the UK band.
Ablaz: „Sarah Jezebel Deva“ from England..
-I have heard that Shumon from “Tanzwut” was playing with you for some time.
Mart: Exactly. As I've mentioned, Ablaz is playing in the UK band, our drummer Taki has a music school that demands a lot of time, that's why we have two drummers and three bassists in common. Our second drummer Nick was at that moment on tour with his band OOMPH!, and we asked Shumon to help us. Since we and guys from “Tanzwut” are friends, Shumon agreed and took the place of Nick during our recent tour.
-What bands are you friends with?
Mart: Oh, there are a lot! I don't know who to begin with. If I start to enumerate them I will surely forget any band and the guys will be angry. (Everybody's laughing.) There are many-many musicians and bands who we are friends with! Let us suppose, I say: “We are friends with “Tanzwut”\”Megaherz”, then Dero from OOMPH! comes and says: “Why are we friends no more?” We are friends with almost all bands we go on tour.
Ablaz: If there is mutual understanding, you will become friends very quickly. On tour there is a lot of time to spend together.
-How did you begin to play music, to love it?
Mart: Like all other bands. We began to write songs, then recorded them and laid out to the Internet. The reaction was very quick and very positive. The we started to play live-shows, invited our friends, a drummer and a bassist, then our first album was released, we got to the charts... And now we are in Russia!
Ablaz: In my time I was listening to different music, watching a lot of different live-shows and then I wanted to be a musician. I bought a guitar and started to play and to study. Then I wrote my first songs, played my first live-shows in big and small clubs... at first in small ones, of course. (Laughing.)It was becoming better and better... and now we are sitting here in Russia!
-What would your occupation have been, if you hadn't been musicians?
Mart: I am able to nothing besides it. (Laughing.)
Ablaz: Pornostar! (Laughing.)
-Have you got such a dream?
Ablaz: No, such talent! (Everybody's laughing.)
-You have a specific image on the stage. Are you going to change it in the future?
Mart: We will probably change something to the next tour. We have many ideas but we must make a decision. We are recording now a new album that is likely to be released at the beginning of 2013. Till this release our new image is a mystery.
Ablaz: You have to visit our new concerts and see all changes by yourselves.
-I liked your official clips very much. There are a lot of beautiful girls there. Could you share your plans about the next clips?
Tobi: The same as about the images and costumes. We are thinking of them.
Mart: It's also a mystery. :)
-Who is waiting for you at home? Your family, friends, a hamster or beautiful girls who are cooking tasty dishes for your return?
Mart: My dog, Mefistofeles by name. I call him Fisto but his full name is Mefistofeles.
Are you a “Faust”-fan?
Mart: I'm a dog-fan. (Laughing.) But my dog is already a little devil, his name goes very well with him.
Tobi: I am getting tasty dishes.
Ablaz: As for me, I will be very glad to be at home again after a long tour. I'm going to make a party for my friends. It will be cool!
-Thanks a lot for our conversation. It has been very cheerful and interesting. Good luck on the concert! I hope you will visit Russia one more time.
Mart: So do I.
Ablaz: I enjoyed our conversation too.
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The ritual arrived as Banks readies to move from her current four-bedroom, two-bathroom home in the Woodland Hills area of California. Banks purchased the home in March 2016 for $850,000 but listed the house just one-month later, seemingly unhappy with the purchase. It was sold to an unknown buyer in a non-judicial foreclosure sale for $845,000 described as a “fixer-upper” by Realtor.com. The New York-bred rapper has been open about Los Angeles being the source of many of her mental health problems.
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One thing that's sad about this is that the program comes with so much red tape that the owners of the most of the good, legitimate for-profit daycare centers in Hoboken and in downtown Jersey City all stayed away from the program.
I know that St. Bridget's, for example, has a good reputation, but it would be good if there were a lot more St. Bridget's out there.
Wow, that makes me pretty fricking angry. Hope the new governor's staff slams these cheats hard. Who cares whether there were no rules about how the funds can be spent--fraud is fraud.
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This is a real shame -- I think the Abbott preschools are a vital thing for the poor children in NJ. Like Head start this is the best way for NJ to spend money -- every dollar spent here saves tons of money that the state will end up having to pay otherwise. I wonder if these news articles are just trying to justify cutting funds to these programs.
I am all for going after the people who run these programs and then turn around and steal from these kids, but these programs are really needed!
It is really wrong to take away from the most needy in NJ and give more breaks to the rich suburbs who already have the best schools and services.
Just my 2 cents.
-------------------------here is part 2----------------
By JEAN RIMBACH and KATHLEEN CARROLL
Second of four parts
The allegation could not have been more blunt:
"Wendy Williams, director of the Right Direction Day Care, has embezzled funds for personal gain," an audit of the taxpayer-funded preschool began.
State education auditors flagged $182,833 in "questionable" expenses at the privately owned Irvington center, including ATM withdrawals in Las Vegas and payments for cruises, airfare, motels, restaurants and clothing. The state was so alarmed that it referred its findings to New Jersey's chief law enforcement officer.
The state Attorney General's Office closed the Williams case. No action was taken against her.
In all, five of the seven preschool cases forwarded to then-Attorney General Peter Harvey by the state Department of Education were closed under his watch.
The reason given: The state's contracts with the private preschools were so lax and loosely written that they failed to spell out even the simplest rules on what taxpayer dollars could -- and could not -- be used for.
LESSONS IN WASTE
Sunday: A look at waste and mismanagement in the state's multibillion-dollar preschool program.
Monday: Why no one has been prosecuted despite the misuse of public funds.
Tuesday: How underpaid preschool teachers are demanding their rights.
Sunday: What could be next for Abbott preschools.
"You may have misappropriation of government dollars or theft by deception or something of that nature," spokesman John Hagerty said in an interview late last year. "But the way the contracts were, the way the monies were provided to the day cares, it didn't place limitations on the dollars per se. Therefore, we can't charge a crime."
Education officials say they've tightened their contracts and spending guidelines for the so-called Abbott preschool program, begun seven years ago under a court mandate to provide free classes to 3- and 4-year-olds in the state's 31 neediest communities.
But they remain frustrated by the attorney general's lack of movement.
"I've never been given a satisfactory explanation for why what was seen at the start as criminal activity was not prosecuted," said Gordon MacInnes, the assistant state education commissioner who oversees the program.
Now, those cases will be getting a second look. Last week, four days before the start of an investigative series by The Record, Hagerty said the dormant cases could be revived under the new attorney general, Zulima Farber.
"The Division of Criminal Justice is reassessing all of the Abbott preschool cases to determine whether or not any of the cases should be reopened for additional investigation," Hagerty said.
The preschool program will hand out more than $560 million in taxpayer dollars this year to try to help 38,400 disadvantaged children catch up to their more affluent peers. The program relies on private centers to serve two-thirds of the children because the public school districts don't have enough space to accommodate them.
State audits sent to the attorney general uncovered apparent financial abuses -- from rent kickback schemes and gambling to Jaguar car payments and indulgent spending sprees.
Closed cases
# Right Direction Day Care in Irvington
"Suspected Embezzlement of Funds" was the title of the auditors' report on Right Direction Day Care. They determined that personal expenses were classified as "loans" -- including payments to Williams' Right Direction bus company and Right Path charter school. They found $51,000 in cash withdrawals but no record of how the money had been spent. Endorsements on $11,414 in checks made out to employees looked suspiciously like Williams' own handwriting.
Before Right Direction's contract expired last year, public dollars filled the storefront preschool with supplies. Today, two abandoned classrooms are still packed with blocks and toys. Little wooden chairs are pulled up to matching desks. Child-sized easels, picture books and computers are visible from the street. Shelves lined with plastic jugs of paint are gathering dust.
State education officials said they did not know the supplies had never been retrieved.
Irvington school district officials declined to discuss Right Direction, believing the matter remained under investigation. Howard Weinstein, Williams' attorney, said he had heard nothing since his client turned over "a load of documents" two years ago.
"I'm presuming the investigation has not uncovered any unlawful activity," he said.
Hagerty said late last year, during The Record's four-month investigation of the Abbott program, that any possible case against Right Direction was hampered by the Education Department's failure to detail its spending rules. Auditors' findings, he added, are a long way from a criminal prosecution.
"While a report may say one thing, you've got to have the proofs, the evidence, the contracts, the paperwork, the expenditures -- a paper trail," Hagerty explained at the time. "If it doesn't come up to that, it doesn't matter what a recommendation or referral says. We have a far different standard than an audit in order to move a case to a court for trial."
# Kidz Pre-school Academy in Paterson
It was nearly six months before Malikah Abdullah, the owner of Kidz Pre-school Academy and a former nine-year member of the Paterson Board of Education, answered auditors' requests for her financial records.
When documents were made available, auditors found that Abdullah wrote herself more than $46,000 in checks from the company account -- not counting any salary she was collecting. She wrote an additional $7,000 in checks to a property management company in Manhattan, they said.
Meanwhile, Abdullah was sending monthly checks to a local Board of Education member. Jonathan Hodges, a former co-owner who had sold his share of the business to her for $500,000, was paid monthly installments of $2,666. Hodges eventually faced a hearing before the state School Ethics Commission. The matter was dismissed with a reprimand and Hodges is still on the board.
In an interview, Abdullah said she stopped paying Hodges after her Abbott contract ended.
"We're not able to make any type of payments, my funds have dwindled so," she said, also noting a costly legal dispute with her preschool landlord. "I'm just barely surviving, because the contract was taken."
She maintains that the audit report was "unfounded," and that a decision to end her contract in 2002 was politically motivated. She said she never spoke with state investigators.
Local education officials told reporters they had been alarmed when they visited Kidz.
"They would say, 'Look at that corner there -- that's the science corner,' " said Anna DeMolli, director of early childhood education in Paterson. "And all there would be is a sign that said 'Science Corner.' No materials, no desks, no books. You would go by and see three dolls with their hair pulled out. They're filthy dirty, no clothes on them. That's the corner for 'housekeeping.' "
Abdullah tried unsuccessfully to regain a Board of Education seat in 2003. She now runs a day-care center called Wee Kidz, serving children whose tuition is paid by taxpayer-funded voucher programs.
Abdullah asked Paterson for another Abbott preschool contract in the fall. She never received a response, she said.
# Miss Dot's Small World in Paterson
Auditors say they also got the runaround at Miss Dot's, where, they said, public funds intended for New Jersey children appeared to have been used by owner Dorothy Williams to buy land for a camp in Pennsylvania and to promote her city-based transportation service.
Williams, who had moved to Pennsylvania, said she was too busy to meet with auditors. Her records were being reconstructed by her daughter and son-in-law -- in California.
Eventually, her accountant dropped off "all the records he had on hand." Williams and her son delivered more paperwork two days later, including bank statements and canceled checks.
The records that materialized were "unorganized, incomplete, and lacked supporting documentation," the auditors found.
Petty cash and non-payroll checks made out to Williams totaled nearly $30,000. Money was used to pay for "a driver, a tow truck, repairs, and insurance for several vehicles." There were checks to Jaguar and Ford dealerships in two states. Checks written to "Rick" were marked as bus inspection and repair payments. Williams' accountant said she owed about $100,000 in payroll taxes.
And tickets for bus trips to Atlantic City were for sale at the preschool, where auditors believed Williams was also operating Miss Dot's Transportation.
Auditors said there was evidence she had purchased property in Pennsylvania with preschool funds and planned to open a camp. They cited, for example, checks to a lawyer marked "Pa. land."
Public records show that Dorothy Williams filed to open a business named Miss Dot's Small World in Freeland, Pa., in 2002. Efforts to reach Williams were unsuccessful.
# First Steps Day Care in Jersey City
In 2003, auditors found nearly $180,000 in personal spending at First Steps, including $11,381 for gambling in Atlantic City, $6,276 for Princess Cruises and $4,887 for the Diamond Den.
Director Jacqueline DiFranco said in a 2004 interview that she had done nothing wrong -- she just didn't know she was supposed to keep money from her other day-care center separated from state tax dollars. She said all the state money given to her for the preschool program was spent properly.
DiFranco said the Attorney General's Office took documents from the preschool and returned them 18 months later.
"Nothing was found that I did anything inappropriate," she said last week. "I was cleared."
The Jersey City school district renewed DiFranco's contract for two more years, entrusting her with hundreds of thousands more in tax dollars.
But in early 2005, auditors returned to First Steps and found that an additional $2,500 had been spent in Atlantic City, including cash withdrawals at the Caesars casino. The company hadn't completed its tax returns, financial statements or required independent audits since 2002.
They also learned that DiFranco was charging families $2 a day for food, even though the state strictly prohibits such charges and pays the centers to provide meals and snacks.
DiFranco last week denied auditors' findings and said she had never seen their report. Auditors said she told them that she often deposited her personal money into the Abbott account to cover expenses, then reimbursed herself through the ATM and debit card. However, she had bounced 40 checks.
Jersey City school officials, who had defended DiFranco in the past, said they took the unusual step of ending her contract in the middle of the school year.
# My Little Friends in Vineland
Although owners Helen and John DiTomo received state funding for six computers for the children at My Little Friends -- a requirement of the Abbott program -- they provided the school with only two. They leased two other computers and brought them to Florida, where they moved in September 2003.
Meanwhile, teachers told auditors they had to use their own money to buy needed classroom supplies.
Auditors noted that the DiTomos' son had also moved to Florida during the school year, although he was still being paid as a janitor. But his timecards were missing for two months, and the owners were also making regular payments to a cleaning company. The school's director, Stephanie Knight, said she was instructed to punch the son's timecard in his absence, but did not.
An arrangement between the owners and Knight may have violated state and federal tax laws, auditors said. Knight, who rented a house next to the preschool from the DiTomos, was promoted to director after they moved. When she opened her next paycheck, she discovered her salary increased by $440 -- which was much more than negotiated. The DiTomos then told her to pay back the bulk of that money in a $340 monthly rent increase, auditors said.
In an interview, John DiTomo described the rental agreement as "my private issue. They can surmise whatever they want to surmise."
The preschool closed when the DiTomos lost their state contract in 2004.
# Hoboken HOPES
HOPES -- the Hoboken Organization Against Poverty and Economic Stress -- charged taxpayers twice for the same preschoolers.
The state attorney general was alerted last year after a random audit.
"This is a serious and possibly criminal violation," the auditors wrote, "since public funds were inappropriately obtained resulting in a duplication of revenue."
When The Record took a close look at HOPES, reporters found an estimated $1.8 million in payments for Abbott preschool and day-care services that may have been duplicated by federal Head Start money.
HOPES identified itself as "fully state funded" on its budgets for 2003-04 and 2004-05 even though it was also receiving federal dollars for some of the same preschool costs for 120 children. As a result, state education officials say, HOPES was overpaid by as much as $800,000.
HOPES contends that the federal Head Start money was not spent on preschool, but on before- and after-school day care, food, and health and social services for the students.
However, the agency accepted nearly $1 million in additional state funding that was also earmarked for some of those costs during those same years: $777,000 from the Human Services Department and $209,000 from the Agriculture Department, The Record found.
Ora Welch, HOPES' president and chief executive, said the agency operated with good intentions.
"By doing good by these children, doing things they wouldn't ordinarily get -- health care and dental -- that is not something these kids take for granted," Welch said.
State education officials have kept HOPES in the Abbott program -- and even expanded the agency's contract this year to 135 children.
In a meeting last week, the Education Department gave HOPES a blank budget form for the 2003-04 school year and asked for a new accounting, to show how all of the Abbott dollars were spent, officials said. The apparent duplication of funds during the 2004-05 school year is still under review.
The Hoboken school district has recovered $205,000 from HOPES and state education officials say the duplicate funding has been eliminated in the current school year. The state's audit also revealed missing computers and employee contributions to health insurance premiums that had already been paid for by the state.
Meanwhile, officials at the Human Services Department and the federal Health and Human Services Department, which oversees the Head Start program, said they were not investigating how money was spent at HOPES.
# New Africa Day Care in Newark
New Africa Day Care was referred to investigators after owners failed to show how $160,677.99 was spent to benefit the children. Financial records included debits for Burlington Coat Factory, Macy's and Oriental Rug Warehouse. The 2003 report noted charges at flower and wig shops, restaurants and hotels -- including the Chicago Hilton.
"That was fraud," said Gail Griffin, head of early childhood education in the Newark school district. "We had records that showed they spent this on personal expenses. That was in the record. We could prove that this was criminal activity."
Attempts to contact Muslimah Suluki, owner of the defunct preschool, were unsuccessful.
Griffin said her staff never recovered any supplies from New Africa -- because "there was nothing for us to collect."
"They had stolen the money," she said.
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How public money fed private greed of at least two Jersey City preschool owners
How public money fed private greed
First of four parts
A Jersey City preschool owner charged state taxpayers for a Caribbean time share two years in a row. She said it would help her teachers relax. They never vacationed there, but she did.
A Hoboken center collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in state funds without telling New Jersey that the federal government had already paid for the same preschoolers.
And taxpayers are still supporting an Irvington preschool even though the director did such a "horrible" job in Newark that her program was shut down.
Seven years after New Jersey launched its landmark program for disadvantaged preschoolers -- with $561 million budgeted this year alone -- the state continues to send tax dollars to programs that have flagrantly misspent or wasted money. The state's slow reaction to early problems and sluggishness in pursuing and punishing the cheats have allowed uncounted millions to flow out of the classroom and into preschool owners' pockets. Only the very worst have been denied new contracts.
And when programs shut down, the state doesn't go after the squandered money.
That means Rise & Shine Day Care Center in Jersey City is not being pressured to return $239,000 in questionable spending. And it means Regina Okafor, who gave herself a $291,000 salary, has defiantly kept state-funded computers, books and furniture since her contract expired.
The Record analyzed audits of more than 100 state-funded preschools in New Jersey's poorest communities, reviewed tax returns, financial documents and contracts and interviewed dozens of state and local officials, owners and teachers in an effort to detail the fiscal workings of the program.
The four-month investigation of the 2003-04 accounts, the last full year available, found:
# Sloppy bookkeeping at virtually every school, so bad in most cases that auditors couldn't tell how much money had been spent on the program. Payments for luxury car leases, Omaha steaks, shrimp, Godiva chocolates, wedding gifts, motorcycle insurance, even cat food were buried in the books.
# Inflated rents, six-figure salaries and $900,000 in personal loans while some schools shortchanged teachers' wages and benefits.
# Uninterrupted funding for schools showing clear financial distress, such as tax liens, negative bank balances, lapsed insurance policies and failure to meet payroll. One agency rang up more than $24,000 in bank fees alone on 758 bounced checks.
# Contracts so loosely worded that the Attorney General's Office said it couldn't prosecute. Cases involving blatant abuses were closed. But four days before publication, a spokesman said the office is reassessing those decisions.
# Windfalls for owners who walk away from the program; they have been able to escape their debts to taxpayers and some have kept entire classrooms of state-funded supplies.
# A backlash against state efforts to take back some wasted tax dollars from existing programs. Schools are threatening to close -- one shut its doors last month -- and a major social service agency is suing. The case could cost taxpayers millions if the state loses.
# Little financial scrutiny by the agency that doles out a fifth of the state funding and no plans to change that approach.
The taxpayer-funded preschool program -- ordered by the state Supreme Court in its Abbott v. Burke ruling -- is an unprecedented effort to provide free classes to all 3- and 4-year-olds in New Jersey's 31 poorest communities. Since 1999, two state agencies have poured more than $2.5 billion into the initiative. Much of that money has gone to hundreds of private day-care centers and community agencies recruited to meet the mandate to help disadvantaged kids catch up to their suburban peers.
Indeed, educational experts say the program -- one of the most ambitious in the country -- is working. Students' test scores are improving, enrollment has doubled and virtually all teachers are certified. State officials say they are reining in misspending and taking steps to recover wasted tax dollars.
But those attempts to fix the program's financial troubles come after years of chaos and in some cases have backfired.
Attorney David Sciarra, whose Education Law Center sued to create the preschool program, expressed frustration -- but not surprise -- at the problems.
"We have a Department of Education that simply isn't capable, that has shown itself incapable of really performing the oversight and management responsibilities," he said.
Years of missing funds
No one will ever know how much money went missing in the program's early years.
The state didn't verify spending or enrollment. The priority was to add classes quickly, and the state told overcrowded school districts to hire licensed day-care centers to serve the kids.
Four years into the program, the state discovered that only 85 percent of the funded spots were actually filled, said Robert Ortley, chief auditor for the state Department of Education. And it took another year for education officials to begin to add some spending limits and do more than a dozen or so audits annually.
And officials at the Education Department, which distributes four-fifths of the funding, say they can't look back now.
"It's more important that we're taking actions that will produce either a decision that somebody shouldn't be a provider -- which has happened in a lot of cases -- or a decision that allows that provider to improve their management," said Gordon MacInnes, the assistant education commissioner who oversees the Abbott preschool program.
For the 2003-04 school year, the department audited about one-fifth of the centers, about 60 percent of those chosen at random. The Record's analysis of the audits found rife mismanagement.
School after school couldn't explain its spending. The majority were missing invoices or other documentation and the records that did exist were usually inaccurate or misleading. A few had no paperwork at all. About four out of five mixed education funds with day-care money or other revenue, making it difficult to track tax dollars.
"I think the findings were pretty much consistent," said Ray Montgomery, director of the Education Department's Office of Compliance Investigation. "Every time I would read a report I would say, 'My goodness, is everybody going to the same school in terms of doing the same kinds of things?' "
At least 40 percent of the schools had shaky finances. Some couldn't pay vendors, bounced checks or missed rent or insurance payments. Several stiffed the IRS.
Harmony Education & Life Partners in Irvington missed its payroll twice, and received shut-off notices from Public Service Electric & Gas. Sunnyside Academy in Jersey City had $92,000 in unpaid payroll taxes and an overdrawn bank account.
Babyland Family Services in Newark bounced 758 checks and rang up $24,635 in bank fees.
A previous audit cited "substandard conditions," such as cold food, no heat, staffing shortages, a lack of supplies and a wealth of administrative positions, with salaries as high as $230,000. Federal 2003 tax returns for the sprawling social service agency put the executive director's compensation at $350,000, including salary, retirement contributions and an expense account. Babyland officials have said the administrative salaries were not covered by Abbott funds.
Auditors also cited one in four centers for personal expenses, including unexplained credit-card charges, checks written to cash and questionable ATM withdrawals -- some from machines in Atlantic City, Las Vegas and Miami.
There were Christmas bonuses and wedding gifts from Macy's and Victoria's Secret. Auditors couldn't tell where the money came from for restaurant bills, liquor store payments and a $1,000 donation to the Asbury Park mayor's ball. A Volvo was on the books at a West New York center one year, two Volvos the next.
$900,000 in loans
There was no evidence that $900,000 in loans at more than a dozen locations were repaid.
At Tinyville Learning Center in Jersey City, the Rev. Rudolph Daniels ended up with $15,000 in loans in his pocket, auditors found. Daniels has told Jersey City officials he paid back the loans, but the district says it has no proof.
Over and over, auditors found inflated rents -- some had doubled, tripled, even quadrupled in a single year. The owners of Little Tots in Asbury Park took home an extra $136,500 by nearly doubling the rent, auditors said. They never told the state they were both landlord and tenant.
Rental costs at Little Kids College in Trenton shot up 31 percent. Owner Deborah Pontoriero told auditors that her landlord -- who was also her father -- had refinanced his mortgage and passed the costs on to the Abbott program.
One-third of the centers underpaid staff or charged employees insurance premiums that had already been paid for by the state. Some offered no benefits at all.
The owner of Happy Face in Jersey City charged the preschool program for federal and state corporate taxes and bonuses. Auditors said she underpaid teachers by as much as 15 percent. And she used state money to buy health insurance for her husband and to pay for the Caribbean timeshare -- $1,243 one year and $1,988 the next.
In an interview, owner Marly Caro said the vacation home was intended for the preschool's teachers, as a means of relaxation that she felt would contribute to their health. The money was eventually returned.
At Apple Tree Daycare in Paterson, the director diverted state-funded supplies to her other day-care center in a wealthy suburb, auditors found. She said that deliveries to Paterson get stolen -- but "could not explain why or by whom the invoices had been altered," the auditors reported.
Fidela L. Mercedes of Franklin Lakes is collecting two full-time salaries, from two preschools she owns in neighboring towns, The Record found. In West New York, she goes by Fidela Mercedes and makes $60,000 as director of Little Angels. In Union City, she's called Lazara Mercedes and is paid $41,120 as director at Kiddie Corner. Holding more than one director's job violates Abbott rules.
And state education officials say a Hoboken agency collected as much as $800,000 in Abbott preschool funds that were duplicated by federal Head Start money. The agency then failed to reveal the federal dollars on the budget it gave the state.
The Hoboken Organization Against Poverty and Economic Stress -- called HOPES -- disputes any duplication but has yet to document how the money was spent.
"Our motives here are motives of good," said Ora Welch, president and chief executive.
All of these preschools are still getting state funds.
State officials say it's difficult to close down centers because the priority is to serve as many kids as possible. School districts don't have the room to do it on their own, so they rely on about 500 private centers to serve two-thirds of the students.
"It may not be as simple as: 'Look at what they're doing -- they are out of here,' " said David Joye, acting co-director of the state's Office of Early Childhood. "It's a scale. I mean, do they have someplace for these kids to go?"
School districts decide
The threat of being audited and losing a state contract should be enough to compel preschools to follow the rules, state officials say. And every year, they say, about 10 of the worst-managed schools are weeded out. But that's only after years of problems and many keep getting other public funds to provide day care or social services for poor families.
Even though state officials set policy and dole out the Abbott preschool money, they say it's up to individual school districts to decide who to keep and who to let go.
"In all cases, I leave it up to them," MacInnes said.
But some districts are more aggressive than others.
For example, officials in Camden have never canceled a preschool contract. Audits of five programs there reviewed by The Record showed serious problems, including double billing, possible labor and tax violations, questionable personal spending and haphazard financial records.
It's also possible for preschool owners who flunk out in one town to keep collecting state money in another.
Take Rosemary Nwosu, whose Rising Sun Academy lost its contract in Newark almost two years ago. Newark officials described the program as "terrible" and "horrible." They said teacher-student interaction was poor and financial records were a disaster.
"It was just -- just a mess," said Gayle Griffin, Newark's assistant superintendent in charge of early childhood.
Yet today, Nwosu is collecting $14,000 per child to run a three-room preschool in Irvington.
"It's not sufficient to say that a program operated by Mr. X in Newark was found wanting, and therefore we assume that Mr. X's program in Irvington will also be wanting and needs to be shut down," MacInnes said. "I don't think you can do that."
In an interview, Nwosu acknowledged the problems in Newark and admitted she held two full-time jobs as director at both preschools -- a violation of Abbott rules. She said her Irvington school is meeting all its obligations and that officials there have been more cooperative.
Two years later, New Jersey is back where it started with Rising Sun.
It's doing another audit.
Getting money back
State officials say they have moved to curb financial abuses and are recovering both misspent and surplus funds through audits and improved monitoring.
The Education Department says it saved $17 million by trying to match its 2003-04 funding with permitted expenses and enrollment numbers. Some $5.1 million of that had to be recovered after the year ended.
And it's not over yet.
Some agencies, including HOPES in Hoboken, are allowed to reconstruct their books more than once to justify spending. Last week, the state gave it another shot at building a 2003-04 budget, after auditors found funding was duplicated by the federal government.
Many smaller districts are up to date in recovering funds. But some of the larger ones are struggling. Jersey City and Newark are still collecting money owed from the 2003-04 school year.
Babyland in Newark has been given five years to pay back $772,626 in Education Department funding, and $678,453 is still outstanding. The federal government recently put it on "high-risk status" and is deciding whether to continue its Head Start grant.
The agency, which operates five preschools in Newark and one in East Orange, is still getting about $2.8 million a year from the Education Department for more than 300 children. In an interview, agency administrators said they have improved business practices and brought in a new chief financial officer.
Paterson recently began deducting debts for 2004-05 from preschools' checks after collecting $3 million from 2003-04. In response, Catholic Family & Community Services -- a large social service agency -- sued in February to stop the district from collecting more than half a million dollars in old debts from Friendship Corner preschool.
The suit says the preschool contract does not allow the district to take back money once a school year is over. Should the state lose, preschools that were forced to return such funds could ask to be reimbursed.
"This is really the first one that has come along," said Kathryn Forsyth, a spokeswoman for the Education Department. "So it really is a case of some significance."
Other preschool operators in Paterson are threatening to shut down.
One of them, Silver Fox Learning Center, closed last month. The executive director said he had no choice -- the district was withholding funding to cover old debts and he couldn't pay his bills. District officials, however, say the school repeatedly failed to document spending.
Part of the problem is that it took so long to put in any rules at all.
It wasn't until 2003-04 that the state required line-item budgets and quarterly financial reports and specified in contracts that it could take back money not spent as intended.
And it wasn't until the next year that the state spelled out what preschool owners were not allowed to purchase with tax dollars.
Budget guidelines now forbid spending on personal items, entertainment and first-class travel. Fiscal monitors installed in the districts are supposed to review financial records every quarter and track spending.
Next year, for the first time, directors' salaries will be capped at $108,000. Salaries that already exceed the limits, however, won't be cut. Also next year, preschools will have to justify their rent costs.
State auditors, who are reviewing 90 preschools from 2004-05, say those reports will show management is improving.
But some preschool operators say the growing list of spending rules is too strict and that they haven't been trained to keep up with the paperwork. The rules don't allow preschools to save money in one area -- say, on utilities -- and spend it on another part of the program.
"Every day they are coming up with something new. They used to say, 'It's a new program, we're still learning.' But the program has been around for years now," said Youssef Ismail, who owns Leaders of Tomorrow in Jersey City. "They are treating everybody as if they are thieves. They talk to you as if you are trying to take advantage and take money from the district."
Human Services funds
Although the Department of Education has been phasing in some spending rules, the Department of Human Services has not.
And that means one-fifth of taxpayer funding -- about $57,000 per classroom for before- and after-school care -- still comes without any spending restrictions at all and virtually no fiscal oversight.
That's how Yami Lasval of Fort Lee was able to spend tax dollars on expensive vehicles for herself and her husband.
When Education Department auditors looked at her Kiddie Land Learning Center in West New York, they found two leases totaling $1,229, which Lasval said in interviews paid for a BMW and a Chevrolet Tahoe. Lasval told auditors she paid for the cars with Human Services money.
And there was nothing the Education Department could do about it. Human Services pays strictly based on enrollment, with no budget required. So Lasval's actions didn't break any rules.
"DHS is not asking where that money goes," Lasval said in an interview before the district decided it would not renew her contract this summer, after six years. "They care whether we're open from 7:30 to 8:30 and 3:30 to 5:30."
The Education Department suggested that Human Services audit Lasval's program. It didn't happen. Human Services hardly ever audits preschools -- only six or eight have been done over the life of the program, officials said. The department requires attendance reports and visits the programs yearly.
"We're paying just based upon a rate," said Bonnie Beach, contract manager for the Division of Family Development. "We can't look at line items, because there are no line items to look at."
This fragmented system further hampers accountability.
"It would be a lot easier and more sensible if you were dealing with a single program and single funding source and all that. You're not. And so it may be a loophole," MacInnes agreed.
No one prosecuted
Even in cases of apparently flagrant abuse, state criminal investigations have not led to any prosecutions.
And for that, education and law enforcement officials blamed each other.
Seven cases were referred to then-Attorney General Peter Harvey's office, but a spokesman said the Education Department's vague contracts and lack of rules hurt chances for prosecution. Representatives of the Attorney General's Office discussed tightening the contracts and requiring more documentation for spending, said John Hagerty, a spokesman for the state Division of Criminal Justice.
MacInnes maintains that the Attorney General's Office didn't do its job.
"I am confident in saying they haven't pursued it in ways that I would want to see as a taxpayer," he said. He said Harvey was initially encouraging, as were investigators.
"[Harvey] looked it over and told me that based on the information we had provided -- whatever the contract may provide or not provide for -- there was clear evidence of probable offenses of a criminal nature," MacInnes said.
The investigated centers included Right Direction in Irvington, where auditors cited questionable costs of $182,883 and alleged the owner "embezzled funds for personal gain." Financial records for the two-room storefront showed expenses for cruises, airfare, motels, restaurants and clothing.
The problem in most cases: too much "wiggle room" in the contracts.
"While there may have been some excessive expenditures, the bottom line was it does not violate criminal statutes because it was not prohibited by the contracts," Hagerty said in an interview late last year.
"How can it be a crime if you are not violating any restrictions on how dollars are to be spent?" he added.
MacInnes said some changes were made to the contracts after the department was told it "would improve their ability to follow up and prosecute cases." But he questioned whether that was the real issue.
Perhaps, he said, the amount of money involved was too small.
"You accept this money so you can pay a teacher and an assistant teacher and have $2,500 in supplies and provide meals -- and instead you used the money to go to Atlantic City," he said. "Is that fraudulent? I think it is. Do you need to have it in a contract in order to enforce it? I doubt it."
Under Harvey's tenure, five cases were closed -- leaving only two, involving Abbott preschools in Hoboken and Newark, open. Education officials say the Attorney General's Office also contacted them about Babyland in Newark.
On Wednesday, in response to renewed questions from The Record, Hagerty said the office under Zulima V. Farber, the attorney general who took over in January, is taking another look at the preschool cases.
"This administration is assessing all of the cases and some of those cases may ultimately be reopened," Hagerty said.
No 'legal actions'
Mahmoud Arafat of Little Star Nursery School used preschool funds for Godiva chocolates, Omaha steaks, cellphones and electronics -- and paid himself $71,000 to run a two-room preschool in Jersey City. He paid his son $60,675 for a job labeled "clerical." He charged $44,100 for rent and $950 for a personal parking space.
In all, auditors concluded that 78 percent of Little Star's $185,000 budget went to Arafat and his family -- and that didn't include any extra funds he got for day-care. They said the excessive administrative salaries were made possible, in part, by underpaying teachers and not providing benefits.
Jersey City ended the contract -- but without collecting $76,596 that Little Star still owes. Arafat recently sold his building for $565,000, The Record found. Efforts to reach him were unsuccessful.
State officials say it's up to school districts to recover the funds, even if it means taking "legal actions."
Jersey City school officials said they are considering legal remedies against Little Star and two other preschools they cut loose. But early childhood supervisor Pat Bryant said, "We really haven't got much direction" from the Education Department.
Had officials placed a lien against Arafat, he would have been unable to sell his building without settling his debt with the school district.
One district that tried that approach was told to back off by the state. Newark officials said they filed a lien in 2004 on assets owned by Babyland. But in August, state officials told Newark to rescind the lien, Griffin said. Babyland also had federal and state tax liens against it, and the district was told that "taxes come first," she said.
At Tender Care in Newark, employee paychecks bounced. Bank balances ran into the red. Auditors found payments to Saab and Volvo and bills for satellite dish and travel services.
In 2003-04, the school's rent shot up by 20 percent, to $6,000 a month, and owner Roger Mendes charged four times the agreed amount for a janitor. The janitor and landlord were the same person: Rosa Fromkin. Public records also list Fromkin as the owner of Mendes' home in Livingston, a luxury town house, The Record found. Mendes did not respond to repeated messages.
The owner of Tender Care chose to shut down last summer rather than return $37,306.
"This is a perfect way out for them," said Nancy Rivera, director of Newark's early childhood program.
No one is pressing the owners of Rise & Shine Day Care Center I and II in Jersey City for any money. Saeed and Riffat Sheikh still owe $239,000, the district says.
They made $82,080 by padding their rent, auditors found. They skimmed from every teacher's state-funded salary but one -- a relative. When auditors asked them to substantiate their spending, the Sheikhs showed receipts for just 61 percent of the money.
Rise & Shine no longer exists. Efforts to reach the Sheikhs were unsuccessful.
MacInnes says it's not always worth it to chase providers that leave the program. Some go out of business so there may be nothing left to pursue. Sometimes, it would cost more for lawyers to collect the debt than the debt itself, he said.
"I think you could say at least in some cases this is just good business judgment," MacInnes said. "At some point the district may conclude the effort required is not worth the potential of the return."
He said it shouldn't come as any surprise that a program as large and expensive as Abbott is "not airtight."
"I think," he said, "there is a point at which you have to write off bad debt."
$377,000 for rent
Villa Maria preschool in Irvington was a modest, non-profit day-care center that received $142,000 in public dollars for child-care services in 1999. As director, Regina Okafor was paid less than $50,000, tax documents show.
Then she landed a preschool contract.
By 2001, the non-profit organization that owns Villa Maria had purchased two Mercedes-Benzes as company cars. By 2003, it was taking in $2.7 million a year to serve 135 preschoolers. Okafor's salary rocketed to $291,347. She changed her title to "chief executive officer."
Okafor also pocketed profits from a generous rental agreement for nine classrooms in a squat brick building she purchased for $240,000 in 1999. Four years later, she was charging the state $377,000 a year in rent.
Her luck finally ran out in 2004, when her contract was not renewed.
So what became of the fortune that taxpayers invested in Villa Maria?
Unopened boxes of school supplies and computers are gathering dust in a half-empty building renovated with a $200,000 state grant. Shelves of books, paints, blocks and other supplies fill classrooms that were meant for poor preschoolers.
Federal tax documents show Okafor took home $1 million in salary during her years in the program. Okafor said in an interview she didn't do anything wrong. Preschool, she said, is not a money-making venture.
"I want to make a difference for poor kids," she said.
She said the Irvington school district never sent her last monthly payment. When the district asked that she give back some supplies, Okafor refused.
"They have no right to do that," Okafor said, indignant. "It's not in the contract."
Taxpayers will never know if Elie Jean-Pierre, who runs two preschools in Orange and West Orange, walked away with hundreds of thousands of dollars of their money.
That's because nobody is bothering to add it all up.
State auditors noted that he took out $377,000 in IOUs from Christian Family Day Care. All the while, he was bouncing checks and racking up $41,000 in bank overdraft fees.
The Orange district ended its contract with Christian Family in 2004 and withheld $51,324 from its final check, said Kathleen Priestley, supervisor of early childhood programs. But it hasn't tried to recoup more money, she said, and hasn't been told by the state that it should.
In an interview, Jean-Pierre denied the findings and said the district did not withhold any money. The loans were appropriate, he said, because they were "personal money" that was owed to him.
"If I was so bad, why did they keep me in the program for three years?" he said. "As far as I'm concerned, we met all of the requirements. That's why we got the check every month."
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# More than 38,000 students attend preschool in the 31 Abbott school districts.
# About 500 private preschools serve two-thirds of the children. The rest are in public schools.
# For each student, the state pays about $14,000 yearly -- about $10,100 for six hours of class time and $3,800 for before- and after-school care.
# The state Department of Education pays for class time -- about 80 percent of the costs. That money is given to the districts, which distribute it to the schools.
# The state Department of Human Services pays for before- and after-school care -- about 20 percent of the costs.
# Classes are capped at 15 students.
# More than 99 percent of the teachers are certified.
# There is no cost to parents.
# The centers provide two free meals and snacks each day.
OUTSTANDING DEBTS
Preschools can walk away from the program owing thousands in tax dollars. Some examples:
Mahmoud Arafat, Little Star, Jersey City
Used preschool funds for Godiva chocolates, Omaha steaks, cellphones and electronics.
Owes: $76,596
Roger Mendes, Tender Care, Newark
Auditors found payments to Saab and Volvo and bills for satellite dish and travel services in the books.
Saeed and Riffat Sheikh, Rise & Shine Day Care Center I and II, Jersey City
Made $82,080 by padding rent; skimmed from every teacher's salary but one -- a relative.
Owes: $239,000
Elie Jean-Pierre, Christian Family Day Care, Orange
Auditors said he took out $377,000 in loans from preschool, but couldn't determine source of the cash.
Owes: unknown
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Banded dotterel
Charadrius bicinctus Jardine & Selby, 1827
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Charadriidae
New Zealand status: Endemic
Conservation status: Nationally Vulnerable
Other names: double-banded plover, tūturiwhatu, tuturiwhatu, pohowera
Geographical variation: Two subspecies: Charadrius b. bicinctus on the main islands and Chatham Islands, and the larger B. c. exilis on the Auckland Islands.
Neil Fitzgerald
Banded dotterel. Adult in breeding plumage. Napier, Hawke's Bay, December 2009. Image © Neil Fitzgerald by Neil Fitzgerald www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz
The banded dotterel is the most common small plover of New Zealand seashores, estuaries and riverbeds. Although their plumage varies seasonally, they are readily identified by their brown upperparts and complete or partial chestnut breast band, the latter being quite striking in breeding plumage. Like other typical plovers, the body is held erect and they have a characteristic run-stop-peck-run foraging behaviour in their pursuit of small invertebrates.
Inland-breeding birds undertake a post-breeding migration to estuaries and other coastal wetlands the length of New Zealand and many also travel to Tasmania and south-east mainland Australia in an unusual east-west migration.
The banded dotterel is a small, compact plover, plain brown above and mainly white below. In breeding plumage from about June to December the male has a broad chestnut breast band and a narrow black neck band above this. Both of these bands are present but duller in the female. Juveniles may appear greyer than adults, often with a mottled appearance due to pale narrow edging to their dorsal feathers. The larger Auckland Island subspecies has longer legs, and has the breast bands duller and flecked with white.
Voice: flight calls are an unobtrusive chip call sometimes repeated, and sounding like continuous chattering when a sizeable flock is flying by. Territorial birds are much more vocal giving a “chee-aree-aree” call, with males often puffing out the breast feathers at the same time.
Similar species: banded dotterels sometimes associate with the similar-sized wrybill which is plain grey above, and New Zealand dotterels which are larger and greyer plovers. A rare vagrant to New Zealand, the lesser sand plover, is easily confused with the banded dotterel when not in breeding plumage. It is a greyer above (cf. brown on banded dotterel) and is whiter on the face, with a white forehead and eye-brow contrasting with a dark eyepatch. Dark shoulder tabs project onto the upper breast, and may join as a dark breast band.
In the breeding season banded dotterels are widespread on mainland New Zealand from Spirits Bay (Far North) to Mason Bay (Stewart Island), plus some offshore and outlying islands south to Auckland Islands and east to the Chatham Islands. The populations on the Auckland and Chatham Islands have only local movements, whereas mainland birds often undertake migrations of several hundreds of kilometres. The longest banded dotterel migrations are those undertaken by birds of the riverbeds and outwash fans of the South Island high country, most of which have an unusual east-west migration of 1600 km or more to Tasmania and south-eastern mainland Australia for “winter”, typically in the period late summer to mid winter. Birds that breed in lowland South Island and central New Zealand rivers generally move north to “winter” at harbours and estuaries of the northern North Island. Others that breed at coastal lagoons and beaches may move only a few kilometres. Vagrant birds regularly reach Norfolk Island, and have also been recorded at the Kermadec Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji. A few Auckland Island banded dotterels have been seen on Campbell Island.
Typical breeding habitat for banded dotterels comprises lightly vegetated riverbeds, outwash fans, herbfields, beaches and farmland. The composition of vegetation varies regionally and particularly with altitude. For example, high altitude riverbeds are favoured if there is plentiful cover of prostrate shrubs of genera such as Raoulia, Pimelea, Muehlenbeckia and Coprosma, but nearby sites of bare gravels are less often utilised. In lowland sites lightly grassed habitat pasture or even bare gravels may be utilised.
The total population is in the order of 50,000 birds and is declining. Dotterels have disappeared from many sites throughout New Zealand, including some where the habitat has changed little in recent decades. The key factors in the decline are likely to be introduced mammalian predators which prey on most eggs that are laid and many chicks, juveniles and adults. Invasive predators known to seriously impact on banded dotterels are feral cats, mustelids (ferrets, stoats and weasels), rats and hedgehogs. Habitat loss and human activities has also contributed to displacement of birds at some sites, particularly breeding sites.
Banded dotterel pairs are solitary and territorial, but there can be high concentrations of birds in good habitat. Birds begin to arrive on the breeding grounds and set up territories in July (later at high altitude). First eggs are laid in August to early November, in shallow scrapes in gravel, sand or soil, usually lined with tiny stones, occasionally shell. The clutch-size nearly always is three eggs, which are coloured grey to pale-green or olive with small dark spots. Incubation is performed by both adults for c.4 weeks and chicks fledge after another 5-6 weeks. Banded dotterels first breed at one year of age.
Banded dotterels are solitary feeders both during the breeding season and non-breeding season. On the wintering grounds they often defend prime feeding areas on tidal flats and lagoon edges. They often feed at night particularly at estuaries. Like most other harbour waders, banded dotterels will form roosting flocks of sometimes many hundreds of birds. Often the night-time high-tide roosts are in relatively inaccessible sites, e.g. islets, presumably to minimise predation risk by mammals.
Banded dotterels are primarily carnivorous, but also take berries of shrubs such as Muehlenbeckia and Coprosma. Animals eaten are varied and reflect local availability, e.g. crustaceans, worms and flies at many coastal sites. On the breeding grounds the diet is more varied and includes spiders, beetles, insect larvae, adults and subadults of many aquatic insects, e.g. mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies, as well as terrestrial flies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-banded_Plover
http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/bandeddotterel.html
Heather, B.D.; Robertson, H.A. 2005. The field guide to the birds of New Zealand. 2nd edition. Penguin, Rosedale, Auckland.
Marchant, S.; Higgins, P.J. (eds) 1993. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. Vol. 2, raptors to lapwings. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Pierce, R.J. 1999. Regional patterns of migration in the banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus. Notornis 46: 101-122.
Pierce, R.J. 2013. Banded dotterel. In Miskelly, C.M. (ed.) New Zealand Birds Online. www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz
Auckland Island banded dotterel
Nest type
ground-level hollow
Nest description
Bowl nest in depression in ground.
Nest height (mean)
Clutch size (mean)
Clutch size (min)
Clutch size (max)
Egg colour
Variable, background of light grey-light blue, light green or olive
Interval between eggs in a clutch
60-120 hours days
Incubation behaviour
Incubation length (mean)
Nestling type
Nestling period (mean)
<1 days
Age at fledging (mean)
Age at independence (mean)
Age at first breeding (typical)
Maximum longevity
Maximum dispersal
Migratory to south east Australia, typically 1600-3000 km
Similar species: Lesser sand plover, New Zealand dotterel
A small compact brown and white plover with a short black bill, relatively long dark legs and large round dark eyes. Breeding males have a broad chestnut breast band with a narrow black neck band above it; females have both bands but they are duller.
Three males chasing and calling
Auckland Island banded dotterel males calling on the tops of the island
Song of Auckland Island subspecies
Auckland Island banded dotterel anxiety calls from several adults
Anxiety calls from a pair of adults in riverbed
Flight calls of adult
Contact notes from several birds (skylarks and black swans in background)
Calls, mostly by male (paradise shelduck in background)
Three birds calling and chasing
Chip call (skylark, South Island pied oystercatcher & stilt in background)
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Syracuse assisted living provider offers reduced rates and expedited move-ins through Priority Stay Vaccination Program
As the first doses of the newly-approved COVID-19 vaccine begin circulating through Onondaga county, many are scrambling to determine when they’ll be able to receive it, based on their CDC-appointed vaccination status. One senior living provider, whose residents and team members are authorized for prioritized vaccination, is doing its part to make sure as many local seniors receive the vaccine as possible through its Priority Stay Vaccination Program. Hearth Senior Living, an Assisted Living and Memory Care company with four communities throughout the Syracuse area, is waiving all move-in fees and offering reduced, daily rates, with no long-term commitment, to help get local seniors through their doors, and therefore eligible for early vaccination.
“After the past tumultuous year, I think we all need to do some self-reflection and identify things we can do to pitch in and move the country forward,” said Kevin Hunter, Hearth Management’s C.O.O. “Since we were lucky enough to get the 1A certification, I feel as if it’s our responsibility to offer it to as many seniors as possible. Our nation’s elderly have been isolated, scared, and uncertain about how this virus will impact them. If The Hearth can offer them the slightest sliver of hope by making this vaccine more accessible, then by all means, I’m happy to sign on the dotted line, waive some fees, and help those in need.”
The Hearth has secured CVS as its vaccine provider and is diligently working with the nationwide pharmaceutical provider to establish a timeline for distribution. Although every Hearth resident and team member will have the option to receive the COVID-19 vaccine early, vaccination is not mandatory.
“I know that making a commitment to any business, especially at a time like now, is scary,” added Hunter. “That’s why we’re also not requiring that new residents sign a long-term contract, if they want to take advantage of early vaccination. It just feels like the right thing to do.”
Any senior interested in The Hearth’s Priority Stay Vaccination Program is encouraged to visit www.thehearth.net, schedule a visit, and be put in touch with a Hearth senior advisor.
About The Hearth
Hearth Management is a privately owned and operated management and development company based in Syracuse, NY. Founded in 1988, Hearth Management specializes in Independent Living, Assisted/Enriched Living, and Memory Care. Currently, Hearth Management’s operates 15 communities throughout New York, Connecticut, Indiana, and Tennessee.
Company Name: Hearth Management
Contact Person: Jonathan Barbieri, Sr. Vice President
City: Syracuse
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Parabolic Reflections
Best Spotify Playlists Right Now
With Deezer, Apple Music, and Amazon Music Unlimited on the rise, Spotify has maintained to be the market leader as far as music streaming platforms go. As of January 2018, Spotify had 70 million paying subscribers worldwide, up from just 30 million paying subscribers in March of 2016. While Spotify has been one of the longest-running streaming music platforms in the industry, there are quite a few reasons why Spotify has maintained to be one of the best streaming platforms. Along with its embed functionality, Spotify's variety of highly curated playlists continues to grow. As you'll read later in this article, we have compiled 10 of the best Spotify playlists online today.
As Spotify's song library continues to grow, it's easy to get lost in the robust platform. Luckily, Spotify allows its members to create Spotify playlists for every genre, era, and mood that a human can have.
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Best Spotify Playlists
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Today's Top Hits
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RapCaviar
Even though RapCaviar's playlist curator, Tuma Bass, recently departed from Spotify, Tuma Bass has grown RapCaviar into one of the most well-known playlists on Spotify today. With more than 8.9 million followers on this Spotify playlist, RapCaviar not only features some of the best rap songs, but also exclusive videos as well.
New EDM This Week
Here at EDM Sauce, we pride ourselves on not only offering the best music coverage, but also with our highly curated Spotify playlists. The New EDM This Week playlist gets updated every Friday and features all of the week's latest releases.
EDM 2018
In addition to the New EDM This Week Spotify playlist, the EDM 2018 playlist features all of the best songs from the current year.
Whether you're playing the latest video game and need some extra tunes for the hours you spend in front of your monitor, or are just looking for some true bass music, the gaming music playlist has you covered.
90's EDM Hits
The 90s electronic music hits playlist features some of the best dance music releases from 1990 to 2000. Enjoy some nostalgia and throwback jams with this playlist.
Coffeehouse Grind
Looking for some songs to listen to while drinking your favorite cup of brew at your local coffee shop? The Coffeehouse Grind playlist has all of your bases covered.
Work Out Playlist
Whether you're looking to hit the gym or just get the motivation to get out of bed, the Work Out Playlist by WorkoutClassPlaylists.com has you covered. The listener can expect to hear a mix of pop music, rap, and EDM in this highly energetic Spotify playlist.
Spotify's Most Played All-Time
Trying to find the most played songs of all time on Spotify's streaming service? The Spotify user Ray Fontaine has got you covered. This Spotify playlist features songs that all have over 200 million streams on Spotify.
Black Panther Soundtrack
Kendrick Lamar's Black Panther soundtrack was quite the statement and is being regarded as one of the best movie soundtracks of our generation.
We hope you enjoyed our collection of the best playlists on Spotify. If you have any playlists to add, please list them in the comments or submit them to our friends at tunemunk here.
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The terrorist threat on the Red Sea continues to worsen
Houthis Attack Yemeni Red Sea Port
The terrorist threat on the Red Sea continues to worsen.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militias fired ballistic missiles and explosive drones at the Red Sea port city of al-Mokha on Wednesday, causing several deaths and injuries, according to the official Saudi-led coalition statement.
Military sources told Reuters that three of the missiles had been successfully intercepted, but the fourth struck military warehouses at the port. Various sources said that 10 people had been killed in the attack.
Al-Mokha had served as a military base for the United Arab Emirates until it withdrew earlier this year. Saudi-led forces took control of the port in July.
The Saudi-led coalition intervened
Uncovering the Bible’s Buried Civilizations: The Assyrians
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Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame & Museum Inc. Fund
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"An Immense Hold in the Public Estimation:" The First Quarter Century of Hockey in Manitoba, 1886-1911
Mott, Morris (Manitoba History, Number 43, Spring / Summer 2002)
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"You couldn't run a game on Saturday night": The Winnipeg Warriors, Television, and the Business of Pro Hockey, 1955-1961
Mott, Morris (Manitoba History, Number 27, Spring 1994)
1908 Hockey Road Trip
"A remarkable trip was made by the above Hockey team to Gilbert Plains in 1908. The game was arranged by Glen Campbell, MP of that town and Walter Scott of Elphinstone. The transportation which we had to secure was supplied by the late Henry Johnstone and an old war veteran, Jack Johnstone, who at present makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Spraggs. The teams were tandemed on one sleigh, and the Geekie brothers followed with a team and Jumper.
We left at 9 a.m. on April 1, a beautiful moring. We stopped about a mile from Lake Audy to feed the horses and to eat. By this time the snow was becoming quite soft, and upon reaching the mountains, the water was really running. However, we kept going and landed at Glen Campbell's at about 5, where we had supper. Mr. Campbell supplied us with a team and a wagon and then we continued our trip to the Plains.
We arrived early in the evening at the Hotel where we changed into our Hockey uniforms. We got a pleasant surprise in leaving the Hotel when we found the town band ready to march us to the Arena. The game was played to a packed Arena and won by the opposition by a score of six to five. The next morning we had the above photo taken at a Chinaman's Studio. We left the same moring and arrived at Glen Campbell's at Dinner.
Top Row: Alex Muir, Audy Beath, Glen Campbell, MP and Henry Johnstone. Centre Row: Leo Lauder, Rover, F. M. Geekie, Point, W.M. Geekie, Cover Point, E.O. Geekie, Left wing: Mel Lauder, Centre, Bill Oliver, Goal (killed in action in World War I), H.T. Morton, Left Wing
A Brief History of the Winnipeg Monarchs - by Ed Sweeney
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Beginnings of Manitoba Hockey - by Ed Sweeney
Booster Night In Winnipeg
Kent Morgan takes a look back at Booster Night and the GWMHA in this two-part column ... Part One here and Part Two here
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Remembering One of the Best - by T. Kent Morgan & Dutch Holland
Only readers with an interest in Manitoba hockey history may recognize the name of Clarence (Sonny) Rost, who died in England in 2008. Rost had a UK playing career which spanned nearly three decades, from 1934 to 1962...
Nominations for induction for the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame 2021 Induction Class are welcomed from the public. Categories for nomination are player, builder, official, media, teams and legacy/programs. Individuals and teams nominated must have a connection to the Province of Manitoba. A nomination form with guidelines is available for download.
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INHIBITONS "With the Fullmoon above my Head"
Inhibitions are a Greek two-man band/project churning out some serious black metal attacks. Having been signed to More Hate Productions �With the Fullmoon above my Head� is their third full length. While not necessarily something completely new this is some solid stuff which should please most fans of traditional black metal. Taking influences mainly from the second wave of Scandinavian black metal the guitar riffs found in this one are not too complex or fast paced, but they still manage to keep a memorable tone and add to the stellar melodies accompanied by the steady percussions and the snarling vocals. There is some solo guitar action in certain songs, but it is never too overwhelming. However, I will say that the rhythm and the lead guitar complement each other adequately. Sharp basic chords and classic tremolo runs are melted with eerie and hypnotic harmonies to create an outstanding atmosphere. The music creates a bleak mood and offers a certain kind of dark beauty. What surprised me the most while listening to �With the Fullmoon above my Head� is the professional level of the songwriting. Each of the songs has a certain structure and Inhibitions were successful in making the single tracks memorable without sounding fluffy or simplistic. There are quite a few rhythm and tempo changes and more complex elements but overall the songs follow a clear and stringent structure. With the average song length being over five minutes the guys took care that each track has a nice little build-up. The soloing parts are well implemented and never overstay their welcome. Relentless riff attacks are interchanging with atmospheric pieces giving the whole thing kind of a hypnotic feeling. Epic guitar melodies are always present in the background lending each song a special character. The record is rounded off by a nice and organic production job. The guitars sound crunchy and the drums have enough punch and a natural feel. While there is always something going on in the background and atmosphere is king there is a certain level of rawness giving the album enough grittiness to be of interest for any fan of heavy yet harmonic music. If you are looking for a safe bet without any risky experiments then this should be for you.
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Inhibitions/With_the_Fullmoon_Above_My_Head/779341/Edmund_Sackbauer/402292
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Greek multi-instrumentalist Dimitros "Dimons Night" Sakkas did form Inhibitions about twelve years ago, initially assisted by the guttural throat of Coprojunkie (both of them are / were in Humanity Zero too, by the way). Early in the second half of last decade, the latter, who was the vocalist, left and got replaced by Pain (and for your information: both Dimons Night and Pain play together in acts like Horrorgraphy, Blessed or Feeble). This duo recorded two full lengths before, Flames Of Desolation (Spring 2016) and La Danse Macabre (very early 2018). That last one, by the way, was released in a partnership in between Ira Aeterna Productions and Satanath Records. And it is the latter that releases this third full length studio as well, this time collaborating (for the 666th time) with More Hate Productions. With The Fullmoon Above My Head (cool title?) was fully recorded by the duo: Pain on vocals and guitars (he wrote the texts as well), and Dimons Night performing bass and electric guitars, drums, and synths. Dimons Night took care as well of production, mix and mastering at his home studio. There are five hundred physical copies, on normal compact disc (the jewel-case edition), coming with an eight-page booklet. That one contains the lyrics (mainly in English, partly in their mother tongue), and quite cool black-and-white cover artwork by some Menggil Asenja (layout, FYI, was done by Satanaths master-brain Aleksey). The sonic result lasts for three quarters of an hour and it differs a little from the former recordings. Inhibitions do focus on emotion and aggression this time, rather than grotesque melancholia. The whole is less bombastic and symphonic, and more firm and straight-ahead. And it works, it surely does. The main influences are still related to the Nordic trend, the so-called Second Wave, with a convinced dose of that great Scandinavian Nineties attitude. But it goes further, not just sounding like "just another non-Scandinavian band inspired by the old schooled sounds from Sweden or Norway" (even though there is nothing wrong with that, of course), but despite not being very original, Inhibitions are not a narrow-minded copycat, but they try to add their own twists and sounds. In pieces like the title track, the Greek scene too shows its bloody teeth, and that is quite impressive, I think, to be able to do so. Besides, there is a huge level of variation on With The Fullmoon Above My Head. A first element has to do with that anti-copy thing. Being influenced by a huge amount of sub-styles, it is a pleasure to experience the organic execution. There are technical and melodic parts, there is inspiration from styles like Pagan, Atmospheric, Orthodox / Traditional, Technical, Blackgazing, Occult and Thrashing Black Metal, and the tempo and structures continuously change and interact, the whole of the time. The better part is quite fast and melodious, with forceful, pushing rhythms and fine-tuned tremolo riffing. But there are lots of accelerations, from time to time even blasting and explosive of nature. At the other hand, more than once the whole thing slows down, flirting with doomier structures and adding intrinsic-emotional dimensions. The sound quality is exceptionally well-done, especially considering that this thing was recorded in a non-major home studio (Dimons Studio, as mentioned above). It is such a pleasure to experience all instruments / voices so clearly. The bass lines and rhythm guitars are able to show their importance into this whole concept, the drums are top-notch (just blasting when needed, then again almost melodious), the leading riffs and solos (though very limited) fortify the epic character of the atmosphere, and the deep-throated screams and frosty snarls add that angry, icy atmosphere. Even the few keyboard passages (with a truly mesmerizing xylophone-alike sound in a dreamlike, floating and doomed piece like Κανεις Σας Δε Θα Μεινει Ζωντανο, which includes deep-going elements from Doom-Death Metal) (the use of synths increases during the second half of the album) and acoustics are well-mixed (besides finely written and professionally performed). Furthermore, there are no irritating background noises at the one hand, and at the other hand, the result still maintains a certain crudity, a coarseness that sucks all colours out of the painting, leaving the whole as a grey wasteland of anger and despair. This album will not redefine the worldwide scene. Therefor With The Fullmoon Above My Head lacks of renewing or progressive elements. But from qualitative point of view, this piece of traditional Melodic / Atmospheric Black Metal is an excellent addition to the worldwide scene�
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Colorado duo of Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte teamed up while attending college in 2004 and have made it to their third album. The last one made some waves on the dance charts both here and in the U.K. A lot of their music would be considered electronic and this could have gone there I suppose.They teamed up with Katy Perry for the hit Starstrukk on that last album and are hoping for another hit on this one with Kesha joining them for My First Kiss. Nothing here for me, but I'm sure it will be a smash.
I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM
Worst Track - Beaumont
Best Track - My First Kiss
My first kiss went a little like this
And twist
Well my first kiss went a little like this
I said no more teachers
And no more books
I got a kiss under the bleachers
Hoping that nobody looks
Lips like liquorish
Tongue like candy
Excuse me miss but can I get you out your panties?
In the back of the car
On the way to the bar
I got you on my list
[I got you on my list]
At the foot of the stairs
With my fingers in your hair
Baby, this is it
She won’t ever get enough
Once she gets a little touch
If I had it my way,
You know that I’d make her say
Ooooooh
I said no more sailors
And no more soldiers
With your name in a heart
Tattooed up on the shoulders
Your kiss is like whiskey
It gets me drunk
And I wake up in the morning with the taste of your tongue
My first went a little like this
If I had it my way
Oooooooh
1) Beaumont - 1.0 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bazdoRS6pwg
2) I Can Do Anything - 1.5 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej0zJLrTt1A
3) My First Kiss - 1.5 - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYC2FUutdKA
4) Deja Vu - 1.5 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKi7SDmMk6c
5) We Are Young - 1.0 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Lj2niP5bc
6) Touchin On My - 1.0 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw8NSBttYz4
7) House Party - 1.0 - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RePriPCmlro
8) R.I.P. - 1.5 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INuvqsjuI7I
9) I Know How To Say - 1.0 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzqzBwBtOAY
10) Double Vision - 1.0 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtLNHhxwxPk
11) I'm Not The One - 1.0 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYa5vOWbZ1w
12) Streets Of Gold - 1.0 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rla-A8oSd7I
13) See You Go - 1.0 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReWxPtYmDgE
14) Love 2012 - 1.5 - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6vuLWZaHgQ
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From laundry to takeaway food, 5-star hotels explore new avenues to stay afloat | Pune News
PUNE/GURUGRAM/CHENNAI: When five-star hotels line up to offer laundry services, and also have your clothes picked up and dropped at home, you know the world is changing.
Across cities, these emblems of luxury and the good life have diversified in previously inconceivable directions to find new channels of revenue as the Covid-19 pandemic runs its disruptive course through businesses. In Gurugram and Pune, for instance, the Hyatt Regency is offering “crisp laundry at your doorstep”. The service covers everything from your bed sheets to pashmina shawls.
Shubham Chandra, general manager of Conrad Pune, which is also offering a premium laundry service, told TOI, “In times of uncertainty and rapidly changing market conditions, it’s important for businesses to evolve with the environment. We identified a gap in the market and we had the means to deliver. When the hotel was functioning normally, we did not have the bandwidth to extend our laundry service to the local market. Fortunately, we do now. So, we decided to expand it.”
Why laundry, though? Across hotel chains, executives said the market had presented an “opportunity” because of hygiene concerns in people’s minds about how their clothes were being handled as the pandemic swept across India, and five-stars felt they had the right credentials, and credibility, to put those doubts to rest. The other advantage they saw was that it allowed them to connect with new customers who might return later for other services. “The chemicals and machines we use are not something commercial washers will. Amid the Covid-19 risk, we are sanitising garments and linen,” said Adhish Poddar, executive housekeeper at Conrad Pune.
Hyatt Regency Pune and Residences in Vimannagar has also started providing pickup and doorstep delivery of garments laundered at the hotel. Yogesh Deshmukh, the head of the housekeeping management at the hotel, said, “The pickup and drop service is complimentary for customers within 5km radius of the hotel. People living beyond are requested to pay a charge for doorstep delivery.”
Hotel Green Park, a five-star at Chennai’s Vadapalani, has also been offering housekeeping services for the past month. Sudip Sengupta, vice-president (operations), said, “This is a new business vertical we launched along with a tie-up with apartment complexes for offering food deliveries during the lockdown. Since many offices reopening with minimal staff do not have the expertise, we offer our service in disinfection and sanitation,” he said.
The Ritz-Carlton in Pune said staff had been specially trained to use disinfectants across 203 different touchpoints on the hotel premises and their hygiene protocols included workers wearing PPE.
Other than laundry, this ‘new normal’ of five-star offerings includes drive-through food takeaways, home delivery of bespoke dishes, and even learning the chef’s little secret behind that unforgettable chicken masala so that you can attempt it at home.
The Oberoi, Taj City Centre and Hyatt Regency in Gurugram, and the Ritz Carlton and Marriott hotels in Pune – under the Marriott on Wheels initiative — have all started home deliveries with menus that are smaller than the elaborate fare the hotels normally offer.
Ritz-Carlton general manager Vineet Mishra said, “Our hotels have taken this stance positively in the light of the current situation by introducing menu signatures and favourites for our guests. Prepared with uncompromising levels of hygiene, the delicacies are delivered contact-free.”
He said, “As we navigate and adapt ourselves to the new-normal in all aspects of life, there will be a new balance in everything we do. Carving new trends in this space have included menu options such as do-it-yourself meal kits, customized menus on request, celebratory offerings, corporate meals and other variations. We are using sanitised, transport including our London Taxi at the Ritz-Carlton Pune and Delivery Truck at The Courtyard by Marriott Pune, Hinjewadi.”
Ajay Kanojia, the general manager of Sayaji Hotel in Pune, which recently started food delivery from its fine dining resto, said, “We currently have minimal staff. But we have resources in terms of pulses and grain stock. Thus, we decided to use them instead of a complete shutdown of business in these tough times. We have chauffeurs and cars to deliver hygienically prepared food from our fine dining restaurant to the patron’s doorstep.”
The Westin in Gurugram is offering a bouquet of select dishes as part of its “Drive-Thru” service. Customers can place their orders and collect the food after 45 minutes from a dedicated pickup junction at the driveway of the hotel. “We take pride in being a part of their dining conversations even in the comfort of their homes — through our delivery and drive-through pickup services. We are leaving no stone unturned in delivering impeccable hospitality and service standards with utmost care and precaution,” said Rahul Puri, multi-property general manager for The Westin in Gurugram and New Delhi.
Chef Ramit Kohli of the Taj City Centre in Gurugram shared his recipe for chicken khubani masala on a social media platform, turning the recipe into a story. “This recipe has passed down generations… from my grandmother to my mother and I have been fortunate to recreate it! I still remember that my mum used to set aside some khubani for the dish and I used to quietly sneak in to devour some of those — the joys of childhood! I hope you try this at home and enjoy it as much as my family does,” he wrote.
Krishnakumar Menon, general manager of Aloft Chennai (OMR-IT Expressway) said Covid-19 had changed the business dynamics of the hospitality sector. “Now, we deliver food to work stations. We are also under discussion to launch ‘Food on Wheels’ on international standards in the city,” he said. Restaurants that account for 10-15% of the total income for star hotels have become the significant revenue churners. Venkat Reddy, general manager, Ambassador Pallava, Egmore, said the hotel was offering takeaways to customers who use to frequent restaurants before the lockdown. “We also home-deliver food within a limited distance depending on the value of the order,” he said.
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We suggest a new approach to the problem of reducing the risk of accidental nuclear war, on which the military and governments of Russia and USA might be willing to take action now if they could be persuaded that it is safe, and not destabilizing. Our suggestion is to change the current policy of "Launch on Warning" (LoW) to one of "Retaliatory Launch Only After Detonation" (RLOAD). This would involve no change in the "Alert Status".
We believe that RLOAD is compatible with the current posture of nuclear deterrence, and that the military on both sides would be glad to accept it in order to reduce the risk inherent in LoW, of which they are well aware. The appalling danger is that a false warning might be accepted as true, and "retaliation" might be launched when there had been no attack.
We address only the nuclear confrontation between USA and Russia. A war between those two countries would destroy our civilization, and might possibly exterminate the human species. Nuclear wars between other nations would be terrible disasters but on a definitely smaller scale. We do not know of other nations having LoW capability.
The different sequences of events (as we understand they would be) under these two policies, if any warning were to be accepted as true and acted upon, are compared in the table on p.2:
Under LoW, whether the warning was true or false, there is war.
Under RLOAD, only a true warning ends in war.
The military on both sides seem to plan as if it is essential for retaliation to be actually launched. But the planning for retaliation should be designed for deterrence, not for revenge. As soon as the enemy attack is launched deterrence has failed and enormous destruction is inevitable. What is necessary for effective deterrence is that an aggressor who thinks of planning an attack foresees an unacceptable risk that unacceptable retaliation will follow. Certainty is not needed.
It is not necessary for either side to know whether the other has or has not changed from LoW to RLOAD. There is no need for verification or symmetry, because deterrence is not lost by the proposed wait for the first detonation. If only one side changes its policy from LoW to RLOAD, the risk of accidental war due to a false warning is approximately halved, but the balance between USA and Russia is not changed. There is no strategic advantage to either side.
A possible cause of an unintended nuclear war between Russia and USA, at this time, is a false warning misread as true. If both sides give up the policy of LoW then that particular risk goes to zero.
No other risks of unintended nuclear war are addressed in this paper.
The "times" in the following table assume a flight time of about 30 minutes, i.e. that of ICBM's between Russia and USA. We do not know whether LoW is in effect in either country for a warning of a short-range SLBM attack. If it is in effect, then the sequence up to the moment of 'authorization' must be greatly compressed, with the time available for conferences much reduced. There is little scope for reducing the duration of the steps from then on, but the comparison between the LoW sequence and the RLOAD sequence is unchanged. The rest of this paper does not specifically address the case of a perceived short-range attack by offshore SLBM's. The argument for changing to RLOAD would, we believe, be essentially unchanged.
0 - 5 min
Evidence indicating hostile missile launch detected by satellite, radar, or both.
Series of military conferences culminating in the opinion that it may be an attack. President is warned.
Telephone briefing of President on the options available, and advice by the Chiefs of Staff.
25 min. at latest
At a final telephone conference, if the attack is still interpreted as real and the President authorizes retaliation, this is what follows:
Before the first warheads arrive, retaliation is launched. The main targets are cities.
If it was a real attack incoming warheads detonate, destroying many empty silos, and perhaps communications and command centers. If it was a false warning there are no incoming warheads, but there will certainly be retaliation to the massive attack just launched. Both countries will be destroyed within the hour.
If it was a real attack: War had already been started by the enemy.
If it was a false warning: War has now been started by the false warning.
Series of military conferences culminating in the opinion that it may be an attack. President is warned
President may authorize retaliation to be launched, but only if a nuclear detonation is reported at a place and time consistent with the plotted trajectories. Codes etc. are transmitted to the launch crews. All preparations are made by them to launch immediately without further orders as soon as indication of a detonation is received. The order is automatically voided if no detonation is detected by a certain stated time.
If it was a real attack the first detonation is detected and the signal is transmitted direct to the launch crews as well as to the Command Centers. It is followed by a large number of detonations over the next few minutes, destroying a few full silos, many empty ones, and perhaps communications and command centers. If it was a false warning: silence.
30 min. + a few seconds
If it was a real attack: retaliation is launched by the crews in all silos that have survived the first few detonations.
If it was a real attack War had already been started by the enemy.
If it was a false warning: There is still peace.
Replace LoW with Retaliatory Launch Only After Detonation (RLOAD)
AS LONG AS THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA retain their arsenals of nuclear-armed intercontinental
ballistic missiles, some on high alert, the danger remains of a purely accidental nuclear war between the two countries. Neither side wants this: if it should happen, it would be an utter disaster for both countries and for the
entire world – no matter which adversary started it.
One of the most likely causes of an unintended nuclear war is "Launch on Warning" (LoW) – the policy of launching a retaliatory nuclear strike while the opponent's missiles or warheads are believed to be in flight, but
before any detonation from the perceived attack has occurred.1 Each side is believed to have at least 1,250 strategic nuclear warheads ready to launch before the incoming rockets have arrived. Once launched, they cannot be recalled or neutralized. LoW has exposed the world, for at least 30 years, to the danger of a nuclear war caused by nothing but a coincidence of radar, satellite sensor, or computer glitches, and a temporary failure of human alertness to appreciate that the message signaling attack is false.
The danger inherent in this policy has been appreciated by all concerned since it was first considered in the early 1960's2. Priority has been given to reducing this risk, in UN Resolutions and in recommendations from prestigious bodies including the Canberra Commission, the Brookings Institution, and the Center for Defense Information. They have frequently called for "lowering the alert status" or similar phrases, without distinguishing that from simply changing the policy of "Launch on Warning".
The disaster of an accidental nuclear war has not happened yet, in spite of a large number of false warnings of which at least a few have had very dangerous features. This is a credit to the care and alertness of the military in both Russia and the U.S. It should not be taken as reassurance. A "retaliatory" launch of nuclear weapons on a false warning would result in nuclear war, and the end of civilization as we know it, just as surely as a nuclear war started by an actual attack. There would be no chance to review the system to make it safer after one failure of that kind.
Although the Cold War is considered over, both Russia and the United States have chosen to retain their LoW capabilities, and they are generally believed to be continuing their LoW policies. If this is the case, it is inexcusably dangerous.
Retaliatory Launch Only After Detonation (RLOAD)
The policy of LoW should be replaced by one of "Retaliatory Launch Only After Detonation" (RLOAD).
We believe it should not be difficult to change the launch procedures so that in a situation in which, under LoW, retaliation would be launched before arrival of the attacking missiles, under RLOAD the decision to retaliate could be made during flight of the missiles, but the launch sequence would be held at the final step. The launch would be completed instantly after the first detonation of an incoming warhead.
Adoption of an RLOAD policy by both parties would, at a stroke, remove the danger of an accidental war caused by a false warning, simply because after a false warning there would be no nuclear detonation and no "retaliatory" launch would take place.
The "threat conference"3
When warning systems detect a possible ICBM attack, there is at most a total of 20 minutes for human operators and commanders to call and conduct a threat conference. If the warning were to be assessed as a nuclear attack, top U.S. or Russian military commanders (as the case might be) would contact their president to advise him, and the president would have only a few minutes to decide whether to retaliate. We believe he would be under great pressure to do so.4 The threat conferences require, and so far have achieved, the extraordinary standard of perfect accuracy.
It is clear that threat conferences have not been rare events.5 The US government has kept information about false warnings classified since 1985, and Russia has always kept that information secret. Most of the false warnings have probably been routine and easy to dismiss; some in the US have been serious enough that launch preparations have been started which would have been visible to Russian satellites.6 On the Russian side, we know of a 1983 event in which an officer decided, against standing orders, not to pass on a high-level warning because he judged, correctly, that it was false7; and in January 1995 a false warning resulted from the launch of a rocket from a Norwegian island, for atmospheric research. It is reported that in the 1995 event the Russian nuclear weapon forces went on full alert, and President Yeltsin was holding the activated nuclear briefcase with only a few minutes to decision time. The episode was the subject of a report to U.S. Congress. There is an article on it by experts von Hippel, Blair, and Feiveson, in Scientific American.8
It is very dangerous to allow a small risk of a great disaster to continue for a long time. To illustrate this, suppose that the risk of a wrong conclusion from just one of the many conferences in a year had been only 1% per year, then it is easy to calculate that the cumulative risk over 30 years would have been close to one in six – the risk of death from one pull of the trigger at Russian roulette. If it had been 2% per year the probability of surviving those 30 years would have been close to 50:50.9
It is essential to eliminate as soon as possible the risk of instant destruction of both these great countries, and the whole of our civilization, by a mere accident. RLOAD can be put into effect by executive decision and relatively small changes in standing orders and items such as re-routing the signals from the detonation detectors. To change from LoW to RLOAD does not reduce the alert status or readiness of the nuclear force. It only removes the risk of responding to a false warning.
RLOAD does not need verification
The proposed change would not require symmetry, nor verification, nor an agreement (much less a treaty); nor would it undermine deterrence. RLOAD could be adopted quickly and unilaterally. If one side adopted it, the risk of accidental war would be immediately reduced by approximately one half. When the other side did the same the risk of war caused by a false warning would be zero
From the point of view of preserving deterrence, verification of RLOAD is actually undesirable. If either side planning a preemptive attack had the idea that RLOAD would make the targetted nation vulnerable to a first strike, it would need to be certain that its opponent had changed to and remained under the policy of RLOAD. Without verification a potential attacker could not be certain, but if RLOAD were verified he might think there was a possibility of making a successful first strike, though we argue below that this would be irrational.
A change from LoW to RLOAD would not eliminate any other retaliatory options (such as, for example, a decision how to react to an unauthorized launch or to a single rocket). It would merely ensure that retaliation to a perceived attack would not take place unless there had been a nuclear detonation. It would delay the retaliatory strike by only a few minutes. But if the warning were false (as all the warnings of nuclear attack have been up to the present) that fact would be immediately revealed as soon as the predicted time had passed for the first missiles to arrive and no detonation had been detected; and there would be no launch.
De-alerting compared with RLOAD
"De-alerting" is a term commonly used in recommendations that nuclear weapons should be "taken off hairtrigger alert". What is usually meant by de-alerting is to make physical changes to the weapons system which impose a delay between a decision to launch and the irrevocable step that actually starts the launch. Separating the warheads from the rockets and storing them at a distance, or doing the same with any essential component, would be sure methods of introducing delay, and several others have been suggested. Obviously any unavoidable delay of that kind would make an LoW policy impossible. As well as eliminating the risk of launch on a false warning, dealerting would give other benefits such as reducing the risk of unauthorized launch, but it would be difficult to implement.
To change from LoW to RLOAD does not reduce the alert status or readiness of the nuclear force. It only removes the risk of responding to a false warning. Unfortunately, when giving up LoW has been recommended it has not been clearly distinguished from de-alerting. De-alerting needs symmetry and verification if the current requirements for deterrence are to be maintained. Simply abandoning LoW would also remove the risk of responding to a false warning. But to change from LoW to RLOAD maintains deterrence while not requiring symmetry.
On any rational view, it is essential to eliminate as soon as possible the risk of instant destruction of both these great countries, and the whole of our civilization, by a mere accident. De-alerting would take a long time to put into practice; RLOAD can be put into effect by executive decision and relatively small changes in standing orders and items such as re-routing the signals from the detonation detectors.
Barring a profound change in international relations, there seems to be no prospect of the US and Russian governments giving up nuclear deterrence in the near future. It would be difficult to frame a de-alerting plan that retains the essentials of deterrence. The enforced delays would have to be equal for the two adversaries, for all their types of long-range missiles including those in submarines. The actual delay times would have to be verifiable, and continually verified either by international observers or by observers from the opposite side. At the least, de-alerting would require extensive study by experts, followed by a formal agreement or treaty. The process would take years, and perhaps end in failure. All that time, the world would still be at risk of an accidental war started by a false warning.
In contrast, RLOAD is compatible with deterrence, as explained below, and is relatively easy to achieve. The change from LoW to RLOAD would not eliminate any other retaliatory options (such as, for example, a decision how to react to an unauthorized launch or to a single rocket). It would merely ensure that retaliation did not take place unless there had been a nuclear detonation. It would delay the retaliatory strike by only a few minutes. But if the warning were false (as all the warnings of nuclear attack have been up to the present) that fact would be immediately revealed as soon as the predicted time had passed for the first missiles to arrive and no detonation had been detected; and there would be no launch.
RLOAD is compatible with deterrence
The purpose of deterrence is to prevent either side from launching a nuclear attack. This is achieved by each side convincing the other that any attack will bring unacceptable retaliation. The theory of deterrence relies on the assumption that the ultimate decision-makers on both sides act rationally, and can be persuaded that it would be folly to launch an attack. Deterrence fails if one side believes it can launch such a rapid and massive surprise nuclear strike that it will prevent the other side from retaliating.
Launch on Warning is a response to the concern that the aggressor's first salvo, or a devastating electromagnetic pulse (EMP), might prevent or greatly weaken a retaliatory strike. The military on both sides have planned as though it would be essential for retaliation to be achieved after a first strike was actually launched. That is not so. Retaliation does nothing to stop the warheads that are already on the way to their targets, nor the second salvo which the aggressor may launch when he sees retaliatory warheads on their way. Once an attack has been launched irreparable damage to the attacked country is already inevitable10. Retaliation is not planned for revenge, but for deterrence. Deterrence is achieved if the potential attacker foresees an unacceptable risk that unacceptable retaliation would follow an attack. He would have to be certain, or almost certain, that his enemy's retaliation would fail, in order to risk making an attack. A mere chance that retaliation might fail would not impair deterrence.
The following considerations show that, as things are at present, neither side can be certain that retaliation would fail.
First, as regards an EMP attack, it is known to both sides that great efforts have been made to screen military electrical equipment from the pulse.11 Therefore it is not possible to be sure that EMP will be effective against land-based missiles. Submerged submarines and the missiles they carry are known to be completely protected by sea water.12
Change LoW Policy, p.6
Neither can an attacker be sure that a "disarming first strike" will be successful, as the following discussion will show.
The United States uses the space-based Nuclear Detonation Detection System (NUDET) to detect, locate, and report to the Strategic Command Centers, any nuclear explosion in the Earth's atmosphere or nearby space. NUDET either supplements or replaces the hundreds of ground-based "bomb alarms" that were installed near military bases and big cities in 1974.13
Russia employs optical and seismic sensors to detect nuclear explosions.14 Their policy is believed to be Launch on Warning, which, as in the US system, would only be ordered by the National Command Authority. They have a back-up system called "Perimetr" to ensure retaliation in the event of an attack that has disabled the National Command Authority before it can order the retaliatory launch. Positive signals from the detonation detectors are a prerequisite to any launch ordered via the Perimetr system, which therefore cannot effect a "Launch on Warning".
A change from Launch on Warning to RLOAD would require, in the American system, feeding any positive signals from the detonation detectors directly to the launch crews as well as to the command centers, so that destruction of command centers would not prevent a retaliatory strike. Retaliation would be ensured (if already authorized) immediately upon a detonation, by having the launch crews carry out all steps toward launch except the final one, during the flight of incoming missiles, just as they do under LoW. On receipt of a detonation signal at the predicted time of arrival of attack retaliation would be launched immediately by all launch crews, except any who were already casualties. If no detonation was detected at the predicted time of arrival, the crews would revert to peacetime readiness.
In the Russian system, as far as we know, similar changes would be required.
The retaliatory launch, we presume, is 'countervalue' in order to have the greatest deterrent effect. Less than 5% of the 1,250 warheads at LoW readiness should be enough to inflict "unacceptable" damage, on any reasonable criteria. No head of state or commander-in-chief could be certain that an initial salvo could put more than 95 percent of these weapons out of action within a few seconds of the first detonation. Thus a massive disarming first strike could not in fact be relied upon to prevent unacceptable retaliation.
These arguments should be sufficient to persuade the military on both sides that the policy of LoW, which they know to be dangerous, is not essential and should be replaced by RLOAD – Retaliatory Launch Only After Detonation. If the military establishment on either side is not persuaded to abandon LoW, then the head of state must balance the elimination of a very definite risk of accidental war due to a false warning, against the hypothetical possibility of the enemy launching a first strike because he judged that RLOAD had weakened deterrence.
There is no logical reason to maintain Launch on Warning. It is to the equal advantage of both sides even if only one changes its policy to RLOAD, and if both adopt RLOAD then one of the most likely causes of an unintended nuclear war between Russia and the U.S. – an accidental war due to a false warning – will be eliminated.
EMP: Electromagnetic Pulse
LoW (preferred), LOW, L-o-W: Launch on Warning
LUA: Launch Under Attack
NUDET: Nuclear Detonation Detection System
RLOAD: Retaliatory Launch Only After Detonation
My friend and teacher, Dr. Alan Phillips was a retired physicist and physician who did radar research for the British army during World War II. He recently passed away and is greatly missed. Physicians for Global Survival-Canada have a beautiful tribute to his memory at http://pgs.ca/?page_id=556
Steven Starr trained in nuclear engineering, but changed to a career in medical technology, and now works as a freelance writer on nuclear weapons issues. He lives in Columbia, Missouri.
Comments or questions to: [email protected]
“Change Launch on Warning Policy” is available online at the website of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, see http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/
1. Launch on Warning and the related term "Launch under Attack" (LUA) are not always used consistently, and this has caused confusion. In the US Defense Department Dictionary of Military Terms (www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/ ), LUA has a definition exactly the equivalent of our use of LoW. Russian military experts (writing in English) use LUA to mean the delivery of a retaliatory nuclear strike "in response to an actually delivered strike", i.e. after nuclear detonations have been confirmed (see Valery Yarynich, C3: Nuclear Command, Control, Cooperation, Washington, D.C.: Center for Defense Information, 2003, pp. 28 -30.) Also, a retired British military officer explained that "launch on warning" can mean to him the launch of a preemptive strike when there is convincing evidence from human sources that an enemy nuclear attack is imminent, but no enemy missiles have yet been launched.
2. Alan Phillips: "No Launch on Warning" available at: http://www.ploughshares.ca/libraries/WorkingPapers/wp021.html . 3. The following discussion is written as from the US point of view. No doubt the Russian nuclear forces have a comparable system with similar dangers and safety precautions.
4. "The bias in favor of launch on electronic warning is so powerful that it would take enormously more presidential will to withhold an attack than to authorize it." Bruce G. Blair, president, Center for Defense Information. CDI Monitor XXXIII no.2, March-April 2004.
5. According to the Center for Defense Information, from 1977 through 1984, early warning systems generated 20,784 false indications of missile attacks on the United States. More than 1,000 of these were serious enough to require "a second look". "Accidental Nuclear War: A Rising Risk?" The Defense Monitor, vol. 15 no. 7 (1986)
6. Alan Phillips: "20 Mishaps that might have started Accidental Nuclear War" available at: http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/1998/01/00_phillips_20-mishaps.htm .
7. David Hoffman: Washington Post, Wednesday, February 10, 1999; Page A19
8. "Taking Nuclear Weapons Off Hair-Trigger Alert", Bruce Blair, Harold Feiveson and Frank N. von Hippel, Scientific American (November 1997). See also: David Hoffman, "Cold War Doctrines Refuse to Die," Washington Post, March 15, 1998, p.A1.
9. This is not an attempt to estimate an actual probability. The probability of a threat conference coming to the wrong conclusion cannot be determined. The numbers here are simply to illustrate the danger of continuing to accept any very small risk for a long period of time
10. We intentionally take no account here of "Ballistic Missile Defense". No claim has been made that such defense could mitigate a full-scale attack by the US or Russia.
11. Electromagnetic Pulse - From Chaos To A Manageable Solution by Major M. CaJohn, USMC, (1988) http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/1988/CM2.htm
12. Joe Buff: Transparent Seas? (Part II) (2005) http://www.military.com/Opinions/0,14790,Buff_061605-P3,00.html
13. Department of Defense Appropriations for 1974, Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, 93rd Congress, 1st sess., part 7, p. 1,057. 14. Yarynich, C3: Nuclear Command, Control, Cooperation, p. 158.
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Vázquez charges into second round of Uruguayan vote
October 28, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
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One of the most salient facts that’s been repeated over the course of this year’s presidential elections in Latin America — first Colombia, then Bolivia and, of course, Brazil last weekend — is that just two incumbents have lost reelection bids in more than three decades of growing regional democracy.
That’s true, of course.*
But many countries in Latin America limit presidents to a single lifetime term or, at least, prohibit reelection.
That’s the case in Uruguay, where presidents are not eligible for reelection, though they are eligible to run for a second non-consecutive term. That’s why Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguay’s former president, is the nominee of the leftist Frente Amplio (Broad Front) and why he nearly won the first round of the Uruguayan presidential election outright on Sunday.
Vázquez is vying to win a third consecutive term for Frente Amplio, following the administration of his former agricultural minister, José Mujica, who has pursued a more socially progressive agenda since 2010 than Vázquez implemented between 2005 and 2010. Vázquez, back in 2009, actually preferred that his finance minister to Mujica. But Mujica’s wide following on the Uruguayan left powered him to the coalition’s presidential nomination.
As president, Mujica (who was elected as a senator on Sunday) signed into law a bill legalizing abortion that Vázquez once vetoed. He has also, famously, introduced the most comprehensive marijuana legalization reforms within Latin America, while espousing an aura of almost extreme humility.
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Though a Vázquez restoration would hew Uruguayan policy slightly more to the center, the fate of Mujica’s efforts to legalize marijuana use and other policy matters, including a pledge to take in prisoners from the US facility on Guantánamo Bay, hinge on Vázquez’s victory in the November 30 runoff. Continue reading Vázquez charges into second round of Uruguayan vote →
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PTBN’s World Cup of TV Characters – Knockout Round Three, Day Four
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JT Rozzero
The critically acclaimed “Mad Men” wrapping up for good in Spring 2015 has caused many television critics to announce the finale as the unofficial end of the Golden Age of Television. The world of television has now been producing memorable characters for close to 70 years. Sitting at Sunday dinner at my grandmother’s house, passing around fried okra and chicken casserole, I remember being gobsmacked at my grandparents discussing a world without TV being a prominent fixture of every evening’s activity. Even with their affinity for the “good old days”, that still didn’t stop my grandparents from laughing uproariously at Andy Griffith and Barney Fife trying to eat some of Aunt Bee’s terrible pickles in an episode they have seen numerous times. Trendy activities currently include running marathons, hiking, and crafting. Yet, my wife and I get more satisfaction and bonding together as a married couple in analyzing a great dramatic episode of television or wiping tears away and falling into each other from laughing so hard. The characters selected to participate in this poll were all giants of the small screen. They have become our heroes, enemies, mentors, and friends. Place to be Nation is proud to announce a tournament to determine the greatest TV character of all time.
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Here is how the process works. The first round will consist of 32 groups of 8 TV characters. This is consistent with the group format used in the World Cup. The total number of TV characters in the entire tournament is 256 and was vetted with PTBN staff members and non-staff TV experts. It is possible that an individual’s personal favorite TV star didn’t make the cut, but we feel confident at PTBN that these 256 individuals cross all genres and are the giants of television. From each group, FOUR TV characters were voted on to advance to the knockout round. Those 128 characters were ranked #1 through #128 based on percentage of victory within their group. Each day FOUR head to head matchups will be released consisting of one matchup from each region. The tournament will play out in standard format with two TV characters going at it head to head with the top vote-getter advancing. Let the games begin!
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#41 Seed vs. #73 Seed: PTBN's World Cup of TV Characters Round Three (Region A)
#41: Lucy Ricardo - I Love Lucy (d. #24 Barney Stinson 48-34) (73%, 59 Votes)
#73: Thomas Magnum - Magnum, PI (d. #120 Brandon Walsh 62-28) (27%, 22 Votes)
#2 Seed vs. #34 Seed: PTBN's World Cup of TV Characters Round Three (Region B)
#2: George Costanza - Seinfeld (d. #63 Mister Rogers 57-28) (71%, 59 Votes)
#34: Dwight Schrute - The Office (d. #31 B.A. Barracus 54-37) (29%, 24 Votes)
#11 Seed vs. #43 Seed: PTBN's World Cup of TV Characters Round Three (Region C)
#11: Kermit the Frog - The Muppet Show (d. #54 Elaine Benes 54-42) (81%, 64 Votes)
#43: Spock - Star Trek (d. #22 Niles Crane 50-29) (19%, 15 Votes)
#4 Seed vs. #29 Seed: PTBN's World Cup of TV Characters Round Three (Region D)
#29: Cliff Huxtable - The Cosby Show (d. #36 Uncle Jesse Katsopolis 63-32) (60%, 48 Votes)
#4: Norm Peterson - Cheers (d. #68 Peter Griffin 46-33) (40%, 32 Votes)
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Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell: Lewd I Did Live, edited by Edited By Michael Kelly
Genre: Horror Anthology
Publisher: Edge Publishing
Review Posted: 9/14/2013
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Book Review by Michael D. Griffiths
Have you read this book?
The horror anthology Chilling Tales is a collection of 18 short stories. These have been gathered from Canadian authors living around Toronto. At first, I worried that this could be a group of people trying their first go at horror tales, but this was not the case. Each of these authors has been in the game for a while and this is just one of their many credits in the field of horror writing.
The book begins with Robert J. Wiersema's story Tom Chesnutt's Midnight Blues. I found this a strange choice for an opening tale for, although well written, it did not 'chill' me overmuch. A betrayed love leads to the agony of an old man cursed by the ghost of the woman he loved. I will admit that it did fit in with the country music theme that story centered around.
Second up, we have King Him by Richard Gavin. This is an inventive story that certainly takes on an eerie tone. The monstrous figure King Him could be a figment of a cracked mind or it could be something real, real enough to impregnate a woman with its horrible seed. King Him is a strict ruler reaching out from some unknown abyss and it is hard to survive against such things, let along fight back.
Third on the list is 404 by Barbara Roden. This is a fun tale and perhaps the closest thing to a comedy in the book, although it can also strike a nerve for anyone that has worked in a larger office. When coworkers disappear like they never existed, the others question their sanity when they should be more concerned with their own safety.
Stay by Leah Bobet is one of the collections more memorable stories. A truck crashes in a small town trapped within the dead of winter. Things go from bad to worse when someone turns up dead and all minds turn toward the taciturn truck driver as the cause. However, this accident victim is far from what he seems or even human.
Michael R. Colangelo is next with Blacklight. Taking Medieval Pantomime might have been a silly idea, but certainly should have been harmless. But instead things get more complex when classes lead to lust ridden orgies. The appearance of a baleful clown doll does little to help matters, especially when they had a strange desire to let it watch.
The Deafening Sound of Slumber, by Simon Strantzas could almost be a science fiction tale, if he did not keep the frightening aspects of the story poised on a keen razors edge. He weaves a dark picture and draws the reader into a place where, at least for his characters, there is no escape.
There is a piece of flash fiction called Last Waltz and written by Jason S. Ridler. This is a grungy short involving a couple of friends or are they really enemies?
In Sympathy for the Devil by Nancy Kilpatrick, we are exposed to a black hearted man, in a hospital bed, who would rather blame everyone but himself for his terrible mistakes. This story seems to be closer to a morale lesson than horror, unless the personal hell the guy stuck himself in is horror enough.
The Needle's Eye is an inventive story written by Suzanne Church. Again the reader is pledged into a nightmarish world where a deadly plague can only be cured by destroying an eye. When Rideau is exposed, he has no other choice but to accept the cure though this time it will leave him blind.
David Nickle brings us Looker. This was an enjoyable story. Yes, there were uncertainties and mind games going on, but it was also a tale that just sucked you in and the reader wanted to finish the ride. This is an example of just telling a story and making it work.
Cowboy's Row comes next and is written by Christopher K. Miller. Driving down lonely country roads can be the death of you. This eerie story mixes flashbacks with the scare of who might be driving that car that plagues you in the middle of the night.
Safe is exactly the opposite of how, Brett Alexander Savory's, character Clark feels when he sees the sun melting. He thinks everyone else is wrong and wonders why they can't see what he sees. He could have a special gift, either that or he is going mad.
The Carpet Maker by Brent Hayhard is another tale where the characters are placed in a hellish environment. How poor does one have to be before they would sell off their daughter? The only thing worse that doing that would be to not even receive the payment when you were done.
Foxford, by Sandra Kasturi is one of the funnier tales in the anthology. A sister gets her revenge, but not in the way anyone with a rational mind could ever imagine.
Ian Rogers brings us My Body. This is a well thought out tale with some great twists. A private detective meets a little girl that takes him into a haunted house. It is now his job to try to figure out who is doing the haunting.
The Shrines, by Gemma Files, was just plain weird, but in good way. Shrines of refuse are built for uncertain reasons. These pagan structures give peace to some, but when one is altered, there could be an unexpected price.
Dead by Claude Lalumiere is a truly unique and profoundly disturbing story. Also one of the stories that would be likely to stick with the reader long after the anthology is finished. A small child decided to live on with his family even after he is dead and changes his name to Dead, just so they don't forget. It gets weirder from there.
The Weight of Stones by Tia V. Travis was intense and well written. It didn't seem like much of a horror story to me tough. More Steinbeck that King you might say. It is a descriptive striking story, but might have been better placed in literary journal.
Overall, this was a strong anthology and an entertaining read, however in wasn't the scariest book I have ever come across. Of course horror means different things to different people and many of these stories did step up and try to deliver a strong punch. Others were more introspective than I usually favor. Again troubled souls and person hells can be horrifying if you are the person living through them, but sometimes they do not transfer into the written word with the same effect.
It was impressive that Mr. Kelly was able to find and compile such a thorough horror anthology using only people from one city. These were professional authors who all stepped up and put some strong stories forth. The anthology was well rounded, covered different styles of horror, and looked at the genre from multiple angles. I would recommend this anthology to lovers of modern horror.
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Hello Mr. McAuley,I just bought The livnig Dead 2 and I read "The Thought War." What a fun and very interesting story. I think this story has enough meat on it that you can expand it into a novel. I least I would love to see it expanded into novel. Although I certainly wouldn't complain if you published a couple more Quiet War sequels! I just can't wait for From the Mouth of the Whale.
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The book Unsavory Elements, published last year, is an anthology of stories by expats in China. Shanghaiist recently caught up with its editor, Tom Carter, along with its publisher, Graham Earnshaw, and one of the contributors, Susie Gordon, via email for a behind-the-scenes look at the book’s assembly.
Tom Carter, editor
SH: The book is an anthology of stories by 28 different contributors, some of them quite well-known, and some of them less well-known. How did you decide who to commission from? How did you balance the mix of newer and more established voices?
TC: When I first conceived this project, years ago, I was actually conflicted about whether I should showcase established authors or offer a voice to the voiceless: emerging talent who had been snubbed by publishers but whom I knew had cool, true stories to tell and could tell them well. My first book, CHINA: Portrait of a People, was published by an indie press in Hong Kong (Blacksmith Books) and I too have felt the cold shoulder of Big Publishing, so that is the direction I was leaning. However, lit agents I originally queried were adamant that an anthology should exclusively feature “branded authors” and celebrities or the book would never find a home.
So for nearly a year I was caught up in this impasse with the agents until I met Graham Earnshaw for the first time after I moved to Shanghai in 2012. Graham liked the idea of an expat anthology, and was supportive about my inclusion of relatively unknown writers (such as Shanghaiist founder Dan Washburn and Susie Gordon, interviewed below) featured alongside household names like Peter Hessler and Simon Winchester. And as you can see, it worked out quite harmoniously.
SH: Other than getting the right mix of more and less established writers, what else did you consider when choosing the stories for this anthology?
TC: There are a couple major themes coursing through the collection that I architected: one of them is that I wanted to give the reader the impression of experiencing an entire lifetime of an expatriate, from fresh-off-the-boat culture shock to the assurance of an Old China Hand. I wanted there to be something for everyone, expats and casual travelers alike. I certainly did not want this to just be a collection of sordid tales, which is why I tempered it with family-friendly fare and foodie pieces, and yet after assembling everyone’s essays I knew it would be disingenuous to leave out the less “savory” stuff. That is why I ultimately decided, against Graham’s sagacious advice, to martyr myself with my xiaojie story, which wound up offending certain critics.
SH: Other than making the choices of what to include, what other duties did you have as editor? Did you suggest many edits, or were you hands-off?
TC: I was extremely involved, sometimes to Graham’s exasperation, who had to field a few calls from contributors questioning my proactive approach to editing. In retrospect perhaps I was a bit too persistent about their perfection, but I really couldn’t help it: I enjoy classical writing over contemporary and wanted the anthology to be a return to the old-school style of short stories in the vein of Somerset Maugham. I dislike reading blogs, and even reportage today is vapid and uninspired, so I wound up clashing with a few bloggers and journalists who weren’t used to writing literary long-form narratives.
But, you know, all great creative collaborations have had their share of tension and disagreements; there hasn’t been an album producer who didn’t quarrel with his recording artist, or a director who didn’t scream at his actors, so it’s only natural that publishers and authors, or editors and writers, also have some rifts along the way. I was just one fellow editing 28 stories while placating 28 different personalities – and believe me authors tend to be quite precious. But I had a crystal-clear vision for this book, and I think the final product proves that my over-involvement wasn’t a bad thing.
Graham Earnshaw, publisher
Graham Earnshaw
SH: When you started your own publishing house, Earnshaw Books, it was originally to publish out of print classics about China. Why did you decide to start publishing new work as well?
GE: It was always the intention with Earnshaw Books to do original works, and we simply used reprints as a way of kick-starting the business. The second book that we published was a new work. The market for the reprints lasted maybe three or four years and then died out as the rapid rise of digital meant that anybody interested in reading an old book could find a version online, probably in some part of Google, without too much difficulty.
In the past two or three years at least we have done new books exclusively. The value of a publishing house list is entirely related to new works, and my main interest in Earnshaw Books is in using it as a platform for the creation and the encouragement of new works that are in some way or another illuminating with regard to China either today or yesterday.
SH: As a publisher, what are the differences between republishing older works and commissioning new ones such as Unsavory Elements?
GE: Republishing old books provides almost no opportunity for helping to shape a product to help it stand a chance in the market, and also stand the test of time. Textually, a reprint has to be basically complete and in line with the original, or else it’s not a reprint. So the only role for the publisher really is the choice of the work for reprint, designing the cover and ensuring that the new version is true to the original. Commissioning new works, however, is a much more rewarding experience, more interactive. The process of creating Unsavory Elements was rich and memorable, and Tom did a great job in terms of creating the project and herding the authors to a conclusion.
Susie Gordon, contributor
Susie Gordon
SH: I’m curious to know if you often find yourself hanging with rich decadent local playboys, as you do in your Unsavory Elements story “Empty from the Outside”. Were those events an unusual occurrence for you, a single western woman in China?
SG: The events that I depicted in my essay happened several years ago, and I have lost touch with the Zhou boys now – not due to any particular fracas or disagreement; simply because I moved out of their industry and our paths stopped crossing. As compelling as I found their world to be, I also saw it as pretty nihilistic and wasteful. I hope I can call it an interesting experience without seeming voyeuristic or mercenary. People, after all, are individuals and not merely fodder for inspiration.
I’m not convinced that my friendship with the Zhous was particularly unique, even for a single Western woman, being a somewhat exceptional set of circumstances to an outside eye. Living and working in a city like Shanghai offers a multitude of opportunities to connect with a multitude of people – on the surface, at least. A lot of expat writing can lapse into the ‘us and them’ realm, and this is something I particularly wanted to avoid. If my story has in any way contributed to the insidious “otherisation” of China and Chinese people, I regret that sorely. I dislike the East/West binary – it’s a cheap shot and an indulgently easy gambit.
SH: Your story mostly recounts the self-indulgent evening you spent with your characters, but at the end you start to look at the larger picture, and how your
characters’ behavior might serve as a metaphor for the city of Shanghai, or even China as a whole. Would you elaborate on that here?
SG: I hoped that the overarching theme would be that human nature is largely the same across the social classes, as illustrated by the idea of dinner toasts being the same everywhere – to health, to wealth, etc. Since the Zhous were at the tip of the economic pyramid, their behaviour and beliefs cannot be held up as indicative of “China” per se. That’s the thing with China: there are no absolutes and no cast-iron maxims. It’s a mistake to start any sentence with “Chinese people are…” or “Shanghainese people are…”
I think that is one of the successes of Unsavory Elements as a collection: it offers glimpses into the wide array of situations that are possible for Westerners in China, like the seedy brothel of Tom’s much-vaunted tale and the business wranglings in the essay by Graham.
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Fourway Tango.
September 10, 2017 September 10, 2017 alexhandr Leave a comment
One of the amazing things in EVE Online is how quickly you can escalate content and incorporate many different players with the goal to kill something. Sometimes a single pilot can escalate an event that takes dozens or even hundreds of players over the course of minutes or hours. This was also the case in the system J204030, owned by Cro-Magnons and Zacharia Explorations Group, where a small fight between two entities led to an escalation that involved 109 players over a period of 1 hour 45 minutes. On the 10th of September a neutral player by the name of Dhuras decided to use an alt in that wormhole to gather intel on the locals, as they were confirmed to have multiple capitals inside the wormhole over a period of two months. Around 15:00 EVE, he noticed that the local residents anchored both a Fortizar and an Astrahus within a short timeframe. A small hostile force of Strategic Crusier Club had set up shop in order to smash these Citadels down during the anchoring period. Their fleet consisted of a few random kitchensink ships, and a small plan was hatched. After talking to Alexhandr Shkarov and Virtuozone, Dhuras decided it would be a great idea to bring two triple rep Hyperions and a meme-drake with application mids. We can win this, right?….
Three people, like David versus Goliath!
Once we started to prepare to move however, the locals used three basilisks to fight Strategic Crusier Club and friends, meaning we couldn’t reliably deal with the increased difficulty. As the high-sec also died at that time, we decided to utilize the time to quickly pull in friendly corporations ( House of Asterion and Gambrini) to join us in our fight. In about thirty minutes most groups were formed and moving towards the connection, waiting one jump out to prevent showing our hand right away. Meanwhile our scout that kept eyes on the connection started to call out that multiple bombers arrived on the wormhole at zero. Oh shit. Spectre Fleet arrived in a buttload of bombers. Great. For those who do not know the game very well, bombers are fantastic ships in the sense that their damage application on large targets is absurdly high, but as a pay off they can not hit small, agile ships. As they can cloak and warp away with their cloak, it becomes possible for them to disengage at long ranges and be extremely damaging to our fleet.
Time, however, was of the essence. At the moment the call was made, there were 55 minutes remaining on the anchoring time for the Fortizar. With all the preparation and movement included, it meant that our fleet arrived right when the Fortizar was at around 9 minutes from finishing its repair timer. The Strategic Crusier Club and friends were bashing the Fortizar with two Rattlesnakes, a handful of Feroxes and two Basilisks. We quickly engaged with the order to spread tackle randomly and ensure that none got away, resulting in a very quick two minute dumpster of the Strategic Crusier Club guys. At this time, the Fortizar was down to 07:38 before it would finish repairing, and we proceeded to hit the structure, ignoring the Astrahus completely. But wait, you might ask. What about Spectre Fleet? Well, they ended up starting to mess with us from range on the Fortizar but eventually pushed off towards the high-sec connection. There they set up shop in order to try and catch stragglers in our fleet as well as rolling ships. Twenty bombers with 400 DPS each kill battleships incredibly quickly. As we were losing a few ships, we decided to pull off the Fortizar to push off the Spectre dudes but eventually the risk of losing the Fortizar kill was too large for us to keep bouncing back and forth. Funnily enough, the first battleship to eat the dust was that triple rep Hyperion flown by Dhuras. Talk about having bad luck! All these tactics force us to have people reship into anti-tackle frigates in order to cull the herd, giving us many many bomber kills.
Eventually, after a good hour of constant harrassment, drone pulling and redeploying and repositioning, the local defenders decide that they have had enough of sitting on the sidelines and proceed to actively drop their capital fleet onto us. Oh boy, things are going down. After warping to a ping, the local defenders land their fleet smack down in the middle of our fleet, and attempt to burn off our Bhaalgorns and Armageddons. With three Armageddons and four Dominixes, supported by a Thanatos and an Apostle, the locals brought a small but very gnarly fleet that ended up costing us a few ships before we managed to pressure their Apostle enough to start killing their subcapitals. Personally, I was really glad I got my Turbo Chicken Prophecy along, as I ended up taking the brunt from the hostile fleet for quite some time, just about holding with four guardians repairing.
Turbo Chicken
Slowly though, the Fortizar bled time due to reduced DPS on it, pausing eventually at 28 seconds remaining. Oh shit, all drones on the Fortizar and try to kill the rest with minimal DPS. Not ideal, but we didn’t want to let that Fortizar get online. Luckily, the FC for Spectre Fleet agreed on our mutual interest as pilots to kill the local defenders, resulting in their bombers leaving our fleet alone for the most part. Of course, sometimes you got these special snowflakes that don’t listen, but overall it was neat. With their pressure and the relaying of primaries, life became a lot easier and slowly each capital started to burn down, starting with the Moros, followed by the Thanatos and finally the Apostle. As the fight for the capitals went on for a good 40 minutes, the Apostle ran out of charges. Apparently they weren’t fully prepared for an attack of this scale.
As the capacitor for the Apostle was completely depleted, the remote repairs were failing and eventually we cleaned up their entire fleet. Virion Stoneshard honoured his promise as Spectre FC and moved his fleet away from the grid in order to allow us to gather loot and salvage all the wrecks after which we gathered around 4-5 billion ISK worth of loot across the board. A good amount and definitely helping to cover our losses.
In the end, three guys with a plan caused a total of 109 pilots to skirmish for the kill of a Fortizar, three capitals and many different subcapital fleets, with over 35 billion ISK worth of kills across the entire system. One note of respect must be given to the local defenders. It takes balls to drop your entire capital force on an superior hostile fleet and be willing to fight to the death to defend your home system. Groups like these, no matter their background, form the basis of wormhole space and need to be properly honoured for their effort.
Battlereport: http://evf-eve.com/services/brcat/?s=1001124&b=7728030&e=163&t=GhU1fuvvvrvvvr9f&o=1
Lighting the fuse, walking through the Ember Sands.
November 11, 2016 September 10, 2017 alexhandr Leave a comment
Two years ago we started the current incarnation of Swamphole, with the goal to become a solid PVP entity. Over the time we had struggles and after two years I feel it is time to work on our corporation in a slightly different way. In the last few weeks we’ve been in touch with some friends of ours that are looking to have our corporation form part of their organization. These people weren’t the first to ask, in the end we had about seven groups over the last year ask to join up with them, but they did provide a platform that I feel would be best for our corporation.
As we’ve rounded up our discussions I am very pleased to announce that as of the 6th of November 2016 we have joined up with the good folk over at Ember Sands. We’re extremely excited to see this teamwork come to fruition in the coming months!
Since we’re joining a new organisation we will have a period of adjustment. While we work on this, we’re preparing a set of programs that benefit new players in engaging content while teaching them more about the game as a whole. If you haven’t yet checked our recruitment information, you can click the banner on the front page!
We have since moved on to form our own plans again and be independent as organisation. Our teamwork didn’t work in the way that we envisioned and at that point it is better to separate than to keep struggling.
Two years down.
October 8, 2016 November 11, 2016 alexhandr Leave a comment
Time flies when you’re having fun and boy, did we have fun. A few years ago I started playing EVE Online in the middle of a terrible position in life, and it allowed me to escape the negativity because I met wonderful people. We didn’t always get along, but in the end meeting people like you helped me shape who I wanted to be as a person.
When I was fed up with nullsec in early 2014, I decided that I’d need something fresh. A former CEO and a friend started a group called Worm Hole. In a C2/C5/Null. Being fresh of the boat, I had no idea what to expect but we went for it balls deep and ended up getting burnt once or twice by incompetence. But hey, that’s how things go, it is all part of the game. So eventually when the then CEO resigned, I tried to build an environment that one day could be competitive. One day. You see, eventually we felt that we were bound by the negative reputation of our former CEO and we moved our member base to the Confederation of Independent Systems. This was an interim corporation in which we had ups and downs, but ultimately we settled on a new name on the 7th of November 2014. We became Swamphole Inc, a small corporation that focused on transparency and integrity as values. If I were to list all the ups and downs here for you, I’d need a secondary e-mail just for that alone.
And this brings us to today. We’re still with that same dream, but at a slower pace. In a little less than a month there will be the official two year anniversary of the corporation. While I do not have any plans for celebration presently, I do want to send everyone of you this message.
All of you have been an integral part along the line of Swamphole. Your effort, your time and your attitude helped shape who we are, what we achieved and what challenges we have ahead. While we may not always get along very well, I do look back to two very fond years of which you all have been a part in some capacity. For that, I’d like to thank you. I want to thank you for taking a plunge and try to make an environment that suits us all. I want to thank you for being a part of our history, how big or small it may eventually be.
In one month I will celebrate our existence. But I couldn’t have done it without the bunch of you.
Thank you for being part of what made Swamphole be awesome in it’s own way.
In name of Swamphole.
Alexhandr Shkarov.
Ending our support for Broadcast4Reps
June 9, 2016 June 9, 2016 alexhandr Leave a comment
After a few weeks of consideration we’ve finally decided that our corporation will stop supporting Broadcast4Reps in it’s current form.
We’ve been supporting this organisation for months, but eventually we came to the conclusion that the entirety of the Broadcast4Reps program and it’s affiliated aspects do not align with our organisational goals. We strive to create an environment that is open and welcoming to all players in EVE as long as they follow our six core values. That said, we also value that we help others that are in a bind both in-game and in real life.
We have been trying to support this organisation for a while now, but there is a dangerous trend that persists in their current implementation. We strive to be supportive, but in order to be supportive you need to be able to say things directly. In our experience, the current form of Broadcast4Reps is dominated by a small sub-set of players who have a priority in comforting but not truly supporting someone. It is full of meaningless platitudes, and that’s not how we feel being supportive should be. People have different ways to help one another, and if we’re not able to be direct with someone without being told off by the moderation team, it becomes clear that Broadcast4Reps is not an environment that we can consciously support without question.
We do appreciate the core idea of Broadcast 4 Reps and welcome anyone whom feels they need someone to talk to, to send us a message. That said, unlike Broadcast4Reps we strive for people to be respectful and direct. Giving someone comfort is nice, but helping that person get on their feet towards solving a problem is better.
Please remember that we are only players and that for any issue it is always recommended to consult a health professional. We do not provide advice, only a supportive ear. Please seek out professional assistance for problems.
Recruitment and Security
September 4, 2015 September 4, 2015 alexhandr Leave a comment
In Swamphole we’re trying to allow people with a past to participate in the community, when we feel the person may have a benefit and changed his/her old ways.
Obviously, that does put you at risk occasionally of a bad apple slipping through the cracks and missing some information that is crucial.
This happened to the recruitment process of Zedarh Amarizto. Initially the player applied to the corporation and we followed normal procedure of API-checks, security checks and such. Sadly, out of our complacency at the time we missed the fact that the history of Zedarh Amarizto contained clear proof of attempts to steal corporate assets. In this article I’d like to go into some of the details we found, and what it tells us as recruiters.
Initial observations:
When the player joined our public channel for questions, he seemed to be a decent lad with not much up his sleeve. We spoke about his experience, the goals and such. You know, the standard recruitment pitch. When we noticed he was acquainted to a very well known corporate thief named Searbhreathach, he became a little vague but not to the point where we intitially got suspicious. Flag number one: His reasons for knowing Searbhreathach was that they were in a similar public channel hanging out. This should’ve worried us but after some talking we kind of dismissed it as being that relevant. That is a mistake. Nothing is irrelevant when it comes to information about characters.
In order for us to filter out the people who aren’t serious about the corporation, we usually wait 24 hours untill we check the API-keys. We do this, as a person who is impatient (and thusly not interesting for us) will search/join another corporation without informing us. Alternatively these recruits resort to excessive request of when they get an update. Both are reasons for denying an application, and Zedarh Amarizto was displaying the latter of the two in some degree. This should be a warning sign but again we didn’t make it a breaking point when we should have.
So we noticed a few important things.
Zedarh Amarizto has multiple alts which would trade/send him money.
Gian Bal is the main character that recieves and transfers money to Zedarh Amarizto.
Akk Akk allegedly is an alt that traded actively with Zedarh.
TheLastSparton has repeatedly traded with Zedarh during heists, making him a potential accomplice.
There was a financial pattern to Zedarh leaving corporations, and items changing hands.
How did we find these aspects?
First off, we looked at their mailing history and for some reason it “magically” stopped with the mail history at the time he applied to the previous corporation. That in itself is a red flag but it was missed in the first place because our recruitment training wasn’t sorted out properly yet. As people weren’t aware of this technique, it was missed in the first review but stood out like a sore thumb in the second check.
Secondly, the financial logs of the player would indicate that he would have severe amounts of trades with his other character (Gian Bal) right after he left the corporation. In this example below, you’ll see that Zedarh Amarizto left the corporation named Allcorp Resource Union on 2015/08/06:
At the same time, the wallet entries show the following entries from during the time that he’s been taking stuff from the corporation:
When we confronted him initially, his argument was that Gian Bal was a guy who lived in his street and they would generally share ISK left and right. At that moment, the explanation seemed plausible to the recruitment team and we missed that there was a strong pattern that would reoccur during his membership in SL33P3R C3LL. We contacted the leadership of Allcorp Resource Union after we started to get some more doubts, and when we asked what they knew about Zedarh, they confirmed that he was a corporate thief. Upon looking into the API-key we noticed that there was a pattern to these transactions like the above, where Zedarh would sell a bunch of the things and then mail the money back to the original main: Gian Bal. Why would anyone sell items for someone else on such a consistent pattern and then claim it’s his friend? A red flag of its own.
Another example is when he left SL33P3R C3LL, where he was spotted taking ships with his other alts.
In the meantime we have had contact with the leadership of SL33P3r C3ll, and KARNAGE to confirm these allegations. Karnage could not verify if there were thefts done by Zedarh, but the wallet shows similar behaviour right before he left this corporation as well. While we were dealing with the damage control of him being in the corporation after we messed up initial recruitment, we got contacted by a member of Catastrophic Communication Failure further more affirming that the user above was indeed a corporate thief.
The Aftermath:
Obviously we removed all of Zedarh’s roles and permissions right off the bat, and changed all passwords for towers that he has had access to, but that didn’t stop him from trying to convince us to stay. As a CEO I have to choose if I wish to keep someone who is questionable but possibly a nice guy, over the reputation of our corporation. I do not mind giving second chances, but only if that does not hurt our corporation as a whole. The actions of Zedarh are severe enough that we could not consider him to be a member of our organisation.
What did we learn?
There are a few lessons that we need to keep in mind:
There is no such thing as 100% guarantee.
We need to revise how our recruitment process works internally.
We need to take our time, and not rush. As a result, all applications will take at least 24 hours, and after a maximum of 72 hours you should get a status update.
Apply a four-eye principle more thoroughly, meaning that new recruits will need at least two independent recruiters approving the background checks.
As a person, Zedarh came across like a good lad with decent motivation. Sadly he is a confirmed corp thief, and while he might be the nicest lad in the world, we draw the line there.
I recommend everyone who runs across this guy to do a thorough check, and I hope that this article helps a future corporation in their recruitment process. That said, I also hope that people will not take this as a ticket to instantly begin and harass the guy.
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Naman Ojha to Lead Rest of India Against Mumbai in Irani Cup
Posted By admin on February 26, 2016
Naman Ojha has played one Test, one ODI and two Twenty20Is for India.
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Pune: Naman Ojha, Madhya Pradesh wicketkeeper-batsman, will lead Rest of India when they clash with Mumbai in the Irani Cup at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai from March 6 to 10. (Ranji Trophy: Mumbai Rout Saurashtra by an Innings For Title No. 41)
“The All-India National Selection Committee met on Friday and announced the Rest of India team for Paytm Z.R. Irani Cup, 2016,” Anurag Thakur, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary, said in a release.
“The Rest of India team will play against Mumbai, the Paytm Ranji Trophy 2015-16 champions, at the Cricket Club of India, Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai from the 6th of March to the 10th of March 2016.”
Mumbai won the Ranji Trophy for a record 41st time today with a comprehensive innings and 21 run victory over Saurashtra on day three of the five-day final.
Rest of India (RoI) Team: Naman Ojha (Captain), KS Bharat, Faiz Fazal, Karun Nair, Sheldon Jackson, Stuart Binny, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Nathu Singh, Jaydev Unadkat, Barinder Sran, Krishna Das, Sudeep Chatterjee, Ian Dev Singh, Akshay Wakhare.
Source: NDTV
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MOAR PLS: Kundalini and the Subatomic Pyrotron Theory
Screencap from Vice. Originally from Ablaze! The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion.
There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, more awesome than a flame war on paranormal topics. Do you see what I did there? “Flame war.” This post is about spontaneous human combustion. Haw haw haw haw haw!!!
Those of us who lived through the seventies and early eighties will surely remember the global plague of SHC. To hear Leonard Nimoy tell it, people were catching fire all over the damn place, and not just Richard Pryor. The hallmarks of SHC are a (supposedly) non-existent or at least unknown ignition source, and the fact that the victim’s legs stick out unburned in a rather ghoulish fashion.
The most commonly accepted explanation for SHC based on known science is the “wick effect,” which involves the burning of subcutaneous fat following ignition by an apparently modest source (eg, a burning cigarette). The phenomenon has been tested on a pig, and worked just fine — it was by all reports the smoothest experimental burning of a pig by modest external ignition source ever reported in the literature.
That’s proved good enough for most debunkers. Generally, orthodox scientists find the assertions of SHC proponents so utterly ludicrous that the phenomenon escapes the high volume of debunking put into phenomena like alien abduction, which is much more widely documented.
But SHC still has its proponents — including none other than Vice Magazine, where today there’s a bizarre new article by “Larry Arnold as told to Jonathan Smith,” whatever that means. Arnold is the author of Ablaze! The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion, from which this inciner-licious photo is taken. The pair geeks out on a few fascinating theories of SHC, like this:
One of my favorite explanations is the Subatomic Pyrotron Theory, which is based on quantum physics. The theory states that there is an extremely small but high-powered particle—like a neutrino—that zips through the spaces between the quarks that make up the atoms, which compose the molecules of the human body. On rare occasions a rogue particle scores a direct hit with a quark and sets off an internal chain reaction. I’ve dubbed this occurrence the Internal Hiroshima Effect, which may result in SHC.
Oh, wow. Internal Hiroshima Effect. Catchy! More fun with internal explosions:
Another theory concerns kundalini—an energy that flows up and down the spinal column of every living human being. Although kundalini is well known to Eastern physicians and metaphysicians, it’s less so in the Western world. Kundalini is a very powerful bio-energy that, among other psychokinetic phenomena, can produce intense internal-temperature spikes when out of balance.
Gaaaah!!! The author(s) assert(s) that the kundalini theory explains the sticky-outy-ness of the legs, because the kundalini energy forms sort of a plasma ball in the torso. Meditate, let your kundalini get out of balance, and voila! Kundalini Express.
The third theory in the article asserts that cases of SHC occur along straight geographic lines — similar to ley lines, which are a fave topic among paranormal advocates, particularly in the UK. Ley lines are (it is hypothesized) geomagnetic or geoelectrical lines along the earth that explain why (it is asserted) ancient monuments have tended to be erected along (supposedly) predictable geographic lines.
But the real fun gets started in the comments, where the following fabulous exchange occurs:
MOAR PLS. Indeed.
For what it’s worth, other semi-scientific theories about SHC are no less awesome. One asserts that SHC victims are heavy drinkers whose blood alcohol rises to a flammable level (which would be 23%, or about 23 times the guaranteed lethal dose).
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Pyrotrons don’t exist though. Only thing that acts like this is strange matter, which, if it even truly exists, would interact with the upper atmosphere and transform the entire planet
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Greed: A Musical for Our Times Begins Performances at New World Stages
What happens when you put Jamie Dimon, Lance Armstrong, Pope Francis and Bernie Madoff all on the same stage? No, not the worst ever cast of The View. You get Greed: A Musical for Our Times, beginning performances March 19 at New World Stages—Stage 2. The cast features Tony Award nominee Stephanie D’Abruzzo, as well as Julia Burrows, James Donegan and Neal Mayer. Greed officially opens April 3. Greed, written by Michael Roberts and directed by Christopher Scott, explores the sin we can’t seem to get away from. The show tackles everything from Ponzi schemes to the not-so-subtle sales pitches of retirement planners and mortgage bundlers. With numbers such as “A Little Juice” and “I’ll Cheat On My Taxes,” Greed takes aim at the obvious, and not so obvious, targets. View Comments read more
Treasury outlines the crucial components of an OFAC compliance program
continue reading » Recently the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the publication of A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments. The underlying intent of the framework is to help institutions better understand and comply with sanctions requirements.According to OFAC, a successful OFAC compliance program should utilize a risk-based approach to sanctions compliance by developing, implementing and routinely updating a sanctions compliance program (SCP). Every risk-based SCP will vary depending on an institution’s size and sophistication, products and services, customers and counterparties, and geographic location. However, each program should incorporate at least five essential compliance components: 1) management commitment; 2) risk assessment; 3) internal controls; 4) testing and auditing; and 5) training. The framework further breaks down the specific features to each component in creating a strong OFAC compliance program.As an example, the framework indicates that senior management’s commitment and support of the SCP is one of the most important and critical factors in determining its success. Support is key in ensuring the SCP obtains adequate resources and is fully-integrated into an institution’s daily operations. This helps legitimize the program, empower personnel and foster a culture of compliance. ShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr read more
How to avoid digital eye strain while spending more time on screens
“In both of those cases, I found out that they were on their computers for nine hours a day, their prescriptions weren’t accurate,” said Dr. Christensen. Those are some of the symptoms of digital eye strain or computer vision syndrome. “They give a little bit of a boost toward the bottom of our lens which is often where you’re looking through when you’re looking at your phone, tablet, or computer,” said Dr. Christensen. “Sometimes start to feel some uncomfortable symptoms like blurry vision, eyes get dry, burning. In severe cases you can even get headaches, dizziness, shoulder and neck pain,” said associate doctor of optometry at Roberts Eyecare Michael Christensen. “The human eye is at a position of rest looking beyond 20 feet, which is a position of no focus for the human eye for most people,” he said. (WBNG) — While we’re stuck at home, many people are finding themselves filling their time on a screen. Many devices also allow you to change your screen settings. While many offices are only taking in patients in urgent situations, if you’re experiencing any symptoms of digital eye strain, you’re encouraged to call your eye doctor. “Every 20 minutes that you’re on your computer, take 20 seconds and look off into the distance at least 20 feet away,” said Dr. Christensen. Doctor of optometry Andrew Sacco says that’s a good way to give your eyes a break. Whether it’s taking online classes or working from home, playing video games, or scrolling through your phone, your electronic devices aren’t easy on the eyes. “Years ago before all of the small digital electronics, children would play video games, Atari, and not blink their eyes because they don’t want to miss the action. But people on a computer, they don’t blink either,” said Dr. Sacco. “Almost every kind of device nowadays has some kind of feature that you can implement that will cut down on the blue light that’s being emitted. It turns your screens a yellowish, amber kind of color,” said Dr. Christensen. Dr. Christensen says he’s received some calls describing that during this pandemic. You can also purchase anti-fatigue or digital lens glasses, which help filter out the blue light electronic devices emit. And as simple as it sounds, remember to blink to avoid dry eyes. But there are some easy things you can do to avoid strain. First, follow the 20-20-20 rule. read more
Airline alliances call for globally harmonised approach to Covid-19 | News
OlderAccor signs for three properties in Djibouti Government-imposed travel and entry restrictions continue to significantly impact global travel demand. Meanwhile, Covid-19 testing has emerged as an important part of an end-to-end solution to enable the safe restart of international travel by potentially reducing the reliance on the blunt instrument of blanket quarantines. “We welcome the publication of the updated CART report which, among other things, calls for the serious consideration of screening and testing as a means for easing travel and border restrictions, and reviving the travel and tourism industry and the global economy,” said Star Alliance chief executive, Jeffrey Goh. – Advertisement – The three major global airline alliances have offered their full support to the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) second-phase council on aviation recovery task force (CART) report.SkyTeam, oneworld and Star Alliance urge governments to implement the report guidelines for passenger testing protocols, as well as the adoption of digital health pass technology, so air travel may safely resume. – Advertisement – “A robust protocol for testing will also provide further evidence to demonstrate that air travel is not a material cause for infections and will pave the way for a framework of trust to be established between countries.” On behalf of their 58 member airlines, representing over 60 per cent of world airline capacity and carrying over 1.87 billion passengers annually prior to the Covid-19 crisis, the three alliances are calling for a harmonised approach to testing that will form the foundation of a trust framework, as recommended by the ICAO guidelines. SkyTeam chief executive, Kristin Colvile, said: “Testing regimes and trials of digital health passes have identified means to restoring confidence and reopening borders, complementing the layer upon layer of passenger safety measures already implemented by airlines and airports worldwide. – Advertisement – – Advertisement – “Aviation supports millions of jobs around the world and drives international commerce, trade and tourism. Urgent action is needed to adopt testing and technology to mitigate Covid-19 risks and safely and quickly revive international air travel.” The recent digital ‘health pass’ trials, such as Common Pass, are presenting a strong case for using digital technology to deliver harmonised standards in the validation and verification of accredited passenger health data.The alliances support technical solutions that provide a consistent, scalable and affordable way to declare passenger health data that is simple to implement as part of the customer journey, with processes-initiated pre-travel to reduce passenger inconvenience at airports. oneworld chief executive, Rob Gurney, said: “With extensive travel restrictions creating much uncertainty for customers, testing can play a role in enabling the safe restart of travel. “Any solution used in declaring passenger health data should be consistent, scalable and cost effective – this will provide clarity and confidence to customers, airlines and other stakeholders as international travel resumes.” NewerCelebrity Cruises launches new inclusive pricing model read more
Lawmakers in Europe call on Israel to ditch annexation plans
Any Israeli move to annex parts of the West Bank would be “fatal” for Middle East peace hopes and must be prevented, if necessary with countermeasures, more than 1,000 lawmakers from across Europe said in a letter to European governments.The June 23 letter, signed by 1,080 lawmakers from 25 countries and made public on Wednesday, raises parliamentary concerns about US President Donald Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. The signatories said annexation would break international law.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set July 1 as the date for the start of cabinet discussions on moving forward on annexation, in line with Trump’s plan that envisages Israeli sovereignty over 30% of the West Bank and Palestinian statehood under strict conditions. “Such a move [annexation] will be fatal to the prospects of Israeli-Palestinian peace and will challenge the most basic norms guiding international relations,” the letter said.”Acquisition of territory by force has no place in 2020,” said the lawmakers, who included members of parliament from Hungary and the Czech Republic, two countries sympathetic to Israel and to Trump’s Jan. 28 peace plan.The plan offers US recognition of Israel’s settlements dotted across the West Bank, and Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley — land captured in the 1967 Middle East war and claimed by Palestinians for a future state.Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapsed in 2014 and the Palestinians see annexations as an illegal land grab. The United Nations Security Council has said settlements violate international law. Israel disputes this, citing biblical, historical and political connections to the land.The European lawmakers called for “commensurate consequences” if Israel, which has more than 400,000 settlers in the West Bank, went ahead with annexation — a reference to possible economic, trade or other sanctions.”Failure to adequately respond would encourage other states with territorial claims,” the letter said.Netanyahu has dismissed criticism of the annexation plans. He says that extending Israeli sovereignty to Jewish settlements in the West Bank will bring peace closer once critics of the move recognize that hundreds of thousands of settlers in the area will remain under any future deal.Internal documents and Reuters interviews with more than two dozen diplomats and officials showed there is no clear EU strategy on how to stop Israel’s plan or how to respond in a meaningful way if annexation goes ahead. Topics : read more
Governor Tom Wolf Rescinds 46 Executive Orders
2008-04Pennsylvania All-Hazard Incident Management (PA-IMT3)5/13/2008The commission established by the EO is non-operational. 1997-01Governor’s Travel and Tourism Council3/17/1997No longer in existence, superseded by statutorily mandated PA Travel and Tourism Partnership and DCED’s Tourism Office 1990-01Municipal Waste Transportation Enforcement Program3/14/1990No longer necessary due to the passage of the Waste Transportation Safety Act of 2002 (Act 90). 1995-02 As AmendedDrug Policy Planning Coordination12/19/1997Gave PCCD duties relating to the coordination of commonwealth drug policy. The duties were superseded by the creation of DDAP. 1994-05Nursing Home Loan Agency’s Authorization to Sell Loans11/4/1994The work required in this EO was completed many years ago. 1996-07Pennsylvania Center for Environmental Education12/20/1996Center closed in 2011 as a result of the elimination of all state funding. All resources were transferred to the PA Association of Environmental Educators 1979-10Commonwealth Child Development Committee7/25/1979This committee no longer exists. 1991-05Environmental Training Partnership4/22/1991Training is managed through a DCED contract with PSATS with DEP oversight. Efficiency, Government Reform, Government That Works, Press Release, Results Harrisburg, PA – Governor Tom Wolf today announced that he will rescind 46 outdated and unnecessary executive orders by previous administrations – some dating back 30 years – to continue his efforts to clean-up state government. Outdated orders include those from seven previous Governors starting with Gov. Milton Shapp.“My administration is prioritizing cleaning up state government and eliminating waste, outdated policies and duplicative bureaucracy,” Governor Tom Wolf said. “Taking this step to streamline government and remove unnecessary directives allows for the executive branch to continue to lead by example in state government, as we have on ethics, government reform and curbing special interest influence.”Removing three decades of outdated executive orders that are no longer relevant or have been superseded by legislation or other executive actions is part of Governor Wolf’s priority to modernize state government. Over the past two years, Governor Wolf’s GO-TIME initiative has saved $156 million, spurred innovation and launched new and revamped programs to improve customer service in state government.Many of the executive actions being rescinded include boards, task forces, programs and commissions that no longer exist, including a Sustainable Water Infrastructure task force that never reconvened and a Public Safety Communications Council that was never actually established. In the case of Executive Order 1996-07, the Pennsylvania Center for Environmental Education was defunded and closed in 2011, but the executive order remained in place.Many other orders created policies that have either been codified in statute, superseded by new legislation or are no longer necessary. A full list of the outdated executive orders are below. 2011-07Pennsylvania Dairy Leadership Council9/28/2011This EO will be rescinded because it is no longer in effect. 2000-02Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board2/14/2000EO superseded by the current state Workforce Development Board, whose functions and membership are mandated by the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). 1981-06Pennsylvania Department of Health Advisory Board of Arthritis5/22/1981Any arthritis work within DOH is funded and guided by the CDC. 2006-11Governor’s Dog Law Advice Group12/22/2006This EO, and the 8-person Board created by it, are no longer necessary, since there is now a 25-member Dog Law Advisory Board 1986-05Standby Allocations of the Volume Cap Under the Tax Reform Act of 198610/2/1986EO now superseded by 2007 state statute 73 P.S. 400.2701 et seq. 1987-011986 Allocations of the Unified Volume Cap Under the Tax Reform Act of 19861/7/1987EO now superseded by 2007 state statute 73 P.S. 400.2701 et seq. 2003-12Governor’s Cabinet on Children and Families9/18/2003This group no longer meets. 2008-02 As AmendedSustainable Water Infrastructure Task Force4/28/2008The Task Force completed its work on November 1, 2008, when it submitted its final report. 1977-04Compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 19738/3/1977This is no longer an ongoing program. 1989-08Municipal Waste Reduction and Planning Program10/17/1989This EO was issued prior to development of Municipal and Residual regulations. 2007-05Chronic Care Management, Reimbursement and Cost Reduction Commission5/21/2007Commission was transferred from Governor’s Office to DOH, which has replaced it with the Health Innovation deputate. 2004-03 and 2004-03 Revision No. 1Pennsylvania Business Tax Reform Commission3/4/2004Commission no longer in existence. 1987-08Pennsylvania Emergency Response Commission4/20/1987The content of the EO was either codified or superseded by statute, specifically, Act 165 of 1990. 1978-19Access by Handicapped Individuals to Meeting Locations12/19/1978EO supplanted by Management Directory 205.26 in 1992, implementing the ADA. Section 5 e. addresses the requirement to select accessible sites for agency programs and activities. 1994-04Governor’s Committee on Education Standards and Assessment5/18/1994The EO set a 1994 due date for a report. The standards and assessments recommended in the report were implemented. 1980-04Golden Keystone Discount Card Program2/27/1980This program no longer exists. 2002-08Governor’s Interagency Task Force on Energy7/18/2002Task force no longer exists. 1995-06Governor’s Community Partnership for Safe Children9/14/1995The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has since been created within PCCD to carry out these functions. 1995-07Governor’s Executive Council on Recycling Development and Waste Reduction10/11/1995This EO was issued prior to development of Municipal and Residual Regulations. 1981-13Governor’s Committee on Employment of the Handicapped10/19/1981EO goals now covered by EO 2016-03 and existing statutes. 1987-12Cultural Advisor to the Governor5/27/1987Position no longer exists. 2004-07Financial Education and Literacy4/29/2004Office no longer utilized and subsequent programs have replaced. 1980-05Task Force on Employment Services to Displaced Homemakers2/28/1980Efforts now encompassed by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). 1996-05Municipal Waste Facilities Review Program8/29/1996This EO directed DEP and PennDOT to review and revise existing waste transportation and management policies. This work has been completed. 1995-08Governor’s Advisory Commission on Public School Finance10/11/1995The Advisory Commission completed its work in May 1996, when it submitted the report required in the EO. December 06, 2016 1987-19Delegation to Department of Environmental Resources Compliance with Federal Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act12/21/1987The Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Act supersedes and encompasses the goals of this EO. 2006-07Governor’s Pandemic Advisory Council7/27/2006Advisory Council is no longer active. 1996-06Governor’s Advisory Commission on Academic Standards9/30/1996The Commonwealth has adopted the standards required by this EO. Governor Tom Wolf Rescinds 46 Executive Orders 1990-04UNITED STATES BRIG NIAGARA – Flagship of Pennsylvania8/17/1990Content of the EOhas been codified in Section 705 of the History Code. 1994-02Governor’s Office of PennPORTS3/29/1994PennDOT’s multimodal deputate now maintains jurisdiction and all duties pertaining to the ports. 2004-11Pennsylvania Election Reform Task Force12/13/2004The Task Force completed its work on May 12, 2005, when it submitted its final report. 2002-02 As AmendedGovernor’s Task Force on Early Childhood Care and Education7/15/2002EO Codified at 4 Pa. Code Sec. 6.61 – 6.69 1980-07Small Business Service Center2/29/1980This program no longer exists. DCED now has Small Business Champions. Issuance NumberNameIssuance DateExplanation for Rescinding 2011-08Interagency Coordination Advisory Group for Economic Development10/6/2011Advisory Group no longer meets. 1995-10Governor’s Sports and Exposition Facilities Task Force10/27/1995Four professional sports stadiums were built in the late 1990s as a result of this EO. No further action is required. 1981-04Federal Program Coordination2/9/1981EO is unnecessary for the Office of Budget to perform its duties. SHARE Email Facebook Twitter 2014-06Interoperable Public Safety and Emergency Communications Governance12/2/2014This council was never established and there is a governance board for FirstNet, which functions well without the guidance from this EO. Like Governor Tom Wolf on Facebook: Facebook.com/GovernorWolf 1996-02Implementation of the IMPACCT Commission Recommendations4/19/1996Replaced with the Governor’s cost savings measures. read more
Brisbane continues to chalk up multi-million dollar property deals
53 Macquarie St TeneriffeThe home was marketed through Christine Rudolph of Ray White New Farm.Ms Rudolph said it had achieved a sale price of a $1 million more than a neighbouring property in the same development which sold less than 12 months ago.More from newsMould, age, not enough to stop 17 bidders fighting for this homeless than 1 hour agoBuyers ‘crazy’ not to take govt freebies, says 28-yr-old investor7 hours ago53 Macquarie St, Teneriffe.She said often a property of that nature would take between six and nine months to sell but this result had been achieved within a few weeks.The four-bedroom home in the Catalina development is one of the largest river homes within the precinct. It was designed by Fairweather Proberts Architects. CoreLogic revealed other big sales included a unit at 511/1 Newstead Tce, Newstead which sold for $2,320,000 through Freedom Property — Australia. The Pier building at Newstead. Picture: realestate.com.auThe three-bedroom riverfront apartment in the Pier building has floor to ceiling glass and a designer kitchen.A house at 34 Gordon St, Hawthorne sold for $2,225,000 through Ray White East BrisbaneIt was on a 442sq m block of direct riverfront land with city views. 34 Gordon St, Hawthorne. Picture: realestate.com.auThe property came with a development approval for demolition to allow the new owners to remove it and build a new property.A vacant block of land at 534 Gowan Rd, Stretton also achieved a solid resulting selling for $2,180,000 through Elders Springwood.The 4047sq m parcel sold under the hammer. 53 Macquarie St, Teneriffe which achieved $1 million more than a neighbouring property sale.BRISBANE’S high end market is continuing to fire with several multi-million dollar deals signed off in just a few days.While the final sale price has not been revealed yet, one of the biggest transactions chalked up in the past week was the sale of a riverfront property at 53 Macquarie St, Teneriffe. Owner Stephen Sullivan confirmed they had accepted an offer on the property although it hadn’t settled yet. 511/1 Newstead Tce, Newstead. Picture: realestate.com.au read more
Owners laugh all the way to the bank after heritage home bought for $120K sells for $3m plus
The pool at the home at 56 Victoria Ave, Chelmer.Owner Kathy O’Connell told The Courier-Mail the home was on one of the few large blocks of land left in Chelmer, as many of the tennis courts in the suburb had been sold off and developed. MONEY PIT MANSION FOR SALE The kitchen in the home at 56 Victoria Ave, Chelmer. This property at 56 Victoria Ave, Chelmer, has sold for $3.3m.The property was marketed by Jason Adcock of Adcock Prestige. Records show it sold for $120,000 in August 1990.Chelmer, which is 7km west of Brisbane’s CBD, has a median house price of $1.05 million and is a high demand suburb with quality public and private schools including St Aidan’s, St Peters, Brisbane Boys’ College and Graceville State School. This turn-of-the-century Queenslander at 56 Victoria Ave, Chelmer, has sold. Inside the home at 33 Chilton St, Sunnybank Hills, which has sold.The five-bedroom, three-bathroom house on 3814 sqm of land sold for $2.828 million through M8 Realty.But the real drawcard was the fact the site comes with the opportunity to build 17 townhouses or seven house and land lots. The sitting room in the home at 56 Victoria Ave, Chelmer.The second biggest sale of the week in Queensland, according to CoreLogic, was a property at 33 Chilton St, Sunnybank Hills. Rod and Kathy O’Connell have sold their home in Chelmer. Image: AAP/Claudia Baxter.A MAJESTIC turn-of-the-century Queenslander bought for just $120,000 more than a quarter of a century ago has sold for $3.3 million. The five-bedroom home known as ‘Arcadia’ at 56 Victoria Ave, Chelmer sold for the first time in 27 years, in what was the biggest sale of the past week in the state according to CoreLogic. GET THE LATEST REAL ESTATE NEWS DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX HERE Part of the wraparound veranda at the home at 56 Victoria Ave, Chelmer.The renovated, circa 1905 house with 14ft ceilings, decorative timber fretwork and an ornate fireplace sits on a massive 2704 sqm block with a swimming pool and tennis court.More from newsParks and wildlife the new lust-haves post coronavirus21 hours agoNoosa’s best beachfront penthouse is about to hit the market21 hours ago BRISBANE’S NEW AUCTION HOT SPOTS The house on the property at 33 Chilton St, Sunnybank Hills. read more
The hottest Brisbane suburbs for buyers
FOR SALE 47 KURRAJONG CIRCUIT NORTH LAKESMr Power said there was no sign of a slow down, with new homes still being built in North Lakes, and estates continuing to be developed in the nearby suburbs.He said new and existing infrastructure were huge drawcards for families, upsizers and downsizers, and the over 50s.“We see people moving within North Lakes, some are on their fourth house,” he said. “Once they are here, they don’t want to leave.“And we are seeing a lot of inquiry from people just outside of North Lakes, other parts of Brisbane, and interstate, particularly from NSW and Victoria.”North Lakes has become a ‘destination suburb’, with visitors drawn to North Lakes for its retail and amenities. Earlier this year. Stockland regional manager described North Lakes as “one of the state’s greatest success stories, growing from a small community to a premium destination”.It is home to its own Westfield shopping centre, Myer, Ikea and Costco.And it will soon be home to another major attraction — Laguna, a lifestyle precinct that will include a public swimming lagoon, 2000sq m of health and wellness facilities, a 1500sq m resort-style bar and restaurant, a retail precinct, a 140-room hotel, and office space.Laguna is being developed by joint venturers Pointcorp and The George Group, with construction due to start next year. The latest CoreLogic data shows that 468 properties sold in North Lakes in the 12 months to September, with the median house sales price coming in at $487,500.A search of realestate.com.au found 28 houses on the market in North Lakes between $450,000 and $500,000.The cheapest house was listed for offers over $367,000, with the most expensive house listed on the market for offers over $1.65 million. “I am not surprised (by the numbers) … we are flat out, and booked 16 sales (as of December 20) this month alone,” he said.“Our office has 2168 active buyers looking for a property just in North Lakes alone.” FOR SALE: 16 KENNEDY CT NORTH LAKES Westfield North Lakes A SUBURB that was only declared 12 years ago was the most searched suburb for properties in Brisbane in 2018.North Lakes, which was part of Mango Hill until 2006, was the top suburb searched by househunters in the Brisbane Greater Region between January 1 and November 18, according to realestate.com.au.A total of 175,341 searches for properties at North Lakes were recorded during that time, with Redcliffe coming in a close second at 175,188.North Lakes, which continues to be developed by Stockland, was also one of the state’s top selling suburbs, taking out ninth spot with 455 sales.Coronis North Lakes agent Michael Power is currently marketing 47 Kurrajong Circuit, a four-bedroom house on the market for offers over $768,000. Laguna North Lakes Ray White North Lakes principal Darren Suhle is currently marketing the most expensive house in North Lakes, an “architectural masterpiece” at 16 Kennedy Court on a 832 sqm block. He said the whole area, not just North Lakes, was thriving, with lost of inquiries from people looking to move in to the area since the train line opened. SUBURB/SEARCHES(January to November 2018)1. NORTH LAKES – 175,3412. REDCLIFFE – 175,1883. NEW FARM – 174,8454. COORPAROO – 171,2315. THE GAP – 158,4496. CARINDALE – 154,4527. INDOOROOPILLY154,0598. WEST END142,1899. FOREST LAKE136,32010. CLEVELAND134,59111. NARANGBA132,87412. PADDINGTON129,60813. ASHGROVE129,09314. WYNNUM126,77415. CABOOLTURE121,94016. SPRINGFIELD LAKES121,16417. TOOWONG114,50618. IPSWICH113,19219. CAMP HILL107,25020. ALBANY CREEK107,247Source: realestate.com.au) 16 Kennedy St at North Lakes is on the market for offers over $1.65 millionMore from newsParks and wildlife the new lust-haves post coronavirus15 hours agoNoosa’s best beachfront penthouse is about to hit the market15 hours agoBut the nearby suburbs of Redcliffe (2nd) and Narangba (11th) have also attracted huge interest from buyers this year, with new and planned infrastructure in the Moreton Bay region, one of the fastest growing areas in the country, a big plus.In 2016, the Redcliffe Peninsula train line opened, with stops at Petrie, Kallangur, Murrumba Downs, Mango Hill, Kinsellas Rd, Rothwell and Kippa-Ring, and running in to the city.New residential developments are springing up, including Amity (Pointcorp) at Narangba, Promenade (Stockland) at Rothwell and Newport (Stockland) at Redcliffe, to name a few.Elsewhere in Brisbane, the prestige suburb of New Farm continues to rank highly in searches, taking out third spot with 174,845 hits.Coorparoo (171,231) and The Gap (158,449) rounded out the top 5.Nationally, Surfers Paradise was the seventh most searched Australian suburb (267,709), while Buderim was in 19th spot with 229,412 hits, according to realestate.com.au*** TOP 20 MOST SEARCHED SUBURBS IN BRISBANE (GREATER REGION) IN 2018 read more
Call for global crackdown on fake medicines
16 Views no discussions Share HealthLifestyle Call for global crackdown on fake medicines by: – November 14, 2012 Sharing is caring! Tweet Share Share Counterfeit drugs may contain harmful ingredients or no active ingredient at allA global treaty to crack down on the deadly trade of fake medicines is urgently needed, say experts.Currently, there are more sanctions around the use of illegal tobacco than counterfeit drugs. Writing in the British Medical Journal, experts urge the World Health Organization to set up a framework akin to its one tobacco control to safeguard the public. WHO says more than one in every 10 drug products in poorer nations are fake.A third of malaria drugs are counterfeit, research suggests. In richer countries, medicine safety is better, but substandard and falsified drugs still cause thousands of adverse reactions and some deaths. Recently, in the US, contaminated drug supplies caused an outbreak of meningitis that has so far killed 16 people.Global problemAmir Attaran and colleagues from the World Federation of Public Health Associations, International Pharmaceutical Federation and the International Council of Nurses, say while governments and drug companies alike deplore unsafe medicines, it is difficult to achieve agreement on action because discussions too often trespass into conflict-prone areas such as pharmaceutical pricing or intellectual property rights.Although some countries prohibit fake medicines under national law, there is no global treaty which means organised criminals can continue to trade using haven countries where laws are lax or absent. WHO estimates nearly a third of countries have little or no medicine regulation.In other contexts, global treaties have helped governments strengthen their laws and cooperate internationally to clamp down on havens – for example, on money laundering. Similarly, a new protocol under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control requires tobacco products to be tracked and criminalises illicit trade globally – “oddly making the law tougher on cigarette falsification than on medicine falsification”, says Amir Attaran. “The protocol will now make it a requirement to track and trace tobacco products. Cigarette packets can carry serial numbers so it is possible to track them from beginning to end.“If this is something you can do for a $5 cigarette packet I do not see why we can’t do it for a $3,000 packet of drugs that could save your life.“In Canada we have seen a fake version of the heart drug Avastin come into the country that contains no active drug, just starch and nail polish remover. “When you are dealing with a medicine like that if there was a serial number on it you would be able to easily see if it was fake.”WHO says it provides direct country and regional support for strengthening medicines regulation.And it is up to its 194 member states to decide if a treaty is the way forward. In 2011, a directive to protect patients from fake medicines was approved by the European Parliament.By Michelle RobertsHealth editor, BBC News online read more
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Poet, playwright, screenwriter and journalist Luís Carlos Patraquim was born in Maputo, Mozambique, in 1953. A man with firm beliefs, Patraquim was a political refugee in Sweden from 1973 to 1975. He was on the founding team of the Mozambican Information Agency along with Mia Couto and others and has worked for the Mozambican National Film Institute and Mozambican TV. In 1986 he moved to Portugal. Patraquim writes for cinema and the theatre and is a contributor to several publications, amongst them Tempo magazine, COLÓQUIO/Letras and África magazine. In 1980 he published his first novel, Monção. His literary approach, a poetic language of fusion, complexity and humanism, has caused many to regard him as successor to the great Mozambican poet José Craveirinha. Committed to the values of social justice and humanism, Patraquim does not shy away from exposing the wounds of an emerging society in a country shattered by the civil war.
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Misrouted Syrian Family Finds Its Way Thanks To Dozens Of GO Train Passengers
The Huffington Post - Valerie Taylor's usual commute home sent her on an unexpected detour powered by a collective act of kindness.
Taylor, a Toronto-based psychiatrist, was commuting out of the city on GO Transit during rush hour when she was met a family of seven who had just arrived from Syria four months ago, she writes in a now-viral Facebook post published Wednesday.
The oldest child, an 11-year-old was the only one who could speak English, so he was looking for help finding their way to travel to family outside of Toronto.
"They had two baby strollers and three other kids and heavy bags so I helped them get to the train," Taylor writes. "But other random strangers picked up strollers and bags to help them up the stairs as well."
Taylor wrote that everyone around her sprang into action. She passed her stop to help with the situation, another passenger called a friend who spoke Arabic to help translate, and others pooled money to help cover the family's ticket costs.
"... That's what we do in Canada. We help," the doctor said on Facebook.
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Town Officials Hold Forum With Residents,Businesses on Center Development
by Transcript Staff • March 11, 2016 • 0 Comments
By Sue Ellen Woodcock
It’s been a topic of conversation for years and now it looks like reviving the center business district is once again on the table.
Precinct 5 Councilor Russ Sanford and Joe Domelowicz, grants administrator and town planner, held a question and answer sessions at the E.B. Newton building on Pleasant Street last Thursday night, and again Monday morning at the Center Café.
The goal is to breathe new life into the town center and the soon to be vacant Winthrop Middle/High School on Pauline Street.
Thursday night Domelowicz wanted to end the rumors about eminent domain and existing plans and let people know that right now there is no plan for the center or the school. What is certain is that the town is looking to create a nine-member committee to work on plans for the center and the school.
“There is nothing begun yet but the town did receive an Urban Agenda Planning Grant,” Domelowicz said. “The planning will come through you.”
The plan will include parking, transportation, how to help developers, and how to retain businesses.
The middle/high school building on Pauline Street will be turned over to the town in September when students will be moved to the new middle/high school.
“We’re here to listen,” Sanford said.
There are concerns about parking on Somerset and concerns about empty buildings. A Woodside Road resident also said parking gets so tight on her street that a fire truck can’t get though in the snow. Others expressed how overflow parking from the center was creeping into their neighborhoods.
“We need to look at the entire area,” said Barbara Harrison, of Woodside Road.
Businessman Paul DeGregorio suggested the parking area at the soon to be old school and a placed to be used for Center parking.
Besides business owners and residents, several other officials also attended the meeting, including Precinct 4 Councilor Heather Engman, former town council president Peter Gill, Chamber of Commerce Director Betsy Shane, fire chief Paul Flanagan and Town Manager James McKenna.
Library Trustee Gillian Texteria, mother of two boys, said she would like to see more things in the center for kids and family. While the restaurants in town are great, there is not really one for families and kids.
Another resident said she didn’t want to see the center get too modern or two big.
Planning Board member Robert Carroll said that its important to realize that the center needs more rules about density, height, balance, parking, etc.
“Whatever we do will have to get a consensus,” McKenna said, adding that the town has been working with the Collins Center. He also pointed out that over 900 jobs have been lost in Winthrop over the years.
McKenna also pointed out that $206 million in retail leaves Winthrop each year.
“You have to leave town to get what you need.” McKenna said.
So far Winthrop has a $50,000 to use toward planning. Also on board for the project are MassDevelopment, and Jay Ash from the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development.
“The challenge is not small,” McKenna said. “Winthrop is a diamond in the rough.”
Domelowicz said there will be public meetings with the Planning Board and the soon to be formed Citizen Advisory and Economic Development Committee.
“We have an opportunity to put a Master Plan together,” Sanford said.
Anyone interested in serving on the committee should contact the Town Council. The committee is expected to be formed in middle to late March.
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Shipley, Maynard 1921-10-17
Letters; Marx, Karl, 1818-1883; Political prisoners;
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Taylor, F. W. 1926-10-23
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Zimand, S. 1917-10-31
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Gottfried, Karl E. 1926-06-21
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Hoan, Daniel W. 1936-02-14
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926; Pamphlets; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Marx, Karl, 1818-1883;
Letter from Theodore Debs, 2/14/36. Says that he appreciated the copy of the pamphlet "Abraham Lincoln A Real American" he sent. Writes that Hoan did a magnificent job of depicting Lincoln's "high ideals" and "aspirations." Tells Hoan that "Lincoln...
Karsner, David 1918-04-13
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Cooper, Marguerite Debs 1923-08-28
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Avirette, John 1926-07-21
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926; Socialism; Socialists;
Letter to Thedore Debs, 07/21/1926. Writes that socialists have forgotten about the ""Great Socialist,"" Jesus Christ. Remarks that Karl Marx is like ""the monkey who grabbed too much through the hole; and trapped himself."" Tells Thedore Debs...
Dunbar, Robin and Blanche 1921-11-08
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883; Socialists; Political prisoners; United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia;
Letter to Eugene V. Debs, 11/08/1921. Writes that "Marxism pure and simple" is his "gospel." Says that he a "middle of the road" socialist. Mentions that he and his family believe in skimming the "cream off the unguarded milk pails of the...
Mercer, Ida F. 1914-09-08
National Rip-Saw; Judicial proceedings
Letter to Eugene V. Debs, 9/8/1914. Writes that Eugene V. Debs's letters always help her during her periods of depression. Assures Eugene V. Debs that his hope and courage will carry her through her trial. Mentions that she is currently reading the...
Neal, Edna Marie 1920-11-03
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1920;
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Gay Men Murdered in Cameroon and Yemen
Eric Ohena Lembembe, a prominent gay rights leader in Cameroon, has been tortured and killed in an anti-gay attack. Friends discovered his dead body at his home in the capital, Yaounde, on Monday evening after he was unreachable for two days.
Lembembe was the local executive director of the Cameroonian Foundation For AIDS (Camfaids). The attack has happened weeks after he condemned in a statement the break-ins by anti-gay thugs, at the offices of groups advocating for gay rights.
In Cameroon, homosexuality is punishable by prison terms of up to five years, and it is the country where LGBT people are prosecuted more than anywhere. With that anti-gay legislation the message is clear, the attacks against LGBT people can be carried out with impunity.
Unfortunately, this is not the only sad news from Africa.
Two militants from an Al-Qaeda linked group have shot dead a man in the southern Lahj province of Yemen, on the basis of his perceived homosexuality.
Hashem al-Asmi, 20 year old, was gunned by two men who accused him of being gay. The killers belong to Ansar al-Sharia, the local branch of Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Any homosexual activity remains illegal in Yemen with punishments ranging from flogging to death.
Remember, a few weeks ago, Amnesty International warned on rising levels of homophobia in Africa. Anti-gay attacks and hate crimes across sub-Saharan Africa are becoming more visible, indicating that homophobia is reaching unacceptable levels.
Being gay is increasingly dangerous in much of Africa
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Becoming a journalist
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Mediawise attacks bully boys who fear Leveson will clip their wings
Chair | November 6, 2012 | 6 Comments
Mike Jempson
OUR forthcoming Benn Lecture on the Leveson Inquiry has stirred a storm of attacks on the NUJ for allegedly backing state regulation of the media.
Here Mike Jempson, Director of Bristol-based MediaWise Trust, and Vice Chair NUJ Ethics Council, gives some background – and brings the debate up to date
IT WAS inevitable that the bullyboys of the newspaper industry would campaign under a spurious banner of press freedom against any attempt by Lord Justice Leveson or politicians to clip their wings.
It is a pity that the Press Gazette chose to give succour to their ‘case’ with an equally spurious poll – no more accurate or scientific than those run by The Sun, Daily Express and Daily Mail to feed prejudice and discrimination. Once it became clear the poll was a nonsense, voting was stopped – at 137 (including duplicates). Yet this miniscule ‘finger in the wind’ exercise (the NUJ claim a membership of over 30,000) has generated a storm. It set the likes of Neil ‘Wolf Man’ Wallis howling that the NUJ should ballot its members on a policy confirmed at its recent Delegate Meeting.
But what is that policy and is the NUJ, or anyone else, really calling for statutory regulation? The NUJ, like most of the other critics of the failed Press Complaints Commission (PCC), want an independent complaints and redress system which will not set standards but seek to uphold those declared by the industry itself. The guarantee of both the independence and the effectiveness of the new system would be that it has been set up – like OfCom – under statute. It would be at long arm’s length from both elected politicians and unelected newspaper editors and proprietors.
The latter have had it all their own way for generations, neatly sidestepping every attempt to introduce some form of accountability since the 1947 Royal Commission.
In a recent scientific (www.mediaact.eu) survey of UK journalists the vast majority saw their conscience as a better guarantee of ethical behaviour than the PCC but no employer has yet been willing to add a ‘conscience clause’ to contracts of employment. The NUJ believes that would be better security than relying on self regulation run by editors and proprietors. (Working journalists are specifically excluded from serving on the PCC.)
Editors like Wallis (formerly of the Sun, News of the World and the People), and others who served with him on the PCC, have consistently rejected calls from NUJ members for recognition of the union’s Code of Conduct. Yet it was first devised back in 1936 as an antidote to illiberal calls for journalists to be registered and struck off for misbehaviour.
So where are these calls for state control coming from? Having spent 20 years assisting thousands of members of the public with their complaints about the print and broadcast media, I know that very, very few would seek to constrain the freedom of the press. Despite their own experiences the vast majority merely want journalists to do their job properly – which is all the media reformers want. The MediaWise view is the press freedom is a responsibility exercised by journalists on behalf of the public, not a licence for proprietors to do what they will in pursuit of profit.
Their aim is to intimidate anyone who dares to challenge them. As usual the agenda setters set up paper windmills to tilt at, in a sustained attempt to draw the public gaze from the real battleground.
Writing in the Press Gazette (26 Oct 2012) Tim Luckhurst accused ‘supporters of state regulation’ of castigating their opponents as ‘first amendment fundamentalists. They mean that we support the US Constitution’s categorical guarantee that government may make no law abridging the freedom of the press.’
I am not sure I have heard that particular criticism, but then none of the people he has in his firing line are proposing ‘state regulation’. We agree with him that ‘Statutory regulation of British newspapers would create a constitutional absurdity: parliamentary scrutiny of a body the electorate depends upon to scrutinise parliament.’
Next came the Daily Telegraph. ‘The threat to our free press is grave and foolish’, it thundered on 28 Sept 2012. ‘Once a regulatory measure … is on the Statute Book, MPs will seek to define the public interest in law, and governments will be tempted to use the legislation to choke off dissent. … it is no coincidence that countries with the highest levels of corruption have the most tightly regulated media. Britain can boast one of the least venal political systems in the world.’
That was rich comng from the paper that exposed the MPs’ expenses scandal (allegedly by buying a stolen CD, an illegal act for which they would undoubtedly be acquitted in the UK courts by using the ‘public interest’ defence).
The next day the Daily Mail treated us to the fantasy world of Richard Littlejohn (‘A journalist jailed for exposing tax cheats – don’t kid yourself it couldn’t happen here’). ‘A head of steam is building up behind demands for statutory regulation of free speech,’ he ranted. ‘That would be the start of a descent into oppression and censorship.’
Like so much of what he writes, it was rubbish, but his line was taken up by Trevor Kavanagh in a scaremongering column for The Sun (‘Regulating Press would bring Greek tragedy to Britain’, 31 Oct 2012): ‘ The first casualty will be the right of voters to know what their masters are up to.’
Then came Dominic Sandbrook’s apocalyptic vision in the Mail (‘The new dark age’, 2 Nov 2012). The Leveson Inquiry, he claimed, was among the ‘disturbing signs of a backlash against democracy, free speech and the will of the people — a counter-revolution that could sweep away many of the liberties we take for granted.’
He appeared to have forgotten that the inquiry was launched after public revulsion at distasteful and illegal behaviour by the country’s biggest selling newspaper. As MediaWise pointed out in evidence to the inquiry, such unethical and illegal behaviour has been endemic for at least as long as the PCC existed.
And finally Murdoch’s Sun went right over the top, taking its cue from the Press Gazette. In an editorial headed ‘No censors’ (6 Nov 2012) it claimed that NUJ General Secretary ‘Michelle Stanistreet wants to surrender centuries of hard-won Press freedom for Government control of the Press. We would end up like Russia, Zimbabwe and Iran, with State stooges and politicians deciding what can or can’t be printed in your Sun.’
This is arrant nonsense of course, but it is difficult to extract the poison poured into three million ears. It’s a good example of why we cannot trust the industry to police itself.
On behalf of those who have fallen foul of bad journalism, MediaWise has long argued for a more open and accountable system of self regulation, less closely tied to publishers and editors.
In November 1996 a Guardian leader column challenged self-regulation thus: ‘At the moment the people see only a body which claims unique privileges to itself without any of the concomitant responsibilities … prepared to change … but only when it suits
them. They see a body scornful of whether or not its proceedings command public confidence. It cannot go on like this.’
It was talking about Parliament, and went on to quote Lord Nolan: ‘The public needs to see that breaches of rules are investigated as fairly, and dealt with as firmly by Parliament, as would be the case with others through the legal process.’
Change ‘Parliament’ to ‘the Press’ and you have, in a nutshell, the case for a more independent and effective system of press regulation. That is all we all want.
Director, The MediaWise Trust
(and Vice Chair NUJ Ethics Council)
Tags: Benn Lectures, Bristol Branch, Festival of Ideas, Leveson, media ethics, Michelle Stanistreet, PCC
Category: Comment, Featured, National NUJ
Chris Wheal says:
You conveniently ignore the fact that many long-serving NUJ activists and members have opposed this since we first heard of it.
You do us a disservice to suggest we are either just following the media owners or in some way their bully-boys.
If this statutory regulation/ regulation underpinned by statute/ statute-based regulation is so right, then the members will back it in a ballot. Why oppose giving the members a chance to vote?
Chair says:
This is my personal view, not that of Bristol branch. Chris, no-one is saying your objections are made to follow media owners or make you a bully boy.
It just so happens that your view on this coincides with the media owners who are desperate to avoid regulation.
If ‘many long-serving NUJ activists and members’ oppose this why didn’t we hear much from them when the NUJ gave evidence to Leveson? And why didn’t anyone object at DM?
Remember that the reason this is news now is not because principled people like you decided to speak up, but because media outlets like the Sun decided to make convenient capital out of rehashing Michelle Stanistreet’s evidence which she gave in July.
I want to hear members’ views on this to see if there is real backing for a ballot. So far I’m not convinced.
Paul Breeden, chair, Bristol branch
Paul, I raised the issue as soon as Michelle made her presentation to Leveson. That was the first I had heard of the NUJ endorsing statutory legislation to impinge on press freedom. It had never been mentioned in NUJ Active or in The Journalist. There had been zero publicity and no motion at DM.
There has still been no motion at DM confirming support for a policy of statutory legislation.
I suspect the union legally does not have this a policy as it has never, according to its own rules adopted it.
This is news now because the NUJ issued a press release and Press Gazette ran it. I again objected, as did some others. There were a few resignations and some other threats of resignations. Only then did the Sun produce its editorial. The Telegraph followed. That was the order of events.
It is very easy to say: “It set the likes of Neil ‘Wolf Man’ Wallis howling that the NUJ should ballot its members on a policy confirmed at its recent Delegate Meeting.”
Well yes he did, but only after others had raised the issue. Using the phrase “the likes of” is pejorative. The idea is clearly to tarnish others calling for a ballot as all being the same as him. Several good members called for consultation and a ballot. It is selective reporting of the kind I thought MediaWise opposed.
How about “the likes of Chris Wheal, the tenth of ten NUJ activists in the 100-year history of the union to be sacked for his trade union work, called for a ballot”?
Chris, several other members have pointed out that they thought it was obvious exactly what the NUJ was advocating because its favoured model was the Irish system, which was underpinned by regulation. That was implicit in the DM motion, and that was what members knowingly passed.
You and some others objected, but not in great numbers. It was Press Gazette and the Guardian who first picked up on our press release and chose to make the legislation angle into a story, followed by the Sun, Guido Fawkes and the Telegraph.
No-one’s saying you’re not entitled to your views, or that you should be compared to Neil Wallis.
I just think we should be very wary of giving ammunition to the NUJ’s enemies when so far there’s little evidence that members want to change its policy (which as far as I can see has been properly approved by DM).
That said, I am going to email all Bristol branch members tonight asking for their views, and we have a branch meeting next week at which this will be discussed.
I hope all members who have strong views one way or the other will use the union’s many channels of democracy to make their opinions known.
Paul Breeden, chair, Bristol NUJ
Sorry Paul, Mike Jempson, in this article on your website said: “It set the likes of Neil ‘Wolf Man’ Wallis howling that the NUJ should ballot its members on a policy confirmed at its recent Delegate Meeting.”
The likes of – like – a direct comparison. It was disparaging. It was a deliberate attempt, in an article headlined “Mediawise attacks bully boys who fear Leveson will clip their wings” to compare those of us who have reasonable and genuine views that counter those of the NUJ leadership and Mediawise, with the worst excesses of tabloid journalism. It was shameful.
Talk about giving ammunition to the NUJ’s enemies – attacking long-standing NUJ members in this way is disgusting. The NUJ deserves any bad publicity it gets.
Chris, I’ve just read Mike Jempson’s article again, and there’s nothing that makes me think he’s equating you with Neil Wallis. He made no attack on you or other members who share your views.
But he is reminding us that to oppose the NUJ’s position on effective regulation suits the ‘bully boy’ owners perfectly.
I don’t think many members share your views on a ballot. I asked Bristol branch members for their opinions yesterday, and so far I’ve not had one response.
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First Drive Review 2016 Acura RDX: A chance to enjoy the finer things in life
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There are those rare moments in life when we get to enjoy things in life that only those who can afford such things get to enjoy. An elegant five-course meal, a flight In first class, the feel of silk sheets while lying on the bed in the Presidential Suite, or a sip on champagne older than we are.
For the majority of us, it’s a fast food, coach class, room by the ice machine, cheap beer kind of life. We rarely have occasion to enjoy those things that make our otherwise dull, plain life a bit better.
Cars are the same way. Sure we’d like a Ferrari in our driveway, but have to settle for something with a payment under $300, which is what the fuel costs for a Ferrari would be for a month. Then there are cars that try to pretend they are something they’re not, try to make us believe that buying one will give us the same experience as something costing much more. We know these exist, because we’ve had occasion to test them, and in the end expose them for what they really are; just a poser. It’s like wearing a fake Armani suit with shoes from Payless, with an imitation Rolex on our wrist as we head into Wal-Mart.
In all this automotive chaos however, we occasionally stumble on something that doesn’t try and pretend it’s something it’s not, yet can provide the same sort of experience normally reserved for a privileged few.
Such was the case recently when we were delivered the 2016 Acura RDX for a week. Only two weeks prior we had a week with its bigger brother the MDX and liked it. Now we would get a week behind the wheel of the RDX, the Honda luxury brand’s bestselling vehicle.
The 2016 Acura RDX is a small luxury crossover SUV. In comes in one single trim level with three optional packages. Front-wheel drive is standard and all-wheel drive is optional.
The RDX has standard features like LED headlights and taillights, heated side mirrors, rear privacy glass, automatic headlights, a sunroof and a rearview camera. There’s also keyless ignition and entry, power liftgate, dual-zone automatic climate control, heated front seats, an eight-way power driver seat with two-way power lumbar, a four-way power passenger seat, all wrapped in premium leatherette. In addition there is a leather-wrapped tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, and plenty of tech like Bluetooth phone and audio connectivity, a 5-inch dashboard information display and a seven-speaker sound system with satellite radio, and a USB audio interface.
The AcuraWatch Plus package gives you a forward collision mitigation system with automatic braking, adaptive cruise control, and a lane-departure warning and intervention system. The AcuraWatch Plus option can be ordered by itself or in combination with the Technology package which bundles sport front seats, an eight-way power front passenger seat, leather upholstery, a navigation system, a blind-spot monitoring system, voice commands. There is also the AcuraLink app suite, a larger (8-inch) display screen plus the additional 7-inch touchscreen display on the dashboard, along with a 10-speaker Acura/ELS surround-sound system with HD radio.
The third package available is the Advance package includes everything in the AcuraWatch Plus and Technology packages but adds ventilated front seats, front and rear parking sensors, automatic wipers, auto-dimming sideview mirrors, remote engine start and foglights.
Our tester for the week was all wheel drive with the Advance package. For 2016 the blind-spot monitoring system, adaptive cruise control and lane-departure intervention system were added. Also for 2016, there have been some styling tweaks, and a small horsepower increase under the hood.
One of the better things under the hood is the 3.5-liter V6 engine. It delivers 279 horsepower and 252 pound-feet of torque. Many others in the small carryover class have opted for the 4-cylinder, usually turbocharged, so it’s good to see a little bigger powerplant under the hood.
While we did like the MDX, we liked the RDX even better. The loss of a third row of seats gives the exterior look a bit more style it seems. The RDX in our opinion is just the right size, and on the road we liked it even better.
Inside, there is the great view from the driver’s seat one can only get in a higher placed crossover. The interior is laid out similar to the MDX, with clean lines and easy to use controls and easy to read gauges. The two screen setup was there, and like the MDX we aren’t a fan of it, but it isn’t too hard to figure out. The cabin is very roomy and comfortable even for back seat adults, and that’s not something that can be said for all crossovers.
On the road the first thing we noticed with a V6 under the hood, was that there was no lag like we’ve had with some turbocharged 4 bangers. No struggling to keep up, no whining, plenty of power for everyday use. The cabin is quiet at speed, the suspension more than adequate for everyday driving and there is even a satisfying low growl from the V6 under heavy acceleration. The six speed automatic shifted properly and the body roll in aggressive cornering was no better or worse than others in its class.
There is one big difference to others in its class however.
Now that Acura has added the new safety features, the blind-spot monitoring system, adaptive cruise control and lane-departure intervention system, the RDX can now compete with other crossovers costing much, much more. Think Porsche Macan S($53,000), BMW X4 ($46,000 – $58,000), the Audi Q5 ( $41,825 – $53,425) and the new Jaguar F-Pace which can get expensive with a price nearing $70,000 for the same options that can be had in a top of the line RDX which prices out at $44,340.
The point is that the RDX is a very good vehicle. It’s made better when you see what a value it really is. For around $40,000, you can get a well-built crossover with all the features of something costing a great deal more.
The MDX was good, and if someone needs a large SUV, it’s worth a look. For the smaller crossover crowd though the RDX is among the best. That’s primarily because the majority of the crowd can afford something like the Acura RDX.
We may never stay in the Presidential Suite, or sip on champagne older than we are, but we can enjoy something that gives us an experience normally reserved for a privileged few. The 2016 Acura RDX is among the best vehicles we have tested, and that’s because the RDX is among those vehicles that we could actually afford.
The 2016 Acura RDX
MSRP (as tested): $44,340
Engine: 3.5 V6, 279 hp, 252 lb-ft torque
Mileage (EPA): 19 city, 28 highway, 22 combined
Mileage (as tested, mixed conditions): 24 mpg
Exterior Dimensions (in)
Interior Dimensions (in)
EPA interior volume: 129.6 cu.ft.
Cargo capacity, all seats in place: 26.1 cu.ft.
Maximum cargo capacity: 76.9 cu.ft.
Basic: 4 Years/50,000 Miles
Drivetrain: 6 Years/70,000 Miles
Corrosion: 5 Years/Unlimited Miles
Roadside Assistance: 4 Years/50,000 Miles
All specs and features can be found here
Greg Engle
Editor at Caraganza.com
Greg is a published award winning sportswriter who spent 23 years combined active and active reserve military service, much of that in and around the Special Operations community. Greg has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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Deb's Cats n Quilts - How it all began....
Deb’s Cats N Quilts was opened as an online business in 2002 while I was still living in my home state of SC. I continued the online store after a move to the mountains in 2003, and opened Deb’s Cats N Quilts as a storefront in Franklin, NC in 2005. As a former freelance writer for QUILT magazine, an article I published “All I Know About Quilting I Learned from my Cats” became the theme for the shop.
Over the years, the shop went through 5 expansions, enlarging to its now 4300 sq feet and was honored to be featured in QUILT SAMPLER magazine in the fall of 2016,
But much was going on behind the scenes…..
In 2015, an idea and a few pieces of plexiglass led to a dream come true as I began designing for Creative Grids®. My Creative Grids (CGRDH1) Cat’s Cradle tool was released at Quilt Market in the spring of 2015, followed by my (CGRDH2) Strippy Stars Tool that fall, and my (CGRDH3) Turbo 4 patch in the spring of 2016. Before and after each release I was busy designing patterns to go with each tool. My travel time increased with more lectures, demos, and workshops and Deb’s Cats N Quilts slowly became two separate and unique entities. Deb’s Cats n Quilts (the storefront) and Deb’s Cats n Quilts Designs. With the help of an amazing staff, the storefront continued to do what it had always done- Hold classes and club meetings, and sell quality quilting supplies, all with an emphasis on customer service. At the same time, I was busy with the design side of the company, designing patterns, traveling to speak and teach workshops, and hosting 2 annual retreats. Both the storefront and the design company were full-time jobs and in 2016 I realized that one person could not continue to oversee both. There was just not enough time in the day.
That’s where good friend Lindy Blanton came in. In July of 2016, Lindy purchased the storefront (now renamed Sassy Stitches) so that I could devote full time to Deb’s Cats N Quilts Designs. Although there have been changes as the new owner puts her own personality into the shop, the storefront still provides the same “purr-fect” shopping experience and warm cozy atmosphere that it’s been known for all these years. If you are ever in Franklin, I hope you'll stop in.
To see what’s going on at Sassy Stitches click here to visit sassy stitches web site OR visit Sassy Stitches on facebook.
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BAILER – BAILER (Review)
Following on from Shaped by the Landscape (2016) and PTSD (2017) EPs, Irish metallic hardcore quartet BAILER have just released their self-titled EP. Comprising of Alex O’Leary (vocals), Chris Harte (guitar), Sean Conway (drums), and David Cleere (bass), BAILER blew us away with singles “Feel It More” and “Long Gone”. We were keen to get stuck into the BAILER EP, which released on 9th February via Distro-y Records
The five-track release opens up with “Lying For A Living” which features Xander Coughlan of Emigra. It’s intense from the beginning, capturing conflict with a lifestyle they hate. Aspirations get shot down by the push to achieve and ‘live the good life’, leaving them unfeeling and going through the motions. Unpredictable timings take on a sense of being pushed and shoved through life, in ‘constant forfeit’, with looped riffs hanging in anticipation waiting for some kind of solution to this, all the while feeling the pressure of living a lie.
In “Tuesday Blues”, second on the EP, I’m craving more dynamic in the vocals. Admittedly the ‘sameness’ and relentlessness of the voice here does echo the persisting cage of what may be war-induced PTSD. Typically preferring the vocal story, I instead lean into the path carved out by the guitars which hold interest in their telling of this tale. As well as mental monotony in their steady climb, and inner disturbance with a chugging interlude via bass, there’s beautiful ache expressed in the guitars’ goosebump-inducing heights at the close of the track, while the level forces of the vocals march on relentlessly aside from a screaming section.
“Long Gone” includes a feature from Adam Carroll of Zoax. This impressive track draws us into the story from the beginning, with interest in riffs as well as Adam’s more melodic vocals crashing up against Alex’s fire. I’m in love with the sense of ‘pay attention or you’ll miss something’ pacing as well as shifts along the way of “Long Gone”, as well as the guitar work of this track; painting a gorgeous picture of confusion and curiosity, adding to the ‘who the fuck do you think you are, and why are you spreading shit about me?’ vibe. Echoed vocal effects add interest, with an ending of dirty distortion being extremely satisfying.
I found “Feel It More” to be a musically tight track which was a pleasure to fall into. Its sharp shifts of rhythm and a sense of unpredictability are a perfect sonic match to the overwhelm being shared lyrically by the band. In their own words about “Feel It More”, BAILER shared that they wrote the track “at a time where it was really easy for us to see everything for what it was and really feel it. Those moments can be rare these days.”
In absorbing the lyrics, the surprisingly poetic track had me lyrically and rhythmically drawn in from the beginning, easy to be present with BAILER while they notice what happens within them. Using a metaphor of the ocean brings the track even more to life, making for something demanding of attention as well as moving.
The EP’s closing track “Death Is A Reminder” includes a feature from Red Enemy‘s Kevin ‘Lefty’ Letford. Bass gets a spotlight here and its grinding riff along with the (yet again impressive) guitar almost outshines the vocals as regretful reminiscing is shared. Hard heaviness is fittingly present in the sombre reflection of an earlier time. A momentary acceleration of pace seems to echo the fast-paced lifestyle the two had bonded over. The final section of the song is aching in the finality it shares, with a solid sense of helplessness sparking a punch to the chest in the absence of an old friend.
The five tracks of BAILER go hard, and I can recognise them as a showcase of the band’s present sound. I feel that the vocal features of the EP, skilled work of Chris Harte in isolation, as well as alongside Sean Conway and David Cleere in crafting sharp and unpredictable rhythms are what makes this EP as good as it is. I found the vocals to be too limited in their variability, and very early into my listen of the five tracks craved something more. Permanent dual vocals may be what’s needed to inspire a more interesting and engaging vocal dynamic for BAILER, making their solid and important lyrical content more drawing.
Check out BAILER EP via Spotify, or keep in touch with the band via Facebook.
BAILER - BAILER
BAILER EP Rating
Tight musicality, with jaw-dropping rhythms and guitar work over the 5 tracks.
Lack of dynamic in the vocals made it more challenging to immerse into the messages or emotions being shared in the lyrics.
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“Grill Dad” Lands in Idaho, Buys UltraClean, Keeps on Cooking
By Barb Law Shelley Photos Kimberlee Miller & Grill Dads
Not many people can rightfully claim to have eight, active grills on their patio, let alone television cameras and lights in a garage production studio, but not many people are as eclectic as Eagle resident Mark Anderson. The sarcastic half of the Food Network Grill Dads duo, the multi-talented Mark is just being himself.
How did Mark land on the Food Network, a lifestyle TV network? And, while we are wondering, how did east coaster Mark land in Idaho? The story is that he and his best friend of 20 years, Ryan Fey, who Mark says is the uninhibited, wacky half of the Grill Dads, worked together in the advertising industry before becoming the Grill Dads. They were passionate about cooking for dinner parties, baby showers and barbeques with friends sometimes hosting as many 60 people. They did this without formal chef training. From there they turned their talent for promoting their clients onto their own concept, and launched themselves as backyard grill warriors who banter while demonstrating all the wonderful foods one can create with a grill. They did this while busy in their careers and parenting their children.
After months of creative planning, they created a trailer and posted it on a crowd funding site.
“It was one of the most vulnerable moments of my life,” remembers Mark. “You put yourself out there. It would be embarrassing if the idea flopped.”
Their idea did not flop. Money and enthusiastic encouragement started pouring in. At the same time, they submitted their trailer to a producer of the Food Network’s Guy’s Big Project, a competition, reality TV series hosted by Guy Fieri, American restaurateur and an Emmy Award winning television personality. They were selected as one of two winners, rewarded with a full 10 episode season of their own show The Grill Dads. Their second season on Food Network was called Comfort Food Tour. They were again able to take their love of cooking and food on the road, meeting outstanding chefs and eating delectable food as they went. The Grill Dads have also appeared nationally on NBC’s Today Show. Marketers talk about reach and frequency. The Grill Dads may have reached as many as 25 million people on the Today Show alone in addition to 24 episodes of TV in the last 14 months.
“I am a Food Network fan boy,” declares Mark. “Friday nights with the Food Network, that is how I learned to cook. The bantering with Fey while grilling is just who I am.”
Mark is from an upstate New York Italian family who cooked and frequented neighborhood family Italian restaurants, but he never dreamed that he would cook on TV.
He says he obsesses on a food type, reworking and cooking until he masters it. When it tastes better than a restaurant’s food, he knows he nailed it. For example he focused on biscuits for six months, before finally declaring his newly created recipe and technique the difference between good and great.
His advice to other wannabe TV personalities and travelogue hosts: “Just go for it. Don’t doubt yourself.”
Mark insists you can cook anything on a grill before revealing he cooks his entire Thanksgiving dinner on the grill. Or, in his case, it’s grills. He is also a whiz with a smoker. His wife, Sarah, notes that their backyard looks like a barbeque grill store.
“Our focus is celebrating food and being dads,” declares Mark who is 43 and, with Sarah, has a four-year-old son. “We are the new dads. No more ‘60s Don Draper of Mad Men dads. Nowadays dads contribute at home. We cook, go to soccer games and enjoy our families.”
Sarah has a quip that matches the fun of the Grill Dads: “Mark and Fey have been doing this show for twenty years, finally some cameras showed up.”
But to focus only on Grill Dads leaves out the other interesting things about Mark. After college he was a tour manager. He was an audio engineer for Maroon 5, a multi-hit, pop rock band lead by vocalist Adam Levine. He came with the band to Boise when they played at what later became The Knitting Factory. While here on tour, Mark hiked to Table Rock and floated the Boise River, never dreaming he would someday move to southwest Idaho. Mark also tour managed Jennifer Hudson and Courtney Love.
After a life on the road in the music industry, he became an advertising executive. Over the next year he moved between Atlanta, Los Angeles, where he started working and cooking with longtime friend Ryan Fey, and Portland, Oregon. When he and Sarah decided to put down roots rather than continue to state hop, they picked Idaho. He teases that he was glad that Portland was his most recent residence so he can claim to be an Oregon transplant without mentioning the gig in California, thereby not irritating California-weary Idahoans.
He and Sarah purchased an existing Meridian business, UltraClean, a water damage restoration company for residential and commercial properties. It is a tangible, hands on business that helps people at a traumatic time. They offer water, wind, fire and mold damage repairs. He runs the day-to-day business while Sarah focuses on the marketing as part of the freelance creative work she does from home.
Boise’s Ronald McDonald House charity invited Mark to serve on their board recently. He jumped at the chance to volunteer his time for this worldwide charity that helps families stay together when an out-of-town, seriously ill child is hospitalized.
He and Sarah were inspired to move to Southwest Idaho just for such opportunities. Mark points out, “Southwest Idaho is big enough to have all the comfortable city amenities, but small enough to allow people to build a real community through volunteer work.”
Mark will find out by summer if The Grill Dads will be offered another gig on the Food Network. In the meantime, he keeps grilling and building his fan base on social media.
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Class is permanent
Posted by Rick Johansen | Mar 28, 2016 | Eclectic Blue | 0 |
Did you see the varsity boat race yesterday on BBC One? Oddly enough, neither did I and neither did anyone else I know. I don’t know who won, don’t care who won and (starts run up for a very old joke) it’s really boring that the same two teams get to the final every single year. I do not know how much it costs the BBC to hold the rights, but however much it is, it’s probably too much.
I know that the annual ding dong between Oxford and Cambridge attracts large audiences although I don’t for the life of me know why. And I know it’s a very old sporting event; a throwback to the days when the graduates of the top two universities ran the country! Oh, wait a minute: they still do today.
I will watch rowing in the Olympics. I will not pretend for one moment that most of the rowers are not from elite schools and that the lumpen proletariat are no more likely to appear in The Big Race than they are to turn up in a Tory cabinet, but they are British and they are usually quite good. I cannot say the same for the boat race.
The biggest furore this year was the choice of presenter, Seann Walsh, who is a comedian (in case you knew; I didn’t) when he said that the crowd watching the boat races was “like Waitrose on Black Friday”. I cannot comment on the actually presenting of the show – Walsh had the former Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton alongside – but it certainly got a few people’s backs up. But I thought his joke was quite apt. The varsity boat race is a clash between two groups of upper class sportsmen, watched, I imagine, my upper class viewers. Why would anyone else watch it and where would these viewers shop? To the latter question, I would suggest Waitrose, the place all of us would choose to shop if we were made of money.
That the BBC still has live sport to show us is a miracle in itself. Rupert Murdoch and BT Sport between them have a near monopoly of TV sport. For example, Sky has all the cricket, all four gold majors, both the European and American tours and the Ryder Cup, the vast majority of Premier League football and all the rugby league except the Challenge Cup. This is not a coincidence since Sky spends more on sport than the BBC can spend on all its services put together. So the Beeb is stuck with a bloody boat race and not much else.
The BBC recently did a deal with the cricket authorities to show ‘clips’ of some cricket matches. Not highlights, but clips to be shown in news bulletins. It’s better than nothing, I suppose, but not much.
Highlights will be the way forward for terrestrial channels. Given time, Mr Murdoch will own rights to all TV sport. He will outbid BT Sport and the rest of the opposition for every franchise that comes up and he will beat down the opposition in the same way as his papers crushed the likes of the Independent. He doesn’t like competition, he is richer than God and when he tells politicians to jump they ask how high.
If I was appointed head of the Beeb tomorrow, I’d hand back the boat race rights with immediate effect. Spend whatever money is left on something many of us would love to see, like cricket highlights, maybe even the odd live game.
The boat race merely reminds me of what a class dominated country we still live in, a vision of how far we are from genuine social mobility. That the current prime minister (Cameron), the current and previous deputy prime ministers (Osborne and Clegg), the likely successor to Cameron (Johnson) and the Tory candidate for London Mayor (Goldsmith) are all graduates from our elitist education says it all and the continued media obsession with the boat race suggests that the establishment would like to keep it that way.
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Creations from renowned Italian fashion brands are showcased at the CITICPORT. [Photo provided to Newsgd.com]
If you are at the Baiyun International Airport with some time to kill over the next three months, come visit the new exhibition entitled ‘60 Years of Made in Italy’ which is already underway from January 17th to April 15th at the CITICPORT after domestic security check on the third floor of Terminal 2.
This exhibition, with more than forty masterpiece creations and archival clothes from the most renowned Italian fashion brands, pays tribute to the genius and sartorial knowledge of some leading figures in Italian fashion and design.
It forms part of the China-Italy Year of Culture and Tourism project in Guangzhou, which was inaugurated on the morning of January 17th at the airport. Guests from both China and Italy attended the opening ceremony.
Guests from both China and Italy attend the opening ceremony at the airport. [Photo provided to Newsgd.com]
Guests visit the exhibition at the CITICPORT. [Photo provided to Newsgd.com]
Lucia Pasqualini, Consul General of Italy in Guangzhou, said that the consulate will stage a series of cultural initiatives to foster and strengthen the friendship between China and Italy this year. She hopes to engage the public, to inspire the mutual understanding and encourage Chinese tourists to visit Italy and see firsthand the beauties of Italian art and culture.
Ms. Mo Mingzhen, CFO of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, said the China-Italy Year of Culture and Tourism project will promote the exchange and cooperation between enterprises and among people from both countries. Mo also said that she looks forward to more culture and art projects to be launched at the airport.
Chen Fei, Chairman of CITICPORT, pointed out that CITICPORT will work closely with the Consulate General of Italy in Guangzhou to launch more events in the fields of fine food, fashion, design and sports at the airport in 2020.
A poster of the exhibition. [Photo provided to Newsgd.com]
People view the exhibition. [Photo provided to Newsgd.com]
The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Italy. Both China and Italy have a long history and a rich cultural heritage. More people-to-people exchanges between the two countries have been seen in recent years. Statistics show that Italy received over 3 million Chinese visitors last year and the number is expected to rise in 2020.
The China-Italy Year of Culture and Tourism is the first time for the two countries to hold a large-scale activity focusing on the integration of culture and tourism. Over 100 events will be held during the one-year activity, covering areas of performing arts, visual arts, cultural heritage, tourism and creative design.
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Target's Carbonized The Mandalorian Returning, Back Up for Pre-Order
By Adam Pawlus — Monday, November 23, 2020
Target.com put up a page for what appears to be a new run of the Star Wars The Black Series Carbonized Collection The Mandalorian Toy Figure due early in 2021. It's a very good figure - click here to read our review from earlier this year. It's $5 more expensive than the previous release, but it also is cheaper than purchasing one on the secondary market. This is not the full Beskar mold, but rather the late 2019 version with a very shiny finish.
Target's Galaxy's Edge Commander Pyre, R5-P8 Available for In-Store Pick-Up
By Adam Pawlus — Saturday, October 24, 2020
If you missed pre-orders a few days ago (or wanted to save on shipping) today is your lucky day! Target.com added in-store pick-up Star Wars: The Black Series Commander Pyre and R5-P8 action figures from its Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge collection. Click here for availability, they're currently $24.99 a piece.
Target's Galaxy's Edge Millennium Falcon - In Stock
By Adam Pawlus — Sunday, August 30, 2020
If memory serves the big Millennium Falcon debuted for about $180 in 2008, about 12 years ago, as part of Star Wars: The Legacy Collection. At the time, we thought it was the final "midnight madness," and possibly the beginning of the end - it wasn't. The ship had ups and downs, and got reissued in Toys R Us-exclusive a few years later was $250 thanks to increases in labor and materials costs.
Click here to check availability at Target.com. As of right now it is expected to be online only due to cost and size. Will it go on sale later? Well, given its high price, we don't have a precedent for knowing the edition size.
Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Day at Target - New Droids!
A bunch of Galaxys Edge Trading Outpost items are hitting Target stores (and Target.com) today - but a complete list was not made available. Repacks of the theme park exclusive Commander Pyre, Hondo Ohnaka, and DJ R-3X are joined by all-new Captain Cardinal 6-inch figures. The big Millennium Falcon is, so far, an online only reissue. There are new roleplay blasters, plushies, and Funko Pop!s too - but what I found the most interesting are these Hasbro Droid Depot figures. There are 6 of them for $9.99 each under DPCI 087-16-1746.
Target Getting Star Wars Galaxy's Edge The Black Series Captain Cardinal
By Adam Pawlus — Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Coming soon to Target, Galaxy's Edge The Black Series 6-inch Captain Cardinal Action Figure. Or "Who?"
The world is changing, and Star Wars fandom has quietly changed from the 1990s original-trilogy focused marketing to kids of the 1970s - which arguably peaked with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - to an attempt to try to make it a franchise for all people. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The young-skewing Resistance series just sort of got swept under the rug - and it feels like The Rise of Skywalker is joining it. To promote the era of the First Order, there are lots of comics, lots of books, and a giant theme park experience that a lot of people just plain can't go see right now. Captain Cardinal is part of that. It's a new generation of fan, and one that the olds probably didn't have the time to read up on before being shown this shiny new figure.
Basically a red Stormtrooper in a cape, the figure has two blasters and even though I have not and probably will not read the novel from which he came, I can say it's a cool figure. I'll buy a red Stormtrooper. Heck, that's something I pushed hard to do a few years ago. But I digress - Hasbro says:
Target Getting Star Wars Galaxy's Edge The Black Series DJ R-3X
You might recognize this one from a gift set last year. Star Wars Galaxy's Edge The Black Series DJ R-3X seems identical to the gift set version [FOTD #2,618] except packaging and the other figures that are now missing from the box. It's a nice droid - lots of deco, lots of moving parts, and it's colorful too! I'd get it if you can. It's $24.99. Hasbro wrote:
Target Getting Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Hyperdrive BB Unit
Also coming to Target - red, appropriately - is the Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Hyperdrive BB Unit. Did you like the RC BB-8 a few years ago? It's kind of like that. Price is expected to be $99.99. Hasbro writes:
Target Getting Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Millennium Falcon Vehicle
Let's get this out of the way: it's $399.99. The revised The Legacy Collection Millennium Falcon is now the Galaxy's Edge Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run Vehicle. It's just different enough to make you mad, with unique deco and two radar dishes. The original 1977-style pizza dish is there, as is the rectangular sequel trilogy model. Dirt deco is unique, and it has different figures. Chewbacca, Hondo Ohnaka, and Porgs are included. Is it worth more than a 2x price increase over 13 years? Probably.
Target Restocking The Mandalorian Carbonized Graphite Edition
By Adam Pawlus — Wednesday, January 8, 2020
If you missed it - like I did - Hasbro did another run of the Star Wars The Black Series Carbonized Collection The Mandalorian Toy Figure (Target Exclusive) for US Target stores. It's $24.99, and I would go as far as to say it looks good enough to be worth the five bucks. I saw a few out and about today, so check your local stores - and don't trust the in-store inventory checkers online, go look. My store said they had none online, and sure enough, there it was. Good hunting!
Star Wars Figure of the Day: Day 2,532: Stormtrooper (Mimban, a.k.a. Mudtrooper, Solo: A Star Wars Story line look)
By Adam Pawlus — Thursday, November 8, 2018
It's basically Han Solo with the mask glued on. This Stormtrooper (Mimban) is in that 6 figure boxed set at Target, and it's a good collection for fans of the side stories and the Empire. Even though you skipped the movie, I suspect you'll like the various troopers at the price. (And it's on sale this week.) Is it worth it? Read on!
NYCC 2018: Star Wars The Black Series Exclusive Action Figures for 2019
In 2019, Target will get a new version of Luke Skywalker in Stormtrooper Disguise - note the slicked-back hair. Slickback emeritus come complete with helmet, communicator, blaster, and what may well be some sort of sewage deco. Delicious.
Joining him is GameStop's Rocket Trooper, which you probably also don't recognize. The classic Stormtrooper body got a new helmet and a few other modifications for its release next year.
Target's Solo: A Star Wars Story Force Link 2.0 Vandor-1 Heist Target Exclusive Playset Out Now
By Adam Pawlus — Sunday, August 5, 2018
While they showed up last week, fans who found it were denied at check-out. The embargo on the Solo: A Star Wars Story Force Link 2.0 Vandor-1 Heist was lifted early on Sunday, so now if you want one you can get it for $44.99. For your handy-dandy toy locating, mark down DPCI 087-16-0136 when hunting to verify if one is near you.
Rogue One Blu-Ray, Black Series AT-ACT Driver In Stores Now
By Adam Pawlus — Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Today's the day! Without too much fuss, Target's exclusive AT-ACT Driver has joined the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story DVD and Blu-Ray at retail today. It's worth noting Target has an exclusive deluxe Blu-Ray set with bonus content as well, and the price may vary. The tag said $29.99 but it rang up $27.99. Go figure.
If you want to see if the 6-inch AT-ACT Driver figure is in your area, check DPCI 087-06-1115.
Target Star Wars The Black Series Rogue One Hasbro Exclusives In Stores Now
By Adam Pawlus — Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Target's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Hasbro exclusive sets are in stores as of today. A 12-inch 6-pack, a 3 3/4-inch 7-pack, and a 6-inch 3-pack are there now. The Black Series set includes a repack of Jyn Erso along with a plussed up Imperial Death Trooper with more gear and the jacketed version of Cassian Andor. The Eadu head looks a smidgen better - but they're out there now if you need them.
Hasbro's Official Rogue One Checklist Reveals New, Unannounced Exclusives
By Adam Pawlus — Thursday, October 13, 2016
Hasbro's PR firm sent us a note this morning to inform us that there's an Official Star Wars 2016 Collector Checklist! Click here to grab it.
Since this is produced on the official timetable, you won't see some known-but-not-listed items like Wave 2 3 3/4-inch action figures, 2-packs, 6-inch figures, and so on. But what is on here may amaze you - a bunch of exclusives we've not yet seen! Read on to find out what you'll find in stores as the year goes on.
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Bribery Video: We Can’t Probe Ganduje Because He Enjoys Immunity – EFCC
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stated why it is not probing Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, over allegations of corruption.
Mr Ganduje has been seen recently in series of video clips receiving wraps of dollars from an undisclosed person.
Daily Nigerian, the news portal which published the videos alleged that the governor was receiving kickbacks from contractors of the state government in the video clips.
The Kano State Assembly probing the matter has so far suspended its investigation due to court injunctions instituted by the governor who has so far denied the allegation saying the videos showing him receiving bribe were cloned.
For the anti-graft agency, Ganduje still enjoys immunity as benefits of being in office and this has made the commission turn a blind eye to the allegation.
“The governor is still serving and constitutionally is covered by immunity,” the EFCC tweeted on Friday during a tweet meet organised by Tap Nitiative for Citizens Development, a public accountability think-tank.
“Being that as it may, the matter is in the instance sub judice.”
When asked why the commission probed former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose while he was still in office, the EFCC said it does not make public its findings of investigation.
While Fayose belongs to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ganduje is of the ruling All Progressive Congress, (APC).
“The EFCC normally doesn’t give out information on investigations,” the handle said.
“Investigation of anyone for an alleged fraud remains a covert process,” it added.
According to the online publication, the videos recorded in 2017 was aimed at beaming the spotlight on the governor’s alleged penchant for contract racketeering.
The medium said it has about 12 of the clips with six of it already in the public domain. A court injunction has halted the release of the remaining videos.
The anti-graft agency had last week skipped questions when asked its position of the video when the acting chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu, celebrated 3 years in office.
President Muhammadu Buhari has described Ganduje as a responsible fellow in the midst of the allegation.
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Geological History
First Hawaiians
Western Contact
Hawai'i Today
Hawai'i is a melting pot of cultures, peoples and customs - and this has greatly affected the music of the islands. Very few other island nations have such a diverse musical history and almost no other island sound have impacted world-wide music as much as Hawaiian music.
Before contact with western civilization, Hawaiians celebrated nature, their gods and their love of life through the expression of Chants and Hula. Chants came in two basic styles... mele oli were chants without music while mele hula were chants with dance and sometimes musical instruments.
Because of Hawai'i's lack metals and minerals other than lava - musical instruments were created from trees, plants and shells. The basic instruments included the ipu - a drum made out of a gourd, the ipu heke - a double gourd drum, the kala'au - sticks that were struck together, the 'ili 'ili - two flat smooth stones that were clicked together, the ohe hano ihu - a nose flute made from wood, the Conch Shell - a large ocean shell that was blown into to produce deep resonant tones, the pu ohe - a trumpet made of bamboo, and the puili - slit sticks made from bamboo. These were the instruments of ancient Hawaiian time, and are still used today in modern Hawaiian music as well as hula.
The most famous - at least to non-Hawaiians - musical instrument of the islands is the ukulele. Interestingly enough, the ukulele did not originate in Hawai'i. The origins of the ukulele come from a ship that arrived in Honolulu on August 23, 1879. The ship was carrying Portuguese immigrants from the Island of Maderia. When they arrived one of the immigrants using a braguinha started playing his native songs. Hawaiians were very impressed with the music and especially how the musicians' fingers danced on the strings. The Hawaiians called the braguinha a ukulele that is a combination of the word uku which means flea, and lele which means to jump. Thus ukulele literally means jumping flea and describes the fingers of a ukulele player.
Modern Hawaiian music is a combination of ancient music and modern influences. Because Hawai'i is so diverse, this diversity has made its way into the music. It is not uncommon to hear a new Hawaiian song with components of country music (we do have cowboys after all), Rasta and other flavors woven into the songs. The lyrics usually have to do with places of Hawai'i, or love, or what it is like to fish - and the music is simply beautiful and haunting.
If you are interested in Hawaiian music, we have placed below a variety of selections that show the various influences and diversity of the music.
Music from Hawai'i's Favorite Son, Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole
IZ's Facing Future is the best-selling Hawaiian album of all time. His voice has been described as tender and sweet and liable to bring listeners to tears. He is so loved that when he died in 1997, over 10,000 people paid their respects while he lay-in-state in the Hawaiian Capitol.
Facing Future
Alone in IZ World
In Dis Life
E Ala E
More Music from IZ
Music from Keali'i Reichel
Heartfelt and soulful, Keali'i's songs are consistently in the top 10 of the Hawaiian music charts.
Music from The Mākaha Sons
Known for their unique harmonies, The Mākaha Sons have been singing for 28 years.
Ke'Alaokamaile
Melelana
Ke Alaula
Ho'oluana
More Music From Keali'i Reichel More Music From The Mākaha Sons
Music from Keola Beamer
Often called the world's best slack-key guitarist, his most popular song is Honlulu City Lights Music from Ho'Onua
This upbeat, contemporary duo will definitely get your toes tapping!
Wooden Boat
Kolonahe
Feel Good Island Music
More Music from Keola Beamer
Music from Don Ho
Don Ho Christmas Album
The Don Ho Show/Don Ho Again
Night with Don Ho
More Music from Don Ho
More Hawaiian Island Music
Sounds of Hawai'i
Hawai'i Calls Presents
Hawai'i I Ka Pu'Uwai
He Hawai'i Au
Tickling The Strings:
Music Of Hawai'i,
Romantic Hawai'i
Hawaiian Slack
Key Guitar
More Hawaiian Music
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Brand New York Board Approves Three Upstate Casinos
Por:Diana López
The Montreign Resort Casino in Thompson was suggested by their state board for the lucrative Catskills-Hudson Valley casino license.
The New York Gaming Facility Location Board has recommended three casino proposals in the state, with one casino slated to be integrated each of three upstate areas.
That announcement came on Wednesday afternoon, because of the panel deciding not to recommend the maximum of four licenses they might have given out under nyc’s casino video gaming regulations.
Montreign Wins Catskills-Hudson Valley Race
In the Catskills-Hudson Valley region, which had heard of competition that is most for licenses, the board awarded a license to your Montreign Casino and Adelaar Resort in Thompson.
The Sullivan County location in the Catskills had been chosen over a few projects in Orange County, which was the potential location that is closest to New York City.
In the Capital region, a license was granted to Rivers Casino in Schenectady.
Finally, the Finger Lakes-Southern Tier license was awarded to Lao Casino in Tyre.
Casino Saturation May Have Killed Fourth Casino
The board decided never to suggest a fourth license, possibly because of the increasingly saturated casino market in the northeastern united states of america.
With gambling enterprises in Pennsylvania, Atlantic City, Connecticut, and quickly to come in Massachusetts, limiting the number of gambling enterprises could have been regarded as the simplest way to make sure that the casinos which were plumped for would succeed.
That’s just what appears to be taking place in Atlantic City, where revenues are up during the casinos that remain after several went out of company this year.
Were a fourth license to be awarded, it most likely would have gone to an Orange County casino. But allowing a resort to be built there is very contentious problems in the entire certification process.
Although it may have been the most lucrative location available, it absolutely was seen as a threat to the Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway, a ‘racino’ that features slots and various other electronic games.
There were additionally concerns that County facility unprofitable.
Two developers even dropped plans for Catskills casinos, claiming that the possibility of an Orange County resort had made it impossible to drum up money with regards to their plans.
However, Sullivan County was seen as an area with an increase of need that is economic which may have been a factor in awarding a casino in the Catskills before considering one in Orange County.
Proposals Include More Than Just Casinos
The Montreign Resort Casino will be built on the grounds of this Concord that is former hotel.
The $630 million task will include a large hotel plus an indoor water park. The task is being manufactured by Empire Resorts additionally the Monticello Casino & Raceway.
The Lago Resort and Casino will be built in Tyre, a Finger Lakes city.
The $425 million proposition was the largest in your community, and the casino is expected to include 2,000 slot machines. The Lago proposal was in fact strongly opposed by Amish residents in your community.
The smallest approved task ended up being the Rivers Casino & Resort at Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady.
The $300 million task is part of a larger redevelopment of a area that is riverfront and will include both a hotel and one or more luxury restaurant.
Each operator will are in possession of to pay an one-time certification charge, that will range from $20 million to $70 million in line with the locations regarding the gambling enterprises.
The three jobs were plumped for from 16 proposals which were on the table for the board to think about. Several gaming that is major saw their plans for resorts passed over, including Genting, Caesars and the Hard Rock.
DesertRoseBingo.com Goes Offline After Santa Ysabel Tribe Restraining Purchase
Judge Anthony J Battaglia, who granted a TRO regarding the Santa Ysabel Tribe’s online operations thinks that internet bingo means Class Iii Gaming under IGRA, a ruling that could scupper the tribe’s aspirations. (Image: en.numista.com)
The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel is forced to pull the plug on its recently launched online bingo operation, DesertRoseBingo.com, after it had been given a short-term restraining order by a federal judge.
The State of California had been successful in its motion to force a temporary shutdown regarding the tribe’s operations final Friday, whenever US District Judge Anthony J Battaglia granted its request for a TRO.
The Santa Ysabel Tribe launched DesertRoseBingo.com in very early November and has long stated its intention to go live with a proposed online poker site, PrivateTable.com, whether California opts to legalize the overall game or not.
The tribe believes it is exercising its right that is sovereign to Class II gaming, defined underneath the Indian Gaming regulatory Act (IGRA), as poker and bingo, because the games are originating from tribal lands.
However, the continuing state of California disagrees. In short, it thinks that because the majority of the players are not based on tribal lands, the tribe is in violation of state and federal law and it is in breach of its compact.
It’s a hugely gray area, as IGRA was passed in 1988, a full 12 months prior to the innovation of this World Wide Web, but Judge Battaglia surely could provide a legal opinion in the issue, also it doesn’t look good for tribe.
Judge: Online Bingo is Class III Gaming
DesertRoseBingo.com site is not Class II gaming at all in accordance with IGRA, said the judge, but Class III gaming.
In Battaglia’s opinion, because the Santa Ysabel tribe is offering bingo online, it becomes a ‘facsimile’ of ‘real’ bingo and therefore falls in to the Class III bracket.
This is of Class III video gaming is broad, and includes most casino games, but crucially it also includes ‘electronic facsimiles of any game of chance.’ Tribal Class III video gaming should be permitted by the state underneath the statutes of IGRA, and therefore the tribe is in breach of its compact based on this ruling.
Remember, however, this had been only the TRO hearing; the case that is actual will determine whether the Santa Ysabel Tribe has the proper to offer online bingo and poker has yet to be determined in court, but Friday’s determination does not bode well for the go-it-alone operators.
DesertRoseBingo.com stayed functional within the immediate aftermath of the ruling but was taken offline on Monday. Visitors to your website are greeted by having a message that continues to be defiant, nevertheless.
‘The Santa Ysabel Tribe appears forward to vigorously defending its appropriate, well-regulated class that is VPN-aided bingo enterprise in federal court,’ it says. ‘The District Court’s mistaken reliance on outdated case law and its misinterpretation of the construct of Santa Ysabel’s bingo games resulted in issuing its misguided choice.
This decision threatens the sovereignty that is tribal of tribes, and sadly denies the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel the ability to provide vital services and window of opportunity for its Tribal membership.’
Sovereignty Issues
On Monday the tribe released an official statement via press release. ‘we have been profoundly disappointed by the court that is federal choice to grant the State’s TRO,’ said Cruz Bustamante, spokesman for Santa Ysabel Interactive, in the release.
‘In the event that State finally prevails on these important sovereignty that is tribal, the greatest losers will likely be small, economically disenfranchised tribes in California and through the country.
We stay hopeful that as the case progresses the court can make every effort to understand the game as well as its technology, ultimately realizing that the games being offered are by definition legal Class II games.’
The Santa Ysabel formed a gaming compact with the state in 2004 and went a land-based casino until 2007, but it was forced to shut, leaving the tribe with vast amounts of debt.
Beijing to Launch ‘Unprecedented’ Attack on Corruption in Macau
As Macau prepares to report its first ever revenue that is year-on-year, Beijing announces a big crackdown on money laundering, prompting shares to fall further. (Image: Wikipedia.org)
Macau casino organizations saw their shares tumble on Wednesday after the news that China is about to launch the largest ever financial crackdown regarding the planet’s gambling market that is biggest.
As Chinese president Xi Jinping embarks, all smiles, on a state visit Macau to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the former Portuguese enclave’s return to Chinese rule this week, his Ministry of Public protection is preparing an ‘unprecedented’ onslaught on corruption and money laundering into the gambling hub.
Macau has already been a point that is focal of’s wider anti-corruption offensive for at least six months.
Beijing has, in particular, cracked down on the junket industry, which makes up about two thirds of Macau’s gambling income.
The junkets are operated by middlemen whom organize trips for high rollers, a lot of whom are believed by Beijing to be Communist that is corrupt Party removing their ill-gotten gains from the mainland.
A split crackdown on illegal money transfers is hurting Macau’s base line further.
Visitors through the mainland are allowed to bring no more than 20,000 yuan ($3,200) at the same time and that can only withdraw 10,000 yuan ($1,600) per day, per card, from cash machines.
Until recently visitors were able to swerve the restriction using their debit cards to buy expensive goods from pawnshops and jewelry stores based at the casinos, and then trade them for neighborhood currency.
Nevertheless, present limitations regarding the utilization of UnionPay, China’s only domestic bank card, has severely curbed the flow of money into Macau.
Operation Foxhunt
This, along with a new blanket smoking ban, and of ladbrokes mobile casino course a generally speaking weak Asian economy, means that Macau is preparing to report its first ever year on year decline, since it reverted to rule that is chinese.
And in accordance with a report by the Hong Kong based Southern Asia Morning Post, Beijing is about to ramp it up a notch.
‘This is big,’ an industry insider whispered to the Post. ‘It’s serious and key people are going to be scared.’
The Post cited documents it saw, sent to Macau’s banks this by the city’s monetary authority, which confirmed the government push week.
One casino that is anonymous told the newspaper that the initiative was connected to China’s ‘Operation Foxhunt,’ a worldwide manhunt for corrupt previous officials who have actually fled China with huge sums of public money.
It’s expected to focus on money-laundering trails through Macau and it looks to be the final nail in the coffin of the junket organizers.
‘They are looking for big guys,’ the analyst said.
Increased Surveillance
The Chinese government has upped its security operations in Macau over the final 12 months, installing a massive network of surveillance cameras that local closely monitors the comings and goings of visitors from the mainland.
‘As long as there is a table or a gaming device, there is a camera. They may be able see any camera, inside 35 casinos, and anybody,’ stated Professor Davis Fong, director associated with University of Macau’s Institute for the Study of Commercial Gaming. ‘In Macau we now have very close relations aided by the Chinese central government as well as the Chinese police department.’
Shares Galaxy Entertainment Group, which owns six properties in Macau, including StarWorld Macau, fell almost 8 % regarding the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Wednesday, while Sands China dropped a lot more than 5 per cent.
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Vic. restores river ownership
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Traditional owners have been given rights to a river system for the first time in Victoria’s history.
The state government has announced that the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GLaWAC) will receive two gigalitres of unallocated water in the Mitchell River. Additionally, Southern Rural Water will make a further four gigalitres of unallocated water available on the open market – half in the coming months and the remainder next year.
The allocation allows traditional owners to determine how and where water is used for cultural, environmental or economic purposes.
It is one step towards greater recognition of traditional owners’ deep connection to water, and is a key part of Water for Victoria – the Government's long-term strategy for managing the state’s water resources.
The Government has invested $5 million to develop a roadmap to support Aboriginal use and access to water and continues to work with Traditional Owners and Aboriginal Victorians to identify opportunities for Aboriginal enterprises to establish and develop water related businesses.
This announcement comes 10 years since the Gunaikurnai people gained native title over much of Gippsland and entered into the first Traditional Owner Settlement Agreement issued by the Government.
This agreement led to the first joint management plan for parks between the Gunaikurnai and the Government, which is now being successfully implemented across 10 parks and reserves.
Victoria’s next Sustainable Water Strategy for the Central and Gippsland Region will consider how water is shared and provide the opportunity for Traditional Owners’ to have a voice.
It is hoped that Victoria’s move will serve as an example to the rest of Australia, which has made little progress on the matter of Indigenous rights to water.
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Laundering Scientific Fallacies
From climate change to economic chaos, experts can be relied on to get things wrong. Does spending too much time in universities make people stupid or does the computer science used to model reality for fail to distinguish between reality and wishful thinking? This analysis blows apart the business of laundering reality to mask the hoplessness of scientific predictions.
by Xavier Connolly
Since The Daily Stirrer replaced Little Nicky Machiavelli in 2009 we have criticized the practice of scientific researchers to use mathematical modelling and evidence obtained from computer models as a substitute for empirical evidence to extend our knowledge of the climate, oceans, the cosmos, earthquates and incongruously the global and national economies. Scientists increasingly present shaky assumptions, guesstimates and simple fabrications of certain constants and natural variables and feed them into computer as data from which the software will produce projections with triple-decimal precision. We, the taxpayers whose hard - earned cash must pay for this bullshit production process are then expected to treat the output with the reverence usually reserved for stuff written on tablets of syone. Needless to say, the reality is the conclusions of these experiments mathch the quality of the input information. GIGO as the old computer programmers mantra goes, Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Finding the right words to illustrate the dodginess of this sort of data laundering is never easy, absolutes are simply inadequate. One is reminded of Physicist Wolfgang Pauli's comment on string theory, "So worthless it is not even wrong." An excellent example comes from the field of climate science. This is an excerpt from a recent study overseen by courtesy of Roger Pielke, Sr. which attempted to discover if a high climate sensitivity to CO2 can be reconciled with the lack of ocean warming over the last 10 years.
“Observations of the sea water temperature show that the upper ocean has not warmed since 2003. This is remarkable as it is expected the ocean would store that the lion’s share of the extra heat retained by the Earth due to the increased concentrations of greenhouse gases. The observation that the upper 700 meter of the world ocean have not warmed for the last eight years gives rise to two fundamental questions:
1.What is the probability that the upper ocean does not warm for eight years as greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise?
2.As the heat has not been not stored in the upper ocean over the last eight years, where did it go instead?
These question cannot be answered using observations alone, as the available time series are too short and the data not accurate enough. We therefore used climate model output generated in the ESSENCE project, a collaboration of KNMI and Utrecht University that generated 17 simulations of the climate with the ECHAM5/MPI-OM model to sample the natural variability of the climate system. When compared to the available observations, the model describes the ocean temperature rise and variability well.”
Pielke goes on to deconstruct the study, but just compare the two bolded statements. First, that there is not sufficiently extensive and accurate observational data to test a hypothesis. BUT, then we will create a model, and this model is validated against this same observational data. Then the model is used to draw all kinds of conclusions about the problem being studied.
In this case, the study seems to validate the model by saying it correctly simulates past upper ocean heat content numbers (you remember, the ones that are too few and too inaccurate to validate a hypothesis). But the point of the paper seems to be to understand if what might be excess heat (if we believe the high sensitivity number for CO2) is going into the deep ocean or back into space. It is possible to come up with a number of combinations of assumptions to match the historic ocean heat content numbers. The point is finding the right one, and to do that requires validation against observations for deep ocean heat and radiation to space. Therefore no modelling exercise using this method can be regarded as reliable.
This is as perfect an example of they way scientists launder pure speculation and pretend it is proven fact as any you are likely to see. When there is not sufficient data to draw conclusions about how a system operates, then how can there be enough data to validate a computer model which, in code, just embodies a series of hypotheses about how a system operates?
A software model is no different than a theory written in computer language. If somebody has a hypothesis that football results of six leading teams in the UK Premier League (or substitute any sport and teams you like) are driving stock market prices, then to somebody like me (a computer professional for almost 30 years) devising a program that predicts stock market prices falling when two of these teams have a run of poor results or rising when they hit their best form does nothing to increase my accuracy of this my stock market predictions though it may be get enough media attention to persuade people to invest in my system. The model is merely a software implementation of a weak and fallacious theory.
This is not just a problem in natural sciences. Governments, banking corporations and international agencies base their projections on computer models. This is how they miscalculated so comprehensively the effects of the stimulus following the 2008 crash.
They had a hypothesis that government deficit spending would increase total economic activity. After they spent the money, how did they claim success? Did they measure changes to economic activity through observational data? No, they had a model that was programmed with the hypothesis that government spending increased job creation. When the program was run it produced a number that inducated,(get ready to step back in amazement here), the stimulus created millions of jobs (despite falling employment). And the press dutifully reported as fact.
The mistake built into this particular model was that it used a flawed measure to calculate economic activity. Gross Domestic Product is not a measure of economic activity but of "churn", the movement of money in the economy. Therefore these statistical thinkers assumed that if the government raised the equivalent of 5% of GDP by selling bonds and pumps that money into the economy, the economy has grown by five per cent. To compound that fallacy they then assume that if the churn of money has increased by five per cent new jobs must have been created. This is not even logical.
Brtitain's Labour government in the 1970s tried the same trick, to produce an illuson of economic good times by means of tax and spend. Having raised taxes to obscene levels they not only emparked on a programme of public works and vanity projects but also increased entitlements so that many families who would otherwise have been impoverished by tax increases were rescued by the government handouts to which they were entitled. But taking money with one hand and giving it back with the other is not the same as economic growth.
To assume it is only results in Garbage In Garbage Out.
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Scientists have made monkeys brains bigger by splicing them with human genes in an experiment reminiscent of The Planet of the Apes.
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by JuraCalling
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We predicted back in March that lockdowns aimed at halting the spread of coronavirus would only delay the progress of the pandemic rather than eradicating the virus and would likely cause as many early deaths from other causes as it would prevent from COVID - 19. We were called crazy conspiracy theorists and worse of course but once again we are being proved right.
No Medical Justification For Emergency Measures”
AIER reports that the following letter has made an impact on public health authorities not only in Belgium but around the world. The text could pertain to any case in which states locked down their citizens rather than allow people freedom and permit medical professionals to bear the primary job of disease mitigation.
So far it has been signed by 435 medical doctors, 1,439 medically trained health professionals, and 9,901 citizens.
This Sums Up How I’m Feeling In A Few Words
Not a big enough post for a teaser really but a powerful message
Lockdown 2 – Backlash Against Project Fear
In her column for The Daily Telegraph today Juliet hartley Brewer just about summed up the mood in the country after the governments latest moves to turn Britain into a miniature version of Communist China. Ms. Hartley brewer, known for her Consrvative leanings, laid into the government, and its plans for a second lockdown even though the first failed wirh disastrous consequences, and was absolutely ruthless in
The Second Wave Is Another Hoax From The Lientists
As it becomes clear day by day that the alleged 2nd Wave of the COVID – 19 pandemic is a complete and utter hoax cooked up by the deep state in collaboration with lientists paid by the vaccine manufacturers it is now essention that We The People stop this fascist coup d’etat by simply withdrawing cooperation.
You Could Be Arrested for Breaking New Coronavirus Rules, Says Boris
It is fair to say the extension of restrictions on movement and socialising announced by the government yesterday have been received with underwhelming enthusiasm by the public. Despire firgures broadcast by BBC News and other establishment propaganda parrots in mainstream media suggesting wholesale approval of the new measures, the feel one gets from internet comment threads and pub conversations suggests the opposite.
Extinction Rebellion Wants To Destroy Civilization, Not Just Fossil Fuels
Readers may find it hard to believe but while our attention has been focused on the coronavirus pandemic, other things have been happening. Recently the eco - crusties of EkSTIMKtion Rebellion have elbowed their way back into out consciousness and now, with Antifa and Black Lives Matter, form an unholy trinity of Marxist seditionist groups intent not only on destroying capitalism but destroying civilisation ...
Defund the dons: why we need a new approach to higher education
Back in 1999, Tony Blair, chanting the mantra of "education, education, education, pledge that the Labour government would work towards getting 50% of the young people into university, thus enabling the Britain economy to tap into “the genius of the many” and build a society ready for the oncoming technological revolution, what Blail called 2The Knowledge Economy." Higher education grants for the academically gifted would be replaced by low interest "student loans" to be repaid when, after graduating, the new, university educated masses achieved a certain leval of income.
Why Accepting Illegal Immigrants Is Not Going To Help Them
Celebrities, 'influencer', woke idiots and far left political groups are creating a chorus of catawauling complaints about the deportation of illegal immigrants who are crossing The English Channel from France in increasing numbers. But will accepting them only encourage more to come and be exploited by people trafficking ccrime gangs? This article lifts the lit on the illegal immigrants racke
Lockdown #2 More Likely As ‘Cases’ Rise Nationally"
We might have said this before so as the talk of a second lockdown gets louder in mainstream media, with pseudo-scientists spewing fake statistics generated by mathematical models of reality and sanctimonious politicians bleat that their imposition of fascist control freakery on society is for ouir own good. We are told today that Coronavirus is increasing in every area of the UK ...
The Inevitable Implosion of Biden’s Campaign
It’s tempting to attribute Joe Biden’s plummeting poll numbers in key battleground states to his dilatory denunciation of the riots that still ravage their Democrat-run cities. However, the campaign’s fatal flaw is more subtle than Biden’s tacit approval of mob violence. It is rooted in the classism that resulted in his nomination to be the Democratic standard bearer.
Latest COVID Scam move a step too far?
The scam goes on with the latest move to keep the coronavirus fear and panic conspiracy afloat being a rumour that the government will ask over 50s in Britain to"shield" (i.e. place themselves under house arrest,) throughout the winter. But it may be the tipping point, public rteaction has been totally negative.
Coronavirus Pandemic: The Scam Continues
Just when we thought it was safe to go out in the fresh air ...... the government and their "scientific advisers have thought of a way to extend the scam. It seems that as we have been saying since March, trashing the economy and destroying the fabric of society is less impoortant to them than advancing their plan for a global, authoritarian government ...Continue reading
U N Chief Predicts New World Order After COVID
As the world continues to grapple with the deadly consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, only one thing is certain in its wake: a new model of global governance is coming and the globalist body is doing all it can to hurry its arrival. Well we did try to tell you this is what the great pandemic hoax was about.
Police Ignored Slave Labour in Leicester Sweatshops, Feared Accusations Of Racism
In a scenario resembling the inaction of the authorities in the face of blatantly illegal activities by the notorious grooming gangs that targeted and sexually exploited vulnerable and under — age girls, a newly published report has revealed British police and government agencies have ignored the existence of ‘sweatshops’ full of mostly South Asian heritage workers in the British fashion industry over fears that they would be called racist.
Pandemic: The Latest Evidence Suggests Sweden Was Right All Along
As the COVID — 19 pandemic rolls on with the mathematical modellers, the masked snivellers and the vax maniacs still unable to offer any logical prognosis of why measures taken have not worked as well as was hoped (or in some cases not at all, we need to look at the news from Sweden. Not long ago, when the government of Sweden decided on a limited lockdown in order to protect people in the groups most vulnerable to the virus, while preserving the national economy and the jobs of the majority,
Covid 19: Statistics, Lies and the Corruption Of Science
As the COVID — 19 pandemic continues to dominate the news and defy the efforts of researchers to understand its many mysteries, including its origins and why it affects people who contract the virus in wildly different ways, one thing we have learned for certain so far is the extent to which the Pharmaceuticals manufacturers cartel (colloquially Big Pharma,) exercise a pernicious influence over medical research and healthcare ...
COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless
Politicians and “experts” scream and shout about testing and isolation being the way to halt the COVID 19 pandemic to a halt, but everything else they hsve told us about the disease has been absolute bollocks, why should this be any different?
Well surprise, surprise, it isn’t any different. The idear that testing everybody ten times a day (OK I might be exaggerating for effect,) will do any good is just another diversionary tactic designed to distract us
Covid virus tests useless
As the Coronavirus rolls on with every trumpeted breakthrough fizzling out into a great big nothing, political leaders and media 'influencers' keep telling us we must follow the science. Yet with so much contradictory and conflicting evidence, perhaps it's time we learned that "following the science" is the worst thing we can do? The Daily Stirrer has been telling you since the start of the farrago that scientist is a synonym of wanker,
Minorities ‘See Countryside as a White Environment', Says BBC
According to its rural affairs programme Countryfile – where, thanks to uber woke presenters like Chris Packham, the emphasis is very much on the first syllable — “many Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups see the countryside as being a white environment.”
BLM invade posh Beverley Hills as baby killed in another Chicago drive-by shooting
Black Liives Matter mobsters invaded weathy Californian city Beverley Hills yesterday, chanting “Eat The Rich!” “Abolish capitalism now,”: and other threatening slogans. The crowd, mostly white kids from affluent backgrounds according to witnesses, dispersed quickly when riot police arrived. Residents of the city which is home to many of the Hollywood celebrities who have been vociferous in their support of the neo – fascist movement
Coronavirus: Fear and Panic and a Globalist Power Grab
World Leaders Insist ‘Economic Lockdowns Ravage the Very Fabric of Societies’
An impressive array of more than 500 prominent world leaders, academics, and Nobel Laureates have written “A Call to Defend Democracy” in the face of a worldwide rise in government authoritarianism during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The June 25 text declares that beyond health concerns the COVID-19 pandemic is “a political crisis that threatens the future of liberal democracy.”
Pandering To Black Lives Matter Agitators Will Further Alienate White Working Class.
With every Tom Dick and Harry, particularlt the dicks, "taking the knee," ignorantly believing that such a medieval symbol of submission and servitude will somehow earn them politically correct brownie points with the wannabe conquerors of western civilisation something has to give. There are signs that the patience of the white working class is wearing thin. If the government do got act quickly to put the racist mobs of BLM supporters back in their cages it's all going to get bloody, very bloody.
Footballer Rashford Sends Gov’t The Wrong Way And Scores For Lockdown Hit Families
The UK’s Conservative Government was sold a dummy by 22 year old Marcus Rashford, a football (soccer) start who plays for Manchester United and England. Showing more charisma that the entire government and opposition parties combined could muster, the young goalscorer successfully motivated public opinion and lobbied the government to reverse its plan to suspend the provision of supply free meals for children from poorer families during the traditional summer break ...
COVID — 19: Lockdown Regime Responsible For Thousands Of Deaths
The Lockdown which, based on scientific advice that was always suspect but is now known to have been profoundly flawed, was announced by the UK government on March 23rd and passed into Law on March 25th, was widely predicted by people sceptical of they type of science based on output from mathematical models rather than empirical evidence, appears to have led to the premature deaths of tens of thousands of people in the UK according to independent research.
In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship
Last year, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed on the US Senate floor that it is their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” and adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord.”
“Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words,” the representatives were told. “America’s war with itself has already begun ...
COVID19: W.H.O. Admit Everything We Told You Is Bollocks …
Yesterday the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) which has since the beginning of February been at the forefront of the fear and panic campaign stunned the world when it was reveled in an announcement reported by CNBC that the coronavirus is not being spread by asymptomatic carriers. This means that the lockdown, social distancing and all the rest of the pandemic measures were based on errors and misunderstandings (or what us cynics might call a pack of lies.)
Catalogue of Greenteth posts on Italy
The posts listed in this catalogue are not historical, they are a look at where Italy stands in relation to Europe, and more importantly The European Union today. Always an enthusiastic supprter of earlier versions of the Europe community of nations, Italy is regarded as the nation likely to be first to follow The UK out of the Union. But while the UK was always a bad fit with the increasing federalised EU, Italy is integral to its existance.
Twitter’s Attempt To Censor Trump Will Backfire On Big Tech Tyrants
Last week’s main story, pushing Coronavirus aside, before itself being uncerimoniously bumped off the top spot, was the attempt by far left social media site Twitter (preferred website of all the insane, illiterate and incontinent people in the world,) to censor U.S. President Donald Trump Donald Trump, classifying his somewhat rabid tweets as misinformation. His posts may be crazy, but misinformation?
The Race To Social Breakdown - Greenteeth & Daily Stirrer posts on race and racism issues
People to the left of the political spectrum would have us believe that raceism and racist issues are the most important problems we have to deal with, ahead of, for example, economic meltdown, the population explosion and disease epidemics. They would also have us believe all 'white people' are racist while all dark skinned people are saints. But how much of the left's case is Virtue Signalling and how much is part of a black supremacist agenda?
Big Tech tyranny is the biggest threat to democracy in our era
Two things we have learned (or should have,) from the Coronavirus "pandemic" of 2020, the government is not our friend and the billionaire philantropists of Silicon Valley never act in the interests of anybody but themselves. While Bill Gates plots to use the pandemic to advance his wet dream project of injecting everybody in the world with an RFID chip, Google, Facebook and Twitter are censoring the truth and promoting false information ...
Bill Gates running deadly global “vaccine empire” that can only exist through extreme censorship
The reason why Microsoft co-founder and billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates is being given so much airtime amid the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is because Gates is currently the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, as well as the money behind the mass vaccination agenda.
Gates is also the single-largest donor to both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the CDC Foundation, both of which act as marketing arms for his global vaccine empire.
Coronavirus man made? We told you so …
A new study released yesterday confirms of of the “conspiracy theories” is, if not proven correct, at least far more credible that any of the bullshit scenarios peddled by mainstream media. In early March, 2020 we reported comments by an eminent virologist who had studied the virus then still raging in China and concluded that it was man made rather than a product of evolution “Nutty conspiracy theory,” the authority worshippers screeched in unison
Oxford Covid Vaccine Fails But Big Pharma Will Sell It Anyway
Many highly - placed members of the lockdown forever cult, Bill Gates among them, have been spreading the idea that lockdown must continue until a vaccine for COVID - 19 is available because only a vaccine can save us. More level headed types (i.e. those of us routinely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, have warned that as the virus affects the upper respiratory tract and nasal passages, where there can be no antibody response it is unlikely there will ever be an effective vaccine ...
Coronavirus: Anti — lockdown protests show freedom is not quite dead in UK
Not many protestors turned out for the weekend’s anti — lockdown protests, a few thousand rather than tens of thousands, the anti — lockdown protesters were a very mixed crowd, a representative cross — section of 21st century London and definitely less posh, white and middle class than the weekend crusties who turn up reeking of Patchouli Oil at Ekstinktion Rebellion events....Continue reading >>>
Italian Politician Demands Bill Gates Arrest For Crimes Against Humanity
As the FDA shuts down a Bill Gates-funded COVID-testing program, an Italian politician has demanded the arrest of Bill Gates in the Italian parliament.
Sara Cunial, the Member of Parliament for Rome denounced Bill Gates as a “vaccine criminal” and urged the Italian President to hand him over to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
She also exposed Bill Gates’ agenda in India and Africa, along with the plans to chip the human race through the digital identification program ID2020. Coninue reading >>>
Don’t Be Fooled, Elites Have Been Planning This Power Grab For Years
As long as large portions of the economy remain on lockdown, the government will be forced to perform massive stimulus programs/ social spending. This Friday morning, the House is preparing to vote on a $3 trillion stimulus bill later today. While the particular bill in question is chock full of Democrats’ legislation and likely won’t make it through the Senate, the White House and the GOP are both in favor of providing additional stimulus checks to Americans in the near future.
As We Predicted The Coronavirus bill Is The Biggest Assault On Freedom Since World War 2
Things have gone so far beyond what a rational response to an outbreak of a highly contagious but for most people relatively minor illness that I am starting to believe the conspiracy theories. Along with my fellow Boggart Bloggers I predicted weeks ago the current outbreak of the so - called coronavirus would see a massive hyping of the threat level leading up to an assault on our freedoms. And that is exactly what we have seen happening over the past week.
Critics Batter The Fake Science Used To Justify The Lockdown As Boris Waffles
Regular readers may recall this blog was among the first to expose the fact that the pandemic model predicting 500,000 COVID – 19 deaths if the entire nation was not placed under indefinite house arrest was based on a deeply flawed mathematical model of the pandemic built by a “scientist” at Imperial College, London, a college heavily reliant on funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. You may also recall we have reported on the determination of psychopathic megalomaniac Gates to insert himself into this phoney crisis
A Goat, A Papaya & A Pheasant Test COVID Positive: Tanzanian President Catches WHO In Epic Lie
As suspicions about whether the COVID 19 outbreak is as serious as we are being told, continue to grow all around the world, and the role of the World Health Organisation in promotinf widespread fear and panic comes under scrutiny, the government of African nation Tanzania has revealed it set a trap involving the notorioisly unreliable COVID - 19 test for the WHO and the global healthcare authority walked right into it.
Total Surveillance: Contact-tracing app will be ‘key part’ of UK government’s Covid-19 ‘surveillance programme’
The hugely unpopular NHS contact-tracing app proposal, which as libertarians point out will giver the government the power to track all our movements, will be a “key part” of the U.K. government’s Covid-19 containment policy for the foreseeable future, [ ... ] The app, designed ostensibly to notify smartphone users if they came into close contact with someone who had tested positive for the coronavirus, will give government agencies new powers, to record and store the complete movements of individuals and details of those with whom they were in contact.
Lockdown: How can anyone defend the “scientists.”
As we digested Boris Johnson’s address to the nation this morning, and mainstream media fell over themselves praising the Prime Ministers cautious approach and adherence to the advice of “scientists,” my own reaction was FUCK YOU BORIS. Being disables I don’t get out much I but will be arguing for a campaign of civil disobedience to prove the idiotic bletherings of “scientists” with their mathematical models of the real world do more harm than good.
Coronavirus: The data Says DON’T PANIC, End The Lockdown Now
The COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase. Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts. Leaders must examine accumulated data, combine that empirical evidence with fundamental principles of biology and then thoughtfully end the lockdown. Five key facts are being ignored by those calling for continuing the near-total lockdown.
COVID-19 Is A Man-Made Virus: HIV-Discoverer Says "Could Only Have Been Created In A Lab
As the mainstream media and politicians begin to raise/admit the possibilities that the source of COVID-19 was likely a lab in Wuhan (accidentally leaked or otherwise) - before being mocked, censored, and chastised it appears more actual 'scientists,' or at least those not paid by or working for a lab in Wuhan, China) are willing to admit what we suspected all along - this virus is man-made.
Coronavirus: Something To Make Us Smile
Most of us are confused about the rules we’re supposed to follow during lockdown, and no one more so that the thick, blundering plod who seem to think they should be arresting people for buying non essential stuff like food, roughing up people who are sitting in their gardens, or kicking front doors down and busting up illicit social gatherings of one person sitting alone in his house. So here is a concise summary of the rules, which makes what you can and can’t do clear as mud
Recommded real news: Back to business as usual on COVID - 19 (8 April 2020)
Today: COVID-19 Computer Models Continue To Deteriorate; Covid-19 drags French economy into deep recession the likes of which it has not seen since 1945; Oil Prices Tumble As Russia Balks At Proposed US Production Cut; Kissinger says ‘even US’ can’t defeat Covid-19 alone. His solution? Global NWO government, of courseKissinger says ‘even US’ can’t defeat Covid-19 alone. His solution? Global NWO government, of course[Kissinger says ‘even US’ can’t defeat Covid-19 alone. His solution? Global NWO government, of course
Food fascists
The European Union’s Food Safety Authority has approved the sale of bugs as “novel food,” meaning that they are likely to be mass produced for human consumption throughout the continent by the end of the year.
The Coronavirus Resp Is The Biggest Assault On Freedom Since World War 2
Things have gone so far beyond what can be considered a rational response to an outbreak of a highly contagious but for most people relatively minor illness that I am starting to believe even the conspiracy theories I know I made up myself. Boggart Bloggers predicted weeks ago the current outbreak of coronavirus would see a massive hyping of the threat level leading up to an assault on our freedoms ...
Will the meaures put in place to stop COVID-19 coronavirus help save the environment? The measures put into place due to Covid 19 seem to be having a positive environmental impact reduced pollution etc Is it possible that humanity can work together to continue the activities that lead to a cleaner environment? Question posed on Quora.com
Scientist who convinced Boris lockdown was the only way to beat coronavirus criticised many times for flawed research
The scientist whose mathematical models of how the coronavirus would spread in the UK and the wildly exaggerated estimates of how many deaths might result from the epidemic reportedly led to the decision to implement a countrywide lockdown and trash the economy has been criticised in the past for flawed research.
Has The World Health Organisation Been Helping Chinese Coronavirus Cover Up
Many people suspected as far back as January, when stories about an epidemic of a new virus began to leak out of China that we were not and would not be told the whole story. The virus infecting thousands of Chinese in the large inland city of Wuhan was, we learned, a strain of corona virus, the genre that infects us with the common cold, influenza and a host of other infections of varying seriousness.
Coronavirus deaths: Are The Authorities Deceiving Us?Yesterday we reported that a Canadian outfit had carried out an analysis of China’s response to Coronavirus and concluded that while politicians and academics (aka “scientists” or “experts”) are heaping praise on the way the regime in Beijing has contained and controlled its epidemic, the Chinese have actually been lying, the epidemc is still raging and numbers of infections and deaths from COVID – 19 are far higher than reported,
Is This The Smoking Gun That Proves China Has Lied About The Coronavirus Outbreak
With the number of confirmed cases of, and deaths from coronavirus in Italy, a nation of 63 million people having now surpassed the number of infections officially admitted by the government of China, a nation of 1.4 billion and the nation where the news strain of coronavirus, COVID – 19 was first observed, it was obvious to the realists among us that the Chinese government’s claims to have contained the virus were deeply suspect and further claims that the outbreak were under control were as reliable as reported sightings of The Tooth Fairy ...
Things have gone so far beyond what can be considered a rational response to an outbreak of a highly contagious but for most people relatively minor illness that I am starting to believe even the conspiracy theories I know I made up myself. Along with my fellow Boggart Bloggers I predicted weeks ago the current outbreak of the so - called coronavirus would see a massive hyping of the threat level leading up to an assault on our freedoms. And that is exactly what we have seen happening over the past week.
Germany’s Official State TV Channel Cheers Coronavirus For Killing Old People
Trawling around the weirder fringes of the web, as we bloggers and cyberjournalists are sometimes obliged to if we want to bring you the news the mainstream will not report, one occasionally comes across something important but disturbing – like being brought face – to – face with how sick and warped the far left ecopsychos really are. Take a sketch recently broadcast as part of a satirical show the title of which translates as Bohemian Browser Ballet, shown by German state broadcaster ARD.
UK To Ask Citizens Over 70 To Self - Isolatate For 4 MONTHS As Coronavirus Fails To Kill Zillions UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock today confirmed the government plans to ask people aged over 70 to isolate themselves for up to four months amid a coronavirus pandemic. The goal is to protect them. It's quite obvious to us, experienced bloggers that we are, that the government, civil service, law encorgement and national security agencies and all the assorted experts and talking heads have forgotten the lesson our generation learned from The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy ...
EU States Rebel Against Brussels As Van Leyen Demands Borders Stay Open
The cracks in European solidarity are growing deeper by the day as the coronavirus crisis threatens to split the bloc. The response of European leaders has varied from panic, as several member-states have takeen unilateral action including severe border closures, to a laissez - fair attidude, notably from France's idiot president Emmanuel Macron who favours total inaction, having said complacently that viruses don't recognise borders.
US John Hopkins University Prof Says Don't Believe Corona Virus Numbers
The number of confirmed cases outside of China roughly tripled once again this week, and if this outbreak continues to escalate at this pace there will be more than a million confirmed cases in less than a month. But as bad as the official numbers are, the truth is that there are a whole lot more people walking around out there that have caught the virus but have not been tested.
University free speech society told free speech a 'red risk', external speakers must be vetted
Sheffield University’s recently formed Free Speech Society has been warned that free speech is a “red risk” and all external speakers at events it organises will have to be vetted by the University Thought Police squad and the topics they intend to talk about shown to be in line with ideas and opinions the titty - sucking babies who run the Student Union are not frightened by. Coninue Reading
Biden the Democrats least hopeless hopeful? Or is he?
A senior U.S. Republican reportedly said recently that the most difficult ticket Donald Trump could face in the next election would be Joe Biden partnered by Elizabeth Warren. This was not, needless to say, because Biden was a brilliant debater or a lethal political adversary. “If he was any stupider, my you’d have to water him”, the anonymous Republican quipped.See also >>>
Black Man Kicked Out Of Labour Party For Telling The Truth About Islam
Trevor Phillips, a life long campaigner for equality and former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has been suspended by The Labour Party and faces an investigation and could be expelled from the party over comments made some years ago amout the unwillingness of many Muslim immigrants to integrate into British society and particularly about the treatment of women in Islam.More on Labour Party
Underage Girl Used Like ‘Piece of Meat’ By ‘Asian’ Grooming Gang
Four “Asian” men have been found guilty for their roles in sexually grooming a 15-year-old girl, who the court heard the men passed around like a “piece of meat”. The grooming gang members were found guilty of rape and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The men were convicted at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday
Spain Arrests People Traffickers And Drug Smugglers Crossing From North Africa in Speedboats
Spanish police announced the arrest of 90 people involed in a smuggling rackets that moved both people and drugs from Africa to Europe. The Civil Guard released a statement today stating that the smuggling network regularly moved people and drugs from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in northern Africa to The Costa del Sol in high powered semi inflatable speedcraft of the type often used to move illegal immigrants from Libya to Italy or Turkey to Greece.
Turkey Kills Over 50 Syrian Troops, Russian Warplanes Intervene to Halt OffensiveTurkey Kills Over 50 Syrian Troops, Russian Warplanes Intervene to Halt Offensive
Conflict in Syria’s Idlib Province has escalated during the past week, with Turkish forces attacking the Syrian army and claiming to have killed over 50 soldiers. Russia, the main Syrian ally in the conflict, took the pressure off Assad and sent a clear message to Turkey’s President Erdogan by sending in warplanes to halt to Turkish assault ...
Le Pen Calls For Referendum To Stop “Submersion” Of France Via Mass ImmigrationMarine Le Pen, leader of the French Rassemblement National (National Rally) has called for a referendum on immigration policy to stop what she called the “submersion” of France via a “globalist” program of mass immigration. Speaking in a debate on problems caused by mass immigration, Le Pen told the French Parliament that the political establishment had betrayed French people ...
EU Borders at Breaking Point as Migrants Shipped to Frontier
This blog has always tried to point out to the lefties who screech about “open borders” that the European Union commitment to free movement of Labour only applies to citizens of EU member states moving withing the Union. They are closed minded and bigoted on the subject of course, “open borders” facilitating the movement of hundreds of millions of uneducated third world peasants to the developed nations is one of the sacred cows of their ideologically driven agenda ... Continue reading
U.N. Chief Guterres Wants To Redistribute Power & Wealth and Fight ‘Gender Inequality’http://www.greenteethmm.com/equality-women-united-nations.shtml
That The United Nations Organisation has ambitions to become a world government is well known, this site and many others have reported it's moves and agendas for years. Now it seems the U.N. has become part of thatcabal of supra - national bureaucracies and, to borrow a line from a Paul Simon song, loose affiliations of millionaires and billionaires such as The Bilderberg Group and the World Economic Forum. Their latest move to impose cultural uniformity on the world however, is only going to lose them credibility
Physicists accidentally stumble upon mind-blowing new material
American physicists believe that they have discovered a strange state of matter entirely new to science. uSch unintentional breakthroughs never seem to happen anymore. Western university-industrial complexes are burdened with paperwork, and huge resources are devoted to ethical and health and safety requirements. These modern innovations have their benefits, of course, but they do have a major downside ...
Via TruePublica.org, 26 February, 2010
Google (corporate motto: don't be Evil, that's our job,)is planning a move that will force ir's British its British users to agree that their accounts be moved out of the regulatory jurisdiction of European Union privacy regulators, instead placing them under US jurisdiction instead, the company confirmed on 19 February. The move is intended to prevent the UK government from acting to protect UK internet users' data after the nation separates from the EU at the end of 2020.
A deadly sickness is sweeping across Ethiopia – and no one knows how or why it came to be
For most of this month the news has been full of the coronavirus outbreak in China, and the possibility this will turn into a pandemic like the Spanish flu' outbreak in 1919 which killed millions of people worldwide. First we need to allay freas spread by scaremongering propaganda aimed at diverting public scrutiny for several very unpleasant and undemocratic agendas currently being implemented by the ruling elites ...
VW Audi Suspends Electric Vehicle Production Due To Battery Shortage
Today in “news that affects all electric vehicle manufacturers”, Audi has announced that it has suspended production of its e-Tron electric SUV effective February 20 and won’t resume untilfurther notice. The suspension has been a resolve of “resolving production issues”, which are mainly attributed to bottlenecks in battery supply, according to Business Insider.
Worst polluting coal and wood fires banned in fight to cut emissions
Domestic coal and certain types of wood are to be banned from sale from next year in a bid to cut air pollution, ministers will announce on Friday.
Macron Vows to Fight ‘Islamist Separatism’ with New Reforms
French President Emmanuel Macron has declared his government will fight against “Islamist separatism” with reforms including ending residency for foreign imams.
Sweden immigrant dystopia
London rape gangs
Catalogue of posts on France
The Islamic Republic Of France
Switzerland’s environmental agency announces national moratorium on 5G
This blog has warned about the health risks of 5G wireless technology before, almost from the moment it was announced people who understand this technology (and two out of the three of us do,) have been saying that while there is always a risk from electro – magnetic radiation, with earlier technologis it was easily manageable if a loittle common sense was deployed. The exponentially higher intensity of 5G frequencies however, takes the health risks to humans to a whole different level.
Criminal damage in Cambridge reveals the police soft peddaling on Extinction Rebellion crimes Nobody is allowed to walk on the grass outside Trinity College Cambridge. I suppose an exception might be made if you were a 365-year-old don who once lolled under the famous apple tree with Sir Isaac Newton (probably a couple of those old fellows still holed up in the port cellar).
Otherwise, set one foot on that sacred turf and you will soon find yourself experiencing the full force of Newtonian gravity; rugby-tackled to the ground by a puce-faced porter in a bowler hat.
Germany's ruling party split over how to respond to AfD
Germany's Christian Democrat party (CDU) is as deeply divided as Britain's Labour Party over how to respond to the upsurge of nationalism. Facing a serious challenge from the nationalist (but not far right please, they are not that,) Alternative for Germany party (AFD) the CDU seems pitifully unprepared for departure of the Chancellor Merkel at a point when Germany its facing most serious political and economic crisis for decades.
Afer EU Engineered Hiatus Italy Heading For New Elections?
Matteo Salvini's Lega are by far the most popular political party in Italy and have been for some time, only a stitch up engineered by the Brussels bureaucracy has kept them out of power. But Brussels determination to prevent any Eurosceptic party becoming part of a governing coalition in any member state reveals the true, authoritarian nature of the European Union.
Sweden dystopia omnibusSwedish Communist Party: The Left Has Abandoned the Working Class For Migrants & LGBT issues
Are the left getting it at last? Is the message sinking in that the grass roots movements have been infiltrated and hijacked by middle class intellectuals. Are they starting to realise that the obsession with identity politics has supplanted income inequality, housing availability, jobs and the cost of living ... ?
Is the World Health Organization involved in biological warfare research?
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France’s left-wing elite are accused of cowardice for failing to support 16-year-old girl facing death threats after she insulted Islam online, the ruling class have been also accused of cowardice for failing to support a 16-year-old girl who has faced death threats after she allegedly insulted Islam online.
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Who’s Worse, Ross Gellar Or Ted Mosby?
I’ve binge watched both HIMYM and Friends more times than I can count. In a Friends-like coincidence, I happen to live in the same apartment complex as my childhood best friend who watches both series every day as well. One night, while laughing over a favorite HIMYM episode, I got a text from my friend with a single question that has since haunted me:
“Who’s worse? Ted or Ross?”
At first I thought, OF COURSE IT’S ROSS. Then I was like, BUT TED THO. I ran through a list of their worst moments in attempts to see who is who is truly the worst and flat out couldn’t decide. My friend and I took to Facebook where we found out people had seriously passionate opinions on the subject. My fellow Netflixers brought up great points arguing for both sides, but overall were pretty split. Because Netflix is my life and fictional characters are more important to me than some people I actually know, I’ve decided to pit Ted and Ross against each other in a series of five rounds. In the end, best three out of five will win my official award for being just the absolute WORST.
LOOKS & CLOTHES
Ted and Ross are both attractive guys, if you’re into the tall, dark and dorky kind of thing. They’ve both got hair issues in that Ted takes far too long to achieve his signature messy, just rolled out of bed look and Ross ranges anywhere from too crunchy to too wet looking. In terms of everyday wear, I think they cancel each other out for the most part, as their wardrobes are mostly pretty casual, speckled with a few too many jackets with suede elbow pads. So to make a determination, we have to focus on iconic clothing moments such as Ross’ leather pants and Ted’s red cowboy boots. Sorry, GCWK’s, but Ted was not “Pulling. Them. Off.” at all. A man with his jeans tucked into his boots? No… just, no. As for Ross and the infamous leather pants… sure it was a disaster but at least he figured out that they weren’t working for him and never wore them again. Whereas Ted still thinks he can pull those red cowboy boots off. That and TED HAS A BUTTERFLY TRAMP STAMP. Case closed.
WHO’S WORSE? – Ted
We don’t get to see much of either of these guys’ parenting skills in either series, and given that Ross has a son in the first year of the show that doesn’t bode well for Dr. Gellar. We see him interact with his kids like 10 times of the course of 10 years, so it seems that for a single dad he’s pretty distant. There are a ton of instances where we see how he is as a father—not moving to London for Emily because he can’t leave Ben, leaving a lot of scenes because he “has to go pick up Ben/Emma,” teaching Ben to ride a bike, taking Emma to the park, wanting Rachel to have a relationship with Ben—so I can’t say the rep he gets as a bad father is 100-percent warranted, but his priorities seem to be on other things most of the time. As for Ted, my big beef with him is this: Isn’t the whole premise of the show supposed to be that he’s telling his kids about how he met their mother and yet all of it is about Robin? Telling your kids about all the women you’ve been in a relationship with, slept with, screwed over, dumped, pined over and focusing the whole story primarily on your all consuming love for their “aunt” Robin? C’mon Ted. C’mon. Regardless I will give Ted the benefit of the doubt, as he was great with baby Marvin and since we don’t get to see him as a father in action, I’m calling Ross out on his lack of quality time with his kids and giving him the belt this round.
WHO’S WORSE? – Ross
CAREER & INTELLIGENCE
Ted and Ross are both successful guys and obviously super passionate and educated in their respective fields. I think the fact that Ted is an architect and Ross is a paleontologist shows that each are very intelligent men (despite the fact that they have, like, zero intelligence when it comes to women). What I think it comes down to is how humble are they about their success and intelligence, which is not humble at all. They equally inundate their friends with stats and facts about things that only Ted & Ross give a shit about. They are both SO pretentious I can’t handle it, but who is the most pretentious? Let’s look at the facts… Ross’ correcting people in the show about things regarding intellect and grammar are usually universally understood. Things like when to use “who” vs. “whom,” historical references and whether Phoebe’s theories on reincarnation and evolution are accurate. Sure it’s annoying but he’s not usually wrong, and once he corrects them he’s over it by the next episode. Plus, he’s totally right, Y-O-U-apostrophe-R-E means “you are,” Y-O-U-R means “your.” Ted, on the other hand can’t pronounce “Renaissance” or “encyclopedia” like all other fucking humans in America and won’t let it go, ever. If we factor in the college years I think Ted is a landslide winner because while College Ross is just a geek in a “band,” College Ted is even more pretentious than adult Ted. (One word: Karen.) It seems to me that Ted’s more pompous overall, so ding ding we have a winner!
We’ve arrived to the big one. The category that both these characters get the most hate about. Where to begin? Both make huge, horrible decisions in the name of hopeless romanticism. Ted gets engaged to Stella way too fast, as Ross did with Emily. Both relationships were disasters, obviously, and each guy paid the price for them. Both are suuuuper desperate—Ted made a doctor’s appointment to hit on an engaged woman and Ross dates a 20-year-old student in his class. Both are geeky and don’t have a lot of game. Both had moments where cheating was an issue—Ted cheated on Victoria with Robin, Ross cheated on Rachel with Chloe (debatably, depending on which side of the “We were on a break!” argument you’re on). So it seems pretty 50/50.
Ted, despite seeming like a romance-loving sweetheart, is actually pretty horrible. He breaks up with a girl on her birthday (TWICE,) assumes Mary the paralegal is a prostitute and abandons his morals to try and sleep with her anyway, thinks Stella will move her child to Manhattan when they get married without even asking her, doesn’t remember “blah blah”s name and tries to date a woman who is actively protesting his career. He runs off with Victoria on her wedding day, which I think is horrible too, but I give him points for making sure she leaves a note.
They’re both just awful, awful humans when it comes to love, but I have to say Ross takes the cake with all the things he’s done to Rachel. He stays married to her and doesn’t tell her, basically fucks his entire relationship with Mona up because he’s still in love with Rachel, gets Rachel pregnant then gets mad when she won’t immediately marry him, says Rachel’s name at his wedding instead of his soon-to-be wife’s, gets irrationally angry and jealous when any guy tries to come near her and even tries to date her sister (ew) to spite her. How these two ended up together I will never know. Oh my God, and there was that time he tried to hook up with his COUSIN. You win, Ross, you’re horrible.
Both HIMYM and Friends are about, you guessed it, friends. So this round gives us a lot to work with. I’d say Ted’s commitment to his friendships seems weaker than Ross’s. Ted bails out pretty fast when things get rough, i.e. blaming only Barney when he hooks up with Robin (uh, hello Ted, takes two to tango,) calling Lily a horrible name when she runs off to San Francisco and then harboring that anger toward her for months after she’s returned and thinks all is well, making Robin’s breakup with Kevin about himself and not telling Marshall that Lily was planning on interviewing for the art fellowship in the first place. Ted has redeeming moments though, specifically the time he remembered Lily’s childhood wish for an Easy Bake Oven, telling Marshall and Lily that he didn’t actually make out with Lily in college, thus keeping their first meeting story much more romantic and letting Barney give Robin the locket on her wedding day. With Ross, he’s overall a super reliable friend (unless you’re Rachel, in which case, see the last category.) He buys Phoebe her first bike, kisses Joey before his guy-on-guy kiss audition and walks his ex-wife down the aisle because her parents refuse to show up to her wedding to Susan. On the downside, he gets unreasonably mad at Joey for having feelings for Rachel years after Ross and Rachel were no more and is quick to assume Chandler is just fooling around with Monica when he sees them hooking up. Way to assume the worst, bro. What I believe it comes down to for me however is Ted’s selfishness. He makes every situation about him, which I suppose makes sense since he’s the narrator of the series, but still, I personally can’t stand it. Sorry Ted, you win this one.
My final verdict is this… TED MOSBY IS THE WORST. I know I’m going against a lot of popular opinions on this one, but overall I find Ross’ character flaws more annoying than actually terrible. Ted is well aware of his negative actions and chooses not to change them, whereas Ross seems just clueless. When he’s not clueless he eventually owns up to it and does his best to rectify the situation. Ted makes it through on his “hopeless romantic” vibe, but I’m not buying it. The next time you open up an encycloPEEdia, Ted, your name will be listed under “The Worst.”
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The Assassination of Hizbul Leader Majid Dar
Md. Sadiq
Abdul Majid Dar, another sane voice in Jammu and Kashmir who realised the futility of the gun and talked of restoring peace to the terrorists` violence weary Kashmiris, has been silenced. Abdul Majid Dar`s assassination is the second in the row after the assassination of A.G. Lone, senior Hurriyat leader who talked of solving the long pending Kashmir imbroglio by giving a call to the Kashmiris to participate in the recently held assembly elections.
Abdul Majid Dar, top separatist leader and former Hizbul Mujahideen Chief Commander, was shot dead by unknown gun men at Sopore on 23 March 2003. Two gun wielding youth barged into Dar`s ancestral house at Noor Bagh in the heart of the township and fired indiscriminately. While Dar died on the spot, his mother and sister were critically injured.
Dar`s death has delivered a blow to the peace initiative in Kashmir. The killing comes at a time when Dar was planning to return to PoK to take control of Hizbul moderates which could have changed the complexion of militancy in the Valley. It was Dar who earlier took the initiative by declaring a unilateral cease-fire and initiating talks with the Centre. His peace initiative was met positively by the Centre, which nominated the then Home Secretary Padmanabhan to hold talks with Dar and his commanders. However, the talks could not go beyond the first round.
Dar suffered a major blow when the Special Operation Group killed his deputy, Masood, who had led the Hizb delegation for talks with the Home Secretary. Farooq Mircha, another Dar aid, disappeared mysteriously some months later. The PoK based HM Chief Syed Salahuddin later removed Dar and his confidants from top positions and finally expelled him for `defying party discipline`. Dar and his men, however, refused to accept the expulsion and claimed to be part of the HM.
Within hours of Dar`s assassination, clashes broke out at the HM camps in PoK between the slain leader`s followers and members of the faction led by Salahuddin. There were clashes at the camps in Kotli, Mirpur, Jangal-Mangal, Haripur, and Gadhi-Dupatta. Dar was slated to take charge of these ISI run stations where tensions between the two factions had been simmering. Highly placed sources were sure of Salahuddin`s hands in the murder of the Kashmir-born leader. Salahuddin`s men are also believed to be behind the recent killing of a Kashmiri journalist Pervez Sultan who had written a story about the impending break-up of the HM.
A series of clashes between the two factions has been noticed since mid-2002. The biggest of them occurred at the Haripur camp (PoK) in November 2002 in two separate camps in PoK. Even those who were staying in other camps were found switching loyalty to the Kashmiriyat cause espoused by Dar. Earlier, Salahuddin had sabotaged a ceasefire that Dar unilaterally declared in July 2000. At the behest of the ISI, he insisted on the inclusion of Pakistan on the negotiating table.
Salahuddin was feeling alienated by Dar`s rising popularity and the Indian security force`s tight vigil on the Line of Control because of which he was finding it difficult to send his men into Indian territory. Dar's murder was, therefore, planned with a view to end a turf war that was slipping out of the ISI`s control.
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This morning I woke up to an extraordinary full moon setting over the pond in the back of my house. Slightly orange, very bright, it slowly dipped down across the horizon. According to Space.com, this was a “Super Snow Moon,” one of a trio of “supermoons” for 2019 (which appear about 10% larger than most full moons due to the moon’s position relatively closer to the Earth. The February 19 supermoon is the biggest one of the year.
Seeing any astronomical sight always makes me think of the Todds. David’s eclipse chasing focused more on solar eclipses than on lunar ones, but he certainly spent a lot of time thinking about and making calculations on the moon’s positioning. The Todd crater, which is a moon or a natural satellite of Mars, is named for him.
Mabel’s own writing about the moon trended towards the poetic, even when discussing astronomical phenomena. For instance, while her1894 book Total Eclipses of the Sun is probably the most closely hewed to scientific description, Mabel still utilized figurative language to explain scientific issues. Her discussion of the difficulties for astronomers along the route of an eclipse to communicate with one another in those days is a beautiful example:
Evidently the odds are largely in favor of the electric messenger, as the actual speed is many thousand-fold greater than the lunar velocity. But while the Moon moves steadily onward, telegraphic despatches [sic] are often subject to sundry and irregular detentions; so there may well be doubt as to which may outstrip the other, when both are matched together on the airy highway of space.” (p. 164)
Her 1912 book, Tripoli the Mysterious, abandoned attempts to be “scientific” and simply waxed poetic in her descriptions. She wrote, “The faithful moon had crept on and on toward the great moment when she should glide in between us and the sun, and with her small bulk over the only screen to his brilliancy which has ever been effective in allowing a sight of the corona to mortal eyes” (p. 123).
Not surprisingly, the moon also played more than a bit part in Mabel’s private writings, many of which focused on discussions of times spent with Austin. There are plenty of descriptions of moonlit sleigh rides, assignations that happened during full moons noted by her usual euphemism of “a call”: “A call about eight. Full moon! Oh! Dear!” or “Full moon, royal evening. A call, quietly” There was this lovely passage from a February 1891 diary entry: “Sat in the moonlight, with the whole world sheathed in a glittering crust of ice on the snow, until the Pelham hills seemed but from silver. Wonderful sights.” Even after Austin died, Mabel continued to equate the romance of seeing the moon and her romance with Austin. In 1905 on the anniversary of his death she wrote from North Africa, “The moonlight was incredibly splendid. And it is the anniversary, the tenth.”
Of course Emily Dickinson, too, wrote about the moon in a number of her poems. Perhaps best known of these is “The Moon was but a Chin of Gold,” first published in the third volume of poems in 1896 (Franklin #735, Johnson #737). But I really love “The Moon upon her fluent Route” (Franklin #1574, Johnson #1528). The first couple of lines speak to both the science and the romance of the moon:
The Moon upon her fluent Route
Defiant of a Road
So on this day of the “Super Snow Moon,” I think of the ways in which both Mabel and Emily captured it so well.
And here’s how my son, Jonathan, captured it, rising above Johnson Chapel at Amherst College:
Photo by Jonathan Vale
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Surrounded by the sparkling panorama of Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and overlooking the Marina. There is nothing better for living and location in Miami Beach!
Prices start about $2 million.
The newest and most luxurious condo building in Florida's most exciting neighborhood - South of Fifth. The newest and most luxurious condo building in Florida's most exciting neighbourhood - South of Fifth in Miami Beach. Only 46 residences designed by Architect Enrique Norton with spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay. Three, four and five bedrooms, full beach and pool service, concierge, infinity-edge pool, zen garden, fitness center, spa, security and valet.
Units feature Italian kitchen cabinetry, spacious interiors with 10-foot ceiling, floor-to-ceiling glass, Wolf appliances, wrap-around terrace and private elevator foyer. Penthouse unit is 5,586 square feet plus 3,120 square-foot terrace.
Minutes to world-class dining, shopping, and entertainment.
Auberge's first Florida project! First class service and sweeping ocean views from $1.5 million.
Coming to Fort Lauderdale's beach in 2017, Auberge Resorts Fort Lauderdale. Located directly on the sand and 450-feet of surf, two contemporary glass towers of 171 residences, private elevators, one to five bedroom residences from 1,500 to over 5,000 square feet and huge terraces from almost 900 to over 4,000 square feet. Pre-construction pricing from $1.5 to over $9 million. North Tower already sold out.
FEATURES & AMENITIES INCLUDE
Exquisite location directly on 450 linear feet of pristine beachfront in Fort Lauderdale
Iconic architecture by Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates
Lush landscaping throughout the property
Grand porte cochère with stunning water features
Exquisitely appointed public spaces designed by the award-winning firm Meyer Davis Studio
Curated collection of contemporary art selected to compliment resident amenity spaces throughout the property
Minutes from Fort Lauderdale Airport, luxury shopping, marinas and more
Flow-through floor plans with 9’6” ceiling heights and floor-to-ceiling windows with breathtaking views of the city, Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway
Unobstructed northern views from all residences above the 2nd floor
Oversized terraces with private pools in select residences
Private elevator access to the residences
Separate service entrance in select residences
Kitchens designed with Italian cabinetry, stone countertops, Sub -Zero and Wolf appliances and an integrated espresso/cappuccino maker
Master bathrooms feature a deep soaking tub
Walk-in closets in master bedrooms
Laundry room with full size washer and dryer
Pre-wired for high-speed Internet access and WiFi
Personalized concierge services to assist residents in accessing the most desirable social, entertainment,
and lifestyle experiences in Fort Lauderdale and beyond
24/7 valet parking and security
Multiple swimming pools overlooking the Atlantic Ocean
Multiple world-class restaurants
Private pool and beach club services and amenities including cabanas and food and beverage service
World-class Spa by Auberge offering all-natural beauty and relaxation treatments inspired by the local environment within a tranquil and soothing atmosphere
State-of-the-art Fitness Center overlooking the pool deck and Atlantic Ocean with dedicated studios for yoga and meditation
Club Room with multimedia facilities, billiards and gaming tables
Childrens’ Playroom
A spectacular new building in Coconut Grove! Priced from $3 million to $25 million.
Everyone loves Coconut Grove and Grand Bay with its two twisting and sparkling glass towers. A total of 96 custom condos, 3 bedrooms, 2,500 to 11,000 square feet, gas kitchens and private elevators. Panoramic views of Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline through 12-foot-high, floor-to-ceiling glass leading to terraces that are 12 feet deep and equipped with summer kitchens. Lush landscaping on three acres with over 450 trees and 15,000 plantings, 5 swimming pools including two rooftop pools, 2,500-square-foot fitness center, 1,700-square-foot spa, two parking spaces. Minutes to Miami, Key Biscayne and Miami Beach. Priced from $3 million to $25 million.
Large luxury condos on Naples Pelican Bay. Estates from 4,000 to 5,000 square feet – prices from $3.4 to $7 million.
Large pre-construction luxury condos on Naples Pelican Bay from $3.4 million.
One of the most sophisticated and upscale towns in Florida, Naples is consistently ranked as having one of the best beaches in the United States, award-winning theater and world-class shopping.
Introducing the first new development in Naples Pelican Bay in over ten years, a 21-story tower with floor-to-ceiling glass and clean contemporary lines, 68 spacious-estate residences over 4,000 square feet, nine Jardin residences and four penthouses, is being created for those who appreciate exquisite design, luxurious appointments and technological innovations.
Enjoy direct access to the private beach club with beachfront dining and sunset bar as part of the incomparable Pelican Bay lifestyle. Completion in late 2018.
In Sunny Isles Beach - just north of Miami Beach. Mansions at Acqualina is already sold out! A few resales available at Acqualina and Mansions at Acqualina from $2.75 million to $25 million. Coming soon – Estates at Acqualina on the ocean! World-class amenities – even an indoor ice skating rink and bowling alley!
In Sunny Isles Beach - just north of Miami Beach, gentle trade winds sway as waves sweep the shore of your pristine, white-sand beach. And, one of South Florida's and the world's finest residences.
Discover lavishly appointed residences in an exquisitely tall, iconic building. The unparalleled amenities and world-class services include an elegantly designed, amenity-rich pool deck, breathtaking public spaces, eleven private outdoor sanctuaries for homeowners and thirteen exceptional indoor amenity areas. Your every need is provided for in an idyllic setting that balances nature's beauty with one of the most dynamic cities in the world.
World-Class Location
Located at the epicenter of Miami's glamour, beauty and excitement. Whatever you desire, there's something for everyone - from the sun-splashed beaches of Sunny Isles, the sizzling nightlife of South Beach and the arts and culture of Miami to the glamorous shopping in Bal Harbour and Aventura. Add epicurean dining, world-class sports training for you and your children, deep sea fishing, art shows, music events and charity balls and the list of delights becomes virtually endless.
THE GRANDROOM - Exclusively for homeowners, this lavish room is designed for dinners, cocktail parties, and functions.
FITNESS CENTER - Featuring state-of-the-art fitness equipment and design, residents can work out on their own or arrange for private training.
PRIVATE CINEMA - This glamorous movie theatre and media center has plush seating, uniquely graded for optimal viewing.
POOLSIDE PRIVATE CABANAS - In addition to the sumptuous, well-attended pool deck lounges, there are 14 luxurious cabanas available to homewoners by reservation.
SUNSET REFLECTING POOL AND FIREPIT - At the end of the day, and into the night, residents can relax outdoors by the attended sunset relfecting pool and firepit.
HAMMAM SPA - This stunning and authentic example of exotic Hammam spa design enhances the luxury lifestyle.
CHILDREN'S CENTER - Computers, x-box & other electronic gaming, and ample sports equipment & activities makes life here exciting and action-packed for children.
VIRTUAL GOLF - Residents can play the world's most extraordinary golf courses without leaving home.
OUTDOOR DINING & BAR - The picturesque breakfast terrace and romantic, beachside dining & bar are completely unique to your new home.
DOG PARK - Even the family pet lives in luxury.
Huge beach townhomes now under construction. Near Palm Beach, Delray and Boca Raton from $6.6 million.
Huge beach townhomes now under construction. Near Palm Beach, Delray and Boca Raton, six exceptional residences, over 5,400 square feet each, situated on over an acre with 200' of beach. Unsurpassed luxury with a modern carefree lifestyle. Four floors of spectacular ocean vistas and well thought out amenities.
Each residence has a private elevator, plunge pool and roof top entertainment deck. Carefully curated with high-end finishes including Miehle appliances, Waterworks fixtures, Irpinia cabinetry, European wood and marble. Priced from $6.6 million.
From the ocean-view pool to the rooftop entertainment deck, these townhomes are designed to maximize your enjoyment of the beachfront setting, and minimize the need for management. Four full floors of elegant surroundings, personal elevator, private garage and 200 feet of ocean as your backyard – all complemented by a long list of thoughtfully selected luxury features from an experienced team of builders and designers.
Highland Beach is a small seaside town nestled between Boca Raton and Delray Beach in Palm Beach County, a short drive to Palm Beach or Fort Lauderdale. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and Intracoastal Waterway, it enjoys proximity to 5-star dining and shopping, upscale cultural life, and the full spectrum of South Florida outdoor life.
Orlando's newest condo resort, fully furnished, two or three bedrooms from low $300s! Less than 5 minutes from Disney World. Excellent financing & grand opening incentives! Free HOA & !
Near Walt Disney World, Orlando’s newest Four Diamond destination vacation home resort opens soon. Large, fully furnished luxury condos that you own. Keep it all for yourself or easy to rent full or part time through Benchmark Hospitality or any method you choose.
Prices for fully furnished two and three bedrooms start in low $300s.
Two and three bedrooms, 1,300 to 1,600 square feet on Lake Austin. A full service resort and upscale amenities including a luxurious lobby, bars, lagoon pool, lazy river, surf-simulation pool, full-service restaurant, spa and much more! Free shuttle service to Disney.
Owners have the opportunity to stay at their residence while on vacation and the option to place it into a rental program, professionally managed by Benchmark Hospitality, one of the nation’s leading hotel management companies.
South Florida's best deal on a pre-construction beach condo! Ocean & Intracoastal views! Fully finished from $590,000 to $740,000.
cross the street to the Atlantic Ocean and one of Florida's best beaches, steps to all the exciting new development coming to the Pompano Beach oceanfront. Walk out your front door of your luxury home feeling the ocean breeze as you stroll into an oasis of retail stores and top-notch eateries coming to Pompano Beach.
Ocean and Intracoastal views, two-bedroom, two-bath, den, 1,460 to 1,535 square feet, fully finished and large balconies priced $590,000 to $740,000.
Boutique building with only 19 residences, pool, fitness center, 9' ceilings, pet friendly, choice of flooring and finishes.
Only $30,000 to reserve. Completion late 2018.
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Montreal Music Shows This Week: Marie Davidson, Frankie Cosmos, Big Shiny Tunes Vol. 6 and more!
It’s officially the last week of summer, but just because the sun is calling it quits a little earlier every evening doesn’t mean you should too! After all, you wouldn’t want to miss all of the amazing shows Montreal has in store for us this fall.
Stay updated on all the best shows happening each week, right here! And now for this week:
Thursday, September 19th: The Struts
Rock fans get ready to roll because English glam rock band The Struts will be traveling to Montreal this week to perform as part of the tour for their second album Young & Dangerous. Released last October, it contains two of their lead singles: Body Talks and Primadonna Like Me.
Stylistically The Struts emulate a unique and modern twist on classic rock with a flamboyant 70’s/80’s flair to it. If that sounds at all like your cup of tea, catch them in the act this Thursday, the 19th, at Mtelus Theatre.
Primadonna Like Me – The Struts
The Struts with Des Rocks play M Telus, 59 Saint-Catherine East, Thursday, September 18, 2019 at 8pm. Tickets available through MTelus
Friday, September 20th: Marie Davidson – Save the Last Dance for Me
Montreal musician Marie Davidson’s music is absolutely brimming with personality. Her style is minimalistic tech house with plenty of synth, drums, and often her own spoken words; at times laughing, singing, chanting, yelling, all coming together to create an absolutely haunting experience of sound.
She’s been touring internationally since the release of her fourth solo album, Working Class Woman, and now she’s back in Montreal to perform as part of the Red Bull Music Festival at Studio Notre Dame this Friday! The show will also include artists such as Afrodeutsche, Solitary Dancer, and more, and tickets are only $20, so don’t miss this opportunity to see what is sure to be a captivating experience.
The Psychologist from Davidson’s most recent album, Working Class Woman
Red Bull Music Festival presents Marie Davidson: Save the Last Dance For Me at Studio Notre-Dame, 500 Alphonse D Roy, Friday, September 20 at 10pm. Tickets available through the Red Bull Music Festival
Friday, September 20: Big Shiny Tunes Vol. 6 – CJLO Funding Drive 2019
Come support Concordia University’s one and only radio station for part of the CJLO FUNdrive 2019, celebrating near 20 years of being on air! 17 different Montreal bands will be covering 17 songs from the album Big Shiny Tunes 6, which, if you didn’t already know, is part of a series of rock albums released through MusiquePlus in Quebec in the late 90s.
The event will be taking place at La Vitrola, and will feature a variety of local talent, such as Summerled, Barnacle, and Jon Cohen Ex. Don’t miss the chance to support your local radio, and jam to all your favourite 90s rock throwbacks played by your favourite Montreal bands.
Big Shiny Tunes 6 is at La Vitrola, 4602 boul St-Laurent, Friday, September 20 at 7:30pm. RSVP on the Facebook event page
Jon Cohen Ex gives us Baby Life
Friday, September 20th: Frankie Cosmos
New York band Frankie Cosmos, fronted by Greta Kline, is everything you could want from indie-folk as a genre. The songs are most often wistfully personal, and emotionally stirring, as if you were listening to the music equivalent of reading Kline’s own diary.
The combination of the seemingly simplistic but conscious lyrical manner along with Kline’s unobtrusive voice achieves a touching clarity in both sound and meaning. Be sure to catch the band at L’astral this Friday, but be prepared to feel some feelings you probably haven’t felt since high school.
Frankie Cosmos gives you a haircut
Frankie Cosmos with Lina Tullgren and Locate S,1 plays L’Astral, 305 Sainte-Catherine West, Friday, September 20 at 8pm. Tickets available through Evenko
Monday, September 23rd: Mac DeMarco
Oh Lizard Man, the nightmares you’ve caused…
Canadian singer and songwriter, Mac DeMarco, who is known for his soft psychedelic rock music, kooky personality, the gap between his two front teeth, and the song that will always send me into the depths of my feelings (see below), will be making an appearance at Mtelus on Monday.
Be there or DeMarco will come to your house dressed as the lizard man from his Nobody music video and sing you soft, haunting lullabies while you sleep.
Sing it with me: alone again!
Mac Demarco with Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa plays MTelus, 59 Saint-Catherine East, Monday, September 23 at 8pm. Tickets available through MTelus
Are you or your band playing a show in Montreal? Let Lillie know at music@forgetthebox.net. We’ll do our best to include you in an upcoming Shows This Week, but, of course, no promises.
By Lillie Phillips Sep 19, 2019
ArtsFestivalsMusic
After the Dust Settles: An Osheaga 2019 Retrospective
Osheaga was a great three days of hardy drinking and music and all I can say about this year’s festival is that there were so many pleasant surprises.
Let’s get right to it: Sunday night was the big night because of its two headliners: Tame Impala and Childish Gambino.
Tame Impala put on a near perfect show. The crowd was transfixed with the neat light beams coming from the stage that seemed to put everyone in a trance. They played most of their songs from their latest LP but did a few good oldies like Feels Like We Only Go Backwards and Elephant.
@tameimpala putting everyone in a transe @osheaga #osheaga #osheaga2019
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Childish Gambino then brought the crowd to complete ecstasy by hitting it home and closed out the night with some spectacular fireworks right after the crowd sang along to This is America.
Photo by lamyazpixels
Earlier in the day Metric got the crowd going. At times Hains started speaking what seemed to be poetry about getting shit done in your life.
Mac DeMarco was acting all goofy all day. It culminated in him doing a funny cover of Metallica’s enter Sandman.
@macdememe.co killing it on stage with ode to viceroy @osheaga #osheaga2019 @jerrygabrielrocks
Saturday night’s romp with chemical Brothers was one for the bucket list. These superstar DJs were definitely one of the highlights of my festival experience.
@thechemicalbrothers the robots have entered #osheaga #osheaga2019
Teke:: Teke, Fisher and Vladamir Cauchmar to name drop a few, were as entertaining as ever. And Kurt VIle put on one of the best live performances I’ve ever seen him do.
Strangest Act:
Black Tiger Sex Magic was definitely the strangest act of the festival with helmets that light up and the oddest crowd mix of electronic dance music bros, pretty ladies and weirdos.
Weird times at #osheaga #oshega2019 with @blacktigersexmagic
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Coolest Performance:
The coolest performance trophy goes to Reignwolf to for their use of the space to play their guitars and bass and the final meshing of the guitar and bass together to end the set.
Crazy ending to a #reignwolf song #osheaga2019 #osheaga photo courtesy of @lamyazpixels
Side note: As for the venue the park new old location was definitely noticed by people for being more spacious and with a lot more amenities.
The only one negative thing I noticed with the amount of dust I was at this year’s festival maybe it was caused by the amount of construction in Montreal or on site or perhaps it was the sand that was laid out at the base of the mountain but whatever reason a lot of people were covering their face as because of it. Hopefully next year it won’t be as dusty.
Featured image by lamyazpixels
By Jerry Gabriel Aug 6, 2019 Aug 6, 2019
FestivalsMusic
The Shortlist of Osheaga’s Hidden Gems
Osheaga‘s back this weekend for 3 full days of music, art, food and fun in what is likely to be very hot sun. The lineup this year is as impressive as ever with some very big names sure to draw big crowds.
Here at FTB though we try not to focus on any of those big names. It just seems a little silly to preview what you already know.
Instead we’ll be talking about the hidden gems playing earlier in the day when you might be more inclined to wander aimlessly and get to know a new artist. Here’s who I’m most looking forward to getting to know, feel free to check out their full lineup and form your own opinion.
Stay hydrated my friends!
Disclaimer: This list is totally biased to what I’m into at the moment so don’t tell me I missed someone or it’s in some way wrong.
Teke::Teke
I’ve always had a soft spot for surf rock bands, especially when they list Takeshi Terauchi as their biggest influence. If you don’t know who he is I advise you to do a quick little google search.
It also doesn’t hurt that Teke::Teke are from good ol’Montreal and what would Osheaga be like without a little hometown bias in the preview.
Give them a listen and you’ll see they’ve got the old surf rock vibe but with some twists. There’s a lot of modern elements as well as some traditional Japanese instruments mixed in for good measure.
While I’m not super familiar with grandson, his track Apologize keeps showing up everywhere and I’m curious to get to know a little more about him. He’s a relatively young artist and starting to get chart-level success so this might be a “I remember when” situation where you get to catch someone before they really blow up.
Mallrat
I’ve always found it funny that “fashionably late” even applies to concerts in Montreal. If you’re like me and actually make it to places at the correct time you can check out Mallrat bright and early at the crack of 1 pm on Sunday.
I know, what an ungodly hour to be awake, and on a Sunday no less! But it will be well worth it. At just 20 years old, this Australia singer/rapper is already starting to make waves, best to get on the boat early.
The elevator pitch for why St.Paul & The Broken Bones is on this list, the dude can sing like it’s nobody’s business. A whole lot of soul, a little bit of funk and a superb horn section have me curious to see what the live version of the tracks I’ve heard will sound like.
Ok so Mitski is definitely not a lesser known artist but she’s on in the afternoon so it might still count. Besides, this is my list and I’ll do what I want!
She’s the winner of the “Osheaga Artist I’ve Been Listening to Most Lately Award” and as the winner of this completely arbitrary prize she wins a spot on this list.
In this case I have no excuse, it’s super duper duper breaking the rules to put Mac DeMarco on the list. So he’ll go at the bottom and I won’t dwell on it for long but I had to since the “hipster Jimmy Buffet” is absolutely nuts live, don’t forget to go see him, who knows what craziness he’ll get up to.
You might even get to hear his tone deaf drummer sing classic rock songs like he did last summer at Lollapalooza. Like who does that?!?
By Joseph McLean Aug 1, 2019 Aug 1, 2019
Osheaga Preview: For Those About to Indie Rock
While this year’s line-up at Osheaga is heavy on the electronic and hip hop acts, there are still plenty of bands for those of you who want to rock out. And personally, while it’s nice to have the mix, sometimes you just want to rock out.
Here my picks for the best indie rock performers playing Osheaga this year:
Indie pop sensations Real Estate have found themselves at a crossroads with their last LP, with longtime lead guitarist Matt Mondanile leaving the band, but still have the chops to take it all the way.
In Mind (2017), their fourth studio album and one recorded in the absence of Mondanile, shows the band is still very viable. With this album taking them in new directions, the future looks for Real Estate.
Sunday, August 4, 4:30pm @ National Bank Stage
I was supposed to avoid writing about the headliners, and let’s face it Mac Demarco is a headliner even if he isn’t the top bill. He has played shows in front of tens of thousands, spawned a resurgence in semi-psychedelic lo-fi sound (and many have tired to copy his trademark sound), and he smokes the king of all cigarettes, Viceroy.
His lo-fi sound started in Mile End but has now reached the four quadrants of the world. And boy has it been one long strange trip.
He’s known for being an oddball and goofing around on stage, so expect to see some serious antics! But his unique sound gives him the tight niche of laid back slacker rock that is just very compelling and very good.
Sunday, August 5, 5:15pm @ Bell Alt TV River Stage
Teke:: Teke
The eclectic coming together of musicians from well-known Montreal bands (Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, Boogat, Pawa) created Japanese-influenced post-punk psychorockers Teke:: Teke.
If you yen for some traditional Japaneese surf rock infusion then this might be the band for you.
Friday, August 2 3:45 @ Perrier Tree Stage
Montreal Art rock band Braids will take the stage a year after winning the Juno for Best Alternative Rock group.
They got me with their 80s electronic beats over Raphaelle Standell-Preston’s vocals, which can be pretty haunting at times especially when infused with some pretty interesting vocal effects.
Sunday, August 4th, 1pm @ Honda Valley Stage
Kurt Vile and the Violators
I’ve been a fan of Kurt Vile ever since the first time I saw him play at Casa del Popolo. He was alone at the time playing his guitar with crazy pedal effects and his sweet nasal voice. Sufficed to say, I was pretty impressed.
His lo-fi sound and voice fills the psychedelia of his songs with wry, sardonic lyrics. His last album Lotta Sea Lice, co-written with Courtney Barnette, was truly inspiring and now he’ll be on stage with the Violators, a band that adds overall emphasis to his unique style.
Friday August 2, 8:15pm @ Honda Valley Stage
We Are Monroe
If you really need to rock out at Osheaga this year then check out Montreal’s own We Are Monroe. They are part classic rock with a new twist Their singer brings a great voice in the singing style of The Black Keys complimented by some terrific backup guitar.
Friday August 2, 2:20pm @ Perrier Tree Stage
Reignwolf
Part metal, part rock, this band knows how to riff out an amazingly catchy song. They flew under the radar for a long time until Rolling Stone magazine called them one of the top 10 artists you need to know.
Now, with their new album out Hear Me Out (2019), they are set to go on tour with The Who later this year. Catch them while you can.
Saturday, August 3, 8:40pm @ Perier Stage
Osheaga runs Friday August 2nd to Sunday August 4th at Parc Jean-Drapeau. Tickets available through Osheaga.com
Featured Image Courtesy of Laura Fedele/WFUV
By Jerry Gabriel Jul 31, 2019 Jul 31, 2019
M For Montreal: The Celebration of a Musical Scene
By the time I got off the 80 Parc bus, it was well after midnight. Small crowds of concert-goers were huddled around in clusters, smoking and chatting just outside of the doors of the Rialto Theatre where M for Montreal was kicking off. I shuffled around, anxiously waiting for a friend to arrive before heading in to check out the first of many acts that would follow over several nights of music that could most aptly be defined as insightful.
The scene’s epicenter, the ground zero of the Mile End if you will, is arguably the corner of Parc and Bernard– the location of the Rialto, and the precise place at which I began my four-day musical odyssey through Montreal’s indie network.
Almost right off the bat, I began to notice subtle, cultural markers embedded within Montreal’s diverse performance spaces. I found it interesting that the indie, or underground, acts that I was about to go see were quite literally performing underground.
The artists performing at the Rialto that evening weren’t playing on the main stage, but instead, at the Piccolo Rialto, a much tinier (let’s say intimate) stage one and a half stories below the street. I guess the implication was that these acts weren’t quite ready for the “big leagues” just yet.
As I sipped on a couple of tepid beers, listening to the likes of Calvin Love, She-Devils and Doldrums well into the early-morning hours. I found myself more people-watching than anything else. I was captivated by the amount of people drawn into this small, dark space, late at night, to listen to relatively-unknown bands.
Sure, the music was pretty good, but the word that kept cropping up over and over in my mind was communion. No, not the Sunday School kind of communion, but instead, the almost-transcendental bond that exists between spectator and performer at a small, indie show in Montreal.
The obvious question of why (why these spaces? why these artists? why these audiences?) was addressed when, by chance, I noticed indie-rocker and Montreal resident Alex Calder huddled at a corner table talking to a couple of friends. Calder, who once played with Mac Demarco in the lo-fi rock group Makeout Videotape, is now well established as a solo artist and recently released the well-received indie LP Mold Boy.
As a pretty big fan, I sort of nervously approached his table, feeling like the world’s biggest hack. Pretty quickly, I realized that not only was Calder a really nice dude, but he might help me unpack the seeming mysteries of the Montreal indie scene.
Quite casually, he mentioned that he lived “just down the street” from the theatre. What seemed at first like a self-evident, mundane piece of information actually turned into something of a “Eureka!” moment as I mulled over my night on the busride home, chowing down on a St. Viateur bagel.
Calder’s close proximity to the Rialto, and many other culturally-relevant performance spaces like it, wasn’t just coincidence. And it’s not completely convenience, either. Rather, it’s a cultural trace of an intimate, artistic community at work. The indication of a close connection between performer and performance space in Montreal.
A picture, although still fuzzy, began to form in my mind. Perhaps what draws aspiring artists to Montreal is not just the “cheap rent” (as one music executive mentioned to me in passing), but the intimate connection organically established between artist and audience.
And I don’t mean to say that it’s all sunshine and rainbows, either. In fact, the vibe at the Rialto that night was strangely disengaged, distant. But I began to get the sense that the performer and the spectator relied on each other in an incommunicable way; these indie artists needs the consistent support of a local fan base, and in turn, the fan base relies upon a network of artists to have a musical scene with which they can affiliate.
Poets would call this relationship communion, biologists would call this relationship symbiotic. Personally, I would just call it necessary in the formation of good art.
The next few days passed in rapid succession. Thursday morning, I waltzed into Hotel 10 under the pretense of free coffee and continental breakfast for members of the press. In addition to the free joe, what I also inadvertently infiltrated was an industry meet-and-greet, a kind of speed networking for festival pass holders who wanted to learn more about the ins and outs of the music business.
That morning served as an interesting foil for the rest of my weekend. It was as if I caught a fleeting glimpse at the cogs and gears that make Montreal Montreal’s music scene, for lack of a more artful term, “work.”
That night, I watched up-and-coming Toronto-based hip hop artist Jazz Cartier take the stage at Cafe Cleopatra in front of a small, but very hyped-up, audience. And on Friday, I headed up to Little Italy to check out the Blue Skies Turn Black showcase of Nancy Pants and Look Vibrant! before bombing back downtown to see Busty and the Bass perform (for the first time) at an absolutely packed Club Soda. If there’s one word to describe my own personal M for Montreal adventure, it would most certainly be hectic.
And let’s make one thing clear: M for Montreal is not Osheaga, nor is it trying to be. It is a festival packed to the brim with talented indie artists that are trying to make a long term career out of their music.
But it is also much, much more than that. It’s a celebration of a scene at work. But not just any scene. Montreal’s music scene has historically held, and continues to hold, worldwide status as a juggernaut.
The first, massive name that comes to mind is probably Arcade Fire, a band that has roots in the Plateau, and whose members continue to live and record in Montreal. Think for a second longer, though, and many more contemporary names will emerge: Patrick Watson, Mac DeMarco and Grimes.
Grimes plays M for Montreal (photo Bruno Destombes)
Claire Boucher, better known onstage as Grimes, got her start in the small performance spaces and venues scattered around the Plateau and the Mile End. In fact, in her early days, when she was better known as Claire rather than Grimes, Boucher would hang out at the now-defunct Lab Synthese in the Mile End, a DIY-style, art-collective space that eventually spawned major Montreal-based indie label Arbutus Records. It is fitting, then, that Grimes would serve as the headliner for a festival that represents the scene that she used to call home.
And indeed, Grimes’ sold-out Saturday performance at Metropolis felt like a homecoming game of sorts. The floor was packed, the fans were boisterous and rowdy, the energy was off the charts.
Boucher was her typical sweet and eccentric self, taking just enough time in between some of her massive hits such as Oblivion, Genesis and REALiTi to pause to thank the audience and specifically the Montreal community that effectively catapulted her to critical and commercial success. The expectations for the show were undoubtedly high, but Grimes delivered in a fashion that not only felt like artistic triumph, but also a kind of emotional catharsis.
Indeed, the return of Grimes to Montreal validated the existence of the Montreal indie scene. In her early days, Grimes, like so many artists featured in M for Montreal, embraced Montreal’s intimate indie circuit as a place of artistic incubation. On Saturday night, her performance served as vital evidence of a scene that is not only alive, but thriving.
Here’s to many more years at M for Montreal and many more years celebrating the musical talent that this city has to offer.
* Featured image of Grimes playing M for Montreal by Bruno Destombes
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Moon Women and Slacker Rock: Experiencing Homeshake
I owe Homeshake an apology. When I emailed them, asking if I could come check out the release party for their new double LP, I totally called them “radical muthafuggas.” Although I only curse for colour, they say that familiarity breeds contempt. And so, Homeshake, I’m sorry.
Plastic Factory (like the Captain Beefheart song) is a new local label releasing the aforementioned double LP, and the party for its release is going to be tonight at Drones Club. When I Googled Plastic Factory, some weird shit came up. Like this one thing that says: “Joomla! The dynamic portal engine and content management system.” I guess I should have Googled Plastic Factory RECORDS.
Anyway, forget Google. You know what you should do instead? Go listen to Homeshake’s MUSIC.
You always remember that indelible first impression when a song stopped you dead in your tracks. For me, I was driving up the mountain with someone, case of Pabst between my legs, summer night and setting sun, car window rolled down, warm wind in my face, and he chucked on Moon Woman, off The Homeshake Tape. It was just one of those times.
Now I can’t turn that shit off. Now I can’t put down my guitar. Now I can’t wait for this double LP.
I don’t know why they call it Slacker Rock. I guess we should all feel flattered that someone’s finally validating the way we sleep until noon because we’re up until sunrise doing something weird with a guitar. Slacker Rock. The music of directionless twenty-somethings who drift around, jamming. Too mellow to be punk, too lackadaisical to be included in the phenomenon of every band branding themselves “psychedelic rock,” and too honest to call themselves “garage rock.” (Because who the fuck makes music in a garage? Who even has a garage?)
Homeshake. Go. Listen.
By Caile Donaldson Aug 23, 2014
Catch the strange, lo-fi frequencies of Mac DeMarco at Osheaga
Who is this grinning young ‘un who looks like Flea’s kid brother and makes music so lo-fi and strange that it makes you want to go running through the streets with a tall can and a lover?
Mac DeMarco is another Canadian (god, we grow good musicians here. Suck it, Slovakia) and probably a result of growing up in the 90’s. All that grunge has trickled down over our souls, giving way to music that is simultaneously full of longing for what’s been lost and rife with sounds that have no name. DeMarco, for all of his twenty four years, is already a force of brilliance, jamming in this sunny, simple way that showcases stiff songwriting skill and a style that is wholly his own. While, sure, there’s room for your garage rock and surf punk and of course, let’s not forget the new staple, psychedelic rock, DeMarco is taking the formula and fuzzing the lines a bit more; he’s really got his fingerprints all over his tunes.
But DeMarco isn’t some serious suffering poet. Or maybe he is. I’ve never even hung out with him, what the fuck do I know? I guess the reason I said that, about the serious poetic stuff, is because of what I’ve read. You know, about how his concerts are described as a “raunchfest” and how he gets naked onstage. Which, while not being serious, could be construed as a little poetic. In my opinion. (And that’s mostly all this article consists of: my opinions.)
Anyway, DeMarco has released two full length studio albums (Salad Days being the latest, released just this year) and with that comes the touring. While it’s a nice sentiment to say that music should only be about music, fans are always interested in more: they want it all, the personal life, the inspiration, the friendship and yeah, the nudity. Bring it on, man. DeMarco’s hitting up Osheaga Music and Arts Festival this year (I’ve included him in my Top Picks) and I personally am really excited, clothes or no clothes.
My Kind Of Woman by Mac DeMarco
Mac DeMarco performs Friday, August 1 at 9:50 p.m. at the Scène des arbres Galaxie. Osheaga takes place August 1 to 3 at Parc Jean-Drapeau.
By Caile Donaldson Jul 31, 2014 Jul 31, 2014
Osheaga top picks vol. II
So you’ve scanned Montreal’s Osheaga lineup for the 9th year in a row, getting that feeling of desperate excitement, visualizing how you’re going to stake out the stage and trample the audience in your madness to get to the front… I’m doing the same, only I have a forum to air my arrogant, opinionated top picks and you all have to be subjected to it. I love it.
Anyway, this is my own personal list of who I wanna see at one of Montreal’s most explosive music festivals. Unlike Rolling Stone’s Best Guitar Players of All Time, this is not a popularity contest masquerading as a definitive collection. Nope, this is just me going through the list and saying yea or nay, in no particular order. Here we go:
Naturally. Is that too obvious for you? Who the hell cares? He’s innovative as hell (check out his record-breaking record pressing!), and for our generation — a generation of fast food/shopping mall/computerized music/apathetic cellphone relationship crap — we should all be going down on our knees and thanking God that we’ve got Jack White. And that he’s coming to Montreal.
These guys keep getting compared with Mumford & Sons. Honestly, fuck Mumford & Sons. Half Moon Run’s album has nothing to do with that country folk revivalist crap. They’re local to Montreal, and when artists like Half Moon Run do what they do, they’re keeping the standard of incredible Montreal musicianship high. You’ve probably heard their songs from debut album Dark Eyes being played every two seconds on the radio, but it’s about time the radio actually played something decent.
Dark Eyes by Half Moon Run
I want to see Temples for one reason, and one reason only: my band was going to be called Temples first, but these dorks beat us to the punch. Like every new band, they’ve branded themselves “psychedelic rock” and they’re coming all the way from England. They’re probably great too, the bastards.
Remember when Modest Mouse was relevant? (Good News for People Who Love Bad News changed me. But that was 7 years ago…) Anyway, are they still relevant? I’m going to Osheaga to find out.
The first time I heard him, it was in the early morning and ‘Places’ was coming from someone’s bedroom, breaking my goddamned heart. That’s how you know it’s good. I’ve never heard anything quite like his album Bad Vibes, and I started using it as my sleep album when I suffer from insomnia because Shlohmo is about as close to dreaming as you’re going to get without having to close your eyes.
He’s twenty four years old. He’s from fuckin’ Duncan. And his albums, 2 and Salad Days, my god. Photo shoots with cigarettes raining down from heaven and songs that are so beautiful they’ll rip holes in your very existence, DeMarco is COOL. His songs are dubbed “blue wave” (probably because that’s what it feels like when you dig his stuff) and “slacker rock” (which is just silly but makes me feel better about my life), I scanned that list and couldn’t help but smile and chuck on “My Kind of Woman.” Oh baby.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Like God, Nick Cave is just so grandiose, I don’t even have to mention him.
Reignwolf: Another fucking wolf band?! Are you serious? Get creative, you fucks. There are more animals out there besides wolves. Aids Wolf, Wolf Parade, Wolf Mother and Reignwolf, you should all just form one big pack and go howl at the goddamned moon together.
The Dismemberment Plan: Yes, that is an actual name of an actual band. No, it is not a band made up of three homely, scorned feminists. It’s actually a couple of tragic looking white males. Maybe they’re eunuchs.
So that concludes my top picks. See you at the stages.
The 9th edition of Osheaga Music and Arts Festival takes place August 1 to 3 at Parc Jean-Drapeau.
Photo by Chris Zacchia.
Passion Matters: My M for Montreal Experience
When I think about what I want in a show, the first thing that comes to mind is stage presence. The performers have to want to be there (or at least act like it), otherwise I won’t either. If they’re not having fun, I’m not having fun. That being said, I had so much fun at M for Montreal.
The first band I saw was Midland, Ontario’s Born Ruffians. The set was short, but it was full of energy. To be honest, I’m getting bored of the whole “perfectly polished, four-piece indie rock band” thing, but Born Ruffians is a breath of fresh air. Luke LaLonde’s unique vocals are what attracted me to the band in the first place, and seeing him onstage belting them out was so satisfying. The band looks like they’re there because they love playing music, and that’s it. Its fun and refreshing, and they play in Montreal often, so go see them!
My M for Montreal journey also brought me to Club Soda on Saturday for Mac DeMarco. As I expected, it was absolutely insane (in the best way possible, of course). From stage dives to making out with half-naked boys onstage, Mac DeMarco came ready to have a good time. The whole thing felt like a house party, which is hard to achieve in a sold-out venue as spacious as Club Soda. The best thing about the show was the fact that his antics, as well as those of his band, never seemed staged. Just like Born Ruffians, they were up there for the sake of having fun, they just have a more extreme way of doing it.
I guess the moral of the story is be cool and I’ll think you’re cool. Or, to put it more eloquently, have fun, whatever you do. It makes all the difference.
Photos by Ellie Pritts and Maximillian G. San Juan for M for Montreal
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A few months ago while on a quick trip to Bangkok we wanted to visit an animal cafe. Most common in Japan, and mostly Asia, cat cafe's are the perfect retreat for those who can't keep pets in their apartments. This trend to house animals has become so popular that places around the world now host a slew of exotic animals (snakes, owls, etc) for you to meet and play with.
At Little Zoo Cafe in Thailand there were dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs, prairie dogs, foxes, a raccoon and a special arctic fox. The raccoon and arctic fox were in an enclosed room and would alternate visitation in the mornings and afternoons with other foxes. The cats and dogs roamed freely while the guinea pigs, prairie dogs and birds were in cages but could come out when you asked to pet or hold them.
Upon entry you must take off your shoes and put on clean slippers to wear. There wasn't a fee to come and enter but they do require you to order an entree and a drink. After you order you can enjoy the company of the various types of animals. Small groups up to 4 people were welcome to hang out with the raccoon and the arctic fox. The fox was also trained to stand on your back and eat fresh bananas from your hand.
Overall, this was a great experience. The animals all appeared to be well cared for and loved by the workers. I would recommend this cafe if you are seeking an animal fix. You get to pet and hold so many and they are all quite friendly. Take a look at what we ate, the pets we met and a short video encounter with the raccoon below. The food was ok, the service was good and the pets were all very therapeutic to play with.
The World's Tallest Indoor Waterfall
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In Search of the Good Life
GOGOL: The Overcoat (Homegrown Government, Part 2)
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Any time we read a work of fiction (a novel or a play or a short story) an obvious question always comes up: What is the author trying to say? What was Gogol trying to say when he wrote The Overcoat? We’ll never know for sure what Gogol was trying to say, any more than we can know for sure what Shakespeare was trying to say when he wrote Hamlet or King Lear. But there’s at least one thing we can know for sure. We can know for sure the impact the story had on us as readers. And we can bet that other readers took away different meanings than we did. The Overcoat is no different. No doubt many readers see Akaky as a pathetic figure, a loser who’s responsible for his own pathetic situation. Many other readers no doubt see Akaky as the victim of a cold and cruel society. Still others might read the story as a comedy; a dark comedy maybe, but still funny in a warped kind of way. Here’s the problem. None of these readers would argue that 2+2 does not equal four. 2+2=4. End of story. Yet they might argue for hours about the meaning of The Overcoat. How can this be? Two quick answers should suffice. One: literature is not mathematics. Two: in modern terms, different strokes for different folks.
Does that mean there are no standards for literature, the way there are standards for mathematics? No, but it does mean we have to use different methods for analyzing literature. We wouldn’t use literary methods to analyze a geometrical proof. One of the reasons people disagree about meaning in literature is because they bring different methods to the table. In geometry we can draw a straight line from one point to another. That’s the meaning of a straight line. We all agree on that point. But in literature we don’t all agree on the meaning of beauty. Is a straight line beautiful in the same way a poem or a short story is beautiful? Let’s phrase our question in slightly different terms. Gogol was an artist, not a mathematician. What is Gogol trying to say to us using literature as his method; what is it he could not say to us by using logic?
The Book of Ecclesiastes provides a perfect example of this intersection between literature and logic. In America Ecclesiastes is most famous from the popular song Turn, Turn, Turn sung by The Byrds in the 1960’s. And there is indeed a certain kind of beauty in the repetitious phrasing of these words from Ecclesiastes: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven… A time to be born, and a time to die…” There’s a powerful symmetry and a subconscious rhythm to repeating “a time to do X, and a time to do Y” over and over again. Symmetry and rhythm are two fundamental foundations of beauty in art. Deep in our minds there’s a hypnotic effect to understanding that two things are alike, side by side, in relation to one another; or, this sound was like the last one, and lasted the same amount of time. Relationships in space and time equal beauty. That’s one standard we use in measuring art.
But Ecclesiastes also has another standard for measuring beauty. How do we measure literary relationships between a story like The Overcoat and the poetry of Ecclesiastes? Here’s how. Ecclesiastes is a lens we can use to look at a character like Akaky with fresh eyes. For example, Akaky kind of stumbled along in life; he wasn’t the quickest guy in the office. Ecclesiastes says “the race is not to the swift.” Akaky was a weakling. Ecclesiastes says “nor the battle to the strong.” And Akaky’s mind wasn’t the sharpest one in the office. Ecclesiastes says “neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding.” In other words, Ecclesiastes turns logic on its head to give us a more poetic view of Akaky. All the guys in the office thought they were better off than Akaky. Ecclesiastes says they were all wrong because “time and chance happeneth to them all.” This sounds logical and cold; but in the literary sense, it’s beautiful.
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Doucette’s Dozen: A Conservative Never-Trumper’s Policing Reform Plan
– August 22, 2020Posted in: "The OC", Fresh Juice
The Trump Party Convention coming up next week; its first night is entitled “Our Heroes.” You can bet that we’ll be hearing fiery fusillades from supporters of the Lawlessness and Disorder President about the need for unquestioning and unstinting love and support for the police — including (and perhaps especially) their most outrageous and unjust practices.
On Friday afternoon, I [Greg] came upon a reference in Facebook to this Twitter thread on reforming police practices. I checked it out — and was absolutely bowled over. This is exactly something we’ve needed to hear in the wake of the George Floyd killing, Whether or not the author agree with me, I think it’s wholly consistent with the calls to transfer aspects of policing to other (unarmed) actors. (Calling these twelve proposals “Doucette’s Dozen” is my framing.)
“Revolution” (like “Defund the police!”) is generally sexier (though less achievable and controllable) than reform, but the two can work hand in hand. This rational reform agenda certainly is amenable to that. These ideas aren’t brand new — Chairman Vern has often addressed most of them here, and I worked on some of these issues as an attorney in Giuliani’s New York — but their collection into a coherent whole, and the reasoned discussion behind them, are devastating. You can send this around to even your most conservative relatives and they should get it. Tou can demand that Biden and Harris sign onto these proposals — as they should … and, if they’re smart about it, they might!
I think of this collection as the rational foundation upon which all reasonable people should be able to agree, after which we can see how much we can transfer to counselors, social workers, and community leaders — and how much we can’t. It’s not anti-police at all: it’s anti-bad police, and I keep hearing how good cops are supposed to like that. (Such reform would certainly make their jobs — which include the lasting effects of psychological harm at the involvement of decent cops in terrible wrongs — a lot easier and more palatable.
To be comprehensive about reform , I’d add some more controversial topics to this list — police abuse of women and LGBT people (murder and shootings are, after all, just a subset of abuse); reform of police DNA testing; police abuse of polygraphs; the Blue Wall of Silence, etc.) But for the sorts of state-controlled terrorizing of ethnic and racial minorities that have been at the forefront of this year’s news, this is as well-considered, clear, thoughtful, persuasive, comprehensive, and readable a presentation of these issues as I’ve ever seen.
[Ed. Note: This post is taken from a Twitter feed posted about three months ago (May 28, 2020) by T. Greg Doucette, whose apparent nickname is “Tyrannosaurus.” I’m editing out the repetitive Twitter @crap and just keeping the text and images, with the intention of education and discussion. This tweet storm was a response to a question posed by Sailor Brendan (a pseudonym); while it’s done pretty well, it deserves a lot more circulation and permanence (and especially ease of use) than it’s likely to receive on Twitter alone. I have edited lightly to correct a very few obvious grammar errors and reformatted it to make it more easily read and presentable in this medium. Starting below the horizontal line, if it ain’t in brackets it ain’t mine! — GAD]
Criminal defense & First Amendment attorney T. Greg Doucette, in court (artist’s conception).
But first: who wrote these tweets?
Here are the most relevant people on this thread, and their Twitter bios. Brendan asked the very good question, Doucette came up with this awesome answer, and Neily gets cited for good research:
T. Greg “Tyrannosaurus” Doucette (@greg_doucette)
Ex-computer scientist, now criminal defense & 1A attorney in NC+TX. Host of @fsckemall. Dog lover. #NeverTrump conservative. Proud alum of @NCCU and @NCState.
Sailor Brendan (@SailorBrendan)
sailor, awkward political junkie, trying to do some good. Not great at twitter but I’m trying. My words are my own and I’ll take responsibility for them
Clark Neily (@ConLawWarrior)
VP @CatoInstitute https://cato.org/people/clark-neily
Project on Criminal Justice. Bane of bureaucrats & lover of liberty. More Constitution, less govt.
Sailor Brendan’s original request for other’s thoughts on police reform is just below the line:
May 28 <== (At left is the date of and link to the original thread!)
Sailor Brendan (emphasis added)
I don’t expect I’m gonna get a lot of traction, but I’d really love it if some folks in #LawEnforcement or #lawyers wanted to jump in and give us a set of concrete steps we can take to deal with the takeover of the legal and justice systems by white nationalists. 1/
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I’m not a historian or political science guru – I tag in Prof. @KevinMKruse for those things – but my assumption is that ethnonationalists / neo-Nazis / etc join police because of the unchecked power police have these days to terrorize minorities 2/
So reduce that power – and hold police accountable for abusing it – and you reduce the allure to those folks pretty quick And on that front, the to-do list is quite long 3/
1. Abolish qualified immunity
QI is a doctrine created from scratch by judges. It was never enacted into law by a legislature or signed by an executive; judges created it on their own And it protects police from being held accountable for their bad judgment 4/
Qualified immunity means a policeman cannot be sued civilly for violating your rights – killing you, brutalizing you, etc – unless that right was “clearly established” at the time of the violation What does “clearly established” mean? Whatever a judge wants 5/
For example, police in California were sued b/c they stole $100K+ in rare coins while executing a search warrant They received QI – the case was dismissed – because “stealing during a search” was not “clearly established” as illegal 6/
In today’s criminal justice news, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals holds police officers can *steal $100K+ of someone’s property* and still be protected by qualified immunity to avoid any accountability because it’s “not clearly established” that cops stealing is illegal twitter.com/ConLawWarrior/…
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In practice, almost nothing at all is ever “clearly established” If a police officer chokes someone to death for sport, you’d say “killing for sport is illegal!” Then a judge’d say “just killing them with his shin, not with his knee” 7/
Have some qualified immunity examples There are hundreds upon hundreds more
And because qualified immunity is what’s called an immunity “from suit,” it means those cases get dismissed early and never make it to discovery or trial, meaning facts almost never come out to define what will be “clearly established” in the future 8/
Reuters had an exceptionally thorough deep dive on qualified immunity just a couple weeks ago Read this when your time permits; it’s very long, but highlights how pernicious the doctrine is 9/
For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection
The U.S. high court’s continual refinement of an obscure doctrine called qualified immunity has made it harder to hold police liable for excessive force. reuters.com
[Probably should have mentioned it earlier in the thread, but the vast majority of what you’re going to see on this list requires legislative action at some level and a willing executive to implement it. So none of this will happen soon without voting.] 10/
2. Require police for carry malpractice insurance
Require police for carry malpractice insurance We require it for doctors, pharmacists, and other professions where you could be killed by incompetence or malice. Police should be no different 11/
Requiring police to carry insurance serves two goals at the same time: (A) it protects taxpayers from having to shell out $$$$$$$$ in settlement money and (B) insurance rates for individual officers will rise based on how bad they are 12/
If you’re like the mongrel-with-a-badge who murdered #GeorgeFloyd – with several prior brutality incidents on your record – the cost for a city to insure you eventually hits a point where you’re not worth the expense, and become unemployable as a cop 13/
Malpractice insurance for police is a topic that @ConLawWarrior has written about often 14/
3. Use pay incentives to get a better breed of police officer
Use pay incentives to get a better breed of police officer Did you know most states only require cops to have a high school diploma? And the police academy is typically only 6-8 weeks long? You end up with a lot of young bad cops who become old bad cops 15/
Police should have at least a 4-year college degree. Not b/c those degrees are particularly relevant to the job, but b/c the life experience from being in college for that timespan – being around people who aren’t like you, navigating conflict, etc – matters 16/
But if a state won’t require that baseline legislatively, departments can accomplish the same goal by offering a pay bump (similar to what many localities do for teachers with advanced degrees) 17/
4. Incentivize community policing
Same concept as pay bumps for degrees, but in this case offered to police who actually live in the neighborhoods they patrol 18/
Police officers are less likely to escalate and kill people when it’s their neighbors that they’re dealing with 19/
5. Make “Brady lists” public record
Every District Attorney’s Office in the country knows which cops on which police forces are documented liars who can’t be trusted to provide sworn testimony in court They end up on what are dubbed “Brady lists” 20/
The name is a reference to the Brady v Maryland case by the Supreme Court, which ruled the Government has to turn over all evidence that tends to exonerate someone accused of a crime. Here, though, it’s a misnomer: most Brady lists aren’t disclosed at all 21/
They’re not given to defense attorneys, and they’re never ever ever ever (ever) given to the public When California recently enacted new laws to make this info known, police unions went apesh*t and sued to block the laws from taking effect 22/
I’d argue *all* records of police misconduct should be publicly accessible. But if that’s a bridge too far, at the very list it should include officers who are too dishonest to be trusted in court 23/
6. Abolish cities’ sweetheart deals with police unions
Your head would spin at some of the sh*t police get away with because it’s written into their contracts that they can. @deray, @samswey, @ClintSmithIII, and several others have written about this often 24/
The ability to hop / skip / jump from department to department as officers are fired Elaborate termination procedures that block their firing in the first place, or enable them to easily get reinstated with back pay The list goes on 25/
For further reading on this, check out http://checkthepolice.org 26/
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The Police Union Contract Project investigates how police union contracts block accountability.
7. Require de-escalation in Use of Force policies
Require de-escalation in Use of Force policies alongside public, transparent training on de-escalation. Police these days operate like paramilitary units, complete with military gear and recruitment videos that promote a “domestic warfare” mindset 27/
Except the military has rules of engagement, a Uniform Code of Military Justice, and courts martial that will punish you severely for misconduct, Police have qualified immunity, a “Blue Lives Matter” PR apparatus, and oodles of case law to protect them 28/
Cities and states can modify guidelines on when and how police can use force, and when they can escalate That needs to be flipped on its head, to promote de-escalation and the preservation of life as the overriding concern 29/
On this one, check out http://useofforceproject.org 30/
8. End “tail-light policing”
End “tail-light policing” entirely A large number of police brutality incidents – and the corresponding court cases that have eroded Fourth Amendment rights – come from traffic stops 31/
Those traffic stops end up disproportionately targeting racial minorities See, e.g., this Stanford study that analyzed 95,000,000+ traffic stops across 56 departments over 7 years, documenting what’s known as the “veil of darkness”
Police stop fewer black drivers at night when a ‘veil of darkness’ obscures their race 32/
You can see similar results in the states contained in the http://OpenDataPolicing.com website (covering a combined 49,000,000 traffic stops across 3 states) 33/
Nearly all of those stops don’t actually have to happen. They’re done to provide a basis for fishing expeditions by the Government, and to raise money via citations
Nothing at all to do with public safety 34/
Reduce the incidence of police interaction with citizens and you reduce the number of opportunities bad police have to kill someone 35/
After analyzing 95 million traffic stop records, filed by officers with 21 state patrol agencies and 35 municipal police forces from 2011 to 2018, a Stanford-led research team concluded that ‘police…
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You can see similar results in the states contained in the http://OpenDataPolicing.com website (covering a combined 49,000,000 traffic stops across 3 states)
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Nearly all of those stops don’t actually have to happen. They’re done to provide a basis for fishing expeditions by the Government, and to raise money via citations Nothing at all to do with public safety 34/
9. Separate Depts’ Crime Response & Investigative Units
Mandate a separation between the crime response units and investigative units in a department I quite literally can’t count how many times I’ve tweeted about police officers caught on camera planting evidence 36/
For most departments, most of the time, the responding officer becomes the arresting officer who then testifies in court about the crime This incentivizes lying: planting evidence, making sh*t up on police reports, lying under oath in court All to “win” 37/
The bona fide first responders to a scene – often to situations where emotions run high – shouldn’t be the ones quarterbacking evidence collection too
The bona fide first responders to a scene – often to situations where emotions run high – shouldn’t be the ones quarterbacking evidence collection too 38/
10. Automatic special prosecutors for police brutality incidents
Automatic special prosecutors for all police brutality incidents So-called “line” prosecutors – the ones in the courtrooms every day trying cases – come to rely on the police they work with regularly So they’ll almost never prosecute them for wrongdoing 39/
If there’s ever an incident of alleged police misconduct – everything from a beating to a murder – a special prosecutor from outside that jurisdiction should be assigned to review it and decide if charges are warranted 40/
11. More frequent USDOJ intervention
More frequent USDOJ intervention Tying in with #10, most states think police are infallible and will never prosecute – or they’ll do a deliberately sh*t job so the officer is found not guilty The Feds need to be more willing to prosecute in those cases 41/
Federal prosecutions for criminal violations of civil rights laws were instrumental in helping curtail killings during the Civil Rights Era We’ve got the same sort of killings happening now, it’s just Government employees doing it 42/
Expand data collection and mandatory reporting on use-of-force incidents (and other police activity generally) Remember that traffic stop a few tweets up? Most states have developed uniform traffic reports to systematize data collection Do it elsewhere 43/
@greg_doucette
Unless something’s been developed in the past couple years and I’ve missed it, there is no uniform standard of what data to collect for non-traffic police activity – including incidents where force is used There is also no req for that info to be reported 44/
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Posted on March 1, 2019 by Sean Thomson
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ANNOUNCES SUMMER TOUR DATES 2019
‘WITH TEETH’ SHOWS HITTING THE U.S.
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Upon its release last week (February 22), FEED ME‘s new studio album and ninth overall release on mau5trap HIGH STREET CREEPS made its debut at #1 on iTunes Electronic Albums chart. Now, FEED ME will bring his new music to the masses once again for a North American summer tour with his unique ‘With Teeth’ shows.
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Tickets officially go on sale Friday, March 8 but fans can pre-register now at https://www.theticketfairy.com/tour/feed-me-high-street-creeps-us-tour/ for the pre-sale launching Tuesday, March 5. Local pre-sales launch Thursday, March 7.
“Building the ‘Teeth’ show is probably my proudest achievement,” FEED ME explains. “It was the ultimate way to present what I do and a creative dream, to combine a big array of memories and chaos into something fully structured. It represents me getting my lifestyle under control and I feel like I can move forward with more speed now, it’s a total release.”
Never shy of testing his creative limits, FEED ME and his many aliases continues to grow and evolve, “otherwise why the fuck am I here” he puts so succinctly. With the new album and shows marking a clear, mature musical evolution for the producer, FEED ME can continue to look forward to the future, as can his fans.
Following 2013’s Calamari Tuesday with a string of FEED ME singles and EP’s, as well as a debut album for his alias Spor in 2015, HIGH STREET CREEPS marks the producer’s sophomore full length project. This album features 10 tracks that span a variety of production styles, some of which differ from what he’s delivered in the past. The first single “Feel Love” features the angelic voice of Rosie Doonan (who’sperformed with the likes of Peter Gabriel and Birdy), helmed by a synth lead with chopped vocals over a pulsating house kick, while its second single “Sleepless” evolves as an electro banger that uses FEED ME’s hard-hitting, uniquely distinguishable sound. There are also vocal-fronted tracks with Milo Greene’s Graham Fink, emerging British indie singer/songwriter Cheney (Theo Alteri) and Lindsay.
The 2019 tour dates are:
Brooklyn Steel
Echostage
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The Vic Theatre
Majestic Theatre
Listen to HIGH STREET CREEPS here: www.SmartURL.it/HighStreetCreeps
Feed Me High Street Creeps Tracklist
Feel Love (feat. Rosie Doonan)
Till The Wheels Come Off (feat. Graham Fink)
Pumpkin Eyes (feat. Cheney)
Own Ghost
Defiant (feat. Lindsay)
About FEED ME:
Until he debuted his alias Feed Me in 2008, Hertfordshire, England-native Jon Gooch was known for his aggressive, hard-edged drum’n’bass productions as Spor. While Spor remained an ongoing outlet for Gooch, the producer quickly gained notice for his dubstep/electro-house hybrids as Feed Me; he signed to deadmau5’s mau5trap label and issued “The Spell” (2008) and the album Feed Me’s Big Adventure (2010), as well as the EPs To the Stars (2011) and Feed Me’s Escape from Electric Mountain (2012). He also increased his profile by remixing the likes of Chase & Status (“Let You Go”), Nero (“Innocence”), Gorillaz (“On Melancholy Hill”), and Robyn (“Call Your Girlfriend”). Calamari Tuesday, his second album, was released in 2013 reaching #1 in the U.S. dance charts followed by EP’s A Giant Warrior Descends On Tokyo in 2015, Feed Me’s Family Reunion in 2016 and Feed Me’s Existential Crisis in 2017.
For more information on FEED ME, visit:
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About mau5trap:
Over a decade since its formation, mau5trap-the independent label founded by groundbreaking electronic music producer deadmau5-has become a bastion for trailblazing and genre-defying artists. Casting a palpable influence over the genre, Mixmag readers voted mau5trap among the “Top 50 Labels of the Decade,” placing it in the Top 10. It has served as an influential platform for dance music heavyweights such as Feed Me, Zedd, Moguai, Noisia, Chris Lake and many more. A combination of dark, forceful techno and complex, electro sounds, the label acts as hot bed for rising talent such as ATTLAS, Matt Lange, No Mana and REZZ. www.mau5trap.com
For more information on FEED ME, contact:
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Crown Prince opens BISAM on winning note
By Azaraimy HH
His Royal Highness Prince General Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister's Office and General of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces officially opened the 10th Brunei International Shooting Skill at Arms Meet (BISAM) yesterday morning at Binturan Shooting Range, Tutong.
His Royal Highness was greeted on arrival by the Deputy Minister of Defence, Dato Paduka Awg Haji Mustappa bin Haji Sirat, and the Commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF), Major General Dato Paduka Seri Haji Aminuddin Ihsan bin Pehin Orang Kaya Saiful Mulok Dato Seri Paduka Haji Abidin.
His Royal Highness was invited to the royal stand to receive a royal salute. HRH the Crown Prince later met and greeted the contingent commanders of the participating teams.
It was followed by the handing over of BISAM trophy by the Contingent Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces to 10th BISAM Chief Jury, Lieutenant Colonel Hasmee bin Haji Abd Wahab.
His Royal Highness declared the official opening of 10th BISAM which was followed by fireworks and colourful smokes display throughout the shooting field and a flag hoisting ceremony of participating countries.
After the recital of a doa, His Royal Highness proceeded to the Statistics Centre for a briefing by the Chairman of 10th BISAM, First Admiral Dato Seri Pahlawan Abdul Aziz bin Haji Mohd Tamit. His Royal Highness had a group photo session comprising senior officers of the Ministry of Defence and RBAF, defence advisors and representatives of the contingents.
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TIME ZONES Location/Translation: Art and Engagement from the Local to the Global
When: Wednesday, September 19, 5:30 p.m.
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Time Zones is a yearlong series of events sponsored by the Arts Research Center exploring time-based and socially engaged art practices in an international context.
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Catherine Cole, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
Joseph del Pesco, Kadist San Francisco
Apsara DiQuinzio, SFMOMA
Mihnea Mircan, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp
Sanjit Sethi, Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts
Acting ARC Director Julia Bryan-Wilson (History of Art) will moderate.
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Housing Mistakes
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Originally Posted by Ged
Perhaps if time limits were put on making places habitable,
Just used Land Valuation Taxation as it is self regulating. No snooping Council employees are needed.
How Harrisburg in the US was transformed through a Land Value Tax
In the United States, many local authorities, including Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, operate a so-called split-rate tax system, in which buildings and land are taxed separately. Some bias it towards buildings and others towards land. The evidence is that the more it is biased towards land, the more this benefits the local economy – which is what would be predicted by the theory of land value tax – because the more that land is taxed the more this provides an incentive to invest capital on the land in the form of buildings and other economic activities. That is precisely what happened in Harrisburg after the city authorities more than doubled the tax rate on land, while reducing the rate on buildings, such that the rate for land was three times that for buildings.
In 1982, before the change, Harrisburg, with a population of 52,000, was listed as the second most run-down city in the US. Since then, following the change, empty sites and buildings have been re-developed, with the number of vacant sites by 2004 down by 85 per cent. The city authorities have issued over 32,000 building permits, representing nearly $4 billion of new investment – nearly 2,000 were issued in 2004 alone. Over 5,000 housing units have been newly constructed or rehabilitated, and the number of businesses has jumped from 1,908 to 8,864, with unemployment down by 19 per cent. Furthermore, crime has fallen by 58 per cent, and the number of fires has been reduced by 76 per cent, which the authorities say is due to more employment opportunities, and the elimination of derelict sites, making vandalism less likely.
They list 40 other positive benefits, including much improved public amenities. More recently, the bias towards tax on land is now six to one compared with three to one originally. This will likely further enhance the trends from which the city has already benefited. Meanwhile, the heightened economic activity has increased public revenues, not only from land and buildings, but also from other taxes, thus benefiting public services. And it has increased quite dramatically both the value of land and that of buildings, from around $400 million in 1982, in today’s prices, to $1.7 billion now. This has enabled the authorities to reduce the rate of tax on both land and buildings. Not surprisingly, this system of taxation has been politically popular, with Mayor Steven Reed Jr being re-elected continuously since 1982.
One constraint has been the fact that 47 per cent of the land in Harrisburg is occupied by state, federal, educational and charitable institutions, which, anomalously, are exempt by State law from property taxes. However, some of that lost revenue has been clawed back through charges on water, gas and electricity supplies, which are publicly owned – perhaps another lesson that we can learn from Harrisburg.
Meanwhile, another city in Pennsylvania, namely Pittsburgh, has gone in the opposite direction with its split-rate tax system. In 2000, it reduced the rate of tax on land to the same lower rate as that for buildings. Voters were persuaded that they would pay less tax. In fact, for most, taxes have increased, because the council has had to raise the tax rate on buildings to make up for the revenue lost through lowering the tax on land. Within just the first two years, it led to new construction falling by 21 per cent, and businesses moving out of town on a regular basis – which, again, is what would be predicted by land tax theory.
Land Value Taxation made Johannesburg into an African Super-City
Johannesburg, South Africa has no tax on buildings. The entire property tax is on land. Mason Gaffney, a highly respected land economist and Professor of Economics at UC Riverside, visited Johannesburg. This is what he said about it.
"The miracle of Johannesburg: Jo-burg is a Bootstrap City. It should have died when its gold mines played out, like a proper mining boomtown; instead it remains as the economic capital of its nation and half a continent.
"Johannesburg defies most laws of urban economics, e.g. that mines create no great cities. Explainers still site the mines, but its mines have played out; it should now be a ghost town. It has no harbor, no water transportation, nor even any gravity water supply. It is, in fact, on a ridge top, the Rand or "reef," at an elevation of 5,000 ft. Unlike Chicago or Boston, it has no sunburst of rail lines, except perhaps what it has attracted itself. It is "on the main rail line," Explainers say, but so are 1000 miles of other sites. The natural site lacks outstanding amenities, and certainly can't hold a candle to Cape Town. Jo-burg has no governmental economic base. Surrounding farmland is poor. Why Johannesburg? Why is it the largest city, the center of finance, industry, commerce, and international air travel? As a public finance economist I may overvalue incentive taxation, but Jo-burg has it. The property tax is on site value only, and at a high rate: they tell me it is 4%. This is what makes Jo-burg distinctive. Challenge and response: Jo-burg had to do something right in order to survive, and that is what it did. It not only survived, it became and remains Number One. Give me a better explanation and I'll back off. I haven't heard one yet."
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Originally Posted by az_gila
No, the planners do force people to live in certain locations - in the US it's called Planning and Zoning - I'm sure the UK has a similar law. It's also enforced in the longer term by where, and what type, of infrastructure is built.
The moral values of Green based on carbon is still up for debate and deserves it's own thread. Note how every solution proposed so far involves taxes flowing the the govt.?
I'll just leave with this - from a mere 40 years ago, a drop in the time bucket compared to climate predictions
Zoning laws may dictate what goes where but I suspect nobody in the US (or here) is forcing people to live in any specific zone.
I don't think there's any mileage in a further debate on the morality of global warming. This 1975 Newsweek piece seems just a little out of step with the 40 years of research and mapping since. 40 years is a drop in a geological bucket but it's a tremendous amount of science in human terms. Prior to the 70s, the topic was unheard of (or rather restricted to Science 'Fiction'). So this piece is more or less at the start of the discussion. If the shrinking ice caps is not evidence enough...
And the US in particular has to recognise that they have a per capita carbon footprint several times that of most European countries (last time I looked 800%, yes, eight times that of the UK). Given that the built environment has such a marked effect on our energy consumption (about 50% in creating it and 25% in travelling between various bits of it), that has to be down to both the base climate, space expectations and the resultant energy consumption of individual buildings (bigger/ac controlled buildings) and, the huge distances (from a European perspective) in travelling home to work and the dominance of the motor car.
Counterbalance that with the power and influence of a dollar-based global oil economy and it's small wonder that the planners who are advocating more compact cities meet with such resistance.
You may find this interesting: Guardian: Sustainable Cities (in the US) 2009
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Perhaps if time limits were put on making places habitable, after all, it's not a million years ago it was a nursery, passing stringent regulations no doubt to be able to be one. After which there would be penalties with the most extreme being a handover to the council as it's they after all who take the criticism of thoroughfares into the city looking grubby and uninviting. Maybe a cpo based on its dilapidated condition then the likes of Maghull developments wouldn't just let them fall down so they can then build anew - without the VAT penalty etc. Look what happened to Jamica House on the corner of Dale st/Vernon st and what also happened not long ago to the oldest property on Dale st on the corner of Cheapside.
What would a time limit change? If the money's not there, it's not there.
Maghull Developments or anyone else like them do not sit there with a bag of cash in the bank just so they can leave properties empty. Every empty property they hold is costing them money (down the drain and to the bank) - without income to compensate for it.
The idea that this is paid for by increased value (land-banking - in Everton...) or a saving on VAT is not sustainable.
Council do not have the money for CPOs of un-viable properties. And what would it buy them? A pain in the financial neck and complaints from the tax payer (about empty properties and lack of progress such as on the Newheartlands - see above).
The reason for empty properties is lack of customers to live or work in them and it hurts right where it hurts - in the back pocket. There's no incentive to hang on to empty property here.
A 'use it or lose it' policy is going to have an opposite effect to that intended. Why would anyone buy an empty property if they're only going to get kicked in the teeth a year down the line when tenants couldn't be found?
What if anyone inherited an old and tired property from their mum or dad and they could find anyone to take it? Would you give them a penalty for that? The poll tax riots would pale into insignificance.
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No, not forcing, but they do restrict where and how...
I beg to disagree, all you have is article quotes and reports from biased (ie, have an interest in the outcome) sources. As an example, once you create an organization called "Office of Climate Change (OCC)" do you think they will regard anything that might hurt their existance as real?
As an engineer I have always believed in numbers and actual data, something sorely missing in this debate.
Given that recent satellite data is more accurate, and also more global, and has been working for 17 years I'll just present this -
Given that recent satellite data is more accurate, and also more global, and has been working for 17 years I'll just present this...
I'm sure that you can live just where you like, where you can get to work within reach and where you can afford - just like us all.
I included an item for interest only. I haven’t provided any material is support of CO2 as a cause of global warming here. To attempt to do so would be unrealistic.
Nevertheless it would be un-contestable from such evidence that cities and compact cities at that, produce less CO2 emissions per capita and I assume you do not contest it. I also assume that you do not contest whether global warming exists or not.
However I assume that you do contest that the one causes the other.
There is of course a wealth of research to the contrary and not just from jumped-up self interest groups (whether OCC is one of them or not)
You have presented a graph without explanation of the basis of its derivation with a simple assertion in the legend as proof of that assertion and the ‘numbers and data... sorely missing in this debate’. A suggestion no less biased than any organisation you would condemn just for its name.
Even so and accepting the graph for the moment, it does indicate a continued increase of both temperature and CO2 levels at the same time although it does indicate a decrease in acceleration of increase in temperature. Perhaps (as is very likely) there is another phenomenon that is not measured, which would account for that slower increase, albeit still an increase. Melting of the ice caps perhaps? But that would be too neat. Perhaps not.
In terms of bias however it is interesting to note that those countries with vested interest in the continued reliance on higher energy consumption do tend to stand about-face to those who do not.
Australia it seems being the one exception - as the worst per capita offender (by dint of climate, distances and low population - perhaps a bit like Arizona) and the one most prepared to do something about it.
Yes, and another example of data being "corrected" (fudged?) to set up a govt. policy...
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/0...t-darwin-zero/
The debate would be a lot more robust if the data collectors actually released the original data, and told you what corrections were performed and why. As of this time they all regard their data as propretary and won't share what has been done to it - even though most of the data has been collected on govt. money.
Until the data is open I'm afraid I just can't agree that the "sceince is settled".
Concensus is not a scientific proof in any field except climateology.
Next week I'm a judge at the local Southern Arizona Science Fair - I bet none of the kids present concensus as part of their exhibits... The kids know better
I do apologize for the picture with no details. A more complete version is here -
http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/01/t...edictions.html
The better description I still need to find, but was based on past data, IPCC predictions and whether the Earth has a positive or negative feedback to climate forcing functions. The IPCC assumes negative feedback to CO2, but real data shows a positive feedback. This makes a heck of a difference to the 100 years out "we are all in trouble" prediction.
[Joke]Having spent two winter months over the last two years in Liverpool, I think 1 or 2 degrees C rise might actually be good - heck it would even reduce CO2 generation due to smaller heating bills... [/Joke]
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The GEM Hotel an Ascend Collection hotel is your corner of the world. Newly built boutique hotel offers an intimate atmosphere offering elegant rooms with luxurious amenities. Conveniently located in Chelsea it is a leisurely stroll to the Flatiron District, Greenwich Village, Union Square, New York University NYU, Times Square and the Broadway Theatre District.
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Choose this charming Bronx, New York hotel offering convenient access into New York City and to local attractions such as the Bronx Zoo and the Yankee Stadium. Welcome to the Best Western Bronx Inn where guests will find friendly customer service and comfortable accommodations at an affordable rate. Located just minutes from the heart of New York City, this hotel offers 65 well-appointed guest rooms.
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Smyth, a Thompson Hotel, is located in the quiet, cobble stoned area of Tribeca in Manhattan. The hotel has 100 rooms lavishly decorated in a modern, luxurious feel and has a wonderful restaurant with a French Riviera-inspired cuisine, as well as two bars. Smyth is yet another successful upscale boutique hotel by the same group who brought you 60 Thompson and the Hollywood Roosevelt, bringing the same luxury yet hip environment which can be expected from a Thompson Hotel.
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The Hilton Garden Inn New YorkWest 35th Street hotel in New York is perfectly located in Midtown Manhattan and is just steps from some of New York's best attractions including the Empire State Building, world-famous Macy's at Herald Square, Times Square, Broadway theaters and Madison Square Garden. Providing the finest quality and services, the Hilton Garden Inn New YorkWest 35th Street hotel in New York is perfectly designed for business or leisure guests, and offers an abundance of complimentary amenities ensuring your stay in the Big Apple is affordable, fun and hassle-free.The Hilton Garden Inn New YorkWest 35th Street hotel in New York features 298 brand new guest rooms, including two luxurious suites.
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The Jane Hotel New York
Travelers looking to grasp the true urban feel of New York, known to many as The Melting Pot, are sure to stay in The Jane Hotel, New York City. History seems to fill the air of each cabin-like room, designed specifically to give guests a feel of Bohemian maritime mixture. Dating back to 1908, this hotel originally was a lodging for sailors.
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5th Avenue Spot Hotel New York
The 5th Avenue Spot is perfectly located for both business and leisure guests to New York NY.All hotel's guestrooms have all the conveniences expected in a hotel in its class to suit guests' utmost comforts.Each guestroom is tastefully appointed with Non Smoking Rooms, Air Conditioning, Daily Newspaper, Television .
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Studio 75 Hotel New York
Located in Manhattan's Upper West Side and convenient to public transportation as well as several of the city's attractions, this fully furnished apartment building offers spacious studios with full kitchens.Studio 75 features an open kitchen with a small refrigerator, an electric hotplate, microwave and toaster. Pots, pans, dishes and utensils are provided.
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Finding the Feel of Room Break free Games
The suspense builds right up as you find yourself cornered in the virtual place. You look a couple of very few times looking for clues, and asking yourself in the event that there is a way to get rid of it. Sounds like one of the movies in the Friday the particular 13 fable, where Jerrika is just beyond the vacation cabin and you are remaining determined looking for a new way out of the scenario. However, this actually certainly not a segment regarding any kind of movie, but part of the piece inside the new online game type of room break free game titles. Escape games can be basically foreplay for typically the next generation regarding game games, where players can capable to engage throughout a good virtual reality, in which they are capable to get a grasp with the suspense related to this setting up where the sport is being enjoyed.
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The escape games genre can be the latest form connected with free of cost arcade games available in the world wide web. Free calotte game internet sites feature these kinds of games within an increasing range of variations. They are really designed in the flash platform, and have the simple using controls which normally have the arrow keys in your key pad and a new right click of the mouse to recognize objects. Around the standard plan often the player will start off in a very confined room. The particular surroundings could have a quantity of objects, like concealed keys and locked gates. The object of typically the game is usually to look about for clues that can direct to the escape from a present confinement. On the other hand, more clues are hidden, and sometimes protected through the work with of the puzzle often the player will need to be able to solve prior to getting entry to the object.
While you progress and get even more in room escape video games on the internet, you will observe some sort of vast number of identical games with a wide diversity of graphic details, themes and difficulty degrees. These games have compiled such popularity; a quantity of titles are in addition available for this xbox, and some other gaming systems. These provide a great deal more precise graphics, user interface and a substantially extra complex plot. Just about all players will find this alternatively easy to complete the first pair of levels, but as the game moves along, so will the concern to the player. Puzzles can become harder to resolve, and signs will become the lot tougher in order to find.
For fans of space escape games, who else wish to give it the try online, the action is absolutely free. Since they will run on the flash system, these are quick loading plus start using a simple game command software. All you need is an internet link, a keyboard and the mouse, and away a person go. A simple search upon Google for the name will render over a mil results. Search success would incorporate a good higher amount of sites hosting these games, and also direct links to the game titles themselves.
Room escape games are relatively new, varying back to game releases throughout Asia around 1994. Since then often the genre has been increasing around level of popularity, appearing online and around game console in different forms and flavors. If you think maybe you’re up to this suspense, try an break free game on-line together with enter into the future of sport fun through virtual fact, today.
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Vampire Weekend Return To Their “Upper West Side Soweto” Roots With Contra
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Vampire Weekend’s new album Contra brings back a torrent of memories for me. This quartet from New York City was not even born during the heyday of the Boston/NYC punk scene. Still they seem to capture an important lost era of punk music.
The band has a cool ska feel to them; with that in mind I wouldn’t call them a ska band. They are a rock band. The band themselves describe themselves as “Upper West Side Soweto” whatever the hell that is.
What is missing from most post punk acts these days is simple concept that punk is an attitude not a style of music. Vampire Weekend get it, this is not pop punk for tweens. Vampire Weekend is the real deal. Contra brings me back to 1986 and I am back at The Rathskeller in Boston’s Kenmore Square.
Contra opens with the strangely metered “California English”. This song has some great keyboards and sets the mood for the whole disk. “Giving Up The Gun” is another stand out on the disk. This tune is homage to a guitarist whose glory days have passed. The song’s lyrics hit home for this old ass guitar player.
“I heard you play guitar down at a seedy bar where skinheads used to fight. Your Tokugawa smile and your garbage style used to save the night. You felt the coming wave, told me we’d all be brave, you said you wouldn’t flinch. But in the years that passed since I saw you last, you haven’t moved an inch”
Yes, I saw some Skinhead fights at The Rathskeller back in the day. I also saw a lot of bands that sound like Vampire Weekend. The key thing is Vampire Weekend isn’t trying to sound like these bands they have their own vibe. I do hear a bit of The Clash in the underlying influences but seriously is that a bad thing?
The band is made of lead vocalist Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij keyboards and guitar, Chris Tomson drums and Chris Baio on the bass guitar. Koenig also helps out with the guitar duties. I am not sure which guitarist is doing the guitar runs on the first single “Cousins” but the guitar work is awesome.
The musicianship all over this album is well above par as is the writing. There isn’t a bad song on the disk I love this CD. Who would have known: I guess I am a fan of “Upper West Side Soweto”. Making this a very easy disk to review.
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Corey Taylor, Brent Hinds, Matt Heafy + More Guest on Nergal’s New Album
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Behemoth frontman Nergal has just announced his second album with dark folk project Me and That Man. This time around, Nergal has collaborated with some of rock and metal’s biggest names, including Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Mastodon’s Brent Hinds and Trivium’s Matt Heafy.
Me and That Man’s debut album, Songs of Love and Death, turned over a number of successful tracks. “Cross My Heart and Hope to Die,” “My Church Is Black” and “Ain’t Much Loving” all surpassed one million views on YouTube.
Nergal has already released videos for “Run With the Devil,” featuring (NO) Shining’s Jorgen Munkeby, and “Burning Churches” featuring Grave Pleasures’ Mat McNerney. Now, the new track “Surrender,” which sees the Behemoth mainman collaborating with Volbeat’s Rob Caggiano, has been unveiled.
“With the utmost pride and… kind of relief; I present to you, the second Me and That Man album - New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.1,” Nergal reveals. “This time round, I wanted to take on a different challenge and curated an album of 11 songs - each with their own character and vibe; alongside the most talented and important individuals across the whole scene - together, we take trips to the lands of Blues, Folk, Country and even Spaghetti Western. Only time will tell if we hit the mark, but I deeply believe so. I’m very proud of this piece of work and it has been a monumental task to achieve. I would like to thank EACH one of our guests for being part of this project: Mat & Matt, Niklas and Jørgen, Corey, Alan, Addi, Brent, Vegard, Sivert, Anders, Rob, Jerome, Johanna and Nicke. I LOVE you all from here to the moon and back! Without the passion and heart you granted us, this wouldn’t have been possible!”
Me and That Man will tour Poland in April before heading throughout Europe in June. Check out the full list of dates along with the album art and track listing for New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.1 below.
New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.1 Track Listing:
01. Run With the Devil, feat. Jørgen Munkeby (Shining NO)
02. Coming Home, feat. Siver Høyem (Madrugada)
03. Burning Churches, feat. Mat McNerney (Grave Pleasures)
04. By the River, feat. Ihsahn (Emperor)
05. Męstwo
06. Surrender, feat. Anders Landelius (Dead Soul)
07. Deep Down South, feat. Nicke Anderson (Entombed) / Johanna Sadonis (Lucifer)
08. Man Of The Cross, feat. Jerome Reuter (Rome)
09. You Will Be Mine, feat. Matt Heafy (Trivium)
10. How Come?, feat. Corey Taylor (Slipknot / Stone Sour) / Brent Hinds (Mastodon)
11. Confession, feat. Niklas Kvarforth (Shining SE)
Me and That Man 2020 Tour Dates:
April 02 - Wroclaw, Poland @ Zaklete Rewiry
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Watford confirms players that have tested positive for coronavirus
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Watford have announced that three members of the club have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Recall that on Tuesday, the Premier League confirmed that there were six positive Covid-19 results returned from a total of 748 tests administered to players and club staff on Sunday and Monday.
It was also gathered that Burnley assistant manager Ian Woan, whom the club says is "asymptomatic and is currently safe and well at home."
Watford have now confirmed that one player and two staff members have tested positive and will begin a period of self-isolation.
"Watford Football Club confirms that three people have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus following testing at the training ground over the past 48 hours," the club said in a statement.
"Of those three positive tests, one is a player and two are members of staff. All three have asked that medical confidentiality be respected and, therefore, the club will not be naming those involved.
"All three will now self-isolate for seven days - in line with the protocols set out in Premier League guidelines - before being tested again at a later date.
"Strict adherence to the Premier League guidelines has ensured the training ground remains virus-free and a safe environment for the players to continue to work.
"The club will continue to liaise closely with the affected personnel and there will be no further comment."
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Were the 1990s responsible for the truism that there’s never been a decent game based on a movie (or film as us Brits prefer to say). There certainly wasn’t that many great examples, but the Retrobear has dug through them to pull out the best and the worst. Enjoy.
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By the 1990′s film companies had begun to see the appeal in licensing their titles and making computer games based on them. They also saw the bottom line readies that could be made from it and thus we entered a period where most of the major film titles of that decade were turned into game equivalents. Matter not that most of them were total shit, think of the money! The computer industry had been whoring itself before, prior to the 1983 crash, now it was the film industry that was turning tricks to maximise profits.
So let’s look at the good and the bad of the 1990′s (Please note – these are based on my own gaming experiences and will not reflect mass opinion in the slightest. If you agree with me be it on your own head) :
Hudson Hawk (1991, Various) – A rare case of good game, shame about the film. A good, solid and challenging platform game from Ocean and probably the best game featuring Bruce Willis to date.
Alien3 (1991, Various) – A creepy, dark and atmospheric game, with favourable mentions going to the Mega Drive and the hard to find C64 version of the game. As good as it got until Alien Trilogy came along.
Aladdin (1993, Various) – Graphically superb at the time and a very playable game from Disney. It looks like the film and is as good as the film. Disney would go on to repeat the formula with The Lion King, The Jungle Book and errr, Pinocchio.
Toy Story (SNES)
Toy Story (1995, Various) – See above, but a very good game in its own right. Disney got a little lazy with the platform format after The Lion King, but Toy Story was a little different and a cracking game in its own right. Also, graphically excellent for the time.
Die Hard Trilogy (1996, Various) – All 3 films, all done differently and brilliantly. My favourite level has to be Die Hard 2 and the Operation Wolf-style gameplay. Then (and now) officially the best game starring Bruce Willis.
Goldeneye (1997, N64) – Ok so this wasn’t released to tie in with the film, but it re-invented the FPS game to new levels. Not everyone’s cup of tea and some of the controls are a bit iffy when you play it now, but for a long time a benchmark game and a true gaming classic.
Now you might be expecting some sort of “middle ground” list here, as in games that were good but not that good or too bad to be classed as either. The answer to that is yes, there probably were a lot of games like that. However, considering the sheer amount of games produced in that time, I simply haven’t played enough or even believe such a level exists. Therefore the rest of this list is going to be devoted to the bad.
Dirty Harry (1990, NES) – Remember that bit in the film were Clint Eastwood battles snakes? No, neither do I, but he does here. Horrible, horrible mess of a game which starts well with some sampled speech then goes rapidly downhill fast. Buy a gun and blow this to smithereens. Or shoot snakes with it.
The Hunt for Red October (1990, Various) – Submarine scrolling shooter. Awful in every respect and you’ll be abandoning ship in no time.
Home Alone/Home Alone 2 (1990/2, SNES) – I can’t think of a word to describe these games. Atrocious in every sense of the word and it’s got Macaulay Culkin in it. Remember that bit where he screams? You’ll hear it every few minutes in this abysmal platform game that should be left well alone.
Fantasia (1991, Mega Drive) – Sega try and cash in on the success of Castle Of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse. They failed to bring in someone to play test the game.
The Last Action Hero (1992, Various) – Widely regarded as a cinematic and gaming turkey. You can’t get past the first screen. Appealing, if you like torture of the very painful nature.
Cliffhanger (1992, Various) – In fact you might as well see the above and chuck in The Lawnmower Man (1993, SNES), because to me they are all the same f**king game – unplayable, messy, cash-in piles of poop which must be flushed away.
You know if I carry on and list the remaining bad games from this decade this column could run and run and run into a number of weeks. More fool us, the gaming public, for parting with our money in return for the lowest common denominator out there – the film tie-in. Seen the film? Then you’ll love the game! Will we? I doubt it, after all most film games follow the same patterns:
Try and create a main character who is a smaller, recognisable(ish) version of the film’s lead.
Turn it into a platform game.
Watch the cash roll in.
Of course with Goldeneye and Die Hard Trilogy we got things a little differently and I always say variation is good for the soul. Is it or was it a lack of imagination? After all they made a driving game version of Days of Thunder. No wait that was both a shit game and film. Well at least that wasn’t turned into a platform game where you had to collect parts of a car.
The bottom line is if it was a game of a film in the 1990′s, it was mostly crap. Nearly all the games, save for the main sprites, backgrounds and tasks, where exactly the same. Back then you were paying up to £40 for a cartridge and £25 for a disc in a huge box. We might pay the same now but we expect more for our money. Back then, we had the carbon copy approach of shoving out a game in the hope that the name on the box would result in the revenue required. How many of these games made money? Plenty probably, but that’s no excuse for lazy programming and a cookie cutter approach to the gaming market.
I need a lie down. Till the next time – Your move, creep.
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This means you’ll find yourself using vim with programs that do not include their own built-in editor such as crontab, visudo, git, etc. O'rnatish shart emas. Emacs is a full fledged text editor with features for programming. Even better, it is possible to dynamically switch between the two styles seamlessly which makes it possible for programmers with different styles to do seat pair programming using the same editor. Developers claimed GNU nano to be 2/3 to 1/8 the size of the Pico binary, which made it very lean and usable on even the weakest systems. Nano is the built-in basic text editor for many popular distros. Some programmers prefer nano as, it makes a 'quick edit' much quicker by doing it all in the terminal. If you want to customize Emacs you’ll need to learn Emacs Lisp which introduces a whole new learning curve. How to avoid overuse of words like "however" and "therefore" in academic writing? Vim is like Emacs only it uses a much different form of input. Take your pick (I'm not taking Vim vs Emacs side for this post lol) How is time measured when a player is late? Emacs (or Vim, but thats less good for stats) are worth learning as they are both cross platform and support almost every programming language in the world. This article is a bit dated, but will still give you the basic idea... http://rubymm.blogspot.com/2007/08/make-gedit-behave-roughly-like-textmate.html. Without trying to rekindle the editor wars, let’s look at when you might consider using nano, emacs, or vim. Vim is a cloned version of the original vi editor but with some significant improvements and enhancements, hence the name vi improved, or vim. The user can now choose his/her preferred editing style and enjoy all the Spacemacs features. How to get documentation for the current mode. You might argue that Jove is unnecessary, since Emacs can be invoked in different ways so as to avoid your init file or to act lightweight. Geany is an excellent editor if you have to edit XML-(configuration)-files! I'm getting tired of answering this question. In vi after apt install vim, or vim type the following :help +enter/return to get started. As an example I have a left panel with a project browser, a Find in Files utility and I python syntax analyzer. An introduction to the vi editor | Enable Sysadmin. Vim serves one and only one purpose; to efficiently edit text. You don’t have to remember any commands ever. Lightweight and bug free. If by theme you mean colorscheme, I suggest beginners pick two: one for normal mode and one for insert mode, making it easy to tell which one you're in. Would it be possible for a self healing castle to work/function with the "healing" bacteria used in concrete roads? syntax highlighting tabbed pages and word/bracket completion. What is the application of `rev` in real life. Almost like vi (vim), you can find nano on most Unix-like systems. With the ability to edit and view multiple files at once, create macros, perform global substitutions and more, you’ll look like a genius when you click a couple of buttons on your keyboard and great swaths of text fall into place just like you want. However, most of the time I just use gedit, because I'm not as powerful and effective as Vim. Questionable ergonomics. As we’ve already covered, Emacs is not only a text editor, it’s also an IRC client, a game console, and a web browser. Vim uses editing modes - most commonly the command mode and insert mode. It's so powerful and effective and perfect in every way. Within Vim you can see the differences between Vi and Vim by running the following command::h vi-differences. I have used emacs in the past and at work on our AIX antiques I use vi but on any half-modern system I use nano. I’m a huge fan of the “make each program do one thing well” philosophy. Whereas Geany plugins will give you extras like version control integration, optional and non-intrusive project management, jumping between function definitions and declarations, etc. This is because advanced features are key combinations like crtl + e (goto end of line). It's worth the learning curve. Emacs is for people who want more than just a text editor as Emacs can be an “environment.” It’s also for people who have a strong desire or need to customize. The great thing about nano is that it really doesn’t have much of a learning curve. Please consider describing how and where you find these customizations. Vim is a cloned version of the original vi editor but with some significant improvements and enhancements, hence the name vi improved, or vim. Although gedit is easier to use, vi is HUGELY more powerful. This aspect of Emacs is often criticized. Since he's apparently a stickler for everything lean, why would he be using emacs? I'm another gedit fan. Does your organization need a developer evangelist? Why don't more applications behave like vim? Are there better ones? Thus, it's a matter of return on investment. Why does Palpatine believe protection will be disruptive for Padmé? Not available everywhere by default. Is a fine wine any less fine if tasted by someone who prefers the sweetness of grape soda? Why ubuntu has vi , emacs ,nano with os default? If you haven’t already, I would personally recommend Doom Emacs, as pure Emacs out of the box is simply bad. I recommend gedit. This requires adding, e.g.. If you don’t know what you’re doing you’ll look like an idiot. This one is usually easier to learn but is still confusing. How can I discuss with my manager that I want to explore a 50/50 arrangement? Nano is without a doubt the simplest, least complicated, and least powerful of the three editors. I use nano with a whole load of customization for the languages I write. I use it for almost all my programming. ... linorm: vim vs emacs vs nano (photo) By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service. Both the editors differ a lot in the way they operate. Basically, Nano is for normal users. Well, you get the idea. Most programmers use an IDE. The learning curve often scares away new users. I know you can get the same functionality in VIM but it isn't as easy to navigate as Geany. ). The only meaningful objection I hear raised in regards to emacs is "no intellisense". Vi is old school with a blank layout and no visible controls, which can make it difficult to work with for beginners. vim is blatantly powerful, as is emacs, I just don't have the time / effort / skill to learn either of them enough to make them really work for their money. @Javier what do you use for your class browser? The list is extensive, but the graphic above captures a good number of the major ones. With sysadmin tools relying on vim and the lack of other text editors, knowing vim is a must. Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's got color coding for programming code which makes everything from HTML/CSS to PHP easier to read and edit. Anytime you’re using nano you’ll see a list of all the commands you’ll need at the bottom of your screen. A Brief History of GNU nano and Vim. It does not gives you the whole power of vi or emacs but it's almost there, and uses the same keybindings than any other app in gnome, it's more "understandable" :) at least IMO. Vim is a mode based text editor while Nano is modeless. Nano[1] vs Emacs[2] vs Vim[3]，是的你没看错这是三款在Linux系统中常见到的编辑器。关于编辑器之争历来已久，尤其以Emacs 和 Vim之间较为激烈，每个编辑器都有自己忠实的粉丝用户，所以争论也从未停止过，只要你开启了一个编辑器对比的话题，看吧，必然就会引起一场谁优谁劣的争论。 I'll use nano on the command line for editing stuff (OK, it can do finds and deleting lines at once, as well as write and exit - the main commands used). They are considerably slower and support less languages. how can you call vim "perfect in every way" if you are more "powerful and effective" in gedit? You never need to leave it because you can edit files, browse the web, and so on. In the past, many small editors modeled after or derived from vi flourished. On a new machine I check all the boxes on the first two tabs of preferences, set the tabs to use 4 spaces. Vim va Emacs (nano va boshqa bir nechta) to'g'ridan-to'g'ri terminaldan ishlatilishi mumkin, bu uzoq serverda fayllarni o'zgartirganda juda foydali. Vim vs. Emacs. Nano does one thing, but not very well. Vim is modal meaning that each key means something different in a different mode. Vim is ranked 1st while nano is ranked 23rd. Said another way, if you are or ever want to be a Linux system administration you HAVE to know vim. Here are some screenshots from their site: site design / logo © 2020 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa. vim::map defines a binding for normal, visual, and operator-pending modes.. set key binding. Vim is the default editor for the overwhelming majority of Linux distributions. Is 2001: A Space Odyssey any less an artistic masterpiece if watched by someone who prefers the fast pacing of Transformers? Eventually you'll find yourself composing your emails in vim! However emacs shortcuts are implicitly supported by many applications, because or readline dependency. Are you going to do a sufficient amount of text editing to justify investing time in learning a more powerful editor? I don't know anything about Nano and Emacs, but you can configure and extend Vim almost endlessly and it is available on most platforms. Another advantage of vim is that it is portable. If you want to turn a polite conversion into a heated debate then start talking about religion, politics, or text editors. Lately there's a tendency in many linux distros to make nano a default text editor, since it's more intuitive. If you haven’t already, I would personally recommend Doom Emacs, as pure Emacs out of the box is simply bad. Nano is simple to use and easy to master while Vim is powerful and tough to master. (Ten-finger touch typing makes vim much easier to learn, so you may like to spend an hour or two with gtypist before trying vim, if you aren't already comfortable with touch-typing), Emacs is pretty good. You could argue that the one thing Emacs does well is editing text, but it’s definitely not my go-to choice for a web browser. Even if you’re not into being as productive as you can be, you still need to learn the basics of vim because sooner or later you’ll end up using it whether you like it or not. I mean, sure, in the modern world, emacs bloat has been reduced to nothing more than a myth, but if he draws the line at the miniscule file-size benefit of tabs vs spaces why doesn't he do the same for his editor of choice? I know that this is not a "manly" terminal text editor, but gedit is nice. Geany is the best editor I have found for code when working on a lot of files. VSCode vs VIM My editor journey: sublime, vim, emacs, vscode # vim # emacs # vscode Lucas Arantes Aug 4, 2018 ・ Updated on Nov 22, 2019 ・6 min read That leaves Vim. For everything else there is SciTE. Pros. Comparizon between text editors in Ubuntu: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Nano [closed], http://rubymm.blogspot.com/2007/08/make-gedit-behave-roughly-like-textmate.html. 11 Linux Text Editors and Links to Tutorials, Getting Started with Shell Scripting: Writing Your First Script, Linux System Administrator and DevOps Interview Questions, Q & A on Linux Career, Certification and Online Courses, What It Takes to Become a Successful Linux Administrator, Resetting File Permissions And Ownership On RPM-Based Linux Systems. Oh, and don't forget Ubuntu's default text editor, Gedit. Emacs vs Vim: Which has better keybindings? Vim and Emacs are both extremely powerful text editors, and each has its own rabid following. So with vim you are constantly changing between command mode and edit mode. The main difference between the two is speed. Vim is about finding and editing text, sort of hunting. Vim is a must for Linux system administrators. Should I just edit the original answer instead of commenting it?. Officially Settled: vim 5x more popular than emacs : linux. More details.. Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Emacs and Vim are for programmers. Both use a precise syntax and have similar constructs and concepts. It comes with a built-in web browser, IRC client, calculator, and even Tetris. I use geddit with a combo of preferences and plugins. Look across pop culture and you’ll find holy wars everywhere: Coke vs Pepsi, iPhone vs Android, Marvel vs DC, pirates vs ninjas… the list goes on. I took the path of least resistance, learning nano was easy and it does what I want. Gedit is light but still has all the handy features you want like Is it more efficient to send a fleet of generation ships or one massive one? You have to install a bunch of plugins just to catch up with ordinary built-in features of Geany, like code folding etc. It becomes so natural that regular text editors will too hard to use. Include instructions on how to install. I don't use VS/Eclipse Intellisense when I do edit there. I've used Visual Studio and eclipse somewhat. Vim. Emacs and Vi are two text editors that were very popular in the Unix and Unix-like operating systems. You can also try the pentadactyl plugin, which was forked off from vimperator. It’s also great for programmers because coding is mainly editing plain text files which Vim excels at. Plausibility of an Implausible First Contact, Aligning and setting the spacing of unit with their parameter in table. Vim is … What are each of them good for? I use Gedit to code quite complex projects right now. Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. But I'm starting to require more than Vim can offer, and I'm considering switching to Emacs. Do MEMS accelerometers have a lower frequency limit? Want to improve this question? If you’re a casual Linux user or hobbyist, nano might be all you ever need. It’s astoundingly powerful. No powerful features such as macros, viewing multiple files at once, window splitting, vertical block/rectangle selecting/editing, auto-completion, etc. ^_^. I get a simple UI with as many features as I want. Sublime Text. Once you have a handle on vim you’ll be super fast and efficient. Gedit can bundle a Python interpreter, but Geany bundles an entire virtual terminal. It has a lot of features built in and can be extended via plugins (try sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins). very stable and fast Nano is great for people who are new to the command line or for anyone who needs to make a very simple edit. Difference between Vim and Nano Basics – Vim and Nano are the two most popular terminal-based, command-line text editors around. Use gvim and choose a theme you like a lot before you start learning, it can make it a more pleasant experience. I use it for most programming projects. For example, if you try to exit nano and have unsaved changes, you’ll be prompted to save them with a Yes/No question. It depends. The GNU nano (more commonly referred to as "nano") project was created in 1999 in order to emulate and improve upon the Pico text editor. and is extensible through its embedded dialect of Lisp (elisp). Emacs editor is one of the oldest and most versatile text editors available for Linux UNIX-based systems. Mature integration with many free software programming tools. Learning the many keystrokes of vi and emacs takes time and practice, but the end result is a developer that can edit code much faster than a developer using the competitively narrow range of key shortcuts a modern IDE provides (see: efficiency competitions such as vim golf). Vim is modal meaning that each key means something different in a different mode. Light Table. It has been around for over 20 years. Now which is faster? As computers have become more powerful, many vi clones, Vimin particular, have grown in size and code complexity. Kakoune. For example, Vim without any extensions r… Vim is like Emacs only it uses a much different form of input. Earlier this month Linux Magazine carried an op-ed titled "The End of the Editor Wars," (more discussion) discussing the age old argument of vi vs Emacs, or really vim vs Emacs these days.I've been using Linux and Unix for at least a couple of decades and it's an argument I've never understood, because both editors are total garbage, but especially vi. Brackets. vi or emacs or nano would generally be used to open remote files in a terminal window. ... Emacs. It also has modes for many statistical programs, support for tex, a calendar, mail reading utilies, tetris and even a psychiatrist. nano is much easier to learn than vi (because there's very little to learn).vi is much easier to use (because it is far more capable). If you find yourself wanting to do something the authors didn’t think of, you can implement it yourself using Emacs Lisp. Without trying to rekindle the editor wars, let’s look at when you might consider using nano, emacs, or vim. Also, because many server installations only include what is necessary to perform their primary function, you often won’t find emacs installed by default. rev 2020.12.2.38095, Sorry, we no longer support Internet Explorer, The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. The rivalry between vim and emacs users actually triggered one of the first flame wars between computer users, achieving cult status in the sysadmin and hacker culture. Lately there's a tendency in many linux distros to make nano a default text editor, since it's more intuitive. On the downside I can't imagine a texteditor with a steeper learning curve. There have been holy wars for years for vim vs emacs. DeepMind just announced a breakthrough in protein folding, what are the consequences? I think the core reason people don’t abandon Emacs or Vim is that today with plugins they can do 90% of what a modern IDE like intellij / VS Code can do but without having to have one hand off your keyboard and lose typing efficiency. You can unlock unparalleled efficiency and speed with powerful features such as multiple file/window support, keyboard shortcuts for everything, macros, registers, quick command repetition, auto-completion, text objects, filters, and global substitutions. Gedit is usable on your first attempt with no documentation required. Vim takes time to learn, but by the time you've got the hang of it (not just which key to hit when, but getting used to looking at the text that way), you stop about how to type and you can really focus on what to type. How is the Q and Q' determined the first time in JK flip flop? This is definitely my favorite code/text editor. Nano. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. My own personal weaknesses do not in any way diminish the perfection of Vim. Nano is without a doubt the simplest, least complicated, and least powerful of the three editors. You have to have your favorite text editor and you have to master it, because it's a number one tool if you are going to use a terminal. And the configurable keybindings available in Geany allow you to set it up pretty much exactly how you like - though the defaults are pretty good too. If you’re looking to develop ninja-like Vim skills, check out the Vim Masterclass course. When working with text editors, you pretty much choose between Vi or Nano. Note. How to stop Gedit, Gvim, Vim, Nano from adding End-of-File newline char? Emacs can do it, but it takes some effort to learn how to set up and use. It's also very powerful (once you've learned how to use it). If you write LaTeX to generate documents you are essentially still a programmer, Just not in the commonly perceived way. On the right panel I have a class browser and the documents view. Emacs Vs VIM Vs Notepad Text Editors Programmers | iPad Case & Skin. Emacs is a text editor, but it’s so much more than that. I'd say LaTeX users are doing a kind of programming. Gedit is simple and lightweight, yes, but does it have any actual advantages over Geany? It is known for its powerful and rich editing features. Vim is about finding and editing text, sort of hunting. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). I use VIM alot too, mostly when ssh'd into a server. How do I place the Clock arrows inside this clock face? You have to have your favorite text editor and you have to master it, because it's a number one tool if you are going to use a terminal. Within Vim you can see the differences between Vi and Vim by running the following command::h vi-differences. +1 For being so right. So ^X is actually Ctrl-X and it exits nano. Take your pick (I'm not taking Vim vs Emacs side for this post lol). When I say “not very well” I mean that it has limited functionality as a text editor. These vi variants of today, as with the old lightweight Emacs variants, tend to have many of the perceived benefits and drawbacks of the opposing side. There is an important difference between "easy to use" and "easy to learn". mode documentation. Making complicated edits can be quick and easy. However, it is very powerful and once you learn the keystrokes it can be used very quickly to edit config files and used for scripts, etc. They are not as good at raw text editing as emacs. But do not discount it as a weak beginners tool. It has syntax highlighting and supports extensions. +1, however, "Emacs and Vim are for programmers" ?? The good thing about that is you can often stay in your normal typing position which makes you fairly efficient. Spacemacs. Emacs, although more heavy than Vim or Nano, is miles ahead of VS Code or IntelliJ. By adding plugins from the repo, and enablung them, gedit really becomes a very powerful editor. It’s human nature, and it happens to all of us. I use emacs all the time for writing LaTeX documents. I was wondering the difference between these text editors and which is best used with Ubuntu? And Emacs's GUI based design made them look so much better than in Vim) * Although its default key binding is a pain (at the very least for your pinky), you can always configure it to using Vim keybinding (yah, I am a fan) * I can do EVERYTHING in Emacs, coding, document writing, scheduling, even email writing (Hello, mu4e! And I am a touch typist with 60wpm. Vim can be found on virtually any Linux system, including your embedded devices. Admittedly I have spent next to no time trying vim but the other two I would not bother with. What are the default text editors in different flavours of Ubuntu? It’s also ideal for anyone who works on the command line often or has to log into Linux servers. You can make gedit looks and feel a little bit like TextMate. (AKA: Emacs Pinky Syndrome.). It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. The great thing about nano is that it really doesn’t have much of a learning curve. I like vim because it makes coding feel like a video game. Nano supports highlighting. Emacs, although more heavy than Vim or Nano, is miles ahead of VS Code or IntelliJ. Earlier this month Linux Magazine carried an op-ed titled "The End of the Editor Wars," (more discussion) discussing the age old argument of vi vs Emacs, or really vim vs Emacs these days.I've been using Linux and Unix for at least a couple of decades and it's an argument I've never understood, because both editors are total garbage, but especially vi. Geany. Difference between Vim and Nano Basics – Vim and Nano are the two most popular terminal-based, command-line text editors around. If you’re a sysadmin, a programmer, or anyone who needs to do serious text editing, then vim could be the next (and last) editor you’ll ever need to learn. The most important reason people chose Vim is: When compared to modern graphical editors like Atom and Brackets (which have underlying HTML5 engines, browsers, Node, etc. It is light weight, has a lot of useful extensions and is also cross platform now and available for Mac & Windows. If you want to beef up to the level of TextMate you can do it this way: Oh and check the plugins to enable the cool features you need. @steabert: Scripting is a form of programming, and LaTeX is a form of scripting. Find the one that you like the best and use it. Personally, I prefer vim - it is small, does what it's supposed to do, and when I wish a full blown IDE I open VS. Emacs's approach of being an editor which wants to be an IDE (or should I say, an OS), but is not quite, is IMHO, outdated. Also, any prompts that need to be dealt with are displayed at the bottom of the screen as well. In general, powerful editors like Vim and Emacs are easier to use than a simpler editor, once you have learnt how to use them. Difference between Emacs metapackage and Emacs, Difference between emacs and emacs-lucid packages, Text editors need root access to work correctly. When you perform different operations the menu displayed at the bottom of your screen updates with the currently available commands. Comfort, Efficiency, Succinctness. And Emacs's GUI based design made them look so much better than in Vim) * Although its default key binding is a pain (at the very least for your pinky), you can always configure it to using Vim keybinding (yah, I am a fan) * I can do EVERYTHING in Emacs, coding, document writing, scheduling, even email writing (Hello, mu4e! It depends. If someone limits themselves only to tools that are easy to learn, they will always be doing things the hard, laborious, time-consuming way. The commands :nmap, :imap, :vmap, :omap, and :cmap can be used to define commands specific to normal, insert, visual, operator-pending, and cmdline mode.. emacs: global-set-key changes the key binding for all modes. I'm yet to find an plugin that is simple to install. If you need to edit files on a system that you don’t have root access to and emacs isn’t installed, then you’ll end up using vim. ), Vim uses a sliver of the system's memory and it loads instantly, all the while delivering the same features. In the text area I have 3 word completion system (including snippets) and a bunch of helpers (like comment/uncomment blocks). See for yourself: Emacs has a keyboard shortcut for absolutely everything. For example, the shortcut to quit Emacs is C-x C-c. That means you’ll hold down the control key, type x, then type c. One of the areas where Emacs really shines is its ability to be fully customized. Of course, you have to know or learn Lisp to do it, but it’s at least possible. But, andol's sentiment is dead on: the power of vim and emacs comes from using them over & over in use cases where "regex search and replace" or personalized functions / macros are helpful. Emacs and Vim are for programmers. Just like vim, emacs is a classic Unix/Linux text editor that has been around since the 1970s. How can a hard drive provide a host device with file/directory listings when the drive isn't spinning? My preferred one is gEdit. The big difference is that vim is modal and nano is not. If you’re going to work regularly at the command line, learning this powerhouse editor is a worthwhile investment. GNU Emacs is a free, portable, extensible text editor. Basically, Nano is for normal users. Vim and Emacs are both extremely powerful text editors, and each has its own rabid following. It can grow to be a quite complex editor. Another good one to use is Geany, found in the Ubuntu package manager or at geany.org . Thank you for celebrating 10 years of Ask Ubuntu! Emacs. Vim and Nano are two of the commonly used editors available on Linux.
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The Royal Hibiscus hotel is the story of Segun and Rose Adeniyi, who run a hotel in a little town in Lagos, Nigeria. Their daughter, Ope, is living in London, working a dead-end job while trying to open her own restaurant. When Ope decides to return to Nigeria, she meets Deji, a charming young businessman with a secret that threatens her plans to restore the hotel’s fortunes.
The Royal Hibiscus Hotel is a production of Ebonylife Film. It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF)and will be in cinemas from February 9 2018.
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After successfully directing the third and fourth season of MTV Base’s ‘Shuga’ and Ebony Life TV’s first legal drama series ‘Castle and castle,’ Ascend’s Tope Oshin is ready to release her latest project; ‘New Money’
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Tope Oshin is known and celebrated for her exceptional body of work as a director, with ‘New Money’ she is expected to deliver one of Nollywood’s biggest movies of 2018.
New Money will be in cinemas on the 23rd of March 2018.
Potato Potahto heads to African cinemas| Set to premiere in Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana
Following a series of successful screenings in some of the biggest festival across the globe, West African romantic comedy ‘Potato Potahto’ will kick off its cinematic releases across the continent from November 2017. Potato Potahto opens in Nigerian and South African cinemas on the 24th of November and makes its way to Ghanaian screens on the 30th of November.
Directed by award winning Ghanaian film maker Shirley Frimpong-Manso; the film stars OC Ukeje, Joselyn Dumas, Joke Silva, Blossom Chukwujekwu, Chris Attoh, LalaAkindoju, AdjeteyAnang, Victoria Michaels and Nikki Samonas. The movie tells the story of a divorced couple whose plans to share their matrimonial home results in chaos after the husband, Tony, brings in an attractive female house help. When his ex-wife, Lulu, then hires an attractive young man to help her out, a roller coaster ride of laughter, jealousy and tears ensues.
Producer Inya Lawal is ecstatic about the movie’s upcoming cinematic release; “We have taken Potato Potahto round the world to an incredibly warm reception, we cannot wait to bring it to cinemas home in Africa, this is just the beginning! “ she explained.[btx_image image_id=”1182″ link=”/” position=”center”][/btx_image]
For South African filmmaker Bonginhlanhla‘Mr. B’Ncube, more African film makers should adopt Potato Potahto’s unique form of pan-African collaborations. “This collaboration is a true representation of Africans coming together and saying, ‘we own this space, our continent, our people,’ let’s serve them and tell those African stories-to our people.”Mr. B attended the Cannes Film Festival premiere of the film and immediately invited the Producers to release the film in South Africa, his production company Sukuma Media which released the action comedy flick, Safe Bet (2016), is actively involved in the South African release.
Director Shirley Frimpong-Manso reflects on the film’s journey; “It has been a whirlwind taking our labour of love across the world. I have truly been overwhelmed by the universal acceptance of the movie, the unusual storyline and our incredible cast; I look forward to when Potato Potahto finally hits the cinemas.”
Potato Potahto has been screened to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival, the Durban International Film Festival, the British Urban Film Festival, and the Silicon Valley African Film Festival. It was the first Nollywood film to screen at the Chelsea Film Festival and it heads to the American Film Market, the African International Film Festival and the Toronto Nollywood International Film Festival in November.
Potato Potahto is a co-production of Ascend Studios, 19 April Entertainment Virgo Sun Ltd, Lufodo Productions and WB Entertainment.
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In the picture, two players sit in living room and start a crystal virtual projection ball on the desktop.
When the time came, the living room became a battlefield of Three Kingdoms, with the flag flying, the sword shadow, the shouting, and the soldiers fighting each other.
At this time, one of the players picked up their own gamepad. As he selected the character, Zhang Fei, who was holding eight-snake spear, appeared from the battlefield. The little sisters were swept by him and killed a bloody road.
“Zhang Yide is here, who dares to fight with me?” Zhang Fei screamed, as the tiger went down the mountain, scared the soldiers to retreat.
The other player also selected the character, and saw a burly wicked man holding two shovel and flying an enemy army. He said: “Dian Wei is here. Fight me!”
The two generals played together, spears blocked, and blood splashed. The physical movements of the characters, expression- and special effects of the movements are all displayed in the room in 3D manner.
In the demo video, two “computer players” carried out various operations, the military commander PK, minister PK, and even the battle mode of squadron and defending city.
In traditional games, these don’t sound new, but virtual projection games behave differently. Virtual projection makes the flat game a three-dimensional game, the player is immersed in the situation, the emotion is more easily mobilized, and the sense is stronger.
After Lu Zixin watch, he said: “The character dynamic model is still a little bit worse, and there is also the action expression. When the virtual projection appears, the player is like watching a movie, and it feels like this is a real person!”
“We will continue to improve, this concept video is only the first edition.” the staff said.
In virtual projection technology, they still have a lot of places to work with Red Letter Electronics. After all, they have never been produced and lack experience.
The “Soul of Three Kingdoms” production is quite fast, because Lu Zixin assisted Red Letter Software Development Co., Ltd. to make an intelligent algorithm for virtual projection modeling.
In this way, when designing the scene and character model, most of the work can be done through computer intelligence, and the rest is the detail filling and art modification.
The previous demo video was also refined and made into a game trailer.
Just one month before ChinaJoy started, Red Letter game finally made a big move, promoting it on online video and all Red Letter game platforms.
“Breaking the Dimensional Wall! Red letter game’s annual masterpiece “Soul of Three Kingdoms” is coming!”
The attention of Red Letter games is far less than that of Red Letter’s electronic products, and players are not expecting anything about it.
““Soul of Three Kingdoms?” It is still a fighting game. Please, what age is it, is there anyone playing this game?”
“Red letter game is getting more and more garbage. The game theme of the fried food in Three Kingdoms is also sold out. It doesn’t mean anything.”
“Is still a masterpiece of the year, isn’t it a fighting game? I think it is a big 3D online game!”
“Dissipated, scattered! Hey, I used to think that Red Letter game can do a better job, but until now, I still have to charge Tencent.”
At the beginning, red letter game did not explode too much, because little news and little bit of material, slowly hype. All of a sudden the content was released, the audience was cool, but the heat will soon disappear.
Long line to catch big fish.
The news of the first wave of “Soul of Three Kingdoms” game has been flat in game industry. Not only is the player not interested in this, even the major game companies feel that red letter game is a poor skill, the so-called annual masterpiece is an old-fashioned fighting game, not a little competitive.
After another week, the attention of the “Soul of Three Kingdoms” has dropped a lot. Red Letter game has released new news again. The official CG animation of “Soul of Three Kingdoms” is also a promotional video.
This PV have changed a lot from the first time, becoming more refined and exciting. More advanced improvements have been made to character models and action effects, and each character is lifelike and full of charm.
And red letter game also specifically stated that this official CG animation also has 3D perspective version, with HX GLASS smart glasses 3D effect to watch better.
Most netizens will not specifically use HS GLASS glasses to watch, but directly choose to watch web videos.
In the picture, the scene changes, the long river of history is flowing, until the battle is in the flames of war, the three generations of heroes.
Then, it is a variety of famous battle scenes, the battle of Guandu, the battle of Chibi, etc., as well as the pictures of military commanders, such as the three-game battle Lu Bu, Zhao Zilong seven in seven out of Changpo, Guan Erye over five levels the Sixth General will wait, the literary officers and men will arrange for the troops…
A series of pictures, like watching a historical blockbuster, makes people feel hearty!
This time, netizens finally looked forward to “Soul of Three Kingdoms”.
“The preview animation is doing a good job, it’s better than watching the Three Kingdoms movies and anime!”
“If the game and the promotion are so exciting, I am sure to have fun!”
“You want to think more upstairs! Domestic games are all a bird-like, propaganda animation is better than Hollywood blockbuster, real game is like a fun-filled moon!”
“Agree with +1, the promotion animation is good, does not mean that the game is good. And does not mean that “Soul of Three Kingdoms” is a fighting game? Does it have anything to do with the animation?”
“Looking in the trough, let’s go over and see 3D version of the video, this is the correct way to open the animation!”
“Brothers, going to 3D version is more interesting than this!”
“Highly recommended 3D version!”
Many netizens have been confused, what happened to 3D version? Many people can’t directly see 3D version of the video.
Net One Game Company, a senior executive who just finished watching “Soul of Three Kingdoms” promotional animation of Red Letter game, commented: “The propaganda animation is estimated to cost a lot of money, that is, this picture and game type is not sync.”
“Supervisor, look with HX GLASS smart glasses!” Someone said, “It’s totally different.”
“Is it?” The supervisor put on his own HX GLASS smart glasses, and found 3D version of “Soul of Three Kingdoms” promotional animation resources, watch again.
This time, his feelings are very different. Just watching the flat video, he only felt that the production was good, but after wearing smart glasses, those pictures seemed to be real in front of him.
The grand war, the tens of thousands of people shouting, the drums and the earth, the knife shadow, the mighty and domineering military commanders, the heroic heroes, the beauty of the country, the princes of the world…
These pictures and characters impacted his vision, coupled with the passionate music, made him excited, and could not wait to participate in the chaos of Three Kingdoms.
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It’s a bittersweet week in comics, as Brian Michael Bendis’s legendary run with Marvel Comics comes to an end. He says farewell in Invincible Iron Man #600, which naturally grabs the top spot in this week’s edition of 5 in 5, where we break down the five comic books that need to be on your pull list this week in (around) five minutes.
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Home Buying Guide Best Air Rifles Under $500: Level Up Your Shooting Skills!
Best Air Rifles Under $500: Level Up Your Shooting Skills!
PCP air rifles, or pre-charged pneumatic guns, are great for young or beginner shooters alike!
You know as well as I do just how pricey these air rifles can be though.
There is something of a budget dilemma while looking into the different brands
But with the right research, you’ll be surprised how you can find the best air rifle for under $500 without scrimping on quality!
The next issue is around which brand and model you should choose from the many available?
Should you go with synthetic or wood stock?
Don’t worry, we’ve researched and tested the best ones to help you out, so read on! Here’s our review of the top five best air rifles under $500.
1 1. Benjamin Marauder PCP Air Rifle – Best PCP Air Rifle Under $500
2 2. Umarex Gauntlet PCP Air Rifle – Consistent and Affordable
3 3. Benjamin Maximus – Best Budget Air Rifle Under $500
4 4. Hatsan AT44-10 QE Air Rifle – Quiet, Durable and Stable
5 5. Gamo Urban PCP Air Rifle – Lightweight and Feature-Packed
6 Wrapping It Up
1. Benjamin Marauder PCP Air Rifle – Best PCP Air Rifle Under $500
The Benjamin Marauder PCP Air Rifle impresses me the most, with its combination of necessary (and desired!) features.
It deserves merit for its accuracy and quick reactions when shooting, coming with the fast firing speed of 1,100 fps
AND the eight-shot repeater feature, which is great for hunts and training!
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Lightning-Quick Shooting
This air rifle comes with a dovetail mount for better shooting accuracy. It doesn’t come with sights, though you can add these or a laser scope as needed.
The rifle uses an air compression of up to 3,000 psi and has a built-in pressure gauge, so you’re able to monitor its power as you continue using it.
As I tested it out, I was surprised by how quiet and effortless it was to shoot. The accuracy and responsiveness are top notch for its price!
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Great Adjustability and Tuning
As a PCP air rifle, it has the quality construction but you’ll need an extension when using the hardware (which is needed for all PCP air rifles anyway).
You have the freedom to utilize many kinds of extensions, providing versatility according to how YOU want to begin shooting.
Additionally, the tuning is understandable and enjoyable for beginners as well as advanced shooters.
There are various options and ways to adjust the rifle, from its gag speed or fill lights.
That’s quite a feat for a standard PCP rifle.
Compatible With Many Pellet Types
Besides its various features that are easy to adjust, you’re also able to use different types of pellets according to how you want to use it.
It achieves the best power when using Jumbo Express pellets with a muzzle energy of 28 FPE, which is a good choice when practicing.
You’re also able to use the Gamo Raptor Platinum, which have enough accuracy and strength for hunting small game.
Benjamin Marauder achieves the best power when using Jumbo Express pellets with a muzzle energy of 28 FPE
Offers precise shooting with gagged barrel
Ambidextrous handle - great for both hands
Good trigger positions for better stability and grip
Can be used for training and hunts, doing serious damage
Has a heavier weight compared to other rifles
Doesn't come with any sights
While the Benjamin Marauder has its minor issues, you actually get more than what you pay for!
Everyone raves about its accuracy and power — it’s well known for how powerfully it shoots.
As for me, I enjoy shooting with this even outside the range, as it does some serious damage when I hunt.
2. Umarex Gauntlet PCP Air Rifle – Consistent and Affordable
Another one of the best PCP air rifles under 500 dollars goes to the Umarex Gauntlet, known for its consistency and power for a more attractive price.
You’ll be impressed with its accuracy and performance considering the lower price tag, as well as the attractive features that are a must-have for the shooting range.
Good Shooting Ability
When comparing different kinds of air rifles, the Umarex Gauntlet has a similar look and length, of about 46 inches.
It weighs about ten pounds with a scope and has a good grip that offers stability when shooting.
I also appreciate the fact it comes with a degassing key and the flexibility when filling it with HPA.
In fact, you won’t need to fill it to 3,000 PSI to utilize full performance.
Nice Consistency
The consistency is satisfactory with this air rifle — it produces 30 consistent shots at a spread of 18 FPS.
This is actually the typical and average performance you would find from a high-quality PCP air rifle!
Additionally, you’re able to use various pellet types without the gun being “picky”.
Besides its shot consistency, the weight of the trigger is constant and comfortable, as well as the overall grip when holding the gun.
Umarex Gaunlet produced 30 consistent shots at a spread of 18 FPS
Speed and Accuracy
When testing out the Umarex Gauntlet, you’ll be shocked with its quick response and accuracy!
I tested it out using 16.54-grains alloy pellets and it had a velocity of almost 1,000 fps, though take note: I did use lightweight pellets.
With hazier grain pellets, it achieves a velocity of almost 800 fps, which is still good enough for the claimed 1,000 fps from the manufacturer.
The accuracy was excellent when shooting, and for me, that’s the best feature of this rifle.
Amazing value for high accuracy
Great for hunting small game
Can be modified for quicker for more comfortable shooting
Has a higher shot count for an entry-level air rifle
Has a slightly higher noise level than other air rifles
Doesn't have a scope included
The Umarex Gauntlet isn’t the absolute best as it does have its downfalls, such as the long and gritty trigger and slightly higher noise level.
But when thinking about the price and other specs that improve its consistency, it’s well worth the investment.
I don’t think you can get better value for a beginner PCP air rifle than this!
3. Benjamin Maximus – Best Budget Air Rifle Under $500
The Benjamin Maximus Air Rifle may not be packed with extra features, but it sure is one of the best-rated air rifles under $500 for its price!
It’s a no-frills entry-level air rifle that offers the decent necessities any beginner shooter will enjoy.
Even advanced shooters will be impressed with what this air rifle has to offer.
I know how pricey air rifles can be, but it doesn’t mean you have to purchase the priciest air gun out there to get value.
The Benjamin Maximus proves just that, offering one of the most affordable rifles available without compromising on on quality and performance.
Granted, it isn’t the quietest and it requires high-pressure air supply all the time, though the rifle makes up for it with its price and ease of filling up.
Excellent Accuracy
The accuracy is spectacular, and it had standard muzzle energy when we tested it.
It offers a maximum muzzle velocity of almost 1,000 FPS, with an energy of between 19-22 ft per lb.
Its consistency is just as admirable, best used with mid-to-heavy weight lead pellets for both accurate and consistent shots that vary only by an ounce or so.
However, you can also use lightweight pellets and still produce similar results.
Just take note, this isn’t a regulated PCP so the velocity drops after firing.
The air rifle is long and pretty lightweight to handle.
For its price and shot performance, it’s easy to hold and maneuver.
Plus, it only requires a 2,000 PSI fill pressure, which makes it easier to fill using hand pumps.
Additionally, it’s easy to shoot with as it offers adequate grip and stability.
The only con is the breech design, which renders it a bit difficult to load pellets.
The Benjamin Maximus only requires a 2,000 PSI fill pressure, which makes it easier to fill using hand pumps.
One of the most affordable air rifles available
Has an easy to fill pressure of up to 2,000 psi
Offers satisfactory consistency and accuracy
Has no noise suppressor and is quite loud
The air rifle's sight is unprotected
The Benjamin Maximus Air Rifle offers good value for your money but is best recommended for beginners in training.
If you’re on an extreme budget for an air rifle, this is a satisfactory choice that offers amazing accuracy and the ease of use.
Many users have raved about its top notch performance, though you should be wary of the noise it can make!
4. Hatsan AT44-10 QE Air Rifle – Quiet, Durable and Stable
The Hatsan AT44-10 QE Air Rifle comes at a slightly more lavish price, but the value is outstanding.
This is the first PCP air rifle from the Turkish gun manufacturer, and it has a certain character to it.
It’s versatile, suitable for the shooting range or when hunting small to medium game.
High Energy with No Noise
One thing I really look for in an air rifle is its noise level and the Hatsan doesn’t disappoint.
Its noise level is what makes it one of the best air rifles available for under $500.
Even I was surprised with the way it fired, as it wasn’t as noisy as any other PCP air rifles I’ve tested out.
Extremely Powerful and Safe
While the Hatsan air rifle is still considered to be an affordable model, its power is comparable to more expensive types.
It’s a simple rifle, but it packs a hell of a punch, able to take down small or medium game effortlessly.
You can also use it for the shooting range, making it versatile and many shooting scenarios.
Furthermore, reloading and refilling is a no-fuss affair with this air rifle.
Just like many weapons, it also comes with an auto safety to ensure no accidents.
The Hatsan AT44-10 is made of Turkish Hardwood and is manufactured to make it easy to grip, regardless of your dexterity.
Comfortable and Stabilized Feel
One of the first things you’ll notice about the air rifle is its unique look, specifically the stock and trigger.
As mentioned above, it’s made of Turkish Hardwood and is manufactured to make it easy to grip.
Plus, it’s slim and stable when going into position, and includes an adjustable butt plate to maintain your shot consistency.
I also appreciate the sophisticated Quattro trigger, which allows for full adjustability to suit your individual shooting style.
Quattro trigger, adjustable to your shooting style
Simple, durable and attractive finish.
Easy operation and necessary safety features
A bit on the heavy side
Best used with long pellets than shorter ones
If you focus on power and durability for years of hunting and training, then the Hatsan is for you.
A bit on the heavy and pricey side, you still get your money’s worth with its ease of operation and the attractive finish.
It has a lot of potential as a PCP air rifle for beginners, especially with the unique and adjustable trigger to find your shooting style.
5. Gamo Urban PCP Air Rifle – Lightweight and Feature-Packed
Last but not least, the Gamo Urban PCP Air Rifle offers superb features for its cost.
It warrants praise for its comfort, which is a huge plus for beginners still trying to understand how to grip and hold a rifle properly.
Besides that, it also offers quiet operation with an excellent multi-shot mechanism.
Unbeatable Shot Mechanism
The Gamo Urban PCP Air Rifle is known for its excellent multi-shot mechanism, a repeater rifle with many describing it as a “pea shooter”
Which shoots on repeat with consistency and without much noise and recoil.
Plus, it hits targets and small game hard, making it a fun weapon to bring whether you’re hunting or practicing your shooting.
While the shot count is low, it’s easy to refill, not making it a huge problem.
Pleasant Feel For Beginners
Gamo Urban offers a beginner-friendly design and feel, but doesn’t neglect quality materials and construction.
This is a bolt-action repeater and can manage 30 shots per fill, made with a hammer-forged steel barrel and custom action trigger only unique to Gamo Urban.
It also has an adjustable trigger so you’re able to find your sweet spot and shoot accurately according to YOUR needs.
Its usability is also unbelievable for a low budget air rifle, as it has a Shock Wave Absorber to lessen noise and impact up to 50%!
Lightweight and Feature-Packed
I admire the air rifle’s body, which is lightweight and easy to carry around, as it’s only 42 inches long and weighs less than seven pounds.
For an entry-level air rifle at a more affordable price, it has a ton of features to offer, including:
The removable rotary magazine, a velocity of up to 800 FPS, as well as a fill pressure that can take up to 3,365 PSI.
That’s definitely not bad for a cheap air rifle for beginners.
The Gamo Urban has a ton of features to offer, including a removable rotary magazine, a velocity of up to 800 fps, as well as a fill pressure that can take up to 3,365 psi.
Strong hits and accuracy when shot
Great for beginners with exceptional accuracy
Easy to fill and lightweight body
Quiet operation for added comfort
Not the best pressure gauge and shot count
Some complaints of the trigger comfort
This entry level PCP air rifle packs a punch for the cost, handling well regardless of the shooting scenario you’re in.
With its lightweight feel and the beastly power that shoots repeatedly with accuracy, beginners will definitely enjoy practicing with this one.
The only thing I wish is that it had a higher shot count and better pressure gauge.
If you’re looking into shooting as a hobby, you first need to hone your skills and learn with a quality, safe weapon.
By purchasing a quality air rifle for under 500 dollars, you get to brush up on your shooting without the expensive price.
Of all the different air rifles I’ve tried and tested, I’m in love with the Benjamin Marauder the most!
It has excellent quality and high performance, and I’m able to practice my shooting in and out of the training grounds.
It’s a superbly quiet air rifle, is easy to adjust, and its repeater feature makes it a great buy for gun nuts!
If you have any questions or want to share your tips and reviews on any of these air rifles, then comment below. Your thoughts are much appreciated!
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Akorbi Colombia Secures Prestigious WEConnect International Certification through the Women’s Business Enterprise
PLANO, TEXAS – AUGUST 24, 2018
Akorbi’s office in Colombia (Akorbi S.A.S) has proudly become part of a select group of women-owned companies that’s able to compete in global markets through the Women’s Business Enterprise’s prestigious WEConnect International certification. Only 44 other companies in Colombia have obtained this certification, which will allow Akorbi S.A.S. to offer its translation, multilingual communication and staffing services to any entity with a global footprint.
Akorbi has had a significant presence in Colombia since 2015. Recently, through the Cartago Chamber of Commerce, Akorbi S.A.S had the opportunity to meet the newly elected President, Ivan Duque and his Vice-President, Marta Lucia Ramirez, to present ways to empower the Colombian economy through digital technology, research and development and multilingual communications.
Akorbi S.A.S’ team is well positioned to mentor other women in business in the region and to serve local governments as a pioneer in remote regions of Colombia within the Orange Economy, which is focused on digital technology, culture and creativity. The Colombian economy has a highly-educated workforce, solid infrastructure and government support, making it the third largest GDP in South America.
According to the Colombian Embassy in Washington, “Investor confidence and commercial ties with major world economies are on the rise. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased fivefold and exports have increased fourfold since 2000. Colombia’s economy has been growing steadily and faster than the Latin American average, and the nation is quickly becoming one of the world’s leading emerging economies.”.
Akorbi S.A.S has grown consistently since 2015, showing a strong commitment to regional development. Sixty-two percent of its team members are local women and 25% of them are mothers whose jobs support their families and the education of their children.
“The WEConnect International certification will open many doors and allow us to continue creating opportunities and jobs in Colombia,” said Claudia Mirza, CEO and co-founder of Akorbi. “We are very grateful for the Women’s Business Enterprise’s support and their dedication to connecting women-owned businesses around the world.”
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